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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protesters across Iran continued to clash violently with security forces early Friday following the death of a young woman in police custody, as Iranian state TV suggested the death toll from the unrest could be as high as 26, without offering details.
Although the scope of the protests across some dozen Iranian cities and towns remains unclear, the movement represents the widest unrest since 2019, when rights groups said hundreds of people were killed in a violent crackdown. Iran has also disrupted internet access to the outside world, according to internet traffic monitor Netblocks, and tightened restrictions on popular platforms used to organize rallies like Instagram and WhatsApp.
An anchor on state TV said late Thursday that 26 protesters and policemen had been killed since the protests erupted last Saturday after the funeral of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, without elaborating on how authorities reached that figure. He said official statistics would be released later, but in past times of turmoil the Iranian government has not offered official death tolls.
The unrest has killed at least 11 people according to a tally by The Associated Press, based on statements from state-run and semiofficial media. Most recently, the deputy governor of Qazvin, Abolhasan Kabiri, said that a citizen and paramilitary officer had been killed in unrest that rocked two cities in the northwestern province.
The crisis unfolding in Iran began as a public outpouring over the the death of Amini, a young woman from a northwestern Kurdish town who was arrested by the country’s morality police in Tehran last week for allegedly violating its strictly-enforced dress code. The police said she died of a heart attack and was not mistreated, but her family has cast doubt on that account.
Amini’s death has sparked sharp condemnation from Western countries and the United Nations, and touched a national nerve. Hundreds of Iranians across at least 13 cities from the capital, Tehran, to Amini’s northwest Kurdish hometown of Saqez have poured into the streets, voicing pent-up anger over social and political repression. Authorities have alleged that unnamed foreign countries and opposition groups are trying to foment unrest.
“The death has tapped into broader antigovernment sentiment in the Islamic Republic and especially the frustration of women,” wrote political risk firm Eurasia Group, noting that Iran’s hardliners have intensified their crackdown on women’s clothing over the past year since former judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi became president.
“In the cold calculus of Iranian leaders … a more forceful response is required to quell the unrest,” the group added.
Videos on social media show protesters in Tehran torching a police car and confronting officers at close range. Elsewhere in the capital, videos show gunfire sounding out as protesters bolt from riot police shouting, “They are shooting at people! Oh my God they’re killing people!”
In the northwest city of Neyshabur, protesters cheered over an overturned police car. Footage from Tehran and Mashhad shows women waving their obligatory hijab head coverings in the air like flags while chanting, “Freedom!”
The scenes of women cutting their hair and burning their hijabs feed into a broader political debate over the role of religious strictures in a modern-day republic — questions that have plagued the Islamic Republic since its founding in 1979.
But the protests have also grown into an open challenge to the government. The chants have been scathing, with some calling for the downfall of the ruling clerics. The protesters cry, “Death to the dictator!” and “Mullahs must be gone!”
In a sign of the test that the protest movement posed to the government, hardline groups organized a counter-demonstration in Tehran on Friday. Thousands of women in traditional black chadors and men dressed in the style of the Basij, a volunteer force under the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, poured into the streets after Friday prayers to vent their anger over the unrest, state-run IRNA news agency reported.
“Death to America!”, “Death to Israel!” and “America’s mercenaries are at war with religion!”, they chanted.
Iran’s intelligence ministry warned citizens against joining “illegal” street rallies on Friday, threatening prosecution. Local officials have announced the arrest of dozens of protesters. Hasan Hosseinpour, deputy police chief in the northern Gilan province, reported 211 people detained on Friday. The government of the western Hamadan province said 58 demonstrators had been arrested.
Tehran University announced that it would move classes online for the next week amid the unrest, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.
London-based watchdog Amnesty International has accused security forces of beating protesters with batons and firing metal pellets at close range. Videos show police and paramilitary officers using live fire, tear gas and water cannons to disperse the demonstrations.
Iran has grappled with waves of protests in the recent past, mainly over a long-running economic crisis exacerbated by American sanctions linked to its nuclear program. In November 2019, the country saw the deadliest violence since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, as protests erupted over a rise in the state-controlled price of gasoline.
Economic hardship remains a major source of anger today as the prices of basic necessities soar and the Iranian currency declines in value.
The Biden administration and European allies have been working to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear accord, in which Iran curbed its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief, but the talks have stalled for months. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-iran-state-tv-suggests-at-least-26-dead-from-protests/ | 2022-09-23 21:27:47 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-iran-state-tv-suggests-at-least-26-dead-from-protests/ |
CHICAGO (AP) _ Donnelley Financial Solutions Inc. (DFIN) on Wednesday reported second-quarter profit of $46 million.
On a per-share basis, the Chicago-based company said it had net income of $1.42. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.54 per share.
The financial communications and data services provider posted revenue of $266.2 million in the period.
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Kyle Busch's 'sugar daddy' is leaving, and his NASCAR future is unsettled | KEN WILLIS
The president of M&M’s parent company Mars Wrigley, Anton Vincent, talked about the company evolving, becoming “consumer obsessed,” and the need to focus on “consumer interest and other passion points.”
“There’s a bit of a shift in our sports marketing strategy,” Vincent told Forbes.com earlier this year. “Our consumer base is very distributive.”
You follow? OK, then allow me to translate: Kyle Busch’s brilliant NASCAR career is in a holding pattern.
“You never anticipate being in this predicament,” Busch said in a Tuesday phone chat.
After 15 years as primary sponsor of Busch’s Cup Series cars, M&M’s is gone after this year. A 15-year relationship is highly uncommon in NASCAR, but eventual breakups happen all the time.
There’s little doubt Kyle Busch will be in a quality car next year and beyond. But it might not be the familiar No. 18 Toyota owned by Joe Gibbs — Busch says he’d prefer to stay where he’s won two championships and truckloads of trophies, and Gibbs obviously wants to keep him.
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In any of the other familiar sports leagues, that would basically seal the deal. Kyle and Joe would keep motoring along together.
But big-league auto racing is a very different vehicle. And this particular high-profile development, which reminds everyone how dependent top teams are on corporate partnerships, can hopefully help everyone decide there has to be a better way.
“In other sports, a team doesn’t lose a sponsor and then have to give up its top talent,” Busch said. “Definitely, the business model can stand some help. And I know there are some team owners who have come into our sport recently, and they’re really fighting for that, trying to help that model be better.
“Obviously it’s tough to find that unicorn style of replacement sponsor — someone who spends the $15-to-$25 million in our sport in just a 12-month period.”
Split decision coming for NASCAR & teams
NASCAR’s business model upgraded its wardrobe beginning in 2001, when the first network TV deal kicked in. Prior to that, tracks worked their own individual deals with a variety of networks and cable entities. For the past 21 years, the wall-to-wall deal has generally included two networks splitting the season — right now it’s Fox and NBC.
The 10-year deal, good for 2015 through 2024, is reportedly worth a combined $8.2 billion. Where does it all go?
Not sure where or how it’s all spent, but the front-end division has been the same all along: 10% goes to NASCAR, 25% goes to the 36 chartered race teams (through undisclosed race purses), and 65% goes to the individual speedways (NASCAR, by the way, owns 11 tracks that are hosts to 18 races on the current 36-race schedule).
There’s been recent talk about that split changing with the next TV deal, which will start with the 2025 season.
“How far it gets, I don’t know,” Busch said this week.
Since the last TV deal was signed, a handful of new owners have entered the garages, and some have been in other sports and bring a varying degree of thoughts and ideas. Also in the past several years, the Race Team Alliance — originally formed in 2014 — has grown in collective muscle. Some things will remain beyond the teams’ control, however.
It’s a bit odd, looking from the outside. With each new NASCAR network contract, the dollar figures grow, and not by just a little. Media coverage has expanded and taken some new forms. Yet in the two-plus decades since the first network deal was negotiated and then implemented, the biggest corporate team sponsors have exited.
Giving up that exposure doesn’t seem logical, but insiders point to the growing segments of the sports-entertainment industry and the wide range of options now confronting CEOs and their chief marketing officers.
“It’s been unfortunate . . . the landscape of NASCAR,” Busch said. “They boomed huge in the ’90s. If you weren’t in NASCAR, you weren’t a big enough brand, you weren’t cool enough. There were sponsors in our sport who were making money by being here. Their bottom line . . . it was making them money being in NASCAR.
“The CEO or the CMO wanted to make a change and didn’t want to do it anymore, and they’re gone. The Targets of the world, the Dollar Generals, UPS, Lowe’s, Home Depot, you name it. They were here, doing a good job of making money, and now they’re not here.”
And now, Mars and its M&M’s brand are also pointed toward the exit ramp. Left scrambling is a top-tier race team and a driver, Kyle Busch, winner of 60 career Cup races, two championships, and at 37 still at the top of his game.
Is there a fix for NASCAR?
It screams for a structural fix, but it’s not so easy. Other sports do it with salary caps — some are tighter than others. Also, for example, along with the Miami Dolphins’ cut of the NFL’s media revenue, as well as their share of merchandise sales and assorted sponsorships, they sell tens of thousands of tickets and high-end suite packages at home games.
A big-league race team could run the season with just the money it gets from the TV cut, but it would be a shoestring operation compared to all others. The additional sponsorship dough is used, most importantly, to lure and pay the best talent — drivers, crew, engineers — and buy the best equipment available to help make their cars faster.
“Cubic dollars” is the age-old term for money equals horsepower.
They can increase the teams’ cut of TV money. Maybe even pay out enough money for a team to run an entire season with enough talent in the cockpit and race shop to run fast. But racers don’t just want fast, they want faster, so they’d still beat the bushes for additional funding to facilitate that desire.
The only way they could combat that, and to possibly bring some balance and sanity to it all, would be to institute a spending cap.
That’s a whole other kettle of fish for another day.
— Reach Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/columns/2022/08/03/kyle-buschs-nascar-sugar-daddy-leaving-whats-deal-ken-willis-joe-gibbs-m-ms-mars-fox-nbc/10212619002/ | 2022-08-03 20:12:32 | 1 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/columns/2022/08/03/kyle-buschs-nascar-sugar-daddy-leaving-whats-deal-ken-willis-joe-gibbs-m-ms-mars-fox-nbc/10212619002/ |
Clean Electricity Creator VGrid Energy Systems Passes Comprehensive Certification Process
CAMARILLO, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VGrid Energy Systems, a leader in innovative renewable energy and premium biochar production, has been certified to supply the carbon markets with CO2 Removal Certificates (CORC) by Puro.earth, the world's first B2B marketplace, standard, and registry focused solely on carbon removal. This approval comes after VGrid successfully completed a comprehensive certification process, which included a detailed audit to verify compliance with Puro Standard CO2 removal biochar methodologies.
"Simply stopping our climate-damaging practices is not enough," said Greg Campbell, CEO of VGrid. "We must look to innovative approaches to reverse some of the effects of our actions and strive for carbon negative solutions. As a CO2 removal supplier with Puro.earth, we can accomplish just that: removing carbon from our atmosphere and working towards a better earth."
Focusing solely on verified net-negative technologies that can remove and store carbon at an industrial scale, Puro.earth seeks to create a world where any company can help reverse climate change by removing its carbon emissions. Puro.earth's suppliers, including VGrid, develop carbon net-negative products and/or processes and sell CORCs to climate conscious organizations and businesses who want to neutralize emissions and reach carbon net zero.
Each CORC represents one metric ton of CO2 removed from the atmosphere. Using its propriety Bioserver—a biomass gasification system that is paired with a micro-generator—VGrid creates clean, low-cost, renewable electricity and biochar from agricultural waste, specifically pistachio shells. The resulting biochar sequesters 2.94 tons of equivalent CO2 per ton of biochar produced, has a high fixed carbon percentage, and low ash content. It also offers greater porosity and resulting surface area maximizing the biochar's filtration and water-holding properties. The biochar is land applied to help increase crop yields, improve soil health, conserve water, and reduce chemical fertilization, thus further extending its positive environmental impact.
"We're proud to partner with Puro.earth, the leading marketplace, standard, and registry committed to carbon removals and mobilizing the world's economy to rewarding carbon net-negative emissions," Campbell remarked. "This certification is a major achievement for VGrid."
VGrid's Bioserver is offered in a mobile unit this is highly scalable, faster to deploy, and easily optimized for local feedstocks and market conditions. For more information on VGrid, visit VGridEnergy.com.
About VGrid
VGrid Energy Systems, Inc. focuses on innovating carbon negative solutions in renewable energy. The company creates clean electricity and beneficial co-products, such as biochar and wood vinegar, from waste biomass which would otherwise be directed to a landfill. VGrid's mobile, high-temperature, gasification units have been operating in the Central Valley of California since 2019. Based on years of field data, the technology has proven its reliability, predictability, and scalability.
About Puro.earth
Puro.earth is the world's first B2B marketplace, standard and registry focused solely on carbon removal. Aiming at climate and economic impact, our mission is to mobilize the world's economy to reward carbon net-negative emissions. We provide voluntary corporate buyers long-term carbon removal procurement portfolios to fulfill net zero pledges, by identifying suppliers, verifying their negative emissions and issuing CO2 Removal Certificates (CORCs) with the Puro Standard, the first carbon standard for engineered carbon removal. Trusted by leading organizations, Puro.earth is driving forward a market of carbon negative industries, enabling a new revenue stream for carbon removal suppliers to accelerate their growth. In 2021, Nasdaq acquired a majority stake in Puro.earth.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Novak Djokovic knows that, as things stand now, Wimbledon will be his last Grand Slam tournament of 2022, because he will not be able to play in the U.S. Open — he has not received any COVID-19 shots and can’t enter the United States as an unvaccinated foreigner.
“That,” the 35-year-old from Serbia said Saturday at the All England Club, “is an extra motivation to do well here.”
Djokovic began this season tied with Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer at 20 major championships, then the record for a man. But Djokovic’s decision not to get vaccinated led to his deportation from Australia before the Australian Open in January — and Nadal wound up winning that tournament to get his 21st.
Nadal then beat Djokovic in the quarterfinals at the French Open en route to earning his 22nd Slam title this month.
When Wimbledon starts on Monday, Djokovic will have the honor of opening play at Centre Court as the defending champion. He is seeded No. 1 and will be bidding for a fourth consecutive title at the All England Club and seventh overall.
“Hopefully I can have a very good tournament, as I have done in the last three editions. Then I’ll just have to wait and see. I would love to go to States. But as of today, that’s not possible,” said Djokovic, who has come down with COVID-19 twice. “There is not much I can do anymore. I mean, it’s really up to the U.S. government to make a decision whether or not they allow unvaccinated people to go into the country.”
A reporter noted that Djokovic does still have time to get vaccinated before play begins at Flushing Meadows on Aug. 29, and then asked him whether “you’ve completely closed your mind to that as an option.”
Djokovic replied with one word: “Yes.”
SWIATEK'S STREAK
Iga Swiatek is No. 1 in the WTA rankings, seeded No. 1 at Wimbledon, coming off a French Open championship and riding a 35-match winning streak heading into her opening match Tuesday at Centre Court.
She also won the junior title at the All England Club in 2018.
And yet Swiatek is quite clear about knowing that her career record in the main draw at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament is merely 3-2.
“Honestly I still feel like I need to figure out grass. Last year, for sure, it was that kind of tournament where I didn’t know what to expect. Then match by match, I realized maybe I can do more and more,” said Swiatek, a 21-year-old from Poland whose Wimbledon debut in 2019 ended in the first round before she got to the fourth round in 2021.
“I’m just trying to stay open-minded and kind of take positives from the situation and realize that I can play without any expectations,” she said. “I have so much ... successes this season that I don’t have to kind of show everybody that I need to play well in every tournament because it’s tennis. We have ups and downs. So I try to play without expectations and just see what this tournament brings me.”
NADAL'S FOOT
Nadal said after winning the French Open thanks to pain-killing injections to numb the chronic pain in his left foot that he wasn't sure whether he would be able to show up at Wimbledon.
Well, here he is, halfway to a calendar-year Grand Slam for the first time, and he said Saturday that some new treatments he had after leaving Roland Garros did help calm the nerve that's been flaring up — even if he pointed out that they didn't “fix the injury.”
“First of all, I can walk normally most of the days, almost every single day. That’s, for me, the main issue,” Nadal said. “When I wake up, I don’t have this pain that I was having for the last year and a half. So quite happy about that.”
He said he's been able to practice better over the last two weeks, without facing “these terrible days that I can’t move at all.”
The two-time Wimbledon champion, whose first match will be Tuesday, did caution: “I can’t be super happy, because I don’t know what can happen.”
CHANGES FOR 2022
Changes for the tournament this year include a shift to first-to-10-points, win-by-two tiebreakers at 6-all in the third set of women's matches and fifth set of men's matches; the first time play is planned for the middle Sunday, which traditionally has been a day off; a return to full capacity at all courts and the return of the queue for folks who want to camp out in order to try to get tickets, two years after the coronavirus pandemic led to the cancellation of Wimbledon entirely, and one year after the All England Club limited crowd sizes and temporarily eliminated the queue.
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CHICAGO, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of DNP Select Income Fund Inc. (NYSE: DNP), a closed-end fund advised by Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co., today authorized the payment of dividends on its common stock as follows:
The Fund adopted a Managed Distribution Plan (the "Plan") in 2007 to maintain its current 6.5 cent per share distribution rate. Under the Plan, the Fund will distribute all available investment income to its shareholders, consistent with the Fund's primary objective. If and when sufficient investment income is not available on a monthly basis, the Fund will distribute long-term capital gains and/or return of capital to its shareholders in order to maintain the 6.5 cent per share distribution level.
The following table sets forth the estimated amounts of the Fund's current monthly distribution, payable June 10, 2022, together with the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year to date from the following sources. The fiscal year is from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2022. All amounts are expressed per share of common stock based on U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, which may differ from federal income tax regulations.
Notification of Sources of Distribution
Distribution Period: May 2022
Distribution Amount Per Share of Common Stock: $0.065
* Simple arithmetic average of each of the past five annual returns.
You should not necessarily draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of these distributions or from the terms of the Fund's Plan.
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this notice are only estimates and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of the fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund or your broker will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.
The Fund will issue a separate 19(a) notice at the time of each monthly distribution using the most current financial information available.
About the Fund
DNP Select Income Fund Inc. is a closed-end diversified investment management company whose primary investment objectives are current income and long-term growth of income. The fund seeks to achieve these objectives by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of equity and fixed income securities of companies in the public utilities industry. For more information, please visit www.dpimc.com/dnp or call (800) 864-0629.
About the Investment Adviser
Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. has more than 40 years of experience managing investment portfolios, including institutional separate accounts and open- and closed-end funds investing in utilities, infrastructure and real estate investment trusts (REITs). For more information, visit www.dpimc.com.
Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. is a subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ: VRTS) ("Virtus"), a distinctive partnership of boutique investment managers with $183.3 billion under management as of March 31, 2022. Virtus provides investment management products and services to individuals and institutions through affiliated managers and select subadvisers, each with a distinct investment style, autonomous investment process and individual brand. Additional information can be found at www.virtus.com.
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River Logic's Advanced technology provides faster modeling at new level of granularity
DALLAS, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- River Logic, a leading provider of advanced prescriptive analytics technology platform, announced that Ashley Furniture, the largest manufacturer of home furnishings in the world, has selected its Network Design Optimization technology platform as the furniture company takes the extended supply chain optimization to a new level.
"River Logic's Network Design Optimization (NDO) tool provides us with more advanced capabilities as we look to take optimization to the next level across the enterprise," said Michael Ward, Jr., Vice President Analytics and Data Engineering "A big part of our culture here at Ashley Furniture is our passion for continuous improvement, and with River Logic's technology and the granularity of detail that we can access, we expect our teams to significantly reduce the time it takes to run scenario modeling which in turn will enable us to make more accurate data-driven decisions down to the manufacturing line level," continued Mr. Ward. "The River Logic technology is not only able to handle the additional detail required for better execution, but their team also brings tremendous optimization expertise that will be valuable as we look for further optimization opportunities."
The Ashley Enterprise Data Management team covers Business Analytics, Data Engineering, Supply Chain Optimization covering both retail and wholesale operations, and serves the entire organization including HR and Finance.
Carlos Centurion, President of River Logic, commented, "We're excited to partner with Ashley Furniture to scale their Network Design Optimization to a more advanced level. Working with the Enterprise Data Management team will allow us to help them identify optimization opportunities for cost minimization, revenue maximization and other goals that weren't possible in the past."
To learn more about Ashley Furniture visit ashleyfurniture.com. To learn more about River Logic, visit www.riverlogic.com.
Ashley Furniture Industries (Ashley) feels that every person deserves more value for their money. Established in 1945, Ashley is the largest manufacturer of home furnishings in the world, and was named one of America's Best Employers by Forbes in 2021. From design through fulfillment, Ashley is committed to delivering the world's best home furnishing values, selection, and service, and earning the loyalty and trust of its customers every day. Visit Ashley online at www.ashleyglobal.com
Technology from Texas-based River Logic creates the confidence leaders need to solve complex planning problems across the enterprise. Purpose-built for business users, their platform enables end-to-end business optimization via advanced analytics and a revolutionary cloud experience that offers rapid scenario collaboration, data management, workflows, BI reporting, scalability, and more.
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WATCH: Knox County Sheriff’s Department investigating two robberies
Published: Aug. 7, 2022 at 3:15 PM EDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
KNOX COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Officials with the Knox County Sheriff’s Department are investigating two robberies at separate locations early Friday morning.
Officials said the suspects used a dark-colored van to rip the doors off of Cope’s Grocery and Deli and Creek Mart.
The van is believed to be stolen from a Bell County church.
The suspects were caught on camera going into the stores and taking money from the ATMs.
If you have any information about this investigation, you can call the Knox County Sheriff’s Department at 606-546-3181.
Officials said all information will remain confidential.
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Carlos Rojas sat in his wheelchair on a ramp overlooking the crisp white sand and rough blue waves of the Atlantic Ocean. His grandchildren squealed as they climbed on the playground overlooking Belmar beach.
Last summer, Rojas would have easily joined them, toting their sand toys, beach chairs and cooler. But the 79-year-old man, who splits his time between Florida and New Jersey, recently lost his leg after complications with COVID-19.
He assumed a day on the beach this summer would be permanently out of reach since his wheelchair would never be able to cut through the sand. And he didn’t think the woven blue mobilitymats leading toward the water looked sturdy enough to keep his chair from sinking.
But on a June afternoon, Rojas decided to give it a try as his wife Mary watched, apprehensively. He navigated his motorized wheelchair over the small bump between the ramp and mat with ease and onto the beach he went.
“What a world!” Carlos Rojas said. “I am going to bring this (idea) back to Florida because this really makes the beach totally accessible to people.”
But if Rojas went to another beach along the Jersey Shore he may not have had such an easy time.
There are dozens of beaches lining New Jersey’s 127-mile coastline, but depending on where you go access for people with disabilities can vary widely.
Public beaches are mandated under the Americans with Disabilities Act to provide an accessible entrance, but there are no specific rules or guidelines outlining how or what other access should be provided, according to Jennifer Perry, an access specialist at the Northeast ADA Center.
NJ Advance Media compiled information about access at the 44 towns along the Jersey Shore and visited 18 different beaches to get a picture of just how reachable the beaches are. Each municipality — whether it’s Spring Lake with it the 2.3 miles of coastline or Ocean City with its sprawling beach — has at least one “accessible entrance,” which is the minimum required under the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to information published by each town. But the similarities end there.
During our visits to the shore, we found that some beaches had mats that extended all the way to the high tide mark, or water-accessible wheelchairs able to bring someone right into the surf. Yet other beach entrances that are listed as accessible only offer soft, sandy pathways through steep dunes that are hard to navigate in flip-flops, much less a wheelchair.
On a positive note, advocates for people with disabilities say accessibility onto beaches is improving but the lack of federal or state laws defining what “accessibility” should entail means towns are left to develop their own interpretations.
The patchwork approach can make planning a beach day a daunting task, adding another difficulty people with disabilities said they face when planning a trip to the Jersey Shore.
In Monmouth County, towns like Asbury Park and Manasquan offer flat boardwalks, ramps down onto the sand, and long mats or hard tiles covering part of the beach.
In Ocean County, shore towns on barrier islands like Beach Haven have zigzagging pathways of packed, rocky sand that gently slope up and over the imposing dunes and back down onto the soft sand.
Ocean City, the family-friendly resort town in Cape May County, has a mix of planks and hard plastic tiles on the sand with rinse-off stations near ramps onto the boardwalk.
And in Atlantic County, woven mesh mats line the dunes that lead from the street to Brigantine beach, providing stability for the town’s rentable beach wheelchairs.
Even the towns that go beyond the minimum legal requirements by providing mobility mats at every street entrance, can do more to improve access, advocates said.
A bill to create consistent guidelines for all of New Jersey with input from people with disabilities has been introduced in the state Legislature each of the past three years but hasn’t advanced past committee approval. And town officials say, despite more than $47 million in revenue towns collect through beach badge sales statewide, improvements can be costly and there are limitations to what they’re allowed to install due to state environmental regulations.
Chris Miller, the assistant to the director of policy at Disability Rights New Jersey, a statewide watchdog group, said he’s noticed the change in beach accessibility and awareness in recent years.
Miller, who uses a wheelchair, said he loves to be able to decompress at the beach and believes that making beaches accessible for everyone is imperative “so we can all enjoy the natural resources. When beaches are made accessible, they become better for everyone,” he said.
A bit of a gray area
When someone like Rojas goes to the grocery store, an amusement park, or even gets on an NJ Transit train, the Americans with Disabilities Act ensures he knows what to expect, and where to expect it, in terms of accessibility.
Signed into law in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, prevents discrimination against Americans with disabilities and codifies the rights they have to access public places.
ADA Standards for Accessible Design, published as part of the Code of Federal Regulations, spells out specifically what that looks like in most places with regulations on the degree of a sloped ramp, the width of a doorway and, or the height of a handrail.
At the beach the law requires handicap parking spots, curb cutouts, and bathrooms with accessible stalls, said Perry, a Jersey Shore native and access specialist at the Northeast ADA Center, but there are few specifics for the beach itself.
“There’s a bit of a gray area” when it comes to designing accessibility for beaches, she said.
“Even though there isn’t very clear black and white design standards for how to make a beach accessible under the ADA, there’s still an obligation to essentially make it accessible for people with disabilities,” Perry added.
A bill introduced in the New Jersey Legislature by state Sen. Vin Gopal, D-Monmouth, would require the state Department of Environmental Protection to spell out exactly what accessibility means and provide guidelines — not requirements — that would address features like ramps, boardwalks, beach wheelchairs, showers and bathrooms.
Until he spoke with Asbury Park resident Penny Gnesin, for whom the proposed “Penny’s Law” is named, Gopal said that he was unaware of the barriers to beach accessibility. But Gnesin, who used a wheelchair and died in 2019, had experienced the issues first-hand and brought it to his attention, he said. He hopes that spreading awareness will do the same for others to help achieve beach accessibility for all.
“We need to keep pushing on the legislation,” he said. “I’ll keep advocating for it.”
The proposal says the DEP would be required to consult with disability rights organizations and disabled individuals in drafting the suggestions. The Architectural Barriers Act, a federal law that dictates what accessibility looks like on federal parks and beaches, should also be used as a source, the bill says.
But a one-size-fits-all standard for beach accessibility won’t work, town officials and advocates noted.
“The problem that you have is everybody’s beach is different,” said Jim Bennett, Brigantine city manager. “I just think it’s best left in the hands of the municipalities rather than a blanket (federal) guideline that might run afoul of DEP.”
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The gold standard
From the bridge over Shark River to the clear, fresh water of Lake Como, there are 1.5 miles of coastline stretching through the town of Belmar.
And every one of its 19 beach street entrances has a blue woven accessibility mat — often referred to by the brand name of Mobi Mats — that ends in a T-shape about a third of the way to the lifeguard stands, said Business Administrator Ed Kirschenbaum.
In a town known for fierce competition to find a parking spot in summer, the municipality also has 21 beachfront handicap spots exceeding the nine required by regulations under the ADA, said Kirschenbaum.
Belmar Mayor Mark Walsifer said work to make the town more accessible began several years ago and was completed after a final push in 2020.
It’s a mission that Kirschenbaum said is personally important to him. His young nephew has a severe case of spina bifida, and can’t walk. Without things like mats and wheelchairs, the boy would never be able to enjoy the beach, his uncle said.
Scott Chesney, who has been paralyzed since he was 15, said Belmar’s accessibility efforts are impressive and would be the “gold standard” if other beaches were to follow suit. Most other beaches, including Asbury Park, only have a few entrance points with the mats — not on every beach street, NJ Advance Media found on a recent visit.
Chesney oversees Asbury Access, an initiative under the Christopher and Dana Reed foundation meant to make Asbury Park more accessible. Under the group’s guidance, mats were installed at several beaches, and beach wheelchairs that can float in the water with the help of lifeguards or family members are now available for use.
“There’s two or three beaches now (in Asbury Park) that have accessible features,” Chesney said. “So you can’t go to just any beach, nor do we feel there’s a need to do that. Again, we realize everything costs money. And so not every single beach needs that access point.”
Chesney said his organization is talking to elected officials up and down the Jersey Shore to share ideas on ways to improve access. Better ramps are just the beginning — but it shouldn’t stop there, he said.
“Whether it be stairs or a sand dune that we don’t have to, like, go down or try to maneuver with people helping us bouncing us down the stairs, you’re getting us on the beach,” he said. “But where are the access decks, the access matting? That’s all helpful. The water wheels — this is all allowing us to kind of have that same experience on the beach that everybody has.”
From the sand to the sea
Eliza Israel wouldn’t be able to feel the cool ocean if it weren’t for the beach wheelchairs, her mother Carla Israel said.
A 27-year-old with cerebral palsy and developmental and visual impairments, Eliza uses a wheelchair to get around most of the time – and “she happens to love the beach,” Israel said.
Their first hurdle to enjoying a vacation down the shore each summer is finding a house that will accommodate her wheelchair, she said. They’ve rented an oceanfront house the past few years, which makes it easier to get Eliza onto the beach using one of the township’s sand wheelchairs, Israel said.
“When she wants to go in the water we’ll take her down (in the wheelchair) to the water, take her out, and she can sort of play around,” Israel said, calling it a “really, truly relaxing vacation.”
Those beach wheelchairs — large manual wheelchairs made of plastic piping with thick, rubbery wheels — are provided free of charge at most Jersey Shore beaches, NJ Advance Media found. Some offer ones with large yellow buoys on the arms that allow the chairs to float in the water.
Availability varies. Monmouth Beach has one, while Cape May has more than a dozen. Some towns have the chairs on a first-come, first-serve basis and say they haven’t encountered issues with demand, while other towns make clear on their websites that reservations are very strongly recommended.
The thick wheels are meant to make rolling across the sand possible even without mats or tiles.
Adults with disabilities said while the wheelchairs are great in theory, it’s still too difficult to push or be pushed across the sand.
“They’re awful,” said Joe Wright, of his experience with the provided wheelchairs in Ocean City. The Vietnam veteran lost his leg and uses a motorized scooter. “They’re not the easiest thing to maneuver with.”
And not all people can transfer out of their usual wheelchairs even if they wanted to, said Jessica Krill, a mom who has two daughters with special needs. The beach chairs don’t have three-point harnesses that some disabled people need and are typically uncushioned, she notes.
Krill is a founder of Beach Days For All, an Ocean County-based non-profit that works to increase access to the Jersey Shore.
“My motto is once your foot hits the sand, our beaches are no longer accessible,” Krill said, later adding, “I think they’re accessible, but they are not accessible for all.”
Her non-profit was instrumental in improving the accessibility at the F Street Beach in Seaside Park, which has hard tiles on the beach — different than the softer blue mats — that end in an area large enough for someone who uses a wheelchair to spend the day.
Lois Hamilton, a lifelong Seaside Park resident who started using a wheelchair about a decade ago, said the improvements made to the F Street beach were life-changing for her.
“I can go down with my family now,” she said from a platform atop the dune at the F Street entrance, enjoying the ocean views and mid-June breeze. “It’s wonderful.”
The cost of doing business
Part of the issue, officials noted, is that improvements to the beach don’t come cheap.
In Cape May, the city spent $25,000 on beach mats this year to ensure every entrance has one, Mayor Zachary Mullock said. The city plans on budgeting more money next year to install mats that run parallel to the water, not just off the boardwalks and onto the sand.
Jersey Shore towns brought in more than $47 million in 2020 through the sale of beach tags, NJ Advance Media found in an analysis of municipal revenue. Those funds are used to pay for things like lifeguards, beach maintenance, and accessibility features.
Belmar, which brought in the most total revenue that summer at more than $5 million, spent $30,000 of it on mats for the beaches without them, as well as additional beach wheelchairs which cost $1,500 each, borough officials said.
“We said, we have to budget for it and then get it,” Walsifer said.
But at least two towns said beach badge sales still weren’t enough to cover the expenses.
Avalon Borough Administrator Scott Wahl said the town spends more on beach costs than it makes in tag sales, which topped just over $1 million in 2020. The first beach wheelchairs the town on 7-Mile Island received were paid for by the fundraising of the Avalon Civic Club.
Other towns like Lavallette and Brigantine said they have relied on property owners to either donate money as part of their permit approval process, sought out financial help from community organizations, or applied for grants.
When Rose Gabbianelli’s brother Patrick Kronenwetter, who uses a wheelchair, visited her for a week in Stone Harbor three summers ago, there were hard tiles onto the beach — but they were covered in sand, she said.
The entire family, plus some kind beachgoers, had to sweep it away so he could get onto the beach.
“Even if there is some little bit of attempt to make a place accessible, you’d have to maintain it in order for it to be used, or it’s pointless,” said Gabbianelli, who spent $1,000 of her own money to buy a short stretch of mat that would help her brother.
Toms River took $200,000 out of its general budget to pay for accessibility renovations on the Ortley Beach section of town, Mayor Maurice Hill said.
“I don’t think the beach badges adequately cover the lifeguard salaries, and everything that’s involved,” Hill said, calling the use of tax dollars “the cost of doing business when you have to maintain the beach.”
Accessibility can change with the tides
One of the ongoing issues surrounding accessibility is that the Jersey Shore landscape is unforgiving. Erosion and changing tides are a factor in what can and cannot be utilized on the beach, several people who spoke to NJ Advance Media said.
“We’d love to have (the mats) down to the water, if it was (like) a lake and you didn’t have to worry about the tide,” Walsifer, the Belmar mayor, said.
Lavallette purchased 175 feet of matting but erosion from a storm made one beach shorter. The leftovers will be used on other streets, borough administrator Robert Brice said.
There are also environmental regulations and recommendations to take into consideration.
The Department of Environmental Protection recommends all matting and loose items be removed from the beach by October, a department spokesperson said, but it’s not an explicit requirement. Mats placed on top of the sand are not subject to regulation, but anything that requires digging or excavation is, department spokesman Larry Hajna said.
“We are not aware of any town that has ever asked to keep Mobi-Mats on their beaches in the winter because of the wear and tear that they would suffer during the winter,” Hajna said in an email, using the name brand for the plastic woven mats used by most towns.
Because of the amount of labor required to install and remove the mats each season, Cape May City wanted to put small platforms on the sand to increase access, but “it’s kind of a balancing act (between accessibility and regulations) because nothing can be permanent,” Mullock said.
The DEP wasn’t familiar with the specifics of what Cape May wanted to build, but Hajna said the city would likely need a permit from the state if it wanted to install something permanent.
“The DEP should be loosening some of those restrictions in the name of accessibility, but I think they’ve taken a hard line,” Mullock said.
Better for some means better beaches for all
Thinking back to his early memories of going to Lavallette with his family, Chesney, who became paralyzed at the age of 15 in 1985, said they all would have benefited from the changes he and other advocates have been fighting for — surfaces that are easier for wheels to go over, more gently sloped ramps, better bathroom access.
“So many people will use this decking or matting system to walk down to wherever it is that they want to set up their blanket and beach gear for the day. Then you have people who have strollers with their kids. And so it’s really made life a lot easier for everyone.”
The idea of designing something fit for everyone to use is a concept called “universal design” in which ADA standards are the bare minimum, Perry said.
“Whether you have a disability or whether you’re a mom who’s holding a baby on her hip and trying to push a stroller with another kid in it, if there’s a ramp to get into the building instead of a step, that makes everyone’s life easier, right?”
Perry has observed more recognition of beach accessibility across the Jersey Shore over the past few years and is optimistic about the work being done.
What she hopes to dispel is the idea that accessibility is a “nice thing to do” when there is extra funding, when they are legally obligated to provide accessibility. And it shouldn’t stop with getting onto the sand. Bathrooms, concessions, tables, drinking fountains, and showers should all be factored in, she said.
“It’d be really hard to make like a one size fits all design solution for access to beaches,” said Perry. “But I think the most important thing is that any town that operates a beach is at least thinking of the fact that this is something we’re obligated to do, we have to figure out how we can provide access, understanding that it might not look exactly like how the town next door does it.”
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Hawks’ Murray to miss about 2 weeks with sprained left ankle
ATLANTA (AP) — Hawks guard Dejounte Murray is expected to miss about two weeks with a sprained left ankle. He is the third Atlanta starter to go down with an injury in the past week. Murray was hurt during the first quarter night of a 113-89 loss to the New York Knicks. The Hawks announced his prognosis after he underwent an MRI in New York. Atlanta is also missing forward John Collins with a spained left ankle and forward De’Andre Hunter with a right hip flexor strain. The Hawks have lost five of seven games. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/08/hawks-murray-to-miss-about-2-weeks-with-sprained-left-ankle/ | 2022-12-09 01:31:11 | 0 | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/08/hawks-murray-to-miss-about-2-weeks-with-sprained-left-ankle/ |
Uvalde officer and husband of slain teacher detained when he tried to save wife, official says
(Gray News) – A Uvalde police officer married to a teacher who died in the school shooting tried to act but was stopped by other law enforcement officials, said the director of Texas Department of Public Safety.
Director Steven McCraw said in testimony Tuesday to the state Senate that misinformation among the officers was one of many issues in responding to the May 24 shooting. The gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School.
Officers at the scene were told the subject was contained, and the police chief was in a classroom or office negotiating with the gunman, McCraw said.
Officer Ruben Ruiz of the Uvalde school district police department received a call from his wife, teacher Eva Mireles, telling him she had been shot.
“What happened to him was he tried to move forward into the hallway, he was detained, they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene,” McCraw said.
Delays in law enforcement response have been the focus of the federal, state and local investigation of the massacre and its aftermath.
McCraw told state senators Tuesday that police had enough officers and firepower to stop the gunman just three minutes after he entered the building, yet they did not stop the gunman for more than 70 minutes. McCraw also said officers would have found the door to the classroom where the gunman was holed up unlocked if they had checked it.
He called the law enforcement response an “abject failure.”
“You don’t wait for a SWAT team. You have one officer, that’s enough,” he said.
Questions about the law enforcement response began days after the massacre. McCraw said on May 27 that Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, made “the wrong decision” when he chose not to storm the classroom for more than 70 minutes, even as trapped fourth graders inside two classrooms were desperately calling 911 for help.
Arredondo later said he didn’t consider himself the person in charge and assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response. Arredondo has declined repeated requests for comment to The Associated Press.
State police initially said the gunman entered through an exterior door that had been propped open by a teacher. A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety said on May 31, though, that the teacher closed the door after realizing a shooter was on campus, but it did not lock as it should have.
On June 2, state Sen. Roland Gutierrez said it was a “system failure” that Arredondo received no word of the pleas for help from people inside the school because he had no two-way radio link with city police.
“I want to know specifically who was receiving the 911 calls,” Gutierrez said during a news conference.
The Uvalde school board heard from members of the public Monday, including relatives of those killed in the attack. They took turns criticizing the police response and what they described as lax security measures at the school in general.
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado’s return to the Big 12 in 2024 fits right into Deion Sanders’ recruiting blueprint, allowing him to get an even better foothold in the teeming Texas and Florida markets.
“I think Colorado is already an exciting team on the recruiting trail with Coach Prime and his experienced staff full of college coaches who have been around for a while and a lot of guys with NFL pedigree,” said Steve Wiltfong, national recruiting director for 247Sports. “So I think more than anything it adds to the excitement because it’s moving to what is certainly a more stable conference and one that just had a football team (TCU) in the playoff.”
Athletic director Rick George said he kept basketball coaches Tad Boyle and JR Payne in the loop along with Sanders, who’s entering his first season in Boulder, before the CU board of regents rubber-stamped Colorado’s return to the Big 12 on Thursday.
“I think all of them felt like: Whatever you think’s best for us, we’re going to play whomever you ask us to play,” George said. “I will tell you, there are tremendous benefits for being in the Big 12 for the direction that Coach Prime’s going as it relates to recruiting, being able to play in Orlando against UCF, where he’s recruiting very heavily (and) the state of Texas has always been a priority for us.”
The newfangled Big 12 isn’t the same league the Buffs left in 2011 during the initial rounds of conference realigment when Texas A&M, Missouri and Nebraska also left. Texas and Oklahoma are leaving next year for the Big Ten. TCU and West Virginia came on board a decade ago and Cincinnati, Houston, BYU and Central Florida were added this year.
Sanders, who’s overseen the biggest roster overhaul in the nation since his hiring this spring, already has strong roots in Florida and Texas.
He was born in Fort Myers and starred at Florida State before embarking on a dual sports career as an NFL defensive back and a Major League outfielder. Some of his best years came during his half decade with the Cowboys from 1995-99 and he still has a home in the Dallas area.
When the Buffaloes return to the Big 12 next year, they will have four conference opponents in the Lone Star State in TCU, Texas Tech, Baylor and Houston, which features one of the nation’s largest television markets.
“Houston has always been a favorable market for us in recruiting,” said George, who then mentioned a few players from CU’s heyday in the late 1980s and early ’90s. “You think back to Alfred Williams, Kanavis McGhee and Chris Hudson. That area — the fifth-largest market in the country — also was a factor” in Colorado’s decision to return to the Big 12.
“Colorado recruits Texas hard because it’s an obvious state to go recruit,” Wiltfong said, “and now being in the Big 12, with all those Texas teams, it gives them one more inch to say, ’Hey, we’re going to be coming to the Lone Star State a lot throughout your career to play some big games.’”
Wiltfong expects Sanders to compete with the big boys when it comes to the recruiting trails of Texas.
“Deion’s lived in Texas, right? Deion is going to go where the players are. He’s going to recruit nationally because his name is electric,” Wiltfong said.
Colorado is the third school to leave the Pac-12 in the last year, joining UCLA and USC, which are going to the Big Ten next year. The moves coincide with the expiration of current media rights deals with ESPN and Fox.
Colorado is expected to get $31.7 million in annual TV revenue in the Big 12, which last year came to an agreement with ESPN and Fox on a six-year extension worth more than $2 billion that runs through 2030-31.
After Colorado’s vote to leave, the Pac-12 issued a statement that read, “We are focused on concluding our media rights deal and securing our continued success and growth. Immediately following the conclusion of our media rights deal, we will embrace expansion opportunities and bring new fans, markets, excitement and value to the Pac-12.”
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AP College Football Writer Eric Olson contributed to this report.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A soccer field that was paid for but never built. A school that diverted resources from its students. A mayor who ran city hall out of his mother’s home and avoided property taxes.
Officials say these and dozens of other alleged acts of corruption cost Haiti’s government a “colossal loss” of some 500 million gourdes ($4 million) at a time when state infrastructure is collapsing amid political instability and deepening poverty.
The allegations were released Thursday by Haiti’s antigovernment corruption unit, whose general director, Hans Joseph, pledged to go after those who “torpedo the public treasury and asphyxiate the country’s economic and social development efforts.”
He called on Haiti’s judicial officials to act on his agency’s findings.
Jacques Lafontant, government commissioner for the capital of Port-au-Prince, told The Associated Press on Friday that he would order all those named in the report to appear before a judge.
“The process will start without any delay,” he said.
The 30-page report released to the public summarizes lengthy investigations launched by Joseph’s agency and provides a window into rampant corruption across Haiti, where more than 60% of its more than 11 million people struggle to survive on about $2 a day.
The agency pursued 10 unrelated investigations, finding alleged corruption in places including two schools, three mayors’ offices and three government agencies.
It accused the general director of Haiti’s National Lottery of diverting more than 41 million Haitian gourdes ($300,000) with help from her brother — a legal professional — and of not charging companies operating rights, resulting in a shortfall of 269 million gourdes (more than $2 million) to the public treasury.
In addition, it found irregularities with debit cards that Haiti’s National Police issued to employees, noting that benefits illegally given to those who were fired or retired resulted in a loss of more than 18.2 million gourdes ($140,000) in the span of just three months.
It also accused the former mayor of the southern coastal town of Petit-Goave of diverting nearly 12.8 million gourdes (more than $98,000) slated for several projects.
The former official also allegedly set up city hall in his mother’s home, “putting himself in a situation where it was necessary to choose between protecting the interests of the mayor’s office or those of his mother,” the report said. It accused him of not paying taxes on the property and said money was missing from the employee payroll.
A former mayor of the north coastal town of Anse-Rouge was accused of creating more than two dozen fictional employees whose checks were going to the city’s accountant. In addition, the report said there was no evidence of five purported sanitation projects on which 835,000 gourdes ($6,400) was spent and no proof that 595,000 gourdes ($4,500) offered by the international aid group Oxfam to buy fuel was used for that purpose.
Also in the north, a former mayor of Saint-Raphael was accused of paying a company more than 2 million gourdes ($15,000) for a soccer field and reading center that were never built. The anti-corruption agency said it tried to track down the company’s officials but said the physical address provided did not exist.
The agency accused the former director of a school in Maissade in central Haiti of diverting more than 2 million gourdes ($15,000), alleging he had only 735 students instead of the 1,004 registered.
Joseph said that despite Haiti’s “major structural differences,” he hoped the government could recover its assets and fully punish those whom he called “enemies of the republic.”
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LINCOLNTON, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – Two men were arrested in separate ‘lengthy’ narcotics investigations, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.
Jonathan Boggs is charged with two felony counts: possession of a controlled substance and possession with intent to manufacture. Matthew Starnes, 37, is charged with three felony counts of trafficking meth.
Deputies say they apprehended Boggs after obtaining a search warrant at a home on the 300 block of South Laurel Street near East Main Street on Nov. 2.
Upon arrival, authorities found two pounds of weed, four and a half pounds of THC edibles, and $7,620 in cash.
Boggs is being held in the Harven A. Crouse Detention Center under a $30,000 bond.
In another investigation, officials apprehended Starnes after a traffic stop on Startown Road in Lincoln County on Nov. 9.
During the stop, a K-9 performed an open-air sniff of the vehicle and alerted deputies to drugs. After the alert, reports said Starnes threw two pounds of meth out the passenger side window and tried to dispose of two more pounds of meth by pouring it over the inside of the car.
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Officers recovered four pounds of meth, with a street value of around $20,000.
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Thai police: More than 30 killed in childcare center attack
BANGKOK (AP) — More than 30 people, primarily children, were killed Thursday when a gunman opened fire in a childcare center in northeastern Thailand, authorities said.
Police Maj. Gen. Achayon Kraithong said the shooting occurred early in the afternoon in the center in the town of Nongbua Lamphu.
He said the attacker killed 30 people before taking his own life. He had no more details.
A spokesperson for a regional public affairs office said 26 deaths have been confirmed so far — 23 children, two teachers and one police officer.
According to Thai media reports, the gunman also used knives in the attack and then fled the building.
Photographs showed at least two bodies on the floor of the center covered in white sheets.
Several media outlets identified the assailant as a former police lieutenant colonel from the region but there was no immediate official confirmation.
The Daily News newspaper reported that after fleeing the scene of the attack the assailant returned to his home and killed himself along with his wife and child.
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Red meat, sugar may play a role in young adults getting colorectal cancer, research says
(CNN) - More young adults are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
In fact, it is estimated to become the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in those ages 20 to 49 in the United States by the year 2030.
The factors driving the rise remain a mystery. However, a new study suggests dietary and environmental exposures may play a role.
Dr. Suneel Kamath with Cleveland Clinic is the senior author of a new study looking to find out why.
”As far as the cause is concerned, we really know very little about that so far,” Kamath said.
The study compared people who were young that had colorectal cancer and those who developed colorectal cancer at a more average age.
One of the biggest differences when researchers compared the two age groups was that those who are younger than 50 years old with colorectal cancer had lower levels of citrate.
Citrate is created when the body converts food into energy.
Researchers say they also found differences in the breakdowns of protein and carbohydrates, which they say could suggest that red meat and sugar intake may be linked to getting colorectal cancer at a younger age.
Kamath said the key takeaway is to modify your diet.
“The things we know we should be doing, increasing leafy green vegetables, limiting sugar, limiting processed foods, limiting red meat and getting more of our protein from lean meats or poultry or beans, lentils,” he said.
Signs and symptoms of colorectal cancer include changes in bowel habits, rectal bleeding or blood in the stool, cramping or abdominal pain, weakness, fatigue and weight loss.
”Unfortunately, there’s a narrative out there in both the medical community and the general public that you can be too young to have cancer, and I want people to know that, unfortunately, that isn’t the case,” Kamath said.
Researchers said they hope this study paves the way for future research to further understand the causes of this disease and to hopefully be able to create better therapies for those young adults who are diagnosed with it.
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Fun and unique games for tailgating
Are you looking to add some friendly competition to your tailgate this year? A new tailgate game is the way to go. Cornhole is always a popular option, but if you want something a little more unique, there are plenty of lesser-known games from which to choose. Games including bocce, lawn darts and Spikeball are enjoyable and allow for individuals or teams to compete.
When choosing which games to play, consider the age and number of participants. For tailgates with younger children, select simple games. Easy-to-handle equipment ensures the game is fun for everyone. Determine how many players each game needs; selecting a game in which different numbers of players can take part works best. If you’d like more tips on choosing a game for your group, check out the BestReviews guide on the yard games.
Best unique tailgate games
Bocce ball
Bocce is one of the oldest known games. It dates back to the days of ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire. Today, the game is popular across the globe. It goes by several names, including the English name of lawn bowling. To play, you need between two and eight players split into two teams. The game begins with a player throwing the jack, or pallino, a small white ball, onto the court. Teams compete to see who can land their balls closest to the pallino.
This bocce set is regulation-size and has all the equipment you need to play. It includes a carrying case, eight balls, a pallino and a measuring string. The balls come in the traditional colors of red and green. Crafted from high-quality materials, the balls will last a long time.
Sold by Amazon
Spikeball
Spikeball is an active game that combines elements of volleyball and foursquare. To play the game, you need two teams, a single ball and a net. The teams take turns serving by bouncing the ball off the net. The opposite team has three touches to get the ball to bounce off the net again. Teams score points when the opposite team fails to return the ball to the net within the allowed number of touches.
Designed to be portable, this Spikeball game set has foldable legs so all parts fit nicely in a drawstring bag. The net is easy to set up and you can play on almost any flat surface. The game set includes a ball, net, instructions and carrying bag.
Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Kubb
The game of kubb, thought to go back almost 1,000 years, became popular in the 1980s. You can play with between two and 10 players, although two teams of three is recommended. You play by throwing sticks at wooden blocks to knock them over. This game requires both throwing skills and strategy. You win the game by knocking over all the opposing team’s kubbs (the wooden blocks) and the final king kubb in the center of the playing field.
With pieces crafted of rubber and wood, you can use this kubb set indoors and outdoors. It comes in a convenient carrying bag that makes it easy to travel or store. The set includes one king kubb, 10 kubb blocks, six throwing dowels, four corner pegs, a carry bag and instructions.
Sold by Amazon
Ladder toss
Ladder toss is a game thought to have originated on campgrounds, although there are more colorful rumors of it starting with cowboys using live snakes and fence posts. You play by tossing bolas (two balls attached by a string) at a three-rung ladder. Each rung of the ladder is worth a different value, but there are several additional scoring options to make the game more interesting.
Amazon Basics Ladder Toss Outdoor Lawn Game Set
This ladder toss game set comes with two ladders, three red bolas, three blue bolas and a carrying case. Made from PVC piping, the ladders are lightweight and come apart to easily fit inside the storage bag. The ladders stand 48 inches tall.
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Dice
If you’re looking to get the best bang for your buck out of your gaming equipment, a set of dice is simple, fun and versatile. There are many games kids can participate in like sevens, farkle or pig. You can also play games such as craps or Klondike if you want to bet on the last drink in the cooler at your tailgate.
ApudArmis Giant Wooden Yard Dice Game
The game set includes six oversized dice, one dry-erase scoreboard, a marker and carrying bag. Crafted from solid New Zealand pine, these dice are chip-resistant and durable. With rounded corners to make them easily rollable, the dice are safe for children. The waterproof bag is convenient for storage and travel.
Sold by Amazon
Lawn darts
Reimagined from the game banned by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in the 1980s, the lawn darts of today are fun and safe. Most darts are made of hard or inflatable plastic and have rounded ends for safety purposes. You play the game much like traditional darts: players take turns throwing their darts at a target spread out on the ground. If you want something with simpler scoring, you can purchase a version of the game that comes with rings for targets.
This lawn dart set glows in the dark. To charge them for your next tailgate, use a headlight or flashlight. The set comes with two blue darts, two red darts, two target rings, a carrying bag and instructions. It’s best played on a soft surface like sand or grass, as the darts tend to bounce on a hard surface.
Sold by Wayfair
Giant Jenga
Giant Jenga is exactly like regular Jenga, except bigger. Participants take turns pulling single blocks out of a stack and moving them to the top. The player who causes the stack to collapse loses. The trick is to strategically select blocks that won’t undermine the tower’s balance. Playing Jenga with larger blocks creates even more excitement when the tower falls.
This Jenga set starts at 22 inches and stacks to over 4 feet tall. The blocks are made from premium hardwood and come in a large carrying bag. This set can accommodate anywhere from one to many players, and it’s recommended for ages 8 and older.
Sold by Amazon
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WAKEFIELD, Mass., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ablative Solutions, Inc., a company pioneering new approaches to the treatment of hypertension, today announced the completion of the fourth tranche of its Series D financing round, resulting in $91.4 million in aggregate proceeds to the Company from the Series D financing round. Gilde Healthcare, BioStar Capital, Invus Opportunities and an undisclosed strategic corporate investor led the multi-tranched Series D round of financing.
"We are extremely pleased with the completion of our Series D financing round and the continued support of our investors, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic", stated Kate Rumrill, President and CEO.
These funds are being used to complete our ongoing Target BPI pivotal trial, evaluating the Company's novel, alcohol-mediated renal denervation procedure to reduce blood pressure in individuals with uncontrolled hypertension, while taking antihypertensive medication. This procedure is performed using the Peregrine System™, an investigational combination product engineered to target nerves known to influence the body's regulation of blood pressure. The Peregrine System delivers small doses of dehydrated alcohol directly into the space outside of the renal artery to block the overactive signaling of the sympathetic nerves.
"We continue to be appreciative of the amazing group of clinical partners we have and the progress made in our studies within our TARGET BP Program" said Rumrill. "We are encouraged by these efforts and look forward to sharing results when available."
The Peregrine System Kit is comprised of two components, the Peregrine System Infusion Catheter and dehydrated alcohol. The Peregrine System Kit for renal denervation is not approved for commercial distribution and its use is limited to investigation within clinical trials in the United States and Europe. The Company is currently enrolling patients in the TARGET BP I pivotal trial to evaluate safety and efficacy in the treatment of patients with uncontrolled hypertension in conjunction with antihypertensive medications. More information about the TARGET BP I Trial can be found at www.targetbp1.com.
The Peregrine System Infusion Catheter has been cleared via the premarket notification process (510(k)) for the infusion of diagnostic and therapeutic agents into the perivascular area of the peripheral vasculature. The Peregrine System Infusion Catheter is CE marked for the infusion of a neurolytic agent (e.g. alcohol) to achieve a reduction in systemic blood pressure in hypertensive patients. The Peregrine Catheter is not commercially available in the United States or Europe.
Ablative Solutions, Inc., based in Wakefield, MA, was founded in 2011 with a vision to address the unmet need of hypertension. Ablative Solutions' approach targets the overactive sympathetic nervous system, which may play a role in hypertension, heart failure, kidney disease, metabolic syndrome and sleep apnea. The Peregrine System is currently being investigated as a treatment for hypertension in conjunction with antihypertensive medications. For more information visit www.ablativesolutions.com.
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BEIJING, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 2022, Waterdrop has stepped up offline brokerage, and offered offline brokers with multiple development directions including organization development mode, independent agent mode, and community outlet mode, in an effort to build an elite service team. It has also launched WFind (Waterdrop Family Insurance Needs Diagnosis) to drive professional operation by brokers. These moves indicate a clear new direction for Waterdrop, i.e. further integrating online and offline insurance business, making the work easier and more efficient for brokers with the aid of technologies, and driving the professionalism of brokers across the industry.
Implementing Offline Business Requires Empowering Brokers in Sales Leads, IP and Technology
Waterdrop spent two years exploring offline brokerage and launched the business after mode validation in 2021. Besides traditional offline brokerage, it also set up outlets. In June 2022, its first community outlet staffed by independent insurance agents opened in Wuhan. The community outlet mode is built on independent agents in which customer traffic and operating cost are replaced by rent costs. Each outlet is supplied with an independent agent, providing customers with risk diagnosis, insurance planning, product recommendation, claims aid, and some other services. The outlet mode makes it easier for brokers to enhance customer stickiness and build trust through neighborhood effects.
Ms. Jia Li, Waterdrop Vice President, commented, "Besides considering major and educational backgrounds, Waterdrop focuses more on the learning ability, self-motivation, and entrepreneurship of broker candidates in recruitment, because customers pay greater attention to the professionalism of insurance brokers. Brokers need to have a broad vision, an overall idea of industrial and product trends, and a deep insight into the updates of industrial peers. Only in that way can they act openly and transparently, and select products adapted to customer needs out of hundreds of products."
Li Jia said, compared with the traditional offline mode, instead of putting excessive emphasis on social networking, Waterdrop works to empower brokers in leads, IP, and technologies to make the job easier for brokers. For example, it helps brokers build personal IP and private domain traffic pools through community operation, live-streaming, and mini videos. During the IP building process, with the growth of customers who come for advice, brokers will also enter a growth loop step by step.
What Are the Critical Factors That Empower Offline Brokers to Acquire Targeted Customers?
How to precisely match leads is a longstanding issue in the industry. Previously, offline brokers received complex leads and had to screen manually; currently, with the help of technologies, offline brokers can match leads precisely and thus increase operating efficiency.
First, Waterdrop will group customers according to their willingness to purchase insurance. For example, Waterdrop will automatically identify the customers who have purchased short-term insurance and retained for more than six months as those with a higher level of purchase intention, and view the customers who seek for advice actively as having a higher level of intention. Then, the CRM system will match them with brokers based on locations, customer needs, and brokers' backgrounds and track records, etc.
After customer allocation, Waterdrop has SOPs in place for each link of the following process, having customers' WeChat, visiting customers, interpreting insurance terms, sorting customer policies, assessing risks, developing support plans, comparing products, and providing follow-up services.
TWaterdrop also launched the "Waterdrop Insurer" APP to help brokers improve working efficiency and experience. The APP offers tools like marketing content creation, customer needs analysis, family insurance plan, product comparison, request for proposal, same-screen interaction, and AI video generation, leading in the industry in helping brokers enhance customer acquisition and management efficiency.
Li Jia said, "In addition to tools, long-term persistence is most important to brokers. Tools shall be fully leveraged to learn about customer preferences. Waterdrop highlights brokers' input in content platforms like Zhihu, Douyin, Kuaishou, WeChat Channels, and Xiaohongshu. It pushes various communication materials to brokers every day, who can modify them as they like and post them on social media platforms. This is a great process of popularizing insurance knowledge among customers. But it's noteworthy that IP building requires long-term self-motivation of brokers. In the short run, the private domain built by brokers may produce little effect. But through repeating day by day, the private domain traffic will see network expansion in the long run."
According to Li Jia, the Company's offline team recorded a per capita production capacity of RMB43,000 in September. An outlet in Wuhan even signed 36 policies in August 2022.
Building the System Valuable to Brokers and Customers Is the Core of Offline Business
Li Jia said, "Our brokers are supposed to be professional, which requires long-term accumulation. Besides technologies and tools, we also empower them with a standard operation methodology named WFind."
WFind is the family insurance needs diagnosis system recently launched by Waterdrop. It differs from the product-oriented operation mode in the market, as it's a customer-oriented methodology that empowers brokers to diagnose customer needs like doctors based on customers' family population, income and expenditure gap, and future expectation and thus ensures the delivery of scientific insurance solutions.
The WFind system includes six steps, i.e. analyzing family income and expenditure and financial conditions, identifying family insurance needs, learning about risk exposure, designing insurance portfolio solutions for customers, comparing products from multiple perspectives, and helping customers find the solutions that suit them best.
The system not only helps brokers complete the upgrade from product sellers to professional brokers, but also promotes customer-centric delivery of services by brokers in a more professional, objective and neutral manner.
Based on the gaps in family income and expenditure, pension, and educational fund, the WFind system recommends insurance content correspondingly to help customers make well-informed purchase choices. That will also improve customers' perception of the professional quality of brokers and enhance trust between both sides.
Based on the WFind system, Waterdrop requires all brokers to provide 3-5 products in each category based on customer needs for them to choose from. That will give play to customers' initiative and maximize the value of independent choices.
Generally speaking, Waterdrop and the whole insurance industry are confronted with challenges. But the harder the time is, the more patient and confident the industry as a whole should be to find the solution together. Waterdrop's innovation and exploration in offline channels also serve as a fresh example of revolutionary significance for the insurance industry in its efforts to integrate online and offline operations and expand service boundaries.
About Waterdrop Inc.
Waterdrop Inc. (NYSE: WDH) is a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact. Founded in 2016, with the comprehensive coverage of Waterdrop Insurance Marketplace and Waterdrop Medical Crowdfunding, Waterdrop aims to bring insurance and healthcare service to billions through technology. For more information, please visit www.waterdrop-inc.com.
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Having a COVID test kit on hand will provide peace of mind when you gather with loved ones to celebrate
Although 2022 will mark the second holiday season that covid has been spreading throughout the country, available vaccines and treatments have made it safer to get together with family during these special times. An additional safeguard when planning to be around those you love are at-home COVID kits that test for the virus.
Affordable and easy to use, these kits make it possible to see if you are infected with COVID from the comfort of home. Having this knowledge will reduce the risk of spreading the virus so you and your family can get on with safe celebrations throughout the holiday season.
When should I use a COVID test at home?
Many people are fatigued at thoughts of COVID, which is understandable considering the coronavirus pandemic began all the way back in early 2020. However, it’s still possible to get infected and spread the virus, even among vaccinated individuals. An at-home COVID test is an important tool in preventing unnecessary illness. What’s more, there are a few circumstances that make it even more vital to know whether or not you are COVID-positive or COVID-free.
- If you’ve had known exposure to COVID
- When you are experiencing symptoms that are commonly related to COVID, such as high fever, body aches, cough, fatigue and shortness of breath
- Before traveling by plane
- If you plan to be in close contact with others, especially people who have underlying health conditions such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes that puts them at higher risk of COVID-19 complications
- To simply feel peace of mind when planning to spend time with family and friends
Types of COVID test kits
COVID test kits that are made to be used at home are called rapid tests. They are suitable for use to detect infection of different variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 illness. According to the Food and Drug Administration, antigen and molecular are the two main types of at-home COVID test kits. Each one works on different parts of the SARS-CoV-2 to detect infection.
Antigen is the most common type of at-home test available. Once an antigen test is completed, it takes about 15 minutes to produce results. Although molecular tests tend to be a bit more accurate, they aren’t as readily available and take 30 minutes or longer to deliver results.
Both types of rapid at-home tests typically require using a nasal swab to collect samples from the nostrils. However, saliva test kits are also available. Some users prefer this type of test because it doesn’t require a nasal swab. Saliva tests usually require online registration. Additionally, saliva samples often have to be sent to a lab, which takes extra effort and time to receive results.
How to use an at-home COVID test
If you’ve been exposed to COVID, you should wait at least five days to take a rapid test. That’s because the virus may not be detectable at first, resulting in a false negative. Each test works somewhat differently but will include clear instructions. Follow them closely to ensure the most accurate results.
The most important step in taking a COVID test is collecting the sample that may or may not contain the virus. Most rapid tests work with long swabs that are used to capture nasal fluid that contains the COVID-19 virus if it’s present. Saliva tests don’t require swabbing of the nasal passages.
If your COVID test is negative, the FDA recommends taking another test to avoid a false negative result. It’s also important to keep in mind that no COVID test is 100 percent accurate, however, the FDA also advises that most positive results are accurate.
Best COVID kits
iHealth COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test
This antigen test earns praise for being easy to use. It produces results in just 15 minutes. It’s compatible with an app that comes in handy when testing and monitoring multiple people. The kit includes two tests for a reasonable price. Sold by Amazon
Celltrion DiaTrust COVID-19 AG Home Test
Soft-tip swabs increase the comfort of using this at-home antigen COVID test. Results are available in about 15 minutes. The pack includes two antigen tests. Sold by Amazon
Siemens Healthineers Clinitest Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test
Because you get five antigen tests for a decent price, these antigen tests are a good choice for a group. Results are produced in 15 minutes and are easy to read. Sold by Amazon
DxTerity COVID-19 Saliva At-Home Collection Kit
This molecular test works by taking a sample of saliva, so there’s no need to swab the nostrils. It requires sending the sample to a lab to receive test results. A prepaid shipping envelope is included so there are no additional costs involved once the kit is purchased. Sold by Amazon
Lucira Single-Use COVID-19 Rapid PCR Molecular Test
Although a molecular test, this kit doesn’t require sending samples to a lab to get results. It’s highly accurate and delivers results in about 30 minutes. The purchase of the kit includes access to telehealth, which is helpful should you have questions after testing. Sold by Amazon
Flowflex COVID-19 Antigen Home Test
This is an affordable option that comes with five test kits per pack. It only takes about 15 minutes to get results. The antigen tests are easy to use too. Sold by Amazon
Quidel QuickVue At-Home OTC COVID-19 Test
Customers like that this antigen test is fast and shows results in as little as 15 minutes. Each box contains two test kits. The tests are straightforward to use. Sold by Amazon
BinaxNOW COVID-19 Antigen Self Test
Made by a top brand in this category, this pack comes with two COVID antigen tests. They are simple to use and produce results in around 15 minutes. Sold by Amazon
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Relay is now accepted at Pilot, Flying J, and One9 Fuel Network locations, enabling truck drivers to use secure, cardless technology to pay for commercial diesel
ATLANTA, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With card skimming on the rise nationwide, Relay Payments, the fintech company building a digital payment network in the transportation, logistics, and supply chain industries, is launching its digitized diesel payment platform at Pilot Company's industry-leading network of travel centers. With Relay Payments now available at more than 800 of Pilot Company's travel centers, millions of truck drivers visiting one of these locations daily will now have access to reliable, digital, fraud-free payment transactions.
"We take fraud protection seriously and are always looking for innovative solutions to support the needs of our fleet customers," said David Hughes, senior vice president of sales for Pilot Company. "Digital payment technologies like Relay provide fleets with enhanced anti-fraud capabilities and improve the ease of commercial diesel transactions. We are excited to offer Relay Payments across our extensive travel center network and to bring cutting-edge technologies to the trucking industry."
Fleets of all sizes can now use Relay for payments at more than 800 participating Pilot, Flying J, and One9 Fuel Network travel centers in the U.S., and can continue to leverage their existing savings and direct billing arrangements with Pilot Company on the Relay platform. Carriers also benefit from Relay's robust fraud mitigation measures, contactless technology, transparent fees, and access to Relay's 24/7 U.S.-based customer support.
"Fuel fraud and outdated payment technologies hurt the entire supply chain, costing fleets, merchants, and drivers hundreds of millions of dollars each year," said Relay co-founder and president Spencer Barkoff. "By offering our services at Pilot Company locations, we are able to provide reliability, security, and flexibility for carriers and drivers, all while reducing fraud. We're fortunate to build products that solve the industry's biggest challenges, and we couldn't be more excited to work with Pilot Company to bring these products to millions of drivers."
Relay first introduced its fast, secure digital payment solution in 2019 to eliminate long delays that forced drivers to wait hours for payment approvals and authorizations. Fleets eagerly adopted the industry-leading system resulting in instant payment transactions and more time maximizing hours of service. Relay's payment network has continued to expand rapidly, allowing fleets nationwide to make fast and secure over-the-road payments.
For more information about Relay Payments or to download the mobile app, visit RelayPayments.com. For more information about Pilot Company and to find nearby Pilot and Flying J locations, visit pilotflyingj.com.
About Relay Payments
Founded in 2019, Relay Payments is an Atlanta-based, venture-backed fintech company building a digital payment network in the transportation, logistics, and supply chain industries. Trusted by more than 300,000 carriers and drivers, Relay is spearheading the modernization of payments in an industry historically reliant on cards, cash, and checks to conduct business. Relay has joined forces with industry giants like Coyote Logistics, J.B. Hunt, Old Dominion Freight Line, and others to streamline their payment process and optimize operations to get consumer products to shelves quickly. For more information about Relay or to download the app, visit relaypayments.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a new interior window covering to enliven and decorate any room," said an inventor, from Dallas, Texas, "so I invented THE ART OF WINDOWS. My design could enhance the space while also increasing comfort, privacy and security."
The invention provides an attractive covering for interior windows. In doing so, it offers an alternative to traditional blinds and curtains. As a result, it could enhance the appearance of a window and it helps to conserve energy in the home. The invention features a decorative and versatile design that is easy to apply and use so it is ideal for households and commercial locations. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Dallas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-DAL-201, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Asian Americans are fighting back against what they see as discriminatory efforts to ban Chinese citizens from buying property in certain states.
While supporters of these bills cast their policies as targeting malign influence from the Chinese Communist Party, Asian Americans and their advocates worry the bills are only fueling xenophobia and unfairly blocking access to the American dream.
The battle is raging in Florida, where a new law targets Chinese citizens, and in other states, like Texas, where similar bills have been proposed.
“These are Chinese Americans who have come here to build a better life,” said Nabila Mansoor, executive director of Texas progressive group Rise AAPI, which has helped to organize against the Texas bill. “And what you’re telling them is that’s not good enough; we welcome you here with open arms, but we’re not going to give you the same rights and privileges that everyone else has.”
The state fights also come amid a broader fight over Chinese ownership of U.S. land, with former President Trump promising to push to ban Chinese purchases of farmland and other critical infrastructure if he retakes the White House, and various proposals on Capitol Hill to impose such restrictions.
Last month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), another leading GOP presidential contender, signed a law making it a felony for people “domiciled” in China to buy property in Florida unless they’re a U.S. citizen or a legal permanent resident. The Texas Senate passed a bill in April that would ban citizens of China and other foreign adversaries from buying property, with certain exceptions, though it died in the House when the Texas legislative session ended Monday.
The Alabama House passed a similar bill in May, which was scaled back to focus on hostile governments before passing the Senate. Many other states have passed or considered narrower bills that only focus on agricultural land or banning purchases by entities affiliated with the Chinese government. But the broader bills in states like Texas and Florida have drawn particularly fierce pushback.
Four Florida residents who are Chinese citizens, along with a Florida real estate firm that primarily serves clients of Chinese descent, have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the new law, which is set to take effect July 1.
The law allows people with a non-tourist visa or who have been granted asylum to purchase a single residential property of up to two acres, provided it’s not within 5 miles of a military installation. However, the lawsuit points out that there are numerous military sites in Florida, many of which are within 5 miles of major city centers like Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Pensacola, Panama City and Key West.
“Florida’s discriminatory property law is unfair, unjustified and unconstitutional,” said Ashley Gorski, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, which is helping to represent the plaintiffs, in a statement. “Everyone in the United States is entitled to equal protection under our laws, including citizens of other countries.”
In response to the new Florida law, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chairwoman Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and CAPAC Housing Task Force Chairman Al Green (D-Texas) introduced legislation in Congress to preempt state laws that restrict individuals from purchasing property based on country of citizenship.
“Buying real property — whether that’s a new house to call home or a commercial property to run a business in — is a critical step for immigrant families, students, and refugees to pursue the American Dream,” Chu said in a news release.
Proponents of bills to restrict Chinese property purchases say they are necessary to protect national security.
“If you look at the Chinese Communist Party, they’ve been very active throughout the Western Hemisphere in gobbling up land and investing in different things,” DeSantis said at a news conference in January. “That is not in the best interests of Florida to have the Chinese Communist Party owning farmland, owning land close to military bases.”
In response to criticism, the Texas bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst (R) softened the bill, which would have prohibited any citizen of China, Russia, Iran or North Korea from buying property in Texas. She added exemptions for U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents and people purchasing a home as their primary residence.
The new version “makes important clarifications, so the law targets agents of these adversarial regimes while not harming innocent Texans in pursuit of the American dream,” Kolkhorst said in a news release.
However, critics say such exceptions aren’t enough.
“What if you have an entrepreneurial immigrant who’s on their way to becoming a U.S. citizen?” Mansoor asked. “Can they buy property to start a business? No, they can’t. So that is actually hindering everything that people say is important about the American dream.”
State Rep. Gene Wu (D) a Texas state legislator who opposed SB 147, said it can take years for people to get a green card, and even longer to become a U.S. citizen.
“These are people who are lawful immigrants,” Wu said. “These are people who are here at the behest of the United States.”
“Sometimes, if they’re business visa holders, we have asked them to be here, we have begged and cajoled and pleaded with them to be here, to come to the U.S. to invest money, to do business, create jobs,” Wu added.
Wu added that Asian Americans not covered by the legislation could still be impacted if sellers aren’t sure whether they’re allowed to buy property.
“This is an open invitation for discrimination against Asian Americans,” he said.
Wu said SB 147 failing to pass — despite Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signaling his support early on — is evidence that the pushback against such bills is working.
“I think it would be safe to say that it didn’t get through because of the overwhelming backlash from the Asian community,” he said.
Haipei Shue, president of United Chinese Americans, said Abbott helped mobilize that pushback with a tweet in January saying he would sign the bill.
“Had Gov. Abbott not tweeted in his Twitter account, many of us wouldn’t know [about SB 147], or at least not as quickly,” he said.
Shue said such bills unfairly equate Chinese immigrants with the Chinese government.
“You say you hate CCP, but you love Chinese people, then you turn around and you make these laws, at least on the state levels, you’re targeting a whole class of Chinese Americans or Chinese nationals who have nothing to do with the Chinese government,” he said.
For some Asian Americans, these bills harken back to America’s history of anti-Asian laws, like the Chinese Exclusion Act and alien land laws, which denied Asian immigrants the ability to purchase land in certain states.
“We perceive this sort of wave of attacks as another iteration of the same type of prejudice against Asian Americans that we’ve experienced in the past,” Wu said.
“The only difference is now that our community is no longer willing to just quietly tolerate this type of active discrimination against our community.” | https://who13.com/hill-politics/chinese-americans-fight-back-against-bans-on-buying-property/ | 2023-06-02 13:05:05 | 1 | https://who13.com/hill-politics/chinese-americans-fight-back-against-bans-on-buying-property/ |
OAK BROOK, Ill., June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TreeHouse Foods, Inc. (NYSE: THS) announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Northlake, Texas, coffee facility and non-Direct Store Delivery coffee business (referred to as Direct Ship) from Farmer Brothers Company (Nasdaq: FARM) for approximately $100 million.
The state-of-the-art Northlake facility, built in 2017, brings roasting, grinding, flavoring and blending capabilities to the TreeHouse Foods portfolio to complement the Company's existing single-serve pod and ready-to-drink coffee businesses. The acquisition enables TreeHouse Foods to deliver greater category depth in an end-to-end private label coffee offering – from bagged whole bean and ground coffee to pods and ready-to-drink beverages.
"I want to welcome the newest members of our coffee team," said Steve Oakland, Chairman, CEO and President of TreeHouse Foods. "Acquiring the Northlake, Texas facility enables us to drive greater category depth through green coffee purchasing, roasting, grinding, flavoring and assortment – and represents an exciting step forward as we strengthen our strategic capabilities as a focused, private label snacking and beverages leader. By becoming more vertically integrated in coffee, we are better positioned to drive mutually profitable growth for our customers and deliver greater value to our shareholders."
Farmer Brothers has historically been a bulk ground coffee supplier to TreeHouse Foods for single-serve pods and ready-to-drink beverages. Following closing, the acquisition is expected to create greater profit capture in the supply chain. TreeHouse Foods will also assume select customer relationships and retain approximately 180 team members from Farmer Brothers to support operations at the facility.
Approximately $30 million of inventory was acquired, and the acquisition was financed under the TreeHouse Foods revolving credit facility. Additional financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
About TreeHouse Foods
TreeHouse Foods, Inc. is a leading private label food and beverage manufacturer in North America. Our purpose is to engage and delight – one customer at a time. Through our customer focus and category experience, we strive to deliver excellent service and build capabilities and insights to drive mutually profitable growth for TreeHouse and our customers. Our purpose is supported by investment in depth, capabilities and operational efficiencies, which are aimed to capitalize on the long-term growth prospects in the categories in which we operate.
Additional information, including TreeHouse Foods' most recent statements on forms 10-Q and 10-K, may be found at treehousefoods.com.
About Farmer Brothers
Founded in 1912, Farmer Brothers is a national coffee roaster, wholesaler, equipment servicer and distributor of coffee, tea and culinary products. The company's product lines, include organic, Direct Trade and sustainably produced coffee. With a robust line of coffee, hot and iced teas, cappuccino mixes, spices and baking/biscuit mixes, Farmer Brothers delivers extensive beverage planning services and culinary products to its U.S.-based customers. It serves a wide variety of customers, from small independent restaurants and foodservice operators to large institutional buyers, such as restaurant, department and convenience store chains, hotels, casinos, healthcare facilities and gourmet coffee houses, as well as grocery chains with private brand coffee and consumer branded coffee and tea products, and foodservice distributors.
Headquartered in Northlake, Texas, Farmer Brothers generated net sales of $469.2 million in fiscal 2022. The company's primary brands include Farmer Brothers, Artisan Collection by Farmer Brother, Superior, Metropolitan, China Mist and Boyd's.
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Such forward-looking statements, because they relate to future events, are by their very nature subject to many important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements contained in this press release and other public statements we make. Such factors include, but are not limited to: risks related to the impact that the divestiture of a significant portion of our Meal Preparation Business or any such divestiture might have on the Company's operations; disruptions or inefficiencies in our supply chain and/or operations; loss of key suppliers; raw material and commodity costs due to inflation; labor strikes or work stoppages; multiemployer pension plans; labor shortages and increased competition for labor; success of our growth, reinvestment, and restructuring programs; our level of indebtedness and related obligations; disruptions in the financial markets; interest rates; changes in foreign currency exchange rates; collectibility of our note receivable, customer concentration and consolidation; competition; our ability to execute on our business strategy; our ability to continue to make acquisitions and execute on divestitures or effectively manage the growth from acquisitions; impairment of goodwill or long lived assets; changes and developments affecting our industry, including customer preferences; the outcome of litigation and regulatory proceedings to which we may be a party; product recalls; changes in laws and regulations applicable to us; shareholder activism; disruptions in or failures of our information technology systems; changes in weather conditions, climate changes, and natural disasters; and other risks that are set forth in the Risk Factors section, the Legal Proceedings section, the Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations section, and other sections of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, and from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). You are cautioned not to unduly rely on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made when evaluating the information presented in this press release. TreeHouse expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained herein, to reflect any change in its expectations with regard thereto, or any other change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any statement is based.
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GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says Ghana has reported two possible cases of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease, which if confirmed would mark the first-ever such infections in the West African country.
The disease, a very infectious hemorrhagic fever in the same family as Ebola, is spread to people by fruit bats and transmitted among people through direct contact with bodily fluids of infected people and surfaces, WHO said.
Marburg is potentially very harmful and deadly: Case fatality rates in past outbreaks have ranged from 24% to 88%.
WHO says a preliminary analysis of samples taken from two patients from Ghana’s southern Ashanti region — both of whom died — turned up positive, but they were forwarded for full confirmation to the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, Senegal, which works with the U.N. health agency.
The two patients had been taken to a local hospital with symptoms including diarrhea, fever, nausea and vomiting, WHO said in a statement.
“Preparations for a possible outbreak response are being set up swiftly as further investigations are underway,” WHO said, adding that it is deploying experts to support health authorities in Ghana.
WHO said that if confirmed as Marburg, the cases would mark only the second time that the disease has been detected in West Africa — after Guinea confirmed a single case detected in August. The outbreak in Guinea was declared over five weeks later.
Previous Marburg outbreaks and individual cases have appeared in Angola, Congo, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda, WHO said. | https://wgntv.com/news/international/ap-international/who-ghana-reports-2-suspected-cases-of-marburg-virus/ | 2022-07-09 03:38:46 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/international/ap-international/who-ghana-reports-2-suspected-cases-of-marburg-virus/ |
ALABAMA (WHNT) — Two Alabama veterans who were held captive in Ukraine after volunteering to help fight are officially free and on their way home, family members confirm.
Alex Drueke, 39, and Andy Huynh, 27, went missing in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine near the Russian border on June 9. Both had traveled to Ukraine on their own and became friends because both are from Alabama.
“We are thrilled to announce that Alex and Andy are free,” Dianna Shaw, aunt of Alex Drueke told Nexstar’s WHNT. “They are safely in the custody of the US Embassy in Saudi Arabia…after medical checks and debriefing, they will return to the States.”
Family members confirmed the pair’s release to WHNT on Wednesday afternoon.
“We deeply appreciate everyone’s prayers and especially the close communication and support of our elected officials,” added Shaw. “Ukrainian Ambassador Markarova, and our members of the US Embassies in Ukraine and Saudi Arabia and the U.S. Department of State.”
Saturday, September 17, marked 100 days since Drueke and Huynh decided to volunteer to assist the Ukrainian Army.
The families of both men recently spoke with WHNT about the struggle over the past months as they have tried coping and working to free both men.
The Saudi embassy released a statement saying it had mediated the release of 10 prisoners from Morocco, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Croatia. Shaw confirmed that Drueke and Huynh were part of the group.
The United Kingdom confirmed that five British nationals had been released, and lawmaker Robert Jenrick said one of them was Aiden Aslin, 28, who had been sentenced to death after he was captured in eastern Ukraine.
Drueke joined the Army at age 19 after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and he believed he could help Ukrainian fighters because of his training and experience with weapons, Shaw said previously. Drueke pondered whether to go for a few weeks, she said, and then made up his mind and left in mid-April.
Huynh moved to north Alabama two years ago from his native California and lives about 120 miles (193 kilometers) from Drueke. Before leaving for Europe, Huynh told his local newspaper, The Decatur Daily, he couldn’t stop thinking about Russia’s invasion.
“I know it wasn’t my problem, but there was that gut feeling that I felt I had to do something,” Huynh told the paper. “Two weeks after the war began, it kept eating me up inside and it just felt wrong. I was losing sleep. … All I could think about was the situation in Ukraine.”
It’s not clear when exactly Drueke and Huynh will return to the U.S.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/after-over-100-days-alabama-veterans-held-captive-in-ukraine-coming-home-family-confirms/ | 2022-09-21 21:23:16 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/after-over-100-days-alabama-veterans-held-captive-in-ukraine-coming-home-family-confirms/ |
Two of top three largest public universities in Arizona now use Canvas to create a reliable, open and inclusive learning environment
SALT LAKE CITY, August 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Instructure, the maker of Canvas, today announced that Northern Arizona University (NAU) selected Canvas as its new learning management system, to empower student success through reliable, open and inclusive educational technology. Canvas LMS is part of the Instructure Learning Platform and is the market-share leader in higher education. Through the Canvas implementation, NAU and Instructure will collaborate to support the institution's focus on student learning and success and to ensure a smooth transition for students and teachers as they migrate away from the previous LMS provider.
NAU conducted a thorough 10-month evaluation of Canvas along with other LMS providers. Additional information about NAU's LMS transition process can be found on their site, including how they arrived at their decision. Some of the steps involved included conducting town hall meetings with over 25 stakeholder groups to gather LMS selection criteria. The university and academic units involved conducted a thorough technical and functional integration discovery and evaluation process. After vendor presentations to NAU leadership, the team issued a final assessment survey to all students, faculty, and staff. After gathering responses from more than 500 stakeholders, Canvas emerged as the clear frontrunner.
"After a rigorous review process, it was clear that Canvas was the best choice with which to deliver innovative instruction, foster learning and realize student success," said Steven Burrell, CIO of Northern Arizona University. "Our faculty and students were unanimous in their recommendations to the Provost that Canvas be implemented. With hundreds of responses from stakeholders, Canvas clearly emerged as the overall highest-rated platform as well as the leading LMS across all selection criteria."
Over the next several months, technical staff will begin the work of integrating Canvas with NAU systems, and the team will begin designing training courses for faculty and students. Content will be migrated to Canvas with the goal of teaching for-credit courses in Canvas starting in the summer of 2023.
"Northern Arizona University plays such an important role in the economic development of Arizona and the western United States by creating postsecondary value for workforce-ready graduates and throughout their expansive network of over 20 campus locations," said Melissa Loble, Chief Customer Experience Officer at Instructure. "Platform flexibility and reliability were key considerations for NAU and we are honored to be able to provide a consistent, intuitive experience for their community of educators and students."
Northern Arizona University is a high-research institution providing exceptional educational opportunities in Arizona and beyond. NAU delivers a student-centered experience to its nearly 30,000 students in Flagstaff, statewide and online through rigorous academic programs in a supportive, inclusive and diverse environment. Dedicated, world-renowned faculty help ensure students achieve academic excellence, experience personal growth, have meaningful research opportunities and are positioned for personal and professional success.
Canvas is a fully SaaS learning environment that streamlines interaction and builds strong relationships between teachers and students, whether in the physical, blended or fully online classroom. Traditionally, technology designed to support blended and online learning was inflexible and failed to drive a more engaging online experience. Canvas was created to simplify teaching so faculty can spend more time engaging students in ways that elevate learning.
The Instructure Learning Platform is an open, reliable and extensible learning ecosystem enabling a digital learning environment for educators, students and institutions. The platform is made up of several key pillars—such as assessment, professional development and analytics—that work together to enrich, support and connect every aspect of teaching and learning. The Canvas family of tools makes up the learning management pillar of the Instructure Learning Platform.
Instructure (NYSE: INST) is an education technology company dedicated to elevating student success, amplifying the power of teaching, and inspiring everyone to learn together. Today the Instructure Learning Platform supports tens of millions of educators and learners around the world. Learn more at www.instructure.com.
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LEHI, Utah, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PCF Insurance Services (PCF), a top 20 U.S. insurance brokerage firm, announced the strategic acquisition of Utah-based property and casualty managing general agent (MGA) United Underwriters. Sherman & Company advised United Underwriters on the transaction.
Founded in 1998, United Underwriters offers 150-plus agencies across the Western United States property and casualty MGA services and programs including homeowners, renters, dwelling, commercial, personal umbrella, earthquake, and auto insurance.
"We are proud to welcome United Underwriters to the PCF family," says Peter C. Foy, Chairman, Founder, and CEO of PCF Insurance. "United Underwriters is one of Utah's fastest growing MGAs and possesses a proven track record of success. PCF's growth strategy centers around leveraging the deep bench strength and collective experience of our partner network for the good of our clients. The United Underwriters team is an outstanding addition to PCF because of their unique product and service offering."
As an insurance carrier, United Underwriters becomes the latest addition to an extensive list of successful PCF specialty insurance agencies to benefit from the vast infrastructure of resources and services of the PCF Insurance network. United Underwriters' services, experience and market supports PCF's growth trajectory by diversifying its product and solution offerings.
About United Underwriters
One of Utah's fastest growing insurance carriers, United Underwriters was founded in 1998 in Provo, Utah, and is affiliated with over 150 Utah-based insurance agencies as a major provider of personal and commercial insurance. With insurance solutions for homeowners, renters, dwelling, commercial, personal umbrella, earthquake, and auto insurance, United Underwriters takes pride in offering great insurance rates and claim services to all its customers. For more information, visit uuinsurance.com.
About Sherman & Company
Established in 2004, Sherman & Company is an investment banking firm dedicated to the convergence of the insurance, healthcare, technology, and asset management industries. Learn more at sherman-company.com.
About PCF Insurance Services
Headquartered in Lehi, Utah, PCF Insurance Services is a leading full-service consultant and insurance brokerage firm offering a broad array of commercial, life and health, employee benefits, and workers' compensation solutions. A top 20 U.S. broker, PCF's agency-centric operating model and entrepreneurial environment support its tremendous growth profile, offering partners alignment through equity ownership, significant leadership incentives, and resources to over 2,000 employees throughout the U.S. Learn more at pcfins.com.
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Elderly man with dementia rescued by Scottdale PD's 'cutting-edge' drones
Scottsdale Police shared drone footage of an elderly man with dementia being rescued and detailed the importance the technology serves in the department.
It all started when a request was sent out for a helicopter to do an air search for the missing man, but no chopper was available from any of the Valley departments.
Scottsdale PD says their only hope was the drone, and thankfully it worked.
"It’s invaluable. For something like this, it was really the difference because where he was located was nowhere where people would normally be walking," said Scottsdale Police Officer and drone operator Greg Now.
On June 12, the man was reported missing by his family north of Pima and Cave Creek roads. Scottsdale PD launched one of their drones with infrared capabilities to find him.
"This particular community is a golf community. A golf course is heavily watered, so it’s nice and cool at night. So here, signatures are a little easier. Unfortunately, he wasn’t on the golf course itself. He was off in the desert," Now said.
Within minutes officers located him.
The drones are relatively new to the Scottsdale Police Department but have already proved useful in this search for a missing person, and other criminal investigations including a barricade situation in the last few months.
He describes how the drone was able to help in that barricade situation.
"He started coming out, nothing in his hands, hands above his head just like we would want them to. However, the officers weren’t able to see that. So it was nice because I was able to tell them ‘Hey, he’s coming out, and he’s being compliant.' So for his safety and for our safety, that drone was invaluable," he explained.
Drones with infrared technology cost about $8,000.
The department says they don’t deploy drones unless a call is made that requires it. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/elderly-man-with-dementia-rescued-by-scottdale-pds-cutting-edge-drones | 2023-06-26 23:51:30 | 1 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/elderly-man-with-dementia-rescued-by-scottdale-pds-cutting-edge-drones |
- ICESECRET study interim findings presented at the Urological Association Conference in Eilat, Israel
- ProSense was found to be a safe and effective treatment method for renal lesions smaller than 5 cm in patients not suitable for kidney-preserving surgery
- ProSense is approved for the treatment of benign and malignant kidney tumors in the U.S., Europe, and numerous other countries
CAESAREA, Israel, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --- IceCure Medical Ltd. (Nasdaq: ICCM) (TASE: ICCM) ("IceCure" or the "Company"), developer of minimally-invasive cryoablation technology, the ProSense® System that destroys tumors by freezing, today announced interim results from the ICESECRET study for the treatment of patients with small renal masses ("SRM") who cannot be offered kidney-preserving surgery. Data were presented on December 14, 2022 at the Urological Association Conference in Eilat, Israel. The presentation titled "Renal Mass Cryoablation - Interim Analysis ICESECRET Study" was delivered by Dr. Nasir Said of Bnai Zion Medical Center.
According to the presentation, out of the 115 patients enrolled, 107 patients (112 lesions) returned for follow-up with a mean duration of 22.8 months and a range 12-60 months.
- In a subgroup of patients with no previous history of kidney cancer on the same kidney and a lesion ≤3 cm, an 89.5% recurrence-free rate was observed at a mean follow-up time of 22.2 months when the procedure protocol was followed.
- The recurrence-free rate was 85.1% for the 107 patients (91 patients, including 13 patients who underwent a second cryoablation), at a mean follow-up period of 16.5 months.
- 5 serious adverse events were reported, 4 of which were of mild severity and were treated conservatively and resolved within 1-5 days, with one severe complication of a new onset of ipsilateral hydronephrosis 7 months after the cryoablation procedure that led to nephrectomy.
- Cryoablation time and hospitalization time were relatively short, up to approximately 25 minutes and 2 days, respectively.
- The presentation concluded that, based on these interim results, cryoablation is safe and effective for treating renal masses under 5 cm.
According to the American Journal of Roentgenology, small renal masses, which may be malignant or benign tumors in the kidney, have been rising in incidence over the past two decades. According to the American Cancer Society, in 2022, in the U.S., an estimated 79,000 new cases of kidney cancer will be diagnosed, with about 14,000 dying from the disease. Globally, there were more than 430,000 new cases of kidney cancer in 2020 and about 180,000 deaths according to World Cancer Research Fund International.
"These impressive interim results demonstrate the value of ProSense for urologists and interventional radiologists as a therapeutic alternative when patients are not eligible for surgery," stated IceCure's Chief Executive Officer, Eyal Shamir. "We believe the findings will support further use of ProSense in the jurisdictions in which our cryoablation system is approved for use with benign and malignant tissues of the kidney. The growing body of data on ProSense's efficacy and safety across a broad range of indications supports commercialization momentum, particularly in facilities that benefit from one device that can be used across multiple specialties."
ICESECRET, a prospective, multicenter, single-arm clinical trial is being performed at Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, and Shamir Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel, and led by Principal Investigator Prof. Halahmi Sarel. The trial included 115 patients (138 lesions) with localized SRM of ≤5 cm who were treated with ProSense cryoablation under CT guidance. Full engulfment of the renal lesion, including a safety margin of 0.5 cm was achieved in approximately 96% of the procedures where there was no anatomical limitation. Follow-up visits are performed 6 weeks, 6 months, 1 year, and then annually up to 5 years after the procedure. During the follow-up visits, data related to local recurrence, based on CT imaging, is collected. Safety was determined by monitoring procedure-related adverse events throughout the study.
About IceCure Medical Ltd.
IceCure Medical Ltd. (Nasdaq: ICCM) (TASE: ICCM) develops and markets ProSense®, an advanced liquid-nitrogen-based cryoablation therapy for the treatment of tumors (benign and cancerous) by freezing, with the primary focus areas being breast, kidney, bone and lung cancer. Its minimally invasive technology is a safe and effective alternative to hospital surgical tumor removal that is easily performed in a relatively short procedure. The system is marketed and sold worldwide for the indications cleared to-date by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and approved in Europe with the CE Mark.
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NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors asked a Texas jury Wednesday to sentence a woman to death for killing a pregnant woman and stealing her unborn daughter from her womb.
The appeal came as the penalty phase of Taylor Parker’s capital murder trial began for the October 2020 murder of Reagan Simmons-Hancock and theft of her unborn baby. The Bowie County jury previously found Parker guilty of capital murder.
Prosecutor Kelley Crisp told jurors that the evidence would show Parker, 29, faked a pregnancy and repeatedly lied before killing Simmons-Hancock, 21, at the woman’s New Boston home on Oct. 3, 2020, to get the infant she claimed to have been carrying. The child died on Oct. 9 in a hospital in nearby Idabel, Oklahoma.
Parker’s attorneys hope to persuade the jury to spare Parker’s life and let her serve life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Defense attorney Jeff Harrelson said they would show that Parker was mentally ill. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/prosecution-seeks-death-for-woman-in-pregnant-womans-death/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-10-12 23:16:38 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/prosecution-seeks-death-for-woman-in-pregnant-womans-death/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Driver impaled, killed by falling tree during storms, sheriff says
Published: Mar. 6, 2023 at 2:28 PM CST|Updated: 27 minutes ago
MCEWEN, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – A man who was driving his car during storms in Tennessee on Friday afternoon was impaled by a tree in a freak accident, officials said.
Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said the accident happened on East Blue Creek Road when a tree fell onto the vehicle, impaling the driver.
The man, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead.
The man’s nephew was also in the car, but he survived and is in the hospital, Davis said. His current condition is unknown.
Further details were not given.
Thunderstorms and high winds pummeled central Tennessee and southern Kentucky on Friday, leaving behind tons of damage and thousands of people without power.
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The Los Angeles Kings will resume their chase of Pacific Division-leading Vegas on Tuesday when they host the Golden Knights following the three-day holiday break for both teams.
Vegas, which began the season a blistering 13-2-0, has a Western Conference-best 49 points. Los Angeles, despite sputtering out of the gate with a 6-6-1 start, has closed within five points of the Golden Knights and brings a five-game point streak (4-0-1) into the contest.
Despite the Kings’ strong run that started with a shootout win at NHL points leader Boston, Los Angeles coach Todd McLellan said his team needed the holiday break to recharge. Los Angeles played three games in four nights, registering home wins over the Anaheim Ducks (4-1) on Tuesday and the Calgary Flames (4-3 in overtime) on Thursday before finishing a back-to-back with a 2-1 road shootout loss to the Arizona Coyotes on Friday.
“I thought it was a gutsy point by our team,” McLellan said. “Our gas tanks were running low and they checked very well. It was a gutsy, gutsy (effort) by our team.”
The Kings added some reinforcements Tuesday in the form of forwards Quenton Byfield and Rasmus Kupari from AHL Ontario, as well as defenseman Jordan Spence. But forward Arthur Kaliyev was placed on IR with an undisclosed injury.
On Friday, Nick Schmaltz had put the Coyotes up 1-0 with a first-period goal, but Alex Iafallo answered with a power-play goal to tie it midway through the second period. Nick Bjugstad scored the winner in the second-round of the shootout on Kings goalie Jonathan Quick, who stopped 23 of 24 shots in his first start since Dec. 11.
“It’s important to get something from a game any way you can,” McLellan said. “Three games in four nights, we overplayed some players, fell behind. The fact that we came back, I think it was a character (performance). I keep going back to that.
“These games, pre- and post-All-Star break, Christmas, they’re hard to play. A lot of times they can be blowouts. One team takes off and the other team is done. I was happy the way the guys dug in.”
Iafallo added, “It was a good point that we needed. Obviously wanted two points, to get a win. But looking at the positive, we did get a point heading into the break.”
Vegas snapped an ugly 1-6-0 home stretch with home wins over Arizona (5-2) on Wednesday and the St. Louis Blues (5-4 in a shootout) on Friday heading into the break.
The Golden Knights are an NHL-best 14-2-1 on the road this season, including a 4-3 victory over the Kings in the season opener on Oct. 11, when Mark Stone scored the game-winner with 26 seconds remaining.
Stone also came up big again in the Friday win over the Blues when he had a goal and an assist and also scored the shootout winner in the fourth round.
“Getting two points heading into the break is huge, especially at home,” Stone said.
Los Angeles’ Chandler Stephenson had the game-tying, six-on-four power-play goal with 1:36 remaining to go along with three assists for his fourth career four-point game, while Michael Amadio added a goal and two assists for Vegas.
“Lots of resiliency,” Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. “These are tough games (before the break) to play as a home team. Across the league you’ll see that. Teams’ minds and players’ minds get wandering. They’re looking forward to the break for obvious reasons. …
“I know it’s a shootout game. It doesn’t matter right now. You take the points at this time of year.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were pursued by photographers in cars after a charity event in New York, the couple’s office said Wednesday.
The pair, together with Meghan’s mother, were followed for more than two hours by a half-dozen vehicles with blacked-out windows after leaving the event.
Their office said in a statement that the chase “resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two NYPD officers.” It called the incident “near catastrophic.”
Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, died in a car crash in 1997 while being pursued by paparazzi in Paris.
The NYPD did not provide immediate comment to describe or corroborate the royals’ statement about the incident.
“While being a public figure comes with a level of interest from the public, it should never come at the cost of anyone’s safety,” the statement from the couple said.
Security for Harry and Meghan has been an issue since the British government stripped them of protection when they moved to California in 2020 and it figures in three of his legal cases against the government and tabloid press.
The chase occurred the same day a lawyer for Harry argued in a London court that he should be able to challenge a government decision denying him the right to pay police for his own security in the U.K.
Harry has argued his safety was “compromised due to the absence of police protection” during a short visit to the U.K. in July 2021, when his car was chased by photographers as he left a charity event.
The couple have said they funded their own security after former President Donald Trump said the U.S. government wouldn’t pay to protect them.
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, had been in New York to accept the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Award with Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown.
The gala kicked off the foundation’s largest fundraising campaign ever — $100 million over the next 12 months — that will be used to further the organization’s equity-centered initiatives and its mission of advancing women’s collective power.
With her mother, Doria Ragland, in the audience, Meghan recounted how Ms. Magazine was always in their house and how it affected her world view.
“I am a woman who remains inspired and driven by this organization,” she said, looking over at Ms. Foundation co-founder Gloria Steinem. “It allowed me to recognize that part of my greater value and purpose in life was to advocate for those who felt unheard, to stand up to injustice, and to not be afraid of saying what is true and what is just and what is right.”
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SpaceX ignites giant Starship rocket in crucial pad test
SpaceX is a big step closer to sending its giant Starship spacecraft into orbit, completing an engine-firing test at the launch pad on Thursday.
Thirty-one of the 33 first-stage booster engines ignited simultaneously for about 10 seconds in south Texas. The team turned off one engine before sending the firing command and another engine shut down — "but still enough engines to reach orbit!" tweeted SpaceX's Elon Musk.
Musk estimates Starship’s first orbital test flight could occur as soon as March, if the test analyses and remaining preparations go well.
The booster remained anchored to the pad as planned during the test. There were no signs of major damage to the launch tower.
NASA is counting on Starship to ferry astronauts to the surface of the moon in a few years, linking up with its Orion capsule in lunar orbit. Further down the road, Musk wants to use the mammoth Starships to send crowds to Mars.
Only the first-stage Super Heavy booster, standing 230 feet (69 meters) tall, was used for Thursday's test. The futuristic second stage — the part that will actually land on the moon and Mars — was in the hangar being prepped for flight.
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Altogether, Starship towers 394 feet (120 meters), making it the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. It's capable of generating 17 million pounds of liftoff thrust, almost double that of NASA's moon rocket that sent an empty capsule to the moon and back late last year.
SpaceX fired up to 14 Starship engines last fall and completed a fueling test at the pad last month.
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RICHARDSON, Texas, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of National Tune Up Day on September 25th, Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning LLC ("Service Experts") has launched a September campaign that gives back to the internationally known non-profit, Make-A-Wish®. For every tune-up any Service Experts center performs in the month of September, they will be making a $5 contribution to Make-A-Wish® of up to $20,000 to help grant life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
This campaign is a continuation of a successful 6 year partnership between Service Experts and Make-A-Wish®. Through efforts similar to this September campaign, Service Experts has raised more than $1,000,000 for Make-A-Wish® and helped grant over 100 wishes. Service Experts CEO, Rob Comstock says the company "takes great pride in serving our communities. And as a long-time Make-A-Wish supporter, we've seen first-hand how wishes can bring hope to children with critical illnesses. That's why we'll continue to support Make-A-Wish in their mission and hope that you'll join us."
Every 20 minutes, approximately 27,000 children are diagnosed with a critical illness. A wish experience can be a game-changer for these children, impacting not only the wish kids, but also their families, volunteers, donors, sponsors, medical professionals and communities. A wish renews hope, uplifts spirits and encourages the belief in the impossible, giving kids the strength to fight against—and even overcome—a critical illness. A wish unites neighbors, friends and entire communities in life-changing experiences. When a wish comes true, it creates strength, hope and transformation for everyone involved.
"For six years, Service Experts has provided customers with a simple and functional way to make a powerful impact on the lives of children with critical illnesses and their families," said Richard K. Davis, president and CEO of Make-A-Wish America. "We know that wishes can lead to improved medical outcomes and better chances of survival, but as important as wishes are, they wouldn't be possible without supporters like Service Experts."
ABOUT SERVICE EXPERTS
Founded in 1996, Service Experts is a leading provider of HVAC repair, maintenance, new equipment sales and related services to residential and commercial customers in 31 states in the U.S.. Headquartered in Richardson, Texas, Service Experts is one of North America's largest heating and air conditioning service companies, with 85 locations serving approximately 2,500 homes and businesses, on average, each working day. HVAC services include: residential HVAC service, replacement and leasing through the Service Experts Advantage Program. For more information on Service Experts sales, rebates, products and services, visit ServiceExperts.com.
About Make-A-Wish®
Make-A-Wish creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Founded in Phoenix, Arizona, Make-A-Wish is the #1 most trusted nonprofit operating locally in all 50 states throughout the U.S. Together with generous donors, supporters, staff, and more than 24,000 volunteers across the country, Make-A-Wish delivers hope and joy to children and their families when they need it most. Make-A-Wish aims to bring the power of wishing to every child with a critical illness because wish experiences can help improve emotional and physical health. Since 1980, Make-A-Wish has granted more than 520,000 wishes in nearly 50 countries worldwide; more than 350,000 wishes in the U.S. and its territories alone. For more information about Make-A-Wish America, visit wish.org.
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SINGAPORE, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Academy of Sciences has selected Straive, a leader in technology-driven solutions for Content, EdTech, and Data, to provide end-to-end content production services for its flagship publication, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
PNAS is one of the world's most cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals, publishing more than 3,500 research papers annually. The journal is an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.
The engagement involves the production of digital content, including copyediting, content structuring, author proofing, and production editing, using Straive's Content Publishing Platform, ensuring full compliance with PNAS's high editorial standards and publication requirements.
Regarding the announcement, Diane Sullenberger, PNAS Executive Editor, said, "The goal of PNAS is to disseminate the highest-quality scientific research, spanning diverse disciplines, as broadly as possible. By partnering with Straive, we have furthered our commitment to delivering scientific content of the highest caliber and enhancing its value."
"We are pleased to partner with PNAS. Our approach involves providing PNAS with state-of-the-art production services that support its unique workflow requirements while ensuring efficiency, quality, and transparency. Our team is working very closely with PNAS leadership to ensure seamless integration of our platform and tools and an accurate adoption of PNAS procedures," said Prabhakar Bisen, President and COO of Straive.
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The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer-reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), is an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. The journal is global in scope, and submission is open to all researchers worldwide.
PNAS was established in 1914 in honor of the semicentennial anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences. Since then, the journal has worked to publish only the highest-quality scientific research and to make that research accessible to a broad audience. In addition, PNAS publishes science news, Commentaries, Perspectives, Special Features, podcasts, and profiles of NAS members.
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Straive is a market-leading content technology enterprise that provides data services, subject matter expertise (SME), and technology solutions to multiple domains, such as research content, e-Learning/EdTech, and data/information providers. With a client base scoping 30 countries worldwide, Straive's multi-geographical resource pool is strategically located in seven countries: Philippines, India, USA, Nicaragua, Vietnam, United Kingdom, and the company headquarters in Singapore.
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, January 9, 2023
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory...CORRECTED
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
514 AM PST Mon Jan 9 2023
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 AM PST THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southwest California, including the following
county, San Luis Obispo.
* WHEN...Until 930 AM PST.
* IMPACTS...Heavy rainfall will result in widespread ponding of
water on area roadways with flooding of low-lying areas and
intersections.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 510 AM PST, Automated rain gauges indicated that rainfall
rates had increased to one third to two thirds of an inch per
hour across western portions of the county, with local rates
up to three quarters of an inch per hour in higher terrain in
the northwestern portion of the county. Flooding of roadways
is imminent and likely to continue through at least mid
morning.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
San Luis Obispo, Paso Robles, Morro Bay, Pismo Beach,
Atascadero, Arroyo Grande, Nipomo, Cambria, Highway 101 over
Cuesta Grade, Lake Lopez, Shandon, Templeton, Shell Beach and
Oceano.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday responded to calls from the mayor of Chicago to stop sending migrants to her city, saying she should instead call on President Joe Biden to secure the border.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had penned a letter to Abbott, asking him to stop sending people, even as more migrants were expected to arrive Monday, adding that Chicago had no more shelter, space, or resources to accommodate an increase of individuals at this level.
In response to Lightfoot, Abbott said Texas’ busing strategy was needed to “provide much-needed relief to overwhelmed, small border communities amid the Biden Administration’s growing border crisis.”
“If you truly want to ‘work together to find a real solution’ to this border crisis gripping our nation, you must call on the Biden Administration to do its job by securing our border, repelling the illegal immigrants flooding into our communities, classifying the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and intercepting the deadly fentanyl that is endangering our country,” Abbott’s Letter to Lightfoot reads. “You are right that ‘this situation is completely untenable,’ but this is not a Texas problem—this is a problem for the entire United States of America.”
In August 2022, the State of Texas began busing migrants to Chicago due to its status as a “Welcoming City,” saying Chicago will not deny city services to individuals based on their immigration status. Texas also buses migrants to what Abbott called “sanctuary cities,” including Washington, D.C., New York City, and Philadelphia.
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Don McLennon and Skillshare to donate $30,000 in scholarship funds to support aspiring creatives
NEW YORK, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Skillshare, the world's largest online community for creatives, today announced that musician, multi-disciplinary artist and Brockhampton member, Dom McLennon is launching a series of classes on digital music production. The three-part series "Digital Music Production: DAW Fundamentals," "Producing Music Like the Pros: Learn to Sample any Sound" and "Music Producer in the Making: Composing and Arranging Your Track" offer an inside look into the music production process and the world of digital audio workstations, or DAWs. Dom's classes are now available exclusively on Skillshare along with thousands of classes on a variety of creative disciplines.
In Dom's first-ever class series, he offers beginners and experienced music producers alike a great primer in the power of DAWs from understanding the basics of opening the software for the first time to creating a beat. The classes also provide a hands-on learning experience for those ready to take their skills to the next level by creating more advanced tracks, with step-by-step guides to create a unique musical composition while at the same time providing a better understanding of how music works. Through the partnership with Skillshare and Dom, and as part of the series launch, $30,000 worth of 1-year Skillshare scholarships will be donated to aspiring creatives.
Dom McLennon's journey to becoming a musician and producer started out in the same way a lot of other creatives' journeys do: letting passion and curiosity drive exploration. What started out as creating beats with his younger cousin just for fun turned into a spot in the hugely influential and successful Hip-Hop collective, Brockhampton, where he not only served as a recording artist for the group but also worked behind the scenes as a producer. Since then Dom has focused on developing experiences that encompass all of his creative interests and ambitions as an independent artist. Dom's first, post-Brockhampton release is set for the end of June.
"Music is a universal language that gives us a chance to explore, discover, and be inspired. When the opportunity to create this class was presented to me, I was so excited to be able to take a more ground-level approach to the idea of making music on a computer. A lot of instructional and educational courses around making music with computers can be so specific that it's intimidating to even start, so my goal was to create a class that would make you more comfortable with the idea of feeling confident with starting your music making journey. Along with learning about the workflow of digital music production, I'll be walking you through some of the essential vocabulary you'll hear in any studio environment, as well as some unspoken principles that musicians follow to achieve their goals," said Dom. "Working with Skillshare on this has been an absolute dream. Their patience, willingness to produce the classes from my home studio and trust in me to bring in local musicians to contribute was such a privilege and blessing. I can go on forever about how much this partnership means to me."
"Dom has always been very intentional about paving the path forward for aspiring producers and we always love to work with creatives who want to share their passions to help others develop new skills, making him a perfect addition to Skillshare's teacher community," said Alicia Hamilton-Morales, Senior Vice President of Content, Community and Brand at Skillshare. "Dom's talent translates perfectly in this new 3-part class series that brings an accessible lens to music production and is perfect for anyone ready to dive in and get started on their musical journey or advance their skills."
In addition to Dom's new classes, Skillshare is also home to thousands of classes on a variety of topics taught by industry leaders and working professionals, on topics including illustration, design, photography, and more. Members around the world love Skillshare for discovering inspiration, learning new skills, and putting their talents to work in ways they care about. In 2022 members completed more than 1.8M Skillshare classes in their entirety. Skillshare's vast catalog also includes recently published classes from Joy Cho, Jacob Collier, Morgan Harper Nichols, Joe Ando and more.
About Skillshare:
Skillshare is the world's largest online learning community for creativity. With more than 26,000 video-based classes exploring a wide range of creative disciplines from graphic design to photography to painting and illustration to interior design—taught by industry experts including Jonathan Van Ness, Aaron Draplin, Emily Henderson, Thomas Frank, Rebecca Minkof and Jeff Staple and more. Skillshare is both a publisher of original content, and an open platform, where anyone who meets our standards and guidelines can upload a class and earn income. Skillshare's mission is to build the world's most valuable creative learning community. To learn more, go to: www.skillshare.com.
Contact:
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Skillshare
shira.mahler@skillshare.com
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CARLSBAD, Calif., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IONS) today announced that management will present at the following investor conferences:
- Cowen 43rd Annual Health Care Conference on Tuesday, March 7, 2023
- Oppenheimer 33rd Annual Virtual Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, March 15, 2023
- Stifel 2023 Virtual CNS Days on Wednesday, March 29, 2023
A live webcast of the presentations can be accessed on the Investors & Media section of the Ionis website at www.ionispharma.com. The replay will be available on the Ionis website within 48 hours and will be archived for a limited time.
About Ionis Pharmaceuticals
For more than 30 years, Ionis has been the leader in RNA-targeted therapy, pioneering new markets and changing standards of care with its novel antisense technology. Ionis currently has three marketed medicines and a premier late-stage pipeline highlighted by industry-leading cardiovascular and neurological franchises. Our scientific innovation began and continues with the knowledge that sick people depend on us, which fuels our vision of becoming the leader in genetic medicine, utilizing a multi-platform approach to discover, develop and deliver life-transforming therapies.
To learn more about Ionis, visit www.ionispharma.com and follow us on Twitter @ionispharma.
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Biden’s Pacific strategy heralds new engagement in region
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday unveiled a Pacific strategy designed to bolster U.S. engagement with more than a dozen island nations on issues including climate change and maritime security while pledging to expand the U.S. diplomatic presence in the region.
The Biden administration released its new strategy, as well as plans for $810 million in new aid for Pacific Island nations, as President Joe Biden prepared to meet with leaders attending the U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit. The Democratic president was set to address the summit on Thursday and then host the leaders for a dinner at the White House. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with leaders on Wednesday at the State Department.
The president’s push to improve relations in Pacific comes amid growing U.S. concern about China’s growing military and economic influence. Earlier this year, the Solomon Islands signed a new security pact with Beijing, and ahead of the summit signaled it would be hesitant to sign any end-of-summit statement critical of China.
Among the new initiatives the White House announced are plans to ask Congress to appropriate $600 million over 10 years to support economic development and promote climate resilience efforts for Pacific fisheries and establish a regional mission of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Suva, Fiji. The White House also reiterated previously announced plans to open embassies in the Solomon Islands, Tonga and Kiribati.
The White House also announced plans to recognize the Cook Islands and Niue as sovereign states, after “appropriate consultations.” The U.S. currently recognizes the islands as self-governing territories.
The 16-page document notes “heightened geopolitical competition impacts” for the Pacific Island countries that also directly affect the United States.
“Increasingly those impacts include pressure and economic coercion by the People’s Republic of China, which risks undermining the peace, prosperity, and security of the region, and by extension, of the United States,” the strategy document says. “These challenges demand renewed U.S. engagement across the full Pacific Islands region.”
Among the broad strategy aims laid out by the Biden administration in the document are expanding the number of U.S. diplomatic missions from six to nine across the Pacific and completing work to renew strategic partnership agreements with the Pacific Island nations of Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands that are set to soon expire. The strategy also calls for increasing the presence in the region of the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Pentagon.
Leaders from Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia and New Caledonia are attending the two-day summit. Vanuatu and Nauru sent representatives, and Australia, New Zealand and the secretary-general of the Pacific Island Forum sent observers, according to the White House.
White House officials acknowledge that U.S. inattentiveness toward the region since the end of the Cold War has left an opening for Beijing to exert its influence.
Plans for the summit were announced earlier this month, just days after the Solomon Islands called on the U.S. and Britain not to send naval vessels to the South Pacific nation until approval processes are overhauled. The Solomons in April signed a new security pact with China.
The Solomon Islands signaled it was unlikely to sign on to a joint statement that the U.S. hoped to have hashed out by the end of the summit, according to a diplomat familiar with summit planning. The diplomat, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the resistance is driven in part by the Solomon Islands’ tightening relationship with Beijing.
The U.S. and summit participants are working toward a summit-concluding joint statement that is expected to avoid directly addressing China, but will include calls for upholding freedom of navigation, respect the sovereign rights and territorial integrity of nations in the region, and the urgency of acting on climate change, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly.
Just last week, the Marshall Islands pulled out of a negotiating session with the U.S. over their Compact of Free Association, which expires next year. The Marshall Islands says the U.S. isn’t engaging on its claim for proper reparations from the legacy of U.S. nuclear testing in the islands.
The Marshall Islands says there was extensive environmental and health damage from the dozens of tests in the 1940s and 1950s, which a settlement in the 1980s fell well short of addressing.
Besides their meeting with Biden, island leaders are scheduled to meet on Thursday with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (PIX11) — Before Robert Crimo was arrested in the mass shooting of paradegoers at a July 4 march, neighbors in Highland Park, Illinois, had noticed the image of a “smiley face” man holding an assault rifle, painted on a brick wall of his family’s home. They found it disturbing.
But the signs of trouble were there a long time. More than three years ago, in April 2019, police were summoned to the family’s house after Crimo, then a teenager, was talking about suicide. In September, the family called cops a second time, telling them Crimo was threatening to “kill everyone.” Police found 16 knives, a dagger and a sword, but no guns. And there was no “red flag” reported to the Illinois State Police, the agency which oversees gun applications.
Two months later, in December 2019, Crimo’s father — a former mayoral candidate — sponsored his son’s application to become a gun owner, when young Robert Crimo III sought a Firearms Owner Identification Card, known as FOID. The application was approved.
So in 2020, Crimo bought four weapons legally, including the high-powered rifle that was fired from a rooftop on Independence Day 2022, killing seven people and wounding several dozen more.
“He planned this for several weeks,” Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli said at a press conference Wednesday, shortly after Crimo was ordered held with no bail on seven counts of murder.
The Lake County State’s Attorney, Eric Rinehart, said Crimo confessed to the shooting after his arrest.
“He went into details about what he had done, he admitted to what he’d done,” Rinehart said of Crimo.
When reporters asked the law enforcement officials if they were talking to Crimo’s father, Covelli replied, “I don’t want to go into levels of cooperation.”
Parents of young mass shooters have been coming under more and more scrutiny, as the number of these shootings escalate.
Back on Nov. 30, the parents of teenager Ethan Crumbley were blamed for ignoring serious warning signs, before he allegedly used a semiautomatic weapon to kill four classmates at Oxford High School in Michigan.
Prosecutors in Michigan said the teen’s mother, Jennifer Crumbley, had texted her son, after a teacher reported the student was searching for ammunition sites on his phone, while in class.
One prosecutor quoted the mom’s text: “LOL. I’m not mad at you. You have to learn not to get caught.”
In the 48 hours before Ethan Crumbley allegedly carried out his gun assault in school, administrators summoned his parents to Oxford High with concerns over his preoccupation with violence.
Hours before the shooting, a teacher saw a note on Ethan Crumbley’s ‘desk: “The thoughts won’t stop me. Help me.”
There were also reports that Ethan Crumbley’s parents told him to “tough out” his mental health struggles.
Once the parents heard they might also be arrested in the shooting, they allegedly went on the run.
Jennifer and James Crumbley were eventually found hiding in a warehouse near Detroit.
They were both arrested on four counts of involuntary manslaughter and remain in jail, unable to raise $1 million for bail.
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The Liz Cambage experiment in Los Angeles has come to an abrupt end, with the Sparks announcing on Tuesday that they agreed to a “contract divorce,” effective immediately, with the four-time WNBA All-Star.
Cambage’s departure is just another chapter in the saga that has been the L.A. Sparks for the past several seasons.
The Australian center signed with the Sparks five months ago and was the team’s second-leading scorer through 26 games. Khristina Williams of Girls Talk Sports TV reports that “chemistry issues” between Cambage and the rest of the team emerged in May.
Some of those chemistry issues are speculated to date back to initial reports that Cambage used racial slurs against members of the Nigerian team during a training game ahead of the Olympics. Cambage, whose father is Nigerian, apologized to the Nigerian team, but some questioned the sincerity of the apology.
While the relationship between Cambage and the Australian team seemed to reach an all-time low, she lauded the Sparks organization for protecting her “on a level that the Opals or the Australian team never gave to me.”
Williams went on to say Cambage reportedly had been vocal about her intention to leave the team, with some characterizing her departure as a “quit.”
While undeniably talented, Cambage has earned a controversial reputation as an unreliable teammate dating back to her early days in the WNBA.
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After being drafted by the Tulsa Shock with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2011 WNBA Draft, Cambage immediately expressed displeasure over starting her career in Tulsa.
“I don’t want to play in Tulsa, I’ve made that clear,” she said.
Her time in Tulsa proved short lived. With less than a month remaining in her rookie season with the Shock, Cambage missed her flight from Australia back to the U.S. and informed the Shock that she would sit out the remainder of the season, citing exhaustion and fatigue from playing on the national team circuit. She later rejoined the Shock in 2013, appearing in 21 games, before taking a four-season hiatus from the WNBA to play in China and Australia.
The dependability question continued to follow Cambage as she sat out the entirety of the 2020 season due to health concerns relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and then backed out of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics less than two weeks before the Games.
While the relationship obviously turned sour quickly, Cambage was seemingly all in from the onset.
“It was L.A. or out for me,” Cambage said in her introductory press conference back in February. “There was nowhere else I wanted to be.”
To be fair, Cambage isn’t the only source of controversy in the Sparks locker room these past couple seasons.
Former Laker Derek Fisher took over as head coach in 2018 and tensions quickly emerged between Fisher and Candace Parker, a seven-time All-Star and future Hall of Famer. Parker was reportedly upset about Fisher’s decision to bench her in his first year at the helm of the franchise.
Parker remained in Los Angeles for one more year before leaving the Golden State after 13 seasons and heading back home to join the Chicago Sky.
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DETROIT, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This July, Meridian of Michigan kicked off a new partnership with three local health providers to put brand new shoes on children and adults who receive their COVID-19 vaccine.
As the coronavirus and new emerging variants remain a very real threat in Michigan, people continue to test positive, and residents continue to be hospitalized. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends everyone ages six months and older get vaccinated against COVID-19. To thank community members for getting vaccinated against COVID-19, the "Shots for Shoes" campaign will provide eligible Meridian members with a gift card for a new pair of shoes.
"At Meridian, we believe it's vital to protect the health of our members and local communities by ensuring the vaccine is accessible in convenient locations where members feel safe and heard," said Dr. Kay Judge, Meridian's Chief Medical Officer. "We believe this is one way to overcome vaccine hesitancy, while also identifying other needs members may have like food and housing because health is more than just about healthcare."
Meridian members ages six months or older who receive any dose of the COVID-19 vaccine (1st, 2nd, or booster) are eligible to receive a shoe store gift card from Shoe Dept. or Famous Footwear. Members can schedule their vaccinations at participating providers at Wayne County Healthy Communities (WCHC) in Hamtramck, Family Health Center in Kalamazoo, or Great Lakes Bay Health Centers in Saginaw. Walk-in appointments will also be accepted.
"As a Federally Qualified Health Center, our mission is to provide community members with healthcare services regardless of their ability to pay," said Dr. Raouf Seifeldin, Chief Medical Officer at WCHC. "We focus on addressing social determinants of health including transportation, interpretation, food resources, and more. We serve an underserved community with a low socioeconomic status. Therefore, being able to provide gift cards for shoes to those who have trouble purchasing basic necessities is fundamental. Ultimately, we do not want patients to have to choose between seeing a doctor or purchasing food and clothing. We want to work towards alleviating these barriers by providing patients with 'one-stop shop' access to a variety of different healthcare services."
"Shots for Shoes" runs through the end of the month. Gift cards will be mailed to members the end of the campaign.
Meridian has served Michigan residents since 1997 across its Medicaid, Medicare, and Marketplace plans. These efforts to get everyone vaccinated reinforce the company's long-standing commitment to supporting the whole-health of its local communities.
Meridian in Michigan provides government-sponsored managed care services to families, children, seniors, and individuals with complex medical needs primarily through Medicaid (Meridian), Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (Wellcare), Medicare-Medicaid Plans (MeridianComplete), and the Health Insurance Marketplace (Ambetter from Meridian). Meridian is a wholly owned subsidiary of Centene Corporation, a leading healthcare enterprise committed to helping people live healthier lives. For more information about Meridian, please visit mimeridian.com.
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MONTAUK, N.Y., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- La Fin Kitchen & Lounge, the waterfront restaurant in Montauk known for its signature views and French inspired cuisine, opens its doors for summer with an expanded menu and an accomplished new culinary team.
Welcoming in the second season is new Culinary Director Chris Brandt. Chef Chris has led some of the nation's most prestigious kitchens including The Greenbrier and The Food Studio, where, as opening executive chef, he was instrumental in bringing it a Four-Diamond AAA rating while still in his 20's and The Ocean Room at The Sanctuary on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, where he led the team to a Four-Star Mobil rating. Chef is surrounded by a stellar team, including Executive Chef Joe Roberti and General Manager Justin Shiller.
"We are thrilled to have Culinary Director Chris Brandt at the helm this summer, bringing his signature flair and attention to detail to our menu." says Co-owner Michelle Walrath "At La Fin, gorgeous views of the sea are visible from any seat in the house. With our new expanded menu and wider array of options, guests can experience the wonder of La Fin in even more ways."
The team has added multiple menu items that include new Lounge menu, available from 4-5pm daily, featuring options such as cauliflower flat bread, a large charcuterie board and an 8oz grass fed beef burger, served with tomato-bacon jam, cheddar, and signature La Fin shoe-string fries. The new Raw Bar menu includes Plateau De Fruits De Mer, a decadent caviar dish accompanied by egg white, egg yolk, chive, crème fraîche and crackers and a classic shrimp cocktail. New Rosé flights, featuring 3 varietals from Provence and 3 from the North Fork, are the perfect accompaniment to the light and flavorful dishes. Signature cocktails at La Fin include an Espresso Martini, and a new Grand Cru Margarita made with Clase Azul Reposado, Cointreau, Fresh Lime, Agave Nectar, Soda Water.
Dinner brings new shareable dishes to the menu, with a delectable organic whole spatchcock chicken, served with baby carrots, haricot vert, herb roasted fingerling, potatoes, and black truffle chicken jus. Signature fan favorite dishes like eggplant meatballs with white wine tomato sauce, are mainstays. The new crab and watermelon salad; filled with jumbo lump blue crab, lemon zest, arugula, truffle-citrus vinaigrette and served on a thick slice of watermelon with a sprinkling of black lava sea salt is sure to become a favorite.
La Fin's celebrated Recovery Brunch has been expanded as well to include Toasts and Benedicts and the showstopper Montauk Eye Opener, a shareable breakfast board of scrambled eggs, bacon, French toast, fruit, croissants, and house salad.
La Fin is open daily from 4 pm until 10 p.m. Happy Hour is available daily from 4-5. Refined dinners begin at 5 p.m. On weekends, from 11-3, a Recovery Brunch features decadent benedicts, tasty new toasts and refreshing salads.
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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ three-hour surgery Wednesday raised a question about what happens to papal power when a pope is unconscious or otherwise incapacitated and cannot lead the Catholic Church.
The answer: nothing.
While many countries regulate the transfer of power when a head of state becomes incapacitated, and the Vatican has governance norms when a pope resigns or dies, none of those regulations apply to a sick, unconscious or hospitalized pope.
In other words, Pope Francis was still pope, fully in charge of running the Vatican and the 1.3-billion strong Catholic Church, even while under general anesthesia and undergoing surgery to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall. The Vatican said there were no complications and that he was expected to be hospitalized for several days.
No, the Vatican camerlengo, or chaimberlan, didn’t take over. No, the Vatican No. 2 didn’t step in.
“A brief period of impediment doesn’t create any problems,” said Geraldina Boni, professor of canon law at the University of Bologna and a consultant for the Vatican’s legal office. “The curial machine proceeds normally with ordinary administration.”
To wit: the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, was out and about on Wednesday, presiding over the inauguration of an information center for pilgrims coming to Rome for the 2025 Jubilee. Shortly after Francis was admitted to the hospital, the Vatican’s daily noon bulletin came out with Francis’ new bishop appointments.
“The pope continues to act, even from the hospital,” said the Rev. Filippo Di Giacomo, a canonical expert and commentator. “Even when he’s facing painful moments like this, his power acts in the people who received vicarious power from him.”
Canon law does have provisions for when a bishop gets sick and can’t run his diocese, but none for a pope. Canon 412 says a diocese can be declared “impeded” if its bishop — due to “captivity, banishment, exile, or incapacity” — cannot fulfill his pastoral functions. In such cases, the day-to-day running of the diocese shifts to an auxiliary bishop, a vicar general or someone else.
Even though Francis is the bishop of Rome, no explicit provision exists for the pope if he similarly becomes “impeded.” Canon 335 declares simply that when the Holy See is “vacant or entirely impeded,” nothing can be altered in the governance of the church. But it doesn’t say what it means for the Holy See to be “entirely impeded” or what provisions might come into play if it ever were.
Recently, a team of canon lawyers set out to propose norms to fill that legislative gap. They created a canonical crowd-sourcing initiative in 2021 to craft a new church law regulating the office of a retired pope as well as norms to apply when a pope is unable to govern, either temporarily or permanently.
“If the condition of a totally incapacitated pope goes on for months or even years, it’s clear that this creates great harm for the church and the good of its souls,” said Bondi, who is one of the initiative’s organizers. “We need norms that identify the people or organisms to deal with the problems that cannot be put off long-term.”
The eight-page set of proposed norms explains that with medical advancements, it’s entirely likely that at some point a pope will be alive but unable to govern. It argues that the church must provide for the declaration of an “totally impeded see” and the transfer of power for the sake of its own unity.
Under the proposed norms, the governance of the universal church would pass to the College of Cardinals. In the case of a temporary impediment, they would name a commission to govern, with periodical medical checks every six months to determine the status of the pope.
“If, with all the possible guarantees and procedures defined, it is verified that the Roman See is impeded by a certain, permanent and incurable incapacity of a pope, it’s necessary to proceed toward the election of his successor,” Bondi said in an email.
There is no indication Francis is moving on the proposals, which seek to fill the legislative loophole that the 25th Amendment filled in the U.S. — to oversee the transfer of power in case a president dies or becomes incapacitated.
Francis recently revealed, however, that he had already penned a letter of resignation if he were to become incapacitated for a medical reason. In a December interview with Spanish newspaper ABC, Francis said he had given the letter to the then-secretary of state early on in his papacy, but didn’t know what became of it.
For now, unless his letter fulfills the legal requirements, papal power would only change hands if he dies or resigns. At that time a whole series of rites and rituals comes into play governing the “interregnum” — the period between the end of one pontificate and the election of a new pope.
During that period, known as the “sede vacante,” or “empty See,” the camerlengo, or chamberlain, runs the administration and finances of the Holy See. The position is currently held by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the head of the Vatican’s laity office. But he has no role or duties if the pope is merely sick or otherwise incapacitated.
In 1965, Pope Paul VI wrote letters to the dean of the College of Cardinals hypothesizing that if he were to become seriously ill, the dean and other cardinals should accept his resignation.
In one letter, published in 2018, Paul cited an infirmity “which is presumed incurable or of long duration and which prevents us from sufficiently exercising the functions of our apostolic ministry.”
The letter was never invoked, since Paul lived another 13 years and died on the job.
But experts say Paul’s letter was unlikely to have ever been used since current canon law requires a papal resignation be “freely and properly manifested” — as was the case when Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation in 2013.
Bondi noted the faults in Paul’s letter and said she hoped Francis’s own set of instructions took them into account.
“I only hope Francis sought collaboration from expert canonists,” she said.
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ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. today announced the acquisition of Quincy, Illinois-based Cason, Huff & Schlueter Insurance. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1923, Cason, Huff & Schlueter is a retail insurance agency specializing in personal and commercial insurance as well as life, health and disability insurance to clients in Illinois and Missouri. Mike McCaughey, Patty McCaughey, Bryan Feldner, Eric Frese, Mary Kinscherf and their associates will remain in their current location under the direction of Ryan Isaacs, head of Gallagher's Midwest region retail property/casualty brokerage operations.
"Cason, Huff & Schlueter has earned a great reputation over a long history for their expertise and professionalism, and will expand our capabilities in the Midwest," said J. Patrick Gallagher, Jr., Chairman, President and CEO. "I am very pleased to welcome Mike, Patty, Bryan, Eric, Mary and their team to Gallagher."
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE:AJG), a global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm, is headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Gallagher provides these services in approximately 130 countries around the world through its owned operations and a network of correspondent brokers and consultants.
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As the No. 1 seed in the 5A state volleyball tournament, it was clear Madison was going to be a contender for the title.
For those in the know, the conclusion was actually foretold years ago when a bunch of sixth graders at a volleyball camp told coach Meranda Maestas that they were going to win a state title for the Bobcats when they grew up to play in high school.
"I think we are fulfilling the dreams we had as little girls," senior Kinley Kerbs said. "We have been playing together since sixth grade... we wanted this, we have been waiting for this moment... we had fourth place, third, and second place trophy, and now it's time for the first place trophy."
The Bobcats, who had taken home state hardware seven years in a row, claimed the ultimate prize Saturday, downing Timberline 25-5, 25-21, 25-19 to win the 5A state title.
It's the team's first state title since 2018. Last year Madison lost in the championship match to a powerful Skyview team and that feeling still lingered for the returning players.
"We talked about it almost daily all year long," Maestas said. "That's a huge motivator."
Timberline was the No. 6 seed, but worked its way back through the consolation bracket to earn a championship date with the Bobcats, who defeated Post Falls 3-1 in Saturday's semifinal.
Madison, which was 19-0 in single matches and 35-4 overall including tournament matches, wasted little time in the first set, taking a 10-0 lead. The Bobcats' serving had Timberline on its heels as Madison's lead grew to 21-3.
Timberline eventually settled down and the second set was close throughout before the Bobcats finished strong for the win. Madison led most of third set before closing it out and starting off the celebration.
"We fought hard for a long time and we've taken losses at state," senior Maddi Wilcox said. "I am able to walk out of the high school I love with a state championship."
Players posed for photos with the trophy and championship banner as fans gathered on the court at Skyline High.
"They did a good job reminding each other that this has always been the goal," Maestas said, adding that the group has always been goal-driven and also collected a team academic award.
"It couldn't have ended any better," Maestas added.
Kerbs finished with seven aces and 32 assists, Ashley Garner had 10 kills and Wilcox recorded seven kills and four blocks.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Oscar Gonzalez tied the game with a two-run single and scored on Owen Miller's go-ahead sacrifice fly as the Cleveland Guardians rallied for four runs in the ninth inning to beat the Minnesota Twins 11-10 on Wednesday night.
Gonzalez homered earlier and finished with four RBIs for the surging Guardians, who have won the first two in a three-game series to take a one-game lead over Minnesota atop the AL Central. The teams also meet five times in four days next week in Cleveland.
Carlos Correa hit two home runs for the Twins, who have lost four of five and are 8-11 in June. Max Kepler and Gio Urshela also went deep for Minnesota.
Sam Hentges (1-0) tossed a scoreless eighth and Emmanuel Clase earned his 17th save with a 1-2-3 ninth for Cleveland, which has won 11 of 13 and is 17-4 since May 30. The young Guardians also won their seventh straight series.
With the Guardians down by three, Amed Rosario and José Ramírez singled to start the ninth before an RBI double by Josh Naylor off Emilio Pagan made it 10-8.
Gonzalez came through with a two-run single off Griffin Jax and reached second on the throw. Gonzalez moved to third on Andrés Giménez's sacrifice before Miller lofted a fly ball to left-center with plenty of distance as Cleveland completed its latest thrilling comeback.
Jax (4-2) took the loss for the second straight night.
Rosario tied a season high with four hits. Gonzalez hit a two-run homer to give the Guardians a 7-6 lead in the seventh.
Urshela, who was a double shy of the cycle, hit a three-run homer as part of a four-run seventh for a 10-7 Minnesota lead. All the runs scored with two outs.
Spotted a 5-1 lead, Twins starter Sonny Gray gave up a home run to Austin Hedges to start the fifth. Three straight singles — with Gray late to cover first base on the last one — coupled with an error by Nick Gordon in center field, ended Gray’s outing. A balk by Caleb Thielbar plated a run to get the Guardians within 5-4.
Making his second start after missing 16 games with a right pectoral strain, Gray allowed season highs with four earned runs on eight hits in four innings. He had allowed nine hits and one earned run over 18 innings in his previous three starts.
Cleveland starter Triston McKenzie entered with an opponents' batting average of .185, tied with Tampa Bay’s Shane McClanahan for second-best in the majors behind the .150 of the Dodgers’ Tony Gonsolin.
Correa didn’t seem to care.
His first-inning home run landed in the second deck in left field, and his third-inning round-tripper was to straightaway center for a 3-1 lead.
Tying his shortest start of the season, McKenzie allowed nine hits and six earned runs in 4 1/3 innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Guardians: DH Franmil Reyes, who returned Tuesday after missing 23 games with right hamstring tightness, did not play. He is expected to be in Thursday’s lineup.
Twins: RHP Bailey Ober (right groin strain) said his past four or five catch days have gone well and he hopes to throw off a mound later this week. … 1B Miguel Sanó, out since surgery in early May to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee, has moved along in his running progression, started hitting and should take live batting practice next week. … RHP Randy Dobnak (right middle finger strain) recently threw a 15-pitch, fastball-only bullpen at about 75% and has played catch at 120 feet.
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The starters for Thursday afternoon’s series finale are scheduled to be RHP Zach Plesac (2-4, 4.41 ERA) for Cleveland and LHP Devin Smeltzer (3-1, 3.52) for Minnesota.
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The drones caused falling debris, with reports of fires breaking out and buildings being damagedImage: Kyiv City Military Administration/Handout/REUTERS
Ukraine updates: 'Massive' Russia drone attack targets Kyiv
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Kyiv's mayor said one person was killed in the capital after the latest Russian assault. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin ordered a bolstering of border security to facilitate "fast movement" into Ukraine. DW has more.
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The Ukrainian capital of Kyiv was targeted by a fresh 'massive' Russian drone attack, the city's mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram early Sunday.
Klischko said the assault left one person dead and another hospitalized.
"A 35-year-old woman was hospitalized, a 41-year-old man died," Klitschko said, while adding that Kyiv's air defenses took down "more than 20 drones."
He also said that the drone attack caused a fire in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district, adding that it was contained.
Russia has frequently used Iranian-produced drones to attack Ukraine. Iran's supposed involvement in Russia's invasion has lead to worsening ties between the Ukrainian government and the Islamic Republic.
Zelenskyy: Iran 'lying' about prewar drone sales to Russia
The latest drone assault on Kyiv came as the city celebrates the anniversary of its founding 1,541 years ago. The anniversary, known as Kyiv Day, is celebrated on the last Sunday of May.
Here's a look at other developments on Sunday pertaining to Russia's invasion of Ukraine:
Putin orders tougher Russian border security
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday mandated toughter border securityto facilitate "fast" Russian military and civilian movement into Ukrainian areas now controlled by Russia and "reliably cover" the lines near the combat zone.
Putin addressed the border service on their Border Guard Day holiday.
"It is necessary to ensure the fast movement of both military and civilian vehicles and cargo, including food, humanitarian aid building materials sent to the new subjects of the (Russian) Federation," Putin said in a message posted on the Kremlin's Telegram messaging channel.
Putin announced last September the annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk, in a move widely condemned as illegal by Kyiv and its Western allies.
Zelenskyy orders more sanctions against Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy unveiled new sanctions targeting Russia-affiliated businesses and entities.
Zelenskyy announced adding more companies and individuals to a list of those "who work for terror," vowing tougher measures against Russia.
The Ukrainian president dubbed Saturday as "another sanctions day" during his daily evening address. Two-hundred and twenty companies and 51 people were added to the list. Zelenskyy said most were arms companies linked to Russian businesses, though not all those listed were operating on Russian soil.
Russia attacks Dnipro hospital
The Ukrainian president also thanked allies Germany, Finland, Canada and Iceland for fresh weapons deliveries, as well as Japan, which issued earlier this week a new package of sanctions against Russia. | https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-massive-russia-drone-attack-targets-kyiv/a-65755830 | 2023-05-28 04:10:54 | 1 | https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-massive-russia-drone-attack-targets-kyiv/a-65755830 |
Child dies after being found unresponsive in pool at Missouri water park
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) – A child has died from her injuries a week after she was found unresponsive in a pool at a Missouri water park.
The girl was at Oceans of Fun in Kansas City on July 5 when she was found unresponsive in the Coconut Cove pool.
According to a statement from the park’s spokesperson, a lifeguard pulled the child out of the pool, and the park’s EMS workers began CPR.
The Kansas City Fire Department quickly arrived on the scene and transported the girl to a local hospital.
Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, which owns the theme park complex, confirmed Tuesday morning that the girl has died from her injuries.
“On July 5, 2022, Oceans of Fun aquatics and safety (EMT) staff, as well as the Kansas City Fire Department, responded to and cared for a young female guest in distress. We are deeply saddened to learn of her passing. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family during this difficult time,” the statement read.
The child has not been identified, but law enforcement said she was younger than 10 years old.
Police did not give further information.
Oceans of Fun is part of the Worlds of Fun amusement park in Kansas City.
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DALLAS, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) today announced that Maria Carell CEO & President of Revision Skincare® & Goodier Cosmetics was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2022 Central Plains Award winner. Entrepreneur Of The Year is one of the preeminent competitive business awards for entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies who think big to succeed. An independent panel of judges selected Carell based on her entrepreneurial spirit, purpose, growth and impact, among other core contributions and attributes.
Ms. Carell commented, "I'm honored to have been selected as an Award Winner of EY's Central Plain Entrepreneur of the Year 2022. Since joining Revision Skincare & Goodier Cosmetics, I have been fortunate to work with an exceptional team to develop the company into one of the leaders of our industry. I'm proud of everything we have achieved and know this wouldn't be possible without my team."
For more than two decades, Revision Skincare has provided dermatologists, plastic surgeons and medical spas with clinically proven, high-performing skincare products. Using only premium quality ingredients, the Revision Skincare collection was formulated to provide targeted solutions for enhancing skin's appearance and reducing signs of aging without ever compromising the long term health of the skin. Based in Irving, Texas, Revision Skincare is sold in more than 16 countries.
As a Central Plains award winner, Carell will now be considered by the National independent panel of judges for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022 National Awards. National finalists and winners, as well as the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced in November at the annual Strategic Growth Forum®. The Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner will then move on to compete for the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Award in June 2023.
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. “Dreamland” by Nicholas Sparks (Random House)
2. “Fairy Tale” by Stephen King (Scribner)
3. “The Bullett That Missed” by Richard Osman (Viking/Dorman)
4. “Blowback” by Patterson/DuBois (Little, Brown)
5. “The Butcher and the Wren” by Slsins Urquhart (Zando)
6. “Vince Flynn: Oath of Loyalty” by Kyle Mills (Atria)
7. “Lucy by the Sea” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
8. “Carrie Soto Is Back” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine)
9. “All Good People Here” by Ashley Flowers (Bantam)
10. “Clive Cussler’s Hellburner” by Mike Maden (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
11. “The 6:20 Man” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
12. “Desperation in Death” by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s Press)
13. “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)
14. “Less is Lost” by Andrew Sean Greer (Little, Brown)
15. “The Viper” by J.R. Ward (Gallery)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. “I’m Glad My Mom Died” by Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
2. “The Simply Happy Cookbook” by Steve Doocy (William Morrow)
3. “The Divider” by Peter Baker (Doubleday)
4. “Starry Messenger” by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Holt)
5. “Smart Brevity” by VandeHei/Allen/Schwartz (Workman)
6. “The Return of the Gods” by Jonathan Cahn (Frontline)
7. “Good Inside” by Becky Kennedy (Harper Wave)
8. “What If? 2” by Randall Munroe (Riverhead)
9. “Dinners with Ruth” by Nina Totenberg (Simon & Schuster)
10. “The Great Reset” by Alex Jones (Skyhorse Publishing)
11. “Breaking History” by Jared Kushner (Broadside)
12. “Letter to the American Church” by Eric Metaxas (Salem)
13. “Like a Rolling Stone” by Jann S. Wenner (Little, Brown)
14. “The Gift of Influence” by Tommy Spaulding (Currency)
15. “Your Purpose Is Calling” by Dharius Daniels (Zondervan)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
1. “The Judge’s List” by John Grisham (Vintage)
2. “Where the Crawdads Sing” (media tie-in) by Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
3. “Midnight Shadows” by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)
4. “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyoski (Plata)
5. “2 Sisters Detective Agency” by Patterson/Fox (Grand Central Publishing)
6. “Married in Texas” by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
7. “Clive Cussler’s The Devil’s Sea” by Dirk Cussler (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
8. “Fire & Blood” (media tie-in) by Martin/Wheatley (Bantam)
9. “Under a Killer Moon” by B.J. Daniels (HQN)
10. “Vince Flynn: Enemy at the Gates” by Kyle Mills (Pocket)
11. “Secrets” by Fern Michaels (Zebra)
12. “Nothing to Lose” by J.A. Jance (William Morrow)
13. “Three Women Disappear” by Patterson/Serafin (Grand Central Publishing)
14. “The Next Accident” by Lisa Gardner (Bantam)
15. “Sons of Thunder” by Johnstone/Johnstone (Pinnacle)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. “Verity″ by Colleen Hoover (Grand Central Publishing)
2. “Maybe Now” by Colleen Hoover (Atria)
3. “Reminders of Him” by Colleen Hoover (Montlake)
4. “Spy X Family, Vol. 8” by Tatsuya Endo (Viz)
5. “Solo Leveling, Vol. 5” by Chugong (Yen)
6. “Love on the Brain” by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
7. “A Court of Silver Flames” by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury)
8. “The Night and Its Moon” by Piper CJ (Bloom)
9. “Book Lovers” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
10. “The Lost Girls of Willowbrook” by Ellen Marie Wiseman (Kensington)
11. “Things We Never Got Over” by Lucy Score (Bloom)
12. “The American Roommate Experiment” by Elena Armas (Atria)
13. “The Wish” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
14. “The Ninth Month” by Patterson/DiLallo (Grand Central Publishing)
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Flint police asking community for help to keep city safe
FLINT, Mich. (WNEM) - A mother is dead, and a child is wounded following a shooting in Flint Wednesday morning.
It is one of the many shootings plaguing the Vehicle City recently.
Over the last several days, Flint has seen five shootings that sent five people to the hospital, and left one person dead.
“We’ve been preparing for it for several months now. In fact, we’ve initiated initiatives two months ago to prepare for the summer,” Flint Police Det. Sgt. Tyrone Booth said.
Booth said the department is increasing the number of officers on the ground during peak hours and analyzing crime patterns to determine where to deploy resources.
He said the weekend time frame is a top concern because of the large number of activities that take place across Flint.
“We want people to come and to have fun. We want them to take part in the activities that are going on in the city of Flint, but we want them to do it in a safe manner and we want them to do it in a law-abiding manner,” Booth said.
He said the police department cannot keep the community safe on its own. He said residents throughout Flint need to do their part to help fight against criminal activity.
“We need the aid of every citizen in the city of Flint. If you see something, first and foremost, say something, report it to the police. Because oftentimes, things happen. We’re not there when they do happen. But someone sometimes, in many cases, sees something that can provide us great evidence to solving these crimes,” Booth said.
He said if everyone does their part to keep the community safe, they will see a reduction in violent crimes in the city of Flint.
“Those actors of crime will continue to operate until they see that the community at large, as a whole, wants change and demand it. Then and only then can we be successful at this. We need partners in this fight,” Booth said.
The recent shootings are currently under investigation. If you have any information, contact police or Crime Stoppers.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The City of Daytona Beach will celebrate the 148th birthday of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Monday at 9 a.m., along the Riverfront Esplanade in Downtown Daytona.
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Bethune-Cookman University Founder Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune is regarded as one of America’s most influential civil rights pioneers.
She was born Mary Jane McLeod on July 10, 1875 near Mayesville, South Carolina to parents who were former slaves.
Bethune first launched an all girls school on Oak Street named Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls.
As the school grew, she bought land at the old dump for $1.50 and moved the school to where it sits today.
Read: How Mary McLeod Bethune created Bethune-Cookman University with $1.50 in her pocket
Lucas-Youmans said Bethune developed relationships with people like John Rockefeller, James Gamble and Thomas White to help finance the school and her vision.
The college merged with the Cookman Institute in 1923 and became a university in 2007.
In 2022, an 11-foot marble statue of educator, activist and entrepreneur Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday morning.
This is the first statue of an African American representing a state in National Statuary Hall.
The 3-ton statue was sculpted by Florida artist Nilda Comas, the first Hispanic master sculptor chosen for the National Statuary Hall Collection.
Comas sculpted the statue in Pietrasanta, Italy, using a 11.5-ton block of statuario marble excavated from Michelangelo’s cave in Tuscany.
The statue was previously on display in Daytona Beach, where Bethune lived. It replaced that of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, who was born in Florida.
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a fun and easy way to customize or change the appearance of a hat," said an inventor, from North Las Vegas, Nev., "so I invented the BRIMMING IT BACK. My design also eliminates the need to replace the entire hat if only the brim is stained or worn."
The invention provides a unique way to change or alter the look of a hat. In doing so, it eliminates the need to purchase and store numerous hats. It also enhances style and it enables the wearer to easily match the hat to a particular outfit. The invention features a versatile and trendy design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for individuals who wear hats. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Las Vegas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-LGT-258, 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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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The New Mexico Environment Department’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau released the results of its investigation into the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust” on October 21, 2021, after she was shot with a live round from a prop gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin.
The report finds that the management of Rust Movie Productions, LLC, knew that firearm safety procedures were not followed on set and showed indifference to employee safety. The production company was issued a Willful-Serious citation that includes a $136,793 penalty.
This is the maximum fine and highest level of citation allowed by state law in New Mexico.
Under federal requirements, the production company has 15 days after receiving the citation to pay the penalty or provide OHSB with certification of corrective action, or to contest the citation.
“Our investigation found that this tragic incident never would have happened if Rust Movie Productions, LLC had followed national film industry standards for firearm safety,” said Environment Cabinet Secretary James Kenney in a news release. “This is a complete failure of the employer to follow recognized national protocols that keep employees safe.”
The news release said investigators conducted 14 interviews and reviewed 566 documents before issuing the citation.
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Federal authorities arrested two individuals for conspiring to attack Baltimore power grids, officials said in a press conference on Monday.
Officials said that Brandon Russell and Sarah Clendaniel “took steps” to shoot at numerous Baltimore electrical substations, aiming to “completely destroy this whole city.” Officials said that the two of them were taken into custody last week before they could carry out their plans.
“The accused were not just talking but taking steps to fulfill their threats and further their extremist goals. Russell provided instructions and location information. He described attacking the power transformers as the greatest thing somebody can do. In her own words, Clendaniel said she was determined to do this,” the FBI special agent in charge said at the press conference.
Russell was conspiring to plan out the attacks on the power grid from June 2022 to the present, and encouraged the attack to be done “’when there is greatest strain on the grid,’ like ‘when everyone is using electricity to either heat or cool their homes,’” according to a Department of Justice press release. The release said that Clendaniel was collaborating with him, and discussed her desire to use a specific rifle to shoot at the electrical substations, saying in conversations that “[i]t would probably permanently completely lay this city to waste if we could do that successfully.”
Both Russell and Clendaniel made their initial court appearances on Monday, with Russell appearing in the U.S. District Court in Orlando, Fla. and Clendaniel appearing before the U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Md., according to the press release. If convicted, they would each face a maximum sentence of 20 years for the charge.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew Olsen said in the press release that the plan to execute these attacks was “racially motivated.”
“Driven by their ideology of racially-motivated hatred, the defendants allegedly schemed to attack local power grid facilities,” Olsen said in the press release. “The Justice Department will not tolerate those who threaten critical infrastructure and imperil communities in the name of domestic violent extremism.”
Russell and Clendaniel met while incarcerated, and Russell was released from prison in 2021, according to The Washington Post.
Their arrests come months after an individual shot at two electrical substations in Charlotte, N.C., causing roughly 40,000 people in the area to lose power. The FBI is also investigating that attack.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Russell is the founder of neo-Nazi group the Atomwaffen Division. The Atomwaffen Division was founded in 2016 and holds extremist neo-Nazi views, including supporting the idea of lone wolf violence, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Officials said at the press conference that the individuals’ “extremist views” may have motivated their plans to attack the grid.
Russell was sentenced to prison for five years in 2018 for the possession of an “unregistered destructive device and for unlawful storage of explosive material,” according to the Department of Justice. When officials discovered the explosive material, Russell was living with Devon Arthurs, another member of Atomwaffen Division, who was arrested for allegedly shooting and killing two other members of the group at the time, according to the Department of Justice. | https://www.wivb.com/hill-politics/suspects-planned-to-attack-baltimore-power-grid-authorities-say/ | 2023-02-06 23:30:36 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/hill-politics/suspects-planned-to-attack-baltimore-power-grid-authorities-say/ |
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Connie Adams, who is an English teacher at Miles High School, won Teacher of the Week on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022
Mrs. Adams has been teaching for almost 30 years including seven in Miles. She says she likes to see students strive for achievement both inside and outside the classroom.
“I think they have to learn to go really hard at whatever they need to do and want to do, things just aren’t always easy and we have to try and persevere through that,” Mrs. Adams said.
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In cold weather, energy needed to heat vehicle interiors can negatively impact EV range. Ford claims its engineers have found a solution—for delivery vehicles, at least.
As part of a research project with the European Commission, Ford engineers fitted an E-Transit deliver van with heated armrests, floor mats, door panels, and sun visors, as well as a heated panel below the steering wheel, the automaker explained in a press release. The engineers found that this method of heating surfaces could extend range compared to the conventional method of blowing hot air into the vehicle’s cabin.
Both heating methods require battery power, but engineers found that heating surfaces rather than air reduced energy consumption by 13%, which the automaker claims equates to a 5% increase in range based on real-world charging patterns.
Testing involved deliveries in and around Cologne, Germany, in summer and winter, on dry and wet roads, and in heavy rain and wind, according to Ford. Delivery service also meant doors and windows were opened frequently, meaning heat generated via the climate control was lost more quickly in cold weather, while heated surfaces tended to stay warm, the automaker noted.
While not exactly comparable to passenger-car use cycles, data from the test can be incorporated into range calculators used by commercial fleets to improve accuracy.
The automaker is also testing other potentially energy-saving features, including: a heat exchanger that uses water heat from the drive unit to heat a vehicle’s interior and/or battery pack, a battery cooling system and “smart fast charging” for battery pre-conditioning, eco-routing to maximize range will accounting for charging stops, and a powertrain conditioning function that optimizes temperatures for maximum efficiency.
Driven by the need to reduce the range drop in cold weather caused by heating, engineers at other automakers and suppliers have come up with a range of solutions—including heated seat belts. BMW has also experimented with infrared heat, which would be targeted to surfaces and even occupants, without heating the air in between.
Other automakers have settled on heat pumps as a net positive for cold-weather range—in most cases outweighing the additional complexity. Tesla is now putting them in its vehicles, and General Motors has said heat pumps in its EVs could give them a real-world range advantage.
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Which portable gas grills are best?
Grilling food on the back porch on a hot summer day is among the most American of activities. When you want that experience away from home, you turn to a portable gas grill. These come in many forms, from the ultra-small grill for one or two to grills big enough to feed a fleet of people at a tailgate. However, size isn’t all there is to it; you also need to check its heating strength and consider extra features.
What to know before you buy a portable gas grill
Portability
To meet the lowest threshold to be called portable, a grill needs to be small enough to carry. But some portable grills are easier than others to move around. The best can even fold down into a wheeled form. Outside those with wheels, look for grills with at least one handle.
British thermal units
Every grill’s heating power, portable or not, is measured in Btu. Most grills list the total Btu a grill can reach when all burners are combined. For example, one grill may have three 5,000 Btu burners for a total of 15,000 Btu, but another grill may have two 8,000 Btu burners for a total of 16,000 Btu.
In these examples, the first is more likely to cook evenly, while the second is more likely to cook faster.
Size
A grill’s cooking space is measured in several ways, but the easiest to understand is how many burgers you can cook at once. The smallest grills can cook about four, while the largest can cook 15 or more.
What are the best portable gas grills to buy?
Coleman RoadTrip 285 Portable Stand-Up Propane Grill
This portable grill has all the best features of your at-home grill, including multiple burners (in this case three), a built-in thermometer and side tables for holding your accessories and plates. It also folds down into a wheeled form for easy travel.
Sold by Amazon, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Home Depot
Coleman RoadTrip 225 Portable Stand-Up Propane Grill
This is a smaller, lower-cost version of the 285 with one fewer burner and side table. It also lacks a built-in thermometer. It still folds down into a wheeled shape, and it comes in black or red.
Sold by Amazon, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Home Depot
Coleman Portable Propane Grill For Camping and Tailgaiting
This grill is identical to the 225, except it has no built-in legs that fold down into a wheeled form. If you already have a suite of traveling cooking tables, save some money with this version.
Sold by Amazon
Coleman Camp Propane Grill and Stove
This budget grill is perfect for going camping with your family or a few good friends. It has a main grill burner that can hold up to four hamburgers and a small stove to the side. It also has two flaps to block the wind or serve as utensil holders.
Sold by Amazon
Char-Broil Portable 240 Propane Gas Grill
This no-muss, no-fuss grill has a built-in thermometer and enough space to hold six to eight burgers. It also has attached legs, so you can place it on any surface without worrying about heat damage.
Sold by Amazon
Char-Broil Standard Portable Propane Gas Grill
Sometimes you just want to throw down some burgers and brats without worrying about anything but how long it will be before you can eat. This basic but effective grill nails that goal.
Sold by Amazon
Cuisinart CGG-240 Roll-Away Gas Grill
This wheeled portable grill is foldable and has a powerful 15,000 Btu burner and two side tables to keep whatever you need close by. It also has a built-in thermometer.
Sold by Amazon
Cuisinart CGG-306 Chef’s Style Portable Propane Tabletop Gas Grill
If you want a grill powerful enough to use both on the go and at home, grab this one. It has two 10,000 Btu burners that can be carefully adjusted and a built-in thermometer. It also has a helpful carrying handle.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Cuisinart CGG-180T Petite Gourmet Portable Tabletop Propane Gas Grill
This little grill is a great choice for cooking a quick meal on the go. It can cook up to eight burgers at once and has stabilizing legs that prevent wobbling and keep the grill from damaging what you set it on.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Duke Grills Omaha Go Anywhere Portable Gas Grill
Another simple but roomy grill, this one can hold up to 10 burgers at once and cooks with an 11,000 Btu burner. It’s compatible with 16.4- and 14.1-ounce propane cylinders.
Sold by Amazon
Masterbuilt MB20030819 Portable Propane Grill
Most portable gas grills only have one grill level. This one has a second, smaller grill on top for keeping already cooked foods warm and lightly toasting buns, etc. It also has sturdy legs and a carrying handle.
Sold by Amazon
Megamaster Two-Burner Outdoor Tabletop Propane Gas Grill
This grill has two burners that combine for 16,000 Btu of heating power and enough space to cook up to six burgers at once. It has foldable legs and a carrying handle, and the lid can lock into place.
Sold by Amazon
Megamaster One-Burner Tabletop Propane Gas Grill
This is another rare portable grill with a second grill grate. Its burner can reach 11,000 Btu of heating power, and it has several soft handles for easy carrying.
Monument Grills Tabletop Propane Gas Grill
Many portable gas grills need to have the propane tank attached close to the grill. However, this one has a 40-inch hose, which means you can use big propane bottles and keep them safely away from the flames.
Sold by Amazon, Home Depot and Wayfair
Weber Traveler Portable Gas Grill
This has a massive grill space that can hold up to 15 burgers, not to mention a roomy side table, and it folds down into a wheeled form. Add a built-in thermometer and it’s hard to beat.
Sold by Amazon, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Home Depot
This miniature grill is just big enough to cook a delicious meal for two, making it great for camping trips and picnics with someone important to you. It also has foldable legs to keep it from damaging what it rests on.
Sold by Amazon, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Home Depot
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BOSTON (AP) — The former Yale University women’s soccer coach whose cooperation with authorities helped blow the lid off the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal by leading the FBI to the scheme’s mastermind was sentenced Wednesday to five months in prison.
Rudy Meredith, head coach at Yale from 1995 until 2018, pleaded guilty in March 2019 to wire fraud for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to help students get into the elite Ivy League university as soccer recruits. In one case, the recruit did not play competitive soccer, prosecutors have said.
Federal prosecutors and Meredith’s defense lawyers had recommended no additional prison time beyond the one day he had already spent in custody. But U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf said Wednesday that Meredith’s greed and his victims warranted a stiffer sentence.
Wolf described the victims as the members of the Yale team who were “betrayed” by being cheated out of having better teammates, as well as unknown victims — young women who might have gotten into Yale had Meredith not decided to essentially sell slots on the team. Those unknown victims may have included women from disadvantaged backgrounds, the judge said.
“You committed a very serious crime and you didn’t have to do it,” Wolf said.
Before he was sentenced, Meredith, his voice shaking, issued an apology and said he had ruined his reputation and his career because he was driven by greed and the desire to provide for his family.
“It’s all my fault and I am going to pay for this for the rest of my life,” he said.
In addition to the prison term, Meredith was sentenced to a year of probation, fined $19,000 and ordered to forfeiti more than $550,000.
Investigators began looking into Meredith after an executive who prosecutors were targeting in an unrelated securities fraud scheme told them that the coach had offered to help his daughter get into the school in exchange for cash.
Authorities set up a sting in a Boston hotel room in April 2018 and recorded Meredith soliciting a $450,000 bribe from the father.
He helped investigators unravel the wider bribery scheme dubbed Operation Varsity Blues by leading them to William “Rick” Singer, the admissions consultant at the center of the scheme.
Investigators heard Singer’s name for the first time when Meredith mentioned him during that meeting, prosecutors have said. Meredith began cooperating that same month with investigators, who recorded phone calls and an in-person meeting between himself and Singer that revealed the extent of the bribery scheme.
The judge said in court Wednesday that Meredith’s cooperation was “truthful, complete and reliable,” and he would have faced several years behind bars had he not cooperated.
Singer, who paid Meredith a total of $860,000 in bribes, later agreed to work with investigators himself and recorded his conversations with wealthy parents who paid big money to cheat their kids’ way into school.
Singer has pleaded guilty to several charges including racketeering conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 4.
More than 50 people were ultimately convicted in the scandal, which involved bogus athletic credentials or rigged test scores to get children from wealthy families into elite U.S. universities. Among those convicted were actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, and Loughlin’s fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli.
In asking for a sentence of time served followed by a year of supervised release, with 50 hours of community service, prosecutors’ cited Meredith’s assistance in breaking open the case.
“In short, Meredith’s cooperation was extensive and significant, leading to the government’s investigation of Singer and ultimately helping to secure the conviction of more than 50 parents, coaches, and Singer associates,” prosecutors wrote in court documents.
Meredith’s attorneys told the judge their client has been “publicly shamed and personally ashamed” and has made progress “toward re-establishing himself as a contributing member of society.”
“His law-abiding life for the three and a half years since his guilty plea demonstrates his commitment to again play a positive role in society, as he did before he so uncharacteristically sacrificed his hard-earned reputation and good name and fell in with William Singer and his scheme,” they wrote.
The last defendant linked to the investigation to go to trial was acquitted by jurors on all counts. A federal judge in September also ordered a new trial for former University of Southern California water polo coach Jovan Vavic, who was accused of taking more than $200,000 in bribes.
Two parents — John Wilson and Gamal Abdelaziz — are appealing their convictions, and a judge recently ruled that the two can remain out of prison while they challenge the convictions.
The longest sentence in the case so far has gone to former Georgetown University tennis coach Gordon Ernst, who got 2 1/2 years in prison for pocketing more than $3 million in bribes. | https://phl17.com/us-news/ap-us-news/ap-ex-yale-coach-gets-5-months-in-admissions-bribery-scandal/ | 2022-11-10 15:06:01 | 1 | https://phl17.com/us-news/ap-us-news/ap-ex-yale-coach-gets-5-months-in-admissions-bribery-scandal/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The COVID-19 pandemic forced many businesses to make some tough calls thanks to staffing shortages, and now a veterinary hospital in Portland is facing a similar challenges.
DoveLewis Veterinary Emergency & Specialty Hospital announced Tuesday it will be cutting back some of its services, including limiting its emergency walk-in hours.
The animal hospital said the changes are due to staffing shortages. Currently, only about 50% of its emergency and critical care teams are staffed. The veterinary industry has reportedly been struggling to maintain a workforce for years, but DoveLewis said the issue was exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
DoveLewis blamed its staff shortage on candidates’ unwillingness to work overnight shifts or move to Portland. Despite DoveLewis being one of the top veterinary hospitals in the U.S., the animal clinic noted its lack of staff has forced it to limit services and walk-in hours for emergencies.
Starting on Wednesday, DoveLewis emergency walk-in will be open 7 days a week from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m, while the urgent care is open 7 days a week from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. by appointment only. | https://www.koin.com/news/portland/staffing-shortages-force-dovelewis-to-cut-hours-slash-services/ | 2022-10-18 20:41:41 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/portland/staffing-shortages-force-dovelewis-to-cut-hours-slash-services/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Game of Thrones” actor Esmé Bianco has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit with rocker Marilyn Manson in which she alleged sexual, physical and emotional abuse, attorneys for both sides said Wednesday.
Bianco reached the agreement in her lawsuit against Manson and his record company “in order to move on with her life and career,” lawyer Jay Ellwanger said in an email.
Manson’s attorney Howard King also confirmed the agreement in an email. He previously said the actions alleged in the suit “simply never happened” and were “provably false.”
In the lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles in 2021, Bianco said Manson, whose legal name is Brian Warner, violated human trafficking law by bringing her to California from England in 2009 and 2011 under the false pretenses of roles in music videos and movies that never materialized.
The suit alleged Manson deprived Bianco of food and sleep, gave her alcohol and drugs, locked her in a bedroom, whipped her, cut her, gave her electric shocks, tried to force her to have sex with another woman and threatened to enter her room and rape her during the night.
A Tuesday court filing says a request for dismissal, which remains subject to a judge’s approval, will be filed in the next 45 days. Details of the terms were not released.
Two similar lawsuits against Manson, one filed by a former assistant, the other by a model, have been dismissed by judges while at least one more remains.
In September, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department handed over a 19-month criminal investigation of women’s sexual abuse allegations against Manson, but prosecutors said more evidence needed to be gathered before they could decide whether he should be charged.
Manson is also suing his former fiancée, Evan Rachel Wood, alleging the “Westworld” actor conspired with a friend to use false allegations and pretenses to get other women to come forward about him.
In a court declaration, Wood said she had never pressured anyone to make false allegations against Manson.
Bianco and others aired their allegations after Wood said on social media early in 2021 that Manson sexually, physically and emotionally abused her during their relationship. Manson’s record label and agents dropped him at the time.
Wood expanded on her experience with Manson in an HBO documentary, “Phoenix Rising,” that aired last year.
The Associated Press generally does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Bianco and Wood have.
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McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Scottie Scheffler says he tries not to put too much emphasis on winning one tournament over another, even when his hometown AT&T Byron Nelson is in play.
Ryan Palmer isn’t keeping any secrets. Win the Nelson not far from his home in another Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, knowing it would qualify the 46-year-old Texan for next week’s PGA Championship?
“I’d win this tournament and stay home next week, to be honest with you,” said Palmer, who lives in Colleyville but was born and raised in Amarillo in West Texas. “That means more to me.”
Scheffler shot his second consecutive 7-under 64 on Friday for a one-shot lead over Palmer and Mackenzie Hughes. Palmer’s 65 and a 64 from Hughes put them at 13-under 129. Si Woo Kim shot 66 and was 11 under.
S.Y. Noh, who tied the course record with an opening-round 60, birdied his first two holes before playing the final 16 in 5 over. The South Korean had three 6s in a round of 74 and was 8 under, six shots back.
Two-time defending champion K.H. Lee made the cut on the number at 4 under, but the South Korean’s bid to become the first player in 12 years to win a tournament three consecutive times is all but gone. Lee birdied three of his final six holes just to make the weekend.
Last year, Scheffler shared the hometown spotlight with fellow former Texas Longhorn Jordan Spieth, who had to withdraw from this year’s event because of a wrist injury.
Spieth doesn’t hide his desire to win the tournament where he was a Sunday contender 13 years ago at age 16.
Also raised in Dallas, Scheffler made his PGA Tour debut at the Nelson four years after Spieth’s stunning run, making the cut and recording a hole-in-one as a high school senior.
“I want to win a lot of tournaments,” said Scheffler, who would return to No. 1 in the world for the third time this year with a victory. “This one being in the hometown, it would definitely be a lot of fun with the crowd behind me this weekend.
“But that’s not stuff that occupies too many of my thoughts,” Scheffler said. “I don’t want to place too much emphasis on one tournament. I just want to go out and do my best and see where that puts me.”
Scheffler and Spieth should have plenty of Nelsons in their futures. Palmer, who shares a coach and plenty of practice time with Scheffler, is 20 years older than the 2022 Masters champion.
After what he said was the earliest wakeup time in 20 years on tour (3:50 a.m.) for a 7:01 tee time, Palmer had seven birdies and a bogey a day after eight birdies and a bogey.
A year ago, Palmer was tied for the 36-hole lead at 15 under, musing then that he was the older, maybe forgotten Texan with all the attention on the three-time major winner Spieth and Scheffler, the defending Masters champ at the time.
Palmer’s last tour win came at a team event with Jon Rahm, the current No. 1, four years ago. His most recent solo victory was 13 years ago.
“I’ve just got to keep the gas pedal down,” Palmer said. “I think we’re going to get a lot of rain (Saturday), it sounds like and possibly Sunday, so it could be a very patient weekend.”
Right on cue, the tour announced earlier tee times with threesomes off Nos. 1 and 10 for Saturday, hoping to beat a rainy forecast. The outlook is the same for Sunday.
Scheffler took his first outright lead with a birdie at No. 3, his 12th hole of the day. The 26-year-old was bogey-free until his 17th hole on No. 8 but answered with his eighth birdie of the day at the par-5 ninth.
“Just solid golf,” said Scheffler, who opened with a pair of 64s or better for the first time in his career. “I didn’t really struggle for too many pars out there, and I felt like I putted a little bit better today than yesterday.”
Noh, who passed up a chance to go for the 18th green in two in the first round when an eagle would have given him a 59, had a double bogey on the par-4 second, his 11th hole. He had to take a penalty drop when his drive went into the trees as he capped a four-hole stretch at 4 over.
Hughes, whose second tour victory came in a playoff at the Sanderson Farms Championship in October, had seven birdies in a second consecutive bogey-free round.
The highlight for Hughes was a bump-and-run chip-in for birdie on the par-4 16th, which is playing as the most difficult hole.
“Had the whole length of the green to work with, so I felt like it was a good spot to get up-and-down for par and did one better,” Hughes said. “Hadn’t done that in a while, so that felt pretty good.”
Aaron Wise, the 2018 Nelson winner, will be around for the weekend in his first tournament in two months after saying he needed to take time off to focus on his mental health. Wise was 4 under.
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A couple of weather alerts before we get to the forecast:
A Wind Advisory is in effect for the East Tennessee Mountains. These regions can see sustained winds of 15-30 mph with gusts up to 50mph. This is in effect until 2PM.
And a Freeze Warning is in effect for the region through the overnight tonight. This goes into effect from 3 a.m. to 9 a.m. Saturday.
The Storm Team 11 Forecast calls for cloudy skies for your Saint Patrick’s Day with an 80% chance of rain. The high will be 61 degrees. Winds will pick up through the morning. A wind advisory is in effect for the East Tennessee Mountains sustained winds of 15-30 mph with gusts up to 50mph.
We keep the cloudy skies through Friday night as the showers and clouds push out. The low will be 32 degrees. A freeze watch is in effect from 3am-9am Saturday morning.
Mostly cloudy skies and gusty winds are forecast for Saturday with a high of 49 degrees.
Clear skies and cold temperatures are forecast for Saturday night with a low near 22 degrees. A freeze and frost will be possible across most of the region.
Partly cloudy skies and chilly temperatures are forecast for Sunday with a high near 42 degrees.
Clear skies are forecast for Sunday night with a low near 21 degrees. A freeze and frost will be possible again across most of the region.
We welcome in the Spring season on Monday with sunny skies and cool temperatures with a high near 52 degrees.
Partly cloudy skies are forecast for Monday night with a low of 26 degrees.
Mostly cloudy skies on tap for Tuesday with a high of 55 degrees.
Mostly sunny skies and warmer temperatures on tap for Wednesday with a high of 62 degrees.
And for next Thursday, Mostly cloudy skies and warm temperatures are forecast with a high of 67 degrees and a 20% chance of a quick shower.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff Beck, a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll, dies at 78.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, April 29, 2022
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FIRE WEATHER WATCH
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
252 AM CDT Thu Apr 28 2022
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING
FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 15% OR LESS, 20 FT WINDS OF 20 MPH OR
MORE, AND VERY HIGH TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER FOR SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO AND ADJACENT AREAS OF WEST TEXAS...
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH
FRIDAY EVENING FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 15% OR LESS, 20 FT WINDS
OF 20 MPH OR MORE, AND VERY HIGH TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER FOR
SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND MOST OF WEST TEXAS...
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH
FRIDAY EVENING FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 12% OR LESS, 20 FT WINDS
OF 20 MPH OR MORE, AND VERY HIGH TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER...
* AFFECTED AREA...Central Brewster County.
* TIMING...Friday morning through Friday evening.
* WINDS...West 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 4 percent.
* RFTI...4 or near critical.
* IMPACTS...Avoid the use of open flames or any activities that
may generate sparks. Accidental ignitions will have the
potential to grow into dangerous wind-driven wildfires.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions
are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible
Red Flag Warnings.
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING
FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 15% OR LESS, 20 FT WINDS OF 20 MPH OR
MORE, AND VERY HIGH TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER FOR SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO AND ADJACENT AREAS OF WEST TEXAS...
* AFFECTED AREA...Chinati Mountains, Marfa Plateau, Davis
Mountains and Davis Mountains Foothills.
* TIMING...This afternoon through this evening for the Red Flag
Warning and Friday morning through Friday evening for the Fire
Weather Watch.
* WINDS...West 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 5 percent.
* RFTI...5 or critical.
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions
are either occurring now or will shortly. A combination of strong
winds, low relative humidity and warm temperatures will increase
potential for fire growth.
* AFFECTED AREA...Gaines, Dawson, Andrews, Martin, Loving,
Winkler, Ector, Sacramento Foothills and Guadalupe Mountains,
Chaves Plains, Eddy Plains, Lea, Guadalupe Mountains Above
7000 Feet, Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains, Van Horn and
Highway 54 Corridor, Eastern Culberson County and Reeves
County Plains.
* WINDS...Southwest 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
* RFTI...6 or critical.
are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible
* AFFECTED AREA...Borden, Scurry, Howard, Mitchell, Midland,
Glasscock, Ward, Crane, Upton, Reagan and Pecos.
* WINDS...West 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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NYC is 1st major school system to offer virtual learning program
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The Brooklyn, N.Y. live event on June 16 contributes to a $10M fundraising campaign for the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation that culminates in a July 14 concert event
NEW YORK, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- World Unite for Ukraine™, a global grassroots movement uniting millions of people around the world to support Ukrainians and ease the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, today announced its June 16, 2022, live event in Brooklyn, N.Y. raised $34K for humanitarian relief for Ukrainians. Held in Brooklyn, N.Y., the live event officially kicked off a month-long fundraising campaign to benefit the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation that will culminate with a globally-streamed concert event on July 14, 2022.
"Our live event in the heart of Brooklyn was the perfect kick-off to our month-long fundraising campaign to help the Ukrainian people who have been impacted by the horrific events taking place within their country," said Victoria Yampolsky, an American entrepreneur with roots in the former Soviet Union who conceived and co-founded World Unite for Ukraine. "We are overwhelmed by the love, compassion and generosity of everyone who attended and donated to World Unite for Ukraine. From the artists to the musicians, to our volunteers - it was a truly memorable evening," added Jessica DelVirginia of Insite Strategy, who put this event together.
Held at Emneu Venues, the Brooklyn event featured performances by MASHA BRODSKAYA, a Grammy-nominated violinist, multidisciplinary multimedia artist, composer, producer; and Living Candelabras by Flambeaux, presented by Bright Futurism. Charity auction items included original paintings by artist Harrison Love, jewelry from Bimonte Sorrento, VIP tickets to a New York City FC game with jerseys, and additional raffle items from Chrysmela, VERB Haircare, BK Pilates, QOR360 and Mexico in My Pocket, among others. The funds raised by the live event go toward World Unite for Ukraine's goal of raising $10M for the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF).
World Unite for Ukraine's July 14 streamed concert event will feature music by Pink Floyd, Pat McGee Band, Anti War Machine (featuring members of The B-52s and Public Enemy) and Resonant Alien (featuring members of Public Enemy, Tesla and Chic), among others. To be streamed on Mandolin to 25+ countries, the event will also include top artists, actors and celebrities, who will present messages of support and inspiration, along with powerful stories from Ukraine that will highlight the country's history, culture and the devastating impact the war has had on Ukraine and its people.
World Unite for Ukraine's charity partner, USUF, is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working on the ground in Ukraine since 1991. USUF supports the development of democracy, a free-market economy and human rights in Ukraine while strengthening the bonds between America and Ukraine. Donations to World Unite for Ukraine's campaign can be made before, during or after the concert event.
To access the July 14 streamed event and purchase tickets, visit https://boxoffice.mandolin.com/products/world-unite-for-ukraine. All ticket sales are tax-deductible donations to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation.
About World Unite for Ukraine
World Unite for Ukraine™ is a global grassroots movement that is uniting millions of people around the world to support Ukrainians and ease the humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. On July 14, 2022, World Unite for Ukraine is presenting a virtual 90+ minute concert event streamed to 25+ countries that will feature top international artists, actors and celebrities from the U.S., Ukraine and other countries across the globe. With a goal of US$10M, World Unite for Ukraine is raising funds on behalf of its nonprofit partner, the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation. Founded by two immigrants from the former Soviet Union, World Unite for Ukraine is supported by a team of more than 100 volunteers around the world. For more information, to donate and to learn how to view the event, visit https://www.worlduniteforukraine.com/ and follow on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok.
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Chuck Todd leaving 'Meet the Press,' being replaced by Kristen Welker
New York – Chuck Todd said on Sunday that he'll be leaving “Meet the Press” after a tumultuous near-decade of moderating the NBC political panel show, to be replaced in the coming months by Kristen Welker.
Todd, 51, told viewers that “I've watched too many friends and family let work consume them before it was too late” and that he'd promised his family he wouldn't do that.
Todd has often been an online punching bag for critics, including Donald Trump, during a polarized time, and there were rumors that his time at the show would be short when its executive producer was reassigned at the end of last summer, but NBC gave no indication this was anything other than Todd’s decision. It's unclear when Todd's last show will be, but he told viewers that this would be his final summer.
“I leave feeling concerned about this moment in history but reassured by the standards we've set here,” Todd said. “We didn't tolerate propagandists, and this network and program never will.”
Welker, a former chief White House correspondent, has been at NBC News in Washington since 2011 and has been Todd's chief fill-in for the past three years. She drew praise for moderating the final presidential debate between Trump, a Republican, and Joe Biden, a Democrat, in 2020.
Her “sharp questioning of lawmakers is a masterclass in political interviews,” said Rebecca Blumenstein, NBC News president of editorial, in a memo announcing Welker's elevation on Sunday.
Now Welker, 46, will be thrust into what promises to be another contentious presidential election cycle.
The Sunday morning political interview show has aired since 1947, led by inventor and first host Martha Rountree. Its peak came in the years that Tim Russert moderated, from 1991 until his death in 2008, with its footing less certain since then. Tom Brokaw briefly filled in after Russert’s death, and David Gregory replaced him until being forced out in favor of Todd.
Welker will be the first Black moderator of “Meet the Press” and the first woman since Rountree left in 1953.
Todd said that he was proud of expanding the “Meet the Press” brand to a daily show, which initially aired on MSNBC but was shifted to streaming, along with podcasts and newsletters, even a film festival.
“He transformed the brand into a vital modern-day franchise, expanding its footprint to an array of new mediums, and kept ‘Meet the Press’ at the forefront of political discourse,” Blumenstein said.
It didn’t stop critics from jumping on to social media when they didn’t like an interview Todd conducted. Trump even anointed Todd with one of his signature nicknames, Sleepy Eyes, and called on NBC to fire Todd in 2020 for airing an interview clip with his then-Attorney General William Barr that the show later admitted had been cut to leave an inaccurate impression.
Todd was roasted at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in 2022 by Trevor Noah, who pointed him out in the audience and said, “How are you doing? I’d ask a follow-up, but I know you don’t know what those are.”
Todd alluded to his critics in announcing his exit on Sunday.
“If you do this job seeking popularity, you are doing this job incorrectly,” he said. “I take the attacks from partisans as compliments. And I take the genuine compliments with a grain of salt when they come from partisans.”
The goal of each show, he said, is to “make you mad, make you think, shake your head in disapproval at some point and nod your head in approval at others.” | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/04/chuck-todd-leaving-meet-the-press-being-replaced-by-kristen-welker/70286282007/ | 2023-06-04 17:33:25 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/04/chuck-todd-leaving-meet-the-press-being-replaced-by-kristen-welker/70286282007/ |
HAMILTON, Bermuda, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Chainproof is launched as the world's first regulated smart contract insurance provider.
Chainproof was incubated by Quantstamp, a leading blockchain security auditor that has secured over $200B in digital asset risk. With seed investment and foundational support from SOMPO Light Vortex and reinsurance backing from Munich Re, Chainproof bridges the worlds of traditional insurance and decentralized finance (DeFi). By July 2022, Chainproof plans to offer licensed, institutional-grade insurance coverage for open-source, non-custodial smart contracts on public, decentralized blockchains[1].
The rapidly growing world of DeFi has over $70B of total value locked, a 6000% increase from two years ago according to https://defillama.com. However, this growth comes with significant risk as hacks and exploits of smart contracts have occurred various times in the recent past. Further, traditional insurers generally lack the historical data and technical expertise required to properly underwrite insurance related to smart contracts. As asset managers continue to seek credible solutions to protect the growing crypto portion of their portfolio, the lack of regulated insurance has kept DeFi from achieving mainstream adoption. Quantstamp's technical knowledge and deep understanding of the web3 ecosystem enables Chainproof to identify the good risks in this market sector. By combining forces with SOMPO and Munich Re, global leaders in (re)insurance, Chainproof is positioned to become the world's leading regulated smart contract insurance provider.
"SOMPO is proud to be a foundational partner to Chainproof, a pioneering insurance provider for the growing DeFi economy," said Koichi Narasaki, CEO of SOMPO Light Vortex and Executive Officer of SOMPO Holdings. "Chainproof represents the leading-edge of regulated insurance solutions for the groundbreaking world of Web3."
"Quantstamp and Chainproof provide the specific risk assessment expertise which is needed to navigate the emerging DeFi insurance market. Institutional investors will be further enabled to succeed in the DeFi sector, if they are covered by regulated insurance, which we support through reinsurance." says Andre Knoerchen Head of New Tech Underwriting, from Munich Re.
"We are honoured to have been trusted by such distinguished partners in the traditional insurance industry as SOMPO and Munich Re. Given the fact that there is no such thing as a 100% secure smart contract system, we see the product offered by Chainproof as a must-have for institutional investors who want to navigate the DeFi space safely" said Sebastian Banescu, CEO of Chainproof.
Chainproof is proud to be backed by some of the top names in Web3, including Compound, Aave, Lido, Synthetix, Kyber, Amber Group, MakerDAO, Badger, DeFi Alliance, The Graph, Coinlist, Zynga, Illuvium, Hashgraph, Rally, Celo, Polygon, Blockfolio, Dapper Labs, and more.
Are you an institutional investor looking for smart contract insurance? Find out more at quantstamp.com/blog/chainproof or contact us at chainproof@quantstamp.com.
- Only available in certain jurisdictions. Chainproof is currently licensed by the Bermuda Monetary Authority Sandbox program with an IGB license.
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(The Hill) — The Congressional Black Caucus is requesting to meet with the head of the “Sesame Street”-themed amusement park, Sesame Place, after a video that showed a costumed character ignoring two young Black girls went viral.
“Sesame Street is one of the nation’s highest-rated TV shows that, at one time, more than 95 percent of all American Preschoolers watched,” the caucus said in a release Saturday. “So, naturally, Sesame Place should be where all children can go to have fun and celebrate. Sadly, that has not been the case.”
The mother of the two girls posted the video on Instagram earlier this week, showing the character “Rosita” giving high-fives as they walk in a parade but appearing to wave off the two girls.
The mother wrote that the character then hugged a white girl immediately thereafter. The video has received more than 880,000 views as of Saturday afternoon.
The caucus, led by its chairwoman, Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), said it wants to meet with Park President and General Manager Cathy Valeriano to discuss changes, plans of action and training that the park plans to implement. The statement recognizes that Sesame Place has issued a formal apology but states that the caucus is requesting a meeting given the “gravity of the situation and lack of responsibility at all levels.”
The caucus said that it represents 80 million Americans overall and 17 million Black Americans, and “Sesame Street” plays an “integral” role for many of the children its members represent.
“The show reaches young children in all demographics, with a particular impact on economically disadvantaged children, and families of color should know they will be welcomed at any institution that carries the Sesame Street name,” the statement reads.
Sesame Place did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/black-caucus-wants-changes-after-sesame-place-viral-video/ | 2022-07-23 21:44:25 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/black-caucus-wants-changes-after-sesame-place-viral-video/ |
BEIJING (AP) — Two Chinese astronauts went on a spacewalk Saturday from a new space station that is due to be completed later this year.
Cai Xuzhe and Chen Dong installed pumps, a handle to open the hatch door from outside in an emergency, and a foot-stop to fix an astronaut’s feet to a robotic arm, state media said.
China is building its own space station after being excluded by the U.S. from the International Space Station because its military runs the country’s space program. American officials see a host of strategic challenges from China’s space ambitions, in an echo of the U.S.-Soviet rivalry that prompted the race to the moon in the 1960s.
The latest spacewalk was the second during a six-month mission that will oversee the completion of the space station. The first of two laboratories, a 23-ton module, was added to the station in July and the other is to be sent up later this year.
The third member of the crew, Liu Yang, supported the other two from inside during the spacewalk. Liu and Chen conducted the first spacewalk about two weeks ago.
They will be joined by three more astronauts near the end of their mission in what will be the first time the station has six people on board.
China became the third nation to send a person into space in 2003, following the former Soviet Union and the United States. It has sent rovers to the moon and Mars and brought lunar samples back to Earth. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/science/ap-chinese-astronauts-go-on-spacewalk-from-new-station/ | 2022-09-18 11:16:19 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/science/ap-chinese-astronauts-go-on-spacewalk-from-new-station/ |
First ‘Kentucky Children’s Miracle Network Bike Run’ kicks off in Corbin
CORBIN, Ky. (WYMT) - Several bikers hit the streets of Corbin on Saturday to, not only take advantage of the great weather, but to raise awareness for an organization close to their hearts.
“I recently got a new motorcycle, and I thought, ‘what the heck, give everyone an excuse to ride, right? Do a ride for the children,’” said the event’s organizer, Harlen Lockhart II.
Lockhart is the organizer behind the first Kentucky Children’s Miracle Network Bike Run.
“Building awareness, that is 100 percent our goal is to build awareness,” said Lockhart. “Donations are nice, but its not about the money. It’s about the awareness and just getting together as a community.”
Lockhart knows how important institutions like Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals are because of his son, Harlen Lockhart III, who struggled with seizures as a child and had to make numerous visits to several hospitals.
“It’s just always been a passion for me. I have a special needs child, and we had help when he was little, and so it just really tugs on my heart. It’s just a passion we have,” Lockhart added.
Along with raising awareness for CMN Hospitals, this gathering also shows everyone that, beyond their tough exteriors, many bikers have a soft spot for their communities and the people within them.
“I mean, any excuse to get out and ride is a good one; any time you can raise money or awareness for a charity, I think that’s great. That’s why I enjoy the community,” said event participant, Vernon Dechene.
Lockhart said he hopes this event is the first of many bike runs for Kentucky Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
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LIVE OAK, Texas — A New Braunfels woman is relying on doctors for answers on her 47-year-old husband's declining health over the past year.
However, Ali Telfer said her husband Adam's illness continues to be a mystery for physicians.
"He was perfectly healthy before his COVID diagnosis in August 2021. He was diagnosed with acute COVID and was in the hospital for three weeks but he recovered," said Telfer.
Telfer said her husband fell ill again in April of this year.
"He just all of a sudden started getting dizzy and [having] high fevers, and we couldn't figure out what it was," she said.
Telfer said neither could doctors in their hometown, northeast of San Antonio. She's counted five different times he's been admitted to the hospital for symptoms such as shortness of breath, dizziness, fevers and cardiac issues.
At one point, he was on a ventilator which has since been removed.
On Friday, he was moved to Methodist Hospital Northeast in Live Oak. Telfer said her husband has been struggling with aphasia, which is a language disorder caused by brain damage.
"It's like he is in there but he can't get any words out," said Telfer.
Telfer said doctors suspect his condition could be autoimmune related but it's unknown. She also said there could be a COVID component but doctors told her there is not a definitive test to determine a connection.
The family wants to move their father to University Hospital in San Antonio. If they can't transfer him there, they prefer a clinic with a rheumatologist on staff.
"I want treatment. I want answers and I want him to be able to return to work," she said.
Telfer said her husband loves his job but was recently placed on medical leave. She fears if he doesn't recover, he may lose his job and insurance to pay for medical bills.
"To see that taken away from him is just another layer of pain," said Telfer.
She's even had to put her small business on hold to care for her husband and their children. The family is now relying on the generosity of others through a Go Fund Me created by a family friend.
At time of writing, the account has raised more than $8,000.
Telfer describes her husband as her rock and she just wants to see him return to good health. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/mystery-illness-keeps-father-hospitalized-out-of-work/273-2e2ebb92-4fea-44ea-953e-f8ff154ada85 | 2022-08-01 13:40:47 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/mystery-illness-keeps-father-hospitalized-out-of-work/273-2e2ebb92-4fea-44ea-953e-f8ff154ada85 |
The owner of a car that crashed in Castine last December, killing four Maine Maritime Academy students, was indicted Friday on four counts of manslaughter and other charges.
Dominick Gecoya, 21, of Middleton, Massachusetts, has been identified as the owner of the vehicle, a 2013 Range Rover, and as a passenger in the car at the time of the crash, which happened on Route 166 in the early morning hours of Dec. 10, 2022.
Gecoya is the second person to face manslaughter and other charges as a result of the deadly crash. The alleged driver, Joshua Goncalves-Radding, 20, of Babylon, New York, was indicted in April on four manslaughter and other charges.
Seven people, all of them MMA students, were in the vehicle when it crashed, police have said. Police estimate that Goncalves-Radding was driving between 106 and 111 mph when the car went off the road as the group was returning from a night out in Bangor, according to Robert Granger, district attorney for Hancock County.
The car hit a tree and burst into flames when it went off the road, Shannon Moss, spokesperson for Maine State Police, said the day of the crash.
Granger said Friday evening that state law allows people to be charged with crimes under a provision known as accomplice liability. Because Gecoya owned the car and allowed Goncalves to drive it, Gecoya bears some criminal responsibility for what happened, the prosecutor said.
Granger declined to describe the specific chain of events prior to the crash that resulted in Goncalves driving the car instead of Gecoya. He said that, when the car went off the road and crashed into a tree, Gecoya was riding in the cargo space in the very back of the car.
“I’m unable at this time to go into details,” Granger said.
The students who died were Brian Kenealy, 20, of York; Chase Fossett, 21, of Gardiner; Luke Simpson, 22, of Rockport, Massachusetts; and Riley Ignacio-Cameron, 20, of Aquinnah, Massachusetts.
In addition to four counts of manslaughter, a Hancock County grand jury indicted Gecoya on five counts of aggravated criminal operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicants, one count of reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, two counts of driving to endanger and one count of criminal speed. All but two of the 13 charges are considered felonies.
Goncalves-Radding, Gecoya and the other surviving passenger, Noelle Tavares 20, of North Falmouth, Massachusetts, all suffered serious injuries in the crash, according to Granger. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/06/09/news/hancock/passenger-owned-car-deadly-castine-crash-charged-manslaughter/ | 2023-06-09 23:03:20 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/06/09/news/hancock/passenger-owned-car-deadly-castine-crash-charged-manslaughter/ |
Which kombuchas are best?
In the ongoing quest for good health, many people are looking to replace fizzy soft drinks with something that has added benefits. Although seltzer water with a hint of natural flavor can be refreshing, why not take it a step further? Kombucha is a fermented drink that’s delicious and comes with plenty of potential benefits. It can easily replace soft drinks on its own or even as a mixer for cocktails.
What is kombucha?
Kombucha is a delicious, therapeutic beverage that has been around since 200 B.C. It originated in China, then made its way to Japan and Russia, becoming popular in Europe by the early 20th century. The U.S. caught on in the 1990s, and kombucha’s popularity began to rise.
The drink is traditionally made from black tea, yeast and sugar. The sugar feeds the yeast, which starts the process of fermentation. Fermentation is a technique used to make foods such as sauerkraut and yogurt, too. This process creates beneficial probiotic bacteria, vitamins and acids.
As the kombucha ferments, a thin skin of liquid forms on the top. This “symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast,” called a SCOBY, and also sometimes referred to as a “mother,” can be divided and used to make more kombucha.
Once fermentation is complete, the kombucha’s flavor is a punchy combination of sweet and sour, with plenty of vinegar, amino acids and B vitamins, in addition to the probiotics. Juice and other flavorings are sometimes added during fermentation to create a different flavor profile.
The benefits of kombucha
Whether you make your own kombucha or buy it ready to consume, there are many potential benefits.
The National Institutes of Health found that kombucha:
- Has antibacterial, antioxidant and anti-diabetic properties
- Reduces harmful cholesterol
- Supports the immune system
- Stimulates the liver and its process of detoxification
Risks of drinking kombucha
Some people are concerned about drinking what they perceive as a glass full of bacteria. These concerns are not necessarily unfounded, but illness from drinking kombucha is more attributed to mold growing in the fermenting drink than to the kombucha itself.
Kombucha that is commercially prepared must be inspected as a food by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. If you choose to make your own at home, using glass or stainless steel containers reduces the chances of mold, as does properly sterilizing all equipment before you begin.
As an added precaution, people who are pregnant or nursing should speak to their health care provider before drinking kombucha.
Shelf-stable vs. fresh kombucha
There are two types of kombucha: shelf-stable and fresh.
- Shelf-stable: Shelf-stable kombucha is safe and beneficial to consume for six to 12 months. These products are generally pasteurized, which does kill some of the beneficial probiotics. However, shelf-stable kombucha still contains vitamins and minerals.
- Fresh: Fresh kombucha should be consumed within four days of opening, which can be a challenge for some people.
6 best kombuchas
There is real fruit in this four-flavor variety pack. Each drink has 2 billion probiotics and vitamin B12 for energy. There is zero added sugar and no artificial sweeteners. Each can have only 10 calories. This pairs well with alcohol for cocktail hour, and it is shelf-stable.
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Teazen Kombucha Tea Lemon Flavor
These 10 pack-them-in-your-pocket portable sticks have fewer than 15 calories per packet. Live lactic acid bacteria deliver antioxidants in one convenient pouch. Each dissolves in under three seconds. It is also available in berry, peach, citron and pineapple flavors.
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Poppi Sparkling Prebiotic Soda
This light, sparkling beverage is not too sweet and has 20 calories or less per can. With just 5 grams of sugar, it’s a good substitute for soda. It has no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives.
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Remedy Kombucha Tea Organic Drink
The light and delicious lemon-ginger- or peach-flavored kombucha comes in a shelf-stable can with little calories. It’s made from organic ingredients and can be kept in or out of the refrigerator. There is no added sugar or artificial sweeteners. The light fizz makes it feel like a treat.
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Each 16-ounce bottle contains 9 billion colony-forming units, which is the number of microbial cells that are viable. The ingredients are 100% raw and organic, handcrafted and fermented for a month. It is flavored with raspberry, lemon and ginger juice, with no artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners or preservatives. It is packaged in recyclable glass bottles.
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SUNMANC Kombucha Powdered Drink Mix
Each packet can be mixed as needed, and they are easy to take on the go. It’s also available in a lemon flavor and in boxes of 30 packs or 10 packs.
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Boeing pleads not guilty in case over deadly Max crashes
FORT WORTH, Texas - Boeing pleaded not guilty Thursday to a fraud charge in an unusual case in which families of passengers who died in two plane crashes are trying to throw out a settlement the company reached to avoid prosecution.
At a hearing dominated by emotional, wrenching testimony from passengers' relatives, a federal district judge took the plea and ordered Boeing not to break any laws for the next year.
The judge delayed ruling on a request by the families to appoint a special monitor to examine safety issues at the aerospace giant. Boeing and the Justice Department opposed the request.
More than a dozen relatives of passengers on a Boeing 737 Max that crashed in 2019 in Ethiopia - less than five months after a Max crashed in Indonesia - held nothing back as they testified about their loss.
Boeing's chief aerospace safety officer and lawyers for the company and the Justice Department sat just feet away but showed no reaction to any of the stories.
The Justice Department investigated Boeing after the second Max crash and settled the case in January 2021. With the settlement, the government agreed not to prosecute Boeing on a charge of defrauding the United States by deceiving regulators who approved the plane. In exchange, the company paid $2.5 billion, including a $243.6 million fine.
The families are still stunned.
"We want to see real justice, and that has to be prosecutions for manslaughter," said Naoise Connolly Ryan, whose husband was on the second Max that crashed.
Naheed Noormohamed, who lost his father on the same flight, said the Justice Department had failed the families by not considering their pain.
"This is not just a failure of justice, it's a failure of humanity," he testified.
The fate of the settlement could rest with Judge Reed O'Connor. He carved a path for the families to challenge the settlement by ruling last November that the Justice Department had violated federal law by not consulting with crime victims before what amounted to a plea deal.
The families have asked O'Connor to throw out part of the settlement that gave Boeing immunity from prosecution. They want that so they can lobby the Justice Department to throw out the deal and prosecute the company. The judge has not ruled on that request.
The families also asked the judge to impose conditions on Boeing much as he might on any criminal defendant during an arraignment.
Boeing and the Justice Department joined ranks to oppose two of the proposed conditions: the special monitor, and the appointment of three passenger advocates who would make a public report about the company.
The company, which is based in Arlington, Virginia, and government lawyers said such steps were unnecessary because Boeing has been following the terms of the settlement, called a deferred prosecution agreement, for two years.
Mark Filip, a lawyer for Boeing, said the government's supervision of the agreement is "robust" and is working. Another Boeing attorney, Benjamin Hatch, said representatives from the company and the Justice Department meet least monthly: "It's very real oversight."
Boeing has faced civil lawsuits, congressional investigations and massive damage to its business since the crashes in 2018 and 2019, which killed a combined total of 346 people.
The first Max passenger flight was in 2017. The first crash occurred in October 2018 in Indonesia and was followed by another in March 2019 in Ethiopia.
Before both crashes, an automated flight-control system that Boeing did not initially disclose to airlines and pilots pushed the nose down based on a faulty sensor reading. Boeing blamed two former employees for misleading the Federal Aviation Administration about the system, known by its acronym, MCAS.
One of those former employees, a test pilot, is the only person prosecuted in connection with the Max. A jury in O'Connor's courtroom found him not guilty last year. | https://www.fox4news.com/news/boeing-pleads-not-guilty-in-case-over-deadly-max-crashes | 2023-01-26 22:05:48 | 0 | https://www.fox4news.com/news/boeing-pleads-not-guilty-in-case-over-deadly-max-crashes |
KALAMAZOO, MI – At this point in Michigan’s high school basketball season, most teams have established an identity and are looking for a strong finish to earn a favorable draw in the district tournament.
Kalamazoo-area results from Thursday and Friday had a big impact on those efforts, as several teams pulled off upsets, headlined by the Battle Creek Lakeview, Lawton and Parchment boys squads. | https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2023/01/stunning-upsets-headline-fridays-kalamazoo-area-prep-hoops-action.html | 2023-01-28 18:08:27 | 0 | https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2023/01/stunning-upsets-headline-fridays-kalamazoo-area-prep-hoops-action.html |
At 5730 Ruddell Road, Suite A
LACEY, Wash., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NW Sports Physical Therapy Inc. opened an outpatient clinic today at 5730 Ruddell Road, Suite A, its 13th location in the South Puget Sound region.
The clinic operates 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday; 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; and 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday. To make an appointment, call 360-338-3901 or visit nwsportspt.com.
The clinic offers in-clinic and telehealth options for outpatient orthopedic physical therapy, including manual therapy, injury prevention, return to performance, total joint replacement, concussion management and vestibular rehabilitation programs.
Clinic director Jeanette McKim earned a bachelor's degree in physiotherapy in Edinburgh, Scotland, and a transitional doctor of physical therapy degree from the University of Medical Sciences Arizona.
McKim has clinical experience in respiratory therapy, industrial rehabilitation, splinting and taping, and neuro-developmental pediatrics.
NW Sports, which also has two Seattle clinics, is part of the Upstream Rehabilitation family of clinical care. NW Sports offers access to care within 24 hours and works with all insurance types.
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Updated June 14, 2022 at 12:58 PM ET
The third Jan. 6 committee hearing scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed to an as-yet unknown day, the panel said in a statement Tuesday.
The committee's release does not offer an explanation, but a source familiar said the move was a result of scheduling conflicts.
The committee's next hearing will take place Thursday, June 16.
Jan. 6 committee member Pete Aguilar said the hearing would likely be moved to next week, although he cautioned that the calendar continues to be fluid.
The panel scheduled seven total hearings throughout June to discuss their months-long investigation into the connection between former President Donald Trump's voter fraud conspiracy claims and the insurrection on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2020.
It is unclear how the postponement of Wednesday's hearing will impact the planned focus for each hearing the panel laid out last week.
Former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, who took over after William Barr left in the wake of the election, was scheduled to appear at Wednesday's hearing, along with former DOJ officials Richard Donoghue and Steven Engel. Wednesday's hearing was expected to focus on Trump's pressure on the Justice Department to spread election false claims.
Thursday's hearing was set to focus on the former president's pressure on then-Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to count electoral votes.
Monday's hearing focused on Trump's role in perpetuating the lie that the 2020 election was stolen as the panel continued to make its case that former was the central character responsible for what happened on Jan. 6. Witness testimony and recorded interviews presented by the committee showed that many Trump advisers knew the election wasn't stolen and told him so, but he ignored them. Instead, he listened to those in his inner circle, like Rudy Giuliani, who urged him to declare victory on election night and embrace claims of massive voter fraud.
Giuliani calls the claim he was inebriated on election night a lie
On Tuesday, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani denied claims presented at Monday's hearing through video interview clips that he was intoxicated on election night when he urged him to declare victory.
In one, Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the campaign, referenced an inebriated Giuliani wanting to speak to Trump to tell him to say "We won. They're stealing it from us."
Miller told the committee in his recorded testimony that the former New York mayor "was definitely intoxicated" when he talked to him that night.
On Twitter, Giuliani called the claim a lie and that he refused alcohol that evening.
I am disgusted and outraged at the out right lie by Jason Miller and Bill Steppien. I was upset that they were not prepared for the massive cheating (as well as other lawyers around the President) I REFUSED all alcohol that evening. My favorite drink..Diet Pepsi
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) June 14, 2022
And Trump responded to the panel's second hearing on Monday night with a 12-page statement that called the committee's investigation a sham and again pushed baseless voter fraud conspiracies.
Members appear to disagree on whether the panel would issue criminal referrals to DOJ
Following Monday night's hearing, committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., told reporters that the committee would like not issue a recommendation to the Justice Department to press charges.
"If the Department of Justice looks at it and assumes that there's something that needs further review, I'm sure they will do it," Thompson said.
But ranking member Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., took to Twitter to quickly clarify that the committee "has not issued a conclusion regarding potential criminal referrals."
"We will announce a decision on that at an appropriate time," she said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Monday that he is watching the House hearings as are the Justice Department lawyers prosecuting cases related to the attack on the Capitol.
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BRONX, New York (WABC) -- An off-duty NYPD officer is clinging to life after being attacked in the Bronx Tuesday morning, according to police.
Authorities say the officer in his 40's was jogging in front of 823 Olmstead Avenue around 10:30 a.m. when three men exited a Honda vehicle and attacked the victim.
He was taken to Jacobi Hospital, where he's listed in critical condition due to a "massive wound to the head."
Police say the officer has worked with the Central Park Precinct for the past 18 years.
Police are looking into whether the suspects stole anything from the victim before fleeing the scene.
Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch released a statement Tuesday night:
"While we pray at our injured brother's bedside tonight, police officers across this city are searching for the cowards who did this to him. Make no mistake: we will find them. But we will need the rest of the justice system to step up and do its job, too. This is what happens when our leaders refuse to hold criminals accountable - not even a police officer can walk these streets safely."
No further details were released.
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TAMPA — Sunday was a day of celebration for the Yankees, who trumpeted their decision to put No. 1 prospect Anthony Volpe on their season-opening roster.
They tweeted a video of manager Aaron Boone sitting at his office desk telling a nervous Volpe that he’d made the club and released another of Volpe hugging his parents in the Steinbrenner Field dugout. After leaving the ballpark, Volpe celebrated with family and teammates at Del Frisco’s, a popular Tampa steakhouse.
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This big decision by the Yankees brought disappointing news for their other shortstop prospect, as Oswald Peraza was optioned to Triple-A after playing in Sunday’s game.
The morning after, new travel bags were sitting in front of all of the Yankees’ lockers, the ones who for sure will be on their 26-man roster plus the few remaining bubble boys.
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The way it’s looking, the Yankees will leave Florida after Monday’s game in Tampa against the Rays still having to make final cuts.
The remaining decisions include deciding whether Estevan Florial, Willie Calhoun or Rafael Ortega will stick around as a reserve outfielder.
Florial is on the 40-man roster, but out of options, while the others are non-roster players. Calhoun has hit the best of three by far, but his competition is far advanced defensively.
“I don’t know yet which way we’re going, so we have not made that decision,” Boone said before Monday’s game. “I think each one brings a little bit something different to the table. Each one’s a little bit of a different circumstance around it. So that’s all things that we’re internally debating.”
The Yankees also have one last bullpen opener for either Greg Weissert, a 40-man roster player with an option, and Ian Hamilton, a non-roster player who has a 0.00 ERA this spring in 8 1/3 innings over seven appearances.
Maybe.
“Hamilton has some contract language,” Boone said.
All five bubble players are on the list of Yankees traveling to Washington, D.C., for Tuesday’s 12:05 p.m., exhibition against the Nationals.
Why the delay?
“There’s still the end of the spring as far as the baseball world, too, and seeing what makes the most sense,” Boone said.
Baseball world stuff translates to a possible waiver claim or trade.
It’s believed the Yankees are looking to deal for a starting pitcher before Opening Day, so they may be waiting to make final cuts until see who’s around after a deal.
Right-hander Jhony Brito is the leading candidate to fill in for injured starter Luis Severino, who might miss only three or four springs. Brito looked great pitching 5 1/3 perfect innings in a start against the Blue Jays on Sunday, but no decision has been made if he’ll be on the opening-day roster.
Second baseman. Gleyber Torres is a candidate to be dealt, as is Florial, who is out of options. If Florial makes the club, he could be designated for assignment when center fielder Harrison Bader returns from an oblique injury, perhaps as soon as late April.
The Yankees will take 41 players to DC. Extra players scheduled to make the trip are pitchers Kaleb Cowart, Tyler Danish, Deivi Garcia, Alex Mauricio, Aaron McGarity, Matt Minnick, catcher Carlos Narvaez, infielders Max Burt, Andres Chaparro, Ben Cowles and Caleb Durbin, and outfielders Brandon Lockridge and Jeisson Rosario.
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BAY CITY, Mich. (WJRT) - Over $52,000 in federal funds is headed to Bay County non-profits.
The money is part of a $130 million designation from Congress and will go to qualifying local programs that provide emergency food and shelter to people in need.
But without the extra pandemic funding that was given last year...there's simply not enough to meet the high demand of residents.
"That extra money because of COVID relief is just not there anymore," President and CEO of United Way of Bay County Nicole Luczak said.
She said local organizations are working together to make those dollars stretch further as the cost of basic necessities have gone up.
"We're actually seeing more of an increased need this year as well, so this is going to have to kind of go further and make more of an impact," Luczak said.
And, she said, the increased demand is likely to continue.
"The city is actually at 49 percent of people who can't make ends meet," she said.
She said even those on the budget utility plans are seeing rates increase by $100 a month.
"We are definitely getting more requests, especially for utilities and rent assistance. A lot of landlords are raising rent because of those other costs that are increasing for them so it's trickling down," she said.
United Way of Bay County is receiving seven to 10 requests per day for assistance with rent and utilities and inflation only adds to the need.
"We're seeing inflation, we're seeing higher cost of utilities, rent costs going up, food costs obviously going up, everybody's seen that and felt that," Luczak said.
She said it has been key to partner with other local nonprofits in order to try to meet the heightened need as less support comes in.
"Between all of our organizations that come together and collaborate, we serve one in every three people in Bay County," she said.
Any nonprofit, faith-based, or local government agency that provides food and shelter services may apply for this funding.
The deadline is this Thursday at 4 p.m.
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At 5348 Wyndham Forest Drive
GLEN ALLEN, Va., Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BenchMark Physical Therapy opened an outpatient clinic today at 5348 Wyndham Forest Drive in the Nuckols Place shopping center.
The clinic is open 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. To make an appointment, call 804-533-0090 or visit benchmarkpt.com.
BenchMark offers in-clinic and telehealth options for outpatient orthopedic physical therapy, including manual therapy, injury prevention, return to performance, total joint replacement, concussion management and vestibular rehabilitation programs.
Clinic director Andrew Hayes, who has 13 years of clinical experience, earned a doctor of physical therapy degree from D'Youville College in Buffalo, N.Y. He is a certified Champion Performance Specialist for movement-based performance and is certified in vestibular therapy and advanced dry needling. Along with being well rounded in general orthopedics, he has a special interest in shoulder-related pathology and working with patients who seek active lifestyles.
BenchMark and sister company Drayer Physical Therapy, each part of the Upstream Rehabilitation family of clinical care, operate approximately 20 outpatient clinics in Virginia.
BenchMark offers access to care within 24 hours and works with all insurance types.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — Ford announced Monday that it plans to lay off thousands of workers.
The cuts will impact about 2,000 salaried employees and 1,000 agency personnel, according to a Ford spokesperson.
They represent about 6% of the 31,000 full-time salaried workforce in the U.S. and Canada. Ford’s 56,000 union factory workers are not affected. Some workers also will lose jobs in India.
The company said the majority of the cuts will be at locations in Michigan.
“Even while we are making difficult but necessary changes in some areas of our business, we are investing in areas that are important to Ford and our customers including production of our iconic brands and EV vehicles and in our Ford Pro, commercial businesses,” Ford said in a statement.
In a letter to Ford employees, the company said the auto industry is changing with “breathtaking speed.”
“We have an opportunity to lead this exciting new era of connected and electric vehicles; create the most growth and value for Ford and our stakeholders since we scaled the Model T; and continue to make a positive difference in our customer’s lives and on society at large,” Ford’s announcement letter to employees said.
The company said employees will learn specifics about the changes from regional and local managers later this week.
This is in addition to a decision to shut down its F-150 line at Claycomo in February due to a chip shortage.
United Auto Workers Local 249 also said workers at the Claycomo plant were temporarily laid off earlier this month.
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CALGARY, AB, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust - TSX: BEI.UN
Boardwalk REIT ("Boardwalk, "the Trust", "We") is providing a brief operational update as we continue to focus on our essential service of providing high-quality and affordable homes to Boardwalk's Resident Members while delivering growth and value for our stakeholders.
Sam Kolias, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Boardwalk commented:
"Following a strong spring leasing season, we continue to see strong demand for rental housing throughout our portfolio heading into the summer. Our largest markets of Edmonton and Calgary have tightened significantly with Edmonton at approximately 4.25% vacancy as of early July, which represents a 2.75% improvement in occupancy since the beginning of March. Vacancy in our Calgary portfolio is below 1.50% with strengthening leasing spreads on both new leases and renewals. On the ground, and as supported by the most recent Statistics Canada data, we continue to see increased interprovincial migration into Alberta, on the foundation of some of the most affordable rents in the country.
Our team is committed to further optimize our rentals, while finding innovative ways to best manage controllable operating costs during a high inflation period and continue to provide affordable housing.
We are confident that our strong leasing momentum, peak-performing team and unparalleled affordability of our core markets position us well for continued growth in the months to come."
During the fourth quarter of 2021, the Trust announced that it received approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") to commence a normal course issuer bid ("NCIB"). The Trust continues to view its own portfolio as offering un-paralleled value in the multi-family sector and believes its current unit price represents an attractive opportunity for re-investment. During the second quarter, the Trust re-purchased 240,000 Trust Units at a volume-weighted average price of $47.01 for a total price of approximately $11.3 million.
Boardwalk REIT's financial results for the three-month period ended June 30, 2022, will be released the evening of August 9, 2022.
We invite you to participate in the teleconference to be held to discuss these results the following morning (Wednesday, August 10, 2022) at 11:00 am (Mountain),1:00 pm (Eastern). Senior Management will speak to the results and provide a financial and operational update. Presentation and supplemental materials will be made available on our website prior to the call (please visit: www.bwalk.com/investors).
Teleconference:
The telephone numbers for the conference are toll-free 1-888-664-6383 (within North America) and 416-764-8650 (International).
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Topic: Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust, 2022 Second Quarter Results.
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Boardwalk REIT strives to provide Canada's friendliest communities, where love always livesTM, and currently owns and operates more than 200 communities with over 33,000 residential units totaling over 28 million net rentable square feet. Boardwalk's principal objectives are to provide its Residents with the best quality communities and superior customer service, while providing Unitholders with enhanced returns by increasing the value of its Trust Units through selective acquisitions, dispositions, development, and effective management of its residential multi-family communities. Boardwalk REIT is vertically integrated and is Canada's leading owner/operator of multi-family communities bringing Residents home to properties located in Alberta, Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia.
Boardwalk REIT's Trust Units are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol BEI.UN. Additional information about Boardwalk REIT can be found on the Trust's website at www.bwalk.com/investors.
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Haywood basketball on wrong side of historic Fulton performance in TSSAA championship game
MURFREESBORO − There wasn't anything left for Rodney Chatman to do, other than tell his team how proud he was of them.
The epic battle between No. 1 and No. 2 never materialized, as Fulton basketball was nearly flawless in its 82-52 TSSAA Class 3A state championship game rout of Haywood on Saturday. Chatman, the Tomcats' coach, didn't hesitate to call the Falcons the best team he'd seen this season.
"That might be the first time I ever saw somebody shoot the basketball like that," Chatman said. "They didn't mis a shot."
Fulton (32-5) hit 18 of 25 shots, including seven of 10 3-pointers, in the first half en route to taking a 45-19 lead. Early in the second quarter, it hit six straight shots to turn a six-point game into a 19-point rout.
For the game, the Falcons shot 64.8% and 57.1% from three. Their two leading scorers, Taj Kimber and Tyler Lee, combined to shoot 19-for-21.
Mr. Basketball finalist Tylon Chatman scored 32 points for Haywood (30-6), but most of them came with the game well out of reach.
"They can really shoot it," Rodney Chatman said. "We preached it before the game, they're good at finding their spots."
The Tomcats tried to press more in the second half, speeding the game up to create the extra possessions needed for a comeback. It worked to get their offense going — on most other days, their 33 second-half points on 45% shooting would be more than acceptable.
But not Saturday, and not against Fulton.
"The shots they made in the second half were contested," Rodney Chatman said. "They just made tough shots."
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Haywood's defeat will hurt for a while, Rodney Chatman said. A starter on the 2003 and 2004 Tomcat teams that reached the state tournament, he wanted the win more for his players than himself.
Eventually, Chatman said, the time will come when Haywood can reflect on its season for what it was. Then, the Tomcats will get back to work.
"Togetherness," Tylon Chatman said when asked what he'll remember most about this season. "We were all as one. We fought, we argued, we came back together and we were like a brotherhood. I wouldn't trade it for nothing in the world."
Jacob Shames can be reached by email at jshames@gannett.com and on Twitter @Jacob_Shames. | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/03/18/tssaa-basketball-state-championship-haywood-on-wrong-side-of-historic-fulton-performance/70021394007/ | 2023-03-18 18:51:28 | 1 | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/03/18/tssaa-basketball-state-championship-haywood-on-wrong-side-of-historic-fulton-performance/70021394007/ |
KENT, Wash. — Firefighters responded to five separate fires in Kent Monday morning. At least four of the fires happened within an hour of each other.
According to Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority, crews responded to two dumpster fires, a pile of tires that was on fire and a car fire on the east hill of Kent within an hour. The fire agency tweeted about the fires around 5:45 a.m. Monday.
Firefighters responded to the fifth fire in a wooded area of Kent. Puget Sound Fire tweeted around 6:15 a.m. that the fire was “very small” but “kept one unit busy for several hours.”
The cause of the fires is under investigation. No other information is available at this time.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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The Aaron Judge recognition keeps on coming.
The New York Yankees’ center fielder has been nominated for Best MLB Player at the 2022 ESPYS.
He goes up against Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani, Philadelphia Phillies’ Bryce Harper and Atlanta Braves’ Jorge Soler. A complete list of nominees for each category is available here.
Judge is hitting .293 with 28 home runs and 57 RBI.
You can cast your vote at ESPN.com/ESPYS.
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Per an ESPN press release:
“ESPN announced the nominees for The 2022 ESPYS, which will broadcast live on Wednesday, July 20 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT on ABC from Los Angeles. The star-studded ceremony will relive the highlight moments of the year, honor leading athletes and performances, and bring together the sports industry’s fan favorites and biggest stars.”
ESPN announced in May that it will present N.J.’s Dick Vitale with the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance amid his battle with cancer. Per ESPN PR:
“The award is given to a deserving member of the sporting world who has overcome great obstacles through perseverance and determination. ESPN’s Jimmy Pitaro announced the news during the Dick Vitale Gala in Sarasota this past Friday.”
“Said Vitale: “When I received the call from Jimmy Pitaro about receiving this award, I was absolutely blown away. I remember that day almost 30 years ago, when I stood on stage at the first ESPYS, introduced Jimmy V and witnessed him give that incredible speech we all remember. I reflected on his speech many times during my seven month battle - ‘don’t give up, don’t ever give up Dickie V’ - and I remembered my mother and father, who taught me never to believe in ‘can’t’. Jimmy V was special and his legacy lives on. I am so grateful to receive this tremendous award in his honor.”
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AUBURN — Auburn Essential Services will no longer offer television services to customers.
The announcement was posted Friday on the City of Auburn's website.
"As the television landscape continues to drastically change due to the rise of internet-based streaming services the Auburn Essential Services has made the tough decision to no longer offer television services to its customers.
"Although AES will no longer be providing TV, to stay in alignment with our customer service values, we are happy to assist our valued customers that may need help with this transition,” said Susan Geyer, AES department head.
With additional changes on the horizon for the television industry, it is quickly moving away from the traditional format to a more a la carte individual network subscription model, the news posting said.
"This among other things, has caused the cost of operating traditional television to skyrocket in recent years. In early 2020, AES made efforts to reduce its operating costs by migrating to a streaming platform of its own.
“Regrettably, the operating costs and continual quality issues with the streaming service vendors are not in line with the value of service we strive to provide,” Geyer said. “We have now reached a level that we believe is unsustainable as a local provider, forcing us to make the tough decision to get out of the TV sales and operating business.”
The news release said AES’s staff and city administration understand the inconvenience this may cause and are committed to assisting our valued customers.
"With the industry shifting, some of these platforms offer local channels and cloud recording making them a good value and a great companion to AES internet service. These services will benefit from AES’s reliable, unmetered internet and its industry leading managed Wi-Fi," the news release said.
Customers with questions or in need of assistance may call the AES office at 333-0100. | https://www.kpcnews.com/thestar/article_4e5ff0cd-4e5b-5183-badb-7bb02b61e02c.html | 2023-01-29 18:52:16 | 0 | https://www.kpcnews.com/thestar/article_4e5ff0cd-4e5b-5183-badb-7bb02b61e02c.html |
FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans are seeking to formally expunge the impeachments of former President Donald Trump, Fox News Digital has learned.
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., introduced resolutions Thursday to expunge Trump’s first impeachment from December 2019 and his second from January 2021. Those resolutions would expunge what the lawmakers are calling "unconstitutional" impeachments and make it legally as if the articles "had never passed the full House of Representatives."
"The American people know Democrats weaponized the power of impeachment against President Donald Trump to advance their own extreme political agenda," Stefanik told Fox News Digital.
Reflecting on the "sham" process, Stefanik said she "stood up against Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff’s blatant attempt to shred the Constitution as House Democrats ignored the Constitution and failed to follow the legislative process."
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"President Donald Trump was rightfully acquitted, and it is past time to expunge Democrats’ sham smear against not only President Trump’s name, but against millions of patriots across the country," she said.
Stefanik’s resolution focuses on Trump’s January 2021 impeachment, and says that the "facts and circumstances" of that action did not meet the burden of proving Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors, and did not establish that Trump engaged in "insurrection of rebellion against the United States."
Stefanik also highlighted the "various issues surrounding the impeachment processes" related to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, including "the omission of discussion of circumstances and unusual voting patterns leading up to the 2021 Presidential election, the lack of consideration for the vote numbers and breakdowns, the whimsical changing of the legislative process for impeachment, and much more."
The House of Representatives drafted articles of impeachment against Trump and ultimately voted to impeach him on a charge of inciting an insurrection for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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The Senate voted to acquit Trump both times he was impeached. Had Trump been convicted, the Senate would have moved to bar the 45th president from holding federal office ever again, preventing a 2024 White House run.
Greene’s resolution would expunge Trump’s first impeachment in December 2019.
In 2019, Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to launch investigations into the Biden family’s actions and business dealings in Ukraine —specifically Hunter Biden’s ventures with Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings and Joe Biden’s successful effort to have Ukraininan prosecutor Viktor Shokin ousted while serving as vice president.
Greene says the impeachment against Trump was a "sham" because information revealed in an FD-1023 FBI document indicates that the Bidens were trying to influence policy in Ukraine.
"The first impeachment of President Trump was a politically motivated sham," Greene said. "The Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, weaponized a perfect phone call with Ukraine to interfere with the 2020 election."
Trump's request was regarded by Democrats as a quid pro quo for millions in U.S. military aid to Ukraine that had been frozen. Democrats also claimed Trump was meddling in the 2020 presidential election by asking a foreign leader to look into a Democratic political opponent.
EXCLUSIVE: JOE BIDEN ALLEGEDLY PAID $5M BY BURISMA EXECUTIVE AS PART OF A BRIBERY SCHEME, ACCORDING TO FBI DOCUMENT
Trump was later impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, all stemming from the phone call and the question about the Bidens' dealings. The Senate voted for acquittal in February 2020.
But Greene on Thursday pointed to the FBI's "credible evidence of Joe and Hunter Biden's corrupt dealings, confirming their involvement in a foreign bribery pay-to-play scheme and receipt of over $5 million each. All of this information was revealed to Congress by the FD-1023 form from the FBI’s most credible informant."
Greene was referring to the FBI-generated FD-1023 form. The form, dated June 30, 2020, reflects the FBI's interview with a "highly credible" confidential source who detailed multiple meetings and conversations he or she had with a top executive of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings over the course of several years, starting in 2015.
The document shows the Burisma executive explained to the confidential source that Burisma had to "pay the Bidens" because Shokin was investigating Burisma, and explained how difficult it would be to enter the U.S. market in the midst of that investigation.
Sources familiar told Fox News Digital that the confidential human source believes that the $5 million payment to Joe Biden and the $5 million payment to Hunter Biden occurred, based on his or her conversations with the Burisma executive.
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"The form vindicates President Trump and exposes the crimes of the Biden family," Greene said. "It's clear that President Trump's impeachment was a nothing more than a witch hunt that needs to be expunged from our history."
She added, "I'm proud to work with Chairwoman Elise Stefanik on our joint resolutions to correct the record and clear President Trump’s good name." | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/house-gop-seeking-to-expunge-sham-trump-impeachments/article_d761113d-1e2a-5f16-9efa-23fb7004cf48.html | 2023-06-23 00:22:52 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/house-gop-seeking-to-expunge-sham-trump-impeachments/article_d761113d-1e2a-5f16-9efa-23fb7004cf48.html |
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