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On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned the fundamental right to abortion established nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade. Today, we take you from a clinic in Houston to protests and celebrations outside the court, and explain what this decision means.
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was the most anticipated of the term. But while this was a stunning reversal — it wasn’t surprising. A draft of the decision was leaked in May, indicating that the majority of justices were prepared to take this drastic step.
The decision has sent shock waves throughout the country, and in at least a dozen red states, trigger laws are already in place to ban virtually all abortions within 30 days. Caroline Kitchener reports from a clinic in Texas, which is one of the states where the news this morning meant abortion providers had to halt operations immediately.
Meanwhile in D.C., a crowd gathered outside the Supreme Court to celebrate, or protest, in an outpouring of joy and rage.
Robert Barnes, who covers the Supreme Court for The Post, explains what this moment means for decades of conservative organizing around restricting abortion, and what the justices’ opinions could tell us about what happens next.
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On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned the fundamental right to abortion established nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade. Today, we take you from a clinic in Houston to protests and celebrations outside the court, and explain what this decision means.
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was the most anticipated of the term. But while this was a stunning reversal — it wasn’t surprising. A draft of the decision was leaked in May, indicating that the majority of justices were prepared to take this drastic step.
The decision has sent shock waves throughout the country, and in at least a dozen red states, trigger laws are already in place to ban virtually all abortions within 30 days. Caroline Kitchener reports from a clinic in Texas, which is one of the states where the news this morning meant abortion providers had to halt operations immediately.
Meanwhile in D.C., a crowd gathered outside the Supreme Court to celebrate, or protest, in an outpouring of joy and rage.
Robert Barnes, who covers the Supreme Court for The Post, explains what this moment means for decades of conservative organizing around restricting abortion, and what the justices’ opinions could tell us about what happens next.
Today on Post Reports, we follow two union fights at Amazon warehouses with very different outcomes, and what they can tell us about what it takes to go up against a trillion-dollar company. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/the-day-roe-v-wade-fell/ | 2022-06-25 00:38:19 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/the-day-roe-v-wade-fell/ |
Michelle Olsen, a Manchester clinical dietitian, was alarmed by what she was reading on social media.
It appeared that the respected American Academy of Pediatrics was recommending bariatric surgery for adolescents 13 and older with obesity. For even younger kids, AAP was suggesting weight-loss medication.
“I thought there has to be more to it,” said Olsen, a clinical dietitian at the Elliot Center for Advanced Nutrition Therapy and Diabetes Management.
So she read the AAP’s “Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity,” published in the February medical journal Pediatrics. “And just as suspected, there is more to it,” she said.
The AAP recommends a wide range of treatments for obesity, including monitoring body mass index, diagnostic testing for other medical conditions, nutrition counseling, mental health screening and intensive, family-based behavior and lifestyle treatment. Only after all that is tried, and only in the most extreme cases, should pediatricians consider medication or surgery options for children with severe obesity.
Olsen was encouraged by what she read.
“What struck me is if anything, it’s hopefully going to get the pediatricians to maybe bring it up more, and not wait until someone is beyond the point where it’s going to be extremely challenging,” she said. “It’s easier to prevent weight gain than to treat it.”
“We’ve always known that literally you are what you eat,” Olsen said. “We’ve always known that nutrition plays a huge role in disease prevention.”
Olsen also was pleased with the AAP’s emphasis on a family-based approach to achieving healthy weight. “We want to work together for our kids,” she said. “We want to be on the same page for our kids’ health.”
The AAP guideline begins: “The current and long-term health of 14.4 million children and adolescents is affected by obesity, making it one of the most common pediatric chronic diseases. Long stigmatized as a reversible consequence of personal choices, obesity has complex genetic, physiologic, socioeconomic, and environmental contributors.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines obesity as a body mass index at or above the 95th percentile.
Cutting sugar, screen time
Erik Shessler, a Dartmouth Health pediatrician and president of the New Hampshire chapter of the AAP, said obesity has been recognized as a chronic disease for years, but this is the first comprehensive clinical guidance for treatment of children.
Shessler said to his knowledge no hospital in New Hampshire even offers bariatric surgery for youngsters. As for medication, that’s never the first approach, he said, considered only after lifestyle counseling, working with nutritionists and addressing mental health and other chronic diseases.
He expects the new guideline will ensure that providers are offering — and public and private insurers are covering — a broad array of treatments.
“It really does help level that playing field,” he said. “We have a road map we can follow.”
In his own Manchester practice, Shessler said he works with families on small changes that can make a big difference, such as getting little kids to drink water instead of sugar-sweetened soda or energy drinks.
“It’s thinking about eating with intention and how to keep ourselves healthy and how foods can help make us feel better,” he said. “We’re starting out with some general principles and then really meeting families where they are and listening to what their challenges are.”
One starting point is the “5-2-1-0” public health campaign, which recommends that children eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables each day, limit screen time to no more than two hours, have one hour of physical activity and drink no sugar-sweetened beverages.
Pediatricians also can help parents set limits on screen time, Shessler said.
In his experience, parents appreciate the guidance and support. “These kids don’t come with instruction manuals,” he said.
Making most of less
The AAP guideline outlines a long list of factors that contribute to obesity in children, including marketing of unhealthy foods, consumption of fast food, and poverty, which can limit access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity. Screen time correlates with a greater risk of obesity; so do depression and emotional stress, AAP says.
Eileen Groll Liponis, executive director of the New Hampshire Food Bank, knows the many complicated reasons lower-income families may struggle with obesity.
“Access, affordability, transportation and time, those are all contributing,” she said. “Just one of them ticks away at the nutritional value you can put forward for your family if you’re pressed for money.”
“But people are quick to judge,” she said.
The Food Bank has focused on boosting nutrition from the start, Liponis said.
Its New Hampshire Feeding New Hampshire program enables its 400 member agencies to purchase produce, dairy and protein directly from more than 200 local farmers. When it comes to food, Liponis said, “The more local it is, the more nutrient-dense.”
The agency also offers Cooking Matters classes, teaching participants to prepare a healthy meal — and sending them home with the ingredients to make the same meal at home.
When Liponis talks with clients at mobile food pantries, she hears their stories of hardship and sacrifice. Some tell her they’ve given up protein because it’s too expensive; others say they’ve had to surrender beloved pets because they can no longer afford to feed them.
“Right now, it’s heat or eat,” she said.
She’s worried about families who will see their SNAP benefits drop next month, with the end of supplemental emergency allotments that were provided during the pandemic.
“People are going to be making harder and harder choices, and nutritious and fresh produce is not getting any cheaper,” she said. “It’s going to be harder for folks to battle obesity with the tools they have and all the odds against them.”
Education on Aisle 3
Marilyn Mills, a licensed dietitian and certified diabetes educator at Elliot Hospital, sees patients on an outpatient basis. But most days, her office is at the grocery store.
For 20 years, Elliot has contracted with Hannaford to provide dietitians at stores in the greater Manchester area, Mills said.
“We’re right on the store floor, we’re right in the aisles, and we’re interacting with customers and associates on a weekly basis,” she said.
“The supermarket is where everything happens,” she said. “That’s where people are going to come in and decide their beverage choices, meals and snacks.”
Mills teaches in-person and online nutrition classes and conducts in-store tours. She politely approaches families in the aisles to offer help and support. And in what she calls her “moveable classroom,” Mills offers kids healthy snacks (“snack pals”) and prizes, and talks with youngsters and parents about healthy eating.
“I’m there to provide an education and to provide it in a fun and nonthreatening, non-judgmental way for the whole family,” Mills said.
Elliot dietitian Olsen said in her practice, she typically asks three questions: what kids are drinking, what they are doing for movement and who is supporting them. “Are they drinking soda? Are they drinking juice? That might even be the first thing: Let’s switch to water or a sugar-free beverage,” she said.
She helps kids and teens come up with ideas for physical activity. She tells them that they’re in the driver’s seat: “This is something we can definitely get under control. It’s just making these changes,” she said.
“You don’t have to be part of a sports team, but our bodies are meant to move, and they’re meant to move on a daily basis,” Olsen said. “And kids just aren’t doing that these days. They come home and they’re just not moving.
“It can be as simple as getting a jump rope, or going for a walk with their family,” she said. “I don’t even talk about food sometimes.”
Constructive approaches
Reducing phone use can be tough for the younger generation. So Olsen encourages kids to use their phones as tools, for playing music while they’re walking, or measuring how many steps they take on a given day.
The AAP guideline urges providers to engage in “supportive and unbiased behavior,” including use of neutral words such as BMI or “excess weight,” rather than “fat” or “chubby.”
“Ongoing successful communication of support and empathy during obesity treatment is essential to reduce the effect of weight bias, because families will not continue to seek help if they experience stigma,” AAP says.
Dartmouth Health pediatrician Shessler said he was pleased to see that acknowledgement of the shame and stigma that accompanies obesity for both adults and children.
“We need to create a welcoming environment for families, and a supportive environment for families and children,” he said.
His message to families: “We’re going to be your allies.”
“For a lot of these things, we’re learning over time there are multiple factors, and there’s a genetic component to it,” he said. “It’s a big step to acknowledge it’s not simply willpower and totally under your control.”
In his experience, success is about “listening to the families and what their goals are and what their interests are — and celebrating the wins,” he said.
That may not mean an immediate change in a child’s weight but an improvement in overall health, Shessler said.
“If you’ve got yourself doing more walking, getting outside, getting fresh air, that fresh air is better for your mental health, better for your energy level, your sleep,” he said.
Dietitian Olsen said the key is to focus on lifelong health rather than body image. That’s what concerned some in her field when the AAP obesity guideline first came out, she said.
“We don’t want to do more damage, where we develop insecurity among kids,” she said.
She hopes the new clinical guidance will spur more pediatricians to refer young patients to dietitians such as herself.
“We would love to see the kids,” she said. “We want the best for them.
“We’re ready to take this on.” | https://www.unionleader.com/news/health/new-guidelines-aimed-at-curbing-childhood-obesity/article_a5576d0c-b28c-5456-bbf3-52a5850a695e.html | 2023-02-26 01:28:03 | 1 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/health/new-guidelines-aimed-at-curbing-childhood-obesity/article_a5576d0c-b28c-5456-bbf3-52a5850a695e.html |
By Corrinne Hess | Wisconsin Public Radio
Wisconsin school districts were initially slow to spend pandemic stimulus aid, but are now on track to exhaust the money by the September 2024 deadline, according to a new report.
Wisconsin’s public schools received nearly $2.4 billion in three rounds of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief, or ESSER funds, meant to help students make up for learning loss during the pandemic.
But a new report shows the federal aid has done little to close the learning gap caused by the pandemic.
Quinton Klabon, senior research director for the conservative Institute for Reforming Government, or IRG, found Wisconsin school districts are on track to spend the third round of ESSER funds — about $1.5 billion — by the September 2024 deadline.
But Klabon found that $492 million remains unallocated, and 63 school districts have spent less than 33 percent of the funds they received including Green Bay, Beloit, Oshkosh, Manitowoc and Superior. Klabon said 13 districts have not spent any of the money.
IRG has also raised questions about how districts are spending the money. Construction projects make up the bulk of the spending — $270 million, or about 27 percent, according to IRG’s research.
“It is $50 million more than the next biggest category — teachers — at 22 percent of current allocations,” Klabon said, adding that mental health is not being prioritized. “Mental health allocations sit at 7 percent, which amounts to just one-fourth of the building renovation total.”
Department of Public Instruction spokesperson Abigail Swetz said implying that building structurally sound buildings and adequately sized classrooms would not have an impact on student learning is “disingenuous at best, and willfully misleading.”
She added that DPI data shows districts are prioritizing mental health services.
“It also bears reminding that (the Joint Finance Committee) did approve Wisconsin’s State Plan for ESSER III while providing very little administrative funding to the department, and that district ESSER III plans are publicly available,” Swetz said. “Considering IRG’s apparent interest in improving state government and the fact that the DPI is a part of that very state government, we look forward to the day IRG is interested in working together to better serve Wisconsin’s learners as opposed to the institute’s continued focus on scoring partisan, political points.”
Public documents show the state’s largest school district, Milwaukee Public Schools, received about $505.5 million in ESSER III funds. The district still has about $138 million to budget.
So far, MPS has spent about $168.4 million on construction projects. The district has also spent money on staffing, mental health and after school programs.
The Madison Metropolitan School District received about $42.5 million and has about $12.5 million left to spend. The district has spent the majority of its funds on staff and mental health services.
Districts that fail to spend the money by the September 2024 deadline could be required to return the funds, but would first have the opportunity to work with federal authorities on plans to use the remaining balance. The money can be spent on anything that could help students catch up on learning, but the definition on what meets that requirement is broad.
IRG CEO CJ Szafir said his organization is monitoring how DPI has spent federal funds because no one else is.
“Being pro-children means asking tough questions of adults,” Szafir said. “IRG has provided oversight of one-time funds because DPI habitually turns these educational questions into political ones. That doesn’t do a bit of good as school attendance drops, test scores decline and kids lose out on their futures.”
Despite billions of federal dollars being spent to help schools recover from the pandemic, progress in reading and math has stalled over the last year in elementary and middle schools, according to a study released Thursday by NWEA.
The organization examined MAP test scores from 6.7 million third to eighth grade students in approximately 20,000 public schools. About 25 percent of Wisconsin students take the MAP test, according to NWEA.
Overall, achievement gains in 2022-23 lagged pre-pandemic trends in all students except the youngest cohort, falling short by 1 to19 percent in reading and by 6 to 15 percent in math, according to the study.
“This trend is worse than what was observed in 2021–22 where, in general, achievement gains were consistent with or even surpassed pre-pandemic trends,” the study found. “The most notable departure from pre-pandemic trends is evident in the upper grades in reading. Reading gains for these grades were also the furthest below average in 2021–22.”
On average, students need the equivalent of an additional four and a half months of instruction in math, and an extra four months in reading to catch up to the typical pre-pandemic student. That’s on top of regular classroom time, the study found.
This story was produced by Wisconsin Public Radio and is being republished by permission. See the original story here. | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/07/14/despite-billions-of-dollars-in-federal-education-aid-students-are-behind-in-reading-and-math/ | 2023-07-14 22:25:09 | 0 | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/07/14/despite-billions-of-dollars-in-federal-education-aid-students-are-behind-in-reading-and-math/ |
LISBON – Clergy sexual abuse cases are casting a pall over the Catholic Church in Portugal, ensnaring senior officials even as authorities scramble to explain why shelter was given to a Nobel Peace Prize-winning bishop at the center of sexual misconduct allegations.
Senior Catholic leaders apologized over the weekend for the hurt caused by decades of alleged abuse and cover-up — current estimates number around 400 cases — with the archbishop of Lisbon begging the faithful to not lose faith in the church.
“Be confident that for our part we will do our best, with respect to the law and the Gospel,” Archbishop Manuel Clemente said after Sunday Mass.
A spotlight fell on Portuguese church authorities, as well as the Vatican, last week when the Holy See’s sex abuse office confirmed a Dutch media report that in 2020 it had secretly sanctioned Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, the revered independence hero of East Timor, a small former Portuguese colony in East Asia. Belo, who has been living in Portugal, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996.
Other unwelcome revelations for the Portuguese church have piled up in recent days, just as Portugal seeks to gain momentum for its hosting of World Youth Day next year in Lisbon. Pope Francis is due to attend the event, which is a major occasion on the Catholic calendar.
Portugal’s attorney general’s office confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday that the head of the Portuguese Bishops Conference, Bishop José Ornelas, is being investigated on suspicion he covered up for abuser priests in Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony.
Ornelas, who presides over Portugal’s world-famous shrine at Fatima, has denied any misconduct or wrongdoing and has promised to cooperate with any investigation, but the inquiry added to the pressure on Portuguese church authorities.
Ornelas flew to Italy at the weekend for a private meeting at the Vatican with Francis, who also received his ambassador to Portugal. The Vatican provided no details about the meetings.
Ornelas’ visit to the pope came two months after the archbishop of Lisbon, Clemente, went to meet the pontiff amid a deluge of allegations of child sex abuse by priests and alleged cover-ups by senior members of the Portuguese church.
The scandals have come against a backdrop of revelations published by a lay committee looking into historic church sexual abuse cases in Portugal. Since January, it has unearthed around 400 alleged cases. Previously, church officials had said they knew of only a handful of cases.
On Saturday, the diocese of Braga in northern Portugal issued an apology for the “pain and suffering” caused by allegations of sexual abuse leveled against a local priest by men and women in the area. The abuse allegedly occurred in the 1990s, and victims complain that nothing happened after they sounded the alarm after the turn of the century.
Many unanswered questions remain about Belo's time in Portugal. The Salesian missionary order to which he belongs said it took him in at the request of its superiors. His current whereabouts are unclear.
The Vatican prohibited Belo from having contact with minors or with East Timor, based on misconduct allegations that arrived in Rome in 2019.
The East Timor Embassy in Lisbon didn’t immediately respond Monday to a request for comment on a Portuguese media report that, following last week’s revelations, it picked him up from a Salesian property in Lisbon and took him to an undisclosed location.
Belo has said he retired in 2002 for health reasons and to give the newly independent East Timor different church leadership. But within a year of his retirement, Belo had been sent by the Vatican and the Salesians to Mozambique to work as a missionary priest. Portugal maintains close ties with the African country.
There, Belo has said, he spent his time “teaching catechism to children, giving retreats to young people.”
The United Nations and advocates for victims have called on Francis to authorize an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Belo's 2002 retirement, when he was 20 years shy of the normal retirement age, and why he was sent to Mozambique. | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/10/03/portugal-abuse-cases-mount-amid-questions-over-nobel-bishop/ | 2022-10-03 15:48:53 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/10/03/portugal-abuse-cases-mount-amid-questions-over-nobel-bishop/ |
When it’s time to shop for new appliances, there are several factors to consider. At the top of the list for many shoppers is the price, especially now that inflation is a concern. Fortunately, appliance retailers occasionally offer special sales throughout the year, including on Memorial Day.
During the big annual sale, you’ll find major appliances by top brands at discounts that are too good to miss. With the brands, features, looks and savings you love, finding the appliances you need during Memorial Day sales is a great way to start your summer.
Assessing your appliance needs
Knowing that you either want or need new appliances is just the beginning. Getting the appliances that will work for you requires a little forethought.
Features
Whether you are shopping for a washer and dryer combo or a new refrigerator, there are plenty of features to consider. Besides the basics, many modern appliances have advanced features. Some examples include ranges with air fryer technology, dryers that sense when clothes are dry and refrigerators with multiple cooling zones. In addition, many premium appliances have smart technology that pairs with smartphones for easy app control. To decide which features work for you, factor in whether you prefer basic features or the latest technology and then compare models.
Quantity
How many appliances do you need? Are you simply replacing your dishwasher? Or do you need an entire set of new appliances? You can find discounts on individual appliances and sets during special pricing events. Keep in mind that discounts may be larger when you bundle appliances.
Capacity
Deciding on the capacity of a new appliance is relatively easy. If you are single or your household is small, a large appliance isn’t necessary. The exception is if you frequently cook for large groups. If so, you may need a spacious refrigerator and a larger range. However, remember that even if you do prefer larger appliances, you must take the available space in your home into account.
Take measurements to check the fit
Finding out that a new appliance doesn’t fit in its designated spot would be a huge disappointment. This hassle can be avoided by taking measurements in your house and comparing them to the appliances you are considering to ensure the perfect fit. In addition to height and width, don’t forget to measure depth. This is especially important when shopping for kitchen appliances that must align with counters and cabinets.
Consider your decor
Appliances come in several popular finishes, including white, black, off-white, stainless steel and black stainless steel. The best one for your home is a matter of preference. However, if you are only buying one or two appliances, it’s best to choose a finish that matches the appliances that are already in your home.
Check your budget
As you shop for your new appliances, you may need to stay within your budget. Even if you want the latest high-end appliances with lots of bells and whistles and smart features, remember that these items can be costly. The good news is that when you shop during special sales events, it’s easier to get what you want and not overspend. To make the most of your dollars, look for appliances with the deepest discounts that offer the features that are essential to your household needs.
Understand warranty coverage
Most major appliances come with a specific duration of warranty coverage. Although it varies across different appliances and manufacturers, standard coverage is between one and three years. Additionally, some companies offer the option to buy extended coverage at the time of purchase. During the warranty time frame, specified repairs are covered, and most companies provide a replacement in the rare case that the issues can’t be fixed.
Best Memorial Day appliance deals
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Toshiba ML2-EM629 (SS) Microwave Oven
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Frigidaire Gallery 30-inch 5.4-cubic-foot Front Control Electric Range
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Sweden and Turkey made some progress in talks aimed at overcoming President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s objections to the Nordic country joining NATO, but gaps still remain in their positions and their leaders will meet next week to discuss them, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday.
NATO had hoped the problems would be resolved before its July 11-12 summit in Lithuania. Sweden’s entry would be a symbolically powerful moment and the latest indication that Russia’s war in Ukraine is driving countries to join the alliance. Those hopes have been all but dashed.
Stoltenberg told reporters after the meeting that he, Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson would hold talks in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on Monday — on the eve of the summit — in an effort “to bridge the gap we still see.”
“We all agreed that we have made good progress. We all agreed that the full membership of Sweden is in the security interests of all allies, and we all want to conclude this process as soon as possible,” Stoltenberg said.
But he added: “There are some unsolved issues. We are addressing them now. We’ll work on it over the weekend.”
Fearing for their security, Sweden and neighboring Finland ended their longstanding policy of military nonalignment after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and applied to join NATO.
Only Turkey and Hungary have delayed Sweden’s membership. The other 29 allies, Stoltenberg and Sweden have all said the country has done enough to satisfy Turkey’s demands. Sweden has changed its constitution, modified anti-terror laws and lifted an arms embargo on Turkey, among other concessions.
But Turkey accuses Sweden of being too lenient toward groups that Ankara says pose a security threat, including militant Kurdish groups and people associated with a 2016 coup attempt. NATO requires the unanimous approval of all 31 members to expand.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan acknowledged the changes in Sweden’s anti-terrorism laws and the lifting of arms restrictions.
“However, the legislative changes now need to be reflected in practice,” he said. He also lamented a series of demonstrations that have taken place in Sweden.
In a new development just before the meeting, a Turkish man was found guilty in Sweden of attempted aggravated extortion, weapons possession and attempted terrorist financing, saying he was acting on behalf of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
The Stockholm District Court sentenced Yahya Güngör to a total of 4½ years in prison for the crimes, after which he would be expelled from Sweden and banned from returning. It was the first time that a Swedish court sentenced someone for terrorist financing of the party, Judge Mans Wigen said.
Also known as PKK, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party has waged an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984 and is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. It’s unclear whether the Swedish court action would have any impact on Erdogan’s thinking.
Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström, who described Thursday’s meeting as “very positive,” said that the court sentencing “is very important indeed, because it shows that we take the security of those who have concerns with the PKK activities very seriously.”
Hungary is also holding up approval of Sweden’s candidacy, but has never clearly stated publicly what its concerns are. NATO officials expect that Hungary will follow suit once Turkey lifts its objections.
At a European Union summit last week, Kristersson said he had spoken twice to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and “both times he has confirmed that Hungary will not delay.”
Turkey is a different matter. A Quran-burning protest, at which the media vastly outnumbered the participants, outside a mosque in Stockholm has fueled tensions. Police permitted the protest, citing freedom of speech, after a court overturned a ban on a similar burning of the Muslim holy book.
Erdogan criticized Sweden last week for allowing the protest. Turkish defense ministry spokesman Zeki Akturk condemned what he called a “vile attack on our sacred values that was carried out in the name of so-called freedom of expression.”
“The Quran-burning incident that took place of the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday is an indication of how justified we were with our reservations (about Sweden),” Akturk said, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.
Beyond the latest incidents, Erdogan railed against Sweden while on the campaign trail for elections in May, and NATO officials had expected him to relent after he was reelected. Erdogan is also seeking upgraded F-16 fighter jets from the U.S., but Biden has suggested that Sweden’s membership should be endorsed first.
Asked whether it’s clear to him what Turkey actually wants from Sweden, Stoltenberg said: “I understand what President Erdogan is asking for. We have met many, many times and we have discussed in detail.”
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The specialty retailer expands New Mexico footprint, bringing its signature next-day white glove delivery and array of financing options to local customers
HOUSTON, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conn's HomePlus (NASDAQ: CONN) is expanding in New Mexico with the opening of a new 40,000 square foot retail location in the Santa Fe Place Mall at 4350 Cerillos Road in Santa Fe. A grand opening celebration is scheduled for Saturday, June 25, 2022, featuring food trucks and special promotions, including coupons and free prizes for guests.
Conn's HomePlus, based in The Woodlands, Texas, offers a wide selection of home goods, including furniture, appliances, and consumer electronics, from national brands such as G.E., Samsung, LG and more. Conn's offers white-glove, next day delivery service on all in-stock items so customers don't have to wait to enjoy their purchase. Through a personalized selection of payment options, including flexible in-house financing, Conn's strives to help all customers create a home they love.
Customers shopping at any of the five Conn's HomePlus stores in New Mexico can also expect store promotions through August, including next-day delivery on all major appliance purchases, TV purchases over $999, all mattress purchases over $999, all major fitness equipment purchases over $999 and select furniture purchases.
"We're excited to grow our presence in New Mexico and introduce our wide selection of home products to customers in the Santa Fe area who are looking to turn their home life to home love," said Chandra Holt, President and CEO of Conn's HomePlus. "We believe customers here will appreciate our next-day delivery service, and their ability to choose the payment option that works best for them."
Conn's HomePlus has over 160 locations across 15 states. For more information on Conn's HomePlus, please visit http://www.conns.com.
Conn's HomePlus (NASDAQ: CONN) is a specialty retailer of home goods, including furniture, appliances and consumer electronics, with a mission to elevate home life to home love. With more than 160 stores across 15 states and online at Conns.com, our over 4,000 employees strive to help all customers create a home they love through access to high-quality products, next-day delivery and personalized payment options, including our flexible, in-house credit program. Additional information can be found by visiting our investor relations website at https://ir.conns.com and social channels (@connshomeplus on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn).
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Videos reveal animals kept in awful conditions at popular sanctuary, activists say
(CNN) – Animal lovers are shocked and horrified to discover that a popular sanctuary was not the model home for its animals that people thought.
On social media and on its website, the Black Jaguar-White Tiger Foundation looked like what every animal sanctuary should be: full of happy and well-fed animals playfully enjoying themselves in wide, open areas.
However, according to animal rights activists, a Mexican animal protection group and Mexican authorities, these idyllic images were far from reality.
The animal sanctuary became so popular that even celebrities like Katy Perry, Paris Hilton and the Kardashians visited the site in Mexico City’s south side and posted selfies on social media. A former Mexican president was also among the guests.
But videos of the real conditions the animals endured, recorded by former employees and animal protection groups, shocked and horrified many when they first surfaced earlier this summer.
Some of the footage shows a sick lion lying motionless on the ground, another lion biting its own tail because it was apparently too hungry, and severely emaciated exotic animals, seemingly too weak to run or play.
The Mexican Association of Zoos, Breeders and Aquariums reported that the animals received no medical care and not enough food, especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ernesto Zazueta, president of the organization, said the conditions of the animals were very poor.
“You could see their bones, some had scabies, some are missing an eye, another an ear, another the tail. They have eaten themselves,” he said.
Eduardo Serio is the man behind the Black Jaguar-White Tiger Foundation.
For years, “Papa Bear,” as he called himself, was very public about his work at the sanctuary, sharing it widely on social media.
His success was such that the Mexican government agency in charge of animal protection would send confiscated animals to Serio’s sanctuary.
CNN’s calls and messages to Serio received no response, but they said his attorney told them he is not currently doing any interviews.
On his foundation’s Instagram account, Serio said that the sanctuary depended on private donors and that donations considerably decreased at the beginning of the pandemic.
“We lost 70% of our donations,” Serio said. “When people lost their jobs, they had to cut any gifts. Those horrible videos that they took are definitely true. But as I was telling you, I am not a zoo, I do not hold pure, precious, beautiful animals, like works of art in a museum. No. I dedicate myself to rescuing all kinds of animals.”
Serio’s attorney, Salvador Padilla Estrada, has filed a motion seeking to prevent his client’s arrest. He said that Serio is someone whose only goal was protecting abandoned animals, some of which were already in bad shape when they were taken in by the foundation.
“What happened was that ... due to the situation of the pandemic, donations dropped, and as a consequence, they tried to adjust with good quality food, but that did not arrive with the same frequency, which does not mean that they were not fed,” Estrada said. “All was done under the care of a veterinarian who tried to meet the needs of the animals.”
In early July, heavily armed Mexico City police in tactical assault gear raided the Black Jaguar-White Tiger animal sanctuary.
The more than 200 lions, tigers, jaguars and other exotic animals at the site were sent to zoos and animal shelters around Mexico where animal protection groups hope they will be properly fed and taken care of.
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RICHMOND, Va. – A three-judge panel dismissed a lawsuit Monday that sought to force all 100 members of Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates to face an unscheduled election this year.
U.S. District Judge David Novak, joined by two other judges, ruled that Paul Goldman, a longtime Democratic Party activist, lacked standing to pursue his lawsuit. Goldman had argued that House members elected for two-year terms in November 2021 must run again in 2022 under newly redrawn maps that properly align legislative districts with population shifts.
The 2021 elections should have been the first held under constitutionally required redistricting based on the 2020 census. But because the census results were delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the state held elections under the old legislative boundaries; new maps weren’t finalized until December. Goldman argued that has deprived Virginians of their constitutional voting rights, violating the “one man, one vote” principle outlined by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The court ruled that Goldman did not have standing as a voter or a potential candidate and granted Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares' motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Goldman did not prove that he suffered an “individualized disadvantage" due to residing in an underrepresented House of Delegates district, the opinion said. Instead, it said Goldman, a Richmond resident, had benefitted from over-representation.
“In fact, had the new maps been in place in time for the election, they would have weakened Plaintiff’s vote,” the court wrote.
In a statement, Miyares praised the ruling, saying the 2021 elections were “legal and constitutional.”
"Record numbers of Virginians went to the polls to vote and had their voices heard. I’m glad that the court agreed with my office, that there is no more uncertainty for voters and legislators, and that we were able to protect the sanctity of our 2021 elections,” he said.
Goldman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The ruling on standing comes after months of delays and voluminous briefings in the long-running case. Goldman, an attorney, former state Democratic party chair and former adviser to ex-Gov. Doug Wilder, brought the suit alone and has represented himself. Miyares' predecessor, Democrat Mark Herring, also sought to have it dismissed.
House members on both sides of the aisle had mostly been silent on Goldman’s legal fight, though a growing number of Democratic and voting and civil rights groups announced their support in recent months.
If Goldman had prevailed in persuading the court that new elections were needed, it would have caused an enormous inconvenience for many lawmakers, throwing them back into campaign mode and forcing some of them to consider moving. Lawmakers must reside in the district they represent, and the new legislative lines approved by the state Supreme Court were drawn without concern to where incumbents live.
Currently, Republicans narrowly control the chamber they flipped in November.
The court did say that voters who live in districts with populations larger than the ideal district “likely have standing, because they are underrepresented when compared to the ideal.”
Other would-be plaintiffs sought unsuccessfully to join Goldman's suit. It wasn't immediately clear if a new legal challenge would be filed.
The Loudoun County NAACP said earlier this year that it was reviewing whether to file its own lawsuit. In a letter, the group said the use of outdated maps in the 2021 elections “suppressed the vote, diluted the voices and diminished the representation” of the group’s 637 members and thousands of people of color living in the county.
The group did not immediately respond to a voicemail message left at its office or to an email sent Monday.
Herring — who for months last year ignored a request for an official opinion on the matter — attempted to have the lawsuit thrown out on sovereign immunity grounds. Novak dismissed claims against former Gov. Ralph Northam and several other defendants but declined to dismiss claims against state elections officials.
Since then, much of the argument in the case has focused on Goldman's standing. In March, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the issue of standing back down to the U.S. District Court to decide.
Last October, before the matter had reached the 4th Circuit, a federal judge had appointed a three-judge panel to handle the case. Monday's opinion said that the three-judge panel “collectively deciding the issue constitutes the most efficient process in the unique procedural posture that this case exists.”
Novak wrote the opinion and was joined by U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanie Thacker and Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson.
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PASADENA, Calif., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Innova Medical Group, Inc., a global health innovator and a world leader in the development and distribution of rapid diagnostic tests and other medical devices, announced today the appointment of Robert A. Kasprzak as the company's Chief Executive Officer, following his role Chief Legal Officer since the company's inception.
Kasprzak, a co-founder of Innova, has been a key member of the company's leadership team and has played a pivotal role driving commercial growth and expanding investments into disruptive healthcare technologies.
"As a proven leader of and contributor to the Innova team, Robert was well positioned to take the company forward in its next phase of growth. His experience as a business-minded attorney gives him the ability to align the importance of the company's legal and regulatory obligations with the global expansion and commercialization of our full array of product offerings," said Sean Rogers, chairman of Innova.
Between the success, Innova Medical Group has experienced commercially and the investments it has made into disruptive technologies of the future, the company has secured a solid base from which to grow during Kasprzak's tenure.
"We've built world-class teams that have surged us to quickly become an industry leader in the global market," said Kasprzak. "From our tenacious sales and marketing team, our robust regulatory, clinical, and compliance team, our unrivaled logistics and operations teams, to our business development team that keeps discovering investment, partnership, and acquisition opportunities in innovative products and technologies that can add exponential value and synergies to our existing product portfolio, I'm proud to lead this team as CEO and know the future is absolutely bright for us."
Innova Medical Group is a global health screening and diagnostic innovator driven to dramatically improve health outcomes worldwide with equitable, high-value testing solutions. Our strategic and iterative approach enables us to create, build, deploy, and distribute a wide array of accessible tests customized to meet and empower the user at their respective point of need. www.innovamedgroup.com
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Vehicle stolen and other reports
Published 9:33 am Tuesday, November 15, 2022
A black 2004 Ford F150 was reported stolen at 9:55 a.m. Friday at 22726 890th Ave. in Oakland.
Identity theft reported
Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office deputies received a report at 5:15 p.m. Friday of identity theft at 75767 Gooseberry Lane.
1 arrested for assault, disorderly conduct
Deputies arrested Salvador Gomez, 38, for fourth-degree assault and disorderly conduct after receiving a report of a man with a knife at 9:05 p.m. Friday at 377 S. Broadway in Alden.
Theft reported
Deputies received a report at 11:06 a.m. Saturday of a skid loader attachment that was taken at 10562 850th Ave. in Glenville.
Counterfeit bills reported
Deputies received a report at 11:11 a.m. Monday of counterfeit $20 bills that were passed at 498 E. Main St. in Clarks Grove.
2 cited for e-cigarettes at school
Police cited a juvenile with a small amount of marijuana and an e-cigarette device on school property at 9:22 a.m. Monday at Albert Lea High School, 2000 Tiger Lane.
Police cited one person for possession of an e-cigarette on school property at 12:59 p.m. Monday at 2200 Riverland Drive.
Propane tank stolen
A propane tank was reported taken from a gas grill at 1:46 p.m. Monday at 810 Minnesota Ave. The theft occurred sometime in the last week. | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2022/11/vehicle-stolen-and-other-reports-9/ | 2022-11-15 23:35:12 | 0 | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2022/11/vehicle-stolen-and-other-reports-9/ |
Report: Gun-related deaths hit record high in 2021
(CNN) - Authorities say two men are dead after gunfire erupted outside after a high school graduation ceremony in Richmond, Virginia, Tuesday night.
This incident, along with others, comes on the heels of new research which says the U.S. gun violence epidemic reached new highs in 2021.
A new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions said gun violence in the U.S. hit a record high in 2021 with nearly 49,000 gun deaths with increases in both gun-related homicides and suicides.
The report from Johns Hopkins also says guns are the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the U.S.
A candlelight vigil was held recently in Saratoga County, New York, for Kaylin Gillis, a 20-year-old fatally shot in April after her friend turned into the wrong driveway.
Gillis is among the more than 18,000 people who have died from gun violence so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
And so is Ajike “AJ” Owens, the 35-year-old mother of four from Florida who was fatally shot last week after an argument with a neighbor escalated.
“She had no weapon. She posed no imminent threat to anyone,” her mother said.
Samuel Schwartz, who lost his cousin in the 2018 Parkland school shooting, is holding a multi-day sit-in at the U.S. Capitol.
“After every shooting, we hear on Twitter that lawmakers and citizens call for action, but there’s no action taken. So that’s why I decided to lead this and all these people are here with me. We are here to make sure that something happens,” Schwartz said. “We are hoping that Leader Schumer listens to us and puts the assault weapons ban on the Senate floor for a vote immediately.”
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The chief executive of TikTok is expected to tell lawmakers in Washington tomorrow that the Chinese-owned company has put guardrails around the personal data belonging to American users. The prepared testimony from Shou Zi Chew will lay out a plan for Texas-based software company Oracle to store and oversee the storage of that information. Faced with President Biden's demand that the company be sold or banned in the U.S., TikTok is also pouring millions into shifting the narrative away from national security concerns. NPR's Dara Kerr reports.
DARA KERR, BYLINE: TikTok is holding a press conference featuring influencers who have popular accounts, like Back in the Kitchen with Bae. Other TikTok creators, like Ashley Capps, who lives in Florida, are taking action online during Thursday's congressional hearing.
ASHLEY CAPPS: I will be livestreaming it, funnily enough, on my TikTok.
KERR: Capps' livelihood depends on TikTok. It's how she gets clients for her business, where she teaches people skills like gardening and document research. She opposes a TikTok ban.
CAPPS: I'm not even a fan of using the term ban because I just want to be snarky. I'm like, well, yeah, they banned drugs, and we all see how that happened.
KERR: TikTok spokesperson Jamal Brown told NPR that lawmakers should hear firsthand from people whose lives would be directly affected. The company says it has 150 million monthly active users in the U.S. TikTok has amped up its lobbying efforts. It spent 5.4 million on lobbying last year. That's in the same ballpark as Google and Facebook.
SARAH BRYNER: In 2019, they spent essentially pennies on lobbying activity. And now they have spent the fourth most of any tech company lobbying Congress.
KERR: Sarah Bryner is the research director at OpenSecrets, which is a nonprofit that tracks lobbying spending.
BRYNER: Nothing spurs lobbying activity like the threat of being regulated.
KERR: And now there are a lot of eyes on TikTok.
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(NEXSTAR) — Though Memorial Day may seem randomly placed on the calendar, there’s a reason it always falls on the last Monday of May.
To understand, you need to go back roughly 155 years.
It was 1868, three years after the Civil War had ended. Major General John A. Logan, the leader of the Grand Army of the Republic (an organization of Union veterans), declared that May 30 should serve as Decoration Day. On that day, Logan wanted Americans to place flowers on the graves of the war dead, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Falling far enough into the spring, the hope was that flowers would be in bloom nationwide.
Records show the first large observance of Decoration Day was held at Arlington National Cemetery that year. Flowers were spread on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers alike, and Logan’s order for his post called for graves to be decorated “with the choicest flowers of
springtime.”
There are multiple cities that claim to have paid tribute to those killed in the Civil War before Logan’s declaration, many of which were located throughout the South, the VA explains. Among those was Carbondale, Illinois, where, according to a stone in a cemetery, the first Decoration Day ceremony was held in late April 1866.
As the story goes, Civil War veterans were waiting for a church service to begin when they noticed a woman with two young children place flowers on a small, unmarked grave. The veterans then collected nearby wildflowers and decorated soldiers’ graves in the cemetery.
The group then decided flowers should be placed on the graves of the war dead in Woodlawn Cemetery across town. On April 19, 1866, the veterans, along with others in the community, walked from an area church to Woodlawn Cemetery to place flowers on the aforementioned graves.
Before their procession, though, Logan — who lived in Carbondale during wartime — spoke to the group. Two years later, Logan signed an order to designate the day of observance.
Despite the obvious connection between Carbondale and then-Decoration Day, Congress and President Lyndon Johnson declared another town — Waterloo, New York — as the official birthplace of the day in 1966. According to records, in May 1866, the city, located about 50 miles west of Syracuse, is said to have honored Civil War veterans by closing businesses, flying flags at half-staff, and parades.
Though it isn’t clear when exactly people stopped calling the day Decoration Day, by the late 1800s, many were referring to it as “Memorial Day,” according to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Regardless of its origin, Memorial Day became a national holiday in 1971. It was permanently placed on the last Monday of May and designated as a day to honor those who died in all American wars.
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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District said they would distribute the opioid overdose treatment naloxone to all its schools.
News of the nation's second-largest school district providing the medication comes after 15-year-old Melanie Ramos fatally overdosed in a restroom at Bernstein High School on Sept. 13 after taking a pill that probably contained fentanyl, the Associated Press reported.
“We have an urgent crisis on our hands,” district Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in a statement. “Research shows that the availability of naloxone along with overdose education is effective at decreasing overdoses and death–and will save lives. We will do everything in our power to ensure that not another student in our community is a victim to the growing opioid epidemic. Keeping students safe and healthy remains our highest priority.”
In a press release, Carvalho said that the county public health department would provide the medication for free.
All high schools in the district will get the medication in the next two weeks, and then it'll be distributed to other campuses in the coming weeks, Carvalho said.
Los Angeles Police told the Associated Press that in the last month, at least seven teenagers have overdosed after taking what officials believe were fentanyl-laced pills.
Carvalho added that the district would also implement an educational campaign that includes parent outreach and peer-to-peer counseling.
The district said staffers such as nurses will be or are already trained to administer the medication.
District officials said that training for school staff who aren't trained yet would begin in early October. | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/los-angeles-district-to-provide-narcan-to-all-its-schools-following-students-fatal-overdose | 2022-09-24 00:22:29 | 1 | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/los-angeles-district-to-provide-narcan-to-all-its-schools-following-students-fatal-overdose |
CHICAGO (AP) — President Joe Biden would seem an unnatural fit for the activists at Netroots Nation, an annual gathering of progressives that was created to harness online rage over George W. Bush’s administration. More recently, it has championed the message of economic populism from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, two of Biden’s rivals for the Democratic nomination in 2020.
But the antipathy toward Democrats seen as too mainstream or moderate did not largely extend to Biden at the group’s recent conference in Chicago. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, even concluded the event by recounting how she had become a Biden convert.
“When Biden was in, I was like, ‘Oh, man,’” said Jayapal, D-Wash., lamenting that Sanders and Warren had fallen short in the presidential primary. “But I gotta tell you, I am a Biden fan now.”
That brought cheers, which was no easy feat given that pro-Palestinian activists moments earlier had shouted down Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., on the same stage.
At past Netroots conferences, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was booed and Black Lives Matter protesters disrupted a presidential candidate forum in 2016. Biden, as vice president, was heckled over Obama administration immigration policies.
Jayapal’s comments point to Biden’s progress in winning over his party’s left wing, an important part of the coalition he is relying on to win a second term. Many progressives have cheered steep federal spending increases on major social programs and green energy, as well as Biden’s renewed plan to offer student debt relief after the Supreme Court struck down his original efforts.
“This isn’t someone who’s spent the first term doing all kinds of objectionable things,” said Karthik Ganapathy, a veteran of Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign who also helped progressive Brandon Johnson win election as Chicago’s mayor this spring. “I think the sense is, he’s had a much more successful, impactful, consequential presidency than progressives expected.”
Similar sentiments have been echoed by Sanders, a Vermont independent, and Warren, D-Mass. Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently endorsed Biden’s 2024 campaign. Some, though, remain angry that Biden did not deliver on other big promises, including slashing fossil fuel production, advancing a federal policing overhaul and expanding voting rights.
“The narrative about the successes of the Biden administration is smoke and mirrors,” said India Walton, a progressive who beat Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown in the 2021 Democratic primary but lost to him in the general election.
Walton complained that Biden had not done more to protect abortion and civil rights after Supreme Court rulings that weakened both. She also noted that student debt will continue to deal crushing financial blows to millions of people, even with Biden’s attempted remedy.
“We have not ‘Built Back Better,’” said Walton, referencing Biden’s 2020 campaign slogan. “And it’s very frustrating to be a working-class American and being fed this ‘vote blue’ narrative, when the real conditions of our everyday lives are not changing.”
Such a backlash could hurt Biden in 2024 given that he is likely to face a challenge from the left — progressive activist Cornel West is mounting a Green Party run — and could be squeezed from the center — the political group No Labels is trying to recruit a centrist candidate.
That means even small erosions of progressive energy for Biden might erase the thin margins that delivered him critical swing states like Arizona and Georgia in 2020.
A factor that could neutralize those threats is that Donald Trump, the early Republican front-runner, could again be Biden’s general election opponent. In 2020, some hesitant progressives were so appalled by Trump that they turned out to vote for Biden despite their deep reservations.
But it might be difficult to reassemble the same broad voter bloc that put Biden in the White House if some elements are motivated more by fear of Trump than enthusiasm for Biden. This group includes majorities of college graduates, women, urban and suburban residents, young people and Black Americans.
“I think people are not clear about what they actually got for that vote,” DaMareo Cooper, co-executive director for the progressive Center for Popular Democracy, said about some Biden supporters from 2020.
Cooper said Biden and top Democrats need to do a better job “messaging what actually has happened.” Referring to opposition to Trump’s candidacy, he said: “There’s going to be a motivation factor. And I don’t think we should assume that people are just going to go out and vote for the same reason.”
Biden acknowledged the importance of turning out even reluctant progressives in 2020, when he told that year’s all-virtual Netroots conference in a taped address, “I badly need you.”
The president, who was in Europe and then at Camp David during the group’s recent gathering, made such no such pleas this year. His campaign was little mentioned in panel discussions, speeches, training sessions and after-hours parties. At the same time, relatively little attention was paid to West or No Labels, or to Biden’s nominal Democratic opponents, anti-vaccine activist Robert Kennedy Jr. and self-help author Marianne Williamson.
Ganapathy said that progressive support for Biden runs deeper than simply attempting to thwart Trump once more.
“There’s a lot that this president and this administration can stand on in terms of their record,” he said. “It doesn’t have to be a ‘Don’t vote for that guy.’”
Not everyone is convinced.
Anabel Mendoza, a 25-year-old media relations professional and Chicago native who recently moved to California, said Biden “ran on a lot of promises, but many of those have been unfulfilled and I think he could be bolder.”
“There is a lot at stake in this country, and young generations are feeling that,” said Mendoza, pointing to slow federal progress on combating climate change and gun violence, as well as on immigration, an issue where she said Biden “kept in place a lot of Trump policies and that’s something I firmly disagreed with.”
But Mendoza also said “in no world am I ever going to go for Trump.”
“When I go out and vote for a candidate, it might not be the candidate who has everything that I want,” she added.
Walton has similar feelings. “As badly as I would love to sit this one out and prove a point,” she said, she’ll be voting Democratic in 2024.
“Am I going to not vote and give the country away to another four years of Donald Trump?” Walton asked. “Absolutely not.”
Rahna Epting, executive director of the progressive activist organization MoveOn, said Biden “leveraged the first two years of his administration to pass some of the most progressive and people-first policies we could have ever dreamed of.”
She said Biden is no “movement candidate,” but he does not have to be a star on the left for progressives to turn out for him in 2024.
“When push comes to shove, they’re going to vote for Joe Biden,” Epting said. “For stability, for someone who is governing for the people, no matter what was left on the table in the last congressional cycle.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-top-progressives-are-backing-joe-bidens-2024-campaign-but-some-activists-have-reservations/ | 2023-07-20 14:36:44 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-top-progressives-are-backing-joe-bidens-2024-campaign-but-some-activists-have-reservations/ |
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Albany NY
318 PM EDT Sun May 15 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of east central New York, including the
following counties, Saratoga and Warren.
* WHEN...Until 515 PM EDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 318 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream
flooding. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1 inch are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Glens Falls, Hudson Falls, Fort Edward, Corinth, Lake
Luzerne-Hadley, Lake Luzerne Campground, West Glens Falls,
Glens Falls North, Day Center, Queensbury, South Glens Falls,
Lake Luzerne, Hadley, Danielstown, Palmer, Beartown, Hartman,
Randall Corner and Fourth Lake.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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BERWYN, Pa. and FARNBOROUGH, England, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Triumph Group, Inc. (TRIUMPH) [NYSE:TGI] announced that its Actuation Products and Services business has been awarded a contract from Boeing. The contract spans hundreds of variations of wire control cables used on the Boeing 737 MAX, 767, 777 and 777X programs. TRIUMPH will provide manufacturing, and life cycle support for these highly engineered mechanical components. The work under this agreement will be performed at TRIUMPH's Shelbyville, Indiana facility.
"We are proud to be selected as the provider for Boeing's wire control cable requirements. We will continue to deliver enhanced value to Boeing over the life of the contract," said Mike Boland, President of Triumph Actuation Product and Services.
TRIUMPH is a leading provider of mechanical and electro-mechanical control cables for commercial, military, and industrial platforms applications and has been providing wire control cables to Boeing since 2003.
TRIUMPH Actuation Products & Services is a leader in design, development, manufacture and support of complex electro-hydraulic and mechanical systems and equipment for the aerospace and defense industry. Products include actuators, pumps, motors, reservoirs, control valves and a wide range of mechanical controls for commercial and military aircraft. Our Actuation Products & Services business services customers around the world with ten manufacturing sites across North America and Europe.
TRIUMPH, headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs, and overhauls a broad portfolio of aerospace and defense systems and components. The company serves the global aviation industry, including original equipment manufacturers and the full spectrum of military and commercial aircraft operators.
More information about TRIUMPH can be found on the company's website at www.triumphgroup.com.
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New Claim Fraud Accelerator Speeds Fraud Detection for Guidewire Cloud Customers
BOSTON and PARIS, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shift Technology, a provider of AI-driven decision automation and optimization solutions for the global insurance industry, today announced availability of its Claim Fraud Accelerator in the Guidewire Marketplace. Insurers using Guidewire Cloud for claims management can now have fraud alerts from Shift Claims Fraud Detection delivered directly into the environment their claims professionals use every day.
According to new figures released by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, insurance fraud costs the US economy a record $308.6 billion annually, with property and casualty fraud representing $45 billion of that figure. In this environment, insurers are seeking technology solutions that can help them accurately find hidden fraud in the claims process, uncover it quickly, and investigate it efficiently. Claims professionals want technology solutions that work together seamlessly to help them make the best decisions possible about how to resolve policyholder claims. The integration of Shift Claims Fraud Detection and Guidewire Cloud, via the new Claim Fraud Accelerator, meets this complex challenge.
"Shift and Guidewire have already proven how effective the delivery of fraud alerts directly into the Guidewire claims management environment can be through the earlier Add-on for ClaimCenter," said Christy Oltmanns, director, solution alliances, Guidewire. "As more and more insurers embrace the power of the cloud to support mission-critical applications, ensuring our Guidewire Cloud users can take advantage of fraud detection solutions like those provided by Shift is an important advancement."
Shift Claims Fraud Detection is the company's pioneering solution that brings together the power of Artificial Intelligence and advanced data science to help insurers find previously undetectable fraud during the claims process. Shift's data-centric approach to fraud detection reduces false positives to drive more efficient workflows, identifies simple cases of individual fraud and more sophisticated network fraud schemes, and delivers clear contextual guidance and supporting documentation to speed investigations. The Claim Fraud Accelerator allows for Shift alerts to be delivered to the Guidewire environment in both real-time and recurring data transfer to best meet the needs of the customer. As important, using the accelerator can save as much as 50 percent of overall implementation time depending on customer requirements and in many situations can be in production in just over two months.
"Speed, accuracy, and flexibility are critical in the fight against insurance fraud," explained Drew Whitmore, head of partnerships, Shift Technology. "Working together with Guidewire, we are providing exactly that to insurers around the world."
About Shift Technology
Shift Technology delivers AI decisioning solutions to benefit the global insurance industry and its customers. Our products enable insurers to automate and optimize decisions from underwriting to claims, resulting in superior customer experiences, increased operational efficiency, and reduced costs. The future of insurance starts with Decisions Made Better. Learn more at www.shift-technology.com.
Contacts:
Rob Morton
Corporate Communications
Shift Technology
+1.617.416.9216
rob.morton@shift-technology.com
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James C. Reed, MBA, CFA®, Katherine M. Rose, MBA, CFA®, and David L. Zahn, CPA, CFP®
HOUSTON, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sentinel Trust Company, LBA, an independent wealth management firm and multi-family office, today announced the promotions of James "Jimmy" C. Reed, MBA, CFA® to Director of Business Operations, Managing Director, Shareholder, Katherine M. Rose, MBA, CFA® to Managing Director, Shareholder and David L. Zahn, CPA, CFP® to Director of Corporate Relations, Senior Relationship Officer, Managing Director, Shareholder. "We are pleased to announce these well-deserved promotions of these three leaders of our firm," remarked Lissa S. Gangjee, President and CEO of Sentinel Trust. "Their individual and collective dedication to our clients is exceptional. We look forward to their continued success as they take on these new roles within the company."
Sentinel Trust serves a diverse group of affluent families, helping them enhance their legacies through their unique personal, business, and philanthropic goals. The company focuses on delivering personal attention to each family to meet their distinctive needs and complex challenges. To learn more about Sentinel Trust, please visit https://www.sentineltrust.com/.
Sentinel Trust Company, LBA is an independent wealth management firm and multi-family office that provides comprehensive wealth and succession planning, fiduciary, investment management, philanthropic, and family office services to a select group of affluent families and their closely held entities and foundations. Founded in 1997 as the successor to two 40-plus-year-old single-family offices, Sentinel Trust currently serves more than 30 multi-generational families nationwide and is responsible for approximately $5.5 billion in assets as of December 31, 2022. To learn more, visit www.sentineltrust.com.
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Lissa S. Gangjee, JD, CFP®, President and CEO
Executive Assistant: Amor M. Joseph
713.559.9589
info@sentineltrust.com
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Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross
(THE CONVERSATION) For the Catholic Church and many other Christian denominations, the Sunday before Easter marks the beginning of the most important week of the year – “Holy Week,” when Christians reflect on central mysteries of their faith: Christ’s Last Supper, crucifixion and resurrection from the dead.
Palm Sunday commemorates the story of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem shortly before the Jewish holiday of Passover. According to the Christian Gospels, people lined the streets to greet him, waving palm branches and shouting words of praise.
As a specialist in Catholic liturgy and ritual, I think it’s clear that the deeper meaning of this Sunday is rooted in humility, rather than worldly veneration.
Humble service to others is a theme that runs through the New Testament. As the apostle Paul stressed, Christians believe that Jesus, the son of a carpenter, was also the son of God, who “emptied himself” of his divinity to become fully human. Jesus’ teachings in the Gospels praise “the meek, for they will inherit the earth,” and he proclaims that “whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant.”
Modern Catholic teachings describe humility as grounded in an understanding of one’s true relationship with God, one’s own gifts, and an openness to appreciating the talents of others.
Double symbols
Each of the four Gospels, the biblical books about Jesus’ life, describe him entering Jerusalem to prepare to celebrate Passover days before being betrayed, arrested, tried and sentenced to a criminal’s death by crucifixion. Each one explicitly says that he rode into the cityon a donkey or a colt. Throughout the Bible, however, the word meaning “colt” is used almost exclusively for young donkeys, not horses.
This image brings to mind a line from the Book of Zechariah in the Jewish scriptures: The prophet describes a victorious king who enters Jerusalem “lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
In Judaism, this passage from Zechariah is taken to refer to the Messiah, a spiritual king who would peacefully redeem Israel. The donkey itself is also interpreted as a sign of humility.
In Christianity, this animal becomes almost a symbol of Christ himself, given how it patiently suffers and bears others’ burdens. Horses, on the other hand, tend to be associated with royalty, power and war.
On the other hand, the palm branch had been associated with triumph and victory for hundreds of years before Christ. Winners of athletic contests, victorious generals and triumphant kings would be awarded or welcomed with waving palm branches, a sign of jubilation.
These Gospel narratives left Christians throughout the centuries with two important images for Palm Sunday, the procession with palm branches and the donkey: one associated with triumphant victory, and the other with quiet humility.
Historical development
The earliest evidence for a Palm Sunday procession comes from a late fourth-century religious woman named Egeria, who recorded her experiences on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land for her community in Spain.
While in Jerusalem, she describes assembly for prayer on the Mount of Olives in the early afternoon of Palm Sunday. This is a significant location just outside the city, where Christians believe that Jesus taught disciples, prayed in the garden of Gethsemane at its base, and ascended into heaven.
Afterward, the group processed down to the Anastasis, the church in Jerusalem marking the place believed to be Jesus’ tomb, for evening prayer. Among the crowd were children waving palms and olive branches.
Medieval Christian worship books from the 10th and 11th centuries show that a ritual procession outside churches became a standard feature of Palm Sunday celebrations in Western Christianity. In many parts of Europe, other spring flowers or budding branches might be used alongside palm or olive branches, and the Sunday could also be referred to as Flower or Willow Sunday.
Christ could be represented in the procession in numerous ways, such as the presence of the bishop or saints’ relics. In some areas, a carved figure of Christ seated on a donkey, called a Palmesel or “palm donkey,” could be pulled in front of the crowd.
During the mass after the procession, clergy would read a Gospel account of Christ’s crucifixion and death, traditionally from the Book of Matthew; today, Catholics use versions from other gospels as well. The reading would usually be chanted, with different voices taking the parts of the narrator, Christ, and other speakers, especially the crowd of people described as witnessing his trial, with the congregation still holding their palm branches.
Even today, in the contemporary Catholic calendar, the full title of this first Sunday of Holy Week is Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion.
Lasting symbols
Centuries of theological and artistic reflection have shaped today’s Catholic approach to Holy Week specifically, and to the concept of holiness in general.
The image of the quiet, patient, and unassuming donkey has communicated humility in art and in practice. No animals are mentioned in the descriptions of the birth of Jesus in the canonical gospels officially included in the Bible. However, other early Christian texts refer to a donkey at the manger or Mary seated on a donkey as she travels with Joseph. Medieval artists also depicted the nativity scene with both an ox and an ass in attendance, and Mary riding on a donkey.
The palm also came to be a wider symbol. Early saints who had died as martyrs – that is, who died rather than renounce their Christian faith – came to be pictured standing by a palm tree. More commonly, they were shown holding a palm branch, signifying their victory over death: Having given up their earthly lives to follow Christ, they were now united with him in Paradise. Martyrs are also frequently depicted with the instruments of their torture, helping worshippers to identify and venerate them.
All of these images are rooted in the narrative of Palm Sunday, with its image of Jesus, the carpenter’s son, riding on an ordinary donkey, yet acclaimed for a moment as though he were a worldly king. A similar paradox is at the heart of Christian teachings: that although Jesus Christ willingly died on a criminal’s cross, doing so was a victory over sin and death.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create a safe and quick means of drying polished nails," said one of two inventors, from New York, N.Y., "so we invented the QUEEN LADY NAILS. Our design offers an alternative to traditional UV lamps, which can be unsafe and can result in premature aging of skin."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective way to dry newly polished nails. In doing so, it protects the hands and fingers from exposure to ultraviolet light. It also saves time and effort and it improves sanitary conditions. The invention features a compact design that is easy to use so it is ideal for salons and consumers. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Manhattan sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-MBQ-201, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping said Wednesday that Beijing will send an envoy to Ukraine to discuss a possible “political settlement” to Russia’s war with the country.
Beijing has previously avoided involvement in conflicts between other countries but appears to be trying to assert itself as a global diplomatic force after arranging talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran in March that led them to restore diplomatic relations after a seven-year break.
Xi told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a phone call that a Chinese envoy, a former Chinese ambassador to Russia, would visit Ukraine and “other countries” to discuss a possible political settlement, according to a government statement.
It made no mention of Russia or last year’s invasion of Ukraine and didn’t indicate whether the Chinese envoy might visit Moscow.
The Xi-Zelenskyy phone call was long anticipated after Beijing said it wanted to serve as a mediator in the war.
WHY DOES THIS MATTER?
China is the only major government that has friendly relations with Moscow as well as economic leverage as the biggest buyer of Russian oil and gas after the United States and its allies cut off most purchases.
Beijing, which sees Moscow as a diplomatic partner in opposing U.S. domination of global affairs, has refused to criticize the invasion and used its status as one of five permanent U.N. Security Council members to deflect diplomatic attacks on Russia.
Zelenskyy earlier said he welcomed a Chinese offer to mediate.
WHY DID CHINA DO THIS?
Xi’s government has pursued a bigger role in global diplomacy as part of a campaign to restore China to what the ruling Communist Party sees as its rightful status as a political and economic leader and to build an international order that favors Beijing’s interests.
That is a sharp reversal after decades of avoiding involvement in other countries’ conflicts and most international affairs while it focused on economic development at home.
In March, Saudi Arabia and Iran issued a surprise announcement, following talks in Beijing, that they would reopen embassies in each other’s capitals following a seven-year break. China has good relations with both as a big oil buyer.
Last week, Foreign Minister Qin Gang told his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts that his country is ready to help facilitate peace talks.
Wednesday’s statement warned against the dangers of nuclear war, suggesting Beijing might also have been motivated by what it sees as the growing danger of a more destructive conflict.
Mediating between Ukraine and Russia would increase China’s presence in Eastern Europe, where Beijing has tried to build ties with other governments. That has prompted complaints by some European officials that China is trying to gain leverage over the European Union.
Political science professor Kimberly Marten of Barnard College at Columbia University in New York doubted China would succeed in a peacemaker role.
“I have a hard time believing that China can act as peacemaker,” she said, adding that Beijing has been “too close to Russia.”
WHAT ARE CHINA’S RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA?
China is the closest thing President Vladimir Putin’s isolated government has to a major ally.
Xi and Putin issued a joint statement ahead of the February 2022 invasion that said their governments had a “no limits friendship.”
Beijing has tried to appear neutral but has repeated Russian justifications for the invasion.
Xi received a warm welcome from Putin during a visit to Moscow in March. The Chinese defense minister visited Russia this month.
China has stepped up purchases of Russian oil and gas for its energy-hungry economy, helping to offset lost revenue resulting from Western sanctions. In exchange, China gets lower prices, though details haven’t been disclosed.
Marten said the Xi-Zelenskyy call was “kind of a slap at Russia, because Russia has been very keen to portray China as its ally.” She said the direct China-Ukraine contact “indicates China is taking at least a step away from Russia.”
WHAT ARE CHINA’S RELATIONS WITH UKRAINE?
China was Ukraine’s biggest trading partner before the invasion, though on a smaller scale than Chinese-Russian trade.
In 2021, Ukraine announced plans for Chinese companies to build trade-related infrastructure.
Zelenskyy’s government was more ambivalent toward Beijing after it was clear Xi wouldn’t try to stop Putin’s war, but the two sides have remained amicable.
“Before the full-scale Russian invasion, China was Ukraine’s number one trading partner. I believe that our conversation today will give a powerful impetus to the return, preservation and development of this dynamic at all levels,” an official Ukrainian readout of the call reported.
Qin, the foreign minister, promised this month China wouldn’t provide arms to either side, a pledge that benefits Ukraine, which has received tanks, rockets and other armaments from the United States and European governments.
The Chinese ambassador to France set off an uproar in Europe when he suggested former Soviet republics — a group that includes Ukraine — might not be sovereign nations. That was in line with Putin’s comments denying Ukrainian sovereignty.
Beijing then reassured former Soviet states it respected their sovereignty and said the ambassador’s comments were a personal opinion, not official policy.
Elizabeth Wishnick, of the U.S.-based think tank CNA and Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute, said in an email: “I wonder if Xi’s call was set up quickly to deflect attention” from the uproar over the Chinese ambassador’s remarks.
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By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT
AP Business Writers
Futures on Wall Street dipped Tuesday, extending last week’s selling that dragged the benchmark S&P to its first back-to-back weekly declines since the turn of the year.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average S&P 500 each slid 0.8% before the bell opened a holiday-shortened trading week.
Global shares were mostly lower after manufacturing indicators in Europe and Asia painted a mixed picture and Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Western countries of threatening Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin railed against the West Tuesday in a long-delayed state-of-the-nation address that shed light on how the Kremlin sees its bogged-down war in Ukraine. Such geopolitical factors add to uncertainties over slowing growth and weakening consumer demand in many economies.
Home Depot shares slid almost 4% in premarket Tuesday after the home improvement retailer gave a tepid outlook for this year despite posting strong profits to close out 2022. Walmart also posted annual earnings and its shares slipped for the same reason.
Markets turned turbulent in February after a strong start to the year, after optimism faded that the Federal Reserve would ease back on its aggressive monetary policies as it tries to tamp down inflation. Recent economic reports have raised worries that inflation is not cooling as quickly and as smoothly as hoped.
In Europe, surveys of factory managers showed improvement in the manufacturing outlook in Britain but contractions in France and Germany.
France’s CAC 40 and Germany’s DAX each lost 0.4% in midday trading in Europe. Britain’s FTSE 100 edged down 0.2%.
In Japan, a preliminary manufacturing indicator, the flash purchasing manager’s index, or PMI, fell to 47.4 in February from 48.9 the month before. That was the weakest reading in more than two years.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 shed 0.2% to 27,473.10. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.2% to 7,336.30. South Korea’s Kospi gained nearly 0.2% to 2,458.96. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dipped 1.8% to 20,517.91, while the Shanghai Composite gained 0.5% to 3,306.52.
It was unclear if newly issued rules on overseas initial public offerings by Chinese companies had any significant impact on trading.
China cleared the way for more companies to join foreign stock exchanges but issued rules that might make the stock offering process more time-consuming by requiring stricter regulatory scrutiny in advance.
This week will bring updates on U.S. manufacturing and housing and minutes from the last meeting of the Federal Reserve that might provide insights into the outlook for inflation and interest rates.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude picked up 72 cents to $77.06 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, the international pricing standard, lost 50 cents to $83.57 a barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar inched up to 134.76 Japanese yen from 134.26 yen. The euro cost $1.0655, down from $1.0689.
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The new participant-centered methodology optimizes and humanizes technology to accelerate research with real-world data shared from lived experiences
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LunaPBC today announced the launch of Community Driven Innovation™ (CDI), a participant-centered methodology that improves upon techniques like Delphi, design thinking, and social choice theory to deliver -- in weeks versus years -- an unbiased understanding of group priorities, a hierarchy of values, and pain points.
Luna and collaborators will be discussing the impact of CDI as a tool for listening to and engaging with patient communities during several talks at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association Nov. 6-9.
CDI addresses long-standing problems with traditional research approaches by eliminating groupthink bias, reducing cost and time -- especially associated with focus group approaches -- and delivering outputs that can seamlessly flow into studies and clinical trials with fewer or eliminated subsequent approval steps by an Institutional Review Board (IRB). Additionally, the methodology's iterative process is designed for longitudinal data capture so steps can be reinitiated as experiences and environments change over time.
CDI has been applied to research projects by KCNT1 Epilepsy Foundation, PXE International, The Aicardi Goutières Syndrome Advocacy Association, and Bobby Jones Chiari & Syringomyelia Foundation, and as the engagement foundation of studies with the Veterans' Health Priority and Women's Health Priority communities, where women identified migraines and severe headaches as one of their top priorities.
"We deployed CDI in the Migraine and Severe Headache Study alongside a standardized and well-validated Health Impact Test (HIT-6) to better understand the extent to which migraines and headaches impacted the lives of individuals," said Mark Kosinski, Chief Commercial Science Officer and Senior Scientist at QualityMetric. "The data revealed that three out of four individuals participating in this study reported severe impairment in physical, social, role, emotional, and cognitive functioning due to their headaches, at a level seen in uncontrolled chronic migraine patients, some of whom were on treatment for migraine. The implication of this finding is that a significant unmet clinical need exists with current migraine treatments."
The CDI methodology optimizes and humanizes technology and techniques to uncover a community's or cohort's true priorities from the voices of all individuals so that problem solvers can forecast needs, design research, and develop solutions aligned to the specific, underserved outcomes that matter most. CDI enables researchers to make informed decisions on the goals of their studies and trials to ensure the participants' most valued outcomes on an accelerated timeline.
To learn more about the applications of CDI and to access product materials, go to http://www.lunadna.com/communitydriveninnovation/ or contact collaborations@lunadna.com.
Founded in 2017, LunaPBC is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Diego, California. The team, investors, and advisors are renowned in the patient-advocacy, health, and science fields. With participation from over 180 countries and communities advancing causes including disease-specific, public health, environmental, and emerging interests, Luna's tools and services empower these collectives to gather a wide range of data -- health records, lived experience, disease history, genomics, and more -- to advance research that addresses their unique health needs. Luna makes research representative of the real world and aligned with people's true goals by giving all participants a role from right where they are. For more information, visit LunaDNA.com.
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Why do you half to change everything can’t leave nothing alone that was one of ymost enjoyment in the morning was reading the comics but now you change them and they are awful thank you for listening.
Ernesto Pena
Midtown
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Ludwig brings Chessboxing to the world of content creation with the Mogul Chessboxing Championship
(Gray News) - This coming Sunday, twelve content creators from across the internet are prepared to trade blows mentally and physically. Ludwig Aghren, a Youtube streamer, is bringing the little-known world of Chessboxing to light with his upcoming Mogul Chessboxing Championship.
Chessboxing was the brainchild of French comic book artist Enki Bilal whose hybrid sport combined chess and boxing. Iepe Rubingh later ran with the idea and adapted it as an art performance, further popularizing the sport.
Combatants tussle in alternating rounds of fast chess and boxing until one ideally wins by checkmate or knockout. A winner can also be declared if a time penalty occurs, and a boxing decision decides the match if the chess rounds result in a draw.
Two separate undercards and the main event are scheduled at the Galen Center in Los Angelos. Six matches make up the first undercard, including creators Myth, Disguised Toast, Abroad in Japan, and PointCrow. The second undercard is Smashboxing, an esports take on Chessboxing, with Super Smash Bros. Melee replacing the chess rounds. The main event will see Chess Grandmaster Aman Hambleton take on International Master Lawrence Trent.
Here is the released fight card:
- Main Event
- Smashboxing Undercard
- Chessboxing Undercard
- Myth vs. Boy Boy
- Disguised Toast vs. PointCrow
- Chris Broad vs. Papalatte
- Stanz vs. BoxBox
- Sardoche vs. Toph
Recently Andrea Botez, a chess streamer and content creator for OpTic, was added to the Chessboxing undercard and is slated to fight Woman Grandmaster Dina Belenkaya.
A great test of mental fortitude and physical prowess lies ahead for the creators taking part. More importantly, an opportunity to branch out and diversify their content to keep their viewership engaged. Ludwig is familiar with this, as the Mogul Chessboxing Championship is not his first foray into significant events.
Ludwig has recently invested a lot of energy into memorable events with more extensive production. Most notably, he co-founded the company OFFBRAND in September, intending to help content creators bring their big ideas to life.
He has helped create multiple live events, such as Mogul Money and Juiced, which garnered large audiences on Twitch and Youtube. He also recently announced The Scuffed World Tour after general unrest flowed through the professional Super Smash Bros. world. For each event Ludwig promotes, an expectation for groundbreaking viewership numbers follows, and the Chessboxing event is no exception.
The Mogul Chessboxing Championship will be streamed live on Ludwig’s YouTube channel on December 11 at 4 PM.
Gray Television is an investor in OpTic Gaming.
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WEST POINT, Orange County (WABC) -- West Point in Orange County suffered devastating flooding during Sunday's storms.
They, along with the surrounding communities, experienced flash flooding described as, "the likes of which have not been seen in recent history," the military academy said in a statement.
The rugby fields led West Point to cancel the Boys Summer Rugby Camp as the fields were completely flooded and damaged.
The deluge began as military cadets attending various summer training sessions at West Point had been set to check in.
"I don't think we were overly concerned, and we didn't realize the gravity of the situation for a couple of hours," Vertuli said.
Vertuli dropped her son Evan around 1 p.m., and as she was leaving their Airbnb, she ran into a downed tree and power line.
"We loaded up and tried but there was a tree and power line down," she said. "And the bridge, the bridge was completely underwater already. At that point we realized we couldn't go anywhere."
Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steven W. Gilland released a statement that said in part,
"Our U.S. Army Garrison West Point team is working around the clock to restore capabilities that have been lost or reduced. They will be determining the scope of damage over the next few days. Our Army senior leaders are fully aware of our situation, as are the leaders of U.S. Army Installation Management Command and the Corps of Engineers. Balfour Beatty is steadfastly supporting as they respond to numerous requests for assistance and prioritize their efforts."
They went on to say that the new cadets, cadets, cadre, and Task Force Fury from the 82nd Airborne Division are safe. Training was expected to be adjusted and said flexibility is key.
In the end, Lt. Gilland said, "We have a great community that supports one another, and this is one of those events that will bring us together and make us stronger."
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Updated August 26, 2022 at 11:24 AM ET
Vaccine maker Moderna announced Friday that it's suing rival drugmakers Pfizer and BioNtech for patent infringement. The lawsuit alleges the two companies used certain key features of technology Moderna developed to make their COVID-19 vaccine. It argues that Pfizer and BioNtech's vaccine infringes patents Moderna filed between 2010 and 2016 for its messenger RNA or mRNA technology.
All three companies' COVID-19 vaccines used mRNA technology which is a new way to make vaccines. In the past, vaccines were generally made using parts of a virus, or inactivated virus, to stimulate an immune response. With mRNA technology, the vaccine uses messenger RNA created in a lab to send genetic instructions that teach our cells to make a protein or part of a protein that triggers an immune response.
In October 2020, Moderna pledged not to enforce its COVID-19 related patents while the pandemic was ongoing, according to a statement from the company. In March this year, it said it will stick to its commitment not to enforce its COVID-19 related patents in low and middle-income countries, but expects rival companies like Pfizer to respect its intellectual property.
Moderna is not seeking to remove the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine from the market, but is seeking monetary damages.
Moderna is filing the lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts and the Regional Court of Düsseldorf in Germany.
A Pfizer spokesperson said in a statement the company has not yet fully reviewed the complaint but it is "confident in our intellectual property supporting the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and will vigorously defend against the allegations of the lawsuit."
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Downtown Rochester Taskforce to hold work sessions
Published: Feb. 27, 2023 at 6:40 AM CST|Updated: moments ago
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – The Downtown Rochester Task Force is holding work sessions for the community to talk about the challenges happening downtown and come up with a plan to tackle them.
The first public session is Monday night from 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at Fagan Studios off Broadway Avenue South.
Other sessions are below:
- Friday, March 3 from 9 a.m.-10 a.m. at the Chateau Theatre
- Monday, March 6 from 2 p.m.-3 p.m. at Pasquale’s Pizzeria
- Tuesday, March 14 from 10 a.m.-11a.m. (virtual)
Registration is preferred but not required.
The goal is to have an action plan in place by May.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was eating Peking duck at a Chinese restaurant with family and friends on Manhattan’s West side on Saturday evening when an aide called with urgent news: Democrats would win Nevada’s Senate seat and keep their majority.
The restaurant erupted in cheers as the news flashed across a television screen, and a group celebrating a birthday sent him a slice of cake.
But Schumer didn’t stay to celebrate. He was soon rushing back across town for an impromptu, late-night news conference in the lobby of a building near his office.
“I will once again be majority leader,” he declared to the cameras, almost giddily.
The 2022 election was “a victory and a vindication for Democrats,” he said.
It was vindication for the often-underestimated Schumer, in particular, who has racked up a series of unexpected legislative victories this year as he has navigated Democrats’ slim 50-50 majority, with Vice President Kamala Harris a tie-breaking vote. But the midterm elections held the biggest surprise of all, with his party successfully defending seats despite historical trends and low approval ratings for President Joe Biden. The result: another two years of narrow Senate control.
Even a narrow majority has huge consequences for Biden and his party, as the Senate confirms executive branch nominees and judges, including for the Supreme Court if there are any vacancies in the next two years. Democrats will be able to decide what bills to put on the Senate floor as Republicans — who will possibly control the House — beat up on the president politically ahead of the 2024 election.
“Listen, I was on top of every one of these campaigns,” Schumer said in an interview in his Capitol office on Monday, a fire roaring behind him and his elation still evident. He said he believes Democrats won because they had better candidates and because of their legislative achievements — allowing the government to negotiate some prescription drug costs, investments to fight climate change and a bipartisan effort to tighten who can own guns, among other measures that passed over the summer.
“This was always my plan,” Schumer said. “Get things done, and focus on those things, and don’t get diverted.”
Lastly, he said, voters rejected anti-democratic efforts by Republicans who supported former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the last election.
“We were on the precipice of autocracy gnawing away at our democracy,” said Schumer, who noted that the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection brought new attention to the attack over the summer, with multiple hearings and images of Trump’s supporters beating up police getting heavy airtime. “American voters said, ‘I don’t like this. I’m going to reject it.’ And the American people saved us.”
In his own election postmortem on Monday, Republican leader Mitch McConnell saw it differently, describing the Democrats’ narrow win in the Senate and still-uncalled House control as confirmation of a “closely divided nation.” Making the case directly to voters in Georgia, who will decide a December runoff between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker, McConnell asserted that Democratic policy failures led to high inflation.
If Warnock wins, the Democrats will have a 51-49 majority. And Schumer will have protected every one of his incumbents in the election — a stunning feat.
Elected to represent New York in the House in 1980 and then the Senate in 1998, Schumer has long been known for his political acumen — he was in charge of Democrats’ winning Senate efforts in 2006 and 2008 — and as a master communicator. But to his colleagues, the midterm election results are confirmation of his skills as a legislative leader as well. While he has been criticized by Republicans and some progressive groups for giving up some items on Democrats’ wish list, the party had accomplishments to point to in the election, and lawmakers say that gave them new momentum over the summer.
“It’s the year of Chuck Schumer,” said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who spearheaded bipartisan negotiations on gun legislation. The election wins were “set up by a bunch of victories that ended up motivating both swing and base voters,” Murphy said, particularly the sweeping health, climate and economic package that Democrats passed after Schumer negotiated one-on-one with moderate Democrat Joe Manchi n of West Virginia, who had singlehandedly killed an earlier version of the legislation.
Murphy said Schumer’s style is “totally unique, and it’s very well suited to a 50-50 Senate,” in that he knows when to micromanage and when to ease off. Murphy said he talked to Schumer several times a day while he was negotiating the gun bill, but he still let Murphy take the lead.
In terms of bipartisan negotiations, “leaders have to be pretty confident to let that evolve,” said Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat who was part of those talks. At the same time, Warner said, “anybody that underestimates Chuck’s focus and attention to detail does so at their own peril.”
Schumer brags about his communication skills, noting he has every Democratic senator on speed dial in his famous flip phone. And he knows many of their numbers by heart, he said.
“Every member calls me,” he said. “They don’t go through staff. They can talk to me directly, no email.”
Brian Fallon, a former Schumer aide who is now the executive director of Demand Justice, a liberal advocacy group that supports expanding the court, said Schumer has “come into his own in the last two years” in terms of legislative maneuvering. At no moment was that more evident than this summer, Fallon said, when Schumer unexpectedly announced the deal with Manchin on the sweeping package of bills and took angry Republicans by surprise.
“He’s had his own sort of Harry Reid moment the last several months,” said Fallon, referring to the late Nevada senator and majority leader who was known as one of the Senate’s toughest dealmakers before passing the torch to Schumer. Reid died last year.
The next two years won’t be easy, even if Warnock does win and give Democrats a crucial extra seat. Several Democratic incumbents are up for reelection in 2024, and Republicans still have a good chance of winning the House majority, making negotiations tougher for Schumer.
“So where do we go from here?” Schumer asked. The Democratic leader said he intends to sit down with McConnell and try to find places to agree, even though the two men have traditionally had a frosty relationship.
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MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP, MI — The Greater Muskegon Economic Development group is the winner of the “Large Ecomonic Impact Deal of the Year” award from the Mid-America Economic Development Council.
GMED was nominated for the award by Consumers Energy for bringing a biomedical research company to Muskegon Township, which is building at 168,000-square-foot biomanufacturing campus.
The company, Cytiva, is transforming the former BASF production site at 1720 Whitehall Road. The campus, when completed, will produce material for purifying and analyzing biomolecules for vaccines and therapeutics. The Muskegon Township Cytiva campus is the company’s first chromatography resin manufacturing facility outside of Sweden.
Construction on the Whitehall Road facility will begin in early 2023 with an expected manufacturing state date of 2026. An estimated 200 jobs will be created by the Muskegon Cytiva expansion.
Related: Life sciences company plans Muskegon area facility, 200 jobs and $430M investment
“We are extremely honored to receive this award on behalf of the Muskegon community,” GMED President and CEO Marla Schneider said in a prepared statement. “This is the largest manufacturing expansion in Muskegon County in several decades, and Consumers Energy was an important player in our efforts to bring Cytiva to West Michigan. We are incredibly grateful for their partnership through all phases of the project.”
The award was given to GMED at the 2022 Mid-America Competitiveness Conference in Chicago. The award “recognizes a project that had a significant and measurable impact on a regional community,” according to GMED.
“We faced a lot of competition to attract Cytiva to Muskegon and having such a large site available was a big advantage for us,” stated GMED Director of Business Development Morgan Carroll. “Being able to repurpose the former BASF facility makes this an even bigger win for our community.”
Cytiva considered locations in five other states for the project, which will bring average wages of $1,800 per week plus benefits to employees.
Related: $1.3M in road grants awarded for large biomedical research developments in Muskegon County
The project also received two job training grants totaling $3 million and a personal property tax exemption for up to five years valued at $2.7 million from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC).
“When you’re looking to help provide global biotechnology solutions to the world, it requires you to be nimble and flexible,” Emmanuel Ligner, president and CEO of Cytiva, said in a July 2022 press release when the company acquired the site. “By investing in Muskegon, Michigan, we will be closer to our North American customers, who are developing advanced biotherapeutics.”
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Israeli police beat mourners with batons at funeral procession for veteran journalist
By Atika Shubert and Abeer Salman, CNN
Mourners flocked to Jerusalem’s streets on Friday to attend the burial of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead on Wednesday while reporting on a military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, and were met with violence by Israeli police as they tried to carry the coffin on foot. The funeral was taking place a day after a memorial procession that brought thousands to the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Hundreds gathered on Friday before the funeral outside St. Joseph hospital in East Jerusalem, where Abu Akleh’s body remained until the burial. Muslims performed Friday prayers and mourners chanted “walking, walking on foot,” demanding that Abu Akleh’s coffin be carried and transported on foot from the hospital to the Greek Orthodox Church, where a service will be held, and then to the burial site.
Israeli police were lined outside the hospital, according to CNN reporters. Police roadblocks were set up to and from near the hospital.
Mourners carried Abu Akleh’s coffin out of the hospital, but were met with strong resistance from Israeli police who compelled them to transport the body by car. A flash bomb and tear gas were fired, according to CNN reporters.
Al Jazeera live footage showed Israeli police beating mourners with batons as they struggled to carry Abu Akleh’s coffin. The body was in turn brought back inside the hospital and then transported by car, said Al Jazeera.
The 51-year-old Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist was a prominent voice across the Arab world, delivering what many said was “the voice of Palestinian suffering” and their “aspirations of freedom.”
The circumstances of her death remain unclear. The Palestinian Authority on Thursday denied Israel’s offer of a joint investigation, insisting on an independent process and vowing to try those accused of her killing to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohamed Shtayyeh told Al Jazeera on Thursday that the results of their investigation will be released soon and will include the autopsy report.
Israel says it is investigating the death of Abu Akleh. Asked by CNN how she was killed, IDF international spokesperson Amnon Shefler said Thursday “we just don’t know yet” who shot her.
Israeli military investigators confiscated the guns of some IDF troops as part of their inquiry, reported the Washington Post on Thursday, citing an unnamed IDF official. The weapons were taken so that they can be made available for ballistics testing, the official said.
Givara Al-Buderi, a fellow Al Jazeera correspondent and a close personal friend of Abu Akleh, said she saw the entry wound of a bullet just above the right eyebrow and was told by the doctor that a part of the bullet had remained lodged in Abu Akleh’s skull.
Al-Buderi was called by doctors to help remove Abu Akleh’s clothing and change her for the funeral.
“We took off her clothes and had to put a white dress on her,” Al-Buderi told CNN, “I tried to put my hand behind her head, but there was nothing there.
“I felt around but there was nothing, nothing left.”
With contribution from Nadeen Ebrahim, Mostafa Salem and Celine Alkhaldi in Abu Dhabi.
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Sound Transit making changes to Link Light Rail to ‘increase safety’
With Link Light Rail ridership just about back to pre-pandemic levels, Sound Transit is making changes to help people feel safer.
There will be more security personnel on Sound Transit. The agency recently implemented four new contracts with four new security vendors. The contracts went into effect this past weekend.
“So riders are going to be safe. We’re going to be seeing significantly more security personnel throughout the system,” Sound Transit spokesperson John Gallagher said.
You will also start seeing more security officers, as agreements with four security contractors were recently approved.
Having multiple vendors means that if one is experiencing staffing challenges, one of the other three can be tapped to rapidly fill that gap. pic.twitter.com/qWgYBWSDXF
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“They’ll be seeing faster response time. So as always, if people see something on the train that makes them feel uncomfortable, they should call or text our security people and let them know,” Gallagher continued.
Sound Transit notes that one of their biggest rider concerns is people experiencing homelessness and riding the trains.
“So what we heard from our passengers was a sense of feeling a little uncomfortable on our trains and in our stations. And that has, in part, something to do with the homeless who are riding our train,” Gallagher said.
“We understand those concerns. We want to make sure that our passengers feel comfortable. We also want to make sure that we’re addressing the needs of homeless people as well in a compassionate way,” he continued. “Which is why we’re partnering with agencies to look for ways for outreach to connect people to services that they may need.”
The past few years haven’t always been easy for our riders, and we appreciate your patience.
We want you to know that we have heard your concerns and are taking steps to address them.
Head to our blog to learn more: https://t.co/vxY5DFTjHh
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Cleanliness was another rider concern, and Gallagher assured us that stations will be cleaned.
“We’re undertaking more cleaning in downtown stations so that they are cleaner for people,” Gallagher said. “And we are also undertaking new lighting in their stations, new LED lighting, which will make them brighter. And again, give people a better sense of safety.”
Other news from Sound Transit includes updates to the Link construction schedules south of Seattle. Last week it was announced that Sound Transit is delaying the Tacoma Dome link extension another five years, which pushes the project to 2035. According to Sound Transit, it’s not a money issue but rather planning. Pierce County Council sent Sound Transit a letter last Wednesday detailing items for it to consider.
Members said they had not heard from Sound Transit yet.
However, Gallagher said, “So you know, we certainly understand the frustrations the folks in Pierce County are experiencing, especially in light of the new delay to the Tacoma Dome extension. And we’re going to be responding to the letters that we received from the Pierce County Council in full.
“In the meantime, really, our goal is to, if we expand that system, have it in the best operating condition possible. It’s what’s going to make it attractive as extensions open,” Gallagher concluded. | https://mynorthwest.com/3858466/sound-transit-makes-changes-to-link-to-increase-riders-safety/ | 2023-03-16 21:16:21 | 1 | https://mynorthwest.com/3858466/sound-transit-makes-changes-to-link-to-increase-riders-safety/ |
GUALEGUAYCHÚ, Argentina — On a recent cross-border shopping trip, four friends from Fray Bentos, Uruguay, visited the nearby Argentine city of Gualeguaychu, where they could afford to live lavishly and snap up eye-popping bargains.
Thanks to a huge disparity in the two South American countries’ currencies, Stella Ferreira and a friend treated themselves to a low-cost pampering at a hair salon, while two other friends hunted around for stylish but inexpensive pants.
With its economy faltering, Argentina’s peso has plunged against the U.S. dollar and its annual inflation is 115.6%, one of the highest rates in the world. In contrast, Uruguay’s economy is more stable, with low inflation and a stronger currency.
The result has been a huge flow of shoppers from Uruguay throwing an economic lifeline to struggling Argentine stores and restaurants in cities like Gualeguaychú, Concordia and Colón.
But there's a downside for Uruguayan businesses along the border: In the provinces of Salto, Paysandú, Río Negro and Soriano, municipal authorities say 170 stores closed in the first five months of this year. Businesses still open complain they hardly have any customers.
With about $100 apiece, the four friends planned to get their hair done, buy clothing, gasoline and other goods and eat out in Gualeguaychú, in Entre Rios province, which for more than a year has been a shopping mecca for Uruguayans looking for deals. Back in Uruguay, Ferreira, 29, said that same $100 would “get your hair done and not much else.”
Uruguayan businesses just across the border are finding it hard to compete with such bargains.
“Everything is very quiet,” said Susana Guerrero, owner of a shop that sells cheese and sweets in Salto. “I lost an employee and I did not replace him.”
Guerrero went to Gualeguaychú on an exploratory trip and now sees why Uruguayans are going there to shop. The price differences between the two countries can be staggering. A liter of sunflower oil that costs $5 in Uruguay is 50 cents in Argentina. A jar of skin-care cream that costs $10 in Uruguay can be had for a dollar across the border. And a liter of gasoline in Uruguay is close to $2. In the Argentine province of Entre Rios it is 52 cents.
“Yes, it’s cheap and we can’t fight it,” Guerrero said.
Fray Bentos storefronts, meanwhile, are covered with signs offering specials in a bid to attract customers.
“This year sales have dropped by 40% or more,” said Alicia Nedor, who works in a pharmacy. She said the sector is seeing its worst crisis in decades.
Nedor, 70, said several small businesses have closed in Fray Bentos and the big ones have laid off staff.
Cross-border bargain hunters also hail from neighboring Chile, Paraguay and Brazil. In Uruguay, industry representatives have called the phenomenon a “border pandemic” and even the country’s president has acknowledged the problem.
“The prices of goods in Argentina are extremely cheap, and naturally its neighbors consume where it is cheaper for them,” President Luis Lacalle Pou said in early May. “This creates an imbalance. We have applied measures, but it is not enough.”
The government then introduced additional measures, including tax breaks for Uruguayan businesses and a 5-kilogram limit on what Uruguayans returning from Argentina can bring with them. But business leaders say the controls are not applied and are demanding a “zero-kilo” border policy, something that Lacalle Pou has rejected.
Lacalle Pou said the government will seek to make sure contraband doesn’t cross the border, but added that “it is impossible to solve the exchange rate problem with Argentina.”
The Catholic University of Uruguay has even developed a Border Price Indicator for the Argentine city of Concordia, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Gualeguaychú. According to its latest data from May, it is 59% cheaper to buy a basket of food, drinks, clothing and household products in Concordia than in the Uruguayan town of Salto.
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The price gap reflects the devaluation of the Argentine peso, which has lost 47% of its value against the U.S. dollar at the official rate so far this year.
Argentina has struggled with inflation multiple times over the last century. Its current crisis started in 2018 but has worsened in the past year and a half, said María Castiglioni, director of C&T Asesores Económicos. The inflation problem arose from several factors, she said, including government overspending and problems in monetary policy.
The country doesn't have funds to solve its overspending because it has lost access to the international debt market after multiple defaults on its loans. The loss of access means other countries do not feel confident lending money to Argentina.
As this debt crisis arose, the government turned to the country’s central bank for assistance. In an effort to sustain the economy, the central bank hasn’t stopped printing pesos — which has led to the devaluing of the peso. The increase in the flow of pesos also led to ballooning inflation that Argentinians are experiencing every day.
On holidays and weekends, long lines of cars wait to cross the General San Martín International Bridge that crosses the Uruguay River and joins Argentina's Gualeguaychú with Fray Bentos in Uruguay.
Between June 30 and July 4, which included the first days of the southern winter vacation for Uruguayans, more than 100,000 people left Uruguay for Argentina, most of them through the three border crossings in Entre Ríos. The majority were Uruguayans, although there were other nationalities. Uruguay has a population of about 3.4 million people.
“Here in Gualeguaychú you find all of Fray Bentos shopping,” laughed Carolaine Sololuce, one of Ferreira’s friends. “It’s nice to come, because of all the activity, the stores … .”
Sololuce was happy because she bought a pair of pants for 9,000 Argentine pesos, or $18 on the black market. In Fray Bentos, the pants would have cost $48.
Claudio Gatt, who owns the hair salon Ferreira and her friends went to, said that since the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021, the flow of Uruguayans into Argentina has been like oxygen.
“If they were not here, sales would drop by a minimum of 50%,” he said.
Signs reading “dollars accepted” hang in store windows in Gualeguaychú and its main streets are filled with visitors from different parts of Uruguay. Half of the purchases of medicines and cleaning supplies in the city are by Uruguayans, according to a local business chamber.
“We are going to become Uruguayans pretty soon,” said Sixto Fernandez, a 68-year-old Argentine retiree. “You go to the supermarket and it’s always full. They’re everywhere, they’re like ants.”
In a supermarket parking lot, Diana Rocco, 30, loaded several bags of cleaning products and groceries into her car. She was pleased with the mangoes she bought for half of what they would have cost in Uruguay.
Rocco, who is from the Uruguayan town of Palmitas, said she plans to return to Gualeguaychú because her salary as a security guard is barely enough to cover her expenses back home.
For Alejandro Ramos, a 49-year-old Argentine teacher who lives in Gualeguaychú, the problem is not the Uruguayans, because “they come and buy legally.”
The problem “is us," he said. "We first have to realize that we are an economic disaster in this country.” | https://www.wlrn.org/americas/2023-07-17/bargain-hunting-uruguayans-are-flocking-to-argentina-as-its-peso-slides-back-home-shops-struggle | 2023-07-17 21:29:30 | 1 | https://www.wlrn.org/americas/2023-07-17/bargain-hunting-uruguayans-are-flocking-to-argentina-as-its-peso-slides-back-home-shops-struggle |
Stocks fell broadly in midday trading on Wall Street Wednesday as investors count down to the end of the worst year for the S&P 500 since 2008.
The S&P 500 fell 0.7% as of 11:48 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 187 points, or 0.6%, to 33,049 and the Nasdaq fell 1.1%.
Bond yields were mixed. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences mortgage rates, rose to 3.88% from 3.85% Tuesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury fell to 4.37% from 4.38% late Tuesday.
The benchmark S&P 500 is headed for a 20% drop in 2022, while the Dow is on pace for a 9% drop, even as profits and margins for the S&P 500 have hit record heights this year. The tech-heavy Nasdaq is doing much worse and is on pace to plunge 34%.
Investors are in the middle of a mostly quiet and holiday-shortened week. Markets were closed on Monday for the observed Christmas holiday and there are no major economic reports expected this week. Every major index is on track for sharp losses this year.
A report from the National Association of Realtors showed that the housing market continued cooling amid high prices and steeper interest. Pending home sales fell 4% in November.
The report weighed down homebuilders. Toll Brothers fell 1.1%.
U.S. crude oil prices fell 1.5% and natural gas prices plunged 11%. That hurt energy stocks. Hess fell 2.3%.
Southwest Airlines shed 2.4% as the carrier’s dramatic trouble with flight cancellations continued. Other airlines also fell. Delta Air Lines shed 1.8%.
Tesla rose 0.8% as it stabilized from steep losses it suffered after reports Tuesday that it temporarily suspended production at a factory in Shanghai.
The Chinese government announced late Tuesday that it will start issuing new passports, a major step away from anti-virus travel barriers that likely will bring a flood of tourists out of China for next month’s Lunar New Year holiday. China has already said it will drop most of its COVID-19 travel restrictions next month.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng climbed 1.6%, while the Shanghai Composite index dropped 0.3%.
Markets in Europe were mostly lower.
Wall Street remains on edge and will likely continue dealing with volatile trading as the Federal Reserve continues its fight against stubbornly hot inflation. The Fed and other central banks have been raising interest rates to stifle borrowing and slow spending in order to tame inflation. The strategy, though, risks slowing the economy too much and bringing on a recession.
The Fed has already raised its key interest rate seven times this year and is expected to continue raising rates in 2023. The key lending rate, the federal funds rate, stands at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, and Fed policymakers forecast that the rate will reach a range of 5% to 5.25% by the end of 2023. Their forecast doesn’t call for a rate cut before 2024.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Civil rights icon James Meredith fell outside the Mississippi Capitol on Sunday at an event marking his 90th birthday, but he suffered no visible injuries and was resting comfortably at home later.
Meredith leaned onto an unsecured portable lectern as he stood to speak to about 200 people. The lectern toppled forward, and he fell on top of it. Those around him quickly scrambled to stand Meredith up upright, and they helped him back into the wheelchair he had been using. People also gave him ice packs and cold water as the temperature hovered at about 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius).
Meredith remained at the event until it ended about 45 minutes later. An ambulance crew checked him afterward, and Meredith then left in a sport utility vehicle with friends and family.
His wife, Judy Alsobrooks Meredith, said in a text message to The Associated Press hours later that he was at home with family.
“He’s enjoying his birthday cake now,” she said. “He’s tougher than anybody I’ve ever known.”
Meredith was already an Air Force veteran in 1962 when he became the first Black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, after winning a federal court order. White mobs rioted on the Oxford campus as federal marshals protected Meredith.
In 1966, Meredith set out to promote Black voting rights and to prove that a Black man could walk through Mississippi without fear. On the second day of his planned walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, a white man with a shotgun shot and wounded Meredith on a highway.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement continued Meredith’s march in his absence, and Meredith recovered enough to join them for the final stretch. About 15,000 people rallied outside the Mississippi Capitol on June 26, 1966. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/civil-rights-icon-james-meredith-90-falls-at-mississippi-event-but-has-no-visible-injuries/ | 2023-06-26 21:52:17 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/civil-rights-icon-james-meredith-90-falls-at-mississippi-event-but-has-no-visible-injuries/ |
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
MOVIES
— In the satirical comedy “Emergency,” college seniors Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) and Sean (RJ Cyler) set out for an epic night of partying only to return home to a shocking scene: Their door is ajar and a woman is passed out on their floor. The men are Black and the woman is white and they know that calling the police is not a straightforward proposition. The film, directed by Carey Williams and written by KD Dávila, was one of the breakouts of the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year for its penetrating look at racial dynamics in a heightened, comedic setting. It’s currently playing in theaters for a limited time before streaming on Amazon Prime Video starting Friday.
— “Navalny,” the riveting documentary about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been making the rounds in theaters and on CNN, but starting Thursday it’ll be available on HBO Max as well. Taut and suspenseful, Daniel Roher’s film plays more like a John le Carré thriller than a true story. It has taken on even greater significance since the Russian war on Ukraine, too, according to many of the people involved. “It gives so much context to what’s happening now in Ukraine,” Maria Pevchikh, head of the investigative unit for Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation and an executive producer on the film, told the AP.
— While we sit and wait to see what the big breakouts will be at the Cannes Film Festival this year, the film streaming platform MUBI has one of the festival’s all-timers coming on Friday: David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive,” which won Lynch the directing prize at the festival in 2001 (shared with Joel Coen for “The Man Who Wasn’t There”). And when you’re done wandering around the fringes of Hollywood with Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harding, MUBI has an entire Cannes takeover section to explore with films like Andrea Arnold’s “Fish Tank,” Joachim Trier’s “Oslo, August 31st” (for new Trier fans thanks to “The Worst Person in the World”), as well as Ruben Östlund’s “The Square” and “Force Majeure.”
— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr
MUSIC
— Def Leppard get back to basics with “Diamond Star Halos,” their 12th studio album and first work since 2015. The first single, “Kick,” is less hair metal and more classic arena rock. “You never quit” go the lyrics and that sounds apt for the band, too. Def Leppard recorded in three different countries, with singer Joe Elliott in Ireland, bassist Rick Savage in England, and guitarists Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell, as well as drummer Rick Allen, in the United States. The album nods to the members’ earliest collective influences, like David Bowie, T. Rex, and Mott the Hoople, among others, and the title comes from T. Rex’s “Bang a Gong (Get It On).”
— The weekend’s big movie is also a place for new music. The soundtrack from “Top Gun: Maverick” features the singles “Hold My Hand” by Lady Gaga and “I Ain’t Worried” by OneRepublic. There’s the return of “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins, while Miles Teller, who plays Goose’s son, recorded a live rendition of “Great Balls of Fire.” The album also features original tracks by the movie’s composers but there’s no reprise of “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” — perhaps that would have been a step too far into the danger zone.
— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
TELEVISION
— The good old days for dinosaurs concluded some 60 million years ago, when they owned the ancient Earth in all its glory. That’s where “Prehistoric Planet” is set, using a mix of wildlife filmmaking, paleontology findings and visual effects for a promised “one-of-a-kind immersive experience.” Among the stars: the Mongolian Titan and the frightfully clawed Therizinosaurus, who along with other dinos are introduced in their respective land, sea and air habitats. The five-part Apple TV+ series, out Monday through Friday, May 23-27, boasts narrator David Attenborough and music by Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer.
— Martin Freeman keeps proving he can play anything. The “Sherlock” and “Breeders” actor stars as a deeply troubled English police officer in “The Responder,” debuting Tuesday, on the Britbox streaming service. Demoted from inspector, Chris Carson is patrolling the streets of his Liverpool, England, hometown, confronting crime and his own angst. He’s also reluctant partner to a rookie, played by Adelayo Adedayo, and his marriage is at risk. The series, inspired by the experiences of its creator and producer, Tony Schumacher, unfolds over a week of night shifts as Chris tries to rescue a young addict from deadly jeopardy.
— “Keeping Company with Sondheim” follows the creation of Broadway’s reimagined, gender-swapping version of the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical “Company.” The documentary, filmed over a two-year period during the pandemic, also looks back at the original production’s debut during a bleak time for New York City. Marianne Elliott, director of the new production, and members of the original 1970 cast were among those interviewed for the film airing Friday as part of PBS’ “Great Performances.” So was Sondheim, the theater giant who died last November at age 91.
— AP Television Writer Lynn Elber
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A gasoline tanker crashed and then exploded in north-central Nigeria, killing at least 12 people, police said Friday.
The tanker had brake failure along a major road in the Ofu council area in Kogi state on Thursday night when it collided with a vehicle obstructing the highway, causing a fireball, a police spokesman told The Associated Press.
The vehicle “crushed cars on the way” and all the victims were burnt to death, said William Ovye Aya with the Kogi police command.
Bisi Kazeem with Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corps said other people were injured in the crash.
The road has been cordoned off and road safety workers are working to identify the victims, Kazeem said.
Such crashes are so common along most major roads in Nigeria that the country has introduced new measures to curb their occurrence. More than 10 people were killed in Kogi in a similar crash in September.
Authorities in Kogi are investigating the latest crash, Kingsley Fanwo, the state commissioner for information, told the AP. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-12-killed-in-nigeria-gasoline-tanker-explosion-police-say/ | 2022-11-12 11:11:50 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-12-killed-in-nigeria-gasoline-tanker-explosion-police-say/ |
Warriors vs. Kings: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - NBA Playoffs Game 5
In Game 5 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs, the Golden State Warriors will be seeking a win against Sacramento Kings.
In this article, you can find odds and spreads for the Warriors vs. Kings matchup across multiple sportsbooks.
Warriors vs. Kings Game Info
- Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2023
- Time: 10:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT, NBCS-CA, and NBCS-BA
- Location: Sacramento, California
- Venue: Golden 1 Center
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Warriors vs. Kings Odds, Spread, Over/Under
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Warriors vs. Kings Betting Trends
- The Warriors average 118.9 points per game (second in the league) while giving up 117.1 per outing (21st in the NBA). They have a +148 scoring differential overall and outscore opponents by 1.8 points per game.
- The Kings outscore opponents by 2.6 points per game (posting 120.7 points per game, first in league, and giving up 118.1 per contest, 25th in NBA) and have a +217 scoring differential.
- These two teams score 239.6 points per game combined, 5.1 more than this game's total.
- These teams allow 235.2 points per game combined, 0.7 more points than the total for this contest.
- Golden State has compiled a 38-42-2 record against the spread this season.
- Sacramento has compiled a 45-35-2 ATS record so far this season.
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Halloween can be fun for everyone, including your furry family members. According to a national survey by PetSmart, more than 75% of pet parents plan to dress their pets up for Halloween, and a quarter plan to take them trick-or-treating.
But just as you would make sure costumes, goodies and other forms of spooky fun are safe for your child, you’ll want to take steps to protect your four-legged friend. We turned to the experts for some Halloween pet safety tips you’ll want to keep in mind.
Hide the (Human) Treats
There are numerous foods that pets should never eat, especially when it comes to sweets.
“Chocolate, raisins, and xylitol are all toxic to pets, and ingesting any candy can cause an upset stomach,” said Dr. Sarah Wooten, a veterinarian and Pumpkin Pet Insurance Veterinary Expert. “Before Halloween, while trick-or-treating, and after, make sure candy is safely stashed in a high cabinet or place where your pet can’t access it.”
Xylitol is a sugar alternative that may be listed by other names, such as wood sugar, birch sugar or birch bark extract. It is often used in sugar-free foods, gum, dental care products, medicines and dietary supplements. Xylitol poisoning in dogs can start within 20 minutes and can be fatal. Call your veterinarian or the ASPCA Poison Control Center at 888-426-4435 immediately if you suspect your pet has ingested xylitol or anything toxic.
While not toxic, real sugar can also cause your pets to have some nasty symptoms and lead to some major messes for you.
“In the short term, a sugary treat can lead to an upset stomach,” veterinarian Dr. Ari Zabell, senior director of client experience and advocacy at Portland-based Banfield Pet Hospital, told PetMD. “All animals rely on the bacteria and other microorganisms in our gut to help us digest the food we eat. A higher dose of sugar than our pets are used to can upset the balance of those microorganisms and lead to diarrhea — sometimes explosive, sometimes bloody and sometimes even with vomiting.”
Decorate Without Danger
While candles are a timeless Halloween favorite, Wooten says to avoid using them because of how easily they can be tipped over and burn your pet or start a fire. She recommends using flameless candles in jack-o’-lanterns and other Halloween decor. She also suggests covering wires connected to electric decorations, as pets are often tempted to chew on them.
Stringy embellishments, costume pieces and glow sticks are other decorations that might tempt your pet. Most glow sticks are labeled non-toxic but have an extremely bitter taste. Pets who chomp on one might drool or race around the house in response. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals suggests giving a sip of milk or a small treat to offset the unpleasant taste and stop the reaction.
“Finally, while pumpkins and pumpkin seeds are generally safe for dogs and cats in small quantities, make sure to throw them out before they start getting old as moldy or rotting pumpkin is a concern, as well as if a chunk of the pumpkin rind is ingested it can cause an intestinal obstruction,” Wooten said.
Be Careful With Costumes
“While super cute and adorable, [pet costumes] can pose a safety hazard or be dangerous,” Wooten said. “If they don’t fit properly or restrict movement, they can cause your pet to have trouble breathing or rub them and cause bare spots or sores. If they are uncomfortable they may try and chew it off and ingest a portion, which can cause intestinal issues. If you want your pet to be in costume, make sure it fits properly, keep an eye on them while they are wearing it, and don’t leave it on them for too long.”
She adds that wearing a costume can also be stressful for some pets.
“If your pet exhibits any signs of stress (panting, hiding, barking, pacing, going to the bathroom inside the house) when you put the costume on them, or attempts to get out of the costume, it is a sign they are stressed and putting a costume on those pets is best avoided,” she added.
Keep Pets Calm and Confined
Finally, ensure your pet is as comfortable as possible on Halloween night.
“Stress is a common worry for both dogs and cats during Halloween, especially as the doorbell may ring constantly as trick-or-treaters arrive,” Wooten said. “This can be confusing and frightening to your pets, as well as the door constantly opening, which can provide an opportunity for a frightened dog or cat to run out into the dark night.”
You can give them a distraction, such as a long-lasting chew, or try calming aids, like an anxiety vest. Playing soothing music, turning on the television at a distracting volume or keeping your pet in an area of your home away from commotion can also be helpful.
While keeping them away from the evening’s activity is your best bet, it’s also a good idea to take precautions in the event your pet should bolt out of an open door. Wooten recommended ensuring your pet’s tags are up to date with your current phone number.
By taking proper precautions and having a plan in place, you and your pet can have the happiest of Halloweens together.
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Bob McGrath, who was one of the original cast members of "Sesame Street," died Sunday, his family announced. He was 90.
"He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family," a post on his Facebook page said.
McGrath's daughter told NPR that her father died of complications from a stroke.
According to the Associated Press, McGrath began acting on the children's show when it premiered in 1969, appearing as friendly neighbor Bob Johnson. His made his last performance on the show in 2017, the news outlet reported.
"A founding cast member, Bob embodied the melodies of Sesame Street like no one else, and his performances brought joy and wonder to generations of children around the world, whether teaching them the ABCs, the people in their neighborhood, or the simple joy of feeling music in their hearts," Sesame Workshop said in a statement on its Facebook page.
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ALLENSTOWN
G Land RT and Louis J. Grossman to Allen Plaza LLC, 39 Allenstown Rd., 7/22/2022, $2,725,000.
G Land RT and Louis J. Grossman to Allen Plaza LLC, 43 Allenstown Rd., 7/22/2022, $2,725,000.
El A Lincoln RET 2020 and Elizabeth A. Lincoln to Benjamin P. Ryan, 7 Townhouse Rd., Unit 7, 7/20/2022, $249,000.
BEDFORD
Keith J. and Angela L. Haenel to Kui K. Jason-Lau and Hui Chai, 3 Bartlett Dr., 7/20/2022, $1,750,000.
William P. and Linda M. Linehan to Sean and Jennifer G. Hubbard, 54 Mcafee Farm Rd., 7/21/2022, $925,000.
William and Karen Henderson to Ari Kenney and Nicole Fisher, 30 Palomino Ln., 7/22/2022, $510,000.
Marvin D. and Sherry L. Lepine to Amanda L. Martinez, 16 Seabee St., 7/18/2022, $476,000.
Bedford Town Of to 4 Sunset Lane LLC, 4 Sunset Ln., 7/22/2022, $750,000.
CANDIA
Kenneth R. Jacobs to Mary Devlin and Thomas Carraher Jr, 191 Main St., 7/18/2022, $420,000.
Rebecca T. and Paul Morris to Michael Murphy and Jill Johnston, 21 Maplewood Dr., 7/20/2022, $220,000.
Cody and Kasey L. Wood to Laura C. and Hans P. Cleasson, 31 Murray Hill Rd., 7/22/2022, $575,000.
Thomas Laughlin to Sandra Tremblay-Stewart and Bruce Stewart, 90 Tower Hill Rd., 7/18/2022, $617,000.
CHESTER
Beverly A. Miller to Charles Preston, 697 Fremont Rd., 7/18/2022, $450,000.
Barry Carl Jensen Sr RET and Barry Carl. Jensen Sr to Barry C. Jensen Sr, 302 Sandown Rd., 7/19/2022, $310,933.
DEERFIELD
Jeremy K. Brannan to Dakota D. Derego and Breanna L. Clark, 119 Hartford Brook Rd., 7/19/2022, $584,933.
Kelley A. and Tyler S. Rozen to Charles C. Link, 98 Middle Rd., 7/18/2022, $713,000.
DERRY
Ivan and Skylar R. Gomez to Susan and Robert Ochoa, 12 Bayberry Ln., 7/19/2022, $540,000.
Mark K. Lenfest and FHLM to Unit 8 LLC, 101 E Broadway., Unit 8, 7/19/2022, $99,000.
Lisa A. and Michael J. Robichaud to Matthew C. Robichaud, 4 Fairfax Ave., Unit 234, 7/18/2022, $100,000.
Bruce W. Radford to John R Cooper RET and John R. Cooper, 23 Kilrea Rd., 7/22/2022, $325,000.
Mitchell E. Warden and Yosmar Delvalle-Warden to Ryan S. Reynolds, 31 Mount Pleasant St., 7/21/2022, $360,000.
Emily D. Norloff to Steven M. and Joanne M. Powers, Skylark Dr., 7/18/2022, $512,000.
Barry Richard James Est and Stephanie Mackesy to L Scialdone Exempt FT and Amy Lonergan, N/A., Lot 4, 7/19/2022, $300,000.
DUNBARTON
Girard FT and Colette Girard to William R. and Kimberly A. Brackett, 1110 Gorham Pond Rd., 7/18/2022, $740,000.
Andrea Rancatore to Pamela J. Felie, 40 Stark Hwy S., 7/18/2022, $407,533.
GOFFSTOWN
MMB and BBR Realty LLC to Gotta Have LLC, 29 Center St., 7/21/2022, $3,150,000.
Thomas Fiorenza to Gregory Wilson, 7 Daniel Plummer Rd., Unit G, 7/19/2022, $272,000.
Artisan Homes LLC to Miguel 3rd and Alison Rivera, 26 Desaulnier St., 7/22/2022, $340,133.
Angela and Robert M. Oneill Jr to Jason J. Macomber and Elisha L. Perkins, 252 Paige Hill Rd., 7/22/2022, $716,000.
Dominique D. Allard to Sean M. Odowd, 12 Timberwood Dr., Unit 101, 7/18/2022, $220,000.
Wallace Raymond to Kelby Heffner, 12 Timberwood Dr., Unit 208, 7/19/2022, $225,000.
HOOKSETT
Deborah M. Dickenson and Jason A. Mills to Tiffany Ramos and Deneen Dufresne, 5 Green St., 7/19/2022, $425,000.
Evan P. Angus and Samantha Gendron to William and Christine Murray, 130 Hackett Hill Rd., 7/20/2022, $285,000.
Angela Marshall to Anelice O. Dominguez and Juan Ontiveros-Breceda, 11 Hale Ave., 7/19/2022, $290,000.
Catherine Plunkett and Rosemary Shannon to Francis P. Bobadilla and John Johnson-Tatelbaum, 1465 Hooksett Rd., Unit 172, 7/18/2022, $300,000.
Denise C. Benard to Andrew and Chelsea Ypya, 15 Joanne Dr., 7/20/2022, $450,000.
P J Elgin LLC to Peter E. Heinrich, 136 Mammoth Rd., Unit 3, 7/18/2022, $115,000.
Winter Street Invs LLC to Christian and Nicha Munzimi, 12 Martins Ferry Rd., 7/22/2022, $459,933.
Sunami Gurung to Erick Rodriguez and Glenda Fernandez, 73 Pine St., 7/22/2022, $560,000.
Paul F. and Margaret Schmidt to Alex Serena, 19 Pinnacle St., 7/19/2022, $340,000.
Hathaway Mary F RET and David Hathaway to Aaron M. Smith, 168 Whitehall Rd., 7/22/2022, $345,000.
LITCHFIELD
Charles E. and Barbara J. Valenti to Richard W. Jr and Emily L. Engler, 9 Lydston Ln., 7/19/2022, $725,000.
Adam and Anna Helbling FT and Adam V. Helbling to Adam Johnson and Katherine Melanson, 3 Oak Dr., 7/19/2022, $505,000.
LONDONDERRY
Kairal and Erin Sandiford to Karen Moulton, 47 Alexander Rd., 7/18/2022, $460,000.
Julia K Parkhurst RET and Betsy Keeney to Brenda L Matte T and Brenda L. Matte, 11 Apollo Rd., 7/22/2022, $480,000.
Rebekah Lim to Boback Sharifian, 14 Crestview Cir., Unit 153, 7/19/2022, $260,000.
Cross Farm Dev LLC to C and V Kaslow RT and Charles M. Kaslow, Cross Farm Condo, Unit 113, 7/22/2022, $718,333.
Kendra L. and Jeffrey K. Mccormick to Melissa and Matthew Clougherty, 9 Lantern Ln., 7/21/2022, $660,000.
Martin FT and Jeffrey A. Martin to Benjamin Padellaro and Paige Watkins, 32 Lawson Farm Rd., 7/18/2022, $646,000.
Phillip Steven I Est and Craig Phillip to Wendy A. Sesin, 92 Mammoth Rd., 7/20/2022, $415,000.
Daniel R. Howes to Brandon Sweeney, 350 Mammoth Rd., 7/18/2022, $715,000.
Rebecca Murphy to Michael Connick and Meghan Oneill, 31 Raintree Dr., 7/20/2022, $485,000.
Karlson FT and Aaron Karlson to Bryan and Kymberlee Nicholas, 24 White Plains Ave., 7/21/2022, $725,000.
David F. and Sheryl A. Dentremont to Alyssa and Richard Rodrigues, 13 Wildwood Rd., 7/20/2022, $595,000.
Silver Star Realty LLC to Rudens and Xhoana Gega, 3 Woods Ave., 7/19/2022, $413,000.
MANCHESTER
Marlene A. Brady to Tulsi Nepal and Menuka Dhital, 158 Aaron Dr., 7/19/2022, $530,500.
David Givens to Leah C. Durst, 254 Arah St., 7/22/2022, $425,000.
Cesar Suarez to 120 Avon Street LLC, 120 Avon St., 7/22/2022, $605,000.
Sheila D. Bryant to Leonard Vigeant, Blucher St., 7/18/2022, $280,000.
Miguel E. Perez to Nancy L. Ayok, 313 Boynton St., 7/19/2022, $385,000.
Hernandez 2021 T and Ramon Hernandez to Molly Healy and Terrance D. Henderson, 753 Brent St., 7/22/2022, $385,000.
John J. Foley to Anne W. and Raymond J. Plourde, Candia Rd., 7/21/2022, $215,000.
Sean and Emily Thompson to Tina L. Harris, 27 Charleston Ave., 7/18/2022, $361,533.
Jose B. Santiago Jr and UMB Bank NA to UMB Bank NA, 80 Crescent Rd., 7/19/2022, $300,000.
Corinne M. Wheeler and Polihronis Tsolakdis to Christopher B. Arsenault and Robert Atwood, 736 Douglas St., 7/18/2022, $305,000.
Nina Cyr-Kilmer and Dawn Kilmer to David T. Voight, 249 Dunbar St., Unit 249, 7/21/2022, $216,000.
Nina Cyr-Kilmer and Dawn Kilmer to David T. Voight, 251 Dunbar St., Unit 251, 7/21/2022, $216,000.
R and DM Realty Hldg LLC to William Chestnut Jr, 720 E Industrial Park Dr., Unit 10, 7/18/2022, $139,000.
Marion Properties LLC to Premier Hocky LLC, 850 E Industrial Park Dr., Unit 4, 7/22/2022, $566,600.
Mcgaunn Paul R Jr Est and Julie Chani to MDR Rehab and Dev LLC, Flint St., Lot 27, 7/20/2022, $141,500.
Semir and Besima Omeragic to Estalin Guerrero, 31 Glendale Ave., 7/22/2022, $415,000.
Dennis Stpierre to Joseph A. Stcyr, Gray St., 7/22/2022, $230,000.
Ari E. Kenney to Jorge M. Hurtado and Kendra A. Coco, 1138 Hall St., 7/22/2022, $350,000.
Christopher and Jill Provost to Alexander and Rachel Tessier, 12 Hillhaven Rd., 7/18/2022, $585,000.
Lacourse Gertrude C Est and Linda Burke to Silvia R. and Jamilton Machado, 818 Howe St., 7/18/2022, $470,000.
Jennifer M. Groulx to Jaime F. Ibarra and Dellanira Hipolito, 22 Leon Ave., 7/22/2022, $380,000.
Stephen M. and Emily S. Raymond to Ryan and Taylor Ward, 50 Lindstrom Ln., 7/20/2022, $504,000.
Susan Lapierre to Michael Bixby, 65 Log St., Unit 2F, 7/22/2022, $180,000.
1628 Group Inc to Melvin L. Whitmyer, 347 Mammoth Rd., 7/21/2022, $360,000.
Christopher B. Santamaria to Jason L. Rhynard, 346 Manchester St., 7/19/2022, $400,000.
Robert A. Allgaier to Michael Chianur, 36 Maple Leaf Way, Unit 36, 7/20/2022, $550,000.
Terolyn LLC to 5496 Mechanic St LLC, 54 Mechanic St., 7/22/2022, $5, 600,000.
Terolyn LLC to 5496 Mechanic St LLC, 96 Mechanic St., 7/22/2022, $5, 600,000.
Brendan and Jennie Bergin to Kelly Culhane, 7 Northbrook Dr., Unit 706, 7/19/2022, $240,000.
Michael D. Collins to Neil M. May, 39 Old Hackett Hill Rd., Unit 3H, 7/18/2022, $168,000.
Casey P. Manning to Jessica M. Rousseau, 9 Picadilly Ct., Unit 9, 7/22/2022, $290,000.
Harvey J. Russett 3rd to Tyler Weathers, 452 Pickering St., 7/19/2022, $465,000.
Paul Sheatler to Negendra Khatiwada, 297 Rimmon St., 7/18/2022, $450,000.
Kelley FT and Thomas H. Kelley to Cody R. Kelley and Jonathan B. Aguilera, 51 River Front Dr., Unit 4, 7/22/2022, $350,000.
Brenda L. Cooper to Jesse and Christiana O. Hester, 540 River Rd., 7/19/2022, $465,000.
Nathalie K. and Michael W. Porter to Casey Cyr and Michael Kilgore, 390 Seames Dr., 7/20/2022, $379,000.
Susan Pynenburg to S Scranton Bush RET 2001 and Steven Scranton, 470 Silver St., Unit 113, 7/20/2022, $215,000.
Beowell LLC to Stephen M. and Emily S. Raymond, 117 Therrien Ln., 7/19/2022, $659,933.
Lasalle 1 FT and Jeanne L. Lasalle to Alexander Whiteside and Alyssa Casoni-Whiteside, 212 Titus Ave., 7/18/2022, $306,000.
Deborah S Brown RET and Deborah S. Brown to Linda Lee 2019 RET and Linda Lee, 1137 Union St., 7/18/2022, $678,000.
Peter J. Stlaurent to Julio A. and Angel G. Sanchez, 179 Winter St., 7/22/2022, $450,000.
MERRIMACK
Governors Hill Corp to James and Katherine Cooper, 43 Cathy St., 7/22/2022, $671,400.
Carmelo Holdings LLC to 604-608 D W Highway LLC, 604 Daniel Webster Hwy., 7/18/2022, $1,040,000.
Kenneth W. and Debra E. Grooms to Andrew M. Silva and Valerie L. Griffin, 20 Derry St., 7/22/2022, $432,000.
William K. Bucklin Jr to John Cunningham, 44 Derry St., Unit 44, 7/19/2022, $289,000.
Barbour Kenneth A Est and Katherine M. Barry to John Tenhave, Front St Ext., Lot 4, 7/18/2022, $255,000.
Patrice Kenny to Cody J. Wolk and Amy R. Donahue, 5 Greenwich Dr., 7/21/2022, $461,000.
R C and B C Taylor RET and Ronald C. Taylor to Jason R. Hatfield, 38 Greenwood Rd., 7/22/2022, $150,000.
Yonkin FT 2011 and Jean Yonkin to Barry K. and Mikayla J. Haines, 57 Naticook Rd., 7/18/2022, $660,000.
Andrea Jean Bateman RET and Andrea J. Bateman to Charles D. Cullinan, 4 Walnut Cir., Unit 4, 7/22/2022, $354,000.
NASHUA
Dennis W. Parker and Sandra J. Thomas to Matthew R. Thomas, 15 Bartemus Trl., Unit 15, 7/18/2022, $375,000.
Marisol Osorio to Kevin A. and Courtney C. Reader, 3 Boxwood Ct., 7/18/2022, $511,000.
John R. Riendeau to Alicia Halpin, 6 Bruce St., 7/22/2022, $325,000.
Amy L. Marrello to A T and Susan P Mccann RET and Susan P. Mccann, 197 Cannongate 3, Unit 197, 7/22/2022, $252,000.
Ellen M Arouchon RET and Julia M. Richardson to F J and S E Desort RET and Suzanne E. Desort, 160 Daniel Webster Hwy., Unit 330, 7/18/2022, $440,000.
James M. and Joanne L. Woolfall to Meredith A. Faxon and Frederick S. Murray, 30 Ducas Ave., 7/19/2022, $415,000.
75 Deerwood Drive LLC to Shanmugar R. Mariappan and Suriya B. Shanmugar, 20 Dumaine Ave., 7/19/2022, $429,200.
Joicy Malarvizhi to Kathryn M. Mancuso and Matthew J. Kall, Farmington Rd., 7/22/2022, $557,000.
Alexander H. Mcewan to Lauren Clark and Jennifer M. Landry, 5 Field St., 7/18/2022, $375,000.
Daniel P. and Sarah L. Cwalinski to Patricia A. Bettencourt and Luis M. Borba, 11 Hastings Ln., 7/22/2022, $550,000.
April M. Krawczyk to Naramine B. Tea, 11 Kristina Way, Unit 11, 7/22/2022, $410,000.
Mark and Amy K. Finkelstein to Avi Ginsberg and Timothy Gamache, 11 Lojko Dr., 7/19/2022, $890,000.
Matthew Perez to Sean and Emily Thompson, 19 Madera Cir., 7/19/2022, $475,000.
Joseph A. and Denise Barilone to Nicholas Taylor and Meaghan Palmer, 76 Nottingham Dr., 7/19/2022, $432,000.
Stockton Robert G Est and Julie Wood to Courtney Wood, 2 Oak Hill Ln., Unit 203, 7/18/2022, $128,333.
Pravin and Kumud Ghia FT and Pravin Ghia to Robert E. Azevedo and Kirsten Obrien-Azevedo, 5 Penny Ln., 7/18/2022, $675,000.
Nishat B. and Rupali N. Panchal to Ammar Dodin, 7 Pitarys Dr., 7/18/2022, $550,000.
Courtney D. Lanfranchi to Nishith B. and Sambhavi Animesh, 90 Prescott St., Unit 90, 7/18/2022, $370,000.
Meghan Casey to Cam Kaiser and Nicole Barrett, 30 Ridge Rd., 7/21/2022, $545,000.
Joicy Malarvizhi to Kathryn M. Mancuso and Matthew J. Kall, S Main St., 7/22/2022, $557,000.
Fafel FT and Julie Fafel to Lani and Virathxay Sanethong, 3 Stable Rd., 7/20/2022, $875,000.
David L. and Joann E. Weddle to Christina and Jeffrey Hall, Stonebridge Dr., 7/22/2022, $280,000.
Cornelia Jane Metcalf RET and Cornelia J. Metcalf to Blake W. and Catherine S. Parsons, 6 Westhill Dr., 7/21/2022, $382,000.
Daniel F. and Jennifer M. Lombard to Cesario J. Gonzalez and Paul J. Elie, 6 Wilder St., 7/19/2022, $315,000.
NEW BOSTON
S and R Hldg Co LLC to Michael and Emily Bane, Lorden Rd., 7/22/2022, $195,000.
Richard and Virginia Lineman to Jacob and Rheana Lair, 11 Hillcrest Ave., 7/18/2022, $375,000.
RAYMOND
Justin T. Bosiak to Jason J. Ashburn, 26 Epping St., 7/22/2022, $554,933.
Jon-Ryan M. and Ashley D. Rochelle to Nicholas Frederico and Katie Frederien, 2 Sherry Ln., 7/22/2022, $625,000.
Tiago F. Raposo to Hannah M. Nordstrom and Richard R. Rousseau, 4 Upper Scotland Dr., 7/22/2022, $360,000.
WEARE
Mary E. Jones and Celeste A. Vento to Christopher J. and Scott W. Hurley, Daniels Lk., 7/20/2022, $50,000.
Robin S. Wilson to Christopher Lafond and Skyla M. Jacobs, 47 Hoit Mill Rd., 7/20/2022, $245,000.
Kimberly A. Griffin to Chad M. and Valeria Kotrady, 139 Old Town Rd., Unit B, 7/19/2022, $330,000. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/homes/property-transfers/article_73adbf83-6b60-5f84-b5cb-2f172ce818f4.html | 2022-08-04 19:49:04 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/homes/property-transfers/article_73adbf83-6b60-5f84-b5cb-2f172ce818f4.html |
This Pride month, companies across America are getting in on the celebration with collections and campaigns that honor the LGBTQ community.
Read more: Brands That Are Giving Back to the LGBTQ Community for Pride 2022
Snackmakers, beverage companies and alcohol manufacturers are no different: From household staples to independent brands, many are launching rainbow-colored treats this June. Below, we're spotlighting dozens of brands that aren't just serving up a slice of Pride but delivering the goods with donations to LGBTQ advocacy groups.
Bon appetit!
Snacks and coffee
Oreo has partnered with PFLAG National on a limited-edition Oreo Pride Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, featuring its classic chocolate wafer cookies, embossed with "PROUD" on one side.
In the past, Skittles has celebrated Pride by giving up its signature rainbow and turning its packages all gray. This year, however, the company is giving the bags a splash of color courtesy of a half-dozen queer artists, each of whom crafted an original pack design that represents how they "see the rainbow."
Each pack includes a QR Code that, when scanned, leads you to a virtual studio with more information about the artists, their work and the inspiration behind their designs.
Plus, $1 from the purchase of every Pride pack supports GLAAD's work accelerating acceptance and combat anti-LGBTQ discrimination. You can pick them up at Albertson's, Kroger, Target, Walgreens, Wegmans, Walmart and other retailers nationwide.
Chipotle
Help support LGBTQ youth when you order extra guac
Chipotle is donating $250,000 in free food to LGBTQ centers across the country as part of its partnership with Happy Hippie, a nonprofit founded by Miley Cyrus to support homeless and LGBTQ youth and other vulnerable populations.
You can also pick up Pride T-shirts and other merch from the Chipotle website, with $10 from every item sold going to the Trevor Project, with a minimum $15,000 donation.
The breakfast staple partnered with queer illustrator Thaddeus Coates on its first Pride edition, Neon Pink Block Party Lemonade. Coates' illustrations decorate all eight toaster pastries and are "inspired by a summer block party," he said in a release, "a celebration of a community that doesn't prioritize fitting in over living authentically."
It's the first time Pop-Tarts has engaged an artist to create artwork directly on the frosting -- with just 450 boxes dropping each weekend in June.
In support of Pride Month, Pop-Tarts is contributing $100,000 to GLAAD and providing $10,000 grants to four inclusive BIPOC institutions: The Bronx Book Festival, Destination Tomorrow in the South Bronx, Nobody's Darling cocktail bar in Chicago and the Salt Eaters bookshop in Inglewood, California.
There's a new Kind Pride bar flavor for 2022: Milk chocolate peanut butter. Kind says it doesn't believe Pride ends on June 30, so these bars are available in stores all year round (and online for $17.50 for a box of 12).
In celebration of Pride month, Kind is donating $125,000 to the Ali Forney Center, which supports unhoused and at-risk LGBTQ youth.
Baked By Melissa's Pride mini cupcakes are back, with vanilla cake and icing in nearly every color of the rainbow. Satisfy your craving with packs of 25, 50, 100 and a special "Love Bundle" set of four six-packs.
Until July 1, 10% of net proceeds benefit The New York CIty LGBT Community Center.
Colorado-based Bobo's is bringing back its limited-edition Pride bar, a dark chocolate-and-almond oat bar with a sprinkle of sea salt, all wrapped in adorable rainbow-heart packaging.
As in years past, 100% of proceeds are being donated to PFLAG National. Bobo's is also supporting the Center on Colfax, Denver's LGBTQ community center.
The bars are available for $14.95 for a pack of six.
Through the month of June, a dollar from every purchase of Rainbow Bacon sour candy strips from It'Sugar benefits GLAAD.
Grab a 6-ounce pack online or at any of the sweet shop's 100 stores nationwide.
Through June, Insomnia Cookies is serving up a Love Sweet Love package, a dozen cookies in the flavors of your choice -- from Chocolate Chunk and Oatmeal Raisin to Blue Ribbon Blueberry and Vegan Birthday Cake, and more.
For every pack purchased, the late-night bakery will donate $2 to Campus Pride, which works to create a safe environment for LGBTQ college students.
Available in stores and online throughout June, Voodoo Doughnut's Pride Bar is dipped in vanilla, filled with Bavarian cream and decorated with colorful hearts . A portion of proceeds from every sale go toward the It Gets Better Project, empowering LGBTQ youth around the world.
Colectivo's special-edition Pride Blend is a sweet and balanced combination of beans from Mexico and Costa Rica, offering notes of dried cranberry, caramel apple and cinnamon.
A dollar from the sale of every one-pound bag will go to the Midwest Institute for Sexuality and Gender. Diversity
Cream + Sugar pastry chef Chad Horton whipped up a special edition mini-ice cream sandwich for Pride: Vanilla ice cream decorated with rainbow sprinkles and wedged between two handmade chocolate-chip cookies.
The Wyoming-based artisanal ice cream company is making the frozen treats available the entire month of June, with a portion of proceeds benefiting Jackson Hole Pride.
Don't live in Wyoming? A pack of 16 is available for nationwide delivery from Goldbelly.
Low-sugar candy subscription service SmartSweets is celebrating Pride Month with a special box filled with a variety of SmartSweets' #KickSugar candy and a rainbow scrunchie from Dew Edit.
Build a box with your choice of 14 bags of their yummy treats -- from gummy worms and red twists to peach rings and lollipops -- with no more than 4 grams of sugar in each pouch.
SmartSweets is making a donation to Encircle, which works to create safe spaces for LGBTQ youth.
Queer-owned Couplet Coffee delivers signature blends in eyecatching packaging, including Peaceful Peru, a light-medium roast with notes of peach and caramel. There's also Espresso for Everyone (owner Gefen Skolnick's favorite), a mix of Brazilian, Nicaraguan and Peruvian beans.
Couplet Coffee is donating part of the proceeds for the month of June to the Trevor Project.
Get hydrated without the sugar with ShineWater's line of infused waters, like watermelon-blackberry, coconut lime, kiwi cucumber, mixed berry acai and peach-mango -- all infused with vitamin D, essential electrolytes potassium, magnesium and calcium, zinc and antioxidants.
ShineWater is available at Whole Foods, Publix, 7 Eleven and, through July, is featured at Stop and Shop as an LGBTQ-owned brand. (See who stocks it near you or pick up a 12-pack on Amazon.)
ShineWater supports HRC, Pride Mid-Michigan and the Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
All through June, proceeds from Curio's Everything Rainbow spice are being donated to the National Center for Transgender Equality.
The flavorful blend includes sesame, nigella, sumac, turmeric, fennel, chile flakes, sunflower oil, sea salt and blue cornflower for an earthy, tart touch that's perfect for salads, hummus and other meals.
Beer, wine and liquor
Absolut is once again releasing its Absolut Rainbow bottle, but the longtime ally has also launched Out & Open, an initiative aimed at helping to preserve LGBTQ bars and restaurants.
For every listen to an Absolut Out & Open story through June 30, 2022, Absolut will add $1 to its $175,000 donation to the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, up to $200,000.
Bud Light
America's best-selling beer donated $200,000 to the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce
Bud Light is bringing back its popular Rainbow aluminum bottles for Pride. America's best-selling beer is also partnering with the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce to help member businesses as they reopen in the wake of the pandemic.
Bud Light is donating $200,000 toward the NGLCC's Communities of Color Initiative.
This Pride, Hornitos is making a $135,000 donation to media advocacy group GLAAD to support the organization's mission to accelerate LGBTQ acceptance, and providing grants to two queer community activists.
A sponsor of LGBTQ causes for more than 30 years, Barefoot is donating a portion of proceeds from the 2022 Barefoot Bubbly Sweet Rosé Pride edition to Free Mom Hugs and the National Center for Transgender Equality.
In celebration of Pride 2022, Miller Lite has published Dr. Eric Cervini's Beers & Queer History, a look at key moments in the gay rights movement that took place at LGBTQ watering holes, from Julius in New York City to the Chicken Hut in Washington, DC.
All proceeds from the book support Equality Federation, an advocacy accelerator benefiting state-based LGBTQ organizations.
Crystal Head Vodka continues to support LGBTQ causes with year-round partnerships with organizations like the Stonewall Sports Program, The Test Positive Awareness Network, Kaleidoscope Trust and Lurie Children's Hospital Transgender Youth Program.
For Pride month, the company has brought back its limited-edition Pride bottle, the hallmark skull with a shimmery rainbow tint.
Queer-owned Future Gin distills Meyer lemon, honeysuckle and grape leaf alongside traditional botanicals.
For the month of June, Future Gin will donate 10% of all net proceeds to GLSEN, which ensures safe and supportive environments for LGBTQ students.
With hints of fresh berries and citrus, House Wines' limited edition Rainbow Rosé Bubbles is available in 12-ounce six-packs or 12-packs of 6-ounce mini cans.
For every case sold, House Wines will donate $2 to the Human Rights Campaign, the leading LGBTQ advocacy group in the US.
This Brooklyn brewery makes a gluten-free golden lager with malt grains and German hops to produce subtle notes of honey and crisp citrus and a malt finish.
As part of their company's mission, Gay Beer owners (and real-life couple) Jon Moore and Jason Pazmino make quarterly donations to LGBTQ organizations like Housing Works, the Hetrick Martin Institute, the Ali Forney Center and the Center for Black Equity.
Gay-owned Cool Cat's line of low-calorie wine spritzers start with a base of California white wine and come in four flavors -- original (elderflower, mint and lime), citrus, berry and grapefruit. Available in four-packs of 12oz cans, they're gluten-free with just two grams of sugar and 140 calories.
This June, the brand introduced special Pride packaging and made a $10,000 donation to The LGBTQ Community Center in New York.
Ilegal's Joven, Reposado, and Añejo mezcals are produced in small batches by fourth-generation mezcaleros, made with Espadín agave and double distilled in the Santiago Matatlan Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico.
This summer, Ilegal's Celebrating You campaign features artwork, parties and specialty cocktails honoring the queer community that raise funds for wayOUT, a non-profit focused on empowering gender-expansive youth.
Utah's largest distillery has produced Five Husbands Vodka, made from distilled corn spirits and mountain spring water, since 2019.
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A true piece of Americana is playing out on the stage of the Florida Repertory Theater in Fort Myers.
“Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash” is like lighting an old flame as audiences fall in love all over again with the late great country giant’s music.
From the moment you walk into the theater and set eyes on the stunning well-lit set, you get a feeling it’s going to be a magnificent performance.
This show is undoubtedly stacked with a phenomenal cast who play multiple characters and impressively, various musical instruments.
Make no mistake though this is a jukebox musical and not a complex biography of the troubled singer’s life that was plagued with drugs and alcohol abuse.
The performance glazes the topics and the highlights of Cash’s career and his marriage to his wife June Carter Cash.
While the show contains a small cabaret-style cast, they are undoubtedly powerful musicians.
Johnny Cash himself is portrayed using two fine actors. Larry Tobias plays the older more mature Cash who at times narrates the story of his life and Tobias does a great job of conveying the sorrow and redemption the singer was known for.
Actor Matt Cusak does an outstanding job portraying the younger Cash and nails the bass-baritone voice he is perhaps best known for.
Allison Ann Kelly is a strong vocalist with the down-home southern twang and she is convincing at channeling wife June Carter Cash, a singer and songwriter in her own right. Kelly even takes on the drums and guitar while stunning the audience with her yodeling.
Actress Maggie Hollinbeck makes her Florida Repertory debut as Cash’s mother, who doubles as an endearing older June Cash and is great on the spinning piano, another added touch to the outstanding set.
Actor Armando Gutierrez plays Cash’s father and also stands out on multiple instruments throughout the performance.
Kudos to Director Jason Parrish for what is sure to be an award winner that he can add to his repertoire.
This show is no doubt a crowd pleaser that encourages the audience to clap and even sing along with 32 Cash favorites, including “Ring of Fire”, “I Walk the Line”, and “A Boy Named Sue” to name just a few.
The show is so wildly popular with Southwest Florida audiences that nearly all performances have been sold out and that has forced Florida Repertory to extend a week of encore performances to accommodate Cash fans. The performances now run through April 23.
There is still plenty of time to get your tickets to this “Grand Ole Opry” style event by calling the box office at 239-332-4488.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence said former President Trump should decide for himself whether to drop out of the 2024 presidential race if he is indicted for charges.
Pence chose not to call on Trump to drop out if charges are filed against him while the former vice president was visiting New Hampshire, Politico reported Thursday.
“Look, it’s a free country. Everybody can make their own decisions,” he said.
Pence’s comments come as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be close to potentially be filing charges against Trump for hush-money payments that were made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the leadup to the 2016 presidential election.
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen paid Daniels in exchange for her silence about an affair she had with Trump. Trump later reimbursed Cohen for the payment, and the Trump Organization declared it to be a legal expense.
Cohen pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including one for campaign finance violations stemming from the payment. Trump has admitted to reimbursing Cohen for the payment but said it was not related to his campaign.
Trump has said himself that he “won’t even think” about dropping out if he is indicted.
Pence, who has indicated he is considering a 2024 bid that would have him face off against Trump, remained loyal to Trump throughout most of his vice presidency, but the two had a falling out after Pence refused Trump’s calls to not certify President Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
Pence has insisted that he did not have the authority to reject any electoral votes from being counted in his capacity as president of the Senate and only had a ceremonial role in counting the votes on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump has slammed Pence for not rejecting the ballots.
Pence has more recently stepped up his criticism of Trump after at times moderating his attacks on the former president. He said at the annual Gridiron Dinner on Saturday that “history” would hold Trump accountable for his role in what happened during the Jan. 6 insurrection and said Trump’s words before the riot “endangered” Pence’s family and everyone at the Capitol.
Trump argued while traveling on his personal plane to a campaign event in Iowa on Monday that Pence himself was responsible for what happened during the attack, saying that Pence’s refusal to reject the votes from the key states that clinched Biden’s victory led to the violence.
“Had he sent them back to Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, the states, I believe, No. 1, you have had a different outcome. But I also believe you wouldn’t have had ‘Jan. 6’ as we call it,” Trump said.
Politico reported that Pence reiterated that he did not have the power to overturn the election again while in New Hampshire.
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(KTLA) — Single heterosexual men are having a hard time on the dating scene.
According to a study by Psychology Today, “younger and middle-aged men are the loneliest they’ve ever been in generations, and it’s probably going to get worse,” and it’s due to a variety of reasons.
Men now make up 62% of dating app users, which reduces their chances of making a match. This means women have plenty of men to choose from, so they’re more likely to ghost someone.
Another reason is healthy relationship standards have changed. The study says women are looking for someone who is emotionally available, a good communicator, and shares similar values.
The third reason is that men need to address a “skills deficit.”
The study claims many young men are not being taught early on how to treat women correctly.
“The problem for men is that emotional connection is the lifeblood of healthy, long-term love,” the study said.
However, all hope is not lost.
While algorithms on dating apps and websites are becoming increasingly more complex, it could lead to greater matches. The study found that the dating app Hinge found that 90% of users rated their first date positively, with 72% indicating wanting a second date through the app’s beta trials.
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Make your patio less appealing to insects
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Bugs are no different than humans and animals: they frequent the places where they’re the most welcome. Unfortunately, there are a lot of elements in your backyard and around your patio that insects find so appealing they consider it an open invitation to come over and hang out as often as they please.
If you want a pest-free patio this year, the most important thing you can do is take away those elements that bugs find desirable. If that’s not as effective as you’d like, the next step is to find ways to actively repel those bugs.
Why are bugs attracted to my patio?
There are a number of ways that you can unintentionally make your backyard and patio appealing to a wide variety of insects. If you have standing water, piles of debris or an unkempt lawn, all of these conditions can entice bugs to take up residence on your property. Luckily, these are conditions that you can change.
How can I make my patio less desirable to bugs?
Clean up
Just like you wouldn’t go to a restaurant that had no food, if there’s nothing on your patio that bugs want to eat, they’ll be less inclined to visit. Clean your grill, pick up and discard any crumbs and scrub away any spills. It doesn’t take much to feed a bug, so you really need to be diligent about this. While you’re at it, move the trash cans and recycle bins as far from your patio as possible — garbage is a smorgasbord for bugs.
Remove debris
Bugs need a place to live. A small clump of leaves or a stray branch could make the perfect home. Take a moment and really look at your backyard and patio, focusing on natural debris. If you store firewood near your patio, this can give certain insects both food and shelter, so make sure that you store it properly — on a rack so it’s raised off of the ground, away from your home and covered. Also inspect hidden areas like gutters or under the deck.
Take care of your lawn and garden
It doesn’t have to be grass clippings, fallen leaves or dead tree branches; live plants can be problematic, too. If the grass gets too high, there is an excess of weeds or dense shrubbery growing around your patio, those are all ideal environments for bugs to thrive. Trim your lawn and tidy up your garden to help keep the bugs away.
Remove all standing water
Just like humans, insects need water to survive. Any standing water that you have on or near your patio, whether it’s a birdbath or just an area with poor drainage, can lure a variety of bugs to the vicinity. Even worse, mosquito larvae need stagnant water to survive. In other words, if you have standing water, mosquitoes won’t just be living there, they’ll be breeding there as well. It’s important to identify and get rid of any and all standing water on your property.
How do I repel the bugs on my patio?
If you’ve made changes and you still have a pest problem, it’s time to get a little more aggressive and make changes that won’t just be less appealing to bugs but will actually repel them.
Plant plants that keep away bugs
Believe it or not, instead of attracting pests, there are some plants that can help keep them away. Lavender, marigolds, citronella grass, rosemary, basil, mint and more all have properties that can keep bugs away. If you don’t want to add any plants to your yard, consider spraying essential oils around your patio’s perimeter to deter invading insects.
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Consider a bug light
A yellow bug light may help with your insect problem, but probably not in the way you’re thinking. Insects don’t perceive light that has longer wavelengths as easily as they do light that has shorter wavelengths. Yellow light has longer wavelengths than blue light, so it isn’t as noticeable. In other words, a yellow light doesn’t actually repel bugs, it’s simply less enticing.
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Add a fan
An air curtain is a special fan-powered device that creates an invisible barrier that helps stabilize indoor temperatures, even when a door is open. An air curtain is what helps a walk-in freezer remain cold. It turns out that steady stream of air also is extremely effective at keeping bugs out. To replicate the effect of an air curtain on your patio, consider using a strategically positioned outdoor fan.
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Invite birds to your yard
Besides seeds and berries, birds eat insects. If you have birds on your property, you likely have less insects. To make your yard more enticing to birds, try adding a fountain or a birdhouse. While the fountain may seem to go against the idea of having water on your property, the running water doesn’t hold the same appeal to insects as stagnant water does.
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What you need to buy to keep bugs off your patio
OFF! Citronella Scented Candle
With a burn time of up to 25 hours, this two-pack of citronella candles can help keep your patio mosquito-free for outdoor events.
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Black Flag 2,000-Volt Bug Zapper
When plugged in, this bug zapper can protect yards that are up to a half-acre in size from mosquitoes, flies, wasps, moths and more.
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LOS ANGELES -- As California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom heads to Washington this week, speculation about his national political ambitions won't be far behind.
The three-day swing, anchored to an award Newsom will receive on behalf of his home state Wednesday from an education group, will provide the Democratic governor with a national stage to continue his outspoken defense of abortion rights and gun restrictions.
It comes at a time when he has been picking fights with Republican governors in Texas and Florida and holding up California as a sanctuary for what he calls fundamental rights, including same-sex marriage, freedom of speech and abortion.
Newsom's recent activities have stoked talk about his White House ambitions as President Joe Biden's popularity tumbles and some Democrats question the president's viability for 2024. Newsom, a former San Francisco mayor, has dismissed any interest in the presidency, and Biden has said he's planning to run for reelection.
"This is Gavin Newsom building his national brand for whatever opportunities might come up in the future," said Thad Kousser, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego.
"He's savvy enough to know a lot of dominoes would have to fall for his future to come in 2024, but that makes it even more vital to take every opportunity to stay in the national consciousness for 2028" and beyond, Kousser added.
The president will be on a Middle East trip during Newsom's stop in Washington. The governor's office said the president's absence was coincidental.
On his trip, Newsom is scheduled to meet with Biden administration officials, congressional leaders and members of the California delegation to discuss abortion access, gun control and climate change.
He will also be accepting an award from the Education Commission of the States that recognizes, among other things, that California is on track to establish universal pre-K classes for all 4-year-olds by 2025. Newsom spokesperson Erin Mellon said that "what is happening on the education front reflects what we're seeing across the country - restricting rights and freedoms."
"While red states are limiting the choices of parents and students - banning books, limiting speech in the classrooms, and persecuting families with transgender youth - California is prioritizing freedom and choice," she said in a statement.
The 54-year-old governor has acknowledged he's hoping that issues like abortion rights will mobilize Democratic voters in a challenging midterm election year, when the president's party typically loses seats in Congress.
After easily beating back a recall election last year and facing only token opposition in his bid for a second term in November, Newsom has sought out the national spotlight in recent months, blaming his own party for being too passive in the face of federal court decisions and new laws in Republican-led states that he said are eroding long-settled rights and rewriting what it means to be an American.
Along with the U.S. Supreme Court decisions overturning Roe v. Wade and holding that citizens have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense, he's pointed to a Texas law that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, possibly as early as six weeks, and a Florida law that forbids classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
On Independence Day, Newsom's campaign aired an ad in Florida critical of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, warning viewers that "freedom is under attack in your state."
Republican leaders are "making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors," Newsom said in the 30-second spot, while images of DeSantis and former President Donald Trump flashed on screen.
"The DeSantis vision of freedom is a fraud," Newsom wrote in a recent fundraising pitch. "It's a vision where people are free to carry guns everywhere and everyone has to live in fear of getting shot."
California, meanwhile, has been going its own way.
Last month, legislators with Newsom's support agreed to place a proposal before voters in November that would guarantee a right to an abortion in the state constitution. The heavily Democratic state has some of the nation's tightest gun safety laws but has continued to expand them after the recent Supreme Court decision, including adding new restrictions on untraceable "ghost guns" and marketing firearms to minors.
As he maneuvers for a prominent place in the national party, Newsom could find himself attracting unwanted attention.
California residents are dealing with a long-running homeless crisis, soaring gas and grocery prices and rising crime in major cities. Housing costs are out of reach for many working-class families, and the state has some of the nation's highest taxes.
A Public Policy Institute of California survey in May found that 50% of respondents believed the state was headed in the wrong direction. And perhaps most tellingly, California has been shedding population - and it's losing a congressional seat - after years of stratospheric growth.
Longtime Democratic consultant Bill Carrick said he saw Newsom making a vocal stand on nationally critical issues rather than maneuvering to get his name into the 2024 presidential discussion.
"We had these two court decisions that had a deep impact on California," Carrick said. "He's an important voice in that debate and he needs to represent the state as vigorously as he can."
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From paint to portable grills, Lowe's now offering nearly 30,000 items for delivery straight to your door – in as fast as an hour via Instacart
MOORESVILLE, N.C. and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the seasons change and homeowners gear up to begin tackling fall projects to get their homes ready for guests, Lowe's is making it easier for everyone to enjoy the holidays. Lowe's and Instacart today announced that same-day delivery is now available from more than 1,700 Lowe's stores nationwide.
Nearly 30,000 items can be ordered for delivery in as fast as an hour, freeing up customers to spend more time sprucing up, decorating and making holiday memories this fall. Lowe's is one of the first retailers on the Instacart App to roll out same-day and scheduled delivery for large items, up to 3x3x5 feet and 60 pounds. Without ever having to leave the yard, customers can order small Halloween inflatables, fire pit essentials and even small portable grills to be delivered from the store to their door.
Customers can also purchase those just-right holiday gifts such as smart home products, hand tools and electronics, along with fall accessories like pillows, blankets and outdoor string lights, all available for delivery in as fast as an hour from their local store.
"Lowe's knows how much this time of year means to our customers. Whether they are rounding out their Halloween decorating or getting started on holiday prep and gifting, we're able to offer more products, more convenience and more value for customers as we continue to improve the shopping experience in-store and online," said Mike Shady, Lowe's senior vice president of online. "We're excited to open up this new fulfillment offering across the U.S. for customers to shop for all of their project needs."
Lowe's piloted same-day delivery via Instacart in select markets in February and is Instacart's leading national home improvement partner. Lowe's now offers same-day delivery from stores across all 50 states and Washington D.C. In addition to the expanded assortment of household and home and garden essentials, from grass seed to garden hoses, Lowe's is one of the only retailers today that sells non-mixed paint on the Instacart App, offering non-tinted paint and assorted paint supplies for customers.
"As the seasons change, we know customers are thinking about how to get their homes ready for fall," said Chris Rogers, chief business officer at Instacart. "We're excited to offer Lowe's wide variety of home improvement essentials for delivery across the country so customers can get exactly what they need, seamlessly. Connecting customers to their favorite retailers is at the core of what we do, and we're proud to help Lowe's expand their e-commerce offering to serve their customers in a new way."
To begin shopping from Lowe's for same-day delivery via Instacart, customers can visit www.instacart.com/lowes-home-improvement or select the Lowe's storefront on the Instacart App. For all orders, an Instacart shopper will pick and deliver items within the customer's chosen delivery timeframe. Customers can follow along and live chat with their shopper in real time as needed.
About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 20 million customer transactions a week in the United States and Canada. With fiscal year 2021 sales of over $96 billion, Lowe's and its related businesses operate or service nearly 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
About Instacart
Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 900 national, regional, and local retail brands to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 75,000 stores across more than 13,000 cities in North America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible for millions of busy people and families to get the groceries they need from the retailers they love, and for more than 600,000 Instacart shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders for customers on their own flexible schedule. The Instacart Platform offers retailers a suite of enterprise-grade technology products and services to power their e-commerce experiences, fulfill orders, digitize brick-and-mortar stores, provide advertising services, and glean insights. With Instacart Ads, thousands of CPG brands – from category leaders to emerging brands – partner with the company to connect directly with consumers online, right at the point of purchase. For more information, visit www.instacart.com/company, and to start shopping, visit www.instacart.com. For anyone interested in becoming an Instacart shopper, visit https://shoppers.instacart.com/.
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INDIANAPOLIS – The NFL’s new league year kicked in at 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, signaling to everyone it’s time to look ahead.
To that end, 32 teams have spent the week adding and subtracting in the never-ending massaging of rosters. Once again, free agency has commanded the attention, and locally we’re not talking about Aaron Rodgers’ prolonged dance with the Green Bay Packers and New York Jets.
General manager Chris Ballard has used the last three days using every available tool to reshape an Indianapolis Colts’ roster that sorely needs reshaping: trades, signing, re-signing and allowing pending free agents to hit the market.
One of the players retained is being given the opportunity for an expanded role in Gus Bradley’s defense. E.J. Speed signed a two-year extension worth $9 million.
“I can do a lot,’’ he said Wednesday. “Gus has expressed to me plenty of times he trusts me. We’ve already made plays together as a coach/player last year.
“Now in this role, I can make more. We can do more and I’m looking forward to it.’’
The 2019 fifth-round pick has paid his dues with a dual role as special teams standout and defensive backup. Speed has piled up 31 tackles on special teams, blocked one punt and returned two blocked punts for touchdowns. Last season, he was on the field for a career-high 314 defensive snaps and responded with 55 tackles, including 32 solos.
It’s worth noting Speed is the second linebacker taken in a later round to merit a second contract from the Colts. Last offseason, Zaire Franklin, a 2018 seventh-rounder, was given a three-year, $12 million extension.
“Sometimes you feel like people put a box around you, and when you break through the box and become something more than what’s expected, it’s always a warm feeling,’’ Speed said. “It takes a lot of hard work, but it’s worth it at the end of the day.’’
Here’s a recap of the Colts’ roster-shuffling. A reminder: they aren’t finished shuffling.
Comings and goings
- Released quarterback Matt Ryan, which created $17.2 million in salary-cap space. He still will count $18 million in dead money.
- Traded cornerback Stephon Gilmore to Dallas for a fifth-round pick (No. 176 overall).
- Agreed with former Los Angeles Rams’ placekicker Matt Gay on a four-year, $22.5 million contract that includes $13 million in guarantees.
- Agreed with former San Francisco 49ers’ defensive end Samson Ebukam on a three-year, $27 million contract that includes $11 million in guarantees.
- Agreed with former Cleveland Browns’ defensive tackle Taven Bryan on a one-year, $4.5 million contract.
- Signed Speed to a two-year, $9 million extension.
- Signed wide receiver Ashton Dulin to a two-year, $9.2 million extension.
- Signed defensive lineman Tyquan Lewis to a one-year, $2.2 million extension.
- Signed offensive tackle Carter O’Donnell to an extension.
- Saw linebacker Bobby Okereke agree to a four-year, $40 million contract with the New York Giants.
- Saw cornerback Brandon Facyson agree to a contract with the Las Vegas Raiders.
The top Colts who became unrestricted free agents Wednesday at 4: wideout Parris Campbell, defensive end Yannick Ngakoue, kicker Chase McLaughlin, safety Rodney McLeod, offensive tackles Matt Pryor and Dennis Kelly, punter Matt Haack.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Khalil Shabazz scored 16 points as San Francisco beat Little Rock 90-68 on Wednesday.
Shabazz also had seven rebounds, seven assists, and five steals for the Dons (7-1). Zane Meeks shot 4 for 5 (2 for 3 from 3-point range) and 4 of 4 from the free throw line to add 14 points. Isaiah Hawthorne shot 5 for 9, including 2 for 4 from beyond the arc to finish with 12 points. Tyrell Roberts also had 12.
The Trojans (2-6) were led by D.J. Smith, who recorded 16 points and two steals. Little Rock also got 13 points and six rebounds from Ethan Speaker. In addition, Myron Gardner finished with 10 points, 12 rebounds and two steals.
San Francisco entered halftime up 49-24. Meeks paced the team in scoring in the first half with 10 points. San Francisco was outscored by Little Rock in the second half by a three-point margin, but still wound up on top, while Tyrell Roberts led the way with a team-high nine second-half points.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Skimming devices have been installed by suspected scammers in at least five New York Walmart stores over the last week, local police departments confirmed to Nexstar’s WSYR.
Investigations have been opened after devices were found in stores in Granby, East Syracuse, Camillus, Auburn and Oswego.
In each case, the machine was installed on Sunday, July 2, and discovered on Wednesday, July 5.
Surveillance images released by police in Auburn, Camillus, and Oswego show the same three people either entering the store or tampering with the credit card terminal.
They’re accused of adding a skimming device, which is a cover that looks just like the machine, but it steals a customer’s credit card information when the card is inserted.
“It’s been called ‘gutsy’ to put those devices where they were located, because it’s a very public area,” said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Samantha Baltzersen.
Skimmers typically attack the most vulnerable cards: cards requiring the swipe of a magnetic strip. Advanced skimmers can even steal information from the newer chip cards, but it’s less frequent.
Police in New York haven’t determined how advanced the skimmers are used in this string.
Police also haven’t received reports of any victims in the Walmart skimming cases yet, but people who used their credit cards over those four days at the impacted Walmarts should be on high alert for fraudulent charges.
“They’ll try to hit where they see weaknesses in the system or weaknesses in the locations,” said Debbie Cobb, a senior director of product management at FICO.
Cobb said anytime you see a credit card payment terminal that looks like it may have been tampered with or has something attached to it, you should exercise caution and avoid using it to pay.
FICO shared more advice on what to look for and how to protect yourself:
What should consumers look out for?
- When consumers go to make a payment, they should take a close look at the part of the device where they insert their card. If anything about it seems loose or looks disconnected from the actual system, that should be a red flag. If something looks suspicious, you should not complete the payment.
- Recent advances in technology have enabled fraudsters to have more sophisticated and harder to detect card skimming technology. For example, fraudsters will install microscopic cameras at the top of ATMs or other points of sale that look like a small pinhole. Consumers should keep an eye out for any small holes or disjointed parts of the payment system that might be capturing their confidential information. Fraudsters will use these cameras to observe your PIN code, so it is very important to make a habit of completely covering the PIN pad when entering your information.
How can consumers protect themselves from card skimming?
- Consumers should always look for ways to use the most secure payment mechanism. Generally, the weakest method of payment is using the magnetic stripe on your card. If your card has a chip or supports contactless payments, those payments methods are more secure. If you are in a situation where you have to use the magnetic stripe, take a moment to heighten your awareness and make sure to shield your PIN code.
- It is important to set up alerting with your financial institutions. Many banks enable their customers to set up real-time alerts that will notify any suspicious transactions or certain transaction types or characteristics such as exceeding a certain dollar amount. By taking advantage of the technology that your financial institution offers, consumers can better protect their funds. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/several-walmart-stores-hit-by-credit-card-skimmers-what-to-look-for/ | 2023-07-09 23:00:47 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/several-walmart-stores-hit-by-credit-card-skimmers-what-to-look-for/ |
Providence Mission Hospital is embarking on a multistage expansion plan that includes a new medical tower and health centers to meet the growing needs in the community
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MISSION VIEJO, Calif., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To meet the ongoing development and ever-growing demand for high-quality health care in southern Orange County, today Providence announced it will invest $712 million in the region to build two new multi-specialty medical centers, and a new patient care tower that will offer roughly 100 new beds at the region's Providence Mission Hospital, among other community investments.
The hospital expansion will focus on a new patient care tower which will provide state-of-the-art operating suites, cardiac catheterization labs, and nearly 100 new private patient rooms. The new tower will allow Providence Mission to greatly enhance the neuroscience center of excellence, cardiovascular programs and maternity services. The project will provide caregivers and providers with a contemporary, fully equipped environment in which to offer exceptional patient care and ease their way to serve patients.
The hospital will also be constructing a new multi-specialty ambulatory surgery center on the campus, which will streamline surgical care for patients, attract new physician partners and offer the latest minimally invasive care options.
"The innovative three-part plan includes a substantial expansion of the Mission Viejo hospital campus and the development of two new multi-specialty health centers in San Clemente and Rancho Mission Viejo," added Providence Mission Hospital Chief Executive Seth Teigen. "Caring for our neighbors is our primary mission, and having just celebrated our hospital's 50th anniversary, we're excited at the opportunity to grow with our growing community, and to continue providing care for the next 50."
The two new multi-specialty health centers in Rancho Mission Viejo and San Clemente will vastly improve access to exceptional care. Unlike other comparable facilities, these truly unique centers will offer high acuity urgent care services staffed by emergency medicine physicians, a full-service imaging center with advanced diagnostics, and a multi-specialty clinic with primary care physicians, OB/GYNs and other specialty care providers.
"This project is a dynamic endorsement of the fundamental role that Providence Mission Hospital plays in the Providence family of organizations," said Kevin Manemann, divisional chief executive for Providence South.
"As we walk in the footsteps of our founding Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange and Sisters of Providence, the legacy of Mission Hospital is rich and our future is very bright," says Teigen. "We are so grateful to have wonderful community partners who share our commitment to enhance the health and well-being of South Orange County," he added.
About Providence Mission Hospital
Providence Mission Hospital is a state-of-the-art, 504-bed acute care regional medical center in Mission Viejo, California. As one of the busiest designated adult and pediatric Level II Trauma Centers in the state of California, Providence Mission provides a full range of reputable specialty health care services with highly skilled teams treating a multitude of complex conditions. Services include a full range of expertise in cardiovascular, neuroscience and spine, orthopedics, cancer care, women's services, mental health and wellness, head and neck, and a variety of other specialty services. Providence Mission Hospital Laguna Beach provides coastal communities with 24-hour emergency and intensive care as well as medical-surgical/telemetry services, orthopedics, general and GI surgery. CHOC at Providence Mission Hospital is a 54-bed facility that is the areas only dedicated pediatric hospital.
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ALCOA, Texas — Editor's note: This article was originally published in the Dallas Business Journal here.
A Dallas-based developer has finally revealed its massive plans for the roughly 31,000-acre former Alcoa aluminum plant in Milam County, northeast of Austin.
Roughly a year and a half after an entity connected to Xebec Holdings LLC purchased the property in Rockdale for roughly $240 million, the company said July 26 that it plans to develop 3,300 of those acres into up to 50 million square feet of industrial space for what it's calling the Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Campus.
The site — once marketed as Sandow Lakes Ranch, and pitched as a long-shot bid for Amazon's HQ2 — was purchased in November 2021 by SLR Property 1 LP, which is tied to Xebec. The land stretches across Milam and Lee counties and is located about 15 miles east of Taylor, where Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is building a multibillion-dollar computer chip factory.
Xebec's plans for the 50-square-mile "megasite," along Farm to Market Road 1786 just south of U.S. Route 79, include three-dozen buildings up to 1.25 million square feet each. The entire site could eventually total 30 million to 50 million square feet of logistics space supported by rail and roads. No tenants have been announced, but the developer expects the first pieces of the campus to be operational by mid-2025.
In the future, the remainder of the ranch could be used for housing, solar farms, retail, commercial, industrial, hospitalities and recreation facilities, according to Xebec.
"The Sandow Lakes Ranch property is a perfect fit for Xebec's expertise and passion. Xebec is building out a modern AMLC that enables the reshoring of critical manufacturing and supply chains back to America. We believe in the potential of our project to drive job growth, prosperity and economic security to Texas for generations to come," stated Randy Kendrick, who's CEO of both Xebec and SLR Property and is the founder of the former.
He said the "location and resources" drew Xebec to the site. Being in the heart of the Texas Triangle — between Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and Houston — as well as a 20-minute drive from Taylor and 45 minutes from the Tesla headquarters made it a "win-win." Plus the site, which was an aluminum smelting plant for decades, has access to power, potable water and wastewater treatment.
The Texas Legislature voted this year to establish Sandow Municipal Utility District No. 1. MUDs are used to finance infrastructure and facilities in the state.
"The property has access to all of the resources to qualify as a Mega Site: Class I rail, surface water, groundwater, natural gas, industrial grade connections for electricity, fiber optic cable access and highways," Kendrick stated.
Community reaction
The move was celebrated as a win not only for Rockdale — a city of about 5,300 that is 64 miles northeast of Austin — but for the region as a whole.
Jim Gibson, executive director of the Rockdale Municipal Development District and the city's economic development director, said there has been a "buzz" around town since the announcement. The site is outside of the city's limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction, which encompasses the MDD.
"Anytime that anybody is going to be a very large industrial development, everybody gets excited about that," Gibson said.
He said it adds to the economic excitement in Rockdale, which is in the process of updating its comprehensive plan for future development.
Gibson noted about a year ago, the city had received interest from at least three companies in the Samsung and Tesla supply chains. But none of those projects worked out.
Last year, the city closed on the sale of a 166-acre industrial park, which is being converted into a 660-home development from Ranch Road Development called "Cornerstone." The city is also working on establishing another industrial park and has been inundated with interest from developers looking for more infill spaces, he said.
In terms of the Alcoa redevelopment, he said everybody is excited about potential jobs, even if big questions remain considering that no tenants have been announced.
"When you have 50 million square feet of space under roof, that's a huge job center. So yeah, we are all very excited about the job prospects and I am very excited that we have a window of where Rockdale can grow and can provide these folks a place to live until they get the residential part built," he said.
The announcement ends months of speculation about what could be imminently coming to the site. Some had speculated the land, about seven times the size of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, was being eyed by Elon Musk.
Bill Gravell, the top county executive in Williamson County immediately west of Milam County, said the revitalization of the Alcoa plant is "welcome news for Central Texas," as suppliers for Samsung and Tesla scour the region for space.
"We need industrial and manufacturing space like you can’t imagine," Gravell said.
Not much was revealed in November 2021 when Alcoa Corp. (Nasdaq: AA) announced it sold the property where it once operated an aluminum smelting plant. The ranch is mostly reclaimed coal-mining land and the industrial space was in the past slated for Bitcoin mining.
More about Xebec
Xebec says online it has acquired and developed, redeveloped or repositioned industrial and logistics real estate projects totaling more than 11.5 million square feet, and that it has roughly 14.6 million square feet under development at various stages. In 2021, the company announced it had secured a commitment for $475 million in funding from BentallGreenOak, a Canada-based real estate investor.
Xebec was formed more than 30 years ago and focuses on acquiring and developing industrial property across the United States. Its portfolio includes existing warehouses and land sites in states like California, Texas, New Jersey, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina and Ohio. The firm relocated its headquarters to Dallas from Southern California in 2018.
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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s crown prince married the scion of a prominent Saudi family on Thursday in a palace ceremony attended by royals and other VIPs from around the world, as massive crowds gathered across the kingdom to celebrate the region’s newest power couple.
The marriage of Crown Prince Hussein, 28, and Saudi architect Rajwa Alseif, 29, drew a star-studded guest list including Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate, as well as U.S. First Lady Jill Biden.
The celebrations hold deep significance for the region, emphasizing continuity in an Arab state prized for its longstanding stability and refreshing the monarchy’s image after a palace feud. It even could help resource-poor Jordan forge a strategic bond with its oil-rich neighbor, Saudi Arabia.
The bride, wearing an elegant white dress by Lebanese designer Elie Saab, arrived at Zahran Palace in a 1968 Rolls-Royce Phantom V custom-made for the crown prince’s late great grandmother. The crown prince arrived earlier in full ceremonial military uniform with a gold-hilted saber.
The families and their guests gathered in an open-air gazebo decked with flowers and surrounded by landscaped gardens for a traditional Muslim wedding ceremony known as “katb al-ketab.” The crowd erupted in applause after the signing of the marriage contract. Alseif will henceforth be known as Her Royal Highness Princess Rajwa Al Hussein, according to a royal decree.
Several miles away, a jolt went through a packed ancient Roman amphitheater as viewers watched the couple seal their vows and exchange rings on a wide screen. After several minutes of stillness, the crowd of some 18,000 people were on their feet, waving flags and shrieking with excitement at one of several viewing parties held across the nation.
Samara Aqrabawi, a 55-year-old mother watching the livestream with her young daughter, said the ceremony was more impressive than she imagined. “I wish for all mothers and fathers in Jordan and in the world to feel like they’re surely feeling,” she said of the king and queen.
The newlyweds later emerged from the palace in a white custom Range Rover escorted by several bright red Land Rovers, motorcycles and a military marching band — a nod to the traditional horse-mounted processions during the reign of the country’s founder, King Abdullah I.
The kingdom declared Thursday a public holiday so crowds of people could gather to wave at the couple’s motorcade amid a heavy security presence across the city. Tens of thousands of well-wishers attended free concerts and cultural events.
On Thursday morning, Saudi wedding guests and tourists — the men wearing white dishdasha robes and the women in brightly colored abayas — filtered through the marbled lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in Amman. Noura Al Sudairi, an aunt of the bride, was wearing sweatpants and sneakers on her way to breakfast.
“We are all so excited, so happy about this union,” she said. “Of course it’s a beautiful thing for our families, and for the relationship between Jordan and Saudi Arabia.”
Excitement over the nuptials — Jordan’s biggest royal event in decades — has been building in the capital of Amman, where congratulatory banners of Hussein and his beaming bride adorn buses and hang over winding hillside streets. Shops had competing displays of royal regalia.
“She looks like such a princess that I think she deserves him,” Suhair Afaneh, a 37-year-old businesswoman, said of the bride, lingering in front of a portrait of Hussein in a dark suit. “But so what, I’ll still be in love with him.”
She contemplated buying Hussein’s portrait to hang in her bedroom but her nieces persuaded her that her husband might not approve.
Jordan’s 11 million residents have watched the young crown prince rise in prominence in recent years, as he increasingly joined his father, Abdullah, in public appearances. Hussein has graduated from Georgetown University, joined the military and gained some global recognition speaking at the U.N. General Assembly. His wedding, experts say, marks his next crucial rite of passage.
“It’s not just a marriage, it’s the presentation of the future king of Jordan,” said political analyst Amer Sabaileh. “The issue of the crown prince has been closed.”
The wedding may create a brief feel-good moment for Jordanians during tough economic times, including persistent youth unemployment and an ailing economy.
Palace officials have turned the event — a week after Jordan’s 77th birthday — into something of a PR campaign. Combining tradition and modernity, the royal family introduced a wedding hashtag (#Celebrating Al Hussein) and omnipresent logo that fuses the couple’s initials into the Arabic words “We rejoice.”
Zahran Palace in Amman, where the marriage ceremony was held, hasn’t seen such pomp and circumstance since 1993, when, on a similarly sunny June day, Abdullah married Rania, who was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents. Decades earlier, Abdullah’s father, the late King Hussein, sealed his vows in the same garden with his second wife, the British citizen Antoinette Gardiner.
In addition to the Prince and Princess of Wales, the guest list includes an array of foreign aristocrats and dignitaries, including senior royals from Europe and Asia, as well as U.S. climate envoy John Kerry. Other likely attendees include Saudi aristocrats, as Rajwa’s mother comes from the same influential family as the late mother of King Salman. Her billionaire father owns a major construction firm in the kingdom.
Both Rajwa and Kate wore gowns by the Lebanese designer Elie Saab, said a spokeswoman for the company, Maryline Mossino.
The motorcade drove through Amman to the Al Husseiniya Palace, a 30-minute drive away, for the reception. There, the newlyweds walked beneath an arch of swords and were welcomed with a traditional zaffeh, a lively musical procession featuring drums, dancing, singing and clapping.
The royals greeted more than 1,700 guests at the reception, which featured live music and a banquet. The celebrations were capped with a fireworks display that could be seen across the capital.
Experts consider the marriage an advantageous alliance for the Hashemites, historic rivals of the Al Saud family to the east. Jordan has recently sought closer ties with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab petro-states, which once doled out billions of dollars to the aid-dependent country but since have reined in their spending.
Even as restaurants blared call-and-response Arabic wedding songs and cars honked in celebration downtown, some signaled the royal fairy tale was fraught as Jordanians struggle to make ends meet.
Osama, a 25-year-old bookseller, was thrilled about the occasion and festooned his car and shop windows with portraits of the royal family. But he also knew reality would return quickly.
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Report: U of Minnesota ‘committed genocide’ of Native people
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The University of Minnesota should hire more Native American faculty, offer students additional financial support and give back land to atone for its historic mistreatment of the state’s tribes, a report conducted through a collaboration with the school concluded Tuesday.
The report said that the university’s founding board of regents “committed genocide and ethnic cleansing of Indigenous peoples for financial gain, using the institution as a shell corporation through which to launder lands and resources.”
Totaling more than 500 pages, the report marks the first time a major American university has critically examined its history with Native people, said Shannon Geshick, executive director of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa.
The report is the result of a collaborative effort between the council and the university called the TRUTH Project — short for Towards Recognition and University-Tribal Healing — which has received funding from the Mellon Foundation, Minnesota Public Radio reported.
“The TRUTH Project just rips that open and really reveals a narrative that a lot of people I think just don’t know,” Geshick said.
The effort draws on archival records, oral histories and other sources to examine through an Indigenous lens the troubled history between Native people and the state’s flagship university. The university stopped short of saying whether it would adopt the recommendations but thanked researchers in a statement for what they called their “truth-telling.”
The project started following a series of reports in the publication High Country News in 2020 revealing how universities around the country were founded on the proceeds of land that was taken from tribes through the 1862 Morrill Act.
That included a financial bonanza — dubbed the “Minnesota windfall” — that channeled more than $500 million to the fledgling University of Minnesota from leases and sales of land taken from the Dakota tribe after the federal government hanged 38 Dakota men in Mankato, Minnesota, in December 1862, ending the U.S.-Dakota war.
Meanwhile, it found that the university’s permanent trust fund controls roughly $600 million in royalties from iron ore mining, timber sales and other revenues derived from land taken from the Ojibwe and Dakota tribes.
The report also found that the university had failed to teach a full history of the land on which it was founded and raised questions about how some medical research was conducted.
The university has taken meaningful steps toward addressing some of their concerns, tribal leaders said. In 2021, the university created a program that offers free or substantially reduced tuition to many enrolled members of the state’s 11 federally recognized tribes.
University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel, who is leaving to take over the University of Pittsburgh, created high-level positions within her administration focusing on Native American issues and tribal relations, and held quarterly, face-to-face meetings with tribal leaders. But Geshick, along with the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, said a lot more could have been done.
For example, she and others have called for an expansion of the scholarship program, which has been criticized for only benefiting a fraction of Native students.
“It’s a great start. But it shouldn’t be the end,” said Robert Larsen, president of the Lower Sioux Indian Community and chair of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council.
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ST. PAUL, Minn., April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Catholic United Financial, a member-owned, not-for-profit financial services company, is pleased to announce that Renee Brod will be the new Lead Director of the Catholic United Financial Board of Directors. Brod will replace Robert "Bob" Krattenmaker, who will be retiring from the Board at the end of this year, due to term limits. Krattenmaker served on the Board for 13 years and Catholic United Financial is grateful for his service.
Brod has been a member of Catholic United Financial for over 35 years, with roots in the German/Czech Catholic community of New Prague, Minnesota. She and fellow Catholic United Financial Board Member, Jean Hart, are both alums from St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minn. Brod comes with considerable experience in corporate business and leadership.
"I enjoy serving on the Board because I receive an insider's perspective of how the organization works. This allows me to bring forward greater ideas to help the Association, our Members, and our Catholic communities," said Brod. "I have the ability to provide insightful contributions to the Board because of my college, professional, and childhood Catholic experiences."
Catholic United Financial has a history of commitment to women in leadership roles. In addition to having several departments led by women and female representation in the field, Brod is the second woman to be appointed as Lead Director on the Catholic United Financial Board of Directors.
"The past 10 years of serving on the Catholic United Financial Board of Directors has been absolutely amazing," Brod said. "It's an honor to serve my final term as Lead Director".
With the help of Brod, Catholic United Financial was recently introduced to the organization, WINE (Women in the New Evangelization). Developed as a creative ministry, WINE helps to invigorate women's groups and parishes through encouraging, supporting, and nurturing women in the Catholic faith. Catholic United is looking forward to a continued partnership with this organization, including an upcoming event in Waconia, Minn., in August 2023.
Catholic United Financial encourages women of all ages and stages of life to increase their personal finance awareness. To help with this effort, Catholic United presents Women and Their Finances Webinar Series that will help women gain practical knowledge on personal finance topics. Part one of the series—titled "Growing Your Financial Confidence Starts with Awareness"—will help women learn why they need to prioritize personal finance knowledge and provide a roadmap on how women can become more financially savvy. The webinar will be held on May 24, 2023 at 7 pm CST and will be free and open to the public.
To register, visit www.catholicunitedfinancial.org/may24-womenpersonalfinance-webinar.
About Catholic United Financial
Catholic United Financial is a member-owned not-for-profit financial services company, connecting people of faith, protecting their future and generously impacting parishes, schools and communities in the Upper Midwest since 1878. The company provides life insurance, retirement products, long-term care and Medicare supplement insurance, credit union services and charitable giving planning for its 70,000-plus members and returns a portion of its profits to local communities through programs like the Catholic Schools Raffle, Post-High School Tuition Scholarship and more. Based in St. Paul, Minn., Catholic United helps its members plan for every step of their life journey.
Contact: Mike Ahles, 651-765-4124, mahles@catholicunited.org
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Fairfax County's Board of Supervisors has voted to change the name of two major highways recognizing Confederate generals.
The 9-1 vote Tuesday would change the name of Lee Highway in the county to Route 29 and Lee-Jackson Memorial Highway to Route 50.
The route numbers have already been linked to the highways for many years.
The board's lone Republican, Pat Herrity, was the sole vote against the change.
A county task force recommended the changes, even though a majority of people in an unscientific survey conducted by the task force supported keeping the names in place. The survey received more than 30,000 responses.
The county estimates the cost of the name change at $2.9 million, including $1.5 million for affected property owners to deal with the cost of renaming.
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The county's vote is not the final word; the proposal now goes to the state's Commonwealth Transportation Board for consideration.
A survey found that dozens of Fairfax County streets are named for Confederate leaders. While the county moved forward with plans to change the highway names, it has left it up to local residents to petition for renaming side streets if they so choose.
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SHANGHAI, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Daqo New Energy Corp. (NYSE: DQ) ("Daqo New Energy", the "Company" or "we"), a leading manufacturer of high-purity polysilicon for the global solar PV industry, today announced that its subsidiaries had signed two long-term high-purity polysilicon supply agreements with LONGi Green Energy (including its subsidiaries) ("LONGi") and another solar manufacturing company in China, respectively.
Under the supply agreement with LONGi, Daqo New Energy's subsidiary Inner Mongilia Daqo will provide LONGi with a total amount of 251,280 MT high-purity mono-grade polysilicon from May 2023 to December 2027. Actual prices will be negotiated by both parties monthly according to market conditions.
Under the supply agreement with another solar manufacturing company, Xinjiang Daqo and Inner Mongolia Daqo will provide it with 27,600 MT high-purity mono-grade polysilicon from January 2023 to December 2027. Actual prices will be negotiated by both parties monthly according to market conditions.
Mr. Longgen Zhang, chief executive officer of Daqo New Energy, commented, "We are always aiming to better serve our downstream customers with the best-in-class high quality polysilicon products to facilitate the progress of continuous improvement in conversion efficiency. We expect the next generation of N-type cell technology will increase its market share rapidly in the next two to three years which will provide an opportunity to high-quality polysilicon providers to outperform among the peers."
About Daqo New Energy
Daqo New Energy Corp. (NYSE: DQ) ("Daqo" or the "Company") is a leading manufacturer of high-purity polysilicon for the global solar PV industry. Founded in 2007, the Company manufactures and sells high-purity polysilicon to photovoltaic product manufactures, who further process the polysilicon into ingots, wafers, cells and modules for solar power solutions. The Company has a total polysilicon nameplate capacity of 105,000 metric tons and is one of the world's lowest-cost producers of high-purity polysilicon.
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TIANJIN, China, July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 14t Annual Meeting of the New Champions of the World Economic Forum (hereinafter referred to as "Summer Davos") convened in Tianjin China, from June 27 to 29. After the four-year hiatus, the offline Forum returned with China as its starting point, attracting more than 1,500 representatives from political, business and academic from nearly 100 countries all over the world.
Christy Lei Sun, CMO of YSG (Yatsen Global) presented at the meeting as Young Global Leader 2022 and shared her ideas on "Livestreaming opens a new chapter for e-commerce", focusing on the current situation and prospects of the live-stream e-commerce industry.
Summer Davos delivers a strong message of cooperation to the world
The Summer Davos has been successfully held for 13 times since it was first held in China in 2007, and is one of the most important platforms of for communication between China and the world. Themed with "Entrepreneurship: The Driving Force of the Global Economy", this year's Summer Davos intends to renew momentum for innovation and entrepreneurship to drive economic revitalization and more equitable, sustainable and resilient global economy.
According to Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Premier Li Qiang addressed the Summer Davos. Having gone through the twists and turns of economic setbacks, all countries should cherish openness, cooperation more, work together to tackle global challenges, and promote human progress, Li said. China is implementing new development guidelines, accelerating the construction of new development pattern and striving for high-quality development.
YSG has always been committed to be the beauty explorer for Chinese and global customers, with active implementation of policies and contribution to the building of open world economy. Besides establishing an image of innovative and professional Chinese brand with all efforts, YSG also brings in effective overseas high-end cosmetic brands with good reputation, facilitating the exchange and development in cosmetic research technology and professional skincare.
YSG expects to guard beauty with professional knowledge- supported live-stream
In recent years, live-stream has won great popularity among brands and customers for its powerful interaction and high efficiency. Live-stream industry has seen exponential growth, which is unique to China. On June 28, Sun Lei delivered a keynote speech on "Livestreaming opens a new chapter for e-commerce" at Innovators Hub of Summer Davos. She helped the audience better understand how live-stream works and the live-stream commerce with the main brand Perfect Diary, promoting the win-win cooperation among brands and industries worldwide.
Christy Lei Sun said that Perfect Diary is looking forward to supporting live-stream with updated professional knowledge, based on the brand vision of "everyone can easily become beautiful", offering novices an easy start and achieving popularization of makeup. Perfect Diary's live-stream channel ranked second in the TikTok makeup live-stream list, with a total live-streaming time of over 6,900 hours and a total of 82 million viewers.
Building upon the company's business development, Perfect Diary has started the practice of live-streaming by the brand. By setting up live scenes of fashion and beauty, difficulties of makeup and tips for novices have been well-illustrated and shown to the participants, delivering real benefits for consumers and continuing to amplify the brand's voice and enhancing customer stickiness with live-stream. What's special is that on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities in 2022, the company also co-organized the "Firefly" public service live-stream with organizations of public welfare to provide training for disabled live-streamers and launched a special live public welfare activity to convey the brand's philosophy "Unlimited Beauty".
According to Christy Lei Sun, YSG has established a sound live-streamer training system, including regularly studying product development, reviewing and summarizing user problems, communicating with the back-end colleagues and participating in a series of meetings for overall brand building, so as to build up comprehensive capabilities. In terms of cultivating live-streamers, the company makes well-thought decisions on candidates, choosing the live-streamers of potentials that fit the brand's style. They will be provided with customized professional training and guiding on live-stream at different stages from beginner training to later growth and progression, and will be re-assigned with new tasks with the development of the brand's live-stream. For senior live-streamers, YSG empowers them with full range of business and management skills for career development from live-streamers to management.
In recent years, China has introduced policies in many cities to promote the development of live-stream e-commerce to help promote the high-quality development of the industry. Guangzhou recently introduced the first industry policy of live-stream e-commerce and held the first city-based live-stream e-commerce festival in China. In April, YSG, with its main brand Perfect Diary and its high-end cosmetic brands, attended the third live-stream e-commerce festival, holding a three-day live-stream event to bring consumers a quality and diversified fashion and beauty experience.
"Live-stream e-commerce not only innovates online sales, creates new employment and opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises and individuals, but also becomes an important force to help revitalize the countryside." Christy Lei Sun said that with the continuous improvement of the industry ecology, it is expected that live-stream e-commerce service providers will become more and more professional, and only by providing professional and refined services can they quickly take the market. As a beauty company closely related to live-stream e-commerce, YSG is committed to enabling the industry to grow and meet more consumer needs, so as to better discover beauty, create beauty and guard beauty.
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TULSA, Okla. — Matt Kuchar was flopping shots out of the rough during his practice round at Southern Hills on Tuesday when he chunked one so fat that it came up several yards short of the hole, teetering precariously on the edge of the green.
Just as he predicted, the ball began trickling back off the green, finally stopping at Kuchar’s feet some 20 yards away.
It’s the kind of thing that could happen on any number of holes during the PGA Championship this week, hilarious to fans and maddening to players. But it’s also what famed golf course architected Perry Maxwell had in mind when he first laid out the venerable course near downtown Tulsa nearly 90 years ago, and what Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner tried to restore when the club’s membership asked them to take it back to its roots in time for its next major championship.
“It’s a sweet place,” said Justin Thomas, who has always preferred classic courses. “You know, big fall-offs and run-offs on the greens, and the Bermuda grass makes it very difficult to chip, so it puts a premium on having different techniques and different styles around the greens, and also puts a premium on ball-striking to where you can hit the green.
“I think,” Thomas said, “this is an unbelievable major championship venue.”
It’s been a popular one, for sure, the first to host five PGA Championships and one of the few to have hosted it along with the U.S. Open multiple times. But the course where Tiger Woods won the PGA in 2009, and Retief Goosen the U.S. Open in 2002, is far different from the one that Jordan Spieth, Scottie Scheffler and everyone else will face this week.
It’s more like the one where Tommy Bolt triumphed in the 1958 U.S. Open.
The course had changed over the years. It had grown and evolved. Entire creeks that were once in play had disappeared amid thick stands of trees. And those greens, with their trademark “Maxwell’s rolls,” had lost their original character, turning into saucers that welcomed poorly hit approach shots rather than subtle mounds that rejected them.
It was up to Hanse and Wagner, fresh off a similar restoration of Los Angeles Country Club, to peel back the layers of time.
They got help from Southern Hills club historian Clyde Chrisman, who provided photographs and other material from when the club was established in 1936, along with superintendent Russ Myers, who had worked with them on other projects.
The restoration of the greens was perhaps the biggest change, but it was hardly the only one. Hundreds of trees were removed to create open views across the property. Landing areas were widened. Bunkers were reshaped and moved to more accurately reflect the challenge that Maxwell intended in the days before 300-plus-yard drives became standard.
“I think they did an incredible job,” said the PGA’s Kerry Haigh, who is responsible for setting up the course for the tournament. “They added five or six new tees for the back. State-of-the-art hygronics on the greens for cool-season grasses here in the hot heat of the summer. And all of that just gives us more sort of canvas to test the best players. It provides a lot more shot options, a lot more shot variety, a lot more options to hit woods or drivers off the tee.”
Southern Hills is not necessarily unique in that regard. Many of the nation’s historic courses have undergone extension restoration efforts in recent years. Hanse has helped to reshape Merion, Winged Foot and The Country Club, while Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw have worked on such esteemed layouts as Pinehurst No. 2, Riviera and Seminole.
They’ve become part golf course architects, part golf course archaeologists. Yet in turning back time, they’ve also somehow managed to not only maintain the integrity of the original layouts but produce something as relevant as ever.
“The game has changed a lot,” Woods said before his practice round Tuesday, “and because the game has changed a lot, Gil has done a fantastic job of altering the golf course. It has a lot more shot options, that’s for sure. And we are going to be tested around the greens a lot. A lot of grain, a lot of creativity, but it still puts a premium in putting the ball in play and in the fairway and somehow below the holes in the right spots.”
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Idaho Governor Brad Little, members of the Idaho Congressional Delegation, and representatives from local communities celebrate this milestone for abandoned mine site restoration.
BOISE, ID, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Perpetua Resources Corp. (Nasdaq: PPTA) (TSX: PPTA) ("Perpetua Resources" or "Perpetua" or the "Company") was joined today by community members, government officials and local business leaders at a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of early cleanup activities and water quality improvements to benefit the historic Stibnite mining district. After 100 years of mining activity, the millions of tons of unconstrained tailings and mine waste left behind by previous operators has been degrading water quality for decades. Today's groundbreaking ceremony marked the start of a multi-year, multi-million-dollar investment designed to improve environmental conditions at the historic site. The first four-year phase of the project includes removing 325,000 tons of legacy waste and tailings away from the river and rerouting streams to keep clean water clean. High-ranking elected officials from across the state agree the work being done by Perpetua Resources is a model for private investment to help address legacy environmental issues at historic mine sites.
"We did not cause the contamination that has worsened water quality in the historic Stibnite Mining District for decades, but we are part of the solution," said Laurel Sayer, CEO of Perpetua Resources. "Today, we put our commitments into action and are demonstrating that when we work together, big ideas can become reality. We are grateful for the coordination of our state and federal agencies who helped shape this visionary solution to revive this historic mine site. We are proud to bring much needed stewardship to Idaho's headwaters."
Perpetua worked with the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") and the United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA") for more than three years to receive permission to conduct time critical, early action cleanup activities. After consultation with other interested parties, including the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, Perpetua Resources, the EPA and USDA signed an Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent ("the Agreement") in 2021 paving the way for Perpetua to address legacy issues in key areas of the Stibnite district.
"Idaho's natural resources can contribute a steady domestic supply of the materials we need to advance our economy," said Idaho Governor Brad Little. "At the same time, cleanup projects like you see here at Stibnite are a critical part of the future of responsible mining in Idaho. Idaho has a rich history of collaborative work that balances economic prosperity with environmental stewardship. Perpetua Resources is another great example of this responsible balance, and I applaud their efforts to work with the respective agencies to make cleaning up the historic Stibnite mine site a reality."
"I was pleased to see the EPA and USDA sign an agreement granting Perpetua Resources permission to voluntarily clean up key areas by the historical Stibnite mine site," said Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson. "These time critical actions are long overdue and will focus on addressing the most immediate needs to improve water quality. This work proves that Perpetua is committed to leaving the abandoned mine site better than they found it. It is an important day for Idaho, we are all grateful to Perpetua for taking on this work."
On the behalf of Idaho Congressman Russ Fulcher, Cascade Mayor, Judy Nisula, presented Laurel Sayer with an American flag flown over the U.S. Capitol Building to commemorate the historic moment. "On behalf of our region, thank you for being good stewards of our community, our state and our environment," said Mayor Nisula.
Mining in the historic Stibnite Mining District first started in 1899. Stibnite then gained national significance during World War II when the U.S. Government commissioned antimony and tungsten production from the site to help with the war effort. In fact, Stibnite produced the majority of both minerals used by the U.S. during World War II and the U.S. Munitions Board credited the mine for shortening World War II by a year and saving a million American lives.
Unfortunately, most of the mining that occurred at Stibnite took place long before modern protections and regulations were established. As a result, the site was never fully reclaimed. Today, 10.5 million tons of unlined tailings and waste leach arsenic and antimony into ground and surface water, the East Fork of the South Fork of the Salmon River flows into an abandoned mining pit and habitat conditions are degraded. Perpetua Resources has proposed a redevelopment plan to mine the site for gold and the critical mineral antimony, while concurrently restoring the environment.
While the Stibnite Gold Project is currently under regulatory review, early cleanup actions are starting now. Perpetua, the EPA and the U.S. Forest Service have worked together to develop a detailed scope of work for Phase One cleanup activities since signing the Agreement in early 2021. IMCO Construction was selected to oversee water quality improvements taking place this summer which will include:
- Lining, improving and rerouting stream channels on site to keep clean water from interacting with old waste dumps on site
- Removing the Defense Minerals Exploration Administration legacy waste rock dump from within and along a tributary to the East Fork of the South Fork of the Salmon River and restoring the original streamflow course
About Perpetua Resources and the Stibnite Gold Project
Perpetua Resources Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is focused on the exploration, site restoration and redevelopment of gold-antimony-silver deposits in the Stibnite-Yellow Pine district of central Idaho that are encompassed by the Stibnite Gold Project. The Project is one of the highest-grade, open pit gold deposits in the United States and is designed to apply a modern, responsible mining approach to restore an abandoned mine site and produce both gold and the only mined source of antimony in the United States. Further advancing Perpetua Resources' ESG and sustainable mining goals, the Project will be powered by the lowest carbon emissions grid in the nation and a portion of the antimony produced from the Project will be supplied to Ambri, a US-based company commercializing a low-cost liquid metal battery essential for the low-carbon energy transition. In addition to the company's commitments to transparency, accountability, environmental stewardship, safety and community engagement, Perpetua Resources adopted formal ESG commitments which can be found here.
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(NEXSTAR) – Wake up and smell the (heavily discounted) coffee.
Coffee chains including Caribou, Dunkin’ and Dutch Bros. are once again celebrating National Coffee Day by offering free and discounted coffee — or other perks and promotions — to customers in need of a pick-me-up on Sept. 29.
After all, Americans just can’t get enough of the stuff. Coffee consumption in the U.S. has only increased in recent years, with 66% of Americans describing themselves as daily coffee drinkers — a two-decade high, according to a March 2022 report from the National Coffee Association.
Looking to hop on the bandwagon? There’s no better opportunity than National Coffee Day. Here are just some of the shops offering discounted drinks on Sept. 29:
Caribou Coffee
Caribou Coffee’s rewards members — known as Perks members — can redeem a medium handcrafted beverage (Nitro Pumpkin Latte, Caramel ‘High-Rise,’ etc,) for only $3 at participating locations on Sept. 29. Not a member? Simply download the app and sign up on the spot.
Dunkin’
Members of Dunkin’s free DD Perks program can get a free medium coffee, hot or iced, with any purchase on Sept. 29.
Dutch Bros Coffee
Dutch Bros is offering something potentially more valuable than a free cup of coffee: a free year’s worth of coffee. On Sept. 29, the chain’s Dutch Rewards customers can scan their Dutch Pass at any of the chain’s 600-plus locations to be entered for a chance to win. See details here.
Krispy Kreme
Krispy Kreme locations across the country are offering free brewed coffee to all guests on Sept. 29, no purchase necessary. Those who belong to Krispy Kreme Rewards can also nab a free doughnut of their choosing.
Panera Bread
Panera is launching a whole week of deals in honor of National Coffee Day, starting with two free months of membership to its Unlimited Sip Club for customers who subscribe (at $10.99 per month) on Sept. 29. (Existing members will be offered a $2 discount on select drinks).
Subsequent deals include discounts on food, gift cards and delivery fees. Check out Panera’s press release for details.
Peet’s Coffee
Guests at Peet’s can redeem a small drip coffee with any purchase on Sept. 29. From Sept. 29 to Oct. 2, customers at Peet’s will also be treated to 20% off on in-store purchases of coffee beans, pods or espresso capsules, and online shoppers at Peets.com can take advantage of a 20% discount sitewide.
Pilot Flying J
Customers at more than 650 of Pilot Flying J travel centers can redeem an in-app deal for a free cup of hot, iced, cold-brew or frozen coffee on Sept. 29. The deal includes the chain’s new flavored coffees, which include bourbon-pecan, Southern-pecan and Cinnabon pumpkin-spice.
Sheetz
Customers who visit any of Sheetz’ 660-plus locations can get a free cold-brew coffee with the purchase of any in-store item. The promotion can only be redeemed in the Sheetz app, but anyone can download the app and become a loyalty member for free.
Wawa
On Sept. 29 — and every other day in September, for that matter — any teacher or school administrator can grab a free coffee at Wawa by identifying themselves as an educator to an associate. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/national-coffee-day-where-to-get-free-or-discounted-coffee-on-sept-29/ | 2022-09-28 19:06:43 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/national-coffee-day-where-to-get-free-or-discounted-coffee-on-sept-29/ |
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov appears to have dismissed the need for the United Nations to help secure humanitarian corridors out of Ukraine’s besieged cities, striking a tough line a day after the U.N. chief toured war-wracked Kyiv with that very aim.
As an interviewer at Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV tried to ask Lavrov about U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ proposals for humanitarian assistance and evacuation of civilians, Lavrov cut him off.
“There is no need. I know, I know,” an irritated Lavrov said. “There is no need for anybody to provide help to open humanitarian corridors. There is only one problem … humanitarian corridors are being ignored by Ukrainian ultra-nationals,” he said.
“We appreciate the interest of the secretary-general to be helpful,” he added. “(We have) explained … what is the mechanism for them to monitor how the humanitarian corridors are announced.”
During the hour-long interview, Lavrov also accused the West of sabotaging Russia’s peace talks with Ukraine. He claimed that thorny negotiations in Istanbul last month had been progressing on issues of Russian territorial claims and security guarantees until Ukrainian diplomats backtracked at the behest of the West.
“We are stuck because of their desire to play games all the time,” Lavrov said. “Because of the instructions, they get Washington, from London, from some other capitals, not to accelerate the negotiations.”
When asked about the risks of war spilling into neighboring Moldova after a series of explosions rattled a breakaway border region within the country, Lavrov struck an ominous tone.
“Moldova should worry about their own future,” he said. “Because they’re being pulled into NATO.” | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/russia-appears-to-dismiss-need-for-humanitarian-corridors-in-ukraine | 2022-04-30 00:38:23 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/russia-appears-to-dismiss-need-for-humanitarian-corridors-in-ukraine |
BEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake shook Taiwan on Sunday as a series aftershocks hit the self-governing island off China’s east coast.
The 6.8 quake struck at a relatively shallow depth of 7 kilometers (4 miles) near the city of Taitung on the southeastern coast, Taiwanese authorities reported.
A two-story residential building collapsed near the epicenter, according to a Taiwanese media report. The shaking was felt at the north end of the island in the capital, Taipei.
Following the quake in Taiwan, Japan Meteorological Agency issued an advisory for a tsunami as high as 1 meter (3 feet) reaching several southern Japanese islands. Weather officials urged residents in those areas to stay away from the coastline.
The agency said the earliest waves could reach the Yonaguni island, Japan’s westernmost island about 250 kilometers (150 miles) northeast of Taitung, at 4:10 p.m. (0710 GMT) and subsequently three nearby islands.
A 6.4 earthquake hit Taiwan on Saturday night in an area north of Taitung County that has been rattled by numerous aftershocks since then. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Taiwan-struck-by-2nd-strong-earthquake-in-as-many-17449682.php | 2022-09-18 08:05:22 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Taiwan-struck-by-2nd-strong-earthquake-in-as-many-17449682.php |
LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Valvoline's global products business today launched a fixed-operations software service at the 2023 National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Show.
The software, branded as Vision Service Lane Technology™, is available to Valvoline automotive dealership partners exclusively.
Vision is one of the industry's most comprehensive fixed-ops software tools, leveraging relationships with partners to understand their pain points and missing opportunities in their current software. Utilized in the service drive or at the service desk, Vision helps advisors develop rapport, trust, and accountability with consumers. Vision's ability to provide a tailored, VIN-specific menu of services provides a platform to increase revenue in the service department.
In addition to service lane capabilities, Vision can be utilized to run day-to-day operations within the service department while keeping consumers informed every step of the way.
Vision includes newly developed remarketing capabilities that serve up ads, messages, and reminders to keep consumers returning to dealerships for future services. In addition, Vision offers tools that can help speed up and streamline the reconditioning process for pre-owned vehicles.
"We're always looking for new ways to bring value and strengthen our partnership with dealerships. Vision does that by providing cutting-edge technology they can use to help increase revenue in the service lane, streamline their operations and communications, and deliver an open, transparent experience for their consumers," said Bradley Stuck, Dealership Platform Manager.
Unlike other fixed ops software in the marketplace, Vision will only be available to dealerships that purchase Valvoline product. This strategy showcases the business's dedication to helping automotive dealership partners increase consumer loyalty and service department revenue.
"Vision's exclusivity and capabilities showcase our desire to not only be a lubricant provider but also a true partner in every sense of the word," said Kellye Wicker, Sr. Director of Installer Channel Marketing.
"We have so much more to offer than motor oil. For decades, we've provided our dealerships with great business solutions, dealer programs, and world-class products," said Stuck. "Now Vision is a game-changer. We're able to offer our partners a tool created to improve their service department performance by helping to sell more, to do more, and improve their bottom line."
Valvoline, Inc., as previously announced, has reached an agreement to sell its global products business. The sale is anticipated to close in early 2023.
About Valvoline's global products business
Valvoline's global products business is a worldwide leader in automotive and industrial solutions, creating future-ready products and best-in-class services for partners around the globe. Established in 1866, the company introduced the world's first branded motor oil and developed strong brand recognition and customer satisfaction ratings across multiple product channels. With sales in more than 140 countries and territories, solutions from Valvoline's global products business are available for every engine and drivetrain, including high-mileage and heavy-duty vehicles, offered at more than 80,000 locations. Valvoline's global products business is powering the future of mobility through innovative solutions for vehicles with electric, hybrid and internal combustion powertrains – and the company will continue to solve for global automotive and industrial challenges as they move forward. To learn more, visit Valvoline.com.
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BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — President-elect Gustavo Petro, who has vowed to lift up Colombia’s poor and disenfranchised, has won the support of an influential party of the establishment as he tries to build a majority coalition in Congress.
Petro, a former Bogotá mayor and a member of the M-19 rebel group that disarmed decades ago, has won the support of the Liberal Party, which backed another candidate in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election. Petro won the second round on Sunday in a blow to political traditionalists who have presided for generations over Colombia, through violence and corruption, as well as economic growth and institutional stability.
The decision by the Liberal Party, led by ex-president César Gaviria, to join Petro’s Historic Pact group shows the pragmatic side of the president-elect as he makes political deals aimed at executing an ambitious legislative agenda that includes fiscal, agrarian, pension and other changes.
“We won’t be a party of opposition,” Gaviria said in a statement Wednesday. Details still have to be worked out regarding the Liberal’s Party role in a governing coalition and how it can collaborate with 62-year-old Petro’s camp, he said.
The Liberal Party is one of the largest groups in the bicameral Congress, with 14 senators in the 108-seat Senate and 32 representatives in the 187-seat lower house.
Petro’s Historic Pact has 20 seats in the Senate and 27 in the House of Representatives. A coalition including the Liberals and other allies would bring it closer to a parliamentary majority.
Sandra Borda, a political analyst at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, said that a lot remains unclear about Petro’s vision of a “national accord” in which all sectors of society get involved.
“We have to see what will be the content of the policies that Congress will support, and in exchange for what,” Borda said. Foreign governments and international investors will follow closely to see who Petro picks as finance minister, which could indicate whether he plans on heavier state involvement in the economy, she said.
Some 47% of the electorate voted for real estate tycoon Rodolfo Hernández, who lost to Petro in the second round. As the losing candidate, Hernández was still guaranteed a Senate seat and he said Thursday that he would take it.
Petro is virtually certain to face robust opposition from the Democratic Center, the party founded by a former president, Álvaro Uribe. Current President Iván Duque, who by law was not allowed to run for a second term, is a member of the Democratic Center. He will hand power to Petro on Aug. 7. | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/colombia-president-elect-looks-to-build-governing-coalition/ | 2022-06-24 20:24:54 | 1 | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/colombia-president-elect-looks-to-build-governing-coalition/ |
DALLAS(KDAF)— Johnathan Majors, one of Creed III’s main stars, talks with Dave Morales.
Majors discussed the upcoming installment in the iconic franchise, as well as what it was like to work on the set.
Majors discussed the “emotional” experience of auditioning for the role and went into detail about the technical aspects of auditioning, such as the process of memorizing lines and working with the main character, Micheal B. Jordan. In the movie, Jordan plays a boxer named Adonis.
IMBD said “Adonis has been thriving in both his career and family life, but when a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy resurfaces, the face-off is more than just a fight.
Check out Creed III now at your nearest theater or you can watch it on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, and YouTube. | https://cw33.com/news/inside-dfw/creed-star-johnathan-majors-going-behind-the-boxing-gloves-creed-iii/ | 2023-04-05 16:42:50 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/inside-dfw/creed-star-johnathan-majors-going-behind-the-boxing-gloves-creed-iii/ |
Soucek's second goal gives Irons lead v. Palace
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Tomas Soucek brings down Aaron Cresswell's free kick beautifully and touches past Vicente Guaita to turn the tables at Selhurst Park and give West Ham a 2-1 edge against Crystal Palace. | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/soccer/premier-league/souceks-second-goal-gives-irons-lead-v-palace | 2023-06-28 18:54:31 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/soccer/premier-league/souceks-second-goal-gives-irons-lead-v-palace |
DALLASTOWN, Pa. — A York County high school will soon take a beloved romantic comedy from the movie screen to the stage.
Dallastown Area High School students are putting the finishing touches on their adaptation of "Legally Blonde," a rousing comedy about a fashion-merchandising-major-turned-law-student (and, yes, she's blonde).
"I think that the musical version just brings a lot more energy," Corey Strayer, who plays Emmitt Forrest, said. "When you watch the movie, it's very energetic, it's amazing, but when you watch the musical you have the music, the dancing, all of the energy coming from the cast straight out into the audience and it really just brings a whole different feel to the story."
The cast is preparing for their first show on Thursday with dress rehearsals this week.
"I get to wear a wig... so that's been really fun for me—kind of playing pretend and getting to be a blonde for now," Paige Langmead, who plays Elle Woods, said.
She and Strayer, both seniors, will take their last bow on the Dallastown stage at the end of the weekend.
"I'm really excited about this because Corey and I have both been doing shows together since seventh grade, so I think it's kind of special that we get to finish out our high school career with a show like this, sharing the stage together," Langmead said.
The musical will run from April 13 to 16 at the Dallastown Area High School. Tickets can be purchased online here or at the door each night. | https://www.fox43.com/article/life/dallastown-high-school-legally-blonde/521-04c3f7da-0183-4f48-98e0-4c1d6be3a6fd | 2023-04-11 03:08:03 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/life/dallastown-high-school-legally-blonde/521-04c3f7da-0183-4f48-98e0-4c1d6be3a6fd |
The House unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s use of a spy balloon over the continental U.S., labeling the situation “a brazen violation of United States sovereignty.”
The resolution — which cleared the chamber in a bipartisan 419-0 vote — came to the House floor five days after the U.S. shot down the Chinese spy balloon off the South Carolina coast, intensifying tensions between Washington and Beijing.
“An event like this, Mr. Speaker, must not happen again. And it cannot go unanswered,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and sponsor of the measure, said on the House floor during debate Thursday.
“They only understand one thing and that is force, and that’s projecting power, and we need to project power and force and strength against the Chinese Communist Party,” he added. “They must understand that we do desire peace, but infringing upon our sovereignty leads us down a dangerous path. Our adversaries must believe that any future incursion into American airspace by a spy balloon or any other vehicle will be met with decisive force. And that is why the House should pass this resolution.”
The Pentagon last week announced that it was tracking a high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloon floating over the U.S., prompting widespread media coverage. On Saturday, the U.S. shot down the object over water off the coast of South Carolina, and the American military is now working to recover the debris.
The situation prompted Secretary of State Antony Blinken to postpone his trip to Beijing.
Republicans were quick to criticize President Biden for waiting days to shoot down the balloon, which allowed the object to float across several states in the U.S. The president said he ordered the Pentagon last week to shoot down the balloon “as soon as possible,” and his national security officials determined that “the best time to do that was when it got over water.”
Despite the criticism, McCaul this week said he wanted the resolution to be a bipartisan effort rather than a partisan measure that knocked the Biden administration.
“It’s too important of an issue,” McCaul told reporters on Monday. “We want to stand strong together against China instead of having our internal fights.”
The resolution calls on the Biden administration to continue keeping Congress apprised of developments through “comprehensive briefings on this incident” that include a timeline of when the balloon was first detected to when it was shot down, an assessment of surveillance data the People’s Republic of China was potentially able to collect or send, a detailed account of measures taken to mitigate the intelligence collection threat from the balloon, a description of options to mitigate the situation, and an account of diplomatic communications between Washington and Beijing on the matter.
The resolution also requests information on previous times the People’s Republic of China used surveillance balloons across the world.
And it denounces Beijing for its “efforts to deceive the international community through false claims about its intelligence collection campaigns” that violated American sovereignty. Beijing has insisted the object was a civilian weather balloon that went off course and mistakenly entered U.S. airspace. | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/house-unanimously-approves-resolution-condemning-china-for-spy-balloon/ | 2023-02-09 17:28:44 | 0 | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/house-unanimously-approves-resolution-condemning-china-for-spy-balloon/ |
COLFAX — Bumpers Pub, 110 E. Main St. in Colfax, is this week's pick for Eats of the Week.
Opened on Christmas Day 2018, the combination restaurant and bowling alley is owned by Jim Kirkpatrick and managed by Carrie Busick. The property was previously occupied by Colfax Lanes, and half of its eight lanes have now been transformed into the pub.
Kirkpatrick worked as a mechanic for 30 years prior to opening the restaurant. His son mentioned that people wanted to see a nice restaurant in the community, so Kirkpatrick decided to build one with his son.
The name, Bumpers, refers not only to the bumpers used at some bowling alleys to keep the ball within lanes, but also to car bumpers and bumper crops, Kirkpatrick said. Ironically, the four remaining lanes don't have bumpers, as they had been left up too long.
"The food is great. We have an arcade for kids, a bowling alley, a gaming room and we have a good atmosphere," Kirkpatrick said. "It's one of the nicest bars I've seen in a small town, and we have the coolest employees."
Popular menu items include the corn fritters, fried chicken, burgers, tenderloins, all-you-can-eat chicken or fish and homemade hush puppies. The pub offersdaily and weekly specials as well including Taco Tuesdays with tacos and taco salad; chicken fried chicken with homemade mashed potatoes on Wednesday; tenderloins on Thursday; fried chicken on Friday; all-you-can-eat-fish on Saturday; and wings on Sunday.
The pub has a full-service bar with monthly specialty drinks as well as a beer garden.
"The atmosphere is calming and not too bright," Busick said. "It's a place for kids to come on school break and an attraction for events; it's a congregation area; everybody meets here."
The pub also hosts the Bumper Car Show one Sunday each month in the summer. There are no specifications as far as what kinds of vehicles can be entered; if you think it's cool, you can bring it to the show, Busick said.
The tables and bar tops at the pub are made out of repurposed wood from the bowling alley.
"The staff is amazing and I love how big our kitchen is," Kirkpatrick said. "The customers, the people that are involved are regulars and have been loyal to us since day one."
There are hopes for expansion, including the addition of live music acts. A pavilion that could be used as a performance space is being built next to the pub.
The COVID-19 pandemic was hard on the business, but it survived. "It's like a comeback story for us, we're getting back to where we were," Kirkpatrick said.
Bumpers Pub is open 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday for the kitchen and bar until 1 a.m.; 12-8 p.m. Sunday and 11-1 a.m. for the bar; and closed Monday. They offer indoor and outdoor dining, carryout and delivery services.
Contact Olivia Jacobs at 309-820-3240. Follow Olivia on Twitter: @olivia___jacobs | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/watch-now-bumpers-pub-in-colfax-may-be-right-up-diners-alley/article_fbc32f7e-e109-11ec-ad7e-4bf9b0fb132d.html | 2022-05-31 21:24:06 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/watch-now-bumpers-pub-in-colfax-may-be-right-up-diners-alley/article_fbc32f7e-e109-11ec-ad7e-4bf9b0fb132d.html |
Company Offers Quick & Easy Back-up Solutions and New Device for Pet Lovers
ATLANTA, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Losing a photo is like losing a moment in time. Unfortunately, billions of photos are lost every year, and the Cloud or other backup programs are not always reliable. Picture Keeper, pioneered by Simplified IT Products, is devoted to preserving precious memories with hand-held devices that search and copy digital photos, videos and files from the iPhone, Android, tablets, PCs, and Macs. The company is encouraging consumers to participate in National Save Your Photos Day on Sept. 24 and beyond.
"I was inspired to create a solution for backing up photos when a close friend lost all of her digital images during a lightning storm," said CEO and Founder Matt Stanchie. "It's incredibly emotional to lose your photos and videos – they are the keepsakes of our lives that we should always have to reflect on and remember."
According to Phutorial, the typical person takes 20.2 photos per day, averaging 2,000 photos saved on their Smartphone. For backup jobs of all sizes, Picture Keeper can store up to 1TB or 250,000 photos. They are perfect for those who:
- continuously run out of storage
- don't want to rely on or use the Cloud
- need to transfer files to a new device
- have photos scattered in many locations and wish to organize them in one comprehensive place
- need a safe backup solution
Its latest device – Pet Photo Saver – captures the memories pet owners have with their animals. According to iHeartRadio, the average pet owner takes 400 pet photos each year and surprisingly, more of their photos are of their pets than their children or partner. The product offers facial recognition technology that can identify dogs, cats, horses, birds and reptiles, and only downloads those photos.
The simple, hand-held, plug-and-play devices do not capture duplicate photos, pick-up where the last job left off each time the device is used, and do not require Internet. Both devices make photo sharing easy via the apps.
"Continuously saving your photos and videos from your devices should be as important of a maintenance routine as changing your car's oil," noted Stanchie. "With more than 3 million devices sold, our customers have saved billions of photos using Picture Keeper. We're committed to continuing to create awareness on the importance of backing up your images. Everyone should take a few moments on Sept. 24 and beyond to protect their memories."
To encourage people to participate in National Save Your Photos Day, Picture Keeper will offer 25 percent off total purchase with code – Memories25.
Simplified IT Products, located in Marietta, Ga., is a product development firm specializing in consumer technology solutions since 2008. Its primary product, Picture Keeper, offers backup photo storage devices with the ability to download and save photos from a laptop, tablet, or Smartphone. Visit www.picturekeeper.com for more information.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Day" game were:
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(one, two, four, five, seven, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, nineteen, twenty)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Day" game were:
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(one, two, four, five, seven, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, nineteen, twenty) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Day-game-17716308.php | 2023-01-13 19:11:54 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Day-game-17716308.php |
Some students will soon turn their clocks back for good.
Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill giving kids more time to sleep.
“Everything should revolve around what is best for the child and their education and we don’t know that yet, but we will find out when it goes into effect,” said Mike Riley, Charlotte County School’s public relations officer.
By July 2026, school won’t be able to start earlier than 8 a.m. and high schools won’t be able to start before 8:30 a.m.
This law is to help give middle and high school students in Florida more sleep to improve their physical and mental health, safety and academic performance.
Oasis High School student Isabel said she would love some extra sleep. She doesn’t know if this is the best choice for students.
“I have after-school activities, clubs and if I want to join a class after school, there isn’t time for it anymore,” said Isabel.
In 2026 she plans to be in college and is glad she doesn’t have to worry about it.
“I am a high schooler, I love to sleep in. I love having that extra time but just from all of the student-athletes…I really don’t think it would be as good of an idea as what we are striving for,” said Isabel.
District school boards and charter school governing boards have three years to get their staff, coaches, parents and students ready for the later start time. | https://nbc-2.com/news/state/2023/05/15/governor-ron-desantis-signs-bill-to-change-school-start-times/amp/ | 2023-05-16 19:21:28 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/state/2023/05/15/governor-ron-desantis-signs-bill-to-change-school-start-times/amp/ |
Amazon is stepping back into virtual care with a new service that uses secure messaging to connect patients with doctors for help with nearly two dozen conditions.
The retail giant said Tuesday it will launch “Amazon Clinic” in 32 states to provide medication refills and care for conditions like allergies, erectile disfunction, hair loss, migraines and urinary tract infections. That list does not include the flu, COVID-19, ear infections or other urgent care conditions for which patients often seek help through telemedicine.
Amazon said it will work to add other conditions over time to the service, which will not accept insurance. It also plans to expand the service to more states in the coming months.
Virtual care, or telemedicine, exploded in popularity when COVID-19 hit a couple years ago and patients initially hunkered down in their homes to avoid catching the virus. Its use has since waned but remains popular for its convenience and its ability to improve access to care.
Some doctors had started providing care through secure messaging before the pandemic. They began working through companies like 98point6 or CirrusMD, which touts its ability to connect people with a doctor in less than a minute.
Tuesday’s announcement from Amazon comes more than two months after the company said it will shut down Amazon Care, a hybrid virtual, in-home service it spent years developing. The company launched that service in 2019 for its Washington employees. It expanded it last year, allowing private employers nationwide to sign up for the service. But that effort didn’t get much traction.
The company shifted its target, announcing in July that it planned to acquire One Medical, a primary care organization that, as of March, had about 767,000 members and 188 medical offices in 25 markets. The $3.9 billion deal was seen as way for Amazon to reposition its health ambitions towards a model that was more established and could me more profitable. The Federal Trade Commission is reviewing that deal.
The planned purchase of One Medical was the first major acquisition announced under Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who took over the role from founder Jeff Bezos last year. He has said he sees health care as a growth opportunity for the company beyond its more established retail and cloud computing businesses.
Amazon’s foray into health care also includes Amazon Pharmacy, an online drug store that allows its Prime members to order medication or prescription refills, and have them delivered to their front door in a couple of days. In its announcement on Tuesday, Amazon said Amazon Pharmacy and One Medical were two key parts of its health care plans.
“But we also know that sometimes you just need a quick interaction with a clinician for a common health concern that can be easily addressed virtually,” the company said.
Amazon.com Inc. said the price for care will be set by the providers, not Amazon Clinic, and it did not offer a range in a blog post announcing the service.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday met with a group of leaders of African countries who traveled to Russia on a self-styled “peace mission” the day after they went to Ukraine.
Seven African leaders — the presidents of Comoros, Senegal, South Africa and Zambia, as well as Egypt’s prime minister and top envoys from the Republic of Congo and Uganda — visited Ukraine on Friday to try to help end the nearly 16-month-old war.
The African leaders then traveled to St. Petersburg on Saturday to meet with Putin who is attending a business forum in Russia’s second-largest city.
Putin and the African leaders weren’t expected to comment after the meeting, but Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will hold a briefing.
Speaking at the forum on Friday, Putin declared that the first Russian tactical nuclear weapons have been deployed to Belarus, describing the move as a deterrent against Western efforts to defeat Russia in Ukraine. He previously said that the deployment would begin in July.
Asked if he could order the use of battlefield nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Putin said that there was no need for that but noted that Moscow could use its nuclear arsenals in case of a “threat to the Russian statehood.”
“In that case, we will certainly use all the means that the Russian state has. There should be no doubt about that,” he said.
The mission to Ukraine, the first of its kind by African leaders, comes in the wake of other peace initiatives — such as one by China — and carries particular importance for Africa, which relies on food and fertilizer deliveries from Russia and Ukraine. The war has impeded exports from one of the world’s most important breadbaskets.
“This conflict is affecting Africa negatively,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said at a news conference alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and four other African leaders after their closed-door talks on Friday.
Ramaphosa and others acknowledged the intensity of the hostilities but insisted all wars must come to an end and emphasized their willingness to help expedite that.
“I do believe that Ukrainians feel that they must fight and not give up. The road to peace is very hard,” he said, adding that “there is a need to bring this conflict to an end sooner rather than later.”
The delegation, including Presidents Macky Sall of Senegal and Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia, represent a cross-section of African views on the war.
South Africa, Senegal and Uganda have avoided censuring Moscow over the conflict, while Egypt, Zambia and Comoros voted against Russia last year in a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning Moscow’s invasion.
Many African nations have long had close ties with Moscow, dating back to the Cold War when the Soviet Union supported their anti-colonial struggles.
Speaking during Friday’s news conference, Comoros President Azali Assoumani floated the idea of a “road map” to peace, prompting questions from Zelenskyy who sought a clarification and insisted he didn’t want “any surprises” from their visit with Putin.
Chances for peace talks look dim as Ukraine and Russia take sharply different stands. Ukraine demands that Russia withdraws its troops from all its occupied territories as a condition for peace talks. The Kremlin, in turn, wants Ukraine to recognize the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as part of Russia and acknowledge other land gains it has made.
China presented its own peace proposal at the end of February. Ukraine and its allies largely dismissed the plan, as the warring sides look no closer to a cease-fire.
The African peace mission comes as Ukraine launches a counteroffensive to dislodge the Kremlin’s forces from occupied areas, using Western-supplied advanced weapons in attacks in several sections of more than the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line.
In the village of Blahodatne, taken by Ukrainian forces in the counteroffensive six days ago, soldiers said they have orders to keep advancing and not retreat, indicating long grueling battles ahead in the direction where Russians have built up dense lines of fortifications.
“Morale is really strong because the guys know they’re moving forward to liberate their lands,” said a Ukrainian soldier with the callsign Skripal (Violinist). “We have an order not to retreat and to move forward, so we’re trying.”
Village roads are punctured with craters, buildings are caved in and bullet holes peppered nearly every residence. Inside a cultural center, a Ukrainian commander with the call sign “Lermontov” said that they’d captured many Russian soldiers during the liberation of the village and showed journalists four bodies whom he said were Russian fighters who had been recruited from prisons.
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Sam McNeil contributed to this report from Blhaodatne.
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Texas mall shooting started as fight between groups
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A Texas shooting at an El Paso mall that left one person dead and three others wounded began as a confrontation between two groups, police said Thursday.
The people involved in the fight Wednesday at Cielo Vista Mall ranged in age from late teens to their early 20s, interim police Chief Peter Pacillas said.
“This is a random incident that occurred between two groups at the mall,” he said.
The shooting added to the dozens of people already killed this year in mass shootings across the United States.
El Paso police said hours after the gunfire that two people had been taken into custody.
The shooting broke out in a busy shopping area and across a large parking lot from a Walmart where 23 people were killed in a racist attack targeting Hispanic people in 2019. El Paso — with a largely Latino population of about 700,000 people — sits on the U.S. border with Mexico, where residents of both countries cross frequently.
The United States has seen dozens of people killed in mass shootings so far in 2023, most recently Monday at Michigan State University, where three students were killed and five more were wounded. In January, 11 people were killed in the Los Angeles-area city of Monterey Park as they welcomed the Lunar New Year at a dance hall popular with older Asian Americans.
Pacillas said the two people taken into custody after Wednesday’s shooting as well as all of the victims were males.
The FBI, which is assisting El Paso police in the investigation, set up a website where the public can share photos or video from the shooting.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said in a tweet Wednesday night that he had spoken to the mayor of El Paso and offered assistance from the Texas Department of Public and Safety and the Texas Division of Emergency Management.
In 2022, more than 600 mass shootings broke out in the U.S. in which at least four people were killed or wounded, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Some experts warn if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, there could be a substantial negative impact on maternal health in the United States.
The warning comes days after a leaked draft opinion suggested the court may overturn the landmark 1973 decision and remove protections for abortion rights.
“We have had women called the office and ask if Roe v. Wade is overturned what can I do? Do I have to come in do I have to be seeing my provider? What can I take over the counter? What kind of chemicals can I drink,” the Director of the Tampa Women’s Health Center, Liberty Feucht said.
The center performs up to 150 abortions per month. Feucht said fears and uncertainty have been heightened by the anticipation of new restrictions.
It’s one of three clinics in the state that performs abortions up to the 23rd week of pregnancy. Clinic staff said at least 80% of its abortions happen in the second trimester. That’s when genetic testing is done and women find out if there is a fetal anomaly or a fetal demise, which makes the chance for survival slim.
Florida is already set to ban most abortions after 15 weeks. The ban begins on July 1 when a new state law, championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, takes effect.
It has forced Futch to change some of the clinic’s practices come summertime. She’s worried a final decision by the Supreme Court to completely overturn Roe V. Wade would result in some women making dangerous decisions.
“Women will still see abortions and get abortions — it will just be unsafe and endanger more women than it would help,” she said. “We would be looking at referring patients out due to the laws that are coming down the pipeline and Roe V. Wade changing.”
Her clinic is currently providing abortion services in a safe way either through a pill or surgically depending on choice and situation. Feucht said if her clinic can’t provide a service, it will find one that can.
“Clinics and your local providers are advocating for you we are doing everything we can,” Feucht said. | https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/tampa-abortion-clinic-warns-dangers-of-restrictions-on-womens-rights/ | 2022-05-04 22:45:07 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/tampa-abortion-clinic-warns-dangers-of-restrictions-on-womens-rights/ |
Delaware has a new Auditor of Accounts.
Democrat Lydia York, a longtime lawyer and accounting professional, was sworn in at Delaware State University in Dover Tuesday. York was the winner of the general election as well as a September Democratic primary. She entered the campaign in July and defeated previous state Auditor Kathy McGuiness in the September primary.
By then, McGuiness was convicted of two misdemeanor crimes, and she resigned in October.
York said Tuesday she was told it would be an interesting campaign, but says she didn't want to be interesting, she wanted to be "boring."
York made reference to attending an HBCU, Historically Black College and University, and majored in accounting. She said she was "out of my comfort then too." "In the end, I was open to the possibility of doing something useful, honorable and important. Then, I was helping to increase the number of African American women who were CPAs. Now, I'm tasked with restoring and refreshing the honor and integrity of a state constitutional office," York said.
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CAMDEN, Maine, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gregory A. Dufour, President and Chief Executive Officer of Camden National Corporation (NASDAQ®: CAC; the "Company"), announced today that the board of directors of the Company declared a quarterly dividend of $0.40 per share. This quarterly payout results in an annualized dividend yield of 3.62% based on the September 26, 2022 closing price of the Company's common stock at $44.22 per share as reported by NASDAQ. The dividend is payable on October 31, 2022 to shareholders of record on October 14, 2022.
About Camden National Corporation
Camden National Corporation is the largest publicly traded bank holding company in Northern New England with $5.5 billion in assets and approximately 600 employees. Camden National Bank, its subsidiary, is a full-service community bank founded in 1875 in Camden, Maine. Dedicated to customers at every stage of their financial journey, the bank offers the latest in digital banking, complemented by personalized service with 58 banking centers, 24/7 live phone support, 68 ATMs, and additional lending offices in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. For the past three years, Camden National Bank was named a Customer Experience (CX) Leader by independent research firm, Greenwich Associates. In 2021, it received awards in two CX categories: U.S. Retail Banking and U.S. Commercial Small Business and the bank was included in the Best Places to Work in Maine, for the second year. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.
Comprehensive wealth management, investment and financial planning services are delivered by Camden National Wealth Management. To learn more, visit CamdenNational.bank.
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NEW YORK (WPIX) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state disaster emergency on Friday due to the spread of polio.
In July, a resident in Rockland County tested positive for polio in what is considered the first case of the disease in the United States in almost a decade, according to health officials. A month after, the virus that causes polio was detected in New York City’s wastewater.
The state disaster emergency will run through Oct. 9, according to Hochul. As part of the declaration, Hochul authorized all necessary state agencies to assist local governments, and she freed up more state resources to allocate towards the containment of the polio situation.
The same day the emergency was declared, Hochul shared a Twitter post relaying New York’s efforts to “ramp up” vaccination efforts by allowing “EMTs, midwives, and pharmacists” to administer the shots.
“We’re making it easier for New Yorkers to get their polio vaccine if they haven’t already received it,” Hochul wrote.
The New York Department of Health has also warned that polio spreads more easily in counties with lower vaccination rates.
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Maria Phillips, 57, was arrested and charged Friday with Animal Torture and Animal Abuse.
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– A 92% SVR35 and a 67% TSS50 were Observed in the Efficacy Evaluable Patients at Week 24 –
– 57% of Transfusion Independent Patients Achieved Hemoglobin Stabilization –
– Company to Host Investor and Analyst Webcast Featuring Key Opinion Leaders
Today at 8:30 a.m. ET –
NEWTON, Mass., Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI), a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies, today announced updated results from the Phase 1 portion of its study evaluating the safety and efficacy of once-weekly selinexor in combination with standard dose ruxolitinib in patients with treatment-naïve myelofibrosis (NCT04562389). The data, featured in a poster presentation at the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) 2022 Annual Meeting and Exposition, show that the combination of selinexor with ruxolitinib achieved rapid and sustained spleen responses, encouraging improvements in symptoms and stabilization of hemoglobin levels in patients with treatment-naïve myelofibrosis.
As of October 21, 2022, 24 patients had been assigned to either a 40 mg or 60 mg once weekly dose of selinexor, in combination with ruxolitinib 15/20 mg BID (twice daily). At week 24, 92% of efficacy evaluable patients (11 out of 12) demonstrated ≥35% reduction in spleen volume (SVR35). Ongoing reductions in SVR were seen from baseline to week 12 and week 24, with a 45% median reduction at week 12 and a 49% median reduction at week 24. 67% of the evaluable patients for symptom response (4 out of 6) at week 24 achieved ≥50% reduction (TSS50). 57% of transfusion-independent patients (13 out of 23) maintained or improved their hemoglobin levels.
"As an oral agent with a unique mechanism of action, selinexor has previously shown single-agent activity in myelofibrosis patients," said Reshma Rangwala, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer of Karyopharm. "As a result, we believe that the combination of selinexor and ruxolitinib has the potential to meaningfully build upon the current standard of care, which is ruxolitinib alone, for patients with treatment-naïve myelofibrosis. We look forward to further developing this combination in the randomized phase of the study."
The safety population was comprised of 24 patients, all of whom received at least one dose of selinexor. The most common adverse events (AEs) were nausea (75%), anemia (62%) and fatigue (58%), the majority of which were grades 1-2. The most common reported grade 3-4 treatment-emergent AEs were anemia (37%) and thrombocytopenia (21%), both of which were reversible.
"In the Phase 1 portion of the study, encouraging efficacy was observed across the relevant efficacy endpoints of SVR35, TSS50, and hemoglobin stabilization and a generally manageable safety profile was observed regardless of dose. Furthermore, I find the rapid spleen reduction as early as week 12 especially notable, along with early signs of durability," said Dr. Haris Ali, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. "These data support the potential of an oral XPO1 inhibitor, in combination with a JAK inhibitor, to deliver significant benefits for patients with myelofibrosis."
Investor and Analyst Event on Selinexor Data in Patients with Treatment-Naïve Myelofibrosis at ASH 2022
Karyopharm will host a webcast today, December 12, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (7:30 a.m. CT local time), featuring key opinion leaders Dr. Haris Ali, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center and Dr. Srdan Verstovsek, MD Anderson Cancer Center. Drs. Ali and Verstovsek will discuss the updated data on selinexor in combination with ruxolitinib as well as the current treatment landscape and unmet medical need in treating patients with myelofibrosis, respectively.
To access the event, the live audio webcast and slides will be available under "Events & Presentations" in the Investor section of the Company's website, http://investors.karyopharm.com/events-presentations. An archived webcast will be available on the Company's website following the event.
About XPOVIO® (selinexor)
XPOVIO is a first-in-class, oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor and the first of Karyopharm's Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) compounds to be approved for the treatment of cancer. XPOVIO functions by selectively binding to and inhibiting the nuclear export protein XPO1. XPOVIO is approved in the U.S. and marketed by Karyopharm in multiple oncology indications, including: (i) in combination with Velcade® (bortezomib) and dexamethasone (XVd) in patients with multiple myeloma after at least one prior therapy; (ii) in combination with dexamethasone in patients with heavily pre-treated multiple myeloma; and (iii) in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), including DLBCL arising from follicular lymphoma, after at least two lines of systemic therapy. XPOVIO (also known as NEXPOVIO® in certain countries) has received regulatory approvals in various indications in a growing number of ex-U.S. territories and countries, including but not limited to the European Union, the United Kingdom, China, South Korea, Canada, Israel and Taiwan. XPOVIO and NEXPOVIO is marketed by Karyopharm's partners, Antengene, Menarini, Neopharm and FORUS in China, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, Germany, Austria, Israel and Canada.
Please refer to the local Prescribing Information for full details.
Selinexor is also being investigated in several other mid- and late-stage clinical trials across multiple high unmet need cancer indications, including in endometrial cancer and myelofibrosis.
For more information about Karyopharm's products or clinical trials, please contact the Medical Information department at:
Tel: +1 (888) 209-9326
Email: medicalinformation@karyopharm.com
SELECT IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Warnings and Precautions
- Thrombocytopenia: Monitor platelet counts throughout treatment. Manage with dose interruption and/or reduction and supportive care.
- Neutropenia: Monitor neutrophil counts throughout treatment. Manage with dose interruption and/or reduction and granulocyte colony‐stimulating factors.
- Gastrointestinal Toxicity: Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, anorexia, and weight loss may occur. Provide antiemetic prophylaxis. Manage with dose interruption and/or reduction, antiemetics, and supportive care.
- Hyponatremia: Monitor serum sodium levels throughout treatment. Correct for concurrent hyperglycemia and high serum paraprotein levels. Manage with dose interruption, reduction, or discontinuation, and supportive care.
- Serious Infection: Monitor for infection and treat promptly.
- Neurological Toxicity: Advise patients to refrain from driving and engaging in hazardous occupations or activities until neurological toxicity resolves. Optimize hydration status and concomitant medications to avoid dizziness or mental status changes.
- Embryo‐Fetal Toxicity: Can cause fetal harm. Advise females of reproductive potential and males with a female partner of reproductive potential, of the potential risk to a fetus and use of effective contraception.
- Cataract: Cataracts may develop or progress. Treatment of cataracts usually requires surgical removal of the cataract.
Adverse Reactions
- The most common adverse reactions (≥20%) in patients with multiple myeloma who receive XVd are fatigue, nausea, decreased appetite, diarrhea, peripheral neuropathy, upper respiratory tract infection, decreased weight, cataract and vomiting. Grade 3‐4 laboratory abnormalities (≥10%) are thrombocytopenia, lymphopenia, hypophosphatemia, anemia, hyponatremia and neutropenia. In the BOSTON trial, fatal adverse reactions occurred in 6% of patients within 30 days of last treatment. Serious adverse reactions occurred in 52% of patients. Treatment discontinuation rate due to adverse reactions was 19%.
- The most common adverse reactions (≥20%) in patients with multiple myeloma who receive Xd are thrombocytopenia, fatigue, nausea, anemia, decreased appetite, decreased weight, diarrhea, vomiting, hyponatremia, neutropenia, leukopenia, constipation, dyspnea and upper respiratory tract infection. In the STORM trial, fatal adverse reactions occurred in 9% of patients. Serious adverse reactions occurred in 58% of patients. Treatment discontinuation rate due to adverse reactions was 27%.
- The most common adverse reactions (incidence ≥20%) in patients with DLBCL, excluding laboratory abnormalities, are fatigue, nausea, diarrhea, appetite decrease, weight decrease, constipation, vomiting, and pyrexia. Grade 3‐4 laboratory abnormalities (≥15%) are thrombocytopenia, lymphopenia, neutropenia, anemia, and hyponatremia. In the SADAL trial, fatal adverse reactions occurred in 3.7% of patients within 30 days, and 5% of patients within 60 days of last treatment; the most frequent fatal adverse reactions was infection (4.5% of patients). Serious adverse reactions occurred in 46% of patients; the most frequent serious adverse reaction was infection (21% of patients). Discontinuation due to adverse reactions occurred in 17% of patients.
Use In Specific Populations
Lactation: Advise not to breastfeed.
For additional product information, including full prescribing information, please visit www.XPOVIO.com.
To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. at 1‐888‐209‐9326 or FDA at 1‐800‐FDA‐1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
About Karyopharm Therapeutics
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI) is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies. Since its founding, Karyopharm has been an industry leader in oral Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) compound technology, which was developed to address a fundamental mechanism of oncogenesis: nuclear export dysregulation. Karyopharm's lead SINE compound and first-in-class, oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor, XPOVIO® (selinexor), is approved in the U.S. and marketed by the Company in three oncology indications and has received regulatory approvals in various indications in a growing number of ex-U.S. territories and countries, including Europe and the United Kingdom (as NEXPOVIO®) and China. Karyopharm has a focused pipeline targeting multiple high unmet need cancer indications, including in multiple myeloma, endometrial cancer, myelodysplastic syndromes and myelofibrosis. For more information about our people, science and pipeline, please visit www.karyopharm.com, and follow us on Twitter at @Karyopharm and LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include those regarding the ability of selinexor to treat patients with multiple myeloma, myelofibrosis, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, solid tumors and other diseases and expectations related to the clinical development plans and potential regulatory submissions of selinexor. Such statements are subject to numerous important factors, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Karyopharm's control, that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from Karyopharm's current expectations. For example, there can be no guarantee that Karyopharm will successfully commercialize XPOVIO or that any of Karyopharm's drug candidates, including selinexor and eltanexor, will successfully complete necessary clinical development phases or that development of any of Karyopharm's drug candidates will continue. Further, there can be no guarantee that any positive developments in the development or commercialization of Karyopharm's drug candidate portfolio will result in stock price appreciation. Management's expectations and, therefore, any forward-looking statements in this press release could also be affected by risks and uncertainties relating to a number of other factors, including the following: the risk that the COVID-19 pandemic could disrupt Karyopharm's business more severely than it currently anticipates, including by negatively impacting sales of XPOVIO, interrupting or delaying research and development efforts, impacting the ability to procure sufficient supply for the development and commercialization of selinexor or other product candidates, delaying ongoing or planned clinical trials, impeding the execution of business plans, planned regulatory milestones and timelines, or inconveniencing patients; the adoption of XPOVIO in the commercial marketplace, the timing and costs involved in commercializing XPOVIO or any of Karyopharm's drug candidates that receive regulatory approval; the ability to obtain and retain regulatory approval of XPOVIO or any of Karyopharm's drug candidates that receive regulatory approval; Karyopharm's results of clinical trials and preclinical studies, including subsequent analysis of existing data and new data received from ongoing and future studies; the content and timing of decisions made by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory authorities, investigational review boards at clinical trial sites and publication review bodies, including with respect to the need for additional clinical studies; the ability of Karyopharm or its third party collaborators or successors in interest to fully perform their respective obligations under the applicable agreement and the potential future financial implications of such agreement; Karyopharm's ability to enroll patients in its clinical trials; unplanned cash requirements and expenditures; development or regulatory approval of drug candidates by Karyopharm's competitors for products or product candidates in which Karyopharm is currently commercializing or developing; and Karyopharm's ability to obtain, maintain and enforce patent and other intellectual property protection for any of its products or product candidates. These and other risks are described under the caption "Risk Factors" in Karyopharm's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on November 3, 2022, and in other filings that Karyopharm may make with the SEC in the future. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, Karyopharm expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
XPOVIO® and NEXPOVIO® are registered trademarks of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. Any other trademarks referred to in this release are the property of their respective owners.
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Gov. Ned Lamont and other state leaders marked one year since the start of the war in Ukraine. They gathered at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) in New Britain Thursday to discuss the state’s ongoing efforts to assist refugees in Connecticut.
Iryna Kundeus cradled her 18-month-old baby Eugenia as she spoke in front of attendees at CCSU. But while her baby charmed the crowd, Kundeus wasn’t happy.
“We didn’t see our family for almost one year and it’s really sad for me,” Kundeus said.
Kundeus fled her native Ukraine shortly after Russia invaded her country in 2022. She and her daughter now live in Connecticut. They along with state and federal officials spoke at the university to mark the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
But while Kundeus now lives far away from a brutal war that has killed thousands, she still has a personal stake in the war. Members of her family are still in Ukraine.
State leaders such as Democratic U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal said they'll continue advocating for Ukrainian refugees and asked for increased federal funding so Ukraine could better resist the ongoing invasion.
Blumenthal advocated for more federal help, which includes more funding and supplying Ukraine’s military with F-16 fighter jets.
“We know what’s at stake, let’s make sure that we get them what they need to win this fight,” Blumenthal said.
Other officials such as Commissioner of the Department of Social Services, Andrea Barton Reeves, spoke about the state’s efforts with helping Ukrainian refugees settle into Connecticut.
According to Reeves, a thousand families have been helped, and local school districts statewide have enrolled Ukrainian children.
The state would welcome Ukrainians as permanent residents according to Barton Reeves.
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Unleashing New Digital Opportunities
TAIPEI, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today (May 24) marked the opening of COMPUTEX 2022, held until May 27 at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1. Among the distinguished guests in attendance at the opening ceremony to witness the rapid development of new digital technology were President Tsai Ing-Wen, Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-Hua, Chairman of Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) James Huang, and Chairman of Taipei Computer Association Paul Peng.
President Tsai Ing-wen stated, " COMPUTEX is an important platform for the global technology industry, which not only enables Taiwanese companies to strengthen their international collaboration and connect to the global market, but also shows the capabilities of Taiwan's ICT industry to the world. In the future, the development of advanced technologies such as AI, quantum computers, and cloud computing will be highly dependent on chips. Therefore, Taiwan will leverage its strengths in high-end hardware manufacturing and empowering ICT innovations in various industries to make the overall economy more competitive. Also, we will actively work together with enterprises to accelerate the digital transformation process and to build the next golden decade of Taiwan's technology industry. "
"Over the past twenty years, technology, our shared global language, has empowered the world and resulted in important milestones. Even when facing urgent challenges such as the pandemic and supply chain disruptions, technology has allowed infinite possibilities," said TAITRA Chairman James Huang. "COMPUTEX's mission has always been to introduce technologies to the world and help make a difference, and this year's event offers an upgraded, hybrid exhibition experience. We look forward to stimulating technological innovation and heading into the future with global technology companies."
The leading global ICT companies showcase their innovative technologies and solutions at COMPUTEX. GIGABYTE showcased high-performance computing applications, including AI, 5G, edge computing, intelligent traffic management, security, and gaming and entertainment. Delta Electronics chose to focus on sustainability and presented energy and thermal management solutions for applications such as industrial automation, data center infrastructure, and EV charging. KIOXIA displayed its XG8 series of client SSDs for high-end notebooks, desktops, and workstations. Furthermore, Garage+ Pavilion selected 48 startups to showcase innovative capabilities in numerous fields, including AI, IoT, health care, and green technology.
COMPUTEX 2022 Provides an Overview of the Global Technology Ecosystems
COMPUTEX 2022 features six main themes: Accelerating Intelligence, Connected X-Experience, Digital Resilience, Innovative Computing, Innovations & Startups, and Sustainability. In addition, a virtual exhibition, COMPUTEX DigitalGO, is held from today to June 6. By making use of diverse channels, COMPUTEX 2022 has created an interactive platform for global engagement and provided a comprehensive overview of the future developments in the global technology ecosystems.
In addition to the comprehensive exhibition, COMPUTEX also offers keynote speeches and forums. This year's CEO Keynotes, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), NXP Semiconductors (NXP), Micron Technology, and Supermicro will share their corporate visions from a technology perspective. Microsoft and NVIDIA will also give keynote speeches, streaming live on COMPUTEX's Youtube channel.
The COMPUTEX Forum will be held on May 26 at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1, Section J. In the morning, in the first session titled "Technology Empowerment," Texas Instruments, Ericsson, NXP, NVIDIA, and Micron Technology will discuss how global technology giants find partners, achieve new advancements, and embrace change.
In the afternoon, in the second session, Delta Electronics will talk on "Unceasing Innovation for a Net Zero Future" and demystify how businesses are leveraging digital technology to achieve sustainability and reach the 2050 net-zero carbon emissions target. Finally, in the third and final session themed "Application Advancements," HTC, IBM, Dassault System, and Nokia Taiwan will discuss the metaverse and how businesses can actively deploy smart living and successfully create new work modes.
Furthermore, "Live Studio," a new addition to this year's event, will serve as the official news channel for COMPUTEX 2022 and provide participants with the most up-to-date and complete event coverage throughout the show. The "Guided Tours" are another highlight of the event. Industry KOLs will personally lead the tours, take fans around the booths, and put a brand new spin on technology discovery. In addition, media outlets, including Embedded Computing Design from the US, Dempa Publications from Japan, and IT Chosun from South Korea, will cover COMPUTEX, showing Taiwan's scientific and technological achievements and potential to the world.
This year, COMPUTEX 2022 is being held at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1. In addition to technology trend sharing, industry application demonstrations, and the fun and interactive live studio and guided tours, there are photo booths for each of the six themes. Participants who take photos in each booth and upload the photos will be entered to win the event organizers' limited edition COMPUTEX 2022 NFT. With so many exciting activities to enjoy, COMPUTEX 2022 is an event not to be missed.
To learn more about COMPUTEX, please visit:
COMPUTEX: https://www.computextaipei.com.tw/
COMPUTEX Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/COMPUTEX.TAITRA/
COMPUTEX Forum: https://events.computextaipei.com.tw/
Digital GO: https://www.computexonline.com.tw/?userlang=tw
InnoVEX: https://www.innovex.com.tw/
About COMPUTEX
COMPUTEX was founded in 1981. It has grown with the global ICT industry and become stronger over the last four decades. Bearing witness to historical moments in the development of and changes in the industry, COMPUTEX attracts more than 40,000 buyers to visit Taiwan every year. It is also the preferred platform chosen by top international companies for launching epoch-making products.
Taiwan has a comprehensive global ICT industry chain. Gaining a foothold in Taiwan, COMPUTEX is jointly held by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council and Taipei Computer Association, aiming to build a global tech ecosystem. COMPUTEX uses cross-domain integration and innovation services as the most powerful driving forces for achieving the goal of becoming a new platform for global technological resources.
About TAITRA:
The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) is Taiwan's foremost trade promotion organization. TAITRA is a public-benefit corporation founded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs by uniting industry and commerce groups from the private sector with the purpose of helping them expand their global reach. Currently, TAITRA has a team of more than 1,300 trade professionals, both domestically and abroad. Headquartered in Taipei, TAITRA operates 5 local offices in Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung, as well as 63 branches worldwide. It has also signed cooperation agreements with 319 sister organizations that promote international trade. By forming a comprehensive trade services network that provides zero-time-difference and borderless real-time services, TAITRA continues to work with enterprises to jointly pursue the steady development of Taiwan's economy. It is the best partner for your success in business expansion.
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CHICAGO, April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic investor focused exclusively on the health care industry, announced today that Craig J. Christianson has joined the firm as an executive advisor. He will work with Water Street's team of health care executives and investment professionals to identify and pursue growth opportunities in life sciences businesses.
Mr. Christianson most recently spearheaded commercial operations for global biotechnology company Promega Corporation. He also served as a board member of its medical affiliates, including Terso Solutions, Usona Institute and Biopharmaceutical Technology Institute. He previously led commercialization initiatives for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the patenting and licensing management organization supporting scientific research for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mr. Christianson began his career at IBM, where he served in sales and management positions during his 14 years with the global corporation.
"I have worked with many investment firms over the course of my career and Water Street stands out for its approach to partnering with founders and executives to advance their goals for growth. I'm excited to work together on new opportunities to invest in and build businesses that can make a positive impact in the life sciences industry."
Water Street is actively pursuing opportunities to grow companies in three key health care sectors: health care services, medical products and diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals and life sciences. The health care firm's target investments range in size from $50 million to $500 million in value.
About Water Street
Water Street Healthcare Partners is a strategic investor focused exclusively on the health care industry. The firm has completed more than 150 investments and acquisitions to build 40+ companies contributing to improved patient care, innovation and a more efficient health care system. Working closely with founders and management teams, Water Street aligns its deep industry expertise and network of resources to support their growth objectives. Based in Chicago, Water Street's team is a blend of highly experienced health care executives, investment professionals and functional specialists. For more information, visit waterstreet.com.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLC, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
Maxar Technologies Inc. (NYSE: MAXR)'s sale to Advent International for $53.00 per share in cash. If you are a Maxar shareholder, click here to learn more about your legal rights and options.
Sesen Bio, Inc. (NASDAQ: SESN)'s merger with Carisma Therapeutics Inc. Pre-merger Sesen Bio shareholders are expected to own approximately 41.7% of the combined company. If you are a Sesen Bio shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Imara Inc. (NASDAQ: IMRA)'s merger with Enliven Therapeutics, Inc. If you are an Imara shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Heavy flooding from seasonal rains in Afghanistan killed at least 31 people and left dozens missing over the past three days, while in neighboring Pakistan 13 people died due to heavy rains and landslides.
Shafiullah Rahimi, the ruling Taliban’s appointed spokesman for Afghanistan’s State Ministry for Natural Disaster Management, said Sunday that at least 31 people were killed, 74 were injured and 41 others were missing. Flash floods hit the capital, Kabul, the Maidan Wardak and Ghazni provinces. He added that the majority of the casualties were in west Kabul and Maidan Wardak.
Rahimi also said around 250 livestock perished in the floods.
The flooding brought further misery to the already suffering Afghanistan. In April, the U.N.’s humanitarian affairs agency said the south Asian country is facing its third consecutive year of drought, its second year of severe economic hardship and the consequences of decades of war and natural disasters.
The most recent flash flood happened in the Jalrez district of Maidan Wardak province west of Kabul, killing 12 people, said Taliban government spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid. At least 40 other people were missing and rescue teams were busy conducting search and rescue operations, he said.
The provincial governor’s office in a statement said that hundreds of homes were either damaged or destroyed and the missing are believed to be under the rubble of collapsed homes.
The statement also said that hundreds of square miles of agricultural land were washed out and destroyed and the highway between Kabul and the central Bamiyan province was closed due to the floods.
In Pakistan, 13 people died and seven were injured due to heavy rains and landslides as monsoon season continued to affect parts of the country Sunday.
In the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, nine people lost their lives over the last 48 hours in rain-related incidents.
In the Skardu area of the Gilgit Baltistan region, four family members died when a massive landslide hit their car, according to police officer Raja Mirza Hassan.
Taimur Khan, a spokesman of the provincial disaster management authority, said heavy rainfall and thunderstorms damaged at least 74 houses in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The provincial authorities declared an emergency in the Chitral district as rainfall triggered flash floods in the mountainous area.
Since the start of monsoon from June 25, the country has witnessed 101 deaths including 16 women and 42 children, according to the national disaster management authority. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-heavy-rains-in-afghanistan-unleash-flash-floods-that-kill-12-people-and-leave-40-missing/ | 2023-07-23 15:22:22 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-heavy-rains-in-afghanistan-unleash-flash-floods-that-kill-12-people-and-leave-40-missing/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare tornado touched down in a Los Angeles suburb on Wednesday, ripping roofs off a line of commercial buildings and sending the debris twisting into the sky and across a city block, injuring one person.
The National Weather Service sent teams to assess damage in Montebello and later confirmed that a tornado had touched down around 11:20 a.m.
“It’s definitely not something that’s common for the region,” said meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld with the weather service.
One person was injured and was taken to a hospital in Montebello, said Alex Gillman, a city spokesman. He didn’t know the severity of the injury.
Michael Turner could hear the winds get stronger from inside his office at the 33,000-square-foot (3,065-square-meter) warehouse he owns just south of downtown Montebello. When the lights started flickering, he went outside to find his employees gazing up at the ominous sky. He brought everyone inside.
“It got very loud. Things were flying all over the place,” Turner said. “The whole factory became a big dustbowl for a minute. Then when the dust settled, the place was just a mess.”
Nobody was hurt, but the gas line was severed, fire sprinklers broke, all the skylights shattered and a 5,000-square-foot (465-square-meter) section of roof was “just gone,” Turner said. He said his polyester fiber business, Turner Fiberfill, could be closed for months.
“I’ve been in California since 1965. Never seen anything like this,” Turner said. “Earthquakes — we’re used to that.”
Debris was spread over more than one city block. Inspectors checked 17 buildings in the area, and 11 of them were red-tagged as uninhabitable, according to the fire department. Several cars were also damaged.
The rare and violent weather came amid a strong late-season Pacific storm that brought damaging winds and more rain and snow to saturated California. Two people died Tuesday as the storm raked the San Francisco Bay Area with powerful gusts and downpours. An on-duty San Francisco police sergeant was hospitalized with life threatening injuries after a tree fell on him Tuesday, the department said.
The weather service also sent assessment teams to the Santa Barbara County city of Carpinteria, where it confirmed that a tornado hit a mobile home park on Tuesday, with gusts up to 75 miles (120 kilometers) per hour that damaged about 25 residences.
The last time the weather service’s Los Angeles office sent out tornado assessment teams was 2016 near Fillmore in Ventura County, where it was determined that a small twister had touched down, Schoenfeld said.
A tornado warning based on radar also was issued Tuesday night for the Point Mugu area west of Malibu. The warning was later canceled and the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office tweeted there was no evidence a tornado touched down.
The storm was tapering off in California from north to south while pushing inland across the Southwest, the Four Corners region and the central and southern Rockies, the National Weather Service said. On Tuesday, some residents of north-central Arizona were told to prepare to evacuate because of rising water levels in rivers and basins.
The wind and rain mayhem from San Francisco Bay south to Monterey Bay on Tuesday was caused by an extraordinary drop in barometric pressure over the eastern Pacific that meteorologists described as “explosive cyclogenesis.”
“Wow. Even by the standards of what has turned out to be one of our most extraordinary winter seasons in a very long time, yesterday … stands out,” the Bay Area weather office wrote.
Trees and power lines were blown down. Windows were blown out from two San Francisco high-rises, NBC Bay Area reported. Ferry service was disrupted because conditions were too rough. Three barges got loose and damaged a bridge.
An Amtrak commuter train carrying 55 passengers struck a downed tree and derailed near the East Bay village of Porta Costa. The train remained upright and nobody was injured, Amtrak and fire officials said.
Five deaths were attributed to the storm. In the Bay Area community of Portola Valley, a man driving a sewer truck was killed when a tree fell onto the vehicle, the California Highway Patrol said. And in the community of Rossmoor, a driver was injured and a passenger died after a large tree fell onto a car, the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District said.
In Oakland, a man inside a tent died Tuesday night after a tree fell on it near Lake Merritt.
Two people also died at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on Tuesday while receiving treatment for injuries suffered in separate storm-related incidents, according to city officials.
In the Monterey Bay region, Santa Cruz County was blasted with gusts up to 80 mph (129 kph). Along the coastline of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, ocean foam blew across the roadways like large snowflakes.
Some 82,000 customers were without electricity Wednesday evening throughout the state, according to PowerOutage.us.
The National Weather Service said Tuesday’s storm, which came on the first full day of spring following the state’s extraordinary winter, was a Pacific low pressure system interacting with California’s 12th atmospheric river since late December.
California’s unexpected siege of wet weather after years of drought also included February blizzards powered by arctic air.
The storms have unleashed flooding and loaded mountains with so much snow that roofs have been crushed and crews have struggled to keep highways clear of avalanches. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/california-faces-more-flooding-after-strong-pacific-storm/ | 2023-03-23 10:15:25 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/california-faces-more-flooding-after-strong-pacific-storm/ |
CALGARY, AB, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Nanalysis Scientific Corp. ("the Company", ("the Company", TSXV: NSCI, OTCQX: NSCIF, FRA: 1N1), a leader in portable NMR machines and MRI technology for healthcare and industrial applications, is pleased to report that all proposed resolutions were approved at the Company's Annual General and Special Meeting of shareholders held on June 22, 2022 (the "Meeting"). The number of directors was set at 7 and all director nominees, as listed in the Management Information Circular dated May 20, 2022 (the "Information Circular"), were elected as directors of the Company at the Meeting to serve for a one-year term and hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders. According to the proxy votes received from shareholders, the results were as follows:
Shareholders voted 99.85% in favor of setting the number of directors at seven, 99.6% in favor of appointing Ernst & Young LLP, as auditor of the Company for the ensuing year and to authorize the Directors of the Company to fix the auditor's remuneration and 98.1% in favor for the approval of an amended stock option plan of the Company.
The Company is pleased to welcome Kham Lin to Nanalysis's Board of Directors with immediate effect following shareholder approval at the Meeting.
Mr. Lin is currently a Managing Director at Nanalysis and was formerly the President and Chief Executive Officer of KPrime Technologies before the Company's acquisition by Nanalysis. Over twenty plus years, Mr. Lin built KPrime, into a manufacturing representative business for global companies like Agilent Technologies, Metrohm USA, Sartorius LPS Division, and Leidos. KPrime has a portfolio of sales and services in scientific detection and measuring equipment, financing, and asset management for chemical and security industries. Mr. Lin resides and works in Calgary, Alberta, Canada but also splits time in Phoenix, Arizona at KPrime Headquarters.
Nanalysis trades on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) in Canada with ticker symbol 'NSCI', OTC and the Frankfurt exchange under the ticker symbol '1N1'. The company's business is what we term "MRI and NMR for industry". The company develops and manufactures portable Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometers or analyzers for laboratory and industrial markets. The NMReady-60™ was the first full-feature portable NMR spectrometer in a single compact enclosure requiring no liquid helium or any other cryogens. The company has followed-up that initial offering with new products and continues to have a strong innovation pipeline. Nanalysis recently announced that it has begun selling a 100MHz device in 2020. The Company's new device will be the most powerful and most advanced compact NMR device ever brought to market.
Nanalysis devices are used in many industries (oil and gas, chemical, mining, pharma, biotech, flavor and fragrances, agrochemicals, law enforcement, and more) as well as numerous government and university research labs around the world. The Company continues to exploit new global market opportunities independently and with partners.
With the recent acquisition of K'Prime, the company maintains a North American sales and service company of over 40 individuals who cover scientific instrumentation for pharma, food, chemical and oil & gas customers, as well as imaging systems for security applications.
Additionally, the Company has a 43% ownership in Quad Systems AG ("Quad Systems"), with an option to purchase the remaining shares. Quad Systems is a Zurich-based Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) company focused on high-field NMR for pharmaceutical and other vertical markets.
This news release contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of such statements under applicable securities law. Forward-looking statements are frequently characterized by words such as "anticipates", "plan", "continue", "expect", "project", "intend", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate", "may", "will", "potential", "proposed", "positioned" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur. These statements are only predictions. Various assumptions were used in drawing the conclusions or making the projections contained in the forward-looking statements throughout this news release. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the date the statements are made and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. The Company is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any intention or obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Williams and Carrier will work closely with professional athletes in their new roles
CHICAGO, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TRUE Cresset | Sports + Entertainment announced today that it has hired Brandon Williams as Director, Wealth Advisor; and Jon Marc Carrier as Associate Director, Wealth Advisor. With extensive experience in professional sports business and operations, Williams and Carrier will work closely with TRUE Cresset's professional athlete clients to identify and create opportunities to build and grow their financial portfolios for the long term.
"Brandon and Jon's extensive experience working with professional athletes and hyper client-focused mindset make them a perfect fit for TRUE Cresset. We are incredibly excited to welcome them to the team," said Doug Raetz, Co-President of TRUE Cresset Sports + Entertainment.
Brandon Williams
Williams brings more than 13 years of experience leading operations and relationship management activities within the sports industry. Prior to joining TRUE Cresset, he served as President of Operations at TBH Sports, where he implemented specialized client services, reinvented the execution of operational tactics for athlete development, and managed more than $150 million in assets for professional athletes, coaches, and front office executives.
Williams attended Tennessee State University, where he played football for four years, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Performance and Sports Science and a Master of Arts in Sports Administration. He also serves as a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
"I'm thrilled to join the TRUE Cresset team and lend my skillset and experience to the professional athletes, as well as their families, that we serve," Williams said.
Jon Marc Carrier
Carrier began his career at the NFL headquarters in the Football Operations department, focusing on serving retired players in the NFL Legends Community. Later, he transitioned to the Player Marketing space, where he worked on player branding projects, such as the NFL 100 Super Bowl commercial and other tentpole events, including the NFL Draft, Pro Bowl, as well as the International Series games. In 2019, he was promoted to the Player Engagement department, where he served as a liaison between eight NFL clubs and all players to the NFL league office. Carrier then transitioned to the Los Angeles Rams as a Manager of Football Affairs, where he managed all player education programming, lead partnership, and internal media requests, and supported international player strategy for both current and retired players.
Carrier attended Dartmouth College, where he played football for four years, and majored in government with an emphasis in international relations.
"I've always had a deep interest in helping those around me establish strong and sustainable financial futures, specifically when working with professional athletes. I am excited about bringing those passions together at TRUE Cresset," Carrier said.
About TRUE Cresset | Sports + Entertainment
TRUE Cresset | Sports + Entertainment was founded with the goal of creating an independent, boutique, multi-family office and private investment firm specifically designed to support professional athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs throughout their wealth journey. TRUE Cresset empowers clients to build generational wealth through all phases of life. TRUE Cresset has successfully grown its asset base, expanded advisory services, built a robust and dynamic investment platform, and remained steadfast in creating financial literacy and security for its clients. TRUE Cresset is headquartered in Chicago with a total of 19 offices nationwide.
Please visit https://truecapitalmgmt.com for more information.
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