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GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pump & Pantry® is excited to announce plans to build a new travel center on the northeast side of Crete, Nebraska, at the intersection of Nebraska Highways 103 and 33. Construction is expected to begin in spring 2023.
Pump & Pantry Travel Center will be developed on an eight-acre parcel, and will include a 6,500- sq.-ft. store, 16 fueling stations, seven hi-flow diesel lanes, and ample overnight truck parking, as well as reserved truck parking. The store design will mirror the new prototype that Pump & Pantry unveiled in spring of 2022 at its flagship store in Grand Island, Nebraska.
The store will include numerous food concepts such as; Quiznos, Home of the Toasted Sub; Little Caesars® Pizza, and Pump & Pantry's Scoops Ice Cream.
"We know Nebraskans and recognize the unique needs of agricultural communities as well as the over-the-road trucking industry," said Charlie Bosselman, president and CEO of The Bosselman Enterprises. "The products and amenities that we're bringing to this market should be valuable resources for our customers in Crete and southeast Nebraska."
Like all Pump & Pantry locations, the Crete location will offer Pumped-Up Rewards, a free program which allows members to save big on fuel.
Visit www.PumpAndPantry.com/PumpedUpRewards to learn more.
Pump & Pantry is a family-owned C-store operation, born, grown and owned in Nebraska with headquarters in Grand Island. Since 1971, Pump & Pantry has been a hometown favorite for people on the go with 48 locations throughout the state.
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6-year-old boy remains in coma days after being struck by lightning, family says
TEMPLE, Texas (KWTX/Gray News) - A 6-year-old child remains under intensive care after he was struck by lightning last week in Texas.
KWTX reports the boy’s father, Matthew Boggs, was also struck by lightning at the same time and died.
The Boggs family said their child, Grayson Boggs, has permanent brain damage and remains in a coma.
“Doctors told us that he will be a different little boy,” Angela Boggs, Grayson’s grandmother, said. “They said they don’t know if he will be able to walk, talk or even eat. They said that he might not see, and we don’t know if he can hear.”
The boy’s 11-year-old brother Elijah said Grayson is starting to move his legs and fingers from his hospital bed but it’s not yet clear whether the movements are voluntary.
“I was straightening his fingers out and he would move it back all the time,” Elijah said.
The Boggs family said someone is always with him at the hospital, with his grandmother making the two-hour drive to be by his side.
According to the family, they are putting their faith in God that Grayson will soon awake from his coma.
“I was holding his hand the other day and he squeezed my hand, almost to say I love you,” Elijah said. “That was a sign to me that he’s still there.”
The body of Grayson’s father is being transported to the family’s home state of Indiana. His funeral is set to take place this weekend.
The family has set up a GoFundMe account to help with the ongoing expenses.
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Domestic Violence Survivor, Marijuana Mompreneur, Registered Nurse Debi Madaio Climbs The Weed Stalk and Celebrates Surviving NJWeedman's Joint
Published: Nov. 28, 2022 at 4:20 AM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
TRENTON, N.J., Nov. 28, 2022/PRNewswire/ -- Debi Madaio is recognized by many as Trenton New Jersey's "First Lady of Weed." As the former majority owner of NJWeedman's Joint, the once popular marijuana-themed eatery located in the state's capital city, Madaio has defiantly honed her legacy as a heroic cannabis mompreneur. A registered nurse, cannabis activist, mother to two daughters and an adopted special needs son, Madaio was an influential force behind the scenes of the business. Now celebrating several cannabis 'wins', including the opening of her new shop, The Weed Stalk in Somerset, NJ; the awarding of a New Jersey conditional cannabis license; and inclusion on the Insider NJ 100: Cannabis Power List, Madaio believes her biggest triumph is as a domestic violence survivor.
Running a small business while working full time as a registered nurse and caring for a special needs son was challenging enough to say the least, but like most DV victims, Madaio remained silent about her past six years maintaining a supportive stance as a business owner and partner at NJWeedman's Joint. It was New Jersey's daily paper, The Trentonian, that first went public with the misfortune Madaio suffered.
A lifelong resident of New Jersey, Madaio was recently awarded a conditional recreational license from the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission, which allows her to proceed with securing a final recreational license to operate The Weed Stalk as a marijuana dispensary. As the sole proprietor of one of the first few woman-owned dispensaries in the state, her goal is for The Weed Stalk to be a safe and supportive haven for all women in the cannabis community.
However, her inclusion on Jay Lassiter's "Insider NJ 100: Cannabis Power List" is the icing on the cake. She is ranked as among the state's most politically influential voices in the cannabis movement, including advocates, lobbyists, lawyers, caretakers, and industry professionals positioning themselves in New Jersey's budding multibillion dollar cannabis industry.
"I had been led to believe that I had no identity or merit. Like so many survivors, I was made to feel like my role, my support and my financing was inconsequential to the bigger picture," reveals Madaio. "But I'm still here, I'm thriving and more importantly, my contribution to the cannabis community is still being seen and recognized."
Located just across the street from the Trenton City Hall, NJWeedman's Joint was initially founded and financed by Madaio in 2015 and eventually garnered national accolades for its contribution to cannabis culture. In March 2017, the eatery came under scrutiny per an undercover operation and raid that garnered national media attention. Madaio was left to fight for the survival of the business. Via her relentless efforts, she and her former partner became Bonnie & Clyde archetypes for some six years, rallying to spearhead the legalization of marijuana in Trenton. NJWeedman's Joint went on to become a popular tourist spot and media darling, and Madaio in due course, opened The Stash Spot, a boutique accessories and smoke paraphernalia shop, inside the business.
Over the years, Madaio estimates she invested over a half-million dollars into NJWeedman's Joint. Since her reluctant departure, NJWeedman's Joint, the restaurant, has since spawned numerous spinoff enterprises including a lucrative, though not yet legal, marijuana dispensary in Trenton, The Joint of Miami, a hip hop nightclub and Forchion Cruises in Miami, FL.
"I think it's important I share all of my truth," asserts Madaio. "I'm in a place now where I'm finally empowered as a DV survivor because honestly, the entire ordeal nearly killed me. My new storefront, The Weed Stalk LLC, is symbolic on so many levels. I'm the tiny seed that was covered in dirt and darkness, yet I was still able to grow and reach for the light. If just one woman hears my story and is empowered, I am eternally grateful."
Madaio has an undergraduate degree in criminal justice (BSCJA) as well as in Nursing (RNBSN). While currently working full time, she envisions The Weed Stalk providing work and income closer to home and nearer her special needs son. NJWeedman's Joint was once called 'the happiest place on earth' by Extraction Magazine and Madaio's mission is to resurrect that vibe again. She is not just a facade of happiness, it's authentic now.
Madaio is penning a tell-all book about her experiences called "Surviving NJWeedman." Per the recent wave of DV survivor related docuseries on streaming platforms like Netflix, including "Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives," "Untold, Deal With the Devil," and "Dirty John," perhaps her #MeToo marijuana story will be told onscreen as well.
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Signature numbers debated in Arizona voucher challenge
PHOENIX (AP) — Supporters of a massive expansion of Arizona’s private school voucher system said Monday that public school advocates have failed to file enough valid signatures to temporarily block the law ahead of a proposed 2024 ballot referendum.
But the grassroots group said they “will await accurate numbers” from the Secretary of State’s office regarding their challenge to the Republican-backed law that incentives families to pull their children out of K-12 public schools.
“To be clear, there are no official numbers until the Secretary of State says there are, and the Secretary’s office is still in the early stages of carrying out its statutory obligation to review petition sheets,” Beth Lewis, executive director of Save Our Schools Arizona, said in a statement.
The group formed when a similar expansion passed in 2017 and was successfully challenged at the polls.
Lewis had announced Friday that the group had turned in 141,714 signatures in an effort to block the private school voucher expansion signed into law by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey in July.
The law extends the program to every child in the state.
If a review finds that Save Our Schools Arizona has met the requirement for nearly 119,000 valid signatures — and if those signatures survive any court challenges filed by voucher backers — it will remain blocked until the November 2024 election.
The Goldwater Institute, a conservative and libertarian public policy think tank in Phoenix, said Save Our Schools “submitted just 88,866 signatures, according to petition sheets made available by the Secretary of State’s office” and has “fallen significantly short of the requisite 118,843 signatures needed to overturn the reform via ballot referendum.”
Victor Riches, president and CEO of the Goldwater Institute, said “the preliminary results make it clear: Arizona families have rejected special interests’ attempts to take away their ability to choose the education that best meets their child’s unique needs.”
Although about a third of Arizona students qualify for the existing voucher program — mainly those living in low-income areas — only about 12,000 students statewide currently use the system.
The expansion Ducey signed will let every parent in Arizona take public money now sent to the K-12 public school system and use it to pay for their children’s private school tuition, homeschool materials or other education costs.
Arizona already has the most expansive education options in the nation and will have the most comprehensive voucher system if the law takes effect.
An estimated 60,000 currently-enrolled private school students and about 38,000 homeschooled students would immediately be eligible for up to $7,000 per year, although a small number already get vouchers.
All 1.1 million students who attend traditional district and charter schools would also qualify to leave their public schools and receive money to attend private schools.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A woman accused of killing a man can argue at trial that she was justified because he was sexually trafficking her, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a decision that could help define the limits of legal immunity for trafficking victims nationwide.
The justices ruled 4-3 that a 2008 state law that absolves trafficking victims of criminal liability for any offenses committed as a direct result of being trafficked extends to first-degree intentional homicide. However, they said Chrystul Kizer must first provide evidence for a trial judge that her decision to kill Randall Volar was connected to being trafficked before she can invoke immunity.
“Chrystul Kizer deserves a chance to present her defense and today’s decision will allow her to do that,” Kizer’s attorney, Katie York, said. “While the legal process on this matter is far from over, we, along with Chrystul and her family, believe the decision today affirms the legal rights provided by Wisconsin statute to victims of sex trafficking facing criminal charges.”
Kizer, 22, contends she met Volar on a sex-trafficking website. She says he sexually assaulted her and sold her to others for sex. According to court documents, Kizer put a gun in her bookbag in June 2018 and told her boyfriend that she was going to shoot Volar because she was tired of him touching her.
She traveled from Milwaukee to Volar’s home in Kenosha, shot him in the head, burned down his house and stole his BMW, according to court documents. Kizer was 17 at the time, old enough to be considered an adult in Wisconsin’s criminal justice system. She faces multiple charges, including arson and first-degree intentional homicide, which carries a mandatory life sentence.
Nearly 40 states have passed laws that give trafficking victims at least some level of criminal immunity, according to Legal Action of Wisconsin, which provides legal help for low-income people.
Kizer’s attorneys had planned to invoke Wisconsin’s immunity law at her trial, but Kenosha County Circuit Judge David Wilk refused to allow it. He ruled that immunity extends only to trafficking-related charges such as restraining someone, extortion, prostitution or slave labor. An appellate court ruled last year, however, that Kizer could argue that the law shields her from prosecution.
State attorneys asked the high court to reverse that decision, maintaining that the immunity statutes can’t possibly extend to homicide. Assistant Attorney General Timothy Barber argued in March that Kizer’s interpretation would create an unprecedented expansion of the self-defense doctrine, eliminating any questions about whether killing someone was reasonable or necessary.
The court found that the extent of trafficking victims’ immunity is ambiguous but doesn’t include any limiting language and therefore applies to homicide. If Kizer can show a connection between her actions and being trafficked, prosecutors will have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defense doesn’t apply, the court said.
“The defendant must produce some evidence on which a reasonable jury could find that the defense applies,” Justice Rebecca Dallet, a liberal, wrote for the majority. “Thus our interpretation does not create the kind of blanket immunity for victims of human trafficking that the State fears.”
State Justice Department spokeswoman Gillian Drummond had no immediate comment.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court decision isn’t binding on other states but could inform attorney strategies in similar cases elsewhere in the country, legal experts say. Anti-violence groups lined up to support Kizer, filing briefs in her case saying that trafficking victims often feel so trapped they believe they have to take matters into their own hands.
Ian Henderson, policy and systems director for the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, one of the groups that signed onto the briefs, praised the court’s decision. He said trafficking victims often react out of a flight-or-fight mentality and the ruling “avoids them being criminalized for defending themselves.”
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are sexual assault victims, but Kizer discussed her case in an interview from jail with The Washington Post that was published in 2019.
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DENVER (AP) — The Tampa Bay Lightning weren’t the ones who looked like the two-time defending champions in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday night.
The Colorado Avalanche, playing for the first time in nine nights, raced to 2-0 and 3-1 leads in the first period by punching pucks past otherworldly goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy, who had allowed just 2.27 goals per game in these playoffs.
“The first 10 minutes, we weren’t our best,” Lightning forward Patrick Maroon said. “We weren’t our best tonight. But I like the finish in our game, though.”
Well, except for the actual ending.
Colorado withstood Tampa Bay’s rally to improve to 13-2 in these playoffs and prevail 4-3 on Andre Burakovsky’s goal 1:23 into overtime.
The winner came after a bad turnover by Mikhail Sergachev, whose second-period goal tied it at 3.
Home teams have won 64 consecutive Cup Final games when leading by two or more goals, per ESPN. The last team to blow a two-goal lead and lose was the New York Rangers against Vancouver in 1994.
The Avalanche peppered reigning playoffs MVP Vasilevskiy with plenty of pucks in the first period and Ball Arena was rocking, those $1,000 tickets looking like bargains.
The Avalanche scored a whopping 65 goals in 14 playoff games to reach the Stanley Cup Final — their 6.46 scoring average the best in the playoffs in 30 years —- and they netted two more goals in the first 10 minutes of the first period.
The two-time defending champions’ pedigree showed up with Ondrej Palat and Sergachev scoring goals less than a minute apart in the second period against Darcy Keumper, who was playing in his first game since May 31 against Edmonton, to knot things up at 3.
It stayed that way until 1:23 into overtime.
Lightning coach Jon Cooper insisted Vasilevskiy wasn’t to blame for the loss, suggesting nobody in a Lightning sweater played better than his goaltender who stopped 22 straight shots before Burakovsky’s winner eluded his left skate.
“Vassy, obviously, is a difference maker,” Sergachev said. “He is the best goalie in the world. He’s our best player. So he’s a difference-maker and he can steal games, he can win games by himself. He almost did it tonight.”
Vasilevskiy allowed three goals in a first period of a playoff game for the first time in his career, according to NHL Stats.
The Avalanche’s legs were both fast and fresh in their first game in nine days and their first Stanley Cup appearance in 21 years.
Throw in the altitude and the Avalanche’s attitude, maybe some choppy ice and definitely some uneven play early on from Vasilevskiy, who allowed uncharacteristic goals like the one Valeri Nichuskin put past him in the first period. That puck was the first to go through Vasilevskiy’s legs this entire postseason.
These Avalanche may be the upstarts but they’re not fazed by the prospect of having to dethrone the two-time defending champions to hoist Lord Stanley’s Cup.
Their confidence, like the thin air in the Mile High City, is sky high.
“I mean why not?” said captain Gabriel Landeskog, whose goal less than eight minutes into the game opened the scoring. “We’re in the Stanley Cup Final. We’ve earned this spot. We put a lot of hard work in. Obviously, we have a lot of respect for these guys — but not too much.”
Sergachev shrugged off the loss, suggesting there was plenty of good things that happened, like coming back to tie it and skate evenly with the fast Avalanche for much of the night.
“It’s the usual stuff. We lost Game 1s before,” Sergachev said. “It’s a series, so we’ll take a day off tomorrow and just chill, clear our heads and practice, go out at Game 2. So nothing changes for us. We’re still a confident group.”
Lightning longtime captain Steven Stamkos said the key Saturday night in Game 2 is not playing catch-up and chasing the quick Avalanche.
“We’ll look to get off to a better start next game and play with the lead a little bit,” he said. “That’s a really good hockey team, they got some exceptional players that can make plays and will look to improve.”
Lightning coach Jon Cooper said his players now have a feel for how fast the Avalanche play, and that will help them this weekend.
“They come out pretty strong. We hadn’t seen them in a while, so it was nice to get a feel,” concurred Alex Killorn. “They had some incredible players that do a lot of good stuff on the ice, but I think we understand exactly what they are.”
A formidable opponent that might very well keep the Lightning from becoming the first team to win three Stanley Cups in a row since the New York Islanders won their fourth straight in 1983.
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The integrated ColorVu technology and varifocal lens within the camera guarantees that image brightness and full color always remain consistent as the camera zooms in and out
HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hikvision today announces new additions to its Pro series PTZ cameras, including the integration of ColorVu technology for the first time in this range. With ColorVu, Hikvision's new Pro series cameras can provide consistent image brightness and full color imaging as the camera zooms in and out. This ensures crystal-clear details and vivid color for distant objects at all times and in all conditions.
Revolutionary "ColorVu + Varifocal" integration
Traditional PTZ cameras often struggle to ensure that images remain bright and clear when they zoom in, especially in low light conditions. This is because the lens aperture gets smaller when operators increase the focal length, reducing the light entering the lens and thereby impacting the clarity of images.
One way to solve this issue is to adjust the size of the aperture as the focal length changes , so that a consistent amount of light can enter the lens . With Hikvision ColorVu technology, a very large fixed aperture is used in the Pro series varifocal PTZ cameras, enabling consistent light and color for imaging as the camera zooms in or out at night.
The new PTZ cameras' fixed F1.2 lens aperture allows as much as 14x more light to enter the lens compared to conventional PTZ units. This same capability also ensures vivid and full-color imaging in light conditions as low as 0.0005 lux: or nearly total darkness. The result is bright and colored images, even in extremely low light conditions or at night.
The camera also has a warm supplemental LED light that further illuminates the field of vision, allowing objects and events to be captured in full color within 100-meter range.
Further increasing security capabilities with AcuSense
In addition to ColorVu, Hikvision Pro series cameras have also been equipped with AcuSense technology, which distinguishes between real security threats and harmless moving objects such as animals, falling leaves, and changing lights.
This smart classification capability means that alarms are only triggered in the event of real security threats. In such cases, the PTZ lens follows the detected threats and sends automated alerts to home or business owners, security teams, or Alarm Receiving Centers (ARCs).
The ability to detect real security threats in real time, and to reduce false alarms, means that security end users and teams can respond to security incidents quickly and effectively and minimize negative impacts. This is especially vital for protecting site perimeters, key entrances and exits, and other restricted areas.
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Hikvision's new Pro series PTZ cameras are available in 2 / 4/ 8 MP resolutions for a wide range of security needs and budgets. Specifically, the 2 MP models support 20x optical zoom, while 4 / 8 MP models support up to 12x optical zoom. They are ideal for security applications in industrial parks, factories, warehouses, schools and a wide range of other indoor and outdoor locations.
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Save Up to $4,600 Per Person on Included Pre- and Post-Cruise Programs to World Famous Cities Like Tokyo and Singapore Plus UNESCO Sites Including Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat and Nazca Lines
MIAMI, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For a limited time, Oceania Cruises, the world's leading culinary- and destination-focused cruise line, invites guests on select 2023 voyages to delve deeper into the world's most exotic destinations and treasured wonders with its Free Land Program. Available on 15 featured sailings reaching Africa, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and more, guests who book by January 8, 2023, can choose an immersive pre- or post-cruise add-on to coveted places like Cape Winelands, Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, the Blue Mountains, Nazca Lines and more, a savings of up to $4,600 per person.
"Each of our land programs delve deep into the rich history, culture, nature and architecture of these destinations," said Howard Sherman, President and CEO of Oceania Cruises. "There are some places in the world we just can't reach by ship, but are must-sees when cruising the region, so our immersive land programs are the best opportunity for guests to visit these remarkable places and do it for free."
Please see Free Land Tour offerings below. Each tour offering has limited capacity and are each subject to availability.
ANCIENT INCAS & PRISTINE PARACAS
1 Night | Overland in Lima (Callao), Peru
View ancient Peruvian wonders by flying over the enormous drawings that the pre-Columbian Nazca people created in the desert and by meandering through the 15th-century ruins of the coastal community Tambo Colorado. The latter is notable for being the only example of an Incan settlement constructed entirely of adobe and compacted soil known as rammed earth. Wildlife is the draw of both the Ballestas Islands and Paracas National Reserve, a desert landscape along the sea. Humboldt penguins, sea lions and bright-pink flamingos are commonly seen there.
The 'Ancient Incas & Pristine Paracas' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as an overland excursion aboard the Insignia's Pacific Panorama Cruise departing January 15, 2023, 24 day voyage from San Francisco to Santiago De Chile.
CHILEAN WONDERS & WINE
3 Nights | Post-Cruise Santiago de Chile, Chile
Savor characteristic Chilean wines and drink in the country's wondrous natural beauty. The foothills on the outskirts of Santiago contribute to an inland terroir that produces enviable wines, as a tasting at Viña Santa Rita confirms. With the towering Andes as a backdrop, the sky-high ski resort Portillo offers spectacular views. The watershed Battle of Chacabuco was fought nearby, leading to Chile's independence. Colonial architecture clings to the steep hills of Valparaiso, a lovely seaport that earned a UNESCO World Heritage designation for its 19th-century urban landscape.
The 'Chilean Wonders & Wine' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as a post-cruise offering aboard Insignia's Pacific Panorama Cruise departing January 15, 2023, 24 day voyage from San Francisco to Santiago De Chile.
WINELANDS & WILDLIFE
3 Nights | Pre- or Post-Cruise Cape Town, South Africa
Enjoy inspired wine tastings in the epicenter of the esteemed Cape Winelands, paired with opportunities to view animals synonymous with Africa. Dutch-influenced towns and country estates dot the fertile wine region, ensuring an experience that is as pleasing to the eye as it is to the palate. Not far away lies Aquila, a private game reserve where you may spot the Big Five – lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos and Cape buffalo. Look for other species at the Cape of Good Hope nature reserve and penguins at Boulders Beach.
The 'Winelands & Wildlife' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as a pre-cruise or post-cruise offering aboard Insignia's Safaris & Global Gems Cruise, departing April 5, 2023, 21 day voyage, Cape Town to Dubai. and Atlantic Expedition Cruise departing March 4, 2023, 32 day voyage Rio De Janeiro to Cape Town. It is also offered as part of the program on board Nautica's South Africa Spotlight departing January 6, 2023, 12 day voyage from Capetown to Capetown, and Indian Ocean Escapade Cruise departing January 18, 2023, 18 day voyage from Capetown to Mumbai.
INDIA'S CROWN JEWEL
3 Nights | Pre- or Post-Cruise Mumbai, India
Although watching a radiant sunrise and sunset at the Taj Mahal may well be the highlight of this exploration, it is by no means the only attraction that will leave an indelible impression. The time between these two spectacles can be spent at the UNESCO World Heritage site Agra Fort or at the tomb of Itmad-ud-Daulah, a marble mausoleum known as the "Baby Taj" as it is considered to be the model for the Taj Mahal. Delhi also delights through architecture such as the triumphant arch India Gate.
The 'India's Crown Jewel' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as an pre-cruise or post-cruise offering aboard Nautica's Indian Ocean Escapade Cruise departing January 18, 2023, 18 day voyage from Capetown to Mumbai and Far East Interlude Cruise departing February 5, 2023, 14 day voyage from Mumbai to Bangkok.
ANGKOR WAT
3 Nights | Pre- or Post-Cruise Bangkok, Thailand
Meandering through the ruins of the Angkor Archaeological Park is mesmerizing as it transports you back to the heyday of the Khmer empire. Not to be outdone by the dozens of Hindu-Buddhist temples at renowned Angkor Wat, the 12th-century temple complex at Angkor Thom stuns in its own way. Its Terrace of the Elephants and huge stone faces only touch upon the curiosities. A look at contemporary life in a craft school for underprivileged children and in a thriving marketplace add cultural context to the experience.
The 'Angkor Wat' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as an pre-cruise or post-cruise offering aboard Nautica's Far East Interlude Cruise departing February 5, 2023, 14 day voyage from Mumbai to Bangkok, and Fortunes Of The East Cruise departing February 19, 2023, 10 day voyage from Bangkok to Singapore.
EXPLORE SINGAPORE
3 Nights | Pre- or Post-CruiseSingapore, Singapore
Prepare to be captivated by the wonders of Singapore, a city state that rapidly transitioned from a British trading post into an ultra-modern destination. Its multicultural past comes to life in the traditional temples and synagogues on Waterloo Street and in Chinatown's bewitching maze of narrow roads. Cruising the Singapore River presents yet another perspective of the metropolis while sustainably powered Gardens by the Bay celebrates the bullish future. What better wrap-up than toasting the experience with a Singapore Sling in the legendary Raffles Hotel.
The 'Explore Singapore' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as a pre-cruise or post-cruise offering aboard Nautica's Fortunes Of The East Cruise departing February 19, 2023, 10 day voyage from Bangkok to Singapore, East Asia Enclaves Cruise departing March 1, 2023, 10 day voyage Singapore to Hong Kong, Highlights Of The East Cruise departing April 22, 2023, 18 day voyage Tokyo to Singapore. It is also offered as part of the Free Land Program on Insignia's Far East Legends departing April 26 , 2023, 22 day voyage Dubai to Singapore and Southeast Asia Array Cruise departing May 18, 2023, 15 day voyage Singapore to Hong Kong.
THE JEWELS OF HONG KONG
3 Nights | Pre- or Post-Cruise Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong dazzles, especially when you see it from the most captivating vantage points. Ride the funicular to soaring Victoria Peak, a sampan boat past Chinese junks in Aberdeen Harbour and a cable car up to Ngong Ping village, home to the once-remote Buddhist monastery Po Lin. Every cherry-picked highlight reveals another fascinating facet of Hong Kong, a metropolis equally proud of its soaring skyscrapers and traditional neighborhoods. Exploring vibrant Stanley Market and watching craftsmen turn gemstones into finished jewelry add cultural nuance.
The 'Jewels of Hong Kong' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as a pre-cruise or post-cruise offering aboard Nautica's East Asia Enclaves Cruise departing March 1, 2023, 10 day voyage Hong Kong to Tokyo and Eastern Endeavor Cruise departing March 11, 2023, 12 day voyage Hong Kong to Tokyo. It is also offered as part of the Free Land Program on Insignia's Southeast Asia Array Cruise departing May 18, 2023, 15 day voyage Singapore to Hong Kong, and Spiritual Shrines Cruise departing June 2, 2023, 18 day voyage Hong Kong to Tokyo.
TRIBUTE TO TOKYO
3 Nights | Pre- or Post-Cruise Tokyo, Japan
Only icons can truly encapsulate a metropolis as big and bold as Tokyo, especially ones that represent the capital's extraordinary diversity. For a historical perspective, the 7th-century Sensoji Temple and the Edo Tokyo Museum speak volumes. The Imperial Palace bridges the past and present, as samurai warriors lived in the castle that once stood where Japan's imperial family now resides. The ultimate view of the city and Mt. Fuji in the distance is from atop Tokyo Tower, a symbol of Japan's rebirth as an economic powerhouse.
The 'Jewels of Hong Kong' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as a pre-cruise or post-cruise offering aboard Nautica's Eastern Endeavor Cruise departing March 11, 2023, 12 day voyage Hong Kong to Tokyo and Highlights Of The East Cruise departing April 22, 2023, 18 day voyage Tokyo to Singapore. It is also offered as part of the Free Land Program on Insignia's Aleutian Bridgeway Cruise departing June 20, 2023, 24 day voyage Tokyo to San Francisco, and Spiritual Shrines Cruise departing June 2, 2023, 18 day voyage Hong Kong to Tokyo.
GLIMPSE OF ARABIA
3 Nights | Post-Cruise Dubai, UAE
See the United Arab Emirates through landmarks that best express its richly layered history and audacious vision for the future. The Emirates' cultural heritage is engagingly displayed within the waterfront Museum of Islamic Civilization in Sharjah, while the capital of Abu Dhabi showcases more modern attractions, including its Grand Mosque, which holds 40,000 worshipers. The Louvre Abu Dhabi reflects the country's deep devotion to the arts. Still, the desert dominates most aspects of life, which is why a Bedouin-style dinner amid the sand dunes seems so appropriate.
The 'Glimpse of Arabia' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as a post-cruise offering aboard Insignia's Safaris & Global Gems Cruise, departing April 5, 2023, 21 day voyage, Cape Town to Dubai.
EMIRATES: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
3 Nights | Pre-Cruise Dubai, UAE
Gain a remarkably comprehensive understanding of the United Arab Emirates by visiting three cities, each wonderfully distinct. In the capital of Abu Dhabi, the Grand Mosque salutes cultural diversity through its unexpected blend of architectural styles. Dubai celebrates the bold and unusual in landmarks such as the arresting Swiss Cheese Building and spire-shaped Burj Khalifa, once the world's tallest building. The heritage of the emirates is proudly displayed in Sharjah's esteemed Museum of Islamic Civilization and Souk Al Arsa, the country's oldest such marketplace.
The 'Emirates: Past, Present & Future' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as a pre-cruise offering aboard Insignia's Far East Legends departing April 26, 2023, 22 day voyage Dubai to Singapore
CULTURAL SYDNEY
3 Nights | Pre- or Post-Cruise Sydney, Australia
Become immersed in Sydney's extraordinary Aboriginal culture for a glimpse into an ancient lifestyle that still flourishes today. Take the ferry to Goat Island and discover its significance to the Aboriginal people, who own it once again. Wander about the Royal Botanic Garden and the national park Ku-Ring-Gai Chase for an understanding of herbal medicines and how the indigenous people nurtured the land. Deepen your insight even further by browsing Aboriginal artwork and listening to Elders tell spiritual Dreamtime stories.
The 'Cultural Sydney' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as a pre- or post-cruise offering aboard Regatta's Fjords & Tasman Tales Cruise departing February 13, 2023, 15 day voyage Sydney to Sydney.
SCENIC BLUE MOUNTAINS
3 Nights | Post-Cruise Sydney, Australia
Nature dominates this adventure into the Blue Mountains, a massive UNESCO World Heritage site blanketed with eucalypt forest and pristine bushland. Explore Jenolan Caves, a labyrinth of limestone chasms that underground rivers carved over eons. Behold roaring Wentworth Falls and hear Aboriginal legends about the weathered Three Sisters peaks. Options in Scenic World alone include riding the world's steepest incline railway, traveling between clifftops in a glass-bottom tram and descending into the ancient Jamison Valley by cableway. Stroll Australia's most elevated botanical gardens for good measure.
The 'Scenic Blue Mountains' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as a post-cruise offering aboard Regatta's Fjords & Tasman Tales Cruise departing February 13, 2023, 15 day voyage Sydney to Sydney.
A PASSION FOR RIO
3 Nights | Pre-Cruise Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
It's hard not to fall in love with Rio, especially when this irrepressible city is presented so beautifully. What better introduction than seeing the highlights from every conceivable angle, including from atop Sugarloaf Mountain, which you reach via cable car. Rio is synonymous with the uber-exuberant festival Carnival, and a behind-the-scenes look divulges exactly how the outlandish floats and lavish costumes are made. Even a taste of Rio leaves you wanting more, so an entire day is devoted to independent exploration.
The 'A Passion For Rio' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as a pre-cruise offering aboard Insignia's Atlantic Expedition Cruise departing March 4, 2023, 32 day voyage Rio De Janeiro to Capetown.
SAN FRANCISCO & SAUSALITO
2 Nights | Post-Cruise San Francisco, California
The San Francisco Bay Area flaunts its finest as you take in the most alluring attractions in the heart of downtown and in the artsy suburb of Sausalito. The destinations are so iconic that you can't help but come away with a true picture of San Francisco. The world's largest Chinatown outside of Asia. The hairpin turns of Lombard Street. Bustling Fisherman's Wharf. The attractions simply don't get more emblematic and they are nonstop. The laidback vibe of Sausalito adds the perfect counterpoint.
The 'San Francisco & Sausalito' program is available as part of Oceania's Free Land Tour Program as a post-cruise offering aboard Insignia's Aleutian Bridgeway Cruise departing June 20, 2023, 24 day voyage from Tokyo to San Francisco.
Oceania Cruises is the world's leading culinary- and destination-focused cruise line. The line's seven small, luxurious ships carry a maximum of 1,210 guests and feature the finest cuisine at sea and destination-rich itineraries that span the globe. Expertly curated travel experiences aboard the designer-inspired, small ships call on more than 450 marquee and boutique ports across Europe, Alaska, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, New England-Canada, Bermuda, the Caribbean, the Panama Canal, Tahiti and the South Pacific in addition to the epic 180-day Around the World Voyages. The brand has a second 1,200-guest Allura Class ship on order for delivery in 2025. With headquarters in Miami, Oceania Cruises is owned by Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., a diversified cruise operator of leading global cruise brands which include Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: NCLH) is a leading global cruise company which operates the Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises brands. With a combined fleet of 28 ships with nearly 60,000 berths, these brands offer itineraries to more than 490 destinations worldwide. The Company has nine additional ships scheduled for delivery through 2027, comprising of approximately 24,000 berths.
For additional information on Oceania Cruises' small-ship luxury product, exquisitely crafted cuisine, and expertly curated travel experiences, visit OceaniaCruises.com, call 855-OCEANIA, or speak with a professional travel advisor.
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TOKYO (AP) — The United States is working with Japan and other likeminded countries to counter China’s efforts to use its economic might to force political change around the world, the U.S. ambassador to Japan said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press.
Rahm Emanuel, who was previously mayor of Chicago and chief of staff for President Barack Obama, is pushing what he calls “commercial diplomacy,” the idea that the United States and Japan will be more eager to do business with each other and with similar secure and stable countries amid worries caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and Chinese economic coercion.
“From intellectual property theft to coercion to debt dependency that China creates, the idea that they could actually honestly say, ‘We don’t coerce,’ and then you have not one, not two, not three – many worldwide examples where they use their economic market access to force a political change in a country … I think everybody’s woken up to that,” Emanuel said in the interview at his residence in the heart of downtown Tokyo.
Emanuel, who arrived in Japan in January, laid out a number of examples of Chinese coercion, including with Japan, which saw Chinese shipments of rare earth metals blocked over a territorial dispute; South Korea, which suffered Chinese business boycotts when it installed a U.S. missile defense system; Australia; and countries in Europe and Southeast Asia.
China’s growing economic importance and spending abroad have rattled those countries, which worry that Beijing is increasing its strategic and political influence in their traditional spheres of influence.
China has become one of the biggest lenders to developing countries through its “Belt and Road Initiative” to expand trade by building ports, railways and other infrastructure across Asia, Africa and the Middle East to Europe. This has prompted accusations Beijing is using debt to gain political leverage, but Chinese officials deny that.
China has been more assertive about pressing other governments to embrace Chinese-led initiatives including a trade group, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.
Emanuel said that finding ways for Japan and the United States to stand up to Chinese economic coercion was one of the first issues he raised with Japan’s foreign minister.
Japan has expressed deep worry about increased Chinese activities in regional seas, including near a Japanese-controlled island claimed by Beijing, and has pushed for peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
Emanuel praised Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s pledge of a “significant increase” in both the country’s defense budget and its military capabilities.
Kishida’s attempts to revise Japan’s national security strategy and basic defense guidelines are a legacy of his hawkish mentor, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in July.
Kishida has also said he is open to the development of possible preemptive strike capabilities, which opponents say would go far beyond Japan’s war-renouncing constitution, which restricts the use of force to self-defense. Kishida also has proposed significantly increasing Japan’s defense budget — possibly doubling to 2% of GDP, a NATO standard — over the next five years.
“Much to the prime minister’s credit, he looked around the corner and realized what was happening in this region and the world — Japan needed to step up in ways it hadn’t in the past,” Emanuel said.
Emanuel also mentioned economic opportunities for Japan and the United States in electric vehicle batteries, energy, new research and technology in small modular nuclear reactors, aviation technology and semiconductors.
The business leaders whom he has met with as ambassador to Japan would have evaluated a capital expenditure decision in the past purely by considering cost, logistics and efficiency, he said, but they are now willing to pay more to avoid sanctions and instability.
“That is a major change in thinking,” he said.
For “the last 20 or 30 years, cost and efficiency were the driving factors. They drove public policy, and they drove corporate decisions. Today cost and efficiency are being replaced, supplanted by stability and sustainability,” Emanuel said.
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How to stay cool without air conditioning
By Kristen Rogers, CNN
Whether you’re without power, enduring extreme heat or trying to save money, there are ways to feel comfortable without artificial cooling.
Heat can foster fun summer activities, but the body shouldn’t be too hot for too long, as too much heat can harm your brain and other organs, according to the US National Institutes of Health. Sweating is the body’s natural cooling system, but when that’s not enough, there’s increased risk for developing the heat-related illness hyperthermia — signs of which include heat cramps, heat edema and heat stroke.
Staying cool can be done by using some basic supplies and knowing how to manipulate your home to control its temperatures. Here are 14 methods for doing so.
Stay hydrated
When you’re hot and flushed, hydrating yourself is the first and foremost step to cooling down, said Wendell Porter, a senior lecturer emeritus in agricultural and biological engineering at the University of Florida.
The temperature of the water doesn’t matter since your body will heat it, he added. If your body is suffering from the heat and needs to cool itself, it can’t do that without enough moisture, since the body cools itself by sweating.
Take a cold shower or bath
Taking a cold shower or bath helps cool your body by lowering your core temperature, Porter said.
For an extra cool blast, try peppermint soap. The menthol in peppermint oil activates brain receptors that tell your body something you’re eating or feeling is cold.
Use cold washrags on your neck or wrists
Place a cold washrag or ice bags (packs) on your wrists or drape it around your neck to cool your body. These pulse points are areas where blood vessels are close to the skin, so you’ll cool down more quickly.
Use box fans
Place box fans facing out of the windows of rooms you’re spending time in to blow out hot air and replace it with cold air inside.
If the weather in your area tends to fall between 50 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit in the mornings and evenings, opening the windows on both sides of the house during those times can facilitate a cross-flow ventilation system. If you do this, you can opt to use or not use the fans, but the fans would help cool the house faster, Porter said. The outdoors can pull the hot air from your home, leaving a cooler temperature or bringing in the breeze. Just be sure to close windows as the sun comes out, then open them when the weather is cool again.
You might not typically leave windows open for safety reasons, but if you’re at home more anyway due to the pandemic, this method could be feasible, Porter said.
Just resting near a fan would reduce your body temperature as well.
Close your curtains or blinds
If you have windows that face the sun’s direction in the morning through afternoon, close the curtains or blinds over them to “keep the sun from coming directly into the house and heating up (the) inside,” Porter said.
You could also install blackout curtains to insulate the room and reduce temperature increases that would happen during the day.
If you do turn the air conditioning on, don’t set it below 70 degrees Fahrenheit in an effort to cool the house faster, said Samantha Hall, managing director of Spaces Alive, an Australia-based design research company helping to create healthy, sustainable buildings.
“It just runs for longer to reach that temp and will keep going until you start to feel a bit chilly and is then hard to balance,” she added. Instead, keep the unit temperature as high as possible while still comfortable.
Sleep in breathable linens
Cotton is one of the most breathable materials, so cotton sheets or blankets could help keep you cool through the night.
The lower the thread count of the cotton, the more breathable it is, Porter said. That’s because higher thread counts have more weaving per square inch.
Sleep in the basement
If you can’t sleep through the night because you’re too hot, try sleeping somewhere besides your bedroom, if that’s an option. Heat rises, so if you have a lower or basement level in your home, set up a temporary sleeping area there to experience cooler temperatures at night.
Don’t refrigerate or freeze blankets or clothing
Common advice for staying cool without air conditioning includes refrigerating or freezing wet socks, blankets or clothing then ringing them out to wear while you sleep. But this isn’t a good idea, Porter said.
Because of “the amount of energy they can absorb from your body that night, they will be warm in just a matter of minutes,” he said. “And then you’d have damp stuff that would mold your mattress. So you definitely don’t want to do that.”
Close the doors of unused rooms
If no one’s using a room that doesn’t have vents or registers, close the door to that area to keep the cool air confined to only occupied areas of the house.
Use the exhaust fan in your kitchen and/or bathroom
Flip the switch for the exhaust fan in your kitchen to pull hot air that rises after you cook or in your bathroom to draw out steam after you shower.
Install energy-efficient light bulbs
Incandescent light bulbs generate a higher temperature than LED light bulbs do. To make the switch, watch for sales on energy-efficient bulbs, then slowly replace the bulbs in your house, Porter said.
Switching light bulbs can save money but won’t reduce a lot of heat in the home, Hall said. However, if you focus on switching the bulbs in areas you’re sitting near, that would make a more noticeable difference, Porter said.
Cook in the morning, with a slow cooker or outside
Oven heat can spread throughout your house. Keep the heat centralized in one area, such as a slow cooker. Or, cook outdoors on a grill to keep the heat outside.
Enjoy frozen treats
Eating an ice pop or ice cream to cool down may help for a moment. But don’t go overboard on the sugar if you’re overheated or at risk of being overheated, Porter said.
“Sugar would run your metabolism up and you’d start feeling internally hot,” he said. “So the cool treat might be good, but the extra sugar might not.”
Research what your state offers
If you’ve tried everything and still can’t beat the heat at home, you could look online for any local programs that are offering ductless air conditioners.
Depending on your state, some cooling centers — air-conditioned public facilities where people might go for relief during extremely hot weather — may be open and taking precautions to ensure they’re as safe as possible. You could start by checking with your local utility offices, as they would know who is offering certain programs, Porter recommended.
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Judge to release parts of Georgia special grand jury report on Trump, allies
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge on Monday ordered the partial release later this week of a special grand jury report into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss.
The report’s introduction and conclusion, as well as a section in which the grand jurors expressed concerns that some witnesses may have lied under oath, will be released on Thursday, said Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney.
Any recommendations on who should or should not be prosecuted will remain secret for now to protect their due process rights, McBurney wrote.
McBurney’s order came three weeks after hearing arguments from prosecutors, who urged the report be kept secret until they decide on charges, and a coalition of media organizations, which pressed for its release.
The release is a significant development in a case that threatens legal jeopardy for the former president as he ramps up a 2024 White House campaign. The special grand jury spent about seven months hearing testimony from witnesses including high-profile Trump allies, such as attorney Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and high-ranking Georgia officials, such as Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp.
McBurney wrote that the report includes recommendations for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, including “a roster of who should (or should not) be indicted, and for what, in relation to the conduct (and aftermath) of the 2020 general election in Georgia.” The special grand jury did not have the power to issue indictments, and it will ultimately be up to Willis to decide whether to seek indictments from a regular grand jury.
The special grand jury’s final report was requested by Willis and is meant to inform her investigative decision-making process, McBurney wrote, adding that the panel’s investigation was largely controlled by the district attorney and her team and was “a one-sided exploration.”
There was “very limited due process” for people for whom the grand jurors recommended charges, McBurney wrote. Some may not have had the opportunity to appear before the panel, and those who did appear did not have the right to have their lawyers present or to offer any rebuttal.
For that reason, the judge concluded, it is not appropriate to release the full report at this time.
It is not clear if or when Willis will present the case to a regular grand jury with the purpose of getting one or more indictments. At a Jan. 24 hearing, she said decisions are “imminent” but did not elaborate.
At that hearing, Willis had argued against the immediate release of the report, saying it could violate the rights of potential defendants and negatively affect the ability to prosecute those who may be charged with crimes.
“We want to make sure that everyone is treated fairly and we think for future defendants to be treated fairly, it is not appropriate at this time to have this report released,” Willis said during the hearing.
A group of news organizations, including The Associated Press, argued in favor of releasing the report immediately in full, saying that public interest in the report is “extraordinary.”
“The discomfort of the prosecuting authority in disclosing court records isn’t enough to make them sealed,” said attorney Tom Clyde, representing the media. “It has to be significant, identifiable evidence that’s going to cause a problem.”
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Spring '23 release delivers AI-powered sales enablement and an unmatched system for revenue teams to drive sales productivity
SEATTLE, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Highspot, the sales enablement platform that increases sales productivity, today announced its Spring '23 release, bringing customers new product capabilities and service offerings that infuse sales processes with operational rigor. Major advances include: generative AI for sales enablement, enterprise-class training and coaching, and services and success resources that empower revenue teams to scale what good looks like in business-to-business (B2B) selling.
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The majority of sales leaders consider enablement as a practice to be mission critical and prioritize their enablement platform as a top three tool in their revenue tech stack, according to 2023 research conducted by Gerson Lehrman Group on behalf of Highspot. By combining a unified platform, a Strategic Enablement methodology, and tailored services, Highspot delivers a holistic system to equip, train, coach, and analyze sales teams to peak performance.
"This might be the toughest selling environment in years, but amidst obstacles is opportunity," said Robert Wahbe, CEO, Highspot. "Companies everywhere are intent on increasing efficiency, which requires running programs with rigor. With this release, we bet deeply on generative AI and sales training capabilities to help our customers do more with less and scale winning behaviors across the entire revenue team."
Generative AI capabilities unlock revenue team productivity
Generative AI delivers intelligence at the fingertips of revenue teams. Newly available and forthcoming generative AI capabilities improve productivity, giving teams the ability to:
- Generate fast and accurate transcriptions: Support accessibility standards and improve asset searchability with highly accurate, text-based interpretations of audio and video in more than 13 languages.
- Produce content descriptions: Instantly create descriptions for Highspot content with the click of a button, ensuring both reps and buyers receive accurate context alongside every asset.
- Create a Pitch: Launching in beta this summer, reps can create personalized email copy, expediting the time it takes to develop, edit, and personalize engagement with their buyers.
- Search instant answers: Launching in beta this summer, reps can query their company's collection of resources in Highspot to generate precise answers that appear at the top of the search results in seconds.
Training capabilities boost rep engagement and learning outcomes
Enterprise-class training and coaching capabilities scale best practices across the sales team, helping every salesperson become a high performer:
- Event-Based Learning creates live training events in Highspot, boosting training engagement with blended learning experiences that combine live, virtual, instructor-led, online, and mobile learning.
- Advanced Management controls the delivery of sales training programs at scale with team-based and automatic enrollment to drive higher engagement from frontline sales managers.
- Sales Coaching uses Rep Scorecards to highlight sales certification status, as well as rubric scoring data to show competency changes over time or establish sales competency benchmarks.
- New Training Packages allow customers to add professional sales training methodology directly from the Highspot Marketplace, including resources from Force Management.
"Training your selling teams well in an ever-changing market is vital to a brand's success," said Tracy Roach, Vice President of Education & Training, SkinCeuticals. "Highspot prepares our team with the skills, knowledge, and tools they need to excel. Leaders get insights as to why initiatives are successful or not, managers pull reports to help have targeted coaching conversations, and salespeople have education at their fingertips for themselves and their accounts. Moreover, because the training and coaching capabilities are integrated with Highspot's content and engagement features, both sales leaders and their teams have a consistent experience to reinforce brand messaging and drive the best results possible."
World-class services and resources help enablement teams get the most out of Highspot
Services and success resources empower customers to deepen their expertise, demonstrate enablement impact, and apply what good looks like across initiatives:
- Strategic Enablement Success Packages offer professional services to improve enablement maturity through systematic guidance with Highspot enablement experts that help to plan, execute, and optimize key deliverables within Highspot.
- The Enablement Success Center is an end-to-end solution planning and health tool to guide Business Reviews. Enablement leaders can visualize usage and adoption across core use cases, compare against industry benchmarks, and determine a clear path to meet enablement goals and evolve their programs.
- Highspot University provides a centralized learning space to learn at any pace with lessons, courses, and workshops, as well as the opportunity to connect with peers at different companies within the Highspot community.
To learn more about Highspot's new suite of product offerings, request a demo.
Resources:
- Highspot Careers
- Social Media: LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram
About Highspot
Highspot is the sales enablement platform that increases sales productivity. With Highspot, companies bring operational rigor to their sales process, ruggedizing salespeople to drive consistent revenue growth. Customers that equip, train, and coach their revenue teams with Highspot have higher rep productivity, increased pipeline generation, and improved win rates. Highspot is headquartered in Seattle with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Contact: Elena Edington, 206-817-4339, elena.edington@highspot.com
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So far this season, Iowa has done what it typically does, which is score a bunch of points.
Through three games, Iowa is averaging 94.7 points and hasn’t scored fewer than 80, including its last game when it defeated Seton Hall 83-67 in Newark, N.J.
The Hawkeyes (3-0) will now return to the comforts of home to see if they can rack up some more offensive stats when they clash with Omaha on Monday in Iowa City, Iowa.
It will be a preliminary game of the Emerald Coast Classic in Florida over Thanksgiving break.
As expected, leading the way for Iowa this season has been junior Kris Murray, who is anticipated to be the team’s leading scorer, taking over a role formerly held by his twin brother, Keegan, who was taken No. 4 overall in the 2022 NBA Draft by the Sacramento Kings.
Kris Murray had 29 points and 11 rebounds against Seton Hall and is averaging 21.7 points per game this year.
“The thing about him is he never rattles,” Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery said. “He plays. You can get physical with him, you can rotate guys with him, and he’s going to keep doing what he does. He can go off the bounce, he can make threes, he rebounds the ball.”
Omaha comes into Iowa with a 1-3 record and is coming off a home loss to Ball State on Wednesday.
The Mavericks’ only win of the season came on Nov. 13 on their home court when they beat Idaho 79-72.
The Mavericks have been led in scoring so far this season by sophomores Frankie Fidler (13.3 points per game) and Marquel Sutton (12.8 ppg).
The Mavericks will start a stretch of seven straight games away from home.
“We are on a road tour here,” Omaha head coach Chris Crutchfield said on Omaha’s radio network. “Our guys have to get locked up because we have to get ready to go on the road and try to win some games. They’ve got to get tougher.”
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BEIRUT (AP) — Two rockets struck a base housing American troops in eastern Syria on Wednesday without causing any human or material losses, the U.S. military said.
The morning attack on Mission Support Site Conoco came as Iran and its allies in the region marked the third anniversary of the killing of Iran’s elite Quds force chief Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack in east Syria, where it is not uncommon for bases housing U.S. troops to come under rocket fire or mortar attacks. Iran-backed militia are based nearby as are sleeper cells of the Islamic State group that was defeated in Syria in March 2019.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said the rockets were fired by Arab tribesmen in the region who are armed by Iran.
“Attacks of this kind place Coalition Forces and the civilian populace at risk and undermine the hard-earned stability and security of Syria and the region,” said Joe Buccino, spokesman for US Central Command, in a statement.
CENTCOM said members of the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces visited the rocket origin site and found a third that was not fire.
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Ilya Yashin, a Russian opposition politician, receved a sentence of eight years and six months on Friday for charges that he spread "fake information" by detailing evidence of atrocities carried out in Bucha, near the capital Kyiv.
Russian authorities allege Yashin had committed a a "provocation" against Russia.
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His trial was focused on a YouTube video he published in April, in which he discussed what Western journalists had uncovered in Bucha.
After the verdict, Yashin wrote on social media, "With this hysterical verdict, the authorities want to intimidate us all but, in fact, it only shows their weakness. Strong leaders are calm and confident."
He added, "Only weaklings try to shut everybody up and scorch any kind of dissent."
Russia's law against 'false' information
After invading Ukraine on February 24, Russia passed a law that allows for 15-year jail sentences for disseminating allegedly false information about Moscow's "special military operation."
The last statement Yashin made to the court earlier this week consisted of an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Yashin described him as "the person responsible for this slaughter," and kindly requested that he "stop this madness."
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Yashin added, "Looking at the consequences of this monstrous war, you yourself probably realise what a grave error you committed," and noted how "Our army isn't being greeted with flowers. They call us punishers and occupiers. The words 'death' and 'destruction' are now firmly associated with your name."
Yashin then turned to his supporters who he urged to remain positive despite the "slaughter" and "monstrous war."
"Please don't fall into despair and don't forget that this is our country," Yashin said. "It is worth fighting for. Be bold, don't give way to evil, and resist."
Fellow imprisoned anti-Putin opposition political leader Alexey Navalny dismissed the verdict against Yashin as "another shameless and lawless verdict" from the penal colony where he currently resides.
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LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prelude Corporation (PreludeDx™), a leader in molecular diagnostics and precision medicine for early-stage breast cancer, announced today that data will be presented in four separate poster presentations at the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS), to be held on December 6 – 10, 2022 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX. Presentations will include a spotlight poster on DCISionRT and its identification of a low-risk group of DCIS patients with no benefit from adjuvant radiation, a poster addressing the role of DCISionRT in treatment implications for HER2(+) patients, and two separate presentations on the latest data in the Predict Registry studies from both the U.S. and Australia.
"We are pleased with how broadly our DCISionRT biosignature is being utilized and are excited to present this latest data at the prestigious SABCS," said Dan Forche, President and CEO of PreludeDx. "We remain committed to continual improvement of personalized medicine for early-stage breast cancer patients and their clinicians."
Title: 7-gene Predictive Biosignature Improves Risk Stratification for Breast Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Patients Compared to Clinicopathologic Criteria, Identifying a Low-Risk Group Not Clinically Benefiting from Adjuvant Radiotherapy
Lead Author: Rachel Rabinovitch, MD, FASTRO, Professor, Radiation Oncology, Date: Thursday, December 8, 5:00 PM CT
Title: Characterization of Recurrence Risk After Lumpectomy and Radiotherapy in HER2-positive ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast, using 7-gene predictive biosignature: Implications for the NSABP-B43 Trial Results
Presenter: Frank Vicini, MD, Radiation Oncologist at GenesisCare, member of NRG Oncology
Date: Tuesday, December 6, 5:00 PM CT
Title: Changes in Treatment Recommendation for Patients with Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Using a 7-gene Predictive Biosignature: Analysis of the PREDICT Study
Presenter: Pat Whitworth, MD, FACS, ASCO Presenter and Breast Surgical Oncologist Director, Nashville Breast Center; Associate Professor, University of Tennessee; and Managing Partner TME
Date: Thursday, December 8, 7:00 AM CT
Title: The PREDICT Registry Australia: A Prospective Registry to Evaluate the Clinical Utility of a 7-gene Predictive Biosignature on Treatment Decisions in Patients with Ductal Carcinoma in Situ
Presenter: Yvonne Zissiadis Jr, MBBS, Radiation Oncologist, GenesisCare, Perth, Australia
Date: Thursday, December 8, 5:00 PM CT
DCISionRT is the only risk assessment test for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) that predicts radiation therapy benefit. Patients with DCIS have cancerous cells lining the milk ducts of the breast, but they have not spread into surrounding breast tissue. In the US, over 60,000 women are newly diagnosed with DCIS each year. DCISionRT, developed by PreludeDx on technology licensed from the University of California San Francisco, and built on research that began with funding from the National Cancer Institute, enables physicians to better understand the biology of DCIS. DCISionRT combines the latest innovations in molecular biology with risk-based assessment scores to assess a woman's individual tumor biology along with other pathologic risk factors and provide a personalized recurrence risk. The test provides a Decision Score™ that identifies a woman's risk as low or elevated. Unlike other risk assessment tools, the DCISionRT test combines protein expression from seven biomarkers and four clinicopathologic factors, using a non-linear algorithm to account for multiple interactions between individual factors in order to better interpret complex biological information. DCISionRT's intelligent reporting provides a woman's recurrence risk after breast conserving surgery alone and with the addition of radiation therapy. In turn, this new information may help patients and their physicians to make more informed treatment decisions.
PreludeDx is a leading personalized breast cancer diagnostics company dedicated to serving breast cancer patients and physicians worldwide. Founded in 2009 with technology licensed from University of California San Francisco, PreludeDx has focused on developing precision breast cancer tools that will impact a patient's treatment decision. Our mission is to provide patients and physicians with innovative technologies that improve patient outcomes and reduce the overall cost burden to the healthcare system. Before making a treatment decision, Know Your Risk™. PreludeDx is a Fjord Ventures portfolio company.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus on Friday jointly appealed for information that could lead to the buried remains of people who vanished amid violence and war decades ago, a task with increasing urgency as eyewitnesses die.
Cyprus’ Greek Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and Ersin Tatar, the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots, made the appeal in a symbolic move aiming to show that the purely humanitarian issue should stay above the complex and often bitter politics of the nearly half-century ethnic split.
It also sought to inject some fresh urgency into efforts to resume deadlocked peace talks. A deal has eluded Cypriot leaders since a 1974 coup aiming at union with Greece triggered a Turkish invasion that entrenched that division.
Both Christodoulides and Tatar toured the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) that has, since 2006, been tasked with locating, unearthing and identifying the remains of individuals who vanished during clashes in the early 1960s and the 1974 invasion.
“This is a humanitarian issue, therefore this is something which is outside politics,” Tatar told reporters. “What ever we can do to improve, as I saw the discovery of missing persons is something that we owe to the families.”
Christodoulides echoed a shared commitment to collect more information, but added that progress on this issue would also send a “clear political message” about building trust between the two sides that haven’t engaged in direct talks in six years.
Information is now at a premium, said Paul-Henri Arni, the U.N. appointed member of the tripartite committee that also includes a Greek and Turkish Cypriot representative.
Arni told The Associated Press that the CMP has found, identified and returned to relatives the remains of 51.5% of all missing persons.
But having the leaders nudge anyone with information to step forward is essential to resolving the most difficult remaining cases, in which individuals were killed at one spot and buried elsewhere without witnesses.
According to CMP figures, of 1,510 Greek Cypriots and 492 Turkish Cypriots who are missing, 769 and 200 respectively have not been found.
“The issue is access to new information at the moment where witnesses are passing away,” Arni said. “And so we’ve discussed with the leaders ways they could help us through the own networks, also with specific former combatants.”
Work is slow as the chances of finding remains at excavated sites currently stands at 10% -- far below the 50% when the CMP began work in earnest in 2006.
Arni said another key source of information are archived witness accounts which have been digitized for easer access, as well as sifting through 900,000 pages of U.N., U.K. and International Committee of the Red Cross archives which produced 3,740 documents of actionable data.
Christodoulides told reporters following the visit to the CMP premises that access to Turkey military archives is still restricted.
Some 80% of the CMP’s 3.2 million euro ($3.5 million) annual budget is funded by the EU and Arni said additional funding would enable the committee to augment is current number of seven excavation teams to speed up work on 65 new sites.
Christodoulides said it would be a “shame” for more information becoming available but without additional teams to act on them, adding that he would formally ask the EU for more funding.
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POCONO TWP., Pa. - A fight led to a shooting at a park in the Poconos.
Gunfire was reported just after 7 p.m. Monday at TLC Park in Pocono Township, Monroe County, said township police.
Investigators found one person with a gunshot wound to the back. That person was taken to the hospital for treatment.
Police determined a fight had broken out on the basketball courts, and someone fired multiple rounds from a gun, hitting the victim, officials said.
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New Hampshire woman accused of arson in Vermont
New Hampshire woman accused of arson in Vermont
POINTED A GUN AT THEM. THERE WERE NO INJURIES REPORTED. IF YOU SAW ANYTHING -- HUDSON POLICE ASK YOU TO GIVE THEM A CALL. A WOMAN FROM LYMAN IS ACCUSED OF STARTING A CAR FIRE -- THAT THEN SPREAD TO A HOME, WHERE A FAMILY WAS INSIDE, ASLEEP. POLICE IN CONCORD, VERMONT SAY 33- YEAR-OLD NIKKI LUCAS STARTED THE FIRE, WHICH SPREAD TO TWO OTHER VEHICLES, A CAMPER, AND THE HOME
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New Hampshire woman accused of arson in Vermont
A woman from Lyman is accused of starting a car fire in Vermont that then spread to a home, where a family was inside, asleep.Police in Concord, Vermont, said Nikki Lucas, 33, started the fire, which spread to two other vehicles, a camper and the home.Lucas has been arrested on a number of charges, including arson.Police did not reveal any sort of motive or explain the connection between Lucas and the people inside the home.
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A woman from Lyman is accused of starting a car fire in Vermont that then spread to a home, where a family was inside, asleep.
Police in Concord, Vermont, said Nikki Lucas, 33, started the fire, which spread to two other vehicles, a camper and the home.
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A Grand Rapids, Michigan, police officer was "justified in his use of force" and not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Patrick Lyoya, the officer's lawyer said at his client's arraignment Friday.
Lyoya, a Black man, was shot to death on April 4 by Christopher Schurr, a White officer trying to arrest him after a traffic stop in a case that has drawn national attention.
Lyoya was shot in the back of the head during a struggle. His final moments were captured in multiple videos later released to the public.
Schurr appeared in court Friday via videoconference, wearing an orange jumpsuit and a blue medical face mask. His attorneys present inside court.
Mark Dodge, the officer's lawyer, said his client was "justified in his use of force" and entered a not guilty plea on behalf of Schurr. He said his client has offered "nothing but cooperation" during the investigation.
A judge set Schurr's bond at $100,000 and put in place a number of conditions for his pretrial release, including that Schurr not buy or possess guns and not drink liquor or use drugs. A probable cause conference was set for June 21.
Schurr surrendered Thursday after a Kent County judge signed an arrest warrant for him.
Kent County Prosecuting Attorney Christopher Becker on Thursday emphasized his decision to charge Schurr was "not a message."
"This is just based on the facts and making a decision in this case," Becker told reporters, referring to the second-degree murder charge.
Lyoya, 26, was pulled over by Schurr for an allegedly unregistered license plate. Lyoya got out of the car and ran. He resisted Schurr's attempt to arrest him, and the officer shot him while the two were on the ground as Schurr wrestled for control of Lyoya.
Lyoya had three outstanding warrants at the time he fled Schurr, and an autopsy revealed his blood-alcohol concentration was more than three times the legal limit.
After the death protesters poured out onto the streets of Grand Rapids, a city with a history of tension between Black residents and police.
The shooting led the state's civil rights agency to renew a request for a pattern-and-practice investigation by the Justice Department into the Grand Rapids Police Department, just one month after a new police chief took office.
The county's medical examiner's office released its autopsy results in early May, and the Grand Rapids Police Department released dispatch records and reports written by officers who responded to the shooting.
The radio traffic, an accompanying computer-aided dispatch log and redacted incident reports shed light on the moments before and after the officer shot Lyoya.
Radio traffic and other records released by police show that Schurr told supervisors after the shooting that Lyoya "has my Taser."
Schurr notified his dispatcher he stopped a tan car around 8:11 a.m. He told the dispatcher that one person was running from the stop about 75 seconds later and asked for more officers to respond about two minutes after the stop. Schurr told the dispatcher that he had been "involved in a shooting" about four minutes after the initial stop. The dispatcher said emergency medical services were en route about 11 seconds after that.
Lyoya was driving on a revoked license at the time of the traffic stop. His license was revoked in March because of a third substance abuse conviction in 10 years, according to public records. He had three open warrants at the time of the traffic stop, according to a CNN review of state records.
It's not clear if Schurr knew of the warrants or the revoked license at the time Lyoya fled on foot shortly after the stop.
Records show he was wanted in connection with a domestic violence case from April, charged as a second offense. Another warrant was issued in early April for failure to appear or pay. Another open warrant appeared in the court record relating to a property damage traffic crash Lyoya's alleged to have fled. His family's attorneys have declined to comment on the open warrants.
Grand Rapids Police Department Chief Eric Winstrom said Thursday he was recommending to the city Schurr's suspension without pay, pending termination. The officer will have a discharge hearing, and the final determination on his employment will be made by the city manager.
Winstrom, who took over as chief in March, said he was comfortable with the decision to seek the officer's termination.
"I recognize the impact this will have on a longtime employee and a friend to many at the Grand Rapids Police Department, but I think it is the right thing to do," he said.
Peter Lyoya, Patrick's father, said Thursday that the charge brings some relief to the family, even though his son is never coming back.
"My heart was really broken during the past two months because a lot of things were said," he told reporters at a news conference through an interpreter. "And I was thinking maybe there's no justice in America."
But he added that if it weren't for the videos that captured his son's final moments, there would be no second-degree murder charge today.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — First lady Jill Biden joined the Stand Up to Cancer tribute in the middle of the fifth inning of Game 4 of the World Series on Wednesday night.
Biden arrived at Citizens Bank Park shortly before the tribute, which occurred just after the Astros scored five runs in the top of the inning to take a 5-0 lead.
Attendees held up signs with the names of people they want to pay tribute to. Biden’s were for son Beau, who died of a brain tumor in 2015; her sister’s father-in-law; and Corey Phelan, a Phillies minor league pitcher who died last month.
Houston’s Trey Mancini, who missed the 2020 season while undergoing treatment for colon cancer, planned to hold up a card honoring Ryan Minor, his Low-A manager in the minors at Delmarva. Mancini said Minor had recently been disagnosed with colon cancer,
Cedric Mullins and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. held up cards for Mancini at the 2021 All-Star Game in Denver.
“I competed in the home run derby the day before, so I was on the flight back and saw that,” Mancini said. “I was overcome with a wave of emotion when I saw that. Cedric, obviously we’re really close and good friends and teammates, and for Vlad to do it as well, somebody that I’ve been playing against for a few years and had a very high respect for, I just thought it was an incredible gesture and it really meant a lot to me. It was a really cool thing to see.”
Astros manager Dusty Baker had surgery for prostate cancer in 2001.
“Mine wasn’t as serious as his,” Baker said. “I followed it from afar when he was in Baltimore. And a lot of guys that have had cancer, especially prostate cancer, called me for advice or asked me what I did for mine.”
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LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles judge privately told lawyers he would renege on a promise and imprison Roman Polanski for having sex with a teenage girl in 1977, a former prosecutor testified, setting the stage for the renowned director to flee the U.S. as a fugitive.
A previously sealed transcript obtained by The Associated Press late Sunday of testimony by retired Deputy District Attorney Roger Gunson supports Polanski's claim that he fled on the eve of sentencing in 1978 because he didn't think he was getting a fair deal.
Gunson said during closed-door testimony in 2010 that the judge broke a promise to let Polanski go free after state prison officials had determined he shouldn't serve hard time.
"The judge had promised him on two occasions ... something that he reneged on," Gunson said. "So it wasn't surprising to me that, when he was told he was going to be sent off to state prison ... that he could not or would not trust the judge."
Defense lawyer Harland Braun said Friday — in expectation of the transcript's release — that the development would renew his effort to have Polanski sentenced in absentia, which would end his status as a fugitive from justice.
Braun has unsuccessfully tried that before with prosecutors asserting and judges agreeing that Polanski needs to show up in Los Angeles Superior Court to resolve the matter.
Release of the transcript, which was ordered by a California appeals court Wednesday after Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón dropped longstanding objections his predecessors made to its release, may support Polanski's claims that he was going to be railroaded by a corrupt judge.
The legal saga has played on both sides of the Atlantic as a recurring scene over four decades of a life marred by tragedy and also triumph.
As a child, Polanski escaped the Krakow Ghetto during the Holocaust. His wife, Sharon Tate, was among the seven people murdered in 1969 by followers of Charles Manson.
Polanski, 88, who was nominated for Oscars for 1974′s "Chinatown" and 1979′s "Tess," won the best director statuette for "The Pianist" in 2003. But he wasn't able to accept it because he faces arrest in the U.S.
France, Switzerland and Poland rejected bids to extradite him back to the United States and he continues to be feted in Europe, winning praise and working with major actors. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, however, expelled him from its membership in 2018 after the "MeToo" movement spurred a reckoning about sexual misconduct.
Polanski's 13-year-old victim testified before a grand jury that during a photo shoot at Jack Nicholson's house in March 1977 when the actor wasn't home, Polanski gave her champagne and part of a sedative, then forced her to have sex. The girl said she didn't fight him because she was afraid of him but her mother later called police.
When the girl refused to testify in court, Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor in exchange for prosecutors dropping drug, rape and sodomy charges.
Polanski has argued that there was judicial misconduct in his case. In 2010, a Los Angeles court took sealed testimony from Gunson about his recollections of promises made to the director by the judge in 1977.
Polanski's lawyers, who were in the room during Gunson's testimony but couldn't use it in court, have long sought to unseal that transcript to help their case.
Judge Laurence Rittenband, now deceased, had been swayed by publicity in the case and changed his mind several times about the punishment Polanski should face, Braun said.
After a report by probation officials that Polanski should serve no time behind bars, Rittenband sent the director to state prison for a 90-day diagnostic evaluation to help determine what punishment he should face.
The judge said that as long as Polanski received a favorable report from the prison, he would serve no additional time, Gunson said.
After six weeks of evaluation in prison, Polanski was released with a recommendation he only serve probation, Braun said.
But Rittenband thought the probation and prison reports were superficial and a "whitewash," said Gunson, who agreed they downplayed or misstated Polanski's crimes.
The judge privately told Gunson and Polanski's lawyer that he had to be tougher because of criticism in the news media.
He said he would send Polanski to prison for a longer term but would then get him released within 120 days, which was possible under sentencing rules at the time.
"Roman says, 'How can I trust the judge that's lied twice?' So he takes off to Europe," Braun said.
Gunson acknowledged during his testimony that the judge had discretion to sentence Polanski up to 50 years because there had been no agreed-upon sentence. But Gunson objected to the "sham" proceedings the judge was orchestrating and felt he had broken promises to Polanski.
The victim, Samantha Geimer, has long advocated that the case be dismissed or that Polanski be sentenced in absentia. She went so far as as to travel from her home in Hawaii to Los Angeles five years ago to urge a judge to end "a 40-year sentence which has been imposed on the victim of a crime as well as the perpetrator."
"I implore you to consider taking action to finally bring this matter to a close as an act of mercy to myself and my family," Geimer said.
The Associated Press does not typically name victims of sex abuse, but Geimer went public years ago and wrote a memoir titled "The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski." The cover features a photo shot by Polanski.
Polanski agreed to pay Geimer over $600,000 to settle a lawsuit in 1993.
Geimer, who has pressed for investigation of judicial misconduct, asked that the transcript be unsealed and in a letter last month and urged the DA's office to take a fresh look at the case.
Prosecutors have consistently objected to releasing the material but relented earlier this week to honor Geimer's wishes and be transparent with the public.
"This case has been described by the courts as 'one of the longest-running sagas in California criminal justice history,'" Gascón said in a statement. "For years, this office has fought the release of information that the victim and public have a right to know."
However, the DA did not indicate that Polanski would be able to avoid a court appearance. The press release said Polanski remains a fugitive and should surrender to the court for sentencing.
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BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TransMedia Group to promote former convict William Steel now starring in new breakout reality TV series "Inmate to Roommate" to debut 10 PM EST Thursday, August 18 on A&E Network.
"We're so pleased to promote a guy just called "Bill' on the new TV series all about his amazing transition from bad to good as today he's an author of two books and now knocking on the door of celebrityhood that's about to swing open," said TransMedia Group CEO Tom Madden
Steel is a former prolific jewel and art thief who spent 18 years in prison for non-violent crimes, and today is a rising true crime author appearing on A&E network's groundbreaking docuseries.
TransMedia said it plans to include in publicity how grateful Steel is to Donald Trump's attorney Peter Ticktin and Francis Mota of The Ticktin Law Group for representing him and helping him to turn his life around.
Publicity program to also underscore how Steel today is a crime victim advocate who, along with his fiancée Dr. Mary Bass, advocates for those wrongfully convicted.
Madden said the PR campaign will focus on the true crime books Steel has written including the blockbuster insiders exposé of his unfortunate relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell titled "Ghislaine: Sensational and Impure" and how Steel has become a prolific true crime podcaster at OfficialWilliamSteel on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram across all social media.
TransMedia to alert media that Steel is available for interviews and speaking engagements about his reformed life and how he believes this A&E series will "shed light on the challenges newly released prisoners have finding an appropriate place to live and work," also how privileged and humbled he is to an example of going straight.
The documentary series, "Inmate to Roommate," follows recently released inmates as they re-enter society and move in with everyday people who are welcoming them into their homes. This practice has been the subject of re-entry programs aimed at stopping recidivism. America has one of the world's highest recidivism rates with approximately 76% of released prisoners being re-arrested after 5 years. One of the most significant factors in reducing recidivism rates is access to housing.
William Steel contact: Press@WilliamSteelAuthor. (934)600-1140
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/William-Steel/e/B09P1LYC9M. His Electronic Press Kit:
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LONE PINE, Calif. (AP) — The flames fade away. Firefighters extinguish the last embers. A final curl of smoke uncoils in the wind.
A wildfire in the California wilderness has come to an end, and what’s left behind is a blackened landscape of skeletal pines and leafless oaks, scorched meadows and ashen stumps where saplings once stood.
Then, slowly, life returns.
One year after a wind-whipped wildfire charged across a craggy mountainside above Lone Pine, California, flashes of new growth are emerging in this still-charred corner of the Inyo National Forest, a hiking, camping and fishing playground about 350 miles (563 km) southeast of San Francisco.
Tiny clusters of white and purple wildflowers stand out against denuded pines, many stripped of bark in the fire. Green shoots of horsetail as thin as yarn strands break from the ground below a tree’s barren branches. A fistful of new leaves emerges like a fresh bouquet from within an incinerated stump.
It’s the start of a long recovery, and a cycle that’s being repeated more often across the West as climate change brings drier, hotter seasons and more wildland fires.
As it roars across the landscape, a fire burns at different intensities. Some of the towering trees on the hillside are dead, others only singed and can recover. The first plants to reappear after a burn typically have grown more resistant over time to the flames.
“Some of the shrub species and other grass species are more fire-adapted, and they can come back quicker,” said Todd Ellsworth, a post-fire restoration program manager with the U.S. Forest Service.
But it can be five years before the ground cover returns to what it was before the blaze. One stand of pinyon pines was heavily damaged – needles burned off the branches, their trunks torched black – and will not come back.
“The conifer trees don’t come back very quickly,” Ellsworth said, referring to certain pines and other trees that bear cones. Sometimes, it’s up to foresters to go in and replant them.
The tiny, fragile flowers and patches of fresh growth against a stark mountainside and slabs of gray rock were a reminder that wildfire is part of the ecosystem in California, including the eastern Sierra Nevada where the fire took place.
Firefighters said they used minimum-impact techniques to fight the blaze because “natural fire plays an important role in maintaining the landscape within these areas.”
Some species only flower after a wildfire.
The area of the blaze — not far from the trailhead to Mt. Whitney, at 14,505 feet (4,421 meters) the highest mountain the contiguous United States — is home to Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, an endangered species, and to the whitebark pine, an endangered species candidate.
News reports and press releases from June and July 2021 attributed the wildfire to a lightning strike and said the nearly 600-acre (243-hectare) blaze fanned by winds forced evacuations and cut off access to nearby roads, hiking trails and campgrounds. Firefighters used helicopters to dump water on the fire, which burned across rugged terrain.
The effects of climate change can be significant on forest regeneration.
One 2018 study in the journal Ecology Letters that looked at nearly 1,500 wildfire sites found that because of hotter and drier climates, fewer forests are returning to their pre-burn tree mix, and in some cases trees did not return at all.
Camille Stevens-Rumann, an assistant professor at Colorado State University and co-author of the study, said wildfires have become larger and more intense, killing more trees, while also happening more frequently.
“We have a lot of places that are probably climatically different than when those (conifer) species were established,” she said, which means they can struggle when trying to recover after a burn.
If a hotter, drier climate is unsuitable for those trees to come back, “they won’t recover,” she added. | https://www.timesleader.com/wire/nation-world/1569424/life-gradually-returns-a-year-after-fire-chars-sierra-nevada | 2022-08-11 06:12:51 | 1 | https://www.timesleader.com/wire/nation-world/1569424/life-gradually-returns-a-year-after-fire-chars-sierra-nevada |
Voters in four states approved ballot measures Tuesday to prohibit slavery as a punishment for crimes in their states’ constitutions.
The approved measures in Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont are victories for advocates looking for states to revise language in their constitutions that allow forced labor in the criminal justice system.
Voters in Louisiana, meanwhile, rejected a ballot measure to ban involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime, with about 60 percent voting against it.
The approved measures will not immediately change the states’ prison systems, but they could lead to legal challenges about prisoners being forced to work or facing sanctions or loss of certain privileges if they don’t.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery following the Civil War, but it allowed involuntary servitude as a punishment for a crime. Several state constitutions have similar text, leading advocates to push against those provisions and some to back updating the federal Constitution to amend the language of the 13th Amendment.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Rep. Nikema Williams (D-Ga.) reintroduced legislation in Congress last year to amend the 13th amendment to remove the relevant section and send it to the states.
More than a dozen states still have language in their constitutions permitting slavery as a punishment for crime, while other state constitutions do not address the issue at all.
Colorado became the first state to vote to remove the language permitting slavery in 2018, and Nebraska and Utah followed two years later.
The Alabama referendum that voters passed removes language from the Jim Crow era regarding topics like segregated schools, poll taxes and bans on interracial marriage, according to the Birmingham-based NBC affiliate WVTM.
Former Confederate states continued to use various laws designed to imprison and reenslave Black Americans in the aftermath of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. State officials found ways to get around the end of slavery in imposing involuntary servitude as a punishment for crimes under laws that targeted Black individuals.
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(The Hill) — A federal magistrate judge reviewing whether to release the affidavit that pushed him to approve a warrant to search former President Donald Trump’s home said Monday that while he believes public interest favors releasing the document, redactions could make it “meaningless.”
The order from Judge Bruce Reinhart expands on an order from the bench given Thursday that gave the Justice Department until Thursday to propose redactions it says are necessary to protect its ongoing investigation.
“Particularly given the intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search of a former president’s residence, the government has not yet shown that these administrative concerns are sufficient to justify sealing,” Reinhart wrote, adding that he rejected keeping the entire affidavit under seal.
While Reinhold previously suggested he would release a redacted version of the affidavit, he warned that approach could shift after reviewing DOJ’s proposed redactions.
“I cannot say at this point that partial redactions will be so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure, but I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further from the government,” he wrote.
DOJ had previously argued that what it deemed necessary redactions “would be so extensive as to render the document devoid of content that would meaningfully enhance the public’s understanding.”
DOJ has until noon Thursday to submit its proposal.
The warrant and other associated documents were released earlier this month after Attorney General Merrick Garland said that “the public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing.”
But the department has struck a different tone when it comes to the affidavit used to justify the warrant, arguing it should remain under seal in its entirety because information it contains lays out a “roadmap” to its ongoing investigation, and “highly sensitive information about witnesses,” and “specific investigative techniques.” | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/judge-warns-redactions-in-trump-warrant-affidavit-could-render-it-meaningless/ | 2022-08-22 20:42:34 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/judge-warns-redactions-in-trump-warrant-affidavit-could-render-it-meaningless/ |
PHILADELPHIA (AP)In the City of Brotherly Love and the undefeated Eagles, Justin Verlander showed the reverse of the first and playfully gave Phillies fans another kind of bird Monday – with his middle finger as he stepped off Houston’s team bus.
One more finger, of course, than you’d need to count the Astros ace’s World Series wins, 0-6 with a 6.07 ERA in eight starts.
Also the number of days Game 3 of the World Series was delayed – postponed by rain with the matchup tied 1-1, pushing the entire Fall Classic schedule back one day.
”We waited long enough that we can see on the radar what’s coming,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said. ”We had three, actually four different weather people looking at it. Everyone was consistent about this second wave of rain.”
The rainout moved Game 3 to Tuesday night at Citizens Bank Park, when the weather was supposed to be all clear and first lady Jill Biden had planned to attend Game 4. There was a smattering of boos at the ballpark when the washout was announced an hour before the scheduled first pitch on Halloween night.
Game 4 will now be played Wednesday and Game 5 is set for the scheduled travel day on Thursday night – Game 5 will compete with the NFL game that has, of all teams, the undefeated Philadelphia Eagles in Houston against the Texans.
There will be a travel day on Friday if necessary. That had been the original date of Game 6.
Game 6 has been rescheduled for Saturday and Game 7 would be Sunday. All games will start at 8:03 p.m. ET.
There has not been a World Series day game since 1987, and it appeared there was little discussion about turning Game 5 on Thursday into a late-afternoon start and keep it away from the NFL as it reigns as a ratings juggernaut. The Eagles-Texans game will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. The World Series airs on Fox.
”For the World Series, an important consideration for us is having the biggest audience we can possibly get, and that’s a prime-time audience. That’s the reality,” Manfred said. ”We think we have a great product that fans want to see. And we’re going to put the games on when it makes sense to play the games and hope to get a good audience.”
Houston right-hander Lance McCullers Jr. is set to pitch against Phillies lefty Ranger Suarez in Game 3. Noah Syndergaard had been scheduled to start for Philadelphia before the rainout.
”It affects both teams. You just have to turn it off, get a good night’s rest and be ready to play tomorrow,” Astros manager Dusty Baker said. ”It’s part of the game. You can’t control the weather, so you just deal with it.”
Phillies manager Rob Thomson was fine with the decision by Major League Baseball to postpone the game.
”Everybody would rather play in dry conditions. It’s going to be fair for everybody,” he said.
For fans, tickets that were good for Monday night now become valid for Tuesday’s game, when the calendar rolls over to November.
Game 1 starter Aaron Nola will start for the Phillies in Game 4 against Cristian Javier. Either Syndergaard or Kyle Gibson will start Game 5 for the Phils. Game 2 starter Zack Wheeler takes the mound for Game 6 on extra rest, setting up Suarez to start a possible Game 7 in Houston.
Thomson felt confident turning to Suarez in Game 7 even though he was roughed up by the Astros for six runs in three innings on Oct. 4 in his final start of the season.
”Some guys get sped up, get a little excited,” Thomson said. ”Some guys, their heartbeat stays the same, and Ranger is one of those guys.”
Phillies righty Kyle Gibson could start Game 5 if the Phillies turn to Syndergaard in the bullpen in either of the next two games. Syndergaard went to the outfield after the postponement for some light long tossing in the rain.
Gibson would be a stretch after he went 10-8 in 31 starts but none since Oct. 1. His only postseason appearance was 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief in Game 2 of the NLCS on Oct. 19 against the Padres. Gibson went 1-3 with a 9.79 ERA over his last six regular-season starts. Thomson said he could get 60-65 pitches out of Gibson.
The Astros and Phillies both worked out on the field Monday before the tarp was put down around 5 p.m. It started to rain about an hour later.
”I’m glad we took some batting practice and played some balls off the wall. That’s their real home-field advantage,” Baker said.
And once again, rain intruded on the World Series in Philly.
In 2008, the clinching Game 5 actually took three days to play. The Phillies and Tampa Bay were tied when the game was suspended and, after steady rain the next day, Philadelphia won the World Series a day after that.
The start of World Series games in Philadelphia in 1993, at Veterans Stadium, and 2009, at Citizens Bank Park, were delayed by rain. This year, the Phillies clinched the NL Championship Series with a win against San Diego on a rainy, gusty Sunday.
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Don Tom Howard
Published 4:02 pm Monday, April 3, 2023
Don Tom Howard, 80, passed away Sunday, March 26, 2023, in Georgetown, Texas.
Don was an educator for 35 years.
He began in Orange as an algebra teacher and then high school counselor. In 1989, he and his wife, Linda Kelly, moved to Round Rock where he soon became an Assistant Superintendent for Round Rock ISD.
He and Linda retired in 1999.
For years, Don and his sail crew (Linda and kids usually) enjoyed sailing out of the Port Arthur Yacht Club, where he served as Commodore and was a multi-year yet controversial Gumbo Cook-Off Champion.
After retirement, he was a long-time member of the Sun City Poker Club, where he enjoyed the friendship of a close group of players.
Don and Linda married on Feb. 29, 1984, and recently celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary (or 9th, depending on how you count Leap Year…).
Family, friends and former students will remember him as always witty and kind.
Don earned his bachelor’s in Mathematics from Lamar University and then later a master’s in Counseling from Lamar.
He earned a second master’s in School Administration from Stephen F. Austin University and a School Superintendency Certificate from Southwest Texas University.
Don was born in Beaumont in 1942 to parents William and Jacqueline Howard. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother Tim Howard.
He is survived by his wife, Linda Kelly of Georgetown; his son Michael Howard and wife Alicia of Jupiter, Florida; and his daughter Gina Farrell and husband Tim of San Antonio.
He has four grandchildren, Ellie Howard of Seattle, Washington; Jamie Howard of Jupiter, Aidan Farrell and Keagan Farrell, both of San Antonio.
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Ukrainians plead for Mariupol rescue; Russian advance crawls
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces fought village by village Saturday to hold back a Russian advance through the country’s east, while the United Nations worked to broker a civilian evacuation from the last defensive stronghold in the bombed-out ruins of the port city of Mariupol.
An estimated 100,000 civilians remain in the city, and up to 1,000 are living beneath a sprawling Soviet-era steel plant, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine has not said how many fighters are also in the plant, the only part of Mariupol not occupied by Russian forces, but Russia put the number at about 2,000.
Russian state media outlets reported Saturday that 25 civilians had been evacuated from the Azovstal steelworks, though there was no confirmation from the U.N. Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency said 19 adults and six children were brought out, but gave no further details.
A top official with the Azov Regiment, the Ukrainian unit defending the plant, said 20 civilians were evacuated during a cease-fire, though it was not clear if he was referring to the same group as the Russian news reports.
“These are women and children,” Sviatoslav Palamar said in a video posted on the regiment’s Telegram channel. He also called for the evacuation of the wounded: “We don’t know why they are not taken away and their evacuation to the territory controlled by Ukraine is not being discussed.”
Video and images from inside the plant, shared with The Associated Press by two Ukrainian women who said their husbands are among the fighters refusing to surrender there, showed unidentified men with stained bandages; others had open wounds or amputated limbs.
A skeleton medical staff was treating at least 600 wounded people, said the women, who identified their husbands as members of the Azov Regiment of Ukraine’s National Guard. Some of the wounds were rotting with gangrene, they said.
In the video the men said that they eat just once daily and share as little as 1.5 liters (50 ounces) of water a day among four people, and that supplies inside the besieged facility are depleted.
One shirtless man appeared to be in pain as he described his wounds: two broken ribs, a punctured lung and a dislocated arm that “was hanging on the flesh.”
“I want to tell everyone who sees this: If you will not stop this here, in Ukraine, it will go further, to Europe,” he said.
AP could not independently verify the date and location of the video, which the women said was taken in the last week in the maze of corridors and bunkers beneath the plant.
The women urged that Ukrainian fighters also be evacuated alongside civilians, warning they could be tortured and executed if captured. “The lives of soldiers matter too,” Yuliia Fedusiuk told AP in Rome.
In his nightly video address late Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy switched into Russian to urge Russian troops not to fight in Ukraine, saying even their generals expect that thousands more of them will die.
The president accused Moscow of recruiting new soldiers “with little motivation and little combat experience” so that units gutted early in the war can be thrown back into battle.
“Every Russian soldier can still save his own life,” Zelenskyy said. “It’s better for you to survive in Russia than to perish on our land.”
In other developments:
— Ukrainian Deputy Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotsky said in televised remarks that Russian forces have seized hundreds of thousands of tons of grain in territory under their control. Ukraine is a major grain producer, and the invasion has pushed up world prices and raised concerns about shortages.
— A Russian rocket attack destroyed the airport runway in Odesa, Ukraine’s third-most populous city and a key Black Sea port, the Ukrainian army said.
— The bodies of three men were found buried in a forest near the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, the head of Kyiv’s regional police force said. The men, whose bodies were found Friday, had been tortured before they were shot in the head, Andriy Nebytov wrote on Facebook. Ukrainian officials have alleged that retreating Russian troops carried out mass killings of civilians in Bucha.
— Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview that Russian and Ukrainian negotiators talk “almost every day.” However, he told Chinese state news agency Xinhua, “progress has not been easy.”
— Two buses sent to evacuate residents from the eastern town of Popasna were fired upon, and contact with the organizers was lost, Mayor Nikolai Khanatov said: “We know that (the buses) reached the town and then came under fire from an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group.”
Getting a full picture of the unfolding battle in eastern Ukraine has been difficult because airstrikes and artillery barrages have made it extremely dangerous for reporters to move around. Also, both Ukraine and Moscow-backed rebels have introduced tight restrictions on reporting from the combat zone.
But Western military analysts suggested that the offensive in the Donbas region, which includes Mariupol, was going much slower than planned. So far, Russian troops and the separatists appeared to have made only minor gains in the month since Moscow said it would focus its military strength in the east.
Numerically, Russia’s military manpower vastly exceeds Ukraine’s. In the days before the war began, Western intelligence estimated Russia had positioned near the border as many as 190,000 troops; Ukraine’s standing military totals about 200,000, spread throughout the country.
Yet, in part because of the tenacity of the Ukrainian resistance, the U.S. believes the Russians are “at least several days behind where they wanted to be” as they try to encircle Ukrainian troops in the east, said a senior U.S. defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the American military’s assessment.
With plenty of firepower still in reserve, Russia’s offensive still could intensify and overrun the Ukrainians. Overall the Russian army has an estimated 900,000 active-duty personnel. Russia also has a much larger air force and navy.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance has flowed into Ukraine since the war began, but Russia’s vast armories mean Ukraine’s needs are nearly inexhaustible.
Mariupol officials have described dire shortages of food, water and medicine. U.N. humanitarian spokesman Saviano Abreu said the world organization was negotiating with authorities in Moscow and Kyiv, but he could not provide details of the ongoing evacuation effort “because of the complexity and fluidity of the operation.”
“There is, right now, ongoing, high-level engagements with all the governments, Russia and Ukraine, to make sure that you can save civilians and support the evacuation of civilians from the plant,” Abreu told AP. He would not confirm video posted on social media purportedly showing U.N.-marked vehicles in Mariupol.
Ukraine has blamed the failure of numerous previous evacuation attempts on continued Russian shelling.
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Associated Press journalists Jon Gambrell and Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Mstyslav Chernov in Kharkiv, Yesica Fisch in Sloviansk, Lolita C. Baldor in Washington, Trisha Thompson in Rome and AP staff around the world contributed to this report.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that he wants Mississippi’s capital city to receive “its fair share” of federal money to repair a troubled water system that left homes and businesses without running water for several days.
Even with water flowing from taps and people again able to flush toilets this week, Jackson lacks safe drinking water. The city of 150,000 is in the sixth week of a boil-water advisory from the state health department because of concerns that low pressure could allow contaminants into the water.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan was in Jackson to meet with residents and state and local elected officials Wednesday. He touted the $1 trillion federal infrastructure law that President Joe Biden signed in November.
Mississippi is set to receive more than $4 billion from the law, with most of the money designated for highways and bridges, the White House said. The state’s allocation includes $429 million over five years to improve water systems.
“It’s our desire that the city of Jackson gets its fair share,” Regan said during a meeting with community leaders. “It’s our desire that the city of Jackson doesn’t have to live with what you all have lived with for far too long.”
Jackson’s main water-treatment plant malfunctioned in late August after torrential rain caused flooding along the Pearl River. The influx altered the quality of the raw water entering the plant from a reservoir. That slowed the treatment process, depleted supplies in water tanks and caused a dangerous drop in pressure.
But even before the rainfall, officials said some water pumps had failed and a treatment plant was using backup pumps. A rental pump was installed last week, and the system’s water pressure is back to normal.
Groups are distributing bottled water at drive-thru sites, and restaurants are bringing tanks of clean water from suburbs.
About 25% of Jackson’s residents live in poverty, and the city’s tax base has declined with a sharp decrease in population since 1980 — a change that happened along with mostly white flight that started about a decade after public schools began integrating in 1970.
Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson sat with Regan at the community meeting and toured Jackson’s main water plant with the administrator, Gov. Tate Reeves and Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba. Other members of Mississippi’s congressional delegation also participated in meetings with them about short-term and long-term solutions for the city’s water problems.
“We do know that will require all of us working together to cut through the bureaucracy,” Regan said during a news conference at Jackson State University.
Thompson pointed out during the community meeting that Regan is from North Carolina, which also has a large Black population.
“He understands the challenges, especially (for) communities of color,” said Thompson, the only Black member of Mississippi’s congressional delegation. “Under this current administration, they have taken the fact that many of these communities have been underserved by its government and tried to right the ship.”
Jackson’s water system has been fragile for years, with officials warning that widespread loss of service was possible. A cold snap in 2021 froze pipes and some water treatment equipment, leaving tens of thousands of people without running water. Similar problems happened again early this year, on a smaller scale. The EPA also told Jackson months ago that its water system violates the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-epa-leader-jackson-needs-fair-share-of-money-to-fix-water/ | 2022-09-08 20:48:36 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-epa-leader-jackson-needs-fair-share-of-money-to-fix-water/ |
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WASHINGTON — The fast-changing coronavirus has kicked off summer in the U.S. with lots of infections but relatively few deaths compared to its prior incarnations.
COVID-19 is still killing hundreds of Americans each day, but it is not nearly as dangerous as it was last fall and winter.
“It’s going to be a good summer and we deserve this break,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle.
With more Americans shielded from severe illness through vaccination and infection, COVID-19 has transformed — for now at least — into an unpleasant, inconvenient nuisance for many.
“It feels cautiously good right now,” said Dr. Dan Kaul, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. “For the first time that I can remember, pretty much since it started, we don’t have any (COVID-19) patients in the ICU.”
As the nation marks July Fourth, the average number of daily deaths from COVID-19 in the United States is hovering around 360. Last year, during a similar summer lull, it was around 228 in early July. That remains the lowest threshold in U.S. daily deaths since March 2020, when the virus first began its U.S. spread.
But there were far fewer reported cases at this time last year — fewer than 20,000 a day. Now, it’s about 109,000 — and likely an undercount as home tests aren’t routinely reported.
Today, in the third year of the pandemic, it’s easy to feel confused by the mixed picture: Repeat infections are increasingly likely, and a sizeable share of those infected will face the lingering symptoms of long COVID-19.
Yet, the stark danger of death has diminished for many people.
“And that’s because we’re now at a point that everyone’s immune system has seen either the virus or the vaccine two or three times by now,” said Dr. David Dowdy, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Over time, the body learns not to overreact when it sees this virus.”
“What we’re seeing is that people are getting less and less ill on average,” Dowdy said.
As many as 8 out of 10 people in the U.S. have been infected at least once, according to one influential model.
The death rate for COVID-19 has been a moving target, but recently has fallen to within the range of an average flu season, according to data analyzed by Arizona State University health industry researcher Mara Aspinall.
At first, some people said coronavirus was no more deadly than the flu, "and for a long period of time, that wasn’t true,” Aspinall said. Back then, people had no immunity. Treatments were experimental. Vaccines didn’t exist.
Now, Aspinall said, the built-up immunity has driven down the death rate to solidly in the range of a typical flu season. Over the past decade, the death rate for flu was about 5% to 13% of those hospitalized.
Big differences separate flu from COVID-19: The behavior of the coronavirus continues to surprise health experts and it’s still unclear whether it will settle into a flu-like seasonal pattern.
Last summer — when vaccinations first became widely available in the U.S. — was followed by the delta surge and then the arrival of omicron, which killed 2,600 Americans a day at its peak last February.
Experts agree a new variant might arise capable of escaping the population’s built-up immunity. And the fast-spreading omicron subtypes BA.4 and BA.5 might also contribute to a change in the death numbers.
“We thought we understood it until these new subvariants emerged,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious disease specialist at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas.
It would be wise, he said, to assume that a new variant will come along and hit the nation later this summer.
“And then another late fall-winter wave,” Hotez said.
In the next weeks, deaths could edge up in many states, but the U.S. as a whole is likely to see deaths decline slightly, said Nicholas Reich, who aggregates coronavirus projections for the COVID-19 Forecast Hub in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We’ve seen COVID hospitalizations increase to around 5,000 new admissions each day from just over 1,000 in early April. But deaths due to COVID have only increased slightly over the same time period,” said Reich, a professor of biostatistics at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Unvaccinated people have a six times higher risk of dying from COVID-19 compared with people with at least a primary series of shots, the CDC estimated based on available data from April.
This summer, consider your own vulnerability and that of those around you, especially in large gatherings since the virus is spreading so rapidly, Dowdy said.
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Trump described Pentagon plan of attack, shared classified map: indictment
MIAMI - Former President Donald Trump is facing 37 felony charges related to the mishandling of classified documents.
That's according to an indictment unsealed Friday that also alleges that he described a Pentagon "plan of attack" and shared a classified map related to a military operation.
Trump is accused of keeping documents related to "nuclear weaponry in the United States" and the "nuclear capabilities of a foreign country," along with documents from White House intelligence briefings, including some that detail the military capabilities of the U.S. and other countries, according to the indictment.
Former President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower on May 31, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney/GC Images)
Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the DOJ investigation, is expected to make remarks about the case at 3 p.m. ET Friday. You can watch it live in the player above.
Read the PDF of Trump's indictment
Charged alongside with Trump was Walt Nauta, a Trump aide who was seen on surveillance camera removing boxes at Mar-a-Lago.
READ MORE: Trump indictment in classified documents case is historic first for former president
The indictment alleges that Nauta acted "at Trump’s direction" to move "approximately 64 boxes" of documents from the Mar-a-Lago storage room to the former president’s residence. Nauta’s actions occurred between May 23, 2022, and June 2, 2022, according to the indictment.
That total includes "approximately 30 boxes" Nauta allegedly moved on June 2, the same day Trump’s legal team was expected to examine the cache. Nauta’s actions that day came hours after he talked briefly via phone with Trump, prosecutors allege. Neither Trump nor Nauta, according to the indictment, disclosed to the former president’s attorneys that Nauta had moved any of the storage room contents.
According to prosecutors’ timeline, Trump met later that day with one of his attorneys and Nauta escorted the attorney to the storage room for his review of the documents.
The indictment unsealed Friday also says that, unaware of any records being moved, Trump’s attorney on June 2, 2022, identified 38 documents with "classified" markings and placed them in a folder, which he sealed with clear duct tape handed to him by Trump valet Walt Nauta. The valet then took the attorney to see the former president.
"Did you find anything? Is it bad? ... Is it good?" Trump asked his lawyer.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen on June 08, 2023 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
The attorney told federal authorities that he discussed the folder of classified material with Trump and how the material should be handled. The attorney told authorities that as they discussed the attorney taking the materials with him, Trump gestured in a way that suggested he wanted the attorney to identify "anything really bad" and "you know, pluck it out." The lawyer clarified that Trump did not articulate such instructions beyond making that "plucking motion."
The attorney told authorities that he did not take anything out of the folder and that he instead immediately contacted the FBI and another Trump attorney. On June 3, according to the indictment, the second Trump attorney acted as the official custodian of records on Trump’s behalf and turned the material to the FBI.
Prosecutor also allege that after leaving office in 2021, the former president showed someone working for his political action committee a map that detailed a military operation in a foreign country, prosecutors allege in the document. On another occasion that year, Trump showed a writer, a publisher and two of his staffers — none of whom had security clearances — a military plan of attack.
Trump said he’d been summoned to appear in court Tuesday in Miami. It wasn’t immediately clear what the procedure would look like.
The indictment alleges Trump kept classified documents in the bathroom and shower at his Florida estate, as well as various other locations that included a ballroom, storeroom, office and bedroom.
Prosecutors noted that "tens of thousands of members and guests" visited the "active social club" of Mar-a-Lago between the end of Trump’s presidency in January 2021 through the August 2022 search. They argued that "nonetheless" Trump stored documents "in a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, and office space, his bedroom, and a storage room."
Former US President Donald Trump speaks during a visit to a Team Trump Volunteer Leadership Training, at the Grimes Community Complex in Grimes, Iowa, US, on Thursday, June 1, 2023. The former presidents latest indictment has been unsealed. Photograp
The indictment claims that, for a two-month period between January and March 15, some of Trump’s boxes were stored in one of Mar-a-Lago’s gilded ballroom. A picture included in the indictment shows boxes stacked in rows on the ballroom’s stage.
The indictment also shows photographs of boxes that spilled over in the storage room, including a document marked SECRET/REL TO USA, FVEY" which means information releasable only to members of the intelligence alliance of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. In the photo the classified document is redacted.
The indictment carries unmistakably grave legal consequences, including the possibility of prison if Trump's convicted. The top charges carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
But it also has enormous political implications, potentially upending a Republican presidential primary that Trump had been dominating and testing anew the willingness of GOP voters and party leaders to stick with a now twice-indicted candidate who could face still more charges. And it sets the stage for a sensational trial centered on claims that a man once entrusted to safeguard the nation's most closely-guarded secrets willfully, and illegally, hoarded sensitive national security information after leaving office.
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Within minutes of his announcement, Trump began fundraising off it for his presidential campaign. He declared his innocence in a video and repeated his familiar refrain that the investigation is a "witch hunt." He said he was due in court Tuesday afternoon in Miami, where a federal grand jury had been hearing testimony as recently as this week.
Trump has already been indicted in New York and faces additional investigations in Washington and Atlanta that also could lead to criminal charges.
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Celtics vs. 76ers Injury Report Today - May 3
See the injury report for the Boston Celtics (57-25), which currently has just one player listed, as the Celtics ready for their NBA playoffs second round game 2 with the Philadelphia 76ers (54-28) at TD Garden on Wednesday, May 3 at 8:00 PM ET.
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Celtics vs. 76ers Game Info
- When: Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET
- Where: TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts
- TV: TNT
Celtics Season Insights
- The Celtics average seven more points per game (117.9) than the 76ers allow (110.9).
- Boston is 48-12 when scoring more than 110.9 points.
- The Celtics have seen an uptick in scoring lately, racking up 118 points per game in their last 10 outings, 0.1 points more than the 117.9 they've scored this season.
- Boston makes 16 three-pointers per game (second-most in the league) at a 37.6% rate (sixth-best in the NBA), compared to the 11.6 per game its opponents make at a 34.5% rate.
- The Celtics rank third in the NBA with 115.7 points scored per 100 possessions, and third in the league defensively with 108.8 points conceded per 100 possessions.
76ers Season Insights
- The 76ers put up only 3.8 more points per game (115.2) than the Celtics give up (111.4).
- Philadelphia is 43-7 when it scores more than 111.4 points.
- Over their previous 10 games, the 76ers are posting 111.2 points per game, four fewer points than their season average (115.2).
- Philadelphia knocks down 12.6 three-pointers per game (11th in the league) compared to its opponents' 11.6. It shoots 38.7% from deep, and its opponents shoot 34.8%.
- The 76ers' 115.5 points per 100 possessions on offense rank fourth in the NBA, and the 110.3 points they allow per 100 possessions rank eighth in the league.
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If you think New York City's rat problem is bad, don't head to the midwest.
Pest control company Orkin released its list of the "rattiest" cities in the U.S., and while NYC did move up the list (not a list anyone wants to move up, mind you), another city has now captured the crown eight years in a row. That dubious distinction goes to Chicago, which has taken the top spot every year since 2015.
But that's about where the good news for the Big Apple ends, as the city did move up to the second spot on the list, swapping spots with Los Angeles, which fell to No. 3.
There was a newcomer to the top 20 this year, and it's a city not too far away. Hartford, Connecticut, came in at 19, while three other New York cities made the top 50: Albany (34), Buffalo (39) and Syracuse (42).
Orkin ranked metro regions by the number of new rodent treatments performed from September 1, 2021, to August 31, 2022. This ranking includes both residential and commercial treatments.
"Rodent infestations are among the top pest issues of the fall and winter seasons," said Ben Hottel, an Orkin entomologist. "Not only are mice and rats a nuisance, but they are known to spread a variety of dangerous diseases, including Salmonella and Hantavirus."
The high ranking for NYC shouldn't come as a surprise to many. According to new government data, rat sightings across the city have increased by 71 percent since this time in 2020. By the end of September, there were more than 21,000 reports.
Rat complaints initially spiked in 2021, the New York Daily News reported, with many blaming their population surge on the outdoor dining structures that had been built amid the pandemic. But even as some restaurants have reeled in their outdoor dining sheds, the problem with the vermin has not gone away.
Over the summer, New York City Council members presented a five-point "rat action plan" to solve the issue, which includes rat-proof trash bins. It's expected to pass sometime in October.
The Department of Sanitation also pitched an idea in July: changing the times trash is hitting the curbs at night, so the waste is not out as long and giving rodents less time to smell and go after it.
Currently, garbage can go to the curb at 4 p.m. the day before it is scheduled for collection. But the DSNY wants New Yorkers to start putting out their trash later at night, around 8 p.m.
Their idea does come with an exception: If the refuse goes into a can or bin, it could be put out a little earlier, at 6 p.m. The department believes that by limiting the amount of time the garbage is out on the street, the rats will be seen less and have less access to food. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/these-are-the-rattiest-cities-in-america-and-somehow-nyc-is-still-not-1/3915169/ | 2022-10-20 08:42:27 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/these-are-the-rattiest-cities-in-america-and-somehow-nyc-is-still-not-1/3915169/ |
- ARDS-003 is a novel therapeutic for acute systemic inflammation and prevention of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
- ARDS-003 may offer steroid-sparing opportunities.
- ARDS-003 has demonstrated antiviral properties.
- ARDS-003 developed as an oral formulation for an immediate release administration.
OTTAWA, ON, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Tetra Bio-Pharma Inc. ("Tetra" or the "Company") (TSX: TBP) (OTCQB: TBPMF) (FRA: JAM1), a leader in cannabinoid-derived drug discovery and development announced today new positive preclinical results from live SARS-CoV-2 virus infection studies as well as a septic lung model, carried out by independent researchers.
These studies explored the potential of ARDS-003 to increase survival metrics following SARS-CoV-2 infection in the humanized ACE2 mouse model. Secondary outcomes evaluated ARDS-003 against an antiviral drug, a clinical standard of care therapeutic used for patients with COVID, in SARS-CoV-2 infected animals. Results indicate that compared to placebo, ARDS-003 dose dependently reduced signs of morbidity and mortality, including respiratory distress. ARDS-003 also outperformed the antiviral drug in reducing multiple proinflammatory mediators (i.e., cytokines) involved in hyperinflammation and immune system dysfunction following viral infection.
Using a recent septic lung model, the administration of ARDS-003 produced a significant reduction of systemic cytokine/chemokine release. In addition, lung histology was improved, peripheral immune hyper activation was reduced, and there was an improvement in capillary perfusion in lung tissue compared to controls. An additional study evaluated in vitro viral infectivity and demonstrated dose dependent inhibition of viral replication.
Guy Chamberland, CEO and CRO at Tetra commented "ARDS-003 is a clinical stage asset that has a huge potential as it is focused on developing novel treatments for unmet medical needs, such as lung inflammation, viral encephalitis, and brain inflammation conditions."
Further to the ARDS-003 injection formulation, Tetra's research team has developed an oral formulation using its proprietary technology for an immediate release administration that can be administered for longer term care in an outpatient setting. ARDS-003 has the potential to reduce the cytokine storm associated with CAR T immunotherapy complications and has been shown to have synergistic antiviral effects in several viral in vivo infection models.
Dr. Chamberland further commented "ARDS-003, for example, could be used as an adjunct to Paxlovid or other antivirals to help reduce the morbidities associated with prolonged infection by SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses. In the case of COVID, the treatment period with ARDS-003 could be extended to continue to improve clinical outcome and prevent the rebound effect observed in immunocompromised patients receiving existing antivirals."
ARDS-003 is a novel First in Human (FIH) drug product containing the active pharmaceutical agent, Onternabez, a potent and selective full agonist of the type 2 cannabinoid receptor (CB2R), an important immunomodulatory target. ARDS-003 is positioned to modulate acute systemic inflammation and prevent Sepsis, ARDS, and organ damage - ARDS represents the severe end of lung dysfunction resulting from systemic inflammation secondary to infectious or non-infectious clinical insult (McIntosh, 2020). While the clinical profile of ARDS arising from viral (COVID) or bacterial Sepsis can vary, hyperinflammation involving a dysfunctional immune response is a common mediator of lung damage. Tetra's preclinical studies have demonstrated that ARDS-003 decreases this hyperinflammatory response and slows disease progression.
Tetra Bio-Pharma (TSX: TBP) (OTCQB: TBPMF) (FRA: JAM1) is a leader in cannabinoid-derived drug discovery and development with a FDA and a Health Canada cleared clinical program aimed at bringing novel prescription drugs and treatments to patients and their healthcare providers. Their evidence-based scientific approach has enabled them to develop a pipeline of cannabinoid-based drug products for a range of medical conditions, including pain, inflammation, and oncology. With patients at the core of what they do, Tetra Bio-Pharma is focused on providing rigorous scientific validation and safety data required for inclusion into the existing biopharma industry by regulators, physicians and insurance companies.
For more information visit: www.tetrabiopharma.com
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Some statements in this release may contain forward-looking information. All statements, other than of historical fact, that address activities, events or developments that the Company believes, expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future (including, without limitation, statements regarding potential acquisitions and financings) are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by use of the words "may", "will", "should", "continue", "expect", "anticipate", "estimate", "believe", "intend", "plan" or "project" or the negative of these words or other variations on these words or comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's ability to control or predict, that may cause the actual results of the Company to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations include, among other things, without limitation, the inability of the Company to obtain sufficient financing to execute the Company's business plan; competition; regulation and anticipated and unanticipated costs and delays, the success of the Company's research and development strategies, including the success of this product or any other product, the applicability of the discoveries made therein, the successful and timely completion and uncertainties related to the regulatory process, the timing of clinical trials, the timing and outcomes of regulatory or intellectual property decisions and other risks disclosed in the Company's public disclosure record on file with the relevant securities regulatory authorities. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results or events not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included in this news release are made as of the date of this news release and the Company does not undertake an obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect new information, subsequent events or otherwise unless required by applicable securities legislation.
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- Steeper Energy (Steeper) and Topsoe sign a global licensing agreement for Steeper's Hydrofaction® technology, enabling Topsoe to offer a complete waste-to-fuel solution.
- The agreement grants Topsoe the right to sublicense Steeper's Hydrofaction® technology, used for converting biomass to renewable biocrude oil.
- The agreement accelerates the deployment of advanced biofuels produced from waste biomass such as residues from forestry and agriculture. This is a strong pathway to renewable fuels for the transportation sector including road, aviation and shipping.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Topsoe, a global leader in carbon emission reduction technologies, and Steeper, a pioneer within biomass conversion technologies, have today signed a global licensing agreement for a complete waste-to-fuel solution. The agreement combines Topsoe's unique technologies in renewable fuels and hydrogen production as well as decades of experience in engineering, with Steeper's proprietary Hydrofaction® technology and industry know-how.
With the agreement, Topsoe will be able to provide a complete waste-to-fuel technology solution and at the same time a one-stop solution for refineries, project developers, and industries having access to excess waste biomass. The end-products include Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), marine biofuel, and renewable diesel from waste biomass.
Peter Vang Christensen, Senior Vice President, Clean Fuels & Chemicals – Technology, Topsoe, said:
"We are excited to work with Steeper and to combine our technological capabilities. This will make it easier for refineries and project developers to access the technology they need for advanced biofuels. It will also allow them to access new renewable feedstocks while supporting decarbonization of the transportation sector, not least aviation and shipping."
Bevan May, President, Steeper Energy, said:
"Steeper recognizes Topsoe as a world leader in developing and implementing renewable refining technologies. Steeper's Hydrofaction® process, when combined with Topsoe's technology, completes the pathway from biomass waste to drop-in liquid fuels and is compatible with existing refining infrastructure. This reduces capital requirements and allows for the accelerated deployment of these solutions. We are excited to combine our efforts with Topsoe and bring our joint solution to the renewable liquid fuels market."
Steeper's Hydrofaction® has been validated through various stages of continuous pilot and demonstration-scale plant operations over the past 10 years.
With this agreement, the parties are working towards the first commercial scale deployment of Hydrofaction® technology.
What is Hydrothermal liquefaction
Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) applies supercritical water as a reaction medium for the conversion of biomass directly into a high-energy density renewable biocrude oil. Steeper's unique process mimics and accelerates nature by subjecting wet biomass to heat and high pressure. The process conditions are carefully chosen to promote reaction pathways that favor high yields of high-quality renewable oil. With Steeper's Hydrofaction® technology it is possible to convert up to 85% of incoming biomass on an energy basis, making it one of the most effective conversion technologies available.
About Topsoe
Founded in 1940, Topsoe is a leading global developer and supplier of decarbonization technology, catalysts, and services for the energy transition.
Our mission is to combat climate change by helping our partners and customers achieve their decarbonization and emission-reduction targets, including those in hard-to-abate sectors such as aviation, shipping, and the production of raw materials. From carbon reduction chemicals to renewable fuels and plastic upcycling, we are uniquely positioned to aid humanity in realizing a sustainable future.
Topsoe is headquartered in Denmark, with over 2,100 employees serving customers all around the globe. To learn more, visit www.topsoe.com.
About Steeper Energy
Steeper Energy was founded in 2011 and is backed by TOM Capital. Steeper today engages a team of scientists, engineers, and support staff advancing Steeper's core technologies and supporting the build-out of commercial projects. Steeper is headquartered in Denmark and has locations in Canada. TOM Capital is a Canadian-based private equity firm with investments in numerous industries.
To learn more about TOM Capital or Steeper Energy, visit www.tomcapital.com or www.steeperenergy.com respectively.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Willie Anderson is among the many coaches and mentors to help Paris Johnson Jr. advance to the point he is considered an elite NFL offensive tackle prospect.
“I’ve been working with Willie Anderson since I was a sophomore in high school,” the Ohio State graduate said Saturday at the NFL Scouting Combine,” since I first told my head coach in high school I was gonna make the transition over to tackle.”
The pairing seems only natural as Johnson is a Cincinnati native who long ago became a rising recruit and Anderson is not only legendary former NFL offensive line but also a former Cincinnati Bengal.
“To me he’s like a family member,” said Johnson, who also praised his mother Monica for the many sacrifices she has made to help him along his journey. “I hit him with all the questions I have about the game, about the transition.”
The 6-foot-6, 313-pound Johnson attended both St. Xavier and Princeton in high school, and he was coached by Greg Strudrawa and Justin Frye at Ohio State, so he has had no shortage of coaches throughout his young career.
He is considered an outstanding athlete of his size, he has also expressed a great interest in the technical aspects of playing tackle, and he said Anderson and Frye emphasize some of the same things.
“So I would say the one big things that I work on with (Anderson) a lot are individual hands, and that’s something that also coach Frye brought to Ohio State so it was kind of perfect,” Johnson said. “It’s kind of perfect that I’m working individual hands and individual feet with coach Frye and then Willie Anderson. His technique and all that stuff mirrors the same thing so I’m able to bring it to practice. I’m able to receive the same coaching, the same support that the team has, which is awesome.”
Anderson was a standout at Auburn before the Bengals chose him with No. 10 pick in the 1996 draft.
He was a first-team All-Pro pick three times, already has been inducted into the Bengals Ring of Honor and was a semifinalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2023.
The Bengals likely could use help at tackle in the early rounds of the draft in April, but Johnson likely will be chosen before they are are on the clock at No. 28.
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(NEXSTAR) – Celine Dion revealed to her fans Thursday she has been diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that affects about 1 or 2 people per million, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
The disease “is characterized by fluctuating muscle rigidity in the trunk and limbs and a heightened sensitivity to stimuli such as noise, touch, and emotional distress, which can set off muscle spasms,” according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
People with stiff-person syndrome often have a hunched-over or stiff posture, and may have trouble walking or moving. Some people may be “afraid to leave the house because street noises, such as the sound of a horn, can trigger spasms and falls,” NINDS explains.
Without “normal defensive reflexes,” people with stiff-person syndrome often suffer falls, and can injure themselves easily.
Choking back tears, Dion said her condition is forcing her to postpone shows scheduled for spring 2023.
“I wasn’t ready to say anything before, but I’m ready now. I’ve been dealing with problems with my health for a long time, and it’s been really difficult for me to face these challenges and to talk about everything that I’ve been going through,” the Canadian singer said before revealing her diagnosis. “We now know this is what’s been causing all of the spasms that I’ve been having.”
Dion said the spasms affect “every aspect” of her life, making it hard for her to walk and even sing. “I always give 100% when I do my shows, but my condition is not allowing me to give you that right now,” she said.
The syndrome occurs about twice as often in women as in men, according to NINDS, though occurs in very small numbers overall. The cause isn’t yet understood, but research suggests it may be an autoimmune issue in the brain and spinal cord.
NINDS says the rare condition is often misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s or multiple sclerosis, among other diseases.
It can be treated with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg), muscle relaxants and pain relievers, but there is no known cure.
“I have to admit it’s been a struggle,” Dion said. “All I know is that singing is what I’ve done all my life and it’s what I love to do the most.”
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Ronald Polite helped lead George Mason past Queens on Saturday with 16 points off of the bench in a 72-65 victory.
Polite was 6 of 11 shooting, including 1 for 4 from distance, and went 3 for 3 from the line for the Patriots (3-4). Josh Oduro scored 15 points and added eight rebounds.
BJ McLaurin finished with 16 points and seven rebounds for the Royals (5-2). Jay'Den Turner and Kalib Mathews each had 13 points.
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White House: North Korea covertly shipping artillery to Russia
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Wednesday accused North Korea of covertly shipping a “significant number” of artillery shells to Russia in support of its invasion of Ukraine.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. believes North Korea is “trying to make it appear as though they’re being sent to countries in the Middle East or North Africa.” He declined to provide a specific estimate on the quantity of ammunition being sent to bolster the Russian effort.
Kirby said North Korea “is covertly supplying” the ammunition to Russia, but that, “we’re still monitoring this to determine whether the shipments are actually received.” He added that the U.S. has “an idea” of which country or countries the North may funnel the weapons through but wouldn’t specify, because the administration continues to look at how it might respond to North Korea’s actions.
Kirby insisted that the North Korean shipments are “not going to change the course of the war,” citing Western efforts to resupply the Ukrainian military.
The White House would not specify the mode of transportation or whether the U.S. or other nations would attempt to interdict the shipments to Russia.
The White House revealed the new intelligence nearly two months after first alleging that U.S. intelligence officials had determined Russian Ministry of Defense was in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea for its ongoing fight in Ukraine.
Even as the administration revealed information about the covert North Korean artillery shell shipments, the White House also ought to downplay its significance.
“We don’t believe that they are in such a quantity that they would change the direction of this war or tangibly change the momentum either in the East or in the South” where some of the heaviest fighting in Ukraine is taking place, Kirby said.
The finding comes after after the Biden administration in August said that the Russian military in August took delivery of hundreds Iranian-manufactured drones for use on the battlefield in Ukraine. The Biden administration says that Iran has also sent personnel to Russian-controlled Crimea to provide technical support to the Russians on operation of the drones. Iranian officials have denied they have provided drones or other support to Russia.
North Korea has sought to tighten relations with Russia as much of Europe and the West has pulled away, blaming the United States for the Ukraine crisis and decrying the West’s “hegemonic policy” as justifying military action by Russia in Ukraine to protect itself.
The North Koreans have shown interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in the country’s east.
North Korea’s ambassador to Moscow has met with envoys from two Russia-backed separatist territories in the Donbas region of Ukraine and expressed optimism about cooperation in the “field of labor migration,” citing his country’s easing of pandemic border controls.
In July, North Korea became the only nation aside from Russia and Syria to recognize the independence of the territories, Donetsk and Luhansk, further aligning with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.
The North’s arms export to Russia would be a violation of U.N. resolutions that ban the country from exporting to or importing weapons from other countries. Its possible dispatch of laborers to the Russian-held territories in Ukraine would also breach a U.N. resolution that required all member states to repatriate all North Korean workers from their soil by 2019.
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DENVER (KDVR) — A Denver Broncos player is suing the NFL, Los Angeles Chargers and SoFi Stadium after he was injured during a game. He’s now claiming negligence on the parties involved.
The suit was filed Tuesday morning in the state of California by William M. Berman who is the attorney for Broncos outside linebacker Aaron Patrick. In addition to the league and team named in the suit, several other defendants are listed including ESPN and Kroenke Sports and Entertainment (also named in the lawsuit for its part in building the stadium).
The incident took place during a Monday Night Football game on Oct. 17 when Patrick tore his ACL after tackling Chargers punt returner DeAndre Carter.
As a result of the play, Patrick ended up on the sidelines where the lawsuit says he made contact with the NFL’s TV liaison and rolled his foot on one of the mats covering cables leading to the NFL’s instant replay monitor.
Patrick’s agent told NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero that Patrick’s cleat became “lodged in the carpet trying to avoid the media person.”
The suit states, “the defendants were negligent in their operations of SOFI STADIUM in allowing a dangerous condition to exist by having three mats placed near the sideline to cover cords/cables that led to the feed for the instant NFL’s replay monitor.”
Patrick suffered a season-ending injury and is seeking restitution for earnings he lost, bonuses he won’t qualify for, personal medical expenses and pain and suffering damages.
What Patrick’s lawyer said about the incident
“Player safety should be the foremost of importance to the NFL and its owners,” Berman said in a statement. “The NFL is a multi-billion-dollar sports enterprise and business, and it needs to do everything possible to protect its players from non-contact game injuries. As for Patrick’s injuries, Sofi Stadium was built at a $5,000,000,000 expense; the stadium should have the state-of-the-art equipment to protect for player safety, and not use the type of $100 mats that you would expect to see in a restaurant kitchen.”
You can read the full lawsuit below.
Berman cited a similar lawsuit filed and won by former NFL running back Reggie Bush when his season was cut short after tearing his lateral meniscus following a slip on a concrete surface at Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri against the Rams during the 2015-16 season. Bush won $12,450,000 in damages from the lawsuit.
“We take issue with the fact that the ‘Green Hat’ was out of position,” Berman told Nexstar’s KSWB Tuesday. “Curiously, he runs directly into the play rather than away from the play. And then we have the issue of player safety with regards to the mat and the cables being where they’re located, running wires out to the instant replay monitor, which is just at about the white lines between the out of bounds and the sidelines. So, there are several issues here and it goes to player safety, goes directly towards putting player safety first and foremost.”
“As this is pending litigation, we will refrain from comment,” a spokesperson from the L.A. Chargers said.
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged higher, but were unsettled in afternoon trading on Wall Street Monday as campaigning winds down for midterm elections in the U.S. that will determine which party controls Congress.
The S&P 500 rose 0.3% as of 1:27 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 286 points, or 0.9%, to 32,690 and the Nasdaq rose 0.1%.
Apple fell 1% after the company warned customers they’ll have to wait longer to get the latest iPhones after anti-virus restrictions were imposed on a contractor’s factory in China. Facebook’s parent company rose 5% after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company plans to make a big round of layoffs this week.
Cruise lines and other travel-related companies fell. Norwegian Cruise Line, which reports financial results Tuesday, slipped 2.9%.
Bond yields rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.19% from 4.16% late Friday. The yield on the two-year Treasury rose to 4.72% from 4.66%.
Tuesday’s election will decide control of Congress and key governorships. History suggests the party in power may suffer losses in the midterms, and decades-high inflation has become a significant issue for the Democrats.
Stubbornly hot inflation and the Federal Reserve’s policy of raising interest rates to fight it remains the big concerns for Wall Street. Investors will get an important update on inflation Thursday when the U.S. government releases its report on consumer prices for October.
The update on prices will show where consumers are getting squeezed by inflation. More importantly, it could give investors more insight into the Fed’s path ahead for fighting inflation, said Keith Buchanan, portfolio manager at Globalt Investments.
“It boils down to one question,” he said. “What impact has the tightening from the Fed had on inflation?”
The central bank has signaled that it might slow the pace of its rate increases as it determines the impact from its policy so far. The Fed has also said that it might have to ultimately raise rates higher than previously anticipated if inflation persists. The policy has raised concerns that the Fed could go too far in slowing the economy and bring on a recession.
“The lags are different each cycle and for different reasons and we just don’t know when the tightening will have the impact that was intended,” Buchanan said.
The latest round of corporate earnings have provided mixed financial results and warnings from companies about inflation’s impact on operations and demand for goods and services. More than 85% of companies in the S&P 500 have reported their latest earnings and overall growth is expected to top out at about 2.7%, according to FactSet.
Cautious and weak forecasts have had their impact on Wall Street’s expectations for the rest of the year. Analysts have sharply cut their earnings growth expectations for the current quarter and now forecast a contraction of about 1.4%. They had forecast growth of more than 8% back in June.
Several big companies will report results this week, including Walt Disney on Tuesday.
Markets gained ground in Asia amid continued speculation of a possible relaxation of China’s zero-COVID strategy, though there has been no official confirmation in China of a major change.
European markets were mostly higher.
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Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contributed to this report.
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Iconic Sporting Goods Manufacturer Expands Product Portfolio to become the 'Official Base of MLB®'
ST. LOUIS, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc. (Rawlings), the Official Baseball, Helmet, Face Guard and Glove of Major League Baseball®, has acquired the Jack Corbett Hollywood Bases brand from Schutt Sports, Inc.® adding field bases and accessories to its list of officially licensed MLB categories. This strengthens Rawlings' deep roots in the sports of baseball and softball while leveraging their expertise creating technologically advanced equipment for the highest level of game play.
"Since our inception in 1887, Rawlings has been intrinsic to the game, so extending our brand to include Jack Corbett Hollywood Bases is a natural fit," said Mike Zlaket, chief executive officer of Rawlings. "Rawlings has a proven track record of producing superior equipment and we are eager to provide the unmatched quality that is synonymous with Rawlings."
This new business venture will enable Rawlings to add another MLB authentic on-field category to its extensive product catalog, resulting in additional opportunities within the memorabilia and collectible markets. The acquisition also ensures a long-term supply of the highest quality bases for use at the Major League level.
Jack Corbett, a former minor league player and manager, developed the Hollywood base design upon realizing bases of the time, filled with dirt, sand or sawdust, were too loose. His innovation added an underground stem to attach to the base for increased stability.
Established in 1887, Rawlings is an innovative leading global brand and manufacturer of premium baseball and softball equipment, including gloves, balls, and protective headwear. Rawlings' unparalleled quality, innovative engineering and expert craftsmanship are the fundamental reasons why more professional athletes, national governing bodies and sports leagues choose Rawlings.
Rawlings is the Official Baseball, Helmet, Face Guard and Glove of Major League Baseball, the Official Baseball of Minor League Baseball and the Official Baseball and Softball of the NCAA and the NAIA. The company is headquartered in St. Louis. For more information, please visit www.Rawlings.com.
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BOISE, Idaho — THIS DAY IN SPORTS…July 13, 2013, 10 years ago today:
In the midst of another mediocre season that almost had him banished to San Francisco’s bullpen, two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum spins the first no-hitter of his career in a 9-0 Giants win at San Diego. Lincecum struck out 13 batters, walked four, and threw a career-high 148 pitches. His gem was saved by a spectacular diving catch in right field by Hunter Pence in the bottom of the eighth inning. Star catcher Buster Posey lifted Lincecum high in the air when the final out was recorded, and the water buckets followed.
Lincecum, a two-time Pac-10 Pitcher of the Year at the University of Washington, burst on the scene as a Giants rookie in 2007 after becoming the Huskies’ first first-round draft pick ever. He got everything out of his wiry frame by employing a wildly convoluted pitching motion. It made it difficult for batters to follow the ball. Lincecum then won the Cy Young in 2008 and 2009 and led the National League in strikeouts three straight seasons from 2008-10. Lincecum won two games for the Giants in the 2010 World Series. At one time, he was described as the Bay Area’s most beloved sports figure since Joe Montana. But off-and-on struggles began in 2012.
“The Freak,” as he was known, tossed another no-hitter against the Padres in 2014, this one at home in San Francisco, but a degenerative condition in both hips had led to a fade in his skills. Lincecum became a free agent after that season and signed with the L.A. Angels in 2016. But he struggled, going 2-6 with a 9.16 ERA in Anaheim in what would be his final big-league season. Lincecum tried to catch on with the Texas Rangers in 2017 but never made it out of Triple-A.
Lincecum remains an all-time Giants icon, though. He struck out 1,127 batters over his first five seasons. Only Tom Seaver struck out more in baseball history. Lincecum logged three World Series titles, the two Cy Youngs, the two no-hitters, and four All-Star appearances. The only other pitchers in major league history to have multiple marks in each category are Justin Verlander and Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax.
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An airplane full of cats that were evacuated from Florida animal shelters landed in Worcester ahead of Hurricane Ian Tuesday morning, according to MSPCA-Angell.
MSPCA-Angell and Northeast Animal Shelter took quick action Monday to organize a next-day flight for 42 cats — ranging from two months to 13 years old — to land at Worcester Regional Airport ahead of the hurricane, which is nearing landfall along southwest Florida, according to Mike Keiley, the MSPCA-Angell director of adoption centers and programs.
“Late last night, we were able to get the pieces in place to get animals to us and then they ended up at the Worcester airport at 10:45 a.m.,” Keiley said. “It was a real emergency preparation — all organic as a result of the news and concerns of the hurricane.”
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The organization had a scheduled cat relocation coming into Worcester from Indiana on Tuesday, but at the last minute redirected them to their Cape Cod adoption center in order to use their largest spaces in Boston and Salem for the Florida cats, Keiley said.
Of the cats rescued, 28 came from the Lee County Domestic Animal Shelter in Fort Myers, Fla., and 14 from the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center in Tampa, Keiley said. The felines will need to serve 48-hour quarantines, with 10 doing so at the MSCPA-Angell Boston adoption center and 32 at Northeast Animal Shelter.
“The way that we handle natural disasters from a relocation standpoint is to take animals that are already up for adoption, in shelters, or homeless and don’t have a person to evacuate with,” Keiley said. “Our main goal is to get those animals up to safe spaces here in Massachusetts.”
Even if the Florida shelters aren’t damaged by the hurricane, the community is going to be in a lot of need post-storm and animals will still be displaced, he said.
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After the 48-hour quarantine period, the cats will be cleared by veterinarians, spayed or neutered if they haven’t been already, and then treated for any ailments they might have, Keiley said. Once they go through these steps, they’ll be ready for new homes.
New Englanders in search of a feline family member can find updates on the MSPCA-Angell Facebook page or take a look at the official adoption websites at mspca.org and northeastanimalshelter.org, according to Keiley.
“We know from being deployed on the ground post-storm with certain winter and ice storms up here that natural disasters are so devastating for everybody involved,” he said. “If we can’t get the animals to safety before the storm, we’ll get them there after the storm.”
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Two highly worthy causes each received $20,000 from the vehicle awards organization
DETROIT, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year (NACTOY) Awards™ announced today it has made donations to two nonprofit organizations in partnership with the Detroit Auto Dealers Association (DADA) as a continuation of its commitment to giving back.
Now in its third year providing charitable donations, NACTOY jurors voted to donate $20,000 to the John Lamm Scholarships and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
The John Lamm Scholarships which support students entering automotive communications, was established in 2020 by the Pebble Beach Concourse d'Elegance in memory of automotive journalist John Lamm. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital derives most of its funding from charitable donations so families don't have to pay for state-of-the-art, life-saving treatment for their children.
"This year, our jurors evaluated four highly worthy charities and voted to select the John Lamm Scholarships for their focus on the next generation of automotive journalists and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in recognition of its tireless efforts for those in need," said NACTOY president Gary Witzenburg. "As professional journalists, we are privileged to drive, test and evaluate the finest new cars and trucks each year, and our annual charitable contributions have already become a highlight to which we look forward every summer."
Founded in 1994, NACTOY's car, truck and utility vehicle awards are the longest-running new-vehicle awards not associated with a single publication, website, radio or television station. They are judged by 50 highly experienced and respected professional automotive journalists from the United States and Canada who work for and contribute to a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, websites, television and radio stations.
The donations were made in partnership with the Detroit Auto Dealers Association (DADA); each organization provided $20,000 in funding.
"Our partnership with NACTOY has spanned nearly three decades, and we have done many great things together," said DADA Executive Director Rod Alberts. "We value that partnership and are thrilled that we have been able to join together once again to make these charitable donations possible."
NOTE: Spanish and French versions of this release will be available on NACTOY's website.
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Here's what's in the bipartisan semiconductor chip manufacturing package
Congress has passed a bill that will invest more than $200 billion over the next five years to help the U.S. regain a leading position in semiconductor chip manufacturing.
With bipartisan support, the CHIPS and Science Act was passed by lawmakers in late July, and President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bill into law Tuesday.
Once a leader in semiconductor chip manufacturing, the U.S. has lost ground as other countries like China ramped up production, forcing many American manufacturers to import chips — which are essential to the production of cars, smartphones and medical equipment.
The new funding is intended to help companies bring chip manufacturing back to the U.S. and, as a result, help lower costs and prevent supply chain disruptions. The current global chip shortage has limited production of new vehicles, for example, leaving Americans facing stubbornly high car prices.
Chip maker Intel is already expected to reap some of the benefits of the new funding, specifically to help boost its previously announced investment to build a semiconductor plant in Ohio.
The legislation will spend money on a variety of manufacturing incentives aimed at boosting American chip manufacturing as well as investments in research, development and workforce training.
The spending is not paid for by any offsets and instead will add to the federal deficit.
Here's what is in the spending package, according to summaries by Democratic leadership.
$52.7 billion for chip manufacturing and research
The bill will invest $39 billion over five years to expand domestic semiconductor manufacturing. It will provide companies incentives to build, expand and modernize U.S. facilities and equipment.
The legislation will also create a new 25% tax credit for companies that invest in semiconductor manufacturing equipment or the construction of manufacturing facilities.
Private companies that receive financial assistance will be restricted from expanding certain chip manufacturing in China for 10 years.
The bill will provide $11 billion over five years to the Department of Commerce to help spur research and development in advanced semiconductor manufacturing, to invest in new technologies and expand workforce training opportunities.
Another $1.5 billion will fund the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund to help telecommunications companies compete with Chinese telecom giant Huawei and limit the scope of other telecommunications companies with close ties to China.
Millions of dollars will target workforce development to make sure workers are available to support more manufacturing.
$170 billion for scientific research, innovation and space exploration
The legislation calls for a historic investment in scientific research and development that amounts to nearly $170 billion over five years, an $82.5 billion increase in the federal government's baseline authorization.
The majority of that funding will funnel through two government agencies: the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy's Office of Science.
The investments will help create a National Science Foundation Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships to accelerate American development in technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, 6G communications, energy and materials science.
The federal funding will also fund the creation of new regional technology hubs across the country, strengthen small manufacturers as well as reduce long-term supply chain vulnerabilities in areas such as advanced manufacturing, next-generation communications, computer hardware and pharmaceuticals.
About $13 billion will go to education in the science, technology, engineering and math fields — known as STEM — including scholarships and fellowships, with a focus of increasing access to education in these fields in rural areas.
Universities, community colleges and high schools may be eligible for the money in an effort to strengthen America's workforce so that it can support new chip manufacturing.
"There is a great deal of money focused on providing the needed talent," said Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, chairwoman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
The bill also provides new funding for NASA, with the goals of sending astronauts to Mars and the first woman and person of color to the moon. | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/semiconductor-chip-manufacturing-august-2022/40846508 | 2022-08-09 15:46:21 | 1 | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/semiconductor-chip-manufacturing-august-2022/40846508 |
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s economy shrank by 0.2% in the fourth quarter compared with the previous three-month period, official figures showed Monday. The performance by Europe’s biggest economy was worse than expected.
Gross domestic product shrank for the first time since the first quarter of 2021 largely because of a decline in consumer spending, which had supported the economy in the first nine months of 2022, the Federal Statistical Office said. The drop followed GDP growth of 0.5% in the third quarter and 0.1% in the second quarter.
The statistics office said in mid-January, before it had full December economic data, that the economy appeared to have stagnated in the fourth quarter. Monday’s announcement prompted it to revise last year’s full-year growth figure down to 1.8% from the 1.9% it initially reported.
In the fourth quarter, “surging inflation weighed on consumers’ real purchasing power and concerns abounded about a possible acute gas shortage during the winter,” Timo Klein, principal economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, wrote in a research note.
But “on the bright side, as those fears have largely disappeared in recent weeks and as China’s economy looks to be recovering earlier than expected, the odds have improved for avoiding a recession in the first quarter of 2023,” he added.
The German government said last week that it expects the country to eke out economic growth of 0.2% this year instead of a 0.4% contraction that it previously forecast.
Germany’s annual inflation rate rolled back from a peak of 10.4% in October to 8.6% in December, but galloping prices remain a major headache for consumers whose money isn’t going as far.
A potential energy crunch following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the end of its gas supplies to Germany also was a concern last year. But Germany’s network regulator said this month that a gas shortage was “increasingly unlikely” this winter.
European Union’s statistics agency, Eurostat, will release fourth-quarter economic growth figures for the entire eurozone on Tuesday and January inflation figures on Wednesday.
While inflation has ebbed, it is still painfully high and in the crosshairs of the European Central Bank, which is expected to raise interest rates again Thursday. The U.S. Federal Reserve and Bank of England also are expected to hike rates this week, which can slow economic growth. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-german-economy-shrank-0-2-in-q4-worse-than-expected/ | 2023-01-30 14:34:26 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-german-economy-shrank-0-2-in-q4-worse-than-expected/ |
NORMAL — At first, magic was simply an escape for a young Jon Dorenbos.
After the loss of his mother, who was killed by his father, a 12-year-old Dorenbos ended up in therapy and a temporary foster home before being adopted by his aunt and uncle.
But after watching a “World’s Greatest Magic” special featuring card magician Bill Malone, Dorenbos realized that the riffle of a shuffled deck of cards was the only thing that made him feel like a kid after a tragic childhood. He then spent the next few years perfecting card tricks and said there was a “stillness” during magic where he didn’t have to worry about adult issues.
“And I realized it made me happy and so for me, I haven’t really made decisions based on money,” Dorenbos said. “I’ve made decisions based on (being) happy.”
Since then, Dorenbos has gained the skill to make it to the finals of “America’s Got Talent,” the athletic ability to make it to the NFL and the charisma to deliver motivational speeches for some of the biggest companies in the world.
Dorenbos now brings his experiences and talents to Bloomington-Normal during the American Red Cross‘ Evening of Stars celebration on Nov. 9 at Illinois State University’s Brown Ballroom.
The 27th annual fundraiser helps to provide critical services, including disaster response, to Central Illinois families.
It was a love for magic that almost kept him away from sports in high school. But being a six-foot, 185-pound freshman, Dorenbos said he was encouraged by a friend to try football, which became an outlet for years of bitterness and resentment from the loss of his family.
“The first time I went out and hit somebody and didn’t get in trouble, it was like, ‘I’m home,’” Dorenbos said. “And so during the day I could hit you, not get in trouble, get out my aggression and then at night I would sit at a card table and shuffle and it was kind of the yin and the yang.”
After high school, Dorenbos played for a year at Golden West Junior College, which at the time had lost 30 straight games.
“My attitude was, if I can’t play there, then I can’t play anywhere, and hang it up,” Dorenbos said.
His next three years of college would be at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he received a full ride to be a long snapper.
During his senior year, Dorenbos said his coach said he should stick to being a long snapper to have a shot at the NFL but he wasn’t sure what that would entail.
“And I’ll never forget my coach who was like, ‘Well, it means less meetings, you don’t hit as much, less headaches, you play about 10 plays a game and the odds of staying healthy are greater, and you get to go to the NFL,’” Dorenbos said.
Dorenbos’ coach’s advice would pay off when he got picked up by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent.
That same year, Dorenbos said he was introduced to motivational speaker Kevin Elko, who encouraged him to speak before a group of people in the finance industry while performing magic.
Over a two-year span of touring with Elko, Dorenbos said he learned how to perform magic tricks that would complement his life story and found a calling as a motivational speaker.
Dorenbos later played for the Tennessee Titans before playing for the Philadelphia Eagles between 2006 and 2016.
Throughout his NFL career, Dorenbos always found time to pursue his two passions of football and magic.
“It was never a balancing act,” Dorenbos said. “It was strictly (that) I love these two things and I don’t know any different, so I’m going to keep doing these two things.”
During the 2017 preseason, Dorenbos was traded to the New Orleans Saints. However, the trade was rescinded after it was discovered that Dorenbos had an aortic aneurysm that would end his football career.
Although he was unable to play during the Eagles’ 2017 championship season, Dorenbos still received a Super Bowl ring in honor of his 11 years with the franchise.
Dorenbos acknowledged that he’s never been the biggest, fastest or strongest player, but said one thing always set him apart from the competition.
“I showed up every day,” Dorenbos said. “And in life, if you show up every day, on time, prepared and ready to work, you’re going to put yourself in a position to be successful.”
At the behest of his friend Cris Judd, a dancer and choreographer, Dorenbos would join the 11th season of “America’s Got Talent” in 2016. He would make it to the finals while going through a training camp with the Eagles.
The exposure from the show led to him signing a multi-year deal with “The Ellen Degeneres Show,” which Dorenbos said really elevated his speaking career.
“If Ellen stamps you, you’re good to go,” Dorenbos said.
Tickets still are available for the Evening of Stars. Ticket sales begin at $200 per ticket, which includes dinner and the program. Those interested in sponsorship opportunities should contact the local Red Cross at 309-275-3515.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A bill requiring oil refiners to disclose their per gallon profits monthly is now on Governor Newsom's desk, having passed out of the California Senate with a concurrence vote of 29 to 8.
SB 1322 (Allen) requires the oil refiners to disclose monthly their refining profits -- the difference between average cost they pay for a barrel crude oil and the average price they charge for the finished barrel of gasoline. With 42 gallons in a barrel, the public will know exactly how much oil refiners make per gallon of gas in California.
Californians are paying $1.25 more per gallon for their gasoline than the average US driver. Environmental costs add about 60 cents per gallon.
"California drivers have had enough. SB 1322 will bring much-needed transparency to oil companies' true costs of doing business," said the bill's author Senator Ben Allen.
"Consumers deserve to know how much oil refiners are making off their pain at the pump," said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog. "Recent quarterly profit reports suggest California oil refiners are pocketing more than $1 per gallon off the recent price spikes at the pump. That's unconscionable."
Refining margins are typical industry measures. Investor reports show California's refiners' Western region profit margins are through the roof. West Coast profits per gallon for Marathon topped an unprecedented $1 per gallon, as opposed to 34 cents in the second quarter of 2021. Valero, PBF and Phillips reported profits of 83 cents, 82 cents, and 79 cents per gallon (as opposed to 27 cents, 15 cents and 8 cents per gallon in second quarter last year). Chevron does not report quarterly refining margins. Read more about the investor reports.
SB 1322 is supported by the California Attorney General, CALPIRG (California Public Interest Research Group), Greenpeace USA, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, SoCal 350 Climate Action, San Diego 350 Climate Action, Friends of the Earth US, Stand.earth, Sunflower Alliance, FracTracker Alliance
Food & Water Watch, Public Watchdogs and California Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice.
"With this real time information, lawmakers, regulators, and the public will be able to pinpoint periods of price gouging and respond to it," said Court.
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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government is reassessing the presence of United Nations peacekeepers after protests against the force in the country’s east have killed at least 36 people.
President Félix Tshisekedi chaired a crisis meeting as demonstrations escalated after U.N. peacekeepers opened fire on civilians, killing three, in Kasindi, an eastern border post with Uganda.
In addition to the deaths in Kasindi others have died in the eastern towns of Goma, Butembo, Uvira and Kanyabayonga, Congo’s government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said in a statement Tuesday.
He said the government had consulted civic groups in the affected areas and “the populations made a clear request: that of seeing (the U.N. peacekeepers) leave Congo,” he said.
At the crisis meeting, Congo’s president said that he spoke with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who expressed deep condolences after the killings at the Kasindi post, according to the statement.
Tshisekedi said shared his total disapproval of the behavior of the U.N. peacekeepers and told the secretary-general that those guilty of the violence must be severely punished. Guterres had called for justice over the weekend.
The government will convene a meeting with the U.N. mission to discuss the possibility of its withdrawal, Muyaya said in the statement. No date has been set for the meeting.
The U.N. force in Congo, known as MONUSCO, has about 16,000 uniformed personnel but has not succeeded in stabilizing the country’s volatile east. Recently the M23 rebels have carried out numerous attacks.
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(The Hill) – Despite some fears voiced by customers online, Apple will not be mass-deleting user photos from its devices near the end of the month.
The tech giant recently announced that it will be doing away with its My Photo Stream service on July 26, but that doesn’t mean photos are going away anytime soon.
The My Photo Stream service uploads users’ most recent 1,000 photos to iCloud automatically, for free, enabling access to them on any of a customer’s Apple devices for 30 days after they’re taken.
The service already stopped automatically uploading photos on June 26, exactly 30 days before the planned shut down.
With that going away, users can no longer — as easily — take photos on their iPhone and access them on their iPad, for example. But those photos are still accessible on the device they were taken.
“The photos in My Photo Stream are already stored on at least one of your devices, so as long as you have the device with your originals, you won’t lose any photos as part of this process,” Apple says on its support page.
Users should move the photos they still want all-device access to into iCloud Photos. Everything else will only be automatically accessible on the device where it originated.
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Actor Prunella Scales (TV: “Fawlty Towers”) is 90. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is 89. Singer-actor Kris Kristofferson is 86. Actor Michael Lerner is 81. Actor Klaus Maria Brandauer is 79. Fox News analyst Brit Hume is 79. Singer/producer Peter Asher (Peter and Gordon) is 78. Singer Howard “Eddie” Kaylan is 75. Singer-musician Todd Rundgren is 74. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is 73. Actor Meryl Streep is 73. Actor Lindsay Wagner is 73. Singer Alan Osmond is 73. Actor Graham Greene is 70. Pop singer Cyndi Lauper is 69. Actor Chris Lemmon is 68. Rock musician Derek Forbes is 66. Actor Tim Russ is 66. Rock musician Garry Beers (INXS) is 65. Actor-producer-writer Bruce Campbell is 64. Rock musician Alan Anton (Cowboy Junkies) is 63. Actor Tracy Pollan is 62. Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is 62. Rock singer-musician Jimmy Somerville is 61. Basketball Hall of Famer Clyde Drexler is 60. Actor Amy Brenneman is 58. Author Dan Brown is 58. Rock singer-musician Mike Edwards (Jesus Jones) is 58. Rock singer Steven Page is 52. Actor Michael Trucco is 52. Actor Mary Lynn Rajskub (RYS’-kub) is 51. TV personality Carson Daly is 49. Rock musician Chris Traynor is 49. Actor Donald Faison (FAY’-zahn) is 48. Actor Alicia Goranson is 48. Actor-comedian Mike O’Brien (TV: “Saturday Night Live”) is 46. TV personality/actor Jai Rodriguez is 43. Americana singer-songwriter John Moreland is 37. Pop singer Dinah Jane (Fifth Harmony) (TV: “The X Factor”) is 25. | https://www.gjsentinel.com/having-a-birthday-today-june-22-2022/article_7eff451c-ec54-11ec-b2e9-d71ffe80ad48.html | 2022-06-15 05:35:42 | 0 | https://www.gjsentinel.com/having-a-birthday-today-june-22-2022/article_7eff451c-ec54-11ec-b2e9-d71ffe80ad48.html |
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This year, NPR Music is celebrating Black Music Month with an array of brand new Tiny Desk concerts — both from home and from behind our beloved Desk. Together, these artists represent the past, present and future of Black music. This month of carefully curated shows is a celebration of Black artists expressing themselves in ways we've never seen before, and of the Tiny Desk's unique way of showcasing that talent.
British-Nigerian pop star Naira Marley opens his set with a sly smile and softly says "Marlians," the name for his stans, a loyal group of followers who call Marley their president. Then, the first song kicks right in with a bouncy dance beat that just might get you dancing, wherever you are.
It's OK that you might not know what Marley is actually speaking about. His casual rapping style, defined by lexical tones in the Yoruba language, is enough. The first song, "Ayewada," means "where is the time and space" and has an English language line: "They are calling you thief / You are dancing wit de goat."
Marley is one of the greatest and most celebrated artists performing and producing in the Afrobeat scene today. He just released his debut album, God's Timing's the Best, on his own label. All songs performed here are from that new record, except the third song, "Soapy, '' which is a hit single from 2019.
His Marlian Records label has been producing and developing many rising Afropop stars, including Zinoleesky, a singer, songwriter and performer who performs on his own and is featured here on the last two songs of this set. Keep an eye out for him as he is sure to be another big name in the Afrobeat world.
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Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz dies at age 70
CHICAGO (AP) — Rocky Wirtz, who won three Stanley Cup titles as owner of the Chicago Blackhawks and presided over the team during one of the NHL’s biggest scandals, has died. He was 70.
The Blackhawks said in a release that Wirtz died on Tuesday, calling it a “sudden passing.” But no further details were provided.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said in a release that the league was “deeply saddened” by Wirtz’s death.
“Devoted to family and the Chicago Blackhawks, Rocky was a native son of Chicago and an accomplished businessman,” Bettman said. “Rocky took over control of the Blackhawks in 2007 and almost immediately restored the passion and following of this storied, Original Six franchise.”
Rocky Wirtz was 2 years old when his grandfather, Arthur Wirtz, purchased the Blackhawks in 1954. Rocky Wirtz took over the team after his father, William, died in September 2007.
William Wirtz was nicknamed “Dollar Bill” for his frugality when it came to acquiring the services of the game’s best players. And the team struggled while playing in front of small crowds in its early years at the United Center, making only one playoff appearance from 1998-2008.
Everything changed when Rocky Wirtz became the team chairman. He helped re-establish the franchise’s connection to some of its best players from the past. He put the team’s games back on local TV, and fans returned to the United Center during a lengthy sellout streak that ended in 2021.
With Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane leading the way, the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2010, 2013 and 2015. The team also made it to the 2014 Western Conference Final, losing to the Los Angeles Kings in an epic seven-game series.
With the Blackhawks’ success on and off the ice, Wirtz became a beloved figure in his native Chicago. He also was lauded by the league for his leadership.
But Wirtz’s tenure as owner was forever tarnished when an outside law firm found that the organization badly mishandled allegations by a player who said he was sexually assaulted by an assistant coach during the team’s run to the 2010 Stanley Cup title.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Environmental and land use law firm The Sohagi Law Group announced that Managing Partner Margaret Sohagi and Partner Nicole Hoeksma Gordon have once again been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2023 Southern California Super Lawyers list as "Top Rated Environmental Attorneys."
Gordon, a recipient of this recognition since 2021, advises public agencies on complex environmental and land use matters at the administrative, trial, and appellate level. She focuses her practice on complex issues and projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the federal and California Endangered Species Act (ESA), and Planning and Zoning Laws.
Gordon, a former Chair of the Executive Committee of the Environmental Law Section of the California Lawyers Association and current Co-Chair of the annual CLE CEQA Conference, is at the forefront of the environmental law issues with which public agencies must grapple. An experienced litigator, Gordon is also a frequent lecturer on environmental matters at various public and private workshops, including courses and conferences sponsored by UCLA, Continuing Legal Education (CLE), the Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP), and the American Planning Association (APA).
Sohagi, a recipient of this recognition since 2005, has practiced for the last 30 years focusing on assisting cities, counties, and other public agencies navigate the legal complexities of land use, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), climate change and housing. . Sohagi provides constructive, practical legal advice, working directly with lead agency counsel, staff, appointed elected officials. When necessary, she zealously defends lead agencies' land use approvals and environmental determinations in judicial proceedings, and frequently heads mediation teams in settlement discussions.
As CEQA instructor for California's Continuing Judicial Studies Program, both Gordon and Sohagi have the unique opportunity to instruct Superior Court judges, appellate justices and court attorneys. Their land use and environmental law expertise, and ability to keep public agencies informed about the latest legal developments and trends, is also demonstrated through frequent planning and legal conference presentations, extensive UCLA and USC teaching experience, and publications such as the Solano Press book Exactions and Impact Fees in California. Sohagi's prior career as a city planner gives her invaluable insight into the intricacies of complex project development and review.
About The Sohagi Law Group
The Sohagi Law Group handles complex transactional and litigation matters for public agencies, including cities, counties, townships, state agencies, special districts, commissions and authorities. Its attorneys draw upon their extensive expertise in all areas of environmental and land use law to advise clients navigate existing laws and regulations and keep them up to date on emerging environmental issues such as climate change and greenhouse gas regulation.
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Carmen Duarte has nailed it in her series entitled “Preview Candidates as Election Approaches.” These articles should be required reading for all Tucson-area voters. She has written a clear, unbiased description of each candidate’s accomplishments and positions.
I find her previews very useful as I peruse my mail-in ballot, especially as I go down to some of the lesser-publicized offices. Voters should pay attentionn to all the candidates, not just those at the top of the ballot. The old saying, “All politics is local” is really true.
Writing such a long, detailed description of all the candidates’ positions must have been an arduous, demanding task.
Ms Duarte is a treasure! Small wonder that she was recently added to the U of A’s Journalism Hall of Fame.
Jerry Helm
Northwest side
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PITTSBURGH, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Federated Hermes, Inc. (NYSE: FHI), a global leader in active, responsible investing, will report financial and operating results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 after the market closes on Thursday, July 28, 2022. A conference call for investors and analysts will be held at 9 a.m. Eastern on Friday, July 29, 2022. President and Chief Executive Officer J. Christopher Donahue and Chief Financial Officer Thomas R. Donahue will host the call.
Investors interested in listening to the conference call should dial 877-545-0523 (domestic) or 973-528-0016 (international) or visit FederatedHermes.com for real-time Internet access. To listen online, go to the Investor Relations section of the website and the Analyst Information tab at least 15 minutes prior to register and join the call.
A telephone replay of the call will begin at approximately 12:30 p.m. Eastern on July 29, 2022. To access the telephone replay, dial 877-481-4010 (domestic) or 919-882-2331 (international) and enter the access code 45935. The online replay will be available via FederatedHermes.com for one year.
Federated Hermes, Inc. is a global leader in active, responsible investment management, with $631.1 billion in assets under management, as of March 31, 2022. We deliver investment solutions that help investors target a broad range of outcomes and provide equity, fixed-income, alternative/private markets, multi-asset and liquidity management strategies to more than 11,000 institutions and intermediaries worldwide. Our clients include corporations, government entities, insurance companies, foundations and endowments, banks and broker/dealers. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Federated Hermes has nearly 2,000 employees in London, New York and offices worldwide. For more information, visit FederatedHermes.com.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To stay ahead of the urgent needs of equitable healthcare, Martis Capital, a leading middle market healthcare fund, is excited to announce its investment in Alcanza Clinical Research. Founded in December 2021 and named for the Spanish word "reach," Alcanza is a clinical research site network platform dedicated to creating a sustainable and inclusive clinical trial environment for all.
As patient advocacy groups, research stakeholders, and regulators urge sponsors to expand clinical trial inclusion, Alcanza is actively transforming the model for research access to underrepresented populations across different races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, disability statuses and more while enhancing clinical research quality and patient recruitment efforts.
As a first step, Alcanza has acquired five high-performing clinical research companies. These include Coastal Carolina Research Center, Boston Clinical Trials, ActivMed and Allcutis Research, Quest Research Institute and Charlottesville Medical Research across eight locations in Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Virginia. Each site brings 20 to more than 30 years of experience in clinical research and a strong reputation for clinical and operational excellence, with complementary therapeutic specialization in psychiatry, neurology, vaccines and infectious disease, among others. Alcanza will continue to expand its national site network to provide full-scale Phase I-IV capabilities in multiple therapeutic areas while maintaining a broad client base of blue-chip biopharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs).
Alcanza is led by CEO Carlos Orantes, a recognized industry leader with nearly three decades of experience. Most recently, Orantes led the site operations for Accelerated Enrollment Solutions, the wholly owned captive site network of PPD, a global CRO part of ThermoFisher Scientific. There, he held responsibility for more than 50 sites across the U.S. and Latin America. "We are excited to collaborate with Martis Capital to develop the next-generation site model that combines education, community engagement and exceptional patient care for truly inclusive research," said Orantes. "Our leadership team looks forward to expanding the reach of clinical research for all."
"This partnership is a unique opportunity to drive sustainable improvements in the highly fragmented clinical trial space by focusing on improving disparities in clinical research," said Mario E. Moreno, Managing Partner at Martis Capital. "Carlos and the Alcanza team have a clear vision for how their differentiated approach to clinical research can address these longstanding challenges."
Martis Capital has made a meaningful commitment to grow and expand Alcanza's capabilities and will continue to leverage its partnership approach, healthcare relationships and sourcing network to drive additional acquisitions and strategic partnerships.
Alcanza Clinical Research is the next-generation site network established to support the most significant demands in our industry: diverse patient access, efficient enrollment performance and clinical quality. It practices inclusive clinical research that delivers education and a range of clinical trial opportunities to all people on their terms. Located in Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Virginia, Alcanza specializes in conditions across psychiatry, neurology, dermatology and infectious disease therapeutic areas.
Based in San Francisco, CA and Washington, DC, Martis Capital is a team of investment professionals who share a passion for helping build companies that seek to improve the quality of care and address the complex challenges facing the healthcare industry today. Martis seeks to identify exceptional investment opportunities and achieve shared growth objectives with founder-led companies and management teams. Martis Capital manages more than $2 billion of equity capital and is currently investing out of its fourth fund.
For more information, please visit www.martiscapital.com or follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/martis-capital.
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LONDON (AP) — The last to arrive, befitting his reputation in the locker room, Frances Tiafoe strutted into the post-match news conference after clinching Team World’s Laver Cup victory over Roger Federer’s star-studded Team Europe and shouted, “Champs are here!”
Then the 24-year-old from Maryland joined his teammates at the table where the silver trophy was resting Sunday night, put down a bottle of water, pulled a Budweiser out of his red jacket and smiled that wide smile of his.
Performing with the same infectious showmanship and crunch-time success he displayed en route to his first Grand Slam semifinal at the U.S. Open earlier this month, Tiafoe staved off four match points and came back to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 1-6, 7-6 (11), 10-8, giving Team World its first triumph in five editions of an event founded by Federer’s management company.
“I don’t like losing,” said Federer, a 20-time major champion whose final match before retirement was a loss alongside Rafael Nadal in doubles against Tiafoe and Jack Sock on Friday night. “It’s not fun. It just leaves not the best taste.”
When Tsitsipas put a forehand into the net to end Sunday’s contest — and the three-day competition — Tiafoe dropped his racket and fell to his back on the court, where teammates piled atop him. After getting on his feet, Tiafoe cupped a hand to his ear, asking spectators for more noise, then pointed to his chest and yelled, “I’m him! I’m him!”
“When it becomes a circus out here, and I’m just using the crowd and acting like a little kid and having a bunch of reactions … I end up playing really well and I start building momentum off it,” Tiafoe said. “I’m able to play and function in that better than my opponents, it seems.”
Using the nickname other players gave Tiafoe to reflect the way he embraces big moments, Team World captain John McEnroe said: “Frances is ‘Prime Time.’ He loves this stuff.”
McEnroe had been 0-4 while leading his squad against his former playing rival, Team Europe captain Bjorn Borg; both indicated they would be back for the 2023 Laver Cup in Vancouver, but that might be their last go-round.
This one served as a celebration of Federer and the 41-year-old Swiss star’s career.
Tiafoe responded with a quip when asked whether he might owe Federer some form of “I’m sorry” for beating him in his finale or for defeating his team, which also included Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray for a total of 66 major singles titles. That, incidentally, is 66 more than Team World, a collection of 20-somethings (Sock turned 30 on Saturday).
“”I’m not going to apologize to him. He’s got a lot to apologize for after the last 24 years — after beating everybody on the tour,” said Tiafoe, who went 0-3 against Federer in singles head-to-head. “I will say thank you for having me in this amazing event, what he’s done for the game. He’s a class act. Happy to know him, happy to call him a friend, happy to call him a colleague, and best wishes in his second act. But I will not apologize.”
Team Europe entered Sunday at O2 Arena with an 8-4 lead; the first team to 13 points would win.
Each match on Day 3 was worth three points, and Team World went ahead thanks to a pair of victories by Felix Auger-Aliassime, a 22-year-old from Canada. He beat Djokovic 6-3, 7-6 (3), after partnering with Sock to edge Murray and Matteo Berrettini 2-6, 6-3, 10-8 in doubles.
Tiafoe then made it 13-8, but it wasn’t easy.
He went a tournament-record 8-0 in tiebreakers at Flushing Meadows this month and was just as resilient Sunday.
“It’s been a long time that Frances has been playing the big guys close and losing a lot of close battles. It’s great to see lately he’s been winning,” said Taylor Fritz, an American who is the same age as Tiafoe and has known him for years. “It’s about time that he steps up and the matches go the other way. Today was a joke.”
That’s because Tiafoe was a single point from losing to Tsitsipas four times in their second-set tiebreaker, but somehow got through that. Then, at 4-all in the concluding match tiebreaker — first to 10, win by two — Tiafoe sprinted from behind the baseline to near the net and barely got to a drop shot by Tsitsipas, somehow lunging to flick an angled winner.
While most of the 16,365 fans went wild, Tiafoe went around the net and stood still, hands on his hips, relishing the atmosphere.
“We put him in the slot that he was in today for a reason,” said Team World’s Tommy Paul, another 24-year-old American, “and he stepped up for us, big time.”
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Migos rapper Takeoff has died at 28 after he was shot during an early morning Tuesday incident outside a bowling alley near Houston, Texas.
A representative for Migos confirmed the news. Takeoff was one of three members of the hip-hop group, along with Quavo and Offset.
When contacted by The Hill, the Houston Police Department (HPD) said police could not confirm the death or release any further details of the shooting, which occurred around 2:30 a.m.
A spokesperson for the HPD said officers were reviewing surveillance footage and still investigating.
Takeoff and Quavo were at the event, but police are still investigating the group’s involvement in the incident, the spokesperson said.
Police said one victim was deceased when officers arrived on scene and two others were injured and taken to the hospital.
Dozens of people had gathered for a private party on a balcony at Billiards & Bowling in downtown Houston.
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Acquisition will help speed point-of-care leader's expansion into new high-value specialties
CINCINNATI, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PatientPoint today announced the acquisition of Rendia, the No. 1 provider of point-of-care content for eye care providers sold on a subscription basis. With PatientPoint's expansion into ophthalmology and optometry, PatientPoint's industry-leading, tech-enabled point-of-care network now engages healthcare providers and patients across 20 medical specialties.
Rendia's robust point-of-care engagement software helps 8,000+ eye care providers improve patient outcomes, enhance the patient experience and generate incremental revenue growth through improving patient acceptance of recommended medical and surgical procedures. The Baltimore-based company—which also has a presence in ENT and audiology—has offered its best-in-class, award-winning content platform for more than 20 years and boasts a 90+ percent retention rate.
Through the acquisition, PatientPoint will net Rendia's highly flexible technology platform, provider portal and content library. Rendia's tech platform and provider portal offer providers the ability to create and easily upload their own custom content. PatientPoint intends to leverage Rendia's platform and portal to accelerate expansion into other specialties and markets where custom content creation is critically important. The PatientPoint-Rendia transaction also enables Rendia customers to gain access to additional engagement solutions through PatientPoint to help them deliver continual, connected care across the patient's entire care journey.
"This exciting transaction brings together two point-of-care leaders in pursuit of one mission—making every doctor-patient engagement better," said PatientPoint Founder and CEO Mike Collette. "By leveraging Rendia's proprietary technology and content team, we will be able to accelerate our entry into other new specialties and markets. The fact that 8,000+ eye care professionals pay for Rendia's content is a true testament to the quality of the content their team produces."
As part of the transaction Rendia's name will be retained, and the company will be referred to as Rendia, a PatientPoint® company.
"By joining PatientPoint, Rendia becomes part of a company long seen as the trusted leader and pioneer of the point-of-care industry," said Rendia CEO Smitha Gopal, who will assume the new role of EVP of Subscription and Procedure-Based Specialties at PatientPoint. "We look forward to adding our technical, creative, sales and service talent to the PatientPoint team and offering additional connected care solutions to better meet healthcare provider and patient needs across the patient care journey."
PatientPoint® is the patient engagement platform for every point of care. Our innovative, tech-enabled solutions create more effective doctor-patient interactions and deliver high value for patients, providers and healthcare sponsors. Through our nearly 140k unique healthcare provider relationships, PatientPoint's solutions impact roughly 750 million patient visits each year, further advancing our mission of making every doctor-patient engagement better®. Learn more at patientpoint.com.
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LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in Greece say a woman from Eritrea has given birth on an uninhabited rocky islet after traveling with other migrants from nearby Turkey.
A coast guard official said 29 Eritreans ‒ 24 men and five women ‒ were spotted Wednesday during a patrol near the eastern Greek island of Lesbos. One of the women had just given birth.
They were also rescued and taken to Lesbos, with the mother and baby receiving hospital treatment.
“They were spotted by a patrol and are all in good health,” the coast guard official said on condition of anonymity because an official announcement hadn’t yet been released.
“The mother and the baby are also in good health,” the official said.
The migrants were found on the islet of Barbalias, about three kilometers (two miles) east of Lesbos and around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Turkish coast. Local officials said the baby was a boy.
Lesbos was the busiest entry point into the European Union during the 2015-16 crisis when hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants fled war in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.
But Greece has steadily toughened its migration policies, and many leaving Turkey now take the longer and more dangerous route to Turkey.
Over the weekend, the coast guard rescued 108 migrants from a leaking and rudderless sailboat near the holiday island of Mykonos.
Separately Wednesday, a man believed to be a migrant was found dead in the trunk of a car in an artificial lake near the Greek-Turkish border. Border police officers had pursued the vehicle after the driver refused to stop for a highway inspection. Five other passengers, all also believed to be migrants who had entered the country illegally, and the driver were detained, police said.
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Costas Kantouris reported from Thessaloniki, Greece. Derek Gatopoulos in Athens, Greece contributed to this report.
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Feds: Kavanaugh assassination plotter sought to alter Supreme Court ‘for decades’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The California man accused of plotting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had an expansive goal to change the makeup of the Supreme Court “for decades to come,” according to a recent court filing that cites discussions the man had online.
Nicholas John Roske, 26, told unidentified internet users that his goal was to reverse the then-leaked draft decision of the since-overturned Roe v. Wade decision, according to an affidavit for a search warrant in the case, filed in Maryland federal court this week.
Killing one jurist could change the decisions of the court “for decades to come,” authorities said that Roske wrote, adding, “I am shooting for three.”
Roske explained that “all of the major decisions for the past 10 years have been along party lines so if there are more liberal than conservative judges, they will have the power.”
The details represent the newest indication that Simi Valley, Calif., man wasn’t focused solely on Kavanaugh, although it does not identify the other justices.
According to the filing, first reported by The Daily Beast, Roske’s cellphone history in May and June of this year included searches for “quietest semi auto rifle,” “Reagan assassination attempt,” “most effective place to stab someone,” “assassin skills,” “assassin equipment,” “assassinations,” “supreme court” and “how to be stealthy.”
Roske is charged with attempting to murder a justice of the United States. He has pleaded not guilty, and a tentative trial date has been set for next month.
Prosecutors say Roske traveled from California to Kavanaugh’s home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with the intent of killing him. Roske pulled up near the home in a taxi shortly after 1 a.m. on June 8 carrying a suitcase with a gun and ammunition, a tactical chest rig with pepper spray and a knife, a flashlight, a laser, a thermal monocular and other burglary tools, according to court papers.
Spotted by two U.S. Marshals who were part of 24-hour security provided to the justices following the leak of the draft opinion, Roske was apprehended after he called 911 and told a police dispatcher that he was near Kavanaugh’s home and wanted to take his own life.
The leaked opinion draft led to protests, including at several of the justices’ homes. Roske’s arrest spurred the House to approve a bill expanding that around-the-clock security protection to the justices’ families.
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Biden heads to Kentucky to highlight cash for aging bridge
By SEUNG MIN KIM
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s visit to a notoriously dilapidated bridge connecting Ohio and Kentucky is a chance for him to showcase accomplishments and talk up the virtues of bipartisanship while rubbing shoulders with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
The trip on Wednesday is also about cold, hard cash.
“It’s a giant bridge, man,” Biden said this week when asked about his planned trip to the Brent Spence Bridge. “It’s a lot of money. It’s important.”
Indeed, the nearly $1 trillion that Biden’s administration is doling out for roads and bridges, broadband networks and water projects across America will be critical not just for the communities getting the help but to the Democratic president’s political theory that voters are hungry for bipartisanship that delivers tangible results.
As the prospects for massive, transformational legislating diminish rapidly this year in a divided Washington, the White House and top Cabinet officials aim to focus instead on selling Biden’s recent achievements and demonstrating how the new laws directly affect Americans.
That new effort kicks off as Biden stops in northern Kentucky at the perennially congested bridge spanning the Ohio River that has frustrated motorists for decades. The infrastructure law enacted in late 2021 will offer more than $1.63 billion in federal grants to Ohio and Kentucky to build a companion bridge that will help unclog traffic on the Brent Spence.
Other top administration officials are holding similar events Wednesday and Thursday at other major bridges in the U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is stopping by the collection of bridges crossing the Calumet River in Chicago; Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was appearing at the Gold Star Memorial Bridge in New London, Connecticut; and White House infrastructure coordinator Mitch Landrieu was to be at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
All the bridges will get new funding under the infrastructure law, which is one of Biden’s marquee bipartisan accomplishments.
The Brent Spence, which connects Cincinnati and northern Kentucky, was declared functionally obsolete by the Federal Highway Administration in the 1990s. It has become an outsized symbol of the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, with successive presidents from both parties singling out the aging span as they stumped for better roads and bridges.
In 2011, President Barack Obama name-checked McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner, who represented the Cincinnati suburbs, as he stood near the Brent Spence and pushed the two Republican leaders to support a jobs package that would fix similarly ailing bridges. Six years later, President Donald Trump told a local Fox station that “I’ve already heard about the bridge. I love the area.”
“We’re going to get it fixed,” Trump said about the Brent Spence, which he called “dangerous.”
As for Biden, he said during a 2021 CNN town hall in Cincinnati that his administration would “fix that damn bridge of yours.” The span was designed for 80,000 vehicles a day but was easily doubling that on its narrow lanes.
On Wednesday, Biden can begin to make good on that promise.
The president will be accompanied at Brent Spence by McConnell, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, former Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican. Officials hope much of the work on the new project will be completed by 2029.
The White House also invited Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and newly sworn in J.D. Vance of Ohio, according to a White House official, but neither planned to appear with Biden in northern Kentucky.
McConnell, who was already home in Kentucky, will not fly with Biden on Air Force One but will greet him on the tarmac at Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport, according to a person who was not authorized to speak about the minority leader’s travel plans publicly and insisted on anonymity.
Biden dismissed any notion that the trip to northern Kentucky was about highlighting his longstanding relationship with McConnell, who has been both an ally and a foil during the president’s first two years in office. McConnell was one of 19 Senate Republicans to support the infrastructure law and has said repairing the Brent Spence has long been a priority.
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FPI-2059 IND cleared by FDA; Clinical portfolio expanded to include small molecule-based targeted alpha therapy
Data supporting ongoing evaluation of cold antibody pre-administration dosing regimen in Phase 1 study of FPI-1434 presented at SNMMI 2022 Annual Meeting
Company strengthens actinium-225 supply chain capabilities following collaboration and supply agreement with Niowave, Inc.
HAMILTON, ON and BOSTON, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: FUSN), a clinical-stage oncology company focused on developing next-generation radiopharmaceuticals as precision medicines, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 and provided an update on clinical and corporate developments.
Chief Executive Officer John Valliant, Ph.D. commented, "We are pleased with the recent FDA clearance of our FPI-2059 investigational new drug (IND) application and the initiation of the Phase 1 clinical study demonstrating our ability to progress into the clinic targeted alpha therapies based on various targeting molecules. The FPI-2059 small molecule targeting NTSR1 has the potential to address several solid tumor indications, including neuroendocrine differentiated prostate, colorectal and pancreatic cancers, for which there is substantial unmet clinical need. Further, we are encouraged by the imaging data we presented at the SNMMI 2022 Annual Meeting that showed pre-administration of cold antibody with FPI-1434 increased tumor binding with a good safety profile."
Dr. Valliant continued, "With three clinical programs and our multi-program partnership with AstraZeneca, we are committed to building a fully integrated radiopharmaceutical organization, marked most recently by our actinium-225 collaboration and supply agreement with Niowave. The agreement provides access to a pre-determined percentage of Niowave's capacity, access to any excess supply, and the option to invest in future production facilities. This agreement, together with our collaborations with TRIUMF and the Department of Energy, extend our leadership position in actinium supply and meet the needs of our growing pipeline."
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FPI-1434
In the Phase 1 study, Fusion is exploring various dose levels of FPI-1434 as well as two dosing regimens: one with FPI-1434 alone, and another in which a small dose of cold antibody (naked IGF-1R antibody without the isotope) is administered prior to each dose of FPI-1434. The Company anticipates reporting Phase 1 safety, pharmacokinetics, and imaging data, including any evidence of anti-tumor activity, and details on the dosing regimen, in the first half of 2023. Fusion continues to anticipate the initiation of a Phase 1 combination study with FPI-1434 and KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) to occur six to nine months following determination of the recommended Phase 2 dose of FPI-1434 monotherapy.
FPI-1966
The Phase 1, non-randomized, open-label clinical trial of FPI-1966 in patients with solid tumors expressing FGFR3, intended to investigate safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics and to establish the recommended Phase 2 dose, has been initiated. Fusion expects to dose the first patient in the second half of 2022 and plans to provide updated guidance for preliminary pharmacokinetic, imaging and safety data from the first patient cohort following initial experience with patient screening in order to better predict the cadence of patient enrollment.
FPI-2059
FPI-2059 is a small molecule radioconjugate in development as a targeted alpha therapy for various solid tumors, including neuroendocrine differentiated (NED) prostate, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers. The molecule targets neurotensin receptor 1 (NTSR1), a promising target for cancer treatment, which is overexpressed in several solid tumors. FPI-2059 is based upon Ipsen's IPN-1087 (previously studied in a Phase 1 clinical trial as a beta-emitting radiopharmaceutical), which Fusion acquired in 2021, and converted to an alpha-emitting radiopharmaceutical using actinium-225.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared Fusion's IND application for FPI-2059 in June 2022 and study initiation activities are ongoing in a Phase 1, non-randomized, open-label clinical trial in patients with solid tumors expressing NTSR1, intended to investigate safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics and to establish the recommended Phase 2 dose. Fusion plans to provide guidance on timelines for the FPI-2059 program following site activations and initial experience with patient screening and patient enrollment.
Recent Updates
- In June, Fusion presented imaging data from the cold antibody sub-study in the Phase 1 study of FPI-1434 at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) 2022 Annual Meeting. Imaging data from the study demonstrate a favorable gain in [111In]-FPI-1547, the investigational imaging agent, tumor lesion uptake versus normal tissue when FPI-1175, the naked antibody without the isotope, was pre-administered and compared to dosing with FPI-1547 alone. Importantly, sites of improved tumor lesion uptake were independent of anatomic location of disease and included bone, lung, liver, and lymph nodes. Administration of FPI-1547 with and without pre-administration of FPI-1175 was safe without any drug-related Serious Adverse Events or Dose Limiting Toxicities.
- In June, Fusion and Niowave, Inc. announced an agreement for the development, production, and supply of actinium-225. Fusion will invest up to $5 million in Niowave to further develop their technology to increase current production capacity of actinium-225, and in return Fusion will have guaranteed access to a pre-determined percentage of Niowave's capacity of the resulting actinium-225, as well as preferred access to any excess supply produced. As part of the agreement, Fusion will also have an option to invest in future production of actinium-225 to scale with Fusion's needs.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
- Cash and Investments: As of June 30, 2022, Fusion held cash, cash equivalents and investments of $198.4 million, compared to cash, cash equivalents and investments of $220.8 million as of December 31, 2021. Fusion expects its existing cash, cash equivalents and investments as of June 30, 2022, will be sufficient to fund operations into the first quarter of 2024.
- Collaboration Revenue: For the second quarter of 2022, Fusion recorded $0.6 million of revenue under the AstraZeneca collaboration agreement.
- R&D Expenses: Research and development expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were $12.1 million, compared to $21.1 million for the same period in 2021. The decrease was primarily due to a decrease in platform development and unallocated research and development costs driven by discrete items that occurred during the second quarter of 2021, including common share issuances pursuant to our asset purchase agreements with Ipsen and Rainier Therapeutics, and payments made under our agreement with CPDC for services relating to the validation of Fusion's manufacturing facility currently under construction which resulted in the recognition of research and development expense during that quarter.
- G&A Expenses: General and administrative expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were $7.8 million, compared to $6.6 million for the same period in 2021. The increase was primarily due to an increase in personnel-related costs, corporate costs and professional fees.
- Net Loss: For the second quarter of 2022, Fusion reported a net loss of $19.1 million, or $0.44 per share, compared with a net loss of $26.9 million, or $0.63 per share, for the same period in 2021.
Impact of COVID-19
Fusion is experiencing material delays in patient recruitment, enrollment and study site initiations as a result of continued resourcing issues related to COVID-19 at trial sites.
There also remains uncertainty relating to the trajectory of the pandemic, hospital staffing and resource issues, and whether they may cause further delays in patient study recruitment. The impact of related responses and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may result in further difficulties or delays in initiating, enrolling, conducting or completing the planned and ongoing trials and the incurrence of unforeseen costs as a result of disruptions in clinical supply or preclinical study or clinical trial delays. The continued impact of COVID-19 on results will largely depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence.
About Fusion
Fusion Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage oncology company focused on developing next-generation radiopharmaceuticals as precision medicines. Fusion connects alpha particle emitting isotopes to various targeting molecules in order to selectively deliver the alpha emitting payloads to tumors. Fusion's lead program, FPI-1434 targeting insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor, is currently in a Phase 1 clinical trial. The pipeline includes FPI-1966, targeting the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3), currently in a Phase 1 study following the investigational new drug (IND) clearance; and FPI-2059, a small molecule targeting neurotensin receptor 1 (NTSR1), also currently in a Phase 1 study. In addition to a robust proprietary pipeline, Fusion has a collaboration with AstraZeneca to jointly develop novel targeted alpha therapies (TATs) and combination programs between Fusion's TATs and AstraZeneca's DNA Damage Repair Inhibitors (DDRis) and immuno-oncology agents. Fusion has also entered into a collaboration with Merck to evaluate FPI-1434 in combination with Merck's KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) in patients with solid tumors expressing IGF-1R. Fusion and Hamilton, Ontario-based McMaster University are building a current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) compliant radiopharmaceutical manufacturing facility designed to support manufacturing of the Company's growing pipeline of TATs.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including but not limited to the statements regarding Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s (the "Company") future business and financial performance. For this purpose, any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, the words "expect," "plans," "anticipates," "intends," "will," and similar expressions are also intended to identify forward-looking statements, as are expressed or implied statements with respect to the Company's potential drug candidates, including any expressed or implied statements regarding the successful development of its product candidates . Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to the following: there can be no guarantees that the Company will advance any clinical product candidate or other component of its potential pipeline to the clinic, to the regulatory process or to commercialization; management's expectations could be affected by unexpected patient recruitment delays or regulatory actions or delays; uncertainties relating to, or unsuccessful results of, clinical trials, including additional data relating to the ongoing clinical trials evaluating its product candidates; the Company's ability to obtain additional funding required to conduct its research, development and commercialization activities; changes in the Company's business plan or objectives; the ability of the Company to attract and retain qualified personnel; competition in general; and the Company's ability to obtain, maintain and enforce patent and other intellectual property protection for its product candidates and its discoveries. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. These and other risks which may impact management's expectations are described in greater detail under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, as filed with the SEC and in any subsequent periodic or current report that the Company files with the SEC. All forward-looking statements reflect the Company's estimates only as of the date of this release (unless another date is indicated) and should not be relied upon as reflecting the Company's views, expectations or beliefs at any date subsequent to the date of this release. While Fusion may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it specifically disclaims any obligation to do so, even if the Company's estimates change.
Investors and others should note that Fusion communicates with its investors and the public using the Fusion website, www.fusionpharma.com, including, but not limited to, company disclosures, investor presentations, SEC filings, and press releases. The information that Fusion posts on this website could be deemed to be material information. As a result, Fusion encourages investors, media and others interested to review the information that Fusion posts there on a regular basis.
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PHILADELPHIA, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Virion Therapeutics, LLC, a clinical-stage biotech company focused on the development of novel, adaptable, and accessible CD8+ T cell-based technologies focused on cancers and infectious diseases, presented data today of a genetically encoded checkpoint modifier-based immunotherapy, which enhances CD8+ T cell activation, in a fast-growing preclinical tumor model at the ESMO Target Anticancer Therapies Congress in Paris France.
Top line results, following a single intramuscular injection of this novel immunotherapy include:
- Enhanced immune responses (10- to 15-fold) to oncogenic antigens
- At study completion, 100% survival (n=30/30), 100% initial tumor clearance (n=30/30), and 93% of animals were tumor free (n=28/30)
- These results were durable and reproducible across multiple treatment groups and studies
"Glycoprotein D (gD), when genetically expressed as a fusion protein with antigen(s) of choice, enhances, broadens, and prolongs CD8+ T cell responses. In this preclinical model of fast-growing HPV-16-associated tumors, a gD-based immunotherapy against HPV-16 provided incredibly strong protection against tumor growth and death," said Hildegund Ertl, MD, Professor, Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia PA and Scientific Co-Founder of Virion Therapeutics. "Targeting different checkpoints of early T cell activation represents a novel approach to overcoming T cell impairments during tumor progression and these data further support its potential application, alone or in combination with other checkpoint inhibitors, for a wide range of cancers."
"These preclinical oncology data demonstrated treatment responses which were profound, durable, and reproducible - and show clear differentiation to any other immunotherapy or vaccine in development. We are excited to be advancing our checkpoint modifier pipeline, not only with IND-enabling activities for our oncology program, but also, VRON-0200, for chronic HBV, which is heading to the clinic this summer," said Andrew Luber, Pharm.D., President, and chief executive officer of Virion.
Presentation Details
Presentation Title: "Therapeutic vaccination with HPV-16 proteins fused into a checkpoint modifier or early T cell activation protects against HPV-associated tumors in a preclinical model." Poster #36P
Abstract Number: 277
Presenting Author: Sue Currie, PhD
Presentation Date: March 6, 2023
The above presentation is available via the ESMO TAT meeting website, https://www.esmo.org/meeting-calendar/esmo-tat-2023/, and on Virion's website at https://www.viriontx.com/science/presentations-publications/.
About Genetically Encoded Checkpoint Modifiers (gCPM)
Virion is developing a series of novel gCPMs which act at different stages of T cell activation. The lead gCPM, glycoprotein D (gD), works by blocking an inhibitory signal of early activation (e.g., BTLA/CD160), thereby allowing a co-stimulatory signal to predominate (e.g., LIGHT) – the resultant CD8+ T cells that are induced to the target antigen(s) are enhanced, broadened and prolonged and they are more resistant to becoming impaired over time. This novel mechanism of early checkpoint modification that acts locally at the onset of the immune response has shown promising therapeutic efficacy in several settings, including animal models of fast and slow growing tumors, with viral or human cancer antigens, in young and older animals, and when inserted into DNA or adenovirus vaccine delivery platforms (both human and chimpanzee).
About Virion Therapeutics (Virion)
Virion Therapeutics, LLC, is a science driven company whose mission is to cure cancer and chronic infectious diseases through the development of novel and accessible CD8+ T cell-based immunotherapies. Our proprietary technologies combine genetically encoded checkpoint modifiers with selected and optimized target-specific antigens that are inserted into viral vectors to promote potent, prolonged, and broad CD8+ T cell responses. Founded in early 2018 to advance technology licensed from The Wistar Institute, an international leader in biomedical research with special expertise in vaccine, cancer and infectious disease research, Virion has built a best-in-class, experienced biotechnology management team, augmented by its advisory board that has extensive domain knowledge in antiviral, vaccine, and oncology therapeutic arenas.
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Virion Therapeutics, LLC.
Dr. Sue Currie
Chief Operating Officer
scurrie@viriontx.com
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One million dollar Powerball ticket sold in Sioux Falls
Published: Nov. 6, 2022 at 9:50 AM CST|Updated: seconds ago
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - One lucky winner won one million dollars in Saturday’s Powerball drawings.
South Dakota Lottery tweeted Sunday morning that last night’s drawing featured a one million dollar winner. The winning ticket was purchased at Casey’s General Store on East 10th Street.
SD Lottery says if you are the winner, you should sign the back of the ticket immediately.
However, no winning tickets were sold for Saturday’s 1.6 billion dollar draw. The winning numbers were 28-45-53-56-69 and the Powerball was 20. So you still have one more chance to win as the Powerball jackpot will grow to 1.9 billion dollars and the next drawing is set for Monday evening.
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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — Officials with the City of Wichita Falls are asking all local water customers to begin to take steps to conserve water as lake levels continue to drop.
City officials said in a press release on Thursday, September 29, 2022, that as of Monday, September 26, the combined levels of Lake Arrowhead and Lake Kickapoo sat at 68.3%.
Once the combined lake levels sink to 65%, the city’s Stage 1 Drought Watch will be activated, and water restrictions will begin to take effect.
City water officials believe this will happen sometime in late October at the current rate of decline, however, they said cooler weather or rain could extend this estimation into November.
Stage 1 Water Restrictions include changes to outside irrigation, car washing, and restrictions for local restaurants, clubs, bars, and school cafeterias, among many other restrictions.
A full list of all Wichita Falls water restrictions, stage by stage, can be found on our website.
As a reminder, Wichita County will reinstate a county-wide burn ban, effective Saturday, October 1, 2022.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This holiday season, H&M and Buy From a Black Woman traveled from coast to coast to present the second year of the "Buy From a Black Woman Holiday Market" with events in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago. The market featured BFABW vendors from around the US. H&M's partnership and support will further assist the nonprofit's mission of empowering, educating, and inspiring Black Women and the people who support them.
Buy From a Black Woman is a non-profit organization founded in 2016 by Nikki Porcher that connects over 600 Black Women owned businesses across the United States and provides a community of support with the goal of helping them flourish.
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TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MarcoPolo Learning today announced that it has opened an office in Tampa, becoming its third office joining other offices located in New York and London. MarcoPolo Learning develops award-winning educational resources and technology for early childhood schools and families that help elevate classroom instruction and promote engagement between school and home.
In addition to working with the Early Learning Coalition of Seminole County, the Redlands Christian Migrant Association (RCMA), and the Early Learning Coalition of Pasco and Hernando Counties, several more Florida Early Learning Coalitions are actively working with MarcoPolo Learning to adopt its solution for educators. MarcoPolo Learning provides developmentally appropriate educational resources for teachers and children, as well as customizable professional development and materials for teachers. By making teachers' jobs easier, it supports teacher retention at a time when teacher burnout is high.
Early Learning Coalitions are using MarcoPolo for Educators to provide teachers with access to curriculum-aligned resources to elevate teacher-child interactions and concept development, consistent with the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) domains. The platform, designed specifically for early education, houses digital and print resources, including: educator guides, family engagement tools, and activities that promote teacher-child conversation and interactions.
MarcoPolo Learning recently hired Megan Folts to serve as the Director of Programs and Policy, and she leads the Tampa office. Folts has a decade of experience in early childhood education administration, programmatic design and quality improvement systems. She has worked at the Florida Department of Education's Division of Early Learning, as well as at a Florida Early Learning Coalition as the Director of State Policy and Analysis. She earned her M.P.A. and B.S. in International Affairs & Political Science from Florida State University.
"I am passionate about early childhood education and am thrilled to join MarcoPolo Learning. MarcoPolo for Educators platform not only engages children and supports educators, but it also bridges the school-to-home gap so learning can continue at home. I look forward to working with Florida's early childhood education community to support quality classroom experiences and at-home learning across the state with this educational technology solution," said Megan Folts.
"MarcoPolo Learning is committed to providing Florida's early childhood educators with the educational tools necessary to help children, educators and families thrive during children's early years. We're delighted to expand our operations to include a Florida office in Tampa. We look forward to continuing to work with our Florida partners to help young children thrive," said Justin Hsu, CEO and Founder of MarcoPolo Learning.
MarcoPolo Learning provides a holistic solution for schools that includes professional development, an award-winning library of English, Spanish, and Modified/ELL learning videos and educator resources. MarcoPolo's video library is the most comprehensive for early childhood educators, with over 1,200 videos, educator guides, and other classroom materials that bring curriculum to life.
About MarcoPolo Learning
Based in New York with offices in London and Tampa, MarcoPolo Learning is an award-winning developer of early childhood resources and technology for schools and homes. MarcoPolo serves both schools and families with high quality, curriculum-aligned content that drives curiosity and wonder about the world around them. MarcoPolo is Emmy-nominated for its highly engaging content that features a mix of real footage, 2D and 3D animation that brings curriculum to life. It is also the creator of The Polos, an animated STEM-learning preschool TV series that reaches over 150 million households globally. For more information, visit MarcoPoloLearning.com.
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Company demonstrates leadership, scores in 88th percentile amongst evaluated businesses in the casinos and gaming industry
LONDON, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC ("IGT" or the "Company") (NYSE: IGT) announced today that it scored in the 88th percentile in the casino and gaming industry category in the 2022 S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). IGT was one of 69 companies that were assessed in its category, and the Company particularly demonstrated strong performance against its peers in environmental and social reporting and operational eco-efficiency.
"IGT remains committed to advancing the Company's global sustainability and ESG initiatives," said Wendy Montgomery, IGT SVP, Marketing, Communications and Sustainability. "This improved ranking from S&P Global provides insight on the impact of our sustainability efforts and helps IGT remain 'Ahead of the Game' when it comes to sustainability best practices. This enhanced score reassures our stakeholders that we continue to demonstrate industry leadership in global sustainability."
Within S&P's CSA, IGT received an overall ESG score of 52 on Jan. 20, 2023, an improvement from its previous assessment. On the basis of their performance, companies receive rankings for more than 25 financially relevant sustainability criteria across economic, environmental and social dimensions.
Since 1999, the CSA and the collaboration with Dow Jones Indices (now S&P Dow Jones Indices) have been used to create a leading global sustainability benchmark. The CSA applies a best-in-class approach, meaning no industries are excluded from the assessment, and the CSA compares companies across 61 industries. Active participation in the CSA has helped many companies to stand out as ESG leaders.
For more information on IGT's global sustainability program, visit IGT.com, or follow IGT on LinkedIn.
About IGT
IGT (NYSE:IGT) is a global leader in gaming. We deliver entertaining and responsible gaming experiences for players across all channels and regulated segments, from Lotteries and Gaming Machines to Sports Betting and Digital. Leveraging a wealth of compelling content, substantial investment in innovation, player insights, operational expertise and leading-edge technology, our solutions deliver unrivaled gaming experiences that engage players and drive growth. We have a well-established local presence and relationships with governments and regulators in more than 100 jurisdictions around the world and create value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. IGT has approximately 10,500 employees. For more information, please visit www.igt.com.
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Caroline Garcia 2023 Wimbledon Odds
Caroline Garcia will begin play in Wimbledon against Katie Volynets (in the round of 128). In her last match she was eliminated by Daria Kasatkina in the quarterfinals after a strong performance at Viking International Eastbourne. Garcia has +5000 odds to win this tournament at AELTC Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Ground.
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Garcia at 2023 Wimbledon
- Next Round: Round of 128
- Tournament Dates: June 25 - July 16
- Venue: AELTC Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Ground
- Court Surface: Grass
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Garcia's Next Match
In her opener at Wimbledon, Garcia will meet Volynets on Monday, July 3 at 5:00 AM ET in the round of 128.
Caroline Garcia Grand Slam Odds
- Wimbeldon odds to win: +5000
- US Open odds to win: +1000
- Wimbledon odds to win: +5000
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Garcia Stats
- In her previous tournament, Viking International Eastbourne, Garcia was defeated in the quarterfinals by No. 11-ranked Kasatkina, 2-6, 1-2.
- Garcia has won three of her 25 tournaments over the past 12 months, with an overall record of 52-23.
- Garcia is 5-3 on grass over the past year.
- Through 75 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Garcia has played 23.0 games per match. She won 55.3% of them.
- Garcia, over the past year, has played eight matches on grass, and 19.6 games per match.
- Over the past year, Garcia has won 81.5% of her service games, and she has won 27.9% of her return games.
- Garcia has claimed 82.3% of her service games on grass over the past 12 months and 24.4% of her return games.
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writers
Major stock indexes on Wall Street gave up early gains and ended a choppy day of trading little changed Monday.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq each slipped 0.1% after shedding gains of 1% and 1.6%, respectively. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 0.1% higher.
Small-company stocks outpaced the broader market in a sign that investors were confident about the economy. The Russell 2000 rose 1%.
The market’s latest gyrations came as investors prepare for a busy week of economic updates that could help answer whether the Federal Reserve’s efforts to cool the economy and quell inflation are working, or whether the central bank will continue aggressively raising interest rates. Wall Street is worried that the Fed could hit the brakes too hard and cause a recession.
“Early indications of inflationary pressures appear to be easing, which will be an important catalyst for the market,” said Quincy Krosby, chief global strategist for LPL Financial.
The S&P 500 fell 5.13 points to 4,140.06, while the Nasdaq slid 13.10 points to 12,644.46. The Dow added 29.07 points to close at 32,832.54. The Russell 2000 rose 19.38 points to 1,941.21.
The benchmark S&P 500 index is coming off three consecutive weekly gains. Investors remain focused on inflation and its impact on businesses and consumers, along with the Federal Reserve’s efforts to fight higher prices. The central bank has been aggressively raising interest rates to pump the brakes on economic growth and rein in record-high inflation. The Fed is expected to hike short-term interest rates by another 0.75 percentage points at its next meeting.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Monday released a survey of consumer expectations from July showing that there were “substantial declines” in inflation expectations for everything from food and gas to home prices.
The Labor Department will release its July report for consumer prices on Wednesday, followed by its report for prices at the wholesale level on Thursday.
This week’s inflation updates follow reports last week showing the employment market remains strong. While that’s good for the economy, it has complicated the job of the Fed, which may be forced to continue with aggressive interest rate hikes intended to cool the economy and soaring inflation.
Investors are still reviewing the latest round of corporate earnings, which could also provide more details on how hard inflation is hitting consumers and businesses. Nvidia fell 6.3% for one of the biggest declines in the S&P 500 after it warned investors that its second-quarter revenue will fall short of forecasts because of weaker gaming revenue.
Generic drugmaker Viatris rose 3.7% after beating Wall Street’s second-quarter earnings and revenue forecasts.
Technology stocks were the biggest drag on the market Monday, outweighing modest gains in other sectors. Pricey stocks in the sector tend to push the market higher or lower with more weight. Microsoft fell 0.9%.
Retailers and communications stocks were among the biggest winners. Best Buy rose 2.8% and Facebook’s parent, Meta Platforms, rose 1.9%.
Clean energy companies gained ground following the Senate’s approval for Democrats’ big election-year economic package, which includes funding to help fight climate change. First Solar rose 4.7%.
Bond yields fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences interest rates on mortgages and other consumer loans, slipped to 2.76% from 2.83% late Friday.
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Michael Massey Player Prop Bets: Royals vs. Guardians - July 25
Published: Jul. 25, 2023 at 9:27 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Michael Massey -- with a slugging percentage of .588 in his past 10 games, including three home runs -- will be in action for the Kansas City Royals versus the Cleveland Guardians, with Aaron Civale on the mound, on July 25 at 7:10 PM ET.
In his last game, he notched a home run while going 2-for-4 against the Yankees.
Michael Massey Game Info & Props vs. the Guardians
- Game Day: Tuesday, July 25, 2023
- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Progressive Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Guardians Starter: Aaron Civale
- TV Channel: BSGL
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -208)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +425)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +190)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +145)
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Michael Massey At The Plate
- Massey is hitting .213 with seven doubles, a triple, seven home runs and 15 walks.
- Massey has picked up a hit in 34 of 74 games this year, with multiple hits 13 times.
- Looking at the 74 games he has played this season, he's went deep in six of them (8.1%), and in 2.8% of his trips to the plate.
- Massey has had an RBI in 19 games this season (25.7%), including eight multi-RBI outings (10.8%). He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored in 17 of 74 games (23.0%), including multiple runs twice.
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Michael Massey Home/Away Batting Splits
Guardians Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Guardians has a collective 8.1 K/9, which ranks 25th in MLB.
- The Guardians have a 3.89 team ERA that ranks ninth across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Guardians pitchers combine to give up 101 home runs (one per game), the second-fewest in baseball.
- Civale (3-2 with a 2.71 ERA and 49 strikeouts in 63 2/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Guardians, his 12th of the season.
- His most recent appearance came on Wednesday against the Pittsburgh Pirates, when the right-hander threw 5 1/3 innings, surrendering two earned runs while allowing five hits.
- The 28-year-old has amassed an ERA of 2.71, with 7 strikeouts per nine innings, in 11 games this season. Opponents are batting .215 against him.
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How the FTC helps ensure a company’s green claims are true
Eco-anxiety is a prevailing sense of environmental doom. While no one wants to increase their stress level, some research suggests it can have its benefits. For example, eco-anxiety pushes people to make earth-friendly choices.
Unfortunately, since manufacturers want to make their products as appealing as possible, they can take advantage of people’s fears. A company takes advantage of people by making misleading or false claims about how green a product is. It is important for consumers to know how to make true earth-conscious purchases.
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What are the Federal Trade Commission’s Green Guides?
“Green” marketing is an effective strategy. Companies tout the environmental benefits of their products, making them a selling point. Often, those companies also charge a higher price for eco-friendly items.
However, what companies claim are green practices and what the FTC considers environmentally friendly don’t always align. To help ensure the consumer isn’t being misled, the FTC issued the Green Guides in 1992. These guides establish general principles that apply to marketing claims, helping make sure the manufacturer and the consumer are on the same page in regards to understanding how eco-friendly a product is.
What is carbon dioxide, and why is it so bad?
Carbon dioxide is a natural byproduct of various actions ranging from breathing to burning fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide is highly efficient at absorbing infrared radiation (heat). Additionally, carbon dioxide has a long life span. According to NASA, once released, it can remain in the atmosphere for as long as 1,000 years. Since heat is the major driving force of weather, carbon dioxide raises atmospheric temperatures, disrupts weather patterns and causes climate change. It also contributes to air pollution, creates acid rain, adds to coastal and ocean acidification and accelerates the melting of polar ice.
How are carbon positive, carbon neutral and carbon negative different from each other?
A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide) that are released due to an individual’s or a company’s actions.
Before looking at the terms carbon positive, carbon neutral and carbon negative, it is essential to understand carbon offsetting. Carbon offsetting does not mean an individual or a company releases less carbon dioxide. It means they try to balance out their actions. For instance, if you litter, offsetting doesn’t mean you stop littering; it means you install trash cans somewhere else to hopefully reduce other people’s litter. The phrase “carbon offsetting” means trying to do something beneficial in another area. It doesn’t necessarily mean reducing carbon emissions.
When a company is carbon positive, it adds more carbon to the environment than it removes. A carbon-neutral company balances the good with the bad. If a company is carbon negative, that means its beneficial actions outweigh the company’s negative impact on carbon emissions.
To capitalize on carbon emissions, a company can sell its carbon offset credits to another company. This means a company can call itself carbon neutral (or carbon negative) when it is not doing anything to reduce its own carbon footprint other than benefiting from another company’s earth-friendly practices. While the FTC considers this a viable solution, the individual consumer may feel differently about this strategy.
What is renewable energy?
Fossil fuel is consumed at a faster rate than it is created. That means eventually, it will run out. When a company harnesses a renewable energy source for power, they are helping to ensure there will be enough energy to power the future. The most common sources of renewable energy are solar energy, wind energy, hydro energy, tidal energy, geothermal energy and biomass energy. Recently, there was a breakthrough in nuclear fusion, which could one day create a virtually limitless energy source.
According to the FTC, if a company lists its product as being “made with renewable energy,” nearly all of its manufacturing process must be powered by renewable energy. Like carbon footprints, however, a company that does not use renewable energy can buy renewable energy certificates from companies that do and still be allowed to market its product as being made with renewable energy. Again, whether a consumer is content with this practice is a personal matter.
Types of materials
There are only two types of eco-friendly materials used in the manufacturing process: recycled materials and renewable materials.
Recycled materials
“Recycled materials” means the product or packaging was created with materials that were kept out of the trash. Unless the product is made from 100% recycled materials, the label should tell the consumer what percentage of the product or package is made of recycled content.
Renewable materials
As with other claims, a manufacturer needs to state what renewable materials are being used in the manufacturing process, why the materials are considered renewable and how much of the product or packaging is made using the renewable materials. If this information is not provided, simply stating “made with renewable materials” is not enough to warrant confidence in a consumer. In short, the more transparent a company or manufacturer is in releasing information, the more likely it is that a corporate entity adheres to the FTC’s Green Guides.
What you might not realize about recyclable, biodegradable and compostable products
Recyclable
The FTC permits a company to call its product recyclable if most people who buy it can recycle it. However, that does not mean you can recycle it in every city or county. Always check your local recycling options and compare them to the products you are purchasing. Otherwise, you are “wishcycling,” which is tossing a product into a bin and telling yourself you are doing the right thing, even if you aren’t sure.
Biodegradable
When exposed to sunlight, air, moisture, bacteria and other organisms, virtually everything is biodegradable. However, when placed in a landfill, there is little to no sunlight, air and moisture, so decomposition is dramatically increased. In other words, buying biodegradable products might not have the environmental impact you were hoping for. According to the FTC, a product should not be labeled as “biodegradable” unless it also states how long it will take to degrade and how much it will break down over time.
Compostable
Compost enriches the soil, providing nutrients and organic elements it needs to sustain plant life. If a product is labeled “compostable,” it means you can compost the materials safely at home. If you cannot compost a product at home safely, the manufacturer needs to clearly state that.
Does ‘less waste’ really mean anything?
Merely labeling a product as creating “less waste” has little to no meaning. Unless a manufacturer states why a product has less waste and what it is being compared to, the consumer will not know if they are making an environmentally conscious choice.
Products that are gentle on the environment
Whether it is a company that makes laundry detergent or food storage containers, it’s up to the individual to decide if that manufacturer’s practices are acceptable. Here is a list of products that provides a good starting point for your research.
Chef’n EcoCrock Counter Compost Bin
Admittedly, this is a product that puts the responsibility on the consumer, as the product features no climate-friendly manufacturing claims. However, this 3-liter countertop bin with a charcoal filter helps you be more earth conscious by composting your own organic waste.
Ethique Pinkalicious Uplifting Solid Shampoo Bar
The compact design of this shampoo bar reduces the carbon footprint created by packaging and shipping. This one bar is the equivalent of three bottles of shampoo. It is 100% plastic-free and soap-free.
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Besides being reusable and long-lasting, these dishcloths are made from 91% bamboo, which is a renewable material. The non-scratch texture makes these dishcloths safe for various kitchen surfaces.
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Zero Waste MVMT Dish Washing Bundle Kit
This plastic-free offering comes with a dish soap bar, a cedar soap tray and a bamboo pot brush. It’s vegan, cruelty-free and packaged in recycled kraft paper boxes. Each bar replaces up to three bottles of liquid dish soap.
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Stasher Reusable Silicone Food Storage Half-Gallon Bag
“Reusable” means you aren’t throwing it away. This 64-ounce reusable bag is safe for everything from food to a still-warm hair straightener. It has a Pinch-Loc seal and a write-on surface for convenience. The storage bag is freezer-safe, microwave-safe, dishwasher-safe and oven-safe up to 400 degrees.
Mrs. Meyer’s Kitchen Essentials Set
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MADISON, Wis. , June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Art Deco is en vogue at Madison Liquidators! Coming from longtime manufacturing partner Via Seating, Madison Liquidators has included the Nebula Series, art deco sofa to the online office furniture lineup. The Nebula series, which is designed to accent the Meteor series of office chairs, offers seating that is both sophisticated and playful. In fact, many of the newest listings to the online marketplace offer a unique design, in an effort to branch into high-style and non-traditional office spaces.
This small office couch features gentle curves in the seat and back paired with a thick steel wire-style base. The seat is padded for comfort and clad in vinyl. Art deco originated in the 1920s and by the 1930s was a dominant style movement in the western world. Art deco is defined by its distinguishing features that include simple, clean shapes with a streamlined appearance, along with ornamentation that is geometric. This style of furniture is unique to Madison Liquidators and is meant to signal a shift from mostly traditional-contemporary selections, to pieces that may be used as salon or bar lounge furniture.
This office couch comes in five finish options; Mist, Morel, Nautical, Raven, and Tempest, along with two base colors, giving the purchaser the option to create a distinct look for their office. The upholstery is also antimicrobial making it a necessary, easy-to-clean feature for the post-pandemic workplace.
The manufacturer has taken art deco design properties and paired them with an office sofa that can add trendiness to a waiting area or an executive office. Any business where comfort and stylish seating is needed, this sofa is enough to fill the void. It can anchor office spaces from the reception desk and lounge to the back office. As with most furniture at Madison Liquidators this series is warranty-backed. Via Seating provides a twelve-year protection against manufacturing and craftsmanship defects along with five years protection for all upholstered elements.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rookie Jaxson Stauber recorded 29 saves in his NHL debut and Jason Dickinson scored a goal and two assists, leading the Chicago Blackhawks to a 5-3 victory Saturday night over the St. Louis Blues.
“I’ve dreamed about this for so long that I didn’t know how it was going to feel,” said Stauber, whose parents attended the game. “But it felt really good. I can’t put it into words. It was so awesome and exciting.”
Stauber, 23, joined Chicago on an emergency recall Thursday. Stauber signed last year after a standout career at Providence College. He’s played in 12 games this season with the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League, going 6-4 with a 3.06 goals-against average and a .896 save percentage. He is the son of former NHL goaltender Robb Stauber, who played five seasons in the NHL with the Los Angeles Kings and Buffalo Sabres.
“It thought it was great. An excellent start,” Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson said. “He was calm and comfortable. He played the puck extremely well all night right down the the end. A real heads up game by him. He deserved the win.”
The Blackhawks have won six of their last seven games. The loss snapped the Blues’ four-game winning streak against Chicago. St. Louis had beaten the Blackhawks six straight times at home dating back to Nov. 14, 2018.
Sam Lafferty, Reese Johnson, Andreas Athanasiou and Max Domi also scored for Chicago, who had just 18 shots on goal.
“Winning is fun. It’s what we play for,” Domi said. “It wasn’t pretty tonight but we’ll take it."
Jordan Kyrou, Ivan Barbashev and Nick Leddy scored for St. Louis.
Chicago scored on its first two shots on goal. Dickinson scored at 10:27 of the first period on a quick-developing 2-on-1 for a 1-0 lead. The Blackhawks made it 2-0 at 13:20 with a short-handed goal by Lafferty after being fed by Dickinson for a breakaway, beating Jordan Binnington through the five-hole. Lafferty used his speed to assist on Dickinson’s goal.
“It’s obviously disappointing,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “Made two mistakes that shouldn’t happen and they’re both in the net and it’s 2-0. I don't have an answer for that. I’m sorry. So we’re fighting uphill the rest of the game, and it wasn’t good enough obviously.”
Each team scored twice in the second period. Chicago went up 3-0 at 2 minutes in the second period when Johnson got behind Calle Rosen and tapped in the puck after getting a pass from Colin Blackwell. St. Louis came back less than a minute later with a power play goal when Kyrou scored on a wrist shot at 2:54. Athanasiou scored at 3:59 for a 4-1 Chicago lead.
That was it for Binnington, who allowed four goals on seven shots. Backup Thomas Greiss came in to play.
“Really tough start for us, you know,” Barbashev said. “To give up four goals. I don’t think it was on Binnington, to be honest. We gave them real easy goals.”
St. Louis cut the lead to 4-2 when Barbashev scored on a backhander at 13:12.
Each team scored a goal in the final period. Stauber stayed calm after St. Louis closed the gap.
“I just took a few deep breaths and got some water and I got ready for the next one,” said Stauber, who kept the puck from the game as a souvenir.
ICE CHIPS
Blues LW Logan Brown has been activated off injured reserve but he was a healthy scratch for Saturday’s game. ... Sent C Nikita Alexandrov to AHL’s Springfield Thunderbirds, ending a stint in the NHL in which he played seven games with two goals and one assist. ... RW Vladimir Tarasenko (hand), D Torey Krug (lower body), D Robert Bortuzzo (lower body), D Marco Scandella (hip) all participated in the Saturday morning optional skate for the Blues. None played in the game.
UP NEXT
Blackhawks: Host Los Angeles Kings on Sunday night.
Blues: Host Buffalo on Tuesday night.
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The LSU Tigers host the UAB Blazers in college football 2022 action Saturday, November 19, at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La. The game will be live streamed via fubo TV.
No. 6 LSU is 8-2 this season, while UAB is 5-5. The Tigers won the last meeting between the two teams, beating the Blazers 56-17 in 2013 in Baton Rouge.
LSU is a 14.5-point favorite in the game, per Vegas Insider.
The LSU vs. UAB game starts at 8 p.m. Central (9 p.m. Eastern) and will be live streamed on fubo TV, which offers a 7-day free trial and is then $69.99 per month and live streamed on DirecTV Stream, which is available for $49.99 for the first two months, $69.99 after that. ESPN2 will broadcast the game nationally.
Preview
Sixth-ranked LSU’s final home game will serve as more than a traditional celebration of senior players taking their home field for the last time.
It’s also a chance for fans in Tiger Stadium to honor the remarkable success story LSU has become during coach Brian Kelly’s first season on the bayou.
After going two seasons without a winning record, LSU (8-2) is back among the Southeastern Conference elite, having clinched a berth in the league title game by winning the SEC Western Division before mid-November.
But the Tigers cannot afford a loss to UAB (5-5) and still expect to be taken seriously as candidates for the four-team College Football Playoff.
“The job’s not finished,” LSU defensive end Ali Gaye said. “All the confetti and everything is cool and all, but we still have a job to accomplish. ... It’s not just the division; we’re trying to go higher.”
While FanDuel Sportsbook lists LSU as a two-touchdown favorite, UAB can be encouraged by its own history in Death Valley. The Blazers are one of just two nonconference teams to win there since 2000 — the year UAB upset LSU 13-10.
“We’ve got former players that are connected to this program that were on that (2000) team,” UAB coach Bryant Vincent said. “This is a game that our players and this football team — we’re not going to back down. This football team is excited to go into Death Valley on a Saturday night and to play a nationally ranked sixth team that’s going to play for the SEC championship.”
Kelly, meanwhile, highlighted LSU’s challenge this week by citing not only the difficulty the Tigers had in their 13-10 escape at Arkansas last week, but also the fact that all five of the Blazers’ losses have come by a touchdown or less.
UAB is “a team that, quite frankly, is better than its record,” Kelly said. “They’ve had three or four losses that could easily be wins, and this could be one of the top teams in the non-Power Five that would be coming into Tiger Stadium.”
FABULOUS FRESHMAN
LSU freshman linebacker Harold Perkins has emerged as one of the biggest stars on the team, wrecking opponents’ offensive game plans with his closing speed and instinctive play.
He was named the Walter Camp national defensive player of the week for last Saturday’s performance at Arkansas, where he had four sacks and two forced fumbles, the second of which effectively ended the game.
Kelly credits the effectiveness of LSU’s entire defensive front with helping the Tigers maximize Perkins’ talent. The defensive line causes QB’s to scramble out of the pocket, and “Perk,” as he’s called by teammates, comes racing in to make a play.
“It’s pretty impressive, the marriage, if you will, between the two,” Kelly said. “You have a group that can get a quarterback outside the pocket and then go chase him down.”
RUNNING HARD
UAB’s running back tandem of DeWayne McBride and Jermaine Brown Jr. have combined to eclipse 2,000 yards and 20 TDs rushing for a second straight season. McBride leads the nation with 1,407 yards rushing.
“Up front, we’re going to have to buckle down,” LSU’s Gaye said.
McBride said he’ll do what he does best and make the Tigers stop it.
“I take the same approach no matter who it is,” McBride said, adding that his favorite aspect of playing his position is “running through somebody’s face.”
OFFENSIVE ADJUSTMENTS
Kelly said LSU has to adapt better when a defense sells out to stop dual-threat Tigers quarterback Jayden Daniels, as Arkansas did last week with relentless blitzing.
Daniels was sacked seven ties last week and now faces a UAB defense coming off a strong showing in a 41-21 victory over North Texas, which leads Conference USA offensively.
“We were able to hold the top-ranked offense in the conference 239 yards below their average and 16 points below their average,” Vincent noted.
Kelly said he and his staff “have to prepare for those kinds of situations where defenses just say we’re just going to give you everything we’ve got, and what do we have to lose?”
“We’ll be prepared,” Kelly added. “It won’t happen again.”
PROUD COACH
When Kelly was asked about LSU’s remarkable one-season turnaround, he touched specifically on his players’ attitudes and decision-making.
“Watching them become SEC West champions is so gratifying because they made that choice,” Kelly said. “They could have been average. They could have been poor. They could have just been good. They have chosen to be champions by the way they’ve gone to work every day.”
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN
Could technology companies have monitored ominous messages made by a gunman who Texas authorities say massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school? Could they have warned the authorities?
Answers to these questions remain unclear, in part because official descriptions of the shooting and the gunman’s social media activity have continued to evolve. For instance, on Thursday Texas officials made significant revisions to their timeline of events for the shooting.
But if nothing else, the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, seems highly likely to focus additional attention on how social platforms monitor what users are saying to and showing each other.
A day after the Tuesday shooting, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said this: “There was no meaningful forewarning of this crime other than what I’m about to tell you: As of this time the only information that was known in advance was posted by the gunman on Facebook approximately 30 minutes before reaching the school.”
Facebook posts are typically distributed to a wide audience. Shortly thereafter, Facebook stepped in to note that the gunman sent one-to-one direct messages, not public posts, and that they weren’t discovered until “after the terrible tragedy.”
HOW DID THE GUNMAN USE SOCIAL MEDIA?
By Thursday, new questions arose as to which and how many tech platforms the gunman used in the days before the shooting. The governor’s office referred questions about the gunman’s online messages to the Texas Department of Public Safety, which didn’t respond to emailed requests for comment.
Some reports appear to show that at least some of the gunman’s communications used Apple’s encrypted iPhone messaging services, which makes messages almost impossible for anyone else to read when sent to another iPhone user. Facebook parent company Meta, which also owns Instagram, says it is working with law enforcement but declined to provide details. Apple didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The latest mass shootings in the U.S. by active social-media users may bring more pressure on technology companies to heighten their scrutiny of online communications, even though conservative politicians — Abbott among them — are also pushing social platforms to relax their restrictions on some speech.
COULD TECH COMPANIES HAVE CAUGHT THE SHOOTER’S MESSAGES?
It would depend on which services Salvador Ramos used. A series of posts appeared on his Instagram in the days leading up to the shooting, including photos of a gun magazine in hand and two AR-style semi-automatic rifles. An Instagram user who was tagged in one post shared parts of what appears to be a chilling exchange on Instagram with Ramos, asking her to share his gun pictures with her more than 10,000 followers.
Meta has said it monitors people’s private messages for some kinds of harmful content, such as links to malware or images of child sexual exploitation. But copied images can be detected using unique identifiers — a kind of digital signature — which makes them relatively easy for computer systems to flag. Trying to interpret a string of threatening words — which can resemble a joke, satire or song lyrics — is a far more difficult task for artificial intelligence systems.
Facebook could, for instance, flag certain phrases such as “going to kill” or “going to shoot,” but without context — something AI in general has a lot of trouble with — there would be too many false positives for the company to analyze. So Facebook and other platforms rely on user reports to catch threats, harassment and other violations of the law or their own policies.
SOCIAL PLATFORMS LOCK UP THEIR MESSAGES
Even this kind of monitoring could soon be obsolete, since Meta plans to roll out end-to-end-encryption on its Facebook and Instagram messaging systems next year. Such encryption means that no one other than the sender and the recipient — not even Meta — can decipher people’s messages. WhatsApp, also owned by Meta, already uses such encryption.
A recent Meta-commissioned report emphasized the benefits of such privacy but also noted some risks — including users who could abuse the encryption to sexually exploit children, facilitate human trafficking and spread hate speech.
Apple has long had end-to-end encryption on its messaging system. That has brought the iPhone maker into conflict with the Justice Department over messaging privacy. After the deadly shooting of three U.S. sailors at a Navy installation in December 2019, the Justice Department insisted that investigators needed access to data from two locked and encrypted iPhones that belonged to the alleged gunman, a Saudi aviation student.
Security experts say this could be done if Apple were to engineer a “backdoor” to allow access to messages sent by alleged criminals. Such a secret key would let them decipher encrypted information with a court order.
But the same experts warned that such backdoors into encryption systems make them inherently insecure. Just knowing that a backdoor exists is enough to focus the world’s spies and criminals on discovering the mathematical keys that could unlock it. And when they do, everyone’s information is essentially vulnerable to anyone with the secret key. | https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/26/explainer-social-media-and-the-texas-shooters-messages/ | 2022-05-27 00:50:14 | 1 | https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/26/explainer-social-media-and-the-texas-shooters-messages/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Control of Congress hung in the balance Wednesday as Democrats showed surprising strength, defeating Republicans in a series of competitive races and defying expectations that high inflation and President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings would drag the party down.
In the most heartening news for Democrats, John Fetterman flipped Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Senate seat that's key to the party’s hopes of maintaining control of the chamber. It was too early to call critical Senate seats in Wisconsin, Nevada, Georgia and Arizona that could determine the majority. In the House, Democrats kept seats in districts from Virginia to Kansas to Rhode Island, while many districts in states like New York and California had not been called.
Democrats also were successful in governors’ races, winning in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — battlegrounds critical to Biden’s 2020 win over Donald Trump. But Republicans held on to governors’ mansions in Florida, Texas and Georgia, another battleground state Biden narrowly won two years ago.
With votes still being counted across the country, Republicans maintained an opportunity to win control of Congress. But the results were uplifting for Democrats who had braced for sweeping losses — and raised questions about the size of Republicans’ governing majority if they win the House.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican poised to be House speaker if the GOP takes control of the chamber, was optimistic, telling supporters, “When you wake up tomorrow, we will be in the majority.” Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi countered that her party would hold the chamber: “While many races remain too close to call, it is clear that House Democratic Members and candidates are strongly outperforming expectations across the country.”
The outcome of races for House and Senate will determine the future of Biden’s agenda and serve as a referendum on his administration as the nation reels from record-high inflation and concerns over the direction of the country. Republican control of the House would likely trigger a spate of investigations into Biden and his family, while a GOP Senate takeover would hobble the president's ability to make judicial appointments.
Democrats faced historic headwinds. The party in power almost always suffers losses in the president’s first midterm elections, but Democrats bet that anger from the Supreme Court’s decision to gut abortion rights might energize their voters to buck historical trends.
In Pennsylvania, Fetterman had faced questions about his fitness for office after suffering a stroke just days before the state’s primary. But he nonetheless bested Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz in a major rebuke to Trump, whose endorsement helped Oz win the GOP's hard-fought primary.
“I’m so humbled,” Fetterman, wearing his signature hoodie, told his supporters early Wednesday morning. “This campaign has always been about fighting for everyone who's ever been knocked down that ever got back up.”
Democrats also held a crucial Senate seat in New Hampshire, where incumbent Maggie Hassan defeated Republican Don Bolduc, a retired Army general who had initially promoted Trump’s lies about the 2020 election being marred by widespread fraud that did not occur but tried to shift away from some of the more extreme positions he took during the GOP primary.
Also in Pennsylvania, Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro beat Republican Doug Mastriano to keep the governorship of a key presidential battleground state blue. Shapiro's victory rebuffed an election denier who some feared would not certify a Democratic presidential win in the state in 2024.
Democrats Tony Evers in Wisconsin, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Kathy Hochul of New York, Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico and Janet Mills of Maine also repelled Republican challengers.
Incumbent Republican governors had some success. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp won reelection, defeating Stacey Abrams in a rematch of their 2018 race. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, two future possible Republican presidential contenders, beat back Democratic challengers to win in the nation’s two largest red states.
AP VoteCast, a broad survey of the national electorate, showed that high inflation and concerns about the fragility of democracy were heavily influencing voters. Half of voters said inflation factored significantly, with groceries, gasoline, housing, food and other costs that have shot up in the past year. Slightly fewer — 44% — said the future of democracy was their primary consideration.
Biden didn’t entirely shoulder the blame for inflation, with close to half of voters saying the higher-than-usual prices were more because of factors outside of his control. And despite the president bearing criticism from a pessimistic electorate, some of those voters backed Democratic candidates.
Overall, 7 in 10 voters said the ruling overturning the 1973 decision enshrining abortion rights was an important factor in their midterm decisions. VoteCast also showed the reversal was broadly unpopular. About 6 in 10 say they are angry or dissatisfied by it, while about 4 in 10 were pleased. And roughly 6 in 10 say they favor a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide.
There were no widespread problems with ballots or voter intimidation reported around the country, though there were hiccups typical of most Election Days.
In the first national election since the Jan. 6 insurrection, some who participated in or were in the vicinity of the attack on the U.S. Capitol were poised to win elected office. One of those Republican candidates, J.R. Majewski, who was at the U.S. Capitol during the deadly riot and who misrepresented his military service, lost to Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur.
Democratic Reps. Abigail Spanberger and Jennifer Wexton held off spirited Republican challengers in Virginia districts the GOP had hoped to flip.
The 2022 elections are on track to cost a projected $16.7 billion at the state and federal level, making them the most expensive midterms ever, according to the nonpartisan campaign finance tracking organization OpenSecrets.
Trump lifted Republican Senate candidates to victory in Ohio and North Carolina. JD Vance, the bestselling author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” defeated 10-term congressman Tim Ryan, while Rep. Ted Budd beat Cheri Beasley, the former chief justice of the state Supreme Court.
Trump had endorsed more than 300 candidates across the country, hoping the night would end in a red wave he could ride to the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. After summoning reporters and his most loyal supporters to a watch party at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Tuesday, he ended the night without a triumphant speech.
Nonetheless, the former president insisted on social media that he’d had “A GREAT EVENING.”
Biden, meanwhile, spent the night calling Democrats to congratulate them on their wins.
In governors' races, the GOP faced unexpected headwinds in flipping the office in conservative Kansas, while Democrats were nervous about their prospects in the race in Oregon, typically a liberal bastion.
Despite their liberal history, states like Massachusetts, Maryland and Illinois have elected moderate Republican governors in the past. But the Republican candidates this year appeared to be too conservative in these states, handing Democrats easy victories.
Massachusetts and Maryland also saw historic firsts: Democrat Maura Healey became the first woman elected as Massachusetts governor, as well as the first openly lesbian governor of any state, and Wes Moore became the first Black governor of Maryland.
Healey bested Geoff Diehl in Massachusetts and Moore beat Dan Cox in Maryland, while Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker defeated state Sen. Darren Bailey. Bolduc, Cox and Bailey were among the far-right Republicans that Democrats spent tens of millions of dollars to bolster during the primaries, betting they would be easier to beat in general elections than their more moderate rivals.
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Associated Press writer Hannah Fingerhut contributed.
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The family of the young girl who lost her leg after a shark attack has received a huge out pouring of support.
Recently, the Bethea family crossed the $75,000 threshold of monetary support on GoFundMe, nearly doubling their original goal of $40,000 to help 17-year-old Addison’s hospital costs.
Now, they’re looking to reach $100,000.
On June 30, Addison was scalloping with her brother, Rhett Willingham, in Keaton Beach — Taylor County — when a shark pulled her underwater. The shark was estimated to be about 9 feet long and attacked Addison several times before departing. The attack left the teen with massive damage to her upper right leg, causing Addison to lose her quadriceps, according to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare.
Addison, a former cheerleader and tennis player, was able to survive thanks to the quick actions of her brother, a firefighter EMT, and several local boaters, who tied a tourniquet to control the bleeding until Addison was taken to TMH, according to the GoFundMe page.
On Monday, Addison was able to leave the hospital and head to in-patient rehab, according to the Fight Like Addison Facebook page.
Last week, the hospital said Addison was continuing to show signs of improvement and allowed her and the family to go outside for some fresh air and to take pictures.
The family has also received incredible community support with Leon County Sheriff’s Office stopping by to encourage Addison, a motorcycle rally and concert in Perry in Addison’s honor as well as large monetary support.
If you’d like to donate to Addison’s family you can do so by visiting their GoFundMe page.
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Auburn hired Hugh Freeze in November to put the Tigers back into the football national championship conversation.
Following a year in which Auburn went 5-7, Freeze arrived on The Plains after four years leading Liberty University.
And while his hiring was met with some backlash due to his time as head coach at Ole Miss, he has the support of one of Auburn’s most well-known alumni.
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Charles Barkley said he’s excited for Freeze’s first season at Auburn while hoping the fan base embraces him.
"Well, I was very disappointed the way the Auburn faithful treated coach [Bryan] Harsin," Barkley said at the Regions Tradition pro-am golf tournament in Birmingham on Wednesday, according to the Montgomery Advertiser. "Very disappointed [in] the way we treated coach Harsin. But now we got coach Freeze. They've got to get behind him 100%.
"I talked to him a couple times. He knows I’m always on his speed dial if he ever needs anything, and I’m excited. I think under the circumstances, he did good recruiting-wise. I thought he did good in the transfer portal. Now, hey, the season’s going to start, and I’m excited."
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Freeze returned to the SEC five years after resigning as head coach of Ole Miss after school officials uncovered a "pattern of personal misconduct," starting with a call to a number used by an escort service from a university-issued cellphone. That issue came after the NCAA started an investigation into rules violations the football program committed under Freeze.
The NCAA found 21 violations of academic, booster and recruiting misconduct, most of which happened under Freeze’s watch. Ole Miss got a two-year postseason ban and recruiting restrictions for two years.
And while his time at Ole Miss ended poorly, Freeze did defeat Nick Saban and Alabama twice, beating the Crimson Tide in 2014 and 2015.
"That doesn’t matter to me, to be honest with you," Barkley said. "It just matters what we do at Auburn. Coach Saban is the greatest college football coach ever. I got a lot of admiration and respect for him, but we just need to get ourselves together at Auburn. You never worry about other people."
"Coach Saban is the greatest ever, but I like our coach. ... I think we’re going to have a very good season."
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen have kidnapped the prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, police said Monday, in an incident that once again mirrors the troubling security challenges in the West African nation.
His Eminence Samuel Kanu Uche was kidnapped Sunday along a highway in the Umunneochi area in Nigeria’s southeastern Abia state, police spokesperson Geoffrey Ogbonna told The Associated Press. Two other senior clerics with him were also taken hostage.
Nigeria’s southeast has in recent years grappled with violent attacks and abductions often blamed on unknown gunmen. Authorities have accused members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, a leading separatist group, of being behind many of the attacks.
There has been no word yet from the kidnappers, Ogbonna said, adding that “we are making efforts” to rescue him and the two other captives.
The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) condemned the kidnapping and called on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to “give an express order to the security agencies to free them immediately and stop the incessant abduction of clerics and other innocent Nigerians.”
“If a great servant of God of Uche’s caliber could be kidnapped like a three-year-old baby on a major road without any resistance from the police, it speaks volumes of what our security architecture has become,” the Christian association said.
Other political and religious leaders have also called for the release of the prelate and many others in captivity in Nigeria, where abductions for ransoms have been a worrying trend.
“This is no more a country one can be proud of,” said Adebayo Oladeji with CAN. “No reasonable government can continue to leave the citizens in a terrible state of insecurity as we are presently.” | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/prelate-of-nigeria-methodist-church-abducted-in-southeast/ | 2022-05-30 17:58:20 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/prelate-of-nigeria-methodist-church-abducted-in-southeast/ |
BAGHDAD (AP) — A retired British geologist sentenced to 15 years for antiquities smuggling in Iraq may soon go free after a Baghdad court overturned his conviction, his family and lawyer said on Tuesday.
Baghdad’s Court of Cassation, or appeals court, overturned the verdict against Jim Fitton, 66, last month, his lawyer Thair Soud told the Associated Press. The decision was made on the basis of an appeal filed by Soud shortly after Fitton was convicted.
Fitton’s release date was not immediately known, but Soud said pending paperwork, he should be freed soon.
The court “agreed with the justifications we drove in the memo against the sentence and how it was based on mistakes in the application of the law, and further, in the assessment of the evidence,” Soud told The Associated Press.
Fitton drew international attention last month after the conviction for picking up shards of pottery from an archeological site in southern Iraq. Many feared the incident would deter tourists from visiting Iraq, where the government hopes to grow the nascent tourism sector.
Some of the pieces he picked up were no larger than a fingernail, he later told the criminal court. He was arrested in March at Baghdad Airport and sentenced in June.
Documents posted to the judiciary website said the appeals court found that Fitton’s trial judges had made mistakes and that key circumstantial evidence had been overlooked, including Fitton’s unfamiliarity with local laws. It also pointed out that the areas where he had picked up the pieces were unguarded.
The court noted that Fitton had made no attempt to hide the items at the airport. The shards were clearly visible when airport staff checked his luggage. Based on this, court found that Fitton harbored no criminal intent to smuggle antiquities and ordered his immediate release, according to the document.
The decision was a “a real win,” said Soud.
Fitton’s family said they were “over the moon” but that “we still have no idea what the timeline looks like and do not want to do any formal interviews until Jim is safely home with us,” his son-in-law, Sam Tasker, told the AP.
Fitton missed his daughter’s wedding last month in Malayisa as he faced trial in Iraq. | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/iraq-court-overturns-verdict-against-briton-orders-release/ | 2022-07-27 04:30:34 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/iraq-court-overturns-verdict-against-briton-orders-release/ |
Two new biologicals will be introduced in the U.S. and Brazil this year
PHILADELPHIA, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC), a leading global agricultural sciences company, has launched a new brand identity for its Plant Health business to reflect the company's continuing growth and expansion of its biologicals platform. Agricultural biologicals represent a diverse group of crop protection and stimulant products derived from living organisms and naturally occurring compounds. Biologicals by FMC demonstrates FMC's commitment to providing farmers with science-backed biological solutions to help sustainably manage crops, protect yields and combat resistance.
Since 2013, FMC has built a world-class biologicals business with more than 50 biological products offering protection for multiple high-value specialty crops and row crops across 50 countries. FMC's Accudo® biostimulant, Presence® bionematicide and Quartzo® bionematicide have been recognized by the Crop Science Forum Awards as best new biological products. The company has a robust pipeline of differentiated and patented technologies developed through its biological R&D organization as well as third-party collaborations.
"FMC is investing substantially in the biological segment and is committed to providing growers with products offering unique modes of action as either stand-alone solutions or complementary to FMC's portfolio of crop protection chemistries," said Dr. Bénédicte Flambard, global director of FMC Plant Health. "We are rapidly expanding our existing offerings into additional geographies by launching four new biopesticides around the world in the next four years. As part of this initiative, we are excited to share that we are introducing Zironar™ biofungicide/bionematicide in the U.S. and Provilar™ biofungicide in Brazil this year."
Zironar™ biofungicide/bionematicide, a root-colonizing biological used at planting, produces a physical barrier along the length of the root to offer season-long protection against soil-borne fungal diseases and destructive nematodes. Studies show Zironar™ biofungicide/bionematicide increases root biomass and root branching for better utilization of water from the soil in drought-like conditions.
Provilar™ biofungicide, a foliar Bacillus combination, recently received registration from Brazilian authorities to address key diseases in soybeans, cotton and beans. Studies have shown crops treated with Provilar™ biofungicide demonstrate higher yield as a result of improved disease management. Provilar™ biofungicide will be available in Brazil this year, while FMC is pursuing registration of this Bacillus strain combination in over 20 additional countries.
For more information about Biologicals by FMC, Zironar™ biofungicide/bionematicide, Provilar™ biofungicide and FMC's biologicals portfolio, visit fmc.com/biologicals.
FMC Corporation is a global agricultural sciences company dedicated to helping growers produce food, feed, fiber and fuel for an expanding world population while adapting to a changing environment. FMC's innovative crop protection solutions – including biologicals, crop nutrition, digital and precision agriculture – enable growers, crop advisers and turf and pest management professionals to address their toughest challenges economically while protecting the environment. With approximately 6,400 employees at more than 100 sites worldwide, FMC is committed to discovering new herbicide, insecticide and fungicide active ingredients, product formulations and pioneering technologies that are consistently better for the planet. Visit fmc.com to learn more and follow us on LinkedIn® and Twitter®.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s prime minister said Tuesday his administration is attempting talks with an outlawed rebel group operating mainly in the restive Oromia region.
Abiy Ahmed’s comments to lawmakers on outreach to the Oromo Liberation Army came amid efforts to replicate a peace process conducted for the conflict based in the northern Tigray region that saw an agreement signed in November to end the fighting.
“The government has a high level of interest to resolve this conflict (with OLA) in peaceful terms. Not only interest, but also a committee entrusted with the task of leading the peace process has been set up,” the prime minister said, adding he hopes Ethiopians will support the process.
“More than 10 attempts and contacts were made with the (OLA). The problem so far is that there is no centralized group so every unit has different ideas and positions … the committee is leading the talks and we will see the result together.”
A spokesman for the rebel group, Odaa Tarbii, tweeted on March 20 to say recent reports on meetings between the group and the government were “false.” He did not immediately respond to a message on Tuesday. In a Feb. 18 statement, the OLA indicated that a “mediation agreement” enforced and guaranteed by intentional actors could be possible.
The OLA is listed as a terrorist group in Ethiopia and the government has accused it of carrying out mass killings against ethnic minorities, mainly Amharas, in the Oromia region, the largest of the country’s federal states. In one attack blamed on the group in June, witnesses asserted that more than 200 civilians were killed.
The OLA has rejected most of the accusations and instead blamed attacks on Ethiopian federal forces and allied fighters. Federal forces have carried out frequent airstrikes against the rebel group, also causing civilian casualties.
In recent weeks, the Oromia regional government has expressed interest in talking with the rebel group.
During the Tigray conflict, the OLA declared a short-lived alliance with Tigray forces. Last week, Ethiopian lawmakers removed the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front from the country’s list of designated terror groups. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/ethiopia-s-pm-announces-outreach-to-rebel-group-17864410.php | 2023-03-28 15:59:25 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/ethiopia-s-pm-announces-outreach-to-rebel-group-17864410.php |
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HOBART — The city lost a Bureau of Motor Vehicles branch at the end of last year, but it looks to gain a BMV Connect kiosk in coming weeks.
Hobart's Board of Public Works and Safety approved an agreement Wednesday with Intellectual Technology Inc., the vendor for the state’s BMV Connect kiosks.
Hobart will collaborate with ITI to have the kiosk installed at the Police Court Complex, 705 E. Fourth St.
Bob Fulton, assistant to Mayor Brian Snedecor, said a new security door will have to be installed at the municipal building to separate the kiosk area from the rest of the facility so the kiosk can be open 24 hours a day.
The kiosk can handle vehicle registration and driver’s license renewals as well as about a dozen other common BMV transactions. It will be available to use by all state residents, not just those in Hobart.
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Fulton said the security door could be installed in about six weeks.
“That will be the deciding factor on when it’s open and ready to go,” he said. “Hopefully, it will be done in the next two months.”
During a public hearing in early October about the Ridge Road branch, BMV Commissioner Joe Hoage said it was costing about $350,000 a year to maintain the branch, where transactions dropped from nearly 65,000 in 2018 to about 62,000 in 2019 and about 56,000 in 2021.
Several city officials and residents from Hobart and surrounding communities opposed the decision to close the Ridge Road location because that area of the city needs a BMV branch.
Besides the kiosk that will be installed at the PCC building, the BMV has a branch at 5117 E. 81st Ave. in Hobart. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/bureau-of-motor-vehicles-kiosk-coming-to-hobart/article_5e67d1fc-f685-11ed-9511-f7ca1f2392b7.html | 2023-05-22 15:22:55 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/bureau-of-motor-vehicles-kiosk-coming-to-hobart/article_5e67d1fc-f685-11ed-9511-f7ca1f2392b7.html |
Kids used their voices to record public announcements for the trains of five transit agencies across the U.S. as part of Autism Awareness Month.
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MANILA, Philippines — A strong earthquake set off landslides and damaged buildings in the northern Philippines on Wednesday, killing at least five people and injuring dozens. In the capital, hospital patients were evacuated and terrified people rushed outdoors.
The 7-magnitude quake was centered in a mountainous area of Abra province, said Renato Solidum, the head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, who described the midmorning shaking as a major earthquake.
“The ground shook like I was on a swing and the lights suddenly went out. We rushed out of the office, and I heard screams and some of my companions were in tears,” said Michael Brillantes, a safety officer of the Abra town of Lagangilang, near the epicenter.
“It was the most powerful quake I’ve felt and I thought the ground would open up,” Brillantes told The Associated Press by cellphone.
At least five people died — mostly in collapsed structures. One villager died when hit by falling cement slabs in his house in Abra, where dozens of others were injured. In Benguet province, a worker was pinned to death after a small building that was under construction collapsed in the strawberry-growing mountain town of La Trinidad.
Hundreds of houses and buildings had cracked walls, including some that collapsed in Abra, where President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who took office less than a month ago, planned to travel Thursday to meet victims and local officials.
Marcos Jr. told a news conference he was in his office at the riverside Malacanang presidential palace complex when the chandeliers began swaying and making clanking sounds. “It was very strong,” he said of the ground shaking.
In a chilling near-death experience, Filipino photojournalist Harley Palangchao and companions were traveling downhill in two vans in Mountain Province when they suddenly heard thunder-like thuds and saw an avalanche of boulders as big as cars raining down just ahead of them from a towering mountain.
Amid screams of his companions in their van to “back up, back up!” the 44-year-old father of three raised his camera in the front seat and snapped what he feared could be the final pictures of his life. The van in front of them was grazed by a boulder, injuring one, but he and others in the second van drove backward fast enough and escaped unscathed.
“I was thinking there should be at least a record if something happened to us,” Palangchao told the AP. “It was a horrific experience.”
The Red Cross issued a picture of a three-story building precariously leaning toward a debris-covered road in Abra. A video taken by a panicking witness showed parts of an old stone church tower peeling off and falling in a cloud of dust on a hilltop.
Patients, some in wheelchairs, and medical personnel were evacuated from at least two hospitals in Manila, about 300 kilometers (200 miles) south of Lagangilang, but were later told to return after engineers found only a few minor cracks on walls.
The quake’s strength was lowered from the initial 7.3 magnitude after further analysis. The quake was set off by movement in a local fault at a depth of 17 kilometers (10 miles), the institute said, adding it expected damage and more aftershocks.
The Philippines lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of faults around the Pacific Ocean where most of the world’s earthquakes occur. It is also lashed by about 20 typhoons and tropical storms each year, making it one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries.
A magnitude 7.7 quake killed nearly 2,000 people in the northern Philippines in 1990.
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Associated Press journalist Joeal Calupitan contributed to this report. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/phillipines-earthquake/507-f318be6a-4490-4b44-bc1c-5e0432e61be5 | 2022-07-27 14:24:06 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/phillipines-earthquake/507-f318be6a-4490-4b44-bc1c-5e0432e61be5 |
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MISSION, Kan. (WDAF) – The Kansas Department of Agriculture has ordered Danielle Reno, who runs Unleashed Pet Rescue, to stop operating as an animal shelter at a t-shirt business in Lenexa, Kansas, which is not licensed to house animals.
On Wednesday, the department also ordered Unleashed Pet Rescue in Mission, Kansas, to pay over $15,000 in civil penalties for violating the Kansas Pet Animal Act.
Nearly half of the civil penalty sum comes from health inspection violations that were documented during a single inspection in late October, records from the department show.
During the inspection, the shelter was cited for numerous violations, including cockroaches, inadequate spacing in dog enclosures, floors completely covered in water, a lack of resting surfaces for cats in cages, inadequate ventilation, fecal matter on the walls, and more, records show.
The department continues to seek revocation of the shelter’s license.
The action comes two months after FOX4 Problem Solvers released its investigation into the controversial pet shelter.
Cockroaches, overcrowding and poor management, are just a few of the many complaints Problem Solvers received on Unleashed Pet Rescue during a four-month investigation into the shelter.
Last Monday, the department issued an emergency order to Unleashed Pet Rescue to stop taking animals.
Reno has maintained that the shelter operates at the highest standards and has denied many of the allegations made against her by former employees and volunteers.
New findings from Kansas investigation
Records obtained by FOX4 Problem Solvers from the department over the weekend reveal the city of Lenexa discovered Reno had been using an unlicensed property to house or maintain “overflow” of animals in the shelter’s care.
Terra Merys, a former employee at Unleashed Pet Rescue, said relocating animals to avoid the state’s detection is not an uncommon practice within the shelter.
“Yeah, I do know of dogs being put into cars and being shuffled around and being put into the Unleashed van and all stacked up in kennels,” Merys said.
She said she understood that the reason animals were being moved around is because there were too many dogs in the shelter.
“It’s always a scramble when the state shows up,” she said.
A former volunteer with the shelter sent Problem Solvers social media messages which shows Unleashed Pet Rescue volunteers asking staff to drive to the t-shirt business to take care of dogs there on Reno’s behalf.
Records show animal control officers responded to an animal welfare complaint in late February at the t-shirt printing business in Lenexa.
Reno’s employees told officers that two dogs currently housed there were Reno’s foster dogs and that “the premises is often used to maintain dogs available for adoption, where prospective owners would meet the dogs and conduct the transfer of animals there, and where dogs would rotate to and from (the shelter),” records show.
FOX4 called Reno’s attorney for comment at least two times but did not receive a response. FOX4 also visited the t-shirt business in Lenexa, but Reno was not on site.
Continuing investigation
Nearly a week after FOX4’s initial investigation, the department said it had received over 20 new complaints.
In early March, the city of Mission announced it was no longer partnering with the pet shelter. The city had, until recently, listed the shelter as its source to house missing and stray animals.
“If Danielle or Unleashed is not doing anything wrong, then the investigation will prove that – that’s how I look at it,” Gillian Gollehon, former volunteer and animal foster at Unleashed Pet Rescue, previously told FOX4. “Any backlash that I’ve received, that’s what I tell people, ‘If they find nothing wrong, I trust in the process of the system.’”
In January, Problem Solvers were invited on a tour of the shelter. At the time, Reno said she only had 37 dogs in the shelter at the time.
A six-year review of state inspection reports from the Kansas Department of Agriculture Division of Animal Health reveals that for Unleashed Pet Rescue, 37 dogs is remarkably low.
In 2022 alone, Unleashed Pet Rescue was inspected at least five times. During each inspection, data shows the number of adult dogs housed in the shelter never stayed below 65.
In March, the facility had 91 adult dogs. In September, it had 89, state inspections showed.
“There were always too many dogs,” Merys said. “Always.” | https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/new-details-released-in-states-investigation-of-unleashed-pet-rescue/ | 2023-03-21 00:16:00 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/new-details-released-in-states-investigation-of-unleashed-pet-rescue/ |
Yes, it is absolutely true that my wife, Kay, and I talk a lot about local restaurants, and on a recent evening we discussed local restaurants that are no longer with us. We have seen many restaurants close over the years. And, some have been our favorite restaurants or maybe a restaurant where we enjoyed a special event.
So let’s take a walk down a Larry and Kay memory lane ...
We both miss Ephesus and its authentic Mediterranean and Turkish food. Gulay greeted all of her guests as if they were stepping into her home living room. The Sakin family closed their restaurant in Bloomington almost two years ago during COVID and moved to Indianapolis, where they opened the same type of restaurant.
C J’s Restaurant was another of our favorites. C J Stolfa was a longtime friend who ran an excellent restaurant and served great food. He passed away much too soon.
One of my favorites was Chimi’s Caribbean Bar and Grill, where Mugsy’s is now located. From the Dominican Republic, owner Julia Ramirez introduced me to authentic Dominican cuisine including goat.
Kay always mentions two favorites when talking about restaurants of the pas — Lox, Stock & Bagel and Sonoma Cucina.
We both remember the Wonder dogs at the Velvet Freeze in what was then downtown Normal, and the Jumer’s cinnamon rolls of the Le Radis Rouge restaurant in Jumer’s Chateau.
I always enjoyed Kip’s Drive-In with my favorite Texas burgers and coney dogs. And, the char-broiled burgers at Mr Quick were another favorite. Kay still misses Crepe Geeks in uptown that closed three years ago.
Yes, we enjoy discussing local restaurants.
From Larry's notebook
• Dop's Jerk House — This recently opened carryout/delivery Jamaican jerk restaurant is the first Jamaican restaurant that I can recall in B-N. Owner Darryl Dopson told me he wanted to serve authentic food so he brought to B-N two professional chefs, one of whom was a former chef in a 5-Star hotel in Jamaica. Dop’s is located in Washington Center at 2303 E. Washington St., Bloomington.
• Fiala Brothers Brewery & Beer Hall — This three-floor brewery and beer hall with a mezzanine and a covered roof top patio that overlooks East Beaufort Street opened in uptown last week. The food menu is 10 types of gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches plus an assortment of sides. Fiala Brothers has a five-barrel brewery system and a full bar.
• Pop Up Chicken Shop — The very popular Nashville-style hot chicken restaurant has moved from its original location in the VFW in Bloomington to its own brick and mortar location in the former JP’S Wheel & Ale House at 409 N. Hershey Road in Bloomington. The menu is the same, and it is open longer hours.
• Jersey Mike's — A second Jersey Mike’s for Bloomington-Normal was recently announced and will be in the former Sakai Japan location on South Main Street in Normal. The Bloomington restaurant opened about a year ago.
• Horsch Radish — The restaurant with a German inspired farm-to-table menu recently opened in Gibson City in the former Bayern Stube restaurant location. The new owners remodeled the restaurant and told me their German inspired menu is not the same menu as Bayern Stube’s, which closed about a year ago.
• X-Golf America — A franchisee recently announced an X-Golf America indoor golf simulator is planned for Lakewood Plaza in Bloomington in the former Takos Asian Grill Sea Food location. X-Golf Bloomington will have a full liquor license, and the food menu will include shareables, handhelds and salads.
• WESN 88.1-FM Illinois Wesleyan Titan Radio Network — I was the first guest on the first weekly new show — On Air With Wendell P — hosted by retired State Farm Assistant Vice President Wendell P Haywood. On Air With Wendell P will air every Friday at 4 p.m. and feature interviews, interesting stories and updates on community events and activities. I will be his guest the first Friday of the month.
• Longhorn Smokehouse — The building that housed the longtime Bloomington restaurant at 5 Currency Drive in Bloomington was recently demolished. The restaurant was open for 23 years before the local franchisee permanently closed it at the end of last year. The location will become part of the expanded sales lot for the adjacent Auto House of Bloomington.
• A Larry favorite menu item — The veloutes at Epiphany Farms Restaurant. | https://pantagraph.com/lifestyles/food-and-cooking/carius-walking-down-bloomington-normal-restaurant-memory-lane/article_a9d4d2ba-1f59-11ed-953f-179ae04da150.html | 2022-08-20 15:11:02 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/lifestyles/food-and-cooking/carius-walking-down-bloomington-normal-restaurant-memory-lane/article_a9d4d2ba-1f59-11ed-953f-179ae04da150.html |
Policy-based autonomous solution enables orchestration of diverse satellite and terrestrial networks
GERMANTOWN, Md., April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) company, today announced availability of Hughes Smart Network Edge software for defense network operations. Leveraging the company's experience managing widely distributed, multi-transport networks for commercial and government customers, the Hughes Smart Network Edge serves as a virtualized SD-WAN router, interconnecting at the management layer to enable network interoperability across carriers and vendors while meeting U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) security criteria.
Optimizing any combination of commercial and military communication networks – including cable, fiber, 5G, Geostationary satellite and Low Earth Orbit satellite – the Hughes Smart Network Edge remotely manages multi-transport modems, autonomously selecting routing paths and distributing packetized data across multiple networks based on policies and priorities. The software also collects Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security (FCAPS) data for enhanced situational awareness and policy refinement.
"Hughes Smart Network Edge represents the culmination of years of work we've undertaken to help the DoD take advantage of equipment and transports from multiple providers combined with our extensive expertise managing large and diverse networks," said Rick Lober, vice president and general manager, Defense & Government Systems Division, Hughes. "It's software-defined networking in the very broadest sense, orchestrating typically stove-piped communications systems in use across the DoD to enable secure network interoperability and resiliency at scale."
Based on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and HTTP standards, among others, the Hughes Secure Network Edge is engineered for use across diverse network transports from multiple manufacturers and carriers of wired, wireless and satellite connectivity—such as the 5G and satellite terminals in the private 5G deployment Hughes is leading at the Naval Air Station in Whidbey Island. In addition to commercial satellite transports, the Smart Network Edge accommodates modems with anti-jam capabilities that are indispensable under rising threats from near peer states.
"As the DoD relies increasingly on redundant and interoperable terrestrial and satellite networks for mission-critical communications, our Smart Network Edge software automates the decision-making necessary to optimize the edge devices – whether a few or a few hundred," said Dr. Rajeev Gopal, vice president, Advanced Systems, Hughes. "In addition to powering decision-making across network terminals, the software integrates with management platforms, such as Enterprise Management & Control, and includes policy parameters such as cost, availability, speed and latency to meet operational objectives."
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Hughes Network Systems, LLC, an EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) company, provides broadband equipment and services; managed services featuring smart, software-defined networking; and end-to-end network operation for millions of consumers, businesses, governments and communities worldwide. The Hughes flagship internet service, HughesNet®, connects millions of people across the Americas, and the Hughes JUPITER™ System powers internet access for tens of millions more worldwide. Hughes supplies more than half the global satellite terminal market to leading satellite operators, in-flight service providers, mobile network operators and military customers. A managed network services provider, Hughes supports approximately half a million enterprise sites with its HughesON™ portfolio of wired and wireless solutions. To learn more, visit www.hughes.com or follow HughesConnects on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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