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Bogus online reviews are targeted by US regulators with new, proposed bans
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are looking to crack down on fake reviews and other deceptive internet practices.
The Federal Trade Commission proposed a new rule Friday that would ban paying for reviews, suppressing honest reviews, selling fake social media engagement and more. Businesses would also be prohibited from running company-controlled websites that claim to be independent, and other deceptive practices like “review hijacking,” which makes reviews for one product appear like they were written for significantly different ones.
If the proposed rule is approved, following a 60-day public comment period, violators could face hefty penalties.
“Our proposed rule on fake reviews shows that we’re using all available means to attack deceptive advertising in the digital age,” Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement. “The rule would trigger civil penalties for violators and should help level the playing field for honest companies.”
In Friday’s notice to proposed rulemaking, the FTC noted that it already considers fake reviews and other deceptive actions to be unlawful — but that the new bans “may increase deterrence against these practices,” allow for civil penalties and help get financial compensation to victims, the agency said.
Estimates about the portion of reviews online that are fake range from 4% to more than 30%, according to researchers at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles’ Anderson School of Management. According to 2021 numbers from the World Economic Forum and CHEQ, fake reviews impact some $152 billion in global spending each year.
In addition to FTC efforts to tackle fake reviews in the past — which include multi-million-dollar settlements with online retailers — more companies say they are now taking deceptive online practices seriously.
In July of last year, for example, Amazon filed a lawsuit against administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accused of coordinating fake reviews in exchange for money or free products — and on Tuesday, the company announced four additional lawsuits “against fraudsters attempting to mislead Amazon customers and harm Amazon selling partners by facilitating fake reviews.”
Earlier this month, Google announced legal action against a “bad actor” who posted over 350 fraudulent Google Business profiles and tried to boost them with more than 14,000 fake reviews, the company said.
The FTC’s Friday proposal follows the agency’s November announcement to explore rulemaking.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) countered a jab Tuesday from former President Trump about his COVID-19 response, saying that the former president’s “whole family” moved to Florida under his governorship.
“This is new,” DeSantis told NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer at a press conference when asked about Trump’s latest comments. “Six months ago, he would have never said that, right? He used to say how great Florida was.”
“Hell, his whole family moved to Florida under my governorship,” he quipped.
Trump took aim at the Florida governor in a Truth Social post Tuesday, noting that the state had the third highest number of deaths from COVID-19 in 2021.
“So why do they say that DeSanctus did a good job?” the former president asked. “New York had fewer deaths! Also, he shut down the State, and even its beaches (unlike other Republican Governors).”
However, Florida is also the third largest state in the country. The Sunshine State sits more in the middle of the pack when COVID-19 deaths are scaled by 100,000 people, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
DeSantis also suggested Tuesday that Trump should focus his efforts on President Biden rather than himself.
“Look if someone is saying that, I am gonna counterpunch. I am gonna fight back on it,” he said. “I am going to focus my fire on Biden, and I think he should do the same. He gives Biden a free pass.”
“I am focusing on Biden. That’s my focus,” DeSantis added.
The Florida governor formally announced his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination last week in a glitch-ridden Twitter Spaces event.
While he is the only candidate to make headway against Trump in the polls so far, DeSantis remains more than 30 points behind the former president, according to a polling average from FiveThirtyEight. | https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/desantis-trumps-whole-family-moved-to-florida-under-my-governorship/ | 2023-06-01 00:33:14 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/desantis-trumps-whole-family-moved-to-florida-under-my-governorship/ |
NACOGDOCHES, Texas -- 40 year old Jonathan Shuskey spent 20 years in the U.S. Army as a team leader, squad leader and platoon sergeant. He completed five combat tours and was awarded two Bronze Stars. Army retirement two years ago brought on a new challenge. For Shuskey it was time to go back to school and to take a swing at collegiate golf.
"My plan was to go do the PGA golf Management program. A former Army golf teammate told me while going to school I could play college golf. I laughed it off, I was going to be 40 years old. I found out I still have eligibility, I talked to the right people and here I am playing college golf."
Shuskey started at Christian Brothers University in Memphis. Success as a Freshman got him noticed by bigger schools. Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches, TX came calling. Shuskey now a Sophomore on the Lumberjacks golf team.
"Competing with the young dudes is tough when you're 40. Somedays I roll out of bed somedays I crawl."
Shuskey didn't play competitive golf in High School but he sharpened his game in the Army when he could even when deployed in Afghanistan. "Some companies would send us old clubs and balls and we would hit them outside what we called the wire. When on patrol we would pick up the balls we could find."
Now Shuskey is bringing his military work ethic to the SFA golf team. Helping his teammates be the best that they can be. After graduation Shuskey plans to become a Coach, working with 18 to 22 year-olds. The same age of the soldiers he trained in the Army.
Shuskey says "I like finding ways to give back to young people and try to help them set themselves up to be successful". | https://6abc.com/golf-college-sfa-shuskey/12507447/ | 2022-12-01 20:25:50 | 0 | https://6abc.com/golf-college-sfa-shuskey/12507447/ |
MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (AP) _ Insteel Industries Inc. (IIIN) on Thursday reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $24.3 million.
The Mount Airy, North Carolina-based company said it had profit of $1.24 per share.
The maker of steel wire reinforcing for the concrete and construction industry posted revenue of $208 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $125 million, or $6.37 per share. Revenue was reported as $826.8 million.
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Mild and sunny Monday; Rain and snow chances expected this week
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – We enjoyed another beautiful spring-like day in southeast MN and northeast IA. A few clouds will roll in later tonight with temperatures cooling into the low 20s. Winds will be light out of the west at 5-10 mph.
Monday will start off the work week on a quiet note, but it won’t last long as an active weather pattern will settle in for the majority of the week. Monday will see a mix of sun and clouds with mild temperatures in the upper 30s to low 40s. Winds will be light out of the west at 5-10 mph.
Our next weather-maker arrives on our doorstep Tuesday morning and will continue late into the night. Scattered to widespread showers are expected throughout the day with high temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. Winds will be strong out of the southeast at 15-20 mph and gusts near 30 mph. Up to 0.25″ of rainfall is expected with isolated amounts of up to 0.50″ possible, especially on the northern and western edges of the viewing area. As the associated low-pressure system moves out of the region, precipitation will wrap around and result in some minor mixing after Midnight, early Wednesday morning. Little to no accumulation is expected.
Off and on wintry mix is possible Wednesday as one system exits and the next arrives. Temperatures will hover near the freezing mark in the low 30s with a strong northwest wind at 15-25 mph and gusts near 35 mph.
Our second storm system arrives late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning and will last through the afternoon. Snow will be the dominant form of precipitation with this system, but a few questions still remain, including the exact storm track and snowfall amounts. Keep an eye on the forecast as we get more information in the next few days. Temperatures will be much colder Thursday, with highs in the upper teens.
A more tranquil weather pattern will arrive just in time for the weekend with mostly to partly sunny skies. Temperatures will gradually warm back above average into the weekend, reaching the low 20s on Friday and mid to upper 30s Saturday and Sunday.
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4-year-old found dead after falling into Georgia river on family fishing trip
Published: Dec. 13, 2022 at 11:02 AM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB/Gray News) – A 4-year-old died after falling into the Flint River during a family fishing trip in Georgia.
Dougherty County Coroner Michael Fowler said the river swept the boy away after he fell in Sunday afternoon.
The boy’s dad jumped in to try to save his son before calling authorities.
After a three-hour search, Daniel Kennedy James Cunningham’s body was recovered about three miles away from where the family was fishing.
First responders tried to revive the child but couldn’t save him.
Police said the water search was difficult because the Flint River is very dark, and the current is rough.
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(The Car Connection) — The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that compact cars don’t protect rear occupants well in its latest front-crash test, the insurance industry-funded agency announced Thursday.
The 2023 Honda Civic and 2023 Toyota Corolla sedans earned “Acceptable” ratings, while the 2023 Kia Forte, 2023 Nissan Sentra, and 2023 Subaru Crosstrek rated “Poor.” No car earned the top rating of “Good.”
“In all the small cars we tested, the rear dummy ‘submarined’ under the seat belt, causing the lap belt to ride up onto the abdomen and increasing the risk of internal injuries,” IIHS President David Harkey said in a statement.
It’s not just small cars that have failed to meet the criteria for the new moderate front overlap test. The majority of three-row SUVs and small crossovers tested received “Poor” ratings.
The updated test revises the front-crash test that started in 1995 and launched the IIHS into the role it serves today as the most comprehensive and up-to-date independent automotive crash-test agency. The NHTSA’s NCAP five-star rating system currently does not evaluate driver-assist technology nor does it update its crash tests once the majority of vehicles meet compliance. The IIHS’s Top Safety Pick+ designation has become the standard-bearer for automotive safety.
The moderate front-overlap test simulates a head-on collision of two vehicles of similar weight traveling at just under 40 mph. Revamped last year, the new test evaluates passenger protection in a front crash to rear passengers. The new test uses a dummy in the driver seat sized like the average adult male and another dummy sized like a small woman or 12-year-old child positioned in the seat behind the driver, where protection has lagged recently.
Historically, rear-seat occupants were cushioned from front crashes by the front seats and the front crumple zone. Since model year 2007 onward, however, the IIHS found that fatal injury is 46% higher for belted occupants in the rear seat than those in the front seat.
The rear seat hasn’t become any more unsafe, but safety advances to front-seat occupants have grown due to airbags, restraint technologies, and other areas of focus that the IIHS wants to see applied to the rear seats. The IIHS says the back seats remain the safest for young children who are more likely to be injured than protected by an airbag when riding in the front passenger seat.
The IIHS noted that all five small cars tested provided good protection to the driver. Rear-seat passengers didn’t fare as well. In addition to the submarining, the Forte, Sentra, and Crosstrek—the three vehicles rated “Poor”—showed moderate or high risk of head, neck, and chest injuries to the dummies.
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The rear occupant portion of the crash tests is not included in the criteria for Top Safety Pick designations. But the IIHS keeps challenging automakers to better protect vehicle occupants, so it could be considered in the future. Last year, for instance, the IIHS instituted a tougher side-impact test to reflect the faster speeds and heavier, taller vehicles proliferating on modern roadways. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/automotive/iihs-most-small-cars-fail-to-protect-rear-passengers-in-a-crash/ | 2023-05-14 17:13:54 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/automotive/iihs-most-small-cars-fail-to-protect-rear-passengers-in-a-crash/ |
BINCHE, Belgium (AP) — On a sunny winter morning heralding a radiant Mardi Gras, Beatrice and Karl Kersten don’t have a minute to spare.
In their warm workshop decorated with ancestral photos, the couple bend over their sewing machines. They are busy putting the finishing touches to the delicate lace details adorning the carnival costumes that will send a whole town into rapture once paraded through the cobbled streets of Binche.
“It’s a total rush, we are late,” said Karl, a fourth-generation tailor.
But to the Kerstens and their son Quentin, now in charge of the family business in the medieval western Belgian town, this year the pressure feels really good.
After a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic that brutally brought one of Europe’s oldest Mardi Gras celebrations to a halt — and the Kerstens to the verge of bankruptcy — celebrations are back with a vengeance this winter.
“There is a real excitement and enthusiasm,” said Quentin. ”People came much earlier to reserve their costumes than in other years.”
The earliest records of the Binche Mardi Gras, which draws thousands of revelers, date to the 14th century. Many Belgian towns hold ebullient carnival processions before Lent. But what makes Binche unique are the “Gilles” — local men deemed fit to wear the Mardi Gras costumes.
Under rules established by the local folklore defense association, only men from Binche families or resident there for at least five years can wear the Gille costume. Other characters — the Peasant, the Sailor, the Harlequin, the Pierrot or the Gille’s Wife — also play a role in the carnival.
The UNESCO-listed event starts three days before Lent and reaches its climax on Mardi Gras, when the Gilles — in wax masks sporting green spectacles and thin moustaches — dance in their wooden clogs to the sound of brass instruments and clarinets until the early morning hours. Women can join in, but only men wear the Gille outfit.
“The carnival is really the soul of the city of Binche, so we have been really sad over the past two years” said Patrick Haumont, a town hall staffer who often takes part in the celebrations, dressed in the red, yellow and black attire.
Over the past three weeks, rehearsals for the main parade have attracted more participants than usual. And at weekends, excitement in the bars filling the town’s main square hits unprecedented levels.
“Instead of the one beer you would normally drink, it’s now five,” Haumont said.
After the economic struggles of the pandemic years, and amid pain from energy bills that went through the roof after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the people of Binche want to make this year’s carnival one for the ages.
Although taking part requires a big financial commitment — renting a Gille costume and a lavish ostrich-feather hat costs around 300 euros ($327) — some 1,000 Gilles are expected to parade through the narrow streets of brick row houses to the beat of the drum and the tinkling bells of their outfits.
“People have rented more costumes, more hats. Everybody wants to do it again. We can see that there is a need,” Haumont said.
For Christian Mostade, an 88-year-old member of the biggest Gilles company, it will be his 38th carnival as a Gille.
“In normal times, we would be around 140 or 145,” he said. “This year we’ll be 158. There are old-timers who have not participated for a long time who have returned, and also many new ones.”
Charly Rombaux is among the newcomers. The 35-year-old delivery driver does not want to wear the daunting traditional hat that weighs nearly 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds) for his grand debut as a Gille.
The experienced Mostade had the solution pat.
“The solution is to find three men in your company with the same head size, so you can alternate with the hat on,” Mostade said as the two met for the first time this week and quickly engaged in a passionate conversation.
That need to get together again in a city where the Carnival creates a unique sense of belonging is a relief for the “louageurs” — the craftsmen making the costumes and renting them to the Gilles.
At some point during the pandemic, as he struggled to make ends meet, Quentin Kersten thought about calling it quits and starting anew as an electrician. His parents had to dip into their savings, forgetting about the trips they envisaged for their retirement days to salvage their business instead.
“It was a catastrophe,” Karl Kersten summed up.
But that dark chapter is now closed. Haumont marks his words: “For a regular carnival, there is effervescence. But this year, it is just going to be madness.” | https://www.kxnet.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-leaving-covid-behind-belgian-carnival-town-goes-mad-again/ | 2023-02-03 21:28:24 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-leaving-covid-behind-belgian-carnival-town-goes-mad-again/ |
16 dogs found chained in the woods in ‘horrific conditions’ rescued
KANSAS CITY, Ks. (KCTV/Gray News) - Animal services workers rescued 16 dogs that they say were found chained and left to live in horrific conditions alone in the woods in Kansas.
The dogs are recovering at KCK Animal Services, according to KCTV.
KCK Animal Services Director Ashley Scott says the dogs are adjusting incredibly well and will soon be available for adoption.
“All these guys were on heavy, thick chains,” Scott said. “They do have wounds from those heavy chains and collars because they were on so tight.”
While executing a search warrant, investigators discovered the 16 dogs in Kansas City, Kansas. KCK Animal Services responded to bring the dogs to the shelter to be assessed and treated.
“We knew that we could not leave these guys behind. There is no way these animals were getting adequate shelter,” Scott said. “The dog houses were falling apart. They were standing in several inches of mud and water. They had no food and no water.”
Rescuers hiked and used ATVs to bring the dogs out of the woods safely.
“We had to hike the rest of the way by foot. It was too muddy for a military grade ATV to get to,” Scott said. “I would say it was about a quarter mile into the woods. We were able to take one dog at a time.”
Scott says once the dogs are spayed or neutered, they will be ready to find new homes.
“They were so happy to be out of that environment. They’ve given nothing but love to us so far,” Scott said. “They are all very sweet and very gentle even with other animals.”
Friends of KCK Animal Services are collecting donations for medical care for the rescued dogs.
“This is why I do what I do. We can take an animal living in those conditions with no love, and they are resilient and forgiving even when they shouldn’t be,” Scott said. “We can try to give them the best life that they should have always had.”
Anyone interested in fostering or adopting is encouraged to contact KCK Animal Services to set up a meet and greet by emailing KCKPDAnimalServicesComplaints@kckpd.org or calling 913-321-1445.
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Machine Learning Solution Specialized in Analyzing Employee and Student Feedback Gives Leaders Supporting Insights
MONTREAL and CHICAGO, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Explorance, the leading provider of People Insight Solutions, today announced the general availability (GA) of Explorance BlueML, and the start of a special free offer for the award-winning workforce and student sentiment analysis solution.
An industry leading machine learning (ML) tool trained on employee and student responses, BlueML delivers actionable insights from large datasets of comments and feedback in minutes. Eliminating the need for time-consuming manual review and data organization processes, businesses and academic institutions gain a clearer look at employee and student needs and expectations, while also informing proactive measures to support a more satisfied, engaged, and well-trained workforce or student body.
Furthermore, the Explorance machine learning algorithms support the elimination of human bias in reviewing large data sets. MIT News reported that a team of researchers from MIT and Harvard found that training machine learning models on diverse sets of data can help the models reduce bias. Data sets that contain limited data are much more likely to discriminate when they make decisions. Supporting this concept, BlueML applies a consistent interpretation for every piece of employee and student feedback, ensuring standard and equal categorization even when analyzing thousands of feedback comments.
"Most organizations are unaware that they are sitting on a large source of untapped feedback datasets that can help improve their people's overall experience and career journey," said Samer Saab, Explorance Founder and CEO. "With BlueML, organizations can now bring to light the uncommon connections, and deep insights, about employees or students, that are otherwise, not easily accessible. With automated and intelligent analysis, the time and effort it takes to unlock data-driven decisions is significantly reduced, empowering organizations to act by evidence and not by assumption."
Explorance BlueML for Employee Experience
HR has been elevated into more strategic roles and conversations, enabling them to bring the voice of the employee into the boardroom. Fueled by data, HR can inform strategies for employee retention, employee engagement, and employee performance. Employees are continuously talking and providing feedback, high performing organizations are learning how to listen, and take action. The brave conversations that HR leaders are having, when informed by employee sentiment and organized by the diverse workgroups, give insight to decisions that impact an entire workforce.
The Employee Experience and Learning Categorization Models provide insights with crowdsourced recommendations support actions that ensure employees can perform at their best and evolve their career.
Explorance BlueML for Student Experience
The Student Experience Categorization Model allows academic leaders and administrators to focus on the key drivers for student success. BlueML fuels the entire student educational experience including all four facets: application, student life, learning, and alumni.
Explorance BlueML Award Winning Technology
The Explorance technology suite has already earned multiple industry accolades from the Brandon Hall Group in recent years including Best Advance in AI and Machine Learning (Gold) and Best Advance in Talent Management/Business Impact Tools (Bronze). This year, Claude Werder, Senior VP and Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group commented:
"The technology innovations that Explorance is coming out with are vitally important. Our research shows that most organizations (62%) do not have a strong understanding of the needs of their workforces, their skills, motivations or what they value – and don't value – in their employment. It is impossible to make great business and talent decisions without insights borne from people data. Many organizations are sitting on rich data that they don't have the expertise or tools to analyze. Solutions like Explorance BlueML can be a real game-changer."
Free Personalized Workforce and Student Feedback Analytics Report
Each personalized report will provide leaders with a sneak peek about workforce and student body sentiment, highlight the most important topics impacting the organization and contain a summary of actionable insights. Organizations can provide Explorance with up to 1000 employee or student comments
For more information on this offer and to sign up for free, go to:
Employee Experience: https://lp.explorance.com/blueml-trial-offer
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Explorance BlueML is on display with demonstrations and trial stations at the Explorance MTM Impact Symposium 2023, taking place in New Orleans, LA between March 1-3.
To learn more about Explorance BlueML, please visit www.explorance.com/blueml
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Founded in 2003, Explorance supports more than 20 million people in their individual journeys of purpose, growth, and impact. As the leading provider of People Insight Solutions, Explorance empowers organizations with actionable decision-making by measuring students' and employees' needs, expectations, skills, knowledge, and competencies. Explorance facilitates continuous improvement and accelerates the insight-to-action cycle leading to personal growth and organizational agility. Headquartered in Montreal with business units in Chicago, Chennai, Melbourne, Amman, and London, Explorance works with 25% of the Fortune 100 and 25% of the top Higher Education institutions, including 8 of the world's top 10 business schools. The company has clients in more than 50 countries.
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Law & Order, Grey's Anatomy, Better Things, Station 19, Call the Midwife and Teen Mom: The Next Chapter are all TV shows that had depictions of abortion in 2022, according to the new Abortion Onscreen report. Among the annual study's findings this year:
There's been an uptick in the number of shows and plotlines centered around abortion. Researchers found 60 abortion plotlines or mentions in 52 shows in 2022, versus 47 abortion plotlines in 42 shows in 2021.
For the first time in ten years, a third of the TV plotlines portrayed barriers to abortion access versus only two such plotlines in 2021.
Demographics on TV continue to misrepresent reality. In 2022, 58 percent of TV characters who obtained an abortion were white women when, in reality, it's mostly women of color.
For about ten years now, researchers at the Abortion Onscreen project have scoured scripted and reality TV shows searching for any mention of abortion, but this year the work happened in a new context. "The overturn of Roe v Wade catalyzed a lot of people to really understand the importance of sharing abortion story lines on television," says Steph Herold, author of the report from the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health program at the University of California, San Francisco.
Herold calls the increase in TV plot lines addressing the legal, financial and logistical barriers to access "significant."
"Showrunners, writers, producers have really woken up to the abortion access crisis," she says.
Another first, says Herold, an abortion fund volunteer was a character on television, in an episode of Law & Order. The character accompanies a teenager from Texas to New York to have an abortion.
"A lot of people don't know that abortion funds exist," says Herold, "So having someone there can put a little seed in people's mind... Some organizations do support people through these experiences, you don't have to go through it alone."
Herold also singles out an episode of P-Valley as a "powerful depiction" of abortion that does resemble real life. Set in Mississippi with a mostly Black cast, a mother and her pregnant 14-year-old daughter have difficult and loving conversations about abortion. To learn about their options, they need to drive across the state to a clinic. Once they get there they walk through a crowd of protesters.
P-Valley creator Katori Hall told NPR's Code Switch earlier this year that she felt it was her "responsibility" as a Black female writer to include difficult issues like abortion in her work. "We are just going to be honest, be true. We use, as I say, fiction in order to tell the truth," said Hall.
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ELLICOTT CITY, Md., July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackpoint Cyber, a SaaS based MDR solution provider, announces their commitment to partnering with Microsoft to fight against the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape. Blackpoint, whose primary goal is to serve the MSP community, views the collaboration with Microsoft as a key to providing solutions to help solve some of the most painful cybersecurity challenges that exist in the space today.
Blackpoint has enhanced their intelligent detection logic for its Cloud Response product. This enhancement increases protection against evolving cyber threats, further equipping and safeguarding businesses who rely on Microsoft security for cloud and hybrid environments.
Cloud Response extends the power of Blackpoint's proprietary MDR exclusively to Microsoft 365, providing continuous protection for Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Exchange, and SharePoint. As one of the first 24/7 MDR solutions in the cloud, Cloud Response brings the expertise of an elite SOC team (SOCaaS) to cloud workflows, with expert security monitoring and rapid, active response.
Additionally with the managed EDR service with Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Business, MSPs can experience simplified deployment and monitoring of endpoint security policies. They get full-service response to alerts handled by our dedicated SOC team of experts, for an enhanced cybersecurity posture.
"This release brings an even better user experience to users of Microsoft security technologies. Being committed to integrating with top players in the cybersecurity space is a key focus of ours and the integrations we have with Microsoft play an integral role in our mission to bring world class tech to our customers," said Xavier Salinas, CTO at Blackpoint. "With our Adversary Pursuit Group (APG) leading the charge, we spent the past year analyzing data on our Microsoft integrations and developed a series of updates that allow us to respond even quicker and more accurately."
"Microsoft and Blackpoint share a deep commitment to the MSP community. Blackpoint's solutions build on Microsoft security technologies with 24/7 security expertise and best practices to help ensure that SMBs and MSP partners have the robust security they need," said Rob Lefferts, CVP, Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel Engineering.
Businesses looking for ways to further enhance their investment in Microsoft Security, please reach out to Blackpoint. All products in the MDR SaaS + SOCaaS based ecosystem are available in a cost-effective bundle that includes everything needed to protect customers from advancing Cyber threats.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — It’s time for Sweden to join NATO because it has done what’s necessary to secure Turkey’s approval for membership, the military alliance’s secretary-general said Monday.
“I have said that time has come to bring to an end the ratification process for Sweden,” Jens Stoltenberg told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in an interview.
In May, Sweden and neighboring Finland dropped their longstanding policies of military nonalignment and applied to join NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The move requires the unanimous approval of the alliance members. Turkey has held up the process while pressing the two Nordic countries to crack down on groups it considers to be terrorist organizations and to extradite people suspected of terror-related crimes.
Last month, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Sweden was not even “halfway” through fulfilling the commitments it made to secure Ankara’s support. His remarks came after a Swedish court ruled against extraditing a man wanted by Turkey for alleged links to a 2016 failed coup.
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has said that Sweden has lived up to its commitments and that the decision now “lies with Turkey.”
“We have a very good process together with Finland and Turkey and are doing exactly what we said, which Turkey is now confirming,” Kristersson said on Sunday, the first day of the three-day People and Defense conference in Salen, a ski resort in central Sweden. The event was attended by Stoltenberg and Swedish foreign policy and security experts.
“Legislation banning participation in terrorist organizations is being implemented, and Turkey is known to name individuals it wants extradited. It is also known that Sweden has legislation that is clear and means that it is up to the courts. We also do not extradite Swedish citizens to any country.”
There was no immediate reaction from Turkey to the comments by Stoltenberg and Kristersson.
The parliaments of 28 NATO countries have already ratified Sweden and Finland’s membership. Turkey and Hungary are the only members that haven’t yet given their approval.
Under the memorandum, the two countries agreed to address Turkey’s security concerns, including requests for the deportation and extradition of Kurdish militants and people linked to a network run by U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. The Turkish government accuses Gulen of masterminding the 2016 coup attempt, which he denies.
However, Sweden’s top court has refused to extradite journalist Bulent Kenes, whom Turkey accuses of being among the coup plotters. Kenes, who received asylum in Sweden, was the editor of the English-language Today’s Zaman newspaper which was owned by the Gulen network and was closed down as part of Ankara’s crackdown on the group. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-nato-chief-sweden-has-done-whats-needed-to-join-alliance/ | 2023-01-09 23:41:05 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-nato-chief-sweden-has-done-whats-needed-to-join-alliance/ |
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said whoever is going to debate former President Donald Trump needs the “skill” to debate the former president on the stage during any potential 2024 run for the White House.
“You better have somebody on that stage who can do to him what I did to Marco [Rubio], because that’s the only thing that’s gonna defeat Donald Trump,” he said during a town hall at Saint Anselm College on Monday. “And that means you gotta have the skill to do it. And that means you have to be fearless because he will come back and right at you.”
Christie’s comment about Rubio stems from a notable moment in the 2016 GOP primary debate where the two candidates hurled insults at each other.
Christie, who has not announced a formal bid for the presidency, has criticized Trump and questioned his ability to be elected to the White House again.
“So you need to think about who’s got the skill to do that and who’s got the guts to do it, because it’s not going to end nicely,” he said. “No matter what, his end will not be a calm and quiet conclusion.”
Former Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Trump have traded barbs recently.
Christie is one of several Republicans headed to early primary states this month.
Former Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who have each yet to make formal bids, have made trips to the states thus far. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy are the only Republicans who have formally challenged Trump.
Christie also touted how his town halls are the “best way” to communicate with people, and that he will continue to host them if he runs again.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The iconic four-time GRAMMY and five-time Latin GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer Pepe Aguilar, along with his children, the revered GRAMMY and two-time Latin GRAMMY Nominee Angela Aguilar, and two-time Latin GRAMMY Nominee Leonardo Aguilar, have struck a deal through Vistura Entertainment to be part of an exciting new product launch for a top TIER 1 CPG Company, during Hispanic Heritage Month.
Launched September 19th, the Tik Tok video has generated over 3 million views in less than 24 hours, thanks to the creative content developed by the brilliant minds of the talented Aguilar family (https://bit.ly/3QI8rgF).
Pepe and his family are a perfect fit to help the Tier 1 CPG company reach U.S. Hispanics through their social media followers, reaching over 42 million on combined social media. With this magnitude of influence, they are an evidently strong opportunity for any brand wishing to expand its reach. In addition, they will provide marketing opportunities for face-to-face engagement with thousands of fans attending their renowned multi-city tour, "Jaripeo Sin Fronteras", making them ideal to access all demographics of U.S. Hispanics.
"We are very happy to be part of a campaign of a product that reaches out to our community and promotes family values," shared the Aguilar family.
Vistura Entertainment is proud to announce the coming-together of such powerhouses, as the common denominator of this partnership that anticipates bringing lots of fun, while highlighting a brand-new spicy snack.
This roll-out comes at a crucial time in which the U.S. Hispanics represent 19% of the total population, a growing market of 60 million+ with a $1.7 trillion purchasing power from which $100 billion is spent on CPG, making it a top-desired target demographic impossible to ignore.
"It's an honor for all of us to take this first step in the beginning of a growing business relationship with the Aguilars. Who better to be the bridge that unites their beloved community with the very best of what this great nation's product-and-service providers have to offer," said Vistura Entertainment CEO Ulysses Alvarado.
All parties involved in this marketing effort are thrilled to unveil their collaboration during the celebration of the histories, cultures, and contributions of the U.S. Hispanics.
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Redemption tour complete: Many caps off undefeated season with the Division III State Title
New Orleans, La (KALB) - For the third time since 2014, Many, Louisiana can be referred to as Title Town.
The Tigers captured the Division III State Championship Saturday night in New Orleans with a 35-13 win over #3 Union Parish.
Defense played strong on both ends coming up with key stops in the first quarter. That was until 4-star USC commit, Tackett Curtis, in his final game in a Many uniform, broke off one of his best runs of the year for 80 yards for the first score of the game.
However, just 19 seconds later, Union Parish’s Trey Holly, an LSU commit, broke off a 63 yard rushing touchdown to tie the game at 7 at the end of the first quarter.
The next three quarters, the Many Tigers got down to their brand of football. For the game, the Tigers rushed for 398 yards and five touchdowns including two rushers that went over 100 yards.
Jeremiah James had arguably the best game of his career in the biggest game. He ran for 140 yards and two clutch second half touchdowns. This past week’s ACA Athlete of the Week also went over the century mark with 102 yards and a score. Even Tackett Curtis got in on the mix with 98 yards on the ground.
The Many defense, which came into the game giving up less than seven points per game, held Union Parish to just 80 yards of total offense in the second half to secure the win.
The 2022 championship run marks the third perfect season in Many history putting this year’s team in the same sentence as the 2014 and 2020 team. While this was the final game for Tackett Curtis, Head Coach Jess Curtis said work will begin soon as the Tigers not only look for back-to-back title wins but their fifth straight title berth.
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- Guardhat will bring 3M's Safety Inspection Manager (SIM) into its Industrial Internet of People (IIoP) platform to accelerate product development.
- This collaboration is expected to accelerate SIM enhancements while also evaluating new connected safety personal protection equipment (PPE) that aims to keep more frontline workers safe.
ST. PAUL, Minn. and DETROIT, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 3M today announced a collaboration with Guardhat, an industry-leading connected safety software company. Given the importance of connectivity as a key ingredient in safety programs, 3M is transferring its Safety Inspection Management (SIM) software to Guardhat. The transition is expected to be completed in mid-2023. In addition to the SIM transition, the two companies will evaluate future opportunities to collaborate by combining 3M's expertise in personal protection equipment with Guardhat's leading worker-centric software platform to create connected safety opportunities that aim to keep more frontline workers safe.
SIM is a cloud- and mobile-based system that simplifies compliance, helps improve safety and eases work for EHS teams by digitally connecting people, places and PPE. Via mobile apps, RFID tags and barcodes, operations teams gain visibility into equipment status and location, training schedules and requirements, and inspection workflows to keep work moving while keeping people safe.
For example, a maintenance crew planning to work at height can quickly scan the RFID tag on their fall arrest system via the SIM app on their phone before they begin work to conduct an inspection of the equipment and ensure it is ready to use. This inspection is recorded, and the equipment can be checked out to a worker and/or location. The system will also notify the team when the next inspection is due and provides transparency for compliance needs, inventory management, workforce training needs and more.
The Guardhat IIoP (or Industrial Internet of People) Platform is an open, device-agnostic software solution built for the industrial workforce and its specific needs. That includes data privacy, management of the unstructured data produced by workers and their wearable device, processing for critical events at the human edge – to ensure that decision-making isn't reliant on network connectivity – and considerations for the unpredictable responses people can have to events and alerts.
"3M and Guardhat share a common mission to help workers get the job done and get them safely back home," said Ray Eby, President of 3M Personal Safety Division (PSD). "A collaboration between our organizations brings together our expertise and innovation across PPE with Guardhat's pioneering, worker-centric software platform to better serve that joint mission. Connectivity is increasingly beneficial in safety solutions, and together we can deliver at scale."
Saikat Dey, CEO and co-founder of Guardhat, added, "3M is synonymous with safety at worksites the world over. This collaboration allows us to dramatically expand the lives we touch. It combines best in class safety equipment and software to streamline asset management, speed remote support and emergency response and even prevent incidents before they occur."
3M and Guardhat expect that this collaboration will accelerate development of SIM software and other Connected Safety solutions, as well as bring these solutions into the Guardhat platform – a platform built for real-time safety and collaboration with and among frontline workers that provides proactive alerts to and from frontline teams to help prevent incidents, respond to issues quickly and keep work moving.
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About Guardhat
Guardhat builds connected technology to improve safety and collaboration with and among frontline industrial workers. We offer a proprietary connected worker platform – unrivaled in its ability to ingest, manage and analyze unstructured data, agnostic to device; easy to deploy monitoring and reporting software; innovative, wearable technology; and a growing ecosystem of partner integrations. With Guardhat, device manufactures can quickly bring connected solutions to market and companies can engage with a connected workforce across devices to speed reaction time and help proactively solve challenges. Guardhat is Detroit-founded, San Jose-based, global company. The company holds 13 patents in real time location systems, wearable solution design and connected worker software. For more information, visit: www.guardhat.com.
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WASHINGTON — House Republicans are taking early action on abortion with their new majority, approving two measures Wednesday that make clear they want further restraints after the Supreme Court overruled the federal right to abortion last year.
The new GOP-led House passed one resolution to condemn attacks on anti-abortion facilities, including crisis pregnancy centers, and a separate bill that would impose new penalties if a doctor refused to care for an infant born alive after an abortion attempt.
Neither is expected to pass the Democratic-led Senate, but Republicans said they were making good on promises to address the issue along with other legislative priorities in the first days in power.
“You don’t have freedom, true liberty, unless government protects your most fundamental right, your right to live,” said new House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who led debate on the measures.
Even so, the two measures are far from a bold statement on abortion, which has proved politically tricky for them since the June Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade after almost 50 years and allowed states to enact near or total bans on abortion. While some Republicans have pushed to expand on the ruling with a national ban — or a compromise ban that would limit abortions after a certain point — many Republicans have rejected that option. And it has become clear that most Americans would oppose it.
A July AP-NORC poll showed Republicans are largely opposed to allowing abortion “for any reason” and after 15 weeks into a pregnancy. But only 16% of Republicans say abortion generally should be “illegal in all cases," and a majority, 56%, say their state should generally allow abortion six weeks into a pregnancy. According to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the midterm electorate, 61% of all voters said they were in favor of a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide.
The national sentiment has made some Republicans wary of the party's traditional full-throated opposition to abortion rights.
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican who says she is opposed to abortion, said she believes the early push on the issue is misguided. She said she believes the majority of voters in her swing district opposed the Supreme Court's decision to overrule Roe.
“This is probably not the way to start off the week,” Mace told MSNBC.
Republicans supporting the two measures took pains not to connect them with overturning Roe, emphasizing that they were narrowly focused.
“I want to be absolutely clear that this bill has nothing to do with the Supreme Court decision,” said Missouri Rep. Ann Wagner, the Republican sponsor of the bill.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia said the measures passed Wednesday reflect what Republicans see as immediate abortion priorities. House Republicans still “need to have a discussion” about more wholesale changes, namely an abortion ban, he said.
Loudermilk said he thinks the issue should be left to the states for now, "otherwise we start muddying the waters again.”
Emboldened by public opposition to the Supreme Court decision, Democrats enthusiastically opposed the measures, predicting that Republicans were only laying the groundwork for a national ban.
“The differences between our side of the aisle and their side of the aisle couldn’t be any clearer," said Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York.
Democrats criticized the resolution condemning attacks on pro-life facilities as one-sided because it did not condemn similar — and long-standing — violence against abortion clinics. The resolution is “woefully incomplete,” said New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.
The Democrats argued that the legislation imposing new penalties on doctors is unnecessary because it is already illegal to kill an infant. It would create complicated new standards making it harder for health providers to do their jobs, they said.
“It is a mean-spirited solution in search of a problem,” said Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif.
Last summer, the Democratic-led House voted to restore abortion rights nationwide, but that legislation was blocked in the closely divided Senate. That bill would have expanded on the protections Roe had previously provided by banning what supporters say are medically unnecessary restrictions that block access to safe and accessible abortions.
The GOP bills are destined to suffer a similar fate in the Senate this session. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Americans elected Senate Democrats “to be a firewall” against what he said are Republicans’ extreme views.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The world should confront climate change the way it does nuclear weapons, by agreeing to a non-proliferation treaty that stops further production of fossil fuels, a small island nation leader proposed Tuesday as vulnerable nations pushed for more action and money at international climate talks.
“We all know that the leading cause of climate crisis is fossil fuels,” Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano told his fellow leaders. So his country has “joined Vanuatu and other nations calling for a fossil fuels non-proliferation treaty… It’s getting too hot and there is very (little) time to slow and reverse the increasing temperature. Therefore, it is essential to prioritize fast acting strategies that avoids the most warming.”
Vanuatu and Tuvalu, along with other vulnerable nations, have been flexing their moral authority in negotiations, especially in light of mega climate disasters. The idea of a non-proliferation treaty for coal, oil and natural gas has been advanced by churches, including the Vatican, and some scientists, but Natano’s speech gives it a bigger boost in front of a global audience.
A year ago at climate talks in Glasgow, a proposal to call for a “phase out” coal — the dirtiest of the fossil fuels — was changed at the last minute to “phase down” by a demand from India, earning the wrath of small island nations and some vulnerable countries.
Small island nation leaders also called for a global tax on the profits of fossil fuel corporations that are making billions of dollars of profit a day during a global energy crisis triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“While they are profiting the planet is burning,” said Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, speaking on behalf of his and other small island nations.
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa called on similar nations to form a “countermanding bloc of the victims of climate change.’’
In a departure from the criticism that rich countries have so far endured from many developing nations’ leaders at this year’s international climate meeting, the president of Malawi praised leaders present in Egypt for simply showing up.
“The temptation to abstain from COP this year was great,” President Lazarus Chakwera said, referring to the talks by their U.N. acronym, “because of the great and unprecedented economic hardships your citizens are suffering in your own nation,” he said. “But you resisted this temptation and chose the path of courage.”
Chakwerea said any agreements forged at the two-week meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh should recognize the different abilities of developed like the United States and high-productivity countries such as China on the one hand, and developing nations like his own on the other.
So far, China has insisted that it cannot be held to the same standards as developed economies such as the United States or Europe because it is still lifting millions of its citizens out of poverty. But there is growing pressure on Beijing to step up its climate efforts given its massive economic clout.
Jochen Flasbarth, a senior German official and veteran climate negotiator, said China only formally meets the criteria of a developing country.
“In truth it is the top emitter worldwide and it is also an extremely prosperous economy,” he said. “That’s why we expect, and this is also being done in some areas, that more responsibility is taken on (by China), nationally and internationally.”
Meanwhile, Guterres and leaders such as Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said it was time to make fossil fuel companies contribute to funds which would provide vulnerable countries with financial aid for the climate-related losses they are suffering.
“It is about time that these companies are made to pay a global carbon tax on their profits as a source of funding for loss and damage,” Antigua’s Browne said. “Profligate producers of fossil fuels have benefited from extortionate profits at the expense of human civilization.”
And if the small islands can’t get a global tax on fossil fuel profits, Browne suggested going to international courts to get polluters to pay for what they’ve done. A group of scientists from Dartmouth College calculated specific damages for all the world’s countries and how much was caused by other nations, saying it would work well in international court cases.
Browne also quoted William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ in sharing his frustration with lack of action.
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death,” Browne said. Despite 27 climate summits “tomorrow has not come. Governments and corporations come to the COP each year delivering grand statements with lofty commitments. But these commitments are only partially honored.”
The idea of a windfall tax on carbon profits has gained traction in recent months amid sky-high earnings for oil and gas majors even as consumers struggle to pay the cost of heating their homes and filling their cars. For the first time, delegates at this year’s U.N. climate conference are to discuss demands by developing nations that the richest, most polluting countries pay compensation for damage wreaked on them by climate change, which in climate negotiations is called “loss and damage.”
The U.S. mid-term elections were hanging over the talks Tuesday, with many environmental campaigners worried that defeat for the Democrats could make it harder for President Joe Biden to pursue his ambitious climate agenda.
Germany climate envoy Jennifer Morgan said the Biden administration’s recent climate law had given the United States “a higher level of standing” internationally.
Asked about the possible impact of the U.S. midterm election on the talks, Morgan said that individual votes “can’t change the fact that we’re in a climate emergency.”
Also hanging over the conference was the fate of one of Egypt’s most prominent jailed pro-democracy activists, Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who has been imprisoned for most of the past decade. His family stepped up pleas for world leaders to win his release after he stepped up a longtime hunger strike. Abdel-Fattah stopped even drinking water on Sunday, the first day of the conference, vowing he is willing to die if not released, his family says.
The head of the U.N. human rights office called Tuesday for the immediate release of Abdel-Fattah amid concerns about his health.
Volker Türk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said the activist, Alaa Abdel-Fattah, “is in great danger. His dry hunger strike puts his life at acute risk.”
Rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani relayed Türk’s comments at a U.N. briefing on Tuesday and said that all activists and others affected by climate change should “have a seat at the table” at the U.N. climate conference that opened a day earlier in the Egyptian seaside resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Egypt’s longtime history of suppressing dissent has raised controversy over its hosting of the annual conference, known as COP 27, with many international climate activists complaining that restrictions by the host are quieting civil society.
On Tuesday, more world leaders were to take the stage, including Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif of Pakistan, where summer floods caused at least $40 billion in damage and displaced millions of people. After the speeches, the conference delegates will delve into negotiations on a range of issues — including for the first time on compensation, known as loss and damage.
Some of the strongest pleas for action came so far from leaders of poor nations that caused little of the pollution but often get a larger share of the weather-related damage.
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Seth Borenstein and Samy Magdy contributed to this report.
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DOVER, Del.- Less than a week after charges were dropped against her in New Castle County Superior Court, Delaware State Auditor Kathy McGuiness has been indicted on those same charges by a Kent County grand jury.
The new indictment came after the location of the trial became a point of contention. Prosecutors then dropped the case "without prejudice," That means there is no double jeopardy, which allowed the state to re-draw the charges in Kent County, where McGuiness' office is.
As with the New Castle County indictment, on Monday McGuiness was indicted on five criminal charges for the alleged misuse of public funds, including: violation of the state's official code of conduct, felony theft, non compliance with procurement law, official misconduct, and witness intimidation.
She has continually proclaimed her innocence.
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Man arrested after threatening to kill police sergeant
HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) - A Connecticut man is facing several charges after allegedly threatening a police sergeant.
According to Connecticut State Police, a sergeant was getting into his police vehicle when a man sitting in another car started to shout at him.
The man, later identified as 29-year-old Raymond Lapinski, reportedly asked the sergeant if he was a cop.
When the sergeant confirmed he was a member of law enforcement, Lapinski told him that he “kills cops,” police said.
“Using profane language, the male went on to threaten to kill the sergeant specifically,” a spokesperson for the Connecticut State Police said.
The sergeant attempted to take Lapinski into custody, but the man made an obscene hand gesture while yelling profanities and took off from the scene in a Honda sedan.
Police said they were able to locate Lapinski a short time later but due to him traveling at speeds over 100 mph, they terminated the pursuit.
According to authorities, police spotted Lapinski on Tuesday and they were able to take him into custody while he was armed with a knife and yelling obscenities at officers.
“Officers sustained minor injuries during the struggle to secure Lapinski in the cruiser,” a spokesperson for the Connecticut State Police said.
State police said the 29-year-old also had outstanding warrants for his arrest from other police departments.
The 29-year-old is facing charges that include assault of a public safety officer, reckless driving and carrying a dangerous weapon.
Lapinski was arraigned in a Hartford courtroom on Wednesday.
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Deputy reunites with baby he helped deliver: ‘This completes the story’
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFTS) - A Florida sheriff’s deputy officially met the baby girl he helped recently deliver on the side of a highway.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy Daniel “Red” Jones was approached by a man in a panic earlier this month. He said his pregnant wife was about to give birth in the front seat of the car.
Authorities shared a video of Jones springing into action on that day and assisting the mother in giving birth.
The sheriff’s office said Jones was thrilled to help and it was actually his third time helping a resident deliver a baby.
“Most of the time we get involved with something and we don’t get a chance to know what happened. This completes the story for me,” Jones said.
The couple hasn’t decided on a baby name just yet but their baby girl now has a set of little red pajamas in the deputy’s honor.
This is baby number six for the couple but the first to be born on the side of the road.
“The other ones made it to the hospital in time. But she didn’t want to wait,” said Lexela Nalesco, the girl’s mother.
The couple said they plan to share this story with the baby’s siblings and stay in touch with Jones.
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20-year old Pitt student owns and runs Vocelli Pizza in Hampton Township
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Dylan Mitchell, a 20-year-old full time sophomore law, criminal justice and society and politics and philosophy major, began working at Vocelli Pizza in Hampton Township at 15 and became a shift lead a year later. At 17, his family purchased the store, and now he spends 40 to 60 hours a week running the pizzeria.
“It’s knowing how to manage your time and limit it where you recognize what’s important, what’s not important in life, and trying to further yourself having lofty goals and knowing that you set your sights on that goal, and you want to go towards that,” Mitchell said.
When balancing between school and work, Mitchell said he has to make a lot of sacrifices. While he still has a social life, he chooses to focus on franchising and getting his education.
“There’s not that ideology of having a college experience or something, it’s knowing that I’m here for an education, and then I can be furthering my education, furthering my entrepreneurship at the same time,” Mitchell said. “You can do two things at once. If you sacrifice other facets that may be like a social life, still you can have it but it’s definitely limited.”
Mitchell said because he is young, he needs to have additional management skills, as he is in charge of people who sometimes are older than him, and issues may arise. He uses his experience and knowledge and some confidence to make sure people respect and have faith in him.
“There’s always that sense of like, ‘why are they telling me what to do?’ So you have to be able to kind of just lead by example,” Mitchell said. “Show them that you know what you’re doing and have the authority and the confidence, so that people will listen and will follow you and you don’t have to encounter problems.”
To help boost employee morale and encourage them to stay, Mitchell said he tries to be considerate and introduce different games. For one of the games, Mitchell timed himself making a pizza and pinned $20 to a board, so whoever makes it faster than him wins the $20. He said it’s important to make his employees happy, especially because in the food industry, there are high turnover rates.
“You don’t want to kill people’s morale or anything, I want people to enjoy working there,” Mitchell said. “Keep [staff] coming back, especially in today’s day and age where it’s hard to keep staff. Turnover is so high in the food industry. ”
Jon Matschener, a first-year undeclared engineering major, first met Mitchell when he began working at Vocelli’s two and a half years ago, and became a shift lead six months ago. He said Mitchell’s dedication and hard work make him a great store owner and boss.
“He definitely puts in the time and he works there a lot more than I do. He only has school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, he scheduled it out that way. So I think he works four to five days a week at the pizza shop,” Matschener said. “If there’s ever a question that anybody has, [we] just go to him for it because he always seems to know what he’s doing.”
Additionally, Matschener said Mitchell has been working at the pizzeria longer than anyone else. According to Matschener, this allows Mitchell to step up and become the shift lead or delivery driver whenever it’s needed.
“He’s been working there the longest. He worked there two years prior to me. So he’s been there for five years,” Matschener said. “If anybody ever gets flustered at work, like, if a shift manager ever doesn’t know what they’re doing, he always steps in and takes over and runs the shift. He also drives for us, because we’re kind of low on employees right now.”
Jax Law, another shift manager and a first-year graphic design major at Pittsburgh Technical College, said working with Mitchell is great because she feels like they get along and understand each other.
“It’s pretty great. Solely because we have the same little mind link in ADHD. So we kind of bounce off each other and know what we’re gonna do,” Law said. “I worked somewhere else for like three months. And it was really weird having a boss that also didn’t have ADHD. And I was like, ‘You don’t understand how I’m getting to these places.’”
Law also said Mitchell is a great owner because he tries to accommodate everyone’s requests, even if it means he loses sleep.
“He does great as an owner, he knows what he’s doing. He’s been there the longest. And when we had him doing the schedule, everyone’s requests were completely fulfilled,” Law said. “You see them and he’s like, ‘I haven’t gotten hours asleep’ or ‘how are you?’ Still going, he just completely balances it all in some way.”
Mitchell said his future plans include getting into the real estate business and politics and going to law school. On Dec. 1, he will become the president of Pitt’s College Republicans club. According to Mitchell, his main goal in life is to further his entrepreneurship and hold political office.
“My eventual goal is definitely to try to use business real estate entrepreneurship to be successful enough that I can run for political office so I can fund my own campaign and not have to take money from people, because then you owe things,” Mitchell said. “I’d rather be able to run myself and know that I’m sticking to what I value.”
“I’m in the process of getting my real estate license. Right now. I’m looking into doing entrepreneurship on the real estate side trying to do real estate business. Holding and buying and holding, renting property, flipping houses at some point, maybe buying and selling real estate because I think that’s a super lucrative business.” -Mitchell
“But I’m the I’m also the president of the College Republicans club, President Elect American president on December 1, but almost almost honestly”-Mitchell
“But President Elect of the College Republicans club is getting involved in that, and just in the future, hopefully, being able to get into real estate and entrepreneurship, because I have the franchise experience being able to get into potentially other franchising opportunities in the future.”-Mitchell
“I’ll be applying to law school. Wherever I ended up going to law school. If I end up trying to run for political office in PA here, or if I move south or something, then run for political office down there. Or even if I just get a law degree and use that to bolster my real estate portfolio and be able to cut my own deals and everything and not have to pay commissions”- Mitchell | https://pittnews.com/article/177407/news/20-year-old-pitt-student-owns-and-runs-vocelli-pizza-in-hampton-township/ | 2022-11-18 16:09:35 | 1 | https://pittnews.com/article/177407/news/20-year-old-pitt-student-owns-and-runs-vocelli-pizza-in-hampton-township/ |
SILVER SPRING, Md., June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency:
- Today, the FDA provided information to health care providers and facilities on oxygenator devices used in extracorporeal circulation. The FDA issued this letter to help ensure that health care providers and facilities are aware of a recall notice by Getinge/Maquet for Quadrox Oxygenators and have information about alternative devices. The Letter to Health Care Providers includes important information about this issue, including:
- On Thursday, the FDA approved an expanded indication for the Inspire Medical Systems' Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation (UAS) System to include an updated apnea hypopnea index (AHI) and body mass index (BMI) threshold. The safety and effectiveness data available now increases the AHI baseline to 100 and a BMI level of 40 for adult patients with moderate to severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). This device is an implantable nerve stimulator that detects the patient's breathing pattern and maintains an open airway with mild stimulation of the nerves of the tongue. The patient, using a "remote control"- like device turns therapy on before sleep and turns therapy off on awakening. The UAS implant was initially approved in 2014 to treat certain patients, 22 years of age or older with moderate to severe OSA and in 2020, the indication was expanded to include certain adolescent patients between 18 and 21 years of age with moderate to severe OSA. In March, the indication was expanded to add certain pediatric patients, between 13 and 18 years of age, with Down syndrome and OSA.
- On Thursday, the FDA updated the Medical Device Shortages List webpage. The updates include:
- Coil, Magnetic Resonance, Specialty, MRI breast biopsy grid plate only (product code: MOS)
- Breast Biopsy / Localization Tray, MRI breast biopsy grid plate only (product code: PXP)
- Guide, Needle, Surgical, MRI breast biopsy grid plate only (product code: GDF)
- Prefilled Saline Flush Syringes (product code: NGT)
- Some catalog numbers of one trade name of automatic external defibrillator (product code: MKJ)
- Multiple trade names of Assisted Reproduction Labware - Testing Supplies & Equipment (product codes: MQK and PUD)
For information about how the FDA determines it is appropriate to remove product codes from the device shortage list, please visit our webpage Supply and Shortages of Medical Devices: Frequently Asked Questions. In times when 506J notifications are not required, the FDA has more limited information about potential disruptions in the domestic supply of critical devices and has more limited ability to determine the extent and duration of shortages of critical devices.
- On Monday, the FDA cleared for marketing the Elecsys Total-Tau Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) and Elecsys ß-Amyloid (1-42) CSF II tests for the detection of amyloid plaques in patients aged 55 years and older being evaluated for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Amyloid plaques are abnormal accumulations of β-amyloid in the spaces between nerve cells in the brain. The test is intended to be used in conjunction with other clinical diagnostic assessments to help health care providers determine whether a patient has AD. While a positive test result does not establish a diagnosis of AD or other cognitive disorder, a negative test result reduces the likelihood that a patient's cognitive impairment is due to AD. The Elecsys CSF tests add to the increasing arsenal of clinical laboratory tests available to assist in the evaluation of patients with cognitive disorders such as AD.
- This week, the FDA sent to Congress its Report on Drug Shortages for Calendar Year 2022, the tenth annual report, to summarize major actions taken by the agency to prevent or mitigate drug shortages in the United States. 2022 was a challenging year for shortages as manufacturers in the U.S. and abroad continue to experience quality issues and capacity constraints. The FDA also saw an additional strain on the pharmaceutical supply chain as demand increased for numerous drugs because of the COVID-19 pandemic combined with a challenging flu and respiratory virus season. Considering these challenges, the agency made a significant impact in helping to prevent or mitigate drug shortages. During CY 2022, there were 49 new shortages, and the FDA helped prevent 222 potential shortages.
- On Tuesday and Wednesday, June 13-14, the FDA will host the 2023 Science Forum. This year's forum, Advancing Regulatory Science Through Innovation, will feature talks from FDA science experts across the agency under 8 topics that highlight groundbreaking research that contributes to regulatory science discoveries. The virtual event will be kicked off by a keynote speech by Dr. Murray Lumpkin, Deputy Director of Integrated Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and feature virtual poster sessions with downloadable content. The Science Forum is open to the public. To learn more about the program agenda and to register for the event, please visit the 2023 Science Forum web page.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — A court in New Delhi on Tuesday approved an extradition request for the prime suspect in the killing of a woman on an Australian beach four years ago.
Rajwinder Singh, who is of Indian origin, was arrested in November on the outskirts of the Indian capital. His arrest came three weeks after he was targeted with a 1 million Australian dollar ($677,000) reward.
Australia had applied to India for Singh's extradition in March 2021, but he could not be found.
Singh, 38, flew from Sydney to India the day after 24-year-old Australian Toyah Cordingley's body was found on the Queensland state coast on Oct. 22, 2018.
The court's order approving Singh's extradition to Australia will now need to be signed off by the Indian government, which could take a few weeks, said Ajay Digpaul, standing counsel for the federal Indian government. He added that Singh earlier this month waived his right to challenge the extradition.
In November, Australia's attorney general said Singh's extradition is a “high priority” for his government and that it will work with Indian authorities to ensure Singh returned to Australia to face justice.
The Queensland government on Nov. 3 offered the largest reward in the state’s history for information about Singh.
The reward was unique in that it did not seek a clue that solves a crime and leads to a successful prosecution. Instead, the money is offered for information that leads only to a suspect’s location and arrest.
Indian police arrested Singh on the same day they received information about his whereabouts, Australian Federal Police said in November.
New Delhi police said Singh was arrested on a highway to his home state of Punjab based on intelligence shared by the France-based international policing organization Interpol as well as Australian police.
Singh was “believed to be avoiding apprehension in the Punjab region in India since traveling to the country” in 2018, according to Australian police.
Singh was employed as a nurse at Innisfail, a town south of the major city of Cairns, when Cordingley was killed on Wangetti Beach. She had gone to the beach to walk her dog.
Australia and India have had a extradition treaty in place since 2010, but the process can be slow.
For 13 years, Australia has been pursuing the extradition of Indian national Puneet Puneet, 33, who fled Australia after he was convicted of drunk driving and speeding when he hit and killed one pedestrian and injured another in downtown Melbourne in 2008. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Indian-court-grants-extradition-for-Australia-17737834.php | 2023-01-24 12:59:31 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Indian-court-grants-extradition-for-Australia-17737834.php |
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — When Corion Evans saw three people at a party, the 16-year-old never imagined he would save their lives a few hours later. But that's what happened in the early hours of Sunday when a car drove off a boat launch into a south Mississippi river.
The Mississippi high school student jumped into the Pascagoula River around 2:30 a.m. that day after seeing the car plunge into the waters from the boat ramp under Interstate 10. Three young women he had seen at a nearby party on Saturday had been in the car. They all had gone to a gathering spot near the boat ramp after the party ended.
He ran downhill toward the water as fast as he could.
“I just seen the car in the water, then just seen them in the water saying ‘help.’ So I just took my shirt off, took my shoes off and threw my phone and I jumped in the water,” Evans said.
Undeterred by the dark water, Evans headed straight into the river. Later, he learned, alligators live in the river and its bayous.
“I was scared, but I just focused on keeping everybody calm,” he said. He went on to save all three women in the car and a police officer who responded to the scene.
The driver said she was following her GPS and did not realize she was headed for the water’s edge, according to a Moss Point Police Department news release Wednesday.
“It’s no lights down here or nothing, so everything was just pitch black,” Cora Watson, 19, told WLOX-TV. “The GPS thought we was on top of the interstate. That’s why it was telling us to go straight because it did not say it was water here or nothing.”
The three young women climbed out of the passenger window, WLOX-TV reported. At least one of them managed to get onto the roof of the car. As another struggled to tread water, she managed to hold one hand in the air and call the police.
Moss Point police officer Gary Mercer was dispatched to the scene and said Evans was already in the water when he arrived. Mercer said he jumped into the river and began assisting one of the teenagers who said she couldn't swim. After Mercer tried to carry the girl on his back, she panicked and caused him to go underwater.
"He was trying to come back up but kept swallowing water," Evans said. "He was trying to catch his breath but he tells her, ‘I can’t, I can’t.' That's when I swam over to them."
Evans then helped Mercer and the woman reach the shore. He attributes his physical strength to playing high school football and his swimming experience. He said he learned how to swim as a 3-year-old in his grandmother's pool.
“If Mr. Evans had not assisted, the situation could have turned out differently, instead of all occupants being rescued safely,” said Moss Point Chief of Police Brandon Ashley.
On Tuesday, the Moss Point mayor and board of aldermen presented Evans with a certificate of commendation for his actions.
“We are proud of the young man for having the courage to forget about himself and jump into the water,” Mayor Billy Knight told the AP. “It’s not often enough that you see people put others above themselves.”
The young women gave Evans a gift basket complete with bags of “Life Savers” candy.
Evans, who will be a senior at Pascagoula High School in the fall, wants to study physical therapy or sports medicine in college. A GoFundMe page was started to help pay his tuition, which he is calling a “blessing.”
“I wasn’t supposed to be there," Evans said. “When I ran into that water I was supposed to have already been gone. I feel that I’m being blessed for what I did that night.”
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Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who suffered a cardiac arrest during a Monday game, has shown "substantial" and "remarkable" improvement in the past 24 hours, according to his physicians and team.
"While still critically ill, he has demonstrated that he appears neurologically intact," the Buffalo Bills said, citing doctors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where the 24-year-old is being treated. "His lungs continue to heal and he is making steady progress."
UCMC echoed that statement on Thursday, saying they are grateful for the support of the Buffalo Bills and fans.
After Hamlin's heart stopped beating following what seemed like a routine tackle, first responders resuscitated him by performing CPR in front of his teammates and fans. Hamlin's uncle Dorrian Glenn said doctors had to restart Hamlin's heart for a second time when he arrived at the hospital.
Hamlin's father, Mario Hamlin, addressed the Buffalo Bills team on a Zoom call Wednesday to let everyone that Hamlin was making progress, ESPN reported.
The Bills-Bengals game was postponed with six minutes left in the first quarter and will not be resumed this week. The NFL has not yet decided whether to reschedule the match-up at a later date.
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The impact of missed preventative medical care during the pandemic is beginning to emerge in the form of drastic declines in childhood vaccination rates among Arizona youth, now at lower levels than at any point in the past decade.
The plummeting rates follow a yearslong decline in immunizations among Arizona students overall — one that has put residents of all ages at heightened risk of infection from largely preventable communicable diseases.
The trend is compounded, experts contend, by a reluctance from the Arizona Department of Health Services to address rising rates of personal belief vaccine exemptions. The Arizona Legislature, meanwhile, passed a law to limit the ability of health regulators to require certain vaccines for school attendance.
Out of nearly 1,000 Arizona schools with kindergarten classes, about 60% had decreases in students considered immune from measles, mumps and rubella between 2018 and 2021, according to an AZCIR analysis of school vaccination data. Immunization rates in schools dropped by as much as 30 percentage points for certain vaccines, and more than half of kindergarten classes examined had lower DTaP vaccination rates in 2021 than they did in 2018.
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Hundreds of Arizona schools did not maintain a full accounting of which students are compliant, according to data from the 2021-2022 school year, meaning not every student has an immunization record or exemption on file, AZCIR found. Around 40% of kindergarten classes also lack the student paperwork for MMR or DTaP vaccinations.
Wide-ranging vaccination rates across the state mean similar variation exists in levels of protection from diseases such as whooping cough, chickenpox and polio. For highly contagious diseases like measles, at least 95% of a population needs to be vaccinated to stop an outbreak — a threshold just three in 10 Arizona kindergarten classrooms currently meet or surpass. This means more than 7,000 kindergarten students in Arizona could now be at risk of contracting measles in an outbreak.
Three measles cases were reported in September by the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, two of which were diagnosed in children. The total Arizona cases have since risen to five.
“The only reason we don’t have circulating diseases of all of those formerly very common childhood diseases is because of school requirements,” said Dr. Bob England, interim executive director of the Arizona Partnership for Immunization.
Schools report vaccination information to ADHS each year for child care, kindergarten and sixth grade. A student is either immune, which means fully vaccinated, or exempt for a medical or personal reason. Any student without vaccination records or an exemption is prohibited from attending school, according to state law.
While the pandemic caused substantial drops in some vaccination rates, the number of vaccine-exempt students has also increased over the past decade, driven in large part by higher rates of personal belief exemptions. ADHS and Maricopa County piloted a limited education program to reduce those exemptions in schools in 2017, but ADHS scuttled the initiative based on public backlash. The department did not reinstate the program. Instead, ADHS said it relies on promoting “the benefits, safety and effectiveness of childhood vaccinations.”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently voted to add COVID-19 vaccination to the recommended schedule for children and adults, but Arizona has moved in the opposite direction. In 2022, the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature passed a bill barring the COVID-19 vaccine, for any variant, from ever being required for school attendance. Gov. Doug Ducey signed the bill into law.
England, a former director of the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, is concerned about what this may mean for uptake of all vaccinations. “What I’m really, really worried about,” he said, “is that for the first time, vaccines and vaccine requirements became a partisan issue.”
A ‘precipitous drop’
Vaccination rates across the nation for kindergarten students declined overall by around 1 percentage point during the 2020-2021 school year, according to a recent CDC estimate. A drop of this magnitude equates to tens of thousands of children becoming more vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases.
According to Dr. Sean Elliott, a pediatric infectious disease specialist in Tucson and emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, the “precipitous drop has everything to do with the pandemic.” Elliott, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said he does not think anti-vaccine sentiment has contributed as much to the recent extreme decline in Arizona, instead calling it “an underlying trend.”
AZCIR contacted more than two dozen school districts and charter schools to better understand drops in student vaccination rates between the 2018-2019 and 2021-2022 school years. Among the eight districts that responded, six provided interviews or statements and two declined to comment.
For sixth grade students, the rate of the meningococcal and Tdap vaccines decreased the most over the course of the pandemic. Children receive these vaccines at age 11, right around the time they enter sixth grade. About two-thirds of schools analyzed had these vaccination rates decrease from 2018 to 2021.
At Thompson Ranch Elementary in El Mirage, the meningococcal and Tdap vaccine rates for sixth graders decreased by about 30 percentage points. The school is part of the Dysart Unified School District, where, according to district spokesperson Renee Ryon, much of the student population suffers from a general lack of access to health care, including vaccinations.
Ryon said the school, which has a large share of students from low income families, is aware of the problem and has worked “tirelessly to improve” immunization rates through partnerships with local health providers.
The federally funded Vaccines for Children program allows children who are on Medicaid, uninsured or underinsured to be immunized, but the number of providers in the network has shifted over the years. England said he and his group, the Arizona Partnership for Immunization, are now trying to determine if the number of federally funded Vaccines for Children providers has decreased overall.
At Dr. Daniel Bright School in Yavapai County, MMR immunization rates dropped by 23 percentage points to 63.9%. Bob Clark, the district nurse for the Cottonwood-Oak Creek District, said this is because students also lacked access to routine vaccination in 2020 and 2021.
“We were hearing wait times of two months or more in order to get in and vaccinated,” he said about the time when health care was focused on COVID vaccines and not as much on other well-child care.
Rising exemptions, declining vaccinations
Before the pandemic, an increase in vaccine exemptions played a significant role in Arizona’s multiyear, downward trend in immunization rates. A large share of the exemptions are for non-medical reasons, better known as personal belief exemptions, which are permitted by 15 states nationwide.
In Arizona, a parent needs only to sign one form to receive a personal belief exemption for one or all required vaccines. The rate for such exemptions in the state jumped from 3.9% to 6.6% for kindergarten students over the past decade, AZCIR’s analysis showed. For sixth grade students, 7.4% have an exemption from at least one vaccination.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, which advocates for the elimination of personal belief exemptions, views them as “inappropriate for individual, public health, and ethical reasons.”
Nothing prevents a school administrator from using the personal belief exemption form as a way to keep kids who have fallen behind on their vaccines in school. Looking at the number of personal belief exemptions is a way to measure vaccine hesitancy, said England, but “some of that is parents signing an exemption form out of convenience.”
In Cottonwood-Oak Creek, for example, Clark said only a small percentage of students with exemptions in his district have received no vaccines at all. He said students have fallen behind on vaccinations but cannot go to school until they are either immunized or exempt, so they sign an exemption form instead.
That tactic could explain why a decade-old study commissioned by the ADHS found that schools likely have an inflated rate of personal belief exemptions, or what the report called “record keeping challenges.”
State and county health departments attempted to reduce the number of personal belief exemptions through a course that provided access to educational materials before parents sign an exemption form. But after a 2017 pilot at 16 schools in Maricopa County, the state canceled the program. The video-based education course, which is still available on the ADHS website, was meant to expand across the state in an extended pilot in 2019.
As originally reported by The Arizona Republic, about 120 individuals and families complained about the program, thinking it would become mandatory. It was canceled in August 2018 and “wasn’t reinstituted due to the pilot results and stakeholder feedback,” according to Tom Herrmann, ADHS spokesperson.
But an AZCIR review of the pilot results, obtained through records requests, reveals that it was difficult to draw conclusions from the program based on how the study was designed. There were not enough schools in the study to determine if the program reduced exemption rates, according to information from Sonia Singh, spokesperson for the Maricopa County Department of Public Health. While participants in the module took a pre-course survey, they weren’t required to take a post-course survey — and not enough did it voluntarily, meaning what or how much participants might have learned about vaccines remains unclear.
“In recent years, ADHS and many other health departments have moved away from campaigns that can be perceived as trying to scare or intimidate the public,” ADHS spokesman Steve Elliott wrote in an emailed statement. “Feedback from those whom the campaigns attempt to persuade is that such approaches stigmatize and, in doing so, tend to harden positions.”
AZCIR analyzed school-level immunization data from the Arizona Department of Health Services to compare how vaccination rates changed from before the pandemic to the most recent school year.
AZCIR used data from the 2018-2019 and 2021-2022 school years for kindergarten and sixth grade. AZCIR found errors in ADHS’s 2019-2020 dataset, so it was excluded from the analysis. ADHS has since resolved those errors.
AZCIR removed schools that had closed during the span of time analyzed, and also removed schools that were opened after the 2018-2019 school year. In addition, AZCIR removed schools that reported data in 2021 but not in 2018. These updates resulted in an analysis of 967 kindergarten classes and 803 sixth grade classes.
ADHS said it is working with partners such as the Arizona Partnership for Immunization to conduct outreach about the importance of vaccines.
This spring, the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature voted along party lines on a bill to reduce the power of the health department, making it unable to require vaccinations for COVID-19 or the human papillomavirus vaccine for school attendance. The legislation was opposed by the Arizona Education Association, the Arizona Partnership for Immunization, the Arizona Public Health Association and the Arizona chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Experts such as England remain concerned about the trend of vaccination rates, indicating these discussions about required school vaccinations could be a harbinger of problems to come.
“There has never been a public health problem that has been solved through education and voluntary behavior change,” he said. “It’s always something in the environment we’ve done around people, or something in policies and systems that we’ve created. And for vaccine-preventable diseases, it was school requirements.” | https://tucson.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/pandemic-accelerated-arizona-s-years-long-decline-in-childhood-vaccination-rates/article_829e3b24-5ad6-11ed-85b6-6b9ae1978c2e.html | 2022-11-07 06:46:17 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/pandemic-accelerated-arizona-s-years-long-decline-in-childhood-vaccination-rates/article_829e3b24-5ad6-11ed-85b6-6b9ae1978c2e.html |
Taryn Owen and Kristy Willis recognized for their contributions to their company and the staffing industry
TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueBlue is pleased to announce that two of its leaders have been named to the Staffing Industry Analysts' (SIA) Global Power 150 Women in Staffing List for 2022. In its eighth year, the list recognizes women who have made significant contributions both to their companies and the staffing industry.
"Taryn and Kristy are both dynamic, innovative leaders that embody our mission to connect people and work and act as a force for good in the communities we serve," said Steve Cooper, CEO of TrueBlue. "We are proud of their many contributions to TrueBlue and our brands, including prioritizing a culture of inclusion in all aspects of our business."
The TrueBlue executives featured this year include:
Taryn Owen
President & COO, TrueBlue
Taryn Owen was recently named President and COO of TrueBlue, overseeing all operating segments and key corporate support functions. Owen is responsible for furthering the company's strategies for long-term growth and extending its track record of exceptional execution and engagement. She has an unwavering commitment to TrueBlue's employees, customers, and mission of connecting people and work, and is passionate about building a vibrant and inclusive workplace. Prior to being named President and COO of TrueBlue, Owen served as President and COO of TrueBlue operating segments, PeopleReady and PeopleScout. Over her tenure, Owen has led the company through periods of significant growth, was instrumental in its pandemic response, and has spearheaded its digital transformation strategies.
Kristy Willis
Chief Sales and Field Operations Officer, PeopleReady
Kristy Willis leads PeopleReady's national sales organization and field operations, which combined generate more than $1B in revenue annually. Willis has been instrumental in the company's ongoing work to pioneer progressive technology and delivery models to enhance customer, associate and colleague experience. Willis' leadership style focuses on cultivating morale and teamwork to enhance productivity and enable fulfillment of PeopleReady's mission to connect people and work, and commitment to acting as a force for good in the communities it serves.
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TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI) is a leading provider of specialized workforce solutions that help clients achieve business growth and improve productivity. In 2021, TrueBlue connected approximately 615,000 people with work. Its PeopleReady segment offers on-demand, industrial staffing, PeopleManagement offers contingent, on-site industrial staffing and commercial driver services, and PeopleScout offers recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and managed service provider (MSP) solutions to a wide variety of industries. Learn more at www.trueblue.com.
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CINCINNATI (AP)With a playoff spot assured and only a No. 5 or 6 seed at stake, Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh rested several starters and went with undrafted rookie Anthony Brown at quarterback in a 27-16 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday.
Harbaugh’s strategy, which he described on Friday as a two-game plan, could pay off now that the Ravens and Bengals are set for a rematch in Cincinnati next week in the first round of the AFC playoffs.
”We did what’s best for our team and our season,” Harbaugh said.
The Ravens are still without star quarterback Lamar Jackson and placed Jackson’s backup, Tyler Huntley, on the inactive list along with running back J.K. Dobbins, tight end Mark Andrews and cornerback Marcus Peters.
Brown threw a pair of first-half interceptions and lost a fumble in the end zone that was recovered by the Bengals for a touchdown just before halftime. He settled in later in the game and finished finished 19 of 44 for 286 yards.
Next week, the Ravens expect to have Huntley available – and possibly Jackson, who has missed five games since suffering a PCL sprain in Week 13.
The majority of the Ravens’ defensive starters played Sunday.
”I don’t really think about that too much,” linebacker Roquan Smith said when asked about the Ravens resting players.
Unlike the Bengals, who still had a shot at the No. 2 seed with a win and a loss by Buffalo, the stakes weren’t very high for Harbaugh’s team. Baltimore finished as the No. 6 seed. Moving up to the fifth seed and earning a home playoff game would have required a win over the Bengals, a win by the Los Angeles Chargers over Denver, and a successful coin flip.
The Bengals played all their regulars on Sunday and suffered a couple of injuries. Right guard Alex Cappa departed with a left ankle injury in the third quarter. Receiver Tyler Boyd was evaluated for a concussion but later returned.
”We needed this win,” Bengals coach Zac Taylor said. ”There’s just too much on the line. You had to block that out and just play whoever they put out there.”
The Bengals won the AFC North after the NFL canceled their Monday night game against Buffalo following Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s on-field cardiac arrest.
The Bengals and Ravens split two meetings this season with the Ravens winning 19-17 on Oct. 9.
As division rivals, the teams are familiar with each other, with the Ravens leading the all-time series 28-26. The Bengals have won three of the last four meetings.
”Obviously playing an opponent that we’re kind of familiar with is interesting,” Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey said. ”We’re 1-1 against them. When you play three times, usually the best team will show. Obviously, this is a playoff game, so it’s exciting.”
Neither team wanted to tip its hand on Sunday, knowing a rematch was likely. Taylor said the Bengals did not want to ”put it all out there” on Sunday. The Ravens’ offense will look much different next week.
Harbaugh downplayed the novelty of playing the same team back to back weeks.
”I don’t gauge that,” he said. ”What matters is how we come out and prepare for the playoff wild-card round. Our guys have earned that opportunity and we’re looking forward to it.”
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Following is a statement by Jen Judson, President of the National Press Club and Gil Klein, President of the National Press Club Journalism Institute on the action tonight by a Philippine court in the case of journalist Maria Ressa.
"We are overjoyed tonight to learn that Maria Ressa and her news site Rappler were acquitted in a case of tax evasion by a Philippine court. The case was an example of harassment by government prosecutors who were trying to stop Ressa and the journalism of Rappler. This is huge victory for journalism and for one of its most determined and inspiring leaders. We are overjoyed for Maria Ressa and we know she will press forward."
Maria Ressa was the National Press Club's 2020 John Aubuchon Award Winner, the Club's highest honor for press freedom. She was not allowed to travel to the U.S. at the time to accept her award because of this court case. She later became the 2021 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Founded in 1908, the National Press Club is the world's leading professional organization for journalists. The Club has 3,000 members representing nearly every major journalism organization and is a leading voice for press freedom worldwide.
The National Press Club Journalism Institute promotes an engaged global citizenry through an independent and free press and equips journalists with skills and standards to inform the public in ways that inspire a more representative democracy. As the non-profit affiliate of the National Press Club, the institute powers journalism in the public interest.
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Cardinals vs. Cubs Probable Starting Pitchers Today - May 10
The Chicago Cubs hope to halt their three-game losing run versus the St. Louis Cardinals (13-24), on Wednesday at 7:40 PM ET.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Cubs will send Justin Steele (5-0) to the mound, while Jordan Montgomery (2-4) will take the ball for the Cardinals.
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- Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
- Time: 7:40 PM ET
- TV: MLB Network
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Venue: Wrigley Field
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- Probable Pitchers: Steele - CHC (5-0, 1.45 ERA) vs Montgomery - STL (2-4, 3.29 ERA)
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Cardinals Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Jordan Montgomery
- Montgomery gets the start for the Cardinals, his eighth of the season. He is 2-4 with a 3.29 ERA and 38 strikeouts in 41 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his last appearance on Saturday against the Detroit Tigers, the lefty went six innings, giving up two earned runs while surrendering six hits.
- The 30-year-old has put up an ERA of 3.29, with 8.3 strikeouts per nine innings in seven games this season. Opponents are batting .250 against him.
- Montgomery is trying to continue a third-game quality start streak in this outing.
- Montgomery will try to build on a four-game streak of pitching five or more innings (he's averaging 5.9 innings per outing).
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Cubs Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Justin Steele
- The Cubs will send Steele (5-0) to the mound for his eighth start this season.
- The left-hander gave up one earned run and allowed six hits in seven innings pitched against the Miami Marlins on Friday.
- The 27-year-old has pitched to a 1.45 ERA this season with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings compared to 2.3 walks per nine across seven games.
- He's looking to extend his two-game quality start streak.
- Steele has pitched five or more innings in seven straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- Among qualified pitchers this season, the 27-year-old's 1.45 ERA ranks second, .946 WHIP ranks 11th, and 7.5 K/9 ranks 51st.
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Primary Preview: Meet the 3 Republicans hoping to unseat Rep. Cindy Axne
State Sen. Zach Nunn, Gary Leffler and Nicole Hasso will face off in the GOP primary in the 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday, June 7.
Next week, Iowa voters will head to the polls for the June 7 primary.
On Republican ballots, voters will have the choice of three candidates running for United States Representative for Iowa's 3rd Congressional District. That district is currently represented by Democrat Cindy Axne.
The Candidates Leffler, Hasso, Nunn
Leffler has roughly 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, worked as a construction consultant and has what he describes as a lifetime passion for farming.
On his candidate website, he claims he is the only congressional candidate who's owned and operated a farm.
Nunn is a combat veteran who currently serves in the Iowa Senate. As a combat aviator, he was deployed three times to the Middle East following 9/11.
He served in the Iowa House from 2015-19 before he was elected to the Iowa Senate's 15th District.
Hasso grew up on the south side of Chicago, and was the first member of her family to graduate high school and attend college (Drake University). She worked to become one of the top internal wholesalers at Principal Financial Group.
On Hasso's campaign website, she says she is active in her church with teaching classes, leading group groups and helping youth ministry.
On The Issues Why They're Running
What they're hearing from Iowans
LEFFLER: "One of them, surprisingly, is housing. In Iowa's 3rd Congressional District you have small companies and smalltown Iowa, and they don't have places to bring in new employees because they don't have housing. So that's a critical issue. Health insurance is another issue. Being a self-employed businessman my entire life, my wife and I today are currently paying $30,000 a year for our health insurance. And you know, you talk about people that are on the farm and trying to young families trying to get by. And one of them can work on the farm, but the other one has to have a job in town so they can have health insurance."
Leffler also says he's a strong proponent of immigration reform.
"When you think about immigration how does that directly affect Iowa? Number one was the governor sent down 24 officers down to the border. I talked with those officers and they said, 'Gary, it's worse than you can imagine.' Think about this, right now we have four congressional seats. And those seats are determined by population. So if we keep dumping millions and millions of people into other states, other than Iowa, potentially on down the road, it could cost us a congressional seat. I'm not ready to give that up. I think that's something that we need to take a look at."
NUNN: "It's three things. It's the economy, it's the economy, it's the economy. I mean, overwhelmingly, what we're hearing is that we're at a 40-year high for inflation. Just this month, we came out at 8.5 percent increase on basic things that we all need. Gasoline to be able to get to work is doubled, since it was a year and a half ago. I've got six kids. Not only is it more to fill up the minivan, it's a lot more just to get the milk for the kids on the table and the bacon fried in the morning. And that's something that I think all Iowans feel the pinch with inflation as it is right now. That's basically a $5,000 increase over a year. So if you're making $50,000 a year in a lot of these communities, that's a 10 percent pay cut to you. It's an invisible tax, and it's really crushing people's ability, not only to recover from the pandemic but to be able to take care of their families."
HASSO: "Right now with inflation they they are definitely nervous. I was in Panora a couple of weeks ago, and I spoke with a young lady who's family has a farm," said Hasso. "And so they did their budget this year and just fell all of their expenses either has doubled or tripled. And their concern is they don't know if they'll be able to farm next year. And you know, it concerns me. It concerns me because I want to represent all Iowans when I hit to Washington DC, and that is something that I need to keep near and dear to my heart is what is on their heart. I truly believe to be a leader, you have to be willing to serve. And I'm willing to serve. And that's why I'm laying my career down, putting everything on hold so I can represent district three."
Why they're running
LEFFLER: "What calls to me is that you know what? So many people, they want to sit on the sidelines and complain about everything. And then you know, there's almost like there should be a college degree and professional complaining. I can sit on the sidelines and continue to complain. Or I can say you know what, 'Hey Coach, hey the people in the 3rd District of Iowa, put a uniform on me, get me in the game, and let's get to work for Iowa.' Let's have a greater future for Iowa. Let's have a greater future for my grandchildren, your grandchildren, our children, your children, and let's go to work for those people because they deserve a better America. They deserve the same hope and opportunities that we had."
NUNN: "I think, you know, one of the first things we can do is just stop the ridiculous spending. When the government tries to come in with a solution, it takes longer, it's more expensive, and we end up piling up. I think that we could do a lot what works well in Iowa at the D.C. level. That means we've given Iowans $2.8 billion in tax cuts, they spend it in their local community, on their families in their business, and it returns to the mainstream. There's a lot of good examples that we can take from either we pass in the state legislature that I'd like to see Washington D.C. take up as the best example. And that starts with balancing the budget."
HASSO: "So growing up on the south side of Chicago, my sisters decided to be teen moms and my brother was in and out of prison. And I decided to go to the library and earn an education. And so by doing that, I was able to get a scholarship to Drake University, met my husband, been married for 26 years, raised two kids. I am truly living my American dream. I've been in a financial industry for the last 14 years. And I started listening to what was going on in this country and it just bothered me. If I do nothing other than sit on the sidelines and yell at the TV, it doesn't change anything. And so I decided to lay my career aside and to fight for the American dream. My concern is making sure that the next generation and generations that come after me have that opportunity to make that happen for them."
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Haji Wright has 2-goal game for Turkey’s Antalyaspor
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American forward Haji Wright ended a four-game scoreless streak, getting a pair of goals for Antalyaspor in a 3-2 loss at Alanyaspor on Friday night in the Turkish Super League.
Wright, a 24-year-old from Los Angeles, cut the deficit to 2-1 in the 57th minute with a short-range header from Cemali Sertel’s cross.
He added the game’s final goal in the 87th, dribbling down the left flank, muscling past defender Furkan Bayır and beating goalkeeper Rúnar Rúnarsson with a right foot shot from about 12 yards.
Wright has seven goals this season, including three two-goal games, and has one goal in three international appearances. He is competing with Jesús Ferreira, Ricardo Pepi and Josh Sargent for forward spots on the U.S. World Cup roster that will be announced Nov. 9.
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Stock futures were flat Wednesday night as investors awaited economic data and speeches from Federal Reserve leaders
Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 9 points, or 0.03%. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures ticked up 0.03% and 0.05%, respectively.
The moves come after stocks dropped in regular trading. The S&P 500 tumbled 1.56% for its worst day since Dec. 15. The Dow shed more than 613 points, or 1.81%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 1.24%, snapping seven-straight days of gains. Bank stocks such as JPMorgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo slid, weighing on the broader market.
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Disappointing retail sales and a weaker-than-expected producer price index reading ignited recession fears, sending stocks lower. The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield fell to the lowest level since September.
"The data continue to confirm sharp declines in inflation," said Jamie Cox, managing partner of Harris Financial Group. "The question now is whether the economy can weather the sharp increase in rates to tackle inflation."
He added that while those who said inflation was transitory may feel vindicated now, the cost to get there has yet to play out.
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"At a minimum, there will be a profits recession, and that will keep stocks in check until that plays out," he said.
On Thursday, investors will weigh more economic data that could give further clues as how much the Fed may raise interest rates in its upcoming meeting. Initial jobless claims, housing starts and the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's manufacturing survey will be released in the morning.
Several central bank leaders including Fed Vice Chair Lael Brainard will also speak throughout the day on the path forward.
Investors will also be watching key quarterly reports to see if there is an earnings recession brewing. Netflix, Procter & Gamble and Truist Financial are among companies reporting earnings on Thursday.
Alcoa, Discovery Financial among stocks making moves in after hours
Earnings results were the biggest catalyst moving some stocks in after hours trading Wednesday.
Discover Financial Services — Shares of Discover Financial Services slid 6.2% after the credit card company posted quarterly earnings that beat expectations, but showed that the bank also boosted its provision for credit losses compared to the prior year, potentially signaling that it sees a weaker economy ahead.
Alcoa — Shares of Alcoa fell 3.6% after the company reported earnings that showed a net loss of $374 million for the quarter, or $2.12 per share. The company also said that it faced challenging market conditions in the period, including high costs for energy and raw materials alongside low pricing for aluminum.
—Carmen Reinicke
Economic data signals Fed has made a policy error, Infrastructure Capital CEO says
The latest economic data shows that the Federal Reserve is making a policy error by tightening monetary policy too much as prices and the economy slow, according to Jay Hatfield, CEO at Infrastructure Capital Advisors.
"The Fed's policy errors stem from its myopic focus on the labor market as the key driver of inflation (the Phillips Curve theory) vs. focusing on the historic factors that have actually driven inflation which are excessive monetary growth causing housing bubbles and energy and commodity shocks," he said in a Wednesday note.
Still, he sees stocks making a recovery by year-end.
"We continue to forecast that 10-year treasuries will hit 3% by year end and the US stock market will rally as the US economy is very resilient with post Pandemic tailwinds offsetting Fed policy errors," he said. "We continue to forecast that the S&P will hit 4,500 by year end as the Fed is forced to pause its policy tightening as it finally recognizes that inflation is declining rapidly."
—Carmen Reinicke
Stock futures are flat after Wednesday's down session
Stock futures were flat Wednesday night as traders looked ahead to new economic data, earnings reports and Federal Reserve speeches after a rough day for stocks.
Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 22 points, or 0.06%. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures ticked down 0.05% and 0.04% respectively.
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(WXIN) — Tea kettles sold at Target are being recalled after several reported issues, including a fire connected to the product.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recall involves Hearth & Hand™ with Magnolia Tea Kettles. These 1.75-quart stainless steel tea kettles were sold at Target stores nationwide between July and October of 2021.
The recall was initiated because the paint can chip on the bottom of the recalled kettles, posing a fire hazard. In addition, the handle can break and the spout can leak, posing a risk of burn injuries.
So far, Target has received 27 reports of incidents with the tea kettles which included the kettles leaking, wobbling or moving on the stovetop while in use, the handle grip breaking off, and the paint chipping or melting on the bottom of the kettle. The CSPC says one consumer reported a fire due to the paint chipping off of the bottom of the kettle. No injuries have been reported.
The recalled tea kettles are white and have a copper-colored stainless steel handle with a wooden grip and a white lid with a wooden knob. The inside of the kettles are brushed stainless steel. Item Number 324-03-7894 is printed on the kettle’s hang tag.
Anyone with the recalled tea kettle should stop using it and return it to Target for a full refund. They can also contact Target to receive a prepaid return label to return the tea kettle by mail.
Consumers with questions can contact Target at (800) 440-0680 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. CT daily or online at https://help.target.com. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/recalls/tea-kettles-sold-at-target-recalled-over-fire-burn-hazards/ | 2022-10-06 22:32:40 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/recalls/tea-kettles-sold-at-target-recalled-over-fire-burn-hazards/ |
Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on June 13 to dozens of federal felony counts related to keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and refusing government demands to return them.
Ahead of Trump’s arraignment, U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) claimed in a viral video shared on Twitter that the White House Gift Shop is selling a commemorative coin marking Trump’s indictment. Cassidy called the sale of the coin “totally outrageous.”
It’s unclear whether Cassidy believes the gift shop is affiliated with the White House, but posts online linked the sale of the coin to President Joe Biden’s administration.
THE QUESTION
Is the White House selling coins commemorating Donald Trump’s indictments?
THE SOURCES
- The White House Gift Shop website
- White House Gift Shop LinkedIn and Facebook pages
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office records
THE ANSWER
No, the White House is not selling coins commemorating Trump’s indictments. The “White House Gift Shop” is a private business that’s unaffiliated with the White House in Washington, D.C.
WHAT WE FOUND
A private business called the White House Gift Shop is selling two coins for $100 each that mark Trump’s indictments in New York and at the federal level. That business is not affiliated with the White House in Washington, D.C.
“No government funds or resources, direct or indirect, are ever used in the operation of the White House Gift Shop,” the White House Gift Shop says on its LinkedIn and Facebook pages.
VERIFY found U.S. Patent and Trademark Office records that show the “White House Gift Shop” is trademarked by Gianni Strategic Enterprises, a company based in Pennsylvania. An FAQs page on the gift shop’s website also lists an address in Rochester Hills, Michigan, for people looking to return their orders.
There is no official gift shop at the White House, which is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C. There are nearby locations where visitors can buy souvenirs, such as the White House Visitor Center at 1450 Pennsylvania Avenue, but none are run by the federal government.
The White House Gift Shop claims it used to be associated with the White House when it was first founded in the 1940s, but VERIFY could not confirm the authenticity of that claim. However, we can VERIFY it is not affiliated with the White House now and is not located in or near the actual White House.
This is not the first time commemorative coins have caused confusion.
In 2020, VERIFY fact-checked false claims that Trump’s White House was selling “Donald J. Trump defeats COVID” commemorative coins. The private White House Gift Shop also sold those coins.
Spokespersons for the White House and the White House Gift Shop did not respond to requests for comment by the time of publication. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/verify/white-house/white-house-not-selling-trump-indictment-coins-fact-check/536-8db06bf7-8514-41b7-b135-e1b512eff647 | 2023-06-13 22:23:36 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/verify/white-house/white-house-not-selling-trump-indictment-coins-fact-check/536-8db06bf7-8514-41b7-b135-e1b512eff647 |
School choice Georgia Republican on leaving Democratic Party: Policies weren't 'benefiting people of color'
'As a Democrat, I ran on school choice,' Rep. Mesha Mainor told Fox News Digital after announcing on July 11th the decision to switch her party registration to Republican.
A Georgia state representative that switched parties from Democrat to Republican told Fox News Digital that Democratic leadership was not making the necessary moves to give children a variety of alternatives to being educated.
After being a Democrat her "entire life," Mesha Mainor who represents District 56 in the Georgia House since January 2021, announced on July 11th the decision to switch her party registration to Republican.
"My entire family are Democrats. I am a Democrat. I was a Democrat. That's all I knew. And it wasn't until getting into office--I'm in school getting my doctorate, and so I'm used to reading a lot. And as a policymaker, you must read every single line, because one line can change everything," Mainor told Fox News Digital.
"And so it was not until I became a policymaker in reading every single line of the legislation that I realized we are doing so many things that are not benefiting people of color, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, although we're promoting that we are," she continued. "There's a lot of propaganda."
Mainor, who ran her campaign on the issue of school choice, stated that wasn't the only reason why she left the Democratic Party. It was also the party's stance on "defund the police." However, she stressed the importance school choice had in her decision.
"I had the most charter schools in my district than any other district in the state of Georgia. So people in my community are crying for options because no one wants to send their child to a school that's failing," she said. "School choice is important to me because I am that child that it supports. I grew up in an area of the west side of Atlanta where right now the schools–in some of them–97% of the kids can't read, perform simple math."
She added, "It's dismal. It's bleak. It's high unemployment. It's low life expectancy, low graduation rates, you name it. It is marginalized. And so this community was the same way it was when I was a little girl."
School choice, or providing all families with alternatives to the public schools they’re zoned for, can be expanded through multiple avenues at the state level, including school voucher programs, tax-credit scholarship programs, individual tuition tax credit programs and deductions, and education savings accounts (ESAs).
Charter schools, magnet schools, and homeschooling are also forms of school choice programs.
Mainor said that when she was a young girl, she had to use someone else’s address to be able to qualify for the school district that the address is zoned for. She added that people are still using others’ addresses, however, the process is illegal.
The lawmaker wants to remove the zip code limits on school districts.
"Especially when the people that are running the schools have the capacity to change the curriculum," she said.
"They have the capacity to change the times of the school. They have the capacity to change the management of the schools," she continued. "They have the capacity to give the teachers more opportunities to not be so handcuffed to the system. Leadership is not doing that. That leadership is Democrat leadership, and education is just too important of a value for us to let it go on without being focused on a moment longer."
Earlier this year, amid criticism from her Democrat counterparts in the state legislature, Mainor supported a school choice bill that would have expanded opportunities for students who attend Georgia’s lowest-rated schools.
'THE DAM IS BREAKING' ON SCHOOL CHOICE AS BATTLEGROUND STATE PASSES VOUCHER PROGRAM: ADVOCATE
"Everyone was told if you don't vote with the party on this caucus line, you will be ostracized. You will be on the island by yourself. I did not agree with that. And so the other people, in my opinion, I don't know, but I feel like they were pressured into voting a caucus decision instead of voting for their communities," Mainor said.
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Georgia Senate Bill 233 would have created $6,500 vouchers for students at schools performing in the bottom 25% in the state to help pay for private school tuition and homeschooling expenses if they were inclined. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp pushed for it, and it appeared to have the votes to pass under the Republican-controlled Golden Dome, until 16 House Republicans voted it down.
Mainor's decision to switch political parties while in office, which extends the Republican majority in the House, comes after former Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones made the same move in 2021.
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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr.
AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Dre, Missy Elliott and Lil Wayne will be honored at the Recording Academy’s second annual Black Music Collective event during Grammy week next month.
The academy announced Wednesday that the three Grammy winners and executive Sylvia Rhone will receive the Global Impact Award for their personal achievements in the music industry. The event will be held at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Feb. 2, ahead of the Grammy Awards on Feb. 5.
“I am so thrilled to honor and celebrate these four giants in the music industry,” said Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. “Last year’s inaugural event was such a highlight during Grammy week and now with Dre, Missy, Wayne and Sylvia there to pay tribute to this year, it’s definitely going to be another night to remember. I continue to be proud of the work of our Black Music Collective as it’s (a) vital part of what we do here at the academy.”
Black Music Collective is a group created in 2020 of prominent music industry leaders — including honorary chairs John Legend, Jimmy Jam and Quincy Jones — who are looking to find ways to drive Black representation and inclusion.
Last year, Legend, MC Lyte and D-Nice were honored. The event also highlights LVRN, a Black-founded record label that has built a roster that includes 6lack, D.R.A.M., Westside Boogie and Summer Walker.
Dr. Dre, a seven-time Grammy winner, has produced big hits for Jay-Z, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Nas and 50 Cent. He won his first Emmy for his Super Halftime performance with Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg, Lamar and 50 Cent.
Elliott is a four-time Grammy winner who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019. She broke through with her debut album “Supa Dupa Fly” and has collaborated with several top music acts including Aaliyah, Beyoncé, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Ciara, Lil’ Kim, J. Cole, Busta Rhymes and Chris Brown.
Lil Wayne, who has won five Grammys, has a variety of massive hits including “Lollipop” feat. Static Major and “A Milli.” He also helped ignite the careers of Drake, Nicki Minaj and Tyga.
Rhone has been regarded as one of the most influential music executives in the industry. She made history in 1994 when she was named chairman and CEO of Elektra Entertainment Group. At the time, the promotion made her the only African American and first-ever woman to hold the titles.
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What's happening
Cases of monkeypox are growing in the US, adding to the global outbreak of monkeypox in countries that don't normally report the disease (where it isn't endemic).
Why it matters
While no US deaths have been reported, controlling monkeypox is important for public health. Some people with monkeypox may have only a small rash or blemishes mistaken for something else.
What it means for you
Anyone can get monkeypox, but gay and bisexual men are being disproportionately affected in the current outbreak. If you have an unexplained rash or skin blemish or think you may have been exposed, seek medical care.
In a health alert to medical providers Tuesday on the spread of monkeypox in the US, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that some cases of monkeypox might be getting missed for testing, and that the monkeypox rash could be mistaken for (or come in addition to) other common infections, like herpes.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky had previously said that current monkeypox infections were causing people to develop blemishes that more closely resembled a pimple or or blister as opposed to a more classic, spreading rash, as reported by NBC. While the general threat to the public is still low, the CDC says, it's important for individuals and their health care provider to catch symptoms early to contain the outbreak of monkeypox occurring in many countries.
Monkeypox is a disease caused by an orthopoxvirus, and the virus that causes it belongs to the same family as the viruses that cause smallpox and cowpox. As of Thursday, there were 100 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the US across 21 states, a CDC map shows, with California and New York reporting the largest numbers.
Monkeypox is endemic in West and Central Africa. Reports of it are rare in the US but not unheard of. (There were two reported cases last year, and 47 cases in 2003 in an outbreak linked to pet prairie dogs.)
Many of the cases in the US recently have been in men who have sex with men, the CDC says, but anyone can become infected with and spread monkeypox, which experts now believe spreads through very close contact.
"With the number of cases that have been diagnosed in other countries, it was only a matter of time before there was a case in the United States," said Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, noting the outbreaks occurring in Canada and some European countries.
Adalja said scientists are trying to "get a handle on what's happening epidemiologically" to explain why the outbreaks appear different from other outbreaks that've occurred outside of Africa, where most cases have been concentrated.
"I think it's something to watch and see how extensive the spread may be, but there's no reason for alarm or panic over any of this," Adalja said. Monkeypox isn't new, he added, and we already have some tools to stop the spread, including smallpox vaccines.
Here's what we know.
What is monkeypox? How severe is it?
Monkeypox is a zoonotic disease, which means it's transmitted from animals to humans. It's caused by an orthopoxvirus, which also causes smallpox, though smallpox is considered more clinically severe than monkeypox.
There are two "clades" of monkeypox virus, according to the World Health Organization, including the West African clade and the Congo Basin clade. The West African strain, which has been identified in the recent cases, according to a May 26 presentation by the WHO, has a fatality rate of less than 1%. The Congo Basin or Central African clade has a higher mortality rate of up to 10%, per the WHO.
Monkeypox has caused 72 deaths this year in countries where it's endemic, according to the WHO, but no deaths have been reported in the current outbreak in countries where it isn't endemic, including the US.
Monkeypox was first discovered in the 1950s in colonies of monkeys that were being researched, according to the CDC, but it's also been found in squirrels, rats and other animals. The first human case was discovered in 1970.
How do you catch monkeypox? Does it compare to COVID?
Monkeypox spreads between people primarily through contact with infectious sores, scabs or bodily fluids, according to the CDC, but it can also spread through prolonged face-to-face contact via respiratory droplets or by touching contaminated clothing or bedding. Experts are currently investigating whether monkeypox can be spread through semen or vaginal fluid .
Anyone can be infected with monkeypox, but many cases in the current outbreak have been detected in men who have sex with men when they're seeking care at a sexual health clinic, according to a WHO statement. The close contact you have with a sexual partner may expose you to monkeypox, and the current outbreak is linked to social networks or sexual activity within some communities.
Gay and bisexual communities tend to have particularly "high awareness and rapid health-seeking behavior when it comes to their and their communities' sexual health," Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge, the WHO's regional director for Europe, said in a recent statement, noting that those who sought early health care services should be applauded.
The "close" in close contact is a key element in the transmission of monkeypox. That, along with the fact that the virus that causes monkeypox appears to have a slower reproduction rate than the COVID-19 virus, sets it apart from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said recently at a media briefing.
While scientists are still learning about monkeypox in the newer outbreaks, and some experts are pushing back on the idea it isn't airborne: "It's not acting like influenza or COVID or chicken pox or measles -- things that spread quickly in an unvaccinated community," Inglesby said. "It's acting much more like a disease that requires close contact."
"It's not a situation where if you're passing someone at a grocery store, they're gonna be at risk for monkeypox," Dr. Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director at the Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, said at a May briefing with the CDC.
Because many of the recent cases of monkeypox in Europe have resulted in lesions in the genital region and resemble symptoms of sexually transmitted infections like herpes, you should ask to be evaluated if you have an unexplained rash in your genital region, Dr. John Brooks, epidemiologist in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, said at a May CDC media briefing.
The CDC released guidance this month for safer sex and gatherings if you think you
What are the symptoms of monkeypox?
Symptoms of monkeypox in humans are similar to (but milder than) smallpox, which the WHO declared eliminated in 1980.
A monkeypox infection typically begins with flu-like symptoms, including fatigue, intense headache, fever and swollen lymph nodes. Within one to three days of a fever developing, according to the CDC, a rash or sores develop and can be located pretty much anywhere on the body, including the hands, genitals, face, chest and in your mouth. But wherever they develop, the rash or monkeypox lesions can be flat or raised, full of clear or yellowish fluid and will eventually dry up and fall off.
You can spread monkeypox until the sores heal and a new layer of skin forms, according to the CDC. Illness typically lasts for two to four weeks. The incubation period ranges from five to 21 days, according to the CDC.
Notably, some people never experience flu-like symptoms, the CDC says, and you may experience all or only few of the typical monkeypox symptoms. For safer sex and social gatherings -- like events where you may be in very close contact with other peoples' bodies -- the CDC has a fact sheet for practices to consider.
Importantly, Adalja said: "Monkeypox is not contagious during the incubation period, so it doesn't have that ability to spread the way certain viruses like flu or SARS-CoV-2 can." Experts are currently studying whether this is still the case in this outbreak.
Is there a vaccine for monkeypox?
Yes. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved JYNNEOS to prevent monkeypox as well as smallpox. Because monkeypox is so closely related to smallpox, vaccines for smallpox are also effective against monkeypox. In addition to JYNNEOS, the US has another smallpox vaccine in its stockpile, called ACAM2000.
The US Department of Health and Human Services is adding an additional 36,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine to its stockpile, Reuters reported Monday. Vaccines may be distributed to people who have high-risk exposures to monkeypox, CNBC reports, and they aren't being given to the general public.
In the UK, higher-risk contacts of people who have monkeypox have been offered vaccines. This type of targeted vaccination is what Adalja calls "ring vaccination," where health officials isolate the infected person and vaccinate their close contacts to stop the spread. Antivirals that work against smallpox would also have an impact against monkeypox, he said.
Dr. Daniel Pastula, chief of neuro-infectious diseases and associate professor of neurology, medicine and epidemiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said the vaccine is used in people who've been exposed but aren't yet showing symptoms of monkeypox, because the incubation period for the disease is so long.
"Basically what you're doing is stimulating the immune system with the vaccine, and getting the immune system to recognize the virus before the virus has a chance to ramp up," Pastula said.
Though health care and lab professionals who work directly with monkeypox are recommended to receive smallpox vaccines (and even boosters), the original smallpox vaccines aren't available to the general public and haven't been widely administered in the US since the early 1970s. Because of this, any spillover or "cross-protective" immunity from smallpox vaccines would be limited to older people, the WHO said. According to the WHO, vaccination against smallpox was shown to be about 85% effective at preventing monkeypox.
The big picture
It's helpful to be aware of the symptoms of monkeypox, especially if more cases develop in the US, according to Pastula, but there's no cause for panic.
"This shows the need for public health," Pastula said. "As we saw with COVID, it is so important to have a robust public health system, and to support our public health system."
It also calls attention to the wide variety of viruses we live with. All zoonotic diseases (which include COVID-19) have the potential to be serious, which is why monitoring them is so important, he said.
"I think this shows that there are lot of potential zoonotic threats -- these are diseases that can hop from animals to humans," Pastula said. This exemplifies the need for public health surveillance, he said, "but it also really shows that we should be careful and deliberate in our interactions with both wild animals and domestic animals."
It's also a developing situation, he said, so recommendations made by public health officials will change as the information does -- the same goes for all diseases and new science.
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CHARLESTON, WV (AP) — West Virginia’s Senate passed a bill Monday that would give $25,000 in tax credits to former residents who move back to the state to work.
The Senate passed the bill unanimously and sent it to the House of Delegates.
Those eligible for the tax credit had to live and work in West Virginia for at least 10 years or were born in the state. They had to live outside of the state for at least 10 consecutive years prior to 2023.
Unused portions of the credit could be applied to future tax years. The credit would expire in 2029.
State officials have tried other cash enticements in the past few years to try to beef up West Virginia’s sagging population. The Department of Tourism is offering $12,000 cash plus free passes for a host of outdoor adventures to remote workers to move to certain areas of the state.
West Virginia lost a greater percentage of its residents than any other state from 2010 to 2020, when the population dropped 3.2% or about 59,000 people. It’s been such a problem due to long-term declines in the coal, steel, and other industries that West Virginia is now the only state with fewer residents than it had in 1950. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/wva-bill-would-give-ex-residents-25000-in-tax-credits-to-move-back/ | 2023-02-27 23:20:02 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/wva-bill-would-give-ex-residents-25000-in-tax-credits-to-move-back/ |
ALBANY - Gov. Kathy Hochul is trying to make history as the first female governor elected in the state of New York, but first she'll have to ward off a pair of primary challengers Tuesday to even have a chance.
Hochul, a Democrat from Buffalo, who had been New York's No. 2 official, rose to power in August after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned under the weight of multiple sexual harassment allegations and scandals surrounding his once-lauded response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her elevation to the state's top office made her the first woman to serve in the role, but still, no woman has ever been elected to the position.
Now, Hochul is running for a full, four-year term as an incumbent with just 10 months in office under her belt. And her first electoral test comes Tuesday when Rep. Tom Suozzi – running to her right – and New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Wiliams – running to her left – will try to wrest the Democratic gubernatorial nomination from her.
"We are going to win the battle of the hearts and minds," Hochul said at a June 15 rally of her labor-union supporters. "We are working tirelessly with all of you to give people the reason to come back, and to not just survive but thrive."
Hochul has positioned herself as the frontrunner in the three-way primary field, in part through a relentless campaign fundraising strategy that saw her amass more than $30 million — far outpacing any of her opponents.
The governor's campaign has blanketed the state's airwaves touting her record during her short time in office, which includes a gas-tax reduction through the end of the year and a series of gun-control and abortion-access measures she signed into law just this month.
On Saturday, the day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the right to an abortion, Hochul tweeted from her official account, "My message to anyone who needs abortion care: New York will be your safe harbor."
My message to anyone who needs abortion care: New York will be your safe harbor. pic.twitter.com/CfbvrsFJAy
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) June 25, 2022
But Hochul's tenure has not been without controversy. She selected then-state Sen. Brian Benjamin, a Manhattan Democrat, to replace her as lieutenant governor despite questions over his past campaign-fundraising tactics. Within six months, Benjamin was arrested on federal bribery charges and resigned.
Hochul's opponents have faulted her for spearheading a deal to build a new $1.4 billion football stadium for the Buffalo Bills, which came with $850 million in direct public subsidies. And they've latched on to her past positions on gun issues, which earned her an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association when she represented a conservative-leaning district in Congress a decade ago.
"She was a member of the United States Congress, voted with the NRA, was endorsed by the NRA and took money from the NRA," Suozzi, a Long Island congressman, said during a June 16 debate. "The governor changes her positions based upon the office she's running upon."
Hochul has said her views have changed on the issue of gun control, and she successfully led the effort to boost the minimum age for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21 in New York after an 18-year-old killed 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket last month.
"Judge me by what I've done," she said. "Because a lot of people have evolved since I took that position. You know what we need? More people to evolve."
Williams, the No. 2 official in New York City, is the candidate favored by progressives, including the Working Families Party, the influential third party with a habit of backing insurgent, left-leaning candidates. This is his second race against Hochul; he came within seven percentage points of defeating her in the 2018 lieutenant governor primary.
He has criticized the governor for not doing more to focus on street-level crime in Harlem, the Bronx and other areas susceptible to gun violence.
"Gun violence cannot be solved by state legislation alone," Williams said during the debate. "People who are new to this they always try to deal with the mass shootings because the handgun violence is harder to deal with."
The Republicans
The winner of the Democratic primary will face the candidate that emerges from a contentious, four-way Republican primary Tuesday between Rep. Lee Zeldin, former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, businessman Harry Wilson and Andrew Giuliani, a former Trump administration aide who is son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Zeldin, of Long Island, has the backing of Republican Party leaders across the state, who voted earlier this year to make him their designated candidate — a distinction that gave him an automatic spot on the primary ballot without petitioning.
Giuliani is making his first run for elected office and has made his unabashed support of Donald Trump a central part of his campaign. During a debate earlier this month, Giuliani repeated the discredited, incorrect claim that Trump rightfully won the 2020 election, going as far as claiming a "crime" had been perpetrated on the American people.
But Trump has not formally endorsed any candidate in the Republican race. Along with Giuliani, Trump counts Astorino and Zeldin — both of whom have been staunch defenders of Trump on cable news programs — as allies.
New York has more than twice as many Democrats as Republicans, with independent voters also outpacing the GOP. The state hasn't elected a Republican to statewide office since George Pataki won his third term as governor in 2002.
It is a closed-primary state, meaning only enrolled members of a party can vote in their respective primary.
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Which journals are best?
With so many thoughts zipping through our heads, it’s nice to compile them into a single place at the beginning or end of the day. This is where a trusty journal comes in: a place where all those thoughts can meet up and get organized.
Journals come in all shapes and sizes and can reflect a person’s style and interior monologue. Whether you want to take notes for future projects and reminders or use it to help you pen the next great American novel, there is a perfect journal for you.
What to know before you buy journals
What you will use it for
The most important thing to ask yourself when buying a journal is what you intend on using it for. Are you a student looking for a place to jot down class notes? Are you an aspiring writer looking to get your character’s protagonist energy onto the page? Perhaps you are someone who just likes to have their thoughts penned in a single place for reflection and introspection. Regardless of the reason, understanding why you want to purchase a journal is the first step to finding the perfect one.
Prompt journals
Even seasoned writers suffer from the occasional case of writer’s block. Journals have found a way to combat this obstacle: the prompt journals. Prompt journals are great for those looking to dip their toes into the world of journaling for the first time or perhaps those who just want to have inspiration for writing every day. With a prompt journal, you will be given a set of instructions, typically on every page, to help get you started. Before you know it, you’ll have an entire journal full of thoughts and ideas.
Journal design
Journals come in every style under the sun. There are spiral-bound journals, soft-cover journals, hard-cover journals, leather-bound journals, and many more. Some journals double as calendars and planners, while others are perfect for artists with blank pages or design dots. Deciding on the kind of work and writing you intend on filling your journal with will help you determine the best journal design to utilize.
What to look for in quality journals
Size
Journal sizes can vary greatly. Most come in standard paper sizes such as A4, A5, and B5. The best journal for you will be one that you can carry comfortably, either in your hand or in your go-to bag.
Number of pages
Most journals have a range of maximum pages between 120 and 250 pages. This gives you an extensive range to decide how many pages will be ideal for your writing intentions. For example, if you are a student looking to compile all of your class notes, finding a journal with a more considerable number of pages might be ideal for ensuring you don’t run out of room.
Paper quality and ruling type
Depending on the journal, both paper quality and ruling type may vary. Paper quality tends to be tied to journal price. The better the quality of the paper, the more expensive the journal. This is not the same for ruling type. Ruling type can vary with journals of the same size. There are wide-ruled, college-ruled, blank and dotted notebooks. It is essential to pay attention to the ruling type so it meets your writing needs.
How much you can expect to spend on journals
Basic spiral-bound journals can cost just $1. Handcrafted journals with intricate designs and other features, such as specific ruling or page prompts, can cost up to $50. Most journals will fall somewhere in between, with a majority costing between $10-$20.
Journals FAQ
What makes a journal different from a notebook?
A. The terms are essentially interchangeable. A journal is more likely to describe a higher quality notebook and is used for writing things beyond just notes.
What is the best kind of journal binding?
A. Journals can have a variety of different bindings, ranging from spiral to stitched. Most higher-end journals will have glued or stitched bindings, which hide the binding within the cover.
What are the best journals to buy?
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LEUCHTTURM1917 – Medium A5 Dotted Hardcover Notebook
What you need to know: A hardback notebook with an elastic closure that offers easy, on-the-go use.
What you’ll love: This notebook features thick, creamy paper that stops ink from bleeding through to the next page. It also has numbered pages to help track writing progress and dates. There is a pocket in the back to help store keepsakes, like stickers and loose slips of paper.
What you should consider: Some users may not like the dotted paper design.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
Top journal for money
Moleskine Classic Notebook, Hard Cover
What you need to know: A great and inexpensive pick for travel or basic journaling.
What you’ll love: This journal has smooth paper and can handle gel rollers. It comes with sturdy, lined paper and a solid cover perfect for taking notes or daily journaling.
What you should consider: This notebook does not come with a pen loop.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
Honorable mentions
Moonster Vintage Handmade Bound Notepad for Men & Women
What you need to know: A handcrafted leather journal that radiates an “old world” feeling.
What you’ll love: The spine of this journal is hand-bound and made with recycled cotton paper. The thick paper also helps prevent page bleeding.
What you should consider: Its blank pages can make writing in straight lines an issue.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
Lemone Thick Classic Notebook with Pen Loop
What you need to know: An inexpensive journal that has quality paper and extra features.
What you’ll love: This notebook comes with a 180-degree flat spine to make it easy to write to the end of the page without bending or tearing the spine. A pen and expandible pocket are included with this journal.
What you should consider: Though the quality of the paper is good, fountain pens will tend to cause bleeding.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
What you need to know: A journal that offers prompts to help with the journaling journey.
What you’ll love: This product is perfect for those who are new to journaling, as every page of this journal has a new topic to help with the writing process.
What you should consider: The journal has a tight binding making it hard to stay open while writing.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
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- In light of the challenging conditions affecting the Mexican NBFI sector and as part of its year-end review of its financial results, the Company is increasing reserves and writing-off assets.
- The Company recently discovered errors in its recording of financial assets and anticipates further write-offs of approximately MXN655 million will be required.
- The Company does not expect to make upcoming payments on its CEBURES or Senior Notes.
- In line with its December 16, 2022 announcement, the Company is working with financial and legal advisors.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tangerine Pomelo Group, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (the "Company") (f/k/a Mexarrend, S.A.P.I. de C.V.) (BIVA: MEXAMX), a leading financial technology company in Latin America specializing in alternative credit, announced today that it is taking a series of steps to manage its financial position and preserve its liquidity.
First, in light of worsening economic conditions affecting the Mexican Non-Bank Financial Institution ("NBFI") sector, the Company is increasing reserves for non-performing loans during the fourth quarter of 2022 by approximately MXN100 million and writing-off approximately MXN300 million of assets.
In addition, as a result of an ongoing review of the Company's loan portfolio and other assets conducted in coordination with its advisors, management recently discovered certain errors in recorded portfolio assets. To correct these errors, the Company expects to write off approximately MXN655 million in portfolio assets. The Company's review of its loan portfolio and balance sheet is ongoing. To date, these are the only errors the Company has identified. The Company is prepared to take further actions as appropriate based on the results of its ongoing review.
The Company also announced today that, in line with its December 16, 2022 announcement, it is maximizing its financial flexibility in the near term to better manage its liquidity. The Company stated it does not expect to make the approximately (i) MXN85 million aggregate principal payments, plus interests, due January 19, 2023 on its short term publicly-traded certificates (certificados bursátiles) ("CEBURES") with ticker symbols MEXAMX 00122, 00222, 00322, 00422, 00522, 00822 and 00922 and does not expect to make such payments during the subsequent 10-business day cure periods, and (ii) US$14.5 million interest payment due January 24, 2023 on its 10.250% Senior Notes due 2024 and does not expect to make such payment during the subsequent 30-day cure period. The decision prioritizes the use of cash resources for the Company's operating activities given its liquidity constraints and the challenging capital markets environment.
The Company will initiate what it hopes will be a productive dialogue with representatives of CEBURES holders and senior noteholders to reach a comprehensive solution to its liquidity constraints. The Company is looking at all available options to ensure that it puts itself in a strong position to continue providing credit solutions for underserved consumers and the small and medium-sized enterprises ("SMEs") sector in the region.
The Company has hired Houlihan Lokey, Inc., Blink Capital Solutions, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Kuri Breña, Sánchez Ugarte y Aznar S.C. as its advisors.
Tangerine Pomelo Group, S.A.P.I. de C.V. has grown to become one of the largest independent leasing (asset-based lender) companies in Mexico in the last 25 years. The Company specializes in offering financing solutions to rapidly growing and underserved SMEs for the acquisition of productive assets and equipment to support growth. The Company provides reliable and competitive funding sources through its four main products: capital leases, financing, operating leases and renting.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are not based on historical facts and are not assurances of future results. You should not place reliance on any forward-looking statement contained in this press release. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or future events or for any other reason, except as required under applicable law.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United States has boosted assistance to Pakistan’s flood relief efforts, announcing $10 million in aid, in addition to Washington's already announced financial assistance of $56.1 million, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Washington is the biggest contributor of aid to cash-strapped Pakistan, which has struggled to provide tents, food and other supplies for hundreds of thousands of people living in makeshift camps after being displaced by record-breaking floods that have killed 1,638 people since mid-June.
The latest announcement came weeks after the U.S. set up a humanitarian air bridge to help the impoverished South Asian nation. Once the scale of the devastation became clear, the United Nations appealed for $160 million in emergency funding to help over 33 million people affected by the floods.
The ministry statement followed a meeting on Monday between Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington. It said the two discussed the unprecedented floods, caused in part by climate-change and that Bhutto-Zardari thanked the U.S. government for its assistance.
“No country could deal with a crisis of this proportion on its own," the ministry quoted Bhutto-Zardari as telling Blinken. The foreign minister also said that Pakistan is “one of the lowest emitters and is ironically one of the most severely impacted by climate change."
Pakistan is seeking climate justice and looking toward its partners for assistance in recovering from this calamity, Bhutto-Zardari added. According to the statement, Blinken expressed his condolences over the loss of “precious lives and monumental economic losses" and reaffirmed U.S. commitment to help Pakistan in the wake of the floods.
“We will continue to stand by Pakistan, to stand by its people, today and in the days to come,” Blinken said Monday at an event in Washington marking 75 years of U.S.-Pakistan relations, according to the State Department.
The devastation wreaked by the floods this summer in Pakistan has also highlighted the disproportionate effect of climate change on impoverished nations. Experts say Pakistan is responsible for only 0.4% of the world’s historic emissions blamed for climate change.
Last week, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif in an interview with The Associated Press detailed the scope of the disaster and exhorted world leaders gathered for their annual meeting at the United Nations General Assembly to stand together and raise resources “to build resilient infrastructure, to build adaptation, so that our future generations are saved.”
Sharif also sought more help for relief and rehabilitation operations for Pakistan's flood victims, especially in the southern Sindh province — the worst-hit of all the country's provinces, where many districts are still under water. After returning home from New York, Sharif on Tuesday again visited some of the flood-hit areas in Sindh.
Pakistan says the disaster has caused damages in the amount of $30 billion. U.N. agencies and several countries, including the U.S., have so far sent 129 planeloads of aid.
Even as they contend with the unprecedented flooding, Pakistani authorities are also struggling with outbreaks of disease among survivors, especially in Sindh, where waterborne infections, malaria and dengue fever have caused more than 300 deaths since July, according to health officials. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Washington-announces-more-aid-for-floods-ravaged-17469125.php | 2022-09-27 08:58:57 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Washington-announces-more-aid-for-floods-ravaged-17469125.php |
LONDON (AP) — British health officials say the monkeypox outbreak across the country “shows signs of slowing” but that it’s still too soon to know if the decline will be maintained.
In a statement on Monday, the Health Security Agency said authorities are reporting about 29 new monkeypox infections every day, compared to about 52 cases a day during the last week in June. In July, officials estimated the outbreak was doubling in size about every two weeks. To date, the U.K. has recorded more than 3,000 cases of monkeypox, with more than 70% of cases in London.
The agency also said more than 27,000 people were immunized with a vaccine designed against smallpox, a related disease.
“These thousands of vaccines, administered by the (National Health Service)to those at highest risk of exposure, should have a significant impact on the transmission of the virus,” the agency said. It said the vast majority of cases were in men who are gay, bisexual or have sex with other men and that vaccines were being prioritized for them and for their closest contacts and health workers.
Last month, Britain downgraded its assessment of the monkeypox outbreak after seeing no signs of sustained monkeypox transmission beyond the sexual networks of men who have sex with men; 99% of infections in the U.K. are in men.
British authorities said they bought 150,000 doses of vaccine made by Bavarian Nordic, the world’s only supplier. The first 50,000 doses have already been rolled out or will be shared soon with clinics across the country and the next 100,000 vaccines are expected to be delivered in September.
Monkeypox spreads when people have close, physical contact with an infected person’s lesions, their clothing or bedsheets. Most people recover without needing treatment, but the lesions can be extremely painful and more severe cases can result in complications including brain inflammation and death.
Globally, there have been more than 31,000 cases of monkeypox reported in nearly 90 countries. Last month, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak to be a global emergency and American officials have classified their epidemic as a national emergency.
Outside of Africa, 98% of cases are in men who have sex with men. With only a limited global supply of vaccines, authorities are racing to stop monkeypox before it becomes entrenched as a new disease. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/monkeypox-outbreak-in-uk-shows-signs-of-slowing-officials-say/ | 2022-08-15 19:23:50 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/monkeypox-outbreak-in-uk-shows-signs-of-slowing-officials-say/ |
GUBEN, GERMANY, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (TSXV: RCK) (OTCQX: RCKTF) (FWB: RJIB) (WKN: A1XF0V) (the "Company" or "Rock Tech") has received permission for an early start to the construction of its lithium converter in Guben, Germany (the "Guben Converter"). The first significant work onsite for this strategic critical mineral project is expected within the upcoming next weeks.
From 2025, the Guben Converter is expected to produce around 24,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium hydroxide. For this purpose, Rock Tech recently received approval from the responsible Brandenburg State Office for the Environment for an early start related to the first tranche of permits. Rock Tech plans to start initial work on the project, with an estimated cost of 650 million euros, on its own property on the industrial park in Guben in the upcoming weeks.
Rock Tech applied for the first partial permit and approval for early start in February 2022. In the course of the application procedure, which involved public participation, no objections were received under approval regulations. Rock Tech considers this to be a positive indication of support for the construction of the Guben Converter and at the same time appreciates the efficient and transparent cooperation with the authorities.
"Our converter will be the first of its kind in Europe. The production of our battery-grade lithium hydroxide will be an essential part of the battery mineral supply chains in Europe - this is another reason why the approval by the authority is an important step towards implementation and sends a clear signal to the market," adds Klaus Schmitz, Rock Tech's Chief Operating Officer.
The approval for an early start is also an encouraging indicator that permission for construction of the Guben Converter will be granted in due course. In November, Rock Tech has submitted the second and final tranche of permit applications for this to the authority. Approval for construction of the Guben Converter is expected from summer 2023 onwards.
To date, more than 250,000 working hours and over 45 million euros have been invested by Rock Tech in the planning the design and construction of the Guben Converter. With the early start permission, necessary groundwork as well as the construction of roads, office and storage buildings can begin.
Rock Tech is a cleantech company on a mission to produce lithium hydroxide for EV batteries. The Company plans to build lithium converters at the door-step of its customers, to guarantee supply-chain transparency and just-in-time delivery. To close the most pressing gap in the clean mobility story, Rock Tech has gathered one of the strongest teams in the industry. The Company has adopted strict ESG standards and is developing a proprietary refining process aimed at further increasing efficiency and sustainability. Rock Tech plans to source raw material from its own mineral project in Canada as well as procuring it from other responsibly producing mines. In the years to come, the Company expects to also source raw material from discarded batteries. Rock Tech's goal: to create a closed-loop lithium production system.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
The following cautionary statements are in addition to all other cautionary statements and disclaimers contained elsewhere in, or referenced by, this press release.
Certain information set forth in this press release constitutes "forward-looking information" (collectively, "forward-looking information") within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, which information is based on Rock Tech's current expectations, estimates, and assumptions in light of its experience and perception of historical trends. All statements other than statements of historical facts may constitute forward-looking information. Often, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of words or phrases such as "estimate", "project", "anticipate", "expect", "intend", "believe", "hope", "may" and similar expressions, as well as "will", "shall" and all other indications of future tense. All forward-looking information set forth in this press release is expressly qualified in its entirety by the cautionary statements referred to in this section.
In particular, this press release contains forward-looking information pertaining to: expectations concerning the Guben Converter, including the design and features of the Guben Converter, as well as the expected costs, capital expenditures, timing and outcomes thereof; statements regarding the Company's future plans, estimates, and schedules relating to the Guben Converter, including the anticipated timing of future activities taken in support of the development thereof; Rock Tech's expectations regarding the FEL3 study including the related activities, findings and uses thereof; potential financing arrangements; the expected economic performance of the Guben Converter and anticipated production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide and related processing methods employed; the estimated capital and operating costs of the Guben Converter; the anticipated timing and outcomes of a final investment decision, construction activities and commissioning of the Guben Converter; statements regarding the Company's sustainability and ESG related goals and strategy, including the benefits and achievement thereof and future actions taken by the Company in relation thereto; expected regulatory processes and final outcomes, including in relation to the timing of TG-1 and TG-2 approvals; expectations regarding the electric vehicle industry, including the demand for and pricing of battery-grade lithium hydroxide and the benefits therefrom, and the development of political and regulatory frameworks especially in Germany and the European Union; Rock Tech's opinions, beliefs and expectations regarding the Company's business strategy, development and exploration opportunities and projects; and plans and objectives of management for the Company's operations and properties.
Forward-looking information is based on certain estimates, expectations, analysis and opinions that are believed by management of Rock Tech to be reasonable at the time they were made or in certain cases, on third party expert opinions. It should be noted that, in order to proceed with the planned investment of 650 million euros contained herein, Rock Tech will be required to raise additional funding and the availability of financing on satisfactory terms is not guaranteed. This forward-looking information was derived utilizing numerous assumptions regarding, among other things, the supply and demand for, deliveries of, and the level and volatility of prices of, intermediate and final lithium products, expected growth, performance and business operation, prospects and opportunities, general business and economic conditions, results of development and exploration, Rock Tech's ability to procure supplies and other equipment necessary for its business, including development and exploration activities, and timing related to government approvals. The foregoing list is not exhaustive of all assumptions which may have been used in developing the forward-looking information. While Rock Tech considers these assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove to be incorrect. Forward-looking information should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results.
In addition, forward-looking information involves known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond Rock Tech's control, that may cause Rock Tech's actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to be materially different from that which is expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to vary materially include the risk that Rock Tech will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they fall due, delays in government approval for the construction of the Guben Converter, changes in commodity prices, Rock Tech's ability to retain and attract skilled staff and to secure feedstock from third party suppliers, unanticipated events and other difficulties related to construction, development and operation of converters and mines, the cost of compliance with current and future environmental and other laws and regulations, title defects, competition from existing and new competitors, changes in currency exchange rates and market prices of Rock Tech's securities, Rock Tech's history of losses, impacts of climate change and other risks and uncertainties discussed under the heading "Financial Instruments and Other Risks" in Rock Tech's most recently filed Management Discussion and Analysis, a copy of which is filed electronically through SEDAR and is available online at www.sedar.com. Such risks and uncertainties do not represent an exhaustive list of all risk factors that could cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to vary materially from the forward-looking information.
It can not be guaranteed that actual events, results, performance and/or achievements will be consistent with the forward-looking information and management's assumptions may prove to be incorrect. This forward-looking information reflects Rock Tech management's current views as at the date of this press release. Except as may be required by law, Rock Tech undertakes no obligation and expressly disclaims any responsibility, obligation or undertaking to update or to revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, to reflect any change in Rock Tech's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such information is based.
The forward-looking information contained herein is presented for the purposes of assisting readers in understanding Rock Tech's plans, objectives and goals and is not appropriate for any other purposes.
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Florida education officials voted on Wednesday to prohibit virtually any classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in all public school grades, expanding on a law signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that barred such lessons for younger students.
The new rule, which does not require legislative approval, is part of a broader rightward push on cultural issues championed by DeSantis, who is widely expected to run for president in 2024.
Dozens of speakers offered public comment for nearly an hour, with most opposed to the measure, before the unanimous vote to approve it by the state board of education, whose members are appointed by the governor.
The new regulation bars teachers from providing such lessons to students in grades four through 12, unless the instruction is required by state standards or is part of a health class that parents can opt their children out of.
Violating the rule could result in the suspension or revocation of an educator's teaching license.
Last year, DeSantis backed a new law that barred instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation from kindergarten through third grade, arguing that parents, rather than teachers, should decide when to discuss those subjects with their children.
Critics, including LGBTQ advocates and President Joe Biden, a Democrat, have termed it the "Don't Say Gay" law and said it marginalizes LGBTQ students. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/national/florida-education-board-extends-ban-on-gender-identity-lessons/article_1cefe0d0-01b1-55d0-8610-c98a422846e8.html | 2023-04-19 17:27:46 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/national/florida-education-board-extends-ban-on-gender-identity-lessons/article_1cefe0d0-01b1-55d0-8610-c98a422846e8.html |
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Cross Country Healthcare Inc. (CCRN) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter profit of $38.8 million.
The Boca Raton, Florida-based company said it had profit of $1.05 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $1.09 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 90 cents per share.
The provider of health care staffing and workforce management services posted revenue of $628.2 million in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $594.2 million.
For the current quarter ending in March, Cross Country expects its per-share earnings to range from 70 cents to 80 cents.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $590 million to $600 million for the fiscal first quarter.
Cross Country shares have dropped slightly since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, shares hit $26.51, a rise of 27% in the last 12 months.
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Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue magazine, has filed a lawsuit against rappers Drake and 21 Savage for using a fake Vogue cover used to promote their new album, Her Loss.
In a 30-page lawsuit filed on Monday, Condé Nast argues that the "widespread promotional campaign" launched by the rappers for their latest album is "built entirely" on the use of Vogue's trademarks — giving the false premise that the two artists would be featured in the December issue of the magazine.
Condé Nast is seeking at least $4 million in damages, or triple the rappers' profits from their album and its "counterfeit" magazine — whichever is higher.
It's unclear if the artists directly profited from the fake magazines, other than through publicity, as the magazines were not for sale.
The publisher is also seeking a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to stop the rappers from continuing to publicize the fake magazine cover, as well as damages over trademark infringement.
"All of this is false. And none of it has been authorized by Condé Nast," said Condé Nast in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also alleges that the two rappers created counterfeit issues of Vogue and distributed copies of it in "North America's largest metropolitan areas" in addition to posters of the spoof cover. The counterfeit issue was also posted to social media for more than 135 million users who actively follow both Drake and 21 Savage, according to the suit.
In addition, the lawsuit alleges that the artists falsely thanked Anna Wintour — the editor-in-chief of Vogue — on social media for the "love and support on this historical moment."
The publisher said it was in communication with both Drake and 21 Savage leading up to the release of Her Loss, but according to the lawsuit, the rappers' "disregard for Condé Nast's rights" left it no choice but to take legal action.
Representatives for both Drake and 21 Savage did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment on the lawsuit. NPR also reached out to attorneys representing Condé Nast for comment but did not immediately hear back.
The distribution of the counterfeit Vogue cover is among several parodies the two rappers produced in support of their latest album. The two also pretended to perform on NBC's Saturday Night Live and to have been interviewed on Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show.
The duo also pretended to perform on NPR Music's Tiny Desk series, where the rappers are seated in front of a backdrop of books and All Songs Considered signage.
Thank you to @nprmusic @tinydesk for having the gang @Drake @21savage let’s go crazy 🔪🦉#HERLOSS pic.twitter.com/cBpG9SgARI
— OVO Sound (@OVOSound) November 2, 2022
In response to the spoof performance, an NPR spokesperson said: "If Drake and 21 Savage want to perform at the real Tiny Desk, we'd love to have them."
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USF Sarasota-Manatee to add its first student housing to campus
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The Board of Governors unanimously approved building a housing and student center complex on the campus of the University of South Florida’s Sarasota-Manatee campus. It will be the first student housing on the Sarasota-Manatee campus.
In the coming months, USF will break ground on a multi-story, 100,000-square-foot housing/student center along Seagate Drive just west of the iconic Crosley Campus Center. The new building, set to open in the fall of 2024, can host as many as 200 students will be able to live on the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus for the first time.
“The new housing and student center is crucial to supporting the growth of the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee campus,” USF President Rhea Law said. “This new project will allow the campus to strengthen the overall student experience as it continues expanding its academic program offerings in high-demand fields.”
The new building will have two parts. The student center, with 32,000 square feet on the ground floor, will feature a new bookstore and spaces for dining, lounges and meeting rooms. Student housing, with 68,000 square feet on the upper floors, will be comprised of 70 double-occupancy bedrooms and 60 single-occupancy bedrooms in one-bedroom, two-bedroom and four-bedroom apartment-style configurations, with shared bathrooms, living spaces and kitchens or kitchenettes.
In a study that was updated last May, a USF consultant reported that for many students, living on campus would be more affordable than many off-campus options in the Sarasota-Manatee area, one of the more expensive rental markets of similar size in the country. This fall, more students than ever before are living on USF’s campuses in Tampa and St. Petersburg.
Construction of the new building is expected to cost approximately $39 million. USF will contribute $16.5 million, with the remaining funding coming from the sale of up to $30 million in bonds through the USF Financing Corp. The bonds would be repaid with revenue from the USF Housing System, as well as $200,000 a year in activity and service fees collected on the Sarasota-Manatee campus.
The student center/housing complex represents half of the expansion plans that promise to almost triple the size of the Sarasota-Manatee campus and grow its appeal to students, faculty and the larger community.
Earlier this year, the Florida Legislature funded, and Gov. Ron DeSantis approved an initial $3 million appropriation for a 75,000-square-foot Nursing/STEM building.
The new $62 million academic building, currently in the planning and design stages, would double the size of the campus’s nursing program; increase new majors in health disciplines and other programs; and fill the need on campus for teaching and clinical labs and research facilities.
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Suns trade Cameron Payne to Spurs for future protected second-round pick
The Suns also signed center Bol Bol to a one-year contract
The Phoenix Suns have traded guard Cameron Payne to the San Antonio Spurs and signed big man Bol Bol to a one-year contract, a person familiar with the moves told The Associated Press.
The Suns also acquired three second-round draft picks from the Orlando Magic for a swap of first-round picks in the 2026 NBA draft, the person said Sunday on condition of anonymity because the deals have not been officially announced.
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Phoenix was expected to have a quiet offseason after trading for Bradley Beal, but has been active while trying to build a roster around him, Devin Booker and Kevin Durant.
The Suns traded Payne with a second-round pick and cash to the Spurs for a future protected second-round pick in a deal that will clear salary cap space.
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That cleared the way for Phoenix to sign Bol, who was released by Orlando earlier this month. The 7-foot-2 son of former NBA player Manute Bol averaged 9.1 points and 5.8 points last season after three years in Denver.
Payne played a key reserve role on a Suns team that went to the 2021 NBA Finals. The 6-1 guard averaged 10.8 points and 4.5 assists last season, his fourth in Phoenix.
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The country's top 15 bartenders faced off in Nashville, TN in search of one winner who will represent the U.S. at the World Class Global Finals in Sydney, Australia
NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After two exhilarating days with 15 of the top U.S. bartenders competing in four individual challenges, USBG and Diageo have announced Jessi Pollak as the 2022 U.S. Bartender of the Year. Hosted for the first time in Nashville, TN, the prestigious competition brought together the best bartenders across the country to elevate the art of cocktail creation, and Jessi awed judges with her expansive knowledge, engaging presentation, and innovative craftsmanship to ultimately represent the U.S. at the World Class Global Finals held in Sydney, Australia this fall.
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"As a first-time competitor in the USBG Presents World Class Sponsored by Diageo, I am completely stunned to be named this year's U.S. Bartender of the Year," says Jessi Pollak. "There were so many people who inspired me and guided me along the way that helped make it such a rewarding and unforgettable experience. I am truly honored to be able to continue my journey and represent the U.S. at the Global Finals in Sydney!"
The tenth year of the USBG Presents World Class Sponsored by Diageo competition saw thousands of applicants from across the country for a series of rigorous regional competitions to narrow down the Top 15 bartenders in the U.S. who advanced to the national competition in Nashville, TN from June 20-21. There, the competitors demonstrated their knowledge, skill, and creativity in four ambitious bartending challenges to determine the U.S. Bartender of the Year.
Day one of challenges kicked off with Spirit of Don Julio where competitors developed unique serves paying homage to the brand and its founder, followed by Taste the City where finalists created a signature cocktail pairing with an iconic Nashville dish. The second day pushed the mixologists in a Home Brew challenge where they created two cocktail styles using Ketel One Family Made Vodka, inspired by a unique type of brew, in addition to The Showdown where competitors raced against the clock to create eight different cocktails in eight minutes.
"It's incredible that we're now in our tenth season of the USBG Presents World Class Sponsored by Diageo program," shares USBG Executive Director Aaron Gregory Smith. "The resounding excitement from the bartending community to participate in this acclaimed competition demonstrates that the skill and desire to grow in this industry remains strong, and we are extremely proud to contribute to the transformative opportunity this program provides for bartenders."
Cassandra Ericson, Manager of On Premise Channel Marketing at Diageo North America adds, "Each and every year of this renowned program, we have the privilege of witnessing an unparalleled level of passion and skill that is truly inspiring. World Class has been an incredible journey since I was a bartender competing in the program myself in 2017, and it's incredible to see how it has evolved into a community that elevates the craft and puts Diageo's Reserve Portfolio at the forefront of cocktail culture."
Wondering what it takes to be crowned the U.S. Bartender of the Year? Applications will be open July-December for the 2023 USBG Presents World Class Sponsored by Diageo. Follow @WorldClassUS on Instagram to learn more and see if you can shake and stir your way to the top. In the meantime, see below for some of Jessi Pollak's recipes created during the National Finals that helped her win.
The FFFFlip
Created by 2022 U.S. Bartender of the Year Jessi Pollak
Ingredients:
- 1.25 oz Ketel One Family-Made Vodka
- .5 oz Amontillado Sherry
- 1 Whole Egg
- 1 oz Apple Spiced Cordial
- 2 oz Apple Cider
- Garnish: Apple Flavored Sprinkles
Preparation:
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Once emulsified, add ice to cocktail shaker and shake thoroughly. Strain into a teacup and garnish with apple flavored sprinkles.
Jungle Bird
Created by 2022 U.S. Bartender of the Year Jessi Pollak
Ingredients:
- 1.25 oz Tequila Don Julio Reposado
- .5 oz Italian Bitter Aperitif
- .75 oz Pineapple Juice
- .75 oz Lime Juice
- .5 oz Bell Pepper Infused Simple Syrup
- Garnish: Pineapple Fronds
Preparation:
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake thoroughly. Strain over ice into a Collins glass. Garnish with pineapple fronds.
Cocktails created for the duration of this year's competition can be found on Instagram using the handle @WorldClassUS. When showcasing your own mixology or sampling award-winning recipes from this year's competitors, USBG and Diageo remind you to do so responsibly.
For additional information about the program and for details on the upcoming global competition, follow hashtags #worldclassus, #worldclass2022 and #roadtosydney on Twitter and Instagram, and check us out online at https://worldclass.usbg.org and https://www.usbg.org/.
About USBG
Founded in 1948, the United States Bartenders' Guild® (USBG) is a nationwide nonprofit association of bartenders and other hospitality professionals that unites and elevates the bar industry through education, community, and advocacy. The USBG believes that bartending is a respected and fun occupation in a healthy environment that builds a hub for community. Through our network of over 40 communities nationwide, the USBG connects members with peer-to-peer mentorship, expert instruction, community service projects, and skills-based competition.
About Diageo
Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Casamigos, DeLeon and Don Julio tequilas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Tanqueray and Guinness.
Diageo is listed on both the New York Stock Exchange (DEO) and the London Stock Exchange (DGE) and our products are sold in more than 180 countries around the world.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
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A massive ecological study that's happening across the United States, and which is designed to track the impact of long-term changes like a warming climate, is deliberately releasing a highly potent and persistent greenhouse gas in national parks and forests.
The gas, sulfur hexafluoride, is "the most potent greenhouse gas known to date," according to the Environmental Protection Agency. It's 22,800 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, and lasts in the atmosphere for thousands of years.
So far, this ecology study has released around 108 pounds of the gas, which has about the same impact as burning more than a million pounds of coal.
That may not seem like a big deal in the grand scheme of global emissions, but government scientists working at federal parks and forests have objected to using this gas on public lands — especially since this major study is designed to go on for 30 years and alternative gasses are available.
This kerfuffle has so far played out quietly within government agencies. But it comes at a time when all kinds of researchers are thinking about the climate effects of past practices, with some saying that scientists who understand the urgency of the climate crisis have a special obligation to set an example to the public by reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of their own work.
The National Science Foundation (NSF), which funds this large ecology study, told NPR that it supports an evaluation that's now underway to see whether phasing out the use of this gas would affect the quality of the information that's being gathered.
That's not good enough for one watchdog group, which is calling for an immediate halt to the release of this gas on public lands.
"We're using just a tiny amount"
For decades, ecologists have sometimes burbled small amounts of sulfur hexafluoride into streams and rivers, in order to study how quickly gasses can move from the water into the air. One reason that's of interest is that, although inland waterways cover up only a small fraction of the Earth's surface, researchers believe these running waters could be an important source of greenhouse gasses, as rainfall can carry carbon from the ground into turbulent streams that later release it into the atmosphere.
Ecologists have always known that sulfur hexafluoride was itself a potent greenhouse gas, "but we always said, 'Well, we're using just a tiny amount of it," says Bob Hall, a professor of stream ecology at the University of Montana.
"The beauty of sulfur hexafluoride is we only have to add very tiny quantities, and it's really, really easy to measure and it's perfectly unreactive. We're not doing anything to the ecosystem by adding it, it's not reacting with anything, it's not poisoning anything," says Hall, who once calculated that the amount he used in one of his experiments had about the same climate impact as burning 35 gallons of gasoline.
Given the usefulness of this gas in stream studies, it's not surprising that tests involving sulfur hexafluoride were built into the standardized protocols of the National Ecological Observatory Network, or NEON, which is an ambitious government-funded effort to track ecological changes. Its mission is to use consistent methods to collect all kinds of data on 81 different locations across the nation--and to do this regularly for three decades.
"The idea is to understand the effects of things like climate change, land use change, and invasive species on these ecosystems," says Kaelin Cawley, who works at Battelle, the nonprofit applied science and technology organization that operates NEON for the NSF.
The planning for this half-billion-dollar ecological project, and the construction of its monitoring instruments, took around twenty years. It began operating at full tilt in 2019.
That's the same year when a scientist at Yellowstone National Park started to question why NEON was releasing sulfur hexafluoride at Blacktail Deer Creek, according to documents obtained through a public records request by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group that supports workers within the government who are concerned about activities that can harm the environment.
The environmental consequence
NEON's protocols called for it to annually release around 3.3 pounds of sulfur hexafluoride, or SF6, in Yellowstone National Park, hydrologist Erin White pointed out in a November, 2020 email to another National Park Service official. Over the 30-year lifetime of the project, White calculated, that meant the use of SF6 for research in Yellowstone National Park alone would be equivalent to burning over 1,139,000 pounds of coal.
"In short, the environmental consequence of a small SF6 application in the park is significant," noted White, who recommended that NEON immediately substitute an alternative gas, such as argon, even though NEON staffers thought making this switch would be problematic because of things like lab contracting constraints.
It is somewhat ironic to study carbon cycling using a tracer gas with that much greenhouse forcing.
Bobby Hensley, who works on NEON for Battelle, told NPR that the climate impact from the scientific use of this gas has to be kept in perspective.
"I don't want to sort of criticize Yellowstone National Park, but, I mean, there's hundreds of thousands of vehicles driving through that park every single day," says Hensley. "They can't tell people, 'Hey, you can't come visit the park.' But they can say, 'You can't use SF6.'"
Soon, government officials shared the concerns raised at Yellowstone with others who oversaw sites where NEON had been releasing this gas. Emails went out to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Bureau of Land Management, and the United States Forest Service. About half of the NEON sites with streams where sulfur hexafluoride was released were on forest service lands, records show.
"SF6 is a potent greenhouse gas and over the 30 year NEON program the release will be equivalent to burning millions of pounds of coal," wrote Bret Schichtel of the National Park Service's Air Resource Division to Linda Geiser, the National Air Program Manager for the Forest Service. "We would like to know if you are aware of this issue and share similar concerns."
In December of 2020, representatives of the park and forest services held a virtual meeting with NEON employees. Emails sent after that meeting make it clear that the public land officials felt a "strong desire" to discontinue the use of this gas.
NEON subsequently convened a group of expert advisers to figure out if they could stop using the gas without disrupting the science.
One of those advisors was Hall, who says that he had already moved away from using SF6 in his own studies of streams, in part because of its extreme potency as a greenhouse gas. "It is somewhat ironic," Hall and a colleague wrote in one paper, "to study carbon cycling using a tracer gas with that much greenhouse forcing."
"This doesn't fit with the mission"
It turns out that the physical features of streams that affect turbulence and gas exchange don't change much over time. So NEON's expert advisers basically felt it would be okay to just make sure this study had some baseline measurements using SF6 for each site and then leave it at that, rather than switching to an alternative gas that would require new instruments and training so that measurements could be taken year after year.
"We have discontinued it recently at several of our sites, but not all of them," says Cawley, who notes that the water level in streams might currently be too low to get the data they want. "Some of the sites, we still need to get certain flow ranges that we haven't covered yet."
The NSF's Program Director for NEON, Charlotte Roehm, told NPR in an emailed statement that Battelle was evaluating the impact of phasing out the use of SF6 and that "the NSF team that manages NEON is supportive of conducting that evaluation."
In 2021, according to one memo sent from NEON to Roehm, NEON used approximately 18 pounds of the gas, which is the equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions from driving an average car over 460,000 miles. That memo stated the new plan was to use the gas to take measurements "up to three times per year at up to 10 sites," likely for one to three more years.
"Eventually we will stop using SF6 when all sites have enough data to draw conclusions about gas exchange rates across a wide range of flows at a site," the memo states.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, however, wants them to stop using SF6 immediately.
"They're doing these experiments on public lands like national parks and national forests," says Chandra Rosenthal, who directs the non-profit's Rocky Mountain office. "This doesn't fit with the mission of these agencies at all."
The government workers who manage those federal lands are unhappy about the use of this gas, she says, "but they haven't really had the authority to do anything about the fact that this stuff is being used."
This week, her group sent a letter to the director of the NSF, asking the agency to stop funding projects that use SF6 on federal lands, and to assess the value of using SF6 and other greenhouse gasses in all the research it funds. A similar letter, sent to U. S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and U. S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, calls on them to stop allowing the use of SF6 on the lands they manage. "It is our understanding," the letter says, "that similar research projects have switched to argon without issue."
One researcher who uses small amounts of SF6 for studies of gas exchange in the ocean, rather than streams, says he thinks NEON's protocols could have been set up differently, to minimize the use of this greenhouse gas.
"If I was to do what they're doing, I would do it differently. I wouldn't be bubbling it in, because that does use a lot," says David Ho, an oceanographer with the University of Hawaii, who explains that he might infuse a small amount of the gas into a bag of water and then release that into the stream. "They haven't thought this through, in terms of the best way to do it."
And even if the amount that's been released by NEON and other scientific studies is essentially nothing compared to the amount of SF6 released globally from industrial sources, the concerns about it still seem reasonable to streams researcher Walter Dodds of Kansas State University, who served on NEON's technical advisory panel.
"It may be an overreaction of sorts, but it's completely understandable as well. We all are worried about what our own footprints are," says Dodds. "Certainly we should be cognizant of the potential for that harm and at least minimize the amount of times we use it and the amount of gas that we use in each experiment."
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A year ago, senior Gavin Nelson and his Simley teammates advanced to the Class 4A state tournament, only to fall in disappointing fashion in the quarterfinals.
This time around, the Spartans made sure early on that wouldn’t happen again.
Nelson rushed for three first-half touchdowns and finished with 216 yards in all as Simley rolled past Chisago Lakes 46-14 in a Class 4A state quarterfinal Thursday night at Forest Lake High School.
“I feel like the last two weeks, we’ve started a little slow,” said Nelson, whose team fell 40-0 to eventual state champion Hutchinson in the quarterfinals last season. “So tonight, we came out with the mentality that we had to start this game hot.”
The Spartans did just that, scoring on their first six possessions. They also took advantage of five Wildcats turnovers, all of which either set up touchdowns or in the case of a 45-yard fumble return for a score by senior David Gogins late in the first half resulted in a touchdown directly.
“We wanted to come out here and make a statement,” said Gogins, who finished with two fumble recoveries and an interception. “The first two quarters are the most important quarters of the game, and getting up by as much as we did was really big.”
Simley (10-1) advances to meet Rocori in the semifinals at 4 p.m. next Thursday at U.S. Bank Stadium. Rocori beat North Branch 22-12 in their quarterfinal Thursday night in Blaine.
The surprising Wildcats, who entered the postseason 2-6 before rattling off three straight wins in the Section 4 playoffs, finish 5-7 overall.
“We had some bumps along the way,” Chisago Lakes coach Bill Weiss said. “But this was a resilient group. This was a tough group. Every Monday, they came back and were ready for more.”
A 4-yard touchdown run by Nelson on the game’s opening possession put the Spartans on top 7-0. Then, after Chisago Lakes advanced into Simley territory on its first drive, an interception by Gogins ended that threat and set Nelson up for his second touchdown, an 8-yard run that expanded the Simley lead to 14-0.
The Wildcats continued to move the ball on their next possession but fumbled it away at the Spartans’ 4 early in the second quarter. Simley promptly marched down the field to score on a 6-yard run by senior Tay’vion McCoy that made the score 21-0.
“We kind of had blinders on,” Spartans coach Chris Mensen said. “We wanted to make sure that we handled our business.”
Business continued to pick up when Nelson scored on a 33-yard run, then Gogins added his fumble return for a touchdown with 30.8 seconds before halftime.
Chisago Lakes got the ball back, ran the same play and fumbled again. This time, Gogins returned it to the Wildcats’ 10 to set up a 1-yard quarterback sneak for a touchdown by Caden Renslow with 5.8 seconds left on the clock.
That put the Spartans in front 40-0 at halftime.
“The turnovers hurt us,” Weiss said. “But there was a size differential that was tough to overcome. They have some big guys. Unfortunately, we didn’t have an answer for that.”
Another Chisago Lakes fumble set up a 19-yard touchdown run by Renslow early in the third quarter.
The Wildcats finally got on the board when senior Maddox Olson scored on a 17-yard run later in the quarter. Junior Gavin Lewis added another touchdown in the fourth quarter. By then, the outcome had long been decided, and Simley was headed to the semifinals.
“This team has no ceiling,” Nelson said. “That’s the best way to put it. We come to work every week. We all push each other to work so hard. We showed that on the field tonight.”
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Which stoneware dinner set is best?
Stoneware is a favorite kind of dinnerware for both casual occasions and daily use. It’s thicker than porcelain and china, and can be finished in a variety of glazes, so the best stoneware dinner sets combine style and utility.
If you are looking for a set with artisanal touches, take a look at the Corelle Stoneware Dinnerware Set for Four.
What to know before you buy a stoneware dinner set
Most dinnerware is ceramic, made of clay fired in kilns.
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Stoneware is non-porous, made with glass-like materials, and fired at high temperatures. It’s easy to use and maintain.
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Earthenware is less expensive than stoneware and has a thick, heavy look and feel. It is prone to chipping, so it’s used in rustic environments where beauty takes a back seat to functionality.
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Porcelain is china made of finer clay particles that let the dinnerware be thinner, more delicate and shaped into fine details. Porcelain dinnerware says elegance and fine dining.
Glazes
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Reactive glazes are also known as mottled or variegated glazes because the color and character of the glaze is not uniform. When applied in layers, reactive glazes create unique artistic looks highly prized by ceramicists.
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Solid glazes are meant to match colors consistently.
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Glossy glazes reflect the most light and make for the shiniest ceramic surfaces.
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Matte glazes create a muted effect that has little or no shine.
What to look for in a quality stoneware dinner set
How many people will you serve?
Most dinnerware sets have four or six place settings and rarely more than eight. The upper limit is generally set by how many people will be seated for meals at one time.
What kind of place setting do you want?
A place setting is table service for one person and includes dishware, flatware and glassware. There is little agreement on what constitutes a dishware place setting, but all agree on a few things:
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Dinner plates are meant for entrees, the focal point of the menu. All other pieces should complement the dinner plate.
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Small plates may be referred to as salad plates, bread plates or dessert plates. They sit to the side and are meant for holding fewer food items and smaller portions.
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Bowls are usually called soup bowls but may also be referred to as cereal bowls.
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Cups and saucers were once a part of every place setting. Because so many people now use mugs for their coffee and tea, saucer and cup sets are less likely to be included in standard place settings.
Mood
Those with a sense of style enjoy creating a mood when serving meals, from casual to formal and classical to modern. Most of today’s stoneware is great for everyday purposes but also has enough style to be used when you have something to celebrate or when company comes. The mood should not only fit the occasion but also complement your flatware, glassware and table linens.
How does it stack?
Look for stoneware that stacks from rim to rim — it’s less likely to get scratched. When the unglazed bottom of one piece sits on top of the glazed surface beneath it, it damages the finish.
How much you can expect to spend on a stoneware dinner set
Most stoneware dinner sets cost from $40-$200. Prices vary by the number of place settings and the number of pieces per setting.
Best stoneware dinner set FAQ
Does stoneware resist chipping?
A. All stoneware is made of ceramics and will chip if mishandled or abused. Stoneware with a double-beaded edge is less likely to chip.
Is stoneware safe to put in the oven?
A. Most is, and safe for the microwave, refrigerator and dishwasher, too. Avoid putting a dish directly into the oven from the refrigerator, though, because stoneware can crack when exposed to sudden extreme temperature changes.
Can I leave my stoneware soaking in water to loosen hardened foods?
A. No. Extended submersion will increase the chances of it chipping and breaking. Instead, rub the surface with a cloth dampened in a paste of vinegar and baking soda.
What’s the best stoneware dinner set to buy?
Best stoneware dinner set
Corelle Stoneware Dinnerware Set for Four
What you need to know: This 12-piece set has higher rims and deeper bowls for casual meals and eating on the go.
What you’ll love: The double-bead edge design adds strength and durability to these handcrafted dishes and bowls. The slight variations in color add to the artisanal effect. These 10.5- and 8.5-inch plates and 21-ounce bowls are microwavable and safe to put in the oven, freezer and dishwasher.
What you should consider: This set includes only plates and bowls.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best stoneware dinner set for the money
Amazon Basics 18-Piece Stoneware Dinnerware Set
What you need to know: Choose from nine colors of this everyday dinnerware collection with place settings for six people.
What you’ll love: Each place setting consists of an 11-inch dinner plate, an 8-inch salad plate and a 7-ounce bowl. Safe to use in the microwave, these ceramics can withstand heat up to 572 degrees and stack nicely in the dishwasher, too.
What you should consider: Some customers said there are too many irregularities in the coloring and finish.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Market Finds 16-Piece Round Stoneware Dinnerware Set
What you need to know: This chic dinnerware set makes your table look elegant.
What you’ll love: You get four each of 11.5-inch dinner plates, 8.5-inch dessert plates, 20-ounce bowls and 10-ounce mugs. The embossed ridges around the plates and on the cups and bowls add a creative and contemporary touch. This dinnerware is safe to use in the oven, microwave and dishwasher.
What you should consider: Some don’t like how heavy the plates are.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Celebrities, professional athletes and other high-profile Twitter users are once again being verified by the social media platform and they don’t know why their blue check marks reappeared — nor do they seem too happy about it.
Twitter removed the blue marks last week from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee. But the check marks mysteriously returned for many highly followed accounts over the weekend, leading some prominent users to disavow what’s become a divisive symbol of Twitter owner Elon Musk’s erratic changes to the platform.
The account belonging to the Auschwitz Memorial, which has 1.5 million followers and regularly tweets out photos and names of Holocaust victims, tweeted on Sunday that after two days of no blue check mark, its account was reverified. The Memorial said it was “obliged to clarify” that it never subscribed and paid for Twitter Blue as the icon implies.
Other high-profile accounts with more than 1 million followers also took to Twitter to make it clear they didn’t pay to get their blue check back. Those who chimed in included Massachusetts Institute of Technology, actor Bette Midler, gymnast Simone Biles Owens, writer Neil Gaiman and rapper Lil Nas X.
“On my soul i didn’t pay for twitter blue, u will feel my wrath tesla man!” wrote the rapper who has 8 million followers. Added Gaiman, who has 3 million followers: “What a sad, muddled place this has become.”
Midler posted on Twitter Sunday: “Yes, Elon gave me back my blue check but I didn’t pay for it. Does that make me a good guy or a bad guy? I’m so confused.” But by Monday, there was no sign she had a blue check.
On Twitter, the blue check icon appears on accounts next to text that says: “subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number.” Since last week, blue check marks also appeared on profiles of dead public figures, including author and chef Anthony Bourdain, who died in 2018; the actor Chadwick Boseman, who died in 2020; and the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was assassinated in 2018.
Under the original blue-check system, Twitter had roughly 400,000 verified users, including Hollywood actors and star athletes as well as journalists, human rights activists and public agencies. In the past, the checks meant that Twitter had verified that users were who they said they were, as a method to prevent impersonation and the spread of misinformation.
But now anyone can buy a Twitter Blue subscription starting at $8 a month. It no longer means the user is verified — other than confirming a phone number — but promises a number of features including the ability to have more people see their tweets.
Legal experts said Twitter doling out subscriptions to people and institutions that didn’t want them, and implying that they paid for it could run afoul of the federal Lanham Act, which prohibits false advertising, as well as other regulations.
The fact that some accounts say they are subscribed to Twitter Blue — even though they have been outspoken about not subscribing — can create a sense of “false endorsement,” said Alejandra Caraballo, an instructor at the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
That said, a false endorsement lawsuit would be limited to “actual damages” the person suffered as a result, Caraballo added.
“My guess is the most common thing is that if someone really is upset about this, they could send a cease-and-desist letter to get Twitter to take it down,” she said.
Musk has pushed for the premium service as a way to increase revenue and upend what he called a “lords & peasants system” that he believes gave too many people an undeserved status symbol for free. But only a fraction of users — and very few of those who had the blue checks before — are buying the service.
An inability to sell subscriptions or find other ways of making money could present problems for Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion last year and has struggled to keep advertisers — its main source of revenue — from fleeing the platform. | https://who13.com/business/ap-business/twitter-verification-reappears-but-some-disavow-musks-mark/ | 2023-04-25 03:12:34 | 0 | https://who13.com/business/ap-business/twitter-verification-reappears-but-some-disavow-musks-mark/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch formally started her 2024 campaign for governor Monday and said she would not shy away from Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb’s record despite discontent among many conservatives over his COVID-19 policies and other actions.
Crouch, who was Holcomb’s running mate in 2016 and 2020, is joining U.S. Sen. Mike Braun in what could become an expensive fight for the Republican nomination in hopes of extending the GOP’s 20-year hold on the governor’s office. Holcomb cannot seek reelection because of term limits.
Crouch announced her campaign in an online video message released just hours ahead of Braun’s campaign kickoff event. Braun filed paperwork on Nov. 30 with state election officials allowing him to raise money for the governor’s race, a move that will forego him seeking another Senate term in 2024.
Braun, 68, was a little-known wealthy businessman before fueling his successful 2018 Senate campaign with more than $11 million in personal loans. He presented himself as a political outsider, defeating Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly.
Crouch, 70, said her campaign to become Indiana’s first female governor would highlight her decade as a local government official in Evansville before joining the Legislature in 2005. She then served three years as state auditor and became lieutenant governor in early 2017.
“I think if you put me on a stage with the other announced candidates, the differences are obvious,” Crouch told The Associated Press ahead of her announcement. “But when you look at the resumes, there is no candidate that has the local, state, legislative and executive experience that I have.”
Crouch has already raised more than $2.5 million for her campaign, and Fort Wayne businessman Eric Doden, who was a state economic development official for then-Gov. Mike Pence, has raised a similar amount since he started his campaign last year for the Republican nomination.
Braun repeated his frequent criticism of Congress being unable to act on many issues as he spoke during a luncheon with about 75 supporters at an upscale steakhouse in downtown Indianapolis. Braun said he wanted to “engage all of you to help me understand what the issues are” for the state, while briefly discussing his concerns about matters such as rising health care costs and the need to better prepare high school graduates for entering the workforce or college.
“You cannot solve the issues of the day with career politicians out east,” Braun said. “That was the main reason I decided to come back.”
Crouch has been a loyal Holcomb administration member and appeared at his side during several of his near-daily news conferences during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Holcomb easily won reelection that year, but frustration among conservatives over COVID-19 business restrictions and a statewide mask mandate boosted a Libertarian candidate to 11% of the vote. Holcomb further angered conservatives — and drew a public denouncement from Braun — with his veto in March of a GOP-backed bill banning transgender females from competing in Indiana girls sports teams.
Crouch said Indiana’s economy and state finances had continued to improve during Holcomb’s time as governor.
“We have accomplished a great deal and I’m proud of that record, not just over the past six years, but over the past 17 years being a part of turning this state around,” Crouch said.
State Democratic Chairman Mike Schmuhl said Crouch shared blame for Indiana’s poor national rankings in areas such as schools, pollution levels and maternal mortality.
“Hoosiers cannot afford another four more years of the status quo, because the status quo is currently putting families further and further behind the rest of the nation,” Schmuhl said in a statement.
State campaign filings show no other Republicans are actively raising money for the 2024 governor’s race, but that doesn’t mean the GOP field is set.
Republican U.S. Rep. Trey Hollingsworth alluded to a possible run for a different office when he decided to not seek reelection this year. And some Republicans are hoping that former Gov. Mitch Daniels will seek a Statehouse return after he steps down as Purdue University’s president at the end of December.
U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, who unsuccessfully sought a top House Republican position last month, and U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz have both said they are considering seeking the GOP nomination for Braun’s Senate seat.
Discussions of possible 2024 statewide Democratic candidates have centered on Donnelly, who is President Joe Biden’s ambassador to the Vatican, and former state schools superintendent Jennifer McCormick, who won election as a Republican in 2016 but has since switched parties after disputes with GOP Statehouse leaders over education policies. | https://www.wivb.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-indiana-lt-gov-crouch-joins-us-sen-braun-in-governors-race/ | 2022-12-12 20:06:47 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-indiana-lt-gov-crouch-joins-us-sen-braun-in-governors-race/ |
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Another judge has adopted a U.S. appellate court’s stricter interpretation of a century-and-a-half-old mining law in a new ruling that blocks a metals mine in Nevada. The ruling could have ramifications for a huge lithium mine near the Nevada-Oregon line and other future mines on public lands across the West.
U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks in Reno vacated the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s approval of Eureka Moly’s planned molybdenum mine about 250 miles (402 kilometers) east of Reno in a case that dates to 2013 and made two trips to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Hicks cited the 9th Circuit’s unprecedented ruling in an Arizona case last year that upended the government’s long-held position that the 1872 Mining Law conveys the same rights established through a valid mining claim to adjacent land for the disposal of tailings and other waste.
That ruling blocked construction of a copper mine based on the conclusion those rights don’t automatically apply to the neighboring national forest lands where the company planned to dump the waste rock.
Rather, the company must establish — and the government validate — that valuable minerals are present for such a claim to exist.
In the case of the molybdenum, which is most often used to strengthen steel, Hicks found “no meaningful difference” between the Forest Service arguments in the 9th Circuit decision on the Arizona mine ”and BLM’s arguments here.”
“BLM cannot skirt the Mining Law requirement that valuable mineral deposits must be found in order to occupy the land,” he wrote March 31.
U.S. Judge Miranda Du in Reno cited the 9th Circuit ruling in concluding last month that BLM acted illegally when it approved Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass mine near the Nevada-Oregon line.
But unlike Hicks or the appellate court, Du stopped short of vacating BLM’s approval of the project.
Instead, she moved the project back to the agency to determine whether there’s sufficient evidence of valuable minerals to establish valid claims. Meanwhile, construction efforts are underway.
Environmentalists have appealed Du’s ruling on the lithium mine to the San Francisco-based court, which is expected to hear oral arguments in June.
Lithium is used in the manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles — a key part of President Joe Biden’s “clean energy” agenda intended to speed a transition from fossil fuels to renewables.
Like other mines have done for decades, Eureka Moly LLC (EML) argued it didn’t intend to permanently occupy the adjacent lands because the mining at Mt. Hope would end in 40 years.
But Hicks said the 9th Circuit also shot down that argument.
“Although EML’s authorization to use the land will expire when the project is complete, the waste rock will remain. Thus, EML’s occupation … will be permanent,” Hicks said. The “Rosemont (decision) requires that to permanently occupy the land as EML proposes, valuable deposits of minerals must exist.”
The record contains no evidence of molybdenite on surrounding lands, he said, and “BLM admits that it made no attempt to determine whether EML’s mining claims are valid.”
Environmentalists say Hicks’ ruling bodes well for their Thacker Pass appeal.
“It’s very significant,” said Roger Flynn, a longtime attorney for the Colorado-based Western Action Mining Project representing the Great Basin Resource Watch and others in lawsuits challenging both the molybdenum and lithium mines.
“All three rulings now say you can’t bury waste there unless you find valuable minerals,” he said. “The Rosemont issue would apply to basically every big mine in the West.”
Flynn anticipates the next related court case could involve a mine planned in Idaho, the Stibnite Gold Project, which is undergoing Forest Service review and isn’t yet ripe for a legal challenge.
Lithium Americas and other industry leaders insist conservationists are exaggerating the potential reach of the 9th Circuit ruling.
“The Mt. Hope case did not impact Thacker Pass,” Lithium Americas spokesman Tim Crowley said.
“The Thacker Pass and Mt. Hope cases addressed different facts, different legal arguments and had different outcomes,” he wrote in an email Tuesday to The Associated Press. “The judge in our case thoroughly considered the specific Thacker Pass details in rendering her decision, and the project is now in construction and moving forward. ”
Mark Compton, executive director of the American Exploration & Mining Association, agreed.
“I don’t believe a straight line comparison can be made between the court decisions on Mt. Hope, Thacker Pass, and Rosemont,” Compton said in an email. “The facts are unique to each case.”
But John Hadder, executive director of the Reno-based Great Basin Resource Watch, said Hicks’ ruling on the heels of Du’s sets the stage for appeal arguments in June.
“Both judges are saying there’s illegal actions here,” Hadder said. He questions why Du allowed construction to begin if Lithium Americas’ plan isn’t legal.
“It violates the law, but there’s no repercussion. They can still go forward with the illegal action. It doesn’t make sense,” Hadder said. “We’re hoping the 9th Circuit will not only validate the ruling but also vacate the permit.” | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/judge-affirms-stricter-interpretation-of-federal-mining-law/ | 2023-04-13 01:29:02 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/judge-affirms-stricter-interpretation-of-federal-mining-law/ |
AHSAA upholds suspension of Hoover baseball coach
HOOVER, Ala. (WBRC) - The Alabama High School Athletic Association uphold its season-long suspension of Hoover baseball coach Adam Moseley on Wednesday.
“Today is a disappointing day,” Moseley said in a statement released on Twitter. “We did not receive the results we were hopeful for.”
The AHSAA had suspended Moseley after he was selected as a coach for Team USA in the 18U Baseball World Cup, a team that consisted of Hoover senior RJ Hamilton.
According to the AHSAA Handbook, “no administrator, coach or non-faculty coach from a school’s staff may hold organized practice or competition for its school or its feeder school students outside the sports season during the school year.”
The penalty for such an infraction, according to the AHSAA handbook, is that the “student or offending coach” is ineligible for the next school season.
Hoover High School had appealed the AHSAA’s decision, but the Athletic Association upheld the suspension.
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“I am disappointed that the AHSAA did not see merit in the extensive documentation from USA Baseball, which clearly states I did not take part in coaching my player during the event in question,” Moseley said. “I have taken every step to work through this process in a manner that is open and honest and I will continue to do so.”
Hoover High, in a statement, said that assistant baseball coach Chris Wilson will lead the Bucs baseball team this season.
Moseley said that he is committed to supporting the Bucs team in any way he can this season.
“Moving forward, I am committed to doing all the AHSAA will allow to support Chris Wilson and Chris Coons, along with all of our players, as they lead the Bucs forward while we consider all possible solutions to this situation.”
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand on Friday welcomed the first cruise ship to return since the coronavirus pandemic began, signaling a long-sought return to normalcy for the nation’s tourism industry.
New Zealand closed its borders in early 2020 as it sought at first to eliminate COVID-19 entirely and then later to control its spread. Although the country reopened its borders to most tourists arriving by plane in May, it wasn’t until two weeks ago that it lifted all remaining restrictions, including those on maritime arrivals.
Many in the cruise industry question why it took so long.
The end of restrictions allowed Carnival Australia’s Pacific Explorer cruise ship to dock in Auckland with about 2,000 passengers and crew Friday morning as part of a 12-day return trip to Fiji that left from Sydney.
“Amazing, isn’t it?” Tourism Minister Stuart Nash said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Its another step in the reopening of our borders and a step closer to resuming business as usual.”
Nash said it would take some time for international tourist numbers and revenues to return to their pre-pandemic levels, when the industry accounted for about 20% of New Zealand’s foreign income and more than 5% of GDP.
“I think there’s been many people in the tourism sector who have done it hard over the last two years,” Nash said. “But we’ve always taken an approach where we need to ensure that we get the health response right. Because if we don’t, we know the consequences are dire.”
Not everybody is happy with the return of tourists. A sail boat carrying protesters upset about the industry’s impact on the environment followed the Pacific Explorer into the harbor Friday, before passengers were greeted with an Indigenous Māori welcome and a visit by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Nash said the pause in tourism had given the nation a chance to reset its priorities. One of those was to go after what he described as wealthier “high quality” tourists who would stay longer and have a story to tell when they returned home.
“We are not targeting the guys that come over and put up on Facebook, ‘Hey, travel around New Zealand on $10 a day living on 2-minute noodles,’” Nash said.
He said another goal was to move away from the perception that people working in the industry would be subject to long hours and low wages, and to make it a more rewarding and aspirational career.
Nash said that with airline tickets more expensive and travelers more risk-averse than before the pandemic, tourism numbers could remain subdued for a while, but he thought the industry would eventually make a strong comeback.
“I see markets like the United States being a really important market for New Zealand,” he said. “There’s been two trillion dollars saved in the states over and above that which would have been saved if it hadn’t been for COVID. So, there’s a little bit of money floating around.” | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/new-zealand-welcomes-back-first-cruise-ship-since-covid-hit/ | 2022-08-12 16:53:38 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/new-zealand-welcomes-back-first-cruise-ship-since-covid-hit/ |
Which Logitech wireless headset is best?
Whether you are comfortable on the couch for a gaming session or taking the train home, you don’t want to wrestle with cables when using a headset. A wireless headset is a great option, and Logitech has several, even though its primary focus is gaming accessories.
The Logitech G733 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Headset should be in every gamer’s audio arsenal. It comes in five vibrant colors, uses a comfortable suspension headband and includes a Blue Voice microphone.
What to know before you buy a Logitech wireless headset
Compatibility with your platform
Most wireless headsets use Bluetooth technology to connect to an audio source. This should let you pair them with multiple devices, but that’s not always the case. For example, a wireless headset for Microsoft’s Xbox One X console uses a proprietary standard that’s not compatible with others. So, consider the gadget you are connecting to and ensure that your chosen Logitech headset is compatible.
Most have RGB lighting
Red, green and blue lighting effects have become hugely popular — especially with computer and gaming console players. Since that demographic is a strong focus for Logitech, most of its headsets have RGB lighting. If that doesn’t interest you, check if you can turn it off. If not, there might be a different Logitech wireless headset you can use.
There are different kinds of wireless headsets
Generally, Logitech headsets come in two types. There are pros and cons to both, but it usually comes down to which you prefer.
- Over-ear: These headsets have larger ear cups that cover your entire earlobe. They’re often more comfortable and provide a good amount of noise cancellation.
- On-ear: With smaller ear cups, on-ear headsets rest on top of your earlobe. Some prefer these, as they are more portable and often less expensive.
What to look for in a quality Logitech wireless headset
Excellent battery life
Wireless headsets use a rechargeable battery. The capacity can vary between models, but a good-quality Logitech headset gets you around 24 to 30 hours of listening on one charge. You recharge them through a USB cable or a charging cradle. Remember, the more functions a headset has, the faster the battery drains. Red, green and blue lighting, a built-in microphone and maximum volume contribute to rapid power loss.
Noise cancellation
Whether you’re playing video games or listening to music on the bus, you don’t want any external sounds to creep in. This is where noise cancellation plays a significant role.
- Active: Through several microphones and speakers, headsets with active noise cancellation are the best. It uses technology to electronically block out sounds and ambient noise.
- Passive: Requiring no battery power, passive noise cancellation relies on the tight fit of the headset on the ear lobes to block sounds. It’s not a perfect solution, but it gets the job done.
Low latency
Latency is the time it takes for an audio signal to reach the headset. You’ll hardly notice it when listening to music, but it can be prominent with video games and movies. This is often referred to as audio lag, where the sound doesn’t match up with the visuals. It is one of the primary stumbling blocks of Bluetooth headsets. A good-quality Logitech wireless headset has a low latency of only a few milliseconds.
How much you can expect to spend on a Logitech wireless headset
The price largely depends on the functions and additional features. An entry-level headset costs $50-$100, while a serious gaming headset sells for $150-$200.
Logitech wireless headset FAQ
What is Logitech’s Lightspeed technology?
A. Bluetooth is a wireless standard used in most devices, and while Logitech supports it, it also incorporates Lightspeed into headsets and mice. It is the company’s own wireless standard to improve latency.
Can you use a cable if the battery dies?
A. This depends on the Logitech headset, but some work over Bluetooth and a 3.5-millimeter cable. Keep in mind, though, that some features might not be available when you use a cable.
What’s the best Logitech wireless headset to buy?
Top Logitech wireless headset
Logitech G733 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Headset
What you need to know: Compatible with most gaming consoles, this wireless headset has RGB lighting on the front of each ear cup and a flexible suspension headband.
What you’ll love: The G733 has one of the longest-lasting batteries, providing almost 30 hours of operation. The 40-millimeter speakers are tuned with Logitech’s Pro-G drivers and the ear cups provide good noise cancellation through thick foam padding.
What you should consider: Some users have mentioned that the ear cups have an odd shape.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Logitech wireless headset for the money
Logitech G435 Lightspeed and Bluetooth Wireless Gaming Headset
What you need to know: This affordable over-ear headset has breathable fabric ear cups with thick foam padding to reduce discomfort from prolonged use.
What you’ll love: This is the first Logitech headset to use Lightspeed wireless and low-latency Bluetooth technologies, making it compatible with computers, gaming consoles and mobile devices. The 40-millimeter audio drivers produce clear sounds and the battery lasts for 18 hours.
What you should consider: It doesn’t have any noise-cancellation abilities.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Logitech G935 Wireless DTS:X 7.1 Surround Sound
What you need to know: The G935 is the perfect wireless headset for video games, as it produces crystal-clear 7.1 surround sound.
What you’ll love: The large 50-millimeter audio drivers ensure that you hear the softest of sounds, while the 6-millimeter microphone keeps you in contact with team members. With RGB lighting turned off, the battery lasts for around 12 hours.
What you should consider: It isn’t compatible with gaming consoles, as it uses a USB dongle.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Top national security officials from the United States and Japan are expected to agree to changes in the joint defense posture this week as the two nations confront rising threats from North Korea and increasing aggressiveness from China.
U.S. officials say Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet on Wednesday with their Japanese counterparts and plan to issue a joint statement that will adjust, but not increase, the American troop presence on the island of Okinawa. It also will add a formal mention of space in the longstanding mutual defense treaty the two countries have held, in a nod to the Pentagon’s creation of the Space Force and Space Command.
The new agreements to be sealed at the so-called “two-plus-two” meeting will come just ahead of a visit to Washington by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who will meet with President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday.
“The leaders will discuss our shared vision of a modernized alliance that will tackle 21st century challenges in the Indo-Pacific and around the world,” said Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, on Tuesday. “China certainly will be a topic of discussion with our Japanese allies during the consultative meetings this week.”
Ryder declined to provide details on the new agreement.
But U.S. officials said the 12th Marine Regiment currently on Okinawa will transform into a smaller, more rapidly mobile unit — the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment. The new regiment is designed to be better able and equipped to fight an adversary and defend the U.S. and its allies in the region. U.S. officials said the decision will not increase the number of Marines on the island.
Reinforcement of military capability or troops is a sensitive issue for Okinawa, site of one of the bloodiest ground battles at the end of World War II. The island hosts more than half of the U.S. troops based in Japan, and Okinawans want that number reduced. While there is a growing fear of a Taiwan emergency, many islands in the region are concerned that a defense buildup could increase risks of getting embroiled in war.
The change is part of a broader shift being made across the Marine Corps, as the commandant, Gen. David Berger, aims to make the service better able to operate and fight in contested areas, particularly within striking range of an enemy. That element is critical in the Indo-Pacific, where thousands of U.S. and allied forces are easily within missile — or even rocket — range of both China and North Korea.
One Marine littoral regiment has already been set up in Hawaii, the second would be in Okinawa and another is planned later this decade, with a possible location being Guam, according to officials. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss plans not publicly announced.
Details are still being worked out, but a littoral regiment is made up of roughly 2,000 Marines, and includes a combat team with an anti-ship missile battery, a logistics battalion and an air defense battalion. The current Marine regiment on Okinawa that it would essentially replace includes about 3,400 Marines and sailors. The overall number of Marines on Okinawa would remain about the same, officials said.
Asked about specific announcements, Ryder would only say that the meeting will provide an opportunity for talks on how to modernize the alliance and maintain a stable and secure Indo-Pacific.
Speaking to Pentagon reporters, Ryder also noted U.S. concerns over Chinese military activity in the region, including a recent incident when a Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to a U.S. Air Force plane over the South China Sea.
“In terms of Chinese behavior, as evidenced most recently by the PRC air intercept, it is concerning when you see these types of provocative actions taking place in sensitive areas,” said Ryder. “And so, again, our focus from the United States standpoint is working with our allies and our partners in the region like Japan, to ensure a free and open Indo Pacific and to ensure that security and stability continue to be present throughout the region.”
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Brazil's President-elect is pledging a "zero tolerance" policy on deforestation in the Amazon. But climate scientists warn the damage already done may be irreversible.
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If you’ve been thinking of purchasing a robot vacuum to help you out with household chores, you might consider Amazon’s deal on the Dreametech D10 Plus Robot Vacuum, which operates as both a smart vacuum and mop.
I don’t mind mopping, but I hate vacuuming, so when the company sent me one to test, I was more excited about the vacuuming possibilities. However, the mop’s performance won me over in the end.
The makers of this robot vacuum say it has strong suction power, four suction modes and a battery that allows the device to clean for up to 180 minutes. The vacuum also includes an auto-empty base station, which quickly dumps everything it collected from your floor into a 2.5-liter bag once it returns itself to the charging base after cleaning. When the bag is full, you simply dump the bag into the trash.
The Dreametech vacuum also has laser navigation, so it maps out your house before its first cleaning. This way, it won’t miss spots or repeat certain areas. If you have hardwood floor or tile, you can fill the included 150-milliliter water tank and choose from three water volume levels to mop your floor.
You can use your phone or voice to start cleaning, as the robot vacuum is controlled via app or Alexa. Priced at $500, you’ll pay $420 on Amazon after clipping an $80 coupon at checkout.
When the D10 Plus arrived, I put it to work to see how well it performed both the vacuum and mopping features. It may be hard to believe in 2022, but it was actually my first ever robot vacuum, so I didn’t have any expectations.
How The Dreametech D10 Plus Robot Vacuum Performed
The vacuum was easy to set up and quickly connected to WiFi and the Mi Home app. I let it charge up a bit before having it navigate the layout of the downstairs area of my house, which includes a living room, kitchen, family room and half bath. The navigation is listed as “rapid,” but I still expected it to take a while, so I was surprised when it was done in about 10 minutes. I then let it charge overnight and ran the vacuum the following day, which took around an hour to complete and was quiet enough that I could still watch television. While I didn’t purposely make a mess to clean up, there was an average amount of dust and debris on the floor and I didn’t notice anything left behind.
When cleaning was done, the vacuum returned to the base, emptied itself and began charging. While the auto-empty base is a nice feature because it means you’re not dealing with dust and crumbs every time you vacuum, be aware that you may eventually need to buy additional bags. The vacuum comes with two bags, and while you do not throw the bags away when they’re full — you dump them into the trash — there’s a chance the bags will eventually need to be replaced if you reuse them too many times.
Another important thing to note is that my test was on both hardwood and tile, and I do not have carpet. Some Amazon reviewers have reported that the device runs louder on carpet than it does on hardwood floor, so you might want to take that into consideration if your home is carpeted. One review called its performance on carpet “lackluster.”
One reviewer also wrote that while they “love the pattern it leaves” on their carpet, they aren’t sure if it understands not to mop carpet, so if you have some hardwood flooring or tile and some carpet, you may want to keep an eye on it when mopping to make sure it doesn’t mop the carpet.
Some Amazon reviews also mention that the vacuum got stuck on cords and sucked up some things it shouldn’t have (like pet toys), but I didn’t have issues with that. I did move a rug out of the way because my usual vacuum has trouble with it, so I assumed this would too, but I didn’t experience any problems with it getting clogged or stuck.
Mop Feature: Efficient And Floors Dry Quickly
I also tested out the mop feature for both my hardwood floors and the entryway tile. To do so, I filled the included attachment with water and snapped it onto the vacuum while it was on the charger. The vacuum then spoke out loud, saying the mop was attached.
I hit the “go” button on the app and because the vacuum sensed that the mop was attached, it knew I was intending to mop instead of vacuum. The entire mapped-out area of my home was mopped without needing to refill the tank, though if you choose a higher mop setting, there’s a chance the robot will run out of water and need a refill at some point.
As shown in the photo below, you can clearly see where the mopping has been done, as it leaves a water streak that then dries quickly. And yes, it did go back and clean that spot in between the two streaks that it didn’t get the first time!
There’s no denying that the Dreametech vacuum is higher-priced than some other robot vacuums, as it doubles as a mop. Even devices that are just mops can run you more than $400, like this iRobot Braava Jet M6 Ultimate Robot Mop, which has a list price of $449.99.
If you’re on the fence about spending so much on a cleaning tool, or just want to pay a little less for your robot vacuum, there are plenty of others on Amazon for half the price or less, including this iRobot Roomba 694 Robot Vacuum that is currently 27% off, priced at $200.
The iRobot Roomba 694 has a cleaning system that lifts debris from carpets and hard floors, plus an edge-sweeping brush. With more than 12,000 reviews, the vacuum has 4.4 out of 5 stars, with customers saying it has good suction power and is great for using every day.
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In the wake of Coolio's untimely death on Wednesday, famous fans and collaborators who knew the "Gangsta's Paradise" rapper took to social media to pay tribute and share memories.
Coolio -- who was born Artis Leon Ivey Jr. -- died in Los Angeles on Sept. 28, at the age of 59. His longtime manager, Jarez, confirmed the news toTMZ. Jarez told the outlet that paramedics suspect cardiac arrest was the cause of death, though no official determination has been made.
After entering the L.A. rap scene in the '80s, Coolio came to fame in 1995 when he recorded "Gangsta's Paradise" for Dangerous Minds. The track earned the rapper a GRAMMY.
Many celebs reflected on Coolio's career and the work he put into his music while remembering him in tributes.
ET spoke with John Legend Wednesday evening, who shared said the news of Coolio's death is "so tragic."
"We are losing people at too young of an age," Legend told ET. "Coolio made some great songs, it was soundtrack of our lives. He is gone too early and tragically, it’s so sad."
"This is sad news," Ice Cube wrote on Twitter. "I witness first hand this man’s grind to the top of the industry. Rest In Peace."
Kenan Thompson took to his Instagram stories to share his shock at the news and a tribute. Thompson worked with Coolio on his hit Nickelodeon series Kenan & Kel, and Coolio even wrote and performed the show's theme song.
Michelle Pfeiffer, who starred in Dangerous Minds, shared a moving tribute to Coolio. "Heartbroken to hear of the passing of the gifted artist @coolio. A life cut entirely too short. As some of you may know I was lucky enough to work with him on Dangerous Minds in 1995. He won a Grammy for his brilliant song on the soundtrack - which I think was the reason our film saw so much success. I remember him being nothing but gracious. 30 years later I still get chills when I hear the song. Sending love and light to his family. Rest in Power, Artis Leon Ivey Jr."
LeBron James took to his Instagram Story to pay tribute to Coolio, saying, "Exactly where he is now, Gangsta's Paradise."
Ice-T revealed that he had just spoken to Coolio two weeks prior to his death. "Holly Sh**!!! I was just talking to him 2 weeks ago! He was performing in Europe... This is so Fd up..."
MC Hammer spoke out about Coolio's passing, writing, "One of the nicest dudes I’ve known. Good people. R.I.P. Coolio"
ESPN sportswriter Marc J. Spears reflected on having met Coolio outside a club before he made it big.
"Had a chance to randomly and briefly meet Coolio before he became a megastar as he sold his CD outside of San Jose’s DB Coopers Club one early ‘90’s night," Spears wrote. "Respected the drive, work ethic & love for his music at that time not knowing the rap icon he’d become. Rest In Peace Legend."
Throughout his career, Coolio also acted in numerous projects and many of his past co-stars, including Melissa Joan Hart, joined the chorus of voices singing his posthumous praises.
"I had the amazing honor to work and play with @coolio a few times and he was always down for a chat, a complete gentleman and a ton of fun to hang with," Hart wrote. "What a loss! Rest In Peace!"
From Questlove to Snoop Dogg and many more, here's a look at the many tributes shared in Coolio's memory:
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
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AI Academy Sessions to be Taught by Leading Experts in the Fields of AI, Fertility, Clinical Research, Digital Health and Patient Care
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fairtility, the transparent AI innovator powering in vitro fertilization (IVF) for improved outcomes, announced the launch of the AI Academy, a new educational platform that will host healthcare and technology experts to engage the IVF community in the conversation around the responsible adoption of AI innovation in IVF care.
Fairtility launched the AI Academy at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) 38th Annual Meeting, which took place in Milan, Italy, July 3-6. Dr. Gerard Letterie, a leader in reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist at Seattle Fertility, serves as the Academic Head of the AI Academy.
Dr. Letterie introduced the first AI Academy session, which was followed by a panel discussion with four of the world's recognized authorities in the field of IVF, including:
- Weill Cornell Medical College's Dr. Nikica Zaninovic, Associate Professor of Embryology in Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
- IVIRMA's Dr. Marcos Meseguer, Scientific Supervisor and Senior Embryologist at the IVI Valencia IVF unit
- Dr. Cristina Hickman, Clinical Embryology Consultant and VP Clinical Affairs for Fairtility
- Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center's Dr. Assaf Ben Meir, Director of Fertility and IVF Unit, and co-founder and chief medical officer of Fairtility.
"At ESHRE, we confirmed our understanding of the state of AI in IVF: the field is evolving and maturing rapidly and the uptake of these tools hinges on education and understanding. The industry knows that AI presents an important opportunity in fertility care, but does not fully understand what capabilities and limitations exist, nor what to expect out of AI in this field," commented Dr. Letterie. "Our goal with the AI Academy is to provide the needed education, bringing IVF professionals into the conversation on AI transformation for fertility care. IVF professionals will develop a deeper understanding of this technology and how it can serve them in their work, and ultimately, improve IVF outcomes for prospective parents. I am honored to head the AI Academy with the support of Fairtility, hosting the finest minds from diverse fields including embryology, AI, digital health, clinical research and more."
"We believe that knowledge is the best tool to resolve concerns of the unknown and help usher in the capabilities of AI to advance the efficacy of IVF treatment. We are investing in education for IVF professionals to better understand the potential for AI to transform the IVF industry," said Eran Eshed, CEO and Co-Founder of Fairtility. "We are building a community of experts and creating a space for dialogue, the sharing of ideas, innovation and productive argumentation – all in an effort to advance our industry to its fullest potential."
The AI Academy will host an impressive roster of speakers covering a range of topics from the basics of AI, AI and the IVF lab, AI in clinical and management, as well as ethics and best practices in AI's application. The first AI Academy session, entitled, "AI, the new frontier: Everything you need to know about this tech" will take place on September 2, 2022, and will be led by Dr. Nadav Rapoport of Ben Gurion University's Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering.
"We see expanding interest as AI technology for IVF continues to advance, yet there are no definable parameters or baselines for AI's adoption in this industry. Our AI Academy is poised to center the pendulum on AI by establishing a coherent, organized field that provides accessible education and conversation, bringing early and late adopters together to shorten the innovation adoption cycle for AI in fertility care," added Eshed.
For further information or to register for AI Academy, visit: www.fairtility.com/AIAcademy
About Fairtility
Fairtility is powering in vitro fertilization (IVF) through transparent AI to improve outcomes. Equipping clinicians and their patients with unparalleled visibility into IVF treatment, CHLOE™ (Cultivating Human Life through Optimal Embryos) is the first and only transparent AI-based decision support tool that provides clinicians with complete visibility into the clinical and laboratory parameters that make up data output to help improve IVF outcomes. Beginning with CHLOE EQ™, a proprietary embryo grading platform, Fairtility is on a path to expand CHLOE™'s application to span the full IVF journey - from infertility cause assessment through transfer optimization. To learn more about Fairtility™ or schedule a demo, visit our website and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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There are a lot of fad diets and exercise programs out there. If you've tried them all and still can't lose the weight – The Happy Healthy guys want to help.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Something that's smothered and covered with kindness— is a friend helping a friend.
One 8-year-old all-star, and regular at a Little Rock Waffle House has been helping out his favorite server and friend.
"I love working at Waffle House basically just you know, meeting new people every day, and making their day," Waffle House server, Devonte Gardner said.
He explained how that is his goal every time he shows up for work.
"I come with a positive attitude. I treat everybody with positivity. I love to see everybody smile," he added.
Gardner did just that with one of his regular customers, 8-year-old Kayzen Hunter.
"Devonte is just a really nice person. Really good guy. Super nice to everyone he meets," Kayzen said.
Though behind Devonte Gardner's big smile— there's been an even bigger struggle.
"Right now, I'm working to get a car working and be able to, you know, move my daughters out of the hotel that we're staying in right now," Gardner explained.
He added that he moved out of his apartment after his daughters got sick from mold. They have been temporarily staying in a hotel, but costs have continued to add up.
"All my tips and everything that I get to go straight to my kids, I pay for the room daily pay $60 a day and it's just eating my pocket alive," he described.
Gardner's story sparked an idea in Kayzen to create a GoFundMe to help him pay for a car and a rental property.
"It just be a blessing. You know, I'm always counting my blessings, always. Thanks. Anything that anybody gives me. So this is... it made me almost cry," Gardner described.
Kayzen expressed that it's rewarding to help his new friend out.
"It feels great, honestly," Kayzen added.
Kayzen's dad, Korey Hunter said that Kayzen is always thinking of other people, and it has been nice to see him step up at such a young age.
"Kayzen does not, you know, not want anything in return. Just wants other people to pay it forward," Hunter said.
He hopes to be an example for other people to follow— no matter their age.
"It just feels good to help someone else," Kayzen said.
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NEW YORK, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Unilever PLC ("Unilever" or the "Company") (NYSE: UL) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Unilever investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons who purchased or otherwise acquired Unilever American Depositary Receipts between September 2, 2020 and July 21, 2021, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
UL 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) in July 2020, the board of Ben & Jerry's, one of Unilever's marquee brands, passed a resolution to end sales of its ice cream in "Occupied Palestinian Territory" ; and b) this boycott decision risked adverse governmental actions for violations of laws, executive orders, or resolutions aimed at discouraging boycotts, divestment, and sanctions of Israel adopted by 35 U.S. states.
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Fun and easy enough for people of a range of ages and skill levels to play, bocce ball is an ideal game to take on a camping trip. However, you want a portable set that doesn’t take up too much space in the car and isn’t too heavy to lug to your pitch.
Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, it’s worth finding the perfect bocce set for your next camping adventure. There are also other great portable lawn games that you might want to consider.
In this article: Baden Champions Bocce Ball Set, GoSports Backyard Bocce Set and St. Pierre Sports Professional Bocce Set.
What is bocce ball?
Bocce ball is a sport that is played with balls and a smaller target ball called a “pallino.” Players take turns rolling or throwing the larger balls toward the pallino, trying to get them as close as possible. Points are awarded based on how close they end up.
The game can be played by individuals or teams, on a variety of surfaces, including grass, sand and specially designed courts. Although some play it as an organized competitive sport, it’s more popular as a leisure activity.
Bocce ball set portability
If you want to take your bocce ball set camping, portability is a key consideration. Smaller, lighter sets are ideal, so check the balls’ size and weight. However, unless you have a significant trek from your car to your camping pitch, this isn’t going to make a huge difference to the set’s portability.
Instead, the main consideration is that the whole set comes with a carrying case that’s reasonably compact and has handles for easier transportation. There are also plenty of other lawn games that are compact and portable, or come with cases that make them easier to take camping.
Features to consider in a portable bocce ball set
- Size and weight of balls: Make sure they are the right size for your hand and have the proper weight for your playing surface. Don’t choose anything too heavy, which is harder to transport.
- Material: Bocce balls are usually made from plastic, resin or metal. Plastic balls are durable, light and affordable but less precise than other materials, which may not be too big a concern for a casual game. Metal balls are somewhat heavier and more durable than plastic, but also more costly. Resin balls are more expensive than plastic or metal but offer better balance and accuracy.
- Regulation size: If you’re serious about playing bocce, you might want to play with regulation-size 107-millimeter balls. However, these are heavier than smaller balls, so they aren’t the best option for camping.
- Carrying case: Look for a set with a quality case. It should have reinforced handles that won’t easily break and a secure zipper so the bocce balls won’t fall out on your travels.
Best portable bocce ball sets
Baden Champions Bocce Ball Set
This quality resin set comes in regulation size, as well as a smaller 90-millimeter size that may be a better fit for a camping trip. It includes a quality zippered case that’s easy to carry and a tape measure to help with scoring.
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Trademark Games Hey Play Bocce Ball Set
Thanks to its affordable price, this is the perfect bocce set for occasional use, such periodically taking it camping. The balls come in red and green but with two different markings to let four people play.
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The small 90-millimeter balls in this set are ideal for taking on a camping trip. You can choose between rubber and resin. Resin works well on grass or sand, while rubber also works on hard surfaces, such as blacktop. The secure case included makes them easy to carry around.
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With larger balls in a compact carrying case, this set is ideal for people who want to save space but also want regulation-size bocce balls. They’re made from premium resin and have a nice weight to them, so they’re perfect for serious players.
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Franklin Sports Bocce Ball Set
Traditionalists might like the wooden finish of these bocce balls, though they’re a little heavy if you have far to walk between your car and your pitch. They come with a case, so despite their weight, they’re easy enough to transport.
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St. Pierre Sports Professional Bocce Set
With its regulation-size bocce balls, this set is a perfect choice for serious players who want to take a set camping. The balls are made from high-quality resin and are the official size and weight, offering precision and balance. The included case is strong, with a secure zipper.
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Other best portable lawn games
Quick to learn but difficult to master, spikeball is a fun game for active people that integrates elements of volleyball. The set fully dismantles and fits into a compact carrying case, so it’s a great choice to take on a camping trip.
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GoSports Tailgate Size Cornhole Set
Its compact size and included carrying case make this cornhole set a great choice to take camping. This classic lawn game is easy for people of all ages to play, so it’s good if you have a multigenerational group.
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Part golf, part cornhole, this game is excellent for camping trips where you have plenty of space around your pitch. The frame folds down into a compact form and the chipping mat slides into its underside, so it won’t take up much room in the car.
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Discraft Super Color Ultra-Star Disc
You can’t go wrong on a camping trip with a classic game of Frisbee. This disc is available in a range of cool designs, and it provides hours of fun in a compact, lightweight package.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Think you’re a sure bet for Wednesday night’s estimated $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot?
If so, you need to decide whether to take cash, which would actually pay out $596.7 million, or choose the $1.2 billion annuity option that is twice as large but is paid out over 29 years.
The numbers drawn Wednesday night were: 2, 11, 22, 35, 60 and the red powerball 23. It was not yet known if anyone had won.
Winners of giant jackpots nearly always take the cash, and financial advisers say that might be a mistake.
Nicholas Bunio, a certified financial planner from Downingtown, Pennsylvania, said even with his expertise, he would take an annuity because it would so dramatically reduce his risk of making poor investment decisions.
“It allows you to make a mistake here and there,” Bunio said. “People don’t understand there is a potential for loss. They only focus on the potential for gain.”
The gulf between the cash and annuity options has become larger because inflation has prompted a rise in interest rates, which in turn results in potentially larger investment gains. With annuities, the jackpot cash is essentially invested and then paid out to winners over three decades.
Under the annuity plan, winners will receive an immediate payment and then 29 annual payments that rise by 5% each year until finally reaching the $1.2 billion total.
Lottery winners who take cash either don’t want to wait for their winnings or they figure they can invest the money and end up with more money than an annuity would offer. It’s what the biggest winners nearly always do, including the buyers of a Mega Millions ticket in Illinois in July who received a lump sum payment of $780.5 million after winning a $1.337 billion prize.
As Jeremy Keil, a financial adviser from New Berlin, Wisconsin, put it, “There is no bad choice.”
Keil said Powerball’s annuity assumes a 4.3% investment gain of the jackpot’s cash prize.
“If you think you can beat the 4.3%, you should take the cash,” Keil said. “If you don’t, take the annuity.”
While purchasing five Powerball tickets at a Speedway gas station in Minneapolis, 58-year-old Teri Thomas said she’d rather take the cash prize because she doesn’t think she’ll live long enough to collect an annuity over 29 years.
“And I’d rather get all my good deeds done right away and feel good about the giving,” Thomas said, adding she would donate to groups that do medical research for children as well as help veterans, homeless people and animals.
Charles Williams of Chicago, who buys a Powerball ticket each week and always plays the same numbers, was adamant that he’d take the cash option.
“I want all the money. I want the cash out and then I’m going to spend it how I want it because ain’t nothing guaranteed in life,” Williams said.
Of course, it’s good to keep in mind that your chance of winning the jackpot is incredibly small, at 1 in 292.2 million. That’s why no one has won Powerball’s top prize since Aug. 3 — resulting in 38 consecutive draws without a jackpot winner.
All that losing has let the Powerball jackpot grow to be the fourth-largest in U.S. history. If no one wins Wednesday night, the jackpot could become the largest ever, topping a $1.586 billion Powerball prize won by three ticket holders in 2016.
Officials urge anyone lucky enough to win a Powerball jackpot to consult a financial adviser — while keeping that valuable ticket safe — before showing up at a lottery office for an oversized check.
Matt Chancey, an investment adviser in Tampa, Florida, said that certainly makes sense. But Chancey also urged winners to understand that if advisers earn a percentage from the investment of all that money, they have a financial stake in how the money is paid out and should be clear about any potential conflict.
“If you go to a financial person and say you want to invest $1 billion, the financial person will say take the $600 million and we’ll pay taxes on it, you’ll have $300 million left over and I’ll invest it for you,” Chancey said. “That investment adviser will get fees off managing that money.”
Chancey said talented investors probably could make more money than paid through an annuity but there is risk and advisers need to be open about their potential gain depending on the jackpot winners’ choices.
Powerball is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Tupy leads Packer boys to a ninth place finish in Big Nine Meet
Published 7:20 pm Monday, May 22, 2023
The Austin boys golf team finished ninth in the Big Nine golf tournament when they shot a 334 in Red Wing Monday.
Cale Tupy led the Packers with a score of 79.
Team standings: 1. Rochester Century 309; 2. Rochester Mayo 312; 3. Albert Lea 313; 4. Northfield 321; 5. Rochester John Marshall 322; 6. Mankato West 324; 7. Faribault 325; 8. Owatonna 329; 9. Austin 334; 10. Mankato East 343; 11. Red Wing 349; 12. Winona 362
Austin scoring: Cale Tupy 79; Isaac Anderson 82; Elijah Krueger 83; Izaac Erickson 90; Owen O’Rourke, 95; Carter Hovelsrud, 99 | https://www.austindailyherald.com/2023/05/tupy-leads-packer-boys-to-a-ninth-place-finish-in-big-nine-meet/ | 2023-05-23 07:25:19 | 1 | https://www.austindailyherald.com/2023/05/tupy-leads-packer-boys-to-a-ninth-place-finish-in-big-nine-meet/ |
NEW YORK, May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominus Capital is pleased to announce the addition of Bobby Brennan as an Operating Partner. Mr. Brennan was most recently Founder and CEO of Kamado Joe, a leading and rapidly growing designer, marketer and international distributor of premium kamado style ceramic grills, charcoal and accessories. Mr. Brennan founded Kamado Joe in 2008 after seeing the market opportunity for a premium brand focused on disrupting the grilling experience through the highest quality innovative products. Under Mr. Brennan's vision and leadership, Kamado Joe took significant market share in the ceramic grill space in a short time with its trademark red ceramic grill and large following of passionate and engaged consumers. In 2018, Mr. Brennan led the sale of Kamado Joe and subsequent transition when it was acquired by Masterbuilt, a Dominus portfolio company. Through his leadership and relentless focus on innovation, consumers, and employees, Mr. Brennan transformed the combined Masterbuilt Kamado Joe platform, which resulted in a highly successful investment for Dominus Capital.
Mr. Brennan received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University College Dublin, Ireland and an M.B.A. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He will work with Dominus in the industrial manufacturing, consumer and value-add distribution sectors.
About Dominus Capital, L.P.
Based in New York, Dominus Capital, a 2022 Top 50 PE Firm in the Middle Market, focuses on management-led buyouts and growth capital investments particularly in family and founder owned companies in the business services and light manufacturing sectors of the economy. Drawing on the experience, knowledge and network of its founders and a team of in-house operating executives, Dominus Capital works hand-in-hand with exceptional management teams to unlock the untapped potential of its portfolio companies. The firm takes a long-term approach to investing and has a consistent and highly successful track record of achieving significant growth at its portfolio companies. The Dominus Capital team members have executed more than 90 transactions over the past 20+ years. For more information, please visit www.dominuscap.com.
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You'd be hard-pressed to find two Republican incumbents who drew more of former President Donald Trump's ire than Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
But both won by huge margins in their primaries Tuesday against handpicked, Trump-recruited challengers who campaigned on his election lies.
Kemp won by 50 percentage points and Raffensperger by almost 20, according to results as of noon ET Wednesday.
The background: Trump narrowly lost Georgia in the 2020 presidential election. Despite multiple recounts, he falsely claimed that the election was somehow stolen.
Kemp would not go along with that and neither would Raffensperger, who is the state's top election official. Trump infamously asked Raffensperger in a January 2021 call to "find" him the votes needed.
"Fellas, I need 11,000 votes," Trump told Raffensperger and staff on that call. "Give me a break."
Trump's fury with Georgia election officials grew, and he set out to oust them from office. He recruited former Sen. David Perdue to take on Kemp and Rep. Jody Hice to go against Raffensperger.
So what happened? In the end, Trump's candidates in Georgia largely flailed — though his pick for Georgia U.S. Senate, Herschel Walker, easily won his primary, and some other allies won elsewhere, like his former press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who is likely to be the next governor of Arkansas.
But what happened with Kemp and Raffensperger in Georgia? Here are three theories:
1. The power of incumbency
Incumbents have a high reelection rate in this country. Once someone votes for a candidate, it makes it easier to vote for them again. They have a known record and have built a known brand.
That's certainly the case in Georgia where, Kemp, for instance, touted conservative-backed measures he's signed into law, like a voting overhaul, and his past record of defeating Democrat Stacey Abrams in a general election matchup.
2. A sustained GOP push against Trump
In most places, Trump has dictated the terms of Republican politics. He's taken over the Republican National Committee and state parties across the country, and even candidates he hasn't endorsed have gone full MAGA, kissing the ring and hoping for the light of Trump's endorsement to shine down upon them.
But Georgia was different in that the top state officials all lined up against Trump's lies, in different ways. Kemp, Raffensperger and Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan all put a degree of distance between themselves and Trump.
Kemp appeared with some former Trump friends-turned-foes, like former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Vice President Mike Pence. Kemp didn't as much take on Trump head on as he quietly made him irrelevant in his campaign.
Duncan, on the other hand, went right after Trump, creating a Republican advocacy group called GOP 2.0. It even ran ads during this campaign season.
"Inflation at a 40-year high," Duncan says in an ad. "Open borders. National security threats. But some politicians would rather talk about conspiracy theories and past losses. Letting liberal extremists take us in the wrong direction — a mistake our country simply can't afford. We must focus on the future and rebuild our party. But I am not alone in believing there is a better way forward."
Duncan wasn't on the ballot — he opted not to run again — and Trump-backed Burt Jones is easily leading his race for lieutenant governor that may go to a runoff.
The effort, though, is something Republican strategist Kevin Madden, a former senior adviser to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, told NPR was necessary a year after the Jan. 6 insurrection. He accused Republicans of not "directly communicating with the base" and merely "reacting to the Trump factor."
"No one's taken him on directly," Madden said. "They've all been reactionary, and they've all ceded the rostrum to him."
It takes a lot to mount a sustained campaign against Trumpism, but that's happened more perhaps in Georgia than in other places.
3. Trump's erosion in favorability
There's been lots of talk of Trump's potentially waning influence on the base.
That shouldn't be exaggerated. Trump is still very popular within the GOP; he controls lots of levers of power within the party; as noted, many candidates are trying to be like Trump; and he would still be the far-and-away front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
However, Trump has seen a decline among the GOP base in one key measure — how strongly Republicans feel about him.
CNN's Harry Enten found that Trump's "very favorable" rating, in an average of surveys, has declined nearly 20 points since the eve of the 2020 presidential election.
That's a significant decline, and shows the further someone gets from power, the potentially less influence they retain.
"[W]e've got hundreds of years' worth of history that shows us the former president loses their influence every day they're out of office," Duncan told Axios. "And Donald Trump — although he wishes it wasn't the case — is no different."
Two other notes from Tuesday:
- End of Bush era: Tuesday saw the end of the Bush era in politics. George P. Bush, son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was trounced in his bid for Texas attorney general against scandal-plagued Ken Paxton.
Bush will serve as land commissioner until the end of the year, but, as the Texas Tribune writes, Bush's loss "heralds a shift in the Texas Republican politics away from the pro-business establishment and toward a more populist, combative and harsh style of politics."
Bush even tried hard for Trump's endorsement, and, despite Trump teasing that he liked Bush, he lost. It shows where the power in the GOP in places like Texas — away from Bush and more toward Trump.
- Too close to call: Incumbent Democrat Henry Cuellar and progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros remain locked in a runoff that remains too close to call. Cuellar has the name ID and power of the incumbency, but he is the only Democrat in Congress who is against abortion rights, which has gained more attention after the Supreme Court leak, and he's pushing against the new wave on the left of the Democratic Party.
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No. 19 Arkansas and No. 23 Cincinnati square off in a top-25 battle on Saturday, Sept. 3. The game will be live streamed on DirecTV Stream (free trial) and fuboTV (live stream).
When Arkansas and Cincinnati agreed in August 2019 to play a future non-conference game, the announcement didn’t draw much attention outside the two teams’ fan bases.
Now, it’s a showcase of programs on the rise.
The Razorbacks were on the heels of their worst season in program history, posting a 2-10 record and going winless in SEC play. Things have changed since then under coach Sam Pittman, and last season, the Razorbacks went 9-4 and won the Outback Bowl.
Back in 2019, Cincinnati had just completed its second year under coach Luke Fickell, who improved the Bearcats from four wins in 2017 to tie a program-best with 11 in 2018. Many thought that run would be a “one-hit wonder,” the type of season to only come around once in a Group of Five program’s history. Instead, Cincinnati kept climbing and reached the College Football Playoff last season.
Now, that game has the spotlight. No. 19 Arkansas and No. 23 Cincinnati will meet in one of college football’s marquee Week One matchups, a Top 25 showdown Saturday at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
When is Arkansas-Cincinnati?
Arkansas plays Cincinnati at 2:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. ET) Saturday, Sept. 3.
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In addition, enhance your experience with the DirecTV Stream device. While it doesn’t include a free trial, it give you access to thousands of apps like Netflix and more on Google Play. You can search using the voice remote with Google Assistant, and you can enjoy a traditional live TV channel guide. It is sold separately.
FuboTV
The game will be live streamed on fuboTV, which offers a free trial. The most basic of plans is the “fubo standard” package, which comprises 121-plus channels for $69.99 per month. Like all cord-cutting alternatives, there are plenty of options, especially for sports. It comes with more than 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR, and up to 10 screens at once.
Will it be televised?
Cincinnati-Arkansas will be televised on ESPN.
Preview
TALE OF TWO QUARTERBACK SITUATIONS: Replacing Desmond Ridder won’t be an easy task for whoever wins the Bearcats’ starting quarterback job. The Atlanta Falcons drafted the two-time AAC Offensive Player of the Year.
Fickell said the starter — Eastern Michigan transfer Ben Bryant or redshirt sophomore Evan Prater —will not be announced until game time. Pittman earlier this week had a unique take on how to prepare for the Bearcats’ offense.
“I think the first couple series are going to be really important to figure out what they’re bringing to the party,” Pittman said. “Some guys bring iced tea and some guys bring liquor. You’ve just got to figure out what they’re bringing.”
On the other hand, Arkansas feels confident in quarterback KJ Jefferson. In his first year as the Razorbacks’ starter, he guided the team to its best record in a decade. He passed for 2,676 yards and ran for 644, combining for 27 touchdowns.
“It’s hard to simulate a 6-foot-4, 245-pound guy running downhill as a quarterback,” Fickell said. “You just got to be prepared for it. You got to be able to tackle well, you got to be able to tackle physically. You know, and you’ve got to be able to do it on consistent basis.”
IN THE TRENCHES: Arkansas and Cincinnati boast offensive lines considered to be among the best and most experienced in the nation.
The game will feature three preseason Outland Trophy watch list nominees: Arkansas’ Ricky Stromberg and Cincinnati’s Jake Renfro and Dylan O’Quinn.
The Razorbacks return four starters on the front, while the Bearcats bring back all five.
“They’ll try to bloody your nose and come right at you,” Pittman said of the Cincinnati line. “They’re really good in pass protection…I can’t speak for Coach (Fickell), but I’m assuming he thinks that’s the strength of their team. I do.”
CATALON BACK: Arkansas star safety Jalen Catalon suffered a season-ending injury in 2021 which caused him to miss the Razorbacks’ final seven games. He was named to this year’s preseason Associated Press All-America team as a second-team safety.
“I think anytime you lose something, it even becomes more special when you get it back or you have a chance to earn it back or whatever may be the case,” Pittman said. “I think he’s really excited to play. He’s played extremely well, and we’ll see what happens.”
HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: Signs point to Saturday’s contest being the largest-attended home opener in Razorback Stadium. It expanded to seat 80,000 in 2018. It’s the first time Arkansas has opened with a Top 25 matchup in Fayetteville.
SEC STRUGGLES: The Bearcats haven’t fared well in their last two outings with SEC competition.
A 27-6 loss to Alabama in the Cotton Bowl ended the Bearcats’ greatest season ever in 2021. Cincinnati also lost 24-21 to Georgia in a thrilling 2020 Peach Bowl. The two losses are the Bearcats’ two most recent defeats.
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STOCKHOLM, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
(NYSE: ALV) (SSE: ALIV.sdb)
Q2 2022: Progress in customer price discussions
Financial highlights Q2 2022
$2,081m net sales
2.9% net sales increase
8.0% organic sales increase*
6.0% operating margin
6.0% adjusted operating margin*
$0.91 EPS - a decrease of 24%
$0.90 adjusted EPS* - a decrease of 25%
Full year 2022 indications
Around 13%-16% organic sales growth
Around 5% negative FX effect on net sales
Around 6.0%-7.0% adjusted operating margin
Around $750-850 million operating cash flow
Key business developments in the second quarter of 2022
- Sales increased organically* by 8%, which was around 7pp better than global LVP which increased by around 1% (IHS Markit July 2022). The outperformance was mainly due to price increases and new product launches.
- Stronger than expected performance in June driven by price increases, LVP recovery and a patent litigation settlement led to a better-than-expected operating profit for the quarter. However, profitability declined due to higher raw material costs, currency movements, low and volatile LVP and lockdowns in China. Operating margin and adjusted operating margin* declined by 2.2pp. Commercial recoveries relating to periods prior to second quarter 2022 and the patent litigation settlement combined amounted to around $50 million in the quarter. Return on capital employed was 13.1% and adjusted return on capital employed* was 13.3%.
- Negative Q2 operating cash flow, expected to recover in the second half. Operating cash flow was negative $51 million and free cash flow* was negative $190 million impacted by adverse effects from working capital. Net debt* increased and EBITDA declined vs. a year earlier, leading to a leverage ratio of 1.7x. A dividend of $0.64 per share was paid and 0.30 million shares were repurchased in the quarter.
*For non-U.S. GAAP measures see enclosed reconciliation tables. All change figures in this release compares to the same period of previous year except when stated otherwise.
Key Figures
Comments from Mikael Bratt, President & CEO
We managed good execution in a challenging environment in the second quarter, leading to better-than-expected results. A strong performance in June, with some LVP recovery and progress in the customer price discussions, including some retroactive compensations, means we are reporting a second quarter adjusted operating margin that is better than in the first quarter. Supply chains remained distressed in the quarter, aggravated by lockdowns in China. Raw material cost increases, currency movements and a lower-than-expected and volatile LVP were also major challenges in the quarter. Cash flow was negative in the quarter, mainly due to volatility and timing effects on working capital. We expect to recover most of these effects in the second half of the year.
In a quarter where we saw continued low and volatile LVP, Autoliv managed to outperform global LVP significantly, despite negative regional mix effects.
It is encouraging that we are making progress in compensation from our customers in the form of sustainable price increases. Discussions continue where we aim for prices that reflect changes in the cost environment and a contract structure that is flexible and allows for broader and faster adjustments to future changes in the business environment.
Recent developments in supply chains, customer production plans, raw material prices and our cost recovery discussions are encouraging, and we believe we are well prepared for an improved market development. However, we are also making sure we are agile and prepared for a more adverse market development should that be necessary. Therefore, we continue to step up our cost control measures. Cost reductions and footprint initiatives are on plan and include capacity alignments and footprint optimizations.
We are adjusting our full year 2022 indication to a narrower range, reflecting our actions and the shorter time span remaining of the year. Although leverage ratio currently is above our target range, we remain committed to our share repurchase ambitions over time. We remain confident in our medium-term adjusted operating margin target of 12%, based on the framework we outlined at our CMD in 2021.
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Rep.-elect George Santos faces growing investigations by state and local prosecutors and anger from New York voters. Santos has admitted to misleading the public about much of his life story.
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Alyson Fouse serves as showrunner; premieres spring 2023
ATLANTA , Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bounce, the popular broadcast and multi-platform entertainment network serving African Americans, today announced a partnership with MGM to produce a new original series, "Act Your Age."
The multiple-camera, half-hour comedy tells the story of three vibrant, successful Washington D.C./Northern Virginia-area women in their 50's who are each at a personal crossroads and who decide the best way forward in life is together. "Act Your Age" stars Kym Whitley ("Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Next Friday," "Young and Hungry") and Tisha Campbell ("Uncoupled," "My Wife and Kids," "Dr. Ken") with special guest star Yvette Nicole Brown ("Community," "The Mayor," "Big Shot").
Whitley plays Bernadette, a successful, no-nonsense real estate developer. Campbell plays Keisha, the wild card of the group who is always up to something, and Brown plays Angela, the former First Lady of Norfolk, Virginia, who is looking to redefine her life after being widowed by her husband, a revered career politician.
The multi-generational sitcom also features Mariah Robinson ("The Wrong Valentine") and Nathan Anderson ("All About the Washingtons," "Richie Rich,") as the 20-something children of Angela and Bernadette, respectively.
Alyson Fouse ("Big Shot," "Everybody Hates Chris," "The Wanda Sykes Show") created the series and serves as showrunner and executive producer. The series is produced by Mark Burnett, Barry Poznick and Bradley Gardner ("Hot in Cleveland") and co-executive producer Ken Ornstein ("Everybody Loves Raymond").
The 16-episode first season of "Act Your Age" has begun production in Los Angeles and will premiere on Bounce in the spring of 2023.
"The opportunity to do 'Act Your Age' with Kym, Tisha and Yvette on Bounce, a network that has made me feel so comfortable being my authentic self, means the world to me," said Fouse. "We've built a world where the stories of Black women in the prime of their lives can be both funny and heartfelt; a world where individually they shine but they also show support for one another. 'Act Your Age' is a celebration of the Black women who have loved, raised, befriended and held me up through the years and it honors and salutes the ones who have inspired me."
"Partnering with MGM Television, working with top showrunner Alyson Fouse, and attracting immensely popular and talented actors Kym Whitley, Tisha Campbell and Yvette Nicole Brown are game-changing and huge steps forward for Bounce originals," said David Hudson, vice president of original programming, Scripps Networks.
"Act Your Age" is the newest Bounce original series, joining "Johnson," the critically acclaimed hit show focusing on four lifelong best friends, and "Finding Happy," starring B. Simone as a mid-30s woman determined to change her life for the better. Both of these shows come from Eric C. Rhone's & Cedric The Entertainer's production company, A Bird And A Bear Entertainment.
About Bounce
Bounce (@bouncetv) features a programming mix of original series and movies, theatrical motion pictures, off network series, specials and events designed for African American audiences. Bounce is available to 98% of U.S. television homes free and over the air with a digital antenna, on cable, on DISH channel 359, DIRECTV channel 82, over the top on Roku, Pluto TV and Apple TV; on mobile devices via the Bounce app; and on the web via BounceTV.com. Bounce XL, Scripps Networks' newest free ad-supported television (FAST) channel, is available on Samsung TV Plus, Pluto TV and Xumo. Bounce is part of The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP).
ABOUT MGM
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of International Game Technology PLC (NYSE: IGT) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that International Game Technology PLC made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) IGT overstated its compliance with gaming and lottery laws and applicable regulations; (ii) IGT and/or one or more of its current and/or former subsidiaries engaged in illegal gambling operations; (iii) the foregoing conduct subjected the Company and/or its current and/or former subsidiaries to a heightened risk of litigation and significant related costs; (iv) the Company downplayed the full scope and severity of its financial exposure to, and/or liabilities in connection with, the lawsuit filed against IGT's subsidiary in April of 2018; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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PHILADELPHIA — With the stench of smoke permeating Yankee Stadium and wafting through its walkways, Major League Baseball postponed games in New York and Philadelphia on Wednesday night because of poor air quality caused by Canadian wildfires.
A National Women's Soccer League game in New Jersey and an indoor WNBA game set for Brooklyn were also called off Wednesday amid hazy conditions that have raised alarms from health authorities.
The New York Yankees' game against the Chicago White Sox was rescheduled as part of a doubleheader starting at 4:05 p.m. on Thursday, and the Philadelphia Phillies' game against the Detroit Tigers was reset for 6:05 p.m. on Thursday, originally a day off for both teams.
“These postponements were determined following conversations throughout the day with medical and weather experts and all of the impacted clubs regarding clearly hazardous air quality conditions in both cities," MLB said in a statement.
The National Weather Service issued an air quality alert for New York City, saying: "the New York State Department of Health recommends that individuals consider limiting strenuous outdoor physical activity to reduce the risk of adverse health effects." In Philadelphia, the NWS issued a Code Red.
The Yankees and White Sox played through a lesser haze on Tuesday night. A day later, stadium workers and fans arriving early to the ballpark wore face masks for protection in a scene reminiscent of the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It was business as usual for me coming in. I got in around 12, 12:30, and didn't really think too much of it,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “I actually walked outside about 2 o'clock and was like — like everyone else, like — whoa.”
White Sox manager Pedro Grifol thought MLB made the right decision postponing the game.
“These are health issues, right? So this has got to be it. We’ve been through everything — snow, rain, hail. I don’t think I’ve been through something like this,” he said. “Today at one point, it was pretty bad out there. We walked out of the dugout and it was kind of orange. They did the right thing. They got all the information.
“I’m assuming if Major League Baseball is comfortable setting up a doubleheader tomorrow, they have some type of information that it should be better than what it is today, or at least safe.”
In Philadelphia, the Phillies beat the Tigers 1-0 on Tuesday night in a game played in hazy conditions with the smell of smoke in the air. Afterward, manager Rob Thomson and his Phillies players said the conditions didn't affect them.
About a half-hour before Wednesday's postponement, Thomson said he thought the game would be played. But the Philadelphia skyline could not be seen from the ballpark in the afternoon, and the smoky smell remained.
Minor league teams nearby also changed plans. The Yankees' Triple-A affiliate at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania, and the Mets' top farm club in Syracuse, New York, postponed their games for the second consecutive night.
The Mets' High-A affiliate in Brooklyn completed a game Wednesday against Greenville that began at 11 a.m.
The WNBA called off a game between the Minnesota Lynx and New York Liberty, saying the decision was made to “protect the health and safety of our fans, teams and community.” A makeup date wasn't immediately announced.
Even inside Barclays Center at the morning shootaround, reporters could smell smoke in the arena.
The NWSL postponed Orlando's match at Gotham in Harrison, New Jersey, from Wednesday night to Aug. 9.
“The match could not be safely conducted based on the projected air quality index,” the NWSL said.
At nearby Belmont Park, the New York Racing Association said training went on as planned Wednesday ahead of Saturday's Triple Crown horse race. However, NYRA canceled training Thursday morning at Belmont and Saratoga Race Course upstate “due to poor air quality conditions forecast to impact New York State overnight and into Thursday morning.”
NYRA said a decision about Thursday’s live racing program, scheduled to begin at 3:05 p.m., will be made Thursday morning “following a review of the air quality conditions and forecast.”
“NYRA utilizes external weather services and advanced on-site equipment to monitor weather conditions and air quality in and around Belmont Park," spokesman Patrick McKenna said Wednesday. "Training was conducted normally today, and NYRA will continue to assess the overall environment to ensure the safety of training and racing throughout the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival.”
New York’s NFL teams, the Giants and Jets, both had Wednesday off from offseason workouts. The Giants had been planning to practice inside Thursday, and the Jets said they are also likely to work out indoors Thursday.
Youth sports in the area were also affected, with parents quick to voice concern about their children's safety outdoors.
In a statement Wednesday, the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association said schools should understand that all schedules were subject to change.
“NJSIAA is closely monitoring air quality data across New Jersey and local/state health advisories. As start times for athletic events draw near, we will make decisions for each venue and sport based on currently available information,” the organization said.
It’s not the first time in recent years that wildfires forced changes to the MLB schedule. A two-game series in Seattle between the Mariners and Giants was moved to San Francisco in September 2020 because of poor air quality caused by West Coast wildfires.
About an hour after Wednesday night's game at Yankee Stadium was postponed, two fans visiting on vacation from Vancouver, British Columbia, were still lingering outside the ballpark.
“It’s just circumstances. What do I say? It makes me disappointed because this is one of the highlights of the trip," said Malcolm, who was in town with his daughter and didn't want to give his last name.
“I have a heart condition. That’s the only reason I’m wearing two masks and whatever. And my personal thought is that, why wasn’t it canceled two days ago? Because we knew about all this two days ago. But having said that, I don’t want the players running around and putting out in this, too. It can’t be good for them.” | https://www.fox43.com/article/sports/mlb/mlb-wnba-postpone-games-due-to-smoke-canadian-wildfires/521-b7b41ba6-130e-4ce6-b57c-a88553aace47 | 2023-06-08 02:36:16 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/sports/mlb/mlb-wnba-postpone-games-due-to-smoke-canadian-wildfires/521-b7b41ba6-130e-4ce6-b57c-a88553aace47 |
Study: Wichita Falls sees growth in this economic indicator
An often-used economic measure shows growth in the Wichita Falls area over the last five years, including the tough years of the pandemic.
The Wichita Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) encompassing Archer, Clay and Wichita counties had a 6.9 percent growth in real gross domestic product over the last five years, according to economic data compiled by CivMetrics.
In addition, the Wichita Falls MSA saw a 2.3 percent rise in real GDP from 2020 to 2021, according to the nonprofit organization researching city economics. The GDP climbed from about $5.97 billion to $6.10 billion.
From those figures, the local GDP appeared to weather the storm of the pandemic's worst years decently. The COVID-19 pandemic set in during March 2020 in Texas, leading to widespread economic difficulties.
The latest information available is from 2021 and was released in December 2022, according to CivMetrics. The nonprofit looked at data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Nationally, the GDP increased 6.2 percent since last year and spiked up 8.9 percent over the last five years, according to CivMetrics. Most metro areas saw growth in their real GDP during the same period of time.
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Tennessee baseball fans wearing 'Classless vs. Catholics' shirts at super regional
Some Tennessee baseball fans showed up to Lindsey Nelson Stadium for Game 1 of the Knoxville Super Regional against Notre Dame wearing t-shirts that read “Classless vs. Catholics”.
It’s a play on the infamous “Catholics vs. Convicts” mantra that originated in the Notre Dame-Miami football rivalry of the 1980s. It’s also a sign that Vols fans have embraced the “classless” label the fans been given on social media by opposing fanbases, mostly within the SEC.
The term was used most recently when a clip of Vols right-fielder Jordan Beck's one-finger salute in the regional final win over Georgia Tech went viral on Twitter. It was also heavily used when Tennesee football fans delayed a game against Ole Miss by launching trash on the field, including a full bottle of mustard.
The best-of-3 series starts Friday at 6 p.m. ET and continues at 2 p.m. Saturday. The Vols (56-7) are heavily favored to advance to their second consecutive College World Series. The Fighting Irish (38-14) are looking for their first trip to Omaha since 2002.
Coach Tony Vitello named Blade Tidwell the starter for the opening game, and he will go up against Notre Dame's Andrew Temple.
Alberto Camargo is a sports intern with the Knoxville-News Sentinel. Contact him at acamargo@gannett.com or follow him on Twitter @albaretoe.
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In the hours after some of Silicon Valley Bank’s biggest customers started pulling out their money, a WhatsApp group of startup founders who are immigrants of color ballooned to more than 1,000 members.
Questions flowed as the bank’s financial status worsened. Some desperately sought advice: Could they open an account at a larger bank without a Social Security Number? Others questioned whether they had to physically be at a bank to open an account, because they’re visiting parents overseas.
One clear theme emerged: a deep concern about the broader impact on startups led by people of color.
While Wall Street struggles to contain the banking crisis after the swift demise of SVB — the nation’s 16th largest bank and the biggest to fail since the 2008 financial meltdown — industry experts predict it could become even harder for people of color to secure funding or a financial home supporting their startups.
SVB had opened its doors to such entrepreneurs, offering opportunities to form crucial relationships in the technology and financial communities that had been out of reach within larger financial institutions. But smaller players have fewer means of surviving a collapse, reflecting the perilous journey minority entrepreneurs face while attempting to navigate industries historically rife with racism.
“All these folks that have very special circumstances based on their identity, it’s not something that they can just change about themselves and that makes them unbankable by the top four (large banks),” said Asya Bradley, a board member of numerous startups who has watched the WhatsApp group grapple with SVB’s demise.
Bradley said some investors have implored startups to switch to larger financial institutions to stymie future financial risks, but that’s not an easy transition.
“The reason why we’re going to regional and community banks is because these (large) banks don’t want our business,” Bradley said.
Banking expert Aaron Klein, a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, said SVB’s collapse could exacerbate racial disparities.
“That’s going to be more challenging for people who don’t fit the traditional credit box, including minorities,” Klein said. “A financial system that prefers the existing holders of wealth will perpetuate the legacy of past discrimination.”
Tiffany Dufu was gutted when she couldn’t access her SVB account and, in turn, could not pay her employees.
Dufu raised $5 million as CEO of The Cru, a New York-based career coaching platform and community for women. It was a rare feat for businesses founded by Black women, which get less than 1% of the billions of dollars in venture capital funding doled out yearly to startups. She banked with SVB because it was known for its close ties to the tech community and investors.
“In order to have raised that money, I pitched nearly 200 investors over the past few years,” said Dufu, who has since regained access to her funds and moved to Bank of America. “It’s very hard to put yourself out there and time after time — you get told this isn’t a good fit. So, the money in the bank account was very precious.”
A February Crunchbase News analysis determined funding for Black-founded startups slowed by more than 50% last year after they received a record $5.1 billion in venture capital in 2021. Overall venture funding dropped from about $337 billion to roughly $214 billion, while Black founders were hit disproportionately hard, dropping to just $2.3 billion, or 1.1% of the total.
Entrepreneur Amy Hilliard, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, knows how difficult it is to secure financing. It took three years to secure a loan for her cake manufacturing company, and she had to sell her home to get it started.
Banking is based on relationships and when a bank like SVB goes under, “those relationships go away, too,” said Hilliard, who is African American.
Some conservative critics asserted SVB’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion were to blame, but banking experts say those claims were false. The bank slid into insolvency because its larger customers pulled deposits rather than borrow at higher interest rates and the bank’s balance sheets were overexposed, forcing it to sell bonds at a loss to cover the withdrawals.
“If we’re focused on climate or communities of color or racial equity, that has nothing to do with what happened with Silicon Valley Bank,” said Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, co-founder of Known Holdings, a Black, Indigenous, Asian American-founded investment banking platform focused on the sustainable growth of minority-managed funds.
Red-Horse Mohl — who has raised, structured and managed over $3 billion in capital for tribal nations — said most larger banks are led by white men and majority-white boards, and “even when they do DEI programs, it’s not a really deep sort of shifting of capital.”
Smaller financial institutions, however, have worked to build relationships with people of color. “We cannot lose our regional and community banks,” she said. “It would be a travesty.”
Historically, smaller and minority-owned banks have addressed funding gaps that larger banks ignored or even created, following exclusionary laws and policies as they turned away customers because of the color of their skin.
But the ripple effects from SVB’s collapse are being felt among these banks as well, said Nicole Elam, president and CEO of the National Bankers Association, a 96-year-old trade association representing more than 175 minority-owned banks.
Some have seen customers withdraw funds and move to larger banks out of fear, even though most minority-owned banks have a more traditional customer base, with secured loans and minimal risky investments, she said.
“You’re seeing customer flight of folks that we’ve been serving for a long time,” Elam said. “How many people may not come to us for a mortgage or small business loan or to do their banking business because they now have in their mind that they need to bank with a bank that is too big to fail? That’s the first impact of eroding public trust.”
Black-owned banks have been hit the hardest as the industry consolidates. Most don’t have as much capital to withstand economic downturns. At its peak, there were 134. Today, there are only 21.
But change is on the way. Within the last three years, the federal government, private sector and philanthropic community have invested heavily in minority-run depository institutions.
“In response to this national conversation around racial equity, people are really seeing minority banks are key to wealth creation and key to helping to close the wealth gap,” Elam said.
Bradley also is an angel investor, providing seed money for a number of entrepreneurs, and is seeing new opportunities as people network in the WhatsApp group to help each other remain afloat and grow.
“I’m really so hopeful,” Bradley said. “Even in the downfall of SVB, it has managed to form this incredible community of folks that are trying to help each other to succeed. They’re saying, ‘SVB was here for us, now we’re going to be here for each other.’”
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, American-based cybersecurity firm, PC Matic, announced it has received authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) for its federal application execution control solution, PC Matic Federal. PC Matic's Authorization to Operate (ATO) is at the moderate impact level through partnership from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
With the full authorization milestone now achieved, PC Matic Federal joins a small and elite group of cloud technology companies authorized to sell into the federal marketplace. This designation allows the United States federal government to begin purchasing and deploying the company's patented application execution control technology to endpoints across its respective departments and agencies. Application execution control is also commonly referred to as Application Whitelisting or Application Allowlisting.
"Zero trust begins with prevention," said Rob Cheng, CEO and Founder of PC Matic. "As the federal government begins to align its IT infrastructure with Zero Trust Architectures (ZTA) as mandated by the President's Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity, the ability to procure and deploy application execution control solutions is mission critical. With our authorization fully approved, PC Matic Federal is now well-positioned to assist the federal government with taking a preventative approach to cybersecurity by enhancing its zero trust architectures."
PC Matic has been granted five patents and is a Technology Partner with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) Zero-Trust Architecture project. The company was founded in 1999 and pioneered the use of default-deny permit by exception for computer applications.
FedRAMP is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. The program enables federal agencies to rapidly adapt from old, insecure legacy IT to mission-enabling, secure, and cost-effective cloud-based technology.
PC Matic Federal is available on the FedRAMP Marketplace, and more information on the product may be found at pcmatic.com/federal.
For more information on FedRAMP, visit https://www.fedramp.gov.
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The International Criminal Court said Friday it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine.
The court said in a statement that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
It also issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, on similar allegations.
The court’s president, Piotr Hofmanski, said in a video statement that while the ICC’s judges have issued the warrants, it will be up to the international community to enforce them. The court has no police force of its own to enforce warrants.
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“The ICC is doing its part of work as a court of law. The judges issued arrest warrants. The execution depends on international cooperation.”
A possible trial of any Russians at the ICC remains a long way off, as Moscow does recognize the court’s jurisdiction — a position reaffirmed earlier this week by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov — and does not extradite its nationals.
Ukraine also is not a member of the court, but it has granted the ICC jurisdiction over its territory and ICC prosecutor Karim Khan has visited four times since opening an investigation a year ago.
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The ICC said that its pre-trial chamber found there were “reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population and that of unlawful transfer of population from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, in prejudice of Ukrainian children.”
The court statement said that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr. Putin bears individual criminal responsibility” for the child abductions “for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or through others (and) for his failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts.”
On Thursday, a U.N.-backed inquiry cited Russian attacks against civilians in Ukraine, including systematic torture and killing in occupied regions, among potential issues that amount to war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity.
The sweeping investigation also found crimes committed against Ukrainians on Russian territory, including deported Ukrainian children who were prevented from reuniting with their families, a “filtration” system aimed at singling out Ukrainians for detention, and torture and inhumane detention conditions.
But on Friday, the ICC put the face of Putin on the child abduction allegations.
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See you in September?
That could be what Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni whispered to Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid following Super Bowl LVII Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.
The Chiefs beat the Eagles, 38-35, to win their third Lombardi Trophy in franchise history.
According to Pro Football Talk, the two teams are slated to meet again during the 2023 regular season with Philadelphia on deck to visit Kansas City. And as PFT noted, “The Chiefs have won the final game of the 2022 season. Which means they’ll host the first game of the 2023 season.”
Other home opponents for the Chiefs (beyond the usual three AFC West foes) include the Bills, Bengals, Lions, Dolphins, and Bears. So, yeah, there are some great options. The best would be the Eagles in Kansas City to get things rolling on Thursday night, September 7.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter made a similar observation:
Eagles play the Chiefs in Kansas City during the 2023 regular season, so the NFL could opt for a Super Bowl LVII rematch in the Thursday night opener.
And then there’s NBC Sports NFL insider Peter King:
First meeting between the teams at Arrowhead since week two, 2017, when Alex Smith was KC’s quarterback and Carson Wentz played for the Eagles … in Patrick Mahomes’ second game as an NFL player. Just watch NBC, FOX and ESPN brawl over that one.
Sunday’s win was the Chiefs’ second Super Bowl title in four years. Kansas City beat the San Francisco 49ers, 31-20, to win Super Bowl LIV.
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Kansas City head coach Andy Reid has 22 career postseason victories, trailing only Bill Belichick (31) for the most playoff wins by a head coach all-time. Including the postseason, he has the fifth-most total wins (269), by a head coach in NFL history, trailing only Belichick (329) as well as Pro Football Hall of Famers Don Shula (347), George Halas (324) and Tom Landry (270).
Reid, at 64 years and 330 days old on Sunday, is the fourth-oldest head coach to win a Super Bowl.
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BERLIN (AP) — German police warned Wednesday of a potentially lethal “Blue Punisher” variety of ecstasy in circulation after the death of two teenage girls was linked to the drug.
Police in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg Western Pomerania said that a 13-year-old girl from the town of Altentreptow died Monday at a hospital after taking one the blue pills featuring a skull logo associated with the Marvel comic book character The Punisher.
Two other teens, ages 14 and 15, were also hospitalized after taking the drug, police said. A 37-year-old German has been detained in connection with the girl’s death.
Authorities in the neighboring state of Brandenburg are also investigating the death of a 15-year-old girl who died in the town of Rathenow over the weekend after a suspected narcotics overdose. Prosecutors say an autopsy will determine whether she, too, died after consuming the drug
“We warn against any consumption of narcotics, but especially the dangerous ‘Blue Punisher’ pill,” Neubrandenburg police said in a statement. “These pills have a very high dose of (the chemical) MDMA.”
It added that even half a pill, which is in circulation in the region, could cause life-threatening illness. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/german-police-warn-of-blue-punisher-ecstasy-pills-after-2-teenage-girls-die/ | 2023-06-28 14:08:57 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/german-police-warn-of-blue-punisher-ecstasy-pills-after-2-teenage-girls-die/ |
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The president of Belarus says Russian strategic nuclear weapons might be deployed in his country along with part of Russia's tactical nuclear arsenal.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this week that his country intended to deploy tactical, comparatively short-range and small-yield nuclear weapons in Belarus, its neighbor and ally.
The statement from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko about strategic nuclear weapons such as missile-borne warheads would pose an even greater threat if it comes to pass.
Lukashenko spoke during his state-of-the-nation address on Friday, amid escalating tensions over the conflict in Ukraine and contentions that Western powers want to ruin Russia and Belarus.
“Putin and I will decide and introduce here, if necessary, strategic weapons, and they must understand this, the scoundrels abroad, who today are trying to blow us up from inside and outside," the Belarusian leader said. "We will stop at nothing to protect our countries, our state and their peoples.”
Earlier Friday, Lukashenko unexpectedly called for a cease-fire in Ukraine.
A truce, he said in his state-of-the-nation address in Minsk, must be announced without any preconditions and all movement of troops and weapons must be halted. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/russia-might-put-strategic-nukes-in-belarus-17870811.php | 2023-03-31 12:00:19 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/russia-might-put-strategic-nukes-in-belarus-17870811.php |
DICKINSON, ND (KXNET) Some of the best pole vaulters around are getting ready to show us all how it is done, in downtown Dickinson. The third annual Badlands Street Vault will take place on July 8 along Main Street in Dickinson.
Mike Herauf, said that the Badlands Street Vault was born from the fact that pole vaulting isn’t an accessible sport, since there is a lot of equipment and travel involved. He simply wanted to offer another, unique opportunity to those who want to compete. The competition is open to all ages ranging from newcomers to NCAA Division 1 pole vaulters.
The event will feature not only athletes from all over the Midwest, but will also have a DJ spinning music, food, drinks for all, and a beer garden for those of age.
Get more information about the Badlands Street Vault online. | https://www.kxnet.com/studio701/community/badlands-street-vault-brings-competition-to-dickinson/ | 2023-07-07 18:06:37 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/studio701/community/badlands-street-vault-brings-competition-to-dickinson/ |
By STEVE ERKENBRACK
America is undeniably divided. Unlike our great divisions of the past around slavery, civil rights, war and peace, today there is no one definitive issue that drives us apart. Just an undefined foreboding that a few loud, extreme voices on the outer edge of the other side speak for a segment large enough to matter.
Insights can often be found in history. And sometimes two lenses are needed for optimum vision, as anyone with bifocals can attest. I spent recent months reading two histories of the United States, written by very different scholars who view the country from polar ideological perspectives: William Bennett, the conservative former Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan, and Jill Lepore, a liberal Professor of History at Harvard.
The lenses align
Bennett authored “America: The Last Best Hope” in which he charts the uniqueness of our history, and its unprecedented foundation of putting the people in charge of the government and imbuing citizens with freedom and unchallengeable rights to sometimes tell the government, “No.”
Lepore added a dimension with a different perspective in “These Truths: A History of the United States” noting that when Jefferson wrote about “these truths” that all men are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, he and his fellow patriots restricted those rights to white male property owners, excluding most of the people in the country.
Bennett and Lepore each chart a course through the American centuries, and find many points in common. Lepore joins Bennett in praising the courage of the colonists; Bennett joins Lepore in lamenting the tragedy of Reconstruction and Jim Crow. Each presents an insightful view of our history, through very different lenses of complements and criticisms. Until the 1960s.
The lenses diverge
As the authors move into contemporary times, each presents a strikingly different view of America. Bennett recounts the 60s as a remarkable decade, with Kennedy’s generational change and technological wonders that drove the economy. America’s leaders created the Peace Corps and faced down the Soviet Union over the Cuban Missile Crisis, then enacted Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Medicare, and Medicaid. Bennett ends his assessment of the decade with America’s breathtaking accomplishment of landing on the moon. But he never mentions the shooting of Freedom Riders in the South or that rivers were so polluted they caught on fire… repeatedly.
Lepore sees another side to the decade, noting the widening gap between rich and poor, and the widening war in Vietnam. She recounts race riots, student riots, bombings in Birmingham churches that killed children, and the assassinations of two Kennedys and a King. But she overlooks the Test Ban Treaty, the advent of color television, and the Fair Housing Act prohibiting discrimination against people of color.
Both authors give a nod to the other perspective. Lepore notes the optimism, liberalism and generational change of Kennedy. Bennett writes a few pages about the “Annus Horribilis of 1968.” But their overall perspectives are diametrically opposed, as if each is assessing a different country at a different time.
Thriving with multiple lenses
Those of us who were sentient in the 60s know that each perspective is true. The facts presented by both Bennett and Lepore are indisputable. If you read either book, you will gain knowledge. But to get a clear and complete picture of the 1960s, you must read both.
There is a reason for this. When conveying human events through human voices, human beings evaluate information through the personal perspective of their backgrounds, forged in philosophy and honed in individual experiences. This phenomenon of subjectivism is exacerbated in time-sensitive news reporting. Fox News and the Wall Street Journal have one perspective; the New York Times and CNN have another. As they relate the facts of the news cycle, some things are emphasized, some are minimized and some are excluded altogether. The result is news that meshes with a preordained narrative designed to fit their customers’ comfort to keep them coming back, which has led to an ever-widening gap in America.
People who disagree with us make us think more than those who agree. But many of us prefer to get our news only from our own side, now that a plethora of choices make that possible. Why ponder a different perspective when facts are available from a cozy, non-challenging source?
Why? Because that is how the Founders of our nation envisaged democracy. Their vision grew out of the disputes in town halls in New England and debates in Williamsburg. Democracy is not for the faint of heart or lazy of mind. The Founders wanted the body politic exercised, if not exorcized. If the other side is misconstruing things, argue your case.
To engage effectively, you must face the facts presented by the other side; and to see them clearly, you will need to use more than your familiar and comfortable single lens. Those with bifocals know that there may be a period of adjustment when starting to use more than one lens, but that is ultimately followed by a clearer vision of reality.
Steve ErkenBrack is an attorney in western Colorado, where he settled in 1979. He has served as a trial attorney, as the elected district attorney, as a health insurance CEO, and as Colorado’s chief deputy attorney general. He is currently Of Counsel at Hoskin, Farina & Kampf in Grand Junction. | https://www.gjsentinel.com/opinion/columns/americas-need-for-bifocals/article_372c0ae6-1d95-11ed-a8ec-17dcb7c309b9.html | 2022-08-17 11:57:46 | 0 | https://www.gjsentinel.com/opinion/columns/americas-need-for-bifocals/article_372c0ae6-1d95-11ed-a8ec-17dcb7c309b9.html |
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Thunkable, the no-code development platform for creating custom mobile apps, unveiled Thunkable Organizations, a full suite of collaboration and administration tools to enable organizations of any size to seamlessly work together on a single workspace to create mobile-first experiences. As the demand for custom applications continues to grow, the value of collaboration capabilities and no-code tooling will help organizations build tailored solutions with speed.
Thunkable supports more than 3.5 million users worldwide by providing an intuitive development experience for anyone to create entirely native mobile applications without any technical experience required. Employees at 40% of Fortune 500 businesses have used Thunkable to create mobile-first solutions.
"We recognize that all companies in all sectors are looking to streamline operations. The most innovative organizations are moving faster with no-code platforms. Every company should provide access to no-code tooling so anyone from any team can create solutions without burdening the IT or product teams. Thunkable Organizations will make app development accessible to the entire organization so everyone in your company can create mobile-first solutions with speed," said Arun Saigal, CEO of Thunkable.
Thunkable Organizations Makes Design, Development, and Deployment Faster
Thunkable Organizations includes three new key capabilities; collaboration, administration, and version control.
- Collaboration: From a single workspace, teams can work together jointly to design, develop, test, and deploy mobile apps.
- Administration: New management capabilities allow admins, editors, and approvers to have the right level of input throughout the development process.
- Version control: Teams can track progress, revert changes, and iterate freely throughout the development process. This allows for the rapid, fluid development expected from no-code, but with the rigor of production-grade applications.
The Rise of Citizen Development
Approximately 60% of all custom applications are now built outside the IT department, 30% of which are built by employees with limited or no technical skills, according to the Project Management Institute. The rise of Citizen Development has empowered both technical and non-technical employees to create new solutions and products, rather than further burden IT or risk lengthy development cycles.
"Companies have invested in their existing core tech stack, and we want them to keep using those foundational investments. With Thunkable's flexible integration capabilities, it's simple to quickly build a custom, mobile-first solution and tap into those backend systems," says WeiHua Li, CTO of Thunkable. "Equipping your design, marketing, product, IT, HR, or, frankly, any team with Thunkable Organizations gives them the ability to spin up new solutions, ideas, and apps in days."
Thunkable Organizations is now available for all Thunkable users on the Teams and Enterprise plans. Contact our Creators Success or Account Management teams for more information.
About Thunkable
Thunkable, a pioneer in the no-code mobile app development space, provides the most robust development platform to create custom, native mobile applications with no technical expertise required. Anyone can create and customize native Android and iOS apps from a single project, then directly deploy them to Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store. With 3.5 million users from 184 different countries, Thunkable is changing the way the world builds mobile apps. For more information or inquiries, please visit: www.Thunkable.com/#/press
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Visitors to the new terminal at Orlando International Airport may want to wear sunscreen, shades and a floppy hat.
Sun rays beaming through the windows of its soaring ceilings don’t just peck at the passing passengers — they practically smooch them as if they were spending a day at the beach.
Accompanied by realistic-looking fake indoor palm trees, gigantic LED screens depicting underwater springs and skylight views of blue skies and billowing clouds, Terminal C lets passengers know they have arrived in Florida. And that’s the point, as the world’s seventh-busiest airport makes a $2.8 billion bet when the 1.8 million-square-foot (167,225-square-meter) terminal opens to the public this week that Florida’s tourism is moving well beyond the pandemic slowdown and has a bright future.
“They get to see the sunshine so they really know they are in the Sunshine State,” Kevin Thibault, CEO of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, said of passengers arriving in the terminal. “It really is a facility for generations to come.”
With 40.3 million passengers last year, Orlando International Airport was the busiest airport in Florida, according to Airports Council International. However, that figure was still a fifth below the number of passengers in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic. For 2022, the airport had a rolling 12-month total at the end of June of 47 million passengers, just shy of the 50.6 million who came in 2019.
The addition of Terminal C gives the airport the ability to handle 12 million more passengers at the terminal’s 15 new gates in a first phase, increasing the airport’s capacity by a quarter. Airport officials say it will ease some of the crowding that had grown in the decade before the start of the pandemic at the airport’s other two terminals as central Florida became the most visited destination in the U.S.
The Orlando area had 59.3 million visitors last year, up two-thirds from 35.3 million in 2020, when central Florida’s theme parks shut down for several months and international travel was limited in an attempt to stop the virus’ spread. However, last year’s Orlando area visitor numbers still fell short of the pre-pandemic high of 75.8 million in 2019.
Like Orlando, the state of Florida this year is on pace to match its pre-pandemic tourism figures now that restrictions on international travel have been lifted. Florida had 122 million visitors last year, still short of the 131 million in 2019. But the first two quarters of this year put Florida’s 2022 visitor numbers on pace to match those from three years ago.
Officials at Orlando International Airport said the new terminal is one of the most technologically advanced in the U.S.
Suitcases and other baggage at Terminal C will be deposited in large, chip-embedded tubs that are tracked through radio frequency technology. The tubs reduce opportunities for wheels or straps to cause jams in the maze of conveyor belts that move luggage, and the system allows bags to always be tracked. The goal at the Orlando airport, which gets the most strollers and golf clubs of any in the U.S., is to move bags from a gate to the baggage carousel within five minutes, airport officials said.
“We don’t have to track the bag anymore. We are tracking the transport device,” said Scott Goodwin, assistant director of airport operations.
Passengers on international flights who have opted in can match their passport photos with facial scans at departure gates, speeding up the boarding process. At security checkpoints leading to gates, passengers will be able to place their carry-on bags in bins on automated conveyor belts rather than pushing them along tables until they reach the X-ray machines, speeding up the screening process by allowing travelers to bypass slowpokes in line.
“You can move ahead, grab a bin and you won’t seem impolite to anyone,” said Sari Koshetz, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration.
Terminal C is located across from a newly-built train station that will serve Brightline, a higher-speed line that is starting runs between South Florida and Orlando early next year. Airport officials believe that will open up Orlando International Airport to Europe-bound passengers from South Florida who may have previously used Miami International Airport.
Thibault said Orlando International Airport officials currently are in conversations about having seamless ticketing between Brightline and the terminal’s airlines, which include Aer Lingus, British Airways, Emirates, JetBlue and Lufthansa.
More than 90% of the terminal’s restaurants and stores, which include mandatory shops from Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando Resort and SeaWorld Orlando, are past security checkpoints in an effort to give departing passengers time to shop and eat once they are past security screening.
Arriving passengers will be flooded by sunlight since they will be on the upper-most level of skylighted Terminal C, a flip from the traditional design of having arrivals on the lower level and departures on the upper level.
“We want them to feel the sunshine. We want them to feel them palm trees, the flora and fauna,” said Curtis Fentress, whose firm was the terminal’s design architect. “It brings light into the building in a way that sort of dapples, like the light that used to stream through the orange orchards, historically.”
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