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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nine more women are accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault in a lawsuit that alleges he used his “enormous power, fame and prestige” to victimize them.
A lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Nevada alleges that the women were individually drugged and assaulted between approximately 1979 and 1992 in Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe homes, dressing rooms and hotels.
One woman alleges that Cosby, claiming to be her acting mentor, lured her from New York to Nevada, where he drugged her in a hotel room with what he had claimed to be non-alcoholic sparkling cider and then raped her.
The 85-year-old former “Cosby Show” star has now been accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by more than 60 women. He has denied all allegations involving sex crimes. He was the first celebrity tried and convicted in the #MeToo era — and spent nearly three years at a state prison near Philadelphia before a higher court threw out the conviction and released him in 2021.
Earlier this year, a Los Angeles jury awarded $500,000 to a woman who said Cosby sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 in 1975.
The Nevada lawsuit came only a few weeks after Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a bill that eliminated a two-year deadline for adults to file sexual abuse cases. Similar suits have followed other “lookback laws” in other states.
One of the plaintiffs, Lise-Lotte Lublin, a Nevada native, had advocated for the change. She had previously alleged that Cosby gave her spiked drinks and raped her at a Las Vegas hotel in 1989.
The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly.
“For years I have fought for survivors of sexual assault and today is the first time I will be able to fight for myself,” Lotte-Lublin said in a statement cited by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “With the new law change, I now have the ability to take my assailant Bill Cosby to court. My journey has just begun, but I am grateful for this opportunity to find justice.”
In California, a former Playboy model who alleges Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her and another woman at his home in 1969 sued him on June 1 under a new California law that suspends the statute of limitations on sex abuse claims.
Cosby publicist Andrew Wyatt blasted such laws in a statement Wednesday.
“Mr. Cosby is a Citizen of these United States but these judges and lawmakers are consistently allowing these civil suits to flood their dockets—knowing that these women are not fighting for victims—but for their addiction to massive amounts of media attention and greed,” Wyatt said.
“From this day forward, we will not continue to allow these women to parade various accounts of an alleged allegation against Mr. Cosby anymore without vetting them in the court of public opinion and inside of the courtroom,” Wyatt said.
In the latest suit, the women contend that Cosby “used his enormous power, fame, and prestige, and claimed interest in helping them and/or their careers as a pretense to isolate and sexually assault them.” | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/bill-cosby-sued-by-9-more-women-in-nevada-over-alleged-decades-old-sexual-assaults/ | 2023-06-15 10:21:19 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/bill-cosby-sued-by-9-more-women-in-nevada-over-alleged-decades-old-sexual-assaults/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GTIS Partners ("GTIS"), a global real estate investment firm that manages $4.7 billion in gross assets with a focus on residential and industrial investments, announced today a joint venture with Collett Industrial ("Collett"), an industrial developer headquartered in Charlotte, NC, to acquire and develop two projects in the Greenville-Spartanburg ("GSP") MSA which have a total capitalization of $140 million. One of the projects, Willimon Business Park, has executed leases or letters of intents with tenants totaling approximately 520,000 square feet for long term occupancy at the project.
The GSP development projects, which will total nearly 1.2 million square feet of industrial space upon completion, are located directly adjacent to one another within the same Opportunity Zone on the eastern edge of the South Carolina Technology & Aviation Center ("SCTAC"). SCTAC is one of the largest business parks in South Carolina and houses the operations of over 110 companies.
The new projects are centrally located on the East Coast, offering greater access around Greenville, south to Charleston and Atlanta, and north to Charlotte, Raleigh and Durham. Demand in the GSP industrial market is supported by a diverse set of factors including the strong availability of labor, proximity and connectivity to the Port of Charleston and Inland Port Greer, and the long history of manufacturing in the region.
"Fueled by the ongoing growth of ecommerce and onshoring, the demand for industrial warehouses remains strong, and we are excited to continue our expansion in the sector in partnership with the team at Collett Industrial," said Robert McCall, a Senior Managing Director at GTIS Partners. "With a focus on Opportunity Zone properties specifically, we are also pleased to bring more jobs and economic opportunities to these communities, and look forward to encouraging development across the region."
"We're excited to continue our investment in the GSP market alongside our partners at GTIS," said Teddy Hull, a principal at Collett Industrial. "The success we've seen at Willimon Business Park to date is testament to the numerous competitive advantages across GSP, including a strong labor force and commitment by local municipalities and the Greenville Area Development Corporation to attract and retain quality businesses."
The joint venture with Collett underscores GTIS' continued expansion of its industrial acquisition and development platform. With these two new projects, GTIS' global industrial portfolio encompasses 13 million in square feet with a total project cost of $1.25 billion across 14 projects.
About GTIS Partners
GTIS Partners is a leading real asset investment and development firm headquartered in New York with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Charlotte, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, as well as São Paulo, Paris and Munich. The firm was founded in 2005 by Tom Shapiro and is managed by President Tom Shapiro and Partners Rob Vahradian, Thomas Feldstein, and João Teixeira. The firm manages $4.7 billion in gross assets and is active across a wide range of real estate sectors including single family and multifamily housing, office, industrial/logistics and hospitality as well as opportunity zone investments. The firm invests at various points in the capital structure including credit, common equity and structured equity. In the US, GTIS has invested in over 130 assets across 40 unique markets including growth areas such as Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Atlanta, Tampa and Charlotte. In Brazil, GTIS is among the largest real assets private equity firms with holdings including office, residential, logistics, and hospitality investments. Marquee assets developed by GTIS Partners in São Paulo include the Infinity office building and Palácio Tangará, a five-star resort style hotel. For more information, please visit www.gtispartners.com.
About Collett Industrial
Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Collett Industrial is a development and acquisition platform focused on industrial properties in the southeastern U.S. Collett Industrial is a subsidiary of Collett, a full-service commercial real estate firm with expertise in development, property management, leasing, brokerage and tenant representation. Collett Industrial's portfolio consists of nearly 3 million square feet of completed or planned industrial space, focused on distribution, manufacturing, and e-commerce-related facilities. For more information, please visit https://www.collettindustrial.com.
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We've filled our flight menu with a range of fresh, bright flavors inspired by the West Coast
SEATTLE, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer, Alaska Airlines guests can veg out on board with more gluten friendly, plant-based and vegan meal options available in all cabins.
We're listening to our guests who told us that they are looking for more plant-based menu options when traveling. Our new vegan option, called the "Soy Meets World," is a vegan salad developed in partnership with Evergreens, a West Coast-based company that makes gourmet, freshly chopped salads.
"We're thrilled to offer our guests more healthy and nutritious choices when they fly with us," said Todd Traynor-Corey, managing director of guest products. "We built our menu thoughtfully to offer more plant-based, vegan and gluten-free options, which include a range of fresh, bright flavors inspired by the West Coast and ingredients that are authentically healthy by nature such as roasted broccoli, crisp romaine and baby lettuce greens, quinoa, fresh fruit and more."
We're proud to offer our guests a variety of fresh and seasonal meal selections and thirst-quenching beverages on our flights.
Today, we have the most comprehensive domestic food and beverage program in the industry. We offer three meal options in First Class, including our Signature Fruit & Cheese on flights as short as 550 miles.
We also offer ample food options in Premium Class and Main Cabin, which include up to four fresh options on flights over 1,100 miles and up to five snack items on flights over 223 miles, such as the Mediterranean Tapas Pack (vegan and gluten-free).
Now through October, guests can enjoy fresh summer flavors that include berries, summer squash, corn, citrus and tomatoes. To see all of our food and beverage offerings, visit alaskaair.com.
Alaska makes it easy to get the meal(s) you want. Enjoy fresh ingredients inspired by the West Coast, from snacks to freshly prepared meals, by pre-ordering your favorites ahead of your flight using your reservation on our app or alaskaair.com.
Snacks and Picnic packs do not require pre-order and are available on board most flights over 2 hours. Pro tip: Mileage Plan members can store a method of payment in their Mileage Plan account for touch-free inflight purchases, including food and beverages. Join/Sign in Mileage Plan.
Alaska Airlines and our regional partners serve more than 120 destinations across the United States, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico. We emphasize providing low fares for our guests, award-winning customer service and sustainability efforts. Alaska is a member of the oneworld global alliance. With the alliance and our additional airline partners, guests can travel to more than 1,000 destinations on more than 20 airlines while earning and redeeming miles on flights to locations around the world. Learn more about Alaska at news.alaskaair.com. Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air are subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group (NYSE: ALK).
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That didn’t take much.
Yet it’s hard to ignore that some of the strategy Iger outlined in the earnings call echoed that of his handpicked predecessor, Bob Chapek, whom the board ousted late last year to make way for Iger’s return. After reporting a disastrous quarter in November with a $1.5 billion loss in the streaming business that ultimately led to his undoing, Chapek said the company would cut costs and eliminate jobs — both core elements of Iger’s plan. Chapek also promised that Disney’s streaming business would turn a profit by 2024, the same timeline presented by Iger on Wednesday. The biggest change from the Chapek era is Iger’s reversal of a restructuring that eroded the autonomy and power of the content division heads, leading to complaints of curtailed creativity.
What truly made the difference was not so much Iger’s strategy but his delivery, his style rather than the substance. He had a little something for everyone during the earnings call. He used some variation of the word “creative” no less than 15 times, a concession to the employees who felt as if they had been stifled under Chapek. For investors, including, of course, Peltz, who went unmentioned on the call, he and Chief Financial Officer Christine McCarthy hit on “profitability” 10 times. The cherry on top was Iger’s announcement that the company planned to reinstate its dividend.
Iger led things off on the call by trumpeting his own credentials, saying that since he first became CEO in 2005, he already had overseen two Disney transformations. The first was the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilms, which turned Disney into a true content and branding powerhouse. But it’s worth noting that the second of those transformations that Iger highlighted — the company’s evolution into a streaming giant — is still a massive money-losing endeavor. The streaming business is at the core of what Iger must fix. It is a testament to Iger’s skill as a storyteller and statesman that he has been able to position himself as savior to some of the problems he helped create.
Iger departed the CEO job on top in 2020, and he returned on top less than three years later. But now he faces the realities of running the company and executing on his newly outlined vision. Some of the biggest challenges in front of him have nothing to do with financials. He must continue to navigate Disney’s unwanted position as a prime target in the culture wars, which Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has shown no sign of conceding. And he must undo his biggest defeat as a CEO by finally figuring out how to successfully hand off the top job to a successor.
Now with Peltz out of the picture, he has one less excuse if he again fails to deliver a fairytale ending.
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• Disney-Peltz Show Shouldn’t Cast the Board as Villain: Beth Kowitt
• The Curse of the Iconic CEO Is Bigger Than Disney: Beth Kowitt
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
Beth Kowitt is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering corporate America. She was previously a senior writer and editor at Fortune Magazine.
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MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- The Midland Fire Department will be hosting a free car seat check event on Monday, February 27.
Certified safety technicians will be inspecting car seats and booster seats to ensure they are installed correctly. Please bring your child and know their weight and height.
The event will be at the Central Fire Department at 1500 W. Wall St. from 1pm to 3pm.
Appointments are not required for the event, but if you would like to schedule an appointment or have any questions please call Autum Stewart or Brianne Garcia at the Midland Fire Department. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/mfd-to-host-car-seat-event/ | 2023-02-23 19:51:25 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/mfd-to-host-car-seat-event/ |
Homicide detectives investigating deadly Trenton, NJ fire
TRENTON — The circumstances of a fire over the weekend that left a 57-year-old man dead are under investigation, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office.
Authorities identified the victim as Brian Wharton, of Trenton.
Firefighters responded to the blaze at a home on the first block of Summer Street after midnight on Sunday. Prosecutors said that after extinguishing the flames, the fire crews found Wharton's body on the first floor of the home. Wharton had been staying at the residence.
Along with Trenton police, detectives from the Mercer County Homicide Task Force were called to the scene to investigate.
"The circumstances surrounding the fire and the death are under investigation," the MCPO said in a statement.
Rick Rickman is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at richard.rickman@townsquaremedia.com
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PUNE, India and PISCATAWAY, N.J., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crave InfoTech, an enterprise solutions and automation company, won the award for 'Best Warehouse and Automation Company' at the 55th Inflection Logistics and Warehousing Forum and Awards, in association with Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), Singapore Institute of Materials Management (SIMM), and NASSCOM Center of Excellence – IoT and AI.
Crave InfoTech won the award for its work with a leading global life science/pharmaceutical client. Crave's product – cWarehouse was central in its overall Intelligent Warehouse Management solution for the life science enterprise. The client used cWarehouse to digitize, streamline, and automate their warehouse and inventory management.
The client was to enable a 15% reduction in labor cost/unit handled and a 35% reduction in warehouse operation costs while becoming 100% paperless.
Shrikant Nistane, CEO, Crave InfoTech, said, "It's an honor to be felicitated by our peers for our Intelligent Supply Chain and Warehouse Management products. We have been helping our global clients along their digitization and automation journeys for the past 15 years. Our partnership with the tech leaders like SAP and Zebra Technologies ensures end-to-end supply chain visibility, interoperability, total integrability and extendibility, complete enterprise mobility backed by the Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine Learning, etc. for our clients."
"Further underlining part that perhaps clinched the award in our favor," Shrikant continued, "was the high adoption and simplified user experience for the client. We deploy our overall solution along with the intuitive workflows in quick time with zero errors and faster value-realization."
Crave InfoTech is a SAP Business Technology Partner expert with multiple satisfied clients within the life science or pharmaceutical industry. The company offers multiple intelligence-centered solutions across the supply chain, logistics, warehouse, and asset management that also include enablers like RFID/barcode scanning, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), IoT, Workflow/Process Automation, etc.
About Crave InfoTech
Crave InfoTech, based in Piscataway, New Jersey, is a fast-growing tech company with deep expertise in SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), Intelligent Enterprise, and Enterprise Mobility Enablement with quick-to-deploy Intelligent Supply Chain Management, Intelligent Asset Management, and Intelligent Warehouse Management solutions.
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Crispy Greek lemon potato wedge recipe from Granbaby Cakes
DALLAS - A DFW cookbook author is sharing her "stepped up" version of potato wedges, which are perfect for entertaining or a solo supper.
It's one of Jocelyn Delk Adams' recipes from her new cookbook "Everyday Grand." It has more than 80 southern-inspired comfort food recipes, and she said it's full of gratitude and positivity.
Crispy Greek Lemon Potato Wedges
These wedges, inspired by the Greek medley of lemon, garlic, oregano, and rosemary, are a fam favorite.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup olive oil, plus more for brushing
4 tablespoons ( stick) unsalted butter, melted
¼ cup fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup chicken stock
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 tablespoon dried oregano
1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary, plus a few sprigs for garnish
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
4 medium russet potatoes (3 1/3 pounds), cut into 3/4-inchthick wedges
7 garlic cloves, minced or finely grated (about 2 tablespoons)
½ cup crumbled feta cheese
¼ cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Instructions:
Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 425°F. Lightly brush a large rimmed baking sheet with a little olive oil.
In a large bowl, whisk together the olive oil, butter, lemon juice, stock, salt, oregano, rosemary, pepper, and paprika until combined. Add the potatoes and toss until thoroughly coated.
Transfer the potatoes to the prepared baking sheet (reserve that magic lemon sauce inthe bowl) and spread them out evenly into a single layer. Roast for about 20 minutes, until easily pierced with a paring knife. Remove the potatoes from the oven, stir in the garlic, and roast the potatoes for 20 to 30 minutes more, until golden brown and incredibly crispy.
While the potatoes are roasting, transfer the reserved lemon sauce to a small saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce the heat to low and simmer until the sauce has thickened, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from the heat and keep warm.
Once the potatoes are ready, transfer them to a serving platter and immediately shower them with the feta and parsley. Drizzle with the sauce, garnish with the rosemary sprigs, and serve right away, with the remaining sauce alongside for additional drizzling.
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Journalist suspensions widen rift between Twitter and media
Elon Musk's abrupt suspension of several journalists who cover Twitter widens a growing rift between the social media site and media organizations that have used the platform to build their audiences.
Individual reporters with The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other news agencies saw their accounts go dark Thursday.
The suspensions continued Friday with the account of a Business Insider columnist who published a series of articles between 2018 and 2021 highlighting what she called dangerous Tesla manufacturing shortcomings.
Many advertisers abandoned Twitter over content moderation questions after Musk acquired it in October, and he now risks a rupture with media organizations, which are among the most active on the platform.
The company has not explained why the accounts were taken down. But Musk took to Twitter on Thursday night to accuse journalists of sharing private information about his whereabouts, which he described as “basically assassination coordinates.” He provided no evidence for that claim.
Business Insider's Linette Lopez told The Associated Press that she was given no explanation for her suspension. Shortly before being suspended, she said she had posted court-related documents to Twitter that included a 2018 Musk email address. That address is not current, Lopez said, because “he changes his email every few weeks."
On Tuesday, she posted a 2019 story about Tesla troubles, commenting, “Now, just like then, most of @elonmusk’s wounds are self inflicted.”
The same day, she cited reports that Musk was reneging on severance for laid-off Twitter employees, threatening workers who talk to the press and refusing to make rent payments. Lopez described his actions as “classic Elon-going-for-broke behavior.”
Alarm over the suspensions extended beyond media circles to the United Nations, which was reconsidering its involvement in Twitter.
The move sets “a dangerous precedent at a time when journalists all over the world are facing censorship, physical threats and even worse," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
The reporters' suspensions followed Musk’s decision Wednesday to permanently ban an account that automatically tracked the flights of his private jet using publicly available data. That also led Twitter to change its rules for all users to prohibit the sharing of another person’s current location without their consent.
Several of the reporters suspended Thursday night had been writing about the new policy and Musk's rationale for imposing it, which involved his allegations about a stalking incident he said affected his family Tuesday night in Los Angeles.
The official Twitter account for Mastodon, a decentralized alternative social network where many Twitter users are fleeing, was also banned. The reason was unclear, though it had tweeted about the jet-tracking account. Twitter also began preventing users from posting links to Mastodon accounts, in some cases flagging them as potential malware.
“Same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’ as to everyone else," Musk tweeted Thursday. He later added: “Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not.”
“Doxxing” refers to disclosing someone’s identity, address, phone number or other personal details that violate their privacy and could bring harm.
More:Elon Musk claims he was doxxed. But what exactly is that?
The Washington Post’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, said technology reporter Drew Harwell “was banished without warning, process or explanation” following the publication of accurate reporting about Musk.
CNN said in a statement that “the impulsive and unjustified suspension of a number of reporters, including CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, is concerning but not surprising.”
“Twitter’s increasing instability and volatility should be of incredible concern for everyone who uses Twitter,” the statement added.
Another suspended journalist, Matt Binder of the technology news outlet Mashable, said he was banned Thursday night immediately after sharing a screenshot that O’Sullivan had posted before his own suspension.
The screenshot showed a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department sent earlier Thursday to multiple media outlets, including the AP, about how it was in touch with Musk's representatives about the alleged stalking incident.
Binder said he did not share any location data or any links to the jet-tracking account or other location-tracking accounts.
“I have been highly critical of Musk but never broke any of Twitter’s listed policies,” Binder said in an email.
Late Thursday, Musk briefly joined a Twitter Spaces chat hosted by journalist Kate Notopoulos of Buzzfeed. Musk stood by the suspensions saying, “You doxx, you get suspended, end of story.”
The suspensions come as Musk makes major changes to content moderation on Twitter. He has tried, through the release of selected company documents dubbed “The Twitter Files,” to claim the platform suppressed right-wing voices under its previous leaders.
He has promised to let free speech reign and has reinstated high-profile accounts that previously broke Twitter's rules against hateful conduct or harmful misinformation. He has also said he would suppress negativity and hate by depriving some accounts of “freedom of reach.”
Opinion columnist Bari Weiss, who tweeted out some of “The Twitter Files,” called for the suspended journalists to be reinstated in a tweet.
“The old regime at Twitter governed by its own whims and biases and it sure looks like the new regime has the same problem,” she tweeted “I oppose it in both cases.”
If the suspensions lead to the exodus of media organizations that are highly active on Twitter, the platform would be changed at the fundamental level, said Lou Paskalis, longtime marketing and media executive and former Bank of America head of global media.
CBS briefly shut down its activity on Twitter in November due to “uncertainty” about new management, but media organizations have largely remained on the platform.
“We all know news breaks on Twitter ... and to now go after journalists really saws at the main foundational tent pole of Twitter,” Paskalis said. “Driving journalists off Twitter is the biggest self-inflicted wound I can think of.”
The suspensions may be the biggest red flag yet for advertisers, Paskalis said, some of which had already cut their spending on Twitter over uncertainty about the direction Musk is taking the platform.
“It is an overt demonstration of what advertisers fear the most — retribution for an action that Elon doesn’t agree with," he added.
Advertisers are also monitoring the potential loss of Twitter users. Twitter is projected to lose 32 million users over the next two years, according to a forecast by Insider Intelligence.
The group projects a nearly 4% drop in 2023 and another 5% drop in 2024 as technical issues and the return of accounts banned for offensive posts return under new Twitter rules.
Meanwhile, some Twitter alternatives are gaining momentum.
Mastodon on Friday had more than 6 million users, nearly double the 3.4 million it had on the day Musk took ownership of Twitter. On many of the thousands of confederated networks in the open-source Mastodon platform, administrators and users solicited donations as disaffected Twitter users strained computing resources. Many of the networks, known as “instances,” are crowd-funded. The platform is designed to be ad-free.
Associated Press writers Kelvin Chan in London, Frank Jordans in Berlin, Frank Bajak in Boston and Hillel Italie and Edith Lederer in New York, contributed to this report. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2022/12/16/twitter-elon-musk-journalists-media/69733731007/ | 2022-12-17 00:16:39 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2022/12/16/twitter-elon-musk-journalists-media/69733731007/ |
CHICAGO, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cook County's Second Installment property tax bills have been posted at cookcountytreasurer.com, where bills can be viewed, downloaded and paid with no added surcharge.
"My office has finally received the figures to print 1.8 million property tax bills," said Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas. "We have posted the bills online to accommodate homeowners impacted by the delay. A paper bill will be in your mailbox on or around the first of December."
Property tax payments are due Dec. 30. You can download your tax bill and make a payment by visiting cookcountytreasurer.com and following these steps:
- Select the blue box labeled "Pay Online for Free"
- Enter your address or Property Index Number (PIN)
There is no fee if you pay online from your bank account. However, you can also print your bill and bring it to any Chase Bank location, including those outside Cook County. You can also pay at more than 100 community banks where you have an account or at the Treasurer's Office.
You may also use the website to:
- Download a copy of your Tax Bill
- Search $84 million in available refunds
- Check property tax exemptions, which can lower your taxes
- Read any of the Pappas Studies, a series of research projects that detail inequities in the property tax system
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Updated April 12, 2023 at 7:48 AM ET
Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has taken a significant step toward a presidential bid, launching an exploratory committee.
An exploratory committee allows him to raise money that could then be transferred to an official presidential campaign.
Scott, the only Black Republican currently in the U.S. Senate, launched his committee Wednesday (April 12), which he noted in a video is the day marking the beginning of the Civil War at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
His launch comes before planned travel this week to Iowa, New Hampshire and back home to South Carolina as he continues his "Faith in America" tour.
Scott's video is also titled "Faith in America." "I bear witness that America can do for anyone what she has done for me," he says in it.
He adds: "I will never back down in defense of the conservative values that make America exceptional."
Should he make his candidacy official — as expected — Scott, 57, would join his fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley, a former governor of the state; as well as former President Donald Trump, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and others in the Republican primary field.
Like many of his GOP peers, Scott has had to balance the call for new GOP leadership while not openly attacking Trump, who isn't just the leading Republican candidate, but to many, still the face of the party. But for Scott it's an uphill battle even in his home state. A recent Winthrop University poll shows him badly trailing Trump. In the poll, 41% of people say they'd vote for Trump, 7% for Scott.
Scott indicated he was preparing to run for the Oval Office last summer in the summary and advanced copies of his memoir, America, a Redemption Story: Choosing Hope, Creating Unity. But as NPR's Juana Summers reported at the time, that part of Scott's book was untrue – at least at the time – and the publishers issued an apology for the error.
Republicans tapped Scott to deliver the GOP response to President Biden's first address to Congress
Part of Biden's address in 2021 was a claim the country had "come together to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the people they serve, to root out systemic racism in our criminal justice system."
Scott responded to the issue head on.
"Nowhere do we need common ground more desperately than in our discussions of race. I have experienced the pain of discrimination. I know what it feels like to be pulled over for no reason, to be followed around a store while I'm shopping," he said.
Scott said Black children in schools are told that the color of their skin defines them, as it did 100 years ago, and that some students are labeled as oppressors based on how they look.
"From colleges to corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all. By doubling down on the divisions we've worked so hard to heal," Scott said. "You know this stuff is wrong. Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country. It's backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination, and it's wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present."
Scott's political career began on the Charleston County Council, where he served for more than a decade before being elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives. He spent two years at the state level before winning a seat at the U.S. House representing South Carolina's 1st Congressional District in 2010, according to Ballotpedia.
He served a single term before he was appointed to fill the seat of Sen. Jim DeMint in 2013. Scott has been reelected twice, most recently in 2022, which he claimed to be his last Senate run, South Carolina Public Radio reported.
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BOISE, Idaho and NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN), a leading provider of SaaS-based investment accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, and LiquidityBook, a leading provider of cloud-native trading solutions for the buy and sell sides, announced today that they will leverage their proven connectivity to offer clients an end-to-end portfolio investment and operations experience.
The connectivity permits LiquidityBook and Clearwater clients to take advantage of LiquidityBook's leading cloud-native solution for trade execution management, portfolio management, regulatory compliance, and FIX connectivity, paired with Clearwater's daily reconciliation, accounting book of record, client reporting, and compliance and risk platform. The result is a unified, end-to-end user experience for buy-side and outsourced traders, offering unmatched efficiency.
"Three years ago, we set out to migrate all our on-premise technology to truly scalable cloud services. We chose LiquidityBook as our trading platform and Clearwater Analytics for portfolio accounting," said Scott Latimer, Principal and Director of Information Technology at Montag & Caldwell. "Both solutions were built from the ground up as cloud-native solutions, and not just hosted servers. Our experience with both firms has dramatically improved our processes, and the integration between them has given us a complete cloud solution."
"LiquidityBook brings an impressive track record of success in delivering quality order management and portfolio management solutioning for funds, SMA managers, and a host of other investment managers," said Scott Erickson, President, Americas at Clearwater Analytics. "Together these solutions offer great efficiency due to our strong technical alignment, scalability, and SaaS-based architecture. Both companies have demonstrated a commitment to tight integration, supporting several clients with increasingly complex investments."
With a transparent business model, instantaneous client-driven product enhancements and expert support professionals, LiquidityBook provides highly scalable SaaS-based trade management products that enable buy-side, sell-side, and outsourced trading firms to connect, track, and execute trades with unmatched efficiency. The company offers a full suite of multi-asset trading tools.
"Clearwater Analytics has earned a strong reputation among our client base thanks to its highly accurate investment accounting and reporting software," said Kevin Samuel, CEO at LiquidityBook. "We have several mutual clients that have enjoyed success while leveraging our platforms together. Clearwater and LiquidityBook have similar philosophies, from our approach to technology, to our commitment to client service, to our belief in the transformative power of a more efficient buy-side workflow. Given all that, this offering delivers a logical end-to-end solution for clients."
LiquidityBook is a leading provider of cloud-native buy- and sell-side trading solutions and is trusted by many of the industry's largest and most sophisticated firms. The LiquidityBook platform is easily configurable and enhanced daily with client requests, giving these firms peace of mind that their trading platform will adapt and scale as they grow. A disruptive force in the market for over 15 years, the founder-led LiquidityBook backs their platform with unparalleled support and employs a client-centric business model with no hidden fees. For more information, please visit www.liquiditybook.com or contact sales@liquiditybook.com.
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Grandma’s teeth, pet ashes: Uber releases 2022 lost and found index
There are those Uber drivers who have seen some things, and there are those who have seen it all when it comes to passengers mistakenly leaving items behind after a ride.
The company recently released its 2022 "Lost & Found Index," detailing the most forgotten items, the most forgetful city and the most unique lost items.
Topping the list of most forgotten items were phones and wallets. Other items included keys, backpacks and IDs.
RELATED: Austin tops Uber Lost & Found Index as most 'forgetful' city
As for the most forgetful cities, Austin, Texas topped the list. Other cities that made the roll were Charlotte, North Carolina; Kansas City, Kansas; and Phoenix.
When it came to the most unusual items left behind after a ride, here’s some of what Uber drivers came across — as in their own words or the words of the rider:
- Some tater tots
- My fingernail is on the seat
- 500 grams of caviar
- My grandma’s teeth
- A grass cutter and tree trimmer
- Supreme underwear
- Pizza costume
- 6 pool drains and an Employee of the Month plaque
- Breathalyzer
- I lost 40 chicken nuggets
- Bernie Sanders fannie pack
- A piece of my broom
- Antique walking cane with a sword
- 17 flowers and 3 milk teas
- Urn with pet ashes + urn of family member
- Tube for chugging drinks. Very expensive.
- Two pair of snorkeling goggles and a passport from China
- A power washing machine and a wooden carved fish
- Dream catcher and a deck of tarot cards
- Diamond grill
- Loose pear-shaped diamond. $1000 reward if found!
- Ball gag and stethoscope
- A windmill
Uber also released some trends along with its lost and found index.
More than 50 jerseys from the Rangers, Warriors, Giants, Eagles, LA Dodgers and more were all left behind by fans, according to the company.
Around 5 p.m. also appears to be the most forgetful time of the day.
The company says if a passenger loses any items, call the driver. However, if a passenger loses a phone, the company said a person can log onto the website.
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Yuba County man accused of sex with underage girl in exchange for meth
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YUBA CITY, California (KCRA) — A Marysville man was arrested in Sutter County and accused of unlawful sex with an underage girl after giving her meth in exchange, authorities said.
The California Highway Patrol requested Sutter County sheriff’s deputies to respond to the Quick Stop gas station in Yuba City on Sunday around 7:48 p.m.
Authorities were with a man and female juvenile who they said was refusing to provide information during the “suspicious” situation. When a deputy arrived, they recognized the juvenile and 64-year-old David Hill and knew the two were not related, according to the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office.
“The juvenile disclosed to the SCSO deputy that Hill was providing methamphetamine to her in exchange for sexual favors,” the sheriff’s office said in a release. “The juvenile disclosed that on this day, Hill provided her with methamphetamine which she smoked inside his vehicle and in exchange she provided sex.”
Hill was arrested on numerous charges, including having sex with a minor 14 years of age or younger, providing a minor with narcotics and unlawful sex with a minor. He was booked into the Sutter County Jail on a $500,000 bail.
His first court appearance is on Tuesday.
The parents of the juvenile were called.
No other details were released, but the sheriff’s office said more information will be made public as they further their investigation.
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WESTON, Fla., Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Golden Grail Technology Corp (OTC: GOGY) https://goldengrailbeverages.com/ The Company is pleased to announce that the company has filed to reduce its current authorized share count from 5 billion to 500 million.
"It is difficult to imagine a situation in which the Company would need to issue 5 billion shares. We believe this reduction leaves sufficient shares in reserve and serves to minimize dilution among our shareholders" said Steven Hoffman, CEO.
Golden Grail Technology (OTC: GOGY) www.GoldenGrailBeverages.com is a fast-growing company with a strategic mission to innovate, build and streamline the growth of its beverage portfolio through fiscally responsible investing. The company targets brands that have a proven sales history, loyal consumer following, retail presence and strong value proposition who need assistance to get to the next few levels. Golden Grail has been actively acquiring brands within emerging and growing beverage categories. Our robust product offerings include Spider Energy Drink, Trevi Fruit Essence Water, Tickle Water for kids, Sketch Can for Tweens, Cause Water & KOZ Water helping reduce global plastic pollution and Scorpion Energy Hemp/CBD.
After an acquisition, the company utilizes a series of operational technologies to apply its business expertise, fiscal techniques and various manufacturing processes know-how to improve the economics and performance of each brand while advancing marketing and distribution for its beverage brands. The company's focus on sophisticated management and development of beverage brands, coupled with its rapidly growing and recognizable portfolio of healthy, functional beverages sets Golden Grail apart as a leader in acquiring and advancing existing beverage brands.
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BLUES
MONDAY – G-Money and guests – 7 p.m.; Club Room at The Clyde, 1806 Bluffton Road; 407-8530.
COUNTRY
FRIDAY – Cody Johnson – 7:30 p.m.; Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave.; tickets start at $43; 482-9502 or Ticketmaster.com.
JAZZ
FRIDAY – James Baker Trio – 6:30 p.m.; Ruth’s Chris Steak House, 224 W. Wayne St.; 444-5898.
SATURDAY – James Baker Trio – 6:30 p.m.; Ruth’s Chris Steak House, 224 W. Wayne St.; 444-5898.
THURSDAY – James Baker Duo – 6 p.m.; Ruth’s Chris Steak House, 224 W. Wayne St.; 444-5898.
VARIETY
FRIDAY – Todd Harrold Band – 6:30 p.m.; Club Soda, 235 E. Superior St.; no cover; 426-3442.
FRIDAY – The Winery Dogs – 7:30 p.m.; Eagles Theatre, 106 W. Market St., Wabash; tickets start at $35; 260-563-1102 or HoneywellArts.org.
FRIDAY – Air Supply – 7:30 p.m. ; Niswonger Performing Arts Center, 10700 OH-118, Van Wert, Ohio; 419-238-6722 or VanWertLive.com.
FRIDAY – Chris Hambrick – 8:30 p.m.; Deer Park Irish Pub, 1530 Leesburg Road; no cover; 432-8966.
SATURDAY – Todd Harrold Band – 7 p.m.; Soul Pig BBQ, 135 S. 2nd St., Decatur; no cover; 260-301-9800.
SATURDAY – David Brighton’s Space Oddity – 7:30 p.m. ; Honeywell Center, 275 W. Market St., Wabash; tickets start at $25; 260-563-1102 or HoneywellArts.org.
SUNDAY – Flogging Molly – 7:30 p.m.; Clyde Theatre, 1808 Bluffton Road; $35; Clyde box office, 1-800-514-3849 and ClydeTheatre.com.
Just Announced
Matt Doyle – 5:30 p.m. May 4; Marquee Gala fundraiser, Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd.; tickets start at $300; Embassy box office or 424-5665.
The Doobie Brothers – 8 p.m. June 23; Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave.; 482-9502 or Ticketmaster.com.
LOOKING AHEAD
Herman’s Hermits – 8 p.m. March 17; Ryan Concert Hall, T. Furth Center for Performing Arts, 1 University Ave., Angola; tickets start at $40; trine.edu/furth.
The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band – 7:30 p.m. March 22; Honeywell Center, 275 W. Market St., Wabash; tickets start at $39; 260-563-1102 or HoneywellArts.org.
Donnie Baker, comedy – 7:30 p.m. March 23; Eagles Theatre, 106 W. Market St., Wabash; tickets start at $20; 260-563-1102 or HoneywellArts.org.
Koe Wetzel – 7:30 p.m. March 23; Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave.; 482-9502 or Ticketmaster.com.
Kiss the Sky: The Jimi Hendrix Re-Experience – 8 p.m. March 25; Baker Street Centre, 323 W. Baker St.; tickets start at $25; 426-6434 or www.bakerstreetcentre.com.
Pink Droyd – 8 p.m. March 25; Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd.; tickets start at $10; Embassy box office, 424-5665 or Ticketmaster.com.
Chapel Hart – 7:30 p.m. March 31; Niswonger Performing Arts Center, 10700 OH-118, Van Wert, Ohio; 419-238-6722 or VanWertLive.com.
Fairytales on Ice featuring Beauty and the Beast – 7:30 p.m. March 31; Honeywell Center, 275 W. Market St., Wabash; tickets start at $15; 260-563-1102 or HoneywellArts.org.
Chapel Hart – 7:30 p.m. April 1; Honeywell Center, 275 W. Market St., Wabash; tickets start at $29; 260-563-1102 or HoneywellArts.org.
Sister Hazel – 7:30 p.m. April 1; Niswonger Performing Arts Center, 10700 OH-118, Van Wert, Ohio; 419-238-6722 or VanWertLive.com.
“Our Planet Live in Concert” – 8 p.m. April 7; Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd.; tickets start at $45; Embassy box office, 424-5665 or Ticketmaster.com.
“Neil Diamond Superstar,” Jack Wright’s Live Concert Experience – 7 p.m. April 15; Baker Street Centre, 323 W. Baker St.; tickets start at $25; 426-6434 or www.bakerstreetcentre.com.
BoDeans – 7:30 p.m. April 20; Eagles Theatre, 106 W. Market St., Wabash; tickets start at $29; 260-563-1102 or HoneywellArts.org.
1964 The Tribute – 8 p.m. April 21; Ryan Concert Hall, T. Furth Center for Performing Arts, 1 University Ave., Angola; tickets start at $25; trine.edu/furth.
Gaither Vocal Band – 7 p.m. April 23; Niswonger Performing Arts Center, 10700 OH-118, Van Wert, Ohio; 419-238-6722 or VanWertLive.com.
“Hank and My Honky Tonk Heroes,” Jason Petty – 7:30 p.m. April 25; Honeywell Center, 275 W. Market St., Wabash; tickets start at $25; 260-563-1102 or HoneywellArts.org.
Shinedown – 7 p.m. April 27; Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave.; tickets start at $49.95; 482-9502 or Ticketmaster.com.
Alice Cooper – 7:30 p.m. May 2; Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave.; tickets start at $48; 482-9502 or Ticketmaster.com.
LeAnne Rimes – 7 p.m. May 7; Niswonger Performing Arts Center, 10700 OH-118, Van Wert, Ohio; 419-238-6722 or VanWertLive.com.
John Mellencamp – 8 p.m. May 15 and 16; Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd.; tickets start at $46; Embassy box office, 424-5665 or Ticketmaster.com.
Stryper – 7:30 p.m. May 16; Eagles Theatre, 106 W. Market St., Wabash; tickets start at $29; 260-563-1102 or HoneywellArts.org.
Kenny Chesney – 7:30 p.m. May 18; Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave.; 482-9502 or ticketmaster.com.
Travis Tritt – 7:30 p.m. May 23; Honeywell Center, 275 W. Market St., Wabash; tickets start at $45; 260-563-1102 or HoneywellArts.org.
Kansas: 7:30 p.m. June 16; Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd.; tickets start at $36.50; Embassy box office, 424-5665 or Ticketmaster.com.
Jerry Seinfeld, comedy – 7 p.m. June 22; Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd.; tickets stat at $47; 424-5665 or Ticketmaster.com.
Croce Plays Croce – 7:30 p.m. July 13; Honeywell Center, 275 W. Market St., Wabash; tickets start at $29; 260-563-1102 or HoneywellArts.org.
“ One More for the Road – A Frank Sinatra Reenactment” – 7:30 p.m. July 18; Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd.; tickets start at $40; Embassy box office, 424-5665 or Ticketmaster.com.
Diana Krall – 8 p.m. Aug. 1; Foellinger Theatre, 3411 Sherman Blvd.; tickets start at $59; Ticketmaster.com or 427-6000.
Happy Together – 7:30 p.m. Aug. 8; Honeywell Center, 275 W. Market St., Wabash; tickets start at $49; 260-563-1102 or HoneywellArts.org.
Karlous Miller, comedy – 8 p.m. Aug. 25; Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd.; tickets start at $36; Embassy box office, 424-5665 or Ticketmaster.com.
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Glance out at the ocean near the Port of Long Beach and the view may look different than it did earlier this year – where are all the cargo ships?
“At the ports over at LA Long Beach in Southern California at least, just in January of this year there were 109 ships waiting at anchor. Right now I think the latest number was six ships,” said Jessica Alvarenga, the manager of government affairs at the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association.
Earlier this year, cargo ships full of goods were waiting offshore for weeks due to a backlog at the ports. Now, that’s not the case.
The National Retail Federation said part of it is because retailers thought ahead this season.
“Retailers planned ahead looking at the busy holiday season, the peak shipping season. Part of their mitigation to avoid some of the congestion issues and their potential disruptions was to bring product in earlier than they normally would,” said Jonathan Gold, the VP for supply chain and customs policy at the National Retail Federation. He said peak shipping season is July through October, but many retailers bought products before that.
Another factor is consumer spending has shifted.
“We’ve definitely seen a reduction in online spending,” Alvarenga said.
“People are now spending more time, more money on traveling or to hotels, to restaurants, to travel,” said Christopher Tang, a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. “Last year we had a demand problem, not enough supply. This year we have plenty of supply, not enough demand.”
Experts say many retailers have a lot of supply to sell.
The World Container Index shows the average price to ship a 40-foot container is about $3,400. Before the pandemic, that price averaged at $1,400 but reached as high as $10,000 during the pandemic.
“I think prices will level out with time,” Alvarenga said. As for in the future, Alvarenga said they don’t anticipate another instance of the backlogs we saw before as consumer trends shift.
“I wouldn't say that people are spending less than what they did before the pandemic. I think they’re just going back to normal spending trends,” she said.
However, Gold said we still have some parts of the supply chain to work out.
“We’re still facing some congestion issues at our ports. The ability to get containers actually out of the port and into the warehouse and out to the stores, some of those challenges are still persisting,” he said. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/from-more-than-a-hundred-to-a-handful-cargo-ship-backlog-issues-ease-as-holidays-approach | 2022-10-26 22:05:42 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/from-more-than-a-hundred-to-a-handful-cargo-ship-backlog-issues-ease-as-holidays-approach |
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP (RJLF) secured an $84 million willful patent infringement verdict on behalf of Cirba, Inc. (d/b/a Densify) against tech giant VMware, Inc.
The verdict was announced on May 1, 2023, following a five-day jury trial before Judge Gregory B. Williams in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. After only two hours of deliberation, the jurors decided VMware had willfully infringed Cirba's patent that covers cutting-edge virtualization technology, awarding Cirba $84 million in damages.
"We are very thankful to the jury and the Court," said Courtland L. Reichman, lead counsel for Cirba. "This verdict shows that Cirba invented technology that transformed the industry. The jury took only two hours to conclude that VMware's infringement was willful. The patent laws and jury system worked. We're happy for our client, and they can now get back to what they do best: innovating."
This is the second time a jury determined that VMware committed willful infringement. The first verdict came in January 2020, following a nine-day jury trial in the District of Delaware.
Along with Mr. Reichman, the Cirba trial team included RJLF attorneys Christine E. Lehman, Khue V. Hoang, Shawna Ballard, Jennifer P. Estremera, Connor S. Houghton, Taylor Mauze, Brian Baran, Leaf Williams, Philip Eklem, Laura Carwile, Natalie Griffin, and Naveed S. Hasan, along with Gary J. Toman of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial.
The case is Cirba Inc. et al. v. VMware Inc., case number (19-742-GBW (D. Del)).
About Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP
Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP (RJLF) is an elite national trial firm that handles high-stakes commercial litigation, intellectual property, and white collar disputes. The firm is majority women-owned and rejects the billable hour in favor of fee arrangements that align client interests. RJLF's attorneys are diverse, exceptionally credentialed, and passionate about trial advocacy. From offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, the firm tries cases and argues appeals throughout the country. For more information, visit www.reichmanjorgensen.com.
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Rare Honus Wagner baseball card sells for record-breaking price
One of the world’s rarest baseball cards was sold for an extraordinary price last week.
The famous T206 Honus Wagner sold for a record $7.25 million in a private sale facilitated by Goldin Auctions, the company said Thursday. It topped the price sold in August 2021. The card was sold for $6.6 million at that time.
The statue of Honus Wagner in front of PNC Park before the game between the Los Angeles Angels and the Pirates on June 5, 2016, in Pittsburgh. (Matt Brown/Angels Baseball LP/Getty Images)
"I’ve been in this business for a very long time and seen a lot of incredible trading cards and pieces of memorabilia, but there is nothing on earth like a T-206 card," Ken Goldin, the Goldin executive chairman and founder, said in a news release. "There’s a reason why no Wagner card has never sold for less than it was previously purchased for – the card is art, it’s history, it’s folklore. The T-206 is one of the reasons I do what I do and why serious collectors around the world love this hobby so much. To be a part of history and facilitate this record-breaking sale is an honor."
The Wagner card is considered to be the "Mona Lisa of baseball cards." There is thought to be fewer than 50 authenticated copies in the industry.
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The 1909-11 T206 card was graded in Good 2 condition on a scale of 1 to 10 from Sportscard Guaranty Corp (SGC).
Wagner, a Hall of Fame shortstop who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the early 1900s, was said to be upset that his likeness was being used on a tobacco product. He refused American Tobacco Co.’s request to use his image, which led to the company ceasing production of his card.
Wagner played baseball from 1897 to 1917. He played for the Louisville Colonels and the Pittsburgh Pirates. He helped the Pirates to a World Series in 1909 and won the batting title eight times.
He hit .328 for his career in 2,794 games.
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Perhaps one of the greatest mysteries of Thanksgiving is the cranberry sauce - and we're not even talking about why people eat it: What's the deal with the upside-down labels on Ocean Spray cans of the stuff?
Observant consumers have noticed that the Ocean Spray labels on jellied cranberry sauce cans are flipped, meaning the rounded edge that's typically on the bottom of most canned goods is on top of Ocean Spray cranberry sauce cans.
According to Ocean Spray, that's intentional: It creates a seamless serving experience.
The cans are "filled and labeled upside down with the rounded edge on top and the sharp can-like edge on the bottom to keep the jelly whole," an Ocean Spray spokesperson told CNN Business. "That creates an air bubble on the rounded side (a.k.a. the top) so customers can "swipe the edge of the can with a knife to break the vacuum and the log will easily slide out."
This process has been in use since the early 2000s.
Costs are up
Ingredients for a traditional Thanksgiving meal will cost shoppers 13.5% more this year compared to last, the market research firm IRI predicted earlier this month, using data from October.
That includes cranberry sauce, whose price is up about 18% compared to last year because cranberry crops are smaller this year, sparking a supply squeeze.
The crop's harvest in Wisconsin was "lower than expected," said Tom Lochner, executive director of the Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association, which produces a big slice of the country's cranberries.
"We're scratching our heads," he said, and working with experts to nail down the cause. For now, his best bet is switches from cold to hot to cool weather in cranberry-growing areas.
"We still rebounded from last year," he said, adding that there should be no shortage of cranberries this year.
Data from research firm IRI shows that fresh cranberries are actually cheaper this year than last, with prices dropping 9.9%. But that's not the case for prepared cranberry sauces, where prices are up.
Lochner pointed out that processors set those prices, not growers, and that there are higher input costs unrelated to berries - like "processing the fruit and getting it to market."
Ocean Spray isn't immune either. The company, which is a farmer co-operative, told CNN Business that it has also has had to hike prices of its canned cranberry sauce, but declined to give a specific percentage.
"Like many companies, we have had to modestly increase the cost of our sauce products during the past year-the first time in close to 10 years-to reflect current macro-economic pressures and cost of production for our 700 family-farmers," a company spokesperson said.
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Pancakes, like many other bread products, require a rising agent, but what if you can't add one? Insert bubaleh, the sweet and savory kosher pancakes made with eggs that Alan Mishell and his family have enjoyed for decades during Passover.
Instead of flour, Mishell's recipe for bubaleh uses matzo meal and whipped egg whites to give this pancake its rise.
"The matzo is a reminder of the affliction of slavery and the sugar, the sweetness of freedom," Mishell said. "And we eat them together so that one is not remembered without the other."
Mishell learned how to make the pancakes from his grandmother, Florence Mishell, who lived in New York after coming to the U.S. from Kinsk, Poland.
"That town, when she was living there, was over 60% Jewish, and it was kind of a center for learning," Mishell said. "And my grandmother ... was able to leave there prior to World War II. Her mother, my great-grandmother, was able to scrape enough money together to get herself and her children to the United States prior to the Nazi invasion, which was super lucky for us."
After the Nazi invasion of the town, Mishell said the percentage of Jews dropped to zero as they were all killed or sent to the Treblinka death camp.
"While this is a food that celebrates our freedom from slavery, it also comes through as a food from another escape," Mishell said.
Mishell splits his time between Boulder, Colo., and Chesterfield, Mo., and is the third generation of his family in the U.S. to make the recipe. He recently passed it on to his 14-year-old son, Sander, who enjoys cooking. Mishell hopes he will continue to make it.
"I think it's meaningful that we share it, especially now that there is an alarming rise in antisemitism at the moment," Mishell said. "It's scary, and it's important to share our traditions and pass on information and think about the thread from thousands of years ago until today."
Though this is traditionally a food that Mishell and his family eat during Passover, it can be made any time of the year, he said. Once you've got your bubaleh, cut it into slices like a pizza and top with some cinnamon or maple syrup.
As for what bubaleh means, Mishell said that in Yiddish it has a couple of meanings.
"One is just bubbles, right? That's what you're making. You're whipping the eggs into this bubbly froth," he said. "But it also is like a term of endearment ... sort of like, "sweetie," that a grandparent may say to a grandchild."
Bubaleh
Recipe submitted by Alan Mishell
Boulder, Colo., and Chesterfield, Mo.
Ingredients
Directions
Separate the eggs.
Whip egg whites to stiff peaks (preferably in a stainless or copper bowl).
In a second bowl, mix egg yolks, matzo meal, sugar and salt.
Heat a skillet over medium heat and grease with butter.
Gently fold the egg yolk mixture into the egg whites until lightly incorporated.
Pour batter into skillet and fry, covered, flipping once.
Plate and then sprinkle cinnamon on top.
Cut into wedges and serve with jam and syrup — and fruit!
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 19, 2022
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...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents along Gulf-facing beaches.
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and Bolivar Peninsula.
* WHEN...Through this evening.
* IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away
from shore into deeper water.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and
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STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) _ ITT Corp. (ITT) on Thursday reported third-quarter profit of $102.4 million.
On a per-share basis, the Stamford, Connecticut-based company said it had net income of $1.23. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to $1.20 per share.
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The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.18 per share.
The supplier of parts and services to a wide variety of industries posted revenue of $753.6 million in the period, which missed Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $754.2 million.
ITT expects full-year earnings in the range of $4.35 to $4.45 per share.
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NEW YORK , May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuberger Berman Next Generation Connectivity Fund Inc. (NYSE: NBXG) (the "Fund") has announced a distribution declaration of $0.10 per share of common stock. The distribution announced today is payable on June 30, 2022, has a record date of June 15, 2022 and has an ex-date of June 14, 2022.
Under its level distribution policy, the Fund anticipates that it will make regular monthly distributions, subject to market conditions, of $0.10 per share of common stock, unless further action is taken to determine another amount. The Fund's ability to maintain its current distribution rate will depend on a number of factors, including the amount and stability of income received from its investments, availability of capital gains, and the level of other Fund fees and expenses. There is no assurance that the Fund will always be able to pay a distribution of any particular amount or that a distribution will consist of only net investment income.
Due to an effort to maintain a stable distribution amount, the distribution announced today, as well as future distributions, may consist of net investment income, net realized capital gains and return of capital. In compliance with Section 19 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, a notice would be provided for any distribution that does not consist solely of net investment income. The notice would be for informational purposes and not for tax reporting purposes, and would disclose, among other things, estimated portions of the distribution, if any, consisting of net investment income, capital gains and return of capital. The final determination of the source and tax characteristics of all distributions paid in 2022 will be made after the end of the year.
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Neuberger Berman, founded in 1939, is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. The firm manages a range of strategies—including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity, real estate and hedge funds—on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally. With offices in 25 countries, Neuberger Berman's diverse team has over 2,500 professionals. For eight consecutive years, the company has been named first or second in Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management survey (among those with 1,000 employees or more). In 2020, the PRI named Neuberger Berman a Leader, a designation awarded to fewer than 1% of investment firms for excellence in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The PRI also awarded Neuberger Berman an A+ in every eligible category for our approach to ESG integration across asset classes. The firm manages $447 billion in client assets as of March 31, 2022. For more information, please visit our website at www.nb.com.
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BOYS
FAYETTEVILLE 64, SPRINGDALE HAR-BER 41 Ornette Gaines chipped away for 17 points as Fayetteville (15-9, 5-5 6A-West) pounded the Wildcats. Quenci Bradford had 16 points, and Jadyn Haney scored 10 for the Bulldogs.
GIRLS
FORT SMITH NORTHSIDE 64, FORT SMITH SOUTHSIDE 39 Erianna Gooden scored nine of her team-high 22 points in the first quarter to propel Northside (19-4, 10-2 6A-West), which shook off Tuesday's loss to Springdale Har-Ber. Karys Washington had 21 points, and Cherish Blackmon ended with 11 for the Lady Bears. Tinsley Freeman had 14 points for Southside (6-19, 1-10).
GREENWOOD 71, ALMA 26 Anna Trusty led with 14 points for Greenwood (22-2, 9-0 5A-West), which won its 17th consecutive game. Madison Cartwright had 13 points, 6 rebounds and 3 steals while Brooklyn Woolsey and Kylah both had nine points each for the Lady Bulldogs.
SOUTH IRON, MO. 72, MAMMOTH SPRING 63 South Iron (19-2), the top-ranked Class 1A team in Missouri, pulled away in the second half to hold off the Lady Bears. Brynn Washam pumped in 31 points, while Adrianna Corbett had 14 points for Class 1A No. 1 Mammoth Spring (28-4), which had its 20-game winning streak snapped. Laney Young added 11 points in the loss.
SOUTHSIDE BATESVILLE 43, BROOKLAND 40 Southside Batesville (22-3, 15-0 4A-3) wrapped up its second consecutive conference title by beating the Lady Bearcats. Juliann Stevens hit four three-pointers and scored 18 points for the Lady Southerners. She also had four steals and three assists. Kamie Jenkins had 16 points and 10 rebounds for Southside Batesville.
VIOLA 47, NORFORK 42 A.J. McCandlis hit all nine of her free-throw attempts and finished with 25 points as Viola (20-7, 12-2 1A-2) ended the Lady Panthers' 30-game conference winning streak. Keely Blanchard had 15 points and five rebounds for Class 1A No. 2 Norfork (24-6, 12-1), which missed its final 17 shots.
TUESDAY'S LATE GAMES
BOYS
CHARLESTON 62, PARIS 59 Brandon Scott had 30 points to stake Charleston (11-3, 11-1 3A-4) past the Eagles on senior night. Brevyn Ketter added 13 points for the Tigers, who got free throws late from Reese Merechka to seal it and wrap up the top seed for the upcoming conference tournament.
DARDANELLE 67, FOUNTAIN LAKE 41 Braden Tanner churned his way to 15 points and five assists to direct Dardanelle (25-3, 15-0 4A-4) at home. Rod Chaten Jr. had 14 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists, and Robert Millard tallied 10 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists for the Sand Lizards. Creed Vega also got in on the act with 9 points and 12 rebounds while Chase Jordan dropped 10 points and 9 rebounds for Dardanelle.
FARMINGTON 79, SHILOH CHRISTIAN 28 Layne Taylor's 23 points, 7 assists and 4 rebounds topped Farmington (28-0, 13-0 4A-1), which is closing in on a perfect regular season. Maddox Mahan added 9 points, and Josh Blakely chimed in with 7 points and 7 rebounds for the Cardinals.
LAKE HAMILTON 75, HOT SPRINGS LAKESIDE 54 Zac Pennington buried eight three-pointers for a team-high 24 points as Lake Hamilton (20-4, 9-3 5A-South) beat its rivals. Ty Robinson scored 17 points and swiped five steals, and LaBraun Christon notched 11 points, 8 assists and 5 steals. Charter Harris contributed 7 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists as well for the Wolves.
LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN 66, LONOKE 47 Landren Blocker and Jameel Wesley II each had 16 points in a win for Little Rock Christian (18-7, 12-1 4A-4). J.J. Andrews finished with 11 points for the Warriors.
MARMADUKE 62, MARKED TREE 60 Blake Gipson's 20 points allowed Marmaduke (15-15) to even its record while taking down one of the top teams in Class 1A. Chandler Harrelson supplied 18 points for the Greyhounds.
PINE BLUFF 78, WHITE HALL 58 Courtney Crutchfield led the charge with 23 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists to send Pine Bluff (18-6, 12-0 5A-South) past its Jefferson County neighbors. Braylen Hall had 18 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists while Deriyon Graydon ended with 16 points, 11 rebounds and 3 blocks for the Zebras. Zae Barnett also gathered 13 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds for the winners. Randy Emerson had 16 points, and Jai'Chaunn Hayes submitted 14 points for White Hall (15-12, 6-6).
ROSE BUD 78, RIVERVIEW 56 Rece Hipp netted a career-high 46 points as Rose Bud (18-5, 12-1 3A-6) kept pace atop the 3A-6 Conference with a home victory over the Raiders. Jace Goodwin had 12 points for the Ramblers. Tadrian Baker had 20 points for Riverview (18-4, 10-4).
SHERIDAN 69, EL DORADO 50 Brady Ingram drained five three-pointers and scored 19 points for Sheridan (15-8, 6-5 5A-South), which continued its push for a playoff spot. Peyton Free had 17 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists, and Justin Crews finished with 12 points for the Yellowjackets.
SPRINGDALE 58, FORT SMITH SOUTHSIDE 47 Courtland Muldrew had 17 points and four assists as Springdale (19-6, 8-3 6A-West) sprinted away in the second half to beat the Mavericks. Cy Bates had 13 points and 10 rebounds, and Tevin Tate chipped in with 10 points for the Bulldogs, who've won six of their last eight games.
SPRINGDALE HAR-BER 56, FORT SMITH NORTHSIDE 38 Jaxon Conley's 20 points were crucial for Har-Ber (17-5, 9-2 6A-West), which won for the seventh straight time. Hayden Wood scored 11 points, and Nate Kingsbury collected nine points for the Wildcats.
SYVLAN HILLS 53, LITTLE ROCK CATHOLIC 48 DaCarter Coleman paced all scorers with 21 points in a see-saw affair for Sylvan Hills (14-10, 7-3 5A-Central). James Deloach had 12 points, and P.J. Davis scored nine points for the Bears, who were down 29-21 at halftime.
VILONIA 70, BEEBE 48 Josh Lawrence hit for a game-high 31 points and pulled in 5 rebounds in a rout for Vilonia (19-6, 7-3 5A-Central). Dashun Spence added 19 points and 11 rebounds for the Eagles.
WEST SIDE GREERS FERRY 66, NORFORK 59 Jacob Carlton's 35 points solidified things for West Side Greers Ferry (19-7). Ruston Holt added 11 points for the Eagles. Patrick Perry's 23 points, and Jude Condray's 14 points led Nemo Vista (15-12).
GIRLS
ARKADELPHIA 58, HOPE 30 Liyah Smith had 20 points for Arkadelphia (15-7, 8-3 4A-7), which won its third game in a row by knocking off the Lady Bobcats for the second time in less than a month. TeTe Tate added 12 points for the Lady Badgers.
BROOKLAND 57, POCAHONTAS 33 Kinley Morris drained 20 points to help Brookland (20-7, 12-2 4A-3) stay hot. Stella Parker finished with 13 points for the Lady Bearcats.
GRAVETTE 37, BERRYVILLE 35 Brooke Handle had 10 points to lead Gravette (x) to a comeback victory. Alexa Parker ended with eight points for the Lady Lions, who trailed 26-22 going into the fourth quarter.
MANSFIELD 58, JOHNSON COUNTY WESTSIDE 26 Kynslee Ward had 18 points and 6 assists in a beatdown for Mansfield (22-3, 10-1 2A-4). Natalie Allison had 14 points and 4 rebounds, and Harlie Fuller contributed 11 points and 3 rebounds for the Lady Tigers.
PARIS 48, CHARLESTON 43 Brailey Forst finished with 22 points as Paris (15-11, 9-4 3A-4) shot past the Lady Tigers. Annabelle Perry scored 14 points for the Lady Eagles.
RIVERVIEW 52, ROSE BUD 43 Makayla Hale scored 28 points to lift Riverview (8-15, 4-10 3A-6), which took both games from the Lady Ramblers this season. Sarah Hartle had 15 points, and Taylor Wilhite scored 10 for Riverview (8-14, 4-9).
SPRINGDALE HAR-BER 42, FORT SMITH NORTHSIDE 34 Pacious McDaniel dazzled with 24 points and 15 rebounds to keep Har-Ber (15-7, 9-2 6A-West) rolling. Delaney Roller added 6 points and 3 assists for the Lady Wildcats. Karys Washington scored 18 points for Northside (18-4, 9-2).
SOUTHSIDE BATESVILLE 57, JONESBORO WESTSIDE 30 Kamie Jenkins had 22 points, 14 rebounds and 4 steals to boost Southside Batesville (21-3, 14-0 4A-3). Chaney McCance ended with 13 points and 5 assists, and Callie Jo Robbins followed with 9 points for the Lady Southerners.
NEMO VISTA 61, WEST SIDE GREERS FERRY 41 Kailynn Garis dropped 21 points, and Camry Eller had 12 to push Nemo Vista (19-7) over the Lady Eagles. Isabella De Salvo added 11 points for the Lady Red Hawks. Alyssa Smith came up with 16 points, and Shawna Carlton delivered 11 points for West Side Greers Ferry (9-17). | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/feb/09/high-school-basketball-roundups/ | 2023-02-09 09:50:21 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/feb/09/high-school-basketball-roundups/ |
Ripley is the Highest-Performing American Kerosene Engine Ever Built
DENVER, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ursa Major, America's leading privately funded company focused solely on rocket propulsion, today announced a milestone in the development of its redesigned "Ripley" rocket engine: successful hotfire tests. The test campaign showed the integrated Ripley engine—including turbomachinery, oxidizer-rich preburner, and additive-manufactured copper thrust chamber assembly—firing as a complete system in flight-like conditions.
Ripley has the highest "Specific Impulse," or Isp, a measurement of fuel economy, of any American kerosene rocket engine in history.
"This hotfire test campaign is a critical milestone for Ripley as we move into full-scale development and production," said Brad Appel, Chief Technology Officer at Ursa Major. "The new 50,000-pound-thrust design is in response to growing market demand for this medium-lift thrust class."
Customers using Ripley will save years of time and millions of dollars while benefitting from best-in-class performance and reliability.
The first iteration of the Ripley engine hotfired in 2021 with 35,000 pounds of thrust. Ursa Major increased the thrust to 50,000 pounds to better suit medium-class launch vehicles.
Ursa Major tests its engines at its one-of-a-kind facility in Berthoud, Colorado, which houses engine design, manufacturing, and testing all in one place. To date, Ursa Major engines have accumulated more than 60,000 seconds of run-time.
Unlike other propulsion systems, Ursa Major engines are designed to be used on multiple vehicles and for various use cases, creating efficiencies that help customers get to launch faster without relying on foreign-made technology or incurring the high cost of building engines in-house.
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Ursa Major is America's leading privately funded company focusing solely on rocket propulsion, bringing high-performance, staged combustion engines to market for space launch and hypersonic applications. Ursa Major customers, ranging from "New Space" startups to enterprise-level aerospace leaders and the U.S. government, get to flight faster, more reliably, and cost-effectively. The company employs the most sought-after engineers from top space programs and universities. Headquartered in Berthoud, Colorado, Ursa Major was named one of the best places to work by Built in Colorado three years in a row. For more information, visit www.ursamajor.com. For downloadable images and videos, visit https://www.ursamajor.com/media#downloadable-assets.
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BERLIN — A former hotel in eastern Germany that was supposed to be used as accommodation for refugee families starting next week was targeted Friday in what authorities believe was an anti-foreigner arson attack.
An initial group of 30 refugees, from countries including Syria, Afghanistan and Russia, was due to move into the building next Thursday. It wasn’t immediately clear what would happen to that plan.
The former hotel already was used as accommodation for refugees between 2015 and 2017, and was the target of an attempted arson attack in 2016 when three young men threw Molotov cocktails over a fence toward the building, the German news agency dpa reported.
The interior minister of Saxony state, Armin Schuster, said it’s not yet clear who threw incendiary devices into the hotel on Friday but authorities believe it was a xenophobic arson attack.
“Setting fire to buildings out of hatred because you don’t want to have refugees near you is deeply primitive and inhuman,” Schuster said. Saxony’s governor, Michael Kretschmer, tweeted that finding out who was responsible “has the highest priority.”
Last week, a fire destroyed a shelter for Ukrainian refugees on Germany’s Baltic coast in what authorities say could have been arson.
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Spain unveils emergency actions to curb soaring living costs
MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government has approved a package of emergency economic measures worth more than 9 billion euros ($9.5 billion) to try to temper the economic fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that the war has produced “extraordinary uncertainty” in the Spanish economy and the measures lasting until the end of the year were designed to cushion the impact. They include a reduction in the tax on electricity, a reduction in the cost of monthly transit passes, and a one-time payment of 200 euros ($211) for people with low-incomes who aren’t already receiving benefits. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/06/25/spain-unveils-emergency-actions-to-curb-soaring-living-costs-2/ | 2022-06-25 20:50:19 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/2022/06/25/spain-unveils-emergency-actions-to-curb-soaring-living-costs-2/ |
COVID-19 continues to spread across Washington, and quickly.
But with prevention techniques like masking, treatment like Paxlovid, and vaccines and boosters, health officials are not concerned yet of hospitals becoming overwhelmed.
COVID-19 hospitalizations have not reached a point yet where hospitals are again struggling to find intensive care unit beds or to deliver normal care, said Dr. Dan Getz, chief medical officer at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center.
“It’s really a slow rise,” he said. “That’s the whole point of the measures we implemented.”
Those measures include things like getting vaccinated and boosted when eligible. Department of Health officials on Wednesday also recommended masking indoors, though they are not implementing a mask requirement yet.
“This is the time for us to remind ourselves that this pandemic is not over,” said Secretary of Health Dr. Umair Shah.
Department of Health officials said cases and hospitalizations are increasing, and because many people are testing at home now, the state numbers could be an undercount.
Through Thursday, the seven-day case rate in Washington per 100,000 of population is 211.8; the total seven-day case count is 16,217, according to data from the state.
Deaths related to COVID-19 have not started going up yet, Shah said.
“We’ve gotten much better at how to treat COVID,” Getz said. “We have therapies that never existed before.”
One of the differences right now is how widely available treatments for COVID-19 are. Paxlovid, an antiviral treatment, and the monoclonal antibody treatment are both available for patients who qualify.
The requirements for the treatments are broad, Getz said, and includes anyone 65 and over; anyone with a history of high blood pressure; anyone with a body mass index of 25 and over; anyone with diabetes; pregnant people and anyone who is unvaccinated and 12 and over.
It’s a medication that tends to be “very, very safe,” he said. He encouraged anyone who tests positive to talk to their health care provider about treatment options.
“It’s important to remember we do have treatments, which we didn’t have just a short time ago,” Getz said.
Paxlovid can be helpful in preventing serious disease from COVID-19, especially for those who are immunocompromised or elderly, said Dr. Bob Lutz, a medical adviser for the Department of Health. The treatment is best used within five days of testing positive.
There is currently plenty of it available across the state for those who may need it, Lutz said.
As transmission increases, health officials are encouraging anyone who has symptoms to test for COVID-19. There are still community testing sites across the area, and at-home tests can still be ordered through the federal government at www.covid.gov/tests or the state at sayyescovidhometest.org/.
Getz said it’s hard to tell how long the rise in cases will last and what it could mean for the summer and fall. Memorial Day weekend could also mean a spike in cases, he said, especially among those who are unvaccinated or immunocompromised. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/prevention-techniques-treatment-helping-keep-covid-numbers-down-statewide/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-05-28 16:47:30 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/prevention-techniques-treatment-helping-keep-covid-numbers-down-statewide/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
By OMAR FARUK
Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility Sunday for an unfolding armed attack on a hotel in the Somali capital.
Al-Shabab said in a broadcast on its own radio frequency Sunday that said its fighters attacked the hotel Villa Rose, which has a restaurant popular with government and security officials.
Abdi Hassan, a government worker who lives near the hotel, told the Associated Press that he believes several government officials were inside the hotel when the attack started. Some were seen jumping the perimeter wall to safety while others were rescued, he said.
The hotel isn’t far from the presidential palace in central Mogadishu, where a blast was heard, followed by gunfire.
There was no immediate word on any casualties. Such militant attacks are common in Mogadishu and other parts of the Horn of Africa nation.
Last month at least 120 people were killed in two car bombings at a busy junction in Mogadishu. Al-Shabab, which doesn’t usually claim responsibility when its assaults result in a high civilian death toll, is believed to have carried out that attack, the deadliest since a similar attack at the same spot killed more than 500 five years ago.
Al-Shabab opposes Somalia’s federal government, which is backed by African Union peacekeepers, and seeks to take power and enforce a strict version of Sharia law.
The United States has described al-Shabab as one of al-Qaida’s deadliest organizations and targeted it with scores of airstrikes in recent years. Hundreds of U.S. military personnel have returned to the country after former president Donald Trump withdrew them.
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PEABODY, Mass., Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Barton Associates, the 4th largest locum tenens staffing and recruiting agency in the U.S., with 10 offices nationwide, is proud to announce the promotion of several employees who have demonstrated exceptional performance, leadership, and made significant contributions to the company's success.
The following individuals have been promoted to new positions within the company:
- Emily Marr will now serve as Senior Director, Sales & Recruiting, in a regional role for the Peabody, MA and Windsor, CT offices. Emily has been with the company for 10 years and has consistently exceeded expectations, delivering for clients, locum providers, and her staff, demonstrating a deep commitment to the company's mission.
- Vanessa Moriarty, has been promoted to Senior Director, Sales & Recruiting, continuing to lead the Worcester office. An employee since 2011, Vanessa has demonstrated exceptional leadership and a passion for driving results, and has been a key player in growing Barton Associates.
- Mackenzie Murphy, has been promoted to Senior Director of Strategic Accounts, continuing to build strong relationships with Barton Associates and Barton Healthcare Staffing clients. Mackenzie has continued to drive growth for the business, ensuring client and provider satisfaction since 2017.
"We are thrilled to recognize the hard work and dedication of Emily, Vanessa, and Mackenize with these promotions," said Lina Gallotto, Executive Vice President, Barton Associates. "Their contributions have been instrumental in driving our success, and we are confident that they will continue to play a key role in our future growth."
AnneMarie Zukowski, Senior Vice President, Inbound Division at Barton Associates, comments that "Our 700+ employees are the backbone of our success, and we are thrilled to recognize these incredible individuals and reward their continuous and outstanding contributions to not only Barton, but the healthcare industry too."
About Barton & Associates Inc.
Barton is a leading U.S. healthcare staffing company focused on locum tenens with additional capabilities in travel nursing, allied healthcare, and government-related physician staffing markets. Barton utilizes its large network of highly skilled providers to quickly respond to critical customer needs. Barton is headquartered in Peabody, Massachusetts, and the Company serves over 1,000 active customers in the United States via a network of 10 offices and more than 700 employees. For more information, visit https://www.bartonassociates.com.
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HONG KONG, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rugby League World Cup (RLWC) 2021 is set to kick off with a match between England and Samoa men on 15 October at St James Park and conclude in Manchester with the wheelchair final on 18 November and the men's and women's finals in a spectacular double header at Old Trafford on 19 November.
For the first time in tournament history the men's, women's and wheelchair competitions will take place at the same time with all 61 matches set to be broadcast live on the BBC, with over 600 players and 32 teams taking part in fixtures across 17 host towns and cities and 21 stadiums across the country including London, Manchester, Newcastle, York, Leeds, Coventry, and Sheffield.
This year's tournament, delayed from 2021 to 2022 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will be the 16th edition of the Rugby League World Cup and world-renowned crypto exchange CoinEx will be cheering on all the teams as the Exclusive Cryptocurrency Trading Platform partner of the tournament
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WLEX) — AJ Tribble is a 4-year-old dribbling sensation.
"Just to see him at his age doing the stuff he does, it's amazing," said Andrew Tribble, AJ's dad. "That's my best friend. That's who I hang with all day every day. That's who I'm with."
Andrew says AJ's world almost revolves around basketball. It's the first thing he wants to do in the morning and the last thing before he goes to sleep.
"When he was younger, I bought him a little play school rim," Andrew said. "And he would sit and shoot at it all day with his pacifier in his mouth."
AJ says his favorite players are Anthony Davis, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Devin Booker.
"He's a kid who gives it his all no matter what," Andrew says.
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(The Hill) — The number of Americans seeking mental health treatment is almost twice as high as it was two decades ago — reflecting a historic recent decline in mental health but also an increase in virtual care access and a positive trend of destigmatization.
In 2004, just 13 percent of adults said they had visited a therapist, psychiatrist or other mental health professional within the past year, according to Gallup polling. In 2022, that number was up to 23 percent.
While the shift began before COVID-19 arrived, the pandemic drove a new surge in demand for care, particularly among young adults. The share of Americans aged 18 to 44 who had received mental health treatment like medication, counseling or therapy over the past 12 months jumped from 18.5 percent to more than 23 percent between 2019 and 2021, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show.
“Without a doubt, shortly after the pandemic started there was a huge demand for our services,” said Daniel Fridberg, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago.
A majority of psychologists reported seeing more patients seek help for disorders related to anxiety, depression or stress in 2020 — and again in 2021 and 2022, according to an annual survey from the American Psychological Association.
Many health experts link the increased demand to plummeting mental health during the pandemic, which led to spikes in the number of Americans reporting depression and anxiety.
Some health experts think the numbers tell another story, however: one about the success of teletherapy.
“I think there is evidence for the rising rates of depression, especially among young people,” said Mark Olfson, an Elizabeth K Dollard professor of psychiatry, medicine and law and a professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
But, he added, “the most important factor driving the increase in demand for psychotherapy is a basic structural change, how psychotherapy is delivered.”
Telehealth was rarely used prior to the pandemic, accounting for just 1 percent of outpatient visits for mental health and substance use issues, according to data from health policy research organization KFF. Usage skyrocketed in 2020, with telehealth making up 40 percent of mental health and substance use outpatient visits between March and August of that year. It was still high a year later as well, even as other outpatient care largely returned to in-person visits.
Telehealth mental health services have their downsides. It is harder for mental health professionals to pick on up on body language in a teletherapy session compared to an in-person session, and the potential for distractions from background noise, pets and other family members is higher during a teletherapy session. But data shows that virtual therapy or counseling work for many patients.
A survey of 1,200 people conducted by YouGov and Forbes Health last year found that 63 percent of people who underwent teletherapy reported it was effective.
One appeal of teletherapy is convenience, Olfson explained, since appointments can be conducted anywhere with phone or internet service.
Another draw is privacy.
“[People] no longer have to drive across town and sit in a waiting room where their friends or neighbors may see them while they are waiting for a counselor or psychotherapist,” Olfson said.
There is still stigma attached to mental illness and seeking help to work through it. But that stigma is weakening, especially among young people — another factor that has contributed to more Americans receiving mental health treatment in recent years.
Studies show that Gen Z, consisting of those born in 1997 or later, is far more comfortable speaking about mental health than older generations. And Gen Zers are also more likely to have received treatment for their mental health or gone to therapy.
A 2019 report from the American Psychological Association showed that 37 percent of Gen Z had received psychological treatment or gone to therapy compared to 35 percent of millennials and 26 percent of Gen Xers.
“When I talk to my younger patients, many of them are rather open with their friends about their mental health, they are rather upfront about it,” said Fridberg of the University of Chicago. “They talk about going to therapy, they talk about their diagnosis, they talk about what steps they are taking to address it. That’s a real shift.”
While more Americans are seeking out help with their mental health, however, there aren’t enough professionals to treat them, and that gap is expected to get worse.
The Department of Health and Human Services has estimated the national deficit in mental health care providers — including positions ranging from psychiatrists to school counselors to family therapists — could amount to a shortfall of more than 10,000 professionals by 2025. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/why-are-more-americans-going-to-therapy/ | 2023-05-01 13:07:44 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/why-are-more-americans-going-to-therapy/ |
INDIANAPOLIS – A bill moving forward at the Indiana Statehouse would remove requirements for school administrators to discuss certain topics with teachers’ unions or other representatives.
Opponents of Senate Bill 486 argue the measure would silence teachers. It’s one of the bills that recently drew protest from hundreds of teachers across Indiana at a Statehouse rally organized by the Indiana State Teachers Association.
“Our members are saying we need greater voice in what’s happening,” said Keith Gambill, president of the Indiana State Teachers Association, which is against the bill.
Gambill argues the bill would reduce teachers’ rights and worsen the state’s teacher shortage. The required discussion topics that would be eliminated include curriculum, class sizes and school safety.
“When they recognize that their voices are being silenced in making a difference for their students, then they will find other places” to work, Gambill said.
The Republican-backed bill would make conversations about working conditions and educational quality optional, and those could take place with union representatives or employees themselves.
Advocates say one of the goals behind the measure is to put fewer regulations on schools.
“This will allow any teacher to go talk to… the principal, the superintendent about working conditions or any circumstances they have,” said State Sen. Rodric Bray (R-Martinsville), Senate President Pro Tempore.
Bray, who supports the bill, argues teachers would not lose the right to initiate those discussions.
“If a group of teachers wants to do the same thing, they’re free to as well,” Bray said. “So it’s not overly consequential in that regard.”
Not all teachers oppose the legislation. The Indiana Professional Educators, an organization of teachers against unions, is in favor of the bill, along with several groups representing school administrators.
The measure narrowly passed the Senate earlier this session, with Republicans divided on the legislation. In the House, State Rep. Ed DeLaney (D-Indianapolis) offered an amendment to remove the proposal from the bill, but most Republicans voted it down before passing the bill.
“They don’t, in my view, respect our teachers and respect their role,” DeLaney said of Republicans who support Senate Bill 486.
Because the bill was amended in the House, it has been sent back to the Senate for final legislative approval. The Senate has not yet held a final vote.
We reached out to State Sen. Linda Rogers (R-Granger), the author of the bill. She declined our request for an interview for this story. | https://cbs4indy.com/in-focus-indiana-politics/indiana-bill-would-eliminate-required-discussion-topics-between-unions-schools/ | 2023-04-20 23:12:05 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/in-focus-indiana-politics/indiana-bill-would-eliminate-required-discussion-topics-between-unions-schools/ |
AUSTIN, Minn., Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), a Fortune 500 leading global branded food company, today reported results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022. The fourth quarter and full year of 2022 reflect one fewer week compared to the prior year. All comparisons are to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2021 unless otherwise noted.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - FISCAL 2022
- Record net sales of $12.5 billion, up 9%; organic net sales1 up 6%, excluding the partial-year impact of the Planters® snack nuts business and an additional week last year
- Operating income of $1.3 billion, up 17%; up 13% compared to adjusted operating income1 of $1.2 billion last year
- Operating margin of 10.5% compared to 9.9% last year and compared to adjusted operating margin1 of 10.2% last year
- Pretax earnings of $1.3 billion, up 13%; up 9% compared to adjusted pretax earnings1 of $1.2 billion last year
- Effective tax rate of 21.7% compared to 19.3% last year
- Diluted earnings per share of $1.82, up 10%; up 5% compared to adjusted diluted earnings per share1 of $1.73 last year
- Cash flow from operations of $1.1 billion, up 13%
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - FOURTH QUARTER
- Net sales of $3.3 billion, down 5%; organic net sales1 up 2%, excluding the impact of an additional week last year
- Operating income of $367 million, up 3%
- Operating margin of 11.2% compared to 10.4% last year
- Pretax earnings of $357 million, up 1%
- Effective tax rate of 21.7% compared to 20.0% last year
- Diluted earnings per share of $0.51, comparable to $0.51 last year
- Cash flow from operations of $372 million, down 34%
EXECUTIVE COMMENTARY
"We achieved all-time record sales and double-digit profit growth in fiscal 2022," said Jim Snee, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer. "In addition to delivering year-over-year growth, our team successfully integrated the Planters® business, made progress on our six strategic priorities, showed tremendous resolve in overcoming a challenging operating environment, and laid the groundwork for the next step in our evolution as a global branded company, the Go Forward (GoFWD) initiative."
"In the fourth quarter, our team delivered diluted earnings per share comparable with record results last year, which included an additional week of sales," Snee said. "These results further demonstrate that our brands remain healthy, and the strategic investments we have made are enabling growth. Organic volume and organic net sales growth were led by our center-store grocery portfolio as well as another solid performance from our foodservice businesses. We saw volume and sales2 growth from many retail brands and products in market, including Hormel® Black Label® bacon, SKIPPY® peanut butter products, SPAM® products, Hormel® chili, Hormel Gatherings® party trays and Lloyds® meats. Segment profit growth was due to the Jennie-O Turkey Store segment, as the team effectively managed limited turkey supply and maximized operational performance. We also made progress across our supply chain to increase production capabilities and restore inventories on key product lines."
STRATEGIC EVOLUTION - GoFWD
The company transitioned to three operating segments – Retail, Foodservice and International – and began operating under the new model on Oct. 31, 2022. As part of the transition, implementation activities in the first quarter are expected to include:
- Adopting a new organizational design, management structures and accountabilities;
- Continuing the work to fully integrate Jennie-O Turkey Store into the company's One Supply Chain and new operating segments; and
- Standing up the Brand Fuel Center of Excellence, which will house enterprise-wide brand management expertise, e-commerce capabilities, insights-led innovation and analytical support to further enable data-driven decisions.
"The deliberate and thoughtful steps we have taken thus far are all about creating the Hormel Foods of the future," Snee said. "We are excited for the additional collaboration, capabilities and value we will realize from this transition and are increasingly confident in our ability to drive long-term sustainable growth."
Changes to the company's operating segments have no impact on historical consolidated results of operations, financial position or cash flows. The company will provide recast financial information for fiscal years 2021 and 2022 in February 2023. Earnings will be reported under this structure beginning with the release of fiscal 2023 first quarter results in early March.
FISCAL 2023 GUIDANCE
"We enter the new fiscal year well-positioned in the retail, foodservice and international channels, and expect to drive top-line growth," Snee said. "We believe higher levels of brand investment, increased production capacity and our initial GoFWD actions further support this expectation. We anticipate earnings growth to be driven by our Foodservice and International segments, and improvements across the supply chain."
"We expect to operate in a volatile, complex and high-cost environment again in fiscal 2023," Snee said. "We have benefited from our balanced business model, which is not heavily dependent on any one channel, protein, input or product category. Our long-term strategy to meet consumers where they want to eat, with a broad portfolio of trusted brands and products, will continue to be a key differentiator for our business, helping to drive growth for our customers and operators."
DIVIDENDS
"Last week, we announced the 57th consecutive yearly increase to our annual dividend to $1.10 per share," Snee said. "We remain steadfast in our commitment to deliver consistent dividend growth and return cash to our shareholders."
Effective Nov. 15, 2022, the company paid its 377th consecutive quarterly dividend at the annual rate of $1.04 per share.
CHANNEL HIGHLIGHTS – FISCAL 2022
Net sales growth for the year was driven by the company's U.S. channels, which benefited from elevated demand for many of its leading retail and value-added foodservice brands, pricing actions to mitigate inflationary pressures and the full-year contribution of the Planters® snack nuts business. Sales for the international channel declined, primarily due to lower export sales. The fourth quarter and full year of 2022 reflect one fewer week compared to the prior year.
SEGMENT HIGHLIGHTS – FOURTH QUARTER
Note: The fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 reflects one fewer week compared to the prior year.
Refrigerated Foods
- Volume down 19%; organic volume1 down 13%
- Net sales down 7%; organic net sales1 comparable to last year
- Segment profit down 15%
Products such as Hormel® Natural Choice® meats, Hormel® Bacon 1TM fully cooked bacon, Hormel® Fire BraisedTM flame-seared meats, Hormel Gatherings® party trays and Applegate® breaded chicken grew volume and sales for the quarter. Overall net sales declined due to the impact from an additional week in the fourth quarter of last year and lower commodity sales. Consistent with the company's long-term strategy to better align resources to value-added growth, the overall decline in volume was primarily due to lower commodity sales resulting from the company's new pork supply agreement. The decline in segment profit was driven by lower commodity profitability and higher operational, logistics and raw material costs.
Grocery Products
- Volume down 4%; organic volume1 up 4%
- Net sales up 3%; organic net sales1 up 11%
- Segment profit down 8%
Net sales increased due to strong demand for SKIPPY® peanut butter and the impact of pricing actions across the Mexican and simple-meals portfolios. Organic volume and net sales gains were led by the SPAM®, SKIPPY®, WHOLLY®, Herdez® and Dinty Moore® brands. Segment profit declined, as pricing actions did not offset the impact from continued inflationary pressures.
Jennie-O Turkey Store
- Volume down 32%; organic volume1 down 27%
- Net sales down 15%; organic net sales1 down 8%
- Segment profit up 149%
As anticipated, volume and sales declined as a result of the supply impacts on the company's vertically integrated supply chain from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Segment profit growth was primarily due to higher commodity prices and improved value-added mix.
International & Other
- Volume comparable to last year; organic volume1 up 8%
- Net sales down 2%; organic net sales1 up 6%
- Segment profit down 4%
Volume and net sales growth from the SPAM® and SKIPPY® brands and the multinational businesses were offset by lower fresh pork and refrigerated export sales. Fresh pork sales declined as a result of the company's new pork supply agreement. Segment profit growth in China did not overcome declines in the export business and elevated logistics expenses.
SELECTED FINANCIAL DETAILS - FISCAL 2022
Income Statement
- Operating margin for the full year was 10.5%. This compares to 9.9% and 10.2% on an adjusted basis1 for the previous year. The company continued to be negatively impacted by broad-based inflationary pressures and announced numerous pricing actions throughout the year to combat these pressures.
- Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of net sales were 7.1%. This compares to 7.5% and 7.2% on an adjusted basis1 last year. The decline is a result of record net sales and disciplined cost management.
- Advertising investments were $157 million compared to $139 million last year. All business segments increased investment compared to the prior year.
- The effective tax rate was 21.7% compared to 19.3% last year. Last year's rate included the benefit of one-time state tax discrete items.
Cash Flow Statement
- Cash flow from operations was $1.1 billion, up 13% compared to last year.
- Dividends paid to shareholders were a record $558 million.
- Capital expenditures were $279 million compared to $232 million last year. Large projects in fiscal 2022 included the completion of pepperoni and bacon capacity-expansion projects, an expansion for our SPAM® family of products to be opened in the first half of fiscal 2023, and many other projects to support growth of branded products and increase automation. Capital expenditures are expected to be $350 million in fiscal 2023, which includes a recently approved investment to support the company's growth in China.
- The company did not repurchase shares during fiscal 2022. The company has the capacity to repurchase approximately 4 million shares under its current authorization.
- Depreciation and amortization expense for the full year was $263 million.
Balance Sheet
- The company is in a strong financial position with ample liquidity, a conservative level of debt and consistent cash flows.
- Cash on hand increased to $982 million from $614 million at the beginning of the year.
- Total long-term debt is $3.3 billion, unchanged from the beginning of the year.
PRESENTATION
A conference call will be webcast at 8 a.m. CST on Nov. 30, 2022. Access is available at www.hormelfoods.com by clicking on "Investors." The call will also be available via telephone by dialing 888-317-6003 and providing the access code 7127801. An audio replay is available by going to www.hormelfoods.com. The webcast replay will be available at noon CST, Nov. 30, 2022, and will remain on the website for one year.
ABOUT HORMEL FOODS - Inspired People. Inspired Food.™
Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minn., is a global branded food company with over $12 billion in annual revenue across more than 80 countries worldwide. Its brands include Planters®, SKIPPY®, SPAM®, Hormel® Natural Choice®, Applegate®, Justin's®, WHOLLY®, Hormel® Black Label®, Columbus®, Jennie-O® and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named on the "Global 2000 World's Best Employers" list by Forbes magazine for three years, is one of Fortune magazine's most admired companies, has appeared on the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list by 3BL Media 13 times, and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts. The company lives by its purpose statement — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™ — to bring some of the world's most trusted and iconic brands to tables across the globe. For more information, visit www.hormelfoods.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release contains "forward-looking" information within the meaning of the federal securities laws. The "forward-looking" information may include statements concerning the Company's outlook for the future as well as other statements of beliefs, future plans, strategies, or anticipated events and similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts. Words or phrases such as "should result," "believe," "intend," "plan," "are expected to," "targeted," "will continue," "will approximate," "is anticipated," "estimate," "project," or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical earnings and those anticipated or projected, which factors include, but are not limited to, risks related to the deterioration of economic conditions; the COVID-19 pandemic; risks associated with acquisitions and divestitures; potential disruption of operations including at co-manufacturers, suppliers, logistics providers, customers, or other third party service providers; risk of loss of a material contract; the Company's inability to protect information technology systems against, or effectively respond to, cyber attacks or security breaches; deterioration of labor relations, labor availability or increases to labor costs; general risks of the food industry, including food contamination; outbreaks of disease among livestock and poultry flocks; fluctuations in commodity prices and availability of raw materials and other inputs; fluctuations in market demand for the Company's products; damage to the Company's reputation or brand image; climate change, or legal, regulatory, or market measures to address climate change; risks of litigation; potential sanctions and compliance costs arising from government regulation; compliance with stringent environmental regulation and potential environmental litigation; and risks arising from the Company's foreign operations. Please refer to the cautionary statements regarding "Risk Factors" and "Forward-Looking Statements" that appear in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, which can be accessed at www.hormelfoods.com in the "Investors" section, for additional information. In making these statements, the Company is not undertaking, and specifically declines to undertake, any obligation to address or update each or any factor in future filings or communications regarding the Company's business or results, and is not undertaking to address how any of these factors may have caused changes to discussions or information contained in previous filings or communications. Though the Company has attempted to list comprehensively these important cautionary risk factors, the Company wishes to caution investors and others that other factors may in the future prove to be important in affecting the Company's business or results of operations. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which represent current views as of the date made.
Note: Due to rounding, numbers presented throughout this news release may not sum precisely to the totals provided, and percentages may not precisely reflect the absolute figures.
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1Organic net sales, organic volume, and adjusted financial measurements of adjusted operating income, adjusted operating margin, adjusted selling, general, and administrative expenses, adjusted pretax earnings and adjusted diluted earnings per share are non-GAAP financial measures. Please see the discussion of these non-GAAP financial measures and the reconciliation of these to comparable U.S. GAAP measures following the end notes.
2IRI Panel; Total US All Outlet; 13 weeks ending Oct. 30, 2022, vs year ago.
COMPARISON OF U.S. GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASUREMENTS
The non-GAAP adjusted financial measurements of adjusted operating income, adjusted operating margin, adjusted selling, general, and administrative expenses, adjusted pretax earnings and adjusted diluted earnings per share are presented to provide investors with additional information to facilitate the comparison of past and present operations. These measurements exclude the impact of the acquisition-related expenses and accounting adjustments related to the acquisition of the Planters® snack nuts business. The tax impact was calculated using the effective tax rate for the quarter in which the expenses and accounting adjustments were incurred.
The non-GAAP adjusted financial measurements of organic volume and organic net sales are presented to provide investors with additional information to facilitate the comparison of past and present operations. Organic net sales and organic volume exclude the impacts of the acquisition of the Planters® snack nuts business (June 2021) in the Grocery Products, Refrigerated Foods and International & Other segments. Organic volume and organic net sales also exclude the impact of the 53rd week in fiscal 2021 as approximated based on average weekly sales for the fourth quarter (fourteen weeks) ended Oct. 31, 2021.
The company believes these non-GAAP financial measurements provide useful information to investors because they are the measurements used to evaluate performance on a comparable year-over-year basis. Non-GAAP measurements are not intended to be a substitute for U.S. GAAP measurements in analyzing financial performance. These non-GAAP measurements are not in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies.
The tables below show the calculations to reconcile from the GAAP measures to the non-GAAP adjusted measures.
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Ava Thompson spoke with the Missouri On Mic team at The Poplar Bluff Municipal Library in July.
She’s a middle schooler from Elsinore Missouri and she spoke with KBIA's Rebecca Smith about her love of books and volleyball.
Missouri on Mic is an oral history and journalism project documenting stories from around the state in its 200th year.
Ava Thompson: I don't really know when I started reading.
When I was younger, I've never really had a problem with it because everyone else never really liked reading that much, for some reason they thought it was like boring.
I thought it was just like a movie without pictures. Well, sometimes I have pictures, just not moving pictures. No voice acting.
Favorite books... I think the "Mortal Instruments" series are all really good. They're written by Cassandra Clare. And there's about like 14 or something books of them. It's this secret society called the "shadow hunters" that fight demons.
None of my friends really read books. And they always try and talk to me while I'm reading. It's a bit irritating.
I actually got a check mark for reading "The Hunger Games" series while I was supposed to be working during class. So I got punished, too, this year.
I don't go to libraries that often.
I tend to read on my phone on sites like AO3 or Webtoon.
But we came here because I don't think my dad says that counts for some reason. So he just came to get me out of my room, probably. To go read some books here.
I really like art. I'm pretty good at drawing I think. I think I'm pretty good at drawing.
When I first got into it, I drew for like, hours each day. It's really fun.
And my dad bought me some of these like, crappy like tutorial for chibi characters. They weren't that good, but it was still nice.
Uh, I'm really... I like volleyball a lot. It's probably the only sport I like.
It's not at my school, so I hardly even found out about it. And I've been practicing a lot every day because we got a whole net just for ourselves.
But we actually started like a little change our minds thing that are—people around our area are signing to get volleyball at our school.
So I'm hoping we can do that. Because I know a lot of schools around us have volleyball.
We—I went to a like council meeting, where they suggested that they'd think about it more when school started and they'd see if we got more support.
But the person who wanted volleyball, who suggested—who brought it up in the first place at the meeting didn't want to wait that long.
So she started it now so we can get more supplies and more support for it.
Making a full circle, that's how I even really found out about volleyball.
I found a manga called "Haikyū!!" that I read.
And that's what even got me into it. I liked how they explained all of it. So I tried a bit for myself and I thought it was fun.
Rebecca Smith: Cool, have you gotten Mom and Dad to play with you?
Ava Thompson: I have, yes. I've made them play with me.
Rebecca Smith: How, how are they? Are they any good?
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MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is proud to announce that Forbes has recognized Canon as one of America's Best Employers for Veterans 2022. Forbes and Statista Inc. announced Canon's inclusion in this prestigious ranking of companies this month. The list is now live on the Forbes website.
Forbes and Statista selected America's Best Employers for Veterans 2022 based on independent surveys of roughly 7,000 U.S. veterans working part-time or full-time for companies employing at least 1,000 people within the U.S. The evaluation was based on direct and indirect recommendations from employees that were asked to rate their willingness to recommend their own employers to friends and family. Employee evaluations also included other employers in their respective industries that stood out either positively or negatively. Furthermore, participants were asked to give their opinion on a series of statements related to general topics regarding their own employer, for example: atmosphere & development, image, working conditions, salary & wage, workplace, diversity, and a set of topics related specifically to the interests of veterans in the workplace.
"Canon is honored to be recognized as one of our country's best employers for veterans," N. Scott Millar, senior vice president & general manager, corporate human resources, audit, ethics & business consultation, Canon U.S.A., Inc., and senior vice president, human resources, Canon Solutions America, Inc. "We are proud to support our veterans, as well as their families, and we would like to thank Forbes and Statista for this outstanding accolade."
According to Statista, the title America's Best Employers for Veterans 2022 serves to reinforce Canon's reputation as a company that provides excellent employment opportunities for U.S veterans. Dan Schultz is a U.S. veteran, and has now been part of the Canon team for nearly 20 years.
"I joined the military for the opportunities to obtain a world-class education, serve my country, lead like-minded people, and gain exposure to people, places, and cultures throughout the world," said Dan Schultz, senior logistics director, Canon U.S.A., Inc. "In the military, and in business, mission and objective accomplishments are always at the forefront. Pursuing the harder right, rather than the easier compromise, is a trait I developed in the military and it has continued to serve me well throughout my career at Canon."
For careers and job openings at Canon, you visit here.
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About Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions to the United States and to Latin America and the Caribbean markets. With approximately $30.6 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), as of 2021 has ranked in the top-five overall in U.S. patents granted for 36 consecutive years† and was one of Fortune Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies in 2022. Canon U.S.A. was featured in Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces list for 2021, ranking among the top 100 companies for employee happiness and satisfaction at work. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss and follow us on Twitter @CanonUSA.
†Number of patents for 2021 are based on figures released by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services. Figures for 2005 to 2020 are based on information issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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The meeting rooms in the NovaCare Complex can only so many Eagles players. The quarterbacks room currently holds four players, and the tight ends room has seven players. While there may be space at those positions, the defensive back room for the Eagles is crowded, with 19 players, 12 of whom are cornerbacks.
The trio of Darius Slay and James Bradberry on the outside and Avonte Maddox in the slot know they are safe, being that they are one of the better starting group of cornerbacks in the league. Despite the strength at the position, the Eagles still have to fill the remaining spots in the secondary.
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Last season, the Eagles carried five cornerbacks on the roster and five safeties, using Andre Chachere as the swing defensive back who could play both cornerback and safety. The Eagles made one move to whittle down the numbers at the position, releasing Craig James Monday afternoon. With twelve cornerbacks on the roster and six spots at most available, the room for error and chances to impress for some of these players will be very slim.
With Slay, Bradberry, and Maddox entrenched in their positions, here are the cornerbacks vying for a roster spot in training camp:
Zech McPhearson
McPhearson enters his second season in the league as the favorite for the fourth cornerback position. The Eagles relied on McPhearson a lot last season when Slay and former Eagles cornerback Steven Nelson went to the sidelines. McPhearson was learning on the job and, as the season progressed, got better in his coverage. There are still some things McPhearson needs to work on, but he could come in during dime package situations and play well enough to keep big plays from happening.
Jimmy Moreland
The Eagles picked up Moreland off waivers from the Houston Texans. Although Moreland can play on the outside, he could find himself in an interesting battle for the reserve slot corner position behind Maddox. When Moreland was with the Washington Commanders, he lined up in the slot for 872 snaps, according to Pro Football Focus. Moreland also has experience playing special teams, giving him an inside edge on some of the other cornerbacks on the roster.
Josiah Scott
Scott is going to be fighting with Moreland for the slot corner job. The Eagles acquired Scott through a trade before OTAs last season. Scott played in 14 games last season, collecting eight tackles, a tackle for loss, and a sack. Scott played 171 of his 262 snaps on special teams, covering on kicks and blocking on returns. Scott’s gear in the defensive system should bode well for him. It will become important for him to showcase his skills during practices and preseason games that he should remain on the roster.
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Tay Gowan
Gowan, who came over in the trade with the Arizona Cardinals that sent tight end Zach Ertz out west, is an outside cornerback with speed. As a 6-foot, one-inch, 185-pound corner, Gowan could keep up with some of the taller receivers in the league. Gowan could be one of the players who flashes during training camp and earn a roster spot.
Kary Vincent Jr.
Vincent, one of the several cornerbacks the Eagles acquired during last season, is a player who saw some time on the field last season, playing in two games last year and garnering two tackles. Vincent is primarily an outside cornerback, having played all of his snaps there last season. It may be tough for Vincent to make the main roster. However, he could find himself on a practice squad and called up in case of an injury.
Mac McCain
McCain was one of the corners the Eagles plucked from the Denver Broncos last season. After missing the 2020 season at North Carolina A&T, McCain still came out as one of the best HBCU cornerbacks in the 2021 draft. However, McCain was released once before by the Eagles, eventually being added to the practice squad again. McCain could once again be a practice squad candidate.
Mario Goodrich
The Eagles gave Goodrich, an undrafted free agent, a lot of guaranteed money. Goodrich is good in zone coverage, which should help him, but he may wind up on the practice squad.
Josh Blackwell
Another recipient of a decent-sized deal for an undrafted free agent, Blackwell has the acceleration and speed to get to the receiver in his zone and make a play on the ball. Blackwell seems destined for the practice squad but could be one of the players who does well in training camp.
Josh Jobe
Jobe, an undrafted free agent, is a better man-to-man cover cornerback but will likely end up on the practice squad.
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When Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 in an unprovoked act of aggression, many expected a quick victory.
Six months later, the largest military conflict in Europe since World War II has turned into a grinding war of attrition. The Russian offensive has largely bogged down as Ukrainian forces increasingly target key facilities far behind the front lines, including in Russia-occupied Crimea.
A look at where things stand:
A BOTCHED BLITZ
When Putin declared the start of the “special military operation,” he urged Ukraine's military to turn against the government in Kyiv, reflecting the Kremlin's belief that the population would broadly welcome the invaders. Some of the Russian troops coming in from Moscow's ally of Belarus, just 200 kilometers (about 125 miles) north of the capital, reportedly brought their parade uniforms with them in preparation for a quick triumph.
Those hopes were quickly shattered by fierce Ukrainian resistance, backed by Western-supplied weapons systems to the government of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Airborne troops sent to seize airfields around Kyiv suffered heavy losses and armored convoys stretching along the main highway leading to the capital were pummeled by Ukrainian artillery and scouts.
Despite numerous attacks on Ukrainian air bases and air defense assets, the Russian air force has failed to win full control of the skies and suffered heavy losses, limiting its ability to support ground forces.
One month into the war, Moscow pulled its troops back from areas near Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and other major cities in a tacit acknowledgment of the blitz’s failure.
SHIFTING BATTLEGROUNDS
The Kremlin then shifted its focus to the Donbas, Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland, where Moscow-backed separatists had been fighting government troops since 2014 following Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.
Relying on their massive edge in artillery, Russian forces inched forward in ferocious battles that devastated the region. The strategic port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov that became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance fell in May after a nearly three-month siege that reduced the city to ruins.
More than 2,400 Mariupol defenders who holed up at the giant Azovstal steel mill later surrendered and were taken prisoner. At least 53 of them died last month in an explosion at a prison in eastern Ukraine that Moscow and Kyiv blamed on each other.
The Russians have taken control of the entire Luhansk region, one of two provinces that make up the Donbas, and also seized just over half of the second, Donetsk.
Russia currently occupies about 20% of Ukraine’s territory.
“Putin will try to bite one piece of Ukrainian territory after another to strengthen his negotiating stand,” said Mykola Sunhurovskyi, a military analyst with the Kyiv-based Razumkov Center think-tank. “His message to Ukraine is: If you don't sit down for talks now, things will get worse and we will take even more of your territory and kill even more of your people. He's trying to raise not only external but also internal pressure on the Ukrainian government.”
The Donbas offensive has slowed as Moscow was forced to relocate some of its troops to Russia-occupied areas in the south to fend off a potential Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Russian troops seized the Kherson region, north of Crimea, and part of the neighboring Zaporizhzhia region early in the conflict. It has installed pro-Moscow administrations there, introduced its currency, handed out Russian passports and launched preparations for referendums to pave the way for their annexation.
But Ukrainian forces recently reclaimed some ground, striking bridges and targeting munitions depots. Meanwhile, both sides have traded accusations of shelling the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, raising fears of an atomic disaster.
“Ukraine has forced Russia to conduct a massive redeployment of forces and spread them all along the front line, from Kharkiv to Kherson,” said Ukrainian military expert Oleh Zhdanov. “It's very hard to stretch them along such a big distance.”
Although Kyiv doesn't have enough weapons to launch a big counteroffensive, “time plays in Ukraine's favor,” he said. “The longer the pause lasts, the more weapons Ukraine will receive from its allies.”
UKRAINIAN SUCCESSES
Western weapons, including U.S. HIMARS multiple rocket launcher s, have boosted Ukraine's military’s capability, allowing it to target Russian munitions deports, bridges and other key facilities with precision and impunity.
In a major symbolic victory in April, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva missile cruiser, exploded and sank while on patrol after reportedly being hit by a Ukrainian missile. That dealt a heavy blow to Russia's pride and forced it to limit naval operations.
Another big win for Ukraine came when Russian troops pulled back from strategic Snake Island, located on shipping lanes near Odesa, following relentless Ukrainian attacks. The retreat reduced the threat of a seaborne Russian attack on Odesa, helping pave the way for a deal to resume Ukrainian grain exports.
Russia suffered a new blow this month when a series of explosions at an airbase and munitions depot in Crimea. While Kyiv stopped short of taking credit for the blasts, there was no doubt about Ukrainian involvement. The Russians acknowledged that sabotage was behind one blast and alleged unsafe handling of munitions caused another -- an explanation ridiculed by Ukraine.
The explosions, which were followed by drone attacks, underlined the vulnerability of Crimea, which holds symbolic value for Russia and is key to sustaining its operations in the south. They demonstrated that Ukrainian forces are capable of striking far behind the front line, and Ukrainian officials warn that the 19-kilometer (12-mile) Crimean bridge, the longest in Europe, could be the next target.
LIVES LOST AND DISRUPTED
Both Russia and Ukraine mostly focus on the casualties they inflict on each other, avoiding mention of their own losses.
But Ukraine's military chief, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, said Monday that nearly 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action.
The Russian Defense Ministry last reported its casualties on March 25, one month into the war, when it said 1,351 soldiers had been killed and 3,825 were wounded.
Western estimates of Russian dead have ranged from more than 15,000 to over 20,000 — more than the Soviet Union lost during its 10-year war in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon said last week that between 70,000 to 80,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded in action — losses that have eroded Moscow's capability to conduct big offensives.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has recorded over 5,500 civilian deaths in the war, but noted the actual numbers could be significantly higher.
The invasion has created the largest postwar refugee crisis in Europe. The U.N. refugee agency says a third of Ukrainians have fled their homes, with more than 6.6 million displaced within the country and over 6.6 million more across the continent.
WHAT'S NEXT?
The war's outcome will depend on the ability of Russia and Ukraine to muster additional resources.
While Ukraine has conducted mobilization and declared a goal to form a 1 million-member military, Russia has continued to rely on a limited contingent of volunteers. an approach reflecting Kremlin fears that a mass mobilization could fuel discontent and destabilize the country.
Moscow has opted for interim steps, trying to encourage people to sign contracts with the military, increasingly engaging private contractors such as the Wagner Group, and even rounding up some prisoners for service — half-measures unable to meet the needs for any big offensives.
“Unless Russia mobilizes its population and mobilizes its industry, it cannot bring to bear the weight of people and industry in order to create a much bigger, more effective force, and therefore, it will have to consider how it hangs on to what it has already taken,” retired British Gen. Richard Barrons said.
Ukraine also lacks resources for any quick reclamation of its territory, with Barrons estimating it could take well into next year to amass a force capable of driving the Russians out.
“It can only do it if the West provides political will, money at about $5 to 6 billion a month, weapons like long-range artillery, the ammunition that supports that artillery and then enables the logistics and medical support that allows Ukraine to build a million-strong army,” said Barrons, co-chair of the consulting group Universal Defence & Security Solutions.
He said the West should be prepared to continue supporting Ukraine for a long time, despite soaring energy prices and other economic challenges stemming from sanctions imposed on Russia.
Abandoning Ukraine, he said, would send a message “to Russia and China and everybody else that the West does not have the stomach to stand up for its friends or even its own interests.”
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Associated Press writers Danica Kirka in London and Yuras Karmanau in Tallinn, Estonia, contributed.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LensCrafters, one of the largest optical retail brands in North America and the premier destination for luxury brand frames, announced today the company's new milestone, the brand's 40th Anniversary as the trusted optical retailer in the communities they serve since 1983. To commemorate this occasion, the company will launch a series of key marketing initiatives throughout the year, including a 40th Anniversary campaign featuring award winning actress and producer Sharon Stone.
As the first optical retailer in EssilorLuxottica group's portfolio, LensCrafters revolutionized the optical industry when it opened its doors 40 years ago as Precision LensCrafters, with the name representing "Lens Innovation and Craftsmanship with Precision. Since then, the vision to provide customers with quality prescription glasses was the first of many innovative concepts that led to LensCrafters' growth and success year over year.
The brand's history of industry firsts and unprecedented enthusiasm for helping others see and look their best, along with the passionate spirit of doctors, associates, and leaders, have shaped who the brand is today. In 1988, the Give the Gift of Sight program, founded by a LensCrafters employee and now formally part of the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation, was established as a call to action to provide eye care to millions of people who suffer from poor vision simply because they don't have access to care. In total, the Foundation has provided 562 million people with access to sustainable vision care through 22,200 primary vision care entrepreneurs and 221 vision centers. Together with the Foundation's philanthropic activities, these efforts have helped correct and/or protect the vision of 55.1 million people.
"This is a remarkable milestone for LensCrafters with 40 years of commitment ensuring our patients and customers have access to the best vision care and eyewear. It's also a testament to our amazing employees, doctors and team of store associates who we rely on daily to provide a premium experience that the brand is known for. Ultimately, we want to continue being the leading optical retailer in the communities we serve by offering the best vision care solutions that allow our customers to express themselves while seeing their best," said LensCrafters President and General Manager, Alfonso Cerullo.
A leader in the optical industry, LensCrafters has always represented high-quality eyecare and eyewear and today, the company is proud to be ranked #1 in optical retail in the country with over 1,000 convenient North American locations and a thriving ecommerce business. When it comes to customers' vision needs, the brand offers a holistic best in class experience online and in stores, where customers can find top doctors, superior quality lenses, with the latest innovations in clear and sun lens technology by Essilor, and the largest product assortment of designer eyewear brands in the US and Canada.
As LensCrafters continually strives to meet the expectations of today's customers, the brand sees their exemplary affiliated and independent doctors as the cornerstone of the business who patients come to for the best comprehensive vision care. The company uses technology as a key driver to keep eye care and eyewear a top priority. Patients can experience LensCrafters' eye exam technology, both in-store and remote via the company's tele-optometry solution. Clarifye and New Evolution Connect is a new suite that offers more access to optometrists at a time most convenient for the patient through a single platform that integrates multiple systems and equipment to improve patient engagement.
The company has invested in new technology such as the brand's Lens Configurator, Frame Customization, and Virtual Try-On, which gives customers an easier way to try on a selection of eyewear in order to find the perfect frame.. And as part of EssilorLuxottica's Corporate Social Responsibility program, 'Eyes on the Planet', LensCrafters will continue to step up its investments in sustainable material innovations for eyewear, reducing the impact on the planet.
With a rapidly expanding brick and mortar landscape, the brand's newest flagships in New York City, San Francisco, and Palo Alto, reflect the effortless integration of modern design and technology, giving customers a more individualized experience that allows them to easily browse an expanded selection of designer eyewear styles and brands that include Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana, Persol, Versace, and Prada. By leveraging their stores with the digital advantages of ecommerce, customers can buy online, with ease, as they would in store.
"As we continue to invest in our 1,000+ store fleet, and successfully merge our online business with the in-store digital experience, we look forward to advancing the LensCrafters brand this year and next with the rollout of new flagship stores which will give us a larger footprint in the eyewear market," said Cerullo.
About LensCrafters
LensCrafters, the leading optical retailer in North America, was founded in 1983 and currently operates over 1,000 stores in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. LensCrafters is owned by EssilorLuxottica Group, a leader in premium, luxury, designer, and sports eyewear. With a mission of helping people look and see their best, LensCrafters has a passion for vision care and offers the best selection of the latest trends in eyewear from leading designer brands as well as incomparable personalized service from Doctors of Optometry located at or next to its stores. LensCrafters opened its first Macy's location in April of 2016 and three flagship stores in New York City and San Francisco in 2021. The brand's trusted doctors and associates continue to make an impact by giving the gift of vision through the company's partner efforts with OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation, providing access to quality vision care and glasses in underserved communities worldwide. For more information, visit www.lenscrafters.com.
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Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who tried Nazis for genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside witnesses to document the atrocities of Nazi labor and concentration camps, has died. He had just turned 103 in March.
Ferencz died Friday evening in Boynton Beach, Florida, according to St. John's University law professor John Barrett, who runs a blog about the Nuremberg trials. The death also was confirmed by the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington.
“Today the world lost a leader in the quest for justice for victims of genocide and related crimes,” the museum tweeted.
Born in Transylvania in 1920, Ferencz immigrated as a very young boy with his parents to New York to escape rampant antisemitism. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Ferencz joined the U.S. Army in time to take part in the Normandy invasion during World War II. Using his legal background, he became an investigator of Nazi war crimes against U.S. soldiers as part of a new War Crimes Section of the Judge Advocate’s Office.
When U.S. intelligence reports described soldiers encountering large groups of starving people in Nazi camps watched over by SS guards, Ferencz followed up with visits, first at the Ohrdruf labor camp in Germany and then at the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp. At those camps and later others, he found bodies “piled up like cordwood” and “helpless skeletons with diarrhea, dysentery, typhus, TB, pneumonia, and other ailments, retching in their louse ridden bunks or on the ground with only their pathetic eyes pleading for help,” Ferencz wrote in an account of his life.
“The Buchenwald concentration camp was a charnel house of indescribable horrors,” Ferencz wrote. “There is no doubt that I was indelibly traumatized by my experiences as a war crimes investigator of Nazi extermination centers. I still try not to talk or think about the details.”
At one point toward the end of the war, Ferencz was sent to Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat in the Bavarian Alps to search for incriminating documents but came back empty-handed.
After the war, Ferencz was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army and returned to New York to begin practicing law. But that was short-lived. Because of his experiences as a war crimes investigator, he was recruited to help prosecute Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, which had begun under the leadership of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson. Before leaving for Germany, he married his childhood sweetheart, Gertrude.
At the age of 27, with no previous trial experience, Ferencz became chief prosecutor for a 1947 case in which 22 former commanders were charged with murdering over 1 million Jews, Romani and other enemies of the Third Reich in Eastern Europe. Rather than depending on witnesses, Ferencz mostly relied on official German documents to make his case. All the defendants were convicted, and more than a dozen were sentenced to death by hanging even though Ferencz hadn't asked for the death penalty.
“At the beginning of April 1948, when the long legal judgment was read, I felt vindicated,” he wrote. “Our pleas to protect humanity by the rule of law had been upheld.”
With the war crimes trials winding down, Ferencz went to work for a consortium of Jewish charitable groups to help Holocaust survivors regain properties, homes, businesses, art works, Torah scrolls, and other Jewish religious items that had been confiscated from them by the Nazis. He also later assisted in negotiations that would lead to compensation to the Nazi victims.
In later decades, Ferencz championed the creation of an international court which could prosecute any government’s leaders for war crimes. Those dreams were realized in 2002 with establishment of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, though its effectiveness has been limited by the failure of countries like the United States to participate.
Ferencz is survived by a son and three daughters. His wife died in 2019.
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Company to add novel technology cleared for use in peripheral vasculature to interventional oncology and embolization portfolio
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced the acquisition of Obsidio, Inc., a privately-held company that has developed the Gel Embolic Material (GEM™) technology used for embolization of blood vessels in the peripheral vasculature.
Embolization is a minimally invasive procedure intended to obstruct or reduce blood flow to an abnormality or tumor to stop hemorrhaging, reduce the size of malignant and benign tumors, and stabilize venous and arterial malformations.
Recently cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the GEM technology is a semi-solid, proprietary material packaged in a ready-to-use form, thus reducing the preparation time required for many embolization procedures. Physicians deliver the GEM agent through a catheter, and its gel-like composition enables controlled placement within patient anatomy. Unlike solid and liquid embolics that can take time to form an obstruction to blood flow, once placed, the GEM technology conforms to the targeted vasculature, immediately creating a barrier.
"The GEM technology combines benefits of currently available embolics, such as precise control of a solid and malleability of a liquid, to create a unique technology that offers procedural efficiency and a more personalized therapy for patients," said Peter Pattison, president, interventional oncology and embolization, Peripheral Interventions, Boston Scientific. "This acquisition strengthens our interventional oncology and embolization portfolio with a differentiated solution for physicians and their patients suffering from hemorrhages, cancer and other debilitating conditions."
The transaction is expected to be immaterial to Boston Scientific's GAAP and adjusted earnings per share in 2022. Specific terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
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Police searching for missing Enterprise woman
Bonnie Jeanette Unger was last seen late Saturday afternoon in the Forest Avenue area of Enterprise.
Published: Jul. 9, 2023 at 12:56 PM CDT|Updated: 58 minutes ago
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) -A 55-year-old Enterprise woman who may have impaired judgment is the target of a law enforcement search.
Bonnie Jeanette Unger was last seen late Saturday afternoon in the Forest Avenue area of Enterprise.
She may travel in a 2021 gray Chevrolet Equinox bearing Alabama plate 38A0351.
Those with information on Ms. Unger’s whereabouts should immediately contact the Enterprise Police Department at (334) 347-2222 or call 911.
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YEONCHEON, South Korea — Jin, the oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, began his 18 months of mandatory military service at a frontline South Korean boot camp Tuesday, as fans gathered near the base to say goodbye to their star.
Six other younger BTS members are to join the military in coming years one after another, meaning that the world's biggest boy band must take a hiatus, likely for a few years. Their enlistments have prompted a fierce domestic debate over whether it's time to revise the country's conscription system to expand exemptions to include prominent entertainers like BTS, or not to provide such benefits to anyone.
With lawmakers squabbling at Parliament and surveys showing sharply split public opinions over offering exemptions to BTS members, their management agency said in October that all BTS members would perform their compulsory military duties. Big Hit Music said that both the company and the members of BTS "are looking forward to reconvening as a group again around 2025 following their service commitment."
Jin, who turned 30 earlier this month, entered the boot camp at Yeoncheon, a town near the tense border with North Korea, for five weeks of basic military training together with other new conscript soldiers, the Defense Ministry said. After the training involving rifle-shooting, grenade-throwing and marching practices, he and other conscripts would be assigned to army units across the country.
About 20-30 fans — some holding Jin's photos — and dozens of journalists gathered near the camp. But Jin didn't meet them as a vehicle carrying him moved into the boot camp without getting him out.
"I want to wait (for) Jin and see him go into the military and wish him all the best," Mandy Lee from Hong Kong said before Jin's entrance to the camp.
"Actually it's complicated. I wanna be sad. I wanna be happy for him," said Angelina from Indonesia. "Mixed feelings. He has to serve (for) his country." Angelina, like many Indonesians, uses only one name.
A couple dozen fans could be seen as a small turnout given Jin's huge popularity. But Jin and his management agency had earlier asked fans not to visit the site and notified them there wouldn't be any special event involving the singer, in order to prevent any issue caused by crowding.
Authorities still mobilized 300 police officers, soldiers, emergency workers and others to maintain order and guard against any accidents, according to the army. Strict safety steps were expected as South Korea is still reeling from the devastating Halloween crush in October in Seoul that killed 158 people.
Hours before entering the camp, Jin — whose real name is Kim Seok-jin — wrote on the on the online fan platform Weverse that "It's time for a curtain call." He posted a photo of himself Sunday with a military buzzcut and a message saying, "Ha ha ha. It's cuter than I had expected."
By law, all able-bodied South Korean men must serve in the military for 18-21 months under a conscription system established to deal with threats from North Korea. But the law gives special exemptions to athletes, classical and traditional musicians, and ballet and other dancers if they have won top prizes in certain competitions and enhance national prestige. K-pop stars and other entertainers aren't given such benefits even if they gain worldwide fame and win big international awards.
"Though BTS members have opted to go to the military, there are still some sort of regrets," said Jung Duk-hyun, a pop culture commentator. "Those in the pop culture sector experience little bit of disadvantages and unfairness, compared with those in the pure art sector or athletes. This will likely continue to be an issue of controversy so I wonder if it must be discussed continuously."
Exemptions or dodging of duties are a highly sensitive issue in South Korea, where the draft forces young men to suspend their studies or professional careers. Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup and Lee Ki Sik, head of South Korea's enlistment office, previously said it would be "desirable" for BTS members to fulfill their military duties to ensure fairness in the country's military service.
Chun In-bum, a retired lieutenant general who commanded South Korea's special forces, said the government must move to repeal any exemptions as the military's shrinking recruitment pool is "a very serious" problem amid the country's declining fertility rate. He called a debate over BTS's military service "unnecessary" as it wasn't raised by BTS members, who have shown willingness in carrying out their duties.
BTS was created in 2013 and has a legion of global supporters who call themselves the "Army." Its other members are RM, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook, who is the youngest at 25. The group expanded its popularity in the West with its 2020 megahit "Dynamite," the band's first all-English song that made BTS the first K-pop act to top Billboard's Hot 100. The band has performed in sold-out arenas around the world and was even invited to speak at United Nations meetings.
Hybe Corp., the parent company of Big Hit, said in October that each member of the band for the time being would focus on individual activities scheduled around their military service plans. In October, Jin released "The Astronaut," a single co-written by Coldplay.
Jung, the commentator, said sold projects could give BTS members much-needed time to develop themselves after working together as a group for many years. But Cha Woo-jin, a K-pop commentator, said it's unclear if BTS would enjoy the same popularity as a group when they get together again after finishing their military duties in a few years.
In August, Lee, the defense minister, said BTS members who are serving would likely be allowed to continue practicing and to join other non-serving BTS members in overseas group tours.
Cha said K-pop's global influence wouldn't be hurt much because of BTS members' enlistments as they "appear to represent K-pop but aren't everything of K-pop." Chung agreed, saying that other K-pop groups like BLACKPINK, Stray Kids and aespa could rise further.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is demanding an explanation from UCLA officials about their move to the Big Ten Conference.
Newsom attended Wednesday’s UC Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco. The closed-door meeting was the first since that the schools would be leaving the Pac-12 Conference for the Big Ten in 2024. USC is a private institution and not part of the UC system.
Newsom — an ex officio member of the Board of Regents — is among others asking how the move will benefit all student-athletes, as well as how to mitigate the financial effects it will cause to UC Berkeley, California’s other public university in the Pac 12.
UCLA and UC Berkeley have played each other in football since 1923.
“The first duty of every public university is to the people – especially students,” Newsom said in a statement. “UCLA must clearly explain to the public how this deal will improve the experience for all its student-athletes, will honor its century-old partnership with UC Berkeley, and will preserve the histories, rivalries, and traditions that enrich our communities.”
The UC Board of Regents cannot force UCLA to reverse the decision. by the UC Office of the President to execute their own contracts, including intercollegiate athletic agreements.
The regents though could require UCLA pay UC Berkeley an exit fee for leaving the Pac-12 or share TV revenues they will gain from a move to the Big Ten.
UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on June 30 that changes to the landscape of collegiate athletics prompted the move. UCLA’s athletic department, which sponsors 23 sports, is facing a $102.8-million deficit with most of that coming the past couple years.
“They’re gonna compete at the highest level in a major elite conference in different time zones, UCLA is always national. But now we have the ability for student athletes to showcase their talent across the country,” Jarmond said. “I appreciate the Pac-12. That said, my, my focus first and foremost is our student athletes, and what is best for our student athletes. And when you look at the landscape and how dynamic is changing, the Big Ten was the right move at the right time for us.”
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP)First, Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys lost to Jacksonville. Then, Philadelphia quarterbacking counterpart Jalen Hurts was all but ruled out with a sprained throwing shoulder.
The pizazz is just about gone for a Christmas Eve clash between NFC East rivals that could have been a last-ditch bid by Dallas to take the NFC’s top seed from the NFL-leading Eagles (13-1).
Instead, Dallas would be a long shot to catch Philadelphia even with a victory Saturday. The Cowboys backed into a playoff spot last weekend hours after their 40-34 overtime loss to the Jaguars.
”For me, the loss definitely dampers it,” quarterback Dak Prescott said of making the playoffs. ”Now it’s about building that momentum to feel confident about where we are at the end of the 17 games.”
One loss by defending NFC East champion Dallas (10-4) or a Philadelphia victory in the final three games clinches the division title for the Eagles, who won the first meeting in October.
Philadelphia has a two-game lead over Minnesota for home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs. None of the above matters to Eagles coach Nick Sirianni.
”You have to do what you have to do to win this game, and that’s always our sole focus,” he said. ”You’ll never get that out of me where I’m saying, `Hey, let’s think about in three weeks here.”’
Hurts injured his right shoulder in last week’s 25-20 victory over Chicago, but stayed in the game.
The MVP candidate was ruled out Thursday, clearing the way for Gardner Minshew’s first start since a meaningless regular-season finale against the Cowboys last season.
Both teams were all but set with their playoff seedings going in that meeting last January, and the same is essentially true this time.
Still, the Cowboys could use a boost to their psyche after blowing a 17-point lead in the second half at Jacksonville. The New York Giants beat Washington last Sunday night to hand Dallas a playoff berth.
”If anything, it’s about making a statement to ourselves,” Prescott said. ”This is about … proving it to ourselves in all three phases that we’re a hell of a team and we can go get it done against one of the best teams in the league, whether they’re in our division or not.”
INTERCEPTION BUG
Prescott has the most interceptions in the NFL (10) since returning from a broken thumb in Week 7 after missing five games.
The first of his two picks against Jacksonville helped spark the Jaguars’ rally and was a poor decision by the 2016 Offensive Rookie of the Year, who protected the ball well in that debut season.
The second, which turned into Rayshawn Jenkins’ game-winning return in overtime, bounced out of the arms of receiver Noah Brown. Prescott remains adamant about not second-guessing himself.
”Not to brag, but I’m pretty mentally tough,” Prescott said. ”I’m sure not hesitant or scared to say I’m struggling a little bit. So when something like that is happening, it’s about knowing who you are.”
DALLAS IN DALLAS
The Eagles should get a boost with the expected return of tight end Dallas Goedert, and Minshew will be glad to see him.
When Minshew started in place of an injured Hurts last season in a win against the New York Jets, Goedert had 105 yards receiving and two touchdowns.
Goedert was activated off the injured list this week after missing five games with a shoulder injury. He was hurt in Philadelphia’s only loss of the season, in November against Washington.
Without Goedert, Hurts and the Eagles became fully reliant on wideouts A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith. Now, the passing game will go through all three top targets again.
”No matter who plays quarterback for us, Dallas Goedert is a weapon for this football team,” Sirianni said.
TIME FOR HILTON
Receiver T.Y. Hilton appears set for his Dallas debut just shy of two weeks since signing as a free agent. He had been unsigned all season after a 10-year run with Indianapolis ended.
While top Prescott target CeeDee Lamb is one of the best stretches of his career with three 100-yard games in the past six, the other receivers haven’t had much of an impact. The Cowboys hope Hilton can give them a deep threat.
”I thought he’s picked up the language very well,” coach Mike McCarthy said. ”T.Y. has played a ton of football. It’s more just getting on the same page with the quarterbacks.”
MILES TO GO
Miles Sanders is having a wonky season for a 1,000-yard rusher.
Yes, his 1,110 yards rushing made him the first Eagles running back to hit that milestone since LeSean McCoy in 2014. But every game that seems like a breakout performance has been diminished the next week when he’s been almost invisible.
The latest example: The fourth-year pro had 144 yards and two touchdowns two weeks ago against the Giants, then just 11 carries for 42 yards against the Bears.
Sirianni and offensive coordinator Shane Steichen didn’t give Sanders a carry until the second quarter against Chicago.
”We have to get him some touches early,” Sirianni said. ”I think he’s doing a really nice job of being decisive. I think he’s doing a really nice job of being physical.”
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Deck collapse at Montana country club leaves more than 30 hurt
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - More than 30 people were injured when a deck collapsed at a country club overlooking Montana’s largest city, police said Sunday.
The second-story patio floor of Billings’ Briarwood Country Club broke and gave way Saturday evening. The collapse caused head wounds, broken ribs and other injuries as people landed atop each other and debris and scraps of food scattered over the grass next to the club’s golf course.
The police statement said there were no fatalities, although "multiple individuals" had injuries. The cause of the collapse has yet to be determined.
At least 25 people were taken to local hospitals, eight were treated on site and additional guests may have left injured, Billings Police Lt. Matt Lennick said in the statement.
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Mark Zagel, a Briarwood patron who fell through the deck, wrote on Facebook that there were between 30 and 40 people on the patio when a section collapsed about 12 or 13 feet, without anyone directly below.
"I am fine though the ribs on my right side are pretty bruised and have a couple of other minor bumps. Nothing broken, no head injuries ... There were multiple other more significant injuries — mostly broken bones," he said. "I landed on someone directly and had to be helped off her."
Zagel did not immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press.
At least 29 people were admitted to St. Vincent Healthcare’s Emergency Department, and three people remained hospitalized as of Sunday afternoon, spokeswoman Angela Babcock said in a statement on Sunday.
Dr. Clint Seger, CEO of the Billings Clinic, said in a statement that the hospital initially received six patients, with others expected.
"We have multiple trauma surgeons, ER physicians and the ER team along with critical care staff on site receiving patients," Seger said.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
15-18-21-38-44
(fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one, thirty-eight, forty-four)
Estimated jackpot: $550,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
15-18-21-38-44
(fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one, thirty-eight, forty-four)
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Former Giants head coach Ben McAdoo returns to MetLife Stadium Sunday as the Carolina Panthers’ offensive coordinator.
McAdoo came back last December as a Dallas Cowboys consultant for a 21-6 win over his former team. Now he’ll try to beat them with his play calls into Baker Mayfield’s ear.
“Love New York,” McAdoo told reporters in Charlotte on Thursday. “Got a lot of great memories there. A lot of great people in that organization. Love the city. Love North Jersey.”
McAdoo is the only head coach to take a Giants team to the playoffs in the last decade. He did it as a rookie in 2016 with a great defense and an opportunistic offense led by Eli Manning and Odell Beckham Jr.
Unfortunately, McAdoo and GM Jerry Reese were scapegoated and fired in the middle of the 2017 season after some players quit on the field and ownership signed off on Manning’s benching. McAdoo started Geno Smith in that fateful late-season loss at Oakland instead.
What did McAdoo learn from his time in New York?
“Probably having an experience is a lot greater than having an opinion,” he said. “You really get a chance to find out what’s important to you. I guess that’s something you could write about, you know?”
Manning remained the Giants’ starter for a 5-11 season in 2018 under new coach Pat Shurmur before being benched in Week 3 of 2019 and retiring after that year.
Smith beat Russell Wilson and the Denver Broncos head to head last Monday as the Seattle Seahawks’ starting quarterback.
McAdoo’s career was derailed. He returned to the NFL as the Jacksonville Jaguars’ quarterbacks coach in 2020, then worked for the Cowboys last year to climb back to an OC spot on Matt Rhule’s Panthers staff.
“You get an opportunity like I had in New York, it’s a great opportunity,” he said. “I had a chance to learn from a lot of great people. You go in and you apply things you think you really believe in. Then you figure out what you really believe in, when it’s a baptism by fire situation, your first chance to be a head coach in this league.”
“There’s nothing that really prepares you for it,” McAdoo added. “And usually you fall back on things you grow up with, and how you were raised, and a lot of it maybe from your high school coach.”
Giants receiver Sterling Shepard – one of only two players who were here in 2016, along with quarterback Davis Webb – oddly said when asked about McAdoo: “I’m trying not to think about any of that stuff anymore.”
McAdoo will try to give the Giants plenty to think about Sunday. But there are tons of other intriguing ties between the Panthers and Giants, two franchises who have been at similar stages of tear down, rebuild and irrelevance the past few years.
TOP THREE IN 2018
Mayfield, the Panthers’ starting QB, was drafted No. 1 overall by the Cleveland Browns in 2018. Barkley went No. 2 to the Giants. Sam Darnold, an injured Carolina backup QB, went No. 3 to the Jets. That draft changed a lot of franchises’ fortunes for better and worse. Mayfield and Darnold now are on different teams. Barkley is in his fifth, contract year. “Yeah, they’re not on their original teams,” Barkley said this week. “That’s the nature of this league, but the guys who are able to get a second chance, you’ve got to find a light out of everywhere. Some people aren’t in the NFL right now … You’ve got to put that in perspective.”
QB DRAMA
Mayfield famously mocked the Giants’ No. 6 overall selection of Jones in the 2019 NFL Draft. “I cannot believe the Giants took Daniel Jones. Blows my mind,” Mayfield told GQ in the summer of 2019. “Some people overthink [QB evaluation] … They forget you’ve gotta win... Either you have a history of winning and being that guy for your team, or you don’t.” Mayfield insisted in Aug. 2021 that there was no lingering awkwardness. “We’re great,” Mayfield said of his relationship with Jones. “He came down to Austin when Colt [McCoy] was with the Giants. We all hung out. No, we’re good. Talked through that.” Mayfield beat McCoy and the Giants 20-6 with the Browns in 2020 at MetLife Stadium. Jones was hurt and didn’t play.
CAROLINA TIES
Gettleman, the former Panthers and Giants GM, drafted McCaffrey No. 8 overall for Carolina in 2017 and Barkley No. 2 overall for New York in 2018. Both franchises experienced downturns or continued irrelevance off of numerous poor personnel decisions. But McCaffrey and Barkley also remain two of the most talented players who will take the field on Sunday.
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McCaffrey only had 14 touches for 57 yards and a TD in Week 1 for Carolina, compared to McAdoo said the Panthers know he’s “unique” and “special player. “We do have to get the ball in his hands,” he said. Barkley had 24 touches for 194 yards, a TD and a two-point conversion.
IKEM EKWONU AND EVAN NEAL
The Giants drafted pass rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux No. 5 overall in April. It’s believed GM Joe Schoen would have been comfortable taking either tackle Ikem Ekwonu or Evan Neal at No. 7. The Panthers drafted Ekwonu, now their starting left tackle, at No. 6. The Giants then drafted Neal, their starting right tackle. Brian Daboll said of Ekwonu:
“Had a really good experience with him in the draft process both as a person and a player. I think he’s gonna be a good player for a long time.” O-line coach Bobby Johnson said of Neal’s debut: “Evan did a good job. Everybody wants him to be perfect. No lineman will ever play a perfect game, especially a rookie. But I think he did a good job. I was really impressed with how he kept his composure and stayed in the moment.”
ALMOST HEAD COACH
Carolina put on a full-court press for head coach Matt Rhule in Jan. 2020. Rhule’s interview with the Giants never happened. They hired Joe Judge. After year one, Carolina hired a new GM Scott Fitterer to create alignment. Rhule is in year three. The Giants retained Gettleman in an arranged marriage with Judge.
They fired both after Judge’s second year and hired Schoen and Daboll this past winter … In the 2019 draft, the Panthers took pass rusher Brian Burns (No. 16) one pick before the Giants selected DT Dexter Lawrence.
In the 2020 NFL Draft, the Giants took left tackle Andrew Thomas No. 4 overall, three picks ahead of Panthers DT Derrick Brown and five ahead of Carolina corner C.J. Henderson (picked at No. 9 by Jacksonville). The Giants also grabbed safety Xavier McKinney (36) two picks before Carolina pass rusher Yetur Gross-Matos (38) … Former Giant safety Sean Chandler is on Carolina’s active roster, and former Giant Madre Harper is on their practice squad.
GIANTS GAME STATUSES VS. PANTHERS
OUT: WR Wan’Dale Robinson (knee), CB Aaron Robinson (appendicitis), CB Nick McCloud (hamstring), S Jason Pinnock (shoulder) … Doubtful: OLB Kayvon Thibodeaux (knee), OLB Azeez Ojulari (calf) … Questionable: WR Kadarius Toney (Hamstring) | https://www.mcall.com/sports/giants/ny-ben-mcadoo-saquon-barkley-panthers-20220916-32qio4yjsjhftmji6o3rufg44i-story.html | 2022-09-16 21:03:54 | 1 | https://www.mcall.com/sports/giants/ny-ben-mcadoo-saquon-barkley-panthers-20220916-32qio4yjsjhftmji6o3rufg44i-story.html |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nolan Arenado sparked a record barrage of four straight home runs by St. Louis in the first inning, then hit a tiebreaking drive in the ninth that sent the Cardinals over the Philadelphia Phillies 7-6 Saturday.
With two outs in the first, Arenado, Nolan Gorman, Juan Yepez and Dylan Carson homered off Kyle Gibson. It was the first time in major league history a team connected for four homers in a row in the first inning.
“It was really cool just being a part of that,” Arenado said. “It was almost surreal. You didn’t really believe it. Those moments are special. I’m very thankful for them.”
The Cardinals tied the MLB record for any inning with four in a row. It was the first time they had done it, and the 11th time overall in big league history.
“That was incredible,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “Guys took some good swings. They were on attack.”
The home crowd at Citizens Bank Park then gasped when Lars Nootbaar followed Carlson and made solid contact on a flyball that was caught in deep left field but well shy of the warning track to end the inning.
It was 6-all when Arenado led off the ninth by clearing the wall in left field off Seranthony Domínguez (4-2) for his 17th home run. Arenando hit for the cycle on Friday night in the Cardinals’ 5-3 defeat to the Phillies.
“I just got enough of it,” Arenado said. “We’re obviously excited to win the ballgame. That’s what’s most important.”
Yairo Muñoz hit a two-run double, Matt Vierling had a pair of RBIs and Odúbel Herrera had three hits for the Phillies.
“These guys kept battling,” Phillies interim manager Rob Thomson said. “Came back to tie twice. Just couldn’t seem to get the lead, but I’m awfully proud of the way they battled.”
Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley (4-1) pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth, striking out five of the seven batters he faced.
St. Louis put on a historic power display in the first.
After Gibson got the first two outs, Paul Goldschmidt singled before Arenado’s two-run shot to left field on a slider started the long ball onslaught.
Gorman followed by driving a 2-1 cutter into the seats in right field. Yepez fouled off a 1-2 pitch before clearing the fence in left field to mark the first time since Sept. 19, 2002, that the Cardinals hit three homers in a row.
Carson finished the amazing power display by connecting on a 1-0 sinker that hit the facing of the second deck in right field.
“A lot of fun, a lot of excitement,” Carson said. “That was cool, really exciting, and something that obviously will be remembered.”
The last team to homer in four consecutive at-bats was the Chicago White Sox, who did it on Aug. 16, 2020, against the Cardinals.
Gibson had allowed just nine homers in 80 1/3 innings entering Saturday.
The Cardinals upped the win/loss record of teams that have hit four consecutive homers in an inning to 7-4.
The Phillies got a pair of runs back in the second on Vierling’s sacrifice fly and Bryson Stott’s RBI single. They tied it in the third on another Vierling sacrifice fly and Muñoz’s two-run double.
All five runs were charged to Cardinals starter Matthew Liberatore.
St. Louis went ahead in the fifth. After Gibson loaded the bases with no outs, Corey Knebel came on and got the first two batters out before walking Nootbaar to give the Cardinals a 6-5 lead. Philadelphia tied it in the sixth on Nick Castellanos’ RBI single.
HICKS HEAT
Cardinals RHP Jordan Hicks threw 18 of 28 pitches over 100 mph while twice reaching 103.4 mph in 1 2/3 scoreless innings of relief.
Hicks was activated from the injured list before the game. He hadn’t pitched in the majors since May 24 before a forearm injury.
SCHWARBER SELECTED
Phillies OF Kyle Schwarber was named NL Player of the Month for June after batting .272 with 12 homers and 27 RBIs in 27 games. Schwarber went 0 for 5 with four strikeouts.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cardinals: Gorman returned to the lineup after missing the last three games. He sat the first two of those due to a bruised left hand and the final one because of Friday night’s pitching matchup.
UP NEXT
Cardinals LHP Adam Wainwright (6-5, 3.07) opposes Philadelphia RHP Zack Wheeler (6-4, 2.89) on Sunday night when the teams conclude their three-game series.
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TORONTO (AP) — Danny Jansen hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning and singled home the winning run in the 11th as the Toronto Blue Jays overcame a four-run deficit to defeat the Chicago Cubs 5-4 on Monday night.
Jansen connected off Erich Uelmen for his 11th homer, then won it with a base hit to left field against Mark Leiter Jr. (2-6) that scored Matt Chapman from second base and ended Toronto’s three-game skid.
“We love what he does behind the plate, we love what does as a leader of the pitching staff,” Blue Jays interim manager John Schneider said of Jansen. “When he’s hitting like that, it’s a bonus.”
Toronto, chasing an AL wild card, bounced back after a weekend sweep by the Angels that included two shutouts.
“We needed this one and many more,” Blue Jays right-hander José Berríos said.
Chicago blew a lead and lost for the 41st time, more than any other big league team.
Toronto tied it 4-all in the eighth when Cavan Biggio hit a two-out double off Manuel Rodríguez and scored on Chapman’s single.
Cubs outfielder Ian Happ lined out to begin the 10th and shortstop Bo Bichette doubled automatic runner Nelson Velázquez off second base. That was one of five outs Chicago ran into on the basepaths, including one at third and another at the plate.
“We can’t leave so many outs on the bases,” manager David Ross said. “Too many mistakes baserunning-wise that cost us the game, really.”
After Chicago intentionally walked Alejandro Kirk to start the bottom of the 10th, third baseman Christopher Morel turned a double play on Bichette’s grounder. Kirk was initially ruled safe at second, but the Cubs challenged and umpire Nick Mahrley’s call was overturned.
The Cubs put runners at second and third with two outs in the 11th but Yimi Garcia (3-4) struck out P.J. Higgins.
Berríos allowed a season-high 10 hits and four runs in 5 2/3 innings. He slammed his glove onto the dugout bench in frustration after being replaced by left-hander Tim Mayza.
Pinch-hitting for Alfonso Rivas, Higgins greeted Mayza with a two-run double. The hit snapped an 0-for-13 slump and was Higgins’ second in his past 35 at-bats.
Making the second appearance of his career, Cubs right-hander Javier Assad allowed four hits, all singles, in five scoreless innings. He walked two and struck out one.
Assad escaped a bases-loaded jam in the first by getting Biggio to fly out.
After back-to-back hits by Nick Madrigal and Willson Contreras put runners at second and third with one out in the fifth, Toronto turned a unique double play to end the threat. Happ struck out on a pitch that got away from Jansen, who threw to first to complete the strikeout. Madrigal broke for home on the throw, but Vladimir Guerrero Jr. threw back to Jansen, who got the tag down just in time.
“That was a wild play,” Jansen said. “You don’t really see it often. It was great on Vladdy getting rid of it right away.”
STRO SHOW RETURNS
The Blue Jays welcomed back Cubs right-hander Marcus Stroman to Toronto with a pregame video. Stroman went 47-45 in six seasons with the Blue Jays and started the 2016 AL wild-card game against Baltimore. He was traded to the Mets in July 2019.
Stroman, who has the Toronto skyline tattooed across his left side, will make his first career start against his old team Tuesday. He acknowledged pulling for the Blue Jays to make a postseason push.
“If there’s one team I’m rooting for in the playoffs it’s Toronto,” Stroman said.
ANOTHER CLOSE ONE
The Blue Jays are 26-17 in one-run games and 7-6 in extra innings.
END OF THE LINE
George Springer went 0 for 5 for Toronto, ending his 12-game hitting streak.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Blue Jays OF Teoscar Hernández (left foot) was held out of the starting lineup. Hernández started in right field Sunday but appeared unable to run the bases at full speed. He left Friday’s game after fouling a ball off his left foot and did not play Saturday.
ROSTER MOVES
Cubs: Chicago put RHP Adrian Sampson and LHP Justin Steele on the restricted list and added LHP Brendon Little as a substitute player. Little was 3-3 with a 4.15 ERA in 29 relief appearances at Triple-A Iowa.
Blue Jays: Toronto claimed OF Bradley Zimmer off waivers from Philadelphia. Zimmer appeared in 77 games for the Blue Jays earlier this season but was designated for assignment Aug. 15. He’s expected to join the team when rosters expand Sept. 1.
UP NEXT
Stroman (3-6, 4.10 ERA) faces Blue Jays RHP Kevin Gausman (9-9, 3.15) on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — CNN fired longtime host Don Lemon on Monday following his short and disastrous run as a morning show host, a little over two months after he apologized for on-air comments about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley being past her prime.
The move quickly turned nasty. While CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht announced, after Lemon had co-hosted the show Monday, that they had “parted ways,” Lemon characterized it as a firing and said it was surprise to him.
“After 17 years at CNN I would have thought someone in management would have the decency to tell me directly,” Lemon said. CNN said that Lemon was given the opportunity to meet with management but released a statement on Twitter instead.
CNN offered no public explanation for Lemon’s dismissal. During a February discussion on “CNN This Morning” with co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins about the ages of politicians, he said that the 51-year-old Haley was not “in her prime.” A woman, he said, was considered in her prime “in her 20s, 30s and maybe her 40s.”
Harlow challenged Lemon, trying to clarify what he was referencing: “I think we need to qualify. Are you talking about prime for childbearing or are you talking about prime for being president?”
“Don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just saying what the facts are,” Lemon responded.
Lemon issued a statement the same day saying he regretted his “inartful and irrelevant” comments. He was subsequently absent from the show for three days, returning the following week with a tweeted apology but no mention of the episode on air.
Haley, who had criticized Lemon’s statements as sexist and used the incident to fundraise in February, took to Twitter on Monday to call Lemon’s ouster “a great day for women everywhere,” linking to the beverage sleeves emblazoned with “Past my prime? Hold my beer.”
Lemon used to host the prime-time “Don Lemon Tonight” but moved when the network launched “CNN This Morning” last November, just before the U.S. midterm elections, as one of the first major programming moves under Licht.
He attracted negative attention last fall by saying that the U.S. men’s soccer team should be paid more than the women’s team, saying that the men were “more interesting to watch.”
Lemon had a well-publicized on-air tiff with Collins last December, when he accused her of trying to interrupt him.
Lemon also had a tense on-air interview last week with Republican presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy where Lemon, who is Black, disputed Ramaswamy’s interpretation of racial history.
It’s all a bad look for a morning news show, where the audience is primarily women and casts try to depict themselves as a big happy family. The show has made little headway in the ratings against the more popular “Fox & Friends” and “Morning Joe” on cable news competitors.
The lousy vibes were beginning to cost CNN advertising sales and some potential guests were becoming reluctant to appear on “CNN This Morning,” said a CNN staff member familiar with the decision to oust Lemon but not authorized to speak publicly.
Some people close to Lemon have suggested that the morning job was essentially a demotion for him, and he was given little support to succeed.
Lemon said he learned of his firing from his agent.
“At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network,” he said.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Police on Wednesday identified five family members who died in a murder-suicide at a central Florida home.
The Orlando Police Department said in a news release that the suspect was identified as the family's 45-year-old father. The victims included his 39-year-old wife, and three daughters, ages 22, 11, and 7. A firearm was found in the home, but the medical examiner will evaluate the cause of the death, according to the police department.
“At this time, it appears this is a domestic violence related incident," the news release said.
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The digital program provides nurse educators with 16 weeks of content that perfectly align with community health course curriculum standards, eliminating the need for textbooks.
WATERBURY, Conn., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sentinel U®, a provider of web-based simulation education technology solutions for nursing schools, hospital systems and healthcare professionals, has introduced ALIGN℠ Community Health Course Digital Teaching Resources, its first academic course for community health nursing.
Available this fall as an add-on bonus to the award-winning Sentinel City® v.5 and Sentinel Town® virtual simulations, two top resources in the industry for community and population health, ALIGN provides nurse educators with a continuously updated, complete course curriculum featuring 16 topical areas. Content areas include disaster management and preparedness, mental health and substance abuse, environmental health and safety, vulnerable populations, and global health, among others. Course exercises utilize best practices from organizations such as the American Red Cross and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as pre-brief resources.
The ready-made and easily adoptable community health course alleviates the stress and time involved with curriculum planning. Each content area features objectives, intros, assessments, summary recaps and recommendations for activities within Sentinel City® v.5 and Sentinel Town®, available to users through a searchable e-catalog. Each activity is aligned with industry standards with objectives, prebrief and Sentinel U's EMPOWER™ debrief.
"We designed this program as a valuable resource and time saver for nurse educators," said Jeffrey Caplan, president of Sentinel U. "Building or refreshing a curriculum can take months, but Sentinel U's ALIGN Community Health resource does the heavy lifting for nurse educators with the added benefit of being easily adapted to reflect major changes to the continuously evolving healthcare landscape."
Developed in Sentinel U's signature style utilizing robust experiential scenarios, the community health course will appeal to the next generation of learners accustomed to using technology to augment learning. The digital course eliminates the need for a textbook, making it a more convenient solution for students and faculty.
"Today's students are digital natives who learn best when immersed in a scenario and actively participating in their education, not reading core competencies from a textbook. We are excited to elevate learning to the next level with our new enhancement," said Dr. Laura Gonzalez, vice president of clinical learning resources at Sentinel U.
Webinar training is available for faculty. For more information about Sentinel U, please visit https://www.sentinelu.com/.
About Sentinel U®
Sentinel U® is a leading provider of health care simulations and learning innovations for nursing students and healthcare professionals. Its authentic virtual simulations and clinical experiences are the best practice in engaging learners in real-world scenarios to gain unparalleled clinical judgement and critical thinking experience. A division of American Sentinel College of Nursing & Health Sciences at Post University, Sentinel U is an industry leader in virtual simulation education for more than 130,000 learner experiences worldwide. To learn more about Sentinel U and its full portfolio of virtual simulation products, visit www.sentinelu.com.
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Old NASA satellite plunges to Earth over Sahara Desert
(AP) – An old NASA satellite that studied the sun for more than a decade fell to Earth over the Sahara Desert, the space agency reported Thursday.
NASA officials said they have received no reports of damage or injury so far from the reentry, which occurred in the wee hours of the morning in Sudan.
Most of the 660-pound satellite, called RHESSI, was expected to burn up while plummeting through the atmosphere. But experts anticipated some pieces would survive and slam into the ground.
Launched in 2002, RHESSI was turned off in 2018 following a communication problem. Before falling silent, it studied solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun.
RHESSI stands for the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager.
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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It was a historic day as one of New York's most influential colleges announced it had officially become Iona University. Founded in 1940 with more than 50,000 alumni around the world, Iona University celebrated the news with an unveiling on its New Rochelle campus.
During the announcement, Iona University President Seamus Carey, Ph.D., said the change reflects the quality and prestige of an Iona education, and will support the institution's growth as it attracts top talent from across the globe. He was joined at the reveal by students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the Board of Trustees, as well as community partners.
"While this change reflects the growth, structure and direction of Iona, it also carries forward the legacy we have inherited," Carey said. "Our name is different, but our mission and values are the same."
Founded by the Christian Brothers and inspired by the legacy of Blessed Edmund Rice and St. Columba, Iona's success comes despite the headwinds facing others in higher education.
In March 2020, Iona was on the front lines when COVID-19 hit New Rochelle – the epicenter of the pandemic. Hailed as the "first to close, first to reopen," Iona pushed ahead on its path of innovation. Today, Iona University has emerged as an anomaly in higher education.
As enrollment spiked 35 percent in three years, Iona acquired a second campus in Bronxville, N.Y., to expand its programming inside and outside of the classroom.
Most notably, Iona launched a premier new school of health sciences to develop the next generation of health care professionals in collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian, ranked New York's #1 hospital by U.S. News & World Report. Supported by a $20 million gift, the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences will open its state-of-the-art facilities in Bronxville this January. Meanwhile, Iona continues to add academic programs across the LaPenta School of Business and the School of Arts & Science, in addition to expanding club sports, performing arts and other activities that empower students to "Learn Outside the Lines" of the classroom.
"Just as St. Columba, Blessed Edmund Rice and the Christian Brothers looked beyond their own interests to address the pressing needs of their times, we understand that our mission has never been more important," Carey said. "Class by class, year by year, we help students realize why it is in their best interest to choose a life of responsible citizenship driven by care and compassion over narrow self-interest. To the extent that we are effective, we not only fulfill our duty as teachers and administrators, but we also meet our social responsibility of contributing to an educated citizenry. These are the values that will continue to be the lifeblood of Iona University in the future."
With a total enrollment of nearly 4,000 students, Iona is highly accredited, offering a diverse range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The change to Iona University was effective as of July 1, 2022.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will try to reaffirm and recalibrate U.S. relationships in the Middle East during his first trip to the region since taking office, but it won’t be easy in a corner of the world that’s asking fresh questions about the future of American influence.
The trip only becomes more fraught from there. Biden’s next stop will be Saudi Arabia, an autocracy with a legacy of human rights abuses but also vast reserves of oil that the president wants to see pumped more quickly to alleviate high gas prices caused, in part, by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Looming over Biden’s travels will be his administration’s struggle to rejuvenate the Iran nuclear deal that was reached by Barack Obama in 2015 and abandoned by Donald Trump in 2018. Negotiations stalled last month, and Iran is believed to be closer than ever to having the ability to build a nuclear weapon. Failure to reach a diplomatic solution could increase the chance of conflict in an already combustible neighborhood.
“He’s going to face a region that’s long on problems with very few solutions,” said Aaron David Miller, a former State Department official who is now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
In addition, Biden has been more focused on Europe, which is experiencing its worst armed conflict since World War II, and Asia, where he’s been trying to reorientate U.S. foreign policy to confront China’s rising power.
Jake Sullivan, the president’s national security adviser, said the U.S. needs to remain “intensively engaged” in the Middle East because the region is “deeply interwoven with the rest of the world.”
“If we act now to create a peaceful and stable region, it will pay dividends for the American national interests and for the American people for years to come,” he said Monday at a White House briefing.
In addition to meetings with Israeli and Palestinian politicians, Biden is expected to visit an Israeli missile defense installation and the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. He’s also slated to receive Israel’s Presidential Medal of Honor and visit with U.S. athletes taking part in the Maccabiah Games, which involves thousands of Jewish and Israeli athletes from around the globe.
He travels to Saudi Arabia at the end of the week, when he’ll attend a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which brings together Arab leaders from the region. Sullivan said the president will make a “major statement” on his vision for the Middle East region.
But the most closely watched encounter will be his first meeting with Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s crown prince and presumed heir to the throne currently held by King Salman.
Biden has been sharply critical of Saudi Arabia, even saying during the presidential campaign that it should be treated like a “pariah” for human rights abuses. His administration released a declassified intelligence report saying the crown prince, known as MBS, likely approved the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S.-based writer who was critical of the regime.
However, the shifting politics of energy have led Biden to change course, especially as American drivers face high costs at the gas pump. The global price spike could also make it more difficult for Biden to convince allies to keep pressuring Russia with sanctions as the war in Ukraine grinds on.
Even if Biden’s visit goes smoothly, there may not be any immediate relief because oil production targets are governed by an agreement reached among the members of OPEC+, a cartel that includes Saudi Arabia and Russia. And while the current agreement expires in September, concern about a potential worldwide recession could make oil producers wary about pumping more.
Biden made only a glancing reference to working with Saudi Arabia to “help stabilize oil markets” when he defended his plan to visit the kingdom in an op-ed in the Washington Post, the same newspaper that used to publish Khashoggi’s writing.
He promised to continue raising human rights issues, and he said he wants “to reorient — but not rupture” the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Brian Katulis, vice president of policy at the Middle East Institute, said Biden’s shifting approach shows he’s no longer seeking the dramatic break from Trump that he originally envisioned.
“I think reality just set in,” Katulis said, describing the administration’s views on the region as evolving from “adolescence to a much more mature phase.”
Critics say that some of Biden’s rhetoric around the Saudi leg of the trip, particularly playing down his expected meeting with the crown prince, could complicate efforts to reset relations. The president has stressed that the primary purpose of his visit to Jeddah is to take part in the gathering of the Gulf council countries.
One factor in seeking a détente in the Saudi relationship is growing concern in the administration that the Saudis could move closer to China and Russia amid strains with the United States.
Another significant stumbling block has been the lack of a new nuclear agreement with Iran. The last round of negotiations in Doha ended without success. The Saudis, as well as the Israelis, have been frustrated that the White House has not abandoned efforts to revive the deal with Tehran.
“We want the Saudis to feel that the U.S. is committed to its security long term, and that, in turn, the Saudis are committed to U.S. national security interests as well,” said Richard Goldberg, who served as a senior National Security Council adviser on Iran in the Trump administration. “The president is saying ahead of his trip, ‘We are going to continue to hedge on you.’ If I was MBS looking at that, I would say, ‘Well, then I’m going to hedge against you as well.’”
The threat from Iran, which would only increase if it built a nuclear weapon, has spurred greater cooperation between Arab nations and Israel, something that would have been unthinkable decades ago. Biden hopes to foster closer ties during his trip, and it’s notable that he will be the first U.S. president to travel directly from Israel to Saudi Arabia.
Although no one expects the two countries to immediately normalize relations, there could be incremental steps taken, such as by allowing Israeli flights to cross through Saudi airspace.
“The tectonic plates are shifting,” said Dennis Ross, a former American diplomat who is now a distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “That’s what’s happening.”
It’s unclear whether any of these changes could eventually lead to a resolution of the decades-old conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, who live under an Israeli military occupation.
A reminder of the turmoil that could break out at any moment came last year during a brief, bloody war between Israel and the militant group Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip.
Peace talks are moribund, nor is there much chance of reviving them at the current moment.
Yair Lapid, Israel’s caretaker prime minister, leads a centrist political party that is more aligned with Biden than the country’s recent conservative leaders. However, new elections are being held in November, and Israelis could decide to revert to Benjamin Netanyahu, a right-wing leader who has clashed with Biden in the past.
A warm visit from Biden could boost Lapid’s chances, but any overt shows of support for him could backfire.
Either way, the chaotic state of Israeli politics — this will be the fifth election in three years — means little can be accomplished in the interim.
“This is not the moment to try to revive the peace process,” said Martin Indyk, a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who was Obama’s special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
Still, Indyk encouraged Biden to express his support for a two-state solution, however distant the possibility may be.
“If you ignore the Palestinian issue, it will come back to bite you,” he said. “And eventually it will explode. And that’s not in anybody’s interest.”
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Pega receives highest score in automation design and development criterion
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the low-code platform provider empowering the world's leading enterprises to Build for Change®, today announced Forrester Research has named Pega a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Robotic Process Automation, Q1 2023 (1). Pega received the highest score in the automation design and development criterion, and received the highest possible scores in the governance and security, pricing flexibility and transparency, partner ecosystem, and community criteria.
Forrester evaluated Pega Robotic Process Automation™ as one of the 15 most significant RPA providers for the report against 26 criteria. The report states, "Pegasystems provides a seamless automation lifecycle experience. RPA vendors are incrementally transitioning into automation platform vendors, driven by their clients' appetite to scale automation. Since its inception, Pegasystems has maintained a relentless focus on its scalable architecture and a platform approach to application and automation development. Both priorities are coming in handy now. Going forward, it plans to build on its strengths and continue investing in scalability and the breadth and depth of its platform."
Pega's RPA capabilities use deep robotics to automate repetitive tasks in applications at the code level, resulting in faster, more accurate, and more resilient robotic automations at scale. Pega RPA is integral to Pega Platform™, Pega's low-code platform for AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation to solve business needs for automation. With Pega RPA, businesses can rapidly implement automation for faster outcomes.
This recognition is among Pega's recent analyst firm recognitions for its low-code platform for AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation. Pega was also recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Real-Time Interaction Management, Q2 2022 (2) and The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q4 2021 (3) report, among others.
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"Automation is an essential technology for enterprises as they look to optimize work and improve efficiency. RPA is a critical part of a broader automation strategy that allows for the scale, agility, and speed to keep up with today's business landscape," said Eric Musser, general manager, intelligent automation, Pega. "We believe this continued recognition shows how Pega is investing in its automation solutions so our clients can work smarter and more efficiently to meet and surpass their goals."
Supporting Resources
- The Forrester Wave™: Robotic Process Automation, Q1 2023
- Product background: Pega Robotic Process Automation
- Product background: Pega Platform
- Forrester Research, "The Forrester Wave™: Robotic Process Automation, Q1 2023" by Bernhard Schaffrik, February 28, 2023
- Forrester Research, "The Forrester Wave™: Real-Time Interaction Management, Q2 2022" by Rusty Warner, May 25, 2022
- Forrester Research, "The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q4 2021" by Rob Koplowitz, December 14, 2021
About Pegasystems
Pega provides a powerful low-code platform that empowers the world's leading enterprises to Build for Change®. Clients use our AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation to solve their most pressing business challenges – from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. Since 1983, we've built our scalable and flexible architecture to help enterprises meet today's customer demands while continuously transforming for tomorrow. For more information on Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA), visit www.pega.com
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asked the Biden administration on Saturday to declare Broward County a disaster area due to flooding earlier this month after record rainfall.
More than 2 feet (0.6 meters) of rain fell in some parts of the county April 12. The 1-in-a-1,000-year deluge left some parts of the county with up to 3 feet (0.9 meters) of water. About 1,000 homes were severely damaged, according to the state.
The flooding also closed the airport for almost two days. Gas deliveries to the port were also slowed, causing long lines at the pump.
The Republican governor is expected to soon announce that he will seek his party’s nomination to challenge President Joe Biden in next year’s election.
While frequently sniping at each other, the Democratic president and the governor have seen their administrations work together after disasters. That includes last year’s Hurricane Ian, which killed more than 140 people and left thousands homeless, and the 2021 collapse of a condo tower in Surfside, which killed 98. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/04/22/florida-flooding-desantis-biden/fe693abe-e132-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html | 2023-04-22 18:58:45 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/04/22/florida-flooding-desantis-biden/fe693abe-e132-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html |
The Sounders’ hopes and fears played out in a 30-minute span Saturday.
The concern struck first against Sporting Kansas City. Second-year forward William Agada hasn’t released his choke hold on the Sounders as he picked up the rebound of a defensive folly in the fifth minute and smashed it into the back of the net for another goal against Seattle.
Last year Agada’s first-half strike was enough to end the Sounders’ playoff hopes.
Seattle seemed to move past last season with a hopeful sequence led by a through ball from Jackson Ragen. Leo Chu collected the pass on the left wing and swiftly darted toward goal, pinpointing a pass to forward Jordan Morris for a right-footed equalizer in the 23rd minute.
Hope became dominance as Chu and Nico Lodeiro found Morris in the second half, for the latter’s first four-goal match. The Sounders left a quiet Children’s Mercy Park with a 4-1 win — the club’s first on the road since July 2022.
SKC (0-3-2) would like to regard the matchup as unbalanced. The home side played down a man after defender Ben Sweat was sent off on a second yellow card from a hard foul against Chu in the 63rd minute. Kansas City also took the field without their three designated players in the starting lineup due to injuries, captain Johnny Russell (hamstring) subbing on in the 61st minute for his first appearance of the season.
But the Sounders (3-1-1) were without six players — three starters — due to the FIFA men’s international window. To compensate, Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer shifted midfielder Cristian Roldan back to cover for his brother, Alex as right fullback. The positioning was a first for Cristian since 2018.
Morris moved up top and Chu received his first start of the season on the left wing. Midfielder Josh Atencio also received his first start of the season and played alongside Joao Paulo while veteran Kelyn Rowe replaced Nouhou at left fullback.
Seattle was without Raul Ruidiaz (Peru), Alex (El Salvador), Nouhou (Cameroon), backup center back Xavier Arreaga (Ecuador) and U.S. youth men’s national team midfielders Obed Vargas and Reed Baker-Whiting due to call-ups.
The changes were exposed on Agada’s goal
SKC forward Daniel Salloi cut through the new defensive look to open up the chance. Cristian and Atencio read Salloi’s dribble wrong, the latter taking a shot from the top edge of the box.
Sounders keeper Stefan Frei blocked the shot but not enough to prevent Agada from picking up the rebound and chipping it into the net for his first goal of the season.
But Chu was just getting warmed up for a hat trick in assists. The first highlighted his speed, the second in the 54th minute showed off patience and footwork. For his third in the 77th minute, Chu sent in a lob that Morris headed down.
Lodeiro had a textbook cross into Morris for a goal in the 69th minute. Morris is the third player in a road match to have for or more and first since Clint Mathis pocketed five in 2000. Morris has seven goals overall this season.
In addition to ending a franchise-record 10-game winless skid on the road, the Sounders broke SKC’s seven-match home unbeaten streak. Kansas City had only conceded one goal in their previous five home matches. | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/sounders/jordan-morris-scores-four-goals-as-sounders-earn-first-road-win-since-july/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-03-26 03:18:57 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/sounders/jordan-morris-scores-four-goals-as-sounders-earn-first-road-win-since-july/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
More than a third of student loan borrowers spent money they otherwise would not have when they believed a portion of their debt would be forgiven by the Biden administration, according to a new poll.
Most borrowers surveyed by Intellingent.com were confident they would receive some student debt relief as part of the Biden administration’s plan to forgive at least $10,000 for federal borrowers and up to $20,000 for those who received a federal Pell Grant while in school.
The Supreme Court struck down the president’s forgiveness plan at the end of June.
Student debt: White House faces backlash for restarting interest on loans
The survey conducted from July 6 to July 10 measured the responses of 977 respondents who qualified for Biden’s student loan forgiveness program
Among borrowers who spent additional money expecting some debt relief, 9 percent spent between $5,000 and $7,501 extra, while another 17 percent spent $5,000 more than they would have had they not expected forgiveness, the poll found.
Borrowers used what they believed would amount to extra money in their pockets on a range of items, though 37 percent said they paid off other debts. Others used the funds on home repairs and rent payments.
About 20 percent of borrowers polled said they spent the money on vacation, while fewer than 10 percent said they spent it on alcohol and drugs or gambling.
Payments are set to resume in October with interest beginning to accrue in September, and more than half of borrowers polled by Intelligent.com said they are not prepared for payments.
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Twenty-seven percent said they are at least somewhat likely to refuse to pay the $10,000 they thought would be forgiven.
Meanwhile, payment notices are being sent out, and student loan experts are advising borrowers to take several steps to ease the transition back into repayment after a three-year pause.
Experts say borrowers should update their contact information with their loan servicers; budget out expenses on their needs and wants based on a month’s worth of transactions; and to sign up for auto pay, which would deduct 0.25 percentage points from interest.
The Biden administration, following the Supreme Court’s decision, announced it would offer borrowers an on-ramp period, where missed payments would not impact their credit ratings or default status from Oct. 2023 to Sept. 2024.
The administration is implementing new programs that could cover some interest and lower monthly payments.
The administration said eligible borrowers can enroll in the REPAYE plan, which will be converted to the SAVE plan this fall.
The new plan will cut monthly payments from 10 percent of discretionary income to 5 percent and ensure unpaid monthly interest won’t cause a borrower’s debt to grow if they’ve been making their monthly payments. | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/a-third-of-student-borrowers-spent-money-they-thought-would-be-forgiven-poll/ | 2023-07-12 21:04:31 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/a-third-of-student-borrowers-spent-money-they-thought-would-be-forgiven-poll/ |
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care.
Before panelists can debate the words picked for the bee, they need to hear each word and its language of origin, part of speech, definition and exemplary sentence read aloud. Late in the meeting, lead pronouncer Jacques Bailly and his colleagues — so measured in their pacing and meticulous in their enunciation during the bee — rip through that chore as quickly as possible. No pauses. No apologies for flubs.
By the time of this gathering, two days before the bee, the word list is all but complete. Each word has been vetted by the panel and slotted into the appropriate round of the nearly century-old annual competition to identify the English language’s best speller.
For decades, the word panel’s work has been a closely guarded secret. This year, Scripps — a Cincinnati-based media company — granted The Associated Press exclusive access to the panelists and their pre-bee meeting, with the stipulation that The AP would not reveal words unless they were cut from the list.
THEY’RE TOUGH ON WORDS
The 21 panelists sit around a makeshift, rectangular conference table in a windowless room tucked inside the convention center outside Washington where the bee is staged every year. They are given printouts including words Nos. 770-1,110 — those used in the semifinal rounds and beyond — with instructions that those sheets of paper cannot leave the room.
Hearing the words aloud with the entire panel present — laptops open to Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged dictionary — sometimes illuminates problems. That’s what happened late in Sunday’s meeting. Kavya Shivashankar, the 2009 champion, an obstetrician/gynecologist and a recent addition to the panel, chimed in with an objection.
The word gleyde (pronounced “glide”), which means a decrepit old horse and is only used in Britain, has a near-homonym — glyde — with a similar but not identical pronunciation and the same meaning. Shivashankar says the variant spelling makes the word too confusing, and the rest of the panel quickly agrees to spike gleyde altogether. It won’t be used.
“Nice word, but bye-bye,” pronouncer Kevin Moch says.
For the panelists, the meeting is the culmination of a yearlong process to assemble a word list that will challenge but not embarrass the 230 middle- and elementary-school-aged competitors — and preferably produce a champion within the two-hour broadcast window for Thursday night’s finals.
The panel’s work has changed over the decades. From 1961 to 1984, according to James Maguire’s book “American Bee,” creating the list was a one-man operation overseen by Jim Wagner, a Scripps Howard editorial promotions director, and then by Harvey Elentuck, a then-MIT student who approached Wagner about helping with the list in the mid-1970s.
The panel was created in 1985. The current collaborative approach didn’t take shape until the early ’90s. Bailly, the 1980 champion, joined in 1991.
“Harvey … made the whole list,” Bailly says. “I never met him. I was just told, ‘You’re the new Harvey.’”
IT’S NOT JUST PICKING WORDS
This year’s meeting includes five full-time bee staffers and 16 contract panelists. The positions are filled via word of mouth within the spelling community or recommendations from panelists. The group includes five former champions: Barrie Trinkle (1973), Bailly, George Thampy (2000), Sameer Mishra (2008) and Shivashankar.
Trinkle, who joined the panel in 1997, used to produce the majority of her submissions by reading periodicals like The New Yorker or The Economist.
“Our raison d’etre was to teach spellers a rich vocabulary that they could use in their daily lives. And as they got smarter and smarter, they got more in contact with each other and were studying off the same lists, it became harder to hold a bee with those same types of words,” Trinkle says.
Now, more often than not she goes directly to the source — Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged. That’s easier than it used to be.
“The dictionary is on the computer and is highly searchable in all kinds of ways — which the spellers know as well. If they want to find all the words that entered the language in the 1650s, they can do that, which is sometimes what I do,” Trinkle says. “The best words kind of happen to you as you’re scrolling around through the dictionary.”
Not everyone on the panel submits words. Some work to ensure that the definitions, parts of speech and other accompanying information are correct; others are tasked with ensuring that words of similar difficulty are asked at the right times in the competition; others focus on crafting the bee’s new multiple-choice vocabulary questions. Those who submit words, like Trinkle and Mishra, are given assignments throughout the year to come up with a certain number at a certain level of difficulty.
Mishra pulls his submissions from his own list, which he started when he was a 13-year-old speller. He gravitates toward “the harder end of the spectrum.”
“They are fun and challenging for me and they make me smile, and I know if I was a speller I would be intimidated by that word,” says the 28-year-old Mishra, who just finished his MBA at Harvard. “I have no fear about running out (of words), and I feel good about that.”
HOW THE BEE HAS EVOLVED
The panel meets a few times a year, often virtually, to go over words, edit definitions and sentences, and weed out problems. The process seemed to go smoothly through the 2010s, even amid a proliferation of so-called “minor league” bees, many catering to offspring of highly educated, first-generation Indian immigrants — a group that has come to dominate the competition.
In 2019, a confluence of factors — among them, a wild-card program that allowed multiple spellers from competitive regions to reach nationals — produced an unusually deep field of spellers. Scripps had to use the toughest words on its list just to cull to a dozen finalists. The bee ended in an eight-way tie, and there was no shortage of critics.
Scripps, however, didn’t fundamentally change the way the word panel operates. It brought in younger panelists more attuned to the ways contemporary spellers study and prepare. And it made format changes designed to identify a sole champion. The wild-card program was scrapped, and Scripps added onstage vocabulary questions and a lightning-round tiebreaker.
The panel also began pulling words avoided in the past. Place names, trademarks, words with no language of origin: As long as a word isn’t archaic or obsolete, it’s fair game.
“They’ve started to understand they have to push further into the dictionary,” says Shourav Dasari, a 20-year-old former speller and a co-founder with his older sister Shobha of SpellPundit, which sells study guides and hosts a popular online bee. “Last year, we started seeing stuff like tribal names that are some of the hardest words in the dictionary.”
THERE’S A METICULOUSNESS TO IT ALL
Members of the panel insist they worry little about other bees or the proliferation of study materials and private coaches. But those coaches and entrepreneurs spend a lot of time thinking about the words Scripps is likely to use — often quite successfully.
Dasari says there are roughly 100,000 words in the dictionary that are appropriate for spelling bees. He pledges that 99% of the words on Scripps’ list are included in SpellPundit’s materials. Anyone who learns all those words is all but guaranteed to win, Dasari says — but no one has shown they can do it.
“I just don’t know when anybody would be able to completely master the unabridged dictionary,” Dasari says.
Since the bee resumed after its 2020 pandemic cancellation, the panel has been scrutinized largely for the vocabulary questions, which have added a capricious element, knocking out some of the most gifted spellers even if they don’t misspell a word. Last year’s champion, Harini Logan, was briefly ousted on a vocabulary word, “pullulation” — only to be reinstated minutes later after arguing that her answer could be construed as correct.
“That gave us a sense of how very, very careful we need to be in terms of crafting these questions,” says Ben Zimmer, the language columnist for The Wall Street Journal and a chief contributor of words for the vocabulary rounds.
Zimmer is also sensitive to the criticism that some vocabulary questions are evaluating the spellers’ cultural sophistication rather than their mastery of roots and language patterns. This year’s vocabulary questions contain more clues that will guide gifted spellers to the answers, he says.
There will always be complaints about the word list, but making the competition as fair as possible is the panel’s chief goal. Missing hyphens or incorrect capitalization, ambiguities about singular and plural nouns or transitive and intransitive verbs — no question is too insignificant.
“This is really problematic,” Trinkle says, pointing out a word that has a homonym with a similar definition.
Scripps editorial manager Maggie Lorenz agrees: “We’re going to bump that word entirely.”
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Ben Nuckols has covered the Scripps National Spelling Bee since 2012. Follow him at https://twitter.com/APBenNuckols | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/ap-exclusive-secrets-of-the-national-spelling-bee-picking-the-words-to-identify-a-champion/ | 2023-05-30 00:45:42 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/ap-exclusive-secrets-of-the-national-spelling-bee-picking-the-words-to-identify-a-champion/ |
FRANKFURT – Inflation eased only slightly in the 20 countries that use the euro currency as the pain from higher costs for food and fuel persists and gives the European Central Bank no reason to slow interest rate increases aimed at getting prices back under control.
The consumer price index reached 8.5% in February compared with a year earlier, a drop from 8.6% in January, the European Union's statistics agency Eurostat said Thursday. The figure was higher than analysts' expectations of 8.3%.
Inflation is down from its peak of 10.6% in October but its persistence has surprised economists, with figures from Germany, France and Spain coming in higher than expected this week.
Prices for food, alcohol and tobacco rose 15%, up from an already painful 14.1% in January, outpacing even energy costs amid Russia's war in Ukraine. Energy prices grew 13.7% from a year ago but were lower than the 18.9% boost in January.
Higher prices for natural gas, used to heat homes, run industrial processes and generate electricity, have been a key factor pushing inflation higher across the economy. Russia cut off most supplies to Europe last year as it pressured governments over their support for Ukraine.
While natural gas prices have fallen as a mild winter reduces demand for heating, it will take months for those lower prices to work their way through to lower bills for consumers. Meanwhile, higher prices have led to workers demanding higher pay in wage negotiations, often through strikes and protests that have swept Europe.
More alarming than the headline figure was core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices and can give a better sense of whether inflation is being baked into the economy over the longer term. That core figure rose to 5.6% from 5.3%.
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has indicated the bank will raise interest rates by another large half-percentage point at its March 16 meeting, and analysts expect more rate rises after that.
Interest rates influence the cost of borrowing across the economy, making it more expensive to borrow and spend and thus cooling off demand for goods.
“As long as core inflation remains stubbornly high in the eurozone, the ECB will continue hiking rates and will not consider future rate cuts,” said Carsten Brzeski, chief eurozone economist at ING bank. | https://www.wsls.com/business/2023/03/02/europe-inflation-eases-slightly-as-consumer-pain-persists/ | 2023-03-02 10:27:48 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/business/2023/03/02/europe-inflation-eases-slightly-as-consumer-pain-persists/ |
Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona has begun a new program designed to help ease Flagstaff’s affordable housing crisis. It focuses on placing residents in starter homes rather than long-term housing that’s been the organization's longtime focus.
The program offers lower income families and individuals a way to own a home. With a one thousand dollar down payment and similar or lower monthly mortgage payments, normally disadvantaged buyers can own a 500-square foot starter home. The program requires buyers to live in the homes between three and ten years, and as part of the agreement, the home is sold back to Habitat for Humanity with the money returning to the original buyer. Eric Wolverton is the Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona.
"Because habitat furnishes all of our home loans with zero percent interest financing, that means that starter homeowners are going to save $10,000 in equity every year starting year one," Wolverton Says.
In the last decade, the median sales price of a home in Flagstaff rose nearly 170 percent while median income rose by 36 percent. According to Arizona State University's Morrison Institute for Public Policy, it's resulted in lower income households paying more than a third of their income to housing.
Meanwhile, Flagstaff voters will weigh in on Proposition 442 during the November 8th General Election. It would authorize 20 million dollars in bonds in an effort to create more rental and homeownership opportunities in the city. | https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2022-10-24/habitat-for-humanity-of-northern-arizona-builds-starter-homes-amidst-housing-crisis-in-flagstaff | 2022-10-24 19:55:18 | 1 | https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2022-10-24/habitat-for-humanity-of-northern-arizona-builds-starter-homes-amidst-housing-crisis-in-flagstaff |
The far-reaching report details 350 recommendations across 15 federal agencies and includes actions for state and local governments, employers, and community organizations
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a broad national strategy that provides the roadmap needed for federal, state, and local governments, as well as businesses and communities, to better support family caregivers. The 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers identifies hundreds of actions that federal agencies will take to prioritize improving access to respite care, including family caregivers as part of a person's care team, strengthening the direct care workforce, and helping to ensure caregivers' financial security. The strategy includes corresponding actions for states and the private sector.
The National Strategy was developed by two congressionally mandated councils supported by the Administration for Community Living, in partnership with The John A. Hartford Foundation and the National Academy for State Health Policy.
"This first-ever national strategy gives us a whole-of-society approach to supporting the millions of family caregivers who desperately need assistance in this country," said Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation. "The federal government has boldly detailed nearly 350 actions that agencies overseeing Medicare and Medicaid, Veterans Affairs, housing, labor, and more will take over the next three years to support caregivers. Now is the time for all of us — states, communities, business leaders, researchers, nonprofits, and philanthropies — to take action so that caregivers of older adults get the help they need and deserve."
The National Strategy includes federal government actions that address issues caregivers say are most important, including:
- Access to Respite Services: AmeriCorps Seniors will offer short-term care to help family caregivers take a break.
- Support with Day-to-Day and Complex Medical Tasks: Offices throughout the government will coordinate with states to grow and strengthen the direct care workforce to help with caregiving tasks.
- Inclusion of Caregivers in Care Teams: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will update rules to include family caregivers in the hospital discharge planning process so transitions are smoother for all involved.
- Financial Education on Caregiving Costs: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will increase the availability and use of financial education tools on the costs of long-term care so caregivers can better prepare.
- Better Identification of Family Caregivers: Departments across the government will pilot identification of family caregivers in electronic health records and state information systems and conduct localized outreach to share information with family caregivers about the support available.
- Research on the Needs of Family Caregivers: Interdepartmental efforts across the federal government will research family caregiving to inform evidence-based policies, including by providing grants to colleges and universities with gerontology and family service programs so support options meet family caregivers' needs.
The report also includes state government actions in these key areas:
- Engaging Family Caregivers in Health Care Services and Systems: Engage family members as part of the care team, especially during care transitions and hospital discharges, assess family caregivers for their own needs, ensure that family members receive the information they need to care for the individual, and measure family caregiver engagement for quality improvement and payment.
- Services and Supports for Family Caregivers: Blend and braid federal and state funding for services such as home and respite care which can give family caregivers a needed break, leverage new Medicaid funding and flexibility, rebalance toward more home and community-based services, and pay family caregivers through Medicaid self-direction options.
- The Direct Care Workforce: Coordinate workforce policy and resources across agencies, develop career pathways, improve and streamline training and working conditions, create registries to match workers with clients and credential portability for aides to work in various settings or as a career ladder, and collect data on turnover rates, tenure, full-time/part-time status, vacancy rates, wages, benefits, and recruitment and retention.
- Financial and Workplace Security: Enhance family leave requirements, establish tax credits for caregiving expenses, establish protections against workplace discrimination based on family responsibilities, include family caregiving in unemployment insurance eligibility, and promote financial education and planning for family caregivers.
"As the major public payer for long-term services and supports and regulator of providers, states are facing the challenges of helping families live in their homes and communities while grappling with the shortage and working conditions of direct care workers — with increasingly aging populations," said Hemi Tewarson, executive director at the National Academy for State Health Policy. "The National Strategy provides a timely roadmap for states as well as federal, business, and community sectors to address these challenges."
Each year, around 53 million people provide a broad range of assistance to support the health, quality of life, and independence of someone close to them. An estimated one in six individuals is a family caregiver, and more than two-thirds of people will need assistance with tasks as they age.
Caregivers say providing support is rewarding but challenging mentally, physically, and financially. Family caregivers report poorer health outcomes because they often prioritize the needs of others before themselves and face chronic stress associated with their caregiving duties.
Lost income due to family caregiving is estimated at $522 billion each year. Family caregivers, on average, spend one-quarter of their annual income on caregiving expenses. Three-quarters of caregivers spend an average of $7,200 annually on caregiving-related out-of-pocket expenses.
Interested individuals and organizations can provide public comment on the National Strategy beginning on October 1. The Strategy will be updated biennially, informed in part by public feedback, ensuring it continues to meet the needs of family caregivers and those they care for as they evolve.
The National Strategy was developed jointly by the RAISE (Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, and Engage) Family Caregiving Advisory Council and The Advisory Council to Support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren — both comprised of family caregivers, health care experts, advocates, and others — with technical support from the Administration for Community Living.
The John A. Hartford Foundation and the National Academy for State Health Policy provided support to the RAISE Family Caregiving Advisory Council through resources, technical assistance, and policy analysis.
The John A. Hartford Foundation, based in New York City, is a private, nonpartisan, national philanthropy dedicated to improving the care of older adults. The leader in the field of aging and health, the Foundation has three areas of emphasis: creating age-friendly health systems, supporting family caregivers, and improving serious illness and end-of-life care. For more information, visit www.johnahartford.org.
The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) is a nonpartisan forum of policymakers throughout state governments, learning, leading, and implementing innovative solutions to health policy challenges. NASHP supports states as they reach across branches and agencies examining and creating solutions to critical health issues. For more information, visit www.nashp.org.
The Family Caregiving Advisory Council (the Council) was established by the Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, and Engage (RAISE) Family Caregivers Act and convened for the first time in August 2019. The Council includes representation by federal agencies and 15 voting members, including family caregivers; older adults who need long-term services and supports; individuals with disabilities; health care and social service providers; providers of long-term services and supports; employers; paraprofessional workers; state local officials; accreditation bodies; veterans; and as appropriate, other experts and advocacy organizations engaged in family caregiving. The Council is charged with providing recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on effective models of both family caregiving and support to family caregivers, as well as improving coordination across federal government programs. For more information, visit www.acl.gov/RAISE.
The Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (SGRG) Act, (Public Law 115-196) authorized establishing an advisory council to identify, promote, coordinate, and disseminate information, resources, and best practices available to help grandparents and other older relatives meet the needs of children in their care while maintaining their own physical, mental, and emotional health. The council is composed of grandparents, professionals working in the field of supports and services to grandparents and the children they care for, and representatives of the federal agencies that serve these populations. For more information, visit www.acl.gov/SGRG.
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Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee used their first hearing of the new Congress to zero in on what they call a crisis at the southern U.S. border.
The committee's chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, presided over a hearing Wednesday billed as "The Biden Border Crisis — Part I." As the name implies, it's the first of what are likely to be many GOP-led hearings on the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Jordan and other Republicans on the committee blamed the administration's policies for the record number of migrant apprehensions at the border over the past two years — even as President Biden has kept some of President Trump's key border policies in place, including the pandemic restrictions known as Title 42.
Some in the GOP majority also amplified controversial rhetoric about an "invasion" of migrants, and pushed questionable claims about how the synthetic opioid fentanyl is smuggled into the U.S.
Republicans sought to portray the surge in migrants as a threat to communities across the country, while Democrats accused them of fear-mongering and spreading misinformation.
"It is open. The border is dangerous," said Rep. Andy Biggs, a Republican from Arizona. "Drugs pour across, international terrorists, criminal gang members, people from all over the world."
The Biden administration disputes that the border is open, and argues that its recent enforcement measures have led to a drop in the number of illegal border crossings in recent weeks.
But no Biden administration officials were called to testify, leaving Democrats on the committee to defend their record.
"The Biden administration actually expelled over 1.1 million people last year. And recently expanded the use of Title 42, much to the concern of many of us on the committee," said the committee's ranking member, Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, who described the hearing as "political theater."
Dubious assertions about fentanyl smuggling
Republicans on the committee also sought to focus attention on the growing number of deaths from fentanyl, which is often smuggled across the southern border from Mexico.
The committee heard testimony from Brandon Dunn, whose 15-year-old son died of fentanyl poisoning last year. Dunn and his wife co-founded a nonprofit group called Forever 15 to spread awareness about fentanyl poisoning.
"Any amount smuggled in a backpack or a fanny pack even in somebody's pocket can be enough to kill thousands of people," Dunn said.
Committee members of both parties offered their condolences to Mr. Dunn — but differed sharply in their interpretations of his testimony.
Democrats pointed out that the vast majority of fentanyl seizures happen at official ports of entry, often in vehicles driven by U.S. citizens. Experts say a relatively small fraction is seized by Border Patrol agents between the ports of entry, while virtually none is seized from migrants who are turning themselves in to seek asylum.
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, accused Republicans of attempting to "conflate the issues of migrants seeking asylum through our legal processes with the very real scourge of fentanyl trafficking."
But Republicans say there is a connection, because large numbers of migrants crossing the border are distracting Border Patrol agents from doing their jobs.
"The Border Patrol is now distracted processing human beings," said Texas Rep. Chip Roy. "The border patrol can't possibly catch all of the fentanyl at the ports of entry, nor catch all of the fentanyl between the ports of entry."
White House spokesperson Ian Sams responded Wednesday evening, saying, "Funding secured by the president has allowed his administration to seize record levels of fentanyl before it even crosses our borders." He added, "After decades of congressional inaction, House Republicans should join President Biden to roll up their sleeves to pass comprehensive immigration reform and strengthen border security – building on the record funding for border security the President has already secured, which most House Republicans opposed."
Witnesses paint sharply different pictures of the border
The committee also heard from a pair of law enforcement officials in border communities, who painted starkly different pictures of the current situation.
The border is "the worst I've seen it," said Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County in southern Arizona. He says his resources are stretched thin trying to help Border Patrol agents catch migrants who try to sneak through the desert.
"The morale of agents is extremely low, and the collective frustration is very high amongst law enforcement at all levels," Dannels said. "This is the largest crime scene in this country."
But the committee also heard from El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego, who described a completely different scenario. "There is no open border in El Paso," Samaniego said, explaining that migrants there routinely turn themselves in to Border Patrol for processing in an orderly fashion.
Samaniego testified that local officials and nonprofit groups have been working closely for years with Border Patrol and other immigration authorities, and have developed a workable strategy for dealing with large numbers of migrants seeking protection in the U.S.
"Humanitarianism and security are not a binary choice. It is the federal government's responsibility to do both," Samaniego said.
Heated rhetoric about 'invasion'
Several times, Republicans on the committee suggested that the Biden administration was deliberately encouraging migrants to cross the border illegally. Rep. Roy of Texas went even further, invoking the word "invasion" to describe the flow of migrants across the border.
Critics have linked that term to the so-called Replacement Theory, the false conspiracy theory that Democrats are deliberately trying to replace white Americans with immigrants of color for political gain.
Judge Samaniego of El Paso rejected that framing.
"There is no invasion of migrants in our community. Nor are there hordes of immigrants committing crimes against citizens or causing havoc in our community," Samaniego said. "Claiming this continues a false racist narrative."
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For years, Anthony Mitchell has wanted to give back to the game of baseball in some way. On Saturday, he’ll have the chance to do just that.
The STL Ministries, a religious organization based in Tupelo, will be hosting the first R.B.I. Youth Baseball Camp at the Tupelo Middle School baseball field from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.. The camp serves kids ages 6-12 and is great for beginners and is free admission, but with limited slots.
R.B.I., an acronym that stands for Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities, is a youth baseball program operated by Major League Baseball that focuses on bringing back baseball as a pastime.
“It’s a ministry initiative for us which allows us to give affordable outlets for kids as well as just helping to build a network of mentorship,” Mitchell said of the camp. “We’re teaching fundamentals to beginners and we’re enhancing the skills of those that are just trying to get better.”
The camp was planned out on relatively short notice. On June 10th, the ministries held a football camp at Robbins Field with largely the same goals in mind. It was a big success, but the parents hoped they would do a baseball camp, something the kids would be more interested in.
“So at six weeks, to be able to just plan it what we’re able to, from the ground floor up with no equipment, no coaches, no location to be able to plan something of this magnitude,” Mitchell said. “It’s definitely been a little hectic, but it’s a blessing when you see the responses we’re starting to get.”
The “driving crux” for the camp was T.C. Cummings, the bishop at STL Ministries. Cummings grew up in the age of Jackie Robinson and wanted to be like him. Even after joining the ministry, baseball held a special place in his heart.
In that spirit, the camp is a way for Mitchell to honor him.
“He’s been in ministry 50 years,” Mitchell said. “I wanted to honor him in this regard by being able to put something together to honor his love for the game and also to help pass this on to some of the younger kids. I think it’s a good mending of the bridge, so to speak.”
Cummings will be one of the volunteers for the camp. Others include former Tupelo High coach Larry Harmon and Tupelo 49ers pitcher Jacobie Smith.
“To be able to get such an eclectic blend of age and personalities and come together and be able to give something for the kids,” Mitchell said. “It’s exciting to me.”
Parents who would like to register or donate equipment can reach out to Mitchell directly at 662-397-1276.
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NEW YORK, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Christophers have named the top prize winners in their annual student contests -- the 32nd Annual Poster Contest for High School Students and the 34th Annual Video Contest for College Students.
The poster contest invited students in grades 9 through 12 to create a poster that interprets the timeless theme, "You Can Make a Difference." Nearly 500 entries from across the United States were received, using a wide range of media from personalized photograph collages to highly detailed paintings.
The first prize winner, a senior at Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, FL, Camila Escobar depicts herself as a young toddler in her black and white hand-drawn portrait. In the poster, young Escobar is being helped to walk by a man whose face is hidden, but whom Camila reveals in a note to the Christophers to be her late grandfather. The caption of her submission reads, "No matter how small, you can make a difference."
"My grandfather [was] always very present in my life," Escobar wrote, "from my very first steps to his last. He always told me that I impacted his life, and reminded him of his youth, which is why I wanted to use this for the theme 'anyone can make a difference.' Despite being so young while he was alive, I know I made a difference in his life."
Escobar will be minoring in art and design at the University of Michigan next fall and the prize money will go toward her education."
Second prize winner and Central High School senior Conyae Cherry's poster emphasizes the value of education in a young person's life. A photograph shows Cherry reading to children at a local YMCA in her hometown of Louisville, KY. Written across the top and bottom of the poster are the words, "You can make a difference…starting with the power of knowledge."
Third prize winner John Devereux, a senior at Kennard-Dale High School in Grove, PA, takes a more personal approach in his poster, featuring a photograph of himself and his grandmother, wheelchair bound and glowing with joy as she leans against her smiling grandson. The caption says, "The greatest gift you can give someone is your time. You can make a difference." Devereux said, "Although she was in a nursing with dementia, I realized that sometimes the intangible gifts give to others can make more of an impact. With the older population, time is very important and it is a simple thing to give."
Tony Rossi, The Christophers' Director of Communications, and Sarah E. Holinski, The Christophers' Youth Coordinator, observed, "Our winning poster entries this year continue to run the gamut on making a difference in action, from the blessing of adoption to the importance of giving of our time and talents, whether reaching out in love and friendship to the elderly, or fundraising for a worthy cause. They show how, big or small, in a group or alone, each of us possesses the ability and drive to change our world for the better."
The Christophers also announced the winners of their 34th Annual Video Contest for College Students, for film or video that communicates the belief that one person can make a difference. This year's contest drew nearly 100 entries from throughout the United States.
First prize winner is Ella Stone, of Lewisville, TX and a 16-year-old math major at Southern New Hampshire University. In her film, "One Person Can Make an Exponential Impact," Stone recalled how even as early as second grade, her teachers knew she was advanced academically and would often ask her to assist fellow classmates with their schoolwork. During high school, she earned 88 college credits, and will earn her Bachelor's in Mathematics by 17 and her Master's in Teaching at 19.
"God's love for me compels me to love others," she says in her video. "During the pandemic as many struggled, hit hardest were refugee students. I use translation software to promote tutoring in 12 languages. Tutoring refugee students is a humbling opportunity to use my gifts and I am grateful for the technologies that allow me to connect with my students."
Second prize winner Aidan O'Neill, of Chicopee, MA and a Westfield State University communications major, uses his gifts to help people who face a different kind of barrier in their everyday lives, as he describes in his film, "One Person-Big Difference." His video centers on his involvement with the Special Olympics in his hometown.
"Ever since I was a freshman in high school," Aidan recalls in the video, "I have worked alongside my family and friends in the Greater Springfield Special Olympics, which provides opportunities for children and adults with mental or physical disabilities. I support them as a 'unified athlete' —an athlete who gives support and guidance to others as well as competing alongside them in the same sport. It's helped me realize we are all the same in our hearts, talent and enjoyment of success and accomplishment of victory in sports."
In her third prize-winning video entitled "Kindness Makes a Difference," Noell Komar, of Chandler, AZ, chooses to depict, in a simple but poignant way, just how much even the smallest gesture of goodwill can have a positive impact on someone who truly needs it. A film major at Arizona State University, she opens with black and white footage highlighting different young people struggling during their daily routines at college. From a distance, several different students observe these people in need. As soon as each student makes the decision to help their peers, the video switches to a colorized format, and the instrumental background music subsequently picks up tempo as well. Noell's short video ends with a quote from the Roman philosopher Seneca -- "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
Tony Rossi and Sarah E. Holinski of The Christophers said, "This year's prize-winning films showcase some truly remarkable individuals who have managed to rise above even the most insurmountable obstacles to achieve their goals in life."
To see the winning videos and posters, visit www.Christophers.org and click on "Youth."
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It was a typical sled drill that a linebacker has probably done 500 times in his career.
Wait for the coach to snap the ball to charge the sled, lift the makeshift offensive player in the air for a couple seconds before shedding it to whatever side the coach signals, then charging and tackling the pop-up dummy 5 yards in the backfield.
Jerome Baker, who has led the Miami Dolphins in tackles three straight seasons, walked up to Channing Tindall and gave him a few pointers before the rookie’s turn arrived.
Tindall, a member of Georgia’s national championship team who the Dolphins are hoping can immediate impact as a third-round pick, nodded his head as if he understood. But when the ball was snapped, he clumsily went through the drill.
Baker quickly approached him with a review and some more pointers.
The veteran linebacker then jumped into the line and ran through the drill himself one more time with Tindall watching closely.
“He’s going to be a great player. He’s just got to, [like] any rookie, just try to soak in as much information as you can,” said Baker, who found himself in a similar position in 2018 as a third-round pick, learning from Kiko Alonso and Raekwon McMillan.
“[He needs to] remember you got to this point by playing football. It’s not that hard when you think about it. It’s still football like it was when we were younger,” Baker continued. “He’s got a lot of things to improve on but he definitely has potential.”
And it’s on the veterans like Baker to help bring out that potential by passing on wisdom and sharing their knowledge from past experiences.
At least it is for teams that have a good culture.
You’d assume every player takes this approach, but some aren’t willing to guide a young player they know is threatening their job stability.
Just as often as I’ve seen veterans like Baker lend a helping hand, I’ve also seen and have been told that some veterans leave rookies to fend for themselves.
Just look at the comments a well-established starting quarterback like Ryan Tannehill made the week after the Tennessee Titans selected Liberty quarterback Malik Willis in the third round last month.
“We’re competing against each other, we’re watching the same tape, we’re doing the same drills,” Tannehill told the Titans media. “I don’t think it’s my job to mentor him, but if he learns from me along the way, then that’s a great thing.”
While it’s technically the position coach and coordinator’s job to bring a young player along — teaching him about the scheme and playbook — it is classy for a veteran to show a young player the way.
Reggie Bush taught Lamar Miller, and all the other backs who once played behind him in Miami, how to train and take care of their bodies knowing that one day one of them would replace him as the Dolphins starter.
Legendary Dolphins linebacker Zach Thomas regularly gave pointers and tips to Channing Crowder. He also critiqued his practices and games to help the young linebacker’s progress.
Defensive backs like Will Allen, Brent Grimes and Bobby McCain taught the youngsters in their unit how to study film and break down a receiver’s tendencies.
This is critical for NFL teams to develop a healthy culture and maximize the potential of young players — which requires selfless veterans who are willing to lead.
Young Dolphins safeties Jevon Holland and Brandon Jones routinely praised Eric Rowe the past two years for what he taught them about playing the position — before and after they leapfrogged him on the depth chart.
Just imagine if Rowe kept all the insight and wisdom he gained over his seven-year career to himself.
Rowe did this despite knowing their emergence as a blossoming safety duo made him and his $4.5 million contract expendable. But the fact he’d rather be a good teammate might explain why he’s still around.
Selfless leaders are hard to find, which explains why general manager Chris Grier said he went out of his way to add a few to Miami’s roster this offseason like Terron Armstead.
The three-time Pro Bowl offensive lineman signed as a free agent stayed 30 minutes after Tuesday’s practice session to work with Liam Eichenberg and Robert Jones on their stance and technique.
Eichenberg and Jones are in their second seasons, so having a veteran like Armstead providing guidance could help them contend for starting spots this summer.
If Armstead helps them get better, the same way Baker is helping Tindall improve, the team will progress in a manner that should be everyone’s goal.
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DAVIS, Calif., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenVenus, LLC, a biotechnology company specializing in genetic engineering for sustainable agriculture, announces a groundbreaking achievement in avocado gene editing and plant regeneration. GreenVenus's scientists have successfully modified a key gene associated with fruit browning, opening new possibilities for producing higher-quality avocados.
The global consumption and trade of avocados have seen remarkable growth, but commercial challenges exist. A natural enzymatic process in avocado fruit leads to significant browning when the flesh is exposed to air, resulting in economic losses and reduced consumer appeal. GreenVenus took up the challenge to tackle this issue by leveraging the power of CRISPR to develop a non-GMO solution.
Using CRISPR editing, GreenVenus successfully produced multiple lines of avocados with enhanced resistance to browning by "knocking out" a key gene in the browning pathway, polyphenol oxidase (PPO). Several elite commercial varieties are in the developmental pipeline; some are currently under analysis.
"Solving the challenge of editing avocado and regenerating plants from single cells required some unique solutions, and we're delighted we now have a method that works across key commercial varieties," said Walter Viss, Vice President of Cell Biology and Strategy at GreenVenus.
This breakthrough represents a major step forward in the field of avocado production and promises profound benefits for farmers, distributors, and consumers alike. Browning-resistant avocados would reduce waste and enhance post-harvest shelf life, providing farmers and distributors with extended windows for selling the fruit. Furthermore, consumers could enjoy the same great taste and nutritional benefits of avocados without concerns about browning, making it easier to incorporate this healthy and versatile fruit into their daily lives.
"GreenVenus is proud to have achieved this significant milestone in avocado gene editing," said Dr. Shiv Tiwari, Chief Executive Officer at GreenVenus. "Our dedicated team has been working tirelessly to improve the sustainability and quality of agricultural products, and this breakthrough in avocado exemplifies our commitment to delivering innovative solutions to real-world challenges. We are excited about the potential for our browning-resistant avocados to positively impact the industry and the global community."
The gene editing and plant regeneration techniques successfully employed by GreenVenus also present opportunities for further advancements in the broader field of crop improvement. By harnessing the power of genetic engineering, GreenVenus continues to strive to create a more sustainable and resilient agricultural future.
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GreenVenus is an innovative ag-tech business committed to delivering superior fruits, vegetables, and grains with improved nutrition, better taste, and reduced food wastage. Our Botticelli™ plant cell technology and transformative breeding innovations enable unsurpassed speed in product development, meeting evolving consumer and industry needs. For more information about GreenVenus and our pioneering agricultural products and solutions, please visit www.greenvenus.com
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PHOENIX , July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- James Patrick was presented with the Media Talent of the Year Award from the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Western Division as part of the inaugural Best of the West Award Ceremony. This awards program was honoring individuals and companies who exemplify excellence in service to their communities and the advertising media industry.
The Media Talent of the Year award is given to an on-air talent, reporter, columnist, blogger, podcaster or photographer who provides outstanding service and professionalism to their market area, beyond the normal requirements of the position. They are to have displayed integrity and character recognized throughout the industry, provide service to professional organizations, maintain a high level of performance and works to benefit the community in ways not required for his or her position.
"These awards recognize the enormous scope of public service that local media and advertising agencies contribute every year to their individual communities, and the winners demonstrate that quality of community service isn't limited to the size of local markets." said Paul Klein, Chairman of AAF Western Region in making the announcement.
The judges for the competition were Bree Roe, Senior Director, Client Experience at Goodway Group; Sheila Dinjar, Senior Account Executive at Clear Channel Outdoor; Cristen Bozeman, Senior Media Co-Director at Stamp Idea; and James Lewis-Van Vorst, owner at Nomad Coworks.
"I am beyond humbled by this announcement and my sincerest thanks goes out to my amazing team, clients, colleagues and supporters," said James Patrick who is the owner of James Patrick Photography, co-founder of The Hive Studios, the two-time best-selling author and host of the Beyond the Image podcast.
James Patrick provides editorial and commercial photo solutions for clients locally and nationally. His work has been featured on more than 600 magazine covers and thousands of advertisements throughout the world. His work can be seen on his website JamesPatrick.com or on Instagram @JPatrickPhoto
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POMPANO BEACH, Fla., June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dot Hip Hop, LLC is thrilled to announce that our registrar partner, GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, is rolling out a significant price reduction for the .HipHop domain name extension in honor of Hip Hop's 50th anniversary.
Starting immediately and continuing through November 2023, in alignment with Hip Hop History Month as established by Congress, GoDaddy will be offering the .HipHop domain extension at a reduced retail price of $29.99, down from the regular price of $43.99. This offers a unique opportunity for artists, musicians, DJs, producers, and fans to establish an online presence that authentically resonates with their passion for Hip Hop culture.
As Paul Nicks, GoDaddy President, Domains, stated in our May 3, 2023 press release, "The .HipHop domain name really showcases the possibilities with domain name extensions. It is ideal for businesses and individuals looking to establish a unique and authentic online presence that reflects their passion for Hip Hop culture. GoDaddy is committed to empowering our customers with the tools and resources they need to succeed online, and the .HipHop domain extension is a perfect example of that."
This price reduction not only celebrates the cultural and economic influence of Hip Hop over the last 50 years but also reaffirms our mission to provide an innovative and relevant digital platform that reflects the originality of the Hip Hop community.
Monte Cahn, Managing Partner and Director of the .HIPHOP Registry, shared his enthusiasm: "We are thrilled to be a part of this initiative by GoDaddy. It's a major milestone that signifies not only the celebration of Hip Hop's 50th anniversary but also our shared commitment to amplifying the voice of the Hip Hop community."
In the words of Ajene Watson, Managing Partner and Director of the .HIPHOP Registry, "This is a big moment for Hip Hop culture, demonstrating GoDaddy's continued support for the culture. This initiative will encourage wider participation in the global Hip Hop community and foster increasing empowerment and representation for everyone that loves Hip Hop."
To register a .HipHop domain name, visit https://get.hiphop or contact GoDaddy or any of our accredited registrar partners for assistance.
About the .HIPHOP Registry
Dot Hip Hop, LLC, an exclusive ICANN Accredited domain name registry for the .HipHop top-level domain, was founded in 2021 with a mission to empower the Hip Hop community. Hip Hop represents an eclectic culture, which has defined several generations around the world for nearly 50 years and continues to be a powerful force in today's digital age.
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Pasta brand Barilla is making Valentine’s Day extra special this year by giving away boxes of their new heart-shaped pasta and, for one very lucky fan, a once-in-lifetime vacation.
The new limited-edition Barilla Love shape is inspired by one of Barilla’s 35 pasta cuts — Mezzi Rigatoni, which has ridges to improve sauce retention. It is made using Barilla’s Blue Box recipe, so it will taste like other Barilla pasta you’ve had, but the heart shapes will make your Valentine’s Day extra special.
“Each pasta shape has a story,” Melissa Tendick, vice president of marketing, Barilla Americas, said in a press release. “For us, reimagining our iconic Blue Box pasta line to include this charming shape is one other way pasta enthusiasts can celebrate their love for one another and their love of pasta. There is no better way to show you care than through cooking, and we’re looking forward to seeing our fans create authentic, delicious Italian meals at home this Valentine’s Day.”
The new pasta will be available via sweepstakes and will come with a Barilla Love Pasta Kit, which includes with one box of Barilla Love pasta, Valentine’s cards, recipes and additional items to assist in preparing a “dish made with love.”
To enter, visit Barilla’s website now through Feb. 1 and follow the instructions to complete the registration form, including contact information and sharing how Barilla can bring you closer together with your loved ones this Valentine’s Day. There is a limit of one entry per person, and you must be 18 years old or older to enter.
A total of 459 winners will be chosen at random, with one extra lucky winner also getting the ultimate romantic vacation: a trip to Italy! The trip includes round trip airfare for two, hotel accommodations in Parma and Florence, up to three tours in Parma, world-class meals and authentic pasta experiences.
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- This season, Isaac Okoro has made 2.3 field goals per game, which accounts for 5.6% of his team's total makes.
- He's knocked down 0.8 threes per game, or 7.2% of his team's makes from beyond the arc this season.
- Okoro's opponents, the Rockets, have one of the fastest offensive tempos, ranking ninth, averaging 103 possessions per game, while his Cavaliers average 98.7 per game, which ranks 25th among NBA teams.
- The Rockets give up 118.7 points per game, 29th-ranked in the NBA.
- The Rockets allow 41.3 rebounds per contest, ranking fourth in the NBA.
- The Rockets are the 20th-ranked team in the league, giving up 25.9 assists per game.
- Looking at 3-pointers, the Rockets are last in the league, allowing 14.7 makes per game.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California law enforcement took away 54 so-called ghost guns last year from people who can’t legally own firearms, a 38% jump in the number of the hard-to-trace weapons seized since 2021 under a unique state program, officials said Monday.
The ghost guns, which are privately made firearms without a serial number, were part of nearly 1,500 guns taken statewide last year through an only-in-California program called the Armed and Prohibited Persons System, known as APPS.
The California registry cross-matches databases to find people who legally purchased weapons but are now banned from ownership because they have been convicted of felonies or a violent misdemeanor, or have a history of domestic violence or mental illness. State and local authorities then can move to seize the weapons under the program, which began in 2006.
Generally, firearms manufactured by licensed companies are required to have serial numbers that allow officials to trace the gun back to the manufacturer, the firearms dealer and original purchaser. That’s how the registry can find the people who are prohibited from having guns, as well as the weapons linked to them.
Ghost guns, however, are made of parts and are then assembled together — without the serial numbers that can be used to follow the gun’s path. Law enforcement working to find the legal firearms listed on the state registry coincidentally found the ghost guns and seized those as well.
The number of ghost guns discovered by law enforcement through their APPS work has jumped dramatically in recent years. In 2018, officials seized just eight ghost guns through their work on the registry, Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office said.
Bonta has ordered the state’s Department of Justice to focus more on ghost gun investigations in general after years of increased illegal activity.
Guns without serial numbers have been used in deadly violence over the past year, including in New York, where a teenage girl was killed outside a high school in the Bronx, and in Sacramento, when a man fatally shot his three daughters inside a church.
The APPS registry included 23,869 people as of Jan. 1, including nearly 9,300 active cases. The remaining cases — almost 15,000 — include people who are incarcerated, have moved out of state or cannot be located after multiple attempts, Bonta’s office said.
In one case, an attempt to contact a man in Costa Mesa led to an eight-hour armed standoff in Southern California after he fired at the officers. The suspect was on the state’s list because he had a misdemeanor conviction for domestic violence, as well as an active misdemeanor arrest warrant. He eventually surrendered and authorities recovered a rifle, a shotgun and multiple handguns, the attorney general’s office said.
Last year, the total seizure included 712 handguns, 360 rifles, 194 shotguns, 80 assault weapons, three short-barreled shotguns and a machine gun, as well as more than 281,000 rounds of ammunition, according to a report released Monday.
That’s roughly comparable to seizures in 2021, when 1,428 firearms — including 39 ghost guns — were taken by law enforcement under the APPS program. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/california-ag-54-ghost-guns-seized-in-unique-state-program/ | 2023-04-04 01:29:57 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/california-ag-54-ghost-guns-seized-in-unique-state-program/ |
Candace Cameron Bure is working on putting Christ back in Christmas movies
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
Candace Cameron Bure has moved on from being Hallmark Channel’s queen of holiday movies.
In a recently published interview with the Wall Street Journal, the actress talked about leaving that cable channel to work with another, the faith based Great American Family.
“My heart wants to tell stories that have more meaning and purpose and depth behind them,” Bure told the publication. “I knew that the people behind Great American Family were Christians that love the Lord and wanted to promote faith programming and good family entertainment.”
Cameron Bure, who describes herself as a devout Christian, is serving as the chief creative officer for the channel and producing religious titles as part of her “Candace Cameron Bure Presents” banner.
Bill Abbott, chief executive of Great American Media, oversees the new network.
He was formerly chief executive of Crown Media Family Networks, the parent company of the Hallmark Channel, and he helped guide Cameron Bure’s career there.
As the article points out, while co-hosting “The View” (she signed on to do the show in 2015 and left in 2016), Cameron Bure defended an Oregon bakery’s controversial decision to not make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
While with Hallmark, Abbott refused to run commercials for the wedding-planning website Zola that featured two brides kissing, which leads to the question of whether Great American Family will include LGBTQ storylines in their projects.
“I think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core,” Cameron Bure told the Journal.
Abbott was more circumspect.
“It’s certainly the year 2022, so we’re aware of the trends,” he said. “There’s no whiteboard that says, ‘Yes, this’ or ‘No, we’ll never go here.'”
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- Featuring top thought leaders in Valley Fever research
- The prevalence of Valley Fever is expected to increase up to 164% by 2050 and 380% by 2090*
- A canine vaccine shows a true One Health approach that encourages a vaccine for humans
LONG BEACH, Calif., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anivive Lifesciences, a technology-driven pet pharmaceutical company currently in late-stage development on the commercialization of a Canine Valley Fever Vaccine, announces they will be co-sponsoring The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) - Impact and Control of Valley Fever workshop.
The workshop will take place on November 17th and 18th at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, CA. It will feature speakers from around the world who are involved in research, development, and public health initiatives related to Valley Fever.
Anivive's CEO Dylan Balsz stated: "We are excited to sponsor this event as it provides us with an excellent opportunity to engage with leading researchers and thought leaders in the Valley Fever community who are working tirelessly to fight a disease that is spreading through climate change and population growth."
The research and development work that has been done in partnership with NIH, Dr. John Galgiani at the University of Arizona College of Medicine -Tucson; Valley Fever Center for Excellence, and Dr. Lisa Shubitz, University of Arizona College of Medicine to deliver a vaccine for dogs also establishes a baseline of support for the requirements to get to a vaccine for humans.
Anivive's Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Edward Robb added: "Equally promising is that this vaccine will encourage the development of a vaccine candidate for humans, addressing its significant public health value in the endemic region. The progression from concept to potential clinical use could not have been possible without the collaboration that defines this unique publicprivate partnership. This One Health approach supports the adage that dogs are indeed man's best friend."
To attend in person you can register through the events page on the NASEM website at www.nationalacademies.org.
The workshop is being live-streamed and open to the public. To register go to: https:// www.eventbrite.com/e/impact-and-control-of-valley-fever-a-workshop-tickets-403457260527
Anivive is a pet pharmaceutical company at the intersection of biotech, AI, software, and veterinary medicine. Focusing on three key therapeutic platforms; Fungal, Oncology, and Infectious Disease, our proprietary software platform accelerates the delivery of new, affordable treatments for various life-threatening diseases in pets. For more information, please visit www.anivive.com
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*Gorris ME, Neumann JE, Kinney PL, Sheahan M, Sarofim MC. Economic valuation of coccidioidomycosis (valley fever) projections in the United States in response to climate change. Weather Clim Soc 2021;13(1):107-23.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The problems linked to homelessness, including substance abuse, mental illness, and crime, are increasing in America despite untold sums of government money spent to address this complex problem.
A new report from Discovery Institute, says Congress and Executive Branch need to focus more on untreated mental illness and substance abuse to reduce homelessness, drug overdoses, jail overcrowding, and misuse of emergency rooms.
The Institute's report recommends that Congress:
- eliminate the Housing First policy and adopt the Housing PLUS Act;
- require that supportive services such as addiction treatment and job counseling services be combined with housing initiatives;
- revise the "IMD Exclusion" policy of Medicaid that limits care for mental illness and is responsible for much suffering on urban streets.
"The housing first policy often results in a housing only policy in many cases," says Dr. Robert Marbut, a Discovery Institute senior fellow and former Director of the Federal Interagency Task Force on Homelessness. "A more diverse policy should include treatment for mental illness and drug addiction."
"Congress should be measuring how many lives are improved and how many people exit homelessness, rather than promoting "harm reduction" initiatives," adds Marbut
According to HUD's five categories of homelessness, there are almost 1.2 million adults experiencing homelessness today. Additionally, the Department of Education reports another 1.5 million children experiencing homelessness.
The Discovery Institute report asserts that the policy preference for "Housing First" has made matters worse, contributing to rising numbers of families, children and adults experiencing homelessness.
"In essence," says Marbut, "we have created an enormous federal homeless assistance program that is functionally equivalent to HUD Section 8 housing—but with no rules."
"The success of federal programs should not be measured by amounts of inputs—such as numbers of housing vouchers delivered—but by the number of persons recovered from homelessness," says Marbut
"Only a few Republicans and almost no Democrats in Congress so far have been willing to confront the reality of failed federal policy on homelessness and the need for reform," according to Bruce Chapman, Discovery Institute founder and Director of the White House Office of Planning and Evaluation under President Reagan. "We are hoping for change in the coming Session."
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WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
415 PM MDT Tue Sep 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southern Otero,
northwestern Hudspeth and northeastern El Paso Counties through 445
PM MDT...
At 415 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles northeast of Hueco Tanks, moving northwest at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Hueco Tanks and McGregor Range Base.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3195 10588 3190 10604 3212 10624 3223 10595
TIME...MOT...LOC 2215Z 157DEG 14KT 3198 10600
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service New York NY
433 AM EDT Tue Oct 25 2022
...PATCHY DENSE FOG INTO EARLY THIS MORNING...
Fog has developed across parts of the area, with some patches of
dense fog. This has resulted in visibilities lowering to a few
miles and in some localized spots, down to a half mile or less.
The fog is expected to linger into early this morning.
Exercise caution if driving into early this morning and utilize
your low beam headlights as visibilities may suddenly drop.
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The Latest on the U.N. General Assembly (all times local):
10:15 a.m.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says developing countries are “literally paying the price” when it comes to climate change.
“Africa and other developing nations produce only a small proportion of greenhouse gas emissions, compared to industrial economies. Yet we are the hardest hit by the consequences of climate change as we see in the sustained droughts in Somalia and floods of unprecedented severity in Pakistan,” he told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.
“These and other climate-related occurrences are now sadly becoming widely commonplace in the developing world. We are, in effect, literally paying the price for policies that others pursue. This needs to change.”
Buhari says he hopes the UNGA and the upcoming COP27 climate conference “will help galvanize the political will required to drive action towards the fulfillment of the various existing climate-change initiatives.”
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(The Hill) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) fielded attacks from a number of candidates in the city’s crowded mayoral race during their first televised debate on Thursday evening, underscoring the challenges that lie ahead for the incumbent in her reelection bid.
All nine candidates, including Lightfoot, participated in a 90-minute televised debate hosted by ABC 7 Chicago, Univision Chicago and the Leagues of Women Voters of Chicago/Illinois in which the mayoral hopefuls discussed an array of issues, including crime and public safety, the opioid crisis, youth mental health and transportation accessibility.
Many of those candidates took jabs at the mayor, suggesting she did not work collaboratively with officials and was out of touch with the city and that the city was facing a “leadership crisis.”
“Many of us thought that this administration would raise the bar. But all we’ve seen is raise the bridges, attempt to raise taxes and to raise the murder rate. We have to do better,” said mayoral candidate and state Rep. Kam Buckner (D), referencing Lightfoot’s decision to raise the city’s bridges following protests that took place following the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
Alderman Sophia King, another mayoral candidate, argued that the city needed a mayor who “attacks the city’s problems and not its people,” alluding to to Lightfoot’s confrontations with city and state officials.
Amid all the attacks against the mayor, which highlighted lingering tensions officials have had with Lightfoot’s leadership style and her handling of crises like the summer 2020 protests, candidates didn’t shy away from taking shots at other contenders, too.
Buckner targeted mayoral challenger Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D) several times, accusing the congressman and other members of Congress of not doing enough to assist migrants coming to the city.
“We have to ramp up our permanent supportive housing programs for these people,” Buckner said of migrants coming to Chicago. “And we also have to look at the fact that it takes 150 days for an asylum-seeker to get a work permit. The federal government is not doing enough. So Congressman García, we need you and your colleagues to step up, because this is a problem that falls on the laps of Washington, D.C.”
Meanwhile, mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson, a Cook County commissioner, accused García of plagiarizing Lightfoot’s public safety plan.
Johnson also levied an accusation against fellow contender Paul Vallas, a former CEO of Chicago Public Schools (CPS), saying that he “further stratified our school district, leaving our schools without the necessary support that they need.”
And the mayor took shots of her own, attempting to tie García to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in an echo of an ad her campaign rolled out trying to make the same connection between the two. Bankman-Fried had given nearly $3,000 to the congressman’s campaign, which García later donated. A super PAC associated with the FTX founder also spent more than $150,000 on boosting the congressman, though García has said “by law and by definition, I had nothing to do with” the money given and that it was spent independently outside his campaign.
Lightfoot also took jabs at Vallas. The former CPS CEO suggested at one point during the debate in a discussion over migrants coming to the city that Chicago was “baiting other governors.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), along with other governors of states near the country’s southern border, have sent thousands of migrants to Democratic-led northern cities such as Chicago in recent months.
“You can’t basically grandstand and say, ‘We’re a sanctuary city, we’re inviting everybody in,’ and then not have a plan for dealing with people when they do come in,” Vallas said.
“I just heard Paul Vallas say that we should not call out racist, xenophobic practices of governors like Greg Abbott, who are treating migrants like freight. Well, that may be your idea of a welcoming city. It’s not my idea,” the mayor later shot back.
The debate comes more than a month away from the Feb. 28 election. If no candidate gets more than half the vote during the race, the two top vote-getters will head into a runoff, which is scheduled for April 4. | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/lightfoot-fields-attacks-in-crowded-chicago-mayoral-debate/ | 2023-01-20 19:41:03 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/lightfoot-fields-attacks-in-crowded-chicago-mayoral-debate/ |
AUSTIN (NEXSTAR) — Even though it’s located smack-dab in the middle of Tex-Mex and barbecue country, Austin’s food culture has another claim to fame outside of traditional local fare — it’s a Chili’s restaurant located at the corner of 45th Street and North Lamar Boulevard in central Austin.
For the uninitiated, the restaurant located at 4420 N. Lamar Boulevard has become somewhat of a local legend over the past several years.
Many of the restaurant’s Yelp and Google reviews even mention its reputation.
“After hearing about this legendary establishment for several years, I finally decided to see if it lived up to all the hype. I’m generally pretty skeptical but let me tell you I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the hype is well deserved,” reads a November 2022 Google review.
Another Google review reads: “A ride or die Austinite’s favorite queso can only be found at Chili’s, along with some of the best frosty margs and $5 marg of the month. Other places are often overrated by the Lazy and Dumb Californians who are ruining this amazing city. But Chili’s is true, local, Austin Cuisine!! 5 Stars!”
In a city filled with endless culinary options, how did a Chili’s franchise — one of over 1,600 in the world — become a signature destination for locals and tourists alike?
Many Austin residents themselves don’t seem to be too sure.
“Can someone explain to me why the Chili’s on 45th and Lamar in Austin has such a hold on everyone that’s ever lived in Austin?” reads a tweet from July 2022.
The answer appears to be Reddit — though Redditors themselves can’t seem to remember when or in which thread it specifically it began, its birthplace is generally agreed to be in the r/Austin subreddit.
While many Reddit threads attempting to find its origin exist, one from seven years ago (yes, the joke has been bubbling for that long), provides a decent grouping of some of the oldest early mentions and possible origins of the meme.
The thread “Here it is, the origin of 45th and Lamar Chili’s joke” points to several instances, including an 11 year-old Reddit thread when someone answered the location to the question: “What’s your favorite hidden treasure/hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Austin?”
“Chili’s on 45th has the best burgers in town,” said one user.
Another user in a post just a year later (2012) recommends the restaurant to an incoming Austin visitor, saying it has “a real nice ambiance and a good bargain.”
Many Redditors agreed the joke’s original proliferator is a now inactive account by user u/anonymous10101010, whose profile (which hasn’t been updated in seven years) includes several replies promoting the location.
The user even suggested “the booth by the bathrooms at Chili’s, 45th and Lamar” as a spot for a marriage proposal.
Additional theories about the location’s renown include speculation that students of the University of Texas Austin popularized it or that a Reddit user offering designated driving service on New Year’s Eve 2011 didn’t pick someone up who was waiting “in the corner booth.”
Nexstar reached out to the Chili’s brand owner Brinker International to ask if it was aware of the local internet phenomenon and had any comment. A Brinker representative said it was “excited” to hear more about it and offered to communicate with local management for comment. We will update this story when we receive a response.
Though Austin residents may never know where or when exactly the joke began, one thing’s for sure: it has survived and become local legend.
“The rumors are def true,” one Yelp user wrote in January 2022. “The service went dummy hard. Felt like I was at a fine dining establishment. Oh wait, I was!” | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/why-is-this-austin-chilis-famous-online/ | 2022-12-10 18:17:10 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/why-is-this-austin-chilis-famous-online/ |
"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg was not happy Tuesday about former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's announcement launching her campaign for president.
Goldberg lost it after playing a string of video clips from Haley's new campaign ad during a segment of the show, railing against the Republican for not admitting America was "not perfect," and accusing her of no longer knowing "right from wrong."
"So Nikki, you know, since you have been asleep all this time, and you just woke up, you're just finding out that there are things about our country that are not perfect," Goldberg said, appearing upset. "And for us to pretend that it is and that nothing happened is ridiculous. So you're not saying anything new."
TRUMP CAMP REACTS TO NIKKI HALEY BECOMING FIRST OFFICIAL OPPONENT: ‘JUST ANOTHER CAREER POLITICIAN’
"And you of all people should know better because you used to actually have some sanity and knew right from wrong. And then you lost your mind and went in some new direction. So don't do that," she added.
In the ad, Haley says her parents reminded her every day how blessed they were to live in America, and that America's founding principles weren't "bad," or the promise of freedom "made up." She also blasted those who she said referred to American ideals as "racist and evil."
"Nothing could be further from the truth," she said.
DNC MOCKS NIKKI HALEY'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT: ‘EVERYONE GET YOUR POPCORN’
Haley took to social media to respond to Goldberg's rant, joking about the effect her candidacy had on liberals.
"Here we go again with Whoopi. The thought of me running for President makes the liberals’ heads explode. I wonder why?" she wrote on Twitter.
Haley joins former President Donald Trump as the second Republican to launch a 2024 presidential campaign. Other rumored potential candidates include Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Arkansas gov. Asa Hutchinson, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/whoopi-goldberg-loses-it-over-nikki-haleys-presidential-campaign-announcement-you-lost-your-mind/article_4a576343-4112-598b-8f73-238c118c13a6.html | 2023-02-14 21:32:23 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/whoopi-goldberg-loses-it-over-nikki-haleys-presidential-campaign-announcement-you-lost-your-mind/article_4a576343-4112-598b-8f73-238c118c13a6.html |
SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MoEngage, an insights-led Customer Engagement platform, today released a new report, The Global Consumer Trends Report 2023. The MoEngage global report, based on the behaviors and preferences of 1.3 billion consumers worldwide, found that North American shoppers interact an average of three times with a brand before converting. The results showcase the shifting preferences of the consumer, as well as the importance of personalization and omnichannel engagement for brands.
"Today, consumers are looking for greater value, and price is at the forefront of consumers' motivations for brand switching," said Raviteja Dodda, CEO of MoEngage. "To succeed, brand marketers must tailor their offerings based on better customer insights. Our research shows that hyper-personalization will help marketers win loyalty as long as they can provide a consistent brand experience across all channels."
Here are a few key learnings from the report:
50% of North Americans spend 2-4 hours daily on their screen apart from work
It's an opportunity for brands to create a more meaningful relationship with customers through increased personalization and improved customer experience.
Most North American consumer spending is on Entertainment (49%) and Shopping (32%) platforms.
Shopping and Entertainment brands can further improve conversions by leveraging data analytics and customer insights to provide personalized recommendations.
53% of North American shoppers visit a mobile app or website more than three times before shopping online.
Shoppers don't convert right away. The report shows that most consumers need more than three interactions with brands before deciding to purchase online. To ensure maximum conversions, brands must create a robust customer journey that provides a seamless omnichannel experience.
1 in 2 North Americans prefers streaming music, videos, and movies on TV.
While consumers prefer streaming on their television, OTT brands must keep up with communication channels like emails, text messages, or mobile push notifications.
Understanding customer preferences and building a relevant communication strategy can help brands engage with their audience and drive customer loyalty effectively.
1 in 2 North Americans visit Banking platforms at least 2-3 times weekly.
The report shows North Americans are more active on Banking platforms than ever. In fact, there's been a 61% increase in the monthly active users (MAU) for Banking platforms. However, building customer loyalty is still a huge challenge for them as customer stickiness fell by almost 50% in the last 12 months.
58.8% of North Americans prefer to get information for travel plans and reservations from travel websites on mobile and desktop. Creating personalized web experiences according to the visitor's segment and preferences is critical to increasing website conversions for Travel brands.
A complimentary version of the full report is available at: The Global Consumer Trends 2023 Report.
About MoEngage
MoEngage is an insights-led customer engagement platform trusted by more than 1,200 global consumer brands such as Ally Financial, McAfee, Flipkart, Domino's, Nestle, Deutsche Telekom, Travelodge, and more. MoEngage empowers marketers and product owners with insights into customer behavior and the ability to act on those insights to engage customers across the web, mobile, email, social, and messaging channels. Consumer brands across 35 countries use MoEngage to craft digital experiences for over 1 billion customers every month. With offices in 13 countries, MoEngage is backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, B Capital, Steadview Capital, Multiples Private Equity, Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital, Matrix Partners, Ventureast, and Helion Ventures. MoEngage is named one of the most preferred vendors for multichannel marketing as rated by customers, with high recognition across G2. To learn more, visit www.moengage.com.
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KELOWNA, BC, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The Valens Company Inc. (TSX: VLNS) (Nasdaq: VLNS) (the "Company", "The Valens Company" or "Valens"), a leading manufacturer of cannabis products, announced today it received an extension of 180 calendar days from the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") to regain compliance with the Nasdaq's minimum $1.00 bid price requirement set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) for continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market (the "Bid Price Requirement"), following the expiration of the initial 180 calendar days period to regain compliance on December 12, 2022. The Nasdaq determination is based on the Company meeting the continued listing requirement for market value of publicly held shares and all other applicable requirements for initial listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market with the exception of the Bid Price Requirement, and the Company's written notice of its intention to cure the deficiency during the second compliance period by effecting a share consolidation, if necessary.
As a result of the extension, the Company now has until June 12, 2023, to regain compliance with the Bid Price Requirement. If at any time before June 12, 2023, the bid price of the Company's common shares closes at or above US$1.00 per share for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days, Nasdaq will provide written notification to the Company that it has achieved compliance with the Bid Price Requirement. If the Company chooses to implement a share consolidation to regain compliance, it must complete the consolidation no later than ten business days prior to the expiration of the additional 180 calendar day period in order to timely regain compliance.
If the Company does not regain compliance with the Bid Price Requirement by June 12, 2023, Nasdaq will provide written notification to the Company that its shares will be subject to delisting. At such time, the Company may appeal the delisting determination to a Nasdaq Hearings Panel. The Company would remain listed pending the Panel's decision. There can be no assurance that, if the Company does appeal a subsequent delisting determination, such appeal would be successful.
This current notification from Nasdaq has no immediate effect on the listing or trading of the Company's shares, which will continue to trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol VLNS. The Company is also listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the notification letter does not affect the Company's compliance status with such listing.
As a reminder, the Company continues to expect to close the plan of arrangement with SNDL Inc. in January 2023, well in advance of the June 12, 2023 deadline to regain compliance with the Bid Price Requirement. Pursuant to the plan of arrangement SNDL Inc. will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Valens on the basis of 0.3334 of a SNDL common share for each outstanding Valens common share, on and subject to the terms of the arrangement agreement dated August 22, 2022.
The Valens Company is a leading cannabis consumer products company, with significant expertise in manufacturing cannabinoid-based products and a mission to bring the benefits of cannabis to the world. Valens provides proprietary cannabis processing services and best-in-class product development, manufacturing, and commercialization of cannabis consumer packaged goods. Valens' high-quality products are formulated for the recreational, health and wellness, and medical consumer segments and are offered across all cannabis product categories, with a focus on quality and product innovation. Valens also manufactures, distributes, and sells a wide range of CBD products in the United States through its subsidiary Green Roads, and distributes medicinal cannabis products to international markets through its subsidiary Valens Australia. In partnership with brand houses, consumer packaged goods companies and licensed cannabis producers around the globe, Valens continues to grow its diverse product portfolio in alignment with evolving cannabis consumer preferences. Through Valens Labs, Valens is setting the standard in cannabis testing and research and development with Canada's only ISO17025 accredited analytical services lab, named The Centre of Excellence in Plant-Based Science by partner and scientific world leader Thermo Fisher Scientific. Discover more on The Valens Company at http://www.thevalenscompany.com.
All information included in this press release, including any information as to the future financial or operating performance and other statements of The Valens Company that express management's expectations or estimates of future performance, other than statements of historical fact, constitute forward-looking information or forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as of the date hereof. Forward-looking statements are included for the purpose of providing information about management's current expectations and plans relating to the future. Wherever possible, words such as "plans", "expects", "scheduled", "trends", "forecasts", "future", "indications", "potential", "estimates", "predicts", "anticipate", "to establish", "believe", "intend", "ability to", or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "should", "could", "would", "might", "will", or are "likely" to be taken, occur or be achieved, or the negative of these words or other variations thereof, have been used to identify such forward-looking information. Specific forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the ability to regain compliance with the Nasdaq Listing Rules and anticipated courses of action as well as the anticipated closing of the Company's pending acquisition by SNDL Inc.
The risks and uncertainties that may affect forward-looking statements include, among others, if and when the proposed plan of arrangement agreement transaction involving The Valens Company and SNDL Inc. will be completed, the inability to meet the Minimum Bid Requirement or comply with Nasdaq's other listing standards within the prescribed time period, which could result in the delisting of the common shares from Nasdaq, Canadian regulatory risk, Australian regulatory risk, U.S. regulatory risk, U.S. border crossing and travel bans, the uncertainties, effects of and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, reliance on licenses, expansion of facilities, competition, dependence on supply of cannabis and reliance on other key inputs, dependence on senior management and key personnel, general business risk and liability, regulation of the cannabis industry, change in laws, regulations and guidelines, compliance with laws, limited operating history, vulnerability to rising energy costs, unfavourable publicity or consumer perception, product liability, risks related to intellectual property, product recalls, difficulties with forecasts, management of growth and litigation, many of which are beyond the control of The Valens Company. For a more comprehensive discussion of the risks faced by The Valens Company, and which may cause the actual financial results, performance or achievements of The Valens Company to be materially different from estimated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking information or forward-looking statements, please refer to The Valens Company's latest Annual Information Form filed with Canadian securities regulatory authorities at www.sedar.com or on The Valens Company's website at www.thevalenscompany.com. The risks described in such Annual Information Form are hereby incorporated by reference herein. Although the forward-looking statements contained herein reflect management's current beliefs and reasonable assumptions based upon information available to management as of the date hereof, The Valens Company cannot be certain that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking information. The Valens Company cautions you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements. The Valens Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Nothing herein should be construed as either an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy or sell securities of The Valens Company.
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The two heavyweights are expected to do battle at some point in 2023 in a huge unification bout and came face to face after Fury defeated Derek Chisora earlier this month.
Speaking on his YouTube channel, Usyk called Fury by his middle name – a reference to a 2020 claim by Dillian Whyte, who said Fury had switched his first and middle names.
"When [the] cameras are off he's a different person," Usyk said.
"When cameras are on he's Tyson Fury, when they're off he's Luke Fury.
"Luke, I'm coming for you. I've been coming for him for a long time. I wish him a lot of health, happiness, love, patience and warm wind."
The unification bout is still fraught with complications, with the WBA ordering Usyk to defend his WBA Super belt against its regular champion Daniel Dubois.
But with Dubois and Fury both represented by Frank Warren that issue could still be resolved.
The anticipation of Fury-Usyk built after the former's win over Chisora when the latter came to the ring apron to get in his opponent's face.
"We negotiated it. If he agreed to fight, I would step onto the ring," Usyk said of the showdown.
"A lot of things were said since then, like he would slap me in my face. But apparently he changed his mind after having his buttocks burned." | https://www.beinsports.com/au/boxing/news/usyk-trolls-tyson-fury-by-calling-him-luke/2005587 | 2022-12-15 00:20:06 | 1 | https://www.beinsports.com/au/boxing/news/usyk-trolls-tyson-fury-by-calling-him-luke/2005587 |
HONG KONG, April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The term "rebound in consumption" went viral on the Internet and in newspapers at the beginning of 2023. According to data, China's retail sales of consumer goods grew by 5.8% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2023, and consumer spending contributed to 66.6% of China's economic growth, regaining its position as the major driver of China's economic growth. The May Day holiday is expected to further boost the consumer market.
Consumption boom boosts the local economies which have further launched various favorable measures to stimulate nationwide consumption. Zhu Min, Director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, recently said that the upcoming 4th "May 5 Shopping Festival" in Shanghai will feature no less than 300 new shopping venues and activities that integrate commerce, tourism, culture, sports and exhibitions to provide consumers with a brand-new consumption experience. The 515 Fosun Family Day, a significant part of the "May 5 Shopping Festival" this year, will be heavily linked with the festival to help continuous release of potential consumption.
The Shanghai Nightlife Festival with the theme of "Shanghai at night, it's not too late to meet each other", one of the key activities of the "May 5 Shopping Festival", will be launched at the Bund Financial Center in Huangpu District on June 3. The Night Market will be held at BFC Weekend Market. Shanghai Watch and other classic brands of Fosun Family will be rolling out during the "May 5 Shopping Festival". In addition, a series of activities at the Yuyuan Garden will bring the visitors immersive art experiences.
On April 28, Fosun announced that it would collaborate with Alipay, a subsidiary of Ant Group, to fully connect with Alipay's open digital ecology and carry out digital operations that cover the entire online and offline chain, ranging from digital payment and membership services to applets and live streaming. Fosun will distribute consumption vouchers worth a total of over RMB1.5 billion via Alipay to help boost the spending of the May 5 Shopping Festival through a combination of online and offline scenarios.
Consumption vouchers worth over RMB1.5 billion to boost spending
Being a representative enterprise of the civilian economy rooted in Shanghai, Fosun has always been dedicated to contributing "Fosun Power" to the economic growth of Shanghai. The 515 Fosun Family Day this year, with the theme of "I want my Fosun-style life", will collaborate with more than 60 famous brands at home and abroad, as well as four core business districts - Yuyuan, Bund Financial Center, Shanghai Vitality City, and Ningbo Fuyue City, to distribute consumption vouchers worth more than RMB1.5 billion for the first time together with the Internet platform Alipay. The vouchers, covering travel, health, dining, fashion, beauty and other living consumption scenarios, will be given out to consumers and bring them benefits in all aspects of life. Digital intelligence will also be used to link online and offline scenarios, better benefiting individuals and businesses and boosting the consumer market.
It is understood that the vouchers will be distributed in four stages. From May 1 to May 14, a limited quantity of high value vouchers will be distributed on time every day; on May 15, searching on Alipay for 515 Fosun Family Day, ten thousand 51.5% off vouchers will be distributed; from May 16 to May 23, featuring hot categories, vouchers for various categories will be distributed every day; from May 24 to June 20, focusing on in-store experience, various benefits ranging from Fosun Family free afternoon tea to Yuyuan parent child camp will be offered.
Non-stop activities to fully release consumption vitality
The 515 Fosun Family Day is the largest annual event for Fosun and its affiliated brands to give back to customers. The event debuted in 2020 and is now in the fifth year. To fully release consumption vitality, a series of activities under 515 Fosun Family Day this year will run from May 1 to June 20, covering more than 240 essential items in the Fosun ecological supply chain, of which roughly 100 items are newly introduced for the occasion. There will be wonderful activities keep going on. It is reported that time-honored and innovative brands of Yuyuan including Laomiao and Yayi will participate in the 515 Family Day activities by launch new products and hot items.
The "Random Happiness Gate" activity, which allows participants to "travel" in a single second to the ideal slow life of Lijiang, see the underwater scenery of Atlantis in Sanya, and discover happiness together with hundreds of millions of families, will be launched at the 515 Fosun Family Day as a festival focused on "family".
Additionally, 515 Family Day this year and Fosun Foundation in Shanghai will jointly introduce the "Lijiang Simple Holiday Life Festival" live streaming charity event on May 1 and May 2. Live streaming hosts will bring the participants to "a bazaar". The charity bazaar gathers 90 types of agricultural byproducts with characteristics from 15 counties under the Rural Doctor Program in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hainan, Jiangxi, and other provinces to deeply promote the rural products with characteristics. This event not only connects with charity but also enables participants throughout the nation to take in the relaxing ambiance via live streaming.
"Family is the foundation of all good things and the source of happiness. As a global innovation-driven consumer group, Fosun focuses on the needs of household customers and hopes to take 515 Fosun Family Day as an opportunity to reach out to customers, bringing happiness to hundreds of millions of families." said Xu Xiaoliang, Co-CEO of Fosun International. Fosun will keep on innovation and creation, fulfill its mission of "creating happier lives for families worldwide" through its high-quality products and caring services.
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Which chaise lounge cushion is best?
A chaise lounge is a long reclining chair that may have arms and be upholstered. It is the Americanized version of the classic French chaise longue, invented by furniture makers so the wealthy would have a place to rest without having to retire to their bedrooms.
These days, chaise lounges made for indoor use tend to be upholstered, and those made to be used outdoors are not. Outdoors, the choice of many is to add cushions to make it a more comfortable place to relax. If you are looking for a comfy cushion that rolls up so you can take it to the beach, check out the Classic Accessories Storigami Water-Resistant Chaise Lounge Cushion.
What to know before you buy a chaise lounge cushion
Whether you’re relaxing poolside, on the patio or under a tree, a chaise lounge is a great place to stretch out your legs and fully recline. Outdoor chaise lounges are generally made of wood, metal or plastics durable enough to stand up to sun, rain and the elements. You can make your chaise more comfortable by adding a layer of padded cushions built to withstand the elements as well as your lounge chair does.
Made for outdoor use
Cushions for outdoor chaise lounges need to be able to resist sun, rain, winds and harsh weather.
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Water-resistant cushions are a must unless you plan on taking in your cushions every night or every time it looks like it might rain.
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Fade-resistant cushions are a good choice if your cushions are exposed to lots of sunlight.
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Tie-down cushions are good to have if your outdoor area is windy.
Width
- Single seat: Match the width of your cushions with the width of your chaise. Most chaise lounges are about two feet wide. If your chaise has arms, make sure your cushion fits between them.
- Double seat: These lounges made for two to sit side by side are at least twice as wide as single chaises and sometimes even more than that. Double-width cushions are as unwieldy as twin mattresses, so look for a set of two single cushions that fit the dimensions of your lounge chair.
What to look for in a quality chaise lounge cushion
How your chaise hinges
Most outdoor chaise lounges have adjustable backs so you can sit upright for reading or lie flat for a relaxing nap. Look for cushions that are also hinged so they stay in contact with your entire chaise as you adjust the seat back from one position to another.
Attached or loose?
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Tie-ons: Cushions that attach to your chaise stay in place and won’t blow away.
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No tie-ons: Cushions that do not attach are easier to move around, flip over, take indoors or put in the car and take to the beach.
Length
Most chaises are 72 to 80 inches long. Cushions that overhang the ends are better than cushions that are too short.
Pillows
As long as you’re getting comfortable, think about adding an outdoor pillow or two to your chaise lounge cushions. Choose pillows to provide support and comfort for your head, neck and lumbar region, and make sure they’re made for outdoor use.
How much you can expect to spend on a chaise lounge cushion
Most full-sized cushions range from $50-$150. Better fabrics, better padding and better construction make the difference.
Chaise lounge cushion FAQ
If I leave them outdoors all the time, won’t all cushions fade?
A. The longer any materials stay out in the sun, the more their colors fade. Better dyes that completely penetrate the fabric last much longer than more inexpensive dyes that color only the fibers’ surface.
Can I buy a machine-washable cushion for outdoors?
A. Most outdoor cushions do not have a removable cover. The padding and the exterior shell are one unit that won’t fit in your washer. The best way to keep outdoor cushions clean is to wipe away dirt and droppings as quickly as possible, using a soft, damp cloth.
What’s the best chaise lounge cushion to buy?
Top chaise lounge cushion
Classic Accessories Storigami Water-Resistant Chaise Lounge Cushion
What you need to know: This cushion’s FadeSafe fabric dyes go all the way through the fibers and so resist fading and bleeding.
What you’ll love: It attaches by fabric straps with plastic quick-release buckles, and the entire cushion rolls up compactly just like a sleeping bag for easy handling and storage. You can toss it in the car with you and take it to the beach, and a pillow is attached for your head.
What you should consider: It takes a while to dry out after a heavy rain.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top chaise lounge cushion for the money
Greendale Home Fashions Outdoor Chaise Lounge Cushion
What you need to know: This cushion is overstuffed with a soft poly fill made entirely from recycled plastic bottles for long-lasting comfort while resisting bunching and shifting.
What you’ll love: The heavy-duty poly fabric repels water and stains and holds up against ultraviolet rays. This tufted 72- by 22-inch cushion has firmly attached ties at the corners and comes in 25 colors and patterns to fit any decor.
What you should consider: Some report problems with colors fading.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Pillow Perfect Outdoor Chaise Lounge Cushion
What you need to know: This 72.5-inch cushion hinges where the seat back does so your cushion conforms to your chaise lounge even when you change positions.
What you’ll love: The polyester cushions with polyester fiber fill are fully reversible and resist weather and fading caused by exposure to the sun. The attached ties keep this cushion firmly attached to your chair. You can keep it clean by hand-washing with mild detergent and cool water.
What you should consider: Some buyers report the cushions are too thin to suit them.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens (WPIX) — A 15-year-old boy lost his arm in a subway surfing accident in Queens Monday morning, according to police and law enforcement sources.
The incident occurred at the 74th Street and Broadway stop in Jackson Heights at 10:24 a.m. The northbound R train was pulling away from the station when the teen was hit, according to an NYPD spokeswoman.
The teen fell while subway surfing and was found with a severed arm underneath the train. Surveillance video shows the train leaving the station when the injured teen emerges yelling for help and bystanders pull him onto the platform, sources said.
The boy was taken to the hospital in stable condition, according to police. His arm was found at the next station and was transported to the hospital, too, according to sources.
In July, NYC Transit President Richard Davey urged people not to ride on top of trains. He said there had been hundreds of instances of subway surfing in 2022.
A number of people have suffered fatal falls from subway surfing in recent years. In late 2021, a man died after he fell from the top of a moving J train as it crossed the Williamsburg Bridge. He was then run over by the train. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/teen-loses-arm-in-queens-subway-surfing-accident-nypd/ | 2022-08-30 00:33:53 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/teen-loses-arm-in-queens-subway-surfing-accident-nypd/ |
ROSEVILLE, Minn., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Calyxt, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLXT), a plant-based synthetic biology company announced today that it has successfully completed the first phase in its research collaboration agreement with a leading global food ingredient manufacturer based in Asia to develop an improved soybean capable of producing an oil as a commercial alternative to palm oil.
"We are proud of the progress we've made in this collaboration," said Michael A. Carr, President and CEO of Calyxt. "The achievement builds on our expertise working with soybeans along with our team's innovation and collective drive to engineer plant-based solutions that address sustainability challenges for our customers."
Calyxt's ability to leverage the power of its proprietary PlantSpring™ technology platform in this space comes at a critical time in the international dialogue regarding the sustainability and environmental impact of traditional palm oil sourcing and production.
As previously disclosed, the completion of this first milestone results in a cash milestone payment to Calyxt. Calyxt has begun the second and final phase of the research collaboration and expects to receive a final milestone payment upon completion. Calyxt anticipates completing the final phase in the first quarter of 2024.
Calyxt (Nasdaq: CLXT) is a plant-based synthetic biology company. The Company leverages its proprietary PlantSpring™ technology platform and Plant Cell Matrix™ biomass to engineer plant metabolism to produce innovative high value plant-based chemistries for use in customers' materials and products. As plant-based solutions, the Company's synthetic biology products can be used in helping customers meet their sustainability targets and financial goals. Calyxt's diversified offerings are primarily delivered through its proprietary BioFactory™ production system. For more information, visit www.calyxt.com.
This communication contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements in this press release include statements about the development of the improved soybean and the success of the related research collaboration, and the potential for successfully negotiating, entering into, and receiving fees under, a commercial agreement with respect to the improved soybean. These and other forward-looking statements are predictions and projections about future events and trends based on the Company's current expectations, objectives, and intentions and are premised on current assumptions. The Company's actual results, level of activity, performance, or achievements could be materially different than those expressed, implied, or anticipated by forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, but not limited to: the potential impact of cost reduction and other cash-focused measures to manage liquidity; increased competition, including competition from a broader array of synthetic biology companies; competition for customers, partners, and licensees and the successful execution of development and licensing agreements; disruptions at Calyxt's or its partners key facilities; changes in customer preferences and market acceptance of its products; changes in market consensus as to what attributes are required for a product to be considered "sustainable"; the impact of adverse events during development; disruptions to supply chains, including raw material inputs for its BioFactory; and other important factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A, "Risk Factors" in the Company's filings with the SEC, included in Part I, Item 1A of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, which was filed with the SEC on March 3, 2022, and its subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K filed with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements made by management of the Company are based only on currently available information and speak only as of the date of this report. Except as otherwise required by securities and other applicable laws, the Company does not assume any obligation to publicly provide revisions or updates to any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, should circumstances change.
Calyxt Media Contact:
Brennan Burks, Calyxt, Inc.
(651) 724-5788
brennan.burks@calyxt.com
Calyxt Investor Relations Contact:
Kimberly Minarovich / Cameron Willis
Argot Partners
(212) 600-1902
investors@calyxt.com
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The representatives of Midland and Odessa in the Texas House voted differently Saturday on the impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
State Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, voted against the adoption of impeachment articles, while state Rep. Brooks Landgraf voted in favor.
The entire body of the House approved the resolution by a vote of 121-23.
“Ultimately, I voted against the resolution,” Craddick wrote in a statement. “My vote today is not a statement as to whether or not I believe General Paxton is guilty or innocent of the allegations in the Articles of Impeachment. Rather, I voted against the resolution as I believe the process is just as important as the end result.”
Landgraf wrote on his Facebook page, “Attorney General Paxton has been a fierce defender of Texas sovereignty, and this vote was not about the good work he has done. But this is Texas, and no one regardless of their past victories or future ambitions should be above the rule of law. I know that my vote won’t be popular with everyone, but I voted on principle, not political expediency.”
The Texas Tribune reported Saturday that the vote temporarily removes Paxton from office over allegations of misconduct that included bribery and abuse of office.
“Attention next shifts to the Texas Senate, which will conduct a trial with senators acting as jurors and designated House members presenting their case as impeachment managers,” the Texas Tribune stated.
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Statements from state Reps. Tom Craddick and Brooks Landgraf about voting on articles of impeachment regarding Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Today, the Texas House of Representatives acted on a resolution to issue Articles of Impeachment against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. This resolution was filed in the House on May 25. The resolution was considered by and voted out of the House General Investigating Committee on May 25. After the announcement of the filing, the House of Representatives was then given a transcript of a hearing of the same committee held on May 24. Prior to the announcement of the resolution being filed, Members of the House were not made aware an impeachment was being considered unless they were the five serving on the committee, which considered the resolution.
The resolution presented to the House included 20 counts of impeachment. However, the vote before the body was merely once to issue articles of impeachment or not. I have heard from constituents across the district regarding this matter. I read the transcript of the hearing and listened to the arguments debated in the Texas House both for and against issuing the articles of impeachment. In doing so, I found there to be a lack of due process, which is consistent with prior articles of impeachment issued by the body. General Paxton was not allowed to present evidence, participate in the process or even refute the allegations before the committee or full House. Furthermore, when the debate was taken up there were time limits for the presentation, the debate and the speeches. This is all not consistent with the processes utilized before by the House.
Ultimately, I voted against the resolution. My vote today is not a statement as to whether or not I believe General Paxton is guilty or innocent of the allegations in the Articles of Impeachment. Rather, I voted against the resolution as I believe the process is just as important as the end result.
- State Rep. Tom Craddick (R-Midland)
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After thorough review of the evidence provided by investigators and prayerful consideration, I voted today to send forth articles of impeachment regarding Attorney General Ken Paxton for a full trial in the Texas Senate.
To be clear, this was not a vote to oust anybody from office, but vote to send the articles of impeachment to the Texas Senate. The Texas constitution — which I took a solemn oath to preserve, protect and defend — does not allow the House to determine guilt in impeachment proceedings. It authorizes the Senate to hold a public trial with all the rights of due process. The Senate will decide whether or not to remove Attorney General Paxton from office.
The purpose of impeachment proceedings is to protect the State of Texas, not to punish anyone. The articles of impeachment that were approved by the Texas House (with the support of more than 70% of House Republicans) detailed 20 separate charges ranging from abuse of power, multiple violations of Texas law, to misappropriation of public resources and obstruction of justice.
Attorney General Paxton has been a fierce defender of Texas sovereignty, and this vote was not about the good work he has done. But this is Texas, and no one regardless of their past victories or future ambitions should be above the rule of law. I know that my vote won’t be popular with everyone, but I voted on principle, not political expediency.
- State Rep. Brooks Landgraf (R-Odessa) on his Facebook page. | https://www.mrt.com/news/politics/article/craddick-landgraf-explain-paxton-impeachment-18124679.php | 2023-05-30 03:53:54 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/politics/article/craddick-landgraf-explain-paxton-impeachment-18124679.php |
NASCAR Cup Series returns to action at Nashville
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Asteroid slammed by NASA spacecraft has debris trail over 6,000 miles long
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact.
Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles away with a telescope in Chile. Their remarkable observation two days after last month's planetary defense test was recently released a National Science Foundation lab in Arizona.
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The image shows an expanding, comet-like tail more than 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) long, consisting of dust and other material spewed from the impact crater.
This plume is accelerating away from the harmless asteroid, in large part, because of pressure on it from solar radiation, said Matthew Knight of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, who made the observation along with Lowell Observatory's Teddy Kareta using the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope.
Scientists expect the tail to get even longer and disperse even more, becoming so tenuous at one point that it's undetectable.
"At that point, the material will be like any other dust floating around the solar system," Knight said in an email Tuesday.
More observations are planned to determine how much and what kind of material was hurled from the 525-foot (160-meter) Dimorphos, a moonlet of a larger asteroid.
Launched nearly a year ago, NASA's Dart spacecraft was destroyed in the head-on collision. The $325 million mission to deflect an asteroid's orbit was intended as a dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock heads our way. Dimorphos and its companion rock never posed a threat to Earth and still do not, according to NASA.
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