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LAS VEGAS — There is much swirling around the U.S. men’s national soccer team these days.
A collector offered the U.S. Soccer Federation $10,000 for Weston McKennie’s torn jersey — tattered memorabilia embodying the hostility of Thursday’s rumble with Mexico. (He’s keeping it.) Bruises and hard feelings remained fresh as the squad returned to training in the desert heat Saturday morning.
Amid the chaos, the focus has remained steady: retaining the Concacaf Nations League trophy and claiming regional bragging rights — until, at least, the next Concacaf drill, the Gold Cup, unfolds in the coming weeks.
On Sunday night, under the roof of Allegiant Stadium, the reigning champions will face title-famished Canada in the final.
The United States won the inaugural Nations League in 2021 and has captured six of the past 11 Gold Cup titles. Canada has not appeared in a regional championship game since it won the Gold Cup in 2000.
“We want to win the trophy. We want to lift it,” U.S. forward Ricardo Pepi said. “So it’s important we go in with the same intensity and the same hunger that we went in versus Mexico.”
Canada is attempting to remain atop Concacaf after finishing first in the World Cup qualifiers en route to its first appearance at soccer’s global spectacle in 36 years. In the teams’ two meetings during the last round of qualifying, the Canadians won at home in Hamilton, Ontario, and drew in Nashville.
“We’re the two premier teams right now,” Canadian defender Alistair Johnston said. “Mexico is obviously a great team, but the U.S. showed they’re a class above right now. And now it’s our turn to show we belong at this level as well.”
For the U.S. program, the final will fall three days after a 3-0 rout of rival Mexico; two days after Gregg Berhalter was reappointed its coach (effective after the Gold Cup); and a day after the players, who are still taking instruction from interim boss B.J. Callaghan, began answering questions about Berhalter’s return.
Winger Tim Weah called Berhalter a “father figure” and an “amazing coach.” Weah added, “He is definitely the piece that puts all this together.”
Berhalter’s contract expired shortly after the World Cup; after an investigation of a domestic violence incident 30 years ago and the hiring of a new sporting director, the U.S. Soccer Federation rehired him.
He appeared at a news conference Friday at the team hotel and left town shortly afterward. In collaboration with sporting director Matt Crocker, Berhalter will begin charting a course toward the 2026 World Cup, which will be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Berhalter’s first games in his second term will take place in September.
“I think Gregg is the right man for the job,” left back Antonee Robinson said. “He took the whole team in a really positive direction and made a really good culture within the group that we all really enjoyed.”
Only four players were made available for interviews Saturday. Attacker Gio Reyna wasn’t among them. A lack of playing time at the World Cup sparked a rift between his parents and Berhalter, led to the domestic violence investigation and put the coach’s candidacy on hold.
Those who did speak Saturday endorsed the USSF’s decision. So did star forward Christian Pulisic on Thursday before the hiring became official.
“It was the right decision,” center back Chris Richards said.
Pepi had a bone to pick with Berhalter last fall when he was left off the World Cup roster. (He hung up on the coach when he received the fateful call.) On Saturday, Pepi said: “Anything that happened, it’s in the past. Now we have new opportunities.”
Everyone seems to agree the end of the search eliminated a distraction.
“I’m happy that it kind of quieted down and we can focus on what our main goal is, [which is] to progress toward 2026,” Weah said. All three World Cup host countries receive automatic berths, and without the need to qualify, tournaments such as these will provide critical opportunities for growth.
On Sunday, the U.S. team will be without two starters: McKennie, a midfielder, and right back Sergiño Dest will serve suspensions for red cards received during the second-half mayhem with Mexico. (For its third-place match against Panama earlier Sunday, Mexico also will be down two players.)
Their absences compound the challenge of slowing Canadian stars Jonathan David and Alphonso Davies. How will the U.S. team stop them? “We have our ways,” Weah said with a grin.
The Americans and Canadians have never met in a championship game. Their rivalry is not as deep-rooted and ferocious as the U.S.-Mexico series, but familiarity between the players — Weah and David are teammates at French club Lille — and the rise of the Canadian program have added some bite.
“If you look at us over the last four years, we’ve already put messages out there that we’re here now and we’re here to stay,” Canadian midfielder Atiba Hutchinson said. “Qualifying for a World Cup was huge for us, but now it’s just missing trophies. We want to start winning trophies.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/06/18/usmnt-canada-nations-league-final/ | 2023-06-18 10:23:35 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/06/18/usmnt-canada-nations-league-final/ |
Dolphins’ Tua Tagovailoa clears concussion protocol; doctors confident he’ll be ready for 2023: report
Tagovailoa missed the final three games of the 2022 season with a concussion
Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has cleared the NFL’s concussion protocol over a month after suffering a concussion in Week 16 of the NFL season, according to multiple reports.
The doctors are confident Tagovailoa will be ready to go when the 2023 season's activities begin, per the NFL Network.
"[Dolphins] QB Tua Tagovailoa has cleared the NFL’s concussion protocol, sources say," Ian Rapoport of NFL Network said on Twitter. "He met with several medical professionals in the process. They are confident he’ll be 100% when the time comes for football."
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Tagovailoa’s health has been a major concern following a season in which the No. 5 overall pick in 2020 suffered two documented concussions.
The first concussion came against the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 4 when he was thrown to the turf and smacked his head on the ground.
Tagovailoa missed two games following the concussion, which came just a few days after he stumbled after hitting his head on a hit in Miami’s game against the Buffalo Bills in Week 3.
Tagovailoa then found himself in concussion protocol following Miami’s Week 16 game against the Green Bay Packers, missing the final two games of the regular season and Miami’s playoff game against the Buffalo Bills.
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Following the end of Miami’s season, the Dolphins made it clear Tagovailoa is their quarterback for 2023.
"I would say with Tua, he's our starting quarterback," Miami general manager Chris Grier told reporters. "I don't know how we could say it any more clearly."
When healthy, Tagovailoa had his best season as a pro, throwing for 3,548 yards, 25 touchdowns and just eight interceptions in 13 games.
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There have been calls for the third-year quarterback to end his football career due to his concussions, but Tagovailoa’s parents put an end to that last week.
"He’ll come back," Galu Tagovailoa, the Alabama product’s father, said at the Polynesian Bowl.
"That’s their guy. They love him. We love them and what they’re doing and how they’re helping him with his recovery and everything else trying to get him back." | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/dolphins-tua-tagovailoa-clears-concussion-protocol-doctors-confident-hell-be-ready-for-2023-report | 2023-02-01 21:05:19 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/dolphins-tua-tagovailoa-clears-concussion-protocol-doctors-confident-hell-be-ready-for-2023-report |
VP Harris expected at last Buffalo shooting victim’s funeral
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The last of the victims of a gunman’s racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket will be laid to rest Saturday.
Ruth Whitfield, at 86, is the oldest of the 10 people killed. Whitfield is expected to be eulogized by civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton at a service attended by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Whitfield was inside the Tops Friendly Market after visiting her husband of 68 years in a nursing home on May 14 when a gunman identified by police as 18-year-old Payton Gendron opened fire.
Authorities said Gendron, who is white, targeted the store three hours from his home in Conklin because it is in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
In all, 13 people were shot in the attack which federal authorities are investigating as a hate crime. Three people survived.
Whitfield was the mother of former Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield. Her funeral will take place at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Buffalo.
Gendron is charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bail. His attorney has entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf.
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TOYAH, Texas —
The United States Geological Survey is reporting that a magnitude 5.3 earthquake shook West Texas around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The quake struck north-northwest of Toyah at a depth of 8.9 km.
This is the third strongest earthquake ever to strike Texas, and the strongest since 1995.
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Tired of trying to avoid a large pothole in his Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood, actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger took matters into his own hands and filled the hole himself.
“Today, after the whole neighborhood has been upset about this giant pothole that’s been screwing up cars and bicycles for weeks, I went out with my team and fixed it,” he wrote on Twitter. “I always say, let’s not complain, let’s do something about it. Here you go.”
In a video accompanying the Tweet, Schwarzenegger and a few others are seen filling the hole with Quikrete, a commercial-grade blacktop repair patch that is designed for repairing potholes on asphalt.
A woman is then seen driving by and thanking them for their help, to which Schwarzenegger replies “You’re welcome,” adding, “You have to do it yourself. This is crazy. For three weeks I’ve been waiting for this hole to be closed.”
Today, after the whole neighborhood has been upset about this giant pothole that’s been screwing up cars and bicycles for weeks, I went out with my team and fixed it. I always say, let’s not complain, let’s do something about it. Here you go. pic.twitter.com/aslhkUShvT
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) April 11, 2023
A spokesperson for Schwarzenegger told the Associated Press that residents of the area have been making requests for repairs since winter, when multiple potholes and cracks began forming on the streets.
While residents are undoubtedly thankful for Schwarzenegger’s help, the Los Angeles Department of Public Works told ABC affiliate KABC-TV that the hole is not actually something that falls under its domain. Instead, the pothole a service trench that needs to be repaired by Southern California Gas Company.
Southern California Gas Company then said that because the hole was on a concrete street and not asphalt, the road patch won’t actually work. Crews, however, have since leveled the patch off using compaction equipment, which should provide more strength to the temporary fix.
This is not the first time since Schwarzenegger left public office in 2011 that he has sought out ways to help communities in need. After hearing a number of polling stations were closing in Southern states ahead of the 2020 election, he offered to pay to have them reopened to ensure people near those locations were able to vote.
Last year, the former professional bodybuilder also offered personalized training sessions with proceeds going to his nonprofit After-School All Stars, an organization that provides healthy after-school programming to children in low-income families. And in 2021, he donated 25 homes to unhoused L.A. veterans.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Check out Simplemost for additional stories. | https://www.lex18.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-pesonally-fills-pothole-neighborhood | 2023-04-13 16:34:02 | 1 | https://www.lex18.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-pesonally-fills-pothole-neighborhood |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For the first time in more than a decade, the average U.S. homeowner with a mortgage has less home equity than they did a year earlier.
Among the roughly 63% of U.S. homes with a mortgage, average homeowner equity per borrower was $274,070 in the first quarter, down 1.9% from the same quarter last year, according to real estate data tracker CoreLogic.
The last time average homeowner equity fell year-over-year was in the first quarter of 2012, when the housing market was still regaining its footing after the mortgage meltdown and ensuing foreclosure crisis that helped trigger the Great Recession.
All told, U.S. homeowners with a mortgage lost a combined $108.4 billion in home equity between the first quarter of last year and the first three months of 2023, a drop of 0.7%, according to CoreLogic.
Homeowner equity, which represents the current value of the property minus what’s still owed on the mortgage, tends to rise and fall along with home prices.
In the first quarter of 2012, it averaged $75,130. It then climbed sharply in the years that followed as rock-bottom mortgage rates and a chronic shortage of properties for sale superheated the market for homes. Prices soared, and by the second quarter of last year, average U.S. homeowner equity reached a record-high $297,510, according to CoreLogic.
But starting a little over a year ago, the housing market has since slowed, limited by sharply higher mortgage rates and a thin inventory of available homes. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell 23.2% in the 12 months ended in April, marking nine straight months of annual sales declines of 20% or more, according to the National Association of Realtors.
The slowdown has also weighed on home prices. Despite rising in January, the national median home price has since fallen, most recently in April, when it slid 1.7% from a year earlier to $388,800.
One bright spot for homeowners: Average homeowner equity edged up 0.9% in the first quarter compared with the fourth quarter, the firm said.
“Home equity trends closely follow home price changes,” said Selma Hepp, CoreLogic’s chief economist. “As a result, while the average amount of equity declined from a year ago, it increased from the fourth quarter of 2022, as monthly home prices growth accelerated in early 2023.”
Despite the decline in home equity, the number of homeowners who were “underwater” on their mortgage, or owing more on their loan than their home is worth, held steady between the fourth quarter and first quarter at 1.2 million homes, or about 2.1% of properties with a mortgage, CoreLogic said.
It did, however, increase 4% in the first quarter from a year earlier.
At the state level, Washington, California and Utah saw the largest average home equity decline at $74,300, $59,600 and $37,700, respectively. | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/shedding-equity-housing-slowdown-leads-to-first-annual-drop-in-us-homeowner-equity-since-2012/ | 2023-06-16 02:34:13 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/shedding-equity-housing-slowdown-leads-to-first-annual-drop-in-us-homeowner-equity-since-2012/ |
With time running out in the 2022 congressional session, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers and infectious disease specialists is scrambling to pass a bill aimed at spurring the development of antibiotics to combat the deadly spread of drug-resistant pathogens.
The PASTEUR Act, as amended, would provide $6 billion in federal funding over several years to give drugmakers incentive to develop and manufacture lifesaving medications for the small but growing number of infections highly resistant to antibiotics.
A range of supporters in the health care and drug sectors say the measure would fix the “broken market” for antibiotics by providing stable funding for an industry that tends to focus its research on areas considered good business opportunities. In recent years, most major drug companies have abandoned antibiotic development due to lackluster sales, and several smaller ones involved in the work have declared bankruptcy.
But the measure also has staunch critics in the medical community who deride it as a multibillion-dollar boondoggle and giveaway to Big Pharma. They argue it won’t solve the longer-term problem of relying on profit as the primary motive to discover and develop antibiotics.
“This is a very clever maneuver to get the taxpayers to bail out an industry that’s foundering,” said Dr. Brad Spellberg, an infectious disease specialist and the chief medical officer at the Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center. “If the government is going to spend money on this, it should spend it smartly.”
The PASTEUR Act, which stands for Pioneering Antimicrobial Subscriptions to End Upsurging Resistance, was introduced by Sens. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, and Todd Young, an Indiana Republican, and in the House by Reps. Mike Doyle, a Pennsylvania Democrat, and Drew Ferguson, a Georgia Republican. It has more than 65 bipartisan co-sponsors across both chambers.
People for and against the bill agree that antimicrobial resistance is a critical problem the federal government needs to address. Superbugs that can’t be treated kill more than 35,000 Americans and an estimated 1.27 million people worldwide each year.
While pharmaceutical companies can make billions on medications that patients take for months or years, such as cancer therapies and cholesterol-lowering drugs, the industry often loses money on antibiotics, which are prescribed for only a few days or weeks, said Amanda Jezek, senior vice president for public policy and government relations at the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Hospitals are trying to administer fewer antibiotics, whose use stimulates the growth of resistant organisms, and are particularly hesitant to employ newer antibiotics that target bugs highly resistant to drugs. That’s because such bacteria infect a minority of patients, and using the new drugs widely would only cause more mutations and resistance, Jezek said.
“When someone makes a new antibiotic, the first thing that infectious disease doctors say is, ‘Don’t use it,’” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, who helps oversee antibiotic use at his hospital. “We need to save it until we really need it, because we don’t want to lose this drug.”
Instead of paying by the pill for antibiotics — a practice that encourages companies to promote their use — the PASTEUR Act would allow the federal government to advance lump sums for promising FDA-approved drugs that could then be administered to patients covered by government insurance programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Such payments would provide manufacturers enough income to cover their costs for these drugs, even if they were rarely used.
But critics, including Public Citizen, say the PASTEUR Act offers the pharmaceutical industry what amounts to a windfall, without standards rigorous enough to ensure that new drugs are really safer and more effective than existing ones. And they cite a recent study that showed the vast majority of hospital deaths in patients with invasive bacterial infections were caused by treatable bugs, often in very old or frail patients.
Opponents also argue that drugmakers already have access to financial incentives to create antibiotics. Federal agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority have invested hundreds of millions of dollars during the past decade in antibiotics research. Drugmakers also have access to financing from nonprofits such as CARB-X and Wellcome, as well as public-private partnerships such as the AMR Action Fund.
Congress and the FDA in recent years have made it easier for companies to get antibiotics approved and extend their marketing exclusivity.
The problem is not funding, but rather a lack of vigorous approval standards at the FDA, said Dr. Reshma Ramachandran, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Medicine.
The FDA approved 15 new antimicrobial drugs between 2016 and 2019. But a recently published study indicates these drugs often appear no more effective than older medications, even as companies charge up to 100 times more for them.
That explains why these drugs don’t sell, said Dr. John Powers, a former FDA official, clinical professor at George Washington University School of Medicine, and one of the study’s authors. “Insurers aren’t paying, doctors aren’t using them, because the evidence doesn’t show patients do better on them than older drugs.”
Powers argued that FDA reviews of new antibiotics don’t put enough emphasis on how they benefit patients. In one clinical trial of cefiderocol, for example, the drug was better at killing bacteria, but 34% of patients taking it died, compared with 18% taking older drugs. The FDA approved cefiderocol under a policy that allows approval of new drugs even if trials show they are less effective than old ones by as much as 10%.
“We need evidence these drugs improve patient outcomes,” Powers said. “They may kill more bacteria, but doctors don’t treat bacteria, doctors treat patients.”
Spellberg and other researchers have proposed an alternative. A federally funded nonprofit, or several nonprofits, endowed with $1 billion to $2 billion, could fund antibiotic research for decades, Spellberg predicted. A board made up of patient advocates, doctors, industry representatives and others would regularly update an official list of which pathogens to target, aiming to ensure taxpayer dollars are being used where most needed.
Each nonprofit would include microbiologists, medical chemists, and pharmacologists “all under one roof,” Spellberg added. “They would not focus on one drug, per se. They would focus on discovering and developing new, impactful technologies.”
Supporters counter that the PASTEUR Act already includes built-in quality controls.
The bill would create a committee, similar to the board that Spellberg proposes, to identify the most dangerous superbugs. PASTEUR also would fund $500 million in federal grants to help hospitals improve stewardship of antibiotics — programs that manage their use with an eye to preventing the spread of resistant organisms — prioritizing rural and safety-net hospitals that serve low-income patients.
The United Kingdom has adopted a similar program, which supporters hope could demonstrate the effectiveness of subscription models.
Even supporters of PASTEUR, such as Dr. Thomas Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, note that antimicrobial resistance is a complex, long-term problem to be attacked on multiple fronts.
Hospital controls on antibiotic use have dramatically reduced the prevalence of one class of “nightmare bacteria,” the carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales. Other tools, such as new vaccines, could reduce bacterial threats, he said. Doctors also could prescribe fewer antibiotics if they had rapid tests to allow them to quickly distinguish between viral and bacterial infections, and to determine which bacteria have mutations requiring a special approach.
“The idea here is not to come up with one superior best antibiotic,” said Dr. Cornelius Clancy, a University of Pittsburgh professor of medicine who supports the PASTEUR Act. “The point is to have a pipeline.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/legislation-to-safeguard-americans-against-superbugs-boondoggle-or-breakthrough/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-12-16 23:49:06 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/legislation-to-safeguard-americans-against-superbugs-boondoggle-or-breakthrough/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines slammed Nike's decision to made transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney a paid spokesperson.
Gaines appeared on OutKick's "The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show" and joked that she has not been given an offer from Nike.
"And I don’t anticipate that happening. I don’t know if they can understand the mockery [Mulvaney’s deal] makes of women, especially the video of Dylan — I guess portraying what he thinks women look like when we work out — doing jumping jacks and doing different things. That is so incredibly degrading, and for Nike to take this stance, they can forget taking my money. And I’ve talked to a lot of female athletes who agree with exactly everything I just said."
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Gaines was recently "hit multiple times by a guy in a dress" at San Francisco State University, and she says "faux feminists" are "scared" to act after the incident.
"Well, to be totally frank, people are scared because look at what just happened to me for saying something as simple as men and women are different," Gaines said. "That’s easy, right? That’s common sense, yet I was still ambushed. No one wants that to happen to them; no one wants to be labeled as transphobic."
She also said campus police were "terrified to do their job," as protestors believed they were only protecting Gaines because she is white.
"To which they pretty openly admitted they didn’t want to be accused of being racist," she said. "These police were put in a position where they didn’t want to risk their jobs. They didn’t want to be seen as anything other than an ally to that community. And so, it did hinder their performance."
Gaines recently criticized athletes like Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird for being on the side of biological males participating in females sports despite their work to put women's sports in a positive light. In a string of tweets, she accused Rapinoe of "virtue signaling" and went at the pair further with OutKick.
"Of course it’s ironic, but they want to be seen as inclusive and kind and accepting and welcoming and loving and all the things — which, of course, who doesn’t want to be seen as those things?" she said. "But — newsflash — it’s not inclusive to allow men to take a podium spot from a woman. It’s exclusive. And it’s not kind to allow a male equipped with male genitalia to change in a locker room with girls. That’s not kind. That’s not inclusive."
Mulvaney recently partnered with Nike and Bud Light, both of which have been met with backlash, including from Caitlyn Jenner.
"As someone that grew up in awe of what Phil Knight did, it is a shame to see such an iconic American company go so woke! We can be inclusive but not at the expense of the mass majority of people, and have some decency while being inclusive. This is an outrage," the 1976 Olympic gold medalist tweeted.
"EQUALITY > INCLUSIVITY (STOP TRYING TO ERASE WOMEN). The differences between men and women are real and are a good thing! It doesn’t make trans ppl a bad thing, either. Why is it so black and white with the RADICAL RAINBOW MAFIA?!"
In a social media post Friday, Nike said they "welcome comments that contribute to a positive and constructive discussion: Be kind… Be inclusive… Encourage each other… Hate speech, bullying, or other behaviors that are not in the spirit of a diverse and inclusive community will be deleted." | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/national-sports/riley-gaines-rips-nike-for-partnership-with-trans-influencer-dylan-mulvaney-they-can-forget-taking/article_4d9ac2fe-cb84-5940-a33b-d1efbe518e0c.html | 2023-04-12 00:01:04 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/national-sports/riley-gaines-rips-nike-for-partnership-with-trans-influencer-dylan-mulvaney-they-can-forget-taking/article_4d9ac2fe-cb84-5940-a33b-d1efbe518e0c.html |
CHRISTIANA, Delaware (WPVI) -- The Christiana Mall in Delaware reopens Monday for the first time since three people were shot and injured in the food court.
All three victims were transported to a nearby hospital for treatment. Officials say two victims are in critical condition and one is in stable condition.
Five other people were injured during the incident, but their injuries are not gunshot-related, officials say.
Delaware state police say the incident started in the food court at approximately 7 p.m. Saturday.
Investigators believe the gunfire began when several suspects got into an altercation with at least one of the victims. Police are still searching for the suspects and are attempting to identify them.
There is no word yet on how many suspects they are searching for.
For anyone looking to retrieve items left behind should go to the vacant storefront next to the Apple store on Monday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
If anyone has information on the shooting or suspects, they are asked to call Delaware State Police immediately.
Action News spoke with a man who was inside the food court waiting to get pizza when he was shot by the gunman.
"We heard like seven or eight shots, 'Bam! Bam! Bam!'" recalled Jim Harmon, a gunshot victim. "Everybody started running."
Harmon was waiting for his food and says as he started to walk away, bullets started flying. The next thing he knew, he was hit.
"I felt something graze off my shoulder," he said. "It's not bad, but it's ok." | https://6abc.com/delaware-state-police-christiana-mall-shooting-reopens-3-shot-at/13108725/ | 2023-04-10 13:11:15 | 0 | https://6abc.com/delaware-state-police-christiana-mall-shooting-reopens-3-shot-at/13108725/ |
DENVER, Colo. — Looking clean and pristine was once the standard of travel.
"These folks are the best. No matter who I get every time I have time when I'm in Denver, I always stop and get a shoe shine," said one pilot at the Denver airport.
It's what veteran pilots have always known.
"I know it doesn't look like it by looking at me, but I've been doing this for 27 and a half years," said another pilot.
However, time has shifted and fewer less travelers are gliding through the airport in tip-top shape. Jill Wright, the CEO of Executive Shine, has watched it happen the first time and that's why her business has stood the test of time.
"The world's changed a lot," Wright said. "We have a saying that we say is: 'what does love look like here, for the person in front of you right now,' and that's how our whole business runs."
You don't need your fanciest pair of shoes to stop by! Your leather sneakers or favorite boots will certainly suffice.
"Those are the trends that have shifted. It's gone from really stiff to really soft, and I think that's kind of symbolic for what's happening with people," Wright said.
To Wright and her team, a shiny pair of shoes is simply the cherry on top. This business, in the center of the Denver airport, is about connection.
"I mean it literally gives me life to have you guys come back and see us again. Just knowing that I touched your day in a special way," said Tara Soto, an employee at Executive Shine.
People share their stories as they sit down.
"These boots I actually got while I was in Germany visiting my grandma," one woman explained.
We've learned many airline staff won't go anywhere else in the country.
"The only place I've gotten my shoes shined is here," a pilot told us. "We all know when we buy our next set of shoes gotta go through Denver."
Wright says it is rare people are given the opportunity to share and the employees, sitting in front of them, really care.
"People still need to be seen and be appreciated for who they are," Wright said.
"It goes deeper than the shine for me for sure," Soto explained.
Soto says shoes are a metaphor for how people judge themselves.
"When you look at your shoes, you come up and you're like, 'Oh, they look so good,' and there's a little bit of color off the tips of the toes or they are not in the best shape, ya know, sometimes that's how we as people look at each other or even ourselves," Soto said. "Just dirty, without purpose, trying to find your worth, trying to find your beauty that you have inside."
It's a journey she's personally experienced, working here for nearly a decade.
"Going through the transformation of cleaning them and conditioning them is really a personal transformation that we go through in life too," Soto said.
We all know the saying to walk in someone's shoes and in this case it's connecting sole to soul.
"Always put yourself in the shoes of someone else," Wright said. | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/sole-to-soul-a-special-shoe-shining-business-shines-a-light-on-what-shoes-can-teach-us | 2023-02-22 20:28:59 | 1 | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/sole-to-soul-a-special-shoe-shining-business-shines-a-light-on-what-shoes-can-teach-us |
Kourtney Kardashian is pregnant, expecting baby with Travis Barker, reports say
LOS ANGELES (Gray News) - Kourtney Kardashian is reportedly pregnant with her and Travis Barker’s first child together.
People reports the 44-year-old reality TV star is expecting her first child with husband Travis Barker, 47.
According to multiple reports, she revealed the news on Friday with a handwritten sign held up during her husband’s Los Angeles concert with Blink-182.
The couple later posted a video of the moment on Instagram.
In the clip, Kardashian can be seen holding a sign and jumping up and down in the crowd that said: “Travis I’m Pregnant!”
The video continues with the surprised drummer making his way into the audience to embrace his wife.
Kardashian and Barker are already parents to six children between them. The couple first started dating in 2021.
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BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese official heading talks with the International Monetary Fund to bail out Lebanon’s tanking economy called Thursday for the country’s embattled central bank chief to resign, amid allegations of corruption and an international arrest warrant issued against him.
Once seen as the guardian of Lebanon’s financial stability, Central Bank Gov. Riad Salameh is now widely blamed for an economic meltdown that began in 2019. The Lebanese pound has since plummeted in value and wiped out much of the savings of ordinary Lebanese, plunging an estimated three-quarters of the population into poverty.
Lebanon’s caretaker deputy prime minister, Saade Chami, told The Associated Press in an interview that the allegations against the central bank chief put the government’s credibility at risk and “could threaten the country’s financial relations with the rest of the world,” including with the IMF and other global financial institutions.
Chami is the highest-ranking Lebanese official to call for Salameh’s resignation to date.
Salameh, 72, has held his post for almost 30 years. A European-led investigation into his personal wealth stashed abroad has raised questions about his tenure at the central bank and wider issues of corruption in Lebanon’s financial and political system.
A spokesperson for Salameh, who has denied allegations of corruption and mismanagement, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Chami said that although Salameh is innocent until proven guilty, “it is not possible nor acceptable for anyone who is accused of multiple alleged financial crimes in several countries to continue to exercise his powers” as central bank head. The charges against Salameh “are reputational risks” and “will necessarily be a distraction” for a central bank office that is “entrusted with the stability of the financial system,” he said.
Salameh’s term comes to an end in July, and he has said previously he would not seek to extend it.
Since Salameh’s remaining time in office is relatively short, rather than recusing himself during any ongoing investigations, “it would be better for him to resign, and if not, the government needs to take a decision,” the deputy prime minister added.
A French investigative judge Tuesday issued an international arrest warrant for Salameh after he didn’t show up for questioning in France on corruption charges.
A European judicial team from France, Germany and Luxembourg has been conducting a corruption investigation into an array of financial crimes they allege were committed by Salameh, his associates and others. The allegations include illicit enrichment and laundering of $330 million.
Salameh has repeatedly denied all allegations against him and insisted that his wealth comes from his previous job as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, inherited properties, and investments. In a statement earlier this week, he accused the French investigation and judicial process of “double standards” and of leaking confidential information to the media. He vowed to appeal the arrest warrant.
Amid Lebanon’s dual economic and political crisis, appointment of a new central bank chief won’t be easy. The country has lacked a head of state since former President Michel Aoun left office in October, as political factions have been unable to agree on a replacement, and the caretaker Cabinet has limited powers.
Chami said that ideally a new governor would be appointed immediately should Salameh resign or be removed. But if no consensus could be immediately reached on a candidate, the central bank’s first vice-governor would automatically take over as a temporary replacement, he added.
In the meantime, progress on reforms required to clinch a deal with the IMF has largely stalled, after Lebanon reached a preliminary agreement with the international lender-of-last-resort more than a year ago.
At the same time, the financial crisis that began in 2019 has deepened. Ordinary citizens have seen their savings slip away as the market value of the currency plummeted from 1,500 pounds to the dollar pre-crisis to around 95,000 to the dollar today.
Lack of trust in the banking system has driven the growth of a chaotic cash-based economy. Fluctuating and multiple exchange rates have allowed some wealthy and politically connected players to make large profits from arbitrage – estimated by the World Bank in a report released this week as at least $2.5 billion.
Further delays in making reforms and clinching an IMF deal will exacerbate the crisis, leading to “more unemployment, more migration” and dwindling financial reserves, Chami said. But he said he has not given up hope for a solution, or for an IMF deal.
“It is a very dangerous situation, but also it is not extremely difficult to solve if there is a political will,” he said. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-top-lebanese-official-in-imf-talks-calls-for-central-bank-head-to-resign-amid-corruption-allegations/ | 2023-05-19 10:03:43 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-top-lebanese-official-in-imf-talks-calls-for-central-bank-head-to-resign-amid-corruption-allegations/ |
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In abrupt turn, Biden uses Trump-era rule to deny Venezuelans asylum
With a surge of Venezuelan migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, President Joe Biden is evoking Title 42, a rule first deployed during the pandemic to deny the request of asylum at the border. The move is drawing swift criticism from immigrant advocates.
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Two years ago, candidate Joe Biden loudly denounced President Donald Trump for immigration policies that inflicted “cruelty and exclusion at every turn,” including toward those fleeing the “brutal” government of socialist Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.
Now, with increasing numbers of Venezuelans arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border as the Nov. 8 election nears, Mr. Biden has turned to an unlikely source for a solution: his predecessor’s playbook.
Mr. Biden last week invoked a Trump-era rule known as Title 42 – which Mr. Biden’s own Justice Department is fighting in court – to deny Venezuelans fleeing their crisis-torn country the chance to request asylum at the border.
The rule, first invoked by Mr. Trump in 2020, uses emergency public health authority to allow the United States to keep migrants from seeking asylum at the border, based on the need to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Under the new Biden administration policy, Venezuelans who walk or swim across America’s southern border will be expelled and any Venezuelan who illegally enters Mexico or Panama will be ineligible to come to the U.S. But as many as 24,000 Venezuelans will be accepted at U.S. airports, similar to how Ukrainians have been admitted since Russia’s invasion in February.
Mexico has insisted that the U.S. admit one Venezuelan on humanitarian parole for each Venezuelan it expels to Mexico, according to a Mexican official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. So if the Biden administration paroles 24,000 Venezuelans to the U.S., Mexico would take no more than 24,000 Venezuelans expelled from the U.S.
The Biden policy marks an abrupt turn for the White House, which just weeks ago was lambasting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, both Republicans, for putting Venezuelan migrants “fleeing political persecution” on buses and planes to Democratic strongholds.
“These were children, they were moms, they were fleeing communism,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at the time.
Mr. Biden’s new policy has drawn swift criticism from immigrant advocates, many of them quick to point out the Trump parallels.
“Rather than restore the right to asylum decimated by the Trump administration ... the Biden administration has dangerously embraced the failures of the past and expanded upon them by explicitly enabling expulsions of Venezuelan migrants,” said Jennifer Nagda, policy director of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights.
The administration says the policy is aimed at ensuring a “lawful and orderly” way for Venezuelans to enter the U.S.
Why the turnaround?
For more than a year after taking office in January 2021, Mr. Biden deferred to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which used its authority to keep in place the Trump-era declaration that a public health risk existed that warranted expedited expulsion of asylum-seekers.
Members of Mr. Biden’s own party and activist groups had expressed skepticism about the public health underpinnings for allowing Title 42 to remain in effect, especially when COVID-19 was spreading more widely within the U.S. than elsewhere.
After months of internal deliberations and preparations, the CDC on April 1 said it would end the public health order and return to normal border processing of migrants, giving them a chance to request asylum in the U.S.
Homeland Security officials braced for a resulting increase in border crossings.
But officials inside and outside the White House were conflicted over ending the authority, believing it effectively kept down the number of people crossing the border illegally, according to senior administration officials.
A court order in May that kept Title 42 in place due to a challenge from Republican state officials was greeted with quiet relief by some in the administration, according to officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss internal discussions.
The recent increase in migration from Venezuela, sparked by political, social, and economic instability in the country, dashed officials’ hopes that they were finally seeing a lull in the chaos that had defined the border region for the past year.
By August, Venezuelans were the second-largest nationality arriving at the U.S. border after Mexicans. Given that U.S. tensions with Venezuela meant migrants from the country could not be sent back easily, the situation became increasingly difficult to manage.
So an administration that had rejected many Trump-era policies aimed at keeping out migrants, that had worked to make the asylum process easier, and that had increased the number of refugees allowed into the U.S. now turned to Title 42.
It brokered a deal to send the Venezuelans to Mexico, which already had agreed to accept migrants expelled under Title 42 if they are from Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador.
All the while, Justice Department lawyers continue to appeal a court decision that has kept Title 42 in place. They are opposing Republican attorneys general from more than 20 states who have argued that Title 42 is “the only safety valve preventing this Administration’s already disastrous border control policies from descending into an unmitigated catastrophe.”
Under Title 42, migrants have been expelled more than 2.3 million times from the U.S. after crossing the country’s land borders illegally from Canada or Mexico, though most try to come through Mexico.
The administration had announced it would stop expelling migrants under Title 42 starting May 23 and go back to detaining and deporting migrants who did not qualify to enter and remain in the U.S. – a longer process that allows migrants to request asylum in the U.S.
“We are extremely disturbed by the apparent acceptance, codification, and expansion of the use of Title 42, an irrelevant health order, as a cornerstone of border policy,” said Thomas Cartwright of Witness at the Border. “One that expunges the legal right to asylum.”
A separate lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union also is trying to end Title 42, an effort that could render the administration’s proposal useless.
“People have a right to seek asylum – regardless of where they came from, how they arrive in the United States, and whether or not they have family here,” said ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt.
This story was reported by The Associated Press. Colleen Long reported from Los Angeles. AP writer Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed to this report. | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/1017/In-abrupt-turn-Biden-uses-Trump-era-rule-to-deny-Venezuelans-asylum | 2022-10-17 17:34:38 | 1 | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/1017/In-abrupt-turn-Biden-uses-Trump-era-rule-to-deny-Venezuelans-asylum |
Police chief, officer in Texas town used informant to buy, sell drugs, court documents say
HENDERSON COUNTY, Texas (KLTV/Gray News) - An arrest affidavit sheds new light on the arrests of Payne Springs’ police chief and a police officer after both were arrested on drug charges on Thursday.
According to Henderson County Sheriff Botie Hillhouse, Payne Springs Chief of Police April Dawn Meadows, 37, and Reserve Officer Jonathan Paul Hutchison, 40, were arrested around 11 a.m. Thursday at their respective houses in Mabank.
Hillhouse said his office had received information that Meadows and Hutchison had been dealing drugs previously seized by the Payne Springs Police Department. When deputies executed search warrants at the homes of Meadows and Hutchison, controlled substances were found, Hillhouse said. An additional search warrant was executed at the impound yard of the police department.
Meadows and Hutchison have each been arrested on charges of delivery of a controlled substance and money laundering. Hutchison and Meadows’ bond amounts are $1.5 million for each charge.
According to an affidavit, in February, a confidential informant gave the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office information about the alleged actions of the two after the individual became suspicious of their actions.
The informant had been working with the officer under the premise of assisting in a narcotics investigation, having made controlled buys for Hutchison when Hutchison still worked as a narcotics investigator for the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office.
In 2022, Hutchison and Meadows asked if the informant would begin making methamphetamine purchases, the affidavit stated. The informant told investigators it was at this time that Meadows became much more involved in coordinating the purchases.
The informant said they made an estimated 20 or 30 “controlled buys” for Hutchison and Meadows, though the informant never met with them beforehand, nor did they meet for a direct delivery immediately afterward, the court document states.
To hand off the narcotics, the informant said they would sometimes deliver packages to a mailbox inside a gated community. However, in some instances, the informant said they would go to the Payne Springs Police Department and would observe Meadows place the drugs inside a bag, which would then be sealed and marked as “EVIDENCE.”
The informant said that payment for their services was rendered in cash, though the affidavit states that sometimes Meadows and Hutchison would pay them via CashApp or even provide an amount of marijuana as payment. The informant said marijuana as payment seemed odd, but it was allegedly explained to them that marijuana was now legal.
The affidavit said Hutchison and Meadows were concerned about the quality of the narcotics the informant was purchasing.
In one instance described in the affidavit, Hutchison told the informant that the last two deliveries were “too weak” or “trash,” and that the informant would need to get rid of or sell the narcotics, find better drugs to turn in or return the money.
The informant began questioning the legitimacy of Hutchison and Meadows’ actions when he was told to start buying methamphetamines.
The informant, at the direction of Hillhouse, began to make controlled purchases and deliveries of methamphetamine, as well as money exchanges, to corroborate the information he provided about the officers’ alleged activities.
Investigators said Hutchison’s personal bank records show he used his personal CashApp account to pay the informant a total of $3,000. Likewise, Meadows’ personal bank records also show her personal CashApp account was used to pay the informant more than $1,800.
Cellphone text message data also corroborated the informant’s information, the document said.
Payne Springs is about 60 miles west of Tyler in east Texas.
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Senate GOP leaders didn’t want it to get to this point.
They tried and tried to get Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) to lift the holds he’s placed on hundreds of military promotions — which have opened Republicans up to attacks from the Biden administration.
But their efforts have failed, and they are now in a situation where the earliest a resolution might be found is September — when lawmakers will also be busy trying to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month.
“It’s hung around for a while. I support his goals,” said Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Senate Republican. “The challenge obviously is the mechanism he used to get to the result has created some challenges. We want to figure out a way to resolve it and address that.”
“There are conversations now going on, which is good — between him and the military and others. We’ll have some time in August to work on a path forward, and hopefully we’ll find it,” he said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been among those trying to find a resolution, Thune said. Tuberville said he and McConnell discussed the holds Wednesday, hours after the GOP leader froze and felt lightheaded in front of reporters.
“At this point, everybody’s engaged trying to figure out how to solve this,” Thune added.
Tuberville began his holds in early March to protest a new Defense Department policy to reimburse service members who must travel to seek an abortion for those travel expenses.
Six months later, the list of holds has grown to 300. Senate Republicans were hoping to find a solution before leaving Washington for five weeks — five additional weeks during which those military officers will remain in limbo, fueling Democratic attacks and frustrating the Pentagon.
One Senate Republican said finding an offramp agreeable to both Tuberville and those opposed to the holds has become a “recurring discussion” in the Senate GOP conference, and that McConnell has been personally involved in that quest.
“There’s not a lunch that goes by that we don’t talk about it,” the senator said, but added there’s “no chance of a resolution” any time soon.
Aside from the potential political and national security implications of the holds, McConnell is worried about the institutional implications.
The longtime GOP leader recently told reporters at a press conference that he is concerned this could lead to a renewed Democratic effort to change the chamber’s rules.
Despite disagreeing with Tuberville’s tactic, however, he says he recognizes it is the prerogative of any single senator to place a hold on a nominee.
Senators on both sides of the aisle for months have been musing publicly and privately about what it would take to get the Alabama Republican to set his hold aside, but have come up empty at every turn.
Initially, there had been hope that a vote on an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would reverse the abortion travel policy could do the trick, and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) led the effort.
But more recently, Tuberville has maintained that not only does any vote have to be standalone, but that the Pentagon would have to reverse its policy before any vote could be taken.
Trying to bridge that gap for lawmakers has become a herculean challenge no one has been able to complete.
Tuberville didn’t comment on efforts by Senate GOP leaders to seek a remedy, but he criticized the Biden administration and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for their lack of outreach in trying to strike a deal. He also hasn’t had any further conversations with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin since their July 17 call and said that the initial series of calls didn’t yield anything productive.
“There’s no conversation from the other side. It’s ‘our way or the highway.’ … How does that help?” Tuberville said. “They’re not worried about it, I guess. … I hate it, for the promotions and all that.”
He added that he has yet to talk to Schumer, who has refused to use up floor time moving the nominees through regular order because he believes it is the Senate GOP’s job to figure a way out of the maze of military holds.
“This is the responsibility of the Republican Senate caucus. … It’s up to them. I think in August, pressure will mount on Tuberville, and I think the Republicans are feeling that heat,” Schumer said late Thursday. “He’s boxing himself into a corner.”
But Democrats are trying to increase that pressure, with President Biden on Thursday night laying into the Alabama Republican and arguing his holds are harming military readiness and creating instability within the ranks of the armed forces.
“This partisan freeze is already harming military readiness, security and leadership, and troop morale,” Biden said in remarks at the Truman Civil Rights Symposium in Washington. “Freezing pay, freezing people in place. Military families who have already sacrificed so much, unsure of where and when they change stations, unable to get housing or start their kids in the new school.”
Senate Democrats also took to the floor before and after the NDAA vote Thursday to criticize their GOP colleague. Since the hold was put into place, Democratic senators have made 12 attempts to move the military promotions in bloc via unanimous request.
Perhaps adding to the difficulty, Tuberville has received a boost in support from voters at home and from conservative corners of the Senate GOP conference who believe he is making the right call, albeit a difficult one.
They also argue that if Senate Democrats truly want to move on some of the nominations, they can start to do so via regular order — a move Democrats have avoided in order to not set precedent.
“Democrats think they have a winning political thing on this. I don’t think they do, and I think Sen. Tuberville morally is in the right position with regard to the issue of abortion,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said. “The [Defense] Department has just as much of a responsibility to find a path forward as any single member does, and I’m not seeing the Department try to work in any fashion other than to simply put pressure on Sen. Tuberville.”
“They’re not trying to find a path forward. They think this is one of those items where if they keep putting pressure on him, he’ll cave, and I don’t think he will,” Rounds continued. “On the issue, he’s correct.” | https://www.fox16.com/hill-politics/gop-leaders-strike-out-on-getting-tuberville-to-bend/ | 2023-07-30 23:47:54 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/hill-politics/gop-leaders-strike-out-on-getting-tuberville-to-bend/ |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A SpaceX Dragon cargo resupply spacecraft returning science to Earth for NASA is set to depart the International Space Station on Thursday, Aug. 18.
NASA will provide coverage of Dragon's undocking and departure on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's website beginning at 10:45 a.m. EDT. Watch online at:
Ground controllers at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, will send commands at 11:05 a.m. for Dragon to undock from the forward port of the station's Harmony module and fire its thrusters to move a safe distance away from the station. Controllers will command a deorbit burn the following day.
After re-entering Earth's atmosphere, the spacecraft will make a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida. NASA TV will not broadcast the splashdown, and updates will be posted on the agency's space station blog.
Dragon will carry back to Earth more than 4,000 pounds of supplies and scientific experiments that were designed to take advantage of the space station's microgravity environment. Splashing down off the coast of Florida enables quick transportation of the experiments to NASA's Space Station Processing Facility at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, allowing researchers to collect data with minimal sample exposure to Earth's gravity.
Some of the scientific investigations that Dragon is carrying include:
- Space's impact on materials: The Materials International Space Station Experiment-15-NASA (MISSE-15-NASA) experiment tests, qualifies, and quantifies the impact of the low-Earth orbit environment on new materials and components, such as spacecraft materials and wearable radiation protection. Successful experiment results could have applications both in the harsh environments of space and on Earth.
- Spacesuit cooling: Spacesuit Evaporation Rejection Flight Experiment (SERFE) demonstrates a new technology using water evaporation to remove heat from spacesuits and maintain appropriate temperatures for crew members and equipment during spacewalks. The investigation determines whether microgravity affects performance and evaluates the technology's effect on contamination and corrosion of spacesuit material.
- Cell signaling in microgravity: The ESA (European Space Agency) sponsored investigation Bioprint FirstAid Handheld Bioprinter (Bioprint FirstAid) enables the rapid use of formerly prepared bio-inks, containing the patient's own cells, to form a band-aid patch in the case of injury.
Dragon arrived at the station July 16 when SpaceX's 25th Commercial Resupply Services mission delivered more than 5,800 pounds of research investigations, crew supplies, and station hardware. It was launched July 14 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy.
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A game that demands players keep their own scores also requires honor — and cheating is the unforgivable sin in golf. Heck, we’ve even seen players who called inadvertent violations on themselves after a round was over.
And how many times has a player been disqualified for innocently signing a scorecard that had an incorrect score — with no intent on cheating?
But, on Monday, Justin Doeden was forced to admit that he flat-out cheated by changing his scorecard to reflect a par on the final hole when he actually made double bogey in the PGA Tour Canada’s Ottawa Open last week.
Doeden, who would have made the final cut with the doctored score, withdrew as tournament officials investigated. On Monday, he confessed on Twitter.
“I am here to confess of the biggest mistake I have made in my life to date. I cheated in golf. This is not who I am. I let my sponsors down. I let my competitors down. I let my family down. I let myself down. I pray for your forgiveness. John 1:9,” Doeden wrote, according to GOLF.com.
In the New International Version translation of the Bible, 1 John 1:9 reads: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
The doctoring, first reported by Ryan French of Monday Q Info, occurred after the second round. Doeden’s playing partners were having lunch when they noticed Doeden was listed at 3-under on the leaderboard.
Doeden’s playing partner signed his card with a 7 on the 18th hole, putting Doeden at 1-under, where he would miss the cut. Doeden’s cheating would have changed the fate for 13 golfers who finished T61st and missed a cut — when a tie for 60th gets them to the weekend and a shot at the prize money.
Tournament officials examined Doeden’s card and discovered the 7 had been erased and written over with a 5.
When asked about discipline, PGA Tour Canada officials issued a statement: “A violation of the Rules of Golf is handled in accordance with the PGA TOUR Canada Player Handbook and Tournament Regulations. Per TOUR policy, the matter — and any related disciplinary action — will be handled internally.”
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Kirby Lavallee found a bird feeder knocked over in his front yard, and at first, he suspected teens or maybe a stray dog. Then he checked his home security camera video and found an unexpected and uninvited guest.
“The next thing you know, I saw a big black, I mean five, six times the size of a dog, because sometimes we have some stray dogs, walking around down my street and the next thing you know, I saw it at my gate. Then I started looking and I looked on my patio and I was like, that’s definitely not a dog, that’s definitely a black bear,” said Lavallee.
WFLA viewers have shared other videos of bears seen recently in Carrollwood.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says this is the time of year when young bears are on the move, looking for new territory.
“So, right now these young dispersing bears are moving around the landscape trying to find new forests to live in and they are just exploring all of the area. If they find food, they might stick around,” said Michael Orlando with the FWC.
Lavallee says he was mostly concerned about how his dogs might have reacted if they were outside when the bear was passing through.
“I mean, if it’s walking the property that’s one thing, but to be on my porch, especially with my dogs, and it’s not uncommon for my dogs to want to go outside for the bathroom at 2,3,4 in the morning, and that’s kind of the time frame that this was,” said Lavallee.
The FWC says you can keep bears away by limiting food sources outside of your home. If you do see a bear up close, the FWC says you should make noise.
“So the direct measure you can take is if you see a bear, at a distance somewhere, if you have a small dog, pick up the dog or pick up a small child, make yourself look bigger, you can talk to the bear for a second. In most of the cases, the bear is going to see you and run in the opposite direction,” said Orlando.
Lavallee says he accepts the fact there is wildlife near his home.
“I think it’s important for us to realize is like, this is nature. Florida is a nature state and we have to be cognizant of the fact that we live with them, just as much as they live with us,” Lavallee said. | https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/bears-spotted-on-security-video-in-several-tampa-bay-neighborhoods/ | 2023-05-15 22:40:54 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/bears-spotted-on-security-video-in-several-tampa-bay-neighborhoods/ |
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The investigation started roughly 29 months ago with two missing children. It soon grew to encompass five states, four suspected murders and claims of unusual, doomsday-focused religious beliefs involving “dark spirits” and “zombies.”
On Monday morning, an Idaho jury will begin the difficult task of deciding the veracity of those claims and others in the triple murder trial of Lori Vallow Daybell.
Prosecutors charged Vallow Daybell and her husband, Chad Daybell, with multiple counts of conspiracy, murder and grand theft in connection with the deaths of Vallow Daybell’s two youngest children: 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and big sister Tylee Ryan, who was last seen a few days before her 17th birthday in 2019. Prosecutors also have charged the couple in connection with the October 2019 death of Chad Daybell’s late wife, Tammy Daybell.
The investigation garnered worldwide attention and was closely followed in the rural eastern Idaho community where the bodies of the children were found buried in Chad Daybell’s yard. As a result, Seventh District Judge Steven Boyce moved the trial more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) east to the city of Boise.
Both defendants have pleaded not guilty, but only Vallow Daybell’s trial begins Monday. The cases have been separated, and Chad Daybell’s trial is still months away. Vallow Daybell faces up to life in prison if convicted.
Eighteen-hundred people were called as potential jurors, and the pool whittled down to 10 men and eight women last week.
All 16 will hear the case, but only 12 will actually take part in deliberations to decide Vallow Daybell’s guilt or innocence. The other six are alternates and will be released from service before deliberations begin. Jurors will not be notified they are an alternate until it is time for deliberations in order to ensure they all stay engaged throughout the trial.
The trial is expected to take up to 10 weeks.
Prosecutors say the Daybells espoused strange doomsday-focused beliefs to further their alleged plan to kill the kids and Tammy Daybell to collect life insurance money and the children’s social security and survivor benefits.
Police documents detailed interviews with friends and family members who said the couple led a group that believed they could drive out evil spirits by praying and that they sought revelations from “beyond the spiritual veil.” Vallow Daybell’s close friend Melanie Gibb told investigators that the couple believed people became “zombies” when they were possessed by evil spirits.
The group would spend time praying to get rid of the zombies and believed, if they were successful, the possessed person would physically die — freeing their trapped soul from “limbo.” Vallow Daybell called JJ and Tylee “zombies” several times before they died, Gibb told investigators.
Idaho law enforcement officers started investigating the couple in November 2019 after extended family members reported the children were missing. During that period, police say the couple lied about the children’s whereabouts. The children’s bodies were found buried on Chad Daybell’s property in rural Idaho.
The couple married two weeks after Chad Daybell’s previous wife died unexpectedly. Tammy Daybell’s death was initially reported as resulting from natural causes, but investigators had her body exhumed after suspicions grew when Chad Daybell quickly remarried. | https://wgntv.com/news/national/ap-us-news/guilty-or-not-jury-to-hear-claims-in-idaho-slain-kids-case/ | 2023-04-10 07:15:58 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/news/national/ap-us-news/guilty-or-not-jury-to-hear-claims-in-idaho-slain-kids-case/ |
2023 Greater Toledo LPGA Classic Betting Odds, Favorites & Insights – Round 4
Linn Grant is the current leader (-549) at the 2023 Greater Toledo LPGA Classic after three rounds of play.
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- Tee Time: 12:38 PM ET
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Woman killed in Bronx pool by falling tree identified
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RIVERDALE, Bronx (WABC) — The woman who was killed when a huge tree fell into a pool in the Bronx on Monday has been identified.
Authorities said 59-year-old Donna Douglas lived at the River Terrace Apartments on Palisades Avenue in the Riverdale section, where the tree fell into the private pool just after 1:30 p.m.
Douglas was pronounced dead at the scene.
“She was dead instantly,” building resident Mike Gallo said. “There was no, even if EMS was here on the spot, they couldn’t resuscitate her. She got hit in the head pretty hard.”
A day later, there is still so much disbelief over the freak accident that happened in the blink of an eye.
“A loss of life like that, it’s just unimaginable,” resident Sebastian Bliffeld said. “It’s unimaginable.”
The building superintendent jumped into water, fully clothed, after his daughter who was working as the lifeguard alerted him and called 911.
“Her body was under the branches, so I pull her out,” the super, Alex Syku, said. “And when I pull her out, I saw her, she was no…she was dead.”
Douglas worked from home in the high rise, and every afternoon, she would meet a neighbor to swim laps during a break.
That friend, a 72-year-old woman, was treated and released for bruises on her head.
“They were swimming maybe 2 feet apart from each other, and at the end of the day, someone’s going home and someone’s not,” Gallo said. “It was just horrific.”
Residents say the pool in the co-op building is always staffed with lifeguards, and that there were no visible issues with the 70-foot tree that stood on the wooded property of the neighboring building.
“For me personally, it was an additional point of reference to enjoy every day to the fullest,” another neighbor said. “Because you just don’t know what’s going to happen.”
An autopsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of the death.
The New York City parks department said the tree is not under its jurisdiction, and it not yet clear what caused it to fall.
The incident happened two days after a man was killed by a tree while he was sitting on a bench in Brooklyn.
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
407 AM PDT Fri Aug 19 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO
7 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Temperatures up to 106 expected.
* WHERE...San Luis Obispo County Mountains, San Luis Obispo
County Interior Valleys, Southern Salinas Valley and Cuyama
Valley.
* WHEN...From 11 AM this morning to 7 PM PDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Anyone overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and
shaded location. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion
and heat stroke. Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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New Rye Whiskey, Named "Top 5 Rye" by Acclaimed Whiskey Reviewer Fred Minnick, Now Available on Shelves in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Florida, and Online Nationally
LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hemingway Whiskey Company today announced expanded availability for Hemingway Rye Whiskey First Edition, after the inaugural batch of First Edition Collector's Packaging sold out in less than one week in late-2022. The new rye whiskey was crafted by a team with deep experience in Kentucky whiskey. The Calls, a family with Bardstown roots and more than 230 years of distilling experience, distilled the whiskey in collaboration with the Hemingway and Groth families. It is now on shelves in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Florida, and available online in most states.
Hemingway Rye Whiskey First Edition has already received numerous accolades including being ranked in the "Top 5 Rye Whiskeys" of the year by acclaimed spirits columnist and critic, Fred Minnick in his annual top 100 ranking. Now with this latest First Edition release, even more rye whiskey lovers will have the opportunity to get their hands on a bottle.
The whiskey will come in a custom bottle adorned with a typewriter key design alongside Hemingway's famed signature printed on the bottle. The Call Family's signatures are also printed on the label. Each First Edition bottle also features a unique, removable card on the back, inspired by old-fashioned library book cards, inviting imbibers to pour their own stories and log who they share their rye with.This new whiskey is a great addition to any home collection or bar.
About Hemingway Rye Whiskey First Edition:
In Western Kentucky, three families came together to create Hemingway Rye Whiskey: the Calls, the Groths, and the Hemingways. Each family brought their own inspiration and stories passed down from generation to generation, and the result is a rye whiskey rich with tradition.
Inspired by American author, journalist, and storyteller Ernest Hemingway and crafted in collaboration with his family, Hemingway Whiskey Company is led by Steve Groth, whiskey pioneer and co-founder of the revered Angel's Envy Bourbon brand. The Call family, Seventh-Generation Master Distiller Ron Call and his sons, Call Family Ambassador Clayton Call and Eighth-Generation Master Distiller Jacob Call hand source, blend, and finish the rye whiskey, building on generations of distilling expertise and innovation. The Call Family distilling history stretches back to the earliest days of bourbon when Samuel Call distilled whiskey on his Kentucky farm in the late 1700s. The home for Hemingway Rye Whiskey will be Jacob Call's new Western Kentucky Distilling Co. in Beaver Dam, Kentucky.
"As one of the earliest distilling families in Kentucky, we are proud to continue building on our family's distilling history," said Jacob Call. "It's been an honor to work with my father and brother on Hemingway Rye Whiskey. Together, we have poured our hearts into this first edition, and it's been nice to hear from so many people who have enjoyed it."
Hemingway Rye Whiskey is a blend of straight rye whiskeys finished in ultra-premium rum-seasoned Oloroso Sherry casks. It is a captivating blend of 94% 9-year-old Indiana Straight Rye and 6% 4-year-old Kentucky Straight Rye, the latter distilled by Jacob Call and crafted with his signature spice. Both are finished with the sweetness and softness of Ron Call's own rum-seasoned Oloroso Sherry casks. It is 100 proof and a dark amber color. It has a rich caramel and brown sugar aroma, complemented by back notes of soft rye and vanilla. On the palate, it has notes of rich cherry, toasted oak, creamy caramel, and cinnamon. A rich mouthfeel bursts with fruit flavor leading into a soft, sweet, and warm finish.
"The three families that came together to make Hemingway Rye Whiskey are connected by our shared values. We respect tradition, history, and the people who have come before us, but at the same time, have an itch to do things a bit differently," said Steve Groth. "We knew we had something special with Hemingway Rye Whiskey First Edition, but we did not expect it to sell out so quickly. We also weren't expecting folks to hold onto it as a keepsake, so we're happy to release more for people to sip and savor."
In November 2022, Hemingway Whiskey Company released the rye as an inaugural batch of 972 bottles of Hemingway Rye Whiskey First Edition in Collector's Packaging. The bottles were hand-numbered and hand-signed by the Calls and encased in a library-style box with an old-fashioned library book card. These Collector's bottles sold out in less than a week, so the team is thrilled to have more First Edition rye to share with whiskey drinkers this year in traditional packaging.
Availability and Pricing:
Hemingway Rye Whiskey First Edition will be available online and in-store in Florida, Kentucky, and Tennessee at a suggested retail price of $109.99 for a 750ml bottle. For more information about Hemingway Rye Whiskey and future releases, or to secure your bottle, visit www.hemingwaywhiskeys.com.
About Hemingway Rye Whiskey
Hemingway Rye Whiskey is a new premium rye whiskey brand, from the new Hemingway Whiskey Company, and is inspired by American Author, Journalist and Storyteller Ernest Hemingway. It was founded by a team with deep roots in Kentucky whiskey, led by Steve Groth, whiskey pioneer and co-founder of the revered Angel's Envy Bourbon brand and the Calls, Ron, Jacob and Clayton, a distilling family with more than 230 years of whiskey making experience. The Hemingway Whiskey Company is part of Old Man and the Sea Brands®, an innovative spirits company that owns Hemingway Rum Company, makers of Papa's Pilar Rum. They are known for bringing high quality spirits and incredible stories to drinkers around the country. For more information, visit www.hemingwaywhiskeys.com and follow @hemingwaywhiskeys.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that more U.S.-Russian prisoner exchanges are possible if Moscow and Washington find a compromise.
Putin spoke a day after Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was swapped for WNBA star and two-time Olympian Brittney Griner.
Asked after a summit in Kyrgyzstan whether other prisoners could be swapped, Putin replied that “everything is possible,” noting that “compromises have been found” that cleared the way for Thursday’s exchange of Griner for Bout.
“We aren’t refusing to continue this work in the future,” the Russian leader said, making his first comments about the closely watched trade.
Despite negotiating for Griner’s release, the most high-profile American jailed abroad, the U.S. failed to win freedom for another American, Paul Whelan. The Michigan corporate security executive has been imprisoned in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges that his family and the U.S. government have said are baseless.
U.S. officials said they did not see an immediate path to bringing about Whelan’s release, saying Russia has treated his case differently because of the “sham espionage” charges against him. Still, they said they believe communication channels with the Russians remain open for negotiations about his freedom.
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said: “We registered what Mr. Putin said, let’s see what he actually does.”
Putin said the U.S.-Russia talks that resulted in Thursday’s exchange didn’t touch on other subjects.
“Whether this could set stage for a dialogue with the U.S. is a separate issue,” he said. “We didn’t set the task to move from those talks to something else, but they do create a certain atmosphere.”
On a similar note, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was Russian and U.S. intelligence agencies that agreed to exchange Bout for Griner and their contacts were focused exclusively on hammering out its specifics.
“It has no impact on the overall state of bilateral ties that looks sad,” Peskov said in televised remarks.
Peskov said that “special services may continue their work if necessary,” and also noted the role of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in helping broker the swap.
Bout, dubbed the “Merchant of Death” who provided arms for some of the world’s worst conflicts and spent over 14 years behind bars in the U.S., was seen in Russia as unjustly imprisoned after an overly aggressive U.S. sting operation.
Russian state media hailed his release, carrying footage of him talking to his family from a private jet following a swap at Abu Dhabi’s airport and then embracing his wife and his mother on a snowy tarmac in Moscow.
Speaking in an interview for RT channel with Maria Butina, who also served 18 months in a U.S. prison after being convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the United States, Bout said he was still struggling to control his emotions after his imprisonment.
He charged that the West’s long-held objective was to destroy Russia.
“The West believes that it has failed to finish us off when the Soviet Union began to collapse,” Bout said. “And our efforts to live independently, be an independent power, is a shock to them.” | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-russian-arms-dealer-swapped-for-wnba-star-griner-blasts-west/ | 2022-12-10 12:03:21 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-russian-arms-dealer-swapped-for-wnba-star-griner-blasts-west/ |
Arguing that Gov. Greg Abbott’s floating barrier in the Rio Grande is a safety hazard that violates international treaties and harms relations with Mexico, the U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge Wednesday to order Texas to remove the barrier within 10 days.
The department is also seeking an injunction blocking Texas from erecting future river barriers without prior approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
“Texas’s deployment of the Floating Barrier has caused significant and ongoing harm to the United States’ foreign relations with Mexico,” the filing said, adding that Mexican officials have raised their concerns “at the highest diplomatic levels.”
“Mexico has specifically asserted that Texas’s actions contravene various treaty obligations and has raised humanitarian concerns regarding possible loss of life to persons swimming in the Rio Grande,” the filing said.
The federal government asked Texas officials to remove the barrier on July 20, about 10 days after it was installed near Eagle Pass to deter migrants from crossing the river. Abbott refused, saying in a reply letter: “Texas will see you in court, Mr. President.”
The Justice Department obliged, suing Texas in Austin federal court Monday, then following up Wednesday with a request for a court order requiring the barrier’s removal.
The lawsuit argued that the barrier violated the Rivers and Harbors Act, which prohibits the obstruction of U.S. waterways, and was not approved by the bilateral International Boundary and Water Commission, as required by a 1970 treaty.
Other statements included within the filing raised specific concerns.
Hillary Quam, the U.S.-Mexico border coordinator for the U.S. State Department, said Mexican officials had protested the river barrier as a violation of treaties dating back to 1848.
“If the barrier is not removed expeditiously, its presence will have an adverse impact on U.S. foreign policy, including our relationship with the government of Mexico,” Quam wrote in an affidavit accompanying the filing.
Mexico also has raised humanitarian concerns, she said.
“Mexico is concerned that individuals swimming in the river may get caught in the floating barrier and risk injury or even death. Such an injury … could quickly rise to a significant international incident,” Quam wrote.
Another affidavit, from Jason Owens, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, said the 39-mile stretch of river that includes the barrier is dangerous, requiring 249 water-related rescues, and resulting in 89 deaths, since 2018.
“Any obstructions in the water could naturally impair the freedom of movement and potentially delay response times,” Owens wrote.
Coast Guard officials also described potential threats to operations, citing a need to assess how the barrier could impact the navigability of the river.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sims Metal, a global leader in metal recycling, today issued the following statement regarding the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's approval to issue a construction permit to the company for its proposed advanced emission control systems.
"We are pleased that after a very thorough due diligence process that the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has now endorsed Sims Metal's plan to enclose our metal shredder at all emission points and add state-of-the-art advanced emission controls by approving our request for a construction permit," said John Glyde, Sims Metal's global chief operating officer. "Sims Metal continues to invest in upgrades at, and improvements to, the Chicago facility in Pilsen as we lead by example with best practices for other industrial employers. These significant upgrades to our environmental control systems will allow us to continue being a good neighbor. This $15 million investment in advanced controls has only been made by a handful of facilities nationwide – and none to a mid-sized metal shredder like ours. This investment in Pilsen is a win for all local stakeholders and the City of Chicago," he concluded.
Founded in Sydney, Australia, in 1917, Sims Metal, has grown from being an Australian-centric company to one of the most significant metal recycling companies in the world. A division of Sims Limited, Sims Metal has bases of operations in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States where the business buys and processes discarded ferrous and non-ferrous metal and sells the recycled material to manufacturers in 30 countries. Each year, Sims Metal recycles approximately 10 million tonnes of metal across its global operations. In line with its shared purpose, create a world without waste to preserve our planet, Sims Metal is preparing for, and adapting to, the significant industrial and environmental changes in society and the industry. Visit www.simsmm.com to learn more.
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MINOT, N.D. (KXNET) — Students at an area school had the chance to give back and help out in the community.
On Wednesday, students from Minot High School joined in for their first-ever Day of Giving.
The school called up organizations from in the area to see who could use a little help.
A teacher says this day is meant to show that students can do more than just go to their classes in school.
“Sometimes we kinda get caught up in the school routine of just go to school, go home, read, write, and whatever, but there’s more to learning than just that. And getting people out, you know a lot of them have never been to these places in town so they’re experiencing Minot. And also, the community can see that high school students aren’t just a bunch of trouble makers, but they can actually give back,” said Chad Gifford, an English, Speech, and Theatre teacher.
One student that volunteered helped sort clothes, and make screws tighter.
He says that it was nice to be able to volunteer and bond with his classmates.
He also enjoyed getting involved in the community.
“To get to know your community. You want to get to know your community. You just don’t want to stay inside, do your school, repeat that. You want to know who’s in your community, talk to them.”
“It’s amazing, it’s been really fun. We had a game of dress-up with all the stuff here. It was really fun, everyone’s supportive. It was awesome,” said Sage Bower, a senior at Minot High School.
Gifford says there was apprehension about students participating in the day of giving, but in his experience, it went fantastically.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
2-6-8-5
(two, six, eight, five)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
2-6-8-5
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NAPA, Calif. and BOSTON, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognizing the rising adoption of telehealth and the myriad challenges presented to patients, providers, and healthcare systems, TDC Group and Candello (CRICO's national data collaborative and a division of the organization) have collaborated on an educational video series entitled "What NOT to Do: Telehealth Lessons Learned."
TDC Group is a longtime member of the Candello community. Uniting to explore the telehealth area of care delivery, patient safety leaders consulted with risk management experts from TDC Group and the CRICO community to provide guidance and practice management tips, captured on video and made available to the public to help improve virtual care for all through shared learning.
The five-part video series, based on those primary challenges facing clinicians during virtual visits, is available to all medical professionals via TDC Group and CRICO Video.
Accessing crucial healthcare services through videoconferencing, electronic consults, and remote monitoring has become increasingly necessary for patients since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a statement shared by the American Hospital Association, in 2019, 76 percent of U.S. hospitals were already connecting with patients and practitioners through video and other digital technology. Since then, healthcare systems across the country have focused significant effort on creating training programs and guides to help clinicians understand policies and protocols for delivering care through virtual platforms, but less attention has been focused on what not to do when things go wrong.
The video series also leverages information previously published in CRICO's Patient Safety Guidance for the Virtual Visit and Interoperable Telehealth: Patient Safety Considerations, published by The Doctors Company (part of TDC Group).
"Telehealth has emerged as a valuable tool for hospital systems and providers, but it isn't without risks; our risk management team is dedicated to providing top guidance and strategies to increase patients' safety," said David L. Feldman, MD, MBA, FACS, Chief Medical Officer for TDC Group. "This unique series covers what not to do but also offers clear guidance for a safe and productive telehealth visit."
Modules address considerations for clinical, equity, legal, and technical matters, plus managing the unexpected. The modules are introduced by dramatized vignettes with examples of what not to do. Patients join a telehealth visit in a grocery store, attempt to show a leg rash via faulty camera, encounter language barriers, and experience various technology challenges known to occur during virtual visits.
"Telehealth continues to transform healthcare, as it offers providers another weapon in the arsenal to make sure we get the job done; sometimes a phone call is not good enough to go through a tricky test result, but a full office visit isn't required," said Lee Schwamm, MD, Director, MGH Center for TeleHealth, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Vice President, Digital Patient Experience and Virtual Care, Mass General Brigham. "Telehealth shouldn't be the only way to interact with patients; it should be complementary to in-person care, and we should always use the vehicle most suited to address medical problems in the most convenient, patient-centric way."
TDC Group (theTDCgroup.com) is the nation's largest physician-owned provider of insurance, risk management, and healthcare practice improvement solutions. Serving the full continuum of care, from individual physicians to academic medical systems, we help healthcare professionals overcome the complexities of today's practice environment. TDC Group delivers proven solutions constantly refined through tireless innovation. We are defined by our depth of experience, commitment to service, unparalleled product offering, and broad distribution capabilities. With annual revenue of $1 billion, over $6.5 billion in assets, and offices nationwide, TDC Group serves over 100,000 healthcare professionals and organizations throughout the United States.
Candello is a division of CRICO (www.rmf.harvard.edu), which insures all of the Harvard medical institutions and their affiliates. Through national partnerships, Candello pools malpractice data and expertise from captive and commercial professional liability insurers across the country to provide clinical risk intelligence products and solutions. The data represent one-third of U.S. MPL cases and include open and closed cases as well as cases with and without indemnity payments. An active online community facilitates peer discussion and fosters shared learning, while web-based tools employ Candello's clinical coding taxonomy to connect the dots from medical error to patient safety interventions. Learn more at www.candello.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a distributor of key chain tags at an auto dealership and I thought there could be a way to simplify the process," said an inventor, from Lee's Summit, Mo., "so I invented the E Z KEY TAG. My design saves time, it eliminates confusion and it ensures that there is enough room to write down the VIN number."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved key tag system for automotive dealerships. In doing so, it ensures that the written information is clearly displayed. As a result, it saves time and effort and it helps to prevent confusion and mistakes. Additionally, the invention features a simple and user-friendly design that is easy to use so it is ideal for automotive dealerships.
The original design was submitted to the Jackson sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-JKK-136, 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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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida Silver Alert was issued Saturday for an 85-year-old man reported missing from Kissimmee, in response to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Kissimmee Police Department.
Frank Elkins was final seen at 2:30 a.m. within the space of the 2300 block of Robert Court, officers stated. Elkins has white hair and brown eyes, is 5 toes 7 inches tall, weighs 210 kilos and was reportedly carrying a purple shirt and blue denims when he was final seen.
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Elkins could also be touring in a light-weight brown or silver 2003 GMC Yukon with Florida tag II77LZ, officers stated. Kissimmee police shared the next picture of a automobile just like Elkins’ on Twitter.
Anyone with data of Elkins’ whereabouts was urged to contact FDLE, or Kissimmee police at 407-846-3333 or 911.
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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. -- In a Problem Solvers Investigation, CBS6 introduced you to Benefa Anning, a mother of two whose apartment was suddenly covered in mold after the air conditioning failed.
An estimate showed that it would cost more than $50,000 to replace and repair everything that was damaged.
"We are starting over. And this is pretty much what it looks like, this is an air mattress, it's a borrowed air mattress. I was able to just get like some affordable mattresses for my children because I didn't want them on the floor like I am. So I always try to put my kids first, you know," Anning explained.
The equipment that Anning uses to do her job was also damaged by the mold.
With the help of our friends at Virginia Credit Union, CBS6 Problem Solver Joi Fultz surprised Benefa and replaced some of the items that were ruined.
To help the family get back on their feet, Joi surprised them with a gift card.
"Absolutely. It really means a lot because everything is going to help, you know, so thank you very, very much," Anning said.
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HARRISBURG – Legislation sponsored by Rep. Dane Watro (R-Luzerne/Schuylkill) that would streamline the professional licensing process for veterans seeking a civilian career as an emergency medical technician (EMT) or paramedic passed unanimously in the House of Representatives today. House Bill 404 will next be considered by the Senate. “My bill would enable our veterans who wish to continue their medic specialty after their military service is over to do so more easily,” said Watro, who is also a veteran. “We want to prevent the duplication of education and training to help make their transition to civilian life as seamless as possible.” Watro’s proposal would ensure a service member’s military education and training are taken into consideration for the purpose of fulfilling requirements for professional credentials related to emergency medical services providers. Current state law requires certain Commonwealth agencies to strongly consider a veteran’s military education, training and experience for the purpose of fulfilling requirements for professional credentials. Under Watro’s bill, the Department of Health, which certifies EMTs and paramedics throughout the Commonwealth, would be added to the list. The Department of Agriculture would also be included.
Rep. Watro’s Bill To Help Veterans Obtain EMT Licenses Passed By House
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Customers rave about Techy's quick repairs and exceptional customer service, so it is befitting that Techy will open a new sector of its business that is all about catering to its customers. Techy Cafe has partnered with Walmart to elevate the customer service experience. Consider it the supercenter of Techy repair stores. Inside Walmart, customers can visit a Techy Cafe for a cup of coffee, espresso, snacks, and more while they inquire about electronic repair services.
Techy Cafe's new Walmart locations will expand the franchise's existing partnership with one of the largest corporations in the world. Now, The Techy franchise has Techy and Techy Cafe inside Walmart throughout the country. Although both locations will provide repair services for all electronics, Techy Cafe will include a sitting area so customers can feel comfortable getting their devices repaired while having the coffee shop experience.
Walmart across the United States gets millions of foot traffic to their stores daily, giving franchise owners an opportunity for new and current customers to walk into their repair store. A Techy Cafe is a great business model for franchisees who want a store known for providing their customers with top-tier service.
When a franchise owner opens a Techy Cafe, they will have access to resources to help them run a successful store location, such as coffee and espresso machines, furniture for customers sitting areas, and more. Franchise owners can also provide buyback services for those who want to get rid of their gently used electronic devices (computers, tablets, phones). Customers looking for affordable devices can visit Techy Cafe for certified pre-owned smartphones, laptops, and more.
A warm, friendly smile from a Techy technician and a cup of coffee can help customers feel at ease, especially when someone comes in with a broken device. Techy is all about giving customers options and keeping a positive environment. The purpose of Techy Cafe is to let customers know that Techy is there to meet their needs.
Techy By DrPhoneFix changed its name in June 2020 to show that it offers more than phone repairs. It has added electronic buybacks and smart home installations like mounting TV as part of its services. Since its establishment in 2006, the company has grown to 230+ locations and has a 24,000 sq. ft state-of-the-art headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Contact: Nicole Cooper, franchise@techycompany.com, 877-752-0956
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RICHMOND, Va. -- COVID-19 hospitalizations in the Commonwealth increased roughly 11% over the past week, according to data from the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association (VHHA).
As of Friday, there were 580 hospitalized patients confirmed positive for COVID-19, which is up from 523 (+57) last Friday, according to the VHHA.
VHHA's 7-day moving average of current COVID-19 hospitalizations sat 567 Friday. That is up 83 from 484 last Friday. That number was 392 the previous Friday and 280 the Friday before that.
Additionally, nearly 550 additional COVID-19 patients were discharged from Virginia hospitals over the past week, according to the VHHA.
The VHHA reported a total of 110,411 hospitalized COVID-19 patients have been discharged Friday, an increase from 109,862 (+549) patients from last Friday's update.
The data is a look into COVID-19 recoveries in Virginia. While the data isn't an exact recovery statistic, the discharge category shows how many COVID-19 patients were hospitalized and released.
More than 20,42 (+48 from last Friday) deaths in Virginia have been linked to COVID since the start of the pandemic, according to the Virginia Department of Health.
The VHHA's online data dashboard provides up-to-date statistics daily on the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations across the Commonwealth, ventilator usage, and current hospital bed availability.
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, May 1, 2023
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
129 AM PDT Sun Apr 30 2023
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
11 PM PDT MONDAY...
* WHAT...Southwest winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph.
* WHERE...Death Valley National Park and the Western Mojave Desert
including Barstow.
* WHEN...From 4 PM this afternoon through Monday night.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects and
result in brief power outages, driving may become hazardous for
high profile vehicles, and periods of blowing dust could occur.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Winds are expected to subside briefly
overnight and during the morning hours, but strong wind gusts
will return Monday morning and through the afternoon. This wind
advisory captures both periods of strong winds through Monday
night.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 11 PM MONDAY...
* WHAT...South winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph.
* WHERE...Northwest Arizona, southeast California, and southern
Nevada.
* WHEN...From 9 AM to 11 PM Monday.
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Newsom's office said the governor received the positive test Saturday morning and has mild symptoms and will remain in isolation through at least June 2 and until he tests negative. The governor will continue to work remotely during that time.
The governor is vaccinated and got his second booster shot on May 18. He has also received a prescription for Paxlovid, a COVID-19 antiviral drug.
"This AM, I tested positive for COVID-19 and am currently experiencing mild symptoms. Grateful to be vaccinated & for treatments like Paxlovid," Newsom tweeted Saturday afternoon.
The governor's most recent public appearance was on Friday, when he met with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in San Francisco to sign an international climate agreement. The two appeared together outdoors at the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park.
Newsom's diagnosis comes as another COVID-19 wave rolls through California and the rest of the country. Cases are up more than 60% in the state over the past 14 days, with hospitalizations up more than 50% in that time.
Most California counties — including Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles — are now in the "medium" tier of the Centers for Disease Control's community level measurement. The system tracks the impact of COVID-19 on a community, and is based on a combination of case rates, hospitalization rates and the percentage of hospital beds used by COVID-19 patients.
In the medium tier, the CDC suggests staying up to date on vaccinations (including booster shots if you are eligible), getting tested if you have symptoms, and wearing a mask indoors if you are at risk for severe illness. At the high community level, the CDC recommends all people wear masks indoors in public places.
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Home sellers realize the greatest seller premiums in May;
Analysis also looks at best months and days to sell a home
IRVINE, Calif., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, today released its annual analysis of the best days of the year to sell a home, which shows that based on home sales over the past 11 years, the months of May, June and July offer seller premiums of 10 percent or more above market value – with the top 15 best days to sell in the month of May alone.
According to the new analysis, sellers who want to wait for the weather to heat up, will receive the hottest seller premiums as well. This analysis of more than 46 million single family home and condo sales between 2011 and 2021 is evidence that Spring and Summer is when people are looking to buy; therefore, if you're looking to sell your home soon, now is the time.
"April showers may bring May flowers, but May brings home sellers the best opportunities to watch their profits grow," said Rick Sharga, executive Vice President of market intelligence at ATTOM. "Homeowners looking to maximize the price premium they can claim on their homes should sell their properties in May, June, and July when buying activity is at its peak."
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Best Months to Sell
The analysis also took a more high-level look and showcased how seller premiums faired throughout the year and broke it out by month.
The months realizing the greatest seller premiums were as follows: May (12.6 percent); June (10.7 percent); July (10 percent); April (9.2 percent); March (8.9 percent); September (7.9 percent); February (7.9 percent); August (7.9 percent); December (6.3 percent); January (6.2 percent); November (6.1 percent); and October (5.2 percent).
Methodology
For this analysis ATTOM looked at any calendar days in the last eleven years (2011 to 2021) with at least 10,000 single family home and condo sales. There were 362 days that matched this criteria, with the four exceptions being Jan. 1, July 4, Nov. 11 and Dec. 25. To calculate the premium or discount paid on a given day, ATTOM compared the median sales price for homes with a purchase closing on that day with the median automated valuation model (AVM) for those same homes at the time of sale.
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Judge approves Minneapolis police reform deal forged after George Floyd’s killing
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — Minneapolis must enact police reforms in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, after a judge on Thursday approved a settlement agreement between the city and the state Human Rights Department.
The Star Tribune reported that Hennepin County Judge Karen Janisch signed the settlement, which calls for de-escalation whenever possible, limits on the use of tear gas and other chemical agents, and an end to police stops for broken taillights and searches based on the smell of marijuana.
“This is a huge framework. There is going to be a lot of work that the city is going to be doing in the near future,” Janisch said. “I hope that the city is up to that task and that you can find good people to be able to carry this forward.”
The Human Rights Department began investigating shortly after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes on May 25, 2020, disregarding the Black man’s fading pleas that he couldn’t breathe. Floyd’s death sparked mass protests around the world, forced a national reckoning on racial injustice, and compelled a Minneapolis Police Department overhaul.
Minnesota’s Human Rights agency issued a blistering report last year after its investigation found the police department had engaged in a pattern of race discrimination for at least a decade. The U.S. Justice Department, which also launched a similar investigation, issued a withering critique of the department in June, alleging that officers systematically discriminated against racial minorities, violated constitutional rights and disregarded the safety of people in custody for years before Floyd was killed.
Under the agreement with the state, training in the disputed condition of excited delirium — a key issue in the confrontation that led to Floyd’s death — will be banned.
The settlement also governs the use of body-worn and dashboard cameras; officer wellness; and response to mental health and behavioral crises. An independent evaluator must be appointed to monitor compliance.
“This comes after we spent months with the city negotiating and engaging with and hearing from community members and police officers and bringing their ideas right to the negotiating table to then implement into the consent decree,” Minnesota Human Rights Department spokesperson Taylor Putz said.
Janisch approved the settlement despite calls for revisions by some police accountability groups concerned that it will be too easy for the police union to sidestep changes and that it could mean softer police disciplinary measures are hidden from the public.
Police watchdog group Communities United Against Police Brutality praised most of the consent decree but questioned select clauses stating that “nothing in this agreement will be interpreted as obligating the city or any unions to violate and/or waive any rights or obligations under the terms of the collective bargaining agreements.”
“That means cops can sidestep anything in this consent decree by putting it in their union contract,” volunteer Andrew Kluis told attendees at a community review of the settlement agreement last month.
Floyd, 46, was arrested on suspicion of passing a counterfeit $20 bill for a pack of cigarettes at a corner market. He struggled with police when they tried to put him in a squad car, and though he was already handcuffed, they forced him on the ground.
Chauvin was convicted of murder in April 2021 and was sentenced to 22 1/2 years on that charge. He also pleaded guilty to a federal charge of violating Floyd’s civil rights and was sentenced to 21 years in that case. He is serving those sentences in Tucson, Arizona. Three other officers at the scene are all serving prison sentences for their roles in the case.
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BOSTON, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DNA) ("Ginkgo"), which is building the leading platform for cell programing and biosecurity, today announced the sale of shares of its Class A common stock for gross proceeds of approximately $100 million to BTIG, LLC, as the underwriter in the registered public offering of those shares. In connection with this offering, Ginkgo has granted the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional $15 million of shares of Class A common stock.
The last reported sale price of Ginkgo's Class A common stock on November 15, 2022 was $2.67 per share. The underwriter proposes to offer for sale the shares of common stock from time to time in one or more transactions on the New York Stock Exchange, in the over-the-counter market, through negotiated transactions or otherwise at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to the prevailing market prices or at negotiated prices, subject to receipt and acceptance by it and subject to its right to reject any order in whole or in part.
BTIG, LLC is acting as the sole book-running manager for the offering. The offering is expected to close on or about November 18, 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Ginkgo intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to offset the cash used to finance the acquisition of certain assets and liabilities of Bayer CropScience LP and for other general corporate purposes. The shares described above are being offered by Ginkgo pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on October 4, 2022 and declared effective by the SEC on October 14, 2022. A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to and describing the terms of the offering was filed with the SEC on November 15, 2022. The final prospectus supplement relating to the offering will be filed with the SEC. When available, copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus can be obtained at the SEC's website http://www.sec.gov or from BTIG, LLC at 65 East 55th Street New York, NY, 10022 or by e-mail at ProspectusDelivery@btig.com.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities in the offering, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.
Ginkgo is the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, providing flexible, end-to-end services that solve challenges for organizations across diverse markets, from food and agriculture to pharmaceuticals to industrial and specialty chemicals. Ginkgo's biosecurity and public health unit, Concentric by Ginkgo, is building global infrastructure for biosecurity to empower governments, communities, and public health leaders to prevent, detect and respond to a wide variety of biological threats.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements regarding the use of proceeds from the sale of Class A common stock and the expected closing of the offering. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words "believe," "can," "project," "potential," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "strategy," "future," "opportunity," "plan," "may," "should," "will," "would," "will be," "will continue," "will likely result," and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release, including but not limited to: (i) volatility in the price of Ginkgo's securities due to a variety of factors, including changes in the competitive and highly regulated industries in which Ginkgo operates and plans to operate, variations in performance across competitors, and changes in laws and regulations affecting Ginkgo's business, (ii) the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and to identify and realize additional business opportunities, (iii) the risk of downturns in demand for products using synthetic biology, (iv) the unpredictability of the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the demand for COVID-19 testing and the commercial viability of our COVID-19 testing business, (v) changes to the biosecurity industry, including due to advancements in technology, emerging competition and evolution in industry demands, standards and regulations, and (vi) our ability to realize the expected benefits of merger and acquisition transactions. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of Ginkgo's annual report on Form 10-K, most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on November 14, 2022 and other documents filed by Ginkgo from time to time with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and Ginkgo assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Ginkgo does not give any assurance that it will achieve its expectations.
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MEDELLIN, Colombia, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Bancolombia S.A. (the "Issuer") announced the early tender results of its previously announced offer to purchase for cash (the "Offer") up to U.S.$370,000,000 of its outstanding 3.000% Senior Notes due 2025 (the "Notes"). The Offer is subject to the terms and conditions as described in the offer to purchase dated July 12, 2023 (the "Offer to Purchase").
The table below summarizes certain payment terms of the Offer and sets forth the principal amount of Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn as of the Early Tender Date (as defined below):
(1) Per U.S.$1,000 principal amount of Notes.
(2) Excludes accrued interest, which will be paid in addition to the Tender Offer Consideration or the Total Consideration, as applicable.
The early tender deadline for the Offer occurred at 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on July 25, 2023 (the "Early Tender Date"). The Issuer also announced that it has increased the Maximum Tender Amount from U.S.$370,000,000 to U.S.$467,966,000 and intends to accept for purchase on the early settlement date for the Offer (the "Early Settlement Date"), which is expected to be August 1, 2023, all Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to the Early Tender Date up to an amount of U.S.$467,966,000.
The tender offer was oversubscribed as of the Early Tender Date. Accordingly, the Issuer will not accept for purchase any Notes tendered after the Early Tender Date.
Holders that validly tendered prior to the Early Tender Date, and whose Notes are accepted for purchase, will be entitled to receive the total consideration set forth in the table above, which includes the early tender payment. In addition, holders whose Notes are purchased in the Offer will be entitled to receive accrued and unpaid interest in respect of their purchased Notes from the last interest payment date to, but not including, the Early Settlement Date.
The withdrawal deadline for the Offer was 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on July 25, 2023, and so has passed. Accordingly, Notes tendered (in the past or future) in the Offer may no longer be withdrawn, except as required by applicable law.
Conditions to the Issuer's obligation to accept for purchase and to pay for the Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn are described in the Offer to Purchase. The Issuer may amend, extend, terminate or withdraw the Offer.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC is the dealer manager for the Offer. Global Bondholder Services Corporation has been appointed as the information and tender agent for the Offer.
Persons with questions regarding the Offer should contact J.P. Morgan Securities LLC at (866) 846-2874 (toll-free) or (212) 834-7279 (collect). In addition, holders of Notes may contact their broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee for assistance concerning the Offer.
Holders who would like copies of the Offer to Purchase may call the information and tender agent, Global Bondholder Services Corporation at (212) 430-3774 or (855) 654-2015 (toll free) or by e-mail at contact@gbsc-usa.com.
This press release is for informational purposes only and is not a recommendation, an offer to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to sell with respect to any securities. The Offer is being made solely pursuant to the Offer to Purchase that is being distributed to the holders of Notes. The Offer is not being made to, nor will tenders be accepted from or on behalf of, holders of Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making of the Offer or the acceptance thereof would not comply with the laws of that jurisdiction. Further, this press release is not an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release and the Offer to Purchase contain statements which may constitute "forward-looking statements". These forward-looking statements are not based on historical facts, but instead represent only our belief regarding future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside our control. Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "approximate," "expect," "may," "intend," "plan," "predict," "target," "forecast," "guideline," "should," "project" and similar words and expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. It is possible that our actual results may differ, possibly materially, from the anticipated results indicated in these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they were made, and we undertake no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements after the date on which they are made in light of new information, future events and other factors.
About the Issuer
Bancolombia S.A. is a full-service financial institution that offers a wide range of banking products and services to a diversified individual and corporate customer base of nearly 29 million customers.
Media contact: Catalina Tobon Rivera,
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Both San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara County animal shelters are seeing more pets coming through their doors following the Fourth of July celebrations.
“Instead of having like one big peak where we get slammed with a lot of stuff right at once, it becomes busy over the next several days," said Eric Anderson, San Luis Obispo County Animal Services Manager.
Local animal shelters need the community’s help to make sure that missing pets are reunited with their families.
Just on Wednesday, July 5, SLO County Animal Services had calls for dog pick-ups, a litter of puppies, and even a stray goat.
“We get stray reports all the time anyway. That's part of our normal business. It just seems to be increased after the July 4th holiday. Animals might've been frightened by fireworks then ran off from home," Anderson said.
The increase in animals is being seen across the board.
“We have seen an increase in cats and dogs, specifically in lots of ferals," said Esme Medina with Santa Barbara County Animal Services.
Although both county shelters say it’s too early to know the exact number of animals coming in, they do know the number of animals coming in will go up.
“The numbers are very different to track just because animals as they're coming in, we are receiving a lot of redemptions, which is great. People are reclaiming their animals, but it's nonstop. We see a flood of animals coming in a few days prior to the 4th of July, as well as days after the 4th of July," Medina explained.
If you are a pet owner missing an animal, here are some tips from SLO County Animal Services:
- Check in with your local shelters
- File a missing animal report
- Search your neighborhood
- Post on social media to get the word out
“It's important that you come into the shelter and look through the shelter to see if your pet is here. You can check our web page and it'll give you a listing of all the animals that are found and in the shelter currently, as well as those that have been reported to us by people that have found the lost animal and are holding onto it," Anderson said.
“We are not charging any redemption fees at this time. Just the licensing fees that are applied by our state and local law. We don't want that to be a barrier with any family. If you are looking for your animal, please come to our shelter," Medina said.
Animal Service officials add pet owners should continue to check daily for their missing pet either on their website or through their social media platforms. | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/animal-shelters-expect-to-see-more-lost-pets-in-days-following-july-4th | 2023-07-06 02:29:00 | 0 | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/animal-shelters-expect-to-see-more-lost-pets-in-days-following-july-4th |
TORONTO, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Hut 8 Mining Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT) (TSX: HUT) ("Hut 8" or "the Company"), one of North America's largest, innovation-focused digital asset mining pioneers and high performance computing infrastructure provider, will be releasing results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 via a conference call on August 11, 2022.
Who: Analysts, media, and investors are invited to attend.
What: Hut 8 executives will review the company's second quarter financial results and comment on recent corporate developments.
When: Results will be shared via media release and on the Company's website at https://hut8mining.com/investors/ by 9:30 a.m. ET on August 11, 2022. The conference call and webinar will begin at 10 a.m. ET.
Where: Those joining via telephone should dial in 5 minutes early.
- Within Canada: 1-416-764-8659 access code: 62590720#
- Within the US: 1-888-664-6392 access code: 62590720#
Hut 8 is one of North America's largest innovation-focused digital asset miners, led by a team of business-building technologists, bullish on bitcoin, blockchain, Web 3.0 and bridging the nascent and traditional high performance computing worlds. With two digital asset mining sites located in Southern Alberta and a third site in North Bay, Ontario, all located in Canada, Hut 8 has one of the highest capacity rates in the industry and one of the highest inventories of self-mined Bitcoin of any crypto miner or publicly traded company globally. With 36,000 square feet of geo-diverse data centre space and cloud capacity connected to electrical grids powered by significant renewables and emission-free resources, Hut 8 is revolutionizing conventional assets to create the first hybrid data centre model that serves both the traditional high performance compute (Web 2.0) and nascent digital asset computing sectors, blockchain gaming, and Web 3.0. Hut 8 was the first Canadian digital asset miner to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Through innovation, imagination, and passion, Hut 8 is helping to define the digital asset revolution to create value and positive impacts for its shareholders and generations to come.
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- Uncertainty around inflation and asset valuations has slowed deal pipelines, and data already shows a drop in exit and fund-raising activity in the first half of the 2022
- Record $3.6 trillion in dry powder leaves PE sector in good stead to weather a downturn and history shows deals done coming out of recession are among the best-performing
- Resilience of the PE industry set to maintain its standing as best-performing asset class across market conditions, says Bain & Company's Hugh MacArthur, global PE practice leader
LONDON, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- We appear to be nearing the end of the business cycle. While a range of factors could yet still shift the outlook, the global private equity industry is already slowing in the face of inflation and rising recession risks. But the sector is well positioned to weather the storm and emerge even stronger, Bain & Company's latest mid-year analysis of the PE market concludes.
"The takeaway here is that PE funds will need to manage proactively to anticipate change and get ahead of it. That will be critical in weathering this period of turbulence and taking full advantage of the recovery to come," said Hugh MacArthur, global Private Equity practice leader at Bain & Company.
He added: "Data shows the industry has relied disproportionately on expanding valuation multiples to support returns over the past two decades, but that won't work in a period of inflation. Top-tier performance moving forward will depend on nuts-and-bolts value creation and a clear understanding of how to manage effectively during a period of rising prices."
The cyclical nature of the private equity sector means that weakening economic conditions across major economies will challenge dealmakers, despite the first half of 2022 being on pace to produce the second highest annual buy-out deal value after a record 2021, Bain's Midyear Global PE Market Update warns. The first half of 2022 alone registered $512 billion in buyout deal value, and an average deal size close to $1 billion in that period.
The slowdown that Bain anticipates in deal flow and values is already emerging, it finds, with deal pipelines softening, especially in the high-valuation technology sector. Debt is becoming more expensive and Bain notes that banks are also increasingly pressing questions regarding companies' exposure to inflation and rising rates, making it more difficult to close transactions.
Public market woes have already seen an impact on deal exits as the market for IPOs has largely dried up, Bain's analysis notes. Global buyout backed exit value hit $338 billion in the first half of 2022, down some 37% on the same period a year earlier.
Meanwhile, global IPO value, including both buyout-backed and others, at $91 billion was 73% down versus the first half of 2021. Bain & Company expects that as the present economic turbulence grinds on, these slowdown trends will likely extend to deal exits across the board.
Bain's report identifies a series of knock-on consequences with PE hold periods set to extend, while at the same time the secondaries market is poised for more growth as investors look for alternate ways to generate liquidity, and fund-raising, already sharply lower, is set to decline further in the short-term. Buy-out fund-raising dropped from $284 billion to $138 billion, comparing the first half of 2021 to the same period in 2022.
Despite these short-term challenges, Bain's report concludes that ample "dry powder" puts the PE sector in good stead to weather the present downturn. Many GPs have recently raised funds, it notes, and global dry powder continued to rise in the first half of 2022, now standing at a record high of $3.6 trillion. PE funds are positioned for a strong rebound. Looking back at a 25-year history of the industry, post-downturn market conditions have generated superior returns for investors.
Hugh MacArthur added: "Looking over the long history, Private equity has proven to be resilient to economic downturns. It is a cyclical business and we expect to see some short-term challenges. However, over the long-term, we still believe that PE will continue to grow— and that it will remain the best performing asset class across market conditions."
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For any questions or to arrange an interview, please contact:
Dan Pinkney (Boston) — Email: dan.pinkney@bain.com
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Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today's urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a gold rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 2% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
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MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Viper Energy Partners LP (VNOM) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter profit of $21.7 million.
The Midland, Texas-based company said it had net income of 29 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 28 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 27 cents per share.
The oil and gas company posted revenue of $203.6 million in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $182.4 million.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Alcohol delivery app Drizly has agreed to tighten its data security and limit data collection to resolve federal regulators’ allegations that its security failures exposed the personal information of some 2.5 million customers.
The Federal Trade Commission announced the action Monday against Drizly, a Boston-based subsidiary of Uber that delivers beer, wine and spirits in states where it’s legal, and partners with retailers in hundreds of cities around the US. The proposed consent agreement with the FTC also names Drizly CEO James Cory Rellas. The regulators allege that the company and Rellas were alerted to security problems two years before the 2020 breach yet failed to act to protect consumers’ data.
Drizly agreed to put in a comprehensive data security program and establish security safeguards, and to limit future data collection or storage to that which is necessary for specific purposes. It will also destroy unnecessary data.
“Our proposed order against Drizly not only restricts what the company can retain and collect going forward but also ensures the CEO faces consequences for the company’s carelessness,” Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s bureau of consumer protection, said in a statement. “CEOs who take shortcuts on security should take note.”
Drizly collects and stores on Amazon Web Services cloud-computing service a wide range of personal data from customers such as email and postal addresses, phone numbers, geolocation information and data purchased from third parties, according to the FTC.
“We take consumer privacy and security very seriously at Drizly, and are happy to put this 2020 event behind us,” the company said in a statement.
The proposed consent agreement will be opened to public comment for 30 days, after which the FTC will decide whether to make it final. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/tech-news/ap-technology/ap-drizly-agrees-to-tighten-data-security-after-alleged-breach/ | 2022-10-25 20:20:07 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/tech-news/ap-technology/ap-drizly-agrees-to-tighten-data-security-after-alleged-breach/ |
Power-play goals by Malkin, Rust help Pens stop Rangers, 3-2
By DAN SCIFO
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Evgeni Malkin and Bryan Rust each scored a power-play goal as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the New York Rangers 3-2 to stop their seven-game winning streak. It was the first meeting between the division rivals since New York rallied to win their first-round playoff series last season. Sidney Crosby scored his 18th goal and had an assist for the surging Penguins, who have won eight of nine. Pittsburgh is 15-3-2 in its last 20 games overall. Tristan Jarry made 26 saves and extended his winning streak to seven. He also has a career-best 13-game point streak. Chris Kreider scored twice for the Rangers. Igor Shesterkin stopped 21 shots but lost on the road in regulation for the first time this season. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/20/power-play-goals-by-malkin-rust-help-pens-stop-rangers-3-2/ | 2022-12-21 05:38:14 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/20/power-play-goals-by-malkin-rust-help-pens-stop-rangers-3-2/ |
Short Wave hosts Emily Kwong and Regina Barber talk about a paralyzed man that walked again, a sticker vaccine and the science behind a crop of new RSV vaccines.
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Here is a hot tip: Whenever a sportswriter is forced to use a "not concerned about" or "not bothered by" headline, something has gone very wrong, either in the game or in the reporting process.
It was both after the Warriors' blowout Game 2 win Sunday night, when a visibly agitated Al Horford said that Draymond Green's antics had "no impact" and that the Celtics were "not worried about him."
Horford, who scored two points on Sunday after exploding for 26 in Game 1, was just about the only person in Celtics World to keep up the facade. Boston fans were furious with some admittedly very annoying comments Green made on "SportsCenter" after the game about how he's "earned differential treatment." Horford's own sister said that "if Draymond can’t outplay an opponent, he simply resorts to playing dirty."
The incident that has gotten by far the most attention came when Green and Jaylen Brown got tangled up late in the first half, and Green, with one technical already, correctly assumed that he could get away with more because the refs would be hesitant to eject him early in a Finals game.
After the game, Brown admitted the incident got under his skin.
“I feel like that was an illegal play,” Brown told reporters. “I feel like they could have called it, but they let it go in terms of a technical either way. But I don’t know what I was supposed to do there. Somebody got their legs on the top of your head, and then he tried to pull my pants down. I don’t know what that was about.”
That wasn't the only play aggrieved Celtics fans have seized on like the Zapruder film. One replay makes it appear like Green sets two or maybe even three moving screens; in any event, it resulted in the unforgivable sin of a single-covered Steph Curry getting a relatively open three at the start of a possession. With the game already decided, Green was also caught on camera abusing Grant Williams with a surprisingly PG-rated insult.
This is who Draymond is, and the Celtics better get used to it, or home court advantage won't mean much. After complaining about the lack of a tech, Brown admitted as much.
"That’s what Draymond’s going to do," Brown said. "He’s going to try to muck things up, going to try to pull your arm, whatever, whatever it takes to win. That's what he’s made a career out of, respect to him. But right now I ain't got time for that." | https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/Warriors-Draymond-Green-annoyed-Celtics-17222291.php | 2022-06-06 18:47:45 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/Warriors-Draymond-Green-annoyed-Celtics-17222291.php |
RICHMOND, Va. — After 45 years serving Richmond’s classical musicians, Kapeller Violins will soon take its final bow. The family-run business at 5035 Forest Hill Ave., which sells and rents violins, cellos, violas and other string instruments and has provided a repair and maintenance service for thousands of customers, will be closing its doors at the end of July. Owner and manager Jane Kapeller said the closure is prompted by a combination of factors, including her husband’s declining health. She’s already had to decrease the shop’s hours so she can care for her husband.
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NEW YORK (WPIX) – Police officers and a good Samaritan in New York City rescued a man who suffered a possible medical issue and fell onto the city’s subway tracks on Thanksgiving, police said.
NYPD Officers Brunel Victor and Taufique Bokth were conducting a transit sweep at the station, located at East 116 Street and Lexington Avenue, when officers were told by other riders that a man had fallen onto the tracks. Police immediately left the station to re-enter through the northbound side in order to reach the man, officials said.
Bodycam video released by the NYPD shows the officers rushing down to the subway platform and finding the victim on the track, where another rider was already trying to assist. Together with the good Samaritan, police were able to lift the 40-year-old man back to the platform and out of harm’s way.
One of the officers, however, was still on the track after helping to lift the man — even as the uptown 6 train approached, the footage shows.
He is soon helped back up the platform, with just seconds to spare before the train comes into the station.
While waiting for medical help, another responding officer was able to help the victim using his prior medical training. The man was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
NYPD Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell tweeted a video of the rescue on Friday, describing the responding officers’ actions as heroic.
“For the officers who rescued a man from an oncoming train after he accidentally fell on the subway tracks yesterday in Manhattan — courage is second nature. Join me in saluting these great cops,” the commissioner wrote.
MTA Chairman Janno Lieber also issued a statement praising the officers and the good Samaritan as well as state and city officials.
“The joint commitment by [Gov. Kathy Hochul] and [Mayor Eric Adams] to have additional NYPD officers patrol in subway stations and on trains not only helps riders feel safer, but in this case, enabled brave officers and a good Samaritan — in the finest tradition of New Yorkers helping each other — to save a life,” Lieber said. | https://www.ksn.com/news/watch-nypd-good-samaritan-save-man-who-fell-on-subway-tracks-moments-before-train-approaches/ | 2022-11-26 20:17:57 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/watch-nypd-good-samaritan-save-man-who-fell-on-subway-tracks-moments-before-train-approaches/ |
- Premier League champions climb to number one position in Brand Finance Football 50 2023 Report
MANCHESTER, England, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Manchester City has been named the most valuable football club brand in the world. The Club has topped the Brand Finance Football 50 2023 Report for the first time.
The report details a 34% positive growth in City's brand value since the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Premier League champions overtaking Real Madrid for the top position. This is the first time an English club has held the number one spot in six years.
A decade of dominance on the pitch and the highest revenue of any of club in the report were outlined as key drivers for City's rise in the rankings.
This comes at the climax of a remarkable season for Manchester City both on and off the pitch. On Saturday, City lifted the FA Cup to complete a domestic double after winning a third successive Premier League last month. The Club will be looking to add more silverware to this historic season as it competes in the UEFA Champions League Final this weekend.
This season the Club has also topped the Deloitte Money League for the second successive year after announcing a record revenue of £613 million and profits of £41.7 million, the latter being more than double the previous Club record. It has also been a strong year for City's commercial portfolio with a number of new partners and long-term renewals announced across the season. City's retail operation has also continued to break records with incredible demand for the 2022/23 season kits and the most recent kit launch seeing a new shirt sold every 12 seconds on the first day of sales.
The popularity of the Club is also reflected in its huge growth and engagement levels across social media, most notably with City being the most popular European club on YouTube for active users and video views this season.
Looking to the future, Manchester City has submitted a planning application to Manchester City Council for the development of a best-in-class fan experience and year-round entertainment and leisure destination at the Etihad Stadium. This project would add a further £300m to City Football Group's investment and regeneration work in East Manchester.
Roel de Vries, Chief Operating Officer at City Football Group, said: "Being recognised as the world's most valuable football club brand reflects the phenomenal growth story that Manchester City has had in recent years. This achievement recognises the evolution of not just the brand, but the Club as a whole. The Club has been performing consistently and has broken records on and off the pitch this season, whilst operating in a way that promotes financial sustainability.
"As we look to the future, we want to keep investing in the right things – our football talent, the city of Manchester and our local community, infrastructure and fan experience. We have a proven track record of innovation and are excited for the next chapter in this Club's great history."
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If you’ve been considering adding a toaster oven to your kitchen appliances, Amazon is currently offering a discount on this adorable retro-looking Galanz 6-slice toaster oven.
Normally priced at $89.99 but currently $82.76 in blue or $81.55 in red, the toaster oven has eight settings: bake, toast, roast, broil, pizza, dehydrate, keep warm and convection. It fits six slices of toast or a 12-inch pizza. You can also use it with other items, like a mini muffin tray.
With a temperature range of between 200-450 degrees Fahrenheit, it has time settings for 15-90 minutes so you can decide how long and at what temperature to cook your food. The door is glass and it includes a light so you can easily see your food as it’s cooking.
Galanz sent me their toaster oven to test out, and I decided to use it three different ways to see how it really worked.
I first used the bake setting to make muffins. My first round of muffins did not heat evenly, as you can see in the photo below. The ones closer to the back were done first and the ones in the front cooked last. That meant that the ones in the back got slightly burned.
While I can’t say for sure that it’s not a problem with the toaster oven itself, I did not have the tray directly in the center and there was more space in the front than the back. On my second round, I made sure it was more centered. It still cooked a bit more in the back than the front, but none were burned and each one was cooked all the way through.
Next up, I used the dehydrate function on sliced strawberries. It took two 90-minute cycles to fully dehydrate most of the fruit, but I had a few issues. Again, they didn’t dehydrate evenly. I believe that is likely my mistake because I did not cut them to be just one size and the larger ones needed more time.
So, if using that feature, I would recommend trying your best to get the food pieces to a uniform size. I did not run into an issue with the ones in the back dehydrating more than the ones in the front, however.
I then used the pizza setting to cook a 12-inch pizza. Of the three things I tested in the toaster oven, I think this one turned out the best. The pizza came out perfectly and evenly cooked. I actually think my pizza turned out better in the toaster oven than in my full-sized oven and will likely be using it from now on — unless, of course, I have a larger pizza.
I found the toaster oven to be incredibly convenient, especially for the pizza, and loved the fact that it didn’t make my house warm like my full-size oven. Out of curiosity, I also paid attention to my air quality monitor to see if it changed the air as much as my gas oven and was happy to see that it did not.
While the monitor typically registers 30 or more volatile organic compounds from my oven when it’s in use, it only detected seven from the toaster oven. Most people won’t really notice a difference in their air from that small amount. But if you have asthma or are sensitive to VOCs, it’s an added benefit.
For just $90 (or less if you catch it on sale), the toaster oven is not only adorable for those that like the retro style, but a worthy investment for small kitchens, apartments or anytime you simply don’t feel like using your full-size oven. With so many different settings, it can come in pretty handy for a variety of uses.
On Amazon, this product has a 4.5 out of 5-star rating from more than 1,200 customers. They say it is a good value that’s easy to clean and use.
Of course, there are plenty of other toaster ovens on Amazon as well, like this one from Black & Decker now priced at $47.99. The toaster oven has four functions — baking, broiling, toasting and keeping food warm — and nearly 18,000 5-star reviews (plus a 4.5-star overall rating from more than 26,200 users). Reviewers say the toaster oven is easy to use and easy to clean and doesn’t take up much counter space.
For something even more versatile, there’s also this Hamilton Beach toaster oven priced at $69.99 that doubles as an air fryer. The Hamilton Beach Sure-Crisp Air Fryer Countertop Toaster Oven fits a 9-inch pizza, four slices of toast or three pounds of chicken. It also includes an air-fry basket, bake pan and air fryer rack.
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UPS driver collapsed making delivery in scorching heat
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (CNN) – A Ring doorbell camera caught a UPS driver in distress in Scottsdale, Arizona during 108-degree temperatures.
Brian Enriquez said he was concerned after watching video of a delivery man collapsing at his door while delivering an envelope.
You can see the driver have difficulty walking up to the door, setting down the package and then falling to the ground.
After sitting motionlessly for about ten seconds, he falls onto his back then sits back up, rings the doorbell and slowly walks away.
Enriquez said he couldn’t get to the door in time and the delivery man was gone by the time he saw the video.
He did call the police non-emergency line and tried to contact UPS in case the man needed assistance.
UPS said the driver was OK and contacted his supervisor for assistance after leaving Enriquez’s property.
The company said that while frequent stops make air conditioning ineffective in their trucks, their drivers are trained in how to deal with high temperatures.
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Allies of former President Trump ridiculed Ron DeSantis on the eve of his 2024 presidential campaign launch, bashing the Florida governor for making his expected announcement on Twitter and mocking his campaign rollout.
“This is one of the most out-of-touch campaign launches in modern history. The only thing less relatable than a niche campaign launch on Twitter, is DeSantis’ after party at the uber elite Four Seasons resort in Miami,” Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for the Trump-aligned Make America Great Again Inc., said in a statement.
“Every day more and more Americans are realizing just how out of step Ron DeSantis is with their values and how unelectable he really is,” Leavitt added.
Trump campaign aides also piled on after it was widely reported that DeSantis planned to formally enter the 2024 race during a Wednesday night conversation on Twitter Spaces with the company’s CEO, Elon Musk.
Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign’s spokesperson, shared a screenshot of the announcement of DeSantis’s plans, which incorrectly listed the date for the event as March 24 instead of May 24.
“Amateur hour at the gator farm,” Cheung tweeted.
Cheung and another Trump campaign aide, Chris LaCavita, also swiped at DeSantis’s new website, which as of Tuesday afternoon featured only an image of a gator poking its eyes out of the water.
Cheung shared a picture of alligator skin boots, likely a nod to a viral image last year of DeSantis wearing boots with a heel, while LaCivita shared a photo of a gator being strung up by its tail.
Just before reports of DeSantis’s launch surfaced, LaCivita mocked DeSantis’s list of accomplishments by quote-tweeting a DeSantis-backer with the line: “his biggest accomplishment … is generating more candidates!”
The jabs from Trump’s team are likely a preview of things to come as DeSantis, who is widely viewed as the former president’s most formidable rival in a GOP primary, officially enters the race after months of speculation.
A RealClearPolitics average of polls shows Trump leading among GOP primary voters with 56 percent of the vote, with DeSantis running in second at 19 percent.
DeSantis’s team has for weeks argued that the barrage of attacks from Trump’s orbit only illustrates that the former president views the Florida governor as his stiffest competition.
“If Republicans want to get this country back on track economically, socially, the ability for tomorrow to be a better day, they’re not gonna get that by putting up the same fight we lost in 2020,” Erin Perrine, a spokesperson for the pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down. “It means a new direction, and that is showing that Ron DeSantis, this is a two man race, he’s the person to back in this race.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/hill-politics/trump-aides-mock-desantis-for-out-of-touch-campaign-launch-plans/ | 2023-05-23 21:44:39 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/hill-politics/trump-aides-mock-desantis-for-out-of-touch-campaign-launch-plans/ |
DILLSBURG, Pa. — A string of motorbike thefts have been reported to police departments across Central Pennsylvania.
The bikes are being stolen after being put on sale on Facebook Marketplace.
“We live in a very safe environment here in Dillsburg. This kind of stuff doesn’t happen," said Cameron Mertz.
He is still stunned a week after his motorbike was stolen from his garage.
The former Marine put his two-month old bike for sale on Facebook Marketplace, after injuring himself while racing. Less than 12 hours later, the bike was taken in the middle of the night.
“I opened up my garage to grab a few pieces of gear that I sold online and was supposed to ship out to someone, and the dirtbike was missing," recalled Mertz.
The incident was captured on Cameron’s security camera. The video shows two men breaking into the garage and walking away with the bike in a little under two minutes.
“I’m really, I wouldn’t say impressed, but just shocked with how fast it all happened and how comfortable their body language was in that scenario," said Mertz.
Mertz's story, however, isn’t an anomaly.
Numerous residents throughout Central Pa. have reported similar thefts under similar conditions.
“It just upsets you every time you see another post like yours and it makes you want to do something," said Ryan. "But there’s not much we can do though.”
Many of the stolen motorbikes have been taken across state lines, and into Baltimore. Some thieves are even posting the stolen bikes on social media.
“I was so upset because I work two jobs and I built my bike from the ground up and put a lot of money into it," said Marie. "And it was sad to see my bike was in someone else’s hands for free.”
Community members are urging people not to post pictures of their bikes to Facebook and are hoping the thieves will be held responsible for the crimes.
“We got to figure out a way to police this better to try and deny the criminals the advantage they have right now," said Mertz. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/numerous-motorbike-thefts-reported-across-central-pa-york-county/521-0a24d585-4bfc-480a-8b76-6d354fc84ccc | 2022-07-31 15:40:29 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/numerous-motorbike-thefts-reported-across-central-pa-york-county/521-0a24d585-4bfc-480a-8b76-6d354fc84ccc |
BRUSHY PRAIRIE — Friday, 20 Eastside FFA members poured their hearts into 19 different contests ranging from demonstrations and speeches to talent, scrapbooking and the exhibit.
This year’s contests were held at Prairie Heights High School. “We are incredibly proud of all those members who competed and the growth they showed over the last two months as they prepared for contests,” Eastside FFA adviser Lauren Jacobs said.
Results of that evening are as follows:
Chapter ranking: 5th of 17 schools
Persuasive Essay: 1st place, Hailey Mack
Exhibit: 2nd place, Elijah Hankey, Jonathan Prosser and Osric Wolfe.
Horticulture Demonstration: 2nd place, Addison Jehl and Stella Dickerhoff.
Traditional Scrapbook: 2nd place. Grace Kreischer, Paige Kreischer, Emma Brown, Sydnee Kessler, Lily Kreischer, Kiersten Haynes and Avery Wilson.
Discovery Creed Speaking: 2nd place, Adalyn Rose.
Discovery Quiz Bowl: 2nd place, Olivia Lehrman, Nolan Davis, Keaton Brown and Aiden Jehl.
Animal Science Demonstration: 3rd place, Emma Brown.
Multimedia Scrapbook: 3rd place, Addison Jehl.
Discovery Food Science: 3rd place, Caleb and Josiah Perkins.
Plant and Soil Science Demonstration: 4th place, Jonathan Prosser.
Talent: 4th place, Hailey Mack.
Discovery Animal Science Demonstration: 4th place, Josiah Perkins.
Freshman Creed: Kileen Shaffer.
Employability Skills: Jonathan Prosser.
Extemporaneous Public Speaking: Osric Wolfe.
Food Science Demonstration: Kileen Shaffer and Addisyn Shull.
Natural Resources Demonstration: Aiden Jehl and Kain Carter.
Prepared Public Speaking: Osric Wolfe.
Quiz Bowl: Sydnee Kessler, Paige Kreischer and Kileen Shaffer. | https://www.kpcnews.com/butlerbulletin/article_1eedf334-ef6a-5dd2-8770-5b04c5d388d2.html | 2023-03-22 04:23:08 | 1 | https://www.kpcnews.com/butlerbulletin/article_1eedf334-ef6a-5dd2-8770-5b04c5d388d2.html |
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — One of the jurors in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial served improperly, an attorney for Heard alleged in a recent filing that asked the court to declare a mistrial and order a new trial.
“Newly discovered facts” show Juror No. 15 in the six-week trial was not the individual summoned in April to serve in the case, Heard’s attorney wrote in a five-page memo filed Friday in Virginia’s Fairfax Circuit Court.
Instead, the filing suggests Juror No. 15 was a younger individual with the same last name who “apparently” lives at the same address.
“As the Court no doubt agrees, it is deeply troubling for an individual not summoned for jury duty nonetheless to appear for jury duty and serve on a jury, especially in a case such as this,” the filing said.
Depp sued his ex-wife over a December 2018 op-ed Heard wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” Much of the testimony focused on whether Heard had been physically and sexually abused, as she claimed. Depp said he never hit Heard and that she was the abuser.
After a televised trial that turned into a spectacle, the jury found in Depp’s favor on all three of his claims relating to specific statements in the 2018 piece.
The jury decided Depp should receive $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, but the judge reduced the punitive damages award to $350,000 under a state cap.
Heard has previously said she plans to appeal the verdict.
News of Friday’s filing was first reported by Deadline, which posted the document online.
The memo expanded upon earlier post-trial motions filed by Heard’s legal team that asked the judge to throw out the verdict against her. Those motions had raised the possibility that one of the jurors may not have been properly vetted by the court.
The latest filing said a “jury panel list” in the case included a person who would have been 77 at the time of the trial. Voter registration information lists two individuals with the same last name “apparently” residing at the same address, said the filing, in which the names were redacted.
“The individual who appeared for jury duty with this name was obviously the younger one. Thus, the 52-year-old … sitting on the jury for six weeks was never summoned for jury duty on April 11,” violating Heard’s due process rights, the filing said.
The Associated Press sent emails seeking comment Sunday to a representative for Depp and two of his attorneys. | https://pix11.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/heard-attorneys-say-juror-served-improperly-seek-mistrial/ | 2022-07-11 20:55:17 | 0 | https://pix11.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/heard-attorneys-say-juror-served-improperly-seek-mistrial/ |
"I usually write," Élise Jetté laughs. "It's hard to speak about a very emotional subject like this one."
The freelance music journalist had always been a fan of Arcade Fire. More than just one of her favorite bands, Arcade Fire defined her career. The band that made her a music journalist. As a young student at Université de Sherbrooke, she had gone to three shows, back-to-back, before the release of The Suburbs, the band's Grammy-winning record.
"Being at their show at the time had the same energy as being at church in front of a priest," Jetté says. "We were all there, in front of them, glorifying them. They were... I don't want to say gods... but they were so highly respected and loved!"
Since forming in 2001, Arcade Fire had been one of the brightest gems in Montréal's musical crown. Led by Win Butler, an American who grew up in Texas, and Régine Chassagne, a Francophone Québécoise with Haitian roots, the band symbolizes the reality for many Montréalais and Montréalaises: Living in a city that mixes French and English in every aspect of its being. A city where people come to find themselves through cold winters and hot summers, through language barriers that are erased in gatherings. Living in a city that prides itself on its cultural scene and mostly its music, whether it is produced in French or English. For the last two decades, Arcade Fire has been the most visible export of that scene.
But since the end of August, the Montréal music scene has had to reckon with sexual abuse allegations against Butler. To quote Pitchfork's shocking investigative piece, three women alleged "sexual interactions with Butler that they came to feel were inappropriate given the gaps in age, power dynamics, and context in which they occurred." The story also alleged that Butler sexually assaulted a fourth person, who is gender-fluid, "twice in 2015, when they were 21 and he was 34."
In a response, communicated through New York-based crisis public relations expert Risa Heller, Butler acknowledged the sexual interactions, but claimed they were consensual:
"While these relationships were all consensual, I am very sorry to anyone who I have hurt with my behavior," Butler wrote. "As I look to the future, I am continuing to learn from my mistakes and working hard to become a better person, someone my son can be proud of. [...] I'm sorry I wasn't more aware and tuned in to the effect I have on people — I f***** up, and while not an excuse, I will continue to look forward and heal what can be healed, and learn from past experiences."
In November, a fifth woman came forward to allege an "ongoing abusive relationship."
While many outlets reported the news right away and had extensive coverage in the days following, the reaction in Canada seemed delayed. This wasn't the first time someone from the Canadian music scene had been accused of sexual harassment and probably wouldn't be the last. However, this situation felt especially dire. Butler is a star who both enabled and troubled the growth of a scene that has been recognized globally for its creative talent. He represented something more than just a beloved hometown artist — he's an international star who helped earn the Montréal scene a global reputation.
Jetté's story could be the story of many other people living in Montréal. Everybody who lives in the city has a story about the band. But since the allegations came to light, Arcade Fire has become a synonym for something darker, something even the people evolving around them couldn't see coming. This time around, the question lingered: How and why did this happen?
In Québec, 'we glorify them.'
Olivier Lalande is no stranger to the Montréal music scene. Before working as an online content editor, he was a music journalist and one of the first to interview Arcade Fire before its big break.
"Around this time, in 2003, there was already a cult around them in the underground scene," Lalande says. "I was a freelance music journalist in charge of the music section of Nightlife and I used to spend time on a forum called Montréal Shows. This forum is where it all started. Every time Arcade Fire would perform, people would go nuts. I was curious."
After the release of its first album, Funeral, in 2004, the band quickly gained attention from mainstream media across the world. The following year, David Carr, one of the most prominent pop culture columnists in the United States, profiled Montréal for his New York Times column. Carr described the city as the breeding ground for a creative, out-of-the-ordinary music scene: "Being the biggest destination [for music] in a region almost guarantees an influx of musically inclined, disaffected young people to both play in and listen to bands. Bad weather helps, because it keeps songwriters inside and bands rehearsing. And perhaps most importantly, a nascent musical scene requires lots of cheap real estate for musicians and their fans to hang out and play in."
Carr's article, for the most part, existed because of Arcade Fire's newfound glory on the international scene. In the nearly two decades since, the band's released six albums total, performed on Saturday Night Live five times and toured internationally. In 2011, The Suburbs won the Polaris Music Prize as well as album of the year for both the Juno Awards and the 53rd Grammy Awards.
"When you'd walk around Montréal and saw members of Arcade Fire on the street, you would feel extremely special," Jetté says. "You know, we [Québécois and Québécoise people] have this connection with our artists. There's cultural belonging. As soon as someone who comes from our home shines abroad, we go crazy. We've done it with Céline Dion, and we've done it with Xavier Dolan. We've done it with many artists. Our Québec TV series are translated into many languages. A lot of Québec culture is found elsewhere because it is distinct from Canada. It has a color; it has a particular flavor. When we succeed globally, it makes us exponentially proud, here in Québec."
Jetté's words are echoed by Lalande, who confirms the godlike state of artists in the French-speaking province. Lalande mentions how albums are announced in the province: Instead of a sortir ("release"), artists offrir ("offering"), as if they were gifting us their talent rather than releasing their work.
"Look at any variety show in Québec," Lalande explains. "Every time there's a popular artist who's a guest, it feels like ... Christ has come back to deliver us from our sins. I know I'm exaggerating, but there's a lot of this. We glorify them."
The heavy, religious lingo is no mistake: French-Canadian Catholic history looms large in Québec, but that language has, over time, come to describe cultural products, too. This underlines a bigger issue: the systematic glorification of artists and their perceived infallible behavior through the eyes of fans, making it easier for them to be abusive toward those who love them unconditionally.
A culture of silence lets abusers run free.
Maryse Bernard, known as Maryze, a young up-and-coming artist from the Montréal scene, explains how disappointing the allegations were when she read the news: "It's disheartening, especially for people who saw Arcade Fire as a very fun-loving, positive community. Because then it's, like, 'Oh, even the good ones here have stories that come out.' So you wonder kind of like, who in the scene can you trust?"
In Montréal, artists help and mentor each other in order to export their talents outside of the city.
"Montréal was always this kind of cultural mecca of Canada," Bernard says. "I think there has been this kind of myth of Montréal, especially in the heyday of Arcade Fire, of that scene that was very artsy and free and welcoming and, you know, open to all people. A city where you could be yourself no matter how freaky your art was. It was a place to explore creativity."
It's just this weird unwritten rule that [abuse] is just gonna happen, that you'll have to deal with this if you want to get in.
To most of the people who spoke for this article, the accusations against Win Butler came as a surprise. The band was known for taking a stand on social issues, most notably by supporting initiatives in Haiti. Régine Chassagne, the band's lead singer and Butler's wife, co-founded KANPE, an organization that brings help to underserved rural communities in Haiti.
"They were very much involved in the Montréal community," adds Bernard. "They were the kind of artists that, you know, smaller artists would hang out with. And in some ways, that's great if they could offer forms of mentorship, because many young artists need help and be reassured that they don't need to jump through all these hoops to be in this industry. You can do what feels good for you. But it's when big artists [like Arcade Fire] take that [relationship] to their advantage that these things [like abuse] are happening."
Bernard says a culture of silence exists in the Canadian scene, where abused people decide to stay silent to preserve their careers. As if there is a general understanding that these things will happen in someone's career.
"It's just this weird unwritten rule that [abuse] is just gonna happen, that you'll have to deal with this if you want to get in," Bernard says. "You're going to have to deal with a certain amount of it. Some people will treat you badly, especially if you're starting out and you don't want to rock the boat."
Bernard mentions that artists have been talking more and denouncing sexual abuse in the music scene more, but there's still a level of fear that careers will be tarnished or that they won't be taken seriously. This silence lets abusers roam free in the scene without apparent consequences.
"We see them at a panel or a festival, and they're just like hanging around. I'm like, 'How many people is this making uncomfortable? How many people know that this is a bad person that we should be careful around? And that shouldn't really have access to the community anymore? And they're still just here, like nothing?' " Bernard notes.
Courageous and resilient, Bernard isn't a stranger to all of this. She herself has suffered abuse in the industry by someone she's not yet willing to name. "I'm still afraid to call out my abusers within the music industry, you know, and for what? I do feel that I'm in a position where I would be believed and that I would be taken seriously, but I'm still scared of the repercussions. I even hear myself, you know, like metering my words and calculating some responses because I don't want to, like, I don't want to put myself in an unsafe position."
'With Arcade Fire, it was like questioning something that was bigger than us.'
When the Pitchfork story was published on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022 — coincidentally, at the start of election season in Québec — Canadian media took the weekend to report the news. La Presse, a major Québécois news source, released a short report on the allegations that evening and the CBC ran a story the next day on TV. After Pitchfork's follow-up featuring a fifth allegation, only one major Canadian media outlet (TVA and Journal de Montréal through QMI Press Agency, all three entities owned by Québécor, a media conglomerate) featured the story in French. With scant coverage on the allegations, consequences were practically nonexistent, which only adds to the culture of silence in the music industry.
"We saw the CBC fail to have an online-accessible story about Butler until, like, a day or two after the investigation broke," explains Toronto-based pop culture critic Jill Krajewski. "Our national broadcaster didn't run a TV story [until Sunday night], and the fact that the [La Presse] story broke at 9 p.m. on a Saturday evening in the Québec market makes it not accessible for everyone."
Finally, I decided that Arcade Fire wasn't worthy of my admiration anymore.
Québécois people are protective of their unique cultural exports. Lalande explains how this cultural pride has an impact on journalism, mostly on reporting cultural affairs.
"A culture journalist, reporter or columnist cannot bring up a public figure's dark side in just any circumstance," says Lalande. "First, most media wouldn't even consider that to be their job. Second, fact-checking takes a certain editorial structure that I don't think most outlets have. It's hard news, it is the job of an investigative journalist, not an arts one. It is not seen as their role."
While this statement brings up the difficulty of reporting on allegations of abuse in the music industry, it also shows the lack of weight these stories pull in major media. But for Élise Jetté, the reason for the lack of coverage might have stemmed from something else — a sort of mourning process.
"Yes, it took time for everyone to react," Jetté says. "We all needed to absorb the shocking news. As much for the real fans as the local media. We had to take a minute, sit down and digest it to be able to comment on it."
Jetté remembers another moment in Québec's music history: the #MeToo allegations of summer 2020. A prominent Québécois label, Dare to Care Records, was thrown into disarray after sexual abuse allegations against one of its artists, Bernard Adamus, were brought to light. The head of the label, Eli Bissonnette, resigned after being accused of protecting Adamus for the past 10 years, knowing that the artist had behaved in problematic ways toward his fans. But they weren't the only ones. More than a dozen people from the music industry were outed, including David Desrosiers, who left Simple Plan as a result.
While public response to these allegations was swift, those against Butler raised an existential question.
"With Arcade Fire, it was like questioning something that was bigger than us," Jetté, who writes for several Montréal-based outlets, says. "It was as if you were asking everyone to kill their darlings. We started questioning: How did this happen? Why did we not see anything? It makes me question my professional roots and my personal attachment to music."
When news broke, the young journalist took a step back to evaluate what was happening and how she felt about the story. She mentions always believing victims, whether they seem trustworthy or not; believing them and offering them support, rather than questioning them. Her feminist beliefs are greater than her love for Arcade Fire. As much as she loved the music, she came to a painful realization.
"Finally, I decided that Arcade Fire wasn't worthy of my admiration anymore."
The only way to change the industry is through education and safe spaces.
"What upset me so much is when I read the article, I was like 'Oh, [Win Butler] used the Pop vs. Jocks event to prey on this young woman who was barely 18 or whatever. You know, that was kind of f***** up!"
Daniel Seligman's voice is thick with anger and disappointment. The Creative Director of POP Montréal, a massive annual not-for-profit cultural event that showcases emerging and independent talent from Montréal and across the world, felt betrayed. Not only was 2016 the last year of POP Montréal working with Arcade Fire for Pop vs. Jocks, a friendly charity basketball game between indie artists from major bands, but the whole experience left a bad taste in his mouth. According to the Pitchfork investigation, Stella (a pseudonym), one of Butler's alleged victims, was contacted by the singer after taking pictures at the event.
"[Butler] had a pattern," says Seligman. "He took advantage of them and the festival! For me, that was s*****, because we were trying to raise money for a local charity. That was actually the last time we worked with the band. That whole experience was actually kind of hard. We were working really hard and we kind of felt slightly taken advantage of. He wasn't very nice to work with; he was slightly abusive. And then after reading that article, I was taken aback."
For Seligman, the only way to change the industry is through education and creating safe spaces in which people will not be subjected to inappropriate behaviors.
"I think it's important just to have an outward display of policies that are slightly symbolic. It shows the people participating [in your events] that the organization is trying to do something that keeps us safer. I think that it is important to have your policies up on your website, making sure you are listening to people, fans and other artists who have issues."
Jill Krajewski and Maryse Bernard also mention that whisper networks — that is, networks of people sharing information about sexual abusers — have emerged across the country. Olivier Lalande remembers a much different climate in the aughts. Rumors of questionable behavior were common, but didn't raise eyebrows. Some artists were even upfront about it.
"Without being aware of the abuse," Lalande says, "I remember being at parties, hearing artists making nasty jokes about the girls they slept with on tour, while they were actually in relationships with people I knew. [...] You'd want to question their behavior, but the answer was always the same: 'He is an artist. We can't really understand what he is going through...' I noticed this a lot."
But for Bernard, another aspect of the Pitchfork article that got her attention was the young age of the victims. Something she can relate to from her own experience in her late teens and early 20s with older people in the Canadian scene.
"A lot of these experiences happen to younger people who haven't had enough life experiences," says Bernard. "It's not like they don't know that certain things aren't okay, but they haven't learned, yet, some behaviors are actually bad and need to be called out. If people are telling you this is just how it is, you're more inclined to believe them. When you're younger, it's easier to take advantage of younger, bright-eyed artists [or fans]."
But even as members of the industry want change, an invisible force remains.
Stories of abuse in the music industry prompted Sarah Armiento to start Hot Tramp Records, a women-only label, in response to the inappropriate behavior she experienced in the music industry.
"When I was in Toronto, I got unsolicited pictures from men, people I worked with, and other types of experiences," says Armiento. "This is what made me want to start a company like Hot Tramp. When I read things like this happening, it makes me remember why I started my label."
Armiento completely understands why women would want to work exclusively with other women in the music industry, who can understand and support each other. She tries to make them feel safe within her label and their work. And she isn't the only one. After Dare to Care's turmoil, Béatrice Martin (aka Cœur de pirate), one of the label's major successes, purchased and renamed the label Bravo Musique, vowing to change things in the industry. In an interview for Exclaim.ca, she said, "A lot of stuff was swept under the rug or nobody did anything about it. I want people to come to me and say, 'This is happening,' and I want to be able to do something about it. It's about respect and decency. Our work extends everywhere: It extends to how we behave like artists and elsewhere. It wasn't clear to everyone where work started and ended, and now it's clearer. So that's good. Boundaries are important."
But, even as members of the industry want to move forward and change, it seems like an invisible force keeps on bringing controversies of its own. Arcade Fire continued its North American tour, though Feist and Beck dropped off as openers. On Sept. 19, 2022 — just three weeks after the first wave of accusations against Butler — Montréal artist Pierre Kwenders, ended his acceptance speech for the Polaris Music Prize by thanking Butler and Arcade Fire for their contribution to his album. Although one radio host at Radio-Canada asked Kwenders about the speech and some other actors in the industry mentioned the incident in tweets, the moment went practically unnoticed.
"That already tells you the problem with Canada's music industry having a culture of silence," Jill Krajewski says. "People made a deliberate choice not to call it out. [...] Why did [Pierre Kwenders] bring up someone accused of sexual assault in a widespread investigation? Were they genuinely thankful for their contribution to their album? That's one thing. But the information [about Arcade Fire and Win Butler] has changed. And it wasn't appropriate to be praising someone accused of sexual assault, certainly not on the platform of Polaris being streamed live on CBC Music, a public-funded media. That was very distasteful."
"If this happened three weeks after the allegations, how can the Canadian fans expect the scene to go forward and change?" Élise Jetté adds. She wonders if artists aren't able to learn from the mistakes of others because they feel protected by the industry. "They aren't afraid of losing their career. I'm vigilant about what is happening in the industry. But they have to get scared of losing something! We need to scare them. They need to be scared of getting caught."
However, acclaim has continued unabated. WE, Arcade Fire's most recent album, was nominated for best alternative music album by the Grammys. The band finished the North American leg of its tour in Montréal to a sold-out crowd. On Jan. 31, the Juno Awards, presented by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, announced Arcade Fire's nomination for group of the year. When the CBC asked for comment about the nomination, CARAS responded: "We look at Arcade Fire's nomination for group of the year as one for the entire band. While we take the allegations very seriously, in this situation, we are also honoring the rest of the band for their success. We hope the allegations against Butler will not detract from the achievements of the other group members."
As awards mount and repercussions do not, Montréal and the Canadian music scene at large are left with one question: Without any real consequences, will these situations keep recurring?
"It's a question I keep asking myself," ends Olivier Lalande.
Yara El-Soueidi is a millennial writer, culture journalist and columnist based in Montréal, Canada, where she covers the local cultural scene for Canadian and American media.
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1 killed when business jet encounters severe turbulence
WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) — A business jet was buffeted by severe turbulence over New England, causing a rare passenger death and forcing the aircraft to divert to Bradley International Airport in Connecticut, officials said Saturday.
Five people were aboard the Bombardier executive jet that was shaken by turbulence late Friday afternoon while traveling from Keene, New Hampshire, to Leesburg, Virginia, said Sarah Sulick, a spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board.
The extent of the damage to the aircraft was unclear and the NTSB did not provide details including whether the victim was wearing a seatbelt.
The jet is owned by Conexon, a company based in Kansas City, Missouri, according to a Federal Aviation Administration database. The company, which brings high-speed internet to rural communities, declined comment Saturday.
NTSB investigators were interviewing the two crew members and surviving passengers as part of a probe into the deadly encounter with turbulence, Sulick said. The jet’s cockpit voice and data recorders were sent to NTSB headquarters for analysis, she said.
Turbulence, which is unstable air in the atmosphere, remains a cause for injury for airline passengers despite airline safety improvements over the years.
Earlier this week, seven people were hurt badly enough to be transported to hospitals after a Lufthansa Airbus A330 experienced turbulence while flying from Texas to Germany. The plane was diverted to Virginia’s Washington Dulles International Airport.
But deaths are extremely rare.
“I can’t remember the last fatality due to turbulence,” said Robert Sumwalt, a former NTSB chair and executive director of the Center for Aviation and Aerospace Safety at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Turbulence accounted for more than a third of accidents on larger commercial airlines between 2009 and 2018, according to the NTSB.
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Launching immediately, two successful youth soccer clubs will join forces to become Empire Surf Soccer Club, bringing elite programming and expanded opportunities to the Temecula Valley.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In the world of youth sports, the Surf brand is renowned for professionalism, elite event management, high-quality coaching, and, most importantly, a deep commitment to player development, resulting in hundreds of all-American athletes and thousands of scholarships. Our mission is to create experiences and opportunities for kids, and we're excited to announce our next step toward achieving this goal in Southern California.
Today, Surf Cup Sports is proud to announce a new partnership in the Temecula Valley, launching with over 50 teams that will alter the youth soccer landscape in the Temecula Valley in a positive way. With great leadership and an experienced coaching staff, this group will come together as one club under the Surf banner and partner with Surf Nation to create unmatched player pathways, coaching development, and club operations.
Empire Surf players and families will have access to the elite training fields of Galway Downs, the Surf Select player pathway, and will benefit from all aspects of the Surf Nation family. Empire Surf will be THE premier youth soccer organization throughout the Temecula and Murrieta communities. We will provide everything our players need to achieve their athletic dreams and ambitions.
"We are honored and excited to open a new chapter for the Temecula Valley by partnering with Surf Soccer Club. Riverside County has the talent and grit to deliver perennial National Champions, and we are tasked with bringing the Best of the Best coaches together, united under one flag with a singular focus to give youth soccer players in the Temecula Valley the opportunities and programming they fully deserve," said Mark Connelly, Empire Surf Soccer Club Regional Director. "There is no doubt this partnership will unite the valley and change the trajectory of players' careers, whether that be in college or professional ranks. We have the experience, expertise, and vision to give the Valley a soccer club that is the Best of the Best."
"If you look at demographics in Southern California, families are moving east, and there are a lot of kids to support. Right now, those kids don't have the same opportunities and pathways as those in other areas, and we want to fix that," said Brian Enge, CEO of Surf Cup Sports.
The top players from Empire Surf will have direct access to Surf Select, an unprecedented identification program built through Surf Nation. This program offers selected players the opportunity to compete in the best international and domestic events, picking from a player pool that expands from Puerto Rico to Rhode Island to Hawaii and Canada.
For over 46 years, Surf has been one of the founding organizations in youth soccer. With over $12 Million in charitable donations, 17 national championships, and countless professional, collegiate, and youth national team players, we are forever striving to be the "Best of the Best." Empire Surf joins our 47 Surf National Affiliates to comprise what we're proud to call Surf Nation.
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President Biden is speaking Monday morning about the banking crisis that prompted federal regulators to take extraordinary actions to close two banks and guarantee all deposits there.
"I will deliver remarks on how we will maintain a resilient banking system to protect our historic economic recovery," Biden said, as the U.S. financial system absorbed the second-largest bank failure in its history, in Silicon Valley Bank.
Biden's brief remarks from the White House began at 9 a.m. ET, just 30 minutes before the New York stock market opens.
His speech comes as regulators strive to shore up confidence in the banking system and prevent runs like the one that triggered the stunning collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. Over and over in recent days, officials and experts have used the word "contagion" to describe the danger of turmoil spreading to more institutions.
In a bid to contain the crisis, the Biden administration announced on Sunday that customers of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank would have full access to their deposits, even if their account totals were above the maximum $250,000 covered by federal insurance.
The crisis poses both economic and political risks, as the Biden administration balances the twin goals of dampening ripple effects from the banks' failures while avoiding the political spectacle of giving a full bailout to Silicon Valley Bank, which caters to tech firms and venture capitalists.
The president said on Sunday that he directed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard to coordinate regulators' responses to the banking crisis. The solution they reached, he said, "protects workers, small businesses, taxpayers and our financial system."
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(NEXSTAR) – Actor and WWE wrestler Kevin Nash has opened up about the death of his son Tristen, who passed away last week at the age of 26.
Tristen, who had been working on his father’s podcast in recent months, died of cardiac arrest after suffering a seizure brought on by alcohol withdrawal, according to Nash.
“The seizure caused a cardiac arrest,” Nash said on the latest episode of his “Kliq THIS” podcast. “He was basically dead in his room on the floor with EMT working on him. And, they got him back, and got him in the ambulance, and tried to save his life. And, so, to the people at Halifax Hospital — doctors and nurses — I thank you.”
Nash said he and his son had recently decided to quit drinking cold-turkey after “a couple of incidents,” including one in which Tristen was drinking beers during the podcast a few weeks back.
“I got pissed at him … because he had had this situation, at the beginning of the year, where he was hospitalized for almost 60 days,” Nash said.
Nash said both he and Tristen agreed to cut out alcohol, and soon found themselves feeling “not great” during withdrawal. Nash also noted that alcohol withdrawal can increase the chance of seizures, a severe symptom called “the most dramatic and dangerous component of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome” in a study published with the National Institutes of Health.
Nash added that he had already lost two friends to alcoholism, “and now it’s taken my son.”
“He is the sweetest, kindest, gentlest human being on Earth,” Nash said of Tristen at one point, speaking of him in the present tense.
Tristen, who died Wednesday, had been working as a podcast technician on “Kliq THIS.” He also played in a grunge band called The Builders, according to his Instagram account.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Johnny Rutherford and Gordon Johncock delivered spectacular results at the 1973 Indianapolis 500 that were overshadowed by perhaps the worst month in the history of the storied race.
Art Pollard was killed in a pole day crash. David Savage died from injuries sustained in a terrifying race-day crash. In the chaos after Savage’s wreck, pit-sign board holder Armando Teran was fatally struck by a safety truck. And roughly a dozen spectators were burned when Salt Walther's fuel tanks ruptured as his spinning car destroyed part of the catch fence.
“I don’t know what the rest of the guys thought, but I thought, ‘Let’s just get this damn thing over, you know, this has not been good,’” Rutherford recalled. “That was the way the business was. You know, A.J. (Foyt) and I have lost so many friends in the business.”
Pretty much any successful IndyCar driver from that era — Johncock, Rutherford, Foyt, Mario Andretti, the Unser brothers, Parnelli Jones — felt the same way.
Back then, deaths and serious injuries were the norm.
Foyt, for instance, still recalls his January 1965 stock car crash in Riverside, California, caused by a brake failure. He went down an embankment and actually was pronounced dead by the track's doctor — only to be saved when Jones stepped in.
Yes, Foyt was lucky, especially at a time when safety measures seemed almost taboo.
“Without better safety, this sport never would have survived because corporations were not going to spend millions of dollars to go to funerals,” Andretti said in the days before Sunday’s Indy 500. “We would start the year with a drivers’ meeting, and you wouldn’t know who would finish the year. That never changed. There were years we lost six, seven drivers.”
It wasn’t that sanctioning bodies did nothing.
The fiery crash that took the lives of Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald during the Indy 500 in 1964 led to more firefighters being hired for races. In 1967, 30 of the 33 Indy 500 starters donned the late Bill Simpson’s innovative fire suit; the double fatality in 1964 also led to the installation of rubber bladder tanks that military helicopters were using in Korea and Vietnam to limit fuel spillage.
But the 1973 race forced tack and series officials to finally pay attention to drivers’ concerns.
“I think they started to realize the drivers knew what they needed and what they wanted for safety,” said Johncock. “It was hard because USAC (the U.S. Auto Club) didn’t want to listen to it.”
In the aftermath — Savage finally succumbed to his injuries 33 days after the race — the USAC agreed to make rules changes.
It reduced the size of rear wings by nine inches, cut fuel tank capacity from 75 gallons to 40, moved those tanks to the left sidepod away from the grandstands — and where most side impacts occur on oval tracks — and required pit-sign board holders to remain at their posts the entire race.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway went even further in 1974.
The track owner at the time, Tony Hulman, widened the pit lane entrance, eliminated the angled inside wall in the fourth turn and moved the flagman from the inside near the front of pit road to a starter’s stand above the cars and the outside wall, where it remains today. The height of retaining walls was increased, catch fences were bolstered and some of the trackside box seats were removed.
“It was an inflection point for safety,” speedway president Doug Boles said when asked about the impact of 1973.
Eventually, cockpits were repositioned to protect the legs and feet of drivers and tubs were made of stronger, safer materials. IndyCar introduced the world to traveling safety teams in 1981 and SAFER barriers in 2002. HANS devices, which stabilized heads and necks of drivers, became mandatory, as did tethered tires to prevent them from flying into the stands and more recently, head-protecting aeroscreens. Better car designs reduced energy inside the cockpit, too, lowering the risk of serious injuries.
“I'd have a lot better legs if the cars were as good back then as they are today,” Johncock said.
Of course, risk always exists when cars are turning laps over 230 mph. Seven deaths have occurred on Indy’s 2-5-mile oval in the half-century since that deadly May. Four took the lives of IndyCar drivers — three in Indy 500 practice, the last being pole-winner Scott Brayton in May 1996, and the fatal test crash of rising star Tony Renna in October 2003.
Serious injuries now often lead to immediate attention as lessons from that tragic month 50 years ago loom large.
“Art Pollard was the first IndyCar driver I ever met,” said Tim Baughman, IndyCar’s senior director of track safety. “I was a Boy Scout, he was sponsored by the Boy Scouts and I met him at the (Indiana) state fairgrounds the winter before the ‘73 race. I was 12 years old, so it hit a little closer to home.
“The late ‘60s and early ’70s were a really horrific time to be a race-car driver, but I think it all came to a boil in ‘73 and it changed everything.”
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Fast food employee pulls gun on customer over chili cheese fries, police say
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) – A fast food employee in Memphis is accused of pulling a gun on a customer during an argument over chili cheese fries, police said.
According to an affidavit, Cetera Jones pointed a gun at a customer at a Checkers restaurant on Tuesday night.
The affidavit says the customer ordered chili cheese fries but complained the fries were old and dry.
When the customer asked Jones to remake her order and give her a refund, Jones refused, police said.
The two got in an argument. Eventually, Jones pointed a small handgun at the customer and then left the building, police said.
According to police, Jones admitted to the assault.
Jones is charged with aggravated assault. Her court hearing is Thursday.
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HIMARS ROCKET LAUNCHERS
The HIMARS systems supplied by the U.S. and similar M270s from Britain have significantly bolstered the Ukrainian military’s precision-strike capability.
The HIMARS and M270 have a longer range, a much better precision and a faster rate of fire compared with Soviet-designed Smerch, Uragan and Tornado multiple rocket launchers used by both Russia and Ukraine.
The truck-mounted HIMARS launchers fire GPS-guided missiles capable of hitting targets up to 80 kilometers (50 miles) away, a distance that puts them out of reach of most Russian artillery systems. The mobile launchers are hard for the enemy to spot and can quickly change position after firing to escape airstrikes.
The Ukrainian military so far has received a dozen HIMARS and several M270 systems, but it already has used them to successfully target Russian ammunition and fuel depots in eastern Ukraine, essential for supporting Moscow's offensive. On Wednesday, Ukrainian forces reportedly used HIMARS to hit a strategic bridge in the Russia-occupied southern region of Kherson.
“HIMARS have hardly had any rest during the day or at night. Their potential has been used to the maximum," Ukrainian military experts Oleh Zhdanov told The Associated Press. “The results have been impressive. Over 30 important Russian targets have been hit with high precision over the past two weeks.”
U.S. authorities so far have refrained from providing Ukraine with longer-range missiles for HIMARS launchers that can reach targets up to 300 kilometers (186 miles), allowing the military to hit areas deep inside Russian territory.
HEAVY ARTILLERY
Ukraine has taken deliveries of more than 200 heavy artillery systems from the U.S. and its NATO allies. They have included the U.S. M777, French CAESAR, German PzH 2000 and a few other towed and self-propelled long-range artillery systems.
The Western howitzers have some advantages over older Soviet-designed systems in the Russian and Ukrainian arsenals, but it takes time for Ukrainian crews to learn how to operate them. Their wide assortment poses obvious logistical challenges.
“Ukraine has been given a tremendous amount ... of artillery equipment that's very diverse,” said Michael Kofman, an expert on the Russian military and program director at the Virginia-based CNA think tank. “What they've ended up with is a petting zoo of artillery, and it's very hard to do maintenance, sustainment and logistics.”
A more serious problem is that the numbers of Western weapons are still far too small.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said last month that the country needs at least 1,000 heavy howitzers, 300 multiple rocket launchers, 500 tanks and 2,000 armored vehicles — much more than the West has provided.
“Western weapons are superior to Soviet-era analogues, but the numbers have been too small to turn the tide of the war,” Zhdanov said.
ARMOR
Ukraine has asked the West for more armor to replenish its heavy battlefield losses. The country has reportedly received over 300 Soviet-built T-72 tanks from Poland and the Czech Republic, and already has used them in combat.
The long-promised delivery of German Leopard tanks is on hold, however, a delay that has drawn an angry response in Ukrainian media and social networks.
Ukraine has taken delivery of several hundred armored personnel carriers from the U.S. and a few NATO allies, a motley collection of vehicles that hasn't fully compensated for what it already has lost.
Western allies also have provided Ukraine with big numbers of portable anti-tank weapons, which played a key role in helping Ukrainian soldiers to decimate Russian armored convoys.
DRONES
In the early part of the war, Ukraine extensively used its inventory of Turkish-made Bayraktar TB-2 laser-guided, bomb-dropping drones to hit long convoys of Russian troops and supply columns. Bayraktars, however, have become less effective in the face of denser Russian air and electronic defenses in eastern Ukraine.
Since the war began, the U.S. and Western allies have shipped hundreds of other drones, including an unspecified number of “kamikaze” Switchblade 600s that carry tank-piercing warheads and use artificial intelligence to track targets. But their range is limited, and they can only stay aloft for about 40 minutes.
Ukraine has pushed strongly for more advanced long-range drones that can survive radio interference and GPS jamming and rely on satellite communications for control and navigation.
AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS
The U.S. and other NATO allies have provided Ukraine with over 2,000 portable air defense missile systems, or MANPADS, such as Stingers and other similar weapons.
Such compact systems are efficient against combat helicopters and low-flying jets, and the Ukrainian military has used them to inflict significant losses on the Russian air force, restricting its capability to provide close air support to ground forces and helping slow the pace of Moscow's offensive.
At the same time, Ukraine also has prodded the West to supply it with medium- and long-range air defense systems that would be capable of downing cruise missiles and high-flying aircraft.
It has received several Soviet-built S-300 long-range air defense systems from Slovakia, the type of weapons the Ukrainian military has long operated.
The U.S. also has pledged to give Ukraine two NASAMS mid-range air defense systems.
Germany has promised to supply Ukraine with 30 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, but they have yet to arrive.
WARPLANES
Since the start of the invasion on Feb. 24, Ukraine has urged Western allies to provide it with warplanes to challenge Russia's air superiority.
However, the U.S. and its allies have been reluctant to give Ukraine the fighter jets it asks for, fearing it would provoke an escalatory response from Moscow, which has warned NATO that supplying Ukraine with combat aircraft could be tantamount to joining the conflict.
In March, the Pentagon rejected Poland’s proposal for handing over its Soviet-built MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine by transferring them through a U.S. base in Germany, citing a high risk of triggering a Russia-NATO escalation. Ukraine has its own fleet of MiG-29s, but it's unclear how many of those and other jets are still in service.
Earlier this month, Slovakia announced an intention to give its MiG-29 fleet to Ukraine as it awaits delivery of U.S. F-16 figter jets, but no action has been taken.
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FILE - Marine Corps Sgt. Justin Russell, a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, section chief with Kilo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 14th Marines looks out over a firing range at Fort Stewart, Ga. during a training exercise, Saturday, June 13, 2015. The HIMARS systems supplied by the U.S. and similar M270 provided by Britain have significantly bolstered the Ukrainian army's precision strike capability. (Corey Dickstein/Savannah Morning News via AP, File)
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FILE - Marine Corps Sgt. Justin Russell, a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, section chief with Kilo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 14th Marines looks out over a firing range at Fort Stewart, Ga. during a training exercise, Saturday, June 13, 2015. The HIMARS systems supplied by the U.S. and similar M270 provided by Britain have significantly bolstered the Ukrainian army's precision strike capability. (Corey Dickstein/Savannah Morning News via AP, File)
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FILE - Ukrainian servicemen fire at Russian positions from a U.S.- supplied M777 howitzer in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, July 14, 2022. The deliveries of Western weapons have been crucial for Ukraine's efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the country's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas. The Western howitzers have some advantages compared to older Soviet-designed systems in the Russian and Ukrainian arsenals, but they require time for the Ukrainian crews to train how to operate them and their wide assortment poses obvious logistical challenges. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
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FILE - Ukrainian servicemen fire at Russian positions from a U.S.- supplied M777 howitzer in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, July 14, 2022. The deliveries of Western weapons have been crucial for Ukraine's efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the country's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas. The Western howitzers have some advantages compared to older Soviet-designed systems in the Russian and Ukrainian arsenals, but they require time for the Ukrainian crews to train how to operate them and their wide assortment poses obvious logistical challenges. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian serviceman fires an NLAW anti-tank weapon during an exercise in the Joint Forces Operation, in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 15, 2022. The deliveries of Western arms have been crucial for Ukraine’s efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the nearly 5-month-old war. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian serviceman fires an NLAW anti-tank weapon during an exercise in the Joint Forces Operation, in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 15, 2022. The deliveries of Western arms have been crucial for Ukraine’s efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the nearly 5-month-old war. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
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FILE - Ukrainian soldiers fire at Russian positions from a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, June 18, 2022. The deliveries of Western weapons have been crucial for Ukraine's efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the country's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas. The Western howitzers have some advantages compared to older Soviet-designed systems in the Russian and Ukrainian arsenals, but they require time for the Ukrainian crews to train how to operate them and their wide assortment poses obvious logistical challenges. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - Ukrainian soldiers fire at Russian positions from a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, June 18, 2022. The deliveries of Western weapons have been crucial for Ukraine's efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the country's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas. The Western howitzers have some advantages compared to older Soviet-designed systems in the Russian and Ukrainian arsenals, but they require time for the Ukrainian crews to train how to operate them and their wide assortment poses obvious logistical challenges. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - A Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 is a medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), drone capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations is seen at the Siauliai military air force base some 230 km (144 miles) east of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, July 1, 2022. Ukraine has extensively used its inventory of Turkish-made Bayraktar TB-2 laser-guided, bomb-dropping drones to target Russian troops convoys and supply columns. The deliveries of Western arms have been crucial for Ukraine’s efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the nearly 5-month-old war. (Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense via AP, File)
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FILE - A Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 is a medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), drone capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations is seen at the Siauliai military air force base some 230 km (144 miles) east of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, July 1, 2022. Ukraine has extensively used its inventory of Turkish-made Bayraktar TB-2 laser-guided, bomb-dropping drones to target Russian troops convoys and supply columns. The deliveries of Western arms have been crucial for Ukraine’s efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the nearly 5-month-old war. (Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense via AP, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces member holds an anti-tank weapon on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. The deliveries of Western weapons have been crucial for Ukraine's efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the country's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces member holds an anti-tank weapon on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. The deliveries of Western weapons have been crucial for Ukraine's efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the country's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian soldier flashes the victory sign atop a tank in Donetsk region, Ukraine, June 20, 2022. Ukraine has asked the West to provide it with armor to help replenish its heavy battlefield losses. The country has reportedly received about 300 Soviet-built T-72 tanks from Poland and the Czech Republic and already used them in combat. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian soldier flashes the victory sign atop a tank in Donetsk region, Ukraine, June 20, 2022. Ukraine has asked the West to provide it with armor to help replenish its heavy battlefield losses. The country has reportedly received about 300 Soviet-built T-72 tanks from Poland and the Czech Republic and already used them in combat. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian soldier carries a U.S.-supplied Stinger as he goes along the road, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, June 18, 2022. The deliveries of Western weapons have been crucial for Ukraine's efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the country's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian soldier carries a U.S.-supplied Stinger as he goes along the road, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, June 18, 2022. The deliveries of Western weapons have been crucial for Ukraine's efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the country's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
FILE - Ukrainian servicemen unpack Javelin anti-tank missiles, delivered as part of the United States of America's security assistance to Ukraine, at the Boryspil airport, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 11, 2022. The deliveries of Western weapons have been crucial for Ukraine's efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the country's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - Ukrainian servicemen unpack Javelin anti-tank missiles, delivered as part of the United States of America's security assistance to Ukraine, at the Boryspil airport, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 11, 2022. The deliveries of Western weapons have been crucial for Ukraine's efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the country's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - An anti-aircraft cannon tank "Gepard 1A2" during an exercise of the German army on the training area in Munster, Germany, June 15, 2009. Germany has promised to supply Ukraine with 30 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, but they are yet to arrive. (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach, File)
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FILE - An anti-aircraft cannon tank "Gepard 1A2" during an exercise of the German army on the training area in Munster, Germany, June 15, 2009. Germany has promised to supply Ukraine with 30 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, but they are yet to arrive. (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian MIG-29 fighter jet is parked at the Vasilkov air base outside outside Kiev, Ukraine, Nov. 23, 2016. Ukraine has urged Western allies to provide it with warplanes to help challenge the Russian air superiority, but the U.S. and its allies have been reluctant to give Ukraine fighter jets, fearing to provoke Moscow. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian MIG-29 fighter jet is parked at the Vasilkov air base outside outside Kiev, Ukraine, Nov. 23, 2016. Ukraine has urged Western allies to provide it with warplanes to help challenge the Russian air superiority, but the U.S. and its allies have been reluctant to give Ukraine fighter jets, fearing to provoke Moscow. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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MONACO (AP) — Formula One champion Max Verstappen’s lights-to-flag victory at the Monaco Grand Prix gave the Red Bull driver his fourth victory of the season and a record 39th overall for the team as he extended his championship lead to 39 points over teammate Sergio Perez on Sunday.
Verstappen’s wins have all been with Red Bull since his first on debut for the team at the Spanish GP in 2016 when he became the youngest F1 winner at 18 years old.
Seven years and two world championships later, the Dutchman set a team record for wins as he passed former Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel’s previous tally of 38 victories when he won four straight titles from 2010-13.
“It’s great, I never thought I’d be in this position in my career,” Verstappen said. “It’s better than I could have imagined for sure.”
Spanish veteran Fernando Alonso was a season’s best second for Aston Martin as he collected a fifth podium in six races, albeit 28 seconds behind Verstappen, while Frenchman Esteban Ocon secured third place and a rare podium for Alpine.
Red Bull has won all the races so far.
“It’s super nice to win it in the way we did today with the weather and everything to stay calm and bring it home,” Verstappen said.
For most of the race, he coasted on a dry and narrow track where overtaking is the hardest in F1.
But an incident-free race in Monaco is rare and heavy rain played havoc with about 20 of the 78 laps left. Some drivers had pitted for the wrong medium tires shortly before the downpour and slid around.
“It was incredibly slippery,” Verstappen said.
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr. glided sideways into the barriers and was lucky not to damage his Ferrari. Kevin Magnussen lost control of his Haas and Lance Stroll retired after damaging his Aston Martin.
Red Bull had wisely put Verstappen on the versatile and more suited to the wet conditions intermediates on Lap 56 and they carried him to his second win in Monaco. The first was in 2021.
Lewis Hamilton finished fourth for Mercedes and picked up a point for fastest lap. His teammate George Russell was fifth, having earlier almost slammed into Perez as visibility worsened. A serious crash was somehow avoided in a hectic few minutes before the rain eased off.
“Braking was extremely fragile,” Alonso said. “I think everyone did an amazing job today to keep the cars on track.”
Alonso is third in the standings and closed the gap on Perez to 12 points. The 41-year-old Alonso’s podium was his 103rd in F1, while Ocon grabbed his third.
“I’m speechless at the moment,” Ocon said. “A little bit on my cloud at the moment.”
Russell was given a five-second penalty for rejoining the track in an unsafe manner but had just enough to keep fifth place ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.
Pierre Gasly (Alpine), a seething Sainz, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri (both McLaren) rounded out the top 10.
On Saturday, Verstappen just edged out Alonso to deny him his first pole for 11 years.
Perez, who won the race last year, started from last after a clumsy crash in qualifying and finished 16th.
The sinewy 3.4-kilometer (2.1-mile) street circuit gives the pole sitter a massive advantage if he makes a clean getaway, which is what Verstappen did as Alonso’s gamble to start on hard tires didn’t work.
“Max drove super well on the medium tires on that first stint,” Alonso said. “We (went) for all or nothing. We started on the hard tire and didn’t have the pace.”
After 26 of the 78 laps Verstappen was 12 seconds clear of Alonso, who even persuaded himself he had a puncture. Twice his team assured him it wasn’t the case.
Eventually Verstappen started losing time and wanted to pit for new tires but his team told him he’d fall behind Alonso if he did that.
At the same time Perez stuck among the back markers was getting tense, almost clipping Stroll and then bumping into the back of Kevin Magnussen’s Haas.
Sainz, meanwhile, was furious that Ferrari — a team with a worrying reputation for still making bad strategy calls — pitted him too early and put on the wrong tire to cover Ocon’s stop and let his team know with an outburst over team radio.
The Spaniard had already endured a difficult day after his front wing clipped Ocon’s Alpine as he tried to overtake. A portion of the wing came off subsequently but Sainz got away with just a warning for the incident.
The sky then darkened and rain started to fall heavily soon after drivers had completed 50 laps.
“I have to drive super slow because my tires are (expletive),” Verstappen lamented on Lap 54, while Alonso pitted a lap later for mediums.
Early on, Sainz’s front wing clipped Ocon’s Alpine as he tried to overtake coming out of the tunnel. A small piece of debris came off but the wing stayed on the car, and Sainz got away with a warning.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It's something that goes along with being a member of Congress, no matter your party or your status: constant threats to your life, and the unshakeable feeling that they're only getting worse.
In the almost two years since the Capitol insurrection, in which supporters of former President Donald Trump broke into the Capitol and hunted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of Congress, threats to lawmakers and their families have increased sharply.
Early Friday, an assailant, said to be looking for Speaker Pelosi, broke into her San Francisco home and used a hammer to attack her husband Paul, who suffered blunt-force injuries and was hospitalized.
It is, in fact, getting worse: The U.S. Capitol Police investigated almost 10,000 threats to members last year, more than twice the number from four years earlier.
"We are 100%, completely vulnerable and the risks are increasing," says Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley, a Chicago-area Democrat. "If someone wants to harm you, they know where you live, they know where you work."
Lawmakers have pressured congressional leaders and the Capitol Police for better security, especially for their families and their homes outside of Washington. They have made some progress, with security officials promising to pay for upgrades to certain security systems and an increased Capitol Police presence outside Washington. But the vast majority of members are mostly on their own as they figure out how to keep themselves and their families safe in a country where political violence has become alarmingly frequent.
The attack on Paul Pelosi happened when Nancy Pelosi was out of town, which meant there was less of a security presence in their home.
"It's attacks like this that make all of us stand back and wonder what we can do better," says Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., who was at a baseball practice four years ago in Alexandria, Virginia, when a gunman wounded Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., and four other people.
Davis, who was defeated for reelection in his Republican primary earlier this year, says security needs to be improved for members and their families, and "we also have to work to tone down some of the violent rhetoric that inspires some of these individuals to do what they do."
As have many of their colleagues, Davis and Quigley both say they have improved security at their homes in recent years. Two years after the baseball shooting, an Illinois man was arrested for threatening to shoot Davis in the head. Randall Tarr pleaded guilty to federal charges and was sentenced to probation.
Davis has since urged his colleagues to report all threats to the police and work with local prosecutors to make sure people are charged. "You've got to take that threat seriously," he says.
Incidents like that are disturbingly common. On Friday, just hours after the assault on Pelosi, the Justice Department announced that a man pleaded guilty to making threatening telephone calls to an unidentified California congressman's office and saying he had "a lot of AR-15s" and wanted to kill the congressman and members of his staff.
In July, a man accosted New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Republican who is running for governor of New York, as he spoke at a campaign event and told Zeldin, "You're done." Zeldin wrestled the man to the ground and escaped with only a minor scrape.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., revealed earlier this year that a man came to her house with a gun, screaming obscenities. After the incident, she wrote congressional leaders a letter and asked them to do more to keep members safe.
Lawmakers have received some upgraded security since the Jan. 6 insurrection. In July, the House Sergeant at Arms sent a letter to all House offices saying that members could have up to $10,000 reimbursed for security upgrades in their homes, including intrusion detection systems, cameras, locks and lighting. But in reality, sophisticated security can cost much more.
And some members do get added security, if there are serious threats. Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders have Capitol Police security with them at all times, as do members who are deemed to be most vulnerable at any given time. That security apparatus doesn't always extend to families when the member isn't at home, however, making spouses like Paul Pelosi more vulnerable.
Members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection also have round-the-clock protection. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chair of the committee, issued a statement Friday urging "federal agencies and law enforcement to redouble their efforts to protect officials, our elections, and our democracy in the days ahead."
Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on that committee, recently released menacing voicemails he had received threatening his wife and baby. Kinzinger tweeted Friday after Paul Pelosi's assault that "every GOP candidate and elected official must speak out, and now."
Republican Rep. Davis also urged his colleagues, Democrat and Republican, to condemn the attack.
"The attack on Paul Pelosi is not only an attack on Nancy Pelosi and her family," Davis said. "It's an attack on all of us." | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/paul-pelosi-attack-highlights-rising-threats-to-lawmakers | 2022-10-29 00:57:46 | 1 | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/paul-pelosi-attack-highlights-rising-threats-to-lawmakers |
(KTLA) – Police pursued a motorcyclist traveling recklessly on the wrong side of the freeway in Los Angeles on Friday night.
The motorcyclist, whom police initially tried to pull over for running a red light, began traveling at high speeds in the wrong direction on the 134 Freeway in Glendale before exiting on Hollywood Way. Authorities later said they believed the motorcycle, or motorbike, may have been stolen.
During the chase, the biker was seen performing stunts, like popping wheelies and standing on the seat, while patrol cars trailed closely behind, footage captured by KTLA shows.
The suspect continued erratically, running red lights and driving on sidewalks, the video shows.
Police followed the suspect to the Universal Studios area before a group of other motorcyclists suddenly joined in, surrounding the biker.
The suspect stopped at a gas station to refuel before continuing the ride, eventually entering a parking lot in West Hollywood and stopping to speak to the garage attendant.
Multiple agencies, including police departments within Los Angeles County and the California Highway Patrol, were believed to be following the suspect, at least at different parts of the pursuit, before backing off or losing sight of the biker.
The investigation remains ongoing. A representative for the California Highway Patrol was not immediately available to confirm whether the suspect had been identified, or if the motorcyclist was arrested. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/motorcyclist-drives-down-wrong-side-of-la-freeway-pops-wheelies-during-police-pursuit-footage-shows/ | 2022-11-05 21:30:36 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/motorcyclist-drives-down-wrong-side-of-la-freeway-pops-wheelies-during-police-pursuit-footage-shows/ |
A 30-year-old man accused of stealing a car allegedly tried to get away from police Sunday evening, as he almost struck a Massachusetts State Police trooper with the stolen BMW before hitting several parked cars and ditching bags of fentanyl.
Jose Bautista, of East Providence, R.I., is facing more than a dozen charges — including assault with a dangerous weapon, possession of a large capacity feeding device, and trafficking fentanyl — after the police chase in Foxboro on Sunday.
Shortly before 7 p.m., a Massachusetts State Trooper saw a white BMW X5 SUV — which had been reported stolen from a Waltham dealership — parked outside a building at The Lodge apartment complex in Foxboro. Other State Police personnel and Foxborough Police responded.
Then at about 7:40 p.m., police saw a man later ID’d as Bautista enter the stolen BMW. A trooper turned on his emergency blue lights and pulled in front of the BMW.
As the trooper got out of his cruiser, Bautista allegedly drove to the right of the cruiser, coming within a few feet of striking the trooper, and almost hitting a Foxborough Police cruiser.
The BMW then struck the rear of a parked Toyota RAV 4 SUV, nearly missed another State Police cruiser, hit the rear of a parked Toyota Corolla sedan, and pushed that car into the side of another parked car, a Nissan Armada SUV. The suspect then struck a Ford Mustang coupe, and left the parking lot.
A Foxborough police officer and a trooper pursued the BMW onto Foxborough Boulevard. Bautista sped away, with no lights on and at times on the wrong side of the road, even with extensive damage to the stolen BMW, police said.
Bautista then entered Route 140 toward Route 95. He stopped in the breakdown lane just before the on-ramp to Route 95 and ran into the woods, where he scaled a large chain link fence and continued to run.
The Foxborough officer, who is part of that K9 Unit, then drove to a parking lot on the other side of the fence that the suspect had climbed over. That officer and his K9 partner Max began a track of the suspect, along with help from a trooper who had jumped over the fence.
Police then received word that a man matching the suspect’s description was at the Shell gas station at 32 Commercial St., and was apparently trying to steal a car.
A Foxborough officer arrived at the gas station moments later and took Bautista into custody.
Meanwhile, during the K9 track, Max located a clothing item linked to the suspect, two cell phones near the fence he had scaled, the suspect’s driver’s license, and several clear plastic bags containing a white powder substance believed to be fentanyl.
Inside the stolen BMW, a trooper found a high-capacity magazine containing 29 rounds of 10mm ammunition. Police also found two selector switches, which are used to convert a semi-automatic handgun into a fully automatic weapon. They also recovered a prescription pill bottle with the name torn off, which contained several small round blue pills consistent in appearance to Percocet. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/04/03/massachusetts-state-police-arrest-suspect-who-almost-struck-trooper-with-stolen-car-police-recover-fentanyl-and-ammunition/ | 2023-04-03 20:33:55 | 1 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/04/03/massachusetts-state-police-arrest-suspect-who-almost-struck-trooper-with-stolen-car-police-recover-fentanyl-and-ammunition/ |
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The Large Hadron Collider will launch its third run on July 5. What can we expect to learn this time around?
Artistic depiction of the Brout-Englert-Higgs field, also known as the Higgs mechanism. Theorized in 1964, the Higgs mechanism helps explain the generation of mass.
One of the grandest scientific discoveries of our time was announced a decade ago, when particle physicists discovered Higgs Boson — a fleeting, elusive subatomic particle that has helped explain many major questions in science, including how fundamental particles get their mass.
Higgs Boson was found by researchers working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory. The LHC is one of the largest and most expensive scientific facilities in the world and will fire up once again on July 5 after three years of maintenance. It will run around the clock for almost four years.
This time, the collider will use an unprecedented energy of 13.6 teraelectronvolts (TeV) to accelerate and collide beams of protons for experiments. This will be the third of five data probes facilitated by the collider. The first two runs used energies of 6.5 and 13 TeV, respectively, to make collisions.
Around 3,000 scientific papers were published using the data obtained during the first two runs of the experiment. Scientists expect similar results from this run.
The recognition of the Higgs particle — detected in 2012, nearly five decades after it was first predicted — led to a number of scientific discoveries, including the completed standard model of particle physics. This is the most detailed description we have of what comprises the subatomic world, which includes electrons, protons, bosons and quarks.
"Higgs Boson is a very fine microscope to understand not just nature, but also how high energy physics works,” said Fabiola Gianotti, CERN's director general.
The Higgs Boson was so difficult to find that it was originally dubbed the "Goddamn Particle” by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, who published a popular book about the Higgs Boson in 1993. The nickname was later changed to "God Particle” after negative feedback from religious institutions.
When this question was posed to CERN scientists at a recent press conference, Gian Guidice, the head of CERN's theoretical physics department, answered with his own: "If you saw Charles Darwin coming back from his trip at the Galapagos, will you ask him how many new birds did you see? Or, will you ask: What do you understand better about the logic of evolution? I would say the second question is more interesting,” he said.
Guidice said the LHC should be seen as a tool that can be used to further our understanding of the evolution of the universe rather than a machine that simply generates new particles.
He said that CERN is more interested in uncovering new scientific principles than "blindly running behind the discovery of the phenomenon.”
The third run of the LHC aims to improve our knowledge of fundamental scientific principles. Particle physics has changed more in the last ten years since the discovery of Higgs Boson than it did in the 30 before it, Guidice said.
"The discovery of a new particle is momentous, but it is part of the gradual process of gaining knowledge. Understanding why Higgs Boson behaves the way it does is the more important part of the process,” he said, adding that the upcoming run could help do just that.
Understanding the Higgs Boson better may even help shed light on how our universe came into existence. The expedition will allow for the unprecedentedly accurate investigation of quark–gluon plasma (QGP) — a state of matter that existed in the first 10 microseconds after the Big Bang.
Luca Malgeri, a spokesperson for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, said the upcoming run will allow researchers to "double” their statistics on Higgs and other related projects. Scientists will be able to focus their attention on data "ignored” in the previous runs because it was too small to detect or precisely measure, he said.
For example, "muons” — elementary particles similar to the electron, but with a much greater mass — will be studied in the third run.
CERN theorist Michelangelo Mangano said scientists may be able to use this data to "confirm for the first time” that muons also get mass through the Higgs mechanism.
Malgeri said he believes that during the third run, researchers might reach a threshold on how precise the data can get.
"Here's where we expect discrepancies to show up in our existing understanding of our theories around Higgs Boson's behavior,” he said.
Researchers' knowledge of dark matter is also likely to improve with the third run. While there are mixed opinions on the collider's ability to discover dark matter, some scientists believe that the study of the decay of Higgs Boson could lead them to it.
The launch of LHC Run 3 will be streamed live on CERN's social media channels and high-quality Eurovision satellite link starting at 4:00 p.m. (CEST) on July 5.
Edited by: Clare Roth | https://www.dw.com/en/ten-years-since-higgs-boson-whats-next/a-62353123 | 2022-07-04 14:20:23 | 1 | https://www.dw.com/en/ten-years-since-higgs-boson-whats-next/a-62353123 |
(WHNT) — A new slate of special screenings and collaborations was announced ahead of the 68th celebration of “Godzilla Day” on November 3, 1954.
If you’ve been living under a rock, you may be oblivious to the day dedicated to the big screen’s favorite lizard. Godzilla Day is recognized on the anniversary of the debut of the very first Godzilla film to hit theaters nearly seven decades ago.
Toho, the studio behind the beloved Titan, is going all out for Godzilla Day 2022, announcing new screenings including some of Godzilla’s classic films, new collectible releases (including Mondo, Hot Wheels, etc.), and new food collaborations along with a packed schedule of other events.
Godzilla’s popularity has steadily grown over recent years thanks to films like “Shin Godzilla,” anime debuts in “Godzilla Singular Point” and the quadrilogy “Legendary’s MonsterVerse.”
Special screenings will include a one-day-only viewing of Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla in U.S. Theaters, showing in over 450 theaters across the country for fans to watch the 2002 film’s first showing in America.
Theatrical screenings of the Original Godzilla will play at Alamo Drafthouse locations across the country, presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
Mattel & Toho have also teamed up to present three exclusive Godzilla Hot Wheels cars celebrating the King of Monsters. The first of the three will be available to buy only at Target starting November 2022. Additional cars are expected to launch in 2023.
Mondo is also collaborating with Toho in releasing a whole new realm of Godzilla merchandise, including vinyl LPs, figures and posters.
There is honestly a multitude of collaborations, events, specialty food items (like the $68 pastrami sandwich in Los Angeles or the Godzilla-character macarons in Irvine) and of course, exclusive screenings.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As the 6-ounce can of Chilé 'n Lime finishes its six-month rotation to store shelves, Blue Diamond Growers is replacing it with an all-new flavor, also available for a limited time. For the next six months, Honey Butter Flavored Almonds will be available at Walmart and the Blue Diamond Nut & Gift Shops, as well as through our online store at www.bluediamondstore.com/. Inspired by the popular Korean Honey Butter Chips, these snack almonds boast a velvety smooth blend of honey and buttery flavor.
"We never stop innovating at Blue Diamond." said Maya Erwin, Vice President of Innovation and R&D, Blue Diamond Growers. "Honey Butter Almonds were proudly developed by Blue Diamond's R&D scientists to create the perfect flavor balance. Our goal is to ensure that our consumers never have to search outside our products to find every flavor category they crave. These snack almonds satisfy the sweet and salty flavor blend beloved by so many – but be sure to try them before they're swapped out for another exciting flavor!"
Honey Butter Almonds will be available through December 2023 in the iconic, 6-ounce can. As always, Blue Diamond almonds are an excellent choice for on-the-go snackers who wish to adhere to better-for-you options when it comes to snacking. Honey Butter Almonds are high in antioxidant Vitamin E, have 5g protein per serving, and are ketogenic and kosher certified.
Blue Diamond is a world-class leader in consumer trend analysis and flavor forecasting that leads to new products like Honey Butter Almonds and many other unique flavors within the Blue Diamond Growers snack almond line up. Check out all the Blue Diamond snack almond flavors on our website at www.bluediamond.com.
About Blue Diamond
Blue Diamond Growers, a grower-owned cooperative representing approximately 3,000 of California's almond growers, is the world's leading almond marketer and processor. Established in 1910, it created the California almond industry and opened world markets for almonds. Blue Diamond is dedicated to delivering the benefits of almonds around the world and does so by providing high-quality almonds, almond ingredients, and branded products. Headquartered in Sacramento, the company employs more than 1,800 people throughout its processing plants, receiving stations and gift shops. To learn more about Blue Diamond Growers, visit www.bluediamond.com and follow the company on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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People typically think of food as calories, energy and sustenance. However, the latest evidence suggests that food also “talks” to our genome, which is the genetic blueprint that directs the way the body functions down to the cellular level.
This communication between food and genes may affect your health, physiology and longevity. The idea that food delivers important messages to an animal’s genome is the focus of a field known as nutrigenomics. This is a discipline still in its infancy, and many questions remain cloaked in mystery. Yet already, we researchers have learned a great deal about how food components affect the genome.
I am a molecular biologist who researches the interactionsamong food, genes and brains in the effort to better understand how food messages affect our biology. The efforts of scientists to decipher this transmission of information could one day result in healthier and happier lives for all of us. But until then, nutrigenomics has unmasked at least one important fact: Our relationship with food is far more intimate than we ever imagined.
The interaction of food and genes
If the idea that food can drive biological processes by interacting with the genome sounds astonishing, one need look no further than a beehive to find a proven and perfect example of how this happens. Worker bees labor nonstop, are sterile and live only a few weeks. The queen bee, sitting deep inside the hive, has a life span that lasts for years and a fecundity so potent she gives birth to an entire colony.
And yet, worker and queen bees are genetically identical organisms. They become two different life forms because of the food they eat. The queen bee feasts on royal jelly; worker bees feed on nectar and pollen. Both foods provide energy, but royal jelly has an extra feature: its nutrients can unlock the genetic instructions to create the anatomy and physiology of a queen bee.
So how is food translated into biological instructions? Remember that food is composed of macronutrients. These include carbohydrates – or sugars – proteins and fat. Food also contains micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals. These compounds and their breakdown products can trigger genetic switches that reside in the genome.
Like the switches that control the intensity of the light in your house, genetic switches determine how much of a certain gene product is produced. Royal jelly, for instance, contains compounds that activate genetic controllers to form the queen’s organs and sustain her reproductive ability. In humans and mice, byproducts of the amino acid methionine, which are abundant in meat and fish, are known to influence genetic dials that are important for cell growth and division. And vitamin C plays a role in keeping us healthy by protecting the genome from oxidative damage; it also promotes the function of cellular pathways that can repair the genome if it does get damaged.
Depending on the type of nutritional information, the genetic controls activated and the cell that receives them, the messages in food can influence wellness, disease risk and even life span. But it’s important to note that to date, most of these studies have been conducted in animal models, like bees.
Interestingly, the ability of nutrients to alter the flow of genetic information can span across generations. Studies show that in humans and animals, the diet of grandparents influences the activity of genetic switches and the disease risk and mortality of grandchildren.
Cause and effect
One interesting aspect of thinking of food as a type of biological information is that it gives new meaning to the idea of a food chain. Indeed, if our bodies are influenced by what we have eaten – down to a molecular level – then what the food we consume “ate” also could affect our genome. For example, compared to milk from grass-fed cows, the milk from grain-fed cattle has different amounts and types of fatty acids and vitamins C and A . So when humans drink these different types of milk, their cells also receive different nutritional messages.
Similarly, a human mother’s diet changes the levels of fatty acids as well as vitamins such as B-6, B-12 and folate that are found in her breast milk. This could alter the type of nutritional messages reaching the baby’s own genetic switches, although whether or not this has an effect on the child’s development is, at the moment, unknown.
And, maybe unbeknownst to us, we too are part of this food chain. The food we eat doesn’t tinker with just the genetic switches in our cells, but also with those of the microorganisms living in our guts, skin and mucosa. One striking example: In mice, the breakdown of short-chain fatty acids by gut bacteria alters the levels of serotonin, a brain chemical messenger that regulates mood, anxiety and depression, among other processes.
Food additives and packaging
Added ingredients in food can also alter the flow of genetic information inside cells. Breads and cereals are enriched with folate to prevent birth defects caused by deficiencies of this nutrient. But some scientists hypothesize that high levels of folate in the absence of other naturally occurring micronutrients such as vitamin B-12 could contribute to the higher incidence of colon cancer in Western countries, possibly by affecting the genetic pathways that control growth.
This could also be true with chemicals found in food packaging. Bisphenol A, or BPA, a compound found in plastic, turns on genetic dials in mammals that are critical to development, growth and fertility. For example, some researchers suspect that, in both humans and animal models, BPA influences the age of sexual differentiation and decreases fertility by making genetic switches more likely to turn on.
All of these examples point to the possibility that the genetic information in food could arise not just from its molecular composition – the amino acids, vitamins and the like – but also from the agricultural, environmental and economic policies of a country, or the lack of them.
Scientists have only recently begun decoding these genetic food messages and their role in health and disease. We researchers still don’t know precisely how nutrients act on genetic switches, what their rules of communication are and how the diets of past generations influence their progeny. Many of these studies have so far been done only in animal models, and much remains to be worked out about what the interactions between food and genes mean for humans.
What is clear though, is that unraveling the mysteries of nutrigenomics is likely to empower both present and future societies and generations.
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23 freight cars, new vehicles heavily damaged in train derailment in northern Arizona
WILLIAMS, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine the cause of a freight train derailment in northern Arizona that heavily damaged 23 cars and a load of new vehicles.
Coconino County Emergency Management officials said the derailment occurred around 11:20 p.m. Wednesday east of Williams, which is 33 miles (53 kilometers) west of Flagstaff.
They said the BNSF train cars were carrying a variety of new cars, vans and truck.
Photos from the derailment scene showed heavy damage to many vehicles and freight cars, white vans poking out of other damaged rail cars and an upside-down vehicle crushed under another freight car.
County Emergency Management officials said cleanup was already underway Thursday morning.
There was no immediate word from Texas-based BNSF Railway about the derailment.
There have been a rash of train derailments across the country in recent months, deepening concerns about rail safety in the U.S.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden traveled to Saudi Arabia last month on the possibility that he could get some additional oil production out of OPEC+ in coming weeks, but the cartel and other nations announced a scant increase Wednesday.
The White House responded by stressing that what matters is the steady decline in oil and gasoline prices from summer highs, not the actions taken by OPEC+ to pump an additional 100,000 barrels of oil in September. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre noted that the decline began June 14, the day the administration disclosed plans for Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia.
“The fact of the matter is that oil and gas prices are coming down,” Jean-Pierre told reporters at her briefing. “The moment he announced his trip we saw gas prices and oil prices coming down.”
While there may be a correlation, it is unclear whether the announced trip caused prices to decline. Oil prices can be determined by a wide range of factors including changes in supply, the pace of economic growth, geopolitical events and extreme weather.
Behind Jean-Pierre in the briefing room was a blue chart that showed a 17% drop in average U.S. gas costs since prices peaked at about $5 a gallon. AAA puts the current national average at $4.16 a gallon. Crude oil prices fell Wednesday to just below $91 a barrel, down from more than $120 in early June.
Still, gas prices are 31% above their level last year, frustrating voters ahead of the midterm elections and heightening concerns about an economic downturn in the U.S. and Europe as central banks try to get inflation under control.
Energy prices jumped after Russia, a major energy producer, invaded Ukraine in late February. That prompted a series of sanctions and other measures at a time when refining capacity was tight and oil production was still recovering from the pandemic that began in 2020. The Biden administration has called on OPEC+ as well as domestic producers and refineries to increase output, an effort the administration tried to bridge by releasing 1 million barrels daily from the U.S. strategic reserve.
The war in Ukraine quickly rejiggered global politics. Natural gas shortages threatened Europe and Biden’s approval ratings sank as prices at the pump climbed. Biden’s Saudi Arabia trip was something of an about-face, given that at a 2019 debate during the presidential campaign, Biden had called the kingdom a “pariah” for the killing of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi.
Yet after Biden met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in mid-July, Biden raised expectations that a meaningful amount of supply could be coming onto the market. Asked about the impact his meeting would have on oil prices, he said “you won’t see that for another couple of weeks” in what appeared to be a reference to Wednesday’s meeting of the OPEC oil cartel.
In a world that uses nearly 100 million barrels of oil daily, the added production amounted to a miniscule 0.1% increase. In a prior meeting, OPEC had boosted oil production by 648,000 barrels per day in July and August.
But in a statement, OPEC+ warned about the reasons why it was being cautious in adding oil to the market. The countries in the cartel, which is led by Saudi Arabia, needed to keep some of their oil capacity in reserve in case of future disruptions. They also noted the “chronic” lack of investment in oil production that has coincided with wealthier nations’ shift away from fossil fuels to address climate change.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian air defenses downed 32 of 35 Shahed exploding drones Russia launched early Tuesday, most of them in the Kyiv region, officials said, in a bombardment that exposed gaps in the country’s air protection after almost 16 months of war.
Russian forces mostly targeted the region around the Ukrainian capital in a nighttime drone attack lasting around three hours, officials said, with Ukrainian air defenses shooting down about two dozen.
The attack was part of a wider bombardment of Ukrainian regions that extended as far as the Lviv region in the west of the country, near Poland.
The Shahed drones made it all the way to Lviv because of the inability of air defense assets to cover such a broad area, Ukrainian air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said.
Air defense systems are mostly dedicated to protecting major cities, key infrastructure facilities, including nuclear power plants, and the front line, he said.
“There is a general lack of air defense assets to cover a country like Ukrainetactording to Lviv Gov. Maksym Kozytskyi.
Russia also struck the southern Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine with ballistic missiles.
Ukraine’s air defenses have been reinforced with sophisticated weapons from its Western allies, increasing the success rate at knocking down incoming drones and missiles.
Previously, a winter bombardment by Russia damaged Ukraine’s power supply, though speedy repairs blunted that Kremlin effort.
The latest aerial assaults behind Ukraine’s front line coincided with the early stages of a Ukrainian counteroffensive, as it aims to dislodge the Kremlin’s forces from territory they’ve occupied since a full-scale invasion in February 2022.
The counteroffensive has come up against heavily mined terrain and reinforced defensive fortifications, according to Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces.
Russia has also mustered a large number of reserves, Zaluzhnyi said in a post accompanying a video of him visiting front-line positions with other senior officers.
Heavy battles are taking place in eastern Ukraine, around Bakhmut, Lyman, Avdiivka and Marinka, the Ukrainian armed forces said. Russia shelled 15 cities and villages in the eastern Donetsk region, wounding five civilians, including three in Chasiv Yar near Bakhmut, according to Ukraine’s presidential office.
Russia has relocated about 20,000 troops from the areas in the Kherson region after flooding from the recent Kakhovka Dam collapse made it impossible for Ukraine to conduct an offensive there, Ukrainian military analyst Roman Svitan said.
The flooding removed the need for the Kremlin’s forces to protect about 300 kilometers (180 miles) of the more than 1,000-kilometer (680-mile) front line, according to Svitan, and allowed Moscow to increase its military density in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions where intensive fighting is occurring.
Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to breach the dam earlier this month while under Russian control, according to information obtained by The Associated Press.
Svitan said the Zaporizhzhia region appears to be the focus of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, seeking to smash through Russia’s land corridor with the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
In other developments:
—Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, known by its acronym SVR, invited Ukrainian diplomats stationed abroad to come to Russia with their families to avoid returning to Ukraine. It claimed many Ukrainian diplomats are unwilling to return home after their tours and want refugee status in the European Union and Asian countries where they worked.
—Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu alleged that Ukraine plans to use U.S.-made HIMARS and U.K.-provided Storm Shadow missiles to attack Russian territory, including Crimea. He warned that using those missiles on targets outside the current war zone would “trigger immediate strikes on the decision-making centers on the territory of Ukraine.” He didn’t elaborate and didn’t provide any evidence to support his claim, similar to his government’s earlier threats objecting to deployment of other Western weapons.
—Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov announced on Ukrainian television that Russia had mined the cooling system of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. “If they blow this up, there’s a high probability we’ll suffer heavy consequences,” Budanov warned. The plant’s six reactors are shut down but still need cooling. His claim couldn’t be confirmed.
—The Russian parliament’s lower house, the State Duma, on Tuesday approved a bill envisaging pardons for criminal convicts who join Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, a move aimed at boosting troop numbers during the first stages of Ukraine’s counteroffensive. Another bill passed by the Duma on Tuesday eases restrictions on volunteer soldiers, allowing ex-convicts to sign contracts with the military during a period of mobilization. The legislation next goes to the parliament’s upper house, then to President Vladimir Putin for expected final approval.
Even before passage of the legislation, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the millionaire owner of the Wagner Group military contractor, has been allowed to recruit criminal convicts as mercenaries, promising them pardons if they survive six months of fighting.
—Budanov contradicted statements from Putin and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko that Russian tactical nuclear weapons already have been deployed to Belarus. “The process of preparation to their possible movement is continuing,” Budanov said on television. “The storage facilities are being prepared, but not a single warhead has been moved yet.” Putin first said the weapons would be deployed after the storage sites for them are prepared in July, then Lukashenko declared last Tuesday that some had already been moved to Belarus. On Friday, Putin himself said some have been deployed as a deterrent against Western efforts to defeat Russia in Ukraine.
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Yuras Karmanau contributed from Tallinn, Estonia.
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Award Highlights the Work of the Sony Global Social Justice Fund
NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Corporation of America (SCA) is proud to announce that it has received the Global Business Alliance's 2022 Corporate Social Responsibility Award. The focus of the award is Sony's Global Social Justice Fund, a $100 million global fund formed in 2020 to support social justice, anti-racist initiatives and educational opportunities that foster equal rights.
In the U.S., SCA developed a long-term strategy for the use of the Fund, focusing support in the areas of criminal justice reform, civic engagement/civil rights/human rights, historical institutions, education (internships, scholarships and mentoring opportunities), mental health, and food insecurity. It has formed community partnerships with worthy nonprofit organizations such as the Asian American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, JustLeadership USA, The Doe Fund, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), PolicyLink, the Steve Fund, Youth About Business and the International African American Museum.
"We are honored to be recognized for our work in social responsibility by the Global Business Alliance. At SCA, our efforts with the Global Social Justice Fund reflect the Sony Group's commitment to respecting human rights and fostering diversity, equity and inclusion," said Mark Khalil, President of Sony Corporation of America. "I am proud that as a company, Sony saw and understood the need to further these efforts by building meaningful, sustainable and impactful partnerships to help combat hate and racism, and create a more just and equal society."
"International companies not only employ nearly eight million Americans in high-quality jobs, they also heavily contribute to strengthening our local communities," said Nancy McLernon, President and CEO of the Global Business Alliance. "This year, we are proud to spotlight Sony Corporation of America for its extraordinary commitment to advancing social justice in communities across America."
Sony's Global Social Justice Fund aligns with community partners and stakeholders to help promote solutions in the areas of civic and community engagement, criminal justice reform, education, and diversity through impact. The Fund is instrumental in upholding the belief that everyone deserves equal opportunities and economic, political, and social rights. To learn more about the Global Social Justice Fund, visit https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/csr/community/social_justice_fund/.
Sony Corporation of America, located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Group Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing LLC and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth. To learn more: www.sony.com/en.
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New platform features include live market data, streamlined signup and customizable reconditioning & inspection templates
LEHI, Utah, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Carketa, the dealership decision intelligence system, has launched its newly revamped platform to help dealerships of all sizes streamline their vehicle inventory management through every step of the process – from appraisal to inspection, reconditioning, pricing and sale.
The retooled platform includes now-customizable reconditioning and inspection templates that Carketa users love, plus the integration of live market data from over 20 million vehicle listings across North America to help dealers adjust quickly and easily to market conditions and move more inventory.
"Dealerships need simple, intelligent tools to help them manage their whole operation," said Tim Hansen, CEO. "Faster inventory turn, clear handoffs and better margins on every car is a recipe for a more successful and profitable dealership. With our updated platform, mobile apps and Chrome extension, we're helping dealers make better decisions every single day."
Platform updates include:
- NEW! Appraisals: Appraise vehicles on-site or online in a few simple steps. Carketa's live market data automatically populates comparable vehicles and helps you decide what to offer based on real listings in your local area.
- NEW! Streamlined Signup & Onboarding: Start using Carketa's platform within minutes with the new simple signup process and automated DMS sync. Invite team members on day one and begin customizing your workflows without a months-long onboarding process.
- NEW! Vehicle Pricing: Leveraging real market data, Carketa helps dealers identify opportunities to move cars faster and price for maximum profit. Price your way easily based on percentage to market and market rank.
- Reconditioning: Recondition your way and streamline each step of the process. With Carketa's new platform, users can now automate handoffs and make sure vehicles move swiftly from the shop to body work to detailing to front-line ready with ease. When work is assigned to a team member or vendor, they're notified immediately and can communicate with other users if they have questions.
- Inspections: Dealers can use one of Carketa's best-practice templates, customize one to fit their needs or build their own inspection from scratch. With the Carketa mobile app, anyone at the dealership can document work needed and add it to recon steps with ease.
- Sales Packets: Generate condition reports easily based on your inspection & reconditioning flows, and download OEM window stickers to create an enhanced sales tool that differentiates your dealership.
Since its launch in late 2018, Carketa has brought reconditioning and inspections software to thousands of motor vehicle dealerships across the U.S. & Canada. Backed by Crosslink Capital, Origin Ventures, Hack VC, Stanford University, Lancaster Investments, and I2BF Global Ventures, the Utah-based SaaS company has a track record of innovation in the automotive sector. Most recently, Carketa partnered with the National Independent Automobile Dealership Association (NIADA) to power its Certified Pre-Owned program for member dealerships.
Dealerships interested in taking the new platform for a test drive can sign up for a free trial or schedule a demo here.
About Carketa
Carketa is the dealership decision intelligence system that helps automotive dealers turn inventory faster to maximize their profits. From acquisition to sale, we make every step easier for the entire team at the dealership. With live market data from more than 20 million vehicle listings plus customizable reconditioning and inspection templates, managing inventory has never been easier. Carketa was founded in 2018 & built by dealers looking for better reconditioning and inspection software to improve their own dealership.
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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A flight by private Syrian airline Cham Wings landed on Tuesday at an airport used by Russia’s military in the coastal province of Latakia in western Syria, the country’s state news agency reported.
The flight from the city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates was the first to land in at the airbase since Damascus airport was damaged by an Israeli airstrike earlier this month.
It is also the first Syrian international flight to land at the facility since Russia took it over after joining the war in Syria in September 2015, helping tip the balance of power in favor of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces.
The Bassel al-Assad International Airport — known by the Russians as the Hmeimeem base — serves Latakia, Syria’s key port on the Mediterranean.
The June 10 Israeli airstrike that struck Damascus International Airport caused significant damage to infrastructure and runways and rendered the main runway unserviceable. Work is still ongoing to fix the damage.
Since then, flights have been mostly diverted to the international airport in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and once its principal commercial center.
The Hmeimeem base is home to Russian warplanes that have for years been used to stage bombing runs against Assad’s opponents as well as suspected hideouts of the Islamic State group. In 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin landed at the base where he met with Assad and top Russian and Syrian officers.
Israel’s military has declined to comment on the Damascus airport airstrike. The Syrian capital’s airport is located just south of Damascus, where Syrian opposition activists say Iran-backed militiamen are active and have arms depots.
Israel has staged hundreds of strikes on targets in Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations. The airport strike marked a major escalation in Israel’s years-long campaign of airstrikes in Syria, further ratcheting up tensions between Israel on one side and Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah on the other.
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South Korea to restore Japan’s trade status to improve ties
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday his government will move to restore Japan’s preferential trade status as he pushes to resolve history and trade disputes with Japan despite domestic opposition.
In lengthy, televised comments during a Cabinet Council meeting, Yoon defended his moves, saying that leaving ties with Japan as fraught as they are would be neglecting his duty because greater bilateral cooperation is vital to resolve diverse challenges facing Seoul.
“I thought it would be like neglecting my duty as president if I had also incited hostile nationalism and anti-Japan sentiments to use them for domestic politics while leaving behind the current, grave international political situation,” Yoon said.
He said the need to boost ties with Japan has grown because of North Korea’s advancing nuclear program, the intensifying U.S.-China strategic rivalry and global supply chain challenges.
South Korea and Japan have deep economic and cultural ties and are both key U.S. allies that together host about 80,000 U.S. troops. But their relations have often fluctuated mainly due to issues stemming from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
At the center of the recent impasse was the 2018 South Korean court rulings that ordered two Japanese companies to compensate some of their former Korean employees for forced labor during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. Japan refused to accept the rulings, saying all compensation issues had already been settled when the two countries normalized ties in 1965.
The history disputes spilled over to other issues, with the two countries downgrading each other’s trade status. Japan also tightened controls on exports to South Korea, while Seoul threatened to terminate a military intelligence-sharing pact.
After months of negotiations with Japan, Yoon’s government earlier this month announced it would use local funds to compensate the forced laborer victims involved in the 2018 lawsuits without requiring contributions from the Japanese companies.
Last week, Yoon traveled to Tokyo for a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, during which they agreed to resume regular visits and economic security talks.
Ahead of the summit, the South Korean government said Japan had agreed to lift export controls on South Korea, and that South Korea would also withdraw its complaint to the World Trade Organization once the curbs are removed. They said the two countries would continue talks on restoring each other’s trade status as well.
Yoon’s push has triggered protests from some of the forced labor victims, their supporters and opposition political parties who have demanded direct compensation from the Japanese companies and a direct apology from Tokyo over the forced labor. A public survey suggested about 60% of Koreans opposed Yoon’s measures to resolve the forced labor issue.
In his Cabinet Council remarks, Yoon said he will order his trade minister to begin taking legal steps needed to reinclude Japan in a “whitelist” of nations receiving preferential trade status.
He said both South Korea and Japan must remove obstacles that hinder the improvement of bilateral ties. “If South Korea preemptively eliminates obstacles, Japan will surely reciprocate,” he said.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — China and Southeast Asian nations agreed Thursday to try and conclude within three years a long-delayed nonaggression pact aimed at preventing the frequent territorial spats in the busy South China Sea from turning into a major armed conflict.
China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed Thursday during a meeting between the 10-nation bloc's foreign ministers and China's top diplomat Wang Yi in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta to guidelines to complete their code of conduct negotiations before fall 2026, a Southeast Asian diplomat involved in the meetings told The Associated Press.
The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity due to a lack of authority to discuss the issue publicly ahead of the official announcement of the agreement.
China and four of ASEAN’s member states — Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam — along with Taiwan have been locked in a decades-long territorial standoff in the disputed waterway, a key passageway for global trade that is believed to be sitting atop vast undersea deposits of oil and gas.
The contested territory has long been feared as an Asian flashpoint and has become a sensitive front in the U.S.-China rivalry in the region.
A joint working group by China and ASEAN “should endeavor to conclude the negotiation of an effective and substantive code of conduct, in accordance with international law, including the 1982 U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea, within a 3-year timeline or earlier,” according to the guidelines, a copy of which was seen by the AP.
The guidelines called for more meetings between the two sides and the start of negotiations for the most contentious issues, including whether the regional code should be legally enforceable and its geographical scope.
Washington lays no territorial claims in the South China Sea but has said that freedom of navigation and overflight and the peaceful resolution of the disputes were in the United States' national interest. It has challenged China's expansive territorial claims in the region and Beijing has angrily reacted by warning the U.S. to stop meddling in what it calls a purely Asian dispute.
China and ASEAN signed a nonbinding 2002 accord that called on rival claimant nations to avoid aggressive actions that could spark armed conflicts, including the occupation of barren islets and reefs, but violations have persisted.
About 10 years ago, China turned seven disputed reefs into what have become missile-protected chain of islands in the Spratlys, the most hotly contested part of the South China Sea, sparking alarm from rival claimant states and the U.S. and its allies. With tensions rising, ASEAN and China had agreed to negotiate for a code of conduct. But the talks were delayed for years, including during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, and because of major differences between China and rival claimant states.
Chinese negotiators have proposed that the code of conduct restrict the presence and activities of foreign forces in the disputed waters. Southeast Asian diplomats have said that U.S. allies involved in the talks were opposed given their stance that Washington serves a crucial role as a counterweight to Beijing in the region.
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HONOLULU — Austin Reed threw three touchdown passes and ran for a score and Western Kentucky rolled to a 49-17 victory over Hawaii on Saturday.
Western Kentucky capped off a 21-point second quarter with Reed’s 47-yard scoring strike to Joshua Simon and the Hilltoppers led by 11 at halftime.
WKU upped its lead to 28-10 after three quarters when Reed hit Jaylen Hall for a 17-yard score. Kye Robichaux pushed the Hilltoppers’ advantage to 35-10 with a 7-yard TD run early in the final period. Reed and Davion Ervin-Poindexter had short scoring runs after that.
Reed completed 22 of 31 passes for 271 yards with one interception.
Schager finished with 230 yards on 22-of-33 passing for the Rainbow Warriors (0-2). Backup QB Joey Yellen completed 4 of 11 passes for 36 yards with a pick. Dedrick Parson and Nasjzae Bryant-Lelei had short TD runs.
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Timken Reports Strong Third-Quarter 2022 Results; Raises Full-Year Outlook
Published: Oct. 26, 2022 at 5:51 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Sales of $1.14 billion, up nearly 10 percent in total and 14 percent organically from last year
Third-quarter earnings per diluted share of $1.18 on a GAAP basis, with adjusted EPS of $1.52
Raises adjusted earnings outlook; now expects 2022 GAAP earnings per diluted share of $5.15 to $5.30 and adjusted EPS of $5.80 to $5.95
NORTH CANTON, Ohio, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR; www.timken.com), a global leader in engineered bearings and industrial motion products, today reported third-quarter 2022 sales of $1.14 billion, up 9.6 percent from the same period a year ago. The increase was driven primarily by growth across most end-market sectors led by industrial distribution and off-highway, and the impact of higher pricing, partially offset by unfavorable foreign currency translation. Organically, third-quarter sales were up 13.6 percent versus the prior year.
Timken posted net income in the third quarter of $87.0 million or $1.18 per diluted share. This compares to net income of $88.1 million or $1.14 per diluted share for the same period a year ago. The slight year-on-year decrease in net income reflects the net unfavorable impact of special items (detailed in the attached tables), higher operating costs and a higher tax rate, offset by positive price/mix and the favorable impact of higher volume. Current-period special items include an impairment charge related to the anticipated divestiture of the company's Aerospace Drive Systems (ADS) business.
Excluding special items, adjusted net income in the third quarter was $112.6 million or $1.52 per diluted share, a record for the third quarter. This compares to adjusted net income of $91.0 million or $1.18 per diluted share for the same period in 2021.
Net cash from operations for the third quarter was $145.2 million, and free cash flow was $97.9 million. Timken ended the third quarter with net debt to adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) at 1.8 times. During the quarter, the company returned $71.8 million of cash to shareholders through dividends and the repurchase of 750 thousand shares of company stock.
"Timken delivered excellent performance again in the third quarter, achieving double-digit organic revenue growth and solid year-over-year margin expansion," said Richard G. Kyle, Timken president and chief executive officer. "As we outlined at our recent Investor Day, our strong results reflect the successful execution of our strategy and proven business model, the diversity of our portfolio and attractive end-market mix, and our consistent and disciplined approach to capital allocation."
Among other recent developments,
In September, Timken reached an agreement to acquire GGB Bearings, a global supplier of highly engineered and customized plain bearings and a leader in metal polymer bearings. GGB Bearings revenue is expected to be around $200 million in 2022. The acquisition remains on track to close in the fourth quarter;
The company published its annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, which included a 2030 target to reduce aggregate Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 50 percent[i];
Timken held its 2022 Investor Day on September 28 in New York City, where the company highlighted past performance, provided new long-term financial targets and outlined opportunities to drive further shareholder value; and
Earlier this month, Timken reached an agreement to divest ADS, a supplier of drive system components and sub-assemblies for military and civil rotorcraft applications. ADS revenue is expected to be around $50 million in 2022. Timken expects to close on the sale of ADS in the fourth quarter.
Third-Quarter 2022 Segment Results
Process Industries sales of $609.5 million increased 10.8 percent from the same period a year ago. The increase was driven primarily by growth across most sectors led by distribution, general industrial and heavy industries, as well as the impact of higher pricing and the benefit of acquisitions, partially offset by lower revenue in the renewable energy sector and unfavorable foreign currency translation.
EBITDA for the quarter was $165.3 million or 27.1 percent of sales, compared with EBITDA of $129.7 million or 23.6 percent of sales for the same period a year ago. The increase in EBITDA was driven primarily by positive price/mix and the favorable impact of higher volume, partially offset by higher operating costs.
Excluding special items (detailed in the attached tables), adjusted EBITDA in the quarter was $166.7 million or 27.4 percent of sales, compared with $130.7 million or 23.8 percent of sales in the third quarter last year.
Mobile Industries sales of $526.9 million increased 8.1 percent compared with the same period a year ago. The increase was driven primarily by higher shipments across most sectors led by off-highway and automotive, and the impact of higher pricing, partially offset by unfavorable foreign currency translation.
EBITDA for the quarter was $20.0 million or 3.8 percent of sales, compared with EBITDA of $53.2 million or 10.9 percent of sales for the same period a year ago. The decrease in EBITDA was driven primarily by higher operating costs and the ADS impairment charge, partially offset by positive price/mix and the favorable impact of higher volume.
Excluding special items (detailed in the attached tables), adjusted EBITDA in the quarter was $55.1 million or 10.5 percent of sales, compared with $58.2 million or 11.9 percent of sales in the third quarter last year.
2022 Outlook
Timken now anticipates 2022 earnings per diluted share to range from $5.15 to $5.30 for the full year on a GAAP basis. Excluding special items, the company is increasing its 2022 adjusted earnings outlook to a range of $5.80 to $5.95 per share, which represents around 25 percent growth versus 2021 at the midpoint. The company now expects 2022 revenue to be up approximately 9 percent in total at the midpoint from 2021.
"Timken is raising its 2022 outlook to reflect strength in market demand as well as our improving performance," said Kyle. "We are seeing positive momentum as we approach 2023, and we are continuing to improve our operational execution in a dynamic environment. Our backlog is at a high level, price-cost remains positive, and we are confident in our ability to create value with the GGB Bearings acquisition. Our team remains focused on executing our proven strategy to scale our position as a diversified industrial leader and deliver top-quartile financial performance."
Conference Call Information
Timken will host a conference call today at 11 a.m. Eastern Time to review its financial results. Presentation materials will be available online in advance of the call for interested investors and securities analysts.
Certain statements in this release (including statements regarding the company's forecasts, estimates, plans and expectations) that are not historical in nature are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In particular, the statements related to expectations regarding the company's future financial performance, including information under the heading "2022 Outlook," are forward-looking.
The company cautions that actual results may differ materially from those projected or implied in forward-looking statements due to a variety of important factors, including: the finalization of the company's financial statements for the third quarter of 2022; the company's ability to respond to the changes in its end markets that could affect demand for the company's products or services; unanticipated changes in business relationships with customers or their purchases from the company; changes in the financial health of the company's customers, which may have an impact on the company's revenues, earnings and impairment charges; logistical issues associated with port closures or congestion, delays or increased costs; the impact of changes to the company's accounting methods; political risks associated with government instability; recent world events that have increased the risks posed by international trade disputes, tariffs and sanctions; weakness in global or regional general economic conditions and capital markets; the impact of inflation on employee expenses, shipping costs, raw material costs, energy and fuel prices, and other production costs; the company's ability to satisfy its obligations under its debt agreements and renew or refinance borrowings on favorable terms in a rising interest rate environment; fluctuations in currency valuations; changes in the expected costs associated with product warranty claims; the ability to achieve satisfactory operating results in the integration of acquired companies, including realizing any accretion, synergies, and expected cashflow generation within expected timeframes or at all; fluctuations in customer demand; the impact on the company's pension obligations and assets due to changes in interest rates, investment performance and other tactics designed to reduce risk; the introduction of new disruptive technologies; unplanned plant shutdowns; the effects of government-imposed restrictions and commercial requirements meant to address climate change; unanticipated litigation, claims, investigations or assessments; the company's ability to maintain positive relations with unions and works councils; the company's ability to compete for skilled labor; negative impacts to the company's operations or financial position as a result of COVID-19 or other epidemics and associated governmental measures; and the company's ability to complete and achieve the benefits of announced plans, programs, initiatives, acquisitions and capital investments. Additional factors are discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2021, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. Except as required by the federal securities laws, the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Floridians should be alert for the potential impacts of Hurricane Ian, which is forecast to make landfall in the state in the middle of this week, according to the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I).
The Triple-I offers these preparedness tips for all residents in Ian's path:
- Review your evacuation plan and, if you have a pet, your pet's evacuation plan
- Make sure your hurricane kit includes a minimum seven-day supply of non-perishable food and drinking water (one gallon per person, per day) for all family members and pets, as well as a one-week supply of medications for everyone in your household.
- Write down the name and phone number of your insurer and insurance professional and keep this information either in your wallet or purse
- Purchase emergency supplies, such as batteries and flashlights
- Fully charge your cell phones so you can receive weather alerts
- Prepare your yard by removing all outdoor furniture, lawn items, planters and other materials that could become airborne due to high winds
- Fill your car's gasoline tank
Damage caused by hurricanes and tropical storms are covered under different insurance policies, according to the Triple-I.
Wind-caused property damage is covered under standard homeowners, renters and business insurance policies. Renters' insurance covers a renter's possessions while the landlord insures the structure.
Property damage to a home, a renter's possessions, and a business – resulting from a flood – is generally covered under a FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policy, if the homeowner, renter or business has purchased one. Dozens of private insurers also offer flood insurance.
Private-passenger vehicles damaged or destroyed by either wind or flooding are covered under the optional comprehensive portion of an auto insurance policy. Nearly 80 percent of U.S. drivers choose to purchase comprehensive coverage.
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By JIM MUSTIAN and JESSE BEDAYN (Associated Press)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The suspect in a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub is expected to strike a plea deal to state murder and hate charges that would ensure at least a life sentence for the attack that killed five people and wounded 17, several survivors told The Associated Press.
Word of a possible legal resolution of last year’s Club Q massacre follows a series of jailhouse phone calls from the suspect to the AP expressing remorse and the intention to face the consequences at the next scheduled court hearing this month.
“I have to take responsibility for what happened,” 23-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich said in their first public comments about the case.
Federal and state authorities and defense attorneys declined to comment on a possible plea deal. But Colorado law requires victims to be notified of such deals, and several people who lost loved ones or were wounded in the attack told the AP that state prosecutors have given them advance word that Aldrich will plead guilty to charges that would ensure the maximum state sentence of life behind bars.
Prosecutors also recently asked survivors to prepare for the June 26 hearing by writing victim-impact statements and steeling themselves emotionally for the possible release of the Club Q surveillance video of the attack.
“Someone’s gone that can never be brought back through the justice system,” said Wyatt Kent, who was celebrating his 23rd birthday in Club Q when Aldrich opened fire, gunning down Kent’s partner, Daniel Aston, who was working behind the bar. “We are all still missing a lot, a partner, a son, a daughter, a best friend.”
Jonathan Pullen, the suspect’s step-grandfather who plans to watch the upcoming hearing on a livestream, said Aldrich “has to realize what happened on that terrible night. It’s truly beginning to dawn on him.”
Aldrich faces more than 300 state counts, including murder and hate crimes. And the U.S. Justice Department is considering filing federal hate crime charges, according to a senior law enforcement official familiar with the matter who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing case. It’s unclear whether the anticipated resolution to the state prosecution will also resolve the ongoing FBI investigation.
Some survivors who listened to the suspect’s recorded comments to the AP lambasted them as a calculated attempt to avoid the federal death penalty, noting they stopped short of discussing a motive, put much of the blame on drugs and characterized the crime in passive, generalities such as “I just can’t believe what happened” and “I wish I could turn back time.” Such language, they said, belied by the maps, diagrams, online rants and other evidence that showed months of plotting and premeditation.
“No one has sympathy for him,” said Michael Anderson, who was bartending at Club Q when the shooting broke out and ducked as several patrons were gunned down around him. “This community has to live with what happened, with collective trauma, with PTSD, trying to grieve the loss of our friends, to move past emotional wounds and move past what we heard, saw and smelled.”
Terror erupted just before midnight on Nov. 19 when the suspect walked into Club Q, a longtime sanctuary for the LGBTQ community in this mostly conservative city of 480,000, and fired an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle indiscriminately. Disbelief gave way to screaming and confusion as the music continued to play. Partygoers dove across a bloody dance floor for cover. Friends frantically tried to protect each other and plugged wounds with napkins.
The killing only stopped after a Navy petty officer grabbed the barrel of the suspect’s rifle, burning his hand because it was so hot. An Army veteran joined in to help subdue and beat Aldrich until police arrived, finding the shooter had emptied one high-capacity magazine and was armed with several more.
Aldrich, who since their arrest has identified as nonbinary and uses the pronouns they and them, allegedly visited Club Q at least six times in the years before the attack. District Attorney Michael Allen told a judge that the suspect’s mother made Aldrich go to the club “against his will and sort of forced that culture on him.”
Allen also has said the suspect administered a website that posted a “neo-Nazi white supremacist” shooting training video. Online gaming friends said Aldrich expressed hatred for the police, LGBTQ people and minorities and used anti-Black and anti-gay slurs. And a police detective testified that Aldrich sent an online message with a photo of a rifle scope trained on a gay pride parade.
Defense attorneys in previous hearings have not disputed Aldrich’s role in the shooting but have pushed back against allegations it was motivated by hate, arguing the suspect was drugged up on cocaine and medication the night of the attack.
“I don’t know if this is common knowledge but I was on a very large plethora of drugs,” Aldrich told the AP. “I had been up for days. I was abusing steroids. … I’ve finally been able to get off that crap I was on.”
Aldrich didn’t answer directly when asked whether the attack was motivated by hate, saying only that’s “completely off base.”
Even a former friend of Aldrich found their remarks to be disingenuous. “I’m really glad he’s trying to take accountability but it’s like the ‘why’ is being shoved under the rug,” said Xavier Kraus, who lived across the hall from Aldrich at a Colorado Springs apartment complex.
The AP sent Aldrich a handwritten letter several months ago asking them to discuss a 2021 kidnapping arrest following a standoff with a SWAT team, a prosecution that had been dismissed and sealed despite video evidence of Aldrich’s crimes. In that case, just months before the Club Q shooting, they threatened to become “the next mass killer” and stockpiled guns, ammo, body armor and a homemade bomb. The incident was livestreamed on Facebook and prompted the evacuation of 10 nearby homes as authorities discovered a tub with more than 100 pounds of explosive materials.
The alleged shooter, who lived with their grandparents at the time and was upset about their plans to move to Florida, threatened to kill the couple and “go out in a blaze,” authorities said. “You guys die today and I’m taking you with me,” they quoted the suspect as saying. “I’m loaded and ready.”
The charges were dismissed even after relatives wrote a judge warning that Aldrich was “certain” to commit murder if freed. District Attorney Allen, facing heavy criticism, later attributed the dismissal of the case to Aldrich’s family members refusing to cooperate and repeatedly dodging out-of-state subpoenas.
In response to AP’s letter, Aldrich first phoned a reporter in March and asked to be paid for an interview, a request that was declined. They called back late last month, days after prosecutors wrote in a court filing that there was “near-unanimous sentiment” among the victims for “the most expedient determination of case-related issues.”
In a series of six calls, each limited by an automated jail phone system to 15 minutes, the suspect said: “Nothing’s ever going to bring back their loved ones. People are going to have to live with injury that can’t be repaired.”
Asked why it happened, they said, “I don’t know. That’s why I think it’s so hard to comprehend that it did happen. … I’m either going to get the death penalty federally or I will go to prison for life, that’s a given.”
While the AP normally would not provide a platform to someone alleged to have committed such a crime, editors judged that the suspect’s stated intent to accept responsibility and expression of remorse were newsworthy and should be reported.
Former Club Q bartender Anderson was among survivors who told prosecutors they wanted a fast resolution of the criminal case.
“My fear is that if this takes years, that prevents the processing and moving on and finding peace beyond this case,” he said. “I would love this wrapped up as quickly as possible under the guarantee that justice is served.”
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CAMBRIDGE, England, and GHENT, Belgium, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mestag Therapeutics ('Mestag'), an immunotherapy company focusing on fibroblast-immune interactions, and VIB, the leading life science research institute in Flanders, today announced entering into an agreement under which Mestag obtains the exclusive worldwide rights to research, develop and commercialize a panel of single domain antibodies, also known as Nanobodies®, to an undisclosed target that plays a central role in anti-cancer immunity.
Under the terms of the agreement, Mestag will be responsible for the research, development and commercialization of the antibodies, which are the outcome of many years of leading-edge research within VIB. In return, VIB will receive an upfront payment, future success-based milestones and royalty payments.
Susan Hill, PhD, Chief Executive Officer of Mestag Therapeutics, said, "We are delighted to partner with VIB, one of the premier research institutes in Europe and a leader in nanobody technology and cancer biology. This agreement further strengthens Mestag's first-in-class pipeline and targets an exciting new area of fibroblast-immune cancer biology."
"We are thrilled to work with Mestag. Mestag brings together a unique expertise set in fibroblast-immune biology and a deep understanding of antibody engineering and development. The company is perfectly positioned to take this promising program forward," said Jérôme Van Biervliet, PhD, Managing Director of VIB.
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About Mestag Therapeutics
Mestag is an immunotherapy company harnessing new insights into fibroblast-immune interactions to develop impactful treatments for patients. We are progressing a pipeline of sophisticated first-in-class antibodies designed to improve the lives of patients with cancer and inflammatory disease. Together with our collaboration partner Janssen Biotech, Inc. we are also identifying novel targets for future therapies.
Our founding investigators comprise global experts in inflammatory disease, cancer, computational biology and fibroblast biology from the University of Oxford, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. We are supported by leading life science investors SV Health Investors, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc., Forbion, GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Northpond Ventures.
Mestag is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, and in 2021 was recognized on the Fierce 15 list of innovative biotechnology companies.
For further information please visit our website www.mestagtherapeutics.com
About VIB
VIB is an independent, entrepreneurial research institute in life sciences. The mission of VIB is to make a positive impact on society through scientific progress and real-world applications. At VIB, some 1,800 top scientists from Belgium and abroad conduct groundbreaking basic research into the molecular underpinning of life. As such, they are pushing the boundaries of what we know about molecular mechanisms and how they rule living organisms such as human beings, animals, plants, and microorganisms. VIB's technology transfer activities translate these insights into concrete applications that benefit society, such as new treatments and diagnostics tools for human health and new methods to adapt crops to rapidly changing climate conditions. Collaboration is vital to achieving our mission. VIB operates in close partnership with the five universities in Flanders – Ghent University, KU Leuven, University of Antwerp, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Hasselt University. Young startups often develop applications from VIB or other companies working with VIB. As such, VIB contributes to a vibrant life sciences ecosystem surrounding us.
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Healthtech startup to use fast-track award to build privacy-preserving, decentralized data platform facilitating research of rare genetic diseases
HOUSTON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthtech company Geneial announces a multimillion dollar, non-dilutive award from the National Human Genome Research Institute to fund the development of their secure, decentralized platform.
Geneial's platform will connect researchers of rare genetic diseases with relevant data while preserving patient privacy. Geneial's platform aims to help researchers leverage large datasets of rare disease populations, incentivizing custodians of biomedical data to grant researchers access to highly targeted biomedical data.
This unique new award is part of a highly selective "Small Business Transition Grant for Early Career Scientists" program with fewer than ten companies funded to date. In previous work, Geneial demonstrated a proof-of-concept for HIPAA-compliant privacy-preserving registry search using the Xia-Gibbs syndrome (XGS) registry at the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC) – led by Richard A. Gibbs, AC Ph.D., a global leader in genetics.
"We are honored to have the backing of the NIH and HGSC as we realize our mission of advancing genetic and personalized medicine," shared Adam Hansen, Ph.D., CEO of Geneial and Principal Investigator of this project.
He continued, "Over 400 million individuals worldwide suffer from a rare disease, yet only 5% of these have an available treatment – this is largely because data is highly fragmented across silos, which impedes the progress of research and therapeutic development. Accessing data across silos is necessary, but data privacy and ownership concerns prevent widespread data exchange. To solve this, we are building a decentralized, HIPAA-compliant platform for granular data exchange that safeguards individual privacy and protects data ownership."
Dr. Gibbs shared of the collaboration, "At the HGSC we have been impressed with Geneial's nuanced understanding of the problems facing data interoperability and exchange and with how their products and roadmap are calibrated to address key issues. We are eager to continue our partnership through the course of this grant and beyond as their offerings expand."
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida teenager was seriously injured in a shark attack Thursday, according to reports.
WTXL reported that the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office said deputies and rescue personnel had to help a girl who was bitten by a shark while she was scalloping near Grassy Island.
According to authorities, the attack happened in waters that were five feet deep. The type of shark was unknown, but it was said to be around nine feet long.
The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office said that a family member had to beat the shark to make it let go of the girl. She was later airlifted to a local hospital to be treated for serious injuries. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/florida-girl-attacked-by-9-foot-shark-while-scalloping/ | 2022-07-01 18:56:52 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/florida-girl-attacked-by-9-foot-shark-while-scalloping/ |
NFL reader Q&A: Should Rams trade Jalen Ramsey? When will Chargers contend?
The season is not unfolding the way Rams and Chargers fans thought it might. Injuries, underperformance and play-calling are just some of the issues that have readers miffed. Rams beat writer Gary Klein, Chargers beat writer Jeff Miller and national NFL writer Sam Farmer address fans’ concerns and questions:
It appears to me that Jalen Ramsey’s production has slipped considerably this season. He has been burned often by leading receivers of the opposing team. He and other Rams corners have maddeningly been playing very loose coverage, allowing teams easy 5-to-7-yard completions with the threat of long gains with yards after the catch. Should the Rams consider trading Ramsey for a package of high draft picks in the upcoming draft?
Ram Ambatipudi, Glendale
Klein: With the Rams going through a lost season, general manager Les Snead and coach Sean McVay will consider all options. The NFL is a cold-hearted business. Every player is a potentially tradable asset. According to overthecap.com, Ramsey next season is scheduled to earn a base salary of $17 million and carry a salary-cap number of $25.2 million. That is a large financial commitment. Ramsey remains an elite player and no doubt would be valued by another team looking to contend for a Super Bowl.
The Times’ Sam Farmer analyzes each matchup and predicts the winners in NFL Week 14. The Raiders will beat the Rams while the Bills take down the Jets.
As a child I grew up following the Chargers, even went to a few games at the old Balboa Stadium in the old AFL days. After moving to Northern California in the 1970s I began to also follow the 49ers. After the Eddie DeBartolo debacle, the 49ers fell into the ownership hands of Jed York and had a great downward spiral for several years. At some point York stood back and gave the reins to football people who were given funding to field a team, at which point the team began to become a winner again. It is amazing what their current GM and head coach have done! Cut back to the Chargers, it seems obvious ownership is at a loss to field a winning team, in addition, [Justin] Herbert is getting the crap beat out of him! Will this ever change?
Joe Gee, Northern California
Miller: So the question is: Will the Chargers ever be good? The 2018 team I covered won a playoff game, at least. Does that count? The Chargers are one of 12 current NFL teams to never win a Super Bowl. My guess is that will change at some point, but good luck trying to forecast when.
They appear to have a promising future with quarterback Justin Herbert. If he plays here at an elite level for another, say, 12 years, I could see the Chargers contending for a Super Bowl title during that time.
I would imagine most team practices are on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. How long does practice last? And what do they do on Monday and Saturday?
Jeffrey Bortz, Boone, N.C.
Klein: The Rams’ schedule for a typical week with a game on Sunday would go like this:
Sunday: Game
Monday: Film review and rehab
Tuesday: Off
Wednesday: Meetings, walk-through and practice
Thursday: Meetings, walk-through and practice
Friday: Meetings, walk-through, short practice
Saturday: Meetings and jog-through.
That schedule changes with the run-up to Monday night games and Thursday night games, but the routine stays mostly the same. Practices last about 90 minutes, though the Rams cut back as the season progresses.
Baker Mayfield was waived by the Panthers on Monday and claimed by the Rams on Tuesday. Coach Sean McVay said Mayfield could be available to play Thursday against Las Vegas.
If an NFL player is injured in a playoff or Super Bowl game with a non-guaranteed contract and is not physically able to play the next year, are they paid for the following year and by whom? What happens when a free agent like the Rams’ Odell Beckham Jr. gets injured in the Super Bowl and cannot play most of the year? How much do they get paid?
Phil Hershon, Chatsworth
Klein: Very few NFL contracts are fully guaranteed. But if a player signs a multiyear contract, and the team does not cut him after the season, he receives his pay the next season even if he is rehabilitating. Odell Beckham Jr. signed a one-year, incentive-laden contract with the Rams. He received his bonuses for the playoff victories and the Super Bowl. But the Rams’ financial responsibility ended. Also, remember that NFL players’ full salaries are paid per regular-season game.
More than ever, a team’s success is determined by who’s injured, especially the quarterback, rather than which is really the better team. I can’t think of another sport that has this dimension. Friends say I should follow soccer where, for the most part, your favorite players are there week after week. How do you change that?
Jack Meyer, Portland, Ore.
Klein: Quarterback is arguably the most important position in professional sports. You could argue that the great thing about the NFL is that a team’s situation changes almost weekly because of the injury situation, forcing coaches and other players to rise to the occasion and figure out ways to strategically overcome the losses. But I would not discount your friends’ advice. Soccer, especially at the highest international level, is great.
Miller: Football is a brutal sport that breaks bodies. It’s pretty much that simple. The best teams typically are the ones that avoid significant, long-term injuries and/or have excellent depth to fill in. There is no way to legislate injuries from the game.
With the Rams’ season basically over, what draft choices do they still have next year?
Stephen Rath, Phoenix
Klein: The Rams have a second- and third-round pick, three sixth-round picks and a seventh-round pick. They also are expected to receive compensation picks for the departures of free agents such as Von Miller and Austin Corbett.
What are the defensive coaches doing to teach defensive backs to wrap up and tackle instead of trying to knock them over?
Dale O, Jamestown, Ken.
Klein: Defensive coaches put players through drills with upright padded “dummies” and other padded equipment to practice tackling. Unlike in years past, few if any NFL teams actually tackle during workouts, even during joint practices with other teams. The collective bargaining agreement also limits the number of full-pads practices.
Farmer: NFL coaches have a powerful incentive for defensive players who miss tackles: the bench. Yes, there are teams that tackle poorly, but those situations usually end with the coach being shown the door. There’s no time in the NFL to “coach the fundamentals” in the classic sense. You’ll get that in high school, maybe a little in college. But these players are expected to know what to do. They wouldn’t be in the pros otherwise. They understand the advantages of wrapping up. If they don’t do it and consistently miss tackles, they don’t last long.
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New Zealand Women’s World Cup team evacuated because of hotel fire in second security incident
By ANNE M. PETERSON
AP Sports Writer
A man has been charged with arson after several small fires broke out Saturday night at the downtown hotel where New Zealand’s national team is staying for the Women’s World Cup. The Football Ferns were evacuated briefly from the Pullman Hotel after the fire was reported about 7:45 p.m. local time. The team says all of the players were safe and accounted for. Police say a 34-year-old man has been charged with burglary and arson and is due to appear in Auckland District Court on Monday. It’s unclear whether the incident is connected to the World Cup. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/07/22/new-zealand-womens-world-cup-team-evacuated-because-of-hotel-fire-in-second-security-incident/ | 2023-07-23 01:23:18 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/07/22/new-zealand-womens-world-cup-team-evacuated-because-of-hotel-fire-in-second-security-incident/ |
Recently Enacted Measure is a Victory for Working Families
RICHMOND, Va., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters are lauding Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney and the Richmond City Council for unanimously passing an ordinance that will extend collective bargaining rights to the city's municipal workers in response to mobilization by city workers, union members, and community allies. The ordinance is a major victory for working families in the city and represents the largest expansion of workplace rights in the city in nearly half a century.
"The Teamsters were there every step of the way working with the mayor and the council on crafting this ordinance, and it was an honor to do on behalf of these workers," said Brian Peyton, President of Teamsters Local 322 in Richmond. "Congratulations to these workers for securing collective bargaining rights. Throughout the pandemic and to this very day they made sure that the city where we live, work and play was able to stay safe, clean and healthy. They deserve the freedom to negotiate a union contract just as much as anyone in the private sector."
The new law gives city workers the freedom to join a union and negotiate with their employer over wages, benefits, and working conditions after 45 years of not being afforded that right. Under the ordinance, municipal workers will be divided into five different bargaining units – police, fire and emergency services, labor and trades, professional staff and administrative and technical employees.
"Having five separate bargaining units is the best outcome for city workers," Peyton said. "It will give them greater freedom of choice and more opportunities to address the issues that are specific to their crafts when they go to negotiate with the city. We look forward to continuing to have conversations with workers in order to address their issues."
Based in Richmond, Teamsters Local 322 represents workers in a wide variety of fields throughout the city and surrounding communities.
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Matt McQuaid, (202) 624-6877
mmcquaid@teamster.org
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria is grappling with widespread fuel shortages that are forcing motorists to spend hours in lines to buy gas and causing prices to surge for transportation and basic commodities.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has caused prices to import fuel go up by more than 100% but retailers complain they can only charge the price set by the government, causing them to operate at a loss.
The government’s promises that the shortages will soon end have not improved the situation. Fuel retailers are pleading with the government to deregulate the market to allow them set their own prices.
But the Nigerian government this week insisted that the pump price must remain the same.
“The war in Ukraine has caused an increase in the diesel price (but) you have not allowed them (retailers) to increase the price … to recover that cost. So where are they going to get the extra money?” asked Clement Isong, CEO of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria.
Nigeria’s current gas shortage — the third in 2022 — is because gas retailers are struggling with rising costs, Isong said. The cost of transporting gasoline to the depots has gone up by 80% in the past few months, he said.
“People are suffering,” he said, urging the government to allow higher prices. “What we are saying is, do it (raise the price) slowly, let it not stay fixed,” said Isong.
Gasoline shortages are frequent in Nigeria even though the country is one of Africa’s biggest producers of crude oil. Nigeria produced an average of 1.42 million barrels per day in May, according to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. However, the country must import most of its fuel because it has very few functioning refineries.
Some gas stations have gone ahead and increased their prices, which has reduced their lines, while others in Abuja, the capital, continue to sell at the government-set pump price.
The way out of the gas shortage is to allow gas stations to charge more, said Uwadiae Osadiaye, senior vice president, energy and industrials at FBNQuest Merchant Bank.
“Adjust the pump price higher so that tanker drivers are not running into a loss,” he said. Other fuel sellers agree that deregulation is “the most efficient way” out of the continued petrol scarcity.
Taxi driver Bagana Usman says his daily earnings have dropped by 60% because of the long waits he endures to get gas. He spent most of Thursday in a line for fuel.
“My prayer is for this fuel scarcity to end so that everybody will survive,” the father of two said. “Let us continue our work.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/nigerians-blame-fuel-shortage-on-ukraine-war-fixed-prices/ | 2022-06-23 20:39:32 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/nigerians-blame-fuel-shortage-on-ukraine-war-fixed-prices/ |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal Friday, with President Joe Biden saying she helped safeguard the will of the voters in the November 2020 election.
“Full of integrity, she is a true leader in our nation,” Biden said of Benson.
The ceremony at the White House bestowed Benson and 13 other people with the nation’s second-highest civilian honor on the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. All of the medal recipients were involved in managing the election or responding to the riot. Other honorees included two Georgia poll workers who were falsely accused of tampering with ballots; Arizona’s speaker of the House, who refused his colleagues’ push to overturn the vote; and Capitol Police officers, including two who died after the Jan. 6 attack.
“History will remember your names,” Biden said.
“To be standing with folks who kept guard over the electoral vote and others in the Capitol in receiving this recognition is really extraordinary,” Benson said. “And it gives me a lot of hope that in a challenging moment for our democracy that we can, I hope, move forward and see our democracy emerge even stronger than ever before.”
Biden praised Benson specifically for refusing to overturn the results despite threats.
“An armed mob outside of her home on Christmas Eve when she and her son were decorating their Christmas tree inside, but she refused to back down,” Biden said.
Benson said she was simply doing her job.
“While there were moments where I felt personally targeted … it was always coupled with a sense of duty and responsibility to stand by the will of the voters,” she said, “and that was something I was very actually proud to do.”
She urged Americans to remember their own role in preserving democracy.
“To see that up close and to be on the front lines of that really re-instilled in my sense, a sense of both the fragility of our democracy and how important it is to have people of integrity on both sides of the aisle,” she said. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/michigan-secretary-of-state-jocelyn-benson-awarded-presidential-citizens-medal/ | 2023-01-06 23:48:23 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/michigan-secretary-of-state-jocelyn-benson-awarded-presidential-citizens-medal/ |
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