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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Governors races often are overshadowed by the fight for control of Congress during midterm elections. But this fall, which candidate wins a state’s top executive post could be pivotal for the nation’s political future.
With abortion rights, immigration policies and democracy itself in the balance, both parties are entering the final weeks before the Nov. 8 election prepared to spend unprecedented amounts of money to win seats for governor. Those elected will be in power for the 2024 election, when they could influence voting laws as well as certification of the outcome. And their powers over abortion rights increased greatly when the U.S. Supreme Court in June left the question to states to decide.
“Governors races matter more than ever,” said North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, chair of the Democratic Governors Association, the group working to elect Democrats to lead states.
For Democrats, Cooper said, governors “are often the last line of defense” on issues that have been turned over to states, including gun laws and voting rights in addition to abortion. That’s been especially true in places with Democratic governors and Republican-controlled legislatures, such as Wisconsin and Kansas — states both parties have made top targets for victory in November. Democrats are leading Republican candidates in two important battleground states with GOP-led statehouses, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is the only Democratic governor running for reelection in a state carried by former President Donald Trump in 2020. The former legislator won the office in 2018 against a fiery conservative after running as a moderate who promoted bipartisanship.
She now faces three-term state Attorney General Derek Schmidt, who has repeatedly tried to tie her to President Joe Biden and criticized her as too liberal for the red state. Schmidt’s campaign has been hurt, however, by a third-party bid from a conservative state lawmaker.
During a debate at the Kansas State Fair this month, Schmidt portrayed Kelly’s position on abortion as too extreme, telling a crowd she supports abortion without restrictions.
Kansas has been the unlikely site of Democratic hopes in regard to abortion rights. In August, Kansas voters overwhelmingly defeated a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would have allowed the GOP-controlled Legislature to greatly restrict or ban abortion. Kelly opposed the measure, though she has tried to focus her campaign elsewhere.
Schmidt said he respects the outcome of the vote but that the abortion debate isn’t over.
“What was not on the ballot was Governor Kelly’s position,” he said.
Throughout nearly two decades in elective politics, Kelly has opposed nearly every restriction on abortion now in Kansas law. But asked about Schmidt’s characterization of her position on abortion, she said, “You know, I have never said that.”
Kelly hasn’t emphasized abortion as an issue, though many Democrats think it would help her. Instead, she has been touting the state’s fiscal strength and her work to lure businesses and jobs.
“Maybe I’m not flashy, but I’m effective,” she said at the end of the state fair debate.
In Wisconsin, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers warns voters that democracy is on the ballot this fall and notes he has vetoed more bills than any governor in modern state history, including measures Republicans pushed to change how elections are conducted.
Evers faces businessman Tim Michels, who was endorsed by Trump. Michels has claimed the 2020 presidential election was rigged — a lie Trump has pushed in an effort to overturn his loss to Biden — and supports changes to voting and election laws in the state, a perennial presidential battleground.
Michels is among several Trump-backed nominees who emerged from sometimes brutal GOP primaries. In some cases, more moderate or establishment Republicans warned that the far-right pick endorsed by Trump would struggle to win in a general election.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, chair of the Republican Governors Association, acknowledged the intraparty turmoil during a discussion at Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service last week.
“We’re a divided nation right now, and it is very tribal. And much of that crept into this cycle,” said Ducey, who is term-limited.
The RGA doesn’t endorse in primaries. But as governor, Ducey endorsed businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson for Arizona’s GOP nomination for governor. She lost to former TV news anchor Kari Lake, who had Trump’s backing.
Ducey and Trump have feuded over the governor’s refusal to cede to Trump’s wishes and overturn the 2020 election results in his state. Lake has said she would not have certified Biden’s victory, even though it has been affirmed by multiple reviews.
Cooper said the DGA will be “leaning in hard” in Arizona as well as in a tight contest in Georgia, where GOP Gov. Brian Kemp is facing Democrat Stacey Abrams, a former state legislative leader who lost a close 2018 race to him. In the primary, Kemp easily defeated former Sen. David Perdue, who was endorsed by Trump.
Both the Democratic and Republican governors associations entered 2022 having raised record amounts of money — over $70 million each — in what they say is a sign that voters are increasingly focused on state races. Cooper attributed some of the increased interest to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
The RGA is bullish about defending Republican governorships in Arizona and Georgia, and is heavily focused on picking up a handful of blue states in the West, including Oregon and New Mexico.
At the top of the list is Nevada, where Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo is among Republicans’ most prized recruits this election cycle and is challenging Gov. Steve Sisolak.
In Oregon, GOP hopes rest on an independent candidate siphoning enough support from the Democrat and allowing the Republican to pull out a victory.
Democrats, meanwhile, are confident they will take back governorships in Massachusetts and Maryland, two blue states currently led by moderate Republicans, after far-right Republicans won their party’s nominations.
Pennsylvania, a top presidential battleground, is another state where the GOP nominee could hurt Republicans’ chances in November. GOP voters chose Doug Mastriano from a crowded field, picking a Trump-backed candidate who opposes abortion rights without exceptions, spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and organized bus trips to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the day of the violent insurrection. He faces Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
Asked about the race during the discussion at Georgetown, Ducey was blunt.
“Another axiom that we have at the RGA is that we don’t fund lost causes, and we don’t fund landslides,” he said.
In Michigan, a swing state where Trump and his allies also tried unsuccessfully to overturn his 2020 loss, Trump-backed nominee Tudor Dixon won a chaotic GOP primary. Democrats have repeatedly criticized Dixon for her stance against abortion, including in cases of rape or incest. A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution also will be on the November ballot, and Democrats are hoping it will help their candidates.
First-term Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has millions more in her campaign fund than Dixon, but said after an appearance at the Detroit Auto Show that she was taking nothing for granted.
“This is Michigan, and it’s always tight in Michigan,” she said.
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Burnett reported from Chicago. Associated Press reporter Colleen Long contributed from Detroit.
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ANKARA – Suspected Kurdish militants in Syria fired rockets across the border into Turkey on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding 10 others, Turkish officials said. The attack followed deadly airstrikes by Turkey on suspected militant targets in Syria and Iraq.
The rockets struck a high school and two houses in the town of Karkamis in Gaziantep province, as well as a truck near a Turkish-Syria border gate, Turkey's the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the dead include a teacher and a child.
A soldier and seven Turkish police officers were wounded overnight in separate shelling by suspected Kurdish militants that targeted a border area in nearby Kilis, Soylu said.
Turkey will respond to the attacks “in the strongest way possible,”he added.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces opened fire toward Karkamis from its positions near the Syrian border town of Kobani, according to Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor.
The Observatory reported that Turkish warplanes resumed airstrikes on Monday, hitting several areas including near the border town of Kobani. It said Turkish artillery also retaliated to the rocket attacks by firing at areas in Syria near the town of Tel Rifaat as well as the outskirts of the village of Ein Issa.
Turkish officials did not immediately confirm reports of new airstrikes by Turkish jets. Turkey’s defense ministry, however, confirmed retaliatory strikes by Turkish artillery units.
“The traitors who continue with their attacks against innocent civilians ... and go as low as to target schools, were held accountable for their actions,” the ministry said on Twitter.
While Kurdish-led forces in Syria have not commented nor claimed responsibility for the attacks, the Syrian Democratic Forces in Monday vowed to respond to Turkish airstrikes “effectively and efficiently at the right time and place.”
The rocket attacks came days after Turkey launched deadly airstrikes over northern regions of Syria and Iraq, targeting Kurdish groups that Ankara holds responsible for a Nov. 13 bomb attack in Istanbul. The bomb rocked a bustling avenue in the heart of Istanbul on Nov. 13, killing six people and wounding over 80 others.
Turkish authorities blamed the attack on the PKK and its Syrian affiliate the YPG. The Kurdish militant groups have, however, denied involvement.
The Turkish warplanes attacked bases of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and the Syrian People’s Protection Units, or YPG on Saturday and Sunday. Turkish officials claimed that 89 targets were destroyed and a “large number” of what it designated as “terrorists” were killed in the airstrikes.
The Observatory said 35 people were killed in airstrikes over the weekend including 18 Kurdish fighters, 16 Syrian government soldiers and a local journalist.
On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signaled that Turkey was also contemplating a ground incursion against the militant groups, saying the operation would not be “limited to an air campaign.” Turkey's defense ministry and military will talk about the number of ground troops that would be required, he added.
“We will hold our consultations and then we will take steps accordingly,” Turkish media quoted Erdogan saying.
Turkey has launched three major incursions into northern Syria since 2016 and already controls some Syrian territory in the north.
Ankara and Washington both consider the PKK a terror group, but disagree on the status of the YPG. Under the banner of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the YPG has been allied with the U.S. in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria.
The PKK has fought an armed insurgency in Turkey since 1984. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people since then.
In Berlin, German Foreign Ministry spokesman Christofer Burger said Germany expressed solidarity with Turkey following the recent attack in Istanbul and it takes seriously indications that the PKK or linked groups in Turkey were responsible.
He said, however, that civilians must be protected at all times and “reports of possible civilian victims of these Turkish airstrikes are extremely worrying.”
“We call on Turkey and all other participants not to do anything that would further exacerbate the already tense situation in northern Syria and Iraq,” Burger said.
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Now available for Samsung Galaxy A14 5G
SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Speck Products, the leader in mobile phone protection innovation, announced ImpactHero Grip™, a new slim and durable dual-layer case with 8-foot drop protection. ImpactHero Grip is available now for the Samsung Galaxy A14 5G on SpeckProducts.com and select retailers, and will be available for more devices later this year.
ImpactHero Grip has Speck's signature raised ridges that are uniquely designed to provide a secure hold when texting, gaming, and taking selfies. Like Speck's other protective cases, ImpactHero Grip includes a raised bezel that protects the screen when placed face down, full access to ports, covered buttons and an anti-stretch design to maintain its heroic form. Microban® provides antimicrobial product protection that reduces bacteria growth on the case by up to 99% to create a cleaner surface. ImpactHero Grip fits like a glove, and its slim design allows for uninterrupted wireless charging.
"ImpactHero Grip is a continuation of our mission to support not only more devices but a wider audience," said Jeff Eisses, Chief Revenue Officer at Speck Products. "As we look forward to 2023, we plan to continue that focus and innovation on design to help Speck users get the most from their tech devices."
The ImpactHero Grip design honors how important smartphones have become to our everyday lives, and how they sometimes need 'super' protection against catastrophe. Not only is this case super, but it's tough with a better hand grip and sturdiness for life's rough moments.
Speck's suggested retail price for ImpactHero Grip is $29.95 for most models. Visit SpeckProducts.com to learn more.
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UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J., May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jamie Glass, Managing Director of Operations at Health & Wellness Partners, LLC (HWP), a medical and scientific communications agency, was named as one of the 2023 PM360 ELITE 100 in the Transformational Leader category. The PM360 ELITE (Exceptional • Leaders • Innovators • Transformers • Entrepreneurs) represents the most influential people in the health care industry today.
Glass is being recognized not only for her commitment and passion for organizational processes and the people she manages, but also for her forward-thinking mindset and willingness to challenge the status quo to set the company up for success.
"We are incredibly proud of Jamie, and this recognition is absolutely deserved," said Jani Hegarty, HWP Founder/CEO. "Since stepping into her role, she has increased productivity, ensured better team dynamics and communication, streamlined organizational structure, and redistributed talent across her span of influence to meet client needs."
"It's truly an honor to be recognized by PM360 and my colleagues at HWP with this transformational leadership award," said Glass. "As HWP enters our 18th year, it's been exciting to continue to lead company growth and change. I look forward to a truly transformational year for HWP."
The PM360 ELITE 100 awards were established in 2015 to recognize individuals who have made a significant impact on the health care industry throughout their careers. More than 500 submissions were received. Nominees were evaluated and selected based on their accomplishments; testimonials from their bosses, clients, and colleagues; and supporting evidence that reflects the impact of their efforts. A total of 100 winners were selected across 19 categories.
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HWP is a leading provider of medical communications solutions to global life sciences companies. HWP currently provides 3 synergistic service offerings: medical affairs, medical marketing, and speaker bureau. For more information, visit thehwpgroup.com.
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ATLANTA — A crucial red-zone fumble by Marcus Mariota spoiled his debut as Atlanta’s starter on Sunday and set up another blown big lead for the Falcons.
Even though New Orleans failed to immediately capitalize on the turnover, it was a missed opportunity for Atlanta to put the game away in Mariota’s first start. The Falcons were outscored 17-3 from there and lost their season opener 27-26 on Sunday.
Mariota, who was acquired after the Falcons traded 14-year starter Matt Ryan to Indianapolis, bemoaned the mistake.
“We had multiple opportunities to put the game away,” Mariota said. “We allowed them as an offense to stick around. That’s something we have to get back and look at and correct.”
Mariota fumbled when he was hit by Saints strong safety Marcus Maye. Free safety Tyrann Mathieu recovered for New Orleans.
“Honestly I just lost track of where I was,” Mariota said. “I thought I needed a few more for a first down, so I put my head down not realizing I already had it. Looking back at that situation, I wish I had just gone down and protected the ball and given us a chance to score points.”
Mariota had another crucial miscue late in the game with the Falcons leading 26-24. He fumbled the snap on a third-and-1 play from the Saints 42. He recovered but couldn’t pick up the first down.
Falcons coach Arthur Smith drained the clock on fourth-and-1 before choosing to punt. The Saints took possession with 48 seconds remaining and no timeouts and drove 46 yards in five plays before Will Lutz kicked the go-ahead 51-yard field goal.
“Sure, there was a part of me that wanted to go for it,” Smith said. “My thought was at the time let the clock bleed down, let’s pin them down. They had no timeouts. ... Again if you had to do it over again, knowing the end result, sure a different call.”
Mariota said the fumbled snap was “100 percent on me.”
“We had a great look for the play we had called and I tried to cheat it and get back a little quicker so I would have an opportunity to read it a little bit better,” Mariota said.
In trying to “cheat” on the play, Mariota pulled back before taking the clean snap.
“It got away from us,” he said. “That’s completely on me.”
Mariota completed 20 of 33 passes for 215 yards with no touchdowns and no interceptions. He showed his dual-threat ability by running for 72 yards, including a 2-yard scoring run.
Still, the blown lead was a bitter start for a Falcons team still haunted by its inability to hold a 28-3 lead against New England in the Super Bowl following the 2016 season. The Patriots rallied to win 34-28.
Veteran defensive tackle Grady Jarrett wanted no part of references on Sunday to that still-painful Super Bowl loss.
“I’m focused on 2022,” Jarrett said. “It is what is is.”
The Falcons lost despite rushing for 201 yards, including a career-high 120 by Cordarrelle Patterson.
“Guys up front did an unbelievable job all game of controlling the line of scrimmage,” Mariota said.
The missed opportunities overwhelmed the rushing total.
“When it comes down to it in this league if you’re not scoring points in the red zone you’re leaving the door open,” Mariota said. “Credit to the Saints. They found ways at the end to make plays to win the game.”
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Idaho police probing student murders ask for patience as teams analyze 1,000+ tips, 103 pieces of evidence
Questions linger, answers scarce 10 days after four University of Idaho students were found fatally stabbed Nov. 13
Idaho law enforcement officials overseeing the violent murders of four local university students 10 days ago are asking the public for patience as they sift through over 1,000 tips and thousands of photos, in addition to over 100 pieces of evidence, authorities said Wednesday.
"We all want to understand why this happened and what drove someone to do this," Moscow, Idaho, Police Chief James Fry told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and 21-year-old Madison Mogen were stabbed several times and killed in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, officials have said. Police have not identified any suspects.
Moscow police received a call shortly before noon on Nov. 13 for a report of an "unconscious person" at the King Road home. Several other people had gathered at the crime scene by the time police arrived, officials said.
According to police, the 911 call "originated from inside the residence," and came from one of the surviving roommates' cell phones. Police said several people spoke to the dispatcher before officers arrived.
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO STUDENTS KILLED: A TIMELINE OF EVENTS
Investigators have determined all four were likely stabbed in their sleep sometime between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., after they had returned home from a night out. Some of the victims appeared to have tried to defend themselves.
All four victims are believed to have been killed using a single "fix-blade knife," which has not yet been recovered.
Two other roommates were inside the home, on the bottom floor, at the time of the murders, but were uninjured.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Idaho State Police Colonel Kedrick Wills said he understood the public wants answers, but said "these take time."
After the police department’s initial response to the scene, investigators and a forensics team were brought in to process the scene for any possible evidence, Wills said.
"We're collecting biological evidence, we're collecting latent evidence — whether it's shoe prints or tire marks or anything like that," he said. "We do that through photographs. We do that through 3D mapping to be able to map the scene."
Investigators then package the evidence and move it to forensics labs to be analyzed further, he said.
"All of this takes an immense amount of time," he said. "While this is such a tragic circumstance that we find ourselves in, in law enforcement, we believe we owe this to the surviving families to get this right."
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Investigators collected 103 pieces of evidence from the crime scene, and took an estimated 4,000 photos, Wills said.
"We’ve conducted multiple 3D scans of the residence, and we have hundreds of hours used by technicians and investigators, including our forensics teams and detectives from multiple agencies," Wills continued.
He added that investigators had processed "over a thousand tips and conducted 150 interviews."
"We have the utmost confidence in this investigation and that this investigation will be done right," he said. "We ask you and we ask the public to please remain patient as this investigation unfolds."
Meanwhile, officials said late Tuesday that investigators had received information that Goncalves could have had a stalker. Investigators "looked extensively" into those reports, and "have pursued hundreds of pieces of information" related to the stalker tip.
As of Wednesday, they had been unable to confirm the information or identify a stalker. Moscow Police Captain Roger Lanier added that police learned while conducting interviews that Goncalves "had made some comments about a stalker."
"And we have followed up looking at specific time frames and specific areas of town," he continued. "So far, we have not been able to corroborate it. But we're not done looking into that piece of information."
Investigators are asking the public to share "all outside surveillance video taken from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, from businesses and residences within" a specific area. A map of the area is below.
MPD had assigned four detectives, 24 patrol officers and five support staff employees to the criminal investigation. The FBI has 22 investigators in Moscow, 20 agents in other areas of the U.S. and two Behavioral Analysis Unit agents working on the case.
The Idaho State Police has deployed 20 investigators, 15 state troopers, a public information officer and a forensic services team to the scene, as well as 15 uniformed troopers to assist with other patrols.
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Authorities have also created a dedicated webpage related to the King Road attack.
"We ask anyone with any information related to what happened with these four were in our community, their interaction with others and whether they expressed concern or commented about someone or something strange to get that information to us," Chief Fry said Wednesday. "Even if you don't believe it is relevant, investigators will review and determine if and how your information builds the picture."
He added: "Sometimes what a video or picture doesn't show is equally as important as what might be there."
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More than 100 animals removed from Wisconsin home
MILWAUKEE (WTMJ) - More than a hundred animals in Milwaukee are looking for a permanent home after they were removed from a house with unsafe living conditions.
The Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission was called to take in 112 animals from a single home over the weekend.
Now, workers are focused on getting many of them to the right organization where they can thrive.
“There was just animals everywhere,” Karen Sparapani, the executive director of the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission. “And it was very unusual in the aspect that it was so many different kinds of animals.”
Sparapani, who is also a humane officer, said among the animals seized were parrots, a goat, alligators and dogs.
“They were friendly, socialized, they’re all placeable and that’s not typical with the traditional type of case,” Sparapani said.
Milwaukee police called her team during an animal cruelty investigation at a home. Sparapani said the living conditions were poor and they found some dead animals at the house.
However, it still appeared the owner cared for the animals.
“Understand your home is not a great place for large quantities of animals. It just isn’t,” Sparapani said.
The home is boarded up now, with a notice on the door from the city that the home is unfit to live in and cited unsanitary conditions.
Milwaukee police took a 46-year-old man into custody in connection to the case. The district attorney is reviewing potential charges.
There is no word yet on the man’s identity or how he collected all those different animals.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s chief justice fired all the members of the Public Defense Services Commission on Monday, frustrated that hundreds of defendants charged with crimes and who cannot afford an attorney have been unable to obtain public defenders to represent them.
The unprecedented action comes as Oregon’s unique public defender system has come under such strain that it is at the breaking point. Criminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without legal representation due to a shortage of public defenders filed a lawsuit in May that alleges the state is violating their constitutional right to legal counsel and a speedy trial.
In a letter to the commission members, Chief Justice Martha Walters pointed out that their duty is to “ensure that Oregon provides public defense services consistent with the Oregon Constitution, the United States Constitution, and Oregon and national standards of justice.”
“Unfortunately, it is now clear that it is time to reconstitute the current commission,” she said.
Oregon’s public defender system is the only one in the nation that relies entirely on contractors: Large nonprofit defense firms, smaller cooperating groups of private defense attorneys that contract for cases and independent attorneys who can take cases at will.
But some firms and private attorneys are periodically refusing to take new cases because of the workload. Poor pay rates and late payments from the state are also a disincentive. The American Bar Association found that Oregon has only 31% of the public defenders it needs.
Walters said “systemic change” is called for and that the commission must collaborate with Oregon’s executive and legislative branches and the public defense community “to create a better system for public defense providers.”
The Public Defense Services Commission currently has nine members, in addition to Walters who as chief justice serves as ex-officio permanent member. Walters made the dismissals effective on Tuesday and said that if any members want to serve on a reconstituted commission, they should apply by noon Tuesday.
The commission is an independent body that governs the Office of Public Defense Services and appoints its executive director. Walters told the commission last week that Executive Director Stephen Singer failed to lead the agency out of crisis, the Oregonian/OregonLive reported. The commission considered firing Singer but didn’t.
Commission member Thomas Christ told the newspaper that Walters wants Singer removed and that he believes she “decided to just fill the commission with people who’ll vote the way she wants on that issue.”
Commission member Steven Wax, who was the U.S. Public Defender for the Oregon district for 31 years and is currently legal director of the Oregon Innocence Project, said he is unhappy about the chief justice’s action.
“The commission has been working tirelessly on difficult issues and reforms,” Wax said. “Disagreement is inevitable. I was sorely disappointed to receive the chief justice’s letter.”
The chief justice appoints the commission members and can remove them, according to Oregon law.
“I never anticipated exercising this authority, but this issue is too important, and the need for change is too urgent, to delay,” Walters said.
Todd Sprague, spokesman for the Oregon Judicial Department, said that to his knowledge, the entire commission has never been dismissed before.
Oregon’s backlog has led to the dismissal of dozens of cases.
Jesse Merrithew, an attorney representing plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said being deprived of a lawyer right after an arrest causes problems that are almost impossible to overcome later on, for example in obtaining surveillance video before it is erased that could back up a defendant’s case.
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Supreme Court hears arguments in case that could further decimate Voting Rights Act By Nina Totenberg Published October 4, 2022 at 1:11 PM MST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 4:40 The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether a congressional map drawn by Alabama lawmakers violated the Voting Rights Act. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.knau.org/2022-10-04/supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-case-that-could-further-decimate-voting-rights-act | 2022-10-04 21:43:51 | 1 | https://www.knau.org/2022-10-04/supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-case-that-could-further-decimate-voting-rights-act |
NEW YORK — Stocks that are trading heavily or have substantial prices changes on Wall Street Thursday:
Kirkland’s Inc. (KIRK), down 15 cents to $3.
The home decor retailer’s first-quarter loss was bigger than analysts expected.
Oxford Industries Inc. (OXM), down $10.19 to $97.02.
The owner of the Tommy Bahama, Lilly Pulitzer and Southern Tide clothing lines trimmed its profit forecast.
Semtech Corp. (SMTC), up 96 cents to $23.40.
The chipmaker reported strong first-quarter financial results.
Signet Jewelers Ltd. (SIG), down $6.96 to $62.56.
The jewelry company cut its profit forecast for the year.
Graham Corp. (GHM), up $1.37 to $13.07.
The maker of vacuum and heat-transfer equipment beat Wall Street’s fiscal fourth-quarter financial forecasts.
Hooker Furniture Corp. (HOFT), up 42 cents to $17.46.
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1 missing, 1 dead and 11 hospitalized after boat capsizes in Colorado
PUEBLO, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) — One person is still missing after a boat capsized in Lake Pueblo Sunday night, killing one and injuring nearly a dozen others.
Eight kids and five adults were on board when the boat was knocked over.
“At 7:37 tonight our wildlife officers received a call that a boat has capsized near the North Shore area here at Lake Pueblo,” said Travis Duncan with Colorado Parks and Wildlife on Sunday. “When they responded, they found a large flat-sized boat capsized with 13 folks on board.”
One woman died before help arrived, presumably from drowning, though the county coroner will release the official cause of death. Eleven others were rescued from the water and transported to area hospitals.
“The water here is 60 degrees so it’s very cold, so we’re getting them checked out for hypothermia,” Duncan said. “We did have one child who went on a Flight for Life tonight, so just concerned about that and continuing to check in on that.”
A search is currently underway for the 13th person on board.
“It is 80-90 feet of water and we expect it to be a difficult search,” Duncan said.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking boaters to avoid the area Monday while the recovery operation is underway.
The missing person has only been identified as one of the adults from the boat. All of the kids involved in the incident are accounted for.
Exactly what caused the boat to capsize is still under investigation. KKTV reports that 40-50 mph winds crossed over the lake around 7:30 Sunday evening as a front blew in, but it’s unknown if that played any role in the incident.
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Commendation places CEC among the top 10 percent of Jointly Accredited CE providers
LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative Educational Concepts, LLC (CEC), an accredited provider of interprofessional continuing medical education (CME) and a division of KnowFully Learning Group, today announced it received Joint Accreditation with Commendation, the highest level of accreditation offered to members of its industry. The designation runs through November 2028, solidifying CEC's standing as a long-term leader in training and education for healthcare providers.
Awarded by the governing bodies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Accreditation Program (ANCC) under a coalition known as Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education, the designation process allows organizations to be simultaneously accredited to provide continuing education activities for multiple professions through a single, unified application process and set of accreditation standards.
Joint Accreditation is only awarded to providers who demonstrate 100% compliance in all 12 required criteria, while seven additional criteria chosen among several options is necessary for Commendation. As of spring 2022, there were 143 Jointly Accredited providers, just 13 of which earned Commendation, including notable institutions such as the Cleveland Clinic and Harvard Medical School.
"Receiving Joint Accreditation with Commendation validates CE Concepts as a premier source of accredited continuing education within the healthcare community," said Joni Fowler, PharmD, BCPP, CEC founder and managing director. "Our work to pursue Commendation, while daunting, motivated us to more carefully plan, deliver, and document education that met that goal. Our team is extremely proud of the distinction and we are wholly committed to fulfilling its promise by delivering world-class continuing education that – most importantly – improves outcomes for patients."
In a letter congratulating CEC, the Joint Accreditors commended the company for meeting its requirements "and for demonstrating that yours is a learning organization and a change agent for the interprofessional healthcare teams you serve."
"You have demonstrated an engagement with your environment in support of interprofessional learning and team change that is a part of a system for quality improvement," the Joint Accreditors said.
Therapeutic areas of focus include oncology, cardiology, psychology and neurology, and hematology, and CEC has educated more than 700,000 healthcare providers via more than 2,500 live and web-based CME activities since its founding in 2000.
The seven additional criteria CEC fulfilled to earn Commendation were:
- The provider engages patients as planners and teachers in accredited Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) and/or CE.
- The provider engages students of the health professions as planners and teachers in accredited IPCE and/or CE.
- The provider supports the continuous professional development of its own education team.
- The provider engages in research and scholarship related to accredited IPCE and/or CE and disseminates findings through presentation or publication.
- The provider identifies and addresses factors beyond clinical care (e.g., social determinants) that affect the health of patients and integrates those factors into accredited IPCE and/or CE.
- The provider collaborates with other organizations to address population health issues.
- The provider designs accredited IPCE and/or CE (that includes direct observation and formative feedback) to optimize communication skills of learners.
"Achieving Joint Accreditation with Commendation is a real achievement in this industry," said Susan Yarbrough, CHCP, senior director, educational excellence, for KnowFully Medical Education. "It reflects true dedication to building an effective team, infrastructure, outreach, and communications to offer the highest-quality, impactful education that will improve clinical practice and outcomes for patients."
About CE Concepts
CE Concepts designs, develops and delivers responsive continuing medical education initiatives for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and related members of the interprofessional healthcare team. CEC educational modalities include live symposia, grand rounds, chapter series, young investigator forums, resident immersion programs, interactive webinars, webcasts and on-demand web-based enduring activities, all with the concerted purpose of promoting clinician knowledge, improving clinical practice and optimizing outcomes for patients. For more information, please visit http://www.ceconcepts.com.
About KnowFully Learning Group
The KnowFully Learning Group provides continuing professional education, exam preparation courses and education resources to the accounting, finance and healthcare sectors. KnowFully's suite of learning solutions helps learners become credentialed, satisfy required credit hours to maintain credentials, and stay informed on the latest trends and critical changes in their industries over the course of their careers. The company provides exam preparation and continuing education for accounting, finance, and tax professionals under the Surgent Accounting & Financial Education brand. KnowFully's healthcare education brands include CME Outfitters, CE Concepts, PharmCon, The Rx Consultant, ChiroCredit, IA Med, EMT & Fire Training Inc., Psychotherapy.net, and American Fitness Professionals & Associates. For more information, please visit http://www.KnowFully.com.
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Your wedding day should be full of joy, laughter and fun, so the last thing you need is uncomfortable shoes slowing you down. Bridal sneakers and flats are becoming increasingly popular as more people choose to forgo heels for more practical footwear. You can find plenty of comfortable yet stylish bridal sneakers and flats, so you don’t have to choose between fashion and function.
In this article: Keds Women’s Champion Kate Spade Glitter Sneakers, Tom’s Women’s Deconstructed Alpargata Loafers and Vans Unisex Slip-on Core Classics.
What makes shoes bridal?
You might be concerned about what makes footwear bridal and whether sneakers and flats are suitable. Luckily, it’s the 21st century, and you can wear anything you want on your wedding day, so there’s no need for your shoes to be particularly “bridal.” They can look however you want them to.
Some people lean into this and wear bright red Converse or checkered Vans slip-ons on their wedding day. While this isn’t conventionally bridal, it’s an interesting choice that can look extremely stylish.
Of course, if you want your footwear to look relatively traditional, that’s fine, too. Sneakers and flats worn with a wedding dress tend to be white or off-white. Flats may be lacy or have diamante detailing. Sequins and glitter are also popular for bridal flats and sneakers, adding a touch of sparkle to your outfit.
Bridal sneakers vs. flats
If you’re still not sure whether you want sneakers or flats for your wedding day, it’s time to consider the advantages and drawbacks of each.
- Sneakers: These are popular for brides who prioritize comfort and practicality. They’re more supportive and comfortable than most other flats, which is great when you’re on your feet all day, mingling with guests or dancing the night away. Sneakers also come in various styles and colors, so you can easily find a pair that complements or contrasts your wedding dress and suits your style.
- Flats: Flats are a classic choice if you’re looking for something more formal and traditional. They’re less comfortable and supportive than sneakers but significantly more so than heels. With so many styles available, from simple to embellished, you can find ones that suit your style and wedding theme.
What to look for in bridal sneakers and flats
These are some of the factors you might want to consider when choosing the perfect bridal sneakers or flats.
- Comfort: You’re likely to be on your feet more than usual on your wedding day, flitting between guests and hitting the dance floor. Choosing shoes that are comfortable to wear for extended periods is essential. Look for shoes with adequate support and cushioning.
- Color: If you’re looking for something with a traditional slant, pick white or off-white. However, there’s no need to stick to this color palette. White goes with anything, so even when you’re wearing a white dress, you can choose bright shoes to contrast it and add a pop of color. Fashion rules are made to be broken, and it’s your big day, so choose shoes you love.
- Weather: The weather can also significantly affect your shoe choice. Consider what the weather is likely to be when you’re getting married. If you’re having an outdoor wedding, think about buying water-resistant shoes. If it’s going to be hot, look for shoes made from breathable materials.
- Cost: You can spend anywhere from $20 to $200 on average wedding flats or sneakers. You could even spend significantly more on high-end designer footwear. While how much you’re willing to spend depends on your budget, think about whether these are shoes you’ll wear again after your wedding. If you can wear them day-to-day, you might feel better about shelling out for them.
Best bridal sneakers and flats
Badgley Mischka Women’s Gigi Pointed Toe Flats
Anyone looking for a blend of traditional style and all-day comfort should consider these flats. The ivory hue is the most classic choice for a wedding, but you can also pick black, burgundy or pewter. The faux crystals bring sparkle to the table.
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These lace ballet flats are somewhere between smart and relaxed, with a boho feel. The beige and white options are subtle for your wedding day, but there are also black, red, navy and gray versions.
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Keds Women’s Champion Kate Spade Glitter Sneakers
With their glittery finish and ribbon shoelaces, these sneakers are ideal for a wedding. White and cream are classic options, but you could also go for eight other shades, including platinum gold, rose gold and pewter.
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Keds Women’s Kickstart Mini Sequin Sneakers
These black sneakers are covered in sequins that shine in rainbow hues when the light hits them, making them an eye-catching choice for your wedding day.
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Tom’s Women’s Deconstructed Alpargata Loafers
These flats’ delicate lace finish is balanced by the braided rope around the outside of the sole, making them look smart but not fussy. Their comfortable sneaker-like soles offer more padding and support than average flats.
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Roxy Women’s Bayshore Slip-on Sneakers
Slip-on sneakers are convenient for your wedding day. They’re great for anyone who wants to quickly and easily change from heels for the ceremony and photos into sneakers for the reception or for dancing. The white is a classic bridal choice, but there are 26 solid colors and patterns.
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Tommy Hilfiger Women’s Anni Slip-on Sneakers
Tommy Hilfiger fans will love these with sneakers sporting the brand’s logo. They’re ideal for anyone who wants to slip some casual designer style into their wedding outfit.
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Vans Unisex Slip-on Core Classics
Effortlessly stylish and extremely comfortable, these slip-ons are perfect for those who want relaxed footwear on their wedding day. White is an obvious choice for a wedding, but you can choose from 71 other options, including black and white check and floral hibiscus print.
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Superga Unisex Low-Top Sneakers
Thanks to their chunky platform sole, these Superga sneakers are perfect for anyone who wants comfort on their wedding day while also gaining a bit of height. There is a range of white and off-white choices, plus brighter hues — 40 in all.
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These Puma shoes offer a sporty look and a comfortable sole. The wedge styling also offers a bit of height, similar to the shoe above. It’s available in other colors and color combinations as well.
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STS XPJ-1682D 64" DTF Printer from Japan Has a Staggered Dual-Head Design that Provides Ultra-Fast Print Speeds, Smooth Gradations, and High Quality Printing
BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STS Inks, a global leader in the wide format, industrial and household inkjet ink market, today announced the launch of the STS XPJ-1682D 64" Direct to Film (DTF) Printer from Japan. The first units of the product will be distributed to dealers in the United States in September 2022.
The XPJ-1682D has a staggered dual-head design that provides ultra-fast print speeds. It also produces smooth gradations while delivering high-quality printing even with reduced resolution. The printer as SAI's Flexi DTF Edition RIP Software, bundled with Flexi DTF Editor. The XPJ-1682D also features automatic bi-directional alignments, a user-friendly touch panel, added LED lighting, and an upgraded media feed flange that allows operators to load media and exchange multiple roles easily and quickly.
Specific features of the XPJ-1682D printer include the following:
- STS DTF Inks (CMYK Lm Lc White White)
- Built-in color sensor for auto bidirectional alignments
- Improved feed mechanism corresponding to a wide range of media
- MUTOH Status Monitor (MSM) checks printer status in real time and print history
- Media flange allows for easy media loading
- White ink circulation
- Nozzle area selection
- Drop Master 2 Technology
"The printer's features are designed specifically to increase user friendly operation and maintenance while continuing to offer high production, high-quality output," said Shahar Turgeman, who founded STS Inks in 1999. "The printer is paired with STS's DTF ink, which of course offers users excellent color gamut and outstanding durability."
With the first units of the product being distributed to dealers in the United States in September 2022, customers should contact their dealers directly.
For more information, please visit www.STSInks.com.
STS Inks® is the largest digital ink production company in the United States and global leader in the wide format, industrial and household inkjet ink market. The company's 35,000 square foot U.S. manufacturing facility located in Boca Raton, Florida handles the development, production, packaging and distribution of a huge variety of products, including premium quality inks compatible with most major brands of large format printers. STS Inks was founded by Shahar Turgeman in 1999 and he was joined by his business partner Adam M. Shafran in 2009. The company has a worldwide network of distributors in the United States as well as over 150 countries throughout South America, Europe and Asia. The company has offices in the U.S., Amsterdam and Medellin and warehouses in the U.S., Europe and South America for fast and easy delivery. For more information, please visit www.STSInks.com.
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June 21st – Meet Scraps!
Scraps is a 9 month-old neutered male.
He is a very sweet but somewhat timid dog.
He can be very loving and if you give him any attention he will be by your side instantly.
He is great with dogs and kids, we are unsure how he is with cats.
If you’re interested in Scraps, you can contact the Broome County Humane Society
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KATMANDÚ, Nepal (AP) — Policía: Desaparece un avión con 22 personas a bordo en las montañas de Nepal.
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Our crawfish boil stories brought this one from Warren Byrd, of Baton Rouge:
"My son, Matthew, and daughter-in-law, Allison, have three wonderful boys, all born in New Orleans.
"Or so we thought…
"Recently, middle son Robert, age 6, gave us pause on whether he is truly a Louisianan.
"The entire family was on its way to New Orleans for an event. From the back seat, Robert asked what they were going to do. Matthew told him they were going to a crawfish boil sponsored by his work.
"Then came this confusing statement:
"Robert said, 'I don’t like crawfish. But I love spaghetti. Why don’t we go to a spaghetti boil instead?"
Cool threads
Shooter Mullins comments on our un-fond memories of Nehru jackets:
"I go back farther than that. I had a pearl-grey Xavier Cugat jacket that looked boss, for sure. We're talking maybe 1953, when I was in San Antonio."
(Cugat, a Spanish-born musician and bandleader, was a leading figure in the spread of Latin music, and leader of the orchestra at New York's Waldorf–Astoria before and after World War II. He was famed as a snappy dresser.)
Cool threads II
Bill Huey, of Baton Rouge, comments on our Thursday story about putting those purple Crown Royal bags over a car's side mirror to keep birds from attacking it:
"Bucktown Bill's story about the Crown Royal bag reminded me of a well-known lobbyist (and former state senator) in Atlanta, Arthur B. "Skin" Edge.
"He once had an entire suit made of Crown Royal bags.
"Part of a lobbyist's essential attire, I guess."
(Only if he's lobbying for that liquor company.)
Eat your fish
"Nancy," a native Californian, agreed with our story about the joys of "sand dabs' at San Francisco's Tadich Grill:
"I got to eat them many times (when they were available), sauteed in butter! They are a delicate and mild-tasting bottom fish.
"Fun fact: Jimmy Stewart, portraying Charles Lindbergh in the movie 'Spirit of St. Louis,' is introduced to sand dabs in San Diego, at the hangar where the plane is to be built.
"It is lunchtime, and the builder has been welding and cooking sand dabs. He offers some to Jimmy Stewart/Charles Lindbergh who, of course, loves them!"
Service station days
Nic Ourso, of Baton Rouge, says, "I wonder if anyone pumping gas at a convenience store remembers pulling into a gas station, sitting in your vehicle as a guy waiting at the pump gave you the amount of gas requested, then making the payment by handing cash (no credit cards) to him, and moving on with a full tank of gas."
Special People Dept.
— Conrad and Beverly Joffrion, of Plaquemine, celebrate 62 years of marriage Sunday, June 11. They were childhood neighbors and lifelong residents of Plaquemine.
— Col. Ron and Kristie Thomas, of Mandeville, celebrate their 50th anniversary with a renewal of vows in Natchitoches Saturday, June 10. He is retired senior Army advisor to the adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard; she is retired director of change management and communication for the Department of the Navy.”
— George and Mary Helmer, of Lafayette, celebrate their 50th anniverary Friday, June 9. He is an LSU graduate and retired clinical chemist; she is an LSU graduate and retired principal.
— Peggy and Roger Alleman, of Plattenville, celebrated 50 years of marriage Thursday, June 8.
— Hilbert and Charlene Robins, of Baton Rouge, celebrate their 50th anniversary Friday, June 9.
Talking cars
Our bumper sticker/license plate collection continues to grow:
Suzanne Crow, of Covington, says they get "lots of furtive glances and bemused chuckles in the church parking lot when folks notice our plate: ‘OLDCROW.’”
Vicki Hannan says, "Several years ago I was driving in Baton Rouge behind an iconic Ford Falcon. The license plate read: 'MALTESE.'" | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/smiley_anders/smiley-yeah-one-like-the-sopranos-had/article_a3abd826-0553-11ee-b9ae-4786afbd41dc.html | 2023-06-08 22:15:51 | 0 | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/smiley_anders/smiley-yeah-one-like-the-sopranos-had/article_a3abd826-0553-11ee-b9ae-4786afbd41dc.html |
Completed successful demonstration of laser-optical measurement of turbofan thrust
Developing in flight application for thrust and particulate emissions measurement
PARIS, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PARIS AIR SHOW -- Pratt & Whitney and Virginia Tech today announced a pioneering new technology for calculating thrust using lasers to enable high fidelity measurement of key gas turbine engine parameters including velocity, temperature, and density. Known as Filtered Rayleigh Scattering for Thrust measurement (FRST), this new optical instrumentation technique offers significant advantages compared to traditional sensors and probes, which will support the development of more efficient engine core technologies and could enable the measurement of non-CO2 particulate emissions in flight.
"The ability to use lasers and optical sensors represents a major step forward in engine instrumentation technology and is testament to the longstanding collaboration within the Pratt & Whitney Center of Excellence at Virginia Tech," said Geoff Hunt, senior vice president, engineering and technology, Pratt & Whitney. "FRST provides a less intrusive and more cost-effective method for measuring a range of engine metrics. We see exciting potential for FRST to help advance gas turbine propulsion technologies, particularly involving smaller and more thermally efficient engine cores, which are key to our next generation military and sustainable commercial engines."
A patent-pending technology, FRST makes use of the ultraviolet light spectrum and relies on the principle that light scattering back from air molecules passing over a laser-illuminated area can provide information about the gas flow field, from which thrust can be derived. Applied to a turbofan engine, the light is provided by a laser beam directed across the turbine's gas path, while the resulting scatter is recorded by a high-performance camera and "filtered" for corruptions in the signal.
FRST optical instrumentation potentially eliminates the need for traditional sensors and probes, which can be difficult to install and cause flow blockage, particularly on smaller engine cores where space is limited. FRST also presents opportunities to measure non-CO2 particulate emissions, which could contribute to industry wide efforts to understand and mitigate the environmental impact of those emissions, particularly with regard to contrail formation.
"Though the principle of Rayleigh scattering has been known for centuries, Pratt & Whitney and Virginia Tech engineers have harnessed recent advancements in computing power, laser and camera technology to demonstrate the first successful application on a turbofan engine," said Todd Lowe, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Virginia Tech. "As we work towards in-flight demonstrations of FRST, we expect the technology will have other applications in the development and certification of aircraft engines."
Pratt & Whitney and Virginia Tech's joint research team successfully measured engine thrust using FRST optical techniques on a research engine in a test stand at Virginia Tech recording similar accuracy to that of traditional sensors and probes. The teams are working towards flight testing the technology.
Pratt & Whitney and Virginia Tech have a long-standing collaboration in propulsion technology development, with a focus on advanced instrumentation. The collaboration enables multiple graduate level projects and internships at Virginia Tech and Pratt & Whitney.
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PITTSBURGH, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a bullet that would travel with increased velocity and distance when fired," said an inventor, from Selmar, Calif., "so I invented the HYPER- POINT. My design could be used to make quick, clean and accurate shots."
The invention provides an improved type of ammunition for firearms. In doing so, it offers an alternative to traditional bullets. As a result, it increases speed, accuracy and range and it could enhance performance among shooters. The invention features an innovative design that is ideal for the owners of firearms, hunters, military, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Los Angeles sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-LAX-1420, 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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Was there some Naptown influence in Rihanna's Super Bowl performance?
RiRi doing the Day-Day?
Fans of the “Friday'' movie sequels might have noticed something familiar with Rihanna’s half-time performance during the Super Bowl.
At one point in her show, the Barbadian singer/entrepreneur busted out into the butterfly.
Naptown-born comedian Mike Epps brought awareness to the similarities Tuesday by posting an Instagram video with the text, “Rihanna hit that Mike Epps Butterfly at the Super Bowl” and showing a snippet of her moves from Sunday’s performance along with his top-flight butterfly/tootsie roll dance from the big screen. He commented with a stream of laughing emojis.
Move over, Two Chicks:HGTV greenlights Mike Epps' show set in Indianapolis
Plenty of folks saw the resemblance and lots of celebrities responded with their own laughing emojis, including rapper Busta Rhymes, comedian DC Young Fly, Indy’s own celeb manager and promoter Amp Harris – and even Rihanna’s partner A$AP Rocky.
Director Malcolm D. Lee (“The Best Man,” “Girls Trip”) co-signed with a hardy “Shol did.”
No word on whether Rocky showed the post to Rihanna, who revealed to 113 million viewers Sunday that she is pregnant with the couple’s second child.
Epps is hosting the standup comedytour"Straight Jokes! No Chaser" featuring Cedric the Entertainer, Earthquake, D.L. Hughley and DC Young Fly, that kicks off at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Saturday, March 4.
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Formus combines AI and biomechanics to empower orthopedic surgeons with fully interactive 3D surgical plans that optimize the preoperative (pre-op) planning process
WARSAW, Ind., May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Formus Labs today announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Formus Hip as the first "automated radiological image processing software" for hip replacement pre-op planning. The New Zealand-founded company previously announced its intent to expand to the US and today's announcement signifies Formus has cleared the last major hurdle before it can start making its solution widely available to surgeons and healthcare providers.
Nearly two million joints are replaced every year worldwide and that number is set to double by the end of the decade. Pre-op planning allows surgeons to create a custom surgical plan in advance. However, surgeons are often time constrained due to large caseloads and busy practices. This leaves little time for proactive preoperatively planning, consistently for every case. Additionally, planning individual surgeries can be very time-consuming, sometimes taking days or weeks to complete, which is simply not sustainable or scalable for surgeons with multiple procedures a day.
Formus expedites the joint replacement planning process by combining AI and computational biomechanics to calculate a patient's implant fit and deliver digestible, actionable and fully-interactive 3D surgical plans. This innovative pre-operative planning technology provides a surgeon with a personalized curated patient surgical plan before the patient enters the operating room. This technology provides highly accurate outputs from scan to plan in under an hour.
"Today is a huge milestone in our journey to bring cutting-edge, pre-op surgery planning tools to surgeons, not only to make their work easier and more efficient, but also has the potential to improve the outcomes for their patients," said Dr. Ju Zhang, founder and CEO of Formus Labs. "FDA clearance serves as significant validation of the accuracy and rigor of our AI models. The surgeons who have used the Formus platform in Australia and New Zealand tell us they like having pre-op plans that make facing any unforeseen challenges on the day of the surgery easier to overcome because of the thorough understanding of each patient's physiology. It also has huge potential to save costs, time spent on logistics, and inventory. We're excited to bring those same potential savings to providers in the US now too."
"The technology underlying the Formus solution helps drive potential improvement in orthopedic patient outcomes. We're thrilled the 510(k) approval now allows us to fully unlock our US commercialization strategy to achieve positive outcomes for more patients," Vignesh Kumar, co-managing partner at GD1 and Formus board member. "Formus is a great example of a digital health solution that balances the delicate 'iron triangle' of cost, access, and quality while addressing those core pain points in an elegant manner."
About Formus Labs
Formus Labs is the creator of an AI-powered 3D planner for joint replacement surgeries. Formus Labs has core capabilities in computational biomechanics, artificial intelligence and software engineering, bringing together these key elements to deliver cutting-edge orthopedic solutions. Founded from within the world-renowned Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Formus empowers surgeons to improve the lives of patients worldwide. For more information, visit formuslabs.com.
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Christopher Shaw to hold news conference with Attorneys and Rainbow PUSH Coalition
BEAUMONT, Texas, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Christopher Shaw, the 41-year-old black man who was paralyzed by a Beumont Police Officer while he was in custody for public intoxication on June 12, 2021, will join his attorneys and representatives from Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition for an important announcement tomorrow (July 14, 2022) at 10:00 AM in front of Beumont's Federal Courthouse (300 Willow St, Beaumont, TX). Shaw is represented by renowned Civil Rights attorneys Harry Daniels (The Law Offices of Harry Daniels), Chimeaka White (The White Law Firm) and Chance Lynch (Lynch Law).
Body camera video of the incident shows that Shaw was handcuffed and restrained by deputies at the Jefferson County jail when Beaumont Police Officer James Gillen "body slammed" him onto the jail's concrete floor. Shaw, who posed no physical threat to Gillen or any of the officers present, landed on his head breaking his neck.
Shaw's attorneys have viewed the video while officials with the Beaumont Police Department has refused to release it publicly. Tomorrow's announcement follows national outrage over Randy Cox, the 36-year-old black man paralyzed while being transported by police in New Haven, Connecticut.
WHO
Christopher Shaw
Attorney Harry Daniels
Attorney Chimeaka White
Attorney Chance Lynch
The Rainbow PUSH Coalition
WHEN
10:00 AM on Thursday, July 14, 2022
WHERE
Jack Brooks Federal Building and United States Courthouse
(Front Steps)
300 Willow St. Beaumont, Texas
Tuesday's news conference will begin promptly at 10:00 AM. Media are asked to arrive no later than 9:45 AM.
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FRISCO, Texas, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ever.Ag, a leading agtech provider dedicated to empowering supply chains to feed a growing world, continues to distinguish itself as a dedicated and knowledgeable partner to its customers through the launch of its new customer support resource. The Ever.Ag Customer Success Portal now provides around-the-clock access to product support, documentation, and related resources.
"In all of the agriculture sectors we support, from dairy to crops to livestock, we empower our clients by being a partner as well as a technology provider," said Ever.Ag CEO Scott Sexton. "We are always looking for innovative ways to support their success, and our new portal will help everyone stay connected to the resources they need."
Ever.Ag's customers will find multiple resources within the portal, including step-by-step user guides, support case status information, FAQ documents, product update announcements, company and industry news articles, live online discussion forums, and specialized product training.
The initial launch features resources for 14 of the company's products, and more will be added soon. A dedicated team of customer success, support, and professional services representatives will monitor the portal and continue to respond to support cases.
For more information, please visit News.Ever.Ag/Customer-Success.
Ever.Ag offers innovative AgTech solutions and services that empower agriculture, food, and beverage supply chains to feed a growing world. The breadth of the portfolio is uniquely capable of supporting the complex needs of companies involved in dairy, livestock, crops, and agribusiness. With decades of experience and industry-leading innovations, our technology, risk management, and market intelligence provide our customers with the tools and insights they need to operate more efficiently, sustainably, and strategically across every stage of the supply chain. To learn more, visit News.Ever.Ag.
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy energy industry press releases from PR Newswire, including updates in green energy, sustainable aviation fuel, and nuclear reactors.
NEW YORK, July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the energy and natural resources industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Monday that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, an operation he said delivered justice and hopefully “one more measure of closure” to families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
The president said in an evening address from the White House that U.S. intelligence officials tracked al-Zawahri to a home in downtown Kabul where he was hiding out with his family. The president approved the operation last week and it was carried out Sunday.
Al-Zawahri and the better-known Osama bin Laden plotted the 9/11 attacks that brought many ordinary Americans their first knowledge of al-Qaida. Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, in operation carried out by U.S. Navy SEALs after a nearly decade-long hunt.
As for Al-Zawahri, Biden said, “He will never again, never again, allow Afghanistan to become a terrorist safe haven because he is gone and we’re going to make sure that nothing else happens.”
“This terrorist leader is no more,” he added.
The operation is a significant counterterrorism win for the Biden administration just 11 months after American troops left the country after a two-decade war.
The strike was carried out by the CIA, according to five people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Neither Biden nor the White House detailed the CIA’s involvement in the strike.
Biden, however, paid tribute to the U.S. intelligence community in his remarks, noting that “thanks to their extraordinary persistence and skill” the operation was a success.
Al-Zawahri’s death eliminates the figure who more than anyone shaped al-Qaida, first as bin Laden’s deputy since 1998, then as his successor. Together, he and bin Laden turned the jihadi movement’s guns to target the United States, carrying out the deadliest attack ever on American soil — the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings.
The house Al-Zawahri was in when he was killed was owned by a top aide to senior Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, according to a senior intelligence official. The official also added that a CIA ground team and aerial reconnaissance conducted after the drone strike confirmed al-Zawahri’s death.
A senior administration official who briefed reporters on the operation on condition of anonymity said “zero” U.S. personnel were in Kabul.
Over the 20-year war in Afghanistan, the U.S. targeted and splintered al-Qaida, sending leaders into hiding. But America’s exit from Afghanistan last September gave the extremist group the opportunity to rebuild.
U.S. military officials, including Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have said al-Qaida was trying to reconstitute in Afghanistan, where it faced limited threats from the now-ruling Taliban. Military leaders have warned that the group still aspired to attack the U.S.
After his killing, the White House underscored that al-Zawahri had continued to be a dangerous figure. The senior administration official said al-Zawahri had continued to “provide strategic direction,” including urging attacks on the U.S., while in hiding. He had also prioritized to members of the terror network that the United States remained al-Qaida’s “primary enemy,” the official said.
The 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon made bin Laden America’s Enemy No. 1. But he likely could never have carried it out without his deputy. Bin Laden provided al-Qaida with charisma and money, but al-Zawahri brought tactics and organizational skills needed to forge militants into a network of cells in countries around the world.
U.S. intelligence officials have been aware for years of a network helping al-Zawahri dodge U.S. intelligence officials hunting for him, but didn’t have a bead on his possible location until recent months.
Earlier this year, U.S. officials learned that the terror leader’s wife, daughter and her children had relocated to a safe house in Kabul, according to the senior administration official who briefed reporters.
Officials eventually learned al-Zawahri was also at the Kabul safe house.
In early April, White House deputy national security adviser Jon Finer and Biden’s homeland security adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall were briefed on this developing intelligence. Soon the intelligence was carried up to national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
Sullivan brought the information to Biden as U.S. intelligence officials built “a pattern of life through multiple independent sources of information to inform the operation,” the official said.
Senior Taliban figures were aware of al-Zawahri’s presence in Kabul, according to the official, who added the Taliban government was given no forewarning of the operation.
Inside the Biden administration, only a small group of officials at key agencies, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris, were brought into the process. Through May and June, Biden was updated several times on the growing mound of intelligence that confirmed al-Zawahri was hiding out in the home. Over the last few weeks, Biden brought together several Cabinet officials and key national security officials to scrutinize the intelligence findings.
On July 1, Biden was briefed in the Situation Room about the planned operation, a briefing in which the president closely examined a scale model of the home Zawahri was hiding out in. He gave his final approval for the operation on Thursday. Al-Zawahri was on the balcony of his hideout on Sunday when two Hellfire missiles were launched from an unmanned drone, killing him.
Al-Zawahri’s family was in another part of the house when the operation was carried out, and no one else was believed to have been killed in the operation, the official said.
“We make it clear again tonight: That no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the United States will find you and take you out,” Biden said.
Al-Zawahri was hardly a household name like bin Laden, but he played an enormous role in the terror group’s operations.
The two terror leaders’ bond was forged in the late 1980s, when al-Zawahri reportedly treated the Saudi millionaire bin Laden in the caves of Afghanistan as Soviet bombardment shook the mountains around them.
Al-Zawahri, on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list, had a $25 million bounty on his head for any information that could be used to kill or capture him.
Al-Zawhiri and bin Laden plotted the 9/11 attacks that brought many ordinary Americans their first knowledge of al-Qaida.
Photos from the time often showed the glasses-wearing, mild-looking Egyptian doctor sitting by the side of bin Laden. Al-Zawahiri had merged his group of Egyptian militants with bin Laden’s al-Qaida in the 1990s.
“The strong contingent of Egyptians applied organizational know-how, financial expertise, and military experience to wage a violent jihad against leaders whom the fighters considered to be un-Islamic and their patrons, especially the United States,” Steven A. Cook wrote for the Council on Foreign Relations last year.
When the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan demolished al-Qaida’s safe haven and scattered, killed and captured its members, al-Zawahri ensured al-Qaida’s survival. He rebuilt its leadership in the Afghan-Pakistan border region and installed allies as lieutenants in key positions.
He also reshaped the organization from a centralized planner of terror attacks into the head of a franchise chain. He led the assembling of a network of autonomous branches around the region, including in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, North Africa, Somalia, Yemen and Asia. Over the next decade, al-Qaida inspired or had a direct hand in attacks in all those areas as well as Europe, Pakistan and Turkey, including the 2004 train bombings in Madrid and the 2005 transit bombings in London.
More recently, the al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen proved itself capable of plotting attacks against U.S. soil with an attempted 2009 bombing of an American passenger jet and an attempted package bomb the following year.
But even before bin Laden’s death, al-Zawahri was struggling to maintain al-Qaida’s relevance in a changing Middle East.
He tried with little success to coopt the wave of uprisings that spread across the Arab world starting in 2011, urging Islamic hard-liners to take over in the nations where leaders had fallen. But while Islamists gained prominence in many places, they have stark ideological differences with al-Qaida and reject its agenda and leadership.
Nevertheless, al-Zawahri tried to pose as the Arab Spring’s leader. America “is facing an Islamic nation that is in revolt, having risen from its lethargy to a renaissance of jihad,” he said in a video eulogy to bin Laden, wearing a white robe and turban with an assault rifle leaning on a wall behind him.
Al-Zawahri was also a more divisive figure than his predecessor. Many militants described the soft-spoken bin Laden in adoring and almost spiritual terms.
In contrast, al-Zawahri was notoriously prickly and pedantic. He picked ideological fights with critics within the jihadi camp, wagging his finger scoldingly in his videos. Even some key figures in al-Qaida’s central leadership were put off, calling him overly controlling, secretive and divisive.
Some militants whose association with bin Laden predated al-Zawahri’s always saw him as an arrogant intruder.
“I have never taken orders from al-Zawahri,” Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, one of the network’s top figures in East Africa until his 2011 death, sneered in a memoir posted on line in 2009. “We don’t take orders from anyone but our historical leadership.”
There had been rumors of al-Zawahri’s death on and off for several years. But a video surfaced in April of the al-Qaida leader praising a Indian Muslim woman who had defied a ban on wearing a hijab, or headscarf. That footage was the first proof in months that he was still alive.
A statement from Afghanistan’s Taliban government confirmed the airstrike, but did not mention al-Zawahri or any other casualties.
It said the Taliban “strongly condemns this attack and calls it a clear violation of international principles and the Doha Agreement,” the 2020 U.S. pact with the Taliban that led to the withdrawal of American forces.
“Such actions are a repetition of the failed experiences of the past 20 years and are against the interests of the United States of America, Afghanistan, and the region,” the statement said.
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‘Big Bang Theory’ star Johnny Galecki lists Spanish hideaway for $11.9 million
Actor Johnny Galecki, who’s best known for his role in the hit CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” is shopping around his Spanish-style villa in Hollywood Hills for $11.9 million.
The listing comes as no surprise. Galecki was looking for a tenant to move into the compound last year, offering it up for rent at $45,000 per month.
He paid $9.2 million for the property in 2015, becoming the latest actor to inhabit the home. Ben Stiller owned the place for over a decade, during which he oversaw an expansion and restoration from Roman & Williams, a design firm that worked with Stiller on the set of his 2003 film “Duplex” before bigger projects for the Ace Hotel in Brooklyn and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In 2011, Stiller sold the leafy retreat for $7.325 million to action star Jason Statham, who passed it onto Galecki four years later.
Originally built in 1929, the private villa is tucked behind walls and wood gates on half an acre of tropical landscaping. Pathways navigate the grounds, leading to fountains, arches, gardens, lawns and a mosaic tile swimming pool. Behind the home, a loggia connects to a guesthouse.
The living spaces are brimming with Spanish style. Dark beams hang above colorful tile floors in the common spaces, which include a living room with a dramatic wall of built-ins and whitewashed brick kitchen.
Elsewhere are six bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms, a movie theater, office and game room in 7,415 square feet. Another highlight comes in the speakeasy pub, where tin ceilings top a lavish bar.
Brett Lawyer of Hilton & Hyland holds the listing.
A native of Belgium, Galecki became one of the highest-paid TV actors in the world for his role as Leonard Hofstadter in “The Big Bang Theory,” which ran for 12 seasons from 2007 to 2019. His other credits include “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” “Suicide Kings” and “Rings.”
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“They went from way too much inventory that you could not push a cart down the aisles to having nothing in the store.” Gail DiPietro Vozzi, via Facebook “If you die from drugs sold by a company knowing they’re harmful, it gets fines. Zero days in jail.” Alex Rodriguez, via Facebook “Time to stop spending many of millions of dollars on sand dunes that just wash away.” John Abbott, via PressofAC.com “Why? They should be finding out why whales are dying and washing ashore.” Susan Shumski Atwood, via Facebook “It only would have taken him a few seconds to see if the bullets in the gun were real.” Thomas Anthony, via Facebook “Good. He exploited the emotional trauma of hundreds of people for his own personal gain.” Nicholas Signorello, via Facebook “Too bad he’s not going out on top. He’s a cry baby.” Carol Somers Tidwell, via Facebook “Come on, man. You’re giving criminals a bad name.” Michael Oakes, via Facebook “Nonsense. The GDP went up in a straight line for the last seven years under Obama and had no ‘Trump Bump’ after the tax reduction debacle.” Ken Weaver, via PressofAC.com “Will needs to do his time first. Maybe in the future.” Marianne Newenhouse, via Facebook “Whoever runs for office should be required to have a background check that is made public before they can run.” Darlene Scribner Maro, via Facebook “Should be banned from all games for good.” Frank Trocchio, via Facebook | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/letters/digital-voices-feb-7-2023/article_0a71a0b2-a420-11ed-9f93-8b14dfc8cd79.html | 2023-02-07 05:48:20 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/letters/digital-voices-feb-7-2023/article_0a71a0b2-a420-11ed-9f93-8b14dfc8cd79.html |
As summer approaches, LSU plant specialist Raj Singh is warning growers of tomatoes, peppers and other vegetables to beware of a particularly deadly bacteria that may be lurking underground.
Caused by soil-born bacterium, Southern bacterial wilt is a plant disease that can decimate solanaceous vegetables like peppers, tomatoes and eggplant.
While the bacteria can remain present in the soil for up to five years, it can kill a vegetable plant within a week.
"Southern bacterial welt is a soil-born disease; that means it can stay in the soil for several years even in the absence of the host," Singh said. "So if you had this disease in the previous year and you’re planting another solanaceous crop like eggplants, peppers or tomatoes, then the bacteria is already there and they will get the infection from the previous year.”
Southern bacterial wilt can spread easily, from contaminated soil under a boot or shoe to quickly through the irrigation systems set up in many gardens.
With warm temperatures and rainy weather, Singh said, Louisiana has the perfect conditions for Southern bacterial wilt to thrive.
“It’s one of those diseases that spreads very easily and develops very easily. Our environment is so conducive and weather conditions are so conducive for it to develop and spread," he said. "At the same time, it’s very hard to manage.”
Because there is no effective treatment to kill the bacteria, tomato farmers or home growers have limited measures they can implement to prevent bacterial wilt from impacting their vegetables.
"We don’t have any chemical control management for this disease, so it takes a combination of good agronomic practices to manage the disease," Singh said. "So the idea here is to keep the bacteria population low enough that it’s unable to cause that clogging of the water channels and cause the plants to wilt."
To keep an eye out for Southern bacteria wilt, Singh said, growers should check plants in the evening to see if they're wilting.
"Wilting is caused by a lack of water, but the lack of water is because the water channels are clogged," he said. "It will take some time for the pathogen to clog the channels, so if you start seeing the plants are wilting more and more on that second or third day, that means you have that bacterial wilt.”
Singh said now is a good time to check for Southern bacterial wilt because its worst impacts to overall yield come if found early in the season.
"It can be pretty damaging because the bacteria can spread with irrigation water, so if you have 20 tomato plants and you have this disease, you may not harvest any fruit because it’s coming early in the season.”
While there isn't much to be done once in your vegetable bed, Singh said, preventative measures such as a deep clean of all garden equipment and contained beds can help separate infected areas and prevent spread.
“It’s a serious disease for solanaceous vegetables; it’s devastating because once you have that disease in your bed then chances are you won’t enjoy your tomatoes," he said. | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/environment/this-soil-bacteria-could-decimate-tomatoes-peppers/article_09afe6f0-fff8-11ed-a9d2-9b74830a740b.html | 2023-06-05 01:15:45 | 0 | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/environment/this-soil-bacteria-could-decimate-tomatoes-peppers/article_09afe6f0-fff8-11ed-a9d2-9b74830a740b.html |
MUNICH and NEW YORK, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BMW announced a collaboration today at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum with internationally acclaimed New York-based artist Julie Mehretu to create the 20th BMW Art Car. Mehretu was unanimously chosen by an international jury of 13 museum directors and curators, including Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Galleries), Richard Armstrong (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), Koyo Kouoh (Zeitz MOCAA) and Okwui Enwezor (1963 – 2019). BMW will enter Mehretu's BMW M Hybrid V8 Art Car in the 24 Hour race of Le Mans in June 2024. This almost 50-year tradition has delighted not only motorsport enthusiasts but anyone into design or the arts, technology and mobility. Since 1975, artists such as Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Esther Mahlangu, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Cao Fei, and John Baldessari have created cars for BMW.
"I've loved cars for most of my life, as toys, as objects, as possibilities. It is from that space that I'm really excited to be working on the next BMW Art Car more than anything," says Julie Mehretu. "The thrill of the speed, the 24 Hour race of Le Mans and what is possible to invent in hybrid and fully electric vehicles as future modes of play and pushing ahead into new terrains of transportation and motorsports."
In addition to the car, Mehretu's concept includes a Translocal Media Workshop Series, taking place in eight African cities. The outcome of the workshops will be presented together with the 20th BMW Art Car at the Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town in 2025.
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Email: Doris.Fleischer@bmw.de
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Four of the Republicans whose votes against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) led to a historic four-day Speakership floor fight last week will get new roles on top committees.
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and first-term Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) will join the House Financial Services Committee, while Reps. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) and Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) will join the House Appropriations Committee.
The House Republican Steering Committee, a panel of around 30 leaders and elected regional representatives, met on Wednesday to make selections for the so-called A committees: the powerful Appropriations, Ways and Means, Financial Services, and Energy and Commerce panels. It has not yet populated the other committees.
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), another one of the 20 members who voted against McCarthy, will keep his slot on the Financial Services Committee. He joined the panel in June 2022.
Clyde told The Hill on Wednesday that he was “very excited” to join the Appropriations panel and work to pass 12 regular individual appropriations bills — a commitment that McCarthy made to secure the Speakership. Congress has not approved all 12 of those regular bills on time since 1997.
“Conservatives need to be represented on these committees in order to make sure that we have a government that is financially and fiscally responsible,” Clyde said.
GOP leadership and the McCarthy detractors who eventually negotiated concessions that led to his election on the 15th ballot have said that no one was promised specific committee assignments as part of their deal.
But House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said during a press conference on Tuesday that the agreement involved “making sure that our committees are represented by a whole swath of our membership,” a commitment that has also been described as ensuring that hard-line conservative members like those in the House Freedom Caucus have spots on top committees.
Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas), a House Freedom Caucus member who was supportive of McCarthy during the floor battle, was also named to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The issue of desired committee assignments became a brief flashpoint during the Speaker battle. Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) alleged that after they asked for more conservative representation on top committees, McCarthy asked for a list of which members might want to sit on various panels and then used that list to portray the holdouts as trying to exert personal profile-boosting concessions. | https://www.wivb.com/hill-politics/handful-of-mccarthy-detractors-get-new-top-committee-assignments/ | 2023-01-12 01:18:31 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/hill-politics/handful-of-mccarthy-detractors-get-new-top-committee-assignments/ |
ATLANTA, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jo Kirchner, CEO of Primrose Schools, was honored with the International Franchise Association (IFA) Entrepreneur of the Year award at the 2023 IFA Annual Convention in Las Vegas this week. Under Kirchner's leadership, Primrose Schools is a premium early education and care leader with more than 480 schools, enriching the lives of tens of thousands of children every day.
The Entrepreneur of the Year Award, given at IFA's 63rd Annual Convention, is one of the highest honors presented by IFA, given to an individual who is currently managing and building a successful business through franchising. The award recognizes individuals who are willing to take risks in business and exemplify the entrepreneurial spirit that franchising represents.
"I am deeply humbled and honored. This is an amazing journey and one in which I am still learning," said Jo Kirchner, CEO of Primrose Schools. "I want to dedicate this award to my Primrose colleagues, the support team, franchise owners and their school staff who for more than thirty years have delivered educational childcare service excellence and shared the belief that continual learning is the path to a brighter future for all children."
Kirchner joined the organization in 1990, assuming the role of CEO in 1999, and expanded the organization from four schools to more than 480 schools across 33 states. In 2022, through Kirchner's passion, people-first and purpose-driven leadership approach, Primrose celebrated its 40th anniversary and reaching $1 billion in systemwide sales. Through her work as a co-founder and co-chair with the Early Care and Education Consortium, Kirchner is continuing to lead the development of transformational solutions to achieve a more equitable and sustainable early care and education system for America.
"Jo Kirchner exemplifies the power of franchising, taking a concept and expanding it to hundreds of locations that have impacted the lives of countless children and families," said IFA President and CEO Matthew Haller. "She is a pioneer in franchising early childhood education and has led the way in the industry for more than 20 years. Because of Jo's leadership and entrepreneurial vision with Primrose Schools, thousands of children and families have had greater access to high-quality education and care, sending a positive ripple effect through communities that will be felt for generations to come."
Details about the IFA major awards and the list of past winners in all categories are available at www.franchise.org/past-ifa-major-award-winners.
About Primrose Schools®
Primrose Schools is the leader in providing premier early education and care to children and families in the United States. Founded in 1982, there are more than 480 Primrose schools in 33 states and Washington D.C. today. Each school is independently owned and operated by Franchise Owners who partner with parents to help children build the right foundation for future learning and life. Primrose believes who children become is as important as what they know. The Primrose-exclusive Balanced Learning® approach is created from the best early education wisdom and balances purposeful play with nurturing guidance from teachers to encourage curiosity, creativity, confidence, and compassion. For more information, visit www.PrimroseSchools.com, connect with us on Facebook and Twitter, explore our blog, sign up for our emails and find a Primrose school near you.
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By STEVE DOUGLAS
AP Sports Writer
Lionel Messi was supposed to be training alongside his Paris Saint-Germain teammates on Monday, with his club embroiled in an increasingly fraught French league title race.
Instead, the soccer great was in Saudi Arabia, holding a falcon on his arm, watching a palm-weaving demonstration and looking around the Arabian Horse Museum as part of his commercial contract with the kingdom to promote tourism in the Middle Eastern country.
It will prove to be an expensive trip for the recent World Cup winner.
Messi has been suspended by PSG — reportedly for two weeks, when he won’t get paid or be allowed to train or play with the team. That could yet spark the end of a turbulent and somewhat underwhelming two-season spell at a club where soap opera-style drama, on and off the field, is rarely far away given the presence of other superstars like Kylian Mbappé and Neymar in the squad.
It also exposes the tensions now that Qatar and Saudi Arabia — gulf neighbors and fierce recent rivals in regional politics — have become major influencers in the world of soccer.
Messi is right in the middle of it all, through his own making and because everyone — inside and outside the game — wants a piece of one of the all-time greats.
The Argentina forward never intended to be playing for PSG, a club owned by Qatar Sports Investments, but found himself moving there in 2021 after previous team Barcelona, the soccer love of his life, plunged into financial problems that still persist.
Immediately, it thrust Messi into the hands of the Qataris, given QSI is a subsidiary of the emirate’s sovereign wealth fund, and invited accusations against him of sportswashing.
Messi placed himself in an even more delicate position last year when, just a few months before the World Cup in Qatar, he signed up to be essentially an ambassador for Saudi Arabia.
Hence this week’s trip to the kingdom, which he decided to make without PSG’s permission and covering a period when the squad had been asked to train in response to the team’s 3-1 loss at home against Lorient on Sunday.
According to French daily L’Equipe, PSG coach Christophe Galtier had pledged to give his players Monday and Tuesday off if they beat Lorient. Instead, the team trained on Monday and had Tuesday off.
In the wake of Messi’s resulting suspension, the Saudi Tourism Authority released a long news release detailing the movements of the man it called a “football icon” and his family on a day he was supposed to still be in France. Other aspects of the trip included “feeding the indigenous Arabian gazelles,” while the Messis apparently also were “charmed by the authenticity and architecture of At-Turaif and the beauty of the Arabian horses.”
“Messi’s visit to Saudi was packed with exciting activities, with something for everyone in the family,” the tourism board boasted.
It would make interesting reading for PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, chairman of QSI and beIN Media Group, which has been the victim of broadcasting piracy in Saudi Arabia in recent years.
Indeed, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are engaged in a proxy battle to be the epicenter of Asian soccer. The presidency of the Asian Football Confederation is vacant in 2027 and both have potential candidates line up.
Since elections in February, the presidents of the Saudi and Qatari soccer federations — Yasser Almisehal and Sheikh Hamad Al Thani, respectively — are members of the FIFA Council, the executive body that makes the decisions in world soccer.
The neighbors and rivals were competing to host the 2027 Asian Cup, until a solution emerged that rewarded both.
Qatar stepped up when China handed back hosting rights to the 2023 edition, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, and that tournament will start in Doha in January. The AFC then awarded Saudi Arabia the 2027 edition — a likely audition for ambitions to stage a future World Cup, possibly in 2034.
It does not stop at soccer. Doha will host the multi-sport Asian Games in 2030 and Qatar is widely expected to launch another campaign to host an Olympics in the city, this time in 2036.
The 2034 Asian Games are in Riyadh, and Saudi Arabia won a bid to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games in a futuristic mountains resort, Trojena, that is not yet built.
All of this, of course, is way above Messi’s head but his decision-making over the past two years has placed him front and center in this regional contest.
His ties with PSG may be coming to end, however. His contract expires at the end of this season and there’s uncertainty about his next destination, with reports linking him to Inter Miami in MLS, a return to Barcelona and, naturally, a money-spinning move to a Saudi team, potentially Al-Hilal.
Playing for Al-Hilal would place him in direct confrontation with long-time rival Cristiano Ronaldo, who has been at Saudi team Al-Nassr since the start of the year.
Shifting the Messi-Ronaldo rivalry to Saudi Arabia would sum up modern-day soccer, with the riches of the Middle East proving as enticing to two of the game’s GOATs as they are to FIFA and other sports bodies.
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AP Sports Writer Graham Dunbar in Geneva contributed to this report.
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(The Hill) — The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board slammed former President Donald Trump on Sunday, criticizing his use of the term “death wish” in a weekend attack against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
“We live in a polarized political age when rabid partisans don’t need provocation to resort to violence,” the board wrote. “This makes Donald Trump’s latest verbal assault against Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell all the more reckless.”
“[T]he ‘death wish’ rhetoric is ugly even by Mr. Trump’s standards and deserves to be condemned,” it added.
Trump on Friday said McConnell had a “death wish” for supporting legislation backed by Democrats while calling former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, McConnell’s wife, “China loving” and “Coco Chow,” references to her family’s American business that has dealings in China.
McConnell and Trump’s relationship has been a rocky one since the former president was in the White House, and Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly lambasted the top Senate Republican, saying he should no longer serve as GOP leader while attacking Chao with racially tinged statements.
The latest attack came after McConnell voted for a continuing resolution that funded the government through mid-December.
“Mr. Trump’s apologists claim he merely meant Mr. McConnell has a political death wish, but that isn’t what he wrote,” the Wall Street Journal editors wrote. “It’s all too easy to imagine some fanatic taking Mr. Trump seriously and literally, and attempting to kill Mr. McConnell. Many supporters took Mr. Trump’s rhetoric about former Vice President Mike Pence all too seriously on Jan. 6.”
The editorial also references Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who told The New York Times that she wouldn’t be surprised if a lawmaker gets killed amid a heightened threat environment.
Many lawmakers, including Collins, have faced an inundation of threats that has led to increased security funding and changes in behavior for some lawmakers.
“What started with abusive phone calls is now translating into active threats of violence and real violence,” Collins told the newspaper.
The Journal’s editors wrote on Sunday that “Trump could be working and spending money to elect a GOP Congress, or to help his home state of Florida recover from Hurricane Ian.”
“Instead he’s attacking Mr. McConnell and his wife as part of a personal political vendetta, and putting every Republican candidate on the spot to respond to questions about the Trump rant,” they added. “Mr. Trump always puts himself first, and with this rhetoric he may put others at genuine risk of harm.” | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/wall-street-journal-rips-trumps-death-wish-rhetoric/ | 2022-10-03 15:24:10 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/wall-street-journal-rips-trumps-death-wish-rhetoric/ |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
3-7-9, Fireball: 8
(three, seven, nine; Fireball: eight)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
3-7-9, Fireball: 8
(three, seven, nine; Fireball: eight) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Three-Midday-game-17539121.php | 2022-10-27 19:33:53 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Three-Midday-game-17539121.php |
President Biden has signed a resolution formally ending the coronavirus national emergency. Former President Donald Trump enacted the emergency in March 2020. Since then, the coronavirus killed more than 1 million people in the U.S.
With the emergency ending, a number of programs are winding down. Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Dan Diamond, national health reporter for The Washington Post.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service San Diego CA
246 PM PDT Wed Aug 17 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 427 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of Southwest California, including the following
county, San Diego.
* WHEN...Until 427 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 246 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
I-8 Between Boulevard And Imperial County Line, I-8 Between
Pine Valley And Boulevard, Boulevard, Live Oak Springs,
Tierra Del Sol and Campo Indian Reservation.
- https://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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Thousands of families across North Texas are kicking off Spring Break vacation on Friday.
If your plans involve flying out of the airport, remember that more travelers means more room for headaches.
Airport officials are expecting bigger crowds now through the weekend and beyond. The airports have been prepping for the spring reak holiday and leadership with the Transportation Security Administration is also making sure they are staffed up to handle it.
There are already indications that this will be a spring break for the record books.
DFW Airport said it is expecting 4.2 million passengers between March 2 and March 20, which is 14.3% increase compared to last year and an 11.8% increase when compared to Spring Break 2019.
“DFW Airport is more than ready to warmly welcome all our Spring Break travelers and provide them with an exceptional customer experience,” said Ken Buchanan, executive vice president of revenue management and customer experience, in a post on the airport’s website. “We are already seeing a large increase in passengers eager to take that exciting trip to a fun destination. 2023 is shaping up to be one of our best years yet.”
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Love Field is expecting similar increases in passengers.
“So we're expecting a lot of passengers and a lot of families to come through our doors over the next couple of weeks,” said Lauren Rounds, a spokesperson for Dallas Love Field. “We're really projecting over 30,000 passengers coming and going each day over the next couple of weeks.”
It’s clear travel demand is still as strong than ever. Because of this, airport officials want travelers to know that hiccups are more likely to happen if you don’t plan ahead.
“We’re recommending passengers arrive two hours before their schedule departure time to allow enough time for ticketing, baggage check-in and TSA security screening, as well as parking if passengers are driving themselves. Because that is a lot more common now post pandemic,” said Rounds.
An increase in travel demand means an increase in parking demand at the airports. Rounds said parking garages at Love Field have been filling up fast during peak travel periods. If you can’t snag a spot earlier in the travel week, try to use ride share, find a ride with someone you know, or prepare to park further away.
Be sure to check Dallas Love Field’s Twitter page for daily updates on parking garage capacities.
DFW Airport is reporting similar demands for parking.
“We expect our parking garages and lots to be very busy, and Terminals C and D tend to fill up the quickest. For customers flying American Airlines, if parking is unavailable at your departure terminal, you can park, check-in, and check baggage at any of our five terminals. Express and Remote parking is also available with shuttle service to all terminals,” the airport said in an announcement.
In addition to packing your patience, make sure you don’t pack something that could cause a hold up in the TSA lines.
“To speed up the screening process with TSA and baggage checking, make sure you're checking your bags for content before you get here,” said Rounds. “We're definitely encouraging passengers to make sure that their firearms are unloaded and packed appropriately and you declare them at check in so that all necessary parties are aware of what you have with you.”
Click here for more information on TSA guidelines for carry-on and checked luggage.
The demand in spring break vacations means we’ll probably see a busy summer travel season.
AAA travel agents report more people are booking trips farther in advance. They recommend making plans for summer sooner rather than later to avoid higher airline ticket prices and hotel rates. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/local-airports-experiencing-spring-break-travel-rush/3211335/ | 2023-03-10 15:33:18 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/local-airports-experiencing-spring-break-travel-rush/3211335/ |
NEW YORK, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Online Grocery Delivery Services Market - Competitive Analysis, Impact of COVID-19, Five Force Analysis" report has been added to Technavio's offering. The market is segmented by geography (APAC, Europe, North America, South America, and MEA). 55% of the market's growth will originate from APAC during the forecast period. China and Japan are the key markets for online grocery delivery services in APAC. Market growth in this region will be faster than the growth of the market in other regions. The rising income level, westernization of buying habits, and raising awareness about online grocery shopping will facilitate the online grocery delivery services market growth in APAC over the forecast period. Moreover, the Online Grocery Delivery Services Market value is set to grow by USD 800 billion, progressing at a CAGR of 25.25% from 2020 to 2025, as per the latest report by Technavio.
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The Online Grocery Delivery Services Market is segmented by end-user (individuals and others).
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The increased popularity and adoption of e-commerce platforms is notably driving the online grocery delivery services market growth, although factors such as end-user perception for online grocery shopping may impede the market growth.
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The report analyzes the market's competitive landscape and offers information on several market vendors, including:
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- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
- Amazon.com Inc.
- Ebates Performance Marketing Inc.- The company is involved in offering wide range of products such as accessories, gift cards, office supplies, pet supplies and many more.
- Ocado Retail Ltd.- The company is involved in offering fresh and chilled foods, soft drinks, clothing and many more.
- SPAR International
- Target Corp.
- Tesco Plc
- Walmart Inc.
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Countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, and India were highly affected by the pandemic. The demand for online grocery delivery services increased exponentially in the first half of 2020, owing to stringent regulations imposed by governments to maintain social distancing and make people stay at home during the pandemic. The online grocery delivery services market report has further insights to estimate the COVID recovery rate in all the regions.
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Market Sizing
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Market Segmentation by End-user
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- Individuals - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
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- APAC - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Europe - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- North America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- South America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- MEA - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Key leading countries
- Market opportunity by geography
- Market drivers
- Market challenges
- Market trends
Vendor Landscape
- Vendor landscape
- Landscape disruption
Vendor Analysis
- Vendors covered
- Market positioning of vendors
- Albertsons Companies Inc.
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
- Amazon.com Inc.
- Ebates Performance Marketing Inc.
- Ocado Retail Ltd.
- SPAR International
- Target Corp.
- Tesco Plc
- Walmart Inc.
Appendix
- Scope of the report
- Currency conversion rates for US$
- Research methodology
- List of abbreviations
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Jason Day earned his first PGA Tour win in five years on Sunday at the AT&T Byron Nelson and with it, he collected his largest check since the 2016 Players Championship.
Day pocketed $1.71 million for his 13th career PGA Tour victory and crossed the $55 million mark in Tour earnings. He remains ninth on the all-time list, less than $2 million behind Matt Kuchar. Day made $1.89 million for his Players triumph and $1.8 million for his 2015 PGA Championship win, the only two times he's earned more on Tour than on Sunday.
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For these doctors and nurses, treating Monterey Park shooting victims was another Saturday night
The Los Angeles Times takes you inside one of the busiest trauma centers in the nation, where you’ll meet members of the team that treated victims of the Monterey Park massacre. For the ER physicians and nurses at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, it’s not unusual to see 10 gunshot victims during a single shift. | https://www.latimes.com/california/00000187-0c1c-d7bc-ab87-bcfc05c30000-123 | 2023-03-23 20:33:03 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/california/00000187-0c1c-d7bc-ab87-bcfc05c30000-123 |
- Comprehensive Analysys Mason study spans 15 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America
- Potential GDP economic benefits vastly outweigh investment costs
- Governments, regulators and policy makers play a key enabling role
- Countries also set to benefit from environmental and social inclusion capabilities
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A major new Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) commissioned study by management consulting firm Analysys Mason highlights the potential economic, consumer and environmental benefits of 5G connectivity in 15 national emerging markets. With regulatory and government support, all fifteen countries could benefit from GDP growth between 0.3 and 0.46 percent through 2035, with an estimated three-to-seven-fold cost-to-benefit ratio.
Called the Future Value of Mobile in Emerging Markets, the report examines the impact of multiple 5G spectrum deployment options to facilitate enhanced mobile broadband and fixed wireless access (FWA) across consumer, industry, logistics, rural and public services clusters, and spanning several business case options, including verticals.
The detailed methodology included using national government statistics and reports, Ericsson network insights and innovative mapping techniques - based on population density distribution and existing national infrastructure such as, road and rail networks, and agriculture - to create a cost-to-benefit model across the different deployment options.
Deployment options are based on the starting assumption of having 5G baseline rollout added to existing mobile radio network sites. Additional options explore the extra benefits of adding Low-Band 5G spectrum coverage beyond the baseline (delivering wider geographical coverage at the lower end of 5G capabilities and suited to agriculture or logistics deployments) or Mid-Band 5G spectrum coverage - delivering smaller geographical coverage per site, but with higher capacity and speed, suitable for manufacturing, automation, industry and advanced services.
Expanded Mid-Band 5G coverage is identified as the key success factor - with the potential to deliver about 80 percent of the economic benefits. Benefits from the Smart Industry and Smart Rural clusters account for 85-90 percent of the total economic benefits in each emerging market.
Agriculture is a significant sector in all 15 countries - accounting for up to 10 percent of GDP in some markets. The report estimates that enhanced rural 5G coverage could deliver up to 1.8 percent uplift in long-term GDP from agriculture. 5G will also promote sustainable farming methods, increase efficiency and reduce agricultural waste.
Study findings include:
- Baseline 5G deployment cost is estimated between USD 3-8 billion per country. An additional 20-35 percent investment is required to extend coverage
- Extending coverage beyond the baseline can generate significant GDP benefits from industrial adoption, especially from mid-band coverage extension
- Most countries are expected to generate overall economic benefits (GDP) three-to-seven times higher than the incremental cost of extending coverage
- Results suggest 5G mobile broadband can generate consumer surplus between USD 1-10 billion per country, with coverage extension giving 20-30 percent extra consumer surplus
- The social benefits enabled by 5G will be greatest from 5G-based FWA, smart factories, freight and logistics, agriculture and healthcare use cases
- Adopting 5G can help reduce emissions by supporting digital transformation in agriculture, freight and logistics, smart factories and construction
The study highlights how governments, regulators and policy makers can support the 5G ecosystem to deliver the benefits.
These include treating 5G as a national infrastructure with a 5G national strategy and roadmap; implementing 5G spectrum policies that facilitate speedier and widespread deployment, including trading off spectrum fees for deployment targets that meet connectivity policy objectives; implementing policies and procedures to make infrastructure deployment and site upgrades easier; working with communications services providers to enhance coverage in areas where commercially-led solutions are not viable; incentivizing the use and prominence of 5G in industry and manufacturing; promoting 5G in the public sector and promoting the environmental benefits of 5G solutions.
Andrew Lloyd, Head of Government and Policy Advocacy, Ericsson, says: "This Analysys Mason Future Value of Mobile in Emerging Markets report provides a detailed breakdown, based on comprehensive research into realistic and achievable scenarios in each of the 15 countries, of the potential economic, social, environmental and national benefits of 5G in these markets. With the backing of governments, regulators and policy makers, each of these 15 countries, and their citizens, stand to benefit significantly from 5G connectivity. In addition to economic benefits, 5G can also reduce climate impact, increase social inclusion, wellbeing and tackle the digital divide in areas where fixed infrastructure availability is poor."
Janette Stewart, Partner, Analysys Mason, says: "The study highlights the benefits from having the right spectrum available for 5G deployment, both for geographic coverage, for which the low-bands are very suitable, and in the 3.5GHz band where most of the high-capacity 5G deployments in other markets are already taking place."
The countries addressed in the report research are Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Guatemalan immigrant whom police accused of helping to plot a mass shooting in Virginia’s capital on July 4 pleaded guilty Thursday to an immigration charge.
A federal judge accepted Rolman Balcarcel-Bavagas’ plea to a charge of reentering the U.S. after deportation and set sentencing for Nov. 10, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. Balcarcel-Bavagas, 38, faces up to two years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Neither Balcarcel-Bavagas nor a co-defendant, Julio Alvarado-Dubon, have been charged in direct connection with the alleged plot, and a federal prosecutor made no mention of it Thursday, according to the newspaper.
At a July 6 news conference, police said an Independence Day shooting had been thwarted and announced the men’s arrest. Chief Gerald Smith said a “hero citizen” contacted police after overhearing a conversation about an attack being planned.
Officers seized two assault rifles, a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from the home where police said the men lived.
The U.S. Attorney’s office took over the case earlier this month at the request of Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette McEachin.
According to the government’s statement of facts in Balcarcel-Bavagas’ immigration case, he is a Guatemalan citizen residing illegally in the U.S. who was previously removed twice from the country. He was allowed to depart voluntarily in 2013 and then deported in 2014, according to the court documents.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor argued Wednesday that an international yoga business founder arrested on tax charges has a history of arrests, and is a flight risk and danger to prospective witnesses in the case against him, but a judge disagreed with a request to confine the man to his Washington home.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jennifer E. Willis set bail for Gregory Gumucio at $250,000 and banned him from associating with those he once employed at “Yoga to the People.”
The business had operated about 20 locations in the United States, including in San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, California; Tempe, Arizona; Orlando, Florida; and cities in Colorado and Washington. It also had operated in Spain and Israel and was seeking to expand to other countries when it closed two years ago.
Gumucio was arrested last week on charges alleging that he failed to pay taxes for over a decade while running an international yoga company that generated over $20 million in revenue.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael D. Neff sought to boost bail conditions initially set in Washington when Gumucio was arrested last week, along with two others, including his romantic partner.
Neff wanted Gumucio to be subjected to home incarceration and location monitoring, and he requested a $1 million bail, saying evidence was overwhelming and Gumucio was eventually likely to spend years in prison.
He said Gumucio, 61, of Cathlamet, Washington, has been arrested 15 times and had in the past used at least six aliases, three Social Security numbers and given three places of birth. And Neff said Gumucio has been arrested three times on accusations of flight or escape, though he didn't say if any of the arrests resulted in convictions.
He also said that his mentor was a fugitive living in Mexico and that he also associated with a former member of organized crime who used to lurk around his business. And he said two former business associates had described menacing encounters with him that left them fearful after they quit his company.
In refusing some of the prosecutor's requests, the judge noted that Gumucio's last arrest prior to the new charges was in 1992, though she also said the bail conditions needed to be stricter than those imposed in Washington.
She ordered Gumucio to stay 60 miles (97 kilometers) away from the Canadian border and to also stay away from any airports.
Defense lawyer Marne Lenox had requested a $100,000 bail, rejecting the prosecutor's claims that Gumucio has extensive ties abroad and generally portraying Neff's claims as overblown.
Neff had asked that Gumucio be banned from having any firearms or explosives. “That is, quite frankly, overkill,” Lenox said.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Varla scooter celebrates its 2nd anniversary this month. Commemorating the two years of coming together, the Company goes over its history and the magical way it bloomed in these couple of years.
More people have chosen the Varla Scooter, particularly Varla Eagle One Dual motor Scooter, for its positive impact on the environment. The Company recommends this product for every rider who is looking to decrease their impact on the environment. Its dual 1000W hub motor on the wheels can provide a peak power of 3200W. The speed controllers help riders to maintain optimal performance as they tread across the terrain. A wide user base of Eagle One motorized scooter confirms its resistance, power, and positive environmental impact.
"When my friend insisted me to look into the Varla product range, I was quite hesitant. I purchased the scooter and planned to resell it if it didn't fit up to the mark. But, the Varla Eagle One was a life-changing decision. It helps me commute without relying on public transport, and I don't fret over the adverse environmental damage due to my personal choices," says Hughes Michael, a happy customer from LA.
Varla Company is surely set to achieve incredible milestones with an extensive worldwide demand and a dedication to offering new and innovative motor models.
Varla Eagle One has received a huge demand recently. After its launch in June 2020, the number of sales continued to increase in July and August, reaching 250 units. Given its extensive popularity, many customers have congratulated the Company on its second anniversary. The amount of love they have received is sufficient to let them work more diligently in the future.
Varla Scooter was founded upon the idea of providing electrical scooter enthusiasts with an extraordinary experience. They empower people to explore and overcome their fears. The Company merges dual power motor of electric scooters with a dual shock absorption efficiency to bring high-quality motorized scooter to the customers.
It is no wonder that companies like Varla are receiving immense support for their distinct take on commuting. If more companies come forward with this approach, we will be looking at the massive growth in this sector. And the best part is, we will have more conscious customers and sellers who want to leave a new mindset for future generations.
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Gabriel Moreno Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Pirates - July 8
Published: Jul. 8, 2023 at 8:27 AM MST|Updated: 2 hours ago
On Saturday, Gabriel Moreno (.278 slugging percentage in past 10 games, with zero homers) and the Arizona Diamondbacks play the Pittsburgh Pirates, whose starting pitcher will be Mitch Keller. First pitch is at 4:10 PM ET.
He had a one-hit showing in his most recent game (1-for-2) against the Pirates.
Gabriel Moreno Game Info & Props vs. the Pirates
- Game Day: Saturday, July 8, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Chase Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Pirates Starter: Mitch Keller
- TV Channel: BSAZ
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -222)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +1050)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +230)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +175)
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Gabriel Moreno At The Plate
- Moreno is hitting .269 with 10 doubles, two home runs and 14 walks.
- Moreno has picked up a hit in 57.8% of his 64 games this year, with more than one hit in 25.0% of those games.
- In 64 games played this year, he has hit a homer in only two of them.
- Moreno has had an RBI in 20 games this season (31.3%), including four multi-RBI outings (6.3%). He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored at least once 15 times this season (23.4%), including one multi-run game.
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- The pitching staff for the Pirates has a collective 8.5 K/9, which ranks 19th in the league.
- The Pirates' 4.44 team ERA ranks 21st among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pirates pitchers combine to allow 91 home runs (one per game), the sixth-fewest in baseball.
- Keller will look to secure his 10th victory when he makes the start for the Pirates, his 19th of the season. He is 9-4 with a 3.52 ERA and 125 strikeouts through 110 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his last appearance on Tuesday, the righty threw five innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers, allowing four earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 27-year-old ranks 29th in ERA (3.52), 25th in WHIP (1.145), and 15th in K/9 (10.2) among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — From electric cars and boats to wireless TVs to the latest phones and tablets, there was a wide range of innovations on display at the CES tech show in Last Vegas last week. Some of it aimed to solve big real world problems. Some of it aimed to make your life more fun. And some of it was just a little out there.
Associated Press journalists spent last week combing cavernous exhibit halls for the most exciting, interesting and unusual tech innovations.
Here’s what caught our eye:
MOST FUN WAY TO GET TO WORK
Journalists had fun zipping around the CES Unveiled event on remote-controlled, electric inline skates from French startup AtmosGear.
The battery lasts for 20 miles (32 kilometers), said founder Mohamed Soliman, who hopes people will see them as a viable way to commute, like electric bikes or scooters.
“My goal is for everyone to go skating again because it’s so much fun, every time you see people skating you see them with a big smile,” Soliman said.
A waist bag holds the battery and cables connected to the skates. They also can be used as regular skates when they need to be charged or skaters simply want to travel under their own power.
The $500 skates are available for pre-order. The company has taken orders for 150 pairs so far and is aiming for 200 orders to start production.
TECH TO BRING TO A PARTY
A handheld device displayed by South Korean company Prinker allows you to quickly and easily apply temporary tattoos.
The device uses cosmetic-grade ink with a library of thousands of designs or the option to make your own with the company’s app. After picking a tattoo, you just wave the device over wherever you want it applied. The tattoos are waterproof but wash off with soap.
The flagship model is $279 and a smaller model is $229. Ink cartridges good for 1,000 tattoos are $119.
There’s also an accessory to temporarily color your hair.
KITCHEN TECH WE’RE COVETING
GE Profile unveiled a smart mixer that lets you weigh your ingredients in the bowl while you’re working.
The mixer also has an auto sensor that can monitor changes in texture and viscosity and adjust speed accordingly. It shuts itself off automatically to avoid overmixing.
And it has voice control so you don’t have to stop what you’re doing and wash your hands off to operate it.
All that precision doesn’t come cheap — the mixer costs $999.95 and is only available at Crate & Barrel.
TECH TO BUY YOUR PARENTS
Bird Buddy showed off a smart bird feeder that takes snapshots of feathered friends as they fly in to eat some treats. The startup says its AI technology can recognize more than 1,000 species of birds, allowing users to share through a mobile app what kind of birds they’re feeding.
“We try to kind of gamify the collection so it’s a really fun game that you can play — almost like a real life Pokémon Go with real animals and wildlife in your backyard,” said Kyle Buzzard, the company’s co-founder and chief hardware officer.
The product has already sparked some interest from consumers who want to show the world what birds are coming into their backyards.
The company, which began as a Kickstarter project in 2020, says it started shipping its bird feeders in September and has already sold all 100,000 in its inventory. The price for the basic feeder is $199.
TECH TO BUY YOUR KIDS
Meet Dog-E, the excitable robodog.
Unveiled by toy maker WowWee, Dog-E has more than a million possible combinations of lights, sounds and personality traits.
Dog-E begins as a blank canvas and develops its personality as you set it up.
The app-connected toy has audio sensors to hear sounds, touch sensors on its sides and body, and a tail that you can program to display lighted icons and messages when it wags.
Jessica Kalichman from WowWee says it’s a good option for those who can’t commit to owning a real pup, or perhaps for those with allergies.
“I do think for anyone that’s either not ready to have a dog yet, this is a great test to take care of it, learn to feed it, nurture it, and really have that trial run for a family,” she said.
WowWee expects to have Dog-E in stores in September. It will sell for $79. The app to control the toy’s movements does not require a subscription.
TECH FOR GOOD
Knowing exactly when an avocado is perfectly ripe may sound a bit niche, but Dutch startup OneThird thinks it’s a key to helping reduce food waste.
The company unveiled an avocado scanner designed for supermarkets that’s currently being tested in Canada and can tell you whether an avocado is still firm or ready to eat.
OneThird already works with growers, distributors and others along the supply chain to predict the shelf life of avocados, tomatoes, strawberries and blueberries and is working to add more produce.
According to the United Nations, nearly a third of food of all food globally is thrown away. Reducing that would mean less food waste being tossed into methane-producing landfills.
TECH FOR PETS
Have you ever wondered what your dog would say if it could speak to you?
FluentPet promises the next best thing — buttons the company says you can train your pet to push if it’s hungry, needs to go outside or wants to play.
The buttons come in a hexagon-shaped plastic mat called a hextile. Hextiles can be connected to each other to form a bigger collection of buttons.
“We find that actually when dogs kind of know that they’re being understood because they have the precision and specificity of the buttons, then they complain less because they’re no longer wondering whether they actually communicated what they wanted to,” said Leo Trottier, FluentPet CEO.
At CES, the company announced FluentPet Connect, a new app that notifies owners when their dog presses a button and collects data on how the buttons are used.
Fluent Pet’s starter kit comes with hextiles, a speaker and six buttons for $159.95. The app does not require a subscription.
TECH TO MAKE YOUR NEXT CONFERENCE CALL MORE EXCITING
Tired of the same old videoconference calls? Zero Distance thinks it may have the answer.
The company’s Wehead device helps people at a meeting feel like a remote attendee is in the room with them.
The device looks something like a machine you might find at the eye doctor, but with screens on the front. The person participating from afar looks like they’re there in 3D and when they look around or nod, the machine also moves.
Wehead works with standard computer or smartphone webcams.
“If there are a few people around the table and just one screen, not everybody can see the screen, and the person in the laptop, he or she is not able to see everybody,” Wehead creator Ilia Sedoshkin said. “That’s the obvious application.”
“But for people who spend like 40 hours a week in their home office, they don’t see other people a lot. So feeling the real person in the room, using some space on your table, can give you less loneliness,” Sedoshkin said.
The Wehead costs $1,555, with a pro version available for $4,555.
INNOVATION WE MOST WANTED TO TAKE HOME
Japan’s Yukai Engineering says its robotic fufuly pillow can help users relax by mimicking the rhythm of breathing.
The soft, fluffy pillow gently expands and contracts, vibrating as you hold it against your stomach. The idea is that you’ll breathe more slowly and deeply as your breath starts to synch with the movement of the pillow.
It was developed based on research done at the University of Tokyo.
Yukai CEO Shunsuke Aoki said the pillow can help remote workers who struggle to switch off from their jobs.
The version on display at CES is a prototype. The company is looking for partners and hopes to start producing it this year.
BEST CELEBRITY APPEARANCE
Singer and dancer Paula Abdul came to CES to launch Idol Eyes, a line of audio sunglasses.
“I’ve wanted to get into the tech world for the longest time,” Abdul told The Associated Press, “but I wanted to do it in a way that was authentic to who I am.”
Starting at $199, the sunglasses feature a five-hour battery life and play audio from the arms of the frames via Bluetooth connectivity. You can listen to music or answer calls.
The Grammy- and Emmy-award winning artist’s first collection of eyewear is available in seven colors, with polarized and blue light filter lenses.
“I’m just marrying fashion, movement and technology,” Abdul said. “That’s where my heart is.”
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dejounte Murray scored 25 points in his Atlanta debut and the Hawks beat the Milwaukee Bucks 123-113 on Thursday in the NBA’s first game in the United Arab Emirates and the Arabian Gulf.
The teams will play another preseason game on Saturday at Etihad Arena.
Giannis Antetokounmpo led the Bucks with 19 points. Jevon Carter scored 17 points off Milwaukee’s bench.
Murray added nine assists, eight rebounds and two blocked shots. His backcourt partner, Trae Young, added 22 points with three assists. Murray was acquired from the San Antonio Spurs for three first-round picks in the Hawks’ biggest offseason move.
Murray and Young combined to make 13 of 16 free throws, all in the first half.
The game featured the NBA’s three Holiday brothers. Aaron Holiday had 16 points and Justin Holiday added nine for the Hawks. Jrue Holiday had 12 points for the Bucks.
De’Andre Hunter had 17 points for Atlanta.
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Jennifer Garner visits eastern Kentucky flood survivors
PERRY COUNTY, Ky. (Gray News) – Actress Jennifer Garner recently made a trip to eastern Kentucky as part of her role with the Save the Children organization.
Garner met with children, families and school leaders whose lives have been turned upside down by the devastating flooding over the past few weeks.
“Hundreds of children and families have lost everything they have. I spoke with families who are unsure of where they’re going to live, and children who don’t know when they’ll be getting back to school. I visited an elementary school that was 8 feet under water for three days,” Garner said.
Save the Children staff delivered critical emergency supplies, including food and water, to families in the areas hit hardest by the flooding.
“We are working to rebuild education and feeding programs, and helping teachers start their classrooms all over again,” Garner explained. “We’re getting cash in the hands of families, so they can decide what they need in order to start over.”
The global humanitarian organization is also providing art activity kits, games and toys to kids in area shelters, so they can have a moment to be kids again during this difficult time.
It is also identifying kids’ short- and long-term needs as this emergency persists.
“We are gearing up with supplies to support back-to-school efforts at school districts that have seen schools inundated with floodwaters, or completely destroyed,” said Greta Wetzel, head of Save the Children’s emergency response team in eastern Kentucky.
Wetzel said the organization is committed to working with schools and communities to make sure kids get the social and emotional support they need in the aftermath of the flooding.
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WOLLONGONG, Australia — Dutch cycling legend Annemiek van Vleuten surprised her rivals to win the women’s road race at the world road championships on Saturday.
Earlier Saturday, Britain’s Zoe Backstedt celebrated her 18th birthday by turning the women’s junior road event into a one-woman race.
In wet and cold Wollongong conditions, Backstedt cycled away from the peloton with a solo attack at 10 kilometers and stayed clear for the remaining 57 kms to win by more than two minutes. Eglantine Rayer of France was second ahead of Dutch rider Nienke Vinke.
Backstedt defended her junior road race title and also is a world champion on the track and in cyclocross.
The championships end Sunday with the men’s road race.
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Some things to watch this weekend in the Big 12:
GAME OF THE WEEK
No. 17 Kansas State at No. 8 TCU
After winning three consecutive games against ranked opponents for the first time in school history, two of those in matchups of undefeated teams, the Horned Frogs (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) now play their conference co-leader. Kansas State (5-1, 3-0), coming off its open date after a 10-9 win over Iowa State, is the only other team without a conference loss. TCU beat Kansas before last week overcoming a late, two-touchdown deficit to beat No. 8 Oklahoma State in double overtime.
K-State has won the last three meetings in the series. TCU has the Big 12's top offense averaging 526.7 total yards and 45.3 points a game. Max Duggan has thrown for 265 yards a game with a league-leading 16 TDs passes and only one interception. The Wildcats are led by dual-threat quarterback Adrian Martinez (150 yards passing, 91 yards rushing per game) and dynamo running back Deuce Vaughn (110 yards rushing per game).
BEST MATCHUP
Spencer Sanders and the Oklahoma State offense against the Texas defense. Sanders insisted his right (throwing) shoulder was fine after not practicing before the double-overtime loss at TCU, and will be looking for a bounce-back performance. Sanders is still the Big 12 leader for total offense (324.7 yards per game), passing yards (273.2 yards) and his 21 total touchdowns (13 passing, eight rushing). The Longhorns (5-2, 3-1) are second in the league allowing 347 total yards a game and third giving up 18.3 points, with only one opponent scoring more than 21. The Cowboys (5-1, 2-1) have scored at least 34 points in every game.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
Kansas State's Felix Anudike-Uzomah is tied for the national lead with 1.08 sacks a game (6 1/2 total), while Texas Tech's Tyree Wilson is second in the Big 12 with 1.0 a game (six total). ... Kansas has scored 39 touchdowns this season, already its most since 45 in 2009. ... Baylor has won its last 12 meetings over Kansas, and is 10-0 at home during the series. That includes 2002, when the Bears won 35-32 to end a 29-game conference losing streak that spanned five different seasons. ... After Oklahoma and Iowa State have open dates this weekend, only Kansas and Texas haven't had one.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
West Virginia running backs Tony Mathis and C.J. Donaldson. Mathis ran for a career 163 yards and two touchdowns against Baylor last week when 240-pound true freshman and leading rusher C.J. Donaldson Jr. missed while in concussion protocol. Mathis, the fourth-year sophomore also had a 37-yard run to the Bears 8 to set up the game-winning field goal for the Mountaineers. Donaldson has already had three 100-yard games and was back at practice this week.
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The way the schedule played out, it's already certain that there will be only one team without a Big 12 loss after this weekend, along with two one-loss teams and three two-loss teams. While TCU and K-State play for the outright Big 12 lead, the only teams currently with one loss (Texas and Oklahoma State) play each other. The other four teams playing go into this weekend with two Big 12 losses. So that will leave three teams with three losses, including Oklahoma (4-3, 1-3), which is idle along with Iowa State (3-4, 0-4).
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Students in the nation's largest school district -- New York City -- are heading back to school with an updated protocol overhaul -- and with the knowledge that those coveted snow days are a thing of the past.
Thursday is opening day for New York City public schools in the 2022-23 academic calendar year. (Here's an academic calendar you can print.)
The start of the new school year comes mere weeks after New York City announced a COVID protocol overhaul for its public school system -- relaxing virus restrictions.
For the 2022-2023 school year, students will no longer undergo random PCR testing in school. Instead, they will only get take-home tests, a total of four per month.
Daily health screeners are also no longer required to enter buildings. Masks are encouraged, but only mandatory for children who’ve been exposed, who are returning to school after being infected with COVID, or who are showing symptoms at school.
Quarantine is also not necessary for children who’ve been exposed, but test negative.
The vaccination rules are staying the same for the upcoming school year: Not mandatory for children unless they want to participate in extra-curricular activities after school. Vaccination is mandatory for all employees and adult visitors entering school buildings.
Another key reminder: The "no snow day" concept that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic is here to stay. That means lots of snow might mean no in-person school, but it doesn't mean "no school."
Remote instruction now covers those days and while we can hardly predict when it might snow enough to close physical classrooms, knowing that now might better equip some parents to adjust on the fly should the time come.
See the full NYC school calendar for 2022-23 below. The calendar is available in multiple languages here.
Get information on DOE student and NYC schools accounts, COVID updates and more here.
Additionally, as the new school year kicks off, NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks said he wants kids to feel comfortable about coming back and to him you do that by having a commitment to keep them safe.
"I feel really good about what the school year will represent," Banks said, adding that to him it means keeping students and staff safe, both emotionally and physically.
Because of this, the city's Department of Education prepped and inspected every building this summer.
This year, only the front doors will be unlocked. The rest will be locked and have an alarm.
“We can't put our heads in sand, we have to be ready to provide a level of safety to all children," Banks said.
Thursday isn’t just the first day for 900,000 students
It will be a new start for 200 school safety agents. Additionally, all principals, assistant principals and other key staffers underwent active shooter training and threat training.
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HAMPTON, Va. (AP)Jahmyl Telfort scored 19 points and Northeastern breezed to a 79-63 victory over Hampton on Saturday.
Telfort hit three 3-pointers for the Huskies (6-9, 2-2). Coleman Stucke had 14 points and Masai Troutman scored 11. Chris Doherty pitched in with eight points and eight rebounds.
Russell Dean had 17 points and six assists to pace the Pirates (3-13, 0-4), who have lost seven straight. Marquis Godwin had 16 points and five rebounds.
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Integration extends digital experience to engage consumers when they search for care
ATLANTA, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Loyal, the preferred digital health platform for the nation's leading health systems and hospitals, today announced its ability to support Google My Business and Google Business Messages. This integration will extend the reach of Loyal's digital platform directly to consumer devices as they search for care, enabling seamless conversations and end-to-end support.
Between 5-7% of all Google searches are healthcare-related, representing over a billion health questions per day. Additionally, research shows that 80% of patients prefer to use digital communication, such as online messaging, texting or virtual visits, to interact with healthcare providers and brands – compared with 58% in early 2020.
Loyal's integration with Google Business Messages enables consumers to start a conversation outside of a health system's website – and intelligently maintain that conversation forward. Using conversational deep linking, Loyal seamlessly carries the dialogue to another channel, such as a hospital's website or patient portal, without losing any of the discussion. For example, a consumer can start a dialogue on Google Business Messages about a heart condition, and Loyal's chatbot will analyze the intent of the conversation with its AI-powered, natural language processing capabilities before redirecting the consumer to the healthcare provider's cardiology webpage.
"The healthcare consumer journey often involves extensive research. Consumers rely on search to find care, and health systems need to offer an omnichannel experience that reflects this reality," said Chad Mallory, CEO of Loyal. "By being the first digital health platform to support these integrations with Google, Loyal is helping healthcare organizations extend their digital front door directly to patients' screens."
Conversations conducted with Google Business Messages are asynchronous and maintained by Loyal via conversational deep linking, which allows the thread history to carry through to other channels. Secure and HIPAA-compliant, this technology creates a frictionless omnichannel experience for the many healthcare consumers who begin their patient journey with Google. Loyal's digital health platform enables a more connected experience, driving higher patient satisfaction, increasing appointment volumes, reducing no-shows, and helping to create healthier communities.
HonorHealth, a Phoenix-based health system with six hospitals and more than 70 primary, specialty and urgent care clinics, is one of the first health systems to go live with Loyal's Google Business Messages integration. Over the course of five weeks, with over 120 conversations total, beta testing of the integration led to 97% of successful conversations. These lasted an average of 67 seconds each, indicating users were able to quickly find answers to their questions. Since launch, HonorHealth has maintained a 36% conversion rate from conversations begun in Google Business Messages, and 21% of conversations have led to a live chat. The most common topics included speaking to an agent, scheduling an appointment, and using HonorHealth's clinical symptom checker. The quick implementation and use of this new tool gives health systems the opportunity to increase top-of-funnel engagement early in the healthcare consumer journey.
"With the help of Loyal and Google Business Messages, we've successfully expanded the reach of our chatbot to connect with patients as they search for care, making it easier for them to quickly find the information they need," said Craig Kartchner, AVP of Marketing & Customer Experience, HonorHealth.
To learn more about Loyal and its full range of healthcare consumer experience solutions, visit loyalhealth.com.
Loyal is a healthcare consumer experience company solely dedicated to the betterment of patient care. As the preferred platform for improved care utilization used by the nation's leading health systems and hospitals, Loyal's AI-powered solution makes it easier for patients to connect and access care across their entire health journey, thereby driving loyalty with their trusted health provider. Streamline patients' navigation of your health system and network of clinical services with LoyalHealth.com.
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A big winter storm is creating headaches for travelers and airlines across much of the country. It will affect dozens of states — if not with snow — then with bitter cold.
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A big winter storm is creating headaches for travelers and airlines across much of the country. It will affect dozens of states — if not with snow — then with bitter cold.
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WASHINGTON, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Steven M. Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project and one of the world's leading authorities on the UFO/UAP issue, will be presenting definitive evidence of illegal unacknowledged black budget projects related to UFO/UAP operations in Washington DC – 2pm on JUNE 12, 2023 at the National Press Club.
He will be joined by several top-secret Government whistleblowers, who will be presenting compelling testimony. These whistleblowers include a U.S. Marine who witnessed a manmade UAP offloading illegal weapons and drugs in Indonesia in 2009.
The Disclosure intelligence UFO archive, consisting of over 5 terabytes of government documents, whistleblower testimony and specific locations of illegally operated UFO projects and corporations will also be unveiled. Over 700 military, intelligence and corporate whistleblowers are included in this vast archive.
Plans for a civilian initiated RICO (Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization) lawsuit against illegal military and corporate projects will be announced and outlined.
Additionally, some of the 119 crash/retrieval events of extraterrestrial vehicles will be summarized and presented. The Disclosure Archive contains intelligence on all these cases.
A summary of advanced energy and propulsion technologies that have been illegally confiscated and suppressed will be presented. These technologies would replace all fossil fuels, nuclear power and electric transmission systems and would create a new economy free of poverty and pollution within a generation.
Over the course of the last 30 years, Dr. Greer has identified over 700 high-level government and corporate whistleblowers willing to testify on their direct involvement with the UFO/ET matter, advanced energy and propulsion systems and the existence of covert government programs that are run illegally.
He has provided briefings for sitting U.S. presidents and senior government officials across the globe, drawing from his extensive intelligence archive. He has conducted countless media interviews and lectured all over the world. Dr. Greer has authored five books and produced five feature documentaries. His latest film, "The Lost Century and How to Reclaim it" will be released on June 6, 2023.
"It's really about the renewal of democracy, because everyone says, 'We're in a free country in a democracy', but how free and how democratic can it be if the most important technologies and the most important discoveries are kept from the media and the public and our policy makers".
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), ("Vuzix" or, the "Company"), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, today announced that its Vuzix M400C™ smart glasses are now available for customer orders in the US, Canada, UK, EU and Japan. Vuzix M400C smart glasses list for $1299.99 and interested customers should contact the Company sales department directly.
Vuzix M400C smart glasses use the same proven form factor as the Company's flagship M400 smart glasses and come equipped with an autofocus HD camera capable of streaming 1080p video at 60 fps, crisp OLED display, noise canceling microphone, voice control, speaker, buttons and touchpad, all built to IP67 standards. The M400C also mounts to all M-Series mounting accessories. Unlike Vuzix M400™ smart glasses, the M400C is not a standalone computing device and is instead designed to function as a USB-C peripheral that can attach to a portable computer or smartphone supporting USB-C DisplayPort Alt Mode.
Vuzix M400C smart glasses offer multiple differentiators. For high security environments, the M400C causes no IT overhead as it ties directly into clients' already approved mobile ecosystem. It also facilitates device consolidation through control of phones, hand-held devices or other external equipment. The M400-C does not employ a separate battery as it is completely powered by the device it is tethered to, and at 68 grams, it weighs a small fraction of other comparable wearable devices that are on the market.
"The M400C is the ultimate peripheral," said Paul Travers, President and Chief Executive Officer at Vuzix. "It works with dedicated technology or other devices, and many Android phones with USB-C DisplayPort Alt Mode. The M400C represents the ideal replacement for external or hand-held monitors, cameras or other recording devices or 2-way audio devices. We are thrilled to add this product to our existing family of smart glasses solutions."
About Vuzix Corporation
Vuzix is a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets. The Company's products include personal display and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high-quality viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable displays and augmented reality. Vuzix holds 259 patents and patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the Video Eyewear field. Moviynt, an SAP Certified ERP SaaS logistics solution provider, is a Vuzix wholly owned subsidiary. The Company has won Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation for the years 2005 to 2022 and several wireless technology innovation awards among others. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company (NASDAQ: VUZI) with offices in Rochester, NY, Oxford, UK, and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit the Vuzix website, Twitter and Facebook pages.
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Certain statements contained in this news release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward looking statements contained in this release relate to M400C Smart Glasses and among other things the Company's leadership in the Smart Glasses and AR display industry. They are generally identified by words such as "believes," "may," "expects," "anticipates," "should" and similar expressions. Readers should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are based upon the Company's beliefs and assumptions as of the date of this release. The Company's actual results could differ materially due to risk factors and other items described in more detail in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Reports and MD&A filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and applicable Canadian securities regulators (copies of which may be obtained at www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). Subsequent events and developments may cause these forward-looking statements to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation or intention to update or revise these forward-looking statements as a result of changed events or circumstances that occur after the date of this release, except as required by applicable law.
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Four additional former Disney employees who refused to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or wear a face mask at work have joined a lawsuit against the company over its previous COVID safety policies, saying they were fired for opposing the rules based on their religious beliefs.
Steven Gibbons, Cheron Hayes, Cathryn Koepke and Seth Schmidt on Dec. 23 added their names to a lawsuit filed by fellow ex-Disney employees Barbara Andreas, Stephen Cribb and Adam Pajer in Osceola Circuit Court in July.
One plaintiff’s account in the suit accused Disney of continuing its vaccine mandate after suspending it following state legislation restricting employers’ abilities to enforce such regulations.
In court records, Hayes claimed she applied for and was offered two jobs at Disney after she was fired in November 2021. Hayes said Disney required her to be vaccinated for COVID-19 as a condition of those offers, extended in February and September 2022, and she requested exemptions again but was denied.
Disney paused its mandatory employee vaccine mandate, issued in July 2021, that November after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed several laws cracking down on workplace vaccine mandates. One law requires employers to let workers forgo vaccination if they agree to routine COVID-19 testing and to wear protective gear.
Disney continued to require unvaccinated employees to wear masks at work afterward under the law. The plaintiffs claimed that was an unreasonable accommodation that isolated them from other workers.
A document in the suit shows Disney stopped requiring face coverings for its unvaccinated theme park employees and Florida workers in August 2022. The seven plaintiffs were fired between November 2021 and June 2022.
They are suing the Walt Disney Co. and several subsidiaries, including its theme parks division, along with the Reedy Creek Improvement District over the policies. The suit alleges Disney’s relationship with the district makes it a “local government entity” subject to public employer laws, and state law prohibits local governments from imposing vaccine mandates on employees.
The workers claim Disney violated state and federal civil rights laws, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Florida Constitution and Florida statutes on whistleblowing.
The lawsuit said the workers filed complaints about Disney’s practices with state and federal authorities, including the Florida Attorney General and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Via a jury trial, they are seeking a declaratory judgment that Disney’s mandate is unlawful and violated their privacy rights under the state constitution.
Lawyer Rachel Rodriguez said in an email the ex-employees “look forward to Disney’s coming to the table and responding to the claims.”
Representatives for Disney and the Reedy Creek Improvement District did not respond to a request for comment.
According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs opposed the vaccine for reasons including that vaccination is an “unnatural process, contrary to the God-given immune system” and that the “fetal cells” used in vaccine development violate their beliefs on abortion. No COVID-19 vaccine contains such cells, but lab-grown cell lines derived from decades-old tissue samples were used in research and development.
Records show Hayes and Koepke also applied for medical exemptions due to previous adverse reactions to vaccines. The women worked from home in financial analytics and human resources, and they argued the mandate was unreasonable because they were remote.
Several ex-employees also opposed Disney’s face-covering policies. In court records, computer systems technician Gibbons said he found it difficult to breathe in the required N95 masks at work, and Hollywood Studios attractions employee Schmidt said wearing masks and goggles and eating apart from his coworkers isolated him.
Disney employees showed little public resistance to Disney’s vaccine mandate. Around 30 people protested the requirement outside Walt Disney World in September 2021, though an organizer said “hundreds” more were too scared to speak out. Disney’s union leaders agreed with the requirement, with one calling it “the best way to protect all of us.”
But resistance to the defunct policy persists in court.
Former Hollywood Studios food service worker Tamara Wolverton filed a separate discrimination lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Dec. 21 saying she chose not to be vaccinated for COVID-19 because it was “contrary to biblical teachings and her faith.” Disney fired her for insubordination after she refused to wear a mask for the same reason, it read.
She claimed she requested an exemption from the vaccine mandate on Oct. 4, 2021, and Disney did not acknowledge it until March 2022, violating state law.
She sued under the Civil Rights Act and the Florida Private Whistleblower Act. Wolverton is seeking a jury trial for compensation for lost wages and benefits, various damages and to be reinstated to a comparable position to her former job or front pay, records show.
Disney has yet to respond to her allegations in court. Wolverton’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.
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How to Immediately Boost Phone Signal, According to iPhone Expert (VIDEO)
Nothing is more frustrating than when you need to use your phone but the signal is weak. Thankfully, a tech guru recently shared a little-known iPhone hack that apparently instantly boosts a user's signal quickly, easily and from anywhere.
Scott Polderman, who regularly shares tips with his over 1.4 million followers, shared the tip via TikTok.
He explained all you need to do is toggle airplane mode on and off, and then in no time at all you should have a stronger signal.
Watch the TikTok clip here:
Users were blown away by the tip.
"Been doing this for years and never knew why or how I even knew to do this… now I know," one person wrote, while another commented: "Omgosh it worked."
How to Boost Your iPhone Signal Instantly:
To try the hack yourself, open the phone's control center by "swiping from the top right to the bottom left," which opens the phones control center. Then "click on airplane mode and it will force your phone to find a new tower and reset."
The hack works due to the modem inside your phone being forced to search for a nearby tower which can increase your signal strength.
Switching a phone in and out of airplane mode does drain the battery, so be sure you have enough charge before using the hack.
Polderman included an extra little tip for those who the hack doesn't seem to work for: "If you’re sitting at home using the same tower, you may not see a change. It works well when you’re traveling." | https://newstalk1290.com/boost-iphone-signal-tiktok/ | 2022-06-10 15:17:10 | 0 | https://newstalk1290.com/boost-iphone-signal-tiktok/ |
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of mourners waited for hours Thursday in a line that stretched for almost 5 miles (8 kilometers) across London for the chance to spend a few minutes filing past Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin while she lies in state. King Charles III spent the day in private to reflect on his first week on the throne.
The queue to pay respects to the late queen at Westminster Hall in Parliament was at least a nine-hour wait, snaking across a bridge and along the south bank of the River Thames beyond Tower Bridge. But people said they didn’t mind the wait, and authorities brought in portable toilets and other facilities to make the slog bearable.
“I’m glad there was a queue, because that gave us time to see what was ahead of us, prepared us and absorbed the whole atmosphere,” health care professional Nimisha Maroo said. “I wouldn’t have liked it if I’d had to just rush through.”
A week after the queen died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland after 70 years on the throne, the focus of commemorations was in Westminster — the heart of political power in London. Her coffin will lie in state at Westminster Hall until Monday, when it will be taken across the street to Westminster Abbey for the queen’s funeral.
Buckingham Palace on Thursday released details about the service, the first state funeral held in Britain since the death of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1965. Royalty and heads of state from around the world are expected to be among the 2,000 people attending, with a smaller burial service planned for later Monday at Windsor Castle.
Late Monday, the queen will be buried in a private family service at Windsor alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year.
The guest list for the state funeral is a roll-call of global power and pomp, from Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and King Felipe VI of Spain to U.S. President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and the prime ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — who first met the queen when he was a child and his father Pierre Trudeau was Canada’s leader — said the queen was “one of my favorite people in the world.”
“Her conversations with me were always candid, we talked about anything and everything, she gave her best advice on a range of issues, she was always curious, engaged and thoughtful,” he said at a special session of the Canadian parliament in Ottawa.
After a day of high ceremony and high emotions on Wednesday as the queen’s coffin was carried in somber procession from Buckingham Palace, the king was spending Thursday working and in “private reflection” at his Highgrove residence in western England. Charles has had calls with Biden and Macron and has been speaking to a host of world leaders.
Prince William, the heir to the throne, and his wife Catherine, the Princess of Wales, visited the royal family’s Sandringham estate in eastern England on Thursday to admire some of the tributes left by well-wishers. The couple walked slowly along metal barriers as they received bouquets from the public.
William told well-wishers s that walking behind his grandmother’s coffin on Wednesday was “challenging” and “brought back memories” of the funeral of his mother, Princess Diana after her death in 1997, when William was 15.
“I said how proud his mother would have been of him, and he said how hard it was yesterday because it brought back memories of his mother’s funeral,” Jane Wells, 54, said after meeting the prince Thursday.
The queen left Buckingham Palace on Wednesday for the last time, borne on a horse-drawn carriage and saluted by cannons and the tolling of Big Ben, in a solemn procession through the flag-draped, crowd-lined streets of London to Westminster Hall.
Charles, his siblings and sons marched behind the coffin, which was topped by a wreath of white roses and the queen’s diamond-studded crown on a purple velvet pillow. The military procession underscored Elizabeth’s seven decades as head of state.
Her lying-in-state, meanwhile, allowed many Britons to say a personal goodbye to the only monarch most have ever known.
It’s also a huge logistical operation, with a designated 10-mile (16 kilometer) queuing route lined with first aid points and more than 500 portable toilets. There are 1,000 stewards and marshals working at any given time, and 30 religious leaders from a range of faiths to talk to those in line.
Monica Thorpe said she walked for two hours to get to the back of the line and join the queue.
“People were just walking and walking and the policemen were like ‘Keep going, keep going.’ It was like the yellow brick road,” she said.
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of the Church of England, wore a high-visibility vest emblazoned with the words “Faith Team” as he spoke to mourners. Welby, who will deliver a sermon at Elizabeth’s funeral on Monday, paid tribute to the queen as “someone you could trust totally, completely and absolutely, whose wisdom was remarkable.”
People old and young, dressed in dark suits or jeans and sneakers, walked in a steady stream Thursday through the historic hall, where Guy Fawkes and Charles I were tried, where kings and queens hosted magnificent medieval banquets, and where previous monarchs have lain in state.
After passing the coffin, most mourners paused to look back before going out through the hall’s great oak doors. Some were in tears; others bowed their heads or curtseyed. One sank onto a knee and blew a farewell kiss.
Keith Smart, an engineer and British Army veteran, wiped away tears as he left the hall. He had waited more than 10 hours for the chance to say goodbye.
“Everybody in the crowd was impeccably behaved. There was no malice, everybody was friends. It was fantastic,” he said. “And then, to come into that room and see that, I just broke down inside. I didn’t bow — I knelt to the floor, on my knees, bowed my head to the queen.”
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland board approved $2.9 million in compensation Wednesday for a man who was wrongly imprisoned for 32 years, including a decade on death row, for two murders he did not commit.
John Huffington was pardoned by former Gov. Larry Hogan in January. The former governor cited prosecutorial misconduct in granting a full innocence pardon for Huffington in connection with a 1981 double slaying in Harford County.
On Wednesday, the Board of Public Works — comprised of Gov. Wes Moore, Comptroller Brooke Lierman and Treasurer Dereck Davis — approved the compensation package.
“He was robbed of time being spent away from family and loved ones, holidays, birthdays, missed milestones, opportunities denied — injustice, time and time again,” Moore said in apologizing to Huffington, who attended the board meeting.
Moore noted the work that Huffington has done to raise awareness about flaws in the criminal justice system, through speeches and a book about his experiences.
“John has become a friend,” Moore said. “I’m thankful not just because he is willing to share his story, but he’s been willing to take his pain and turn it into service.”
The governor also noted that since his release Huffington has worked as a manager at Second Chance, a nonprofit that helps people with barriers to employment. He also worked in job training and reentry programs at the Living Classrooms Foundation. He is now the chief operating officer at the Kinetic Capital Community Foundation, which works to promote income equality in Baltimore.
Huffington always maintained his innocence. He was released from Patuxent Institution in 2013 after serving 32 years of two life sentences.
He was convicted twice in the killings known as the “Memorial Day Murders.” Diane Becker was stabbed to death in her recreational vehicle, while her 4-year-old son, who was inside, was not harmed. Joseph Hudson, Becker’s boyfriend, was fatally shot and found a few miles (kilometers) away. A second suspect in the slayings testified against Huffington, was convicted of first-degree murder, and served 27 years.
Prosecutors relied on testimony that was later discredited about hair found at the murder scene matching Huffington’s.
He appealed his first conviction in 1981. In 1983, a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder and he was sentenced to death. Prosecutors later commuted that sentence to two life terms.
Questions about evidence in the case arose when The Washington Post uncovered an FBI report in 2011 that found the FBI agent who analyzed hair evidence in Huffington’s case may not have used reliable science, or even tested the hair at all. The report had been written in 1999, but Harford County State’s Attorney Joseph Cassilly chose not to provide it to Huffington’s lawyers.
A Frederick County judge vacated Huffington’s convictions and ordered a new trial in 2013 after Huffington presented new evidence using DNA testing that was not available during his earlier trials. When the hair evidence was tested for DNA more than 30 years later, the results showed it was not Huffington’s hair.
Maryland’s highest court unanimously voted to disbar Cassilly in 2021. The court found he withheld exculpatory evidence in the 1981 double murder and lied about it in the following years. Cassilly had retired in 2019. Cassilly maintained he did nothing wrong. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-maryland-panel-oks-2-9m-compensation-for-wrongfully-convicted-man-who-spent-32-years-behind-bars/ | 2023-07-06 18:25:06 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-maryland-panel-oks-2-9m-compensation-for-wrongfully-convicted-man-who-spent-32-years-behind-bars/ |
In late March of this year, a young entrepreneur named Patrick Smith emailed Madison Magazine hoping for coverage of his Odana Road retail shop, Midwest Vintage608, and his Heavy7Hearts clothing line.
As sometimes happens, the editors liked the idea and forwarded the note to me. When I read it, I recognized the name. Two years ago, someone else had asked me to write about Smith.
It was in a Madison hospital room. I was visiting my friend, Mike Mayer, a Chicago native who was nicknamed “Mountain” by his University of Wisconsin teammates when he lettered as a defensive lineman for the football Badgers from 1970-72.
He’d been hospitalized due to a buildup of fluid in his legs. They were terribly swollen. But, as usual, Mayer wasn’t thinking about himself.
“A favor?” he asked.
“Sure, Mike,” I said.
He scratched a name on a piece of paper: Patrick Smith.
“You need to write about this guy.”
They’d had a chance meeting, years earlier, in the early 2000s. Each lived in the Meadowood neighborhood, Smith on Balsam Road with his mother and siblings, Mayer on Leland Drive with his wife, Kathy.
Smith was standing at a bus stop in full football pads. He was 8 years old, headed for Penn Park and peewee league practice. Mayer, still a bear-like presence but walking with a mobility cane due to a degenerative eye disease, made out a figure and stopped to chat.
A deep and abiding friendship grew from that first conversation, with Mayer mentoring Smith. About football, sure, but much more.
What Patrick Smith felt, as did anyone who crossed paths with Mike and Kathy Mayer, was kindness.
I first met the Mayers in 2012. I was writing newspaper columns at the time and, around Thanksgiving, somebody tipped me about a former Badger and his wife whose small apartment in Meadowood was known as a safe harbor in the occasionally troubled neighborhood.
The column I wrote about Mike and Kathy and the elderly friend they called Uncle Eugene drew as much reader response as anything I’ve written.
“If you don’t know your neighbor,” Mike told me, “you need to.” He spoke reverently about his wife. “Kathy is a friend to the friendless. A mother to the motherless. They come to the door, and she tells them to come in.”
It hadn’t always been that way. They married in 1973 and Mike spent years traveling, trying to sell the idea of Rugby League Football, for which he’d secured the North American rights. He wasn’t successful, nor during that time was he a very good husband. But in 1991 Mike made a pledge to change, and he kept it. Helping others became paramount.
“We live what we say and say what we live,” he told me.
I didn’t connect with Patrick Smith after Mike Mayer first mentioned his name, but we met in June for a chat about our mutual friend Mike, Patrick’s business, and more.
Smith was raised in Madison by his mother, Roylawn Smith.
“She made things work,” Smith said. “She was so transparent and real with us, we knew what was going on. We knew our mom couldn’t afford everything and couldn’t always provide what we wanted. But she was able to give us what we needed.”
She died in 2010 of a heart attack just a few days before Smith’s 16th birthday, when Patrick was visiting Alex Lewis, another former Badger and important mentor, in Detroit. It was devastating.
“But she told us we’re soldiers and we don’t cry until we get where we’re going,” Smith said.
He continued: “I try to be a continuation of her message. Even when we were struggling, my mom was willing to give clothes and food to other families. To let friends live with us. The same principles as Mike and Kathy. Be a support system for as many people as possible.”
His mom had stressed education, and after Verona High School — where he played football — Smith attended UW–Stevens Point and, with an education degree, became the first in his family to graduate from college.
He got good grades at Point but felt isolated, as well as angered by the deaths of young Black men nationally at the hands of law enforcement.
Smith decided to start a clothing brand he called Heavy7Hearts. His first message, on hoodies, T-shirts and hats, read: “This land you call home was stolen from Native Americans and built by African slaves.”
“It shocked people,” Smith said. Eventually he settled on a new message, which continues today: “Changing the world one trend at a time.”
Back in Madison after college, Smith worked in education for a time but never lost the entrepreneurial dream of having his own store. He continued to sell his clothes out of the trunk of his car.
In July 2020, Smith opened a shop, Midwest Vintage608, in a small space off Odana Road, where he sold his Heavy7Hearts brand as well as hip-hop inspired streetwear and retro sneakers.
He’s now in a bigger space at 6706 Odana Road, but things haven’t been easy. The pandemic, two burglaries, high rent — Smith has had to take a second job, started a GoFundMe and isn’t sure he can make a go of his dream. Hence the email to Madison Magazine, hoping for some publicity.
What neither Patrick nor I knew was that just days before we met for our interview, Mike Mayer died in Madison at age 71.
“He didn’t want any kind of funeral or even an obituary,” Kathy Mayer said, once I heard the news and phoned her.
I told her of my meeting with Patrick Smith.
“Mike was proud of him,” Kathy said. “We went to his graduation at UW–Stevens Point. He had a challenging time in northern Wisconsin, where there weren’t a lot of people who looked like him. But he was determined.”
Patrick and I shared a call, too.
“It’s hard because he was someone I called for a lot of things,” Patrick said. He then recalled how, about five years ago, Mike had surgery at UW Hospital and regained sight in one eye, an extraordinary late gift.
“The first time Mike was really able to see me was at my college graduation,” Patrick said. “After being in my life for many years.”
He paused. “Mike’s memory means so much to me. He always told me to keep going no matter how hard or difficult it gets. So I’m not giving up.”
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy auto and transport industry press releases from PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the auto and transportation industries stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- Hertz and GM Plan Major EV Expansion
Hertz plans to order up to 175,000 Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, and BrightDrop EVs over the next five years. The agreement will encompass electric vehicle deliveries through 2027 as Hertz increases the EV component of its fleet and GM accelerates production of EVs broadly. - eBay Motors Launches the Ultimate Road Trip to Celebrate Car Culture Across America
The 'Parts of America' tour will stop in small towns throughout the country, partnering with builders to assemble a full collection of rides that represents the best of car culture in the U.S. - B747-400ERF joins National Airlines Fleet
Featuring a nose door and a large side door, the aircraft is a logical choice globally for sophisticated cargo movements across long distances. The induction is part of National Airlines' current global fleet and network expansion approach to meet the massive demand to move huge shipments worldwide. - Nikola and IVECO Begin Taking Orders on the European Nikola Tre BEV Heavy-Duty Truck with Best-In-Class Range
"The Nikola Tre battery-electric and fuel cell electric zero-emission trucks are true game changers in commercial trucking," said Michael Lohscheller, President, Nikola Corporation. "Specifically developed as electric vehicles, they deliver the performance and driving experience able to compete with their diesel-powered peers in the toughest heavy-duty missions." - 'Toyota Dream Orchestra Car' by Young Artist wins 'Grand Prize' in World Contest
For a 15-year-old musician from Mercer Island, Washington, cars of the future would include her "piano ship" vehicle, which performs classical music for passengers and passersby while floating high above and throughout the lush landscapes of the world. - Pirelli Launches the Weather Active Range: Its First Tires with All-Weather Capabilities Exclusively Developed for the North American Market
Tailor made for a premium ride experience in any weather situation, the new Pirelli range provides superb wet performance and outstanding snow traction among its main benefits. - Holland America Line Reports Positive Results of Cruise Industry's First Long-Term Biofuel Test on Board Volendam at Port of Rotterdam
Gus Antorcha, president of Holland America Line, said, "As part of our commitment to sustainability, we have always looked for cutting-edge solutions to environmental challenges that will help us meet Carnival Corporation's sustainability goals over the coming decades." - 70mai Launches the First 360° Rotatable Dash Cam
The patented 360° rotating design solved a pain point of similar products in which the image became distorted due to its large field of view. - From Most Improved to Among the Best: Mitsubishi Motors Ranks Second in Reputation's '2022 Automotive Report'
A deep concentration on exceeding every customer's expectations has been part of a joint commitment from MMNA and its dealer partners across the U.S. - Shipping taking promising first steps towards 2030 breakthrough goals on scalable zero emission fuels
The first-of-its-kind "Climate Action in Shipping Report - Progress towards Shipping's 2030 Breakthrough'' marks a significant milestone on the road to COP27 and provides an honest stocktake of progress to date, highlighting where coordinated effort and collaboration is needed.
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PITTSBURGH, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a licensed cosmetologist and I thought there could be a simple accessory to ensure that thread and needles are in order and ready for use," said an inventor, from Sanford, Fla., "so I invented BETWEEN THE WEAVE. My design would increase efficiency and it would help to maintain the tools needed for applying a hair weave or extensions."
The patent-pending invention provides easy access to needles and thread during hairstyling services. In doing so, it offers an alternative to traditional storage methods. As a result, it saves time and effort and it facilitates the attachment of hair extensions to a client's hair. The invention features a practical and portable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for hairstylists and hair salons. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Orlando sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-ORD-2907, 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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WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Friday's results
Regina 7 Saskatoon 4
Seattle 3 Prince Albert 2
Moose Jaw 4 Portland 2
Medicine Hat 4 Brandon 3
Red Deer 4 Edmonton 1
Lethbridge 4 Prince George 3 (OT)
Calgary 6 Swift Current 3
Kamloops 6 Everett 3
Victoria 4 Kelowna 0
Spokane 4 Vancouver 2
Saturday's results
Swift Current 4 Prince George 3
Saskatoon 4 Seattle 2
Regina 4 Portland 3
Moose Jaw 4 Brandon 3
Red Deer 2 Lethbridge 1 (OT)
Prince Albert 4 Edmonton 3 (OT)
Victoria 6 Kelowna 3
Winnipeg 8 Medicine Hat 3
Everett 3 Tri-City 2 (OT)
Kamloops 5 Spokane 2
Sunday's results
Lethbridge 4 Calgary 1
Tri-City 7 Vancouver 3
Tuesday's games
Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Lethbridge at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Regina at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Portland, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Spokane at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
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CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
6-4-6-2
(six, four, six, two)
CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
6-4-6-2
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LA LIBERTAD, El Salvador, June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hurley)(, the iconic action sports brand, took a first-place win by team rider, Filipe Toledo, at the Surf City El Salvador Pro Presented by Corona. In the final heat Hurley's Toledo had near-perfect form to score an impeccable 9.00 and 8.33, to earn his 14th Championship Tour win. Filipe now moves into the #2 spot on the WSL's 2023 ranking. Toledo heads next to his home country of Brazil for the VIVO Rio Pro June 23rd- July 1st.
Hurley's Head of Sports Marketing, Brett Simpson reflects, "He was looking to go one spot better from last season, and this man was the one to beat in the finals. The waves were a match made in heaven with Filipe's surfing, and he served up an amazing performance for the win. One of the best ever!"
Filipe Toledo, the current World #1 Champion, always competes in his lucky pair of Hurley Boardshorts. Here's the link to shop all Hurley Boardshorts. For the Hurley Women Carissa Moore placed an impressive third. Here's the link to shop the entire Carissa Collection.
ABOUT HURLEY: Born from water, Hurley was founded in Huntington Beach in 1999 on the principle of empowering and fueling the voice of the next generation. Through the lens of inclusion, Hurley has partnered with the world's best surfers, snowboarders, skateboarders, musicians and artists, and is an iconic global youth culture brand with roots sunk deep in beach lifestyle. Disruptive innovation is our unique blend of style and performance, and has Hurley sitting as the global benchmark for performance both in and out of the water. The world of Hurley can be found on www.hurley.com, and our Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Instagram are where our journeys are logged.
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LONDON, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taskize, the leading provider of inter-company workflow to the financial services industry, today announced a significant milestone with 500 financial institutions now live on the company's network, almost double the 289 companies in January 2021.
Operating across 85 countries, the recent growth of the network has been driven by the wave of new regulations along with industry initiatives, such as T+1 settlement. The Settlement Discipline Regime of the Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR) and the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) have created an increased need for solutions that facilitate faster and more efficient resolution of settlement breaks and margin disputes.
The global, web-based platform, used by Tier-1 investment banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge funds, CSDs, custodians and CCPs, allows firms to more efficiently manage operational issues across counterparties as well as internally within their organisation.
The Taskize Smart Directory™ and Taskize Bubble™ allow users to manage all work in one place making work flow more efficiently across all their post-trade operational areas, including settlements, corporate actions, income and collateral.
Joining the network is a quick and simple process. Seamless integrations with email, Microsoft Teams and Symphony enable workflow across both traditional and emerging communication channels. The easy-to-use API integrates with existing applications allowing internal workflows to be extended across the entire business network for even greater efficiency. This, along with a flexible sponsored subscription model, has facilitated a rapid increase in members to 500 companies in under 18-months.
Philip Slavin, CEO and co-founder of Taskize, commented on the achievement: "We are excited to have passed this significant milestone after experiencing strong demand from the market. The growth of our network is testament to the value Taskize brings, with those using our platform realising the benefits of inter-company workflow. In the face of mounting regulatory pressures, we expect the network of Taskize users to continue to grow, which will bring cumulative benefits as the industry reaps the rewards of radically reducing emails between global financial operations teams by up to 90%."
For more information on the Taskize network and how to join please see here: https://www.taskize.com/join-the-network/
About Taskize
Taskize is trusted by over 500 financial firms in 85 countries making it the leading provider of structured inter-company workflow to the Financial Services Industry to improve operational efficiency across buy-sides, sell-sides, custodians, market infrastructures and Fintech providers. Taskize eliminates the inefficiency and insecurity of email, phone, and chat to provide everything needed to resolve post-trade, cross-party issues securely and efficiently. Taskize is cloud-native, with an open architecture leading to easy adoption and benefit realization. Taskize is owned by Euroclear, a leading global provider of Financial Market Infrastructure services, operating independently. Follow @Taskize on LinkedIn or visit www.taskize.com.
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'Appalling' Melbourne derby violence condemned
Two fans handed life ban after pitch invasion
Flares were set off and thrown by both of sets at the A-League Men clash between Victory and City on December 17 during the opening quarter of the game at AAMI Park.
Trouble escalated when a flare hit a pitchside cameraman, with City keeper Glover throwing two flares off the field, one of which landed in the stands.
Fans behind the goal stormed the pitch and Glover was hit in the face with a metal bucket, while referee Alex King was also struck, leading to the game being brought to an end.
Three men have subsequently been charged by Victoria Police, while an independent match review panel (MRP) was tasked with determining if Glover deserved to be punished.
After reviewing the match footage and consulting referee King's match report, it was announced on Tuesday that no further action will be taken against Glover.
King confirmed in his report that he saw the incident involving Glover and he did not in any way feel the 25-year-old intentionally meant to throw a flare into the stands.
"Since the independent MRP was satisfied that the incident had not escaped the referee's attention, the MRP did not proceed to consider whether Glover should have been sanctioned with a direct red card," a Football Australia (FA) spokesperson said.
"Accordingly, the MRP has not cited the incident pursuant to the regulations."
Glover was therefore cleared to play for City in Tuesday's A-League encounter with Central Coast Mariners.
Victory was last week issued a range of attendance-related sanctions by FA, with the club unable to sell tickets for any game up to and including January 15.
Additionally, the "active supporter bays" at both ends of AAMI Park are to be shut, and Victory fans will be unable to attend away games unless they appear on a pre-approved FA list of individuals who can qualify for complimentary tickets, though there will only be 1,000 of those available.
Even more significant punishments are still expected to be dished out to Victory, with FA adding "no determination regarding the final sanctions" had been made yet, with potential fines or points deductions reportedly on the table. | https://www.beinsports.com/au/a-league/video/melbourne-city-goalkeeper-glover-avoids-ban-f/2011899 | 2022-12-27 10:10:48 | 1 | https://www.beinsports.com/au/a-league/video/melbourne-city-goalkeeper-glover-avoids-ban-f/2011899 |
LOS ANGELES (NEXSTAR) — Actress Melinda Dillon, known for roles in films like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “A Christmas Story,” died Jan. 9 at the age of 83, her family confirmed in an obituary.
Dillon made her film debut in 1969’s Catherine Deneuve-Jack Lemmon romcom “The April Fools” after several television appearances, including the hit western “Bonanza.”
Her role in Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” earned her her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. She’d be nominated a second time in 1981 for the Sydney Pollack drama “Absence of Malice.”
Dillon’s face has become quite familiar to households given her role as Ralphie Parker’s mom in “A Christmas Story.” The 1983 holiday classic is a TV rerun staple, sometimes airing for 24 hours at a time on TBS and TNT.
Among her other noted film work are roles in 1987’s family comedy “Harry and the Hendersons” and Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 drama “Magnolia,” for which she was nominated as part of the cast for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Dillon also found stage success, after originating the role of “Honey” in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” on Broadway in 1962. She was nominated for a Tony Award of Best Featured Actress in a Play the following year.
According to IMDB, Dillon’s final film role was in the 2007 Adam Sandler-Don Cheadle drama “Reign Over Me.” Her final television appearances occurred the same year, in three episodes of TNT’s “Heartland.”
No further details were given by Dillon’s family.
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On a recent afternoon, Rabbi Daniel Bogard, his wife and three children played football in the backyard of their St. Louis home — a place that carries 65 years of family memories.
"My son sleeps in the same bedroom that I slept in, that my dad slept in," explained Bogard, whose children are the fifth generation of his family to call Missouri home.
But today, Bogard says the state doesn't feel safe anymore "for people like my son."
From a very young age, one of his twin daughters begged for boys' clothes and boys' toys. Then, one day came a startling question.
"I'll never forget," said Bogard. "I was putting him to bed and he turned to me and he said, 'Daddy, do you think God could make me over again as a boy?'"
Not long after, when he was 6, the rabbi's child announced he was a boy — and chose a new name.
"The day that we gave him a short boy's haircut, he turned to us, and he said, 'I'm a boy,'" Bogard said.
At first, Bogard and his wife Karen Bogard, also a rabbi, were concerned it might be a phase.
"We were a little worried that there was going to be a new name the next week. But he called up everybody and told them," Daniel Bogard recalled.
"And honestly, he has been that name since. And it fits him so much better than his other name," added Karen Bogard.
For security reasons, Scripps News is withholding the child's name.
Today, the Bogards say their thriving 9-year-old is supported by everyone around him. But they say there's one exception: their state's Republican-led government.
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Last month, Missouri lawmakers approved a bill banning minors from accessing gender-affirming care like puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery.
The practice, which also includes mental health and social support, is recommended by multiple medical associations.
"What we're doing is protecting children from undergoing what we determine, we believe, is harmful procedures," GOP Rep. Dean Plocher said at the end of the legislative session in May.
Though research shows it's rare for children to undergo gender-affirming surgeries, the state senator who filed the bill, Mike Moon, has said he wants to stop "the mutilation and butchering of children's bodies in Missouri."
Daniel Bogard says the use of such language is one reason his family receives frequent death threats online. Every bedroom in his house has a panic button.
"It's just a reality of when your government is at war with your family," he says.
In an interview, his child tells us he hopes to change his lawmakers' minds. "You should stop that. We're just people," he said.
Being only 9 years old, he's not currently receiving any substantive gender-affirming care.
But puberty could soon hit.
All we're asking for is for the government to stay out of our doctor's offices," Bogard said.
SEE MORE: Study shows growing support for LGBTQ+ Americans
As a rabbi, he's beyond proud of how the local Jewish community has rallied behind the trans community, representing "a core Jewish value, which is that we have to protect the most vulnerable in our society."
With support from his Central Reform Congregation, he has made the two-hour trip to Missouri's capital, Jefferson City, 12 times this year to testify.
He often takes friends and fellow activists with him. He credits their relentless activism to helping create compromises in the final gender-affirming care bill — such as an exception for minors already receiving such care.
Still, he and his wife worry that things will get worse in Missouri.
In addition to restricting transgender health care for minors, the new Missouri legislation also prohibits transgender athletes from joining school sports teams aligned with their gender identity. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, is expected to sign both bills in the near future.
"There just aren't that many trans kids and there aren't that many people who know a trans kid. And so it's so easy to demonize," said Daniel Bogard. His wife added that she's been told by state senators during legislation hearings that "I don't love my child enough, that he is the way he is because I didn't love him enough as his mom."
For now, though, the Bogards say they'll stay put to keep on fighting for their child.
"I don't see a world where we wouldn't stand up for his rights," Karen Bogard said.
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Manitou pontoon boats recognized in multiple categories at the 2022 Boat Builders Award Gala
VALCOURT, QC, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - BRP Inc. (TSX: DOO) (NASDAQ: DOOO) is thrilled to announce that Manitou was recognized in a total of three categories during the 2022 Boat Builder Awards, hosted by International Boat Industry (IBI) and Raymarine, at the METSTRADE Show in Amsterdam. Manitou showed up strong at the premier Boat Builder Awards ceremony and won in the Innovative On-Board Design Solution and Rising Star categories, while getting an honorable mention in the Retail Marketing Initiative category.
In August, BRP shook up the boating industry with the launch of fully redesigned Manitou pontoon boats, featuring the all-new Rotax S. The new generation of Manitou was built to rise above in every way, and elevate the on-water experience to a whole new level. The result is a truly integrated boat that frees up valuable space for boaters and their families, while pushing the design to a stunning new height.
"We set out to shake up the industry and break away from traditional pontoon and outboard engine experiences with the launch of the new generation of Manitou," says Karim Donnez, President, Marine Group at BRP. "Collectively, BRP design and engineering teams worked on reimagining the boating experience with a forward-thinking design and a focus on consumers' needs. We are honored to be recognized by industry experts for the efforts and collaboration of our innovative teams and Rising Star, Garrett Koschak, who brought this new experience to the industry. The brand marketing team also set new standards with the Manitou launch campaign by creating unique content to engage consumers along their journey."
The sleek new MAX Deck platform, unique and exclusive to Manitou, was incorporated into the timeless design of the boat, enabling the transom to better fit consumer needs and maximize usable space. The MAX Deck unlocks 38 square feet of additional functional space at the stern and is made possible when paired with the all-new outboard engine Rotax S featuring Stealth Technology. With the new design, Manitou has paved the way for the complete integration of the MAX Deck, removing visible hoses and wiring seen with a traditional outboard engine. This design creates a new stern experience meaning more comfort, and more possibilities for recreation that can only be found on the all-new Manitou Cruise and Explore models.
For Model Year 2023, Manitou introduced the all-new Sport Bimini that is standard on Explore models. The Sport Bimini features a forward angle to compliment the new design of walls and opens rearward, elevating the visual appearance and design of the boat. Also, the new design allows to keep the bimini up when cruising up to 55 MPH, allowing boaters to benefit from more shade throughout the day for the ultimate onboard experience.
The all-new Trifold Bench, available exclusively on the Manitou Explore models, creates three unique seating arrangements in one space, allowing for flexibility throughout an entire day on the water. Arrangements include a full length bench, face to face seating, or a face to face dinette table, effectively offering the functionality of three boats in one. The Trifold Bench is a true testament of engineering integration, forward-thinking design and a focus on consumer needs.
The Rising Star category acknowledges those aged 35 or under, working in the marine industry who have made an impact and influence through their work. "I am honored and humbled to receive this recognition. Although I am being recognized for my accomplishments, being part of the BRP family and having access to its expertise contributed to my success," said Garrett Koschak, Global Product Strategy Manager, Manitou. Garrett has been fully engaged in the BRP Marine Group mission since he began his career straight out of university 12 years ago. He is a critical member of the new product development team and works in close collaboration with the design, engineering and finance teams to ensure successful completion of the New Product Development process. Garrett possesses an in-depth understanding of the marine industry and the competitive landscape, and maintains strong relationships with sales teams and the expanding Manitou dealer network.
The Marine Brand Marketing team developed engaging and fresh content to inspire consumers along their journey and have them discover the new boating experience they can enjoy with Manitou. The campaign clearly stands out by elevating Manitou pontoon boats via a sleek, modern visual treatment, reaching audiences in unexpected and unconventional ways, and creating aspirational partnerships to bring Manitou into a class of its own.
"As we prepared for our launch, we observed that all recreational boat advertising currently looks the same," said Julie Tourville, Director, Global Marketing, Sea-Doo and Marine Group at BRP. "To break out from the sea-of-sameness, with the new creative direction and intent to elevate Manitou in an aspirational way, we developed a 360 comprehensive, multi-channel launch plan that included activation and strong influencer campaigns."
We are a global leader in the world of powersports products, propulsion systems and boats built on 80 years of ingenuity and intensive consumer focus. Our portfolio of industry-leading and distinctive products includes Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles, Sea-Doo watercraft and pontoons, Can-Am on and off-road vehicles, Alumacraft and Quintrex boats, Manitou pontoons and Rotax marine propulsion systems as well as Rotax engines for karts and recreational aircraft. We complete our lines of products with a dedicated parts, accessories and apparel portfolio to fully enhance the riding experience. With annual sales of CA$7.6 billion from over 120 countries, our global workforce includes close to 20,000 driven, resourceful people.
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Arkansas State Board of Education votes to take over Marvell-Elaine School District
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK/KAIT) - The Arkansas State Board of Education made an emergency decision Friday to place the Marvell-Elaine School District under state authority.
According to KARK-TV in Little Rock, the board voted to permanently remove the district’s board of directors and superintendent.
State officials said the move would allow the district to go ahead with a contract with the Friendship Education Foundation. The contract would turn over all operations to the company.
The district was allowed to enter the contract with the private education company under the Arkansas LEARNS Act.
However, a Pulaski County Judge’s decision to not allow the LEARNS Act to take effect until August 1 put those plans on hold.
State officials emphasized that a decision needed to be made Friday so the district knew how to move forward until the LEARNS Act takes effect.
More on this story can be found on KARK’s website.
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PGA Tour will appear before a Senate panel investigating its deal with Saudi backers of LIV
WASHINGTON (AP) — The PGA Tour said Wednesday that it would appear next month before a Senate subcommittee whose leader asked executives from the tour, Saudi golf interests and LIV Golf to testify as Congress investigates the business deal that upended the sport.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., announced that the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations would hold a hearing on July 11 to examine the agreement involving the PGA Tour, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and the European tour to pool commercial business and rights in a new company.
“Our goal is to uncover the facts about what went into the PGA Tour’s deal with the Saudi Public Investment Fund and what the Saudi takeover means for the future of this cherished American institution and our national interest,” Blumenthal said in a statement. “Americans deserve to know what the structure and governance of this new entity will be. Major actors in the deal are best positioned to provide this information, and they owe Congress — and the American people — answers in a public setting.”
Blumenthal invited PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan, Public Investment Fund Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan and LIV CEO Greg Norman to testify.
Monahan had sent a letter to various lawmakers June 9, three days after the PGA Tour’s stunning announcement of an agreement that would end all lawsuits between the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund. In the letter, he said the tour was “left on our own” to fend off Saudi Arabia’s bid to take over the sport with LIV Golf because of the United States’ geopolitical alliance with the kingdom.
In the last year, LIV Golf lured away some of golf’s biggest stars with signing bonuses of $100 million or more, prompting the PGA Tour to respond by pouring millions into its own tournament purses.
“We look forward to appearing before the Senate subcommittee to answer their questions about the framework agreement we believe keeps the PGA Tour as the leader of professional golf’s future and benefits our players, our fans and our sport,” the tour said in a statement. “Already, the first phase of this framework has resulted in the end of costly litigation with LIV Golf.
“As we enter the next phase, we look forward to continuing the productive conversations we had last night with our players, listening to their feedback and working toward negotiating a final agreement that is in their best interest and ensures that the tour leads any new venture.”
The tour said in the June 6 announcement that Al-Rumayyan would be chairman of the new company and Monahan would be the CEO. Two PGA Tour board members, Ed Herlihy and Jimmy Dunne, would join them on the executive committee.
Monahan has since stepped away from the tour for a “medical situation.” Two of his top executives are in charge of the tour’s day-to-day operations. Al-Rumayyan has said Norman was not apprised of the deal until shortly before it was announced.
The Justice Department’s antitrust division has been reviewing the golf landscape since last summer, and now it also is starting to look at the tour’s agreement with the Saudis and whether it violates federal antitrust laws. The inquiry is in its early stages.
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HOUSTON, Feb. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.135 per share on the company's common stock, par value $0.001 per share, to be paid on April 14, 2023, to stockholders of record on March 15, 2023.
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission-critical roles in 34 countries.
KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.
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The statements in this press release that are not historical statements, including statements regarding future financial performance, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the company's control that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the significant adverse impacts on economic and market conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the company's ability to respond to the resulting challenges and business disruption; the recent dislocation of the global energy market; the company's ability to manage its liquidity; the outcome of and the publicity surrounding audits and investigations by domestic and foreign government agencies and legislative bodies; potential adverse proceedings by such agencies and potential adverse results and consequences from such proceedings; changes in capital spending by the company's customers; the company's ability to obtain contracts from existing and new customers and perform under those contracts; structural changes in the industries in which the company operates; escalating costs associated with and the performance of fixed-fee projects and the company's ability to control its cost under its contracts; claims negotiations and contract disputes with the company's customers; changes in the demand for or price of oil and/or natural gas; protection of intellectual property rights; compliance with environmental laws; changes in government regulations and regulatory requirements; compliance with laws related to income taxes; unsettled political conditions, war and the effects of terrorism; foreign operations and foreign exchange rates and controls; the development and installation of financial systems; the possibility of cyber and malware attacks; increased competition for employees; the ability to successfully complete and integrate acquisitions; and operations of joint ventures, including joint ventures that are not controlled by the company.
The company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K, any subsequent Form 10-Qs and 8-Ks, and other U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss some of the important risk factors that the company has identified that may affect its business, results of operations and financial condition. Except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason.
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WASHINGTON — Car buyers might not get the vehicle they want on time, commuter rail lines could see service disrupted, and shipments from everything from oil to livestock feed could be snarled.
Those are just a few of the wide-ranging impacts a walkout by U.S. rail workers would have on the country’s industries and economy. A strike could happen if the railroads and unions can’t settle their differences before an early Friday walkout deadline.
Here’s how some industries are gauging the potential impacts and getting ready for the possible work stoppage.
AUTO INDUSTRY
Nearly all new vehicles that travel more than a couple hundred miles from the factory to their destination are shipped by rail because it’s more efficient, said Michael Robinet, an executive director for S&P Global Mobility. So it’s almost a certainty that new vehicles coming to the U.S. from Mexico or other countries will be delayed, he said.
“It’s not like there’s extra truck capacity to take all the vehicles that the railroads can’t carry,” Robinet said.
Automakers might be hampered in building vehicles, too, because some larger parts and raw materials are transported by rail. But Robinet said automakers will go to great lengths to get the parts to keep their factories running as much as possible.
Mike Austin, senior mobility analyst for Guidehouse Research, said the strike could make new vehicles even more scarce, driving prices up beyond current record levels. That could raise inflation “as other goods aren’t moving through the rails.”
Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis, said Wednesday at the Detroit auto show that his company will wind up apologizing to customers because their orders may not arrive on time.
COMMUTING
Metra commuter rail service, which operates in the Chicago area, said Wednesday that it would suspend operations on four of its 11 lines on Friday if a work stoppage occurs. Some disruption on those lines would begin after rush hour Thursday night. In Minnesota, the operators of a commuter rail line that carries workers along a densely populated corridor from Minneapolis to northwestern suburbs and towns warned that service could be suspended as early as Friday.
In the Puget Sound region of Washington state, any strike would cancel the rail service until employees return to work, said David Jackson, a spokesman for the regional transit agency Sound Transit. Some Caltrain riders in the San Francisco Bay Area could be impacted by a rail strike, officials said.
The Maryland Transit Administration warned this week that a strike would mean the immediate suspension of service on two of its three MARC commuter rail lines.
Amtrak, meanwhile, said that starting Thursday, all its long-distance trains are canceled to avoid possible passenger disruptions while en route.
ENERGY
A strike could have a significant impact on the energy industry, and could hurt consumers who would likely end up paying more for gasoline, electricity and natural gas. Refineries might have to halt production if they can’t get the deliveries they need, or if they don’t have access to rail to ship gasoline.
No one wants to risk leaving flammable chemicals stranded on the railroad tracks if a strike occurs. That's why railroads began curtailing shipments of hazardous materials on Monday to protect that dangerous cargo.
Roughly 300,000 barrels of crude oil move by rail each day, which could supply about two mid-size refineries, according to AFPM. And about 5 million barrels of propane, representing a third of U.S. consumption, are moved by rail monthly, the group said.
Roughly 70% of ethanol produced in the U.S. is shipped by rail, and ethanol accounts for about a tenth of U.S. gasoline volume, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights. Nearly 75% of the coal moved to electric utilities in the first half of 2022 was moved by rail, the group said.
AGRICULTURE
Livestock producers could see problems almost immediately if shipments of feed abruptly ended, according to the National Grain and Feed Association.
Meat and poultry groups noted the reliance on rail for shipments of feed and called for a quick resolution of the rail dispute. Every week, the nation’s chicken industry receives about 27 million bushels of corn and 11 million bushels of soybean meal to feed chickens, said Tom Super, senior vice president of the National Chicken Council.
RETAIL
Experts say retailers have been shipping goods earlier in the season in recent months as a way to protect themselves from potential disruptions. But this buffer will only slightly minimize the impact from a railroad strike, which is brewing during the critical holiday shipping season, said Jesse Dankert, vice president of supply chain at the Retail Industry Leaders Association, a retail trade group that counts more than 200 retailers like Best Buy as its members. She noted that retailers are already feeling the impact from the uncertainty as some freight carriers are limiting services.
Dankert noted that retailers, noticing a slowdown in shipments, are now making contingency plans like turning to trucks to pick up some of the slack and making plans to use some of the excess inventory that it has in its distribution centers.
But she noted that there are not enough trucks and drivers to meet their needs. That scarcity will only drive up costs and make inflation worse, she said.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta rapper Young Thug, who’s accused of conspiracy to violate Georgia’s RICO Act and participation in a criminal street gang, is facing six new felony charges along with four others linked to the case.
A new indictment was filed in Fulton County Superior Court last week against the artist, whose real name is Jeffery Williams. He now faces additional charges of participation in criminal street gang activity, violation of the Georgia controlled substances act, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, possession of a machine gun and drug charges, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The new charges stem from what investigators found during Williams’ arrest on the original May 9 indictment at his home in Atlanta’s upscale Buckhead neighborhood, authorities said.
The initial indictment contained 56 counts against 28 people for alleged involvement in crimes committed on behalf of the Young Slime Life street gang. The updated indictment now contains 65 counts, six of which apply to Williams.
At the time of Williams’ arrest, there was a question of whether the new charges would be folded into the RICO case. Court records now indicate that is what has been done.
Williams’ attorney, Brian Steel, said his client is innocent and looks forward to fighting the charges in court.
“Mr. Williams has committed absolutely no crimes,” Steel told the newspaper on Wednesday. “We cannot wait for a trial date.”
Williams, along with rapper Gunna, whose real name is Sergio Kitchens, remain in jail after bond was denied for both earlier this year. Steel said a new bond hearing for Williams has been scheduled for next week. A tentative trial date has been set for Jan. 9, 2023.
Martinez Arnold, also known as Duke, and Deamonte Kendrick, also known as Yak Gotti, face additional charges including participation in criminal street gang activity, violation of the Georgia controlled substances act, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and possession of a machine gun. Kendrick also has been indicted on a charge of possession of a firearm by convicted felon.
Shannon Stillwell and Quamarvious Nichols were charged with one additional count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon related to the death of Shymel Drinks on March 18.
Arnold’s attorney, Ashleigh Merchant, told WSB-TV that she is confident her client won’t be convicted. She said he will plead not guilty to the new charges as he already has to the original charges.
The indictments center around Young Slime Life, an alleged gang prosecutors say was founded by Williams and two others in Atlanta with ties to the national Bloods gang.
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CHICAGO, May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ryerson Holding Corporation (NYSE: RYI) (the "Company" or "Ryerson") announced today the closing of an underwritten secondary public offering of 2,630,700 shares of its common stock by an affiliate of Platinum Equity LLC (the "Selling Stockholder"). Ryerson did not offer any shares of its common stock in the offering and did not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of the shares offered by the Selling Stockholder.
Concurrently with the completion of the offering, Ryerson repurchased directly from the Selling Stockholder 1,369,300 shares of common stock. The price per share paid by the Company equaled the price at which the underwriter purchased the shares from the Selling Stockholder in the offering, net of underwriting discounts and commissions. The Company funded the share repurchase with cash on hand.
Jim Claussen, Ryerson's Chief Financial Officer, stated "The completed secondary offering by Platinum Equity and concurrent share repurchase by Ryerson, marks the third common equity share sale transaction by Platinum Equity since May of 2022. As a result of these transactions, Ryerson's free-float has increased from 46% to 77% of outstanding shares. In that same time period, Ryerson has returned approximately $175 million to shareholders in the forms of share repurchases and dividends as our capital allocation strategy continues to prioritize long-term shareholder value creation."
The secondary offering was made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (including a prospectus) which was filed by Ryerson with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). You may obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the Offering may also be obtained by contacting: J.P. Morgan, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, by telephone: 1-866-803-9204, or by emailing: prospectus-eg_fi@jpmchase.com.
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About Ryerson
Ryerson is a leading value-added processor and distributor of industrial metals, with operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and China. Founded in 1842, Ryerson has around 4,200 employees in approximately 100 locations.
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SILVER SPRING, Md., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an update on additional steps it has taken that will lead to more infant formula available in the U.S. under the agency's recent increased flexibilities.
Company (Product Origin): Nestlé (Germany)
Product(s): Nestlé NAN Supreme Pro 1 and Nestlé NAN Supreme Pro 2
Type of Formula: General
Estimated Quantity: 249,500 cans (about 440,000 pounds or nearly 6.5 million full-size, 8-ounce bottles)
Availability: Expected June and July – the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is evaluating options for getting the products to the U.S. as quickly as possible.
More Information and Where to Find the Products: Expected to be sold on Gerber.com and through other online retailers.
The FDA is exercising enforcement discretion for the importation of the infant formula products listed above following the review of information provided pertaining to nutritional adequacy and safety, including microbiological testing, labeling, and additional information about facility production and inspection history.
The agency is leveraging a number of flexibilities to bolster the supply of products that serve as the sole source of nutrition for many infants while ensuring the infant formula can be used safely and provides adequate nutrition. The FDA remains in further discussions with manufacturers and suppliers regarding additional supply to ensure there's adequate infant formula available wherever and whenever parents and caregivers need it.
The FDA issued guidance on May 16 that outlined a process by which the agency would not object to the importation of certain infant formula products intended for a foreign market or distribution in the U.S. of products manufactured here for export to foreign countries. This guidance also may provide flexibilities to those who manufacture infant formula products domestically and may be able to increase further the quantity of domestically produced product for the U.S. market. The agency has posted a webpage that will be updated with information about additional products headed to the U.S.
Ongoing FDA Steps to Increase Availability of Safe, Nutritious Infant Formula
The agency's around-the-clock work as part of the all-of-government efforts has already begun to improve supply and availability. The agency expects that the measures and steps it is taking, and the potential for Abbott Nutrition's Sturgis, Michigan, facility to safely resume production in the near-term, will mean more and more supply is on the way or on store shelves moving forward.
The FDA continues to advise against making infant formulas at home or diluting formula. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to work with their child's health care provider for recommendations on changing feeding practices, if needed. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services also has additional information available at HHS.gov/formula, including information to help families find infant formula.
The agency also monitors online marketplaces for fraudulent products and works with major online retailers to remove violative and harmful products offered for sale on their sites. Additionally, since many of these fraudulent products originate overseas, the agency targets and examines these products at ports of entry. The FDA also monitors and follows up on various external signals such as consumer complaints about potential counterfeit and fraudulent products.
The FDA will continue to dedicate all available resources to help ensure that safe and nutritious infant formula products remain available for use in the U.S. and will keep the public informed of progress updates.
Additional Information:
- Infant Formula Information and Ongoing FDA Efforts to Increase Supply
- Enforcement Discretion to Manufacturers to Increase Infant Formula Supplies
- HHS.gov/formula
- HHS.gov/news
- FDA Investigation of Cronobacter Infections: Powdered Infant Formula (February 2022)
- Powdered Infant Formula Recall: What to Know
- CDC Information on Cronobacter Infection and Infants
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In the male dominated society of Kashmir, female rappers are often accused of spreading "vulgar western culture". Iqra Nisar is 17-years old and perfoms under the stage name Yung Illa. She’s one of the first female hip-hop artists in the region. Her parents objected to her decision to become a professional rapper and she also faced push-back from others, but she stayed true to her passion. Since then, she has become a role model for other young rappers who are breaking with rigid social expectations.
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By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The seemingly limitless range of Hong Chau is on display in three films this year, in roles so different that they hardly seem the work of one actor.
In Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” she plays best friend and nurse to Brendan Fraser’s obese shut-in professor, his most regular visitor and assertive caregiver. She desperately, unsentimentally prods him to get healthier, to care about himself.
In Kelly Reichardt’s “Showing Up,” Chau plays the idle landlord and artist colleague of Michelle Williams’ ceramics sculptor. She’s the mellower, more successful envy of Williams’ character, and yet kind of a regular companion.
In Mark Mylod’s haute cuisine black comedy “The Menu,” Chau plays the militant hostess at an exclusive restaurant who delivers some of the film’s most deliciously scathing lines. In the ear of one customer she whispers, “You’ll eat less than you desire and more than you deserve.”
Her performances—each a dazzling highlight in harmony within an ensemble—vary so much in appearance and manner that you can’t help wonder: Who, exactly, is Hong Chau? Is she, herself, like any of these characters? Or none of them?
Even for Chau, it’s not an easy question to answer.
“Maybe my character in `Showing Up’ because she’s also an artist,” says Chau. “The feeling of: I’m not in competition with anybody even though the way that other people view it makes you feel this sense that there’s a race, or that you’re not where you’re supposed to be. I think with acting or with Hollywood, there’s always this feeling of being uneasy with where you are in life.”
Since starting out on the David Simon HBO series “Treme” and in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Inherent Vice,” 43-year-old Chau has cut a unique, sometimes mysterious path through show business, choosing parts deliberately and seamlessly shape-shifting each time. “For a long time, she was such an enigma to me,” Mylod says.
But five years after her breakthrough performance in Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing,” the cluster of films is bringing Chau into view better than ever before, even while she remains maddeningly hard to pin down.
“Even before I became more successful, I never really wanted to be amongst a group of actors or keep up with people and have that in my mind at all times,“ Chau said in a recent interview from New Orleans where she was shooting Yorgos Lanthimos’ “And.” “It was always about myself and what I wanted out of it, and how I could do things that felt right for me.”
Chau’s performance in “The Whale,” which expanded in theaters nationwide on Dec. 23, has in particular been singled out for awards consideration. But part of the thrill of this season for Chau is how multidimensional it is, something that will continue into next year, too. Chau co-stars in Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,“ due out in June, adding to her enviable run with many of the top American filmmakers. “Showing Up,” which premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival, will be released sometime in the spring.
For Chau, who was born to Vietnamese parents in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up in New Orleans, it’s a fate she never bargained on.
“Even to this day, I have trouble saying that I’m an actor because I struggle with talking about what my process is,” Chau says. “There are actor-actors out there who give these really in-depth, tremendous interviews about their process. They talk about it in such a way that makes me feel, ‘Maybe I’m not an actor.’ I just don’t think that way at all.“
Chau didn’t grow up acting; Hollywood was an unimaginable distance from her working-class upbringing in New Orleans East.
Attending Boston University on a Pell Grant, she turned to film studies even though, up until then, her only real film education was watching the arthouse movies her brother rented.
“I definitely have an appreciation for exhibition. How could you not, growing up in a city with feathers and beads and all sorts of nonsense going on?” Chau says, laughing. “But in terms of actually seeing movies, no. I grew up without a lot of money so my parents never took me to the movies. We never ate out. There was so much that I slowly came to discover once I left home, once I went off to college. When I was doing press for “The Menu,” people would ask about restaurant experiences and I’d think, ‘Oh my God, I was and I’m still such an awkward person at restaurants because that’s not something I was used to growing up.’“
Chau’s first job out of college was an administrative assistant at PBS. A life behind the camera seemed more likely to her, a mentality that’s translated to her acting.
“Whenever I look at a script, it’s more from the mindset of what the filmmaker is trying to accomplish,” she says. “That’s really the only thing in my head. I don’t do it for me. I’m not trying to have an out-of-body experience when I do these roles. I guess I’m just a fan of the whole process.”
That was also Aronofsky’s impression working with Chau, who landed the part after a self-taped audition she made a little reluctantly in the middle of the pandemic shortly after the birth of her first child. Aronofsky found that in each take while shooting “The Whale,” Chau would do something different, supplying him with an array of choices in editing.
“Brendan joked to me the other day how at the end of a bunch of takes, I’d be like, `Let’s just do one more, Hong. Just surprise us, have some fun.’ Because she would always do something authentic and real but a different take on it,” says Aronofsky. “I do think if she wants to direct, she can direct. She thinks like a director.”
Chau describes her process uncertainly but better than she says she does. “I guess I just start dreaming up a character,” she says. “I start to see flashes of something in my head as I’m reading a script in terms of their appearance, the cadence of their speech.”
Sometimes, she says, that’s easy when the writing is good “and there’s a music to it.” “Downsizing,” in which she played a Vietnamese dissident with a prosthetic leg, was like that. “The Menu” required more heavy lifting since her character was more thinly sketched.
Mylod had written the role with a large Scandinavian woman in mind but decided to open up casting possibilities, seeking an “X factor” for his satire. “And she killed it,” says Mylod.
“It was initially very jarring for Mark,” says Chau, smiling. “I didn’t go as far as I wanted to. I wanted to shave my eyebrows, and the compromise was that I’d just bleach my eyebrows. And he was like, `Hong, you’re a restaurant manager. Why would you look like that?’ Because she does!”
On “The Whale,” much has been made of Fraser’s physical transformation, requiring daily hours of makeup and a large fat suit. Chau’s metamorphosis was more subtle.
“I asked for certain things. I asked for tattoos for Liz. You don’t really see them in the movie at all,” Chau says. “But every morning I would sit and get tattoos on both arms and the back of my neck. I don’t think another production would do that. And (Aronofsky) never asked me why. He just let me have it.”
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Howard County-based precision jump rope team Kangaroo Kids has been competing and performing for 45 years, from local elementary schools to University of Maryland halftime shows to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Established in 1978, it started as a small fitness club at Atholton Elementary School in Columbia. Today, it is a nonprofit organization consisting of more than 200 athletes from across Howard County, according to its website.
Athletes have competed statewide, nationally in the Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympics, American Jump Rope Federation National Championship, International Jump Rope Union and USA Jump Rope tournaments and internationally at World Jump Rope tournaments.
Nicole Meek, of Ellicott City, served in a number of roles in the program for 15 years and is now director of coaching and operations for Kangaroo Kids — and the mom of three of its members. She said it means a lot for the organization to be celebrating its 45th year.
“We are one of the largest teams in America and what [that] means for our organization is that the sport is growing,” she said. “It’s trying to become an Olympic sport, it’s trying to help more people in schools, it’s trying to not just be a jump rope to warm up before your sport, [but] we’re showing that jump rope itself is a sport that exists.”
Three of Meek’s four children — Parker, 26, Devin, 23, Jenna, 21 and Mason, 17, — are competitive jump ropers.
Devin got the family involved with the team 15 years ago after watching Kangaroo Kids perform at a cystic fibrosis walk.
Joining the program’s junior jumpers, a beginning class where participants gain basic rope skills, Devin began training when he was 6 years old. He advanced to intermediate classes, later landing spots on the competition, performing and travel teams for Kangaroo Kids, and competing in the AAU Junior Olympics, AMJRF National Championship, USA Nationals and World Championship tournaments.
Now he is a professional jump roper performing in shows at theme parks like Disney World, SeaWorld and Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.
With his younger siblings following in his footsteps as members of the Kangaroo Kids, his mother coaching the team and his father, Brian, serving as president of the board of directors, Devin credits his family for helping him stay with the sport.
“It’s been awesome to have that support and it’s also something that’s so fun and unique to share with each other,” he said. “Not many people are involved in jump rope in such a way, so to have a passion that you share that is so unique with your family, it just brings you closer together.”
On a rainy winter afternoon, young athletes dressed in matching red polo shirts and navy blue shorts, arrived for jump rope practice at the Meadowbrook Athletic Complex in Ellicott City.
Mason, along with his teammates, turned red, white and blue jump ropes as they performed synchronized dance moves and tricks to upbeat pop music, while Meek and daughter Jenna coached from the sidelines.
Eliza Kim, 15, of Ellicott City, is a member of the competition and travel teams and has been involved in the program for seven years.
She said being a part of the team has allowed her to make friends across the county.
“Everyone’s different ages and they all go to different schools, so it’s just really cool to see that we can all come together and jump rope,” she said.
Jasmine Wright, 15, of Ellicott City, is also on the competition and travel teams and has been involved in the program for about seven years.
She said being a part of the team has brought a sense of camaraderie.
“The big thing that stands out to me is the sense of community in the team and how everybody is super, super close,” she said. “There’s maybe like 40 kids on the team and we’re all super duper close.”
Meek said when it came to encouraging her children to stay with the sport, it didn’t take much.
“I didn’t have to [encourage them],” she said. “It’s their passion, they love it.”
Meek’s involvement in the organization began as a volunteer helping at performances. She later moved on to serving as secretary of the board of directors, then started coaching classes and performances as her children advanced through the program.
She said she wanted to be a part of the organization because she believes in the sport.
”This organization has meant a lot to all of us. ... My older son has gone on to become a professional jump roper,” she said. “The jump rope community is the nicest people you’ll ever meet, so it was very important for me to keep Kangaroo Kids at the level where it needed to be.”
Brian Meek said he wanted to be a part of the organization to help the program progress.
“[The previous head coach] who had been a coach for like 35 years, was getting ready to leave and he came to me and said, ‘Hey, we really need some help, we need somebody to be able to keep this program moving forward,’” he said. “I was elected onto the board as president and I’ve been serving there ever since.”
He said he is proud his children have been able to go so far in the sport.
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“It means a ton because not just how far they’ve gone, but how they’re able to continue to give back,” he said. “It’s really neat to see these kids that I had that knew nothing about jump rope go into this program and then come out on the other side as somebody that has learned how to coach and learn how to really master a skill.”
Like her older brother, Jenna participated in the competition, performance and travel teams and now serves as a coach on the competition team.
“My favorite part about coaching is watching the kids develop and fall in love with the sport that I also love,” she said. “I have gotten to watch kids grow since they started when they were 6 [years old] and see how far they’ve come.”
Coached by his sister, Mason is on the competition and travel teams, a junior coach and team captain and serves as a AMJRF ambassador where he works to develop and grow the sport of jump rope.
He said the biggest challenge he faces is convincing the public that jump rope is not just for children and he hopes to use his position as an ambassador to help it become more mainstream in the future.
“[I hope] to spread the sport of jump rope and to raise awareness for it and show that it’s more than just a playground activity that people think it is,” he said.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft will find a permanent home in the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The airplane is expected to make its final flight from NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California, to Tucson on Tuesday, Dec. 13. It will land in Tucson at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base before ultimately arriving at the Air & Space Museum.
"The SOFIA mission has a powerful potential to inspire, from its discoveries about the unknown in our universe, to the engineering achievements that broke new ground, to the international cooperation that made it all possible," said Paul Hertz, senior advisor for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "We are excited SOFIA will continue to engage a diverse new generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers."
The SOFIA aircraft is a Boeing 747SP jetliner modified to carry a reflecting telescope. Engineering innovations enabled a large door in the fuselage to remain open while the aircraft was in flight, allowing the telescope to observe infrared light from the Moon, planets, stars, star-forming regions, and nearby galaxies. After a successful eight years of science, SOFIA completed its science program and ended operations Sept. 29, 2022.
To determine a new home for the plane after the end of the mission, NASA followed regulations for the disposition of excess government equipment. Pima, one of the world's largest aerospace museums, is developing plans for when and how the SOFIA aircraft will eventually be on display to the public. Along with six hangars, 80 acres of outdoor display grounds, and more than 425 aircraft from around the world, Pima also has its own restoration facility where incoming aircraft like SOFIA are prepared for museum immortalization after their arrival.
At Pima, the plane will join other notable NASA aircraft, like the first Super Guppy that transported Saturn V rocket parts for the Apollo missions, and the KC-135 "Weightless Wonder V" that created low-gravity conditions by flying parabolic arcs – steep climbs and dives – to conduct science experiments and train astronauts. NASA plans to support the exhibition of the SOFIA aircraft with additional mission artifacts that speak to
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About SOFIA
SOFIA was a joint project of NASA and the German Space Agency at DLR. DLR provided the telescope, scheduled aircraft maintenance, and other support for the mission. NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley managed the SOFIA program, science, and mission operations in cooperation with the Universities Space Research Association, headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, and the German SOFIA Institute at the University of Stuttgart. The aircraft was maintained and operated by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703, in Palmdale, California. SOFIA achieved full operational capability in 2014 and concluded its final science flight on Sept. 29, 2022.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Rangers vs. Athletics on May 13, 2023
Player prop bet options for Marcus Semien, Brent Rooker and others are available when the Texas Rangers visit the Oakland Athletics at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on Saturday at 4:07 PM ET.
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Rangers vs. Athletics Game Info
- When: Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 4:07 PM ET
- Where: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, California
- How to Watch on TV: Fox Sports 1
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MLB Props Today: Texas Rangers
Jon Gray Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 6.5 (Over Odds: +130)
Gray Stats
- Jon Gray (2-1) will take to the mound for the Rangers and make his eighth start of the season.
- In seven starts this season, he's earned a quality start in three of them.
- Gray will look to finish five or more innings for the fifth start in a row.
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Marcus Semien Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -213)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +105)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +180)
Semien Stats
- Semien has 44 hits with nine doubles, seven home runs, 23 walks and 32 RBI. He's also stolen five bases.
- He has a slash line of .288/.379/.484 on the year.
- Semien will look for his fourth straight game with a hit in this contest. During his last five outings he is hitting .300 with two home runs, three walks and four RBI.
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Adolis García Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -196)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +330)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +145)
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- Adolis Garcia has five doubles, nine home runs, 15 walks and 37 RBI (35 total hits). He's also stolen three bases.
- He's slashing .250/.317/.479 on the year.
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Brent Rooker Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -154)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +475)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +475)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +195)
Rooker Stats
- Rooker has seven doubles, 11 home runs, 20 walks and 29 RBI (36 total hits). He's also stolen one base.
- He has a .319/.428/.673 slash line so far this year.
- Rooker has recorded a base hit in five games in a row. In his last five games he is hitting .318 with three doubles, a home run, three walks and three RBI.
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Esteury Ruiz Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -233)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +120)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +1000)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
Ruiz Stats
- Esteury Ruiz has 10 doubles, a triple, a home run, five walks and 20 RBI (44 total hits). He has swiped 17 bases.
- He has a slash line of .282/.341/.378 on the year.
- Ruiz takes a two-game streak with at least one hit into this contest. In his last five games he is hitting .333 with two doubles, a home run, a walk and four RBI.
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More than a year since playing his last NHL game and retiring at age 33, P.K. Subban is still pushing himself away from the ice.
Sure, he’s still training and staying in shape, but the 2013 Norris Trophy-winning defenseman is now working on pushing the limits on television.
“I don’t ever put limits on myself. I would suggest that the game of hockey do the same,” Subban said. “I think that there’s no limits on what we can do. The game is still very young in terms of how we broadcast the game and how we do things. I still think there’s a lot of room for growth.”
That growth is on display across hockey media in the United States. There is a variety of voices contributing, from former women’s star AJ Mleczko and other women on game broadcasts to Black retired players Subban, Kevin Weekes and Anson Carter analyzing from the booth or studio.
Subban’s latest foray is “P.K.’s Places,” a hockey show by Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions for ESPN that puts him at the forefront of a sport eager to embrace and showcase diversity to expand what has long been a predominantly white audience.
“It’s incredible, and I think it really shows the commitment to diversity that ESPN and Disney and Omaha and the NHL has to really growing the game and expanding the roots,” ESPN senior managing producer Lindsay Rovegno said. “He’s a natural choice. He’s passionate, he’s high energy, he’s fun. It’s really very clear that he wants to expand the game and wants people to see that there’s a history but there’s also a really fun element to the sport.”
Subban is having plenty of fun after hanging up his skates, and he hopes that comes through on the show, which launched Wednesday with the first episode on ESPN+. He’s at peace with his decision to stop playing after 13 professional seasons because the right situation didn’t materialize to keep chasing the Stanley Cup.
“When I didn’t have an opportunity to play on a team that I thought was the right fit to do that, it was a no-brainer for me to go in a different direction,” Subban said. “The way I played the game was I give 150% every shift … I have that same passion that I had on the ice to bring it to media.”
Subban looks up to Super Bowl champion-turned-morning show personality Michael Strahan in terms of creating a second stage of his career and gets advice from the former New York Giants defensive lineman about how to follow his path. In hockey, there are also two prominent former players who are Black: Weekes, who’s at ESPN, and Carter, who’s an analyst for Turner Sports.
Riffing with Manning and interviewing Ray Bourque about winning the Cup and celebrating in Boston takes Subban beyond just the analyst realm and allows him to show some of the personality that made him a star in the NHL from Montreal to Nashville to New Jersey for more than a decade.
“He brings a fresh perspective,” said Rovegno, who has worked on the “Places” franchise from its inception. “He brings not only his experience on the ice and sort of shares anecdotes from his time as a player, but really connects with the legends and is able to dive into the history and share the passion that he has for the game.”
Subban reached a deal with Omaha and ESPN before retiring, and this show may just be the start for him. Perhaps a hockey version of Peyton and Eli’s “ManningCast” with brothers Malcolm and Jordan could be in store down the line.
“Maybe that’s something that we’ll consider,” Subban said. “To be able to do things that maybe replicate the ‘ManningCast’ or any other things that are being done on broadcasts in the sports world would be something that would be huge for hockey.”
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A dense fog hangs over Tuesday morning before giving way to mainly sunny skies.
“By the lunchtime hours, temperatures warm into the mid-80s,” according to Spectrum News 13 meteorologist Zach Covey.
Daytime highs could go up to the low-90s, but there will be a breeze from the peninsula that reaches Central Florida coast beaches.
There’s a 20% chance of showers for the evening in east Orlando.
A front will arrive overnight, but it’s unlikely to bring much rain.
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How to Watch the Notre Dame vs. Mississippi State Game: Women's Basketball Streaming & TV Channel Info for the NCAA Tournament Second Round
Published: Mar. 19, 2023 at 10:14 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The No. 3 seed Notre Dame Fighting Irish (26-5) will compete with the No. 11 seed Mississippi State Bulldogs (22-10) on Sunday with a spot in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament up for grabs. This matchup tips off at 3:30 PM.
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- When: Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 3:30 PM ET
- Where: Purcell Pavilion in South Bend, Indiana
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Notre Dame vs. Mississippi State Scoring Comparison
- The Bulldogs put up an average of 71.8 points per game, 13.1 more points than the 58.7 the Fighting Irish give up.
- Mississippi State has put together a 20-6 record in games it scores more than 58.7 points.
- Notre Dame's record is 22-3 when it gives up fewer than 71.8 points.
- The 75 points per game the Fighting Irish record are 15.8 more points than the Bulldogs allow (59.2).
- When Notre Dame totals more than 59.2 points, it is 23-2.
- Mississippi State is 18-6 when allowing fewer than 75 points.
- The Fighting Irish are making 46% of their shots from the field, 4.6% higher than the Bulldogs allow to opponents (41.4%).
- The Bulldogs' 40.9 shooting percentage from the field is 4.8 higher than the Fighting Irish have conceded.
Notre Dame Schedule
Mississippi State Schedule
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ASUR Announces Total Passenger Traffic for November 2022
Published: Dec. 5, 2022 at 4:30 PM EST|Updated: 2 hours ago
Compared to November 2019, passenger traffic increased by 38.8% in Colombia, 24.1% in Mexico and 11.2% in Puerto Rico
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: ASR; BMV: ASUR), ASUR, a leading international airport group with operations in Mexico, the U.S. and Colombia, today announced that passenger traffic for November 2022 reached a total of 5.8 million passengers, 25.2% above the levels reported in November 2019.
Compared to November 2019, passenger traffic increased by 38.8% in Colombia, 24.1% in Mexico and Puerto Rico by 11.2%. Passenger traffic growth in Colombia and Mexico was mainly driven by international traffic and in Puerto Rico by domestic traffic.
This announcement reflects comparisons between the periods November 1 through November 30, 2022, 2021 and 2019. Transit and general aviation passengers are excluded from traffic measures in Mexico and Colombia.
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. (ASUR) is a leading international airport operator with a portfolio of concessions to operate, maintain and develop 16 airports in the Americas. This comprises nine airports in southeast Mexico, including Cancun Airport, the most important tourist destination in Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America, and six airports in northern Colombia, including Medellin international airport (Rio Negro), the second busiest in Colombia. ASUR is also a 60% JV partner in Aerostar Airport Holdings, LLC, operator of the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport serving the capital of Puerto Rico, San Juan. San Juan's Airport is the island's primary gateway for international and mainland-US destinations and was the first, and currently the only major airport in the US to have successfully completed a public–private partnership under the FAA Pilot Program. Headquartered in Mexico, ASUR is listed both on the Mexican Bolsa, where it trades under the symbol ASUR, and on the NYSE in the U.S., where it trades under the symbol ASR. One ADS represents ten (10) series B shares. For more information, visit www.asur.com.mx.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Affirm Holdings, Inc. ("Affirm" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AFRM) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Affirm investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between February 12, 2021 and December 15, 2021. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
AFRM investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Affirm's "buy-now, pay-later" service facilitated excessive consumer debt, regulatory arbitrage, and data harvesting; (ii) the foregoing subjected Affirm to a heightened risk of regulatory scrutiny and enforcement action; and (iii) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Affirm during the relevant time frame, you have until February 6, 2023 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kentucky coach Mark Stoops sees no issue with playing Iowa for a second straight year, even if the Music City Bowl is nowhere close to the Citrus Bowl where the teams wrapped up last season.
Iowa freshman running back Kaleb Johnson remembers the loss well, even though he wasn’t on the roster.
“I watched all of it, and it just makes me eager to play even more and win,” said Johnson, who ran for a team-high six touchdowns and led Iowa with 1,114 all-purpose yards.
Iowa (7-5) and Kentucky (7-5) will cap their seasons at Nissan Stadium, home to the NFL’s Tennessee Titans. Neither team is ranked, and each will be missing some key players.
Kentucky will be without quarterback Will Levis and running back Chris Rodriguez, while defensive back Kaevon Merriweather opted not to join fellow All-American linebacker Jack Campbell in leading Iowa’s defense one last time. All three chose to start preparing for the NFL draft in April.
Campbell never had a doubt about playing his final game at Iowa and coach Kirk Ferentz, who’s one win from matching the late Joe Paterno (10) for most bowl wins among Big Ten coaches.
“When I signed my national letter of intent, I signed to play every single game that I’m healthy for or able to so I’m going to go play,” Campbell said.
This is Iowa’s first trip to the Music City Bowl while Kentucky is making a record sixth appearance. The Wildcats are trying to finish off this season with a fifth straight bowl victory and with an eighth win for the fourth time in five seasons.
KENTUCKY’S REPLACEMENTS
With Levis gone, Kentucky isn’t sharing his replacement. Kaiya Sheron is listed on the Wildcats’ updated depth chart as the starter “OR” Destin Wade. Sheron started for an injured Levis in a loss to South Carolina where he was 15 of 27 for 178 yards with two touchdowns and an interception.
JuTahn McClain is listed as the starting running back ahead of La’Vell Wright as the backup. McClain played in nine games this season and ranked third with 238 yards rushing. He also had 15 catches for 93 yards and a touchdown.
“Some guys need to step up and they need to play as hard as Chris does, and that’s hard to do,” Stoops said of Rodriguez’s replacements. “He’s a tough, physical guy, and hopefully they’ll step up.”
IOWA’S QUARTERBACK
Three-year starter Spencer Petras won’t play because of an injury. Alex Padilla hit the transfer portal. So Ferentz will be starting a quarterback who didn’t take a single snap this season.
Redshirt freshman Joe Labas is poised to start, backed up by freshman Carson May. Ferentz said it is anyone’s guess who the Hawkeyes’ third quarterback will be.
“This is a really unusual situation, and yeah, the person who suffered the most here is Spencer just because it ended up being an injury that needed surgery,” Ferentz said. “So that part is really hard. It’s hard for him to be out there watching with a sling on and all that.”
DEFENSIVE SHOWDOWN
Kentucky ranks 11th nationally allowing just 19.1 points a game, and the Wildcats held top-ranked Georgia to 16 last month. They also are 17th in the country in allowing 320.2 total yards.
Campbell heads up an Iowa defense that led the Bowl Subdivision giving up just 4.10 yards per play. The Hawkeyes held opponents to 13 or fewer points in nine games while giving up 200 yards or less in five games.
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Minnehaha County Sheriffs search for wanted man
Published: Jul. 29, 2022 at 10:04 AM CDT|Updated: 26 minutes ago
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Representatives with the Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office are asking for help locating a wanted man.
The suspect is 44-year-old Kelvin Rinzy, who is 5′11 and weighs approximately 200 lbs. Rinzy is wanted on charges of Possession/ Distribution of Controlled Substances in a Drug-Free Zone.
Authorities ask anyone with information on Rinzy’s location to call (605) 367- 4268 or (605) 367-4300 during business hours, after hours call (605) 367-7000 or call crime stoppers at (605) 367-7007. For emergencies call 911.
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Which personalized Valentine’s gifts are best?
Giving a personalized gift this Valentine’s Day, whether for your significant other or your bestie, is a great way to express your feelings. Personalized gifts can feature your beloved’s name, your initials as a couple or a heartfelt message.
Jewelry, key chains, picture frames, blankets, wallets and robes are just a few of the kinds of gifts that can be personalized to show someone your love. To customize your own message, the A&B Crystal Collection Personalized Custom 3D Photo Etched Engraving on Crystal etches your words on a 3D photo.
What to know before you buy a personalized Valentine’s gift
Monogrammed gifts
A classic personalized gift is a monogrammed one. These feature the gift recipient’s initials stitched or engraved on an item. Towels and robes are popular monogrammed gifts for Valentine’s Day, and you can buy a monogrammed robe or set of towels for yourself to match your partner’s. Other popular items to monogram include wallets, luggage and baggage and drinking glasses.
While you can do the monogramming yourself with a monogram machine, manufacturers that offer monogrammed gifts only require that you submit the recipient’s initials (up to three letters), and they do the handiwork for you.
Engraved gifts
Personalized Valentine’s Day gifts made of wood or metal, such as picture frames or key chains, feature engraved messages. Many already have text on them with various messages, such as “I Love You Forever,” that aren’t customizable and may be specifically for a husband or a wife. Others allow you to add your names along with an already engraved message. More expensive engraved gifts will enable you to create your own message within a character limit. Bracelets and rings can also feature customizable engravings.
Photo gifts
A popular way to commemorate love is through personalized gifts that include a photo or photos of your choosing. 3D photo frames turn a photo from your phone into a holographic experience, often with a customizable etching. Personalized towels or blankets feature a spread of your photos along with your name or a message about love. Photo coffee mugs are a more affordable gift that displays your photo and offers customizable text. Some offer text only.
Clothing gifts
Who wouldn’t want your face on their socks or underwear? For a gag gift, customize socks or boxers with your headshot decorating the material. Personalized Valentine’s Day socks come in men’s and women’s sizes, while customizable boxers come only in men’s sizing, potentially with a funny or off-color message.
Song gifts
If you and your significant other have a song, you can personalize a plaque with the song, as it appears on your smartphone, with a photo of the two of you. The acrylic plaque includes a scannable QR code that allows you to play it on your smartphone.
What to look for in a quality personalized Valentine’s gift
Font and design
The most basic personalized Valentine’s Day gifts allow you to add names — either the name of the gift recipient or the couple’s first names — along with a message about love. For a more personalized gift, look for one that offers various font and design options so you can choose one that fits your style.
Customizable text
Valentine’s Day gifts that allow you to write your own text instead of providing it add a personal touch to your gift. You can compose a heartfelt message or share an inside joke, all within a character limit determined by the manufacturer. Gifts that allow for customizable text may be more expensive and take longer to ship, but not always.
Gender-specific
For married couples, you can find personalized Valentine’s Day gifts that include the word “wife” or “husband” in the text. You can also find gender-specific gifts for a boyfriend or girlfriend. Of course, there’s no need to adhere to the gender binary or gender stereotypes when buying a Valentine’s gift.
How much you can expect to spend on a personalized Valentine’s gift
Budget-friendly personalized Valentine’s Day gifts such as mugs, socks or key chains start at $9. For monogrammed robes and 3D engraved photos, expect to pay upward of $70.
Personalized Valentine’s gift FAQ
Are there personalized candles for Valentine’s Day?
A. Yes, a personalized scented candle is a romantic gift for V-Day. Custom messages or names are added to the label or, in some instances, to the candle’s lid.
Are there personalized Valentine’s Day gifts for children?
A. Personalized stuffed animals are the way to go when buying Valentine’s Day gifts for kids — or for the kid at heart. You can find hugging stuffed animals with monogrammed names.
What’s the best personalized Valentine’s gift to buy?
Top personalized Valentine’s Day gift
A&B Crystal Collection Personalized Custom 3D Photo Etched Engraving on Crystal
What you need to know: Make your favorite photo as a couple a lasting memory with this premium 3D crystal photo.
What you’ll love: For Valentine’s Day, you can choose a small or large heart among the half dozen sizes and shapes. An LED light base illuminates the 3D photo with gentle, mesmerizing colors. Text engraving is customizable.
What you should consider: Be sure to send a quality photo for the 3D effect to come out well. The LED base is sold separately.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top personalized Valentine’s Day gift for the money
Lara Laser Works Personalized Pocket Knife
What you need to know: This personalized pocket knife is perfect for anyone who isn’t into classic Valentine’s Day hearts and flowers.
What you’ll love: You can personalize it with a choice of 36 icons and up to two lines of text in 20 fonts. It has a 3-inch long blade and a wooden handle.
What you should consider: The screw that attaches the blade to the handle can come loose.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Santaornaments Personalized Wood Plaque
What you need to know: Let your partner know that you care with this personalized plaque.
What you’ll love: The two hands forming a heart is a sentimental choice. It’s made from solid natural wood with a beveled edge.
What you should consider: Some buyers wish it were bigger, so check the dimensions before you purchase.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BERLIN (AP) — Swiss authorities said Thursday that they have been notified of 46.1 billion francs ($48.5 billion) in assets held by Russian nationals and entities in the Alpine country since sanctions were introduced earlier this year.
Switzerland, which isn’t a European Union member but has close relations with the 27-member bloc, applied EU sanctions against Russia following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February.
Among the measures, it has been forbidden since shortly after the war began to accept deposits of more than 100,000 francs from Russian citizens or entities — companies or organizations. Existing deposits above that level had to be reported to Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs by early June.
The secretariat said that 123 people or entities in Switzerland reported 7,548 “business relationships” with a total value of 46.1 billion francs. A further 294 “business relationships” with Russia’s close ally, Belarus, were worth 400 million francs.
People who are citizens of Switzerland or a country in the European Economic Area, or who hold a temporary or permanent residence permit from one of those countries, are exempt both from the ban on new deposits and the reporting requirement. Deposits under 100,000 francs also don’t have to be reported.
The secretariat stressed that “the level of reported deposits … can therefore not be equated with the total amount of funds of Russian origin held in Switzerland.”
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Adults who aren't sufficiently hydrated may age faster, face a higher risk of chronic diseases and be more likely to die younger than those who stay well-hydrated, according to a new study from the National Institutes of Health.
The results, published Monday, are based on data collected over 25 years from more than 11,000 adults in the U.S. The participants attended their first medical visits at ages 45 to 66, then returned for follow-ups through at ages 70 to 90.
The researchers looked at levels of sodium in the participants' blood as a proxy for hydration, because higher concentrations are a sign that they most likely weren't consuming enough fluids. The researchers found that the participants with high blood-sodium levels aged faster physiologically than those with lower levels, which was reflected in health markers associated with aging, like high blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar.
The study participants all had blood-sodium concentrations considered to be within the normal range: 135 to 146 millimoles per liter. But the findings suggested that people with levels at the higher end of that normal range — above 144 millimoles per liter — were 50% more likely to show signs of physical aging beyond what would be expected for their years compared to people with lower blood-sodium levels. They also had a roughly 20% increased risk of premature death.
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(AP) — Brittney Griner has made an appeal to President Joe Biden in a letter passed to the White House through her representatives saying she feared she might never return home and asking that he not “forget about me and the other American Detainees.”
Griner's agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas said the letter was delivered on Monday. Most of the letter's contents to President Biden remain private, though Griner's representatives shared a few lines from the hand-written note.
″…As I sit here in a Russian prison, alone with my thoughts and without the protection of my wife, family, friends, Olympic jersey, or any accomplishments, I’m terrified I might be here forever,” Griner wrote.
“On the 4th of July, our family normally honors the service of those who fought for our freedom, including my father who is a Vietnam War Veteran," the Phoenix Mercury center added. “It hurts thinking about how I usually celebrate this day because freedom means something completely different to me this year.”
The two-time Olympic gold medalist is in the midst of a trial in Russia that began last week after she was arrested on Feb. 17 on charges of possessing cannabis oil while returning to play for her Russian team. The trial will resume Thursday.
Fewer than 1% of defendants in Russian criminal cases are acquitted, and unlike in U.S. courts, acquittals can be overturned.
Griner pleaded with Biden in the letter to use his powers to ensure her return.
“Please do all you can to bring us home. I voted for the first time in 2020 and I voted for you. I believe in you. I still have so much good to do with my freedom that you can help restore,” Griner said "I miss my wife! I miss my family! I miss my teammates! It kills me to know they are suffering so much right now. I am grateful for whatever you can do at this moment to get me home.”
Griner has been able to have sporadic communications with family, friends and WNBA players through an email account her agent set up. The emails are printed out and delivered in bunches to Griner by her lawyer after they are vetted by Russian officials. Once the lawyers get back to their office, they’ll scan any responses from Griner and pass them back to the U.S. to send along.
She was supposed to have a phone call with her wife on their anniversary but it failed because of an “unfortunate mistake,” Biden administration officials.
Griner’s supporters have encouraged a prisoner swap like the one in April that brought home Marine veteran Trevor Reed in exchange for a Russian pilot convicted of drug trafficking conspiracy. The State Department in May designated her as wrongfully detained, moving her case under the supervision of its special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, effectively the government’s chief hostage negotiator.
Griner isn't the only American being wrongfully detained in Russia. Paul Whelan, a former Marine and security director is serving a 16-year sentence on an espionage conviction.
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Neighbors rally behind Navy veteran whose wife died in fire that destroyed Duette home
DUETTE, Fla. - Members of the Duette community are rallying behind a Navy veteran after a fire not only destroyed his house, but killed his wife.
"I walked out of here Sunday morning just thinking I was going to get prescriptions, and we were going to have a nice normal day, take care of each other and do the things that we do, and it’s just gone," Earl Johnson told FOX 13.
Earl Johnson's wife Sheryll died in fire that destroyed their Duette home.
After returning from picking up medicine for his wife Sheryll's COPD, Johnson found crews with Duette Fire Rescue at his home. They were working to put out a fast moving fire, and it was so hot, oxygen tanks were sent flying from their home.
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"I ran up here, and it was already gone. The fire was coming out the windows and the roof was already starting to drop," Johnson said.
Their home of 20 years was destroyed, and Sheryll was lost in the fire. Duette Fire Rescue said it was a tragic accident.
"I saw some lifts of smoke and then this huge explosion, and then a great big black ball which just rolled and seemed like hours. Which shook me and our neighbors to the very core," said neighbor Meshia Richardson-Judd.
Johnson dedicated his life to taking care of his wife. Now, neighbors are working to help him with clothing, a meal train and a temporary trailer to stay in.
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Earl Johnson, a Navy veteran, lost his home and his wife in a fire.
Despite losing everything, Johnson said he wants to remain on the piece of land he's called home for decades. And, the community wants to ensure that happens by helping him clean up and rebuild.
"He does not want to leave, he should not have to leave," said Richardson-Judd. "It is not their wishes. This was their long term dream goal. He wants to stay. I understand that."
Johnson is a Navy veteran who served 13 years and also spent 11 years in the Florida National Guard. He also once worked as a Manatee County Sheriff's Office corrections deputy.
"We as a community should gather and rally together," Richardson-Judd. "I know loss is difficult this time of year. If we can rally together and maybe help give him some hope."
A candle sits on what was once their front porch in honor of Sheryll as Johnson tries to continue on.
"I’m overwhelmed by the response I really am. I’m not here by myself. I feel like I am by myself, but I’m not," Johnson said.
Richardson-Judd is working to organize community members to help Johnson rebuild. To contact her, call (941) 448-6299 or email Sarasotawreaths@gmail.com. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/neighbors-rally-behind-navy-veteran-whose-wife-died-in-fire-that-destroyed-duette-home | 2023-05-04 23:04:39 | 0 | https://www.fox13news.com/news/neighbors-rally-behind-navy-veteran-whose-wife-died-in-fire-that-destroyed-duette-home |
LONDON (AP) — An independent monitor of Britain’s use of surveillance cameras has asked for the government to clarify its positions on buying equipment from a Chinese technology company accused of involvement in human rights abuses.
Fraser Sampson, the biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner, said he raised concerns with senior Cabinet officials after Hikvision failed to answer questions about the extent of its role in China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in western Xinjiang province.
“There are serious unanswered questions about Hikvision’s involvement in appalling human rights abuses in China,” Sampson said in a statement Tuesday. “The company seems unwilling or unable to provide assurances about the ethics of some of its operations and about security concerns associated with its equipment.”
Sampson said the company’s cameras and facial recognition technology have been implicated in “systematic human rights abuses” against Uyghurs. He said widespread persecution of the minority group in Xinjiang “is known to rely heavily on surveillance technology, including facial recognition software designed to detect racial characteristics.”
British media have reported that the U.K. health department banned Hikvision from competing for new business after a procurement report found “ethical concerns” about the company.
Sampson said all branches of the British government should rule out contracts with Hikvision until the company provides necessary information on ethics and security.
Hikvision, which is headquartered in Hangzhou, China, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday. The company’s website says its products are used in more than 150 countries and regions and that it employs more than 42,000 people worldwide.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/04/26/uk-concerns-raised-over-chinese-surveillance-camera-firm/ | 2022-04-26 18:41:16 | 0 | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/04/26/uk-concerns-raised-over-chinese-surveillance-camera-firm/ |
Sheriff calls man ‘evil’ in animal cruelty case for intentionally starving dogs
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) - A Florida man has been arrested for animal cruelty after investigators say he was intentionally starving his two dogs.
The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office reports Joseph Farkas is facing two counts of felony animal cruelty and two counts of unlawful confinement.
Authorities said the dogs were emaciated and in a state of paralysis when they arrived at Farkas’ home, and the animals required emergency medical treatment.
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said Farkas was intentionally starving the dogs to death, and investigators called what they saw “disturbing.”
Ivey called Farkas “evil” as investigators said he left a sealed bag of dog food in direct view of the two dogs, contributing to their further suffering and torment. Investigators said the bag wasn’t opened for at least a month.
“What kind of sick, demented, and cruel person does that to a helpless animal,” Ivey said.
Farkas reportedly refused to open the door when authorities came to his home to arrest him. Ivey said he tried to drink liquid detergent to avoid going to jail.
“You [Farkas] deserve to be under the jail, but since the law only allows me to put you in it, that’ll have to do,” Ivey said.
The sheriff said the rescued dogs are recovering thanks to their veterinary team and remain out of Farkas’ care.
“We have zero tolerance for crime and zero tolerance for animal cruelty,” Ivey said.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wbtv.com/2022/09/16/sheriff-calls-man-evil-animal-cruelty-case-intentionally-starving-dogs/ | 2022-09-16 20:11:51 | 0 | https://www.wbtv.com/2022/09/16/sheriff-calls-man-evil-animal-cruelty-case-intentionally-starving-dogs/ |
Daily Show mocks 'racism,' 'sexism' of Jill Biden for inviting Iowa women’s basketball team after loss
'Nobody likes participation trophies! Even kids don't like participation trophies!' Roy Wood Jr. said
The Daily Show mocked First Lady Jill Biden’s botched attempt to invite both the winner and loser of the women’s college basketball team to the White House on Thursday night. Using unusually strong language for the left-leaning program, the show's comics called out Biden's "racism" and "sexism."
"Come on, Jill Biden, you are trying to turn the White House into a participation trophy," Daily Show guest host Roy Wood Jr. said.
"Nobody likes participation trophies! Even the kids don’t like participation trophies! Nobody! Nobody has ever came home after school after the big game with their trophy like, ‘Yo, check it out, I struck out 12 times!’"
"This issue comes down to one word," Wood Jr. said, "and that word is sexism."
"Racism," Daily Show correspondent Desi Lydic said at the same time.
The comedian was responding to comments that Jill Biden made after the LSU women's basketball team won their first championship. While it is tradition that only the winning team visits the White House, she said she wanted to invite the University of Iowa Hawkeyes team as well "because they played such a good game."
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Reese shot down the suggestion as "A JOKE" in a viral response with 22.4 million views on Twitter.
Reese, a star player for LSU, has refused to back down from the comments, claiming that the team would go to the Obamas’ house instead for a celebration.
Biden’s spokesperson, Vanessa Valdivia, claimed that the first lady meant no disrespect over the remarks.
"The First Lady loved watching the NCAA women’s basketball championship game alongside young student athletes and admires how far women have advanced in sports since the passing of Title IX," Valdivia said.
"Her comments in Colorado were intended to applaud the historic game and all women athletes. She looks forward to celebrating the LSU Tigers on their championship win at the White House."
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Reese became the center of a different national controversy after she taunted the opposing team, the University of Iowa Hawkeyes, during the women’s championship match.
The gestures quickly drew massive attention online and sparked a serious debate online and in the media over the role of trash talk in sports. Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann later apologized after calling Reese a "f---ing idiot."
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"I apologize for being uninformed last night about the back story on this. I don't follow hoops, college or pro, men or women. I had no idea about Clark. Both were wrong," Olbermann wrote.
Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report. | https://www.foxnews.com/media/daily-show-mocks-racism-sexism-jill-biden-inviting-iowa-womens-basketball-team-after-loss | 2023-04-07 11:13:24 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/media/daily-show-mocks-racism-sexism-jill-biden-inviting-iowa-womens-basketball-team-after-loss |
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