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Brings Home the Gold in the 18th Annual 2023 Globee® Awards for Information Technology as "Best IT Solution for Pharmaceuticals & Biotech"
NEW YORK, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Code Ocean, the world's first Reproducible Research Cloud, today announced that it has earned a Gold Award in the 18th Annual 2023 Globee®Awards for Information Technology in the category of "Best IT Solution for Pharmaceuticals and BioTech."
Code Ocean accelerates pharmaceutical and biotech research by providing a digital lab for trusted computational science. Code Ocean's enterprise platform allows pharmaceutical and biotech researchers to collaborate more quickly and effectively in a standards-based environment that duplicates coding, software, and data in the cloud. It preserves a record of the path to every result to maintain complete visibility, lineage, reproducibility, and reuse, bringing together decision-makers, research IT, coding, and domain scientists in one shared, collaborative space.
"Code Ocean organizes the creative chaos inherent in computational science," said Simon Adar, Co-founder and CEO, Code Ocean. "Scientists use many well developed methods for capturing, storing, and indexing primary research data, but once that data leaves the security of a database to be transformed into valuable insights, it often loses the connection to its original source. Code Ocean's digital lab guarantees the traceability and reproducibility of any result so scientific discoveries can be completely trusted by decision makers."
The Globee Awards were formed to honor organizations of all types and sizes from around the world for their achievements in various business and technology-related categories. The awards were created to provide a platform for recognizing and promoting excellence in industries and sectors that are shaping the future of business. The judging process for the 2023 Globee® Awards for Information Technology involved the active participation of over 600 judges from diverse corners of the globe, representing a broad spectrum of industry experts. These esteemed judges contributed their expertise to evaluate and assess the submissions received.
"The pharmaceutical and biotech industries are going through digital transformations to modernize infrastructure and enable scientists to better collaborate," said Ram Dayan, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Code Ocean. "Code Ocean is a critical part of that transformation, as it will make more information available for analysis and improve the quality and speed of science. By offering a unified platform for data and computational research in the wet and dry lab, Code Ocean provides full knowledge of the path of discovery, making each stage of the computation fully reproducible."
For more information about Code Ocean, please visit https://codeocean.com/.
About Code Ocean
Code Ocean solves the problem of creative chaos in scientific discoveries. It's your digital lab for faster, trusted computational science — the first and only integrated science library and workbench that guarantees reproducibility and speeds up discovery. Bringing together decision-makers, research IT, coding, and domain scientists in one shared, collaborative space, it provides a single pane of glass delivering end-to-end visibility, traceability, and reusability. Code Ocean keeps all your data, results, development environments, pipelines, AI/ML, no-code applications, and visualizations in one place as connected data products.
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Turkeys are more expensive and harder to find. Here's how to shop smarter this Thanksgiving
If you haven't started stocking up on Thanksgiving staples for your holiday meal, you better not delay too much longer.
The avian flu and inflation will make this Thanksgiving one of the most expensive in years.
Grocery prices in October were 12.4% higher than they were last year. Eggs have reached their highest price since 2007, and the prices for turkey and other poultry items are up 17%, according to a report from the Labor Department.
Delaware turkey farmers are feeling the economic squeeze.
Elizabeth Carter, a day-to-day operational manager at Kent County's T.A. Farms, said the price of feed, fuel and labor has made it much more expensive to run her family's farm and business. T.A Farms supplies several local grocery markets such as Greenville's Janssens, Newark Natural Foods and Little Wagon Produce in Greenwood.
T.A. Farms typically sources their turkeys from a hatchery in Virginia, but this year it was uncertain whether they would have enough supply. According to Carter baby turkeys have increased in price by 50%, which has caused TA Farms, who usually try to sell turkeys at around $3 per pound, to increase their selling price by $0.49.
"The price increase didn't even cover all of our increased costs," Carter said. "You never want to put all of that on to the customers, so we're taking some of that on ourselves."
Expanding options:Got turkey? These Delaware restaurants offering Thanksgiving dinner and takeout sure do
How to shop smarter for the season
We've compiled a list of tips to help you make sure your Thanksgiving meal goes smoothly
Shelves probably won't be empty... but start shopping now
There's a good chance that many of the ingredients for your holiday dishes will be available on a "first come first serve" basis in stores this year. This means it might be best to plan your grocery shopping accordingly.
Many chain grocers get their turkeys from farms in the country's midwest or south, where the flu was most concentrated this year, which could mean the size and price you're looking for in your Thanksgiving turkey may not be what you're used to.
Stay local:Why skip frozen and order a fresh turkey for Thanksgiving — and where to get one in Delaware
While inventory for most staple items such as turkey has rebounded since the outbreaks of the avian flu, the cost will be higher. You’ll hopefully still find turkey at the grocery store, but you may want to shop early for the best selection of brands and sizes.
Pre-ordering a fresh turkey guarantees that one is available - especially if you are looking for a specific size to cater to guests.
Take advantage of deals
Plenty of grocers offer opportunities to save big around Thanksgiving time.
A handful of grocers offer promotions as a part of their rewards memberships that allow customers to redeem their points for discounted items, including a chance for a free turkey.
Make sure to check your rewards points at your go-to grocery store to see if you're eligible for some savings before next Thursday!
More Resources:Here's how to get a free Thanksgiving meal
Shop smart, go back to basics
Trendy and elaborate food fads are going to be front and center this year. To avoid the gravitational pull of any up-and-coming recipe, make a list and stick to it. Stay away from pre-made items and stick to buying ingredients to cook with.
Don't be afraid to substitute a name-brand for a store-brand product (or maybe one bird for another), this could be your year to learn a new recipe from scratch.
Food won't get (much) cheaper after the holidays
It's not just turkey that's going to cost more this year, either. Halts in the supply chain largely attributable to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and climate-related factors have caused commodities such as butter, flour, canned fruits and frozen vegetables to experience record price increases this year.
According to U.S Consumer Price Index data, the price for food at home has increased by 12.4% in the past year, which is more expensive than eating out (which has increased by just under 9% in the past year).
As the holiday season continues, there's no saying when food prices will reach more affordable levels. Until that happens, it's important to shop smart and take advantage of any deals or saving opportunities that come your way.
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Dear Abby: I’m a woman in my early 50s who has been through two divorces. This may make me sound like a bad person, but I’m really nice and quite conservative. I just make poor choices when it comes to men.
A few years ago, I met a woman I have become good friends with. She’s happily married. She and her husband are empty nesters, like I am. We often socialize, and when we do there is definite chemistry between the three of us.
I’ve recently heard of the concept of a “throuple,” which is consenting adults living together as any couple would, except there are three rather than two. I can’t help but wonder whether my friend, her husband and I might make a good throuple. This is not a case of rushing into something. We have known each other for several years and have established trust and compatibility.
I’m nervous to bring this up because I don’t want to jeopardize our friendship. I’m also scared about how deeply I feel for both of these people, and I think it’s mutual. I don’t like being single, and the thought of dating again gives me hives. What should I do? — Found the Right Ones Out West
Dear Found: Carefully consider which will give you worse hives. After two divorces, you are now in a position to make wiser decisions about men in the future, provided you’re willing to risk dipping your toe into the dating pool.
It’s very possible that, as much as this couple likes you, they may not be enthusiastic about the idea of a throuple. Proposing what you have in mind may put a crimp in your relationship with one — or both — of them. Unless you can find a way to casually gauge their reaction to “throupling” hypothetically in the course of a conversation, allow me to share a bit of wisdom that has served me well: When in doubt — DON’T!
Dear Abby: Our daughter’s husband has not bonded with their youngest child. He won’t hold her or play with her, and barely acknowledges her existence. When, through therapy, our daughter learned to confront the issue, he admitted he just doesn’t feel anything for the child.
In truth, he’s not much more attentive to their 3-year-old. He would rather play video games than interact with his children or his wife. As far as we know, he isn’t physically abusive toward the children or our daughter, but he is definitely verbally abusive.
Having been a victim of abuse myself, I am well aware that verbal abuse is just as damaging as physical abuse and, in fact, is sometimes a precursor to physical abuse. As grandparents, is there anything we can do, or must we watch these precious little girls be starved for affection from their father? — Aware in Texas
Dear Aware: While you cannot force your son-in-law to be a better parent — or husband — you CAN encourage your daughter to continue her therapy so she can become more assertive, not only for the sake of her children, but also for herself. It may give her the strength to end the marriage. In the meantime, continue to love your grandchildren and give them the positive reinforcement and all the attention they deserve so they learn what healthy relationships feel like.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
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Small businesses are raising money Ariel Griffin’s family
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - It’s only been a few days since Ariel Griffin’s death. Small businesses across Levy County are coming together to raise money for her family.
Griffin died on Monday, and she leaves behind two kids.
Kingfishers Coffee Company in Williston and Hair by Melissa in Inglis are two small businesses raising money for her family.
Melissa Bradshaw, salon owner, said she wanted to do something for Griffin’s children.
“ As a mother, that is immediately what came to me, was that these children, this family are going to need some support and prayer and love.”
All the money she collects will be donated to Monterey Boats where Griffin worked. She said the company will match the funds.
Candace Hulett, the owner of Kingfishers, grew up in Bronson and has mutual friends with Griffin. She is collecting donations since Griffin’s death.
” This is just something that hits very close to home for everybody in this town. So, as much as we can get donated for them, just to help the family through this hard time, " said Hulett. " And know, that everybody is here for them. They are not alone, that we care about them.”
Hulett made a special donation basket in honor of Griffin. It has a picture of Griffin with her two kids and flowers of her favorite colors.
Candace said people from all over want to help. She collected more than 200 dollars just in one day.
" People that don’t even know them are reaching out and we just want to give them just as much love as possible, " said Hulett.
Hulett’s coffee truck is open Thursday through Sunday, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in front of Tractor Supply in Williston.
Both said they are accepting money but also children’s clothes and diapers.
The owners all said that the Levy County community is doing as much as they can to support Griffin’s family as they mourn.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rain and snow fell across Southern California early Monday while the northern half of the state turned windy and frosty in the aftermath of the weekend weather system.
The California Highway Patrol escorted Interstate 5 traffic over Tejon Pass north Los Angeles due to snow. Chains were required for travel on several other Southern California mountain routes.
The low-pressure system moved through Northern California on Sunday, leaving blustery and cold conditions in its wake.
Frost and freeze warnings were issued for parts of the coast and the interior.
The storm was modest compared to the atmospheric river-fueled storms that pounded California from late December to the middle of this month.
In the Eastern Sierra, the storm added a few inches of snow at the Mammoth Mountain ski resort, which reported its totals so far this season are nearly 43 feet (13 meters) at its summit and 32 feet (9.8 meters) at the main lodge. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/california-sees-more-rain-snow-frost-and-wind-17751123.php | 2023-01-30 15:45:41 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/california-sees-more-rain-snow-frost-and-wind-17751123.php |
ORLAND — The community is rallying around the Miller family in Orland whose two children were hospitalized from injuries they incurred in a house fire Thursday morning.
The 7-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son of Brandon and Tabitha Miller were injured in the fire that broke out at their Barry Street home at approximately 6:10 a.m.
The two have been hospitalized but the extent of their injuries are not known, said Assistant Fire Chief Chip Wagner.
When firefighters arrived they found Tabitha on the roof of the house and the children were trapped inside.
Firefighters were able to free the children. It is not known how long the children were inside the structure.
"Everything happened rather quickly to get them out and to medical help," Wagner said. Care was initially provided on the scene by Steuben County Emergency Medical Service and first responders with the fire department.
Wagner did not have available the amount of time it took to battle the blaze or its cause.
"We had it under control rather quickly," Wagner said.
The fire is still under investigation.
However, the town is already coming together to help the family, which was relatively new to Orland.
"It's town wide garage sales this weekend in Orland and Wall Lake so maybe if people have some things left they can donate," said April Sanders, town clerk-treasurer.
"There's a lot of organizations helping out," Wagner said.
There are collection sites set up in town for people to drop off donations for the family.
"The Brandon & Tabitha Miller family is in need of items and if you would like to help we are setting up several drop off points for items of need," Sanders said in a post on the town's Facebook page.
People can take items to Town Hall, 6035 N. S.R. 327; Sweet Summers, 9495 W. S.R. 120; and Chubby's Restaurant, 9482 W. S.R. 120.
Items needed include girls clothing for age 7, boys clothing for age 2, women's small-medium clothing and men's pants, 30-30.
Personal hygiene items are also needed.
Assisting Orland Fire at the scene were firefighters from Fremont Fire Department, Steuben County Sheriff's Department, Orland Marshal's Office, Fremont Police Department, Steuben County EMS and Steuben County Emergency Management. | https://www.kpcnews.com/heraldrepublican/article_59469ac9-0902-5f03-ace3-ae94b4176286.html | 2023-06-15 18:50:10 | 0 | https://www.kpcnews.com/heraldrepublican/article_59469ac9-0902-5f03-ace3-ae94b4176286.html |
Emanuele Caltabiano had two goals and an assist, lifting Boonton to a 3-1 victory over Pequannock in Pompton Plains.
Gentian Dauti added a goal with an assist for Boonton (8-3). Artian Dika scored a goal and Tawhed Sherifi made seven saves.
Pequannock falls to 5-5-1.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police officers shot and killed a man who approached them with a sharp object, officials said.
The officers responded Tuesday in South LA and encountered the man clutching a metal object about a foot (30 cm) long, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
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“After telling the suspect to drop the metal object several times, he did not and approached the officers, at which time an officer involved shooting occurred,” the department said in a statement.
The unidentified man was struck by gunfire and taken to a hospital, where he later died, the statement said.
No officers were hurt.
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BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — A few minutes west of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport sits a brick, one-story building with opaque windows. From the nearby freeways, most drivers wouldn't recognize it as the location of one of the few clinics in the state that provides abortions.
Should they approach its entrance, just off an Interstate 35 on-ramp, they might see anti-abortion placards propped against the pine trees that border the parking lot. Those who arrived on a recent Wednesday confronted declarations that included "Demand to see your ultrasound," "Pregnant? We will help you," and "Abortion kills a human being."
Inside, they'd find Whole Woman's Health of Minnesota, a clinic that opened in late February as uncertainties lingered surrounding the future of Roe v. Wade and abortion rights nationwide. The nonprofit Whole Woman's Health Alliance — which also operates clinics in Indiana, Virginia, and Texas — opened the Bloomington location, in part, to make abortion care available to out-of-state residents migrating from places that already significantly restricted access.
It's the kind of resource reallocation that has become commonplace in recent months: increasing available abortion capacity in states that providers and advocates believe will preserve access after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion on Friday, turning control over abortion access back to states.
In Minnesota, abortion is protected by the state's constitution and is legal up to the point of viability, which is generally thought to begin at about 24 weeks, when the fetus can survive outside the womb. Abortions after the point of fetal viability are allowed only to preserve the life or health of the mother. Minnesota also is one of 16 states where Medicaid covers the procedure beyond limited circumstances allowed by federal law, a policy designed to boost access for low-income women.
Yet the reality of obtaining an abortion in Minnesota is complicated. Minnesota has just eight clinics that provide abortions. Most are in or near the Twin Cities and offer abortions only during the first trimester. One, a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul, provides abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Those who work with Minnesotans who seek abortions say barriers, both legal and practical, forced some to travel to Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin even prior to the Supreme Court's decision.
"It's not a haven," said Shayla Walker, executive director of the Minneapolis-based abortion assistance fund Our Justice. The nonprofit helps patients cover the cost of the care, which can exceed $1,000, and related expenses like lodging. "Just because other people have worse laws doesn't mean our laws are good."
Clinicians and abortion rights advocates say Minnesota patients regularly wait at least two weeks for appointments at state clinics — a delay that could push people past the window when an abortion is an option.
"Even over this year working with abortion funds and clinics here, they're sending people from Minnesota out to other states because there are not enough appointments," particularly for those in the second trimester, said Megan Peterson, executive director of Gender Justice, a nonprofit that advocates for gender equity.
As abortion bans expand, she said, "I don't think states like Minnesota are prepared for that influx."
A capacity problem
Minnesota lawmakers, like some of their counterparts elsewhere, have spent the past five decades installing restrictions on abortions. In the 1970s, the state enacted a law that only physicians can provide abortion services. In the 1980s, lawmakers instituted a parental notification requirement for minors. And in 2003, they mandated that anyone seeking an abortion receive information about risks associated with abortions and their pregnancy, then wait at least 24 hours before the procedure.
The physician restriction is problematic for people who need medication abortions and don't live near a provider, said Walker of Our Justice, which is a plaintiff in an ongoing lawsuit filed against the state in 2019 to challenge such rules.
It forces patients living outside the Twin Cities who may have developed a relationship with a midwife in their community to travel sometimes hours-long distances to see a physician, she said, one "who could essentially do the same thing that your midwife could do."
Medication abortion is an option during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy and involves taking two pills. Its use has risen dramatically. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, pills were used in 54% of U.S. abortions in 2020, the first year medication abortion accounted for most of the abortions performed.
Mirroring national trends, most Minnesota abortions occur in the first trimester — 91% in 2020, according to the Minnesota Department of Health's most recent report to the state legislature. According to the report, 91% were for Minnesota residents but patients also reported living in Iowa, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, along with other states.
Dr. Julie Amaon, medical director of Just the Pill, a telehealth clinic that provides medication abortions for $350, said one factor limiting access to second-trimester services in the state is that "there's just not enough docs to go around."
Just the Pill began seeing patients in Minnesota in October 2020 and expanded last year into Montana and Wyoming. The organization saw roughly 1,300 patients in 2021; in the first five months of this year, it had already logged 1,000 patients.
Until recently, Amaon was its sole physician. She's able to mail medication abortions to 60 to 70 people a week.
The FDA's decision in late 2021 that allowed patients to receive abortion pills by mail "has opened up a lot of doors for people," she said. Yet "we still need our brick-and-mortar clinics," for patients who need abortion care later in pregnancy.
Even with Roe v. Wade intact, those clinics struggled to meet demand.
Emily Mohrbacher, director of client services for the Midwest Access Coalition, said that each week one to two of its clients travel to a Minnesota clinic for an abortion. Most are from rural parts of the state, which lack facilities. But as abortion restrictions have expanded across the nation's midsection, people are coming from Iowa, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Texas, and Wisconsin, they said. Those states collectively reported 69,295 abortions in 2020, according to health department reports.
North Dakota, South Dakota, and Texas have so-called trigger laws that ban nearly all abortions after the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In Iowa, the state's Supreme Court on June 17 overturned abortion protections affirmed by a 2018 state court decision, and Wisconsin has an 1849 law criminalizing the procedure in nearly all cases.
The coalition, which coordinates and pays for lodging, food, transportation, and other expenses for people seeking abortion, has seen demand for its services grow across the Midwest. Last year, it helped roughly 60 individuals per month; this year that has grown to 80 to 130 people monthly.
Mohrbacher said any influx of patients to Minnesota will "put a lot of pressure on clinics."
Mounting pressure
Anticipating a surge in demand, abortion providers are hiring.
Emily Bisek, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood North Central States, said it predicts a 10% to 25% increase in abortion in Minnesota. "But we also know that there will be some people who cannot get to Minnesota and who have very limited options for what they do with their pregnancy," she said.
The Planned Parenthood affiliate operates clinics in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. It provided 7,491 abortions in Minnesota in 2020 — or more than three-quarters of the state's recorded abortions. In 1980, Minnesota documented more than 19,000 abortions. The big drop is partly due to better and widely available birth control. Nonetheless, resources are being strained as people seeking abortion migrate from states that have reduced or eliminated access.
Since opening the Bloomington clinic, Whole Woman's Health Alliance has seen Minnesota patients and travelers, including from Texas and the Dakotas.
"Just being 10 minutes from the airport and able to, in some cases, get patients in and out that same day where they can fly home in the evening and in time to go to work the next day, it has been huge," said Sean Mehl, the organization's associate director of clinical services who oversees the Minnesota location. That clinic provides abortions up to 18 weeks from a woman's last menstrual period but has plans to increase the window to 24 weeks "in the coming months."
Though the clinic does not yet accept insurance, Mehl said it works with state and national abortion funds to help patients afford the procedure. Its fees are in line with other providers — from $400 for a medication abortion to $1,450 for an in-clinic second-trimester abortion procedure.
Its team of five doctors generally has maintained a one-week wait time for appointments. One challenge is Minnesota's requirement that clinics provide state-mandated information to patients by phone or in person at least 24 hours before an abortion, Mehl said.
"If they miss that phone call and we're not able to connect, that can potentially push their appointments," he said.
Just the Pill is also working to expand access by launching mobile clinics that would provide medication abortion and first-trimester procedures.
But Amaon and other abortion rights supporters worry the increases in capacity won't meet demand.
"We've already seen a crazy increase in the need," Amaon said before the Supreme Court decision. "It's pretty devastating."
KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. It is an editorially independent operating program of KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation).
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If you've ever seen a close-up photo of a jumping spider, you'll know they're the cute ones.
Many fit on the tip of a finger and sport fuzzy, colorful bodies and big eyes. They're quite amazing, said Daniela Roessler, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Konstanz in Germany.
"I think they're just special in a lot of ways," she said. "They have this incredible vision that is really not comparable with any other ... insects or arthropods ... and they've been shown to be really smart."
Jumping spiders tailor their hunting strategies to the species of their prey. They can leap great distances relative to their size, and they have elaborate mating dances.
They might even dream at night.
Roessler recently led a study that found jumping spiders experience something like rapid eye movement sleep when they rest at night.
REM sleep, also known as paradoxical sleep, is the phase of our sleep cycle where our brains show an increase in activity but our bodies remain immobilized — our eyes dart quickly, and we can experience really visual dreams.
The team filmed jumping spiders overnight and observed behaviors that mirror REM sleep in other species.
"All the legs would curl into the body and they would twitch," Roessler said. "We would see that always when this happened. We also detected quite significant and very obvious eye movements."
The study, which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, takes advantage of the fact that baby jumping spiders have translucent exoskeletons. Jumping spiders can't move their eyes like humans, but the team observed their tube-shaped retinas moving through their clear bodies.
Octopuses have REM-like sleep. Do spiders too? We need to have a closer look at how universal REM sleep and REM-like behaviors might be across the animal kingdom. There are likely many things we can learn from this, since even in humans REM sleep is still a big mystery. 5/7 pic.twitter.com/ZXtlvSUFdj
— Dr. Daniela Rößler 🌎 (@RoesslerDaniela) August 8, 2022
Roessler cautioned that it's too early to say whether the spiders are technically "asleep" during these rapid eye movements. She said they'll be testing whether the behavior meets the definition of sleep next.
But even these early findings are exciting to sleep scientists like Mark Blumberg at the University of Iowa.
"These behaviors themselves are just, you know, if I can say so, they're just beautiful behaviors," he said. "What we want to know at some fundamental level is why do these animals do this?"
Blumberg was not involved in the work, but he said studying these behaviors across the animal kingdom might someday tell us more about how REM sleep evolved. REM-like activity has been observed in almost all mammals and birds, as well as some insects and cephalopods.
Teresa Iglesias, a neuropathologist at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, agreed. She has studied REM-like activity in cuttlefish.
"I think we're on the cusp of finally addressing the [questions] of: What is REM sleep and what is it for ... why did it evolve in the first place?" she said. "It's quite possible that maybe sleep and REM sleep evolved once a long time ago and everyone shares the same origin, but we're all manifesting it slightly differently."
As for the question on whether spiders dream, Roessler said it was too early to say. And even if they do, it wouldn't be like humans do.
"I mean, it's beautiful to think about it that way," she said, "that these spiders hang there and they have a visual scene of catching a fly or trying to get a mate. It's quite cute, but probably is going to be very different."
After all, Roessler pointed out that some spiders have very poor vision but are very attuned to vibrations. She wondered if they might "dream" in vibrations instead.
Something to ponder, perhaps, as we all drift off to sleep tonight.
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Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle US charges of illegally collecting children’s data
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft will pay a fine of $20 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected and retained the data of children who signed up to use its Xbox video game console.
The agency charged that Microsoft gathered the data without notifying parents or obtaining their consent, and that it also illegally held onto the data. Those actions violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the FTC stated.
In a blog post, Microsoft corporate vice president for Xbox Dave McCarthy outlined additional steps the company is now taking to improve its age verification systems and to ensure that parents are involved in the creation of child accounts for the service. These mostly concern efforts to improve age verification technology and to educate children and parents about privacy issues.
McCarthy also said the company had identified and fixed a technical glitch that failed to delete child accounts in cases where the account creation process never finished. Microsoft policy was to hold that data no longer than 14 days in order to allow players to pick up account creation where they left off if they were interrupted.
The settlement must be approved by a federal court before it can go into effect, the FTC said.
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RIPON, Wis., June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alliance Laundry Systems, the global leader in commercial laundry equipment, acquired the distribution assets of Kirkland, Wash.-based Dynamic Sales and Service. Dynamic has more than three decades of experience providing commercial laundry solutions in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
"We remain committed to partnering with distributors who have a long history of excellent service," said Craig Dakauskas, Senior Vice President, Americas Commercial, Alliance Laundry Systems. "Dynamic definitely fits that criteria and we are excited to bring them into Alliance Laundry Systems Distribution."
Dynamic will become part of the Alliance Laundry Systems Distribution West Region, while maintaining its Kirkland, Wash. office.
Since its founding in 1990, Dynamic Sales and Service has been a go-to resource for customers in a variety of industries, including on-premises laundries, laundromats, drycleaners, and large-scale industrial linen plants. They are a full-service distributor, offering technical service and replacement parts, and represent Speed Queen and UniMac brands.
"From the start, we aligned with Alliance Laundry Systems because we felt they delivered excellence in every area," said Dan Danhof, President and co-founder. "We are proud that our history will continue as part of Alliance Laundry Systems Distribution."
For more information about Alliance Laundry Systems, visit alliancelaundry.com. To learn more about Dynamic Sales and Service, visit here.
About Alliance Laundry Systems
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Alliance Laundry Systems makes the world cleaner as the premier provider of laundry solutions. We deliver Leading performance through our exceptional employees, unmatched quality and our commitment to innovation. Alliance leads the world in commercial laundry sales, product range, reach and R&D investment. No competitor comes close. Our laundry solutions are available under five respected brands, sold and supported by a global network of select distributors. We serve more than 140 countries with a team of more than 3,500 employees. Our brands include Speed Queen®, UniMac®, Huebsch®, Primus® and IPSO®. Together, they present a full line of commercial washing machines, dryers and ironers (with load capacities from 12–400 lb., or 6–180 kg.) and every essential support service necessary to keep your operation running at maximum efficiency. You can also enjoy the superior wash and fabric care of commercial-grade laundry equipment in your home through our legendary Speed Queen® washers and dryers. At Alliance, we aim to bring you laundry peace of mind with an award-winning customer experience that's unrivalled in our industry.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX), the clinical-stage biotechnology company industrializing drug discovery by decoding biology, today announced that it recently received a Prime Rating for ESG performance from the industry-renowned Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which is the first time Recursion has been ranked by ISS. The ISS ESG Corporate Rating provides an assessment of a company's environmental, social, and governance activity. A Prime Rating is awarded to companies with ESG performance above a sector-specific threshold and is defined by ISS as "absolute best in class".
"We are proud to receive a Prime Rating by ISS for ESG," said Chris Gibson, Ph.D., Co-Founder & CEO of Recursion. "As a company looking to revolutionize the drug discovery industry, it is critical that we focus on building a sustainable culture that not only fosters interdisciplinary work across healthcare and technology, but also achieves the highest standards in mitigating our environmental impact and creating an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace in order to drive long-term success in the years to come."
Additionally, on September 29, 2022, Recursion plans to participate in the Goldman Sachs Global Sustainability Forum to share more about its ESG strategy and connect with the ESG investor community.
Recursion's Prime Rating from ISS follows the release of Recursion's first ESG report earlier this year, which outlines the Company's approach, practices and goals in several important areas. As part of the report, Recursion announced long-term commitments focused on net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, workforce diversity, and philanthropy.
The full 2022 Recursion ESG Report can be found here.
More information on ISS ESG Corporate Ratings can be found here.
About Recursion
Recursion is the clinical-stage biotechnology company industrializing drug discovery by decoding biology. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world's largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.
Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Disney/Marvel's Epic Sequel Delivers $14.2 Million Domestic Opening in IMAX, Scores Biggest IMAX November Opening Weekend Ever in 26 Markets Worldwide
NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) pounced to its biggest domestic November opening weekend ever en route to a $22.6 million worldwide debut for Disney/Marvel's "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever". The highly anticipated sequel scored a $14.2 million domestic opening weekend in IMAX and the biggest IMAX November opening weekend ever in 26 markets worldwide.
A Filmed for IMAX release, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" was shot with IMAX digital cameras and features select scenes with IMAX-exclusive expanded aspect ratio. "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" will continue to play in the IMAX global network through the end of November, including the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, and in select markets into December. Disney's "Avatar: The Way of Water" — the long-awaited sequel to the highest grossing IMAX film of all time — debuts on December 16.
"'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' has succeeded in delivering a poignant, unmissable sequel to the iconic original, while jumpstarting the global box office ahead of a strong blockbuster slate through 2023. Heading into the Thanksgiving holiday, we expect this film to have a strong run," said Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX. "A Filmed for IMAX release, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" is one of many forthcoming tentpoles created with our technology, for our screens, and further demonstrates the creative and commercial power IMAX can help unlock."
Internationally, IMAX delivered $8.4 million in box office for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" and notched the biggest November opening weekend for IMAX ever in international markets including France, Germany, Switzerland, India, Hong Kong, Argentina and Colombia. Following the film's African premiere last week at the Filmhouse Lekki IMAX in Lagos, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" also scored the biggest IMAX opening weekend ever in Nigeria.
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IMAX, an innovator in entertainment technology, combines proprietary software, architecture, and equipment to create experiences that take you beyond the edge of your seat to a world you've never imagined. Top filmmakers and studios are utilizing IMAX theaters to connect with audiences in extraordinary ways, and, as such, IMAX's network is among the most important and successful theatrical distribution platforms for major event films around the globe. Streaming technology company SSIMWAVE, an IMAX subsidiary, is a leader in AI-driven video quality solutions for media and entertainment companies.
IMAX is headquartered in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles, with additional offices in London, Dublin, Tokyo, and Shanghai. As of September 30, 2022, there were 1,703 IMAX theater systems (1,622 commercial multiplexes, 12 commercial destinations, 69 institutional) operating in 87 countries and territories. Shares of IMAX China Holding, Inc., a subsidiary of IMAX Corporation, trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code "1970."
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HONOLULU (KHON) — Hawaiian Airlines operated its first flight with a mother and daughter pilot Wednesday.
The mother, Captain Kamelia Zarka, and her daughter, First Officer Maria Zarka, took flight over the Pacific. Both pilots flew from neighboring islands in the Boeing 717 aircraft.
According to Hawaiian Airlines, the daughter was hired as a Boeing 717 first officer earlier this year, and the mom, a Boeing 717 captain who earned her pilot wings in 1999, was the first Tongan woman to captain a commercial airline.
“It was a dream come true. I’ve been so lucky on my aviation career so far, but being able to fly right seat with my mom was an unbelievable lifetime experience,” said First Officer Maria Zarka. “Everybody always comes up to me and tells me how amazing my mom is to fly with, and today, I got to experience that firsthand.”
Captain Kamelia Zarka, who began as a flight attendant for Hawaiian Airlines, said flying with her daughter has been a dream ever since her daughter became interested in aviation as a child.
The mother and daughter pilot duo is encouraging other young girls to follow their dreams.
According to the Pilot Institute, the number of women pilots has grown each year since 2017. Yet there were still only 64,979 women pilots as of 2021, accounting for 9.02% of the total.
“While other industries, such as the medical field or law enforcement, have enjoyed a marked improvement in female representation, aviation is still struggling,” stated the Pilot Institute. “It’s going to take the collaborative effort of communities, corporations, training facilities, and individuals to help more women succeed in aviation.”
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MIAMI (AP) — The NBA made its voice heard during the 2020 election cycle. LeBron James’ “More Than A Vote” initiative, formed after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor sparked a national protest movement, was everywhere. Players were leading get-out-the-vote marches and rallies, making themselves more visible politically than ever before.
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This year, the approach is of a more grassroots variety.
All 30 teams are doing various things in advance of Tuesday’s midterm election, like airing public service announcements, leading registration drives and having employees volunteer at polling locations. The league won't play any games on Election Day.
But the volume is lower than two years ago. The “More Than A Vote” campaign is dormant, its URL says the site can't be reached and its last tweet coming in early January.
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That said, Golden State guard Stephen Curry’s still has a clear message: All elections, including Tuesday's that will decide control of Congress, very much matter.
“I think the message has been broadcast loud and clear for a decade now in terms of how important these moments are,” Curry said. “Athletes can leverage their platforms to different politicians, different communities that are important to them, different causes, and that’s happening.”
Curry’s 17 million Twitter followers have seen him post multiple times in recent weeks about voting — “our future is on the ballot,” he said. He also promoted a summit for young voters in California.
If there is a trend in the NBA in this election cycle, it’s just that — getting young voters involved.
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Francesca Pierre-Michel, an 18-year-old high school student in Miami, just voted for the first time last week.. She was with about 500 other students at an event organized by the Miami Heat that brought them all to an early voting location to cast ballots. They came in on a caravan of buses, the line snaking around the outside of the building.
The significance of the Heat getting involved wasn’t lost on Pierre-Michel.
“For me, that’s not the reason why I went to go vote,” she said. “But I feel like for the rest of my peers, seeing the Heat or their favorite basketball team being involved and encouraging young adults, that helps. I wanted to vote because I wanted to get my voice heard. I’m 18. My vote really counts now.”
The Heat arranged for the new voters to celebrate with pizza for lunch. Pierre-Michel also got the “I Voted” sticker, which has become her prized souvenir.
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“I put it on my binder,” she said.
Boston guard Grant Williams also promoted — and participated in — early voting, flying home to North Carolina to make sure his ballot got cast last month.
“I encourage everyone to go out and make a difference!! Our state and local elections are just as important if not more than the presidential so let’s use that right for the better!!” he tweeted.
Taking a regular-season day off is a rarity for the NBA, which typically does not play on Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve and tries to avoid scheduling games on the day of the NCAA men’s basketball championship game. It also has a few days off built around the All-Star Game, which takes place in February.
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All 30 NBA teams are in action Monday, the night before Election Day, and there will be voting-themed messaging at many of those game sites.
In Chicago, the Bulls will have a player speak to fans about getting out to vote, and their opponent, the Toronto Raptors, will be wearing shirts encouraging voting, even though there is no national election in Canada on Tuesday.
Atlanta will encourage Georgia voters to go to the polls in a state where the race between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker will help decide which party controls the U.S. Senate. In Dallas, the Mavericks partnered with several nonpartisan organizations to promote voter registration in a state where the governor's seat is on the ballot, as well as with Black churches to support “Souls to the Polls” efforts.
Curry believes that even if it's not as apparent as 2020, things are getting done.
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“Everybody has to do their part and you might not understand the ramifications of it in the moment but I think the trickle-down effect is really presenting itself in a loud way every year,” Curry said. “I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting older, but it’s more on my radar, front of mind, way more than it ever was. That matters.”
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Marcus Tsohonis scored a school-record 46 points, Maddox Monson stole the ball and fed AJ George for a go-ahead layup with 2.7 seconds remaining in the third overtime and undermanned Long Beach State pulled out a 112-110 victory over UC San Diego on Saturday.
Tsohonis sank 15 of 38 shots with three 3-pointers and made 13 of 17 free throws for the Beach (10-10, 4-4 Big West Conference), who suited up just eight players because of injuries. He topped the 45-point efforts of Gabe Levin (2018) and Ed Ratliff (1971).
Monson, a walk-on and the son of Long Beach State coach Dan Monson, entered the game with 1:16 left in the third overtime after Aboubacar Traore picked up his fifth foul. George scored on a layup with seven seconds left to tie the game at 110. Monson stole the inbounds pass and picked up an assist on George's game-winner.
Aboubacar Traore totaled 13 points and 19 rebounds. Lassina Traore pitched in with 14 points and 19 rebounds before fouling out. George scored 17 on 6-of-8 shooting. Tone Hunter had 16 points, six boards and four assists.
Freshman Roddie Anderson III scored a career-high 28 points for the Tritons (7-13, 2-6). He made 8 of 20 shots and 12 of 14 free throws. Anderson scored 26 in a 71-64 win over Cal Poly last time out. Francis Nwaokorie scored a career-best 26 and grabbed 14 rebounds. Bryce Pope, the Big West's second-leading scorer at 18.8 per game, scored 21, but he made just 8 of 25 shots, including 1 of 6 from beyond the arc. Jake Kosakowski hit five 3-pointers and scored 15.
The game headed to overtime when Nwaokorie hit two foul shots with six seconds left to tie the game at 80. Tsohonis forced a second OT on a 3-pointer with 63 seconds remaining that tied it at 90. Pope hit two free throws with three seconds to go to knot the score at 99 and send it to a third OT.
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K-State RHP picks up another award
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - Tyson Neighbors had quite the sophomore campaign.
He was named a National Collegiate Baseball Writers’ Association (NCBWA) First Team All-American. Neighbors is also a finalist for the NCBWA Stopper of the Year Award, he picked up his second All-America honor after he received Third Team recognition earlier this month by Collegiate Baseball.
Neighbors is just the sixth Wildcat in school history to earn First Team honors from any organization and first since right-hander James Allen in 2011 according to Kansas State Athletics.
He will also attend the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Training Camp in Cary, N.C., June 25-29 alongside his teammate Kaelen Culpepper.
His Big 12 leading 11 saves were tied for third in Wildcats’ single-season history and he was second on the team in strikeouts with 86. He finished at 5-1 with a 1.85 ERA in 48 2/3 innings.
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Q: I have read articles that list the hardware requirements for upgrading to Windows 11 in terms of RAM, free disk space, etc. My existing desktop and two laptops all have at least twice the requirements. However, I recently stumbled upon an article that said unless you have purchased your computer within the last two or three years it probably cannot be upgraded. The reason? Something called a TPM chip. I checked my machines, and none of them have the chip. I see I could buy a board with the chip at low cost. Is it necessary? I’m beginning to think that I will just use the equipment I have until early 2025 and then buy new. Your thoughts?
— Rod Case
A: Yes, Microsoft lists TPM 2.0 as a requirement for Windows 11.
TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module, which is a microcontroller that protects computer hardware from intrusions through integrated cryptographic keys. According to Microsoft, among other things, TPM 2.0 is used for security features such as Windows Hello for identity protection and BitLocker for data protection.
Most computers sold in the past five years include the TPM 2.0 chip, although many of them do not have the chip enabled by default. To find out if your computer has the chip go to Settings/Privacy & Security/Windows Security/Device Security. Look for the Security Processor section. If a TPM chip is installed, there will be a link you can click to check the version number.
Reportedly, however, you can install Windows 11 on older computers if you install manually — that is, if you install from an ISO file instead of using Windows Update. The requirements for installing are a 64-bit 1GHz processor with two or more cores, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage.
The downside is that the computer will not be supported for Windows updates or security patches.
If it was me, I’d just stick with Windows 10, which is supported until October 2025, until you’re ready to buy a new computer.
Q: I have Microsoft Office 365 obtained through GoDaddy as my small business server provider. I received an error message indicating the server was encountering rules errors. It happens in Microsoft Outlook, and I do not have any visible rules established for emails. Of course, GoDaddy indicates this is not their server’s issue. Can you help resolve this? The frequency has increased tremendously, and sometimes it will just keep showing up consecutively over a dozen times.
— Glenn Chouinard
A: Since I can’t replicate the problem, I can’t be sure this is going to work for you, but it has apparently worked for other users.
Even though you may not have created any rules, the first step is to go to the Manage Alerts and Rules editor. You get there by going to the Home menu, click on the three dots on the right and then click Rules/Manage Rules & Alerts. If any rules are listed, delete them.
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Global pioneer in fertility science, research and treatment's breakthrough study nominated for Prize Paper at the 78th Annual ASRM Scientific Congress & Expo
ANAHEIM, Calif., Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a breakthrough clinical study, CCRM Fertility has identified a subset of gene variants in individuals that can help predict the future onset of premature diminished ovarian reserve (DOR). The predictive DOR risk model developed by CCRM Fertility allows for the opportunity to make critical reproductive decisions and earlier clinical intervention. The study findings were presented at the 78th Annual American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Scientific Congress & Expo.
Ovarian reserve refers to the number of woman's eggs (or oocytes) in her ovaries. A woman is born with all of the eggs she'll ever have. The eggs, contained within follicles, naturally diminish in quantity and quality over time. The decline in ovarian reserve continues until around age 50, when menopause occurs and there are no more eggs left.
The causes of premature DOR are largely unknown, and there is currently no treatment to prevent or slow down ovarian aging. Roughly, 10-30% of women under the age of 35 who seek fertility treatment are diagnosed with premature DOR. Individuals with premature DOR have a significantly reduced probability of conception and live birth both naturally or with assisted reproductive technologies.
An individual's ovarian reserve can be assessed through a combination of hormone blood tests, follicle-stimulating hormone, estradiol, anti-müllerian hormone (AMH) and a vaginal ultrasound to determine antral follicle count. While ovarian reserve testing is critical in helping fertility specialists to develop fertility treatment protocols, it has its limitations and cannot predict reproductive success nor who may experience future premature DOR.
"By developing a predictive risk model for premature DOR, CCRM Fertility gives women a greater chance of creating a family with their own eggs through earlier detection and clinical intervention," says study author and CCRM Fertility Scientific and Genetics Director Mandy Katz-Jaffe, Ph.D. "We are excited to begin testing our model in a longitudinal study and helping premature DOR women to successfully achieve their dream of family."
Key outcomes of the study included:
- Discovery of 70 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) variants in 62 genes that were only present in the cohort of premature DOR women (<35 years) compared to age matched control women with normal ovarian reserve.
- These significant gene variants are predicted to be pathogenic and have been implicated in important ovarian biological processes including estrogen response, DNA repair and cellular respiration, among others.
- Follow up blinded validation showed 100% concordance and a predictive DOR risk model was developed based on the unique combination of 12 SNP gene variants.
- This novel scoring system was able to correctly classify young premature DOR women with an 83.3% accuracy.
About CCRM Fertility
CCRM Fertility is a global pioneer in fertility treatment, research and science. Founded by Dr. William Schoolcraft 35 years ago, CCRM Fertility specializes in the most advanced fertility treatments, with deep expertise in IVF, fertility testing, egg freezing, preimplantation genetic testing, third party reproduction and egg donation. CCRM Fertility leverages its own data and a dedicated team of in-house reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists and geneticists to deliver industry-leading outcomes. CCRM Fertility has 32 locations in North America, serving patients in 12 major metropolitan areas, including Atlanta, Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Houston, New Jersey, New York, Northern Virginia, Minneapolis, Orange County, San Francisco Bay Area and Toronto. CCRM Fertility is a proud strategic partner of Unified Women's Healthcare, a focused women's health company that strategically operates, affiliates, or invests in businesses that drive better outcomes and experiences for patients for every milestone and moment of her healthcare journey. For more information, visit www.ccrmivf.com.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Coupang, Inc. ("Coupang" or the "Company") (NYSE: CPNG) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Coupang investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all purchasers of Coupang Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement issued in connection with Coupang's March 2021 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
CPNG investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (a) Coupang was engaged in improper anti-competitive practices with its suppliers and other third parties in violation of applicable regulations, including: (i) pressuring suppliers to raise prices of products on competing e-commerce platforms to ensure Coupang's prices would be more competitive; (ii) coercing suppliers into purchasing advertisements that would benefit Coupang financially; (iii) forcing suppliers to shoulder all expenses from sales promotions; and (iv) requesting wholesale rebates from suppliers without specifying any terms relating to rebate programs, all of which served to artificially maintain Coupang's lower prices and artificially inflate Coupang's historical revenues and market share; (b) Coupang had improperly adjusted search algorithms and manipulated product reviews on its marketplace platform to prioritize its own private-label branded products over those of other sellers and merchants, to the detriment of consumers, merchants, and suppliers; (c) unbeknownst to its Rocket WOW members, Coupang was selling products to non-member customers at lower prices than those offered to its Rocket WOW members; (d) Coupang subjected its workforce to extreme, unsafe, and unhealthy working conditions; (e) all of the above illicit practices exposed Coupang to a heightened, but undisclosed, risk of reputational and regulatory scrutiny that would harm Coupang's critical relationships with consumers, merchants, suppliers, and the workforce; and (f) Coupang's lower prices, historical revenues, competitive advantages, and growing market share were the result of systemic, improper, unethical, and/or illegal practices, and, thus, unsustainable.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Coupang during the relevant time frame, you have until October 25, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
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OSLO, Norway, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Agilyx ASA (OSE: AGLX) (OTCQX: AGXXF) ("Agilyx" or "the company"), a technology company that enables customers to recycle the most challenging post-use plastics to high value, virgin-equivalent products, is pleased to announce that its CEO, Tim Stedman, has been included in the ICIS Top 40 Power Players, a global ranking of senior executives driving the greatest positive impact in the chemical industry.
The ICIS Top 40 Power Players are selected by the global ICIS editorial news team for demonstrating excellence and vision in one or more of the following areas: ESG (environmental, social, governance), innovation, mergers and acquisitions/portfolio management, profitability/shareholder value and projects.
"I'm honored to have been included among such an impressive list of people within the industry" stated Mr. Stedman in regard to his ranking on the list. "The recognition of Agilyx's accomplishments over the past year by the team at ICIS is very heartening and we look forward to all of the great work that lies ahead as we continue to deliver on our mission to help solve the problem of plastic waste."
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SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Several people in Scranton have been displaced after a fire ripped through their home early Friday morning.
Crews were called to the 900 block of Archbald Street in Scranton for a working structure fire.
Officials say everyone inside managed to make it out of the building and no injuries were reported.
Crews on scene were not able to say how many people were displaced, but all will be assisted by the Red Cross.
The fire is currently under investigation. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/local-news/several-displaced-after-early-morning-fire-in-scranton/ | 2022-12-09 15:29:38 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/local-news/several-displaced-after-early-morning-fire-in-scranton/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the only current U.S. senator to have visited space, Mark Kelly knows something about unexplained objects in the skies.
Back in his aviator days, Kelly saw Mylar party balloons fly by his cockpit. And once when he was piloting a NASA aircraft, he spotted an object at roughly 45,000 feet (13,700 meters) — much higher than commercial airplanes fly — that he couldn’t identify by sight.
He’s not sure he would want to see American missiles flying at those objects, either.
“I don’t think we want to get into the business of launching AIM-9Xs — at $400,000 a pop — at weather balloons,” Kelly told The Associated Press, referring to the heat-seeking, air-to-air missiles used in recent weeks to shoot down a series of aerial objects, including a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon.
The Biden administration’s unprecedented peacetime downing of the Chinese balloon and three other objects has raised new and troubling questions about the security of American airspace, alarming lawmakers who fear the episode has exposed a vulnerability that could be exploited by other foreign adversaries.
While the House and the Senate both voted unanimously to condemn China’s ruling political party for the incursion and largely supported the Biden administration’s decision to shoot down the balloon, they have questions about what’s next.
Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat who has been tasked with heading up an investigation into how the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon was allowed to pass over crucial U.S. missile sites, said that he would ensure the Defense Department has funds for a protocol to assess the threat of unidentified flying objects.
“We’re going to get to the bottom of what happened and make sure we have a plan going forward to detect and then find out what potential problems this balloon may cause and then a way to bring it down that doesn’t cost us a $400,000 missile,” Tester, who chairs the Defense subcommittee on appropriations, told Fox News Channel.
Concerns over China, which has criticized the U.S. for “an obvious overreaction,” and worries about interference with civilian aircraft are shared by members of both political parties, creating the potential in Congress to mount a robust bipartisan response. But lawmakers are also mindful of adding yet more military costs — the U.S. already spends more than $800 billion yearly on defense programs — and are wary of expensive shooting sprees for every random object that appears in America’s skies.
Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, is working on legislation that would require weather balloons to carry transponders that could communicate with air traffic control systems to separate research balloons from mysterious objects where “we don’t know what that is. We don’t know where it came from.”
“It would really help the Defense Department to be able to sort out what is civilian science payload, what’s a weather balloon, what’s a NASA balloon, what’s a private company in the United States doing, what might be even a U.S. military,” said Kelly, who logged 54 days in space as an astronaut before jumping into politics.
Other lawmakers have launched a flurry of proposals aimed at the skies including a comprehensive examination of encounters with unidentified aerial objects as well as an investigation into how the military is tracking objects floating over the country.
President Joe Biden has said the military is developing “sharper rules” to track, monitor and potentially shoot down unknown aerial objects. He has justified the downings by saying the objects presented a remote risk to civilian planes.
But the four missile attacks were the first known peacetime shootdowns of unauthorized objects in U.S. airspace. Officials now say the three later objects shot down likely had a “benign purpose” and were detected after the U.S. military set its radar systems to detect slow-moving balloons.
China’s alleged practice of using balloons for surveillance exploits a potential oversight in air traffic control systems, Kelly said. The systems aren’t designed to track the thousands of objects that move in on high-altitude winds.
The National Weather Service alone launches roughly 60,000 balloons every year to monitor for extreme weather. Universities, government organizations and even ham radio hobbyists send up thousands of others.
“This is about whether an adversary has developed a capability that they know we’re not looking for because our systems are set up to see missiles and airplanes. They’re not set up to see smaller objects at lower altitudes,” said Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, who is pushing for the recent encounters to be included in a wider government study of “unidentified aerial phenomena” — better known as UFOs, short for unidentified flying objects.
Rubio, along with Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, also jumped on the opportunity to renew a proposal to create the Space National Guard.
“China has fused its commercial, military and technological applications in ways no other nation ever has,” Rubio told reporters. “So it’s a multifaceted challenge and one that will require a comprehensive, long-term and committed response.”
But the bills face uncertain paths to becoming law.
As senators were clued in to the origins of the objects shot down this month, some appeared ready to move on. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, quipped about aliens and said “there’s just a bunch of junk up there.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/political/ap-congress-floats-ways-to-secure-skies-after-chinese-balloon/ | 2023-02-20 21:04:39 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/political/ap-congress-floats-ways-to-secure-skies-after-chinese-balloon/ |
Furniture Donation to local Nashville organization as a part of Ashley's "Home on Tour" Event
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As Ashley wrapped up the second stop on their "Home on Tour" Series, they have partnered with local Nashville organization, Nashville Rescue Mission, to donate over $23,000 in furniture and accessories in support of their mission.
Nashville Rescue Mission strives to give transformational hope to everyone who walks through their doors. This organization is a Christ-centered community committed to helping the hungry, homeless, and hurting by providing programs and services that focus on a person's entire life – physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, and social. Today, Nashville Rescue Mission serves over 600 men, women, and children daily, providing hope for today, tomorrow, and forever.
"Nashville Rescue Mission is very grateful for the furniture donation from Ashley! One of the Mission's core values is Radical Hospitality: We believe God has called and commissioned us to be ministers of His radical love, grace and mercy and we demonstrate that by treating those we serve in a way that honors that calling. Having new furnishings and décor items helps us provide 'Radical Hospitality' to the most vulnerable in our community, thank you," said Lisa Spelta, Director of Major Gifts of Nashville Rescue Mission.
On June 28th, Ashley hosted guests at Marathon Music Works in the heart of Nashville, TN, where they created an immersive experience for over 1,300 attendees. The space was furnished with engaging product vignettes and unique brand experiences, featuring trending product to inspire guests to revamp and re-energize their favorite spaces at home. All the furniture featured throughout the event will be used at Nashville Rescue Mission to help furnish living spaces and common areas throughout the facility for those seeking assistance from the organization.
Since opening their doors in 1954, Nashville Rescue Mission has provided food, shelter, and rehabilitation to those who come through their facility. Never turning anyone away, the Mission is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The organization has already made an impact within the Nashville community, and they will continue to do so.
"Ashley is honored to be able to play a part in helping the Nashville community. We have been able to see firsthand how Nashville Rescue Mission positively impacts the lives of those they serve and are confident that this donation will help them continue to meet their goals of helping the local community," said Elizabeth Dufresne, Manager of Experiential Marketing at Ashley.
Ashley is committed to being your trusted partner and style leader for the home. This commitment has made Ashley the largest retail furniture store brand in North America and one of the world's best-selling furniture store brands with more than 1,075 locations in 64 countries.
Start designing your dream home today. Visit Ashley online at www.ashley.com "Like" Ashley on Facebook, follow on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, or see our design-focused boards on Pinterest
Nashville Rescue Mission is a Christ-centered community dedicated to providing hope for today, hope for tomorrow, and hope for eternity to the hungry, homeless, and hurting. The Mission provides meals, safe shelter, and clothing to those in need, as well as support and long-term assistance for those struggling with homelessness, addictions, and other life-debilitating problems. With a focus on two ministries- Guest Services Ministries and Recovery Ministries – the Mission operates almost entirely from donated foods, materials, and generous contributions from individuals, churches, and organizations. Established in 1954, Nashville Rescue Mission is a faith-focused, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and does not reply upon government funds. Visit nashvillerescuemission.org to learn more.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A conservative legal group says the latest teacher contract by Minneapolis Public Schools provides discriminatory protections to racial minorities.
A lawsuit filed Monday by Judicial Watch challenges the agreement that ended the three-week teachers strike in March. It includes hiring practices meant to help the district diversify the teaching staff to more closely match the demographics of the students it serves.
The contract language has created an uproar with denunciations of the policy as racist and unconstitutional discrimination against white people.
The complaint calls for a ruling to declare such “racial and ethnic preference” provisions illegal, as well as using taxpayer dollars to implement them, the Star Tribune reported.
Minneapolis is one of many districts across the U.S. struggling with declining teacher headcounts and tight budgets.
The suit names Interim Superintendent Rochelle Cox, the district and the Minneapolis board of education as defendants. Deborah Jane Clapp, identified as a Minneapolis taxpayer, is the plaintiff.
A spokeswoman with the Minneapolis Public Schools said she cannot comment on pending litigation. Lawyers for Clapp declined to make her available for an interview. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/group-sues-minneapolis-schools-over-disputed-teacher-pact/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-08-24 00:32:57 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/group-sues-minneapolis-schools-over-disputed-teacher-pact/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
A case of being in the right place at the right time thwarts an alleged homicide attempt in Allentown.
Authorities said a man tried to shoot another person just as state police happened to be driving by during a prisoner transport to the county jail.
It happened around 1 a.m. Saturday in the area of 7th and West Allen streets.
State Troopers were transporting a DUI suspect when they saw two men arguing on the sidewalk. One man allegedly pulled out a gun and fired at the other man. Fortunately, he was not hit.
Police said the troopers quickly jumped into action to get the suspect to surrender.
The suspect, 34-year-old Marcos Espinal of Allentown, is facing attempted homicide and assault charges. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/right-place-right-time-state-police-driving-through-allentown-for-prisoner-transport-thwart-alleged-homicide/article_6bed44b6-78c6-11ed-88d8-f3dbc79274da.html | 2022-12-10 21:37:53 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/right-place-right-time-state-police-driving-through-allentown-for-prisoner-transport-thwart-alleged-homicide/article_6bed44b6-78c6-11ed-88d8-f3dbc79274da.html |
Bride-to-be frustrated hotel room price tripled after Taylor Swift concert announcement
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FOXBORO, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Another bride-to-be is fighting with a local hotel following price increases around Gillette Stadium after Taylor Swift announced her latest tour dates.
Arianna Stevenson is from Haverhill. She’s been engaged for 2 years and has been looking forward to her wedding this upcoming spring in Wrentham.
“The hope was to have an amazing weekend, stay at Patriot Place with my family and friends, then have our wedding there,” Stevenson told WBZ-TV.
When Taylor Swift announced her 2023 concert tour dates, the Renaissance Hotel in Foxboro told her she’d have to pay a lot more for her block of rooms.
“I have a lot of rooms booked in that room block,” she said.
Despite those rooms being booked, they’re no longer $250 each. Stevenson told WBZ. “It’s going to be $750 for the room, that’s before tax, and a $60 valet fee.”
Her agreement with the Renaissance did say an event like this would change the terms of the contract. Stevenson said she never expected the price to jump three times what she was supposed to pay.
Attorney Adrian LeCesne told WBZ a Massachusetts law is meant to protect consumers from this type of situation – Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 93A. “If you triple the price, you should give the person a reasonable amount of time to ready their finances because even a party who wants to comply may not be able to,” said LeCesne.
Stevenson said she’s out of options at this point.
“No other hotels are allowing booking at all, and every hotel is saying they’re sold out,” she told WBZ.
She may have to cancel the hotel and her wedding venue if her family can’t find anywhere nearby to stay. LeCesne said that could entitle her to damages.
“People who book in advance are trying to get the benefit of the bargain, usually that’s a respected element in the contract,” said LeCesne. “Here she wants to preserve the price in the agreement and there should be some protection for that.”
In a statement to WBZ, a Marriott representative said:
“We take customer concerns very seriously and work directly with our guests in good faith to address any contract issues. We typically do not comment on specific contracts out of respect for guest privacy.”
Stevenson said she can’t have her wedding at the Marriott property, the Renaissance, if she and her guests will have to pay close to a thousand dollars a night.
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BEIJING (AP) — Performances have been suspended at one of Beijing’s oldest and most renowned theaters as part of a new wave of shop and restaurant closures in response to a spike in COVID-19 cases in the Chinese capital.
The Jixiang Theater in the downtown Wangfujing shopping district was originally built in 1906 and recently moved to its present location on the 8th floor of a shopping mall that also houses shops and a fast food restaurant. It is famed for performances of Peking opera and other traditional art forms.
Performances were due to resume Nov. 27, but such dates for re-opening have frequently been extended.
China reported 24,263 new cases Saturday, 515 of them in Beijing. The vast majority were asymptomatic.
Despite that, lockdowns and other strict control measures have been put in place around the country, with many Beijing residents sent notices advising them not to leave home unless absolutely necessary.
Restaurants, malls and shops deemed non-essential have been closed and foot traffic in those still open was much reduced. Detection of a single case or even a close contact of an infected person can force the closure of an entire office building or apartment block.
Access to Beijing’s elite Peking University was suspended Wednesday. People who visited a vegetable market in the city’s southeast where a case was found were ordered into quarantine in a hotel at their own expense.
The southern metropolis of Guangzhou plans to build quarantine facilities for nearly 250,000 people. Guangzhou, a city of 13 million people, is the biggest of a series of hot spots across China with outbreaks since early October.
China’s infection numbers are low compared with the United States and other major countries, but the ruling Communist Party is trying to isolate every case under its “zero-COVID” policy.
Repeated closures of neighborhoods, schools and businesses are fueling public frustration and clashes with health workers.
The policy is also inflicting major damage to the economy and global supply chains. Access to a Zhengzhou industrial zone that is home to the world’s biggest iPhone factory was suspended this month following outbreaks. Apple Inc. said deliveries of its new iPhone 14 model would be delayed after workers fled. Local authorities have called for low-level party officials and even military recruits to fill their places, according to reports.
The harsh measures come even as the national government tries to reduce the impact of anti-disease controls that have confined millions of people to their homes, leading to mixed messages and adding to confusion and anger. | https://www.cenlanow.com/health/ap-chinas-covid-19-restrictions-hit-historic-beijing-theater/ | 2022-11-20 01:23:28 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/health/ap-chinas-covid-19-restrictions-hit-historic-beijing-theater/ |
- Class features entrepreneurs across industries focused on social good and sustainability issues
- Tech-based platforms fuel founders as they solve problems in health care, education, staffing and more
NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ernst & Young LLP (EY) is proud to announce the 20 founders who were selected for the Class of 2022 of the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women™ North America. Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, the program selects high-potential women entrepreneurs and connects them with the advisors, access and resources they need to continue to grow and scale their businesses. By engaging in the program, participants receive tailored executive education and introductions to the massive EY global entrepreneurial ecosystem, as well as the Winning Women community around the world.
"Women are a tremendous driver of the economy, and we must empower and help these entrepreneurs thrive," said EY Americas Solutions Leader Cheryl Grise, who also serves as the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women North America Executive Sponsor. "Not only does empowering women founders lead to a more inclusive and prosperous society, but it also spurs innovation across the economy. Over the last 15 years, the Entrepreneurial Winning Women program has worked to address systematic gender-based hurdles that often face women business owners," Grise said. "With the right access, women have proven they can scale and reinvent, innovate and excel in their respective industries. This community is an awe-inspiring one, and we are so honored to be able share their stories and help them on their journey to the top."
The Class of 2022 comprises 18 fast-growing companies led by women across Canada and the US, touching an array of industries. Members of the Class of 2022 are diversified in their missions and industries but share the common thread of focusing on social good and sustainability issues, such as disabilities and workplace equity, specialized care, organic food and environmental waste recycling. Others look to create efficiencies and solve universal business problems with innovative technology solutions in health care, education, staffing and more. The founders chosen for the program showcased exceptional business acumen, effectiveness, innovation in designing solutions and an unflinching determination that helped them stand out among their peers.
"The past year has been filled with economic ups and downs, including lasting impacts of the pandemic and unprecedented social change," said Maranda Bruckner, EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women North America Program Leader. "These entrepreneurs effectively navigate challenges and scale profitable, high-growth companies while demonstrating the grit, drive and resilience needed for ongoing success. They are rewriting rules and reshaping markets," Bruckner said. "We have no doubt that these women will continue to change the world."
The Entrepreneurial Winning Women North America program serves women business owners who are founding CEOs of any US or Canadian privately held company that is 10 years old or younger. Company revenues typically range from at least $2m to as much as $30m annually. The Entrepreneurial Winning Women program participants become part of a global peer community, which includes more than 900 Entrepreneurial Winning Women entrepreneurs in 48 countries and on every continent.
"When we celebrate these Entrepreneurial Winning Women, we encourage the future health of our economy and society," said Lee Henderson, Americas EY Private Leader. "Through providing access to the organization's far-reaching entrepreneur network, training and resources, we are committed to helping these founders create jobs, break boundaries and lead by example. We welcome these entrepreneurs to the EY family. We cannot wait to see all the great things that you will continue to do for your businesses, your communities and our overall economy."
The Class of 2022 will be officially recognized in November during the Strategic Growth Forum®, one of the nation's most prestigious gatherings of high-growth, market-leading companies.
North America Class of 2022
The members of the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women North America Class of 2022 are:
- ABA Pathways, LLC | Jenipher Swanson
ABA Pathways provides applied behavior analysis to individuals with autism. Its consultation practices are grounded on the evidence-based principles of applied behavioral analysis. The company conducts functional behavior assessments and skills assessments to develop a data-driven treatment program that provides individuals and families with a comprehensive, holistic program that fosters growth in communication and appropriate social behavior. - Arlo Solutions, LLC | Lonye Ford and Arlene Wube
Arlo Solution's dynamic team of proven data protectors, information confidantes, tech aficionados and digital innovators is on a mission to streamline government technology. Working as trusted advisors to organization leaders, Arlo Solution's cybersecurity experts have the skills and passion to carve out simple, cost-effective solutions. - Axess Law | Lena Koke
Axess Law is Canada's first virtual real estate and mortgage closing legal company. Axess Law provides a streamlined and transparent real estate closing experience from anywhere in the world. - Blume Supply Inc. | Karen Danudjaja
Blume Supply is what happens when you pair the benefits of the wellness aisle and the experience of a cafe. Blume Supply is remaking favorite caffe lattes with the magic of superfoods. Its mission is to bring fun and play back to wellness, creating rituals users want to keep and share. Blume's blends are plant based, refined sugar free and organic, and they are available in 1,500 stores across Canada and the US. - Broadstaff | Carrie Charles
Broadstaff is an industry leader in talent solutions, providing contract and direct hire placement services to companies in the technology, telecommunications and engineering industries nationwide. A growing team of industry-experienced and industry-trained professionals, Broadstaff proudly serves small, midsize and Fortune 500 companies. - Engage fi | Jennifer Addabbo
Engage fi is a financial services consulting firm that saves money for banks and credit unions by negotiating their critical vendor contracts and sharing in the savings that's negotiated. With over 450 years of combined industry experience, its team of 50 is laser focused on leveraging its proprietary technology and subject-matter expertise to create a win-win financial model that is effective as it has saved clients over $3b. - Kidcrew™ | Dr. Dina Kulik
Kidcrew™ is the first of its kind — a forward-thinking clinic focusing on patient experience, family-centered care and wellness for kids. By placing essential health services for children under one roof, Kidcrew is the One Stop for Kids' Health™. Kidcrew provides medical services for children younger than one year old to 18 years, offering general pediatric visits, a variety of subspecialties and allied health services. - Londre Bodywear Inc.| Ainsley Rose and Hannah Todd
Londre Bodywear is the most sustainable swimwear company on the planet. Through their unique shaping swimwear offerings, they have upcycled more than 1m plastic bottles into the most flattering garments with the lowest possible impact and helped restore three coral reefs. Experiencing hypergrowth since inception, they've become experts at staying nimble while never wavering on the values that have built their cult customer following. - Mason Dixie Foods | Ayeshah Abuelhiga
Mason Dixie Foods is a better-for-you American comfort food brand offering a selection of clean-label, yet delicious, breakfast sandwiches, biscuits and scones. All goodies are made from scratch using only fresh, real dairy and they are free from artificial ingredients, preservatives and additives. Mason Dixie Foods is certified minority and LGBTQ+ owned and managed and its products can be found at retailers nationwide. - Nuts For Cheese™ | Margaret Coons
Nuts for Cheese™ was founded by an inspired vegan chef with an unparalleled passion to spread positive, sustainable change through food. This award-winning artisanal cheese is intended to elevate how consumers enjoy cheese as made by this world-class manufacturer of chef-made, organic, plant-based dairy products. - Pack Up + Go | Lillian Rafson
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Holocaust survivors offered DNA tests to help find family
Video above: Holocaust survivor shares his story
For decades, Jackie Young had been searching.
Orphaned as an infant, he spent the first few years of his life in a Nazi internment camp in what is now the Czech Republic. After World War II he was taken to England, adopted and given a new name.
As an adult, he struggled to learn of his origins and his family. He had some scant information about his birth mother, who died in a concentration camp. But about his father? Nothing. Just a blank space on a birth certificate.
That changed earlier this year when genealogists were able to use a DNA sample to help find a name — and some relatives he never knew he had.
Having that answer to a lifelong question has been “amazing," said Young, now 80 and living in London. It “opened the door that I thought would never get opened."
Now there's an effort underway to bring that possibility to other Holocaust survivors and their children.
The New York-based Center for Jewish History is launching the DNA Reunion Project, offering DNA testing kits for free through an application on its website. For those who use the kits it is also offering a chance to get some guidance on next steps from the genealogists who worked with Young.
Those genealogists, Jennifer Mendelsohn and Adina Newman, have been doing this kind of work over the last several years, and run a Facebook group about Jewish DNA and genetic genealogy.
The advent of DNA technology has opened up a new world of possibilities in addition to the paper trails and archives that Holocaust survivors and their descendants have used to learn about family connections severed by genocide, Newman said.
“There are times when people are separated and they don’t even realize they’re separated. Maybe a name change occurred so they didn’t know to look for the other person," she said. “There are cases that simply cannot be solved without DNA."
While interest in genealogy and family trees is widespread, there's a particular poignancy in doing this work in a community where so many family ties have been ripped apart because of the Holocaust, Mendelsohn said.
Her earliest effort in this arena was for her husband's grandmother, who had lost her mother in a concentration camp. That effort led to aunts and cousins that no one in her husband's family had known about.
Her husband's uncle, she said, called afterwards and said, “You know, I’ve never seen a photograph of my grandmother. Now that I see photographs of her sisters, it’s so comforting to me. I can imagine what she look like.”
“How do you explain why that’s powerful? It just is. People had nothing. Their families were erased. And now we can bring them back a little bit,” Mendelsohn said.
She and Newman take pains to emphasize that there are no guarantees. Doing the testing or searching archives doesn't mean a guarantee of finding living relatives or new information. But it offers a chance.
They and the center are encouraging people to take that chance, especially as time passes and the number of living survivors declines.
“It really is the last moment where these survivors can be given some modicum of justice," said Gavriel Rosenfeld, president of the center.
“We feel the urgency of this," Newman said. “I wanted to start yesterday, and that’s why it’s like, no time like the present."
Rosenfeld said the center had allocated an initial $15,000 for the DNA kits in this initial pilot effort, which would cover about 500 of them. He said they would look to scale up further if they see enough interest.
Ken Engel thinks there will be. He leads a group in Minnesota for the children of Holocaust survivors and has already told his membership about the program.
"This is an important effort," Engel said. “It may reveal and disclose wonderful information for them that they never knew about, may make them feel more settled or more connected to the past."
Young definitely feels that way.
“I’ve been wanting to know all my life," he said. “If I hadn’t known what I do know now, I think I would still felt that my left arm or my right arm wasn’t fully formed. Family is everything, it’s the major pillar of life in humanity." | https://www.wmur.com/article/holocaust-survivors-offered-dna-tests-to-help-find-family/42104361 | 2022-11-30 12:42:37 | 0 | https://www.wmur.com/article/holocaust-survivors-offered-dna-tests-to-help-find-family/42104361 |
(The Hill) — The University of Texas at Austin has barred access to the social media platform TikTok on its WiFi network after the state’s Gov. Greg Abbott (R) banned the application from use on government devices.
The university told students in an email on Tuesday obtained by The Hill that they were taking the step to comply with Abbott’s December directive to “eliminate the cybersecurity risk posed by TikTok.”
“Today, the university blocked TikTok access on our networks,” the university said in the email. “You are no longer able to access TikTok on any device if you are connected to the university via its wired or WIFI networks.”
The banning of the platform on the campus of over 52,000 students is the latest in a string of moves by Democrat and Republican-controlled states to eliminate the use of the app on government devices. The backlash to TikTok stems from its ownership by Chinese company ByteDance, raising concerns at the federal and state level that it could harvest and supply sensitive information to the Chinese government.
“As outlined in the governor’s directive, TikTok harvests vast amounts of data from its users’ devices — including when, where and how they conduct internet activity — and offers this trove of potentially sensitive information to the Chinese government,” the university’s announcement continued.
The university’s athletic department has a TikTok account that boasts nearly 260,000 followers. It has not posted on the platform since November.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) ordered the ban of the app on state devices earlier this month. At least 24 other states have taken similar action.
After Murphy banned the platform in his state, he and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) sent a letter to other governors urging them to make the move to ban TikTok as well.
“As the federal government works toward an overarching solution, we encourage our fellow Governors to join the growing number of states taking action,” the governors said in a January letter. “By acting against foreign cyberthreats like TikTok, Governors can protect our states, bolster national security, and ensure our citizens can trust our states’ systems.” | https://phl17.com/nmw/ut-blocks-students-from-accessing-tiktok/ | 2023-01-17 19:13:12 | 1 | https://phl17.com/nmw/ut-blocks-students-from-accessing-tiktok/ |
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AUSTIN, Texas —
One Central Texas family is counting their blessings each time they embrace their youngest child. That's because mother of three Tara Vickers suffered a massive heart attack about a month before her due date.
At first, she thought she was having typical pregnancy heartburn. It wasn't until it wouldn't go away that she realized the problem was much more serious.
"It doesn't really hit me until now, looking back, how serious it was and how close to death I really was. And the baby, too," Tara Vickers said.
It was that recognition that her care team says saved her life.
"She's my best friend. Almost wasn't here today," said her husband, Seth Vickers.
High school sweethearts Tara and Seth Vickers got married six years ago. They then grew their family with babies Jackson and Chandler.
"Now we've built a family, and now we just plan on living the dream," Tara Vickers said.
But one night, while pregnant with her third child, Tara began experiencing some discomfort.
"I started having, like, a burning feeling in my chest. And it went all the way to my back, shoulder blades, and it just got increasingly worse," Tara Vickers said.
She tried heartburn medicine and her inhaler when it got harder to breath, but nothing worked.
"That's when God told me, ‘You need to go.’ So, I told Seth, I was like, 'We have to go,'" she said. "He drove me to the E.R., got to the E.R.. My blood pressure is 185 over 125."
After running a few tests, her doctor in Weimer, Texas, said she was having a SCAD (Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection) heart attack. She was flown to St. David's North Austin Medical Center.
The nurses on the helicopter warned her that there would be a big team waiting for her when she got there.
"There was probably 30 people, at least, in that room. And the ER team, the OB team, the cardiac team and everybody was around me," Tara Vickers said. "But it wasn't hectic. I never felt like anything bad was happening."
Seth Vickers had to drive about an hour and a half from Weimer, Texas, to meet his wife. He said everyone was so calm that it wasn't until later that he realized how serious things were.
"I wasn't there for all the team and all that interaction. So, you know, whenever I showed up ... it's wild," Seth Vickers said. "It was a shock to walk in and see her hooked up to all that stuff."
One member of the team was Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Robert Wozniak.
"Anything that a person can do to help someone, particularly with a happy ending where Mom and Dad and baby are alive and going to have a wonderful life, it's very fulfilling," Wozniak said.
Wozniak treated Tara Vickers' heart, and a high-risk pregnancy team watched after her baby.
Once she was stabilized, they got her to wait three weeks before delivering baby Charlie. They wanted to wait because delivering a baby so soon after a heart attack is dangerous.
"It was a perfect delivery. I have a perfectly healthy baby now to show for it. It was a lot to go through, but it was a really good ending," Tara Vickers said.
It wasn't until after they were home and settled and went in for a follow-up appointment that Seth Vickers said he truly understood just how blessed they were.
"He came and told her like, 'After seeing your EKG, I don't know how you didn't die in there.' And I feel like that's whenever it hit me," Seth Vickers said.
Now the Vickers family just wants to thank the care team, even though thanks aren't enough.
"They truly did save my life. They saved my daughter's life. I'm forever grateful for them," Tara Vickers said.
"I feel forever indebted because they kept my family together," Seth Vickers said.
Her doctors and care team credit her fast action for saving her and her baby's life. Instead of passing off her chest pain as typical heartburn, Tara Vickers recognized that something was wrong and got help.
"If you start to have symptoms, honestly, I would rather see you 10 times in the hospital and say, 'yep, it is just reflux,' than miss that time that you're actually having an event," said Dr. Kimberly DeStefano, an OBGYN and the medical director of maternal fetal medicine at St. David's North Austin Medical Center.
"Because time really matters, and our ability to intervene and have a good outcome for Mom and baby really depends on how quickly you get in for care," DeStefano added.
Tara Vickers' cardiologist said it's important to pay attention to symptoms like chest discomfort or breathing problems and to not ignore them when something doesn't feel right – even when you're pregnant.
"The best thing you can do is call EMS and they'll evaluate you in your home to find out, is this something that needs higher care? Like the emergency room or, in this case, a helicopter ride in the sky to a subspecialty place that can give you even higher care because your life depends on it," Wozniak said.
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Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni will be in the NovaCare Complex auditorium Tuesday night, speaking to his team. While doing so, the coaching staff will be in attendance. For a few of those coaches, they will have a new title next to their names.
The Eagles announced a few changes to their coaching staff before the team holds its first training camp Wednesday. Defensive backs coach Dennard Wilson will also be the defensive passing game coordinator. Jeremiah Washburn will coach the defensive ends and outside Linebackers, and Alex Tanney as an assistant quarterbacks coach and offensive assistant. | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/philadelphia-eagles/2022/07/these-5-eagles-coaches-received-new-titles-ahead-of-the-first-training-camp-practice.html | 2022-07-26 20:04:42 | 0 | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/philadelphia-eagles/2022/07/these-5-eagles-coaches-received-new-titles-ahead-of-the-first-training-camp-practice.html |
In partnership with leading learning provider, MindEdge, AIGA is pleased to share this new professional certification with the design community
This new certification will help designers grow their careers, build leadership skills, and advance the profession
NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To meet the growing needs of designers, AIGA, the professional association for design, has launched a new design certification program geared toward Design Professionals and Design Leaders. In partnership with leading online learning provider, MindEdge Learning, AIGA is aiming to fill a knowledge gap needed for the future advancement of the design profession.
In AIGA Design POV research, approximately 90% of community members who had a point of view about the topic said they would be interested in an AIGA professional certification. Certifications help to build best practices for the profession, and AIGA believes that this new program will help advance the profession, bring design to the executive table, and make design a strategic function in organizations. The knowledge/learning assessment portion of the certification will cover four areas, including: business fundamentals for designers, design foundations, law for designers, and standards of professional practice.
Through this certification, AIGA is looking to create inclusive pathways for those where a degree is not a viable path, and also for those individuals who have learned their craft in action and want to validate their professionalism. This pathway allows for both traditional and non-traditional backgrounds to be included and acknowledged in the profession.
Two professional certifications will be offered as part of this new program:
- AIGA Professional Designer: This certification is aimed at professionals with at least one year of professional experience.
- AIGA Design Leader: This certification is geared towards professionals with at least seven years of professional design experience.
"The AIGA Professional Design Certification represents a commitment to the design profession and to lifelong learning. This new online design certification program is open to design practitioners at every level who are committed to expanding their careers and the profession," said Manuhuia Barcham, AIGA Board Chair and Principal of Archetekt, a Strategic Design and Futuring firm based in Seattle, Washington. "I'm excited about this program not only for AIGA but for the future of design."
"AIGA's new certification will help designers build skills and establish mastery of their craft, providing them with a long-term competitive advantage," said Jefferson Flanders, president and CEO of MindEdge Learning. "We're delighted to be partnering with AIGA, the oldest and largest professional membership organization for design, to build this new professional certification for the design community."
To learn more about the new AIGA Professional Design Certification program, explore eligibility, and apply, visit AIGA.org.
MindEdge's mission is to improve the way the world learns. Since its founding in 1998 by Harvard and MIT educators, the company has served some 4 million learners. With a focus on digital-first learning resources—from academic courseware to professional development courses—MindEdge's approach to best practices in online education focuses on learners' needs across the spectrum of higher education, professional development, skills training, and continuing education.
AIGA, the professional association for design, advances design as a professional craft, strategic advantage, and vital cultural force. As the largest community of design advocates, AIGA brings together practitioners, enthusiasts, and patrons to amplify the voice of design and creates the vision for a collective future. AIGA defines global standards and ethical practices, guides design education, inspires designers and the public, enhances professional development, and makes powerful tools and resources accessible to all.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) met with Republican members of Congress on Capitol Hill on Tuesday ahead of a widely expected presidential bid.
His visit came amid a wave of House Republicans — including several from his state — announcing endorsements for former President Trump, whose campaign has been closely tracking congressional support.
Freshman Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.) on Tuesday became the third member of Congress to endorse DeSantis for president despite him not yet officially launching a White House bid, joining Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas).
But DeSantis’s Washington, D.C., sweep was met with some endorsement blows. Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) announced he is endorsing Trump just as he left a “positive meeting” with DeSantis on Tuesday. Florida Republican Reps. John Rutherford and Greg Steube announced endorsements of Trump on Tuesday and Monday, respectively.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said while leaving the DeSantis event that Trump’s team calls to ask for his endorsement “all the time” — but he is not inclined to endorse anyone at the moment.
“I’ve always said you don’t pick up friends when you endorse — just enemies,” Burchett said.
Still, several dozen members of Congress flocked to see DeSantis at the Tuesday event, whether to visit with an old colleague — DeSantis is a former representative who was a member of the House Freedom Caucus — or to meet the Florida governor for the first time.
Attendees ranged from staunch conservatives, like Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), to those on the more moderate side, like Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.).
“I’ve always supported President Trump, and he’s always supported me. So that’s where my likely support is going to be,” Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) said while leaving the event. “But we have some really serious issues facing the country. And we got to make sure our nominee wins. So that’s what I’m primarily interested in.”
Some members downplayed the importance of endorsements.
“I’ve run many political campaigns. Endorsements by elected officials don’t mean a whole lot,” said Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), who called his former House Freedom Caucus colleague “one of the smartest people I know.”
And to the Republic, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that has been supporting DeSantis as he makes appearances across the country, hosted the Tuesday evening event at a Heritage Foundation location close to the Capitol.
Several dozen members of Congress attended the meet-and-greet, which members described as a casual get-to-know-you or catch-up event. DeSantis touted his accomplishments as governor of Florida but did not directly ask for any endorsements, according to multiple members who attended the event.
DeSantis’s mere presence on Capitol Hill inspired aggressive protests outside the event, organized by the progressive activist group ShutDownDC. Protesters booed members of Congress leaving the event, and they railed against recent moves by DeSantis, like signing a six-week abortion ban and a Florida law that prohibits teachers from instructing on sexual orientation or gender identity through third grade.
Protest organizer Vincent Bertuccio at one point interrupted Meuser’s conversation with a reporter and followed him around the block, hurling profanities and criticizing his support for politicians who do not support gender-affirming care for LGBTQ youth.
“You don’t get a moment of peace so long as you think it’s ethical to attack our community, Congressman,” Bertuccio told him.
“You’re a moron,” Meuser shot back.
Bertuccio defended his confrontational tactics.
“Not every issue deserves a scathing review, like I tried to give. But when you push things like gender-affirming care bans that really impact queer and trans youth, suicide rates are off the charts. … Sometimes you just need to be told that what you’re doing is deeply wrong, and this is the type of anger that you deserve,” Bertuccio said.
Rep. Blake Moore (R-Utah) chalked the protests up to a consequence of DeSantis’s political fame and stature.
“He’s a potential Republican nominee for president. And so yeah, there’s gonna be some protests,” Moore said. “It’s not as big a deal as everybody makes it out to be.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/hill-politics/desantis-mingles-with-republicans-on-capitol-hill-as-trump-endorsement-pressure-builds/ | 2023-04-19 16:32:09 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/hill-politics/desantis-mingles-with-republicans-on-capitol-hill-as-trump-endorsement-pressure-builds/ |
WHAT HAPPENED IN FRONT OF THE JUDGE TODAY. >> THIS X TEACHER AND YOUTH SPORTS COACH AND HIS ATTORNEY DECIDED NOT TO HAVE THIS DAY IN COURT. THEY PASSED ON THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A PRELIMINARY HEARING. THEY’RE GOING TO FIGHT THE CHARGES AT TRIAL. IN THE PROCESS OF WAVING THE CASE, SOME NEW CHARGES WERE ADDED AND OTHERS WERE DROPPED SHOULD HE WILL STAND TRIAL ON MORE THAN FIVE DOZEN COUNTS OF ALLEGED SEX CRIMES AGAINST 11 CHILDREN. MANY WERE COACHED BY HIM IN BASKETBALL OR BASEBALL. THE PROSECUTION ADDED EIGHT COUNTS OF SEX ASSAULT BUT A SPORTS OFFICIAL BECAUSE EIGHT OF THOSE 11 ALLEGED VICTIMS HAD BEEN COACHED TO HIM IN YOUTH SPORTS. CHARLES PORTER, THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY, SPOKE ABOUT THE DECISION TO PASS ON A FULL HEARING. >> WE THOUGHT IT WAS MORE PRUDENT TO NOT HAVE THESE YOUNG MEN TESTIFY. WE HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO SAY FROM WHAT IS IN THE COMPLAINT. TO THE EXTENT WE HAVE TO CROSS-EXAMINE THEM WILL BE AT TRIAL BUT FOR TODAY’S PURPOSES WITHOUT WE DID NOT WANT TO MAKE ANYBODY GO THROUGH THAT IF THEY DID NOT HAVE TO. >> HE REMAINS HERE IN THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL. HIS ATTORNEY DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING SPECIFIC TO SAY ABOUT ANY POSSIBILITY OF SEEKING HIS RELEASE WITH ELECTRONIC HOME MONITORING.
Ex-teacher and youth coach Eric Fairman to stand trial for more than five-dozen child sex crime charges
Eric Fairman and his attorney agreed to waive the preliminary hearing that would have heard testimony Wednesday.
Updated: 7:45 PM EDT Sep 21, 2022
Eric Fairman is headed to trial on more than five dozen counts of alleged sex crimes against 11 children.Fairman and his defense attorney agreed to waive the case to trial without the preliminary hearing that would have heard testimony Wednesday.Fairman, 26, had been a math teacher in the McKeesport Area School District and a youth sports coach in the Keystone Oaks and West Jefferson Hills school districts.On Wednesday, the prosecution added eight counts of sex assault by a sports official. Fairman had been a youth sports coach for eight of the 11 alleged victims.As part of the deal to waive the case to trial, the prosecution withdrew one count of attempted aggravated indecent assault, one count of promoting prostitution and nine counts of criminal use of a communications facility."Eric also didn't want to have all these young men come in here and testify. It's a traumatic thing, I think, for people to have to come in to testify. They'd be subject to cross-examination and I think the decision was made it was more prudent at this point to agree to let the charges go forward in some fashion to common pleas court. Then we have the ability to challenge the case there as we believe appropriate," said Fairman's defense attorney, Charles Porter.Fairman remains in the Allegheny County Jail. Porter said Fairman's next court appearance will be Nov. 17. His trial date has not been set."We've not acknowledged guilt. We've basically just acknowledged there's enough to let some of these charges go forward without making the alleged victims testify. That was our strategy for today. That was our approach for today. Again, we don't want these kids to go through this. They'd have to miss school, they'd have to come in here, they'd be subject to cross-examination," Porter said.
PITTSBURGH — Eric Fairman is headed to trial on more than five dozen counts of alleged sex crimes against 11 children.
Fairman and his defense attorney agreed to waive the case to trial without the preliminary hearing that would have heard testimony Wednesday.
Fairman, 26, had been a math teacher in the McKeesport Area School District and a youth sports coach in the Keystone Oaks and West Jefferson Hills school districts.
On Wednesday, the prosecution added eight counts of sex assault by a sports official. Fairman had been a youth sports coach for eight of the 11 alleged victims.
As part of the deal to waive the case to trial, the prosecution withdrew one count of attempted aggravated indecent assault, one count of promoting prostitution and nine counts of criminal use of a communications facility.
"Eric also didn't want to have all these young men come in here and testify. It's a traumatic thing, I think, for people to have to come in to testify. They'd be subject to cross-examination and I think the decision was made it was more prudent at this point to agree to let the charges go forward in some fashion to common pleas court. Then we have the ability to challenge the case there as we believe appropriate," said Fairman's defense attorney, Charles Porter.
Fairman remains in the Allegheny County Jail. Porter said Fairman's next court appearance will be Nov. 17. His trial date has not been set.
"We've not acknowledged guilt. We've basically just acknowledged there's enough to let some of these charges go forward without making the alleged victims testify. That was our strategy for today. That was our approach for today. Again, we don't want these kids to go through this. They'd have to miss school, they'd have to come in here, they'd be subject to cross-examination," Porter said. | https://www.wtae.com/article/ex-teacher-and-youth-coach-to-stand-trial/41321669 | 2022-09-22 00:04:40 | 1 | https://www.wtae.com/article/ex-teacher-and-youth-coach-to-stand-trial/41321669 |
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis honored his predecessor Benedict XVI, the German theologian who made history by retiring, presiding Thursday over a rare requiem Mass for a dead pontiff by a living one before thousands of mourners in St. Peter’s Square.
Bells tolled and the faithful applauded as pallbearers carried Benedict’s cypress coffin out of the fog-shrouded basilica and rested it before the altar. Benedict’s longtime secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, bent down and kissed a book of the Gospels that was left open on the coffin.
Francis, wearing the crimson vestments typical of papal funerals, then took his place and opened the Mass with a prayer,
Heads of state and royalty, clergy from around the world and thousands of regular people flocked to the ceremony, despite Benedict’s requests for simplicity and official efforts to keep the first funeral for an pope emeritus in modern times low-key.
Many hailed from Benedict’s native Bavaria and donned traditional dress, including boiled wool coats to guard against the morning chill.
“We came to pay homage to Benedict and wanted to be here today to say goodbye,” said Raymond Mainar, who traveled from a small village east of Munich for the funeral. “He was a very good pope.”
The former Joseph Ratzinger, who died Dec. 31 at age 95, is considered one of the 20th century’s greatest theologians and spent his lifetime upholding church doctrine. But he will go down in history for a singular, revolutionary act that changed the future of the papacy: He retired, the first pope in six centuries to do so.
Francis has praised Benedict’s courage to step aside, saying it “opened the door” to other popes doing the same. The reigning pontiff, for his part, recently said he has already left written instructions outlining the conditions in which he too would resign.
After some 200,000 people paid their respects during three days of public viewing, authorities estimated some 100,000 would attend Benedict’s funeral, though it was not clear if that many did in the end.
Only Italy and Germany were invited to send official delegations, but other leaders took the Vatican up on its offer and come in their “private capacity.” They included several heads of state, at least four prime ministers and two delegations of royal representatives. In addition, a host of patriarchs joined 125 cardinals in the seats to the side of the altar.
Among them was Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen, who was given special court permission to attend the funeral and arrived in Rome on Thursday. Zen was detained in May on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces under a national security law that China after he fell afoul of authorities over his participation in a now-silenced democracy movement. His passport was revoked when he was detained.
Matteo Colonna, a 20-year-old seminarian from Teramo, Italy, said he came in part because of the historic nature of the funeral — but also because it had personal resonance for him.
“The first spark of my vocation started under the pontificate of Benedict, but then it became even stronger under Pope Francis,” Colonna said, while sitting in prayer in St. Peter’s Square ahead of the funeral. “I see a continuity between these two popes and the fact that today Francis is celebrating the funeral in Benedict’s memory is an historical event.”
Early Thursday the Vatican released the official history of Benedict’s life, a short document in Latin that was placed in a metal cylinder in his coffin before it was sealed, along with the coins and medallions minted during his papacy and his pallium stoles.
The document gave ample attention to Benedict’s historic resignation and referred to him as “pope emeritus,” citing verbatim the Latin words he uttered on Feb. 11, 2013, when he announced he would retire.
The document, known as a “rogito” or deed, also cited his theological and papal legacy, including his outreach to Anglicans and Jews and his efforts to combat clergy sexual abuse “continually calling the church to conversion, prayer, penance and purification.”
Francis didn’t dwell on Benedict’s specific legacy in his homily and only uttered his name once, in the final line, delivering instead a meditation on Jesus’ willingness to entrust himself to God’s will.
“Holding fast to the Lord’s last words and to the witness of his entire life, we too, as an ecclesial community, want to follow in his steps and to commend our brother into the hands of the Father,” Francis said at the end.
During St. John Paul II’s quarter-century as pope, Ratzinger spearheaded a crackdown on dissent as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, taking action against the left-leaning liberation theology that spread in Latin America in the 1970s and against dissenting theologians and nuns who didn’t toe the Vatican’s hard line on matters like sexual morals.
His legacy was marred by the clergy sexual abuse scandal, even though he recognized earlier than most the “filth” of priests who raped children, and actually laid the groundwork for the Holy See to punish them.
As cardinal and pope, he passed sweeping church legislation that resulted in 848 priests being defrocked from 2004-2014, roughly his pontificate with a year on either end. But abuse survivors still held him responsible for the crisis, for failing to sanction any bishop who moved abusers around and identifying him as embodying the clerical system that long protected the institution over victims.
A group representing German clergy abuse survivors called on German officials attending Benedict’s funeral to demand more action from the Vatican on sexual abuse. Eckiger Tisch asked German leaders to demand that Francis issue a “universal church law” stipulating zero tolerance in dealing with abuse by clergy.
“Any celebration that marks the life of abuse enablers like Benedict must end,” said the main U.S. abuse survivor group SNAP.
The funeral ritual itself is modeled on the code used for dead popes but with some modifications given Benedict was not a reigning pontiff when he died.
After the Mass, Benedict’s cypress coffin will be placed inside a zinc one, then an outer oak casket before being entombed in the crypt in the grottos underneath St. Peter’s Basilica that once held the tomb of St. John Paul II before it was moved upstairs.
While the ritual is unusual, it does have some precedent: In 1802, Pope Pius VII presided over the funeral in St. Peter’s of his predecessor, Pius VI, who had died in exile in France in 1799 as a prisoner of Napoleon.
Benedict never intended his retirement to last as long as it did — at nearly 10 years it was longer than his eight-year pontificate. And the unprecedented situation of a retired pope living alongside a reigning one prompted calls for protocols to guide future popes emeritus to prevent any confusion about who is really in charge. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/photos-thousands-mourn-benedict-xvi-at-funeral-celebrated-by-pope/ | 2023-01-05 12:30:04 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/photos-thousands-mourn-benedict-xvi-at-funeral-celebrated-by-pope/ |
ST. LOUIS (AP) — It was quite a day for a pair of childhood friends playing for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Nolan Gorman hit his first major league homer and Matthew Liberatore earned his first major league win, helping St. Louis beat the Milwaukee Brewers 8-3 on Saturday.
“I mean, you know, this team makes it special to by taking us in the shower and dousing us with everything,” Gorman said. “So, it was fun today.”
Liberatore (1-0), the organization’s minor league player of the year for last season, pitched around a couple of Gorman errors in five scoreless innings. He allowed two hits, struck out six and walked three.
“It looked like the game was slow to him, which was good to see the first time at home,” manager Oliver Marmol said. “Good crowd, didn’t make the moment any bigger than it was.”
Gorman and Liberatore have been friends since playing T-ball together in the Phoenix suburbs.
“I think that’s a very fitting way for it to have gone down today and something that I look forward to seeing a lot more of,” Liberatore said.
Gorman had four hits, drove in four runs and scored three times. Paul Goldschmidt had three hits, including a homer, and also drove in four runs while extending his hitting streak to 19 games.
It was the first time the Cardinals had two players with four RBIs in the same game since Sept. 27, 2016, when Aledmys Diaz and Jhonny Peralta accomplished the feat.
Victor Caratini hit a two-run homer for Milwaukee in the ninth. Keston Hiura also went deep.
Gorman’s 449-foot drive cleared the bullpen in right field in the first. With an exit velocity of 110.6 mph off the bat, it was the longest home run in Busch Stadium this season.
Gorman snapped a 0-for-11 skid with the outburst.
“What it comes down to is being on time, and when I’m late and they’re thrown up there, it’s gonna be tough to hit those pitches,” Gorman said. “So, simplified today and was able to get to those pitches.”
Gorman added an RBI single in the third, and Goldschmidt made it 5-0 with three-run shot that landed in the stands just past the outstretched glove of center fielder Lorenzo Cain. Goldschmidt has reached safely in a career-high 33 straight games.
“He’s using the whole field and he’s pulling the ball for homers, he’s going backside,” Marmol said. “It’s all around, it’s highly impressive.”
Gorman hit a two-run double and Goldschmidt singled him home as the Cardinals blew it open with three more in the fourth.
“I just wasn’t able to hit a lot of spots,” Brewers starter Adrian Houser said. “I didn’t really have good command today and they put some good swings on mistakes I made and that’s what they’re supposed to do.”
Houser (3-5) gave up a career-high eight runs, five earned, in four innings.
“I thought he just left some fastballs in the middle of the plate, really,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “I thought his off-speed stuff was pretty good, he just kind of missed on some fastballs and they made him pay for it.”
WELCOME BACK
The Brewers recalled right-hander Miguel Sánchez from Triple-A Nashville. He worked two perfect innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Brewers: An update on RHP Brandon Woodruff (right ankle inflammation) will be provided when the team goes to Chicago next week. … RHP Luis Perdomo (right elbow effusion) was placed on the 15-day injured list. … SS Willy Adames (high left ankle sprain) will begin a rehab assignment at Low-A Carolina on Sunday.
Cardinals: OF Tyler O’Neill (right shoulder impingement) could go out on a minor league rehab assignment early next week.
UP NEXT
Right-hander Miles Mikolas (3-2, 1.96 ERA) will start for the Cardinals in the finale of a four-game set Sunday against the Brewers and RHP Corbin Burnes (2-2, 2.18 ERA). Mikolas allowed one run in 6 2/3 innings in a win over Milwaukee on April 15, and his six career wins against the Brewers are his most against any team. Burnes went 1-1 with a 1.64 ERA in four starts against St. Louis last season.
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NTSB: 80% of floatplane wreckage recovered near Whidbey Island after crash killed 10
ISLAND COUNTY, Wash. - Authorities say they’ve recovered 80% of a floatplane that crashed earlier this month near Whidbey Island that killed all ten people on board.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the US Navy are working together to recover the wreckage.
Teams began a 24/7 operation Tuesday morning working until the wreckage is back above water. Crews are equipped with an underwater drone, a large crane and a team of specialists.
Chair of the NTSB Jennifer Homendy told FOX 13 News on Thursday that they were making progress.
"Yesterday we were able to bring up the engine for the plane, and today we were able to bring up about 80% of the plane which is good progress," said Homendy. "Now we are currently searching for a few other pieces to bring up: we have the wing a portion of the horizontal stabilizer for both elevators, and the ailerons that we are looking to bring up, and we also just found the propeller and gear box that we are also bringing up."
The NTSB says one of the biggest challenges they have faced is dealing with the current.
"It’s really been difficult because when the current is really strong the ROV (remotely-operated vehicle) can’t move forward and will move around and in some cases it gets very difficult to see even with the lights and the cameras," she said. "So what has happened is we have had to bring up the ROV when it has become a challenge, and then we wait until the next slack tide, so we can put the ROV back in and do what we can in that time frame."
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Each crew works in 12-hour shifts, and they do expect to continue this work over the next few days.
On Sept. 9, crews identified an object on the seafloor using sonar, but needed to return to it to visually confirm that it was the wreckage. The agency confirmed that they located the wreckage on Sept. 12. The plane was found approximately 190 feet underwater.
The Navy is using a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) that goes down to the wreckage site on the seafloor. They will also use a barge and a crane to recover the wreckage. The crane is meant to lift the wreckage pieces and the ROV will pick up smaller bits.
Recovering the wreckage site will help investigators determine exactly what happened. However, it could take up to two years for the investigation to be completed in its entirety.
Witnesses near the accident site reported the airplane was in level flight before it entered a slight climb, then pitched down in a near-vertical descent. Several witnesses described the airplane "spinning," "rotating" or "spiraling" during portions of the descent, according to NTSB.
Tom Chapman with NTSB told FOX 13 News on Tuesday that the actual flight only lasted about 35 minutes, and the plane got no higher than about 1,000 ft in the air.
One body was recovered shortly after the crash and nine others were presumed dead. | https://www.fox29.com/news/ntsb-80-of-floatplane-wreckage-recovered-near-whidbey-island-after-crash-killed-10 | 2022-09-30 00:39:18 | 0 | https://www.fox29.com/news/ntsb-80-of-floatplane-wreckage-recovered-near-whidbey-island-after-crash-killed-10 |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A nighttime bus crash that killed 27 people in southwest China this week has set off a storm of anger online over the harshness of the country’s strict COVID-19 policies.
The initial police report did not say who the passengers were and where they were going, but it later emerged they were headed to a quarantine location outside their city of Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province.
The bus with 47 people on board crashed about 2:40 a.m. Sunday. City officials announced many hours later that the passengers were under “medical observation,” confirming reports they were being taken to quarantine.
Following public anger, Guiyang fired three officials in charge of Yunyan district, where the residents had been picked up, the provincial government said Monday. Guiyang’s deputy mayor apologized at a news conference, bowing and observing a moment of silence.
Online, many wondered at the logic behind transporting people outside of Guiyang, accusing the government of moving them so that the city would no longer report any new cases.
“Will this ever end? On the top searches (on social media), there’s all sorts of pandemic prevention situations every day, creating unnecessary panic and making people jittery,” one person wrote. “Is there scientific validity to hauling people to quarantine, one car after another?”
Guiyang officials had announced the city would achieve “societal zero-COVID” by Monday, one day after the crash.
The phrase means new infections are found only among people already under surveillance — such as those in a centralized quarantine facility or who are close contacts of existing patients — so the virus is no longer spreading in the community.
China has managed the pandemic through a series of measures known as “clearing to zero,” or “zero COVID,” maintained through strict lockdowns and mass testing.
The approach saved lives before vaccines were widely available, as people refrained from public gatherings and wore masks regularly. However, as other countries have opened up and loosened some of the most onerous restrictions, China has held steadfast to its zero-COVID strategy.
While China has cut down its quarantine time for overseas arrivals and said it would start issuing student visas, the policy remains strict at home. Officials are concerned about the potential death toll and the impact any loosening would have on the country’s stretched medical system.
Zero COVID also has become a political issue, and at one point was celebrated by many Chinese as signifying the superiority of their country over the U.S., which has had more than a million COVID deaths.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has cited China’s approach as a “major strategic success” and evidence of the “significant advantages” of its political system over Western liberal democracies.
Yet, even as other countries open up, the humanitarian costs to China’s pandemic approach has grown.
Earlier this year in Shanghai, desperate residents complained of being unable to get medicines or even groceries during the city’s two-month lockdown, while some died in hospitals from lack of medical care as the city restricted movement. Last week, residents in the western region of Xinjiang said they went hungry under a more than 40-day lockdown.
According to FreeWeibo, a website that tracks censored posts on the popular social media platform, three of top 10 searches on Weibo related to the bus accident.
Many fixated on images of the bus shared by social media users. One photo showed the bus after it had been retrieved from the accident site. Its roof was crushed and portions missing. Another photo allegedly showed the driver decked out in a full white protective suit.
Users online questioned how a driver could see properly when his face was covered up, and why he was driving so late at night. Many comments were censored but some that expressed discontent with the current approach to the pandemic did remain up.
“I hope that the price of this pain can push for change faster, but if it’s possible, I don’t want to pay such a high price for such change,” said the comment with the most likes on an online report about the accident by state broadcaster CCTV. “Condolences.”
One of the passengers on the bus said her whole building had been taken for central quarantine, according to a report by Caixin, a business news outlet. Yet her apartment building had not reported a single case, according to a friend who shared their text conversation with Caixin.
Another popular comment quoted a proverb, “These human lives are like straw.”
On Tuesday, Guizhou reported 41 new COVID-19 cases in the entire province. The province has been on high alert in the past few weeks after discovering one case at the end of August. It has locked down its capital city, using the euphemistic “quiet period” to describe the move, which means people are not allowed to leave their homes.
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Associated Press news assistant Caroline Chen in Beijing contributed to this report. | https://www.wric.com/health/ap-china-quarantine-bus-crash-prompts-outcry-over-zero-covid/ | 2022-09-20 17:50:48 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/health/ap-china-quarantine-bus-crash-prompts-outcry-over-zero-covid/ |
(Editor’s Note: Kevin Love is a five-time All-Star and former Cleveland teammate with LeBron James, who is set to become the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. Love played four seasons with James and won the title with him in 2016, when the Cavaliers overcame a 3-1 deficit in the Finals to win Cleveland’s first professional sports championship since 1964. Love reflected on his time with James for The Associated Press.)
Those years LeBron had here in Cleveland, capped by a winning a championship, cemented his legacy. Naturally, the first one he got in Miami was a weight off his shoulders. The back-to-back titles solidified him and the Heat. It showed they were a dynasty before we saw those guys out in San Francisco, that’s a real powerful team. I feel that, and I think he would say the same, that 2016, especially in the manner that we won, and against the 73-9 team we beat and him being from Akron, it was definitely the most important one for him.
What always impressed me about my time with LeBron is the precision of his life. He’s a man with a plan. He’s become larger than the game.
It will be very tough to eclipse or surpass him as a better face for the NBA and what he has meant for the league. He had all the pressure in the world on him and people were touting him and projecting him to be Jordan-esque or the next Jordan. The man has “Chosen One” tattooed across his back and he goes out and exceeds expectations. And at every juncture, every fork in the road, anything that came up — adversity, any lump that he took. People wanted to tear him down, buy he always found a way. Like he says, strive for greatness.
He’s found a way to achieve a level of greatness that very few in this world have touched or seen. He’s on the Mount Rushmore of the greatest athletes of all time. And when you consider what he’s done away from basketball with the I Promise School or the people he has impacted over the course of his career or what he’ll do after basketball, it’s a pretty incredible story about who he is and what he’s about.
It’s not just his body. It’s not just his process. It’s not just his intention. It’s his brain.”
I feel so fortunate my career intersected with LeBron’s. Everybody that he touches, especially if you have that opportunity to be within his orbit or his gravitational pull, whether it’s covering him as a media member or me playing with him in very special years, especially here and because of what he means to Northeast Ohio, that is definitely something that is not lost on me.
For when it happened at the point it did in my life, it could not have been better for me. It really helped me grow up and become a man and understand sacrifice and become a better teammate while also allowing me to be my authentic self and unapologetically myself, 100%. As a fan, a friend, a teammate, to be part of the brotherhood, it’s special to have him be within our family. It’s pretty amazing.
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(The Hill) — Commander, the Bidens’ German Shepherd, has reportedly been involved in several aggressive incidents that injured Secret Service officers — with emails obtained by a conservative legal activist group describing encounters similar to those that got another Biden dog booted from the White House.
The emails released Tuesday by Judicial Watch, which it said followed a Freedom of Information Act request lawsuit, detail 10 alleged attacks by Biden’s nearly 2-year-old dog, from October 2022 through last January.
Commander was involved in a biting incident last November, according to the emails, which left an officer with injuries on both the upper right arm and the thigh. The officer “had to use a steel cart to [shield]” themself “from another attack.” The officer, the email says, was “in a considerable amount of pain.”
Other communication includes an officer warning that the dog had been “exhibiting extremely aggressive behavior.”
“Today, while posted, he came charging at me. The First Lady couldn’t regain control of [Commander] and he continued to circle me,” the email said.
“I believe it’s only a matter of time before an agent/officer is attacked or bit,” the note said.
In another November message, an officer wrote in a memorandum that as they were walking towards a post assignment, “I noticed Commander and the First Lady” in the Kennedy Garden.
“As I continued walking, I saw Commander exit the Kennedy Garden and sprint towards me. I immediately stopped and put my hands up. Commander then bit me on my left thigh and then ran back towards the First Lady.”
“I am currently experiencing bruising, tenderness, and pain in the bite area,” the officer said.
Other emails recall a series of more minor biting incidents involving the dog.
A White House spokesman didn’t immediately return ITK’s request for comment.
In 2021, Major, another German Shepherd belonging to President Biden, was removed from the White House and relocated to the family’s home in Delaware following several reported aggressive episodes.
Major’s removal came after a “biting incident” with a security team member at the White House, as well as another instance when the animal “charged” at staff and security employees, CNN reported at the time.
Commander arrived at the White House in 2021. The presidential pup and Willow, Jill Biden’s cat, are frequently featured at events at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Last year, the Bidens’ holiday décor at the White House included miniature smiling statues of Commander and Willow to greet visitors entering the East Wing. | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/biden-dog-commander-bit-multiple-secret-service-officers-report/ | 2023-07-25 18:38:09 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/biden-dog-commander-bit-multiple-secret-service-officers-report/ |
(The Hill) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Thursday signed legislation prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in collegiate athletics, building on a 2021 law that requires public school sports teams through high school to be designated by students’ sex assigned at birth.
Texas’s Senate Bill 15, also known as the state’s “Save Women’s Sports Act,” mandates that intercollegiate athletes participate only on sports teams matching their “biological sex” which the legislation defines as that which is “correctly” stated on a student’s original birth certificate.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which oversees post-secondary education in the state, has been tasked with drafting and adopting rules that ensure compliance with state and federal laws regarding the confidentiality of student health and medical information.
The new law, which will take effect in September, makes it simpler for college students in Texas to sue their schools if they continue allowing transgender athletes to participate on sports teams that do not match their gender identity.
A 2021 law signed by Abbott already prohibits transgender athletes in K-12 Texas school districts from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity. Republicans in the state legislature this session argued that a second law focusing on intercollegiate sports was needed to ensure fair play at the most competitive levels of college athletics.
“Today is an important day for female athletes across the state of Texas, including little girls who aspire to one day compete in college sports,” Abbott said Thursday during a signing ceremony in Austin.
Sitting before a sign that read “A Win for Women Athletes,” Abbott on Thursday repeatedly referred to transgender women and girls as “men.”
“The Save Women’s Sports Act protects young women at Texas colleges and universities by prohibiting men from competing on a team or as an individual against them in college sports,” he said, adding “Women in Texas can be assured that the integrity of their sports will be protected in our state.”
The NCAA, the organization that regulates college athletics, has for more than a decade allowed transgender women and girls to compete on female sports teams if they had at least one year of hormone replacement therapy to treat gender dysphoria. Last year, the conference’s board of governors adopted a new policy that determines transgender athletes’s qualification for participation on a sport-by-sport basis.
Including Texas, 22 states have passed laws that prevent transgender athletes from competing on school sports teams consistent with their gender identity, according to the Movement Advancement Project, which tracks state-level legislation affecting the LGBTQ community. In April, the U.S. House advanced a similar bill.
Abbott earlier this month signed legislation barring transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming health care including puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and surgeries, one of 17 Republican governors to do so this year.
In all, lawmakers in Texas’s GOP-controlled legislature have introduced at least 53 bills targeting LGBTQ people this session, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, the most of any state. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/texas-bans-transgender-women-girls-from-collegiate-athletics/ | 2023-06-16 13:25:13 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/texas-bans-transgender-women-girls-from-collegiate-athletics/ |
REV Capital delivers on its commitment to invest in technology with the launch of its first new subsidiary
TORONTO, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - REV Capital, the leading provider of factoring and cashflow financing in Canada and the United States announces the launch of REV Tech. This new subsidiary demonstrates REV Capital's commitment to investing in technology as part of its mission to reinvent factoring.
As an important subsidiary, REV Tech has its own mission: to democratize the transportation industry's access to resources. To achieve this, the company is building a platform to integrate and unify multiple service offerings required by the transportation industry such as factoring, fuel discounts, dispatch software, and much more.
Appointed as Chief Operating Officer of REV Tech is Bheesham Singh, an industry veteran who has spent the past 20 years driving profitability for his clients. Recognized as someone who operates with passion and purpose, Bheesham will bring guidance along with operational efficiency to the REV Tech team.
"This is an exciting time for the industry and I'm thrilled to be a part of the team developing advanced technological innovations designed to have such positive, long-term benefits," said Singh.
Spearheading the technology as REV Tech's new Chief Technology Officer is Akber Abbas. With experience spanning nearly two decades in the tech and start-up space, this role is a perfect fit for Abbas.
"I'm very excited to be working with REV Tech to develop innovative solutions that enhance efficiency optimization and data analytics in our quest to reinvent factoring," said Abbas. "We're in a unique position to leverage fintech to improve customer experience based on continually changing needs — this is definitely a key turning point for the industry."
REV Capital's CEO, Loren Shifrin will serve as the CEO for REV Tech. REV Capital's CFO, Michael Lukhton will serve as the CFO for REV Tech.
REV Capital is a rapidly growing financial factoring and asset-based lending company with seven offices across North America. They are leading providers of trustworthy, transparent, and reliable cashflow solutions that provide clients with financial stability and opportunities for growth.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street rose Monday as traders made their final moves ahead of a report that could show whether inflation is cooling in the right way or setting the market up for worse pain.
The S&P 500 climbed 1.1% in anticipation of Tuesday’s report on inflation at the consumer level across the country. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 376.66 points, or 1.1%, while the Nasdaq composite rose 1.5%.
Stocks were coming off their worst week in nearly two months, the latest stumble for a market that has struggled for more than a year on worries about high inflation and the Federal Reserve’s response to it. The Fed has aggressively hiked rates to their highest level since 2007 to drive down the worst inflation in generations. High rates can stamp out inflation, but they do so at the risk of sending the economy into a sharp recession and dragging on investment prices.
Economists expect Tuesday’s report to show inflation slowed to 6.2% in January. That would be down from 6.5% a month before and from a peak of more than 9% in the summer. Perhaps more important than the overall number is what the data show specifically about prices for services outside of housing, such as haircuts or airfares. Inflation has remained stubbornly high there, when it’s started to come down in other areas.
Worse-than-expected trends on inflation would raise worries that the Federal Reserve will stay firmer on rates than expected, which could mean more pain for Wall Street. Cooler-than-expected figures, meanwhile, could fan anew hopes that were rising earlier this year for the Fed to take it easier on rates.
Everyone agrees that inflation is heading in the right direction. The question is how quickly and steadily it will come down to the Fed’s target of 2%, and what that means for when the Fed will pause its hikes to rates and eventually begin cutting them.
Treasury yields jumped last week after investors pulled their forecasts for rates closer to the Fed’s. The central bank has been consistently saying it plans to keep rates higher for longer to ensure the job is done on inflation.
Yields were mixed Monday ahead of the inflation report. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans, dipped to 3.70% from 3.75% late Friday. The two-year yield, which tends to move more on expectations for the Fed, was at 4.54% and close to its highest since November.
All the worries about inflation and rates are happening against the backdrop of a decidedly lackluster earnings reporting season. Companies in the S&P 500 are on track to report a nearly 5% drop in earnings for the final three months of 2022, compared with a year earlier, according to FactSet.
By the count of strategists at Credit Suisse, this is shaping up to be the worst earnings reporting season outside of a recession in 24 years.
Pessimism is also building about earnings for the first three months of 2023, with forecasts coming down.
A continued decline in corporate earnings is one of the reasons strategists at Morgan Stanley are cautious about the rally stocks have made since the start of the year, even if they gave back some of it last week. The S&P 500 is up 7.8% for 2023 so far, though it remains stuck in its “bear market” after falling more than 20% from its high last year.
“Price action is not reflective of the deteriorating fundamentals or the fact that the Fed is hiking during an earnings recession — drivers that should ultimately determine the lows for this bear market later this spring,” the strategists led by Michael Wilson wrote in a report. “Risk-reward is as poor as it’s been in our view.”
The bulk of earnings reports have already come in for this season, with big utility companies and retailers among the companies toward the tail end. This upcoming week will include reports from Southern Co., Coca-Cola and Kraft Heinz.
Fidelity National Information Services tumbled 12.5% despite reporting slightly stronger profit and revenue for its latest quarter than expected. FIS gave a forecast for 2023 results that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations, and it said it will spin off its Worldpay merchant business after acquiring it in a deal less than four years ago.
On the winning end was Henry Schein, a provider of health care products and services. It rose 3.2% after it announced a program to buy back up to $400 million of its stock. Investors like such programs because they put cash directly in the pockets of shareholders.
All told, the S&P 500 rose 46.83 points to 4,137.29, the Dow gained 376.66 to 34,245.93 and the Nasdaq climbed 173.67 to 11,891.79. | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-asian-stocks-slide-ahead-of-us-inflation-update-2/ | 2023-02-13 22:28:51 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-asian-stocks-slide-ahead-of-us-inflation-update-2/ |
Earnings Results to be released on June 13, 2022, After the Close of the Market
AUSTIN, Texas, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corporation today announced that its fourth quarter fiscal year 2022 results will be released on Monday, June 13th, after the close of the market. Oracle will host a conference call and live webcast at 4:00 p.m. Central Time to discuss the financial results. The live webcast will be available on the Oracle Investor Relations website at www.oracle.com/investor.
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BOSTON (AP) — A “swift-footed lizard” that lived millions of years ago in what is now Massachusetts has been named the state’s official dinosaur under legislation signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Charlie Baker.
Podokesaurus holyokensis received more than 60% of the roughly 35,000 votes cast in a social media campaign initiated early last year by state Rep. Jack Lewis, beating out another dinosaur that was also discovered in the state.
“If I think about my own childhood … the thing that got me interested in science in the first place was dinosaurs,” the Republican governor said at the signing ceremony at the Museum of Science in Boston, with some of the state’s leading paleontologists standing behind him. “And the main reason they got me interested is because of their majesty, and their ferocity and their almost alien-being status. As a kid, they just created wonder.”
Lewis came up with the idea of a state dinosaur while trying to find engaging projects for the Cub Scout den he led during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The project did not just get people involved in science, but also taught them about the legislative process, the Framingham Democrat said.
Podokesaurus holyokensis, which means “swift-footed lizard of Holyoke,” was discovered in western Massachusetts in 1910 by Mount Holyoke College professor Mignon Talbot, “the first woman to find, discover, name and describe a dinosaur,” Lewis said.
“Hopefully if this project inspires just a couple young girls to grow up and explore paleontology, it would have been all worth it,” he said.
The species was 3 to 6 feet (around 1 to 2 meters) in length, weighed approximately 90 pounds (40 kilograms), and was estimated to run 9 to 12 mph (14 to 19 kph), Lewis has said.
Baker called the creature “a tough, spunky underdog from Holyoke.”
About a dozen other states also have official state dinosaurs, Lewis said. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/strange-news/ap-strange-news/ap-swift-footed-lizard-named-massachusetts-state-dinosaur/ | 2022-10-19 19:42:29 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/strange-news/ap-strange-news/ap-swift-footed-lizard-named-massachusetts-state-dinosaur/ |
MCKEESPORT, Pa. (AP) — A man charged in the fatal shooting of a police officer and the wounding of another in western Pennsylvania this week was ordered held without bail during his arraignment Thursday.
Johnathan Jermia Morris, 31, of McKeesport, made his court appearance shortly after he was released from a hospital. He had been wounded when he shot at a third officer, who returned fire.
It wasn't clear Thursday if he has retained an attorney or if he was represented by a lawyer at the hearing.
Morris is charged in Allegheny County with criminal homicide, aggravated assault, attempted murder and assault of a law enforcement officer. The counts stem from the shooting Monday afternoon in McKeesport, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Pittsburgh.
Officers were called to a home shortly after noon Monday over a dispute involving a man who police said was having a “mental health crisis.” He refused to talk to them and walked away from the home, and officers were warned by a family member he might be armed.
When police encountered him nearby, he “suddenly produced a handgun and shot the two McKeesport officers,” said Christopher Kearns, the county’s police superintendent. Officer Sean Sluganski, 32, who had worked for McKeesport police for two years, died at a hospital. The wounded officer, Charles Thomas, was treated and released.
After the shooting, Morris walked around a corner and fired at the third officer, authorities said.
In a criminal complaint, authorities said two witnesses said Morris flagged them down, told them police were trying to kill him and asked them to record video. They said they saw a police cruiser pull up and another officer approach on foot, and then saw Morris pull a handgun and fire at the cruiser and the officer.
Morris, wounded in the leg by return fire, ran to a parking lot and told two people he had been shot and needed help, authorities said. A witness putting a tourniquet on his leg reported seeing Morris pull a handgun and point it at an approaching officer, after which the final exchange of gunfire occurred, according to authorities.
The suspect was later listed in stable condition at a Pittsburgh-area trauma center. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/penn-man-ordered-held-without-bail-in-police-17775202.php | 2023-02-09 23:36:00 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/penn-man-ordered-held-without-bail-in-police-17775202.php |
Campground, a Web3 social content platform launching in July 2022, is connecting the dots between popular NFT marketplaces and familiar creator platforms like YouTube by giving creators all of the upsides of transacting on a blockchain with ease and comfort of being paid as usual.
NEW YORK , June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blockchain is for All Creators
Campground, whose public beta is launching on July 7th, envisions a world where creators can bootstrap their viral moments, and delivers on this vision by pairing its flexible content creation engine with exceptional creator economics powered by blockchain. Unlike any NFT marketplace or other blockchain-based creator economy solution, creators can be paid as usual via Campground's proprietary system, in fiat currency (USD), directly by their followers, without having to invest in or receive payments in cryptocurrency.
Via "Trails", creators on Campground can create and sell single-step artistic creations like artwork, songs, video tutorials, or comedy sketches, as well as 10-step modern music albums or 1000-step e-learning courses. Access to exclusive content is gated via non-fungible tokens (NFTs) representing access tickets, which may be resold by purchasers on Campground. Creators are paid a royalty on any subsequent transfer.
How to Join
Campground is launching a public beta on July 7th, 2022. Creators who list their content as exclusive content or content-backed NFTs on Campground keep 95% of earned revenue. Early adopters may also apply to receive incentives such as early NFT offering verification, whitelisting for native token sales or drops, and gratis Campground collectible NFTs and perks. Learn more about Campground by visiting campground.co
About Campground
Campground is an innovative web3 platform empowering creators to earn money from monetizing their content in an entirely new way. At Campground, we believe that every creator deserves the benefit of blockchain technology - no crypto, no problem.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Connor Essegian scored 17 points, Chucky Hepburn added 15 and Wisconsin held off Ohio State 65-60 on Thursday night for the Buckeyes’ third straight loss.
Despite Ohio State’s 16 turnovers, Wisconsin allowed the Buckeyes to hang around as the Badgers made just 13 of 22 foul shots.
Steven Crowl scored half of his 14 points as part of 9-0 Wisconsin run early in the first half and Max Klesmit scored 12 for the Badgers (13-8, 5-6 Big 10).
Brice Sensabaugh scored 13 points and Zed Key 12 for the Buckeyes (11-11, 3-8). Ohio State now has lost eight of its last nine, including streaks of three and five.
It was the lone regular-season game between the two teams. The Badgers host Northwestern on Sunday. Ohio State plays at Michigan also on Sunday.
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CA Sacramento CA Zone Forecast for Friday, March 24, 2023
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ZFPSTO
Interior Northern California Zone Forecasts for California
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
1225 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Sunday.
CAZ013-252300-
Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County-
Including the city of Shasta Dam
1225 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT SUNDAY...
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy.
At lower elevations, widespread frost early in the morning, A
slight chance of rain showers late in the afternoon. At higher
elevations, a chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Highs
34 to 49 higher elevations...48 to 55 lower elevations. Snow
level 2000 feet in the afternoon. Prevailing north winds up to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. At higher elevations, a slight chance of snow
showers in the evening. At lower elevations, widespread frost
after midnight. Lows 15 to 30 higher elevations...25 to 34 lower
elevations. Prevailing north winds up to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 36 to 51 higher elevations...49 to
56 lower elevations. Prevailing north winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 19 to 33 higher elevations...28 to 36 lower
elevations. Prevailing north winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs 33 to 48 higher elevations...46 to 52 lower
elevations. No snow accumulation lower elevations...up to
2 inches higher elevations. Snow level 1500 feet. Prevailing
northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the south in the
afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Heavy rain and snow showers. Breezy. Heavy snow
accumulations possible. Lows 25 to 39.
.TUESDAY...Heavy rain and snow showers. Breezy. Heavy snow
accumulations possible. Highs 31 to 46.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with rain showers and a chance of
snow showers. Colder. Moderate snow accumulations possible. Lows
22 to 37.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow
showers. Not as cool. Highs 37 to 52.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and
snow showers. Lows 21 to 36.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 40 to 55. Lows
22 to 37.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers. Not
as cool. Highs 43 to 58.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SHASTA DAM 54 32 55 / 10 10 0
$$
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CAZ014-252300-
Burney Basin / Eastern Shasta County-
Including the city of Burney
1225 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 29 to
41 higher elevations...38 to 45 lower elevations. Prevailing
southeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northwest in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of snow showers in the
evening. Lows 8 to 21 higher elevations...17 to 23 lower
elevations. Prevailing northwest winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to
the northeast after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 32 to 46. Prevailing northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 15 to 25. Prevailing north winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs 36 to 47. Prevailing southeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Heavy snow. Breezy. Heavy snow accumulations
possible. Lows 25 to 33.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers. Breezy. Moderate snow accumulations
possible. Highs 33 to 43.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
snow showers. Lows 18 to 26. Highs 33 to 47.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow
showers. Lows 17 to 24.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 38 to 53. Lows
17 to 26.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BURNEY 42 18 43 / 20 10 10
$$
=
CAZ015-252300-
Northern Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Redding and Red Bluff
1225 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT SUNDAY...
.TODAY...Widespread frost early in the morning. Mostly sunny.
Highs 53 to 58. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 30 to 36. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 59. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 34. North winds up to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs 50 to 56. Light winds becoming south 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain showers. Windy. Lows 36 to 42.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Windy. Highs 45 to 51.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and
a slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows around 38.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
52 to 57.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 36.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost. Highs 56 to 62.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 37. Highs
56 to 62.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
REDDING 56 31 57 / 0 0 0
RED BLUFF 58 34 58 / 0 0 0
$$
=
CAZ016-252300-
Central Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Chico, Oroville, and Marysville/Yuba City
1225 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT SUNDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 57. Northwest winds
10 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 35. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 54 to 59. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows around
34. North winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Partly cloudy in the
morning, then mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers
in the afternoon. Highs 54 to 59. Northeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with rain. Breezy. Lows around 42.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Windy. Highs 47 to 53.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and
a slight chance of thunderstorms. Breezy. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
52 to 57.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows around 36.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 57 to 62. Lows
around 37.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
CHICO 57 34 57 / 0 0 0
OROVILLE 57 34 57 / 0 0 0
MARYSVILLE/YUBA CITY 58 34 59 / 0 0 0
$$
=
CAZ017-252300-
Southern Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Sacramento
1225 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT SUNDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs 55 to 61. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph increasing to 10 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 31 to 37. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.SUNDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Sunny. Highs 55 to 61.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows around
34. Northwest winds around 10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph
shifting to the southeast up to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs 54 to 61. Light
winds becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with rain likely. Lows around 43.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Breezy. Highs 48 to 54.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Breezy. Lows around 41.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain showers likely. Highs 50 to
57.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows around 37.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 56 to 65. Lows
around 38.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SACRAMENTO 59 34 59 / 0 0 0
SAC EXEC AIRPORT 60 34 59 / 0 0 0
$$
=
CAZ018-252300-
Carquinez Strait and Delta-
Including the city of Fairfield/Suisun
1225 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT SUNDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 59. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 36. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the evening.
.SUNDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Sunny. Highs around 59.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows around
36. West winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs 57 to 63. South
winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with rain likely. Lows around 44.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Breezy. Highs around 53.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Lows around 42.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain showers likely. Highs 52 to 57.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows around 38.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 61. Lows
around 39.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
FAIRFIELD/SUISUN 61 34 60 / 0 0 0
$$
=
CAZ019-252300-
Northern San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Stockton and Modesto
1225 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT SUNDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs 52 to 61. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph increasing to 10 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 31 to 39. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.SUNDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Sunny. Highs 52 to 60.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows 31 to
37. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs
56 to 63. Southeast winds up to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows 41 to
46.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers. Breezy. Highs 46 to 55.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Rain showers likely. Lows 38 to
43. Highs 47 to 57.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 35 to 41.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 53 to 62.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 42. Highs
54 to 64.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
STOCKTON 61 35 60 / 0 0 0
MODESTO 59 36 59 / 0 0 0
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CAZ063-252300-
Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Western Colusa County-
Including the city of Alder Springs
1225 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT SUNDAY...
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 31 to 46 higher elevations...47 to
55 lower elevations. Prevailing northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 15 to 30 higher elevations...29 to
35 lower elevations. Prevailing northwest winds 10 to 20 mph with
gusts to around 35 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 32 to 47 higher elevations...49 to
55 lower elevations. Prevailing northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 19 to 34 higher elevations...
30 to 36 lower elevations. Prevailing northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs 31 to 46 higher elevations...46 to 52 lower
elevations. No snow accumulation lower elevations...up to
3 inches higher elevations. Snow level 2000 feet. Prevailing west
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southeast with gusts to around
30 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain showers and heavy snow showers. Windy. Heavy
snow accumulations possible. Lows 24 to 39.
.TUESDAY...Heavy rain and snow showers. Breezy. Heavy snow
accumulations possible. Highs 30 to 45.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with rain and snow showers likely.
Moderate snow accumulations possible. Lows 23 to 38.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow
showers. Not as cool. Highs 34 to 49.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 23 to 38.
Highs 38 to 53.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
ALDER SPRINGS 39 22 40 / 0 0 0
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CAZ066-252300-
Northeast Foothills/Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Paradise
1225 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT SUNDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 43 to 55. Prevailing north winds up
to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 24 to 36. Prevailing north winds up to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 43 to 55. Prevailing northeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 28 to 38. Prevailing north
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs 43 to 53. Snow level 2000 feet. Prevailing east
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain showers and heavy snow. Windy. Moderate snow
accumulations possible. Lows 32 to 42.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers, heavy snow showers and a slight chance
of thunderstorms. Windy. Heavy snow accumulations possible. Highs
36 to 48.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with rain showers and a chance of
snow showers. Breezy. Moderate snow accumulations possible. Lows
29 to 41.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain and snow showers likely. Not as cool. Highs
41 to 53.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. A slight chance of
rain showers. Lows 30 to 38. Highs 42 to 57.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 40.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 49 to 61.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
PARADISE 49 33 49 / 0 0 0
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CAZ067-252300-
Motherlode-
Including the cities of Grass Valley and Jackson
1225 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT SUNDAY...
.TODAY...Areas of frost early in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs
46 to 56. Prevailing north winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Widespread frost after midnight. Lows 25 to 33.
Prevailing northwest winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to the northeast
after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Widespread frost in the morning. Sunny. Highs 44 to 56.
Prevailing northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the west in
the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Widespread frost after midnight. Lows
27 to 35. Prevailing northwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
northeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs 48 to 58. Prevailing east winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Lows
33 to 43.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers and heavy snow showers. Windy. Light snow
accumulations possible. Highs 38 to 50.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Rain and snow showers likely.
Light snow accumulations possible. Lows 31 to 41. Highs 38 to 53.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow
showers. Areas of frost. Lows 27 to 35.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Areas of frost. Highs 45 to 57.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 29 to 37. Highs
46 to 61.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
GRASS VALLEY 48 26 48 / 0 0 0
JACKSON 53 31 52 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ068-252300-
Western Plumas County/Lassen Park-
Including the cities of Chester and Quincy
1225 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. At higher elevations, a slight chance of
snow showers late in the afternoon. Highs 24 to 39 higher
elevations...32 to 44 lower elevations. Prevailing northeast
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 5 to 20 higher elevations...10 to
25 lower elevations. Prevailing north winds up to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 25 to 40 higher elevations...33 to
45 lower elevations. Prevailing northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 12 to 27. Prevailing north
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs 27 to 42 higher elevations...35 to 46 lower
elevations. Little or no snow accumulation lower elevations...up
to 1 inch higher elevations. Prevailing east winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the south with gusts to around 30 mph in the
afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Heavy snow showers. Windy. Heavy snow
accumulations possible. Lows 20 to 35.
.TUESDAY...Heavy snow showers. Windy. Heavy snow accumulations
possible. Highs 25 to 40.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Heavy snow showers. Breezy, colder. Heavy snow
accumulations possible. Lows 15 to 30.
.WEDNESDAY...Snow showers likely. Not as cold. Light snow
accumulations possible. Highs 29 to 44.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of snow showers.
Lows 15 to 30.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of
snow showers. Highs 33 to 48. Lows 16 to 31.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow
showers. Not as cool. Highs 36 to 51.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
QUINCY 45 16 45 / 10 10 0
CHESTER 40 8 39 / 10 10 0
$$
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CAZ069-252300-
West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada-
Including the city of Blue Canyon
1225 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. At higher
elevations, a slight chance of snow showers late in the
afternoon. Highs 25 to 40 higher elevations...39 to 49 lower
elevations. Prevailing northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to
the northwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. At higher elevations, a slight chance of
snow showers in the evening. Colder. Lows 4 to 19 higher
elevations...19 to 29 lower elevations. No snow accumulation
lower elevations...up to 1 inch higher elevations. Prevailing
northwest winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to the northeast after
midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 23 to 38 higher elevations...38 to
48 lower elevations. Prevailing northeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 7 to 22 higher elevations...
21 to 30 lower elevations. Prevailing northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Not as cool. Highs 29 to 44 higher elevations...42 to
52 lower elevations. Prevailing east winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers.
Windy. Lows 20 to 35.
.TUESDAY...Heavy snow showers. Windy. Heavy snow accumulations
possible. Highs 25 to 40.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Heavy snow showers. Breezy. Heavy
snow accumulations possible. Lows 17 to 32. Highs 26 to 41.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
snow showers. Lows 13 to 28. Highs 28 to 43.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow
showers. Lows 15 to 30.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow
showers. Not as cool. Highs 34 to 49.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BLUE CANYON 38 20 38 / 10 10 10
$$
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FORT COLLINS, Colo., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shipping premium wine in ever-changing seasons requires a durable and thermal shipping box to ensure cellar-grade temperatures upon arrival. Liviri today announced Liviri Vino3 wine shipping boxes as the newest addition to its family of protective, reusable, insulated boxes that enable year-round wine shipments and eliminate single-use packaging.
Liviri Vino3 wine shipping boxes were purpose-built for a new era of excellence in direct-to-consumer wine shipping, designed to safeguard premium bottles from extreme temperatures and prevent breakage while in transit. Reusable Liviri Vino3 wine shipping boxes bring together powerful insulation, sustainable circular logistics and user-friendly functionality for a superior door-to-door shipping experience. Precision padding keeps bottles secure and separated while reusable coolant inserts and industry-leading insulation create a safe, temperature-stable environment inside the box. Clips with tamper-evident features provide added security during transportation, and easy access for consumers upon arrival.
Premium insulated panels along with reusable ice packs help ensure four days of thermal protection, almost tripling the performance of status quo cardboard and single-use foam packaging. Liviri Vino3 wine shipping boxes can be reused for up to two years of small-parcel network shipping. The box, inserts and ice packs eliminate waste and are recyclable at the end of life.
Liviri Vino3 wine shipping boxes offer an optional insert that can accommodate two magnum bottles. The inserts protect and accommodate Bordeaux, Riesling, Burgundy and sparkling-style bottles. Additionally, Liviri Vino3 wine shipping boxes are compatible with other temperature-sensitive alcohol shipments, including craft beer bombers. Liviri Vino shipping boxes are also available in four- and six-bottle configurations.
"Liviri Vino3 wine shipping boxes offer fulfillment houses and wineries a way to deliver magnums and smaller shipments of wine, with the same durability and thermal performance they have come to love in our Vino4 and Vino6 boxes," said Chuck Kukic, general manager for Liviri. "There has been high demand for these configurations, and Vino3 rounds out our portfolio for year-round premium wine shipment."
Liviri worked with the FedEx Packaging Lab to help ensure the design exceeded durability and drop test standards. To simplify shipping and returns, FedEx offers a flat rate for return shipping of Liviri Vino boxes via FedEx Ground. FedEx also offers solutions that provide visibility into all inbound and outbound shipments, enhancing asset management of customer inventory.
For more information on Liviri, or to find out more about the Liviri Vino series, visit Liviri.com.
Liviri is the leading innovator of sustainable packaging solutions for thermal performance, operational efficiency, and cost-effective scalability. We offer the whole package through our family of reusable, thermally protective containers that provide durable, sustainable, and reliable transport solutions for everything from staging chilled groceries for pickup, to sending fine wine in any season, to temperature-critical biologics.
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Alex Morgan will serve as an ambassador and designate funds from the Alex Morgan Foundation to support comprehensive care for families at Rady Children's
SAN DIEGO, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alex Morgan, forward for the US Women's National Team and San Diego Wave FC, announced today a partnership with Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego that furthers her mission with the Alex Morgan Foundation to support mothers and help raise the next generation of healthy and inspired kids.
"Shortly after moving to southern California with my family and putting down roots in San Diego, I became aware of Rady Children's outstanding reputation and commitment to families," said Alex Morgan. "I'm so proud to partner with the best in pediatric health care, whose mission and standard of excellence align with my personal values and the core pillars of my foundation."
Launched in March of 2023, the Alex Morgan Foundation centers on three areas of impact: equity in sports, opportunities for girls, and support for moms. Recognizing that access to youth sports and children's health go hand in hand, this new partnership will help fund the comprehensive care and support all children and their families receive at Rady Children's.
"At Rady Children's, many of our most impactful programs that support families throughout their hospital experience are funded through philanthropy," said Patrick Frias, MD, President & CEO at Rady Children's. "I know, firsthand, that Alex shares our enduring commitment to families in the San Diego region and that her ambition and standard of excellence matches our desire to impact pediatric care not only in San Diego but around the world."
Rady Children's is the largest children's hospital on the West Coast that provides services to more than 90 percent of children living in the San Diego County region. Ranked among the 10 best children's hospitals in the nation, Rady Children's comprehensive pediatric medical services go far beyond a one-time visit, often creating lasting, long-term relationships with families as they navigate their children's health care journey.
The Alex Morgan Foundation and Rady Children's first collaborated on Mother's Day in 2023, when the foundation partnered with Nike to visit the hospital and gift new moms Essentials Kits that came with onesies, socks, baby blankets, and more. Lauren, an Alex Morgan fan, was in the hospital with her newborn son, Jordan, when she received an Essentials Kit, along with a food delivery gift card to provide extra support during what can be a difficult time.
Rady Children's Hospital will also be named as a Starting XI partner of the Alex Morgan Foundation, a select group of individuals, corporate and community partners that provide high impact thought leadership, financial support and other resources to drive the foundation's mission forward. To celebrate the launch of the partnership, the Alex Morgan Foundation is auctioning a signed Alex Morgan jersey now through 11:59 p.m. on July 22, 2023, with all proceeds benefiting the work Alex Morgan and Rady Children's will do together. To learn more and participate in the auction visit the Auction Page.
About Alex Morgan Foundation
Alex Morgan Foundation was founded in 2023 to support girls and women as they build their own confident path forward in sports and in life. Dedicated to a more equitable and empowered future, the foundation invests in programs that target its core areas of impact: sports equity, opportunities for girls, and support for moms. Alex Morgan Foundation is a fiscally sponsored initiative under the umbrella of the Edward Charles Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization, and raises funds through Alex's community of partners, supporters, and grant funders. Learn more at www.alexmorganfoundation.org
About Rady Children's Hospital
Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego is the largest children's hospital on the West Coast and one of the nation's top pediatric health care systems. Ranked as one of the 10 best children's hospitals in the nation by U.S. News and World Report in 2023, Rady Children's includes a 511-bed pediatric hospital that serves as the largest provider of comprehensive pediatric medical services in San Diego, southern Riverside and Imperial counties. With more than 40 locations, Rady Children's is the only health system in the San Diego area dedicated exclusively to pediatric health care and is the region's only designated pediatric trauma center. Rady Children's is a nonprofit organization that relies on donations to support its mission.
Contact: Ben Metcalf
bmetcalf@rchsd.org
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NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Canon Business Process Services (Canon) was recently named to the IAOP® 2022 Global 100® Outsourcing list. Today the company announced it has earned additional IAOP Global Outsourcing 100 recognition by receiving top honors in four distinguished judging categories: Customer References, Awards and Certifications, Programs for Innovation and Programs for Corporate Social Responsibility.
Canon also achieved two other accolades. These include designation as an "All Star of the Global Outsourcing 100" for receiving high scores in each judging category, and "Sustained Excellence" acknowledgement for receiving Global 100 recognition in the last five consecutive years or more. Canon has been named to the Leader category of the Global 100 Outsourcing list for 16 consecutive years. Only four other companies have achieved the same record of distinction.
"A big thank you and congratulations to the companies named to The 2022 Global Outsourcing 100® for rising to the occasion in a particularly challenging year," said IAOP CEO, Debi Hamill. "Their tenacity, grit and leadership were critical to ensuring our industry came out the other side of the global pandemic and we're pleased to recognize Canon Business Process Services for its quality and performance excellence."
Highlights of Canon's distinguished judging category honors include:
- Customer References as demonstrated by the value being created at Canon's top customers
- Awards and Certifications as verified through industry recognition and relevant organizational and individual professional certifications
- Programs for Innovation that reveal how Canon produced new forms of value for clients including specific programs and results
- Programs for Corporate Social Responsibility as shown through effective corporate programs and outcomes that address such topics as community involvement and development, labor practices, human rights, fair operating practices, environmental impacts, consumer issues, and organizational governance.
The 2022 Global Outsourcing 100 recognizes the world's best outsourcing service providers and advisors. This list is based on applications received, and judging is based on a rigorous scoring methodology that includes review by an independent panel of IAOP customer members with experience in selecting outsourcing service providers and advisors for their organizations.
About IAOP
IAOP is the global association that brings together customers, providers, and advisors in a collaborative, knowledge-based environment that promotes professional and organizational development, recognition, certification, and excellence to improve business service models and outcomes. Our members and affiliates worldwide are digging deep at IAOP conferences, learning at IAOP chapter meetings, getting trained and certified at IAOP courses and workshops, and connecting through IAOP social media, all with one goal: better business results. Whether you are a customer, provider or advisor, new to collaborative business models like outsourcing, or an experienced professional, IAOP connects you and your organization to our growing global community and the resources you need to get the results your company deserves and demands. For more information and how you can become involved, visit www.IAOP.org.
About Canon Business Process Services
Canon helps clients enable business agility, digital transformation and lead an increasingly evolving workforce. We solve these challenges by leveraging our experienced team backed by Six Sigma expertise and best-in-class technology. With professionals across the U.S. and in the Philippines, we have been named a Global Outsourcing 100 Leader in 2022 by IAOP for the sixteenth straight year. Canon Business Process Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc. Learn more at cbps.canon.com and follow us on Twitter @CanonBPO.
All referenced product names, and other marks, are trademarks of their respective owners.
Press Contact: Ken Neal, kneal@cbps.canon.com
Canon Business Process Services © 2022
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council on Friday approved an agreement with the state to revamp policing, nearly three years after a city officer killed George Floyd.
The state Department of Human Rights issued a blistering report last year that said the police department had engaged in a pattern of race discrimination for at least a decade. City leaders subsequently agreed to negotiate a settlement with the agency.
The City Council approved the court-enforceable agreement Friday on an 11-0 vote, but not before several members expressed harsh criticism of the Minneapolis Police Department and other city leaders over the years.
“The lack of political will to take responsibility for MPD is why we are in this position today,” council member Robin Wonsley said. “This legal settlement formally and legally prevents city leadership from deferring that responsibility anymore. And I hope this settlement is a wake-up call for city leaders, who the public has watched rubber-stamp poor labor contracts, have signed off on endless misconduct settlements, and then shrugged their shoulders when residents asked then why we have a dysfunctional police department.”
The state agency launched its investigation shortly after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes, disregarding the Black man’s fading pleas that he couldn’t breathe. Floyd’s death sparked mass protests that spread around the world. It forced a national reckoning on racial injustice and compelled the Minneapolis Police Department to begin an overhaul.
Chauvin was later convicted of murder. He and three other officers who were at the scene are now serving prison terms.
Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero signed the agreement after the council vote and were expected to brief reporters later Friday morning.
The U.S. Department of Justice is still investigating whether Minneapolis police engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination, and that investigation could lead to a separate consent decree with the city.
The state settlement, which still requires court approval, runs over 140 pages. It contains sections governing the use of force; stops, searches and arrests; the use of body-worn and dashboard cameras; training; officer wellness; responding to mental health and behavioral crises; and others. It also requires the appointment of an independent evaluator to monitor compliance. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/minneapolis-leaders-approve-agreement-to-revamp-policing/ | 2023-03-31 18:03:50 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/minneapolis-leaders-approve-agreement-to-revamp-policing/ |
WA Pendleton OR Zone Forecast for Monday, January 16, 2023
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310 FPUS56 KPDT 171158
ZFPPDT
Zone Forecast Product for Northeast Oregon and South Central Washington
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
358 AM PST Tue Jan 17 2023
WAZ026-180000-
Kittitas Valley-
Including the cities of Ellensburg and Thorp
358 AM PST Tue Jan 17 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy dense freezing fog in the morning.
Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Light wind, becoming west
5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain or snow
overnight. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain or snow.
Highs in the mid to upper 30s. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Gusts
up to 20 mph increasing to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
snow. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. West wind 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 40 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Northwest
wind 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
20s. Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain or
snow. Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 30s to
lower 40s. Lows 19 to 28.
$$
WAZ027-180000-
Yakima Valley-
Including the cities of Naches, Sunnyside, Toppenish, and Yakima
358 AM PST Tue Jan 17 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain or snow
overnight. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy. A chance of rain or snow. Highs around 40.
Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph increasing to
30 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
West wind 5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. West wind 5 to
10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower to mid 20s. Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain or
snow. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 20s.
Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
$$
WAZ028-180000-
Lower Columbia Basin of Washington-
Including the cities of Connell, Prosser, and Tri-Cities
358 AM PST Tue Jan 17 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy freezing fog in the morning. Highs
in the lower to mid 40s. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain overnight.
Lows in the lower 30s. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Southeast wind 5 to
10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
rain. Lows around 30. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
to upper 20s. Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s to
lower 40s. Lows in the 20s.
$$
WAZ029-180000-
Foothills of the Blue Mountains of Washington-
Including the cities of Dayton, Waitsburg, and Walla Walla
358 AM PST Tue Jan 17 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. South wind
5 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. South wind 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid to upper 40s. Southeast wind 5 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow.
Lows in the lower 30s. South wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s. Southwest wind
5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid to upper 20s. Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain or
snow. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or
snow. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s to
lower 40s. Lows in the 20s.
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WAZ030-180000-
Northwest Blue Mountains-
Including the city of Ski Bluewood Resort
358 AM PST Tue Jan 17 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow in the
afternoon. Highs in the 30s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph in the
afternoon. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s to lower 30s.
South wind 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain or snow
in the afternoon. Snow level 3000 feet. Highs in the lower to mid
30s, except in the upper 30s to mid 40s valleys. South wind 5 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Southwest wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 30s. Southwest wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 19 to
26. Highs in the lower to mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Windy. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of snow. Lows in the 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 16 to 22. Highs in
the upper 20s to lower 30s.
$$
WAZ520-180000-
East Slopes of the Washington Cascades-
Including the cities of Appleton, Cle Elum, and Cliffdell
358 AM PST Tue Jan 17 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Areas of freezing fog in the morning. A
chance of snow. Highs in the 30s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow in the
evening, then rain or snow likely overnight. Snow accumulation up
to 1 inch. Snow level 2500 feet. Lows in the mid 20s to lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain or snow likely in the morning, then rain or
snow in the afternoon. Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Snow
level 2500 feet. Highs in the 30s. Gusts up to 25 mph increasing
to 35 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Lows in the lower to mid 20s. West wind 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 40 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 30s. West wind 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 19 to 23. Highs
in the 30s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s to
mid 30s. Lows 16 to 26.
$$
WAZ521-180000-
Simcoe Highlands-
Including the cities of Goldendale and Bickleton
358 AM PST Tue Jan 17 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s. West
wind 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow. Lows in the
upper 20s to lower 30s. West wind 5 to 15 mph in the evening,
becoming light. Gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain or snow.
Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s. South wind 5 to 15 mph in
the afternoon. Gusts up to 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
snow. Lows in the 20s. West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s. West wind
5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
20s. Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the mid 30s to lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance
of snow. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s to
lower 40s. Lows in the 20s.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Tattooed Chef, Inc. ("Tattooed Chef" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TTCF). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Tattooed Chef and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On October 12, 2022, Tattooed Chef announced that it would restate its quarterly and annual financial statements for 2021 and for its first and second quarterly financial periods of 2022, stating that these financial statements should no longer be relied upon. Tattooed Chef said that it was notified earlier tin October by its former independent registered public accounting firm, BDO USA LLP, that "the company incorrectly recorded expenses related to a multi-vendor mailer program with a large customer as operating expenses rather than reduction of revenue, and expenses for advertising placement by a marketing services firm on a straight-line basis over the life of the contract rather than when the services were actually rendered."
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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SALT RIVER PROJECT wins for "THE BYOT DR program for hard-to-reach customers"
CPS ENERGY wins for "The FlexEV Smart Rewards and the FlexEV off-peak rewards program"
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EnergyHub clients Arizona-based public utility Salt River Project and Texas-based CPS Energy were the winners of the 20th PLMA (Peak Load Management Alliance) Awards. This annual awards program recognizes innovative approaches to flexible load management and initiatives to effectively manage end-use energy loads. The 20th Annual PLMA Awards were presented on May 9 at the 47th PLMA Conference in Memphis, Tennessee.
Salt River Project with EnergyHub, Google Nest, and TechniArt won the Pacesetter Program category for their "BYOT DR Program for Hard-to-Reach Customers."
SRP reached out to limited and moderate-income households, multi-family dwellings, and small-to-medium businesses via a kit program activated in partnership with EnergyHub, Google Nest, and TechniArt/Resource Innovations. The group worked together to develop marketing campaigns and program designs to overcome barriers that traditionally exclude these segments from demand response programs.
The utility calculated that this untapped customer segment represented approximately 200,000 - 300,000 households and 28,000 businesses. Example barriers include the complexity of installation in multi-family buildings and engagement challenges among traditionally marginalized communities. SRP is the first utility in the country to expand BYOT to businesses and multi-family segments with direct installation support and customer-tailored marketing campaigns, and can now rely on more than 78,000 thermostats to deliver flexibility.
Eamonn Urey, Program Manager at SRP said, "Our BYOT program for hard-to-reach customers levels the playing field. Demand response programs create opportunities for us to work with all of our customers to ensure grid reliability."
CPS Energy won the Thought Leader category for "The FlexEV Smart Rewards and FlexEV Off Peak Rewards Programs."
CPS Energy simultaneously launched two customer-focused charging programs for residential customers: FlexEV Smart Rewards, a direct load control program where customers agree to let CPS Energy make remote adjustments to their charging during peak hours; and FlexEV Off Peak Rewards, a program where customers earn incentives for shifting their charging to off-peak hours. By deploying these program designs simultaneously, CPS Energy provides a roadmap for the industry and allows utilities to maximize the impact of their EV programs while ensuring that utilities and their infrastructure can handle EV growth.
Jonathan Tijerina, VP of Enterprise Risk & Development at CPS Energy said, "Our customers are quickly embracing electric vehicles, and we are committed to developing EV-based flexibility programs that maximize benefits both to our customers and to the grid. Testing the FlexEV Smart Rewards and FlexEV Off Peak Rewards programs simultaneously provides us with critical insights that inform our long-term EV strategy, while helping us accelerate the benefits of our programs in the near-term."
With the involvement of more than 15 volunteer judges, all of whom are PLMA member practitioners, each award nomination is carefully evaluated by a group of industry peers using a rubric methodology. The award-winning programs demonstrate effective approaches to meeting peak energy loads while helping to support a stable, DER-integrated electric grid.
The PLMA Award Series of live webinars will be hosted from May through September 2023, and will also be published on PLMA's YouTube channel for the benefit of energy professionals everywhere. The webinar schedule will be published on PLMA's Calendar in May 2023.
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EnergyHub is the leading grid-edge DERMS provider. Utilities rely on EnergyHub's DERMS platform to manage all distributed energy resources to serve grid and market objectives. EnergyHub works with over 60 utilities in North America to manage more than 1.3 GW of flexible capacity. We empower utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. For more information, visit www.energyhub.com
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Jacklyn Zeman, who played Bobbie Spencer for 45 years on ABC’s “General Hospital” has died at 70.
Zeman died after a short battle with cancer, her family confirmed Wednesday. News of her death was first announced by the show’s executive producer, Frank Valentini.
“I am heartbroken to announce the passing of our beloved Jackie Zeman,” he wrote on Twitter. “Just like her character, the legendary Bobbie Spencer, she was a bright light and a true professional that brought so much positive energy with her work.”
ABC Entertainment and “General Hospital” also released a statement stating, “Jacklyn Zeman has been a beloved member of the General Hospital and ABC family since she originated the iconic role of Bobbie Spencer over 45 years ago. She leaves behind a lasting legacy for her Emmy-nominated portrayal of the bad girl turned heroine and will always be remembered for her kind heart and radiant spirit. We are devastated by the news of her passing, and send our deepest condolences to Jackie’s family, friends and loved ones.”
Zeman first joined “General Hospital” in 1977 as Barbara Jean, who went by Bobbie, and was the feisty, younger sister of Anthony Geary’s Luke Spencer. Zeman grew to regard Geary as family off camera. “I’m probably closer to him than I would be a real-life brother,” she told co-star Maurice Benard last year on his YouTube series “State of Mind.”
Bobbie had worked as a teen prostitute and given up a baby for adoption but had managed to turn her life around and become a nurse at General Hospital. Zeman’s portrayal of Spencer was a spirited, upbeat woman who was as sweet as pie but who also had a sense of self. She didn’t suffer fools and had no problem revoking the niceties if she believed it were warranted.
“Bobbie has been a fascinating person for me to play,” she said in an interview in 1982. “I get to do… all the things that most women think about but wouldn’t dare.”
One of Zeman’s most memorable scenes was in 1994 and Bobbie’s daughter BJ is in a school bus accident that leaves her brain dead. Bobbie and then-husband Tony (played by Brad Maule) made the decision to donate their daughter’s heart to her cousin, Maxie, who was battling Kawasaki disease.
Laura Wright, who plays Bobbie’s daughter Carly Spencer, posted a series of broken heart emojis. Jon Lindstrom, who plays Kevin Collins wrote, “This is going to take me a minute to process. I can’t believe such a life force as hers has left.”
Born March 6, 1953 in Englewood, New Jersey, Zeman discovered a love for dance as a child and as a teen, began acting in school productions. She worked in Venezuela as a dancer after high school and was pre-med at New York University but dropped out when she was offered a contract at the ABC soap “One Life to Live” after originally being hired for just three days of work.
On ’One Life,” she played Lana McClain for a little more than one year and then left for “General Hospital.” “I didn’t even audition,” she told a blogger in 2010. Zeman was nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards for her work on the show.
Outside of soap operas, Zeman worked as a Playboy Bunny to help pay for college and also acted in commercials. She had a role in 1982’s “National Lampoon’s Class Reunion” appeared in a string of TV movies including the ABC Afterschool special “Montana Crossroads” in 1993. She also had a series regular role as Sofia Madison in the crime-drama series “The Bay,” earning her a fifth Emmy Award nomination.
Zeman last’s appearance on “General Hospital” before her death was in April for the wedding of her character’s grandson. The same month she also celebrated the show’s 60th anniversary by posting a video on Instagram to the fans.
“A great, big heartfelt thank you to the very special people who have been watching us and supporting us and keeping us on the air all these years. We love you.”
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CT Albany NY Zone Forecast for Saturday, July 23, 2022
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489 FPUS51 KALY 240817
ZFPALY
FPUS51 KALY 240815
ZFPALY
Zone Forecast Product for Eastern New York and Western New England
National Weather Service Albany NY
415 AM EDT Sun Jul 24 2022
CTZ001-242000-
Northern Litchfield-
Including the city of Torrington
415 AM EDT Sun Jul 24 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Hot with highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight. Humid with lows
around 70. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon.
Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds in the afternoon. Humid
with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds around 10 mph. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds in the evening. Lows in
the lower 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest after
midnight. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the mid 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
CTZ013-242000-
Southern Litchfield-
Including the cities of Oakville, New Milford, Terryville,
and Woodbury
415 AM EDT Sun Jul 24 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Humid with lows in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms
likely in the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Some thunderstorms may
produce gusty winds in the evening. Humid with lows in the mid 60s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Hot. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in the upper
60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Hot
with highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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Micron will invest $15 billion though the end of the decade on a new semiconductor plant in its hometown that the chipmaker said will create 17,000 American jobs.
Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO of Boise, Idaho-based Micron, said his company’s investment was made possible by last month’s passage of the CHIPS and Science ACT of 2022, a $280 billion bill aimed at bolstering U.S. competitiveness against China and avoiding another chip shortage like the one that derailed the auto and tech industries during the pandemic.
The CHIPS law sets aside $52 billion to bolster the semiconductor industry, which due to COVID-related supply chain constraints beginning in 2020, has struggled to manufacture the diminutive chips that power everything from smartphones to computers to automobiles.
“Our new leading-edge memory manufacturing fab will fuel U.S. technology leadership, ensuring a reliable domestic supply of semiconductors that is critical to economic and national security,” Mehrotra said.
Micron said locating the manufacturing plant at the company’s operational headquarter will improve efficiency and help get products to market faster.
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean said the partnership will help the city’s economy grow and attract and diverse workforce.
“This is a once in a generation investment in Boise from a home-grown company that is critical to the economic vitality of our community, our state and our nation,” McLean wrote on Twitter.
McLean and Mehrotra last month attended President Biden’s bill signing ceremony for the CHIPS and Science Act. Idaho’s entire congressional delegation, all Republicans, voted against it.
Biden called the Micron announcement “another big win for America.”
Micron is one of Idaho’s largest employers. The company has several chip manufacturing plants around the world, including in Singapore and Taiwan.
Last week, the chipmaker Intel Corp. announced that it would break ground Sept. 9 on its planned $20 billion Ohio semiconductor facilities. The factories, known as fabs, are expected to open in 2025. President Biden is scheduled to attend the groundbreaking.
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TAZEWELL, VA (WVNS)–One local animal shelter in Virginia needs help as they reach Code Red.
The Tazewell County Animal Shelter is on the verge of euthanizing animals to make space for new intakes.
Director of the shelter, Jenny Dawson said she’s thankful they haven’t had to go that route yet.
She said she needs assistance from the community
“We’re looking for good adopters to come and meet our animals and hopefully provide them a loving home,” Dawson said.
And if being in a code red situation isn’t enough, on Monday, June 13, 2022, in the morning, someone dropped off 17 cats who were forced into four crates.
Since the cat kennels are full, they simply don’t have the room for them and must keep them separate to avoid infecting the vaccinated, healthy cats.
Cloie McGhee, a worker at the shelter and a student who wants to become a veterinarian said it scares her to see what she might deal with in the workforce.
“It really angers me to see people just be so heartless, we just went Code Red, we were just full and for someone to make this harder on us sucks,” McGhee said.
Both McGhee and Dawson stress the importance of fixing your animal to ensure shelters and the community isn’t filled with strays.
“Anyone who is a responsible pet owner is going to encourage spay and neuter. There are medical benefits to it but most importantly we are in an area that is highly overpopulated with animals and the reason for that is the lack of spay and neuter,” Dawson said. | https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/tazewell-county-animal-shelter-faces-a-code-red-situation/ | 2022-06-14 01:42:03 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/tazewell-county-animal-shelter-faces-a-code-red-situation/ |
Twitter is struggling to respond to political misinformation and other harmful posts on the social media platform after Elon Musk fired roughly half of its workforce just days before the U.S. midterm elections, according to employees who survived the cuts and an outside voting rights group.
The recent mass layoffs spared many of the people whose job it is to keep hate and misinformation off the social-media platform. Musk cut just 15% of those frontline content-moderation workers, compared to roughly 50% job cuts companywide, an executive said last week.
But in preparation for the layoffs, employees said the company also sharply reduced how many employees can look into a specific account’s digital history and behavior — a practice necessary to investigate if it’s been used maliciously and take action to suspend it. The company said it froze access to those tools to reduce “insider risk” at a time of transition.
The developments are causing concern as the U.S. midterm elections culminate on Tuesday. Though millions of Americans have already cast early and absentee ballots, millions more are expected to go to the polls to cast in-person votes. Election watchers fear the platform may not be equipped to handle hate speech, misinformation that could impact voter safety and security, and actors seeking to cast doubt on the legitimate winners of elections around the country.
Researchers tracking misinformation ahead of the midterms notified Twitter on Friday about three posts from well-known far-right figures that advanced debunked claims about election fraud. The posts remain up three days later. When Common Cause asked Twitter for an update on Monday, the platform said the posts were “under review.”
Before Musk took over, Twitter responded much more quickly, said Jesse Littlewood, vice president for campaigns at Common Cause. The group said they had been in regular contact with Twitter staff before Musk took over. Now, they are getting a response from a generic email address.
“We had been getting much faster decisions from them, sometimes within hours,” said Littlewood. Now, he said, “It’s like pushing the button for the walk sign at the stop light, and nothing is happening.”
Musk gutted teams working on marketing, communications and editorial curation of what people see on Twitter. But his decision to retain most of Twitter’s content moderation team came as a welcome surprise to some inside and outside the company. Musk, after all, promised to let free speech flourish by loosening Twitter’s content restrictions and restoring accounts banned for violating those rules. He has also pledged to end the current user verification system in favor of a $7.99 subscription fee.
But the fact that the content moderation team survived could mean that critical misinformation functions such as blocking incitements of political violence will continue, and some of the worst-case scenarios around election misinformation won’t be realized. Some of Musk’s own tweets have been annotated with fact-checked context in recent days.
Two employees who survived the job cuts credit a previously little-known executive Yoel Roth, Twitter’s global head of safety and integrity, for leveraging his team’s importance to Musk’s goals for Twitter while avoiding moves that might anger the mercurial Tesla CEO.
“Yoel Roth singlehandedly saved the company,” said a Twitter employee who spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns about job security. “On the public side, he appropriately and thoughtfully engaged with Elon Musk in a way that was not subservient, but deferring, because Elon is the king.”
Roth has become the public face of Twitter’s content moderation since Musk took over and has regularly defended Twitter’s ongoing efforts to fight harmful misinformation. Musk, a prolific tweeter with more than 110 million followers, has frequently pointed to Roth’s Twitter feed as the most reliable account of the company’s adherence to integrity standards. And the billionaire, who embraces the idea that Twitter’s past leadership suppressed right-wing views, defended Roth when ardent Musk supporters demanded his firing over past comments they thought showed Roth’s liberal bias.
Roth, who once worked at an Apple store fixing Mac computers, joined Twitter in 2015 after spending a year studying online hate speech at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, according to his LinkedIn profile. In May, he took on a senior role “responsible for all user, content, and security policies, comprising more than 120 policymakers, threat investigators, data analysts, and operations specialists.”
Roth didn’t respond to requests for comment.
A legal scholar who sits on Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council, an advisory board set up in 2016, said she has long been impressed with Roth’s candor about the challenges of content moderation and the nuances of free speech — such as the importance of curbing abusive content to enable the free speech of women and others more likely to be harassed online.
“If Musk had been able to cut everybody in content moderation and just replace it with his ‘yes’ men, he probably would have,” said Mary Anne Franks, a law professor at the University of Miami and president of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. “The only reason why he hasn’t is because he maybe recognizes that would make Twitter unworkable.”
One Twitter employee said Monday that layoff survivors were actively looking for new jobs in part because of Musk’s lack of commitment to keeping the platform free of hate speech and misinformation. Speaking anonymously because of concerns about job security, the employee said the job cuts would make Twitter’s staff less effective in following up and acting on complaints about election-related disinformation, because they included people leading civic integrity teams.
Franks said there’s always been a tension within Twitter and other social media companies between making money and protecting democracy and freedom of expression. She said that’s only getting harder under Musk, who has shown Twitter can act quickly in banning a comedian who made fun of him by impersonating his account, but who has otherwise expressed hostility towards Twitter’s anti-abuse standards.
“I would imagine that someone in a position like Roth’s at Twitter would have to play a pretty delicate game trying not to trip any of the wires, not to trigger a backlash from Musk because he’s incredibly thin-skinned,” Franks said.
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AP Technology Writer Frank Bajak contributed to this report. | https://www.krqe.com/news/technology/ap-twitters-pared-down-staff-struggles-with-misinformation/ | 2022-11-08 20:51:55 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/technology/ap-twitters-pared-down-staff-struggles-with-misinformation/ |
The Orlando Magic extended a two-way qualifying offer to Admiral Schofield on Wednesday, a person with knowledge of the situation told the Orlando Sentinel, making him a restricted free agent when free agency officially opens at 12:01 a.m. on Friday.
If Schofield accepts the qualifying offer, he’ll return to the Magic on a one-year two-way contract with $50,000 guaranteed.
He also has the option of negotiating a standard contract — with Orlando or other teams.
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By making Schofield a restricted free agent, the Magic can match the terms of another team’s offer to retain Schofield.
Schofield, a 25-year-old forward who was the 2019 draft’s 42nd pick, was among a quartet of players whom the Magic signed to 10-day contracts via hardship exceptions in mid-December from the organization’s G League affiliate, the Lakeland Magic, because multiple players were put in the league’s COVID-19 health and safety protocols.
He signed multiple 10-day deals before signing a two-way contract in early January, averaging 3.8 points in 12.3 minutes (38 games).
Two-way players will once again have a 50-game limit in the regular season to be on their NBA team’s active roster in 2022-23. The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association agreed to scrap that limit in 2021-22 because of teams’ COVID-19 outbreaks.
Teams may communicate with free agents starting at 6 p.m. Thursday before agreeing to terms six hours later.
The free agency moratorium is a negotiation period from Friday through July 6 in which teams can come to terms on contracts and other deals while the new salary cap numbers are adjusted after an audit of league finances. Those deals can become official at 12:01 p.m. on July 6.
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WASHINGTON — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court.
The opinion released Tuesday in a dispute between states over unclaimed money is one of roughly a half dozen she is expected to write by the time the court finishes its work for the summer, usually in late June. The decision was unanimous, though all the justices didn’t join the whole opinion.
Each justice typically writes at least one opinion from the seven separate two-week arguments sessions the court holds from early October to late April. But in January and February, for example, the court has only seven argued cases each month, meaning there are not enough to go around.
Jackson joined the high court on June 30, following the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer.
Jackson, 52, is the first Black woman to serve as a justice and just the third Black person on the court. The others are Justice Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving among the nine justices, and the late Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Jackson wrote her first dissenting opinion in November, in support of a death row inmate from Ohio who failed to win Supreme Court review of his case.
Lawyers for the inmate, Davel Chinn, argued that the state suppressed evidence that might have altered the outcome of his trial.
Jackson wrote that she would have ordered lower courts to take another look at the case. Only Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined Jackson's opinion.
The nine-member court as a whole is younger than it's been for nearly 30 years, when Breyer, now 84, came on board.
Among the younger justices are three appointees of former President Donald Trump, and the court's historic diversity won't obscure its conservative tilt. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-first-supreme-court-majority-opinion/507-66a0d839-6995-4ff7-80b9-ff52385c9458 | 2023-02-28 17:34:46 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-first-supreme-court-majority-opinion/507-66a0d839-6995-4ff7-80b9-ff52385c9458 |
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6 fire crew members in 1 department expecting children this year
Published: Aug. 12, 2022 at 2:40 PM CDT|Updated: 11 minutes ago
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) – Six crew members at a fire department in Kansas are expecting children by the end of the year.
According to KWCH, the McPherson Fire Department posted a photo on Facebook of the firefighters’ wives showing off their baby bumps while wearing their husbands’ gear.
The first of the six babies is due Sept. 27, with one other due in October, two in November and two in December.
“The joy of welcoming a baby has multiplied by six,” the fire department said in the social media post. “We feel blessed.”
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ROWLEY, Mass., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Comstar, LLC ("Comstar") is providing notice of a recent event that may affect the security of certain information.
On or about March 26, 2022, Comstar discovered suspicious activity related to certain servers within its environment. Comstar immediately took steps to secure our network, and launched a thorough investigation, with the assistance of third-party experts, to determine the nature and scope of the incident. On April 21, 2022, the investigation determined that certain systems on Comstar's network were subject to unauthorized access. However, the investigation was unable to confirm what specific information on those systems was accessed. As such, Comstar reviewed the contents of those systems to determine what information was contained therein and to whom it related for purposes of notification.
The review of the systems determined information related to certain individuals was contained within. The information varied by individual but may have included name, date of birth, medical assessment and medication administration, health insurance information, driver's license, financial account information, and Social Security number.
Individuals who have questions about this incident or believe they may be impacted by this incident, can contact our dedicated call center at 877-587-4280, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time except holidays, or visit our web site for more information at www.comstarbilling.com
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Under U.S. law, a consumer is entitled to one free credit report annually from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. To order your free credit report, visit www.annualcreditreport.com or call, toll-free, 1-877-322-8228. You may also directly contact the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below to request a free copy of your credit report.
Consumers have the right to place an initial or extended "fraud alert" on a credit file at no cost. An initial fraud alert is a 1-year alert that is placed on a consumer's credit file. Upon seeing a fraud alert display on a consumer's credit file, a business is required to take steps to verify the consumer's identity before extending new credit. If you are a victim of identity theft, you are entitled to an extended fraud alert, which is a fraud alert lasting seven years. Should you wish to place a fraud alert, please contact any one of the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below.
As an alternative to a fraud alert, consumers have the right to place a "credit freeze" on a credit report, which will prohibit a credit bureau from releasing information in the credit report without the consumer's express authorization. The credit freeze is designed to prevent credit, loans, and services from being approved in your name without your consent. However, you should be aware that using a credit freeze to take control over who gets access to the personal and financial information in your credit report may delay, interfere with, or prohibit the timely approval of any subsequent request or application you make regarding a new loan, credit, mortgage, or any other account involving the extension of credit. Pursuant to federal law, you cannot be charged to place or lift a credit freeze on your credit report. To request a credit freeze, you will need to provide the following information:
- Full name (including middle initial as well as Jr., Sr., II, III, etc.);
- Social Security number;
- Date of birth;
- Addresses for the prior two to five years;
- Proof of current address, such as a current utility bill or telephone bill;
- A legible photocopy of a government-issued identification card (state driver's license or ID card, etc.); and
- A copy of either the police report, investigative report, or complaint to a law enforcement agency concerning identity theft if you are a victim of identity theft.
Should you wish to place a fraud alert or credit freeze, please contact the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below:
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You may further educate yourself regarding identity theft, fraud alerts, credit freezes, and the steps you can take to protect your personal information by contacting the consumer reporting bureaus, the Federal Trade Commission, or your state Attorney General. The Federal Trade Commission may be reached at: 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580; www.identitytheft.gov; 1-877-ID-THEFT (1-877-438-4338); and TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The Federal Trade Commission also encourages those who discover that their information has been misused to file a complaint with them. You can obtain further information on how to file such a complaint by way of the contact information listed above. You have the right to file a police report if you ever experience identity theft or fraud. Please note that in order to file a report with law enforcement for identity theft, you will likely need to provide some proof that you have been a victim. Instances of known or suspected identity theft should also be reported to law enforcement and your state Attorney General. This notice has not been delayed by law enforcement.
For California residents: Visit the California Office of Privacy Protection (www.oag.ca.gov/privacy) for additional information on protection against identity theft.
For Kentucky residents: Office of the Attorney General of Kentucky, 700 Capitol Avenue, Suite 118 Frankfort, Kentucky 40601, www.ag.ky.gov, Telephone: 1-502-696-5300.
For District of Columbia residents: the District of Columbia Attorney General may be contacted at: 400 6th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001; 202-727-3400; and oag@dc.gov.
For Maryland residents: the Maryland Attorney General may be contacted at: 200 St. Paul Place, 16th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202; 1-410-528-8662 or 1-888-743-0023; and www.oag.state.md.us. Comstar is located at 8 Turcotte Memorial Drive, Rowley, MA 01969.
For Massachusetts Residents: You have the right to obtain any police report filed in regard to this incident.
For New Mexico residents: you have rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, such as the right to be told if information in your credit file has been used against you, the right to know what is in your credit file, the right to ask for your credit score, and the right to dispute incomplete or inaccurate information. Further, pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the consumer reporting bureaus must correct or delete inaccurate, incomplete, or unverifiable information; consumer reporting agencies may not report outdated negative information; access to your file is limited; you must give your consent for credit reports to be provided to employers; you may limit "prescreened" offers of credit and insurance you get based on information in your credit report; and you may seek damages from violator. You may have additional rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act not summarized here. Identity theft victims and active duty military personnel have specific additional rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. We encourage you to review your rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act by visiting www.consumerfinance.gov/f/201504_cfpb_summary_your-rights-under-fcra.pdf, or by writing Consumer Response Center, Room 130-A, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580.
For New York residents: the New York Attorney General may be contacted at: Office of the Attorney General, The Capitol, Albany, NY 12224-0341; 1-800-771-7755; or https://ag.ny.gov/.
For North Carolina residents: the North Carolina Attorney General may be contacted at: 9001 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-9001; 1-877-566-7226 or 1-919-716-6000; and www.ncdoj.gov.
For Oregon residents: Oregon Department of Justice, 1162 Court Street NE, Salem, OR 97301-4096, www.doj.state.or.us/, Telephone: 877-877-9392.
For Rhode Island residents: the Rhode Island Attorney General may be reached at: 150 South Main Street, Providence, RI 02903; www.riag.ri.gov; and 1-401-274-4400. Under Rhode Island law, you have the right to obtain any police report filed in regard to this incident.
For Washington D.C. residents: the Office of Attorney General for the District of Columbia can be reached at: 441 4thStreet NW, Suite 1100 South, Washington, D.C. 20001; 1-202-442-9828; https://oag.dc.gov.
For All U.S. residents: Identity Theft Clearinghouse, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580, www.consumer.gov/idtheft, 1-877-IDTHEFT (438-4338).
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LONDON — The United Kingdom and the European Union have signed a new agreement intended to solve one of the thorniest challenges created by Brexit: a long-term resolution for the trading status of Northern Ireland.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reached a deal with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday that will allow goods to enter Northern Ireland freely from other parts of the U.K.
It comes more than six years after British voters chose to leave the EU and three years since the two finally broke up in 2020.
One reason the Brexit process dragged on for so many years was the inability of all sides to address a double dilemma: How to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland that might become a flashpoint given the region's troubled history, and how to ensure Northern Ireland was not somehow treated separately from the rest of the United Kingdom.
Here's how the deal, dubbed the "Windsor Framework" — a change to the original Northern Ireland Protocol — attempts to solve those issues.
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It revises trade rules
Then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government opted to let the EU grant Northern Ireland a rather unique status, meaning that goods produced elsewhere in the U.K. — England, Wales or Scotland — would need to be inspected by officials before they could enter Northern Ireland.
Leaders were trying to avoid creating a hard border between Northern Ireland, which was leaving the EU, and neighboring EU-member state Ireland. But their solution also created a fresh set of challenges.
People in Northern Ireland who strongly want to remain part of the U.K. saw this as an affront. One of the main political parties there, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), has consequently refused to participate in local government ever since. It has helped reignite some tensions between different communities.
At the same time, some members of the Conservative Party also resented the idea that even after Brexit — with its slogan to "take back control" of Britain — EU bureaucrats would continue to have the power to intervene in trade flows within the United Kingdom.
The new plan involves the introduction of red and green lanes for goods arriving in Northern Ireland from other parts of the U.K.: green for British products, including medication, that are staying in Northern Ireland; red for those goods and products that will be sold on to the Republic of Ireland, thus entering the EU.
Business groups welcomed Monday's changes.
It might break the deadlock in Northern Ireland's politics
Sunak has called this a "decisive breakthrough" and says that the U.K. Parliament will get a vote on the plan at the "appropriate" moment. But several lawmakers who opposed the previous agreement said they want some time to digest the new details before passing judgment.
In a parliamentary debate that followed the deal's announcement, one of Sunak's predecessors, Theresa May, who struggled to solve the Northern Ireland dilemma and ultimately failed to win lawmakers' approval for a Brexit deal, said the newly agreed measures will "make a huge difference."
Meanwhile, Sunak's chief political opponent, Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, said he would support the new deal, which would boost Britain's international standing and hopefully put an end to the country's "endless disputes" with its neighbors.
Sunak has also promised that the local legislature in Northern Ireland, known as the Stormont Assembly, will have the ability to diverge from European Union laws, in a way that was difficult under the previous deal.
The DUP has, over the past two years, refused to take part in the power sharing agreement in Northern Ireland, essentially grinding local governance to a halt, and thus potentiality endangering the 1998 Northern Ireland peace agreement.
Sunak will be hoping this breaks the gridlock and calms some of the tensions that the entire Brexit process has reawakened in the region — only last week gunmen tried to kill a senior police officer in Northern Ireland.
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NEW ORLEANS, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jones Walker LLP is pleased to announce its top rankings in the 2023 edition of Chambers USA, the world's leading legal data and analytics provider, highlighting the top lawyers and law firms across the USA for over two decades, by Chambers and Partners. Attorneys and law firms are selected for inclusion based on submissions by legal practices, interviews, research, and client references.
Jones Walker ranked nationally in seven practices: Construction, Gaming & Licensing, Occupational Safety and Health, Offshore Energy, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (outside New York), and Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Regulatory.
The firm also ranked regionally in 15 practices: Banking & Finance (Alabama, Louisiana), Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Louisiana, Mississippi), Construction (Georgia, Louisiana), Corporate/Commercial (Alabama, Mississippi), Corporate/M&A (Louisiana), Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Louisiana), Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas (Louisiana), Environment (Louisiana), Gaming & Licensing (Louisiana), Healthcare (Alabama, Louisiana), Labor & Employment (Louisiana), Litigation: General Commercial (Louisiana, Mississippi), Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Louisiana), Real Estate (Louisiana, Mississippi), and Tax (Louisiana).
This year, 80 Jones Walker attorneys across the firm's geographic footprint in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New York were recognized for their prominence in specific areas of law.
USA - NATIONWIDE
- William C. Baldwin, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance
- J. Kelly Duncan, Gaming & Licensing
- George J. Fowler, III, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (outside New York)
- Jane Henican Heidingsfelder, Occupational Safety and Health
- Grady S. Hurley, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (outside New York)
- R. Scott Jenkins, Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Regulatory
- Cindy Matherne Muller, Offshore Energy
- Thomas B. Shepherd, III, Gaming & Licensing
ALABAMA
- C. Ellis Brazeal, III, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Robert L. Carothers Jr., Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory
- John Beaulieu (Beau) Grenier, Corporate/Commercial
- Daniel J. Martin, Healthcare
- Michael D. Waters, Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory
FLORIDA
- Edward R. Shohat, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
GEORGIA
- Neal J. Sweeney, Construction
- Chad V. Theriot, Construction
LOUISIANA
- H. Mark Adams, Labor & Employment
- Jesse R. Adams, III, Tax
- William M. Backstrom, Jr., Tax
- William C. Baldwin, Marine Finance
- Robert B. Bieck, Jr., Litigation: Securities
- Timothy P. Brechtel, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Boyd A. Bryan, Environment
- Andre B. Burvant, Tax
- Christopher D. Cazenave, Construction
- R. Keith Colvin, Real Estate
- Richard F. Cortizas, Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use
- Mark A. Cunningham, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Nadia de la Houssaye, Healthcare
- Sarah Y. Dicharry, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
- J. Kelly Duncan, Gaming & Licensing, Marine Finance
- Luke Falgoust, Banking & Finance
- Elizabeth J. Futrell, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Covert J. Geary, Litigation: General Commercial
- Alex H. Glaser, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Jeffrey P. Good, Real Estate
- Jeffry W. Gray, Real Estate
- Pauline F. Hardin, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Curtis R. Hearn, Corporate/M&A
- Jane Henican Heidingsfelder, Labor & Employment
- Robert (Bob) E. Holden, Environment
- David M. Hunter, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
- Jonathan A. Hunter, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
- Matthew W. Kern, Public Finance
- Jennifer Faroldi Kogos, Labor & Employment
- Joseph F. Lavigne, Labor & Employment
- Seth A. Levine, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
- Sidney F. Lewis, V, Labor & Employment
- Michael W. Magner, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Marjorie A. McKeithen, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
- Stanley A. Millan, Environment: Litigation
- Mark A. Mintz, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Kenneth J. Najder, Corporate/M&A
- J. Marshall Page, III, Banking & Finance, Corporate/M&A
- Alex P. Prochaska, Environment
- Rudolph R. Ramelli, Tax
- Carl D. Rosenblum, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
- Dionne M. Rousseau, Corporate/M&A
- Amy Garrity Scafidel, Banking & Finance
- Robert W. Scheffy, Jr., Real Estate
- Kelly C. Simoneaux, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Meghan E. Smith, Environment: Litigation
- Richard J. Tyler, Construction
- Susan M. Tyler, Real Estate
- R. Patrick Vance, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, Litigation: General Commercial
- B. Trevor Wilson, Tax
- Amy M. Winters, Healthcare
- Benjamin Paul Woodruff, Banking & Finance
- Scott T. Zander, Public Finance
MISSISSIPPI
- Jeffrey R. Barber, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Neville H. Boschert, Litigation: General Commercial
- Mark T. Davis, Real Estate
- John F. Fletcher, Tax
- Gina M. Jacobs, Corporate/Commercial
- Kristina M. Johnson, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Craig N. Landrum, Corporate/Commercial: Banking & Finance
- Christopher S. Pace, Corporate/Commercial: Municipal Finance
- Kaytie M. Pickett, Litigation: General Commercial
- Thomas B. Shepherd, III, Gaming & Licensing
- Adam Stone, Litigation: General Commercial
- Ann Corso Taylor, Real Estate
- Aileen S. Thomas, Corporate/Commercial: Municipal Finance
NEW YORK
- Alysse McLoughlin, Tax: State & Local
- Kathleen M. Quinn, Tax: State & Local
About Jones Walker
Jones Walker LLP (joneswalker.com) is among the largest 135 law firms in the United States. With offices in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, and Texas, we serve local, regional, national, and international business interests. The firm is committed to providing a comprehensive range of legal services to major multinational public and private corporations, Fortune® 500 companies, money center banks, worldwide insurers, and emerging companies doing business in the United States and abroad.
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PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Three close calls in just one month are three too many.
In April, a Clearwater, Tarpon Police Department cruiser, and Florida Highway Patrol car were rear ended by drivers who, either weren’t paying attention or were impaired. Thankfully, law enforcement was not injured in any of the incidents.
Thursday, officers from the Clearwater and Largo Police Departments paired up with Pinellas Sheriff’s deputies and Florida Highway Patrol troopers for a move over law saturation on U.S. 19.
The move over law was put into effect in 2002 and requires drivers to move over when they see officers, tow truck drivers or other emergency workers on the side of the road with their lights activated.
In the event you cannot move over, the law requires you to slow your speed to 20 miles per hour below the speed limit.
Clearwater Sgt. Dan Negersmith believes the roads have gotten more dangerous post COVID-19.
“And I truly believe that people were locked down for a year so they forgot how to act in society,” Sgt. Negersmith said. “We do have rules and laws that are still there. I mean, that’s the only thing that I can come up with. “
Sgt. Negersmith pulled over one woman who was very apologetic, and admitted she was not familiar with the law. She passed a stopped patrol car doing 60 in a 55 mph zone.
“They go by you so fast it doesn’t even matter,” said Sgt. Negersmith. “And if there’s a work zone it’s the same way. They don’t even slow down for the work zones.”
The cost of a move over violation in Pinellas County is $166.00. That fine drops to $155.20 if you take the safe driving course. | https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/move-over-or-pay-up-officers-enforce-the-move-over-law-in-pinellas-county/ | 2022-05-05 20:58:48 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/move-over-or-pay-up-officers-enforce-the-move-over-law-in-pinellas-county/ |
The 3,000-year-old Grizzly Giant is among the hundreds of sequoia trees threatened by a wildfire in Yosemite National Park.
The Grizzly Giant stands over 200 feet tall and is among 500 sequoia trees in the Mariposa Grove, which was evacuated and is closed. The rest of the park remains open.
Officials are using the removal of heavy and fine fuels around the trees and deploying ground-based sprinkler systems to increase the humidity near the trees. The fire is burning in difficult terrain with continuous heavy fuels in and around the fire, National Park officials said.
The fire is also in an area with a lot of fuel left behind from trees that died seven to nine years ago.
The effort to fight the fire is expected to be prolonged as the forecast indicates favorable conditions all week. As of Sunday, the fire consumed 2,340 acres.
One feature of sequoia trees that protect them is sequoias tend to drop their lower branches as they grow taller and older, which helps avoid fire from climbing up to the tops of the trees into the canopy, the National Park said. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/3-000-year-old-tree-among-those-threatened-by-yosemite-wildfire | 2022-07-11 14:50:10 | 0 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/3-000-year-old-tree-among-those-threatened-by-yosemite-wildfire |
MILFORD MILL, Md. — A teen has been charged in connection to the September murder of 14-year-old Travis Slaughter.
Police say the suspect is 17-years-old, and is currently being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center.
Slaughter, a student at Milford Mill Academy, was shot to death on September 2 near Liberty Road and Washington Avenue, following the school's football game.
RELATED: Police ID 14-year-old shot and killed after Milford Mill football game
One other person was also injured in the shooting.
So far no motive has been revealed. It's unclear if the suspect and Slaughter knew each other. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/teen-charged-in-connection-to-murder-of-milford-academy-student-travis-slaughter | 2022-10-27 17:48:40 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/teen-charged-in-connection-to-murder-of-milford-academy-student-travis-slaughter |
- In Sudan, food prices have gone up 143% since 2021[1], a year after the FAO's global food price index saw its highest ever annual increase
- It would take two weeks for a Somalian to earn enough to buy a common basket of food items[2], compared to just 1.2 hours for an American
- An estimated 45 million children under 5 are so thin for their height, they're at increased risk of death [3]
SEATTLE, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from global humanitarian organization World Vision highlights how spiraling food prices are contributing to the global hunger crisis and putting the world's most vulnerable children at increased risk of death.
"Food prices have increased globally over the past few years as the world grapples with the triple crisis of COVID-19, conflict, and climate change," said Mary Njeri, World Vision's Global Hunger Response Director. "Most people around the globe are experiencing the impact of increasing food prices, but for some, they have potentially deadly consequences – almost 50 million children are now so thin for their height that they're at heightened risk of death. The numbers of acutely hungry people have already gone up by 25% since the beginning of the year, and unless we take urgent action, more families will struggle to feed themselves, too."
World Vision's research found that there had been an overall increase of 14% in food prices in the past year. Rises have been especially sharp in some of the poorest countries, especially those reliant on imports or affected by climate change. For example, while there has been a 9% increase here in the U.S. in the past year, food prices have increased by 33% in Angola, 42% in Ethiopia, and 143% in Sudan since 2021. In the Solomon Islands, rice and dairy prices have tripled since 2021.
Globally, 345 million children and families are acutely hungry and struggling to get enough to eat. Hunger is widespread across multiple regions, with children living in conflict zones twice as likely to be malnourished.
The crisis is particularly grave in Somalia, where more than 7 million people (half the population) are grappling with hunger and parts of the country are at imminent risk of famine. The worst drought in 40 years has killed livestock – a critical income source for families – and rising food prices worsened by the war in Ukraine have left millions one step away from starvation.
The cost of a basic shopping basket for an average worker helps to illustrate the disparity. For example, World Vision's report found that in Somalia it would take a worker two weeks (13.7 days) to earn enough money to buy the same basic food supplies that an American could earn in a little over an hour.
"This is completely unattainable for the average family and shows just how important it is to both tackle the root of these crises – political will to end conflicts and fight climate change – and provide the life-saving aid children and families need to survive in the immediate term," Njeri said.
"We always say 'never again,' but families are currently on the edge in a devastating crisis, and make no mistake, unless we act, children will die of hunger," she added. "There is enough money and food in the world. No child should be going hungry in the 21st century. We must act now."
In response to the global hunger crisis, World Vision has launched the largest humanitarian undertaking in its more than 70-year history, aiming to deliver life-saving aid to 22 million people in 25 countries where hunger is at its worst. World Vision is the largest distribution partner of the U.N.'s World Food Programme, last year reaching more than 16 million of the most vulnerable people with life-saving food security and nutrition programs.
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. With staff in nearly 100 countries, World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. For more information, please visit www.WorldVision.org/media-center/ or on Twitter @WorldVisionUSA.
Notes:
Follow-up survey of food prices conducted across 37 countries[4] was conducted August–September 2022. See 2022 report here: Price Shocks: Rising food prices threaten the lives of thousands of children
The 2021 report can be found here: Price Shocks: How COVID-19 is triggering a pandemic of child malnutrition and what is needed to prevent this from happening
[1] FAO, "FAOSTAT," July 25, 2022, https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/CP.
[2] This study compared the food prices of 10 common commodities in 37 countries between 2021 and 2022. Due to inherent conditions in some countries affected by conflict and economic crises, complete measurements were not possible. Food basket figures from 2022 are based on World Vision research conducted between August and September 2022 comparing the cost of a food basket of 10 common food items with gross national income (GNI) per capita (World Bank, 2021). Food items include a raw chicken, cooking oil, corn cobs, eggs, milk, raw sugar, rice, sweet bananas, tomatoes, and wheat flour. Prices were collected from supermarkets in urban cities, converted into U.S. dollars, compared to GNI per capita, and divided by working days to calculate daily income.
[4] Participating countries in World Vision's 2022 food price survey include: Afghanistan, Australia, Burundi, Canada, the DRC, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Uganda, the United Kingdom (U.K.), the United States (U.S.), Vanuatu, Venezuela, and Vietnam.
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BINGHAMTON, NY – The Binghamton Sertoma Club is sponsoring a Brooks BBQ Dinner this Sunday, June 19th, that will benefit the Binghamton Boys and Girls Club.
The event will be held at the Boys and Girls Club located at 90 Clinton Street and will run from 11-2 p.m.
Proceeds from the dinner will be used to send local children from the B&G Club to Camp Sertoma this summer.
The menu includes: a half BBQ chicken, coleslaw, a baked potato, a dinner role, and a bottle of water.
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As parents, we understand the important role that math plays in our children’s education and the impact it has on their lives and our own.
Despite this, we don’t always recognize the opportunities we have each day to encourage our children’s interest in and knowledge of math.
Research has shown that children develop a better understanding of math when mathematical principles are presented to them as part of real-world scenarios.
Kasey Bratcher, a former mathematics teacher who develops K-12 math teacher workshops for Carnegie Learning, a publisher of research-based mathematics software and textbooks for middle and high school students, provides the following tips to keep math relevant in your child’s life outside the classroom.
1. Ask questions ... and answer questions with questions. When a child asks a question, it is an opportunity to expand his or her learning beyond just a simple response. If your child asks how many minutes it will take to drive to the grocery store, it is perfectly okay to respond with your own question, such as “How many minutes do you think it will take to drive to the store?”
This can lead to a broader discussion about the number of minutes in one hour, one half-hour or one quarter-hour. You can also discuss the length of time required to travel from home to other places, like school or Grandma’s house. In all mathematical conversations, do not be too quick to give your child the answer. Allow him or her the time needed to process the information given and formulate the answer on his or her own.
2. Look for mathematics all around you. Relating math to everyday life situations has a direct effect on how well children learn and utilize mathematical principles. Carnegie Learning, collaborating with researchers at Southern Methodist University, found that tailoring word problems to student interests results in as much as a 40 percent improvement in performance, particularly for more difficult problems. “Children are more enthusiastic about learning when the topic presented is specific to their personal interests,” Bratcher said. “For example, questions related to gaming, sports, food or friends will generate more attention from students than asking them to calculate the square footage of a room.”
Parents should also take advantage of everyday events that can incorporate mathematics. For example, helping Mom or Dad in the kitchen provides a great opportunity to practice fractions and measurements, including calculating weights and amounts.
3. Make math a family affair. Everyone in the family can play a role in keeping math an ever-present part of a child’s day. Bratcher often engages her kids through friendly competitions at one of their favorite restaurants. She encourages her kids to figure out the sale price of their favorite beverage by finding half, starting with questions like “What’s half of $2?” and moving to more difficult questions, like “What’s half of $1.80?”
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The White House is preparing contingency plans to keep supply chains moving in the event rail workers go on strike at the end of the week.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the administration is working with shippers, truckers and air freight workers “to see how they can step in and keep goods moving in case of this rail shutdown.
“The administration has also been working with relevant agencies to assess what supply chains and commodities are most likely to face severe disruptions and available authorities to keep goods moving,” Jean-Pierre added.
The companies that operate railways for freight trains and the unions who work those rails have until Friday to agree to a new contract. Without a deal, workers could go on strike, crippling supply chains that depend on freight trains.
A strike could also impact passenger rail service. Amtrak does not own the railways where its trains operate in certain parts of the country but instead operates on those owned by freight companies. On Monday, the company canceled some long-distance routes in anticipation of a potential strike.
Five of the 12 unions representing rail workers have reached tentative agreements with railroads to enact the Presidential Emergency Board recommendations, which call for 24 percent pay raises, back pay and cash bonuses.
But the bulk of rail workers belong to unions that haven’t yet struck a deal with companies.
Should the workers vote to strike, Congress could intervene to halt it.
Jean-Pierre on Tuesday also confirmed that Biden personally called union leaders and company officials on Monday to urge them to find a solution and avoid a strike.
“We have made crystal clear to the interested parties the harm that American families, businesses and farmers and communities would experience if they were not to reach a resolution,” Jean-Pierre said. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/white-house-preparing-contingencies-in-event-of-rail-worker-strike/ | 2022-09-14 14:52:36 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/white-house-preparing-contingencies-in-event-of-rail-worker-strike/ |
Stephen Curry is known for hitting deep 3-point shots and buzzer-beaters from half-court — but even the celebrated Warriors guard didn't sink five consecutive full-court baskets, despite a convincingly edited video that swept social media this week.
The clip of the 34-year-old NBA star racked up more than 28 million views and more than 40,000 shares on Twitter after Sports Illustrated posted it on Sunday.
“Steph Gonna STEPH,” the Warriors tweeted.
“Mark him as a menace to society,” Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant wrote.
However, five full-court shots in a row would have been an otherworldly feat even for Curry, the reigning NBA Finals MVP for the defending champion Warriors and the NBA’s all-time 3-point leader since he passed Ray Allen last December.
Here's a look at the facts.
CLAIM: A video posted online by Sports Illustrated shows Curry making five consecutive full-court shots.
THE FACTS: “If it’s on the internet, it’s real! Right, Klay? It’s real! It’s REAL!” Curry yelled to an Associated Press reporter on Monday, referring to his teammate Klay Thompson before scurrying away in delight.
But Curry was just having some fun. The clip of him lobbing five one-handed shots across the full length of a practice court, sinking every one, was “not real,” said Raymond Ridder, Warriors senior vice president of communications.
“He could do that, but not five in a row,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “I think just the fact that it’s Steph made people pause and wonder if it was real. That’s all you need to know about Steph. Pretty remarkable.”
Sports Illustrated tweeted the clip on Sunday saying, “Just finished a shoot with @stephencurry30, this dude just can’t miss." Its tweet credited the video to Ari Fararooy, a video creator known for executing similar video tricks with seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady.
The video appeared ahead of Sports Illustrated's announcement of Curry as a December cover star and 2022 Sportsperson of the Year. The outlet on Tuesday acknowledged that the video “is, in fact, not real.”
“We had some fun with it,” Curry said in a postgame interview Monday. “I did make two of them, though, just in case anybody was wondering.”
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A 15-year-old boy was injured by gunfire early Thursday morning in the 10400 block of Hickory Ridge Road in Columbia, Howard County police said.
At about 1:55 a.m., Thursday, police responded to a parking lot on Hickory Ridge Road where they found a 15-year-old boy with multiple gunshot wounds. The boy was transported to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center and is considered stable, police said.
Police do not believe the shooting was random; the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information can contact police at 410-313-7867 or HCPDCrimeTips@howardcountymd.gov. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/howard/cng-ho-howard-shooting-20230406-xvzo6knxe5e4toxubjpicgrniu-story.html | 2023-04-06 15:09:20 | 1 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/howard/cng-ho-howard-shooting-20230406-xvzo6knxe5e4toxubjpicgrniu-story.html |
A new initiative led by GoDaddy Registry in partnership with Identity Digital and other industry leaders is launching to develop innovative solutions for enhanced brand protection online.
TEMPE, Ariz., June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As the digital landscape continues to expand and evolve, businesses around the world have been asking for tools that help them reduce the cost and time devoted to protecting their intellectual property (IP). In response to that industry feedback, GoDaddy Registry has launched the Brand Safety Alliance (BSA), a new initiative that aims to increase collaboration between registries and create enhanced solutions for brand owners to protect their online identity.
Many industry-leading gTLD and ccTLD operators from around the world will participate within the BSA and are committed to helping businesses navigate the complex task of managing their IP online.
The BSA was formed to assist registries to develop robust, cost-effective, and simplified solutions for brand owners to protect their trademarks against abuse through domain names. The BSA recognizes the desire to address global challenges and strives to provide better tools to protect IP.
"The digital landscape is evolving rapidly and protecting IP has become a significant concern for businesses worldwide. Our mission at the BSA is to simplify and enhance digital brand protection and provide reliable, innovative solutions that save businesses significant resources," says Ben Anderson from GoDaddy Registry and a co-founder of the BSA.
Tony Kirsch from GoDaddy Registry and a fellow co-founder of the BSA added, "The key message for brand owners is that we are listening and actively working to build innovative services for their businesses. Through the collaboration from this global community of registries in the BSA, we hope to reshape the future of IP management for many years to come."
The challenges facing brands today are multifaceted, ranging from phishing attacks and scams to financial uncertainty. Most large brands own more domain names than they actively use, creating risk and administrative burden as they seek to prevent infringement across their portfolios.
Marc Trachtenberg, the Chair of the Internet, Domain Name, eCommerce and Social Media Practice Group at law firm Greenberg Traurig and a long-time ICANN participant, emphasizes the importance of initiatives like the BSA, stating, "In today's digital landscape, protecting their IP and preventing against online impersonation and other brand abuse has become a paramount concern for our clients. Innovative solutions like what the BSA will offer are a much-needed step in addressing the complexities of digital brand protection and online abuse."
With over a thousand top-level domain extensions now available, corporations worldwide grapple daily with the complex task of managing their IP online. The BSA aims to alleviate these challenges by developing innovative products and services that provide robust, cost-effective, and simplified solutions for brand protection. Later this year, the BSA plans to launch GlobalBlock, its first new product specifically designed to combat IP abuse.
Akram Atallah, CEO of Identity Digital and former President of ICANN's Global Domains Division adds, "The BSA's commitment to addressing global challenges and protecting IP will support brand owners online. And, in fact, we've been focused on these initiatives as an organization for some time now. Identity Digital's decision to join the BSA and collaborate with other industry leading ccTLDs and gTLDs was a simple one; we value the opportunity to work as a global community of registries to advance our industry and the services available to users worldwide."
ccTLD and gTLD operators are invited to get in touch with the BSA team at hello@brandsafetyalliance.co to understand more about how their registry can participate.
For all other enquiries about the BSA, please visit www.brandsafetyalliance.co for more information.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Food and Drug Administration regulators on Tuesday approved a first-of-a-kind drug for a rare form of Lou Gehrig’s disease, though they are requiring further research to confirm it truly helps patients.
The FDA approved Biogen’s injectable drug for patients with a rare genetic mutation that’s estimated to affect less than 500 people in the U.S. It’s the first drug for an inherited form of ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a deadly disease that destroys nerve cells needed for basic functions like walking, talking and swallowing.
Approval came via FDA’s accelerated pathway, which allows drugs to launch based on promising early results, before they’re confirmed to benefit patients. That shortcut has come under increasing scrutiny from government watchdogs and congressional investigators.
The FDA is requiring Biogen to continue studying the drug in a trial of people who carry the genetic mutation but do not yet have ALS symptoms.
ALS patients hope the decision could lay the groundwork for more expedited approvals to fight the disease, which affects 16,000 to 32,000 people in the U.S. The FDA has long used accelerated approval to speed the availability of drugs for cancer and other deadly conditions.
The drug, tofersen, is designed to block the genetic messengers that produce a toxic form of protein that is thought to drive the disease in about 2% of ALS patients. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen will sell it under the brand name Qalsody. Patients receive three initial spinal injections of the drug over a two-week period, followed by a monthly dose. The most common side effects linked to the drug were pain, fatigue and increased spinal fluid.
Biogen’s 100-person study failed to show that the drug significantly slowed the disease compared with a dummy treatment. Patients were tracked for more than six months using a scale that measures the decline of basic movements, including writing, walking and climbing stairs.
But those who received tofersen showed significant changes in levels of the toxic protein and a second neurological chemical that is considered a key indicator of the disease’s progression.
“The findings are reasonably likely to predict a clinical benefit in patients,” the FDA said in a statement announcing the approval.
Last month an outside panel of FDA advisers voted unanimously that those changes warranted granting conditional approval while more data is gathered to confirm the drug’s benefit. The same panel said Biogen’s current data, including the failed patient study, wasn’t strong enough to warrant full approval.
FDA regulators have the authority to pull accelerated approval from drugs that fail to live up to their expected promise, though until recently, they rarely used that power. In recent years, the FDA has stepped up efforts to force unproven drugs off the market, amid criticism that too many expensive, ineffective medications remain available for years.
At the same time, the FDA has shown increased “regulatory flexibility” in approving drugs for rare and debilitating neurological diseases, including Alzheimer’s and ALS.
In September, the FDA granted full approval to another ALS drug based on one small, mid-stage study in which patients appeared to progress more slowly and survive several months longer. Normally, the FDA requires two large studies or one study suggesting a “very persuasive” improvement in survival.
Some insurers have limited access to the new drug, Relyvrio, citing its uncertain benefit and $158,000-per-year cost.
Biogen did not announce a price for its drug Tuesday but said it will be “comparable to other recently launched ALS treatments.”
The ALS Association and other patient groups hailed the approval.
“This is the second time in less than a year our community gets to celebrate the approval of a new drug to treat ALS and we have great hope for the future,” said Calaneet Balas, the group’s president and CEO.
Since last year’s approval of Relyvrio, ALS patients and advocates have continued to press the FDA to consider more treatments for the disease. That includes an experimental stem cell treatment from tiny drugmaker Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics.
In a rare move, the FDA recently agreed to hold a public meeting on the treatment, despite previously refusing to consider the company’s application, citing failed results from its principal study.
The FDA has now approved four medications for ALS, only one of which has been shown to extend life. The disease gradually destroys nerve connections needed for basic movements and — eventually — breathing. There is no cure and most people die within three to five years of diagnosis.
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Dan Snyder has owned the Washington Commanders for over two decades. And in the years since he bought the team in 1999, the franchise has been plunged into the deep waters of mismanagement and constant public scandal.
Let's take a look back at everything he has put the Commanders through, from the moment he got the keys to the present day, in which NFL owners have unanimously approved the $6.05 billion sale of the team to a group led by private equity investor Josh Harris.
May 25, 1999
Snyder, then 34 years old, buys the Commanders (then known as the Redskins) for $800 million, the most anyone had ever paid for a sports franchise at that time. He became the youngest team owner in the NFL, and then-commissioner Paul Tagliabue called Snyder "the perfect person" to continue the legacy of recently deceased team owner Jack Kent Cooke. To make the sale happen, Snyder, who had made his fortune in marketing, sold his communications company, secured a loan of over $300 million from a French bank and took on $155 million in debt from Jack Kent Cooke Stadium (now FedEx Field).
July 24, 1999
General manager Charley Casserly, who had been with the team for 23 years after working his way up the ladder from intern to executive, agrees to resign. As assistant general manager and later general manager, Casserly took Washington to four Super Bowls, winning three, and had been named mid-year executive of the year by four different publications after obtaining all of the New Orleans Saints' 1999 draft picks on the day of the draft. Snyder hired his good friend Vinny Cerrato, who spent four years as San Francisco 49ers director of player personnel, to replace him. About 18 months later, Snyder would call Casserly to tell him that he fired the wrong guy. For the next decade, Cerrato would battle the perception that he was Snyder's lapdog, and that he had a job only because he and Snyder were close friends.
Jan. 2000
Snyder's first eight months as club owner appear to be a success as the team makes the playoffs. It's one of a precious few times during his two-plus decades as team owner that Snyder and the Commanders would be considered successful, or even good. At this moment the future of the franchise remains unwritten. No one knows that the team will make the playoffs just five more times over the next 22 years, getting past the wild-card round just once.
July 2000
Snyder gives the other NFL team owners a new way to rake in more cash by making the Commanders the first team to charge admission to training camp practices. He charges $10 per person, plus $10 parking.
Dec. 2000-Jan. 2001
The famous (or infamous) Washington coaching carousel officially begins. Despite a 7-6 record with three games still to play and a playoff berth in sight, Snyder fires Norv Turner, the head coach he retained after purchasing the team. He names Terry Robiskie the interim head coach, and the team misses the playoffs after going 1-2. In January, Snyder hires Marty Schottenheimer as Turner's official replacement.
Jan. 13, 2002
Snyder fires Schottenheimer after just one season. Schottenheimer and the Commanders started the 2001 season 0-5, but went 8-3 after and nearly made the playoffs. Snyder still fired him. Two days later, Snyder hires Steve Spurrier, the legendary college football coach, to his first (and only) NFL job. Spurrier is given a five-year, $25 million contract, which was a record for a coach at the time.
Dec. 30, 2003
Spurrier resigns after two losing seasons — two of just three losing seasons in his nearly 40-year coaching career — and a total record of 12-20. In the years since resigning, Spurrier has given interviews in which he admitted that he went with Washington because it offered him the most money, but it wasn't the best situation for him as a first-time NFL coach. To replace Spurrier, Snyder brings back former Washington head coach Joe Gibbs, who led the team to three Super Bowl victories from 1981-1992.
2004 season
According to John Feinstein in the 2005 book "Next Man Up," Snyder told defensive coordinator Mike Nolan early in the season that he thought his defensive schemes were "too vanilla." When Snyder continued to be dissatisfied by Nolan's schemes, he left gallons of non-vanilla ice cream to thaw in Nolan's office after two different games that year. The second time he did it, he also left a note saying, "This is what I like. Not vanilla."
Jan. 30, 2005
Snyder declares that the only credit card the team will take for season-ticket purchases going forward will be the Redskins Extra Points MasterCard.
Feb. 1, 2005
Snyder reverses course on the Redskins Extra Points MasterCard after just two days, announcing that all cards would be accepted to reserve season tickets. Fans had threatened to revolt, and MasterCard also asked the team to change the policy.
Jan. 2006
Washington loses 20-10 to the Seattle Seahawks in the divisional round of the playoffs. It matches the best showing any Snyder-owned team will ever have.
March 2006
Snyder raises the price of lower-bowl general admission seats 39 percent to $99, and announces it will increase the cost of parking from $25 to $35. The 2006 season-ticket invoices also change, with the Prince George's County tax now separated from the ticket price, which means an additional $9.90 on top of the $99 charge for a total of $108.90.
Sept. 2006
To commemorate the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Commanders reportedly sell "commemorative" hats at the team store for $23.99. According to the Washington City Paper, the hats were black Commanders hats with a red, white and blue Pentagon patch sewn on the side. There was no mention of any of the profits going to any 9/11 charity, and no other teams sold any kind of commemorative 9/11 merchandise during that season.
In the same month, season-ticket holder Jim O'Brien notices that the bag of peanuts he bought at a game is decorated in royal blue and white instead of the team colors of burgundy and gold, and has the logo for Independence Air emblazoned on the front. The problem? Independence Air went out of business in Jan. 2006, and the supplier stopped shipping peanuts to serve on flights at least several months before it shut down. A spokesperson for the Peanut Council said that the recommended shelf life of a bag of salted, roasted, and shelled peanuts is three months. The team was selling peanuts that were 9-12 months old at the very least.
Jan. 8, 2008
Gibbs retires from the Commanders for the second time in his career, and this time he's gone for good. For his fourth full-time head coach in less than nine years of ownership, Snyder chooses Jim Zorn.
Summer 2008
While partially naked cheerleaders are being photographed and filmed for the yearly calendar and a "making of" featurette, Snyder allegedly tells the video department (through broadcaster Larry Michael) to create a video of all the lewd outtakes. A similar video was allegedly created in 2010 and burned to a DVD, with the words "For Executive Meeting" written on the disc. It will be 12 years before any of this comes to light.
Oct. 2009
Snyder sues 125 Commanders season-ticket holders who asked to be released from their contracts when they weren't able to keep up with their payments due to the recession. According to the Washington Post, Snyder sued them for $3.6 million and won a judgment of $2 million. Among those sued was Pat Hill, a 72-year-old grandmother whose real estate company took a nosedive due to the economic crisis. The down-on-her-luck Hill, who first became a season-ticket holder in the early 1960s, didn't contest the lawsuit due to Bible teachings about paying off debt, and the Commanders won judgment of over $64,000 that sent her into bankruptcy. According to Forbes, the Commanders brought in $324 million in revenue in 2008.
Oct. 21, 2009
John Cooke, the son of former Commanders owner Jack Kent Cooke, tells the Washington Post that Snyder has "destroyed the reputation of this franchise." He also details the acrimonious auction process that led to him losing the team to Snyder. Of his father, Cooke says he would be "horror-struck of what has happened to this wonderful franchise we were privileged enough to run."
Dec. 17, 2009
Cerrato, the vice president of football operations as well as Snyder's friend and right-hand man for a decade, resigns and is replaced with the politically connected Bruce Allen, whose father coached the Commanders in the 1970s.
Jan. 4-5, 2010
After one middling season and one very bad season, Snyder fires Zorn. In his place he brings on Mike Shanahan, fresh off a career-defining stint with the Denver Broncos. On top of coaching, Snyder also makes Shanahan the vice president of football operations.
April 2010
After going 4-12 with Jason Campbell at QB in 2009, the Commanders make a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles to bring in quarterback Donovan McNabb, who is going into his age-34 season. The Eagles land a third- and fourth-round draft picks for him, a price tag that should have set off "hey, maybe this guy is washed" warning bells at Commanders HQ.
Nov. 15, 2010
The Eagles travel to FedEx Field to face the McNabb-led Commanders for the first time, mere hours after the Commanders braintrust gave him a five-year, $78 million contract extension (though with just $3.5 million guaranteed). The Commanders are 4-4 going into this Week 9 "Monday Night Football" game, but they get absolutely demolished and destroyed by the Eagles on national TV, losing 59-28. McNabb throws three interceptions.
Dec. 17, 2010
Shanahan benches McNabb after the Commanders lose three of four games following the loss to the Eagles. But Shanahan doesn't just bench McNabb, he shoves him all the way to the end, dropping him to third string. All of this happens just four weeks after Snyder gives him that five-year extension. He never plays another down for the Commanders again. McNabb is traded to the Minnesota Vikings over the offseason and plays one more season in the NFL before retiring.
April 26, 2012
With the second overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, the Commanders select Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III, winner of the 2011 Heisman Trophy. They believe he's their QB of the future. In the fourth round, with the 102 pick, they draft another quarterback, this time out of Michigan State. His name? Kirk Cousins.
Dec. 9, 2012
RGIII's outstanding rookie campaign comes to a scary but brief stop. Against the Ravens in Week 14, he injures his right knee. Visibly limping, he removes himself from the game for one play, then goes back out to hobble around for four more plays before finally leaving the game for good. Shanahan says afterward that renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews was on the sideline and approved RGIII to go back into the game after an examination. RGIII is diagnosed with a sprained LCL and misses one game, but returns in Week 16 wearing a knee brace.
Jan. 6, 2013
USA Today publishes an article in which Dr. Andrews says he never approved RGIII to go back into the game after injuring his knee, and says Griffin never allowed himself to be examined. This becomes incredibly relevant later in the day, when during the Commanders' wild-card round loss to the Seahawks, RGIII tears the LCL and damages the ACL in his already injured right knee. He has surgery on Jan. 9 and never plays the same way again.
May 9, 2013
During an interview with USA Today, Snyder utters these infamous words about the original name of the team: "We'll never change the name. It's that simple. NEVER — you can use caps." Snyder had been under pressure from Native American rights groups for years to change the name of the team, but continued to resist. Those words would come back to haunt him.
Summer 2013
Washington's cheerleaders are asked to go on an offseason trip to Costa Rica to shoot photos for a calendar. According to The New York Times, team officials took their passports upon arrival, then required them to be topless for the photo shoot even though the calendar wouldn't feature any nudity. The topless photo shoot was reportedly attended by a group of all-male sponsors and suite holders. The Times also reported that several cheerleaders had been picked by male sponsors to be their escorts for the evening. While the dates didn't involve sex, the cheerleaders reportedly had no choice but to attend.
Dec. 30, 2013
Snyder fires Shanahan after four seasons, reportedly due to issues with how he handled RGIII's knee injury and his subsequent return — though finishing the 2013 season with a 3-13 record probably didn't help.
Jan. 9, 2014
Jay Gruden is hired as the new head coach. And because Snyder loves giving big contracts to head coaches, he gives Gruden a five-year, $20 million contract that, unlike the contracts players get, is 100 percent guaranteed.
Aug. 31, 2015
Kirk Cousins is named the starting quarterback. RGIII ends up third on the depth chart, remains inactive the entire season, and never plays another game for the Commanders. They release him at the end of the season, and after spending the next four seasons largely as a backup in Cleveland and Baltimore, he retires and becomes analyst and commentator on ESPN.
Feb. 28, 2017
The Commanders become the first team to franchise tag their quarterback two straight years after failing to agree on a long-term deal with Cousins. Not the kind of history you want to make if you're trying to keep your young QB. A year later Cousins becomes an unrestricted free agent and signs the NFL's first fully guaranteed contract, a three-year, $84 million deal with the Vikings.
May 2, 2018
The New York Times publishes a report on the cheerleaders' 2013 trip to Costa Rica. It's disturbing, but at the time it seems like an anomaly. In reality, it's the first raindrop of what will become a full-blown hurricane in two years' time.
Nov. 18, 2018
Against the Texans in Week 11, quarterback Alex Smith endures a gruesome leg injury that will nearly take his life. While being sacked by Kareem Jackson and J.J. Watt, Smith sustains a spiral and compound fracture of his right tibia and fibula. It's one of the most graphic and disturbing injuries since Joe Theismann. Smith will spend the next two years undergoing multiple surgeries and fighting infection as he tries to make it back to the NFL.
April 25, 2019
The Commanders draft Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins in the first round with the 15th overall draft pick. Snyder and Gruden reportedly fight over the selection.
Oct. 7, 2019
At a 5 a.m. meeting, Snyder fires Gruden after an 0-5 start and a 35-49 overall record. Gruden had QB Case Keenum start the first four games of the season over Haskins, and it did not work out in his favor. Snyder names offensive line coach and assistant head coach Bill Callahan as the interim head coach for the rest of the season.
Dec. 30, 2019
After a decade as a mediocre-to-bad Commanders executive, Snyder fires Allen. But his role in Snyder's business was far from over. Snyder won't hire a new GM for another year, leaving him to fill void.
Jan. 1, 2020
The year starts well for Snyder and the Commanders as they announce the hiring of former Panthers coach Ron Rivera as their new head coach. It's one of the only good things to happen to the owner or the team all year.
July 10, 2020
FedEx, the Commanders' largest sponsor, reportedly writes a letter to Snyder warning him that unless he he changes the team name, it will remove its signage from the stadium and end its sponsorship agreement six years early.
July 13, 2020
Just three days after the report about the FedEx letter, Snyder reneges on his promise to never change the franchise name as the team announces it will change its name from the racial slur "Redskins" to a name yet to be determined. Instead of waiting until Washington figures out a new name, the club will go by "Washington Football Team" until its ready to implement a new name and mascot. The Commanders remain in the headlines for weeks, but not because of this news.
July 16, 2020
The Washington Post publishes a blockbuster investigative report on toxic masculinity and widespread sexual harassment within the Commanders organization. In the report, 15 women come forward to accuse multiple current and former executives of sexual harassment and workplace discrimination. Several of Snyder's top executives are implicated, but he is not.
Aug. 26, 2020
The Washington Post publishes another blockbuster investigative report about the Commanders. Twenty-five more women accuse Commanders employees of harassment and other workplace crimes, and the story about the 2008 cheerleaders calendar shoot (and the partially naked video Snyder allegedly ordered to be shot without the cheerleaders' permission) is reported for the first time.
Aug. 31, 2020
Commissioner Roger Goodell announces that the NFL will be taking over the investigation into the multiple workplace allegations surrounding the Commanders. Snyder had been directing the investigation himself, and had hired attorney Beth Wilkinson to handle it and report to him. Wilkinson will now report to Goodell.
Oct. 11, 2020
In Week 5 against the Los Angeles Rams, QB Kyle Allen injures his ankle and is replaced by Alex Smith, who appears in a game for the first time since his gruesome leg injury nearly two years ago. He ends up starting six games for the Commanders in 2020, and wins the 2020 Comeback Player of the Year award.
Dec 22, 2020
Just in time for Christmas, the WaPo publishes its third Snyder/Commanders investigative report of the year. This time, Snyder is directly implicated. According to court records obtained by the Post, the Commanders paid out a $1.6 million settlement to a former employee in 2009 after she accused him of sexual misconduct.
Dec. 29, 2020
Snyder, who had accused three limited partners of falsifying sexual harassment reports about him, gets sued by those three limited partners for corporate malfeasance (including harassment and intimidation) and various financial crimes.
Feb. 3, 2021
Alex Smith says in an interview that he felt like the team "didn't want" him around after he came back from his leg injury. Washington releases him a month later, and he announces his retirement in April.
Feb. 10, 2021
The Commanders reach a confidential settlement with the cheerleaders involved in the 2008 calendar video shoot, during which lewd videos were allegedly taken without their permission.
March 3, 2021
The Commanders announce that after 59 years, their cheerleader program will be ending. Replacing it will be a co-ed dance squad.
March 24, 2021
Snyder drops a massive chunk of change to get his three minority partners to go away. According to The New York Times, he buys them all out for a total of $875 million, giving him control of the 40.5 percent of the team he didn't already own. That's more than he paid to buy the entire team in 1999. He takes on $450 million in debt to get the sale done, which has to be paid back in seven years. The NFL approves the transaction a week later.
June 29, 2021
The NFL announces the conclusion of its Commanders investigation. In a two-page press release, the NFL says its investigation found that the Commanders operated with a toxic workplace for years, validating the numerous women who came forward to share their stories — though notably, no specifics are shared. The Commanders are fined $10 million and Snyder agrees to turn over day-to-day control of the team to his wife, Tanya. By announcing the end of the investigation and the punishment in one fell swoop, the NFL believes the matter is closed. Goodell's decision to issue a press release instead of a full-blown report will come back to haunt him.
Oct. 8, 2021
The Wall Street Journal publishes a leaked email between former GM Bruce Allen and Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden (the brother of former Commanders head coach Jay) from July 2011 in which Gruden used racist tropes to refer to NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith. He apologizes, but it's filled with spin and makes things only worse.
Oct. 11, 2021
The New York Times publishes more emails between Gruden, Allen and others that include racist, misogynistic, homophobic and other derogatory language. As a result, Gruden resigns less than four years into his 10-year, $100 million contract. The involvement of Allen is the Commanders' only connection to this scandal — for now.
Oct. 13, 2021
Several of the emails that led to Jon Gruden's resignation as Las Vegas Raiders head coach are found to have been submitted to a U.S. District Court in June by attorneys representing Dan Snyder. Snyder's lawyers used them as exhibits in a legal battle involving Allen, further deepening Washington's ties to Gruden's calamitous exit from the Raiders.
Oct. 16, 2021
Congress decides to get involved with the now-concluded Commanders misconduct investigation. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform calls on Goodell to release the full report of Wilkinson's investigation by Nov. 4. The NFL does not comply.
Dec. 14, 2021
The WaPo is back with another bombshell. It reports that Snyder used multiple methods to interfere with the NFL's investigation into the Commanders, including hiring detectives to investigate potential Post sources and suing ex-employees to gain access to their email communications. Congress demands that the NFL turn over all evidence from its Commanders probe, which the NFL declines to do. Commissioner Goodell says the next day that Snyder's machinations did not disturb the investigation.
Jan. 2, 2022
Following an Eagles victory at FedEx Field, a railing collapses as QB Jalen Hurts is walking into the tunnel, dumping a pile of Philly fans on top of him. He escapes unscathed, but two days later writes a letter to the NFL and the Commanders demanding answers about stadium safety and what will be done about the railing. He gets no public answer. Months later, several fans involved in the collapse sue the team over the injuries they sustained. They also accuse the team of offering inadequate medical care and failing to communicate with them following the collapse.
Feb. 2, 2022
The team announces its new name: the Washington Commanders.
Feb. 3, 2022
Multiple team employees detail new allegations of sexual misconduct against Commanders players and executives on HBO's "Real Sports" podcast. Among the new information, a woman alleges that she witnessed Snyder grope one of her friends, and another woman, former cheerleader Tiffani Johnston, alleges Snyder strategically sat himself next to her at a dinner so he could touch her leg. Later in the evening, Snyder allegedly tried to force her into a limo.
Feb. 4, 2022
Congress releases documents revealing that the Commanders and the NFL have a common interest agreement, which prevented the release of Wilkinson's investigation report unless both Snyder and the NFL approved. Signed just a few days after the NFL took over the Commanders investigation in July 2020, it essentially allowed Snyder to veto any attempt to release Wilkinson's report.
Feb. 9, 2022
The Commanders announce that they will conduct an investigation into Johnston's claims of sexual harassment against Snyder. Hours later, the NFL announces that it will be taking over the investigation, having seemingly overruled Snyder and prevented him from investigating himself.
March 9, 2022
The Commanders trade for QB Carson Wentz, who is on his third team in as many years. He makes seven starts before fracturing his finger and loses the starting job to Taylor Heinicke while he's recovering.
March 31, 2022
In addition to investigating them for sexual harassment, the House Reform and Oversight Committee is reportedly also investigating the Commanders for financial impropriety. We learn later they allegedly hid ticket revenue from the NFL and defrauded season-ticket holders of their refundable deposits. The Commanders deny all allegations.
April 6, 2022
Attorneys general for New York, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts and Minnesota reportedly send a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, warning him that the league will face a major investigation if the alleged workplace harassment of women and minorities isn't addressed and corrected.
April 12, 2022
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform sends a 20-page letter to the FTC alleging that Snyder and the Commanders "may have engaged in a troubling, long-running, and potentially unlawful pattern of financial conduct." In response, the Commanders send a 102-page rebuttal document to the FTC a week later.
June 1, 2022
Congress calls on Snyder and commissioner Roger Goodell to testify under oath in front of the committee.
June 15, 2022
Goodell agrees to testify in front of the committee under oath. Snyder declines.
June 22, 2022
Goodell testifies remotely. He acknowledges that there were "unacceptable" problems with Washington's workplace and HR department, but says he has no plan to personally remove Snyder as team owner. Goodell's presence highlights Snyder's absence, and the committee announces it's issuing Snyder a subpoena to compel his testimony.
June 27, 2022
Snyder (through his lawyer) refuses to accept the subpoena, as he's been touring around the Mediterranean in his $196 million superyacht. A House spokesperson essentially accuses him of evading service of the subpoena, which his lawyer doesn't necessarily deny in her response.
July 7, 2022
Snyder offers to testify remotely, which Congress accepts several days later. His lawyer later says that he will testify only if the subpoena is revoked, meaning he'll testify only if he's not forced to.
July 29, 2022
For over 10 hours, Snyder testifies in front of Congress. His testimony is never released, but we later find out he said he couldn't recall the answers to the committee's questions over 100 times.
Sept. 11, 2022
The Commanders play their first game as the Commanders at FedEx Field in Week 1 of the new NFL season. Outside the stadium, a team truck is selling official merchandise, including Commanders mugs emblazoned with the outline of the state of Washington instead of Washington, D.C. Just another day in the Washington football organization.
Oct. 18, 2022
At the NFL owners meeting, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay says he "believes there's merit to remove [Snyder] as owner" of the Commanders. He's the first NFL franchise owner to publicly speak out against Snyder. Less than two months later, Irsay appears to change his tune, saying, "more has to be revealed" for him to vote out Snyder.
Oct. 19, 2022
A fan who won $14,822 in a Commanders raffle tries to cash his check, but it bounces. The Commanders release a statement blaming a "bank error" and issue a new check.
Oct. 20, 2022
Former TE Chris Cooley declines the Commanders' invitation to a ceremony honoring him and nine others who were voted into the team's 90 greatest players list, as part of Washington's 90th anniversary. He doesn't give a specific reason why, saying only he doesn't "have a lot of desire to be involved with the Washington Commanders."
Nov. 2, 2022
The Commanders announce that Dan and Tanya Snyder have hired Bank of America to explore all options in a potential sale of the team, including selling minority shares or selling the entire franchise. They're not officially selling the team, but it's on the table.
Nov. 10, 2022
The Washington, D.C. Attorney General sues the Commanders, the NFL, Goodell and Snyder for "colluding to deceive" fans regarding the hostile work environment within the Commanders organization, which Snyder is accused of both covering up and participating in.
Nov. 17, 2022
The Commanders are sued again by the D.C. Attorney General, this time for allegedly cheating season-ticket holders out of their refundable deposits.
Nov. 27, 2022
The Commanders unveil a memorial to Sean Taylor on the 15th anniversary of his tragic death. It's underwhelming at best, just a store-grade wire mannequin wearing helmet and full uniform with Taylor's number on it. Fans are disappointed.
Dec. 8, 2022
The House Committee for Oversight and Reform releases its report on its investigation of Snyder and the Commanders following interviews with Snyder, Goodell and over 100 current and former Commanders employees. They accuse Snyder of permitting and participating in toxic workplace conduct and interfering with Beth Wilkinson's investigation. They accuse the Commanders of being behind the email leak that got Jon Gruden fired, and admonish Goodell and the NFL for taking no action against Snyder.
Dec. 26, 2022
Five members of the famed "Hogs" blocking unit, including Joe Jacoby, Mark May, Fred Dean and Rick "Doc" Walker, as well as Hall of Fame fullback John Riggins, issue a statement distancing themselves from Snyder and the Commanders and hinting at legal action over the use of their nickname by "taking that trademark and associated goodwill and brand equity" without financial compensation.
Feb. 25, 2023
It's reported that billionaire Jeff Bezos was told by Bank of America months prior that he is barred from making a bid for the Commanders. Bezos had hired an investment firm to explore a bid, but Snyder reportedly believed for years that the Washington Post, which Bezos has owned since 2013, has been working to oust him from team ownership. Bezos reportedly never makes a bid on the team.
Feb. 28, 2023
ESPN reports that Commanders minority owners have accused Snyder of fraud and misusing company funds after he took out a $55 million loan in 2020 without telling them about it. Goodell then allegedly refused to investigate the fraud and misuse of funds when the partners pointed them out in an arbitration petition. This questionable loan reportedly becomes central to federal prosecutors' probe into the Commanders' financials, and a grand jury has issued subpoenas for Commanders financial records.
April 10, 2023
Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb announces his office reached a settlement with Snyder and the Commanders over their failure to refund security deposits to season-ticket holders. The team will return $200,000 in deposits to affected season-ticket holders who live in D.C., and pay a $425,000 fine to the city.
April 13, 2023
Rejoice, Commanders fans! According to widespread reports, the first of which comes from Sportico, Snyder is nearing a deal to sell the team for an NFL-record $6 billion to a group led by hedge fund manager Josh Harris. The group also includes NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson and D.C.-area billionaire Mitchell Rales. The deal is not official and has not been formally submitted to the NFL, but the consensus emerges it's simply a matter of time until Dan Snyder no longer owns the Washington Commanders.
July 20, 2023
The end. NFL clubs gathered for a special league meeting Thursday in Minneapolis and unanimously approved the sale of the Commanders to Harris and his limited partners for a reported $6.05 billion.
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There will soon be a new way to monitor your heart health.
Casana, a medical technology company, announced that its smart toilet seat, dubbed Heart Seat, received approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The seat is now approved to measure a person's heart rate and oxygen saturation, the company said.
"This clearance is a critical step on our journey to commercialize the Heart Seat," said Casana CEO Austin McChord. "This brings us one step closer to helping patients and healthcare providers across the U.S. manage their health at home."
Casana hopes to equip the toilet seat with the ability to provide other clinical measurements, including blood pressure readings.
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The company is planning to bring the product to the market by the end of this year.
While a smart toilet seat is unique, it is not the only way people at home can check their heart rate or oxygen saturation.
There are numerous medical devices on the market currently that provide those readings. Many of the devices take readings from a person's finger.
The home medical equipment market is a growing industry. According to Allied Market Research, it's expected to grow from $30 million in 2019 to an estimated $56 million by 2027.
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Whether it is the constricted feeling of having something wrapped around your neck that causes unease or it is an anti-fashion statement, at some point, probably all of us have rebelled against wearing a tie. Yet, a tie never goes out of style. In fact, in the right social situations, it is crucial to wear a tie. It can be the difference between making a good impression and a bad one.
There is a lot of conflicting information about the history of ties. Learning about them can be like analyzing the series finale of “Lost”: if you’re not careful, you might create more questions than you answer. This guide, however, will focus on providing answers: What is the purpose of a tie? What do they symbolize? And most important of all, how do you tie a tie?
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What do ties symbolize?
Because a necktie is no longer a functional piece of apparel, it is used to express some aspect of self. The tie you choose to wear reveals a great deal about who you are. When carefully considered, a tie can be a powerful tool for expressing individuality. It can convey mood, status, personality, allegiance to a particular sports team and more.
While there isn’t a set of rigid rules, there are a few common perceptions to consider:
- Bold solid colors convey a sense of confidence and authority.
- Neutral solid colors convey stability.
- Pastel solid colors convey a sense of openness.
- Black is often used to convey elegance.
- Stripes suggest you are conservative.
- Polka dots and other designs suggest you are more outgoing and friendly.
How to tie a tie
There are many types of knots that you can use to tie a tie. The most popular and the easiest knot for a beginner to tie, however, is the four-in-hand knot. This knot gets its name from a four-horse carriage. The knot resembles how carriage drivers would tie the reins of their horses together so they could control all four horses with one hand. Hence the name, “four-in-hand.”
To tie a four-in-hand know, follow these steps:
- Pop your shirt collar.
- Drape the tie around your neck with the thinner side to your left. The tip of the thinner side should come down to your fourth shirt button.
- Cross the thicker end of the tie over the thinner end to form an “X.”
- Wrap the thicker end of the tie completely around the thinner end.
- Bring the thicker end of the tie up through the “V” from behind.
- Feed the thicker end of the tie down through the knot you’ve just made.
- Pull the thicker end down to create the desired knot size — the tighter you pull, the smaller the knot will be.
- Pull the thinner end of the tie to slide the knot up to your neck.
- Fold down and button your collar.
- Adjust the knot to your liking.
Knot tying tips
- Switch sides. If you are more comfortable starting with the thinner side on your right, that is fine.
- Make adjustments. The most impactful adjustment you can make is to your starting position. Experiment with different starting positions until you wind up with the perfect length — the thicker end of the tie at the top of your belt buckle.
- Match the collar. Don’t tighten the knot too much. It should be a comfortable match for the collar, not too small and not too big.
For individuals who do not want to learn how to tie a tie
If you just can’t seem to get the whole tie-tying thing down, don’t worry. You do have options.
- Don’t wear a tie. While it is not advisable, it is certainly possible to go through life without ever wearing a tie.
- Befriend someone who can tie a tie. If you have a friend, a family member, or a significant other who can not only tie a tie but is available in your time of need, you don’t have to learn how to tie a tie.
- Tie it once. Get someone to tie your tie and never untie it. Whenever you have to wear it, make the loop large enough to slip over your head, then tighten it around your neck. To take it off, loosen the loop without fully untying it so it is ready the next time you need it.
- Purchase a clip-on tie. A clip-on tie was designed for adults and children who cannot tie a tie. While many people put the clip over the collar, you can often get a better fit by slipping the clip through the uppermost buttonhole in your shirt.
- Purchase a zipper tie. A zipper tie is a variation of the clip-on tie. A zipper tie is permanently tied but features a zipper mechanism that lets you tighten and loosen the tie so you can put it on and take it off with little effort. Just stick your head through the loop and pull the back of the tie down to tighten. When you want to take it off, pull the knot down. Some models feature a lock that you have to release before operating.
FAQ
How long should a tie be?
A. Regardless of the outfit, your body type, or the type of knot you use, the tip of the tie should come down to the top of your belt buckle when you are standing.
Should I wear a tie clip?
A. The purpose of a tie clip is to hold your tie in place. If you are wearing a sweater or a vest, you do not need a tie clip. If you wear a tie clip too high on your chest, it won’t hold the tie in place. It is important to remember that a tie clip shortens the length of a tie. If your tie doesn’t reach the top of your belt buckle when wearing a tie clip, you will need to make some adjustments.
How wide should my tie be?
A. The answers to this question range from “It doesn’t matter” to “It depends on your body type.” Somewhere in between, however, is a good rule of thumb. If you want your tie to look like it fits with your suit, it should roughly match the width of your lapel.
Tie accessories
Tie rack
Once you become proficient at tying a tie, you may want to start a collection. When you do that, you will need a tie rack to keep all your options visible and easily accessible.
Tie travel cases
A tie is only impressive if it is neatly pressed. A wrinkled tie may look worse than not having one on at all. To keep your ties looking neat and wrinkle-free while traveling, use a tie travel case.
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DETROIT (AP) — Clogged oil ports, electrical shorts and leaks of brake fluid are only some of the safety problems that have caused multiple fires and forced Hyundai and Kia to recall millions of vehicles in the past seven years.
Now, Hyundai, the larger of the two affiliated Korean automakers, has promoted its North American safety chief to global status — an implicit acknowledgment by the company that it needs to address safety in a more robust way.
The executive, Brian Latouf, who joined Hyundai in 2019 after 27 years at General Motors, says he will focus on data analysis and testing to detect problems earlier and fix them.
As part of the company’s intensified focus on safety, Hyundai is building a $51.6 million laboratory near Ann Arbor, Michigan, with an electronic scanner to examine parts for problems. On the site, the company will test vehicle maneuvers, including steering and braking, and evaluate electric vehicle batteries. An outdoor track will allow vehicles to accelerate to roadway speeds so testers can detect problems.
The laboratory is scheduled to be completed in the fall of next year.
Besides elevating Latouf to global safety chief, Hyundai has anointed a new vice president for safety to try to ensure that safety is taken more fully into account in the design of new vehicles. Latouf, a mechanical engineer by training, said the company wants to detect problems fast and take action.
“You have to have a real good emerging-issues data analytics office, investigate quickly and address them,” Latouf, 58, said in an interview with The Associated Press. “If you let them linger, risk grows, the safety hazard grows.”
Latouf now has in place a safety team at the corporate headquarters in Seoul. And the safety group in North America has grown from 12 employees, when he started at the company, to 40 now.
The job is huge. The Center for Auto Safety, a nonprofit group that successfully petitioned U.S. regulators to seek Hyundai and Kia recalls, says the automakers have recalled 8.4 million vehicles for fires and engine problems since 2015. More than two dozen of the recalls involved more than 20 models from the 2006 through 2021 model years.
In addition, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating 3 million vehicles made by the automakers from the 2011 through 2016 model years. NHTSA says it’s received 161 complaints of engine fires, some of which occurred in vehicles that had already been recalled.
The agency, which began an engineering analysis late last year, has said it will evaluate whether previous recalls covered enough vehicles. It also will monitor the effectiveness of recalls, “as well as the long-term viability of related programs and non-safety field actions being conducted by Hyundai and Kia.”
In June 2018, NHTSA said it had received owner complaints of more than 3,100 fires, 103 injuries and one death. Hyundai and Kia were fined by NHTSA in 2020 for moving too slowly to recall vehicles that were prone to engine failures.
One critic, Michael Brooks, acting executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, noted that Hyundai’s upgraded safety programs are focused on future vehicles, which Brooks said won’t help owners of the company’s existing autos.
The center, Brooks said, continues to receive complaints of engine failures that Hyundai and Kia won’t fix because owners didn’t sign up in time for a company-issued knock sensor to detect engine problems.
“There’s still a consumer issue that’s ongoing that needs to be resolved,” Brooks said.
Hyundai says that owners can go online to report problems, which it will address.
In the meantime, recalls have continued for Hyundai and Kia, with some as recent as May of this year. Latouf said Hyundai’s recent engines have dramatically lower fire rates, and the knock sensors are detecting problems so they can be repaired before failures happen.
Like Hyundai, Kia was compelled to establish a U.S. safety office in its settlement with the government. Kia says it settled the case to avoid a protracted legal fight. The automaker, which did not comment for this story, said it intends to improve its recall management process to make things right for customers.
At General Motors, Latouf had been put in charge of safety after a series of recalls for faulty ignition switches that could turn engines off and disable air bags in a crash. At least 124 people were killed in a series of crashes.
Latouf said he learned from helping to rebuild the auto giant’s safety department and has adopted some of those practices at Hyundai. One is a “Speak Up For Safety” program that urges employees to report issues as they drive and test vehicles. The reports go directly to Latouf’s office.
“We’re getting hundreds of these in, and some of them have actually led to recalls,” he said.
With their thousands of components and millions of lines of software code, cars are notoriously complex, Latouf said, and all automakers experience safety issues and recalls. He said he expects Hyundai’s new safety programs to provide early enough warnings to limit the size of recalls and bolster consumer perceptions of the brand.
“We try to keep their faith, to make sure that if there’s an issue we’ll react to it,” he said. “We’re not just about sales and numbers and growth and technology. We’re about the customer as well.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/business/hyundai-exec-vows-to-improve-companys-safety-track-record/ | 2022-07-23 01:03:54 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/business/hyundai-exec-vows-to-improve-companys-safety-track-record/ |
Local Experts Explore the Healing Power of Plants
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Woman tries to return pick to Garth Brooks during concert, gets guitar instead
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (WABI/Gray News) – A woman had the night of her life at the Garth Brooks concert Saturday in Massachusetts.
Jessica Cloukey walked away from Gillette Stadium with more than just memories.
“This sign says, ‘Bangor Maine 1992. I’ve saved your guitar pick for 30 years. Do you want it back?’” said Brooks, reading from a sign in the crowd.
Out of about 70,000 fans in Foxborough Saturday night, it was Cloukey who managed to catch the eye of the country music superstar, WABI reports.
“I saw him back in ‘92. I was 8 years old. He was just starting out. I happened to be on my uncle’s shoulders when he was singing a song and he handed his guitar pick down to me,” Cloukey said.
Instead of accepting Cloukey’s offer to return the pick, Brooks gave her another one, along with his guitar clip.
“Oh, and maybe one more thing,” Brooks told her.
“When he turned and he said, ‘You need one more thing’ – I never in my wildest dreams expected it,” Cloukey said.
The country singer gave her his guitar.
Security took the guitar backstage for the rest of the show for safekeeping, and when it came time to retrieve it – Cloukey and Brooks crossed paths again.
“I don’t know who pulled strings or what happened, but we were able to be out back when he came offstage. It’s etched in my mind. I’ll always remember it. He bent down and put his hands on his knees and he looked at me and said, ‘Sweetheart!’ And I just melted. So, he came over and he signed the guitar. He talked about Bangor. He remembered Bangor! He gave me a big hug and apologized that he was wet. I said, ‘I’m good with that!’” Cloukey recalled.
Brooks is not the only new friend Cloukey has made through this experience.
She said her phone died four times on the drive home from all the messages she got from both people she knew and some she didn’t.
She’s not sure what she’ll do with the guitar yet – just that she’ll keep it in a secure location as a permanent reminder of one of the best moments of her life.
“If you gave me the opportunity to meet anybody in the world, that’s who I would pick. It brings tears to my eyes just knowing that my dream happened,” Cloukey said.
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Senators take first step in repealing Iraq War authorization
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate took a first step Thursday toward repealing two measures that give open-ended approval for military action in Iraq, pushing to end that authority as the United States marks the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War.
Senators voted 68-27 to move forward on legislation that would repeal the 2002 measure that greenlighted that March 2003 invasion of Iraq and a 1991 measure that sanctioned the U.S.-led Gulf War to expel Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait. Nineteen Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the measure.
The bipartisan effort comes at a time when lawmakers of both parties are seeking to reclaim congressional powers over U.S. military strikes and deployments, arguing that the war authorizations are no longer necessary and subject to misuse if they are left on the books. President Joe Biden has backed the push, and the White House issued a statement Thursday in support.
“Repeal of these authorizations would have no impact on current U.S. military operations and would support this administration’s commitment to a strong and comprehensive relationship with our Iraqi partners,” the White House said.
It’s unclear whether leaders in the Republican-controlled House would bring the bill up for a vote. Forty-nine House Republicans supported the legislation when then-majority Democrats held a vote two years ago, but current House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., opposed it.
Senate Republicans are also split on the legislation. While the 19 GOP senators voted for it, opponents argue that the repeal could project weakness to U.S. enemies. They have pointed out that President Donald Trump’s administration cited the 2002 Iraq war resolution as part of its legal justification for a 2020 U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani.
The October 2002 votes to give President George W. Bush broad authority for the invasion — coming just a month before the midterm elections that year — became a defining moment for many members of Congress as the country debated whether a military strike was warranted in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the United States.
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat who was in the Senate at the time and voted against the resolution, said on the floor before Thursday’s vote that “I look back on it, as I’m sure others do, as one of the most important votes that I ever cast.”
“The repeal of this authorization of the use of military force does not mean the United States has become a pacifist nation,” Durbin said. “It means that the United States is going to be a constitutional nation and the premise of our Founding Fathers will be respected.”
The Bush administration, seizing on the public’s rage over the terrorist strikes on U.S. soil, had drummed up support among members of Congress and Americans for invading Iraq by promoting false intelligence claims about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. Iraq, it turned out, had played no part in the al-Qaida attacks.
After the initial March 2003 invasion of Iraq, American ground forces quickly discovered that the allegations of nuclear or chemical weapons programs were false. But the overthrow of Iraq’s security forces precipitated a brutal sectarian fight and violent campaigns by Islamic extremist groups in Iraq. Car bombings, assassinations, torture and kidnapping became a part of daily life in Iraq for years.
Nearly 5,000 U.S. troops were killed in the war. Iraqi deaths are estimated in the hundreds of thousands.
In the statement of policy, the White House said Biden would work with Congress to replace the authorizations with “a narrow and specific framework more appropriate to protecting Americans from modern terrorist threats.” It said the president want to ensure that Congress “has a clear and thorough understanding of the effect of any such action and of the threats facing U.S. forces, personnel, and interests around the world.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in the hours before the vote that he was glad that the repeal is a bipartisan effort after the Iraq conflict was the cause of “so much bitterness” in the past.
“Americans are tired of endless wars in the Middle East,” Schumer said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before the bobbleheads and the “Fauci ouchie,” Dr. Anthony Fauci was a straight-shooter about scary diseases -- and “stick with the science” remains his mantra.
Fauci steps down from a five-decade career in public service at the end of the month, one shaped by the HIV pandemic early on and the COVID-19 pandemic at the end.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Fauci said he leaves excited by the prospect of advances such as next-generation coronavirus vaccines -- but worried that misinformation and outright lies mark a “profoundly dangerous” time for public health and science.
“Untruths abound and we almost normalize untruths,” Fauci said. “I worry about my own field of health, but I also worry about the country.”
Fauci, who turns 82 on Christmas Eve, has been a physician-scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 54 years, and its director for 38 of them.
Because he candidly puts complex science into plain English, Fauci has advised seven presidents, from Ronald Reagan to Joe Biden, about a long list of outbreaks -- HIV, Ebola, Zika, bird flu, pandemic flu, even the 2001 anthrax attacks.
“Stick with the science and never be afraid to tell somebody something that is the truth -- but it’s an inconvenient truth in which there might be the possibility of the messenger getting shot,” Fauci said. “You don’t worry about that. You just keep telling the truth.”
He added, with characteristic understatement: “That’s served me really quite well with one exception that, you know, the truth generated a lot of hostility towards me in one administration.”
For all his prior influence on national and even global responses to infectious diseases, it wasn’t until COVID-19 paralyzed the world in early 2020 that Fauci became a household name -- giving the latest updates at daily White House press conferences and in frequent media interviews.
But eventually, Fauci found himself having to contradict then-President Donald Trump's attempts to downplay the severity of the viral threat and promote unproven treatments. Trump and his allies began attacking Fauci, who even received death threats that required a security detail for his protection.
As the world enters another year of COVID-19, Fauci still is a frequent target of the far right -- but also remains a trusted voice for millions of Americans.
Under his watch, researchers at the National Institutes of Health laid the scientific groundwork for the speedy development of powerful coronavirus vaccines. An analysis released by the Commonwealth Fund last week found the shots saved 3.2 million lives in the U.S. alone and prevented 18.5 million hospitalizations.
With another winter uptick underway, Fauci’s disappointed that just 14% of people eligible for the updated COVID-19 boosters -- shots that add protection against omicron strains -- have gotten one.
“That doesn’t make any sense at all, when you have a vaccine that you know is life-saving,” he said. But he's also looking forward to next-generation vaccines that do a better job of preventing infection, citing promising leads like nasal vaccines.
For all the political attacks, the public did struggle to understand why some of his and others' health advice changed as the pandemic wore on — such as why masks first were deemed unnecessary and later mandated in certain places.
Fauci said one of the pandemic's lessons is to better convey that it's normal for messages to change as scientists make new discoveries.
“That doesn’t mean you’re flip-flopping. That means you’re actually following the science," he said.
Fauci has had a hand in life-saving scientific advances for decades. As a young researcher at the National Institutes of Health, he helped develop highly effective therapies for rare but once-fatal blood vessel diseases known as vasculitis syndromes.
Then came the AIDS crisis and days that Fauci, treating patients in NIH’s hospital, recalled as “very dark and very difficult.”
“As a physician you’re trained to heal people. And we weren’t healing anybody. Everybody was dying in front of us.”
Fauci created an AIDS division that, together with drug companies and universities, led research into drugs that eventually transformed HIV into a manageable chronic disease. Later, under President George W. Bush, Fauci helped develop PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, to bring those HIV medications to poor countries. The program is credited with saving more than 20 million lives over the past 20 years.
But it took years to get even the first anti-AIDS medications -- and in the late 1980s and early ’90s, furious activists protested what they saw as government indifference. Fauci brought the activists to the table, making it standard practice for patient advocates to have a voice in government decisions about drug research.
Unfortunately, he said, that experience can’t help bridge today’s political divisions that are hurting public health.
The AIDS activists “were theatrical. They were iconoclastic. They were provocative. They were confrontational, all of the above. But the fundamental core message that they had was a correct message,” Fauci said. “That is enormously different from what is going on right now with COVID, where untruths abound, conspiracy theories abound, distortions of reality abound.”
Despite that kind of rancor, Fauci is excited about recent scientific progress against a list of other scourges such as work toward vaccines for malaria, tuberculosis and maybe one day HIV. That’s why even though he’s leaving the government, Fauci says he’s not retiring.
“I’m going to continue to lecture and to write and to try and encourage and inspire people to go into science, medicine and public health,” he said. “There are a lot of things that are unfinished business and they will be finished sometime because science is going to do it.”
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Berry will lead the U.S. national alliance of long-term survivors of HIV
CHICAGO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time HIV long-term survivors are now included in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. As the U.S. and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) commemorate National HIV and Aging Awareness Day (#NHAAD) on September 18, the unique needs of long-term survivors require bold action and visionary leadership. The Reunion Project (TRP), the national alliance of HIV long-term survivors, today announced that Jeff Berry has joined as its first executive director, effective September 1. Berry, who has been living with HIV for over 35 years, previously served as chair of The Reunion Project's National Steering Committee.
"I am thrilled to be a part of this great organization, and grateful to the funders who helped make it happen," says Berry. "We are on the cusp of a silver tsunami of people living and aging with HIV who require services tailored to their unique needs. Isolation and other mental health issues have been exacerbated by COVID-19, so there is no time to waste and no better time for renewed focus on the myriad issues facing long-term survivors and people aging with HIV."
History of The Reunion Project
Berry joins The Reunion Project from TPAN, where he served as chief editorial officer and editor of the country's leading non-profit HIV magazine Positively Aware since 2005. Berry, who has 30 years of experience working in the non-profit and publishing world, is co-founder of The Reunion Project. Since its inception, The Reunion Project has established itself as the national network of long-term survivors of HIV. There are not any longstanding and continuous opportunities, at the national level, that have adopted a for-us- by-us approach to addressing the psychosocial aspects of persons aging with HIV and AIDS aside from the work of The Reunion Project.
"We are proud to support The Reunion Project and its network of long-term survivors. Gilead knows the importance of facilitating organic connections and empowerment opportunities for long-term survivors through creative programming," says Darwin Thompson, Director of Corporate Giving at Gilead Sciences. "The work of The Reunion Project has been critical to cultivating these safe spaces."
Our programs
The Reunion Project convenes groups of HIV long-term survivors and allies in targeted U.S. cities and virtual settings for personal and professional development for the growing and aging HIV and AIDS population (i.e., 379,000 people as of 2018, CDC). The convening is done through town halls, education, storytelling, networking, and information dissemination via peer-based support within in-person settings and web-based platforms.
"I'm excited and encouraged to see the tireless work of a diverse group of long-term survivors evolve from an all-volunteer effort to the naming of a full-time executive director," says Marc Meachem, Head, U.S. External Affairs, ViiV Healthcare. "We were honored to support The Reunion Project and know that Jeff and the steering committee will build on the body of work to elevate the voices, experiences, and needs of long-term survivors in our national dialogues around ending the HIV epidemic."
Founded in 2015 by activists living with HIV, The Reunion Project is the national alliance of long-term survivors of HIV, collaborating with local and national HIV advocates, providers and researchers. Together, we convene and connect individuals and communities, sharing our experiences of survival and loss while honoring our past, and developing successful strategies for living and supporting one another—today and into the future.
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Watch: Dog survives being tossed from car during high-speed wrong-way chase
A pitbull survived being thrown from a moving car during a high-speed wrong-way chase in Minnesota and now, as he recovers, he's being called a walking miracle.
Sgt. Dan Young of the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department told WCCO the chase involved multiple car-jackings and weapons.
Eventually, deputies were pursuing a stolen truck that was speeding the wrong way down an interstate.
That's when they noticed "a small, white dog had been thrown from the vehicle being pursued," Young said.
Deputies went back and searched for the puppy after the chase ended with a few arrests. However, the dog was nowhere to be found as evening temperatures dipped well below zero.
Using drones, the deputies tried the next day again and found the pitbull wagging his tail in a snow bank.
"He was happy-go-lucky. We even got him up in the van and he was licking us. Very, very happy. We gave him a piece of pizza," Young said.
Deputies named the dog Tahoe after the Chevrolet Tahoes they drive. Tahoe had a broken leg and some lacerations from the incident, but he's now recovering at the home of a county employee and a fundraiser created for his vet bills has collected more than $20,000.
Because Tahoe was found without a collar, tags or a chip, officers are trying to find his owner or a new home. Tahoe is believed to be about one year old.
"We'll do our best to get him to a nice, loving family where he can live out the rest of his days in luxury. Because he's earned it. It's a feel-good happy ending in a world where we don't get those a lot," Young said. | https://www.wmur.com/article/dog-survives-being-tossed-from-car-during-high-speed-wrong-way-chase/42759232 | 2023-02-03 18:47:46 | 0 | https://www.wmur.com/article/dog-survives-being-tossed-from-car-during-high-speed-wrong-way-chase/42759232 |
Updated August 14, 2022 at 12:33 PM ET
Police are investigating an early Sunday morning incident in which a man crashed his car near the U.S. Capitol and fired multiple gunshots before killing himself.
The man did not appear to be targeting any members of Congress, the U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement. No one else was injured.
The incident began around 4:00 a.m. as the man drove his car into a barricade about one block east of the Capitol.
As he exited the car, the vehicle "became engulfed in flames," the police statement said. The man then fired several gunshots, apparently into the air.
"When our officers heard the sound of gunfire, they immediately responded and were approaching the man when he shot himself," Capitol Police said. The agency said it did "not appear" that any officers fired their weapons.
Congress is currently on recess until after Labor Day.
Roads near the Capitol were closed as law enforcement investigates.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Phoenix retiree Saundra Cole has been watching the news about the debt limit negotiations in Washington with dismay — and limiting her air conditioning use to save money just in case her monthly Social Security check is delayed due to a default.
For her, air conditioning is no small thing in a city where the average daily high hits 94 degrees in May. If the government can’t make good on its obligations, she says, “I would be devastated.”
“What I’m worried about is food banks and electricity here because you know, we’ve had deaths with seniors because of the heat,” says Cole.
Politicians in Washington may be offering assurance that the government will figure out a way to avert default, but around the country, economic anxiety is rising and some people already are adjusting their routines.
Government beneficiaries, social service groups that receive state and federal subsidies and millions more across the country are contemplating the possibility of massive and immediate cuts if the U.S. were to default on its financial obligations.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned last week that a default would destroy jobs and businesses, and leave millions of families who rely on federal government payments to “likely go unpaid,” including Social Security beneficiaries, veterans and military families.
“A default could cause widespread suffering as Americans lose the income that they need to get by,” she said.
The number of people potentially impacted is huge. According to the Census Bureau, in 2020 roughly 35% of U.S. households included someone receiving Social Security benefits, 36% received Medicaid benefits and more than 13% of the total population received food stamps.
A recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 66% of Americans said they’re very or extremely concerned about the impact on the U.S. economy if the debt limit is not raised and the government defaults, though only 21% said they’re following the debate closely.
Robert Gault, 63, who depends on a $1,900 monthly Social Security disability payment, says an economic default “would make life so real awfully hard on me.” The former longtime factory worker said he suffers from chronic back pain caused by degenerating disks in his spine.
Gault, who lives in Bradford, Pennsylvania, near that state’s border with New York, said he thinks about the debate — and the stalemate — in Washington a lot.
He hasn’t made any drastic changes to the way he lives, but said, “I’m more conscientious of everything and I think about everything I do now.”
Negotiations between the president and congressional leaders are down to the wire as they try to break an impasse. GOP lawmakers have been pressing for spending cuts in exchange for agreeing to increase the government’s borrowing authority and President Joe Biden wanted a “clean” debt ceiling increase without conditions.
Without a deal, the U.S. could default as soon as June 1, according to Yellen.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was asked Monday if people should start preparing for default, and insisted “no, no, no, no.”
But people on fixed incomes and organizations that serve the poor — already feeling the after-effects of the pandemic and dealing with inflation — are bracing for a potential debt default that would deal an overwhelming blow to their finances.
Clare Higgins, executive director of Community Action Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts, said demand at the organization’s food banks has skyrocketed since the start of the pandemic, and is growing again.
With a possible debt default, she said, she’s seeing more demand for food from the three pantries that the organization either runs or financially supports.
“Yes, demand has gone up — but it was already up before,” she said.
“We’re already behind the eight-ball in what we’re able to pay teachers,” she said of the organization’s head start and early learning programs. “And the inflation that has happened in the economy has already reduced our ability to stretch the dollar.”
Higgins said while she’s hopeful that Biden and McCarthy can reach a compromise, she’s concerned the deal will include Republican-sought budget cuts that would affect the organizations she manages. And if a default does happen, Higgins said, “I hope it’s for a short period.”
William Howell, a political science professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, said the notion of older people and recipients of government benefits doomsday prepping for disruptions every time budget season comes around is symptomatic of a “dysfunctional” democracy.
“It’s not how a healthy democracy handles its business,” he said, adding that the consequences of the brinksmanship will impact the government’s ability to function and plan in coming years.
“In this era of hyper-polarization, the way you get compromise is walking right up to the edge of economic catastrophe and threatening default — on the other side we have a president almost threatening to invoke the 14th Amendment to do away with the debt ceiling,” he said. “This is the stuff of partisan politics.”
Adriene Clifford, 58, knows about balance sheets because she is an accounting professor in New York state. The Delhi resident said she was concerned enough about possible disruptions to the banking system in the event of a default that she withdrew money from the bank “just to tie me over.”
“I’ve been most concerned about the banking system going down and the FDIC not being there,” Clifford said. She was referring to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the independent federal agency that exists to maintain stability and public confidence in the U.S. financial system.
At the Kids’ Stop Learning Center in Rome, Georgia, Lance Elam, owner of the family business that has been in operation since 1984, says he’s not worried that a default will actually occur. But he still has done the calculation on how long operations could last without the subsidies that the organization receives for its three locations in Rome and Cartersville, Georgia.
“We have enough liquid funds to carry on for six to eight months,” he said, adding that state and federal funds helped the Kids’ Stop Learning Center stay in business through the pandemic.
“We have so many kids on our waiting list,” he said, that the center would likely begin dropping kids who couldn’t pay without subsidies and prioritize families that can pay out of pocket. | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-just-in-case-anxious-retirees-social-service-groups-among-those-making-default-contingency-plans/ | 2023-05-24 18:00:38 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-just-in-case-anxious-retirees-social-service-groups-among-those-making-default-contingency-plans/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man is back behind bars after his latest felony conviction. This time he will serve time in federal prison.
On Wednesday, the United States Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Indiana announced that Leonard Williamson Jr. was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison. The sentencing comes after a jury found Williamson guilty of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.
Williamson was arrested by officers from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) on February 7, 2021, after running away from an arrest attempt. Officers were trying to arrest him for several outstanding warrants.
While running away from police, court documents detail that Williamson threw a bag containing crack cocaine on the ground. Officers recovered the cocaine and $4,942 in cash at the time of the arrest.
The Attorney’s Office says Williamson has several prior felony convictions, including dealing and possession of cocaine and possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon. The jury in this case also returned verdicts of not guilty to firearms charges.
As part of the sentence, Judge Hanlon ordered Williamson to be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for three years following his release from federal prison. | https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/indianapolis-man-back-in-prison-after-cocaine-trafficking-conviction/ | 2022-06-22 21:37:00 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/indianapolis-man-back-in-prison-after-cocaine-trafficking-conviction/ |
Brown Co. officials search for wanted man
BROWN CO., Kan. (WIBW) - Brown Co. officials are on the search for a man wanted in connection to a recent criminal case.
The Brown Co. Sheriff’s Office says it needs the public’s help to find Richard “Ricky” Retherford, 49, a person of interest in a recent criminal case. Officials did not go into detail about the case.
Officials said Retherford is about 5-foot-9-inches tall, weighs around 155 pounds and has brown hair. He was last seen in Powhattan around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11.
The Sheriff’s Office indicated that Retherford was last seen wearing blue jeans and a long sleeve light blue shirt.
If anyone has information about Retherford’s whereabouts, they should immediately contact the Sheriff’s Office at 785-742-7125.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists jointly won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their work on quantum information science that has significant applications, for example in the field of encryption.
Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger were cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for discovering the way that particles known as photons can be linked, or “entangled,” with each other even when they are separated by large distances.
“Quantum information science is a vibrant and rapidly developing field,” said Eva Olsson, a member of the Nobel committee. “It has broad and potential implications in areas such as secure information transfer, quantum computing and sensing technology.”
“Its origin can be traced to that of quantum mechanics,” she said. “Its predictions have opened doors to another world, and it has also shaken the very foundations of how we interpret measurements.”
Speaking by phone to a news conference after the announcement, Zeilinger said he was “still kind of shocked” at hearing he had received the award.
“But it’s a very positive shock,” said Zeilinger, 77, who is based at the University of Vienna.
Clauser, Aspect and Zeilinger have figured in Nobel speculation for more than a decade. In 2010 they won the Wolf Prize in Israel, seen as a possible precursor to the Nobel.
While physicists often tackle problems that appear at first glance to be far removed from everyday concerns — tiny particles and the vast mysteries of space and time — their research provides the foundations for many practical applications of science.
Last year the prize was awarded to three scientists — Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi — whose work has helped to explain and predict complex forces of nature, thereby expanding our understanding of climate change.
A week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off Monday with Swedish scientist Svante Paabo receiving the award in medicine Monday for unlocking secrets of Neanderthal DNA that provided key insights into our immune system.
They continue with chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics award on Oct. 10.
The prizes carry a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be handed out on Dec. 10. The money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/3-share-nobel-prize-in-physics-for-their-work-on-quantum-science%EF%BF%BC/ | 2022-10-04 14:32:12 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/3-share-nobel-prize-in-physics-for-their-work-on-quantum-science%EF%BF%BC/ |
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