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WASHINGTON (AP) — Patrick Ewing was fired as men’s basketball coach at Georgetown on Thursday after the latest in a series of rough seasons at the school he led to a national championship as a player in the 1980s.
The school announced that that it “has begun a national search for new leadership.”
Ewing was never a head coach at any level of the sport until getting the job with the Hoyas in 2017, and he leaves after a half-dozen years with a record of 75-109. His last game was an 80-48 loss to Villanova on Wednesday night in the first round of the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden, the arena where Ewing was a star for the NBA’s New York Knicks for so many years.
Georgetown went 7-25 this season, including 2-18 in regular-season conference play, a schedule capped by a 40-point loss to Creighton. Ewing presided over a 29-game Big East losing streak that began in March 2021 and ended this January, the most consecutive defeats in league history.
The past two seasons were particularly poor: The Hoyas won a combined total of 13 games while losing 50, a winning percentage of .206.
Ewing’s tenure included only one winning season, zero victories in the NCAA Tournament and just one appearance in the Big Dance. It’s a far cry from the sort of success the program enjoyed when the 7-foot-tall Ewing was patrolling the paint as an intimidating, shot-blocking force at center decades ago.
During Ewing’s four years in uniform under coach John Thompson Jr., Georgetown went 121-23, won the 1984 NCAA title and appeared in the championship game two other times. Ewing went on to become the No. 1 overall pick following the NBA’s first draft lottery and starred as a pro, mainly for the Knicks.
“As successful as I was as a player,” Ewing said when he was hired to succeed Thompson’s son, John III, as the coach of the Hoyas after 15 years as an assistant in the NBA, “that’s how successful I want to be as a coach.”
Did not work out that way. Not even close.
His head coaching days began, promisingly enough, with an 8-0 start. But what followed was a harbinger of what was to come: Georgetown faded to a 15-15 record that season, a first-round loss in the Big East tournament and no postseason invitation.
During Ewing’s time in charge, a wave of transfers would carry talent away from Georgetown, while strong defense — a hallmark of his teams when he was on the court — was often missing.
The unquestioned highlight of his return to the Hilltop was the 2021 conference tournament at his old stomping grounds of MSG. The Hoyas surprisingly reeled off four victories in a four-day span to earn that title and the automatic NCAA berth that came with it; they were bounced by Colorado by 23 points in their opening game of March Madness.
A year later, with Georgetown on the way to sinking to 6-25 — breaking a mark that had stood for a half-century and setting a school record for most men’s hoops losses in a season, which was replicated this season — athletic director Lee Reed offered a public show of support for Ewing.
During last offseason, all three of Ewing’s assistant coaches were replaced and several new players were brought in, but that did not help matters. And speculation about Ewing’s future that already was whirring only grew louder as this season fell apart.
This January, Reed responded to a request for an interview by issuing a statement to The Associated Press that called Ewing’s stint at his alma mater a “challenging and frustrating time.” Reed also said then that Ewing “understands that it is imperative to get the program back on track.”
Hours later, with Georgetown President Jack DeGioia in attendance, the Hoyas lost to Villanova, their record-setting 25th Big East setback in a row.
“My future is my future,” Ewing said after that defeat. “I’ll be the head coach at Georgetown until the president or the board decides for me to move on. ... You know, a friend of mine sent me a quote today: ‘It’s not how many times you get knocked down; it’s how many times you get up.’ We got knocked down, so all we’re going to do is keep on getting up.”
Another loss to the Wildcats would become Ewing’s last game at his alma mater.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - On the final vote before an adjournment on Friday, Maryland District One Representative (R) Andy Harris for the first time voted for California's Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House.
The lone representative for the Eastern Shore had voted for other House members 12 previous times. Earlier on Friday, he voted for Ohio's Jim Jordan.
On the 13th ballot, McCarthy reached 214 votes, 14 more than he had on Thursday. He is still four votes shy of the minimum number required to win the office.
The House of Representatives is expected to attempt a 14h ballot at 10:00 pm on Friday | https://www.wrde.com/news/change-for-andy-harris-as-he-votes-for-mccarthy/article_3dd992f2-8e27-11ed-9d4a-430ceaf9c1bb.html | 2023-01-07 02:02:21 | 1 | https://www.wrde.com/news/change-for-andy-harris-as-he-votes-for-mccarthy/article_3dd992f2-8e27-11ed-9d4a-430ceaf9c1bb.html |
This is the price America pays for Kevin McCarthy’s ambition.
To understand the consequences of the many concessions the House speaker made to get his job, look at what has happened to the House Committee on Homeland Security. Created in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, it used to be a place where lawmakers took pride in overcoming partisanship for the sake of national security.
Then came the GOP takeover of the House this year. In his wisdom, McCarthy agreed not only to restore Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments (she had been stripped of them for glorifying violence against colleagues) but also to give her a seat on Homeland Security.
Last week, the Georgia Republican used her elevated status to praise Jack Teixeira, the National Guard airman and suspected leaker of highly classified U.S. intelligence about Ukraine, China and more. “Jake (sic) Teixeira is white, male, christian, and antiwar. That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime,” Greene tweeted, adding, “Ask yourself who is the real enemy? A young low level national guardsmen? Or the administration that is waging war in Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, against nuclear Russia without war powers?”
But Greene wasn’t content merely to label the American president “the real enemy.” Next came a hearing Wednesday at which the panel was to grill Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the Biden administration’s proposed 2024 budget. Midway through the session, after Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) questioned Mayorkas about the effects of calls from GOP officials such as Donald Trump and Greene to “defund the FBI,” Greene began her five minutes of questioning with a sweet smile and a breathtaking libel.
“That was quite entertaining from someone that had a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy, and everyone knows it,” she said.
It was the very definition of slander. Democrats demanded that her words be “taken down.” Swalwell was one of several officials targeted a decade ago by a Chinese spy, but no evidence of a sexual relationship came to light.
Yet Republicans jumped to Greene’s defense. Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) ruled that Greene’s slander was “not going to be stricken from the record.” He went so far as to suggest the unsubstantiated innuendo was a “statement of fact.” And, when Democrats challenged the ruling, Republicans on the panel voted unanimously, in an 11-9 party-line tally, to defend Greene’s defamation of her colleague.
This is why extremists such as Greene can’t be dismissed as gadflies. They are central to the new majority. Greene was given a position of prominence by McCarthy, she raises prodigious funds, which her GOP colleagues gladly accept, and they defend her indefensible behavior.
Greene, thus bolstered by the unanimous vote of her GOP colleagues on the committee, turned her attention to Mayorkas, blaming him for “killing people” with fentanyl. When Mayorkas tried to defend himself, Greene cut him off, shouting: “You’re a liar!”
Democrats objected again. This time, finally, Chairman Green silenced her for the rest of the hearing.
But it was the chairman himself who set the ugly tone. According to an audio recording obtained by the New York Times, the chairman told donors last week: “On April 19, next week, get the popcorn — Alejandro Mayorkas comes before our committee, and it’s going to be fun.” (He later claimed he was somehow misquoted.)
Popcorn? Fun? This is the nation’s security.
I asked Mayorkas, who arrived 20 minutes early, why he hadn’t heeded the instructions to bring popcorn.
“Wrong movie,” he replied. He was determined not to give his tormentors the satisfaction of getting under his skin — and he mostly succeeded.
Chairman Green opened with a bit of Great Replacement theory. “You have not secured our borders, Mr. Secretary, and I believe you’ve done so intentionally,” he alleged, saying the administration policy is all about “moving people into the country,” to welcome “illegal aliens” and “settle them into the interior of our country.”
Epithets flew: “Reckless.” “Insult.” “Insane.” In the hearing room, the decibel app on my iPhone at one point found the chairman’s volume to be equivalent to a food processor. “Not only have you lied under oath, you just admitted your own incompetence!” (At least he didn’t call Mayorkas a “liar.”)
Mayorkas endured the shouting, finger pointing, table pounding and impeachment talk with eyes straight ahead. Invited by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) to respond to one Republican’s insults, he replied: “I’ve chosen not to, thank you.”
It brought to mind the old admonition not to wrestle with a pig: You’ll both get muddy, and the pig enjoys it. | https://www.normantranscript.com/opinion/national-column-republicans-follow-their-new-leader-marjorie-taylor-greene/article_4b7213fe-e065-11ed-a97b-a36d0e7c4c08.html | 2023-04-22 07:41:52 | 0 | https://www.normantranscript.com/opinion/national-column-republicans-follow-their-new-leader-marjorie-taylor-greene/article_4b7213fe-e065-11ed-a97b-a36d0e7c4c08.html |
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"I'm excited to return to private practice and to Kirkland, which provided me with a strong foundation of skills for my legal career," said Lausch in a press release. "I'm looking forward to reconnecting with old colleagues, meeting new people and putting my skills and experience to work for clients."
Lausch was a holdover in the Biden administration after originally being appointed to the job by then-President Donald Trump in 2017. He kept the position because of strong backing from Illinois Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin, Crain's reported in January when U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Lausch's departure.
As the federal prosecutor in Chicago, he has led the cases against top politicians including former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and former Ald. Edward Burke. During his tenure, Chicago’s federal office focused on violent crime in Chicago and throughout the Northern District, overseeing racketeering prosecutions of members of organized criminal street gangs and gang factions, wrote the United States Attorney's Office in a press release upon his resignation.
In 1999, Lausch left Kirkland to become an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Illinois. He served 11 years in that role, including as a supervisor from 2005 to 2010.
At Kirkland, the firm said he "will focus his practice on government enforcement defense, internal investigations and other litigation matters."
"John is an exceptional talent who has served with distinction in government and private practice throughout his career," said Jon A. Ballis, chairman of Kirkland's executive committee, in a press release. "With his vast experience he could have gone anywhere, but we're delighted he chose to come back to Kirkland, adding strength to strength in our government, regulatory and internal investigations practice."
Lausch is a graduate of Harvard University and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge Michael S. Kanne. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/ex-us-attorney-john-lausch-rejoins-kirkland-ellis | 2023-05-15 20:33:45 | 0 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/ex-us-attorney-john-lausch-rejoins-kirkland-ellis |
BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan., May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KMT Waterjet Systems, the leading global manufacturer of ultrahigh-pressure waterjet pumps and components used in complete waterjet systems, today announced that Brendan Shackelford, current President of Shape Technologies Waterblast Group, has been named the new President of KMT Waterjet Systems.
Shackelford joined the SHAPE organization in November 2016 as Aftermarket Director for the Shape Waterblast Group and assumed the leadership role in January 2018. Brendan has been instrumental in growing the Waterblast Group business by refreshing their product portfolio, strengthening relationships with customers and suppliers, and through the acquisition of Riverstone Waterjets in January 2021.
"I have been impressed with the development and technological advancements made with waterjet systems and am excited to join KMT Waterjet, a company known for their history of innovation and contribution to this industry," said Shackelford.
"As we look to the future and building upon our success at KMT Waterjet, I couldn't think of a more qualified individual to fill this role than Brendan," said Nino LaDuca, CEO of Shape Technologies Group. "His customer focus and ability to achieve results make him the ideal leader for the company. We look forward to his continued success in this new role."
Before joining SHAPE, Brendan spent 13 years in the US Navy and 5 years as Regional General Manager for the Rosemount Measurement business of Emerson Electric. Brendan holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in business administration.
About Shape Technologies Group
Shape Technologies Group, Inc. (SHAPE) is the world's leading developer and provider of ultrahigh-pressure process solutions for advanced manufacturing and materials processing applications. SHAPE companies deliver innovative manufacturing process solutions to customers spanning 100 countries and a broad array of industries. For more information, visit shapetechnologies.com.
About KMT Waterjet Systems
KMT Waterjet Systems is a leading global manufacturer of UHP waterjet pumps and components used in complete waterjet systems. KMT has a partnership with a global network of original equipment manufacturers who design complete waterjet machines, integrating KMT pumps and cutting nozzles into waterjet systems. Additional KMT offerings include: KMT Genuine Services, 24/7 Technical Support, aftermarket waterjet spares for all KMT parts and components. www.kmtwaterjet.com 800-826-9274.
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Hilton unveils members-only experiences by connecting them with their passion for music, food, sports and more
MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hilton Honors, the guest-loyalty program of Hilton's 18 hotel brands, is offering new, once-in-a-lifetime events to members through its Hilton Honors Experiences platform. With access to sold-out music and sporting events from premier partners, to world-class dining and wellness packages at Hilton properties, members have the opportunity to create moments of real connection to inspire their passions. These unforgettable experiences will help members make the most out of their stays across the globe.
Inspired by Hilton's first-ever global platform, "Hilton. For the Stay," Hilton Honors is taking a fresh approach to the one-of-a-kind experiences that members have access to through their Points – by facilitating meaningful connections with the artists and celebrities who inspire their passions. In addition to unique experiences at Hilton hotels around the world, Hilton's longstanding partners, like Live Nation and McLaren, will support in powering these experiences in the months ahead.
"At Hilton, 'the stay' is at the heart of who we are and everything we do, so we are thrilled to be reactivating our Hilton Honors Experiences to provide our members with thousands of exclusive packages," said Jenn Chick, global head & senior vice president, Hilton Honors & Customer Engagement. "Whether they love music, sports, the great outdoors or elevated offerings only available at Hilton, there will be new experiences to discover that allow our members to put their Points where their passions are."
To celebrate the end of summer and kick off a new season of new experiences, Hilton Honors members are invited to bid on Endless Summer Night Grills with Questlove – an intimate food and music experience at Motto by Hilton New York City Chelsea with Questlove on September 8, 2022. Questlove's renowned chef friends will create their own spin on classic summer grilling with select ingredients sourced from Black-owned farms in Upstate New York. Plus, the award-winning musician, producer, director, and culinary entrepreneur, will perform an exclusive DJ set for those in attendance.
Members should continually check the Hilton Honors Experiences website for new curated packages, including a chance to play Top Golf with Sam Hunt, a private acoustic performance with Luke Bryan, VIP tickets and a signed guitar with Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and a McLaren Formula 1 Team experience at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Below are a few of the new and upcoming experiences members will find on the Hilton Honors Experiences website:
- Private Lunch by Celebrated Chef Nancy Silverton (Sept. 23, Singapore): Enjoy a private 4-course lunch by celebrated American Chef Nancy Silverton at Osteria Mozza in Hilton Singapore Orchard. Osteria Mozza Singapore is the only Asian outpost of Silverton's MICHELIN-starred Osteria Mozza Los Angeles. The Asian outpost serves a diverse range of Cal-Italian delights with both classics and dishes crafted exclusively for Singapore.
- Private Drum Lesson with Travis Barker (Sept. 26, Los Angeles): Find your rhythm during a one-hour drum lesson with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker at his studio in Los Angeles.
- Culinary Masters Weekend at Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal (Oct. 6, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico): Escape to the Mexican coastline at Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal for an unforgettable weekend of gourmet dining, intimate culinary classes, and a friendly golf tournament with the culinary world luminaries Jérôme Bocuse, Daniel Boulud, Junior Borges, Suzanne Goin, Phillip Tessier, Tim Hollingsworth, and Olivier Couvin.
- Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the McLaren Technology Centre (Oct. 12, Woking, United Kingdom): Treat yourself to a behind-the-scenes tour of the awe-inspiring McLaren Technology Centre and McLaren racing facility. See the most famous cars from McLaren's illustrious racing history and gain unparalleled insight into the makings of a modern race team.
- Private Singing Lesson with Pentatonix (Oct. 14, Los Angeles): Receive the ultimate singing lesson from one of the most renowned acapella groups in the world, Pentatonix. This all-access experience includes a singing lesson and an insider's look at how artists prepare for showtime.
- Tickets to Broadway Hit HAMILTON with Post Show Talk Back (Oct. 21, New York): See one of the most exciting and significant performances of the last decade, HAMILTON, at the Richard Rogers Theater on Broadway. Watch the award-winning story unfold from your orchestra level seats and enjoy an exclusive post-show talk back with members of the famed cast after the show.
- Nightclub Night Out with TAO Hospitality Group (Las Vegas & New York): TAO Hospitality Group's world-famous nightclubs attract VIPs and celebrities from all around the world. Choose an event from one of their locations in New York or Las Vegas and receive general admission access for five including drink tickets.
This year, Hilton Honors members have already started putting their Points to work by bidding and winning new once-in-a-lifetime experiences that have included a hike around Red Rocks Amphitheater with Brandi Carlile and tickets to the BMW PGA Championship in Virginia Water, United Kingdom.
For additional ways to use Points, Hilton Honors recently launched Tickets with Points, a unique benefit that allows members to use Points to purchase tickets to sporting events, concerts, comedy shows and theater productions. As Hilton Honors continues to provide more accessibility on a global scale, Tickets with Points will be launching in the United Kingdom later this year to make purchasing tickets on LiveNation.co.uk and Ticketmaster.co.uk even more rewarding.
To join Hilton Honors or find out more about Hilton Honors Experiences, please visit HiltonHonors.com. For more information, visit stories.hilton.com/HiltonHonors.
Hilton Honors is the award-winning guest loyalty program for Hilton's 18 world-class brands comprising 7,000 properties in 122 countries and territories. Hilton Honors members who book directly through preferred Hilton channels have access to instant benefits, including a flexible payment slider that allows members to choose nearly any combination of Points and money to book a stay, an exclusive member discount and free standard Wi-Fi. Members also have access to contactless technology exclusively through the industry-leading Hilton Honors app, where members can check in, choose and access their room using Digital Key. Hilton Honors offers its 139 million members hundreds of ways to earn and redeem Points, including with select co-branded credit cards. Members can redeem Points for free nights, purchases on Amazon, exclusive experiences, charitable contributions and more. The program is free to join and travelers can enroll online at hiltonhonors.com. Learn more about Hilton Honors at stories.hilton.com/hiltonhonors, and follow Hilton Honors on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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SUNLAND PARK, N.M. (AP) — Two people died and 10 were injured Wednesday when the SUV they were in rolled over in southeastern New Mexico about eight miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said.
A thirteenth person also was in the Chevrolet Tahoe but it was unclear whether that person was injured, said Sunland Park Fire Chief Daniel Medrano. His agency responded to the crash, which occurred around 4:45 a.m. about 13 miles (21 kilometers) northwest of El Paso, Texas.
New Mexico State Police confirmed the two fatalities but did not respond to repeated requests for comment on whether law enforcement officers were pursuing the SUV when the rollover happened. Medrano said two of the people who were hurt suffered critical injuries and that all of the injured were taken to hospitals.
Federal officials in a statement said U.S. Border Patrol agents provided assistance at the crash scene, but declined to specify what type of help or whether agents were involved in a pursuit.
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The Mexican Consulate in El Paso said in a statement that nine of the injured people were Mexican and that it is providing assistance to them.
While authorities did not identify the people in the SUV as immigrants, the stretch of border in southeastern New Mexico where the crash happened is among the spots where migrants regularly are smuggled across from Mexico in SUVs.
Nearly a month ago in the nearby New Mexico community of Santa Teresa, 15 immigrants were found crammed inside an SUV after a caller told the Border Patrol that the vehicle was picking up people on a state highway.
Last year, the driver of an SUV packed with smuggled migrants was struck by tractor-trailer shortly after driving through a hole in the border fence about 125 miles (200 kilometers) east of San Diego. The crash killed 13 of 25 people crammed into the SUV that was built to hold a maximum of eight. All the dead were from Mexico and Guatemala. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/2-dead-10-injured-in-suv-rollover-near-us-mexico-border/article_0144c693-fe45-548a-8def-7770929623c6.html | 2022-07-27 22:12:29 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/2-dead-10-injured-in-suv-rollover-near-us-mexico-border/article_0144c693-fe45-548a-8def-7770929623c6.html |
More companies may be inclined to adopt dog-friendly policies as employees return to the office.
"People are more sensitized to how their animals are feeling about all kinds of things, including maybe and most particularly, what happens when they are no longer working from home,” said Philip Tedeschi, and human-animal connection expert.
According to a survey from Rover, more than half of pet parents said they would leave their job to work for a more dog-friendly company. The number one reason dog parents said they're worried about returning to the office is due to their pet's potential anxiety or loneliness.
"Often the well-being of their animal is highly connected now to their own sense of health and well-being,” Tedeschi said.
The survey also found that 74% of pet parents are more likely to feel loyalty toward a dog-friendly company. Noodles & Company corporate office has been allowing dogs in the workplace for 27 years.
"In order to, you know, make people want to work here or be attracted to work here, we thought let's let them bring their four-legged friends with them as long as they're well-behaved,” said Sue Petersen, executive vice president of inclusion, diversity and people at Noodles & Company.
Dogs aren't allowed in any restaurants due to health codes, but Petersen says she believes the company's dog policies and benefits make the company more competitive in the workplace market.
"It's hard to have a bad day when you walk down the hallway and you see three furry friends just walking towards you," she said.
As more companies consider pet policies, Tedeschi said it's important to acknowledge not everyone is a pet lover – and some people are allergic.
"Some of the ways to mediate these issues of allergies are things like ensuring that there are limited areas that the dog is actually allowed to be in," he said.
For those who can’t take their pets to work, it’s important to make sure their dog is comfortable being left at home for an extended time.
"Try to build in like that time where you go away out of the out of your home for maybe an hour or hours, just so they don't have that separation anxiety,” said dog owner Gregg Jacobson. | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/dog-friendly-work-policies-popular-among-employees | 2022-06-29 15:01:24 | 1 | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/dog-friendly-work-policies-popular-among-employees |
if demonstrates its commitment to a shared leadership culture and selects two staff members as its new co-Chief Executive Officers.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- if, A Foundation for Radical Possibility, is excited to announce that it has selected Temi F. Bennett and Hanh Le to serve as the organization's next executive leaders and first co-CEOs.
Founded in 1997 as the Consumer Health Foundation, if renamed itself in 2021 to reflect its evolution from a traditional grantmaking entity to a community-centered philanthropic partner that works to achieve racial justice by centering Black people and people of the global majority. Its grantmaking is founded on the belief that those who live at the sharpest intersections of systems of oppression—particularly race, class, and gender identity—should have decision-making power over the distribution of resources in their communities. Drawing from the lived expertise of those in the communities it has pledged to center, if has embraced an array of bold strategies, from piloting and funding a worker-led guaranteed income project to participatory grantmaking, in which community members decide how the foundation's resources are best deployed.
if's radical philanthropic approach shows up not only in how it pursues grantmaking but also in its determination to put its theory of change into action. Accordingly, if has begun bringing community members onto the board of directors and into the grantmaking process. In selecting co-CEOs to guide the organization, the foundation has found another way to model its transformative approach to leadership.
Temi F. Bennett and Hanh Le are especially well suited to further if's commitment to a shared leadership culture. Both come from within the foundation, with Temi having served as Director of Policy and Hanh as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships. The two work together as co-leads of if's reparations project and are steadfast proponents of the foundation's radical vision.
"Having a culture of shared leadership not only deepens collaboration and broadens ownership, but it also solves for some of the isolation and heavy demands often inherent in a single-President & CEO model," said if Board Chair, Wendy Chun-Hoon. "More importantly, it helps us live into our values around equitable distribution of labor and building 'power with' rather than 'power over.' Temi and Hanh, in jointly applying for this role, shared their intention to 'turn radical possibility into reality.' The board is thrilled to have them as our new leaders and to support them in doing just that."
Temi joined the foundation in 2018, bringing years of experience as an attorney and policy expert for the Council of the District of Columbia. She has led several bodies of work within if's systems change and reparations strategies. Temi organized and convened chief equity officers embedded in local governments in the D.C. metropolitan area as they conducted racial equity impact assessments and developed and implemented equitable and just policies. She provided financial and technical assistance to community coalitions holding local governments accountable to their racial equity commitments. Temi also led Resourcing Radical Justice, a funders' collective that centers Black liberation as the path to a thriving greater Washington region.
"I'm excited to partner with Hanh," Temi said. "Individually, through our lived, personal and professional experiences at and beyond if, we each bring deep and diverse expertise, skills and perspectives to the role. Together, we share a demonstrated passion and commitment to the vision, mission, and values of the foundation. And, we imagine if delivering on its full potential, from systems change in our sector to systems change in our government and culture."
In her four years at the Weissberg Foundation, Hanh led the board and staff to prioritize and advocate for funding to and amplification of Black and people of the global majority-led and centered organizations working to advance systems change for racial justice. The foundation also strengthened equitable co-creation and decision-making by its board, staff, and grant review teams, building them to be more representative and inclusive of the community, and operationalized and championed trust-based practices so nonprofit partners could focus on mission—not funder—work. Before the Weissberg Foundation, Hanh served as chief program officer at Exponent Philanthropy, leading content development and educational programming.
"This is an amazing time to be co-leading with Temi, for whom I have such deep respect and admiration," Hanh said. "The struggle for racial justice is as urgent as ever, and if's bold strategic plan and willingness to take risks means the foundation is well positioned to face these challenges. In solidarity with each other, our entire team at the foundation, community members, nonprofit partners and philanthropic peers, we're ready to fight for our utopic vision. It won't be easy, but we're ready."
Temi and Hanh succeed Dr. Yanique Redwood, who served as the foundation's second President & CEO for a decade. Dr. Redwood left if in March to become Executive Director of Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research, founded by Ibram X. Kendi. The foundation's Senior Program Officer, Ria Pugeda, held the role of Interim President & CEO until Temi and Hanh's appointment.
"I couldn't be happier about Temi and Hanh becoming if's next leaders," said Dr. Redwood. "I had the honor of working closely with Hanh when she was the Executive Director of the Weissberg Foundation. We co-chaired the Racial Equity Working Group of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (WRAG), a group of funders who came together to create change after WRAG's powerful Putting Racism on the Table series. It was deeply meaningful to witness and experience Hanh's commitment to and relentless pursuit of racial equity and justice. Likewise, Temi, who came to if from the D.C. Council, has been steadfast in her advocacy for Black communities. Temi's clarity about the need to challenge anti-Black racism was consequential for the foundation and is evident in if's new brand, birthed from a nearly year-long process that Temi led. Temi and Hanh are not only colleagues, but also friends and trusted thought partners. One of them alone would be a win for the region. Together, these two women of color, leveraging their strengths in service of the foundation's vision and supported by a board and staff on mission, makes just about anything possible."
if envisions Black people and people of the global majority living powerfully, abundantly, and beautifully in healthy, self-determined communities free of social, economic, and ideological violence. We achieve our vision by centering the leadership and expertise of Black people and people of the global majority in the Washington, DC region who live at the sharpest intersection of system of oppression, in particular race, class, and gender identity. For more information, visit: https://www.iffdn.org/
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TX El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM Zone Forecast for Thursday, June 9, 2022
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and Upper Valley
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NIGHT...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. West winds 5 to 10
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NIGHT...
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upper 90s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
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upper 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north 10 to 15
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows in
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.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
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.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of thunderstorms. Hot with highs
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There’s high demand by Cubans to research their ancestry with help from U.S.-based genealogy buffs. If they can tie it to Spain, it means a way off the island.
WLRN’s Tim Padgett reports.
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Market research cloud leader recognized by GreenBook for its dedication to continuous innovation in the insights industry
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fuel Cycle Inc., the leading market research cloud for Fortune 500 companies, today announced it has been recognized in the latest Greenbook Research Industry Trends (GRIT) Report as the #7 Technology Provider and #25 Most Innovative Supplier—one of the most acclaimed and widely read reports showcasing trends in the insights industry.
The GRIT Report is based on feedback from insights professionals around the world, providing one of the most comprehensive comparisons of the key players in the space. Within the 'GRIT Report Business and Innovation Edition 2022' is the highly regarded GRIT Top 50 Most Innovative Companies list, which includes six segmented sublists highlighting specialized leaders across the industry, including technology providers.
"As the insights industry evolves, companies must evolve with it in order to deliver valuable solutions to their customers," says Eran Gilad, CEO of Fuel Cycle. "Our mission to ignite action is what drives our passion and inspires us to keep innovating and providing the insights our customers need to be the best at what they do."
The recognition from GreenBook follows several recent accolades from Fuel Cycle including:
- Being named a Best Company for Leadership, Women and Diversity by Comparably.
- Recognition in Built In's esteemed Best Places to Work awards for the third consecutive year.
- Earned placement on Quirk's 12 Top CPG Research Companies list and recognized on two of Quirk's 10 Top Research Companies lists.
To learn more about Fuel Cycle and its recognition in the GRIT Report, please visit fuelcycle.com.
About Fuel Cycle
Fuel Cycle's award-winning Market Research Cloud is the most comprehensive intelligence gathering ecosystem that exists today. Our platform enables decision-makers to maintain constant connections with their customers, prospects, and users to uncover real-world actionable intelligence. By integrating human insight with critical business data, and through automated quantitative and qualitative research solutions, Fuel Cycle's Market Research Cloud powers product innovation, brand intelligence, and enhanced user experience. Breakthroughs require action. We built Fuel Cycle to ignite it. For more information, visit: fuelcycle.com.
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PITTSBURGH — Breeze Airways is adding a 12th nonstop destination from Pittsburgh International Airport to Tampa, Florida.
The new route will start on Oct. 5 with service on Thursdays and Sundays. Fares start at $59.
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Barhorst approached her old clients on behalf of her new clients, a deal was struck, and the house sold in early July for about $580,000.
That’s more than 11% over what the house went for in 2021, which might ordinarily be nice enough proceeds for sellers.
But Grayslake isn’t exactly ordinary. It’s one of the five Chicago suburbs where home prices have been rising fastest in 2023. The median price of homes sold in Grayslake in the first six months of the year is $305,500, an increase of 22.2% from the same period last year.
That’s according to data on suburbs in Cook, DuPage, Lake and Will counties released this week by Midwest Real Estate Data, the Chicago Association of Realtors and ShowingTime.
Unlike the city data, which Crain’s covered earlier, the suburban data is for all types of homes, not reported separately for houses and for condos and townhouses. But like with the city data, Crain’s looks only at locations where at least 25 homes sold during the first half of the year.
These are the five suburbs where the median sale price rose the most in the first half of the year, compared to the same time in 2022:
Prospect Heights: +33.2%
Lynwood: +28.2%
Wadsworth: +23.6%
Grayslake: +22.2%
Mundelein: +19.8%
Prices are down in some suburbs, but it’s worth noting that while four of the five city neighborhoods recording the biggest declines were over 20%, all five drops in the suburbs are under 20%.
These are the five suburbs where the median sale price dropped the most in the first half of the year, compared to the same time last year:
Countryside: -18.5%
Forest Park: -17.2%
Chicago Ridge: -15.8%
Bensenville: -13.2%
Northfield: -11.2%
The declines are mostly in lower-priced housing markets, where fast-rising interest rates, the Federal Reserve’s tool for reducing inflation, likely turned off buyers as they saw affordability shrink. That doesn’t necessarily mean sellers are taking a bath. In Forest Park, as one example, a large proportion of recent sales were above the asking price. That suggests sellers deflated their price expectations, only to have eager buyers pump them up again.
In Prospect Heights, scene of the biggest increase at midyear, “there’s almost nothing to buy, but some people have got to move, so everything goes over the asking price,” says Gail Bergstrom, a Re/Max at Home agent.
Bergstrom represented a two-bedroom attached house on Mulberry Drive in Prospect Heights, 29 miles northwest of the Loop. It went on the market Feb. 10 with an asking price of $329,000, received multiple offers and went under contract two days later. The sale closed in March at $333,000, or a little more than 1% over the asking price.
This week, Bergstrom met with buyer clients who told her they don’t want to get into multiple-offer situations. “I had to tell them that’s almost impossible now,” she says.
In Lynwood, there’s an entirely different reason for the steep rise in the median sale price: Newly built homes are selling fast and at far higher prices than the older existing housing stock. Lynwood is on the Indiana state line 28 miles south of the Loop.
Most of the new homes are being built by two firms, Excalibur Construction, whose development is around 198th Street and Juniper Court, and Rally Builders, whose Wellington Court is about a mile and a half west, near Torrence Avenue.
Between them, they’ve sold at least two dozen houses, at prices from $410,000 to $557,000.
“We could sell twice as much if the builder was able to keep up,” says Stewart Ramirez, whose firm, E-Signature Realty, represents the Wellington Court project. “At one point the builder had to tell people (they would wait) a year, but some people got tired of waiting, so now the waiting list is shorter.”
The homes are appealing for several reasons, Ramirez says. A big one is that the inventory of existing homes for sale is so tight that new construction can fill the gap. On top of that, Lynwood requires all new homes to have brick fronts, which communicates quality, he says, and the prices are good compared to subdivisions in the north, west or southwest suburbs.
“So yeah,” Ramirez says, “there’s demand.” | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/chicago-suburbs-where-home-prices-are-up-down | 2023-07-20 12:44:52 | 0 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/chicago-suburbs-where-home-prices-are-up-down |
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) _ Nicolet Bankshares Inc. (NIC) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $27.6 million.
The Green Bay, Wisconsin-based bank said it had earnings of $1.83 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $1.84 per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $100.6 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $82.9 million, which missed Street forecasts.
For the year, the company reported profit of $94.3 million, or $6.56 per share. Revenue was reported as $297.9 million.
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Equipment failure caused a transformer at the Hoover Dam to explode, causing a fire that lasted about a half-hour and sending plumes of black smoke swirling through the air.
Crews quickly extinguished the fire Tuesday morning. Doug Hendrix, public affairs specialist for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, emphasized that the fire was isolated to the single area, which limited damage to the facility, and that investigators would soon know what caused it.
“We’ve got engineers and some of our senior leadership down there taking a look now, also with some inspectors to see exactly what happened,” Hendrix told KTNV in Las Vegas. Hendrix did not respond Wednesday to emails from The Associated Press.
WHAT IS HOOVER DAM?
Hoover Dam, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Las Vegas on the Nevada-Arizona border, is one of the tallest concrete dams in the U.S. at 726 feet (221 meters). It supplies hydroelectric power for about 350,000 homes in Arizona, California and Nevada.
To create hydropower, a renewable energy source, water from the Colorado River flows into the dam, then into a pipe, which spins into a generator that ultimately creates electricity, before it goes into the transformer.
WHAT HAPPENED?
An explosion happened just after 10 a.m. Tuesday on one of the dam’s 17 transformers that generate electricity. The explosion caused a thick cloud of black smoke and flames that was caught on camera by visitors but was extinguished by fire crews within a half hour. Officials said equipment within the transformer failed, causing the fire, but they have not yet said what caused the equipment to fail. There were no injuries.
WHERE DOES THE INVESTIGATION STAND?
An investigation into the specifics of what caused the fire is ongoing with no specific timeline for its findings, said Michelle Helms, public affairs officer for the Bureau of Reclamation, in an emailed statement to the AP.
“These investigations take some time,” she said.
IS POWER SUPPLY REDUCED AT THE DAM?
Officials have not said how much power generation was lost.
Hendrix told KTNV the power grid is not affected because the fire was contained to the site of one transformer of 17 total — and remained isolated until fire crews extinguished it.
“All of our protection equipment kicked right in, so it was isolated to that (transformer),” Hendrix told the TV station. “So we were very fortunate.”
WHAT IS A TRANSFORMER?
All power plants have transformers, which are mainly used to increase the voltage of electricity generated to send over transmission lines, said Jordan Kern, an assistant professor of natural resources at North Carolina State University.
“And then once the electricity gets to roughly where it’s going to be consumed, we use another set of transformers to reduce the voltage of the electricity,” Kern said, “and then that electricity gets sent out over distribution lines that are insulated and run to people’s houses, businesses, etc.”
Hoover Dam has 17 transformers — nine on its Nevada side and eight on its Arizona side. The fire was extinguished on the fifth Arizona transformer.
HOW RARE IS A POWER PLANT FIRE?
A fire at a power plant is rare, though there’s always a risk, Kern said.
“I think most commonly, it’s other electrical equipment,” that can cause a fire at a power facility, he said. “It’s not transformers themselves that are causing the fires.”
“But you can imagine there’s just an enormous amount of electrical cable in power plants. And if there are any malfunctioning equipment that ignites a fire, I think that can then spread.”
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Frustrated with feeling powerless as her brother battled addiction, Denton High School’s conditioning coach Jeannette Krupp knew she had to do something to bring awareness and empathy to the nation’s overdose epidemic. So, she put her athleticism to the test and embarked on a 450-mile bike ride.
Jeannette wanted to help people understand that just because someone struggles with substance abuse, that doesn’t mean they are any less human or deserving of compassion and support.
“Everywhere I go, someone connects with it,” Jeannette said. “That’s the stigma that we’ve got to stop because every one of those junkies is someone’s dad, mom, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, somebody someone loves. I always say they’re somebody’s someone.”
Jeannette heads off Monday to make the same 450-mile journey for the third time. But this bike ride will take on a new purpose. It’s the first time she knows her brother, Karl, won’t be waiting at the finish line to hug her tight and thank her for caring about “people like him.”
This is Jeannette’s first Bike450 since her brother’s death on April 16, 2021, from an overdose on his way home from rehab. Although now she’s riding in honor of her brother’s memory, she still wants to support the other people struggling with addiction whom she’s met along the way.
“I was kind of mad at the world and I didn’t know if I was going to do it again,” Jeannette said, her voice catching. “I was doing it for him. And now he’s gone. I’m like, ‘I’m supposed to keep all these people alive and I couldn’t keep my brother alive.’”
Jeannette’s someone
Jeannette and Karl, her little brother two years her junior, were best friends. He was one of her biggest supporters and acted as a father figure to her son when he didn’t have another. She couldn’t stop grinning as she reminisced about their fond memories together.
“People would always say we could have been boy-girl twins,” Jeannette said. “I was his everything. … My brother loved kids. Played with my son, danced with him, he would be outside playing ball, jumping on the trampoline, wrestling with the boys.”
Karl had struggled for over a decade with substance abuse. Jeannette always kept her phone on in case her brother needed her or something ever happened to him. And, when Jeannette received the call in April 2021, she said as soon as she answered the phone, she could just tell the time had come.
“I had prepared myself for this …,” she said. “I don’t know how many times in the past five years I said, ‘When I get the phone call, I’ve got to stay strong. I can’t cry for Mom and Dad. I know this could happen, and I have to be prepared.’”
Karl Clarence Krupp IV was born on Nov. 7, 1982, in his and Jeannette’s tiny hometown of Owensville, Missouri. As the only boy and the next in a long line of Karls, he was expected to take the reins of the family’s tool and die shop.
Jeannette said Karl was well-liked in school, popular with the girls and a hard worker. A high school friend of the Krupp’s, Chris Huebner, described Karl as a confident and good-looking dude.
Working at the family’s business and living with their parents, Karl had a good foundation for his life at a young age, Jeannette said. But when he was about 24 years old, he got into a car accident that would change his course.
“He bought a brand new Mustang because he had the money and he worked,” Jeannette said. “He had a wreck. It wrapped around the telephone pole. He was smashed completely under the steering wheel and when my mom got there, she thought he was dead. They airlifted him and he pulled through but came out in a wheelchair because he had so many broken bones.”
Karl was prescribed heavy opioids to help with the pain from his accident. But when he was on the mend and the prescriptions stopped, his body’s dependence on opioids persisted. If he could no longer get them from a doctor, he was going to seek them elsewhere.
“He said he did it for years before we — the family — even knew,” Jeannette said. “My brother was so afraid of needles. That tells you how strong [the drugs] are. He would cry and scream when he was a kid getting his shots. And that’s why I remember my mom being in such disbelief when she found the first needle.”
Her brother would get sober sometimes. He was sober for over a year once. But addiction is about physiological dependence and not knowing how to cope with trauma and stress, she said. And when life became difficult, Karl’s substance abuse would flare up.
“His skin would crawl. He’d wake up every morning craving it,” Jeannette said. “Even when they don’t want it, they still crave it. … I love him to death. But let me tell you, he was a different person when he’s high. When they’re withdrawing it’s even worse.”
Though there were still positive memories from after her brother’s substance abuse started, they’re accompanied by memories of physical violence, lying, stealing and heartbreak.
For years Karl went in and out of rehab and jail, until eventually his career in the family business hit a breaking point before one of his visits to a sober home when he was about 35 years old.
“My dad and his brothers had a meeting and they said, ‘Look, we’re sorry, but we’re not going to let Karl come back,’” Jeannette said. “What do you mean? He’s Karl, my dad’s Karl, my grandpa was Karl, my great great grandpa was Karl. But he had overdosed in the bathroom at work. … So, my dad said, ‘I get it.’
“He just knew everyone was done with him. [Addicts] get embarrassed. He knew. It’s shameful and embarrassing. They get so disappointed in themselves, but then they feel like there’s no hope. So why not just keep using drugs to get over that pain?”
For years, Jeannette and Karl’s family encouraged them to not speak about his substance abuse and addiction. In a small town where everyone knew everyone, it was a sore subject for their parents. Jeannette said eventually, during an argument, her brother told their father that everybody already knew. There was no point in hiding it.
But once the not-so-secret was out and Karl’s life became more and more affected by his substance abuse, Jeannette committed herself to helping. Now with her brother’s permission to speak of his problem, she wanted to be an advocate for him.
“I did fitness modeling and was getting to where I could have been pretty big in that. But I stopped doing any of that and started focusing on my brother and trying to save him,” Jeannette said. “I think that’s why I took [his death] the hardest because I tried to save that guy for — still mad at him — for five years straight, talking to judges, counselors, probation officers, sober homes. What can we do to get you sober?”
Jeannette became his de facto point of contact for everything. She encouraged him to stay sober as much as she could and always told him he could overcome his addiction. When she felt like no one was paying attention to the kind of struggle her brother was facing, she started biking across the country, stopping along the way to speak at rehabilitation facilities and with strangers on the street, ending the ride in Missouri.
Karl could not stop gushing to his peers and counselors at rehab about how inspirational his sister was. He passed out 50 bracelets Jeannette made with the message “Stay Strong” and then asked for another 50 because everyone wanted one, she said.
“[His counselor] said, ‘Do you know he walked up and down every hallway showing every person your picture saying how amazing you are and how much he loves you? He told everyone what you do about this bike ride 450 miles across the country for people like him,’” Jeannette recalled. “And I just almost started going to cry.”
By the time Jeannette had completed two Bike450s in 2018 and 2019, her brother was still struggling on and off.
In one of his stays at a sober home, Karl fell in love with another addict, which Jeannette said was another turning point in his life. The two were sober when they met. But they couldn’t consistently stay sober together, despite Karl having graduated from drug court and them having children together.
“He hated it when people would say, ‘If you loved your kids enough, you would stop the drugs,’” Jeannette recalled. “He goes, ‘I love my kids more than myself. And then the fact is I need heroin because I feel like I’m dying when I don’t have it. I’m not me. That has nothing to do with the fact that I love my kids so much.’ He would say, ‘I don’t know how to explain it but it’s two different categories. It’s never a choice in our heads.’”
It came to a head when her brother was arrested and the judge presiding over his case had to determine whether to send Karl back to jail or to a rehab facility again. Jeannette remembers her father pleading for the judge to keep Karl in jail.
“The judge looked at him and said, ‘So, you’re telling me to keep your son in jail?’ and my dad said, ‘I’m telling you I want my son alive and he’s going to stay alive in jail. If you send him to rehab, he’s going to do it again. He’s going to get out and he’s going to overdose.’”
The judge ultimately sent Karl to rehab. Jeannette arranged for his stay at one in Arizona. She, too, had wanted him to stay in jail.
“You’re clean there and you’re safe,” she said to Karl. “You’ve got to go to rehab four times now. What do you think’s going to be different? You tell me what is going to be different this time.”
When Karl was released from jail, the plan was for a family member to pick him up and head straight to the airport so Jeannette could accompany him to the rehab facility in Arizona. Karl asked to stop by his home on the way there.
In that brief stop, Karl got high again. Jeannette knew the moment she saw him because he was sweating profusely and acting mean.
For three days, her brother was going through withdrawal. She said he could hardly leave their hotel. But on the fourth day, before he was supposed to go to rehab, he woke up and was her loving brother again. They rented four wheelers, got massages and made the best out of his last moments before rehab.
“I had written him a letter just telling him that I’m praying for him and cheering for him,” Jeannette said. “I put in the letter, ‘You’re going to do it this time. We all need you to do it and you need you to do it the most for yourself. Because if you don’t make it through this rehab, the only option is you’re going to be in the grave. We have talked about this numerous times. … Everyone is praying for you. … Your kids need you. You’ve got to do it.’”
They hugged and cried. Jeannette gave Karl a bracelet that reminded him to stay strong. He thanked her for everything she had done for him, and he was on his way.
That would be Karl’s last time in rehab. Everything went great while he was there. But when he transitioned from rehab to a sober home, he was expected to keep a job. The sober home’s infrequent bus schedule made transportation to work difficult.
At one point, he had had enough and called Jeannette to pick him up. When she refused, she didn’t hear from her brother for a while, and personnel at the sober home called days later to say he was missing.
“The honest truth is — and only my parents and close friends know — I had told him to stop asking us to come get him,” Jeannette said. “I said, ‘I don’t know if you realize the damage you have caused the family with our parents almost getting divorced, us not even wanting to have holidays if you’re high. Should we not have the kids there? Which Karl is going to show up?’”
She begged him to contact her and eventually he did to tell her he would be taking a Greyhound bus to get back home. But his phone was running out of minutes and he had no money to his name.
“I told him, ‘You’re going to get home. Do whatever it takes to get home. … I love you,’” she recalled.
Karl never made it home. He died of an overdose on the bus.
A new purpose
After her brother’s death, Jeannette wasn’t sure she was up for another Bike450. During her brother’s last stay in rehab, he had committed to training so he could ride the entire trip with her.
“I did everything I could to save him,” she said. “I know we can’t save people but I sure did try. … Some days I was just so mad.”
But Jeannette had already touched many lives through her first two bike rides and appearances at rehab facilities. She receives hundreds of messages on social media explaining how her story has resonated with other addicts and their family members.
“This one lady, she said, ‘I remember you said as long as there’s breath, there’s hope. I know your brother took his last breath and so your hope is probably gone. But just know I am alive because of that. You probably wish it was your brother,’” Jeanette recalled. “What we said was right: ‘We know you rather your brother be here. But thank you for still being a voice for us.’ And she asked me please don’t quit.”
The Krupps’ friend Huebner, who will act as Jeannette’s bodyguard on the ride, said since he battled with substance abuse after being in the Marine Corps and going through a divorce, Jeannette’s influence has helped give him strength.
“Addicts, we’re embarrassed because we know better and we’re ashamed,” he said. “She taught me nobody knows about that, only you know about that and that’s why it bothers you so much. … She doesn’t believe in dimming your light. She wants you to shine as bright as you can.”
Jeannette inspires her students as well. Despite her brother’s passing, her surgeries, developing Hashimoto’s disease and the added stress of coaching during a pandemic, Jeannette said she tried to spend just as much time focusing on her athletes’ mental health as she did their physical health.
“She pushed us to our max and that’s great because most coaches won’t do that for us,” said sophomore Brynlee Wilson. “She just supports us in whatever we do and is very helpful if we need something in or out of the weight room. … She’s definitely a role model.”
While her brother is no longer here, she felt there were so many others now who have come to rely on and take inspiration from her strength. Others helped her see her new purpose was to help others heal.
“Everywhere, every gas station we go, everyone has a story,” Jeannette said. “If you aren’t being affected by it, someone who you know is. Generations are being wiped away. … I always said if I could just impact one person. I know that it’s worth it.”
Jeannette said she’s not a cyclist and she doesn’t have much time to train when she’s working with eight high school sports teams. But more than anything, she is determined.
Her journey will begin Monday in Cincinnati. She’ll ride through Indiana and Illinois, and she’ll cross the finish line on Oct. 8 at 530 Clark Avenue in Union, Missouri.
Even though Karl can’t be there to ride the Bike450 with her like they had planned, or be able to wait for her at the finish line, his eldest daughter will join Jeannette on Karl’s bike to help her finish the ride.
Jeannette said she’s not sure how she’s going to feel about her brother’s absence until she crosses the finish line. It won’t quite be the same. But it’s her purpose nonetheless.
“I’ve got to show them that you still have hope,” Jeannette said. “My hope isn’t here anymore. But you have it. And though I’ll be jealous, I hope your outcome is different.” | https://dentonrc.com/news/local/coach-missing-one-big-motivation-for-third-450-mile-bike-ride/article_67c3fa58-8d9a-5f63-9ac5-0bc45ed2ea5a.html | 2022-09-30 03:09:49 | 1 | https://dentonrc.com/news/local/coach-missing-one-big-motivation-for-third-450-mile-bike-ride/article_67c3fa58-8d9a-5f63-9ac5-0bc45ed2ea5a.html |
Two teenagers arrested in connection with deadly shooting in Columbia
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The Columbia Police Department (CPD) has arrested two male teenagers in connection with a deadly shooting on Ogden Street.
Police were dispatched to the 1600 block of Ogden Street at approximately 2:30 p.m. Saturday where they found a man with a gunshot wound to his upper body.
The Richland County Coroner’s Office identified the deceased man as 18-year-old Jamari J. Shields.
On Monday police announced the arrest of 19-year-old Willie Lee Carter, III.
Carter is charged with murder, armed robbery, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, transfer of a pistol to a person under 18, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Police also reported Carter’s alleged 16-year-old accomplice is charged with murder, armed robbery, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, unlawful carrying of a pistol and possession of a pistol by a person under 18.
CPD did not provide a name or booking photo of the 16-year-old.
Both teenagers are housed at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
CPD investigators said they believe the two suspects met with Shields and stole a firearm from him moments before the shooting occurred.
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BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Bruins earned themselves a seventh game with another dominating performance at home.
The problem: The clincher will be at Carolina, where the Hurricanes have been just as unbeatable.
“Everybody loves a Game 7,” Boston coach Bruce Cassidy said after the Bruins won 5-2 on Thursday night to even their first-round playoff series against Carolina at three games apiece. “We’d rather be at home, I’m not going to lie to you.
“But we’d play them on Mars if we had to.”
Jeremy Swayman stopped 23 shots, and Brad Marchand had a goal and an assist for Boston in the sixth straight blowout for the home team. Charlie Coyle also had a goal and an assist for Boston, and Erik Haula and Derek Forbort added third-period goals before Curtis Lazar backhanded the puck into the empty net with 4:17 to play to make it 5-1.
“We’ve got to win, now, one road game. That’s in front of us,” Cassidy said. “We knew that when we started, we’d have to win at least one to advance. So here it is.”
The Hurricanes will host Game 7 on Saturday in Raleigh, where they have gone 3-0 by a combined score of 15-4. The winner will play either the Penguins or Rangers in the Eastern Conference semifinals; Pittsburgh leads that series 3-2 heading into Game 6 on Friday night.
“The good news is we have another game to play,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “Right now, it’s tough. You should feel brutal, to be honest with you. And then you wake up, and you feel excited that you have an opportunity.”
Two days after losing 5-1 at Carolina, the Bruins returned home and put up an equally one-sided performance.
Andrei Svechnikov scored twice and Antti Raanta made 29 saves for the Hurricanes. Neither Swayman, a rookie, nor Raanta has ever appeared in a seventh game.
“I can’t wait,” said Swayman, who took over as starter after Linus Ullmark lost the first two games in Carolina. “It’s Game 7. We’re extremely excited. … It’s a fun atmosphere to be a part of. Couldn’t ask for much more.”
Marchand broke a scoreless tie 46 seconds into the second period, taking a long cross-ice pass from Connor Clifton and skating to the right circle before wristing it over Raanta’s glove.
Coyle gave the Bruins a 2-0 lead in the last two minutes of the period, poking in the trickling rebound of David Pastrnak’s one-timer. Svechnikov made it a one-goal game early in the third before Haula and Forbort gave Boston back its cushion.
Svechnikov’s second goal came with 2:30 left during a power play for a double minor to Marchand for spearing.
BYE BYE BERGY
The game could be the last at the TD Garden for future Hall of Famer Patrice Bergeron. The Bruins captain is unsigned for next year and has declined to talk about his future during the season.
In an 18-year career, all of it with Boston, Bergeron has scored 400 goals with 582 assists and won the Selke Award as the best two-way forward four times. He won the Stanley Cup in 2011 and went to the Final two other times.
COMEBACKS
After top defenseman Charlie McAvoy returned for Game 5 after he missed just one game in the COVID-19 protocol, No. 2 blue liner Hampus Lindholm returned for Game 6. He hadn’t played since showing signs of a concussion in Game 2.
Lindholm led all players in ice time with 24 minutes, 48 seconds.
“Watching hockey is not something I’ve ever been good at,” he said. “Super happy to be out there.”
NOTES: Tomas Nosek had two assists for Boston. … Carolina scored once on six power-play opportunities, with Boston killing a 5-on-3 advantage in the second period. The Bruins were 1 for 3.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Grammy-nominated hip-hop performer Mystikal is scheduled for arraignment on charges accusing him of raping and choking a woman and illegally possessing drugs at his Louisiana home.
Charges the performer will face during his arraignment Monday will include first-degree rape, which carries an automatic life sentence if Tyler is convicted.
“My client is innocent of all charges,” attorney Joel Pearce said in a text message Thursday. He said the rapper, whose given name is Michael Tyler, had a court order to protect him from the woman, and he is “the true victim.”
Pearce said he hopes he will be allowed to present evidence supporting bond for Tyler, who has been held without bond since the end of July. A judge denied bond on Aug. 4, but Pearce, who did not then represent the performer, said it was not a full bond hearing that would take evidence in Tyler’s favor.
Tyler was arrested July 31 on charges accusing him of choking and raping the woman at his home in Prairieville, an Ascension Parish community of about 33,000 near Baton Rouge.
A news release Wednesday from the district attorney’s office said Tyler was indicted last week on 10 counts including rape, domestic abuse battery by strangulation and false imprisonment. Investigators who searched his home found “evidence to corroborate the victim’s account of the rape along with a variety of illegal narcotics,” the statement said.
An Ascension Parish grand jury brought the charges in two indictments handed up Sept. 6, The Advocate reported.
District Attorney Ricky Babin said in an email that because they are part of an ongoing criminal matter, the indictments are not public records under state law.
Pearce represented Tyler on rape and kidnapping charges that prosecutors in northwest Louisiana dropped in December 2020. Those charges, brought in 2017, had kept him jailed for nearly 18 months before he was released on $3 million bond.
Mystikal told The Associated Press in April 2021 that he now is proud of lyrics he can imagine rapping to God.
His 2000 hit “Shake (It Fast) earned a 2001 Grammy nomination for best rap solo. In 2003, his “Tarantula” was nominated for best rap album and the single “Bouncin’ Back” for best male rap solo.
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Pre-professional certification will confirm foundational knowledge on how to use modern observability techniques with Prometheus to improve application performance, troubleshoot system implementations, and feed that data into other systems
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, and The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced that the new Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam is generally available, following several months of beta testing.
This new exam is for any engineer or application developer with a special interest in observability and monitoring. It enables candidates to demonstrate their foundational knowledge of best practices for monitoring cloud native applications and infrastructure using Prometheus and aims to prepare candidates to work with the fundamentals of data monitoring, metrics, alerts, and dashboards using Prometheus.
"The Prometheus project and community revolutionized the modern cloud native observability movement," said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. "Like the certifications before it, the PCA gives developers the ability to officially demonstrate their skills in understanding Prometheus and modern observability systems."
"We have created this certification to address a huge demand in the market for Prometheus knowledge," said Julien Pivotto, Prometheus maintainer and co-founder of O11y. This certification proves once again the maturity and the strength of the Prometheus ecosystem."
"It was great to work with the Linux Foundation on creating this official Prometheus certification program around Prometheus," said Prometheus co-founder and PromLabs founder Julius Volz. "At PromLabs, we are also looking forward to providing comprehensive training courses that prepare students for the PCA exam in an effective way."
"Observing wave after wave of adoption, it's sometimes hard to judge from the inside just how much of a standard Prometheus and its ecosystem has become. The market demand by both engineers and employers for a reliable baseline of Prometheus knowledge is proof positive that Prometheus and its ecosystem have crossed the chasm," said CNCF Governing Board member, Prometheus maintainer, and Director of Community at Grafana Labs Richard "RichiH" Hartmann. "Experts wanting to prove their merits, newcomers entering the field, and employers who value the continued education of their employees alike should leverage this exciting opportunity."
This exam is an online, proctored, multiple-choice exam. For technologists new to Prometheus, the Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus training course can be helpful to learn many of Prometheus' major features, best practices, and use cases. There are also organizations offering relevant training on the Prometheus support and training site.
We have seen significant interest in Prometheus over the past several months of beta testing and we're excited to now offer the certification to the general public," said Clyde Seepersad, SVP, and general manager of training & certification at The Linux Foundation. "The existing Prometheus training and new PCA certification will help individuals learn and verify their knowledge and skills to employers."
The exam is being developed in partnership with Certiverse. The online test development and delivery platform was chosen because its asynchronous content creation and automated workflows were proven in past projects with CNCF and The Linux Foundation to bring high-quality certification exams to market at accelerated rates, ensuring these certifications cover current, relevant topics.
Digital badges are available for the PCA and the PCA curriculum is available for review.
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Quick Senate OK ahead for House-passed $40B aid for Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — Final congressional approval of a $40 billion Ukraine aid bill seems certain within days as top Senate Republicans said Wednesday they expect strong GOP backing for the House-passed measure, signaling a bipartisan, heightened U.S. commitment to helping thwart the bloody Russian invasion.
“I think there’ll be substantial support,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told The Associated Press about the legislation, which cleared the House late Tuesday by an emphatic 368-57 margin. “We’re going to try to process it as soon as possible.”
No. 2 Senate GOP leader John Thune of South Dakota predicted “a big vote over here” for the bill, which he and others suggested might come Thursday but could spill into next week. Thune said some Republicans would vote against it and procedural tactics by opponents to slow it were possible, but added, “I think because there’s so much forward momentum behind doing this and doing it in a timely way that it I don’t think we’ll have anybody who will hold it up.”
It’s taken just two weeks for lawmakers to receive President Joe Biden’s smaller, $33 billion package, enlarge it and move it to the brink of passage — lightning speed for Congress. That reflects a bipartisan consensus that Ukraine’s outnumbered forces need additional Western help as soon as possible, with added political pressure fueled by near-daily tales of atrocities against civilians inflicted by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s armies.
“Act quickly we must,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “I will make sure this is a priority for the Senate. We have a moral obligation to stand with our friends in Ukraine.”
The new legislation would bring American support for the effort to nearly $54 billion, including the $13.6 billion Congress enacted in March. That’s about $6 billion more than the U.S. spent on all its foreign and military aid in 2019, according to a January report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, which studies issues for lawmakers.
Washington has become increasingly assertive about its goals and its willingness to help Ukraine with more sophisticated weapons. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said recently the U.S. wants a “weakened” Russia that can’t quickly restore its capability to attack other countries, and reports have emerged about U.S. intelligence helping Ukrainians kill Russian generals and sink the Russian missile cruiser Moskva.
A senior Russian official said in Moscow Wednesday that the assistance package was part of Washington’s proxy war against Russia. Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council and former president, said on a messaging app that the aid was driven by a desire to “inflict a heavy defeat on our country, restrict its economic development and political influence in the world.”
The measure sailed to House passage backed by every voting Democrat, while around 1-in-4 Republicans opposed it. It would provide $7 billion more than Biden’s request from April, dividing the increase evenly between defense and humanitarian programs.
The bill would give Ukraine military and economic assistance, help regional allies, replenish weapons the Pentagon has shipped overseas and provide $5 billion to address global food shortages caused by the war’s crippling of Ukraine’s normally robust production of many crops.
“As Putin desperately accelerates his campaign of horror and brutality in Ukraine, time is of the essence,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Some Republicans used the election-season debate to accuse Biden of being unclear about his goals.
“Honestly, do we not deserve a plan?” said Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas. He said he agrees that Western countries must help Ukraine stand up to Russia but added, “Does the administration not need to come to us with where we are going with this?”
Oksana Markarova, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., attended Tuesday’s separate Democratic and Republican Senate lunches and expressed gratitude for the support they’ve received. Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said Markarova told them her country has depleted its stockpiles of Soviet-era weapons and said continued NATO support is vital.
Coons said the Ukrainian’s message was: “Thank you, do more. We have a hard fight ahead. With your support, we can win.”
The new measure includes $6 billion to arm and train Ukrainian forces, $8.7 billion to restore American stores of weapons shipped to Ukraine and $3.9 billion for U.S. forces deployed to the area.
There’s also $8.8 billion in economic support for Ukraine, $4 billion to help Ukraine and allies finance arms and equipment purchases and $900 million for housing, education and other help for Ukrainian refugees in the U.S.
To enhance the measure’s chances in Congress, the House bill dropped Biden’s proposal to ease the pathway to legal permanent residency for qualifying Afghans who fled to the U.S. after last summer’s American withdrawal from that country. Some Republicans have expressed concerns about the adequacy of security screenings for applicants.
In their biggest concession, Biden and Democrats abandoned plans Monday to include additional billions of dollars to build up U.S. supplies of medicines, vaccines and tests for COVID-19. Republican support for more pandemic spending is waning and including that money would have slowed the Ukraine measure in the 50-50 Senate, where at least 10 GOP votes will be needed for passage.
Democrats hope to produce a separate COVID-19 package soon, though its fate is unclear.
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By JAMEY KEATEN and SAM MEDNICK
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities endeavored Saturday to restore electricity and water services after recent pummeling by Russian military strikes that vastly damaged infrastructure, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying millions have seen their power restored since blackouts swept the war-battered country days earlier.
Skirmishes continued in the east and residents from the southern city of Kherson headed north and west to flee after punishing, deadly bombardments by Russian forces in recent days. The strikes have been seen as attempts at Russian retribution against Ukraine’s beleaguered but defiant people after Ukrainian troops over two week ago liberated the city that had been in Russian hands for many months.
“The key task of today, as well as other days of this week, is energy,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly televised address late Friday. “From Wednesday to today we have managed to halve the number of people whose electricity is cut off, to stabilize the system.”
He said, however, that blackouts continued in most regions, including Kyiv, the capital.
“In total, more than 6 million subscribers are affected. On Wednesday evening, almost 12 million subscribers were cut off,” Zelenskyy added.
He allowed himself a rare show of pique about how Kyiv authorities were faring, alluding to “many complaints” with the rollouts of “points of invincibility” — public centers where residents can stock up on food, water, battery power and other essentials — in the capital.
“Please pay attention: Kyiv residents need more protection,” he said. “As of this evening, 600,000 subscribers have been disconnected in the city. Many Kyiv residents were without electricity for more than 20 or even 30 hours.”
“I expect quality work from the mayor’s office,” he said, alluding to the administration of Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
Early Saturday, the Kyiv municipal administration said water connections had been restored throughout the city, but that about 130,000 residents remain without electricity.
City authorities said Saturday morning that all power, water, heating and communication services would be restored within 24 hours.
Meanwhile, Ukrainians were marking the 90th anniversary of the start of the “Holodomor,” or Great Famine, that killed more than 3 million people over two years as the Soviet government under Josef Stalin confiscated food and grain supplies and deported many Ukrainians.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz marked the commemoration by drawing parallels with the impact of the war on Ukraine — a key supplier of wheat, barley, sunflower oil and other foodstuffs — on world markets. Exports from Ukraine have resumed under a U.N.-brokered deal but have still been far short of pre-war levels, driving up global prices.
“Today, we stand united in stating that hunger must never again be used as a weapon,” Scholz said in a video message. “That is why we cannot tolerate what we are witnessing: The worst global food crisis in years with abhorrent consequences for millions of people – from Afghanistan to Madagascar, from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa.”
He said a World Food Program ship was in the process of delivering Ukrainian grain to Ethiopia, and Germany was adding another 10 million euros to efforts to help expedite grain shipments from Ukraine.
In Kherson, residents continued to flee — or try to. A salvo of missiles struck the recently liberated city for a second day on Friday.
“I have no money, I can’t even buy gas for the car,” said Iryna Rusanovska, standing on the street near the bodies of three people who died from a strike on Thursday. She said wants to take her family to western Ukraine or out of the country.
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Mednick reported from Kherson, Ukraine.
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(The Hill) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has canceled his planned Friday live speech at the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Houston following a deadly mass shooting at a Texas elementary school this week.
Abbott will hold a press conference at Uvalde High School at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, according to a press release from his office, around the same time as an event for which he is listed as a confirmed speaker on the NRA convention website.
The Texas governor will send a pre-recorded video to the summit in lieu of appearing in person at the convention center in Houston, which is about 300 miles away from Uvalde, according to The Dallas Morning News, which cited a spokesperson for Abbott.
The convention will still be attended by prominent Republicans, including Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and former President Donald Trump.
The NRA has faced calls to cancel the event after the mass shooting at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School on Tuesday, which left 19 children and two teachers dead.
Abbott, who has worked to loosen gun laws in Texas, was slammed for his scheduled appearance at the NRA summit, which was slated to take place just days after the Tuesday tragedy in the state.
On Wednesday, Abbott deflected a question about his planned appearance at the convention during a press conference, saying he was living “moment to moment.”
Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke, who got into a confrontation with Abbott during a press conference after the mass shooting, called on the governor to immediately withdraw from the event.
“Governor Abbott, if you have any decency, you will immediately withdraw from this weekend’s NRA convention and urge them to hold it anywhere but Texas,” O’Rourke tweeted.
O’Rourke is planning to attend a protest outside the NRA convention center on Friday along with several organizations.
Others have also canceled appearances at the convention, including country singers Larry Gatlin and Larry Stewart and Don McClean, who is best known for his hit 1971 song “American Pie.”
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- 1957 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta Scaglietti "Tour de France" tops Broad Arrow's inaugural auction at $5,500,000
- Ferrari F50 leads supercar highlights, setting a new world record price of $5,175,000
- First appearance of rostrum veteran Lydia Fenet as Broad Arrow's Principal Auctioneer
- Broad Arrow Auctions calendar continues in October with private collection sale 'Passion for the Drive: The Cars of Jim Taylor' followed by debut of West Palm Beach Auction in November 2022
- Hagerty names Broad Arrow Auctions as the official auction house of 'The Amelia' starting in 2023
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Broad Arrow Auctions, a Hagerty (HGTY) company, today announced that sales from its August 18 live auction at the Monterey Jet Center totaled nearly $55.3 million with 88 percent of all 93 lots on offer sold.
The Thursday auction was held in conjunction with Hagerty's reimagined Motorlux event (formerly McCall's Motorworks Revival) on Wednesday evening, with thousands of guests across the two events viewing the cars on offer.
The crowded auction room included bidders from around the world, both in person and via telephone, internet and absentee bids. Auction veteran Lydia Fenet commanded the room from the rostrum, making her debut as Principal Auctioneer for Broad Arrow. The evening sale was led by a three-owner, 5,000-mile, Classiche-certified 1995 Ferrari F50, which set a new world record price for the model at auction of $5,175,000, following an intense bidding battle between parties in the room and on the phone.
Additional well-sold supercars included a 2015 Ferrari LaFerrari, offered from The Halo Car Collection in immaculate "new-in-the-box" condition at $3,910,000, a well-preserved Ferrari Classiche-certified 1990 Ferrari F40 at $1,985,000 and a stunning 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder Weissach Package at $1,930,000.
Further stand-out auction highlights include:
- A meticulously prepared 1964 Aston Martin DB5 offered from the Estate of Sir Sean Connery at $2,425,000. A significant portion of the proceeds will benefit the Sean Connery Philanthropy Fund. A personal drive with Sir Jackie Stewart was included as part of the purchase.
- A highly desirable 1971 Mercedes-Benz 600 LWB Landaulet, one of just 26, six-door 600 Pullman landaulets built between 1963 and 1981, brought an auction record $2,590,000.
- A 1981 BMW M1 achieved $692,500, yet another new record price at auction for a road model.
- One of the top-billing cars, a 1957 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta Scaglietti "Tour de France" was sold following the sale for a final price of $5,500,000.
- A 1930 Duesenberg Model J Willoughby Limousine for $1,000,000, and other notable cars were also sold immediately after the auction.
"We are very excited about the success of the inaugural Broad Arrow auction," said McKeel Hagerty, CEO of Hagerty. "The quality and diversity of the offerings clearly hit the mark with buyers and validated the trends we are seeing in the marketplace. If anyone had any questions about whether this would be a strong year in the collectible car market, this week proved that demand is strong and there are cars available for every taste."
"This was an incredible debut, and we are tremendously grateful for the trust and support of our consignors, bidders and car collector community," said Kenneth Ahn, CEO of Broad Arrow Group & President of Hagerty Marketplace. "This event was not only important for establishing Broad Arrow as one of the premier auction houses in the industry, but it was also the first collaborative event under Hagerty's stewardship. We look forward to hosting a series of world class events and auctions, including at The Amelia, to better serve car collectors and enthusiasts globally."
Complete results from Broad Arrow's debut Monterey Jet Center event can be found at broadarrowauctions.com.
On the heels of a successful Monterey Jet Center Auction, Hagerty CEO McKeel Hagerty announced Broad Arrow Auctions as the official auction house of The Amelia starting in March 2023. The Amelia is a four-day celebration of world-class collectible cars, automotive enthusiasts, car culture and auctions in Amelia Island, Florida. Formerly known as the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, the event was acquired by Hagerty in 2021 and rebranded as The Amelia. It has been considered one of the world's finest concours events since 1996. Tickets for The Amelia (March 2-5, 2023) will go on sale October 1 at www.ameliaconcours.com/event.
Additional Broad Arrow Auctions this year include the company's first private collection offering, "Passion for the Drive: The Cars of Jim Taylor." This single owner collection of more than 120 motor cars and nearly 500 lots of memorabilia will be presented in Mr. Taylor's hometown of Gloversville, New York on October 14-15. The collection represents one of the finest assemblages of European, British and American sports and vintage cars anywhere, with many having been rallied and shown around the world.
The company will host its debut West Palm Beach Auction, November 18-19 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. The sale will offer approximately 300 collector cars ranging from pre-war classics to modern supercars.
NOTE: All prices are listed in USD and are inclusive of the applicable buyer's premium. Broad Arrow's buyer's premium for all motor car lots is equal to the sum of twelve percent (12%) of the first $250,000 of the Hammer Price and ten percent (10%) of the amount by which the Hammer Price exceeds $250,000. Buyer's premium for all non-motor car lots is twenty percent (20%) of the Hammer Price. Results include post-auction transactions that were completed immediately following the sale.
Broad Arrow Group, a Hagerty (NYSE: HGTY) company, is an advisor, market maker, and financier for car collectors, with commitment to integrity, trust, and innovation. Broad Arrow Group operates Broad Arrow Auctions, Broad Arrow Capital, and Collectors Garage and is headquartered in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Learn more at broadarrowgroup.com.
Based in Traverse City, Michigan, Hagerty's purpose is to save driving and car culture for future generations and its mission is to build a global business to fund that purpose. Hagerty is an automotive enthusiast brand offering integrated membership products and programs as well as a specialty insurance provider focused on the global automotive enthusiast market. Hagerty is home to Hagerty Drivers Club, DriveShare, Hagerty Valuation Tools, Hagerty Media, Hagerty Drivers Club magazine, MotorsportReg, Hagerty Garage + Social, The Amelia, the Concours d'Elegance of America, the Greenwich Concours d'Elegance, the California Mille, Motorlux, the Hagerty Drivers Foundation and more. For more information on Hagerty, please visit www.hagerty.com, or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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IEEE Quantum Week includes presentations by IBM Quantum, Quantinuum, Quantum Machines, and Microsoft
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE22), the premier event bridging the gap between the science of quantum computing and the development of an industry surrounding it, has revealed its highly anticipated keynote lineup. Also known as IEEE Quantum Week, the multidisciplinary event will take place 18-23 September 2022, live at the Omni Interlocken Hotel in Broomfield, Colorado, as well as virtually, and will deliver cutting-edge developments in quantum research, practice, applications, education, and training. Registration Is Open Now.
"We're excited to announce our speaker lineup for the third annual IEEE Quantum Week, founded by the IEEE Future Directions Initiative and supported by multiple IEEE Societies and organizational units," said Greg Byrd, QCE22 general chair. "The technology-rich program offers attendees opportunities to identify challenges and discuss future possibilities of the fast-growing landscape of quantum computing. We are especially looking forward to in-person conversations and social interactions."
IEEE Quantum Week 2022's keynote speakers are:
- Chris Monroe — Co-founder and Chief Scientist, IonQ, and Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor, Duke University
- Stephanie Wehner — Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in Quantum Information, TU Delft
- Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia — VP of System Architecture, PsiQuantum
- Fred Chong — Seymour Goodman Professor, University of Chicago, and Chief Scientist for Software, ColdQuanta
- Ilyas Khan — Founder, Cambridge Quantum, and CEO, Quantinuum
- Anna Grasselino — Senior Scientist, Fermilab
- Katie Pizzolato — Director, IBM Quantum Strategy and Applications Research
- Michael J. Biercuk — CEO and Founder, Q-CTRL, and professor of quantum physics and technology, University of Sydney
- Wim van Dam — Principal Researcher, Microsoft Quantum Systems group
The third annual IEEE Quantum Week will deliver five action-packed days of programming that includes 9 world-class keynote speakers, over 23 exciting exhibits, 25 workforce-building tutorials, 16 community-building workshops, technical paper presentations, innovative posters, stimulating panels, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions.
IEEE Quantum Week 2022 is where the world's quantum innovators discuss many diverse quantum computing and engineering topics, including:
- Quantum Computing
- Quantum Algorithms & Information
- Quantum Software Engineering
- Quantum Communications & Cryptography
- Quantum Sensing & Metrology
- Quantum Photonics & Optics
- Quantum Hardware Engineering
- Quantum Applications
- Quantum Education & Training
Visit IEEE Quantum Week 2022 for all event news, including sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities.
Papers accepted by IEEE Quantum Week 2022 will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library. The best papers will be invited to submit extended versions to the journals IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (TQE) and ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (TQC).
IEEE Quantum Week 2022 is co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Council of Superconductivity, IEEE Future Directions Quantum Initiative, IEEE Photonics Society, IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society, IEEE Electronics Packaging Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Electron Device Society, and IEEE Consumer Technology Society.
The IEEE Quantum Week 2022 Registration Package includes virtual access to IEEE Quantum Week as well as on-demand access to all recorded events until 30 November 2022. The IEEE Quantum Week schedule will take place during Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).
Register here to be a part of IEEE Quantum Week 2022.
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- Increase of 19% net sales growth at actual currency across all regions and product segments
- Increase of 29% in enterprise annual recurring revenue (ARR) exceeding a US $637 million total
- Increase of 11% in active customer subscriptions to more than 411,000
TOKYO, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704;TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today announced earnings results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, ending September 30, 2022.
A transformation to SaaS and a holistic platform approach to security, including cloud and extended detection and response, continued to drive the company's success this quarter.
Enterprise subscription-based ARR increased by 29% year-over-year along with an 11% increase in subscription-based customers, now exceeding 411,000.
"This quarter brought success in key areas to our business, including the continued adoption of SaaS by the most geographically diverse customer base in the security industry," said Eva Chen, co-founder and chief executive officer for Trend Micro. "Our team of 7,000 employees is ruthlessly focused on securing those organizations, as well as our global society from increasingly sophisticated threats."
For this quarter, Trend Micro posted consolidated net sales of 56,798 million Yen (or US $410 million, 138.40 JPY = 1USD). The company posted operating income of 7,213 million Yen (or US $52 million) and net income attributable to owners of the parent of 13,530 million Yen (or US $97 million) for the quarter.
The company will not revise expected consolidated results for the full year ending December 31, 2022 (released on November 2, 2022).
Based on information currently available to the company, consolidated net sales for the year ending December 31, 2022, is expected to be 225,900 million Yen (or US $1,685 million, based on an exchange rate of 134 JPY = 1 USD). Operating income and net income are expected to be 37,000 million Yen (or US $276 million) and 31,900 million Yen (or US $238 million), respectively.
Key business updates in Q3 2022
Innovative: Trend Micro nurtures a culture of innovation to drive advancements across its cybersecurity platform.
- Named No. 1 in cloud workload security for the fourth consecutive year with 17.7% of the cloud workload security market share, which is nearly three times the size of the next largest competitor, according to IDC.
- The company divested investment in the security operations center company, named Cysiv, to allow for alternate areas of growth.
- Trend Micro has the industry's best protection for Linux-based systems, which is critical as the company found a 75% increase in ransomware attacks on these systems.
- According to a survey, 73% of organizations worry about their growing attack surface, making it critical to have a trusted security partner to wrangle the sprawl and simplify security.
Trusted: Trend Micro is a trusted partner to the customers and communities that we serve.
- Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative was responsible for disclosing nearly 64% of all vulnerabilities in 2021. It continues to disclose the most bugs of any bug bounty program, improving security for every technology user.
- Trusted studies from Trend Micro shared that 89% of electricity, oil & gas, and manufacturing firms have experienced cyber-attacks impacting production and energy supply over the past 12 months.
- Trend Micro is trusted to secure the supply chain, supporting a study that found 79% of global IT leaders believe their partners and customers.
- The company is a trusted partner for private 5G network adoption, supporting companies seeking to transition their networks while lowering risk.
Global: Trend Micro has the most geographically dispersed customers in the industry with millions of sensors inform products and customer support.
- As the cloud security leader, Trend Micro continues to add AWS competencies that acknowledge they company's ideal fit for protecting specific industries, including the Security Competency and the AWS Healthcare Competency.
- In line with the company's history of incubating technology innovation, Trend Micro VicOne was launched as a wholly owned subsidiary to target cyber security for EV automotive.
- A partnership with Schneider Electric will advance Industrial IoT security through embedded technology in HMI systems.
- Trend Micro detected a 101% increase in email-based threats in 2021, reaffirming email as the leading attack entry method for criminals.
New Patents Filed
Trend Micro was awarded the following patents in Q3 2022:
Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements that are made in this release are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available, but involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Many important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements. These factors include:
- Difficulties in addressing new threats and other computer security problems
- Timing of new product introductions and lack of market acceptance for new products
- The level of continuing demand for, and timing of sales of, existing products
- Rapid technological change within the security software industry
- Changes in customer needs for security software
- Existing products and new product introductions by competitors and pricing of those products
- Declining prices for products and services
- The effect of future acquisitions on our financial condition and results of operations
- The effect of adverse economic trends on principal markets
- The effect of foreign exchange fluctuations on our results of operations
- An increase in the incidence of product returns
- The potential lack of attractive investment targets and difficulties in successfully executing our investment strategy
- New and potentially unforeseen risks and liabilities associated with the internet of things, the use of artificial intelligence in our products and services, and other emerging technologies
About Trend Micro
Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro's cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 65 countries, Trend Micro enables organizations to simplify and secure their connected world. www.trendmicro.com.
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MedTech Startup mymedicalimages.com is partnering with the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation (NPCF) to help parents of cancer patients take control of their child's medical images.
BOCA RATON, Fla. , June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MedTech startup mymedicalimages.com has partnered with the Tampa-based National Pediatric Cancer Foundation to make its SaaS platform available to NPCF's constituents at no cost for the first year. As part of the joint effort, mymedicalimages.com will also donate a portion of the proceeds from sales of its patient StarterKit.
– mymedicalimages.com has partnered with NPCF to make its platform available to NPCF's constituents.
"People usually realize how important it is to have their families' medical images organized and easily shareable after they experience a significant life event," said Dan Hodgeman, a serial entrepreneur and founder of mymedicalimages.com. "One of the realities of having a kid with cancer is managing a mountain of medical images that may need to be shared immediately. mymedicalimages.com solves that problem. We understand that pediatric cancer patients and their parents are in the fight of their lives, and through partnerships with organizations like NCPF, mymedicalimages.com is proud to stand with them."
"We are excited to partner with mymedicalimages.com to make their software available to the families we serve," said David Frazer, CEO of NPCF. "Managing medical images is often a frustration of parents of pediatric cancer patients, and mymedicalimages.com offers an easy-to-use solution."
"In the 90 days after my then 9-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer, we had more than 20 imaging studies on CDs to keep track of. mymedicalimages.com didn't exist back then, but it's now something I recommend as part of my advocacy work," said Caroline Bransfield-Carter, whose son, Jackson, is now cancer free and just graduated from high school.
Because of experiences like Caroline's, mymedicalimages.com has made managing medical images easy. Medical imaging is still largely shared on CD-ROM, and the mymedicalimages.com platform allows patients to upload studies from any computer with a CD drive. Because CD-ROM drives are obsolete, patients without access to a computer with a CD drive can also visit one of more than 7,400 select CVS Pharmacy® locations to easily upload and share their medical images from photo kiosks for free.
"We realize challenges in collecting or sharing medical images can delay or even prevent necessary care. mymedicalimages.com is committed to standing with the patients who use our platform, and that is especially true for parents of kids with cancer, and we're honored to partner with NPCF. We will continue to partner with non-profit patient advocacy organizations supporting the people who need our platform," concluded Hodgeman.
About the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation:
The National Pediatric Cancer Foundation (NPCF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to funding research and clinical trials to find less toxic, more effective treatments for childhood cancer. Our purpose is to reduce the side effects of current treatments, improve survival rates, and ultimately eliminate childhood cancer. NationalPCF.org
About mymedicalimages.com
mymedicalimages.com is a subscription-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that provides a simple means by which patients can manage and view their family's medical images and easily share them with physicians for second opinions and treatment options at times of need. Medical images are the window into patients' health and a big part of the healthcare journey. Our proprietary, browser-based, HIPAA-compliant software reduces delays in care associated with how medical images are viewed, shared, and managed by patients and doctors. While we can access patient images directly from healthcare facilities and portals, most medical images uploaded to our platform come from CDs. We have addressed the problems associated with the lack of CD drives and CDs not working by giving patients access to thousands of kiosks and providing 24/7 live telephone support for patients and physicians. Follow @mymedicalimages on social media.
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BEIJING (AP) — Some Chinese universities say they will allow students to finish the semester from home in hopes of reducing the potential of a bigger COVID-19 outbreak during the January Lunar New Year travel rush.
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It wasn’t clear how many schools were taking part, but universities in Shanghai and nearby cities said students would be given the option of either returning home early or staying on campus and undergoing testing every 48 hours. The Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan. 22 this year, is traditionally China’s busiest travel season.
Universities have been the scene of frequent lockdowns over the past three years, occasionally leading to clashes between the authorities and students confined to campus or even their dorm rooms.
Tuesday’s announcements came as China begins relaxing its strict “zero-COVID” policy, allowing people with mild symptoms to stay home rather than be sent to a quarantine center, among other changes that followed widespread protests.
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Starting from Tuesday, China has stopped tracking some travel, potentially reducing the likelihood people will be forced into quarantine for visiting COVID-19 hot spots. Despite that, China's international borders remain largely shut and there has been no word on when restrictions on inbound travelers and Chinese wishing to go overseas will be eased.
The move follows the government’s dramatic announcement last week that it was ending many of the strictest measures, following three years during which it enforced some of the world's tightest virus restrictions.
Last month in Beijing and several other cities, protests over the restrictions grew into calls for leader Xi Jinping and the Communist Party to step down — a level of public dissent not seen in decades.
While met with relief, the relaxation has also sparked concerns about a new wave of infections potentially overwhelming health care resources in some areas.
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With so many people staying home, Beijing's downtown streets were eerily quiet on Tuesday. Small lines formed outside fever clinics — the number of which has been recently increased from 94 to 303 — and at pharmacies, where cold and flu medications have become harder to find.
Many residents of mainland China have taken to ordering medication from pharmacies in Hong Kong, which has already relaxed many restrictions.
The government of the semi-autonomous southern city took a further step Tuesday, saying it would remove restrictions for arriving travelers that currently prevent them from dining in restaurants or going to bars for the first three days.
It would also scrap the use of its contact-tracing app, although vaccine requirements to enter venues like restaurants will remain in place. Those going from Hong Kong to mainland China and Macao will no longer have to take a PCR test at border checkpoints, although they still face several days in quarantine on the mainland side. The new measures take effect Wednesday.
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Hong Kong will gradually reduce PCR testing, including the compulsory screening notices issued to residential buildings, and more rapid test kits will be given out in the community, according to the city’s health minister.
The easing of control measures on the mainland means a sharp drop in obligatory testing from which daily infections numbers are compiled, but cases appear to be rising rapidly, with many testing themselves at home and staying away from hospitals.
China reported 7,451 new infections on Monday, bringing the nation’s total to 372,763 — more than double the level on Oct. 1. It has recorded 5,235 deaths — compared to 1.1 million in the United States.
China's government-supplied figures have not been independently verified and questions have been raised about whether the ruling Communist Party has sought to minimize numbers of cases and deaths.
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The U.S. consulates in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang and the central city of Wuhan will offer only emergency services from Tuesday “in response to increased number of COVID-19 cases," the State Department said.
“Mission China makes every effort to ensure full consular services are available to U.S. citizens living in the PRC, but further disruptions are possible," an e-mailed message said, using the initials for China's official name, the People's Republic of China.
Xi's government is still officially committed to stopping virus transmission, the last major country to try. But the latest moves suggest the party will tolerate more cases without quarantines or shutting down travel or businesses as it winds down its “zero-COVID” strategy.
Amid the unpredictable messaging from Beijing, experts warn there still is a chance the ruling party might reverse course and reimpose restrictions if a large-scale outbreak ensues.
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The change in policy comes after protests erupted Nov. 25 after 10 people died in a fire in the northwestern city of Urumqi. Many questioned whether COVID-19 restrictions impeded rescue efforts. Authorities denied the claims spread online, but demonstrators gave voice to longstanding frustration in cities such as Shanghai that have endured severe lockdowns.
The party responded with a massive show of force and an unknown number of people were arrested at the protests or in the days following.
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
9-6-9-8
(nine, six, nine, eight)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
9-6-9-8
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LONDRES (AP) — La Unión Europea acusa a Meta de violar normas antimonopolio, distorsionar competencia con publicidad en Facebook.
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TACOMA, Wash., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Toray, the leading global company in innovative technologies and advanced high-performance materials, is among the shortlist of composite material suppliers who are members of the Advanced Composites Consortium (ACC) and are supporting NASA's Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project. The ACC is a Public-Private Partnership which includes NASA, FAA, select aerospace and materials companies, and academia that supports the HiCAM project. The project seeks to dramatically improve the manufacturing rates of composite airframe structures for future single-aisle commercial aircraft manufactured in the United States. Its approach includes the use of high-rate composite technologies to improve production rates and cost without sacrificing weight and performance attributes.
"The HiCAM project has completed tasks supporting formulation and is entering the next phase for technology development. We are pleased to have Toray as one of the members representing raw material suppliers." said Richard Young, HiCAM project manager.
Toray Composite Materials America, Inc. (TCMA), manufacturer of TORAYCA™ carbon fiber and aerospace-grade thermoset prepregs, is involved in three sections of the project's current phase supplying TORAYCA™ carbon fiber and next-generation thermoset prepregs. TCMA also provides process guidance of the materials' use in automated fiber placement (AFP) process development, rapid cure, and resin infusion for wing and fuselage structures. The thermoset prepregs utilize intermediate modulus plus (IM+) carbon fiber with a toughened epoxy resin system, providing structural performance, low resin content, and tight physical property manufacturing tolerances. "We're proud to participate in the ACC's effort to reduce cost, improve performance and increase delivery rates of single aisle commercial aircrafts to retain the United States' competitive advantage in aircraft manufacturing," according to Jeff Cross, TCMA Director of Business Development for Aerospace.
Toray Advanced Composites (TAC), manufacturer of a broad range of thermoset and thermoplastic composite technologies, is directly involved in four additional sections of the program with a range of Cetex® thermoplastic UD tapes and material science input. These materials represent state of the art structural thermoplastic composites on standard, intermediate and intermediate modulus plus (IM+) TORAYCA® carbon fibers and are being utilized in innovative part fabrication and assembly processes. "Toray is honored to support this holistic material and process technology initiative, helping US aerospace manufacturing achieve an unprecedented 4-6x production rate increase" according to Steve Cease, TAC VP of Technology.
Toray Composite Materials America, Inc.
Developer, manufacturer and supplier of TORAYCA™, polyacrylonitrile-based carbon fibers, and thermoset prepreg.
Toray Advanced Composites
Developer, manufacturer and supplier of thermoset and thermoplastic-based materials, including prepregs in fabric, unidirectional tape, bulk-molded compounds and reinforced thermoplastic laminate formats.
Toray is a leading global company in innovative technologies and advanced materials. Since its foundation in 1926, the Company has contributed to society through the creation of new value and addressed global challenges by delivering high value-added products including fibers and textiles, resins and films, and carbon fiber composite materials. It operates in 29 countries and regions with about 48,000 employees worldwide. https://www.toray.com/
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MULBERRY, Fla., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of Highland Ag Solutions and Soli Organic working together for the last two years, Bristol Wells, host of Cream of the Crop, and Margaret Dominguez, Soli Organic's VP of Food Safety and Compliance, discuss how technology has enriched the consistency and quality of their organic products.
Formerly Shenandoah Growers, Soli Organic is the nation's only indoor soil-based growing system with twelve facilities nationwide. "Our goal is to deliver organic at an affordable price; we want our customers to choose organic," says Dominguez.
Using technology, such as the Highland Hub, Soli Organic can manage their business efficiently while differentiating themselves with their state-of-the-art growing and fertilization systems. As a result, Soli Organic is paving the way for the future of farming as one of the few certified organic indoor growing facilities offering customers quality, bio-fresh, healthy and flavorful produce.
"Implementing Highland Hub helped Soil Organic strengthen food safety culture. The system helped us standardize SOPs and logs among all 12 facilities. It allows us to get a quick snapshot of how our growing and packing operations are performing in regard to sanitation logs, internal audits, etc. We have used Highland Hub for the past couple of years with great success. The system is easy to navigate," says Dominguez.
Where to Learn More
The Highland Ag Solutions team will be in attendance at the Organic Produce Summit, July 13-14, at the Monterey Convention Center in Monterey, CA.
Continue the conversation with Bristol and Margaret by listening to the full podcast here.
About Highland Ag Solutions
Highland Ag Solutions provides digital solutions for food safety, compliance, and data management through a virtual ecosystem called Highland Hub. The Hub is comprised of resources to connect, streamline, and simplify the business of agriculture where growers, packers, shippers, and retailers can seamlessly receive and exchange on-demand, real-time insights into the critical elements of food production. Highland is dedicated to a customer-centric business model, working to create easy-to-use, time-saving solutions to master the uniquely complex challenges surrounding food safety and regulatory compliance in a global market.
About Soli Organic Inc.
Founded in 1989 as Shenandoah Growers, Inc., Soli Organic Inc. is the leading grower and marketer of fresh organic culinary herbs in the United States, providing sustainable, USDA certified organic, regionally grown produce to retailers coast-to-coast. The Rockingham, Virginia-based company has developed the nation's largest commercial indoor organic, soil-based growing system and continues to redefine how to bring fresh, organic, and sustainably farmed produce to market – operating across a nationally integrated platform of farms, production, and logistics facilities. For more information, please visit www.soliorganic.com.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creme of Nature's "Legacy of Leadership" HBCU scholarship initiative is now in its second year. The program was established by the iconic multicultural hair care brand in association with Walmart and The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) to empower the next generation of HBCU achievers.
Open to students currently enrolled at a historically black college or university (HBCU), the 2022 scholarship funding, totalling $100,000, will give promising students the head start they need to nurture their personal legacy brands. Twenty students who displayed the strongest levels of creativity, drive, and leadership potential were chosen from hundreds of qualified applicants.
Scholarship recipients received $5,000 each and a selection of Creme of Nature products. The students were also honoured at a virtual celebration held this month.
Stephanie Burks, Senior Marketing Director for Creme of Nature says, "HBCUs have been the start for incredible stories of some of the most inspiring figures in our society."
She continues, "Our overarching goal for this program is to plant the seeds of success into these exceptional students who will flourish in ways that will benefit their communities or even the world.
"They are the stories of tomorrow. They embody our 'shine different' philosophy, and the program will continue to evolve to best support them. At Creme of Nature, we are committed to helping pave their way. We couldn't be more excited."
In continuation of its partnership with TMCF, Creme of Nature will also participate in the Thurgood Marshall College Fund 35th Anniversary Awards Gala which celebrates the organization's legacy of changing lives for the past 35 years. The gala offers students from HBCUs access to professional development and networking opportunities.
(A full list of winners was published to Creme of Nature's social media channels and will appear on the brand's official website).
Creme of Nature was one of the first mainstream haircare lines designed especially for black women. For decades, the brand has been the go-to for black and multicultural women worldwide who want self-care solutions for beautiful hair. The Legacy of Leadership HBCU Scholarships Program reflects the brand's commitment to inspiring future leaders.
To learn more visit: https://cremeofnature.com/legacy-of-leadership/ or find Creme of Nature on social at @CremeOfNature on social media.
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The Texas legislature voted Wednesday to advance a bill that would prohibit gender-affirming medical care for minors in the state, including a ban on hormone therapy and puberty blocking treatments.
Loud opposition to the legislation from state Democrats and activists protesting at the Capitol did not sway lawmakers in support of Texas Senate Bill 14.
Both Senate Bill 14 and House Bill 1686 had been moving through the Texas legislature for weeks amid vocal opposition to the proposals, which both aimed to require transgender youth in the state receiving puberty blockers to be "weaned off the prescription drug over a period of time in a manner that is safe and medically appropriate," the Texas Tribune reported.
But, by Wednesday, lawmakers voted to approve the final version of SB14. That version includes limited exemptions for transgender children who already are receiving the treatments related to having them "wean" themselves off. It was not clear how long the process would take or what processes would qualify under the proposal.
Republican Sen. Donna Campbell, who wrote SB14, at one time included language making it allowable for transgender children who were already receiving puberty blockers and hormone treatments to continue their care. She suddenly changed that language after Republican opposition to that form of the exemption.
Last year Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the state's child protective agency to probe parents on suspicion of child abuse if it was found that their children received such transgender medical care.
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Christian Walker Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Rockies - April 30
Published: Apr. 30, 2023 at 8:26 AM MST|Updated: 2 hours ago
Christian Walker and his .381 on-base percentage over his past 10 games (91 points higher than his season-long percentage), will be in action for the Arizona Diamondbacks versus the Colorado Rockies and Austin Gomber on April 30 at 3:10 PM ET.
He racked up three hits (going 3-for-5 with a home run and two RBI) in his most recent game against the Rockies.
Christian Walker Game Info & Props vs. the Rockies
- Game Day: Sunday, April 30, 2023
- Game Time: 3:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Coors Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Rockies Starter: Austin Gomber
- TV Channel: SportsNet RM
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +155)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +320)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +110)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -143)
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Christian Walker At The Plate
- Walker has six doubles, four home runs and five walks while hitting .255.
- Walker has picked up a hit in 15 of 26 games this year, with multiple hits eight times.
- He has hit a home run in 15.4% of his games in 2023 (four of 26), and 3.7% of his trips to the plate.
- In 14 games this year (53.8%), Walker has picked up an RBI, and in four of those games (15.4%) he had two or more. He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored in 11 of 26 games so far this year.
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Christian Walker Home/Away Batting Splits
Rockies Pitching Rankings
- The Rockies pitching staff ranks 25th in the league with a collective eight strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Rockies have a 5.38 team ERA that ranks 28th across all league pitching staffs.
- The Rockies rank 23rd in baseball in home runs surrendered (38 total, 1.4 per game).
- Gomber (1-4) takes the mound for the Rockies in his sixth start of the season. He's put together a 9.28 ERA in 21 1/3 innings pitched, with 15 strikeouts.
- In his last time out on Monday, the left-hander went five scoreless innings against the Cleveland Guardians while surrendering three hits.
- The 29-year-old has put up an ERA of 9.28, with 6.3 strikeouts per nine innings, in five games this season. Opposing hitters have a .322 batting average against him.
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Severe storms possible as the work week comes to an end
HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) - We are already seeing showers and storms around the region this morning, with more possible later on today. And some of those could be severe, as such, our Severe Weather Alert Day continues.
Today through Tomorrow
A busy weekend kicks off with showers and storms around the region during the morning hours. Some of these will continue to move off to the north and east this morning. That will allow some sunshine to work into the region during the morning hours. That will boost temperatures into the middle and upper 70s, but the more sunshine we see, the greater the severe weather potential will be later today. Much of the area remains under a Level 1 Marginal Risk for severe weather with the Level 2 Slight Risk covering our southern counties. The main threats as these storms move in this afternoon and evening will be damaging winds and heavy rain, but with the natural spin of the low pressure so close, an isolated tornado can’t be ruled out.
Showers and storms will continue overnight as our cold front pushes through the region, we’ll see lows drop into the middle 50s as colder air moves in. With that on the back side of the low pressure, we will see clouds and nuisance showers work thrXough the region during the day on Saturday. I want to stress that this doesn’t look like an all day rain, but chances will be there at any point, especially earlier in the day. Highs are cool in the middle 60s.
The Rest of the Weekend
After a rather overcast Saturday night with lows in the lower to middle 50s, we are in much nicer shape as we head towards our Mother’s Day on Sunday. Sunshine is back as high pressure takes over and brings us warmer weather as the weekend comes to an end. And if mom likes the weather on Sunday, she’s got plenty of opportunities to enjoy it because high pressure keeps sunshine around for much of the beginning of the work week with plenty of warm air as well. Highs stay in the lower to middle 80s before more showers move in late next week.
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Colorado man pleads guilty in Vermont murder for hire conspiracy
Jun 9, 2023, 6:19 PM
(Dana Gray/Caledonian-Record via AP, File)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The Colorado man who prosecutors say abducted and killed a Vermont man as part of an international murder for hire conspiracy pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to charges that could land him in prison for life.
Jerry Banks, 35, appeared in Vermont U.S. District Court where he changed his plea to guilty. A sentencing hearing for Banks will be scheduled for a later date.
Banks was charged with murder for hire that led to the January 2018 death of Gregory Davis, of Danville, Vermont, and a charge of kidnapping. He had initially pleaded not guilty. Davis’ body was found by the side of a snowy Vermont back road.
Prosecutors say Banks was part of a conspiracy that began when Davis had been threatening to go to the FBI to report he’d been involved in a fraudulent oil deal with another one of the conspirators, Serhat Gumrukcu, of Los Angeles, who is also facing a murder for hire charge in the case.
The cases of Gumrukcu and Berk Eratay, who faces similar charges, are pending. Both have pleaded not guilty.
A fourth person, Aren Lee Ethridge, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty in July and is awaiting sentencing.
After Davis’ death, investigators worked for more than four years to build a chain connecting the four suspects: Banks, who was friends with Ethridge, who was friends with Eratay, who worked for Gumrukcu. | https://mynorthwest.com/3898966/colorado-man-pleads-guilty-in-vermont-murder-for-hire-conspiracy/ | 2023-06-10 02:59:09 | 1 | https://mynorthwest.com/3898966/colorado-man-pleads-guilty-in-vermont-murder-for-hire-conspiracy/ |
Every year, migratory monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles across North America.
“Imagine the fact these butterflies migrate to Mexico,” Chip Taylor, founder and director of Monarch Watch, says. “How does something that weight about half a gram manage to do what you can’t do?”
But for decades, their population has been declining. And now, the monarchs are endangered.
“What researchers have modeled and predicted as sustainable population size for eastern monarchs is about six hectors of area occupied,” Wendy Caldwell, executive director of Monarch Joint Venture, says. “To gauge where we are today, last year the population was just under three hectors.”
Today, On Point: The fragile beauty of the monarch butterfly. Can they be saved?
Guests
Orley “Chip” Taylor, founder and director of Monarch Watch, a nonprofit that focuses on the monarch butterfly, its habitat and fall migration. Professor emeritus at the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas.
Wendy Caldwell, executive director of Monarch Joint Venture, a nonprofit that builds a national partnership of federal and state agencies, nonprofits and other groups to conserve monarch butterflies and other pollinators. (@WendyJCaldwell)
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Jose Luis Alvarez, co-founder of Forests for Monarchs and owner and expert tree nurseryman of the Vivero Forestal nursery.
Martha Askins, retired lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin who’s been monitoring monarch butterflies at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, and in her own backyard.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Tuesday, April 4
• ImagiKnit, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 9 a.m. to noon.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St, Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 101 Lakes Duplicate Bridge Club, Angola Moose Lodge, 108 N. Martha St., Angola, 12:15 p.m.
Wednesday, April 5
• Knit@Night, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 4-6 p.m.
• Angola Lions Club, SonLight Community Church, 455 N. Gerald Lett Ave., Angola, 6:30 p.m.
• VFW Auxiliary meeting, VFW Post 7205, 2013 N. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 6
• 101 Lakes Kiwanis, Cahoots Coffee Cafe, 218 W. Maumee St., Angola, 7 a.m.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• All Women’s Alcoholics Anonymous, 412 S. John St., Angola, 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 9
• New Beginnings for Narcotics Anonymous, First Congregational United Church of Christ, 314 W. Maumee St., Angola, 6 p.m.
Monday, April 10
• A cappella Sweet Adelines, Fairview Missionary Church, 525 E C.R. 200N., Angola, 6-9 p.m.
• Essential Oils Class, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 6:30 p.m.
• Gold Wing Road Riders Association, Pizza Hut, 1411 N. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, April 11
• ImagiKnit, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 9 a.m. to noon.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St, Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 101 Lakes Duplicate Bridge Club, Angola Moose Lodge, 108 N. Martha St., Angola, 12:15 p.m.
Wednesday, April 12
• Knit@Night, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 4-6 p.m.
• VFW Auxiliary meeting, VFW Post 7205, 2013 N. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 13
• 101 Lakes Kiwanis, Cahoots Coffee Cafe, 218 W. Maumee St., Angola, 7 a.m.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Hamilton Lions Club, Town Hall, 900 S. Wayne St., 6 p.m. Board meeting.
• All Women’s Alcoholics Anonymous, 412 S. John St., Angola, 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 16
• New Beginnings for Narcotics Anonymous, First Congregational United Church of Christ, 314 W. Maumee St., Angola, 6 p.m.
Monday, April 17
• A cappella Sweet Adelines, Fairview Missionary Church, 525 E C.R. 200N., Angola, 6-9 p.m.
• Essential Oils Class, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 6:30 p.m.
• Gold Wing Road Riders Association, Pizza Hut, 1411 N. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, April 18
• ImagiKnit, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 9 a.m. to noon.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St, Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 101 Lakes Duplicate Bridge Club, Angola Moose Lodge, 108 N. Martha St., Angola, 12:15 p.m.
Wednesday, April 19
• Knit@Night, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 4-6 p.m.
• VFW Auxiliary meeting, VFW Post 7205, 2013 N. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 20
• 101 Lakes Kiwanis, Cahoots Coffee Cafe, 218 W. Maumee St., Angola, 7 a.m.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Hamilton Lions Club, Town Hall, 900 S. Wayne St., 6 p.m. Membership meeting. Call Beth Kohli to make reservations at 668-6115.
• All Women’s Alcoholics Anonymous, 412 S. John St., Angola, 6:30 p.m.
• Steuben County Democratic Party, 109 W. Gale St., Angola, 6 p.m. | https://www.kpcnews.com/features/life/kpcnews/article_dcbb1e56-f1bc-5a99-af60-6c6a9354c740.html | 2023-04-03 18:33:53 | 1 | https://www.kpcnews.com/features/life/kpcnews/article_dcbb1e56-f1bc-5a99-af60-6c6a9354c740.html |
RICHMOND, Calif., Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ:SPWR), a leading solar technology and energy services company, announced Eileen Evans as its new Chief Legal Officer. Evans brings more than 25 years of legal and technology business experience to SunPower including commercial transactions, merger and acquisition integration, intellectual property, litigation, investigations, compliance, and corporate matters.
Evans most recently served as chief legal and corporate affairs officer at Redaptive, a tech-enabled sustainability-as-a-service company. Prior to that, she served as deputy general counsel at Micro Focus International, a British multinational software and information technology business. Before that, Evans held roles including vice president and deputy general counsel at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Hewlett-Packard Company and associate general counsel at Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
"Eileen brings a depth of experience at large and growing technology organizations that will be incredibly valuable as SunPower continues to expand and evolve during this time of marked growth," said Peter Faricy, SunPower CEO. "With her strong track record and unique perspective, she will make a great addition to our world-class leadership team."
"I am passionate about tackling climate change, and I am excited to join the team at SunPower where I can combine this passion with my legal experience in the sustainability and technology sectors," said Evans. "SunPower and the solar industry are at such an important inflection point; I am looking forward to the meaningful work ahead."
Evans earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Davis and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors for Torpago and the Linux Foundation.
SunPower is a leading solar and energy services provider in North America. SunPower offers the only solar + storage solution designed and warranted by one company that gives customers control over electricity consumption and resiliency during power outages while providing cost savings. For more information, visit www.sunpower.com
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements regarding our expectations for our business. These forward-looking statements are based on our current assumptions, expectations and beliefs and involve substantial risks and uncertainties that may cause results, performance or achievement to materially differ from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, regulatory changes and the availability of economic incentives promoting use of solar energy and fluctuations or declines in the performance of our solar panels and other products and solutions. A detailed discussion of these factors and other risks that affect our business is included in filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from time to time, including our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, particularly under the heading "Risk Factors." Copies of these filings are available online from the SEC or on the SEC Filings section of our Investor Relations website at investors.sunpower.com. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information currently available to us, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events.
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MANCHESTER, England — Erling Haaland scored a record-equaling five goals in a Champions League match on Tuesday as Manchester City advanced to the quarterfinals.
Lionel Messi and Luiz Adriano are the only other players to have scored five goals in a match in European club soccer's elite competition.
Haaland also became the fastest player to hit 30 goals in the Champions League when putting the City up, 2-0, in their 7-0 rout of RB Leipzig in the round-of-16 second leg at Etihad Stadium. He needed just 25 games to reach that figure.
At 22 years, 236 days old, he is also the youngest player to reach that landmark, surpassing Kylian Mbappé, who was 22 years, 352 days when he scored his 30th Champions League goal.
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But the Norway international, who had fired City ahead from the penalty spot after 22 minutes, wasn't finished with just two goals on the night. He completed his hat trick just before halftime to give Pep Guardiola's team a 3-0 lead at the break.
With his father, former City player Alf Inge, cheering in the crowd, Haaland scored his fourth in the 54th and his fifth in the 57th.
Haaland was substituted after 63 minutes, with City leading 6-0 on the night and 7-1 on aggregate.
Goals from Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin de Bruyne completed the rout. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/14/sports/manchester-citys-erling-haaland-scores-five-goals-sets-champions-league-records/ | 2023-03-15 00:45:18 | 1 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/14/sports/manchester-citys-erling-haaland-scores-five-goals-sets-champions-league-records/ |
DOROT, a Jewish organization that operates with the goal of alleviating social isolation for New Yorkers, is welcoming back the clients who have been getting programs and services virtually for more than two years.
DOROT offers classes, museum tours, and opportunities for seniors of all backgrounds to socialize, but that all stopped in March of 2020.
"Within a matter of just a couple weeks, the DOROT staff were simply amazing and were able to transition all of our programming to virtual programming," executive director Mark Meridy said.
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The program attracted participants not just from New York City, but in 23 states. For many, it was a lifeline.
"The first 100 days of the pandemic, I did not open my door," 76-year-old Charles Sroufe said.
The Zoom activities kept him engaged, but in person activities is what he was craving.
"It's really important for many of us to come back and see other people, to get involved," Sroufe said.
Because nothing beats the personal experience, according to Ruth Fuchs Hallet.
"You can look at somebody and chuckle about the same thing, or give an elbow, or just know you've connected with somebody on something that's going on," she said.
Event though many people are coming back, DOROT is still going to offer its Zoom programming, as 93% of clients say they want to keep logging on for virtual experiences.
"People are saying, yes, we know that people are starting to come back together, but please, please, please, keep the virtual programming going," Meridy said. "Because we've really built a community over the computer."
Employees and residents are being careful, but they are excited to be back together.
"Life has to go on, especially at an older age," Sroufe said.
For more information, visit DOROT's website.
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Clearing out after tomorrow’s storms
COLUMBUS, Mississippi (WCBI)- Our next system is bringing is heavy showers and storms tonight and throughout the day Wednesday. From there, the sky will clear out and temperatures will drop.
TUESDAY NIGHT: The showers will reach the western border of Mississippi this evening around 8-9 pm. From there, the system will bring in more intense areas of storms across MS throughout the overnight hours. Heavy rain, gusty winds, thunder, and lightning are all likely. Hail and tornadoes are possible. Be prepared for anything tonight by being able to tune in for more details as they occur. Temperatures tonight are expected to fall only into the upper 50s.
WEDNESDAY: The system overnight will stall over Mississippi throughout Wednesday. This will allow several inches of rain to fall, which could cause flooding across Mississippi. High temperatures will be in the upper 60s. Heavy showers and storms are expected to stay through the night too. Low temperatures will drop into the low to middle 40s.
END OF THE WEEK: The last of the rain will move off to the East early Thursday morning. From there, the rain chance drops to near 0% and the heavy cloud coverage will begin to lighten up before rush hour. This calls for sun and partly cloudy sky conditions for the end of the week. High temperatures are going to start getting colder though. For the end of the week, the temperatures will be in the 50s. Overnight low temperatures will be in the 30s! | https://www.wcbi.com/clearing-out-after-tomorrows-storms/ | 2022-12-14 00:37:46 | 0 | https://www.wcbi.com/clearing-out-after-tomorrows-storms/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s setbacks and stretched resources in Ukraine show its forces are incapable of achieving President Vladimir Putin’s initial aims in invading the country as things stand now, the Pentagon’s intelligence chief said Friday.
“We’re coming to a point right now where I think Putin is going to have to revise what his objectives are for this operation,” Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told an intelligence and national security conference outside Washington. “Because “it’s pretty clear right now that he’s … not going to be able to do what he initially intended to do.”
Putin sent troops into neighboring Ukraine in February with what U.S. officials say was the objective of unseating Ukraine’s Western-friendly government. Ukrainian forces drove Russian fighters from their positions around Ukraine’s capital earlier in the war. And Russia suffered another major setback last week, when a Ukrainian counteroffensive forced its troops back from large swaths of Ukraine’s northeast.
“The Russians planned for an occupation, not necessarily an invasion, and that has set them back,” Berrier said, citing Putin’s reluctance so far to fully mobilize Russian forces to get more manpower into the fight.
President Joe Biden and other administration officials have taken care not to call Russia’s latest retreat a Ukrainian victory or turning point in the war, and analysts caution it’s impossible to assess what may lie ahead.
“He’s coming to a decision” point,” Berrier said of Putin. “What that decision will be we don’t know. But that will largely drive how long this conflict lasts.”
Berrier spoke at a panel with other senior officials at the intelligence community’s Intelligence and National Security Summit at National Harbor in Maryland just outside Washington.
Asked about concerns that Putin could unleash weapons of mass destruction if he’s thwarted on the battlefield by U.S. and NATO-backed Ukrainian forces, CIA Deputy Director David Cohen said, “I don’t think we should underestimate Putin’s adherence to his original agenda, which was to control Ukraine. I don’t think we’ve seen any reason to believe he has moved off that.”
Nor should the U.S. underestimate Putin’s “risk appetite,” Cohen said. Putin and his officials early in the war made allusions to Russia’s nuclear arsenal and to massive retaliation in warning NATO not to get involved in the conflict.
“That being said, we have not seen concrete evidence of planning for the use of WMD,” Cohen said. The more likely form of any Russian retaliation against the United States would be more attempts at interfering with the U.S. political system, other security and intelligence officials said.
Separately, in a major regional summit in Uzbekistan on Friday, Putin vowed to press the attack on Ukraine and warned that Moscow could ramp up its strikes on the country’s infrastructure if Ukrainian forces target facilities in Russia.
The conference included the leaders of China, India, Turkey and several other countries.
Putin said the “liberation” of Ukraine’s entire eastern Donbas region was Russia’s main military goal and that he saw no need to revise it.
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy health industry press releases from PR Newswire, including a survey of Americans' top health concerns.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the healthcare industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
- Heart Disease Leads List of Health Concerns in National Survey from MedStar Health
Survey respondents (22%) said heart disease is their number one health concern, topping mental health, cancer, COVID-19, and a list of other diseases and conditions. Despite this, more than one-third said they do not discuss heart health with their provider during annual physicals. - Black Health Launches "Get Me Vaxxed" Campaign for Black History Month
The campaign is part of a broader endeavor to boost black health at a time when health outcomes for black communities generally continue to be concerning and lag behind those of other groups. The campaign aims to raise COVID-19 vaccinations amongst black children aged 6-months to 5-years old. - FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Anemia Caused by Chronic Kidney Disease for Adults on Dialysis
"With an oral drug option in addition to the FDA-approved injection options, adults with chronic kidney disease on dialysis now have multiple ways to treat their anemia," said Ann Farrell, M.D., director of the Division of Non-Malignant Hematology in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. - Country's Leading Obesity Care Organizations Develop Consensus Statement on Obesity
"Similar to treating cancer, we need to approach the disease using multi-modal therapy to achieve the best long-term treatment of obesity. This includes medication, surgery, endoscopy, lifestyle changes and behavioral health interventions," said ASMBS President Teresa LaMasters, MD, FACS, FASMBS, DABOM. - Make-A-Wish delivers the ultimate Super Bowl LVII experience for 17 families "The Super Bowl is one of our biggest annual wish granting events, and it feels even bigger this year knowing that we get to host 17 wish families in our very own backyard where we've been headquartered since the very first wish," said Leslie Motter, president and CEO of Make-A-Wish America.
- Bayer Partners with Huma on Bayer® Aspirin Heart Risk Assessment Online Educational Tool
The tool quickly assesses an individual's risk factors for developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) over the next 10 years, which can be shared with a healthcare professional as part of ongoing health management. - Respiray Announces Launch of Wear A+, an Innovative Solution for the 50+ Million Allergy Sufferers in the US
This easy-to-use device brings relief to allergy sufferers. The working principle is simple – the device filters out airborne allergen particles and blows allergen-free air to the user's face. - Smith+Nephew receives Innovative Technology designation from Vizient for LEAF™ Patient Monitoring System
The LEAF Patient Monitoring System is the first wearable, wireless solution which meets the recommendations in the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) guidelines. - New Ipsos Survey Reveals Nearly Half of American Women Forgo Preventive Care Services "The survey results emphasize the need to raise awareness about the importance of preventive care and advocate for policies that address the barriers and burdens women too often face," said Millicent Gorham, Chair of the Board of Directors of AWHP.
- Ada Health and Pfizer collaborate to launch a nationwide online COVID-19 Care Journey, operated by Ada, to help connect patients with timely treatment
Daniel Nathrath, CEO and co-founder of Ada, said, "The Ada COVID-19 Care Journey aims to significantly reduce the time from testing to treatment for users, and we firmly believe that it has the potential to improve health outcomes for millions."
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Can't-Miss Earnings
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NEW YORK, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Habitas, the sustainable, experience-led hospitality brand with properties on three continents, has added to its extensive accolades by sweeping the board at the prestigious AHEAD (the Awards for Hospitality Experience and Design) MEA 2022 Awards. Organised by industry-leading publication Sleeper, AHEAD comprises four regional annual awards programmes concluding in a global finale.
Habitas AlUla, the brand's first Middle East property was awarded in three categories: Resort; Spa & Wellness and Sustainability. Entries are judged by AHEAD's prestigious regional panels, comprising leading hoteliers, architects, interior designers and industry commentators.
Habitas AlUla leads with a focus on sustainability, community, and shared experience. Launched in November 2021 the property rests within an ancient oasis in the desert canyons of the Ashar Valley, surrounded by sandstone cliffs and palm groves.
This latest win adds to Habitas' existing success, which has seen its newest Mexico property, Habitas Bacalar, win multiple Best New Hotel-led awards including being named in both Travel + Leisure's It List and Conde Nast Traveler's Hot List 2022. Habitas AlUla, was further named winner of Best Hospitality Project in Architectural Digest's Middle East Design Awards 2021.
"Saudi Arabia is going through remarkable growth and changes and with Habitas AlUla we have the opportunity to create a very unique hospitality experience that is not only pioneering within KSA but also globally. Inviting guests from all over the world to dive into the rich histories of the region and bring them into the present in a resource-conscious way, which you'll see in everything from the traditional ingredients used in Tama, the on-site restaurant to the carefully designed spa therapies using local ingredients," comments Oliver Ripley, Habitas Co-founder & CEO. "Nature plays the driving role for Habitas AlUla and when creating the property, we ensured full immersion into the natural world, comfort and space designed for human connection and sustainability throughout the entire design and execution process."
Co-founded by entrepreneur Oliver Ripley along with his partners Kfir Levy and Eduardo Castillo in 2016, Habitas is a global hospitality group that draws conscious travelers seeking new experiences built around human connection, sustainability and local community empowerment. In 2021, the brand was named a winner of Travel + Leisure's Global Vision Awards.
The brand's impressive growth includes three additional properties set to open in 2022 and an additional 25 projects in the pipeline. Habitas launched its flagship home in Tulum in 2017 and continues to expand globally following the recent launch of Caravan Agafay - under the new sub-brand, Caravan by Habitas - with plans also underway for new Habitas locations in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Bhutan.
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About Habitas
Habitas is a global hospitality group created by a diverse community of people seeking human connection, authentic experiences and a better future together. Redefining the concept of traditional luxury in hotels, Habitas' mission is to change people's lives through creating deeper human connections and to make a lasting impact on local communities through education, employment and the creation of sustainable micro-economies. With Homes currently located in Mexico, Namibia and Saudi Arabia, Habitas is expanding globally across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia using its technology-driven approach and innovative vertically integrated model.
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LONDON (AP) — The Sheffield strippers of “The Full Monty” return 25 years on, in a new TV series that wears its politics on its sleeve.
In the much-loved original movie, a group of unemployed men from the north of England decide to form a striptease act in a desperate attempt to raise money after the local steelworks closed down.
A new comedy-drama TV series from the same writer, Simon Beaufoy, and producer, Uberto Pasolini, returns to those characters more than two decades later in a compelling portrait of contemporary Britain. After the dismantling of heavy industry, the area has been subjected to an erosion of public services and the welfare safety net.
“The politics are in there,” actor Steve Huison told The Associated Press recently. “You don’t have to be slammed in the face with them but hopefully people will see it and realize, ‘Oh, you know, that’s where I’m at at the moment.’”
The original movie was a surprise international hit, earning nearly $260 million and even spawning a musical in 2000 and a play in 2013. Robert Carlyle, who plays grifter Gary “Gaz” Schofield, attributes that success to its universal themes.
“One of the principal reasons why it did have such an appeal worldwide, particularly in Europe, was that places like Sheffield exist all over Europe, and all over the U.S., if you think of it, you know, probably Detroit or something like that. The death of the car industry there is similar to the death of the steel industry in Sheffield,” Carlyle said.
The 1997 movie was nominated for four Academy Awards, including best picture, and won one for Anne Dudley’s score.
The men of “The Full Monty” — older but not necessarily wiser — do not strip in the TV series, but are struggling to keep up with developments in modern society and, in some cases, to survive. It co-stars original castmembers Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, Wim Snape, Paul Clayton and Paul Barber.
Original star Hugo Speer, who once taught King Charles III a dance routine from the movie at the then-prince’s 50th birthday party, was sacked from the show after allegations of inappropriate conduct, but does make a brief appearance in the series.
Beaufoy co-wrote the series with frequent collaborator Alice Nutter, the Chumbawamba singer who’s also written for “Trust” and “The White Princess.” Unlike the movie, the new TV series doesn’t just focus on the plight of working class men; women are front and center in the story, no longer just sidelined as wives.
“You know, from the original to the series, I felt that Simon had been incredibly generous,” said Lesley Sharp, who returns as Jean. “He and Alice have invested really beautifully in other female characters.”
The series has a new character, Destiny, a tearaway teen played by Talitha Wing who has inherited her father Gaz’s tendency to get her friends into trouble, but has a steely determination to get on in life.
“There’s really, really strong women,” said Wing (“Alex Rider,” “Wolfe”). “It’s fantastic to see and to play as well.”
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Marcell Ozuna Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Guardians - July 3
Published: Jul. 3, 2023 at 7:31 AM CDT|Updated: 47 minutes ago
Marcell Ozuna -- with a slugging percentage of .575 in his past 10 games, including three home runs -- will be in action for the Atlanta Braves versus the Cleveland Guardians, with Gavin Williams on the hill, on July 3 at 7:10 PM ET.
In his previous game he had a one-hit showing (1-for-4) against the Marlins.
Marcell Ozuna Game Info & Props vs. the Guardians
- Game Day: Monday, July 3, 2023
- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Progressive Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Guardians Starter: Gavin Williams
- TV Channel: BSGL
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -227)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +300)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +145)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +105)
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Marcell Ozuna At The Plate
- Ozuna has nine doubles, 16 home runs and 28 walks while hitting .251.
- Among the qualified hitters in MLB action, his batting average ranks 90th, his on-base percentage ranks 75th, and he is 31st in the league in slugging.
- Ozuna is batting .316 during his last outings and is on a 12-game hitting streak.
- Ozuna has reached base via a hit in 45 games this year (of 67 played), and had multiple hits in 13 of those games.
- He has hit a home run in 22.4% of his games this year, and 5.9% of his chances at the plate.
- In 35.8% of his games this season, Ozuna has picked up at least one RBI. In 11 of those games (16.4%) he recorded more than one RBI, while accounting for three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- In 43.3% of his games this year (29 of 67), he has scored, and in four of those games (6.0%) he has scored more than once.
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Marcell Ozuna Home/Away Batting Splits
Guardians Pitching Rankings
- The 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Guardians pitching staff ranks 28th in the league.
- The Guardians have the sixth-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (3.81).
- Guardians pitchers combine to allow 81 home runs (one per game), the second-fewest in baseball.
- Williams (0-0) starts for the Guardians, his third this season.
- The righty last pitched on Wednesday against the Kansas City Royals, when he threw seven scoreless innings while giving up one hit.
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The premier technology company focusing on the Service Supply Chain has added to its leadership team during this pivotal time of global growth.
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Baxter Planning, a pioneer and recognized leader in Service Supply Chain parts planning, optimization, and execution software solutions, today announced that Mårten Gustafsson will join the company as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).
Mårten brings vast experience in driving go-to-market strategies for global technology companies. Being a technology executive with more than twenty years of experience within multiple industries across the globe, Mårten aligns with Baxter Planning's passion for leading high-performing teams to help companies realize value with Baxter Planning's solutions.
"I am thrilled to welcome Mårten to Baxter Planning's leadership team as we globally scale our customer-base, expand our product line, and increase partnership with existing customers," said Chuck Moeling, Baxter Planning CEO. "Mårten's proven track record of excelling as a go-to-market leader makes him a perfect fit for our team."
"Baxter Planning has proven itself a leader in the Service Supply Chain and I'm honored to join this team,'' stated Mårten Gustafsson. "I look forward to building upon the team's existing passion for generating business-critical value for our clients around the globe. Effective Service Parts Management is essential for our clients' abilities to reduce cost, risks, and carbon footprint while simultaneously increasing margins and improving customer satisfaction.''
Mårten joins at a time of record growth for Baxter Planning as the company recently launched its second product, is preparing to launch its third product, and continues to serve organizations with complex Service Parts Management requirements.
In addition to Mårten joining as CRO, Phillip Kennedy has been named Baxter Planning's first Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Phillip will lead the Marketing Team, focusing on delivering world-class customer experiences, increasing Baxter Planning's name recognition throughout the industry, and more.
Prior to Baxter Planning, Mårten worked for PTC, Dassault Systemés, and Syncron, driving significant growth and business expansion opportunities. As CRO, Mårten leads Baxter's global go-to-market team to drive new customer value and help some of the biggest companies in the world realize true Service Supply Chain transformation. Mårten holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Uppsala University. He will report directly to Chuck Moeling, CEO and will focus on growing Baxter Planning's global footprint.
Founded in 1993, Baxter Planning became the first company to provide a dedicated global Service Supply Chain software and service solution. Their software is developed based on proven best practices, industry expertise, and a partnership with customers to automate inventory planning. Their Total Cost Optimization methodology replaces spreadsheets and manual processes to deliver the best service level at the lowest possible cost. As a worldwide leader in Service Supply Chain software, Baxter Planning helps customers plan billions in service parts inventory every day. For more information, visit www.baxterplanning.com.
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Reports: Injuries after roof collapses at Ill. theater during storm
Published: Mar. 31, 2023 at 9:25 PM CDT|Updated: 7 minutes ago
BELVIDERE, Ill. (Gray News/WIFR) - Numerous emergency crews were sent to the area of downtown Belvidere, Illinois, after reports of a roof collapse at the Apollo Theatre.
WIFR reports that photos from the area of N. State Street in Belvidere show a fallen marquee and lots of debris in the road.
The Boone County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to WLS that multiple ambulances were called to the scene. Their crews saw several people being carried away on stretchers.
A concert with heavy metal band Morbid Angel was planned for Friday evening, according to the venue’s Facebook page.
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HOUSTON, Texas -- A social media influencer is generating buzz over his own restaurant.
Burger Bodega specializes in smash burgers.
The owner, Abbas Dhanani, came up with the concept after running the Instagram @Houstoneatz and working in the familys hospitality business.
Burger Bodega began as a pop-up before opening at its permanent location on 4520 Washington Avenue in November 2022.
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TROY, Mich., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Electric Last Mile Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELMS; ELMSW) ("ELMS" or the "Company") today announced that it has received a notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") stating that because the Company has not yet filed its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three-month period ended March 31, 2022 (the "Form 10-Q") or its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 (the "Form 10-K"), the Company is not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1), which requires listed companies to timely file all required periodic reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The notification letter has no immediate effect on the listing or trading of the Company's common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.
The Company previously discussed the circumstances behind the late filing of the Form 10-Q in a Notification of Late Filing on Form 12b-25, filed with the SEC on May 18, 2022 (the "Notification"). In addition, the Company's delay in filing the Form 10-K was disclosed in a Notification of Late Filing on Form 12b-25 filed on April 1, 2022 and discussed in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 11, 2022 (the "April Current Report").
As described in the April Current Report, the Company must submit a plan to Nasdaq no later than May 31, 2022, addressing how it intends to regain compliance with Nasdaq's listing rules.
The Company's management is working diligently to complete the Form 10-Q, as well as the Form 10-K, and intends to file as soon as practicable. However, the Company does not expect to file the Form 10-Q within the timeframe specified by Rule 12b-25 for the reasons discussed in the 10-Q Notification.
Electric Last Mile Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELMS; ELMSW) is focused on defining a new era in which commercial vehicles run clean as connected and customized solutions that make our customers' businesses more efficient and profitable. ELMS is headquartered in Troy, Michigan. For more information, please visit www.electriclastmile.com.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company's actual results may differ from its expectations, estimates and projections and consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as "expect," "estimate," "project," "budget," "forecast," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "may," "will," "could," "should," "believes," "predicts," "potential," "continue," and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the possibility of the Company's common stock becoming delisted from the Nasdaq Global Select Market and the Company's timeframe for filing the Form 10-Q and the Form 10-K. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected results. Most of these factors are outside the Company's control and are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to: (1) the inability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the business combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition and the ability of the Company to grow and manage growth profitably and retain its key employees; (2) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (3) the possibility that the Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; (4) the impact of COVID-19 on the Company's business; (5) any delays the Company may experience in realizing its projected timelines and cost and volume targets for the production, launch and ramp up of production of the Company's vehicles and the modification of its manufacturing facility; (6) the ability of the Company to obtain customers, obtain product orders, and convert its non-binding pre-orders into binding orders or sales; (7) the Company's ability to implement its business plans and strategies; and (8) other risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2021 and in the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2021, and in the Company's future filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Some of these risks and uncertainties may in the future be amplified by the COVID-19 outbreak and there may be additional risks that the Company considers immaterial or which are unknown. The Company cautions that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company does not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in its expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
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GRAND HAVEN, Mich., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shape Corp., a global tier-one automotive supplier of multi-material impact energy management and lightweight body structures, has entered into an agreement with Hydro, a leading producer of aluminum and renewable energy, to be the first to explore and bring to the US market, automotive components utilizing Hydro CIRCAL®, containing a minimum of 75% post-consumer aluminum scrap.
Hydro CIRCAL® is Hydro's brand of recycled aluminum made with a minimum of 75% recycled, post-consumer aluminum scrap, certified by third-party auditors DNV GL, and has a market-leading CO2 footprint of just 2.3 kg CO2e/kg aluminum – or less. CIRCAL® is expected to deliver an estimated 70% CO2 reduction versus the North American average for aluminum when including Scope 1,2,and 3 emissions. Through advanced processing technology, Hydro is able to create material with the highest post-consumer recycled content in the market. As a result, Hydro drastically reduces energy use in the production phase while still offering high-quality aluminum with equivalent metallurgical properties that maintain the strength and corrosion resistance needed in automotive components.
"We are very excited to enter into this close partnership alongside Hydro to bring a product to market that proves to assist in carving our path towards carbon neutrality" said Mark White, president and CEO – Shape Corp. "As the industry continues to shift towards electrification, it is exciting to see the progress that is being made to materials that keep sustainability in focus for the future of automotive."
This collaborative partnership opens the doors for Shape to introduce the uniqueness of Hydro CIRCAL® to the global automotive market, bringing green on green solutions while continuing to provide the strength and weight-saving properties held by Hydro's aluminum product line.
"Aluminum is lightweight, infinitely recyclable, maintaining all unique properties no matter how many times it's recycled. This is why the metal can play a significant role in the lightweighting of electric and hybrid vehicles, as cars need less electricity and fewer or smaller batteries to travel the same distances," said Eivind Kallevik, executive vice president - Hydro Aluminium Metal.
Hydro CIRCAL® provides a sustainable solution for OEMs as continued efforts target electrification, carbon neutral manufacturing and recycled material for future vehicle programs. Shape and Hydro aim to bring Hydro CIRCAL's first automotive product to the market through testing of material and identification of application projects.
As a multi-material company seeking to provide the best possible solution for the customer, Shape has pledged to reduce its global carbon emissions 30% by 2030 and to be fully carbon neutral by 2035. By developing products utilizing low-carbon aluminum, Shape aims to be carbon neutral in the production phase and to reduce carbon emissions for end users through lightweighting of the products it provides to its customers, thereby further contributing in mitigating climate change.
This partnership is a sustainable step forward as Shape expands its extrusion capacity with a new 320,000 sq ft. plant located in Trenton, OH to support ongoing industry growth.
Shape Corp. is a global leader in multi material automotive impact energy management systems and lightweight body structures utilizing advanced-high strength steel roll forming, tight tolerance aluminum extrusions and large tonnage injection molding. Founded in 1974, the company employes more than 3,500 team members with 17 facilities worldwide allowing Shape to serve customers in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information visit Shapecorp.com
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#TwoYearsIsTooLong | Retired FBI agents find evidence Jason Landry may have been a crime victim
Landry is the Texas State student who disappeared near Luling on Dec. 13, 2020, on his way home to Missouri City for Christmas break. The reward is now $20,000.
It was the night of Dec. 13, 2020, when Texas State student Jason Landry loaded up his car and headed home to the Houston area to spend time with his family for the holidays.
Jason's parents in Missouri City were looking forward to having all of their adult children home for Christmas. They never dreamed their lives were about to be turned upside down.
Jason never made it home. His wrecked car was found abandoned on Salt Flat Road near Luling in Caldwell County early the next morning. His backpack, clothing and other personal items were found nearby, but there was no sign of Jason.
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A state trooper made the call no parent wants to get. Jason's wrecked car and some belongings had been found.
“We’re working on trying to locate him and I fear that he may be on some type of substance," the trooper told Jason's mother. "Reason being is because I did find some narcotics in his backpack.”
His father, Kent Landry, immediately drove to the rural area where the car crashed. While searching for signs of his son, Kent found his clothes still lying in the middle of the road.
"It just feels like your child is discarded, because they treat everything with this investigation with such indifference. You don’t even secure the evidence, whatever it might be?" Kent told KHOU 11 after two years and no answers. "You don’t secure the car and the crash scene for further investigation? You don’t even do the basics – that is your job."
While the local sheriff's office believes Jason walked away from the car on his own and "no crime occurred," a retired FBI agent and his team of investigators strongly disagree. KHOU 11 reporter Grace White spoke with the agent, the sheriff's office lead investigator and Jason's dad.
Chapter 1 'Preparing our hearts for the worst'
Since Jason vanished, countless searches by law enforcement, family members and complete strangers have failed to turn up any new clues into what happened to the 21-year-old.
"They have searched -- dog teams, on foot, horses, ATVs, planes, helicopters, drones -- forever," Kent Landry, told KHOU 11 in a recent interview.
Searchers drained a pond and part of a river near the crash scene.
In October 2021, volunteers with Texas Search and Rescue even used artificial intelligence to create computer mapping programs to show them -- based on thousands of photographs of the area -- where Jason could be. Still nothing.
False alarms, conspiracy theories and tips from well-meaning armchair detectives have gotten the family's hopes up time and again, only to be let down.
Kent said they don't believe their son is alive, but they are still determined to find out what happened that night.
"We have been preparing our hearts for the worst, for a long long time," Kent said. "We’re not going to give up praying. We are not going to give up hoping until we know the truth and our child comes home."
Until then, the only thing that gives the attorney turned pastor peace is his faith and the belief that he will see Jason again.
"We are going to spend all of eternity together, he just got there before me," Kent said.
Chapter 2 'Important piece of the puzzle'
A retired FBI agent who runs a non-profit called Project Absentis looked closely at the case with his team of investigators and said they're convinced that Jason could have been a crime victim.
Abel Peña, who's been investigating crimes for 27 years, said there were multiple red flags and they believe Jason's clothes and other belongings in the middle of the road could have been staged.
"I think the biggest red flags, for us initially, were the clothes just being laid where they were placed," Peña told KHOU 11. “The more we examined it, the more we ran it by some of our team, we all agreed that it appeared like it was staged.”
He said witnesses have also raised doubts about whether Jason was actually behind the wheel of the vehicle when it crashed.
“Somebody else could have been driving his vehicle or perhaps he was forced off the road," Peña said.
Jason's cellphone showed he was using the navigator app Waze for the trip home to Missouri City but switched to Snapchat in Luling near the intersection of Austin Street and Magnolia Avenue. It was that intersection where Jason's cell phone activity stopped.
"This area is just a busy area, there is drug activity that takes place behind here and we have discovered this criminal element that is in this area," Peña said.
Instead of turning right on Magnolia to get to I-10, Jason's vehicle traveled four miles until Austin turned into Salt Flat Road -- a pitch dark, gravel, dirt road -- before crashing.
“Traveling four miles is just unusual. For him to travel four miles and not realize he was lost, if he was driving the vehicle," Peña said. “If you go back to that intersection, I think that’s a very important piece of the puzzle.”
Like Jason's family, Peña believes the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office may have rushed to judgment by assuming Jason was high and having "an internal crisis."
“There are a lot of college kids that smoke, that get high," Peña said. "I don’t believe he was high enough that he would have gone into any kind of episode where he would have removed his clothes, especially in the conditions, it was very cold that night."
Peña said critical evidence inside Jason's vehicle, including DNA, hair and fibers, could have been missed because the DPS trooper had it towed right away. The CCSO didn't take custody of the vehicle until five days later.
“I don’t want to be too critical of law enforcement, I believe there were some missteps at the beginning," Peña said. “They probably should have preserved the area there, and left the vehicle there and brought in some professionals to process the exterior entry of the vehicle for prints.”
Caldwell County Sheriff's Capt. Jeff Ferry is the lead investigator on the case.
"Are there things as a criminal investigator I wish had been done differently – 100%," Ferry said. "I would almost guarantee that with hindsight, that officer, that trooper would likely not do the same thing again."
Peña passed his findings along to the Texas Attorney General's Office. They have a cold case unit working on Jason's case.
Chapter 3 Evidence released
In January 2022, the sheriff's office released a large amount of evidence from the case, including recordings from the initial scene.
“Some of his underwear’s got blood on it – but I didn’t see anyone,” a DPS trooper said.
“Probably some college kid,” the trooper told the firefighter who discovered the crash scene. “Yep, that’s what I was thinking,” the firefighter responded.
“It seems to me that they’re saying, ‘Well, this is just a stupid college kid who does stupid college kid stuff, like smoke marijuana," Kent said after hearing the recordings. “So what? He doesn’t need to be found? We don’t need to work hard to find him?
"I can’t tell you the image as a parent of your child, standing naked in a road, in the middle of nowhere standing in the freezing cold, you spend a lot of sleepless hours thinking about that," Kent said. "And you just want someone to have been there to help your child."
The evidence CCSO released included videos, messages and Snapchats Jason shared with his friends the night he disappeared. There were images and talk of marijuana, as well as some personal dialogue.
“When we look at the totality of things, it really paints a picture on almost an internal crisis that Jason is dealing with,” Capt. Ferry said when the evidence was released.
"I do believe the most likely scenario is that Jason is deceased and he is just out there and we have not located his remains yet," Ferry said. “We have to go in the direction the evidence takes us, whether we like it or not, and in this instance, no doubt this is a tragedy, but it’s not a crime."
Chapter 4 'Each holiday gets harder'
While most Houstonians are busy enjoying the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, for Jason's family, it's a reminder of how much time has passed without answers.
"That is beyond frustrating to be sitting here talking about my son – to be here 721 days later and here we are. Do we have any more answers?" Kent said. "Each day just goes on and on and on and each holiday gets harder and harder to celebrate without those answers."
Kent believes the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office is partly to blame because of the way they handled the case. Kent thinks they made up their minds from the beginning that Jason left on his own and wasn't a crime victim so they didn't put in a lot of time or effort to find out what happened.
"And that’s the part that’s frustrating, from the very beginning, that law enforcement has treated this case with indifference, arrogance, frankly maliciousness," Kent told us. "They saw his clothes laying there in the middle of the road and didn’t even bother to pick it up. If you literally think there is some college student naked in 30-degree weather, with 20-degree knot winds, shouldn’t you at least search for him? But you just rode along, shining your light on the road and that lackadaisical, indifferent attitude..."
For them, this time of year will always be tough.
"For someone who is missing a loved one, the season isn’t the same as it is for everyone else, it doesn’t feel the same," Kent said. "We still have presents for Jason."
As millions of other college students across the country make that trip home for the holiday break, Kent hopes no other parent gets that devastating phone call.
"Frankly, I pray all the college students come home, because mine didn’t."
Chapter 5 Jason Landry timeline
Dec. 13, 2020, 10:55 p.m. - Jason left his apartment in San Marcos with the intent to travel to his parents' home in Missouri City. He punched their address in the Waze app on his phone before leaving.
Dec. 13, 11:07 p.m. - Jason continued to drive south on Highway 80 entering Caldwell County.
Dec. 13, 11:15 p.m. - He passed over SH130 on Highway 80.
Dec. 13, 11:31 p.m. - Kent said his son got a SnapChat from a friend. His digital footprint ends there.
Dec. 14, 12:31 a.m. - Jason’s wrecked vehicle was found abandoned in the 2300 block of Salt Flat Road by a volunteer firefighter on his way home from work. The lights were on, the keys were in the ignition and the front passenger side door was locked. It was a single-vehicle collision, most likely from over-correcting on the gravel road, spinning off the roadway and crashing the rear-end into a tree, the sheriff's office said.
The approximate 67-minute window between the last data footprint from Jason and the discovery of the crash scene is what investigators focused on.
Troopers who responded to the crash scene found Jason's backpack, ball cap, toiletries and a tumbler with a dead pet fish in it about 900 feet away. They said the backpack contained a small amount of marijuana, a laptop and gaming equipment.
The next morning, Jason's father went to the scene and also found his son's clothing -- shirt, shorts, socks, underwear, sandals and a wristwatch -- in the roadway about 900 feet from the crash scene.
On Tuesday, a vigil to remember Jason will be held at 6:30 p.m.
The reward offered for tips that lead to Jason is now $20,000.
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New facility will serve as an engineering and staffing center of excellence for the Duravent Group as the company continues its growth trajectory with revenue exceeding $500 million annually.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Duravent Group, a global leader in HVAC technology systems and solutions, launched its 22,000 sq-ft Grand Rapids Innovation Center today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The event featured a tour of the center's design and prototype labs, airflow testing suites, its state-of-the-art office layout and robust printing capabilities. U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer, R-MI, spoke at the event, which was attended by community, state leaders and excited company employees.
"Duravent is committed to a strong presence in Michigan as demonstrated by our new innovation center in Grand Rapids, and an expanding headquarters in downtown Detroit," said Simon A. Davis, president and CEO of the Duravent Group. "Our ability to innovate, lead and grow in the HVAC and emerging climate technology categories is largely the result of leveraging the deep engineering talent Michigan has to offer."
Since 2017, the leadership team has led the organization through several strategic activities, including the acquisition of 100-year-old Hart & Cooley in 2021, which tripled the size of the company. Today, Duravent has 2,400 employees and $500 million+ in annual revenue.
As part of the Grand Rapids Innovation Center launch, Davis and his team unveiled a new company identity – the Duravent Group – with the goal of unifying the company's culture and its family of established and respected brands, which include the following industry leading nameplates:
- Duravent™
- Hart & Cooley®
- Selkirk®
- AirMate®
- Amerivent®
- Ampco®
- Heatfab®
- Lima®
- Milcor®
- PortalsPlus™
- RPS™
- Security Chimneys®
- Ward®
"The Duravent Group is one team and one company focused on flexibility in manufacturing and distribution while responding quickly and efficiently to customers' needs. I'm proud of our team culture that embraces innovation and change while always putting our customers first," Simon said.
The Duravent Group is a recognized global technology leader in the HVAC industry, and first-to-market with innovations in venting systems. Founded in 1956, this $500 million-plus company is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, and has 15 locations across Canada, Mexico and the United States. Duravent leads with best-in-class design and manufacturing capabilities, world-class distribution networks, and customer-first service and support. The company ensures quality and drives safety through scientifically proven materials and unequaled engineering.
Duravent acquired Grand Rapids-based Hart & Cooley in 2021. A leader in the HVAC industry since 1901, the Hart & Cooley acquisition brings a legacy of quality and service, robust manufacturing and distribution capabilities, and a suite of trusted brands into the Duravent family. As a combined company, Duravent is uniquely positioned as the next-generation leader in the interior climate technology industry. Learn more at duraventgroup.com.
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An investigation found that a spill of about 1,300 gallons of fire suppressant at a fuel facility in Hawaii was caused by a maintenance contractor improperly installing an air vacuum valve, U.S. military officials said Friday.
Aqueous Film Forming Foam, which is used to suppress fires caused by flammable liquids, contain PFAS, a class of chemicals that are slow to degrade in the environment.
The firefighting foam liquid concentrate was spilled in November at the Red Hill Bulk Storage Facility near Pearl Harbor. The concentrate pooled on the floor inside the facility and then seeped under a door and onto a paved access road and soil, the military said.
US FIGHTER JET CRASHES NEAR MAJOR MILITARY BASE IN SOUTH KOREA
The contractor improperly installed an air vacuum valve to the foam system in April 2022, the military said in a statement. The individual also failed to disable the foam concentrate pumps from automatically starting prior to conducting fire suppression system testing on Nov. 29, 2022, which cause the uncontrolled discharge.
The statement said, "stricter safeguards and more assertive Navy oversight should have been in place to reduce the risk of this type of mishap."
In 2021, jet fuel spilled from a drain line at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. It flowed into a drinking water well and then into the Navy’s water system, which serves 93,000 people in and around Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Nearly 6,000 people sought medical attention, complaining of ailments such as nausea, headaches and sores. The military put about 4,000 families in hotels for several months.
The spills have contributed to distrust of the military in the community.
Navy Vice Adm. John Wade apologized at a news conference announcing the findings of the investigation into the firefighting foam spill, Hawaii News Now reported.
Navy groundwater monitoring sample results in the affected area after the November spill showed no exceedances of PFAS based on state and federal screening levels, the military said.
PFAS — an abbreviation for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — were developed as coatings to protect consumer goods from stains, water and corrosion. Studies of lab animals given large amounts of PFAS have found that some of the chemicals may affect growth and development, reproduction, thyroid function, the immune system and the liver. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/hawaii-disaster-that-spilled-1-300-gallons-of-fire-suppressant-was-caused-by-contractor-error/article_d37d4395-2fab-592e-b96c-4ae1817e1f1d.html | 2023-05-08 19:28:20 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/hawaii-disaster-that-spilled-1-300-gallons-of-fire-suppressant-was-caused-by-contractor-error/article_d37d4395-2fab-592e-b96c-4ae1817e1f1d.html |
Crews are working to rescue a man trapped in a trench in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
The victim was in the area of West Gordon and North Fulton streets Wednesday afternoon when a trench caved in. The man was buried up to his neck ten feet below ground level.
SkyForce10 is over the scene as responders work to dig the man out. Officials say the victim is still conscious.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for LBRT, CCL, AAL, XFOR, and XXII.
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A fan paid to stay in a replica of DJ Khaled's sneaker closet Published December 11, 2022 at 5:20 PM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:57 NPR's Michel Martin speaks with DJ Khaled fan Daniel Wubneh about staying in an Airbnb that is a replica of the hip-hop star's sneaker closet. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wlrn.org/2022-12-11/a-fan-paid-to-stay-in-a-replica-of-dj-khaleds-sneaker-closet | 2022-12-11 23:47:51 | 1 | https://www.wlrn.org/2022-12-11/a-fan-paid-to-stay-in-a-replica-of-dj-khaleds-sneaker-closet |
Teledyne LeCroy's quantumdata M21 supports HDMI aggregate link rates up to 48Gbps including UHD 8K and DisplayPort UHBR lane rates up to 13.5Gbps
ELGIN, Ill., Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teledyne LeCroy, Inc., the worldwide leader in protocol test solutions, today announced the availability for order of the quantumdata M21 Video Analyzer for HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.0 testing - a portable video analyzer and generator with a built-in screen and battery power.
The latest version of the widely used High-Definition Multimedia Interface specification promoted by the HDMI Forum, HDMI 2.1, significantly increases the bandwidth to 48Gigabits/Second (Gbps), allowing HDMI sources to theoretically transmit resolutions as high as 10K pixels at 120Hz with compression. The HDMI 2.1 specification also adds features like Dynamic High Dynamic Range (HDR), Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), Quick Media Switching, Auto Low Latency Mode, and enhanced Audio Return Channel (eARC), bringing new challenges to the functional and interoperability testing of designs that incorporate this technology.
DisplayPort 2.0 technology, managed by VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association), supports up to 16K pixel resolution with HDR at 60Hz and up to 30 bits/pixel, using VESA's Display Stream Compression (DSC) to achieve the high pixel count. DisplayPort 2.0 uses either the traditional DisplayPort connector, to provide backward compatibility with all previous versions of the DisplayPort specification, or USB-C ports supporting "DP Alt Mode", to enable the promise of a single cable delivering video, data and power. The increased complexity of the technology and the need for products to be interoperable, lead design and test engineers to use test solutions like the ones found in quantumdata's comprehensive line of video test products.
"The new quantumdata M21 follows the footsteps of the successful quantumdata 780 family of products," said Neal Kendall, Product Manager for Video Test Solutions at Teledyne LeCroy, "as it provides exceptional value and flexibility for a wide range of HDMI and DisplayPort test requirements. Designed for portability and equipped with a large touch screen display, the M21 offers quick time-to-insight for routine interoperability verification of HDMI and DisplayPort next generation devices. It can be powered from an internal battery or via USB-C external power."
For HDMI 2.1, the quantumdata M21 supports analysis of both Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (TMDS) and Fixed Rate Link (FRL) protocol streams with and without Display Stream Compression up to the full aggregated link rate of 48Gbps, which enables engineers to test ultra-high definition 8K pixel source devices, in addition to monitoring the Display Data Channel (DDC) for the FRL link training and the High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) authentication sequence. The HDMI video and audio generation features support testing of 8K pixel Ultra High Definition (UHD) TVs as well as inputs from distribution gear such as matrix switches. eARC support helps verify both eARC transmitter and eARC receiver functionality of an eARC-capable soundbar or A/V receiver. It comes equipped with both a full-sized DisplayPort connector operating at High Bit Rate 3 (HBR3) rates up to 8.1Gbps, or Ultra High Bit Rates (UHBR) at 10Gbps, and a USB-C connector for testing UHBR up to 13.5Gbps lane rates. The M21 supports protocol analysis of DisplayPort 2.0 source devices at HBR3 rates and UHBR, and supports monitoring the Aux Channel for link training and HDCP authentication.
The quantumdata M21 is available for ordering now. For more information, please contact us at 1-800 909-7211 or 408 653-1262; or protocolsales@teledynelecroy.com; or visit the Teledyne LeCroy quantumdata M21 webpage or contact our sales support team.
Teledyne LeCroy is a leading manufacturer of advanced oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, and other test instruments that verify performance, validate compliance, and debug complex electronic systems quickly and thoroughly. Since its founding in 1964, the Company has focused on incorporating powerful tools into innovative products that enhance "Time-to-Insight". Faster time to insight enables users to rapidly find and fix defects in complex electronic systems, dramatically improving time-to-market for a wide variety of applications and end markets. Teledyne LeCroy is based in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y. For more information, visit Teledyne LeCroy's website at teledynelecroy.com.
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PITTSBURGH, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a carpenter and I wanted to create a new level to provide optimum viewing of the spirit/bubble vial," said an inventor, from San Diego, Calif., "so I invented the UPRIGHT LEVEL. My design would offer an easier way of knowing if materials are level and plumb during a construction or renovation project."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved design for a level tool. In doing so, it offers an easier way to view the spirit/bubble vial. As a result, it could increase efficiency and accuracy and it eliminates the need to maneuver the device at awkward angles. The invention features a practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for contractors, carpenters, do-it-yourselfers, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the San Diego sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-SDB-1628, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — In the moments before a 6-year-old Virginia boy shot his teacher, there was no fight, no physical struggle and no warning, authorities said Monday.
“What we know today is that she was providing instruction. He displayed a firearm, he pointed it and he fired one round,” Newport News police Chief Steve Drew said.
Drew, who spoke during a news conference, offered the first detailed description of a shooting that shocked the city and was notable even in a country like the United States that seems inured to constant gun violence. Drew had previously said that the shooting was not accidental and had declined to elaborate.
Drew said he wanted to clarify remarks he made just after the shooting on Friday, when he said there was an “altercation” before the shooting. He said it was more like an "interaction" between the boy and his first-grade teacher at Richneck Elementary School, 25-year-old Abby Zwerner.
But Drew also reiterated that the shooting was “not accidental.”
“It was intentional,” he said.
Drew also revealed that the 9mm handgun used by the boy was legally purchased by his mother and was in the family's home. He said the boy brought it to school in his backpack the day of the shooting.
Zwerner put up her hand in a defensive position when the gun fired, and the bullet went through her hand and into her upper chest, Drew said. Although her injuries were initially considered life-threatening, she has improved and is currently listed in stable condition at a hospital.
Drew hailed Zwerner as a hero for quickly hustling her students out of the classroom after she was shot. He said surveillance video shows she was the last person to leave her classroom.
“She made a right turn and started down the hallway, and then she stopped. ... She turned around and make sure every one of those students was safe,” Drew said.
Drew said a school employee rushed into the classroom and physically restrained the boy after hearing the gunshot. He said the boy became “a little combative” and struck the employee. Police officers arrived and escorted him out of the building and into a police car.
The boy has been held at a medical facility since an emergency custody order and temporary detention order were issued Friday, Drew said. He said it will be up to a judge to determine what the next steps are for the boy. He also said the boy's mother has been interviewed by police, but it is unclear whether she could potentially face any charges.
As questions loomed about the boy and his mother, Zwerner's friend told a crowd gathered at a Monday night vigil that the first-grade teacher has shown “dedication and love for what she does day in and day out.”
“Abby is a warrior and she demonstrates mental and physical strength every day,” said Rosalie List, a 2nd grade teacher at Richneck. “I'm so proud of her.”
Lauren Palladini, Richneck's school counselor, told the crowd that Zwerner is “sweet. She's thoughtful. She's caring. And she’s been one of the most amazing teachers that I’ve been blessed to interact with.”
Amanda Bartley, who teaches at another elementary school in the city, asked everyone to pray for Zwerner and to “pray for the young man who did this.”
As she passed out candles before the vigil, Bartley told The Associated Press that she organized the event to support Zwerner and to uplift others. But, she said, many questions remain unanswered.
Among them: “How did he get the gun? Why wasn’t it locked up? A good gun owner knows that you lock up your weapon. You have a safety on. You keep the ammunition separate from the weapon itself.”
Gun owners can be prosecuted under a Virginia law that prohibits anyone from recklessly leaving a loaded, unsecured gun in a manner that endangers the life or limb of children under 14. A violation of that law is a misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum jail sentence of one year and a maximum fine of $2,500.
Virginia does not have a law that requires unattended guns to be stored in a particular way or a law that requires gun owners to affirmatively lock their weapons.
“Virginia definitely has a weaker law than many other states that have child access prevention laws,” said Allison Anderman, senior counsel and director of local policy at Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Legal experts said even though it is theoretically possible under Virginia law to criminally charge a 6-year-old child, there are numerous obstacles to doing so and it’s highly unlikely that any prosecutor would even try.
To be tried as an adult in Virginia, a juvenile must be at least 14. A 6-year-old is also too young to be committed to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice if found guilty. In addition, a common law doctrine known as the “infancy defense” holds that children under 7 cannot be prosecuted for a crime because they are so young that they are incapable of forming criminal intent.
A judge would also have to find that the child was competent to stand trial, meaning that he could understand the legal proceedings against him and assist in his own defense, said Andrew Block, a professor and the University of Virginia School of Law who was the director of Virginia’s Department of Juvenile Justice from 2014 to 2019.
“It’s virtually impossible to imagine a 6-year-old being found competent to stand trial,” Block said.
Julie E. McConnell, a law professor at the University of Richmond who has worked on youth justice cases for more than 25 years, said prosecutors can file what’s known as a “Child in Need of Services” petition in cases in which a child’s behavior or condition presents or results in a serious threat to the child’s well-being and physical safety.
A judge would then have an array of options, including: ordering services such as counseling or anger management; allowing the child to remain with his parents, subject to conditions; ordering the parents to participate in programs or cooperate in treatment; or transferring custody of the child to a relative, child welfare agency or a local social services agency. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/newport-news-school-shooting-student-shot-teacher/507-5e95a7c1-7fc1-41dc-bc70-ea49e012e8a6 | 2023-01-10 13:38:41 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/newport-news-school-shooting-student-shot-teacher/507-5e95a7c1-7fc1-41dc-bc70-ea49e012e8a6 |
Salisbury combines Community Resource Fair, National Night Out events to celebrate community, neighborhood partnerships
SALISBURY, N.C. (WBTV) - Salisbury will celebrate local community agencies, neighborhoods and law enforcement partnerships at a combined Back-to-School Community Resource Fair and National Night Out event, Tuesday, Aug. 2, beginning at 6 p.m. at Bell Tower Green Park.
Each summer and winter the Community Resource Fair brings together local agencies specializing in health, addiction, education and family support in one place to help local families as students head back to school. Information on senior services is available also. As in previous years, students will receive backpacks with a selection of school supplies. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Backpacks will be provided while supplies last.
Founded in 1984 by the National Association of Town Watch, National Night Out is an annual campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and builds neighborhood camaraderie. The nighttime event, typically held on the first Tuesday in August, also increases awareness of local law enforcement programs such as neighborhood watch and anti-crime initiatives.
“The Community Resource Fair and National Night Out are two of our community’s most popular, signature events of the year,” said Salisbury City Manager Jim Greene. “The timing and camaraderie of both events make sense to combine them as one, with a more efficient use of staff resources. We’re looking forward to this one-stop occasion for providing much-needed resources and safety information to Salisbury and Rowan County residents.”
This year, the Salisbury City Council meeting will be held on the same date, however, at an earlier 3 p.m. start time so Council members can join in the information sharing after the meeting. The Human Relations Council, an official city commission focused on inclusion, acceptance and appreciation, is a lead partner in this bi-annual event.
Participants attending evening activities are encouraged to post photographs on social media platforms using the hashtag #SalisburyNightOut.
For more information, please contact Anne Little, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at anne.little@salisburync.gov, or call (704) 638-5218.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Human remains found buried in 1983 at an abandoned Indiana farm have been identified as those of a Chicago teenager who was a victim of the late serial killer Larry Eyler, authorities said Tuesday.
The remains, which were found near the remains of three young men Eyler also killed, are those of Keith Lavell Bibbs, who was 16 when he died, according to the Newton County Coroner’s Office and the DNA Doe Project.
Eyler confessed to at least 20 killings before dying in 1994 at an Illinois prison, where he was on death row for the 1984 murder of 15-year-old Danny Bridges of Chicago.
In 1990, Eyler confessed to killing a Black male in July 1983 at a Newton County farm and described that male as being in his late teens or early 20s, said Pam Lauritzen, spokeswoman for the DNA Doe Project, a nonprofit that works to identify cold case victims.
Bibbs, who was a Chicago resident, would have been 16 at the time of his death, she said.
The Newton County Coroner’s Office worked with the DNA Doe Project, Indiana State Police and the Identify Indiana Initiative to identify Bibbs nearly 40 years after his remains were discovered.
He is the last to be positively identified of the four victims found buried in shallow graves in October 1983 at the abandoned farm in Lake Village, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) southeast of Chicago. All four had been drugged and murdered by Eyler, according to his confessions.
Newton County Coroner Scott McCord said he was working Tuesday on paperwork needed to get Bibbs’ remains sent to his relatives for burial. He said the family is requesting privacy while they grieve.
“Everything’s done except for getting him back home,” he told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “It’s been a long road getting all those kids identified.”
The DNA Doe Project said in a news release that Bibbs’ DNA was “highly degraded” and investigators spent more than two years repeatedly trying to create “a workable DNA profile” to compare to databases used for forensic cases. In January, the nonprofit said a team of investigative genetic genealogists had finally made progress unraveling Bibbs’ “complex family tree,” leading to his identification.
Two of Eyler’s four victims found buried at the farm were identified early in the investigation as Michael Bauer and John Bartlett. In April 2021, the coroner’s office announced that authorities had identified a third victim as John Ingram Brandenburg Jr. of Chicago, leaving only Bibbs’ body unidentified at that time.
In December 2021, authorities announced that the body of another of Eyler’s victims found at a different site in rural northwestern Indiana had been identified as 19-year-old William Joseph Lewis of Peru, Indiana.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – West Virginia has been ranked at number 40 on the annual State LGBTQ+ Business Climate Index.
The Index is an annual report from global business network Out Leadership, which works to “create return on equality” by teaching businesses about the impacts of LGBTQ+ equality and inclusion in the workplace.
The report rates the states with a score out of 100 based on five main measures: Legal and Nondiscrimination Protections, Youth and Family Support, Political and Religious Attitudes, Health Access and Safety, and Work Environment and Employment. Out Leadership says each of those categories is broken into four subcategories in which a state could receive a score of 1.00 to 5.00, with five being the highest score for the sub-category.
According to the 2022 report, West Virginia has an overall score of 46.13, down five points from the state’s 2021 score of 51.13. The Mountain State falls just below Kentucky, which ranked at 39th with a score of 46.93. Ohio came in on the list at 31st with a score of 53.43.
The Index ranked New York at the top of the list with a score of 93.67. Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey also ranked high on the list with scores above 90. South Carolina came in 50th with a score of 33.63. Oklahoma, Tennessee, South Dakota and Arkansas round out the rest of the bottom five with ranks of 49-46 respectively.
Out of the Southeast Region on the Index, West Virginia ranks directly in the middle at 6th out of 12 states. In order from highest to lowest score, the states in the region are Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and South Carolina.
The index also looked at three business markers and how the state’s level of LGBTQ+ inclusiveness could impact business in the state. These markers include the effects of LGBTQ+ protections that exist in a given state, business employee turnover rates due to alleged discriminatory business environments in a given state based on salary data and costs of replacing workers, and how likely LGBTQ+ couples are to feel comfortable marrying, living and working in a community in a given state based on tax data.
Out Leadership says the data sources they use to create the index are reviewed to make sure they are independently verifiable, the most recent, have a “sufficient sample” for statistical analysis, and have available data for each state.
Earlier this year, Fairness West Virginia released study results that showed stigma and discrimination of LGBTQ+ people in the state is estimated to cost the state approximately $50 million each year. At that time, Fairness West Virginia also said that improving disparities in the state could add between $50.9 million and $68.6 million to West Virginia’s economy and that businesses in the state lose approximately $8,474 on average for every employee who leaves the state to find a community that is more LGBTQ-inclusive.
In April 2021, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed a bill into law that prevented transgender students from participating in interscholastic athletic events in the Mountain State. That law landed the Mountain State on California’s list of state’s where state-funded travel is restricted and resulted in lawsuits from the ACLU and Department of Justice. In July of 2021, a federal judge blocked that law from being enforced.
Earlier this year, one of the Mountain State’s Congressional representatives, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) also co-sponsored a bill called the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act” that would have prevented transgender women from participating in women and girls’ sports. That bill did not move passed being discharged by the House Committee on Education and Labor. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/how-lgbtq-friendly-is-west-virginia/ | 2022-06-27 23:28:12 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/how-lgbtq-friendly-is-west-virginia/ |
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Suspect charged in Gretchen Harrington’s 1975 murder in Delaware County
PHILADELPHIA - A Georgia man and former Pennsylvania church pastor is facing charges in the 1975 murder of an 8-year-old girl who investigators say was abducted during bible camp.
David Zandstra, 83, admitted to authorities that in August 1975 he saw 8-year-old Gretchen Harrington walking alone on Lawrence Road in Marple Township and offered her a ride.
According to investigators, Zandstra drove Harrington - the daughter of the pastor of another nearby church - to a wooded area where he told her to disrobe and punched her in the head when she refused.
Zandstra is reported to have told investigators that Harrington was bleeding, and he believed she was dead. Investigators say Zandstra covered up her body and left the area.
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Two months after Harrington's disappearance, her skeletal remains were found at Ridley Creek State Park. Zandstra was interviewed in 1975 in connection to the murder, but authorities say he denied any involvement.
Nearly 50 years into the cold case investigation, authorities say an interview with a former friend of Zandstra's daughter revealed new leads that connected Zandstra to the murder.
Investigators reported that the former friend accused Zandstra of groping her during a sleepover. When she confronted Zandstra's daughter, she was told "he did that sometimes."
The individual also recalled to police that a classmate was almost kidnapped twice, according to investigators. Authorities also learned that she made a notation in her 1975 diary that Zandstra was the likely culprit of the murder.
Authorities confronted Zandstra about the murder in July, and investigators say he admitted to the allegations after being presented with the new evidence from the recent interview with his daughter's friend.
Trooper Eugene Tray said the defendant's demeanor was "relieved" as if it was "a weight off his shoulders." Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said Zandstra, however, was fighting extradition from Georgia though the prosecutor vowed that he would be returned to face justice in Pennsylvania.
DNA from the defendant will be compared to material from open cases in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, authorities said. Zandstra lived in Texas and Georgia after leaving the commonwealth, they said. The Christian Reformed Church lists him as having ministered in New Jersey, California and Texas before retiring in 2005. Authorities said they were concerned that there may have been more victims and urged anyone with information to contact investigators.
Gretchen Harrington's family asked for privacy but said in a statement that they were "extremely hopeful" that the person responsible would be held accountable for taking her away from them, which they said "forever altered our family and we miss her every single day."
"If you met Gretchen, you were instantly her friend. She exuded kindness to all and was sweet and gentle," the family said. "Even now, when people share their memories of her, the first thing they talk about is how amazing she was and still is ... at just 8 years old, she had a lifelong impact on those around her."
David Zandstra has been charged with first, second and third degree murder, criminal homicide, kidnapping of a minor, and possession of an instrument of crime.
"The murder of Gretchen Harrington has haunted members of law enforcement since that terrible day in August 1975," Stollsteimer said. "This heinous act left a family and a community forever changed. At long last I can announce today that her killer – David Zandstra - has admitted to his crime."
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The best player on Auburn’s football team is running back Tank Bigsby, but the question of who hands him the ball is a more important one for Auburn’s success this season.
Coach Bryan Harsin has a big announcement to make this week. Who’s going to start at quarterback for Auburn against Mercer? It could be former transfer TJ Finley (LSU), or one of Auburn’s two new quarterback transfers, Zach Calzada (Texas A&M) and Robby Ashford (Oregon).
Harsin, hired in part because of his track record of recruiting quarterbacks, presumably already knows who he wants behind center in a season that will determine the coach’s future, but there’s nothing wrong with waiting to announce a starter. If a coach is going part ways with an entrenched quarterback, then isn’t it safe to assume that the coach thinks he has a better option?
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Take Texas A&M and Jimbo Fisher, for example. He wouldn’t have let Calzada walk if he didn’t think quarterback Haynes King was better. With former Auburn quarterback Bo Nix off at Oregon, Auburn’s coach will be judged by his offense this season and his quarterbacks will be scrutinized.
Which one of Auburn’s quarterbacks are better than Nix? Are any of them better than Nix? Harsin, who fired his first offensive coordinator after his first season, made a lot of mistakes as a coach in 2021. This season is about showing clear progress, but there’s already an obvious question biting at the heels of Auburn’s coach before the season even starts. Could he have gotten a better transfer quarterback than Calzada to replace Nix?
Auburn lost to South Carolina last season, and Gamecocks first-year coach Shane Beamer then scored former Oklahoma quarterback Spencer Rattler on the transfer market. LSU’s new coach, Brian Kelly, has transfer quarterback Jayden Daniels from Arizona State. Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin signed USC transfer Jaxson Dart.
Calzada injured his non-throwing shoulder against Auburn last season, so it’s not like the Tigers weren’t aware of a potential problem. Calzada didn’t practice in the spring, and now he appears to be playing catch up in practice.
Calzada beat Alabama and Auburn in 2021. For a long time, he was supposed to be the starter at Auburn to begin this season. Based on what I’ve seen out of the three quarterbacks, I still think Calzada is the most likely option for Harsin by the game against Penn State. Let’s be honest, though. Has there ever been a more dispiriting quarterback competition than Auburn’s this preseason?
There are a lot of good quarterbacks in the SEC this season. How do Auburn’s quarterbacks compare to the competition? No matter how good the running game is, Auburn will need a quarterback who can go win a game in the fourth quarter against what’s been ranked as the toughest schedule in the country.
Calzada proved himself against Alabama and Auburn last season, so that’s a plus for him. Ashford is somewhat of an unknown, but he played at Hoover and lost to Auburn quarterback Sawyer Pate in a high school playoff game. Plus there’s this. Is Auburn going to replace Nix with the player who transferred from Oregon after Nix transferred in?
Ashford is a fan favorite, but he’s certainly not better than Nix at this point in his career.
Finley, technically the returning starter, seems like the safest choice at the moment, but Finley lost to South Carolina, Alabama and Houston to finish the 2021 season. In the fourth quarters of games against those opponents, Finley was a combined 3 of 18 passing for 28 yards and an interception.
Oof.
Maybe Finley, Calzada and Ashford will split time against Mercer and Week 2 opponent San Jose State, but Calzada is my pick to start Week 3 when Penn State comes to Auburn.
Calzada isn’t a returning starter at Auburn, but he is a returning starter to the SEC, and maybe in this new era of the transfer portal that’s how players should be judged. Where does Calzada rank among returning starters in the SEC?
In order, here are my top five: Bryce Young, Alabama; Stetson Bennett, Georgia; K.J. Jefferson, Arkansas; Hendon Hooker, Tennessee and Will Rogers of Mississippi State.
After that, the quarterback talent remains deep. Daniels at LSU and Will Levis at Kentucky are both good players, but Anthony Richardson at Florida could be the breakout star of the entire SEC. Rattler at South Carolina and Haynes King at Texas A&M are highly rated.
Auburn’s quarterback competition? It’s depressing the fanbase more and more as it drags on, and the fans were already pretty discouraged. Consider this. The most exciting thing about Auburn’s preseason was when Harsin spiked the football on his own school at SEC Media Days.
Auburn didn’t fire him in the offseason, and so Harsin thumped his chest about it at the College Football Hall of Fame. It was weird, but weird is pretty normal for Auburn football these days. I find myself wondering how former Tigers coach Guz Malzahn and current UCF starter John Rhys Plumlee, a transfer from Ole Miss, would have done at Auburn this season.
Before longing for Malzahn’s form of maddening football, however, let’s never forget this.
Does anyone remember the last quarterback competition at Auburn before this one? It was in 2019. That year, Malzahn and former Auburn offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham made the decision to go with Nix over Joey Gatewood. Where are they now?
Dillingham and Nix are together again at Oregon, which is strange enough, but Malzahn and Gatewood are both at Central Florida and Gatewood is a receiver.
There was a third quarterback on that Auburn team who played pretty well in the spring game but, for whatever reason, wasn’t given much consideration to be the starter in 2019. It was Malik Willis, and he’s now in the NFL with the Tennessee Titans.
Guess you never know.
This quarterback battle? Just get it over with, please. Whoever is named the starting quarterback for Auburn, they’re going to need time under center because that person is walking into the most difficult assignment in the SEC.
Joseph Goodman is a columnist for the Alabama Media Group, and author of “We Want Bama: A season of hope and the making of Nick Saban’s ‘ultimate team’”. You can find him on Twitter @JoeGoodmanJr. | https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2022/08/goodman-did-bryan-harsin-already-miss-at-qb-for-auburn.html | 2022-08-23 19:18:25 | 1 | https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2022/08/goodman-did-bryan-harsin-already-miss-at-qb-for-auburn.html |
Sheffield United is headed back to England's top-flight next season.
The Blades secured promotion for the 2023-24 Premier League season with a 2-0 win over West Brom on Wednesday, which guaranteed them second place in the EFL Championship.
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Sheffield joins Burnley as two of the three teams to promote thanks to accumulating 85 points through 43 games played, one less than most of their counterparts in the league. The Blades still have three games to play, but third-place Luton Town cannot mathematically surpass them having collected 78 points through 44 matches.
The Blades last promoted to the Premier League ahead of the 2019-20 season when they finished second in the Championship. They then made a stunning ascent in the top-flight's table and finished ninth, just two points behind eighth-place Arsenal.
But they failed to build off that marked the following campaign and finished dead last in 2020-21, ending with a win-draw-loss record of 7-2-29.
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The squad, managed by Paul Heckingbottom, currently is headlined by rising stars Iliman Ndiaye (Senegal) and Anel Ahmedhodzic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) while former EPL players Sander Berge (Norway) and Jayden Bogle (England), among others, have also played their parts.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)Carlos Santana and MJ Melendez homered, leading the Kansas City Royals over the Baltimore Orioles 7-5 on Thursday night.
Santana hit a two-run homer to break a fifth-inning tie as the Royals won consecutive games for the first time since May 17-18.
”Carlos is confident right now,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said. ”It was good to see from the left side, too, because I know he takes that personal. That ball was hit.”
”We feel confident,” Santana said. ”It’s good to win two days in a row, but we have to keep it up. A lot of our younger players have good talent.”
The last-place teams have had 30 players age 25 or younger on their rosters ths season, including the Royals’ Bobby Witt Jr. and Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman, who were ranked as the top two big league prospects entering the season.
Former Gold Glove catcher Matheny had high praise for Rutschman’s glove work.
”He got off to kind of a rough start (at the plate),” Matheny said. ”But you watch his mannerisms and it was almost like he kicked it up to another level when he got behind the plate. He’s a guy who understands the importance of that position.”
Witt and Melendez played large roles Thursday. Witt had two hits and stole two bases, while Melendez homered, drove in two and scored twice.
”They’re dangerous,” Matheny said. ”The guys are young but they’re learning fast and they’re making great adjustments. MJ taking his walks, and display(ing) his power. And the same with Bobby taking really great at-bats. They seem to be ahead of where they should be.”
”I feel like we’re all having really great at-bats,” Melendez said. ”We’re doing a really good job of getting guys in scoring position. I’m making the pitcher come to me. If he doesn’t want to pitch to me I have full confidence in the guy behind me to get the job done. Just trying to make him make a perfect pitch every time.”
Witt’s double set up Salvador Perez’s two-run single. Melendez followed with his fifth homer for a 4-1 third-inning lead as Kansas City batted around against Jordan Lyles (3-5), who allowed six runs, eight hits and three walks over five innings.
”I didn’t enjoy the way things went on my end,” Lyles said. ”I need to be better, and figure it out in between starts and get rid of this little tough stretch I’ve been through.”
The Orioles sent nine batters to the plate in the fifth and chased Kris Bubic, tying the score.
”I thought overall I executed more pitches tonight than I did the previous outing,” Bubic said. ”I just thought execution-wise with everything, probably much better. I just happened to get away with it last outing.”
”I thought his pitch execution was better,” Matheny said. ”He established with his fastball, used his breaking ball and got some swing-and-miss on it, and then the changeup was still really good. When he elevates it leads to a lot of foul balls and those foul balls turn into higher pitch counts.”
Joel Payamps (2-1) worked out of a bases-load jam to pick up the win with four outs in relief while Scott Barlow earned his sixth save.
”We’ve worked Scott pretty hard,” Matheny said. ”I didn’t want to have to go get him to get that third out in the eighth, but the game was on the line. The best part of their order was coming up. He just figures out how to get it done.”
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Orioles RHP Austin Voth, claimed off waivers from Washington on Tuesday, was activated. INF Chris Owings was designated for assignment. RHP Spenser Watkins was reinstated from the 15-day IL and optioned to Triple-A Norfolk.
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Over the course of this season, Hopewell Valley, long used to dominating action in the CVC, will be facing a series of serious challenges from a number of other members of the conference. Wednesday night it was Lawrence that stepped up to challenge the Bulldogs but Hopewell survived, tagging the Cards with a 40-21 defeat in Lawrence.
Hopewell got a pair of huge wins in toss up bouts at 190 and 132 where the Bulldogs’ Chase Overman and Michael Kennedy got wins to turn the tide of the match.
“I have a lot of respect for the Lawrence program and I knew this was going to be a tight match,” Hopewell Valley coach Mario Harpel said after the win. “I thought it could go either way. They have a couple of injuries that are probably hurting them a little bit. But overall, I knew it was going to be tight.”
In the end, Lawrence would win only six bouts rather than the eight Cards coach Chris Lynne had hoped. Lawrence would have needed to reverse the outcome of the two bouts and add another bonus point as well to force the match into criteria for a win.
But there was no doubt that the outcome remained in doubt through most of the wrestling and the wins by Overman and Kennedy were must haves for Hopewell.
In two of the first three weights, the two teams swapped pins as Konrad Haugeto picked up a pin at 157 for the Bulldogs to open the match and Lawrence’s Matt Melchior logged a 57 second pin at 175. In between, another key bout raged at 165 between Hopewell’s Tim McKeown, a district champ and region place winner a year ago, and Lawrence’s Omar Ebrahim.
Ebrahim got a takedown and two point near fall in the first period to go up 4-0. After a scoreless second period, McKeown started battling back, picking up an escape and a takedown to pull to within one, 4-3. He let Ebrahim up with less than a minute to wrestle, and although he received a penalty point to close to 5-4, Ebrahim fought off the final takedown to win.
With Lawrence up 9-6, Overman took to the mat against Omar Rady at 190 and turned a 50-50 match into a resounding Hopewell win when he planted Rady in just 39 seconds.
“That kid was pretty big,” Overman said of Rady. “And I just went out there and wrestled and did what I knew how to do. It worked. He shot on me right after I got up. I just put in the hook, got the head and just kind of hipped into him after he kept trying to drive me up. I just finished it with a cement.
“I think it definitely set the pace for the match, going into the other bouts” Overman added of his quick pin.
Lawrence picked up two wins in the next two weights involving a pair of bouts that could have gone either way as Mohammed Abdelatty picked up a third period penalty point to tie the bout at 215 and then scored a takedown in overtime to defeat Hopewell’s Gael Vasquez 4-2. A bout later, at 285, Hamra Ebrahim moved up from 215 to score takedowns in the first and third periods, and a reversal in the second, to defeat Jon Trainor 6-3.
Lawrence then led 15-12 but the Bulldogs would start to pull away over the next three weights as Dean Meissner scored a technical fall win at 106, Dylan Hersh stacked Marin Shuja with a bar arm for a pin at 113 and Luke Caldwell got four takedowns and three sets of back points to score a major decision over Steven Ham 16-8 at 120.
Josh Merendino got five first period points and coasted to a 7-1 win over Rex Peters at 126 to pull Lawrence to within 27-18 but that only set the stage for another key win for the Bulldogs.
Hopewell’s Michael Kennedy and Rommel Mendez battled through a scoreless first period at 132 and Mendez escaped from bottom in the second to take a 1-0 lead. But Kennedy got a late period takedown and rode Mendez out to take a 2-1 lead into the third. After Kennedy escaped to make the score 3-1 he gave up a penalty point but managed to fend of Mendez’ attacks to win 3-2.
“He was dialed in to the match and the position of the match,” Harpel said of Kennedy’s clutch effort. “That went well.”
Patrick Maloney kept Lawrence’s fading hopes alive when he scored a near fall late in the third period to break open a scoreless bout against Hopewell’s Jett Branagh for a 3-0 win that closed the Bulldog lead to 30-21.
But Hopewell Valley would take the last two bouts as Michael Meissner went on a takedown spree at 144 to major the Cards’ McKyle Thompson 13-4 and Adam Beigman picked up a pin over Lawrence’s Tyler Cortacans at 150 to wrap up the Bulldogs’ 40-21 win.
“190 and 132 were the two wins I thought we were going to need to have,” Lawrence coach Chris Lynne said after the match. “If we walked away with eight wins tonight I would have been really happy. But Omar Ebrahim (at 165) has worked so hard and that was a great win for him. Mohammed let his guard down there at 215 but now he knows he can’t take anyone for granted because that kid (Vasquez) is a good wrestler.
“Our 175 pounder (Melchior) is no slouch either. He’s on fire this year. I didn’t wrestle my heavyweight but my JV (Hamza Ebrahim) went out and did a nice job there. He’s a senior, he’s just been stuck behind Mohammed and Pedro (Maldonado). Patrick Maloney and Josh Meredino did real nice jobs.
“When I lost my 157 pounder, my 120 and my 113 pounder for the year it kind of put us in flux because we don’t have a lot of room to move.”
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CHICAGO – R. Kelly's former business manager asked a federal judge to award him $850,000 in attorneys fees after a jury acquitted him during the same trial in Chicago at which the R&B singer was convicted of child pornography charges.
Derrel McDavid's attorney wrote that deserves to recoup the legal fees after enduring a “frivolous, vexatious and bad faith prosecution over which he prevailed.” Attorney Beau Brindley filed the 18-page request with U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber late Monday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
A federal jury last month convicted Kelly of producing child pornography and enticing minor girls for sex, but found Kelly and McDavid not guilty of conspiring to rig a 2008 trial in which Kelly was acquitted on state child pornography charges. A third co-defendant, Milton Brown, was acquitted of receiving child pornography.
Such motions are exceedingly rare and do not often succeed, in large part because defendants who are acquitted of criminal charges do not have a right to compensation.
In his motion, Brindley said prosecutors knew the testimony of two key witnesses was “necessarily incoherent.”
“This is, by definition, a reckless disregard for the truth, which constitutes a frivolous and vexatious position by the government,” he wrote. "This entitles Mr. McDavid to reasonable attorney’s fees.”
During the trial, prosecutors maintained there was compelling evidence that McDavid was aware that Kelly was producing child pornography and that he sought for years to conceal evidence of what Kelly was doing.
Brindley said McDavid still owes $600,000 in legal fees and “must now liquidate real property and other assets in an attempt to pay.” Brindley also wrote that he and others spent at least 1,220 hours working on the case and that adds up to about $65,000 less than what a “reasonable market rate” of $750 an hour would cost a client.
Kelly has not yet been sentenced in the Chicago federal case, but he was sentenced earlier this year to 30 years in prison for a federal conviction in New York on racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
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By LARRY LAGE
AP Sports Writer
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The Big Ten has disciplined Michigan State and Michigan for their roles in stadium tunnel altercations that led to seven Spartans being charged with crimes.
The conference announced Monday that it is fining Michigan State $100,000 for its football players “hitting, kicking or using of their helmet” to hit Michigan players and suspending cornerback Khary Crump, who is facing a felony charge, for the first eight games of next season.
The Big Ten is also reprimanding Michigan for not providing adequate protection for both teams as they left the playing surface.
“The Big Ten Conference has a standard of excellence both academically and athletically that has been built over 127 years,” said Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren, who attended the game a month ago and has a son, Powers Warren, who is a walk-on tight end for the Spartans. “Our standards require that our student-athletes, coaches and staff members represent the conference, and their member institutions, with the highest level of decorum and sportsmanship.
“We are taking disciplinary action and will continue to work with our member institutions to strengthen their game day procedures and ensure our honored traditions.”
The Big Ten said the suspensions that ended the season for seven other Michigan State players was sufficient. The conference also said the schools properly addressed a football staff member who violated the Big Ten’s sportsmanship policy that was unrelated to the tunnel altercations.
Last Wednesday, the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office charged seven Michigan State football players for their actions Oct. 29 following the game at Michigan Stadium.
The most serious charge is against Crump, who faces one count of felonious assault, and the other six players are charged with misdemeanors. Crump in one video appears to swing his helmet at a Michigan player. That could account for the more serious charge, which carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison. State law describes felonious assault as an attack “using knife, iron bar, club, brass knuckles or other dangerous weapon without intending to commit murder or to inflict great bodily harm.”
Linebacker Itayvion “Tank” Brown, safety Angelo Grose, cornerback Justin White, defensive end Brandon Wright and defensive end Zion Young are each charged with one count of aggravated assault while linebacker Jacoby Windmon faces one count of assault and battery. A conviction for a misdemeanor count of assault carries a prison term of up to one year, while misdemeanor assault and battery carries a maximum sentence of 93 days behind bars.
Spartans cornerback Malcolm Jones, one of the suspended players, is not facing charges, nor are any players from Michigan.
Following the Wolverines’ 29-7 win over their in-state rivals, social media posts showed Michigan State players roughing up Michigan’s Ja’Den McBurrows in and near a hallway that doesn’t lead to either locker room. Brown, Grose and Young are clearly seen on video getting physical with McBurrows.
McBurrows skipped into the tunnel after the game and defensive back Gemon Green walked up it alongside Spartans while much of Michigan’s team was waving the Spartans off the field.
Green, in another post, is seen surrounded by police while shouting across the tunnel at Michigan State players.
The prosecutor’s office did not provide detail on the allegations, including who is accused of hitting whom. It was not clear when the charged players will make initial appearances in court.
No. 2 Michigan secured the Big Ten East Division title by beating rival Ohio State, and is preparing to face unranked Purdue in the conference championship game. A win would give the Wolverines a spot in the College Football Playoff.
Michigan State won five games under third-year coach Mel Tucker, who helped them go 11-2 last season with a second straight win over the Wolverines.
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It's a bad time to be a pirate, at least in the American justice system.
Piracy on the high seas is one of the oldest crimes on the books. But U.S. authorities are using 18th century law in new ways to go after people who may never actually climb on board a ship and the men who negotiate and finance the plots.
About 1,000 pirates are in custody all over the world; about 30 of them are incarcerated in the United States.
Capturing Pirates Over Tea
"When the Obama administration took office, the problem of piracy off the coast of Somalia was spiraling out of control," says Andrew Shapiro, assistant secretary of state.
He says American diplomats have been working with their counterparts to bring accused pirates to justice. And increasingly, they're aiming higher than the grunts who try to hijack merchant ships off the Somali coast.
"We're also using all the tools of our disposal in order to disrupt pirate networks and their financial flows," Shapiro says.
Those networks include ransom negotiators.
In two landmark cases, cellphone traces and other steps led U.S. investigators to Somali men who had the English language skills to serve as go-betweens.
One of them was Mohammad Saaili Shibin, who can be heard identifying himself as "the mediator between the hijackers and your crew" in a cellphone conversation with representative from the German ship Marida Marguerite, which was overtaken by pirates off the coast of Oman in 2010.
Last year, authorities arrested Shibin while he drank tea in an outdoor cafe in his home town in Somalia, stuffing him into an American plane and whisking him away to a federal court in Virginia to face trial.
U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride calls him "the highest ranking pirate ever brought to the U.S. for prosecution."
Four Americans Killed At Sea
The Justice Department accused Shibin of acting as a negotiator for pirates who tortured crew members for eight months until the German ship owner paid a $5 million ransom.
Prosecutors also accused Shibin of trying to play the same role for a pirated yacht called the Quest. Four Americans on the Quest were shot dead before the ship reached land last year.
"Any time that four Americans are killed at sea execution-style by pirates, that's an extremely serious, extremely serious case," says MacBride.
Shibin argued he was just trying to help resolve a touchy situation. But a jury didn't see it that way and convicted him earlier this year.
Shibin's lawyer, James Broccoletti, says there's something else the jury didn't see — witnesses from Somalia who might have helped his case.
"None of the witnesses would come to Djibouti to meet with me because they were afraid of the American government and afraid that they would be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay," he says.
Broccoletti says he got no help from the Somali mission to the United Nations either.
'Crime Of Universal Jurisdiction'
Shibin is preparing to appeal on the grounds he couldn't get due process or a fair trial so far from his home. That could be an uphill battle because piracy is a crime of universal jurisdiction, meaning captured pirates can be brought to trial anywhere — even if they have no ties to the U.S. and no Americans are involved. That's what's happening in the case of Ali Mohamed Ali.
U.S. authorities took him into custody two years ago when he flew through an airport in Virginia on his way to an educational conference.
Ali is accused of boarding a Danish ship days after it was overtaken by pirates in 2008. Prosecutors say he acted as a go-between; they charged him with aiding and abetting piracy.
Eugene Kontorovich, a law professor at Northwestern University, says that's a new take on piracy laws dating back to the 1700s.
"This is quite different from 'attempt,' where people are trying to actually commit the acts that classically constitute piracy. This is an entirely new theory," he says, "that subsequent help to piracy, to pirates, makes you a pirate."
Kontorovich says he thinks U.S. prosecutors are stretching the law.
"It's far from clear that the person who happens to get on the phone with the insurance company to negotiate the ransom is a pirate kingpin as opposed to just the Somali they can find who speaks the best English," he says.
But the hard-nosed strategies, including prosecution, may be working.
A new report out this week from the anti-crime arm of the International Chamber of Commerce based in Britain says pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia dropped this year. The global piracy report found that the number of vessels hijacked by Somali pirates fell from 21 during the first six months of 2011 to 13 during the same time period this year.
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Ergonomic design for enhanced comfort. Powerfully authentic sound with the 12.6 mm custom driver and Bass Lock. And improved Clear Voice Technology. Delivered in a unique, compact case.
LONDON, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Nothing introduced its most advanced audio experience to date, Ear (stick). Featuring up to 29 hours playtime, a 12.6 mm custom driver, and a comfortable half-in ear design, Nothing Ear (stick) delivers powerfully authentic sound with a featherlight feel, for just $99 USD / $149 CAD.
"As we're about to cross one million products sold worldwide, I can't wait for people to get their hands on our third product, Ear (stick). It balances comfort while delivering our most advanced sound experience to date. The case is inspired by lipstick silhouettes and features a unique, yet functional, twist opening," said Carl Pei, CEO and Co-founder of Nothing.
Designed for comfort
A supremely comfortable half in-ear design, Ear (stick) offers users a new choice in the Nothing audio ecosystem, delivered in a unique, compact cylindrical case inspired by cosmetic silhouettes. The earbuds sit less intrusively in the ear canal for a naturally comfortable fit. Ergonomically shaped and tested on over 100 people, Nothing Ear (stick) feels weightless at just 4.4g per earbud, for effortless all-day wear.
Vivid sound
Sound comes to life with Nothing Ear (stick)'s custom dynamic driver – one of the most sensitive in the market. At 12.6mm, it is large enough to deliver rich depths, clear highs and bold details, while still being small enough for a comfortable fit. By using the highest grade driver magnets in the market, and strengthening the diaphragm, the sound quality stays consistent even at the highest and lowest frequencies for a powerfully true-to-life sound experience.
Nothing is lost with Bass Lock Technology. Smart software measures the user's unique ear canal shape and the fit of the earbuds, and detects how much bass is lost during wear. The equaliser curve is automatically tuned to the optimal level for the user, delivering perfectly punchy depths, every time.
Clear Voice Technology
With the next generation of Nothing's Clear Voice Technology, three high definition mics work together with updated algorithms to filter out louder background noises, amplifying your voice for wind-proof and crowd-proof calls.
Optimised Connectivity
Ear (stick) features a redesigned antenna that sits further away from the face to minimise signal blockage. When you game on Nothing smartphone Phone (1), it automatically switches to low lag mode for incredibly precise sound and graphics match. It also connects easily to any Android device with Fast Pair.[1]
Press Controls
For ultra-precise gestures, press controls are located on each earbud and work even when your fingers are wet. Users can effortlessly press on the earbud stem to play, pause, skip tracks, activate voice assistance and change volume.
Together with Phone (1)
Phone (1) makes Ear (stick) better. All device settings and features are directly integrated into Phone (1) for a seamless experience in Device Details. Effortlessly customize gesture controls and EQ settings like low, mid, and high frequency levels via Quick Settings. For all other Android and iOS devices, all features are available in the new Nothing X app.[2]
All-day battery life
Ear (stick) lasts all day, powered by a uniquely ergonomic case especially made to glide into pockets. Enjoy up to 7 hours of listening time with the earbuds and up to 3 hours of talk time with the earbuds. The case packs another 22 hours of charge, for fast charging anywhere, anytime. Just 10 minutes in the case delivers up to 2 hours extra listening time.[3]
Availability and pricing
Open sales for Ear (stick) start at 05:30 EDT / 02:30 PDT on 4 November 2022, across 40+ countries, including the USA, Canada and the UK, at nothing.tech and select retailers, including Farfetch.
A thank you offer for early supporters
To thank its early supporters and community, Nothing is offering an exclusive 10% off the purchase of Ear (stick) on nothing.tech applicable from 4 November to 30 November 2022. One discount code is available for every Phone (1) and Ear (1) past purchase, and for each Black Dot holder. For those who cannot wait until Open Sales, pre-order Ear (stick) from today until 4 November, and get the 10% refunded. Contact customer support with order number and Ear (stick) serial number. Terms and conditions apply.
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About Nothing
Nothing is here to make tech fun again. To inspire creativity, and build the future together with their community. By creating an ecosystem of iconic and connected tech products, Nothing aims to bring artistry and passion back to the industry. The company's first product, Ear (1), has sold over 560,000 units to date. Following its success, the company's smartphone product Phone (1) launched 12 July 2022 – one of the most anticipated smartphone launches of the year.
Based in London, Nothing is a privately held company backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), EQT Ventures, C Ventures to name a few.
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1. Pair instantly with compatible Android devices. Open the case, hit the pair button and enjoy
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Kremlin’s spokesman said Monday that U.N. aid workers who want to visit areas ravaged by the recent Kakhovka dam collapse in southern Ukraine can’t go there because fighting in the war makes it unsafe.
The United Nations rebuked Moscow on Sunday for allegedly denying aid workers access to Russian-occupied areas where residents are stranded amid “devastating destruction.”
The U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, Denise Brown, said in a statement that her staff were engaging with both Kyiv and Moscow, which control different parts of the area, in a bid to reach civilians in need. They face a shortage of drinking water and food and a lack of power.
Brown urged Russian authorities “to act in accordance with their obligations under international humanitarian law” and let them in.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov didn’t explicitly admit that Russia had blocked U.N. access, but told a conference call with reporters that Ukrainian attacks made a visit too risky.
“There has been constant shelling, constant provocations, civilian facilities and the civilian population have come under fire, people have died, so it’s really difficult to ensure their security,” Peskov said.
His comments came amid varying accounts by survivors of the quality of assistance that Russia is providing in areas it controls. The dam lies on the Dnieper River, which forms the front line between Russian and Ukrainian forces on the eastern and western banks, respectively.
Many evacuees and residents accuse Russian authorities of doing little or nothing to help. Some civilians said that evacuees were sometimes forced to present Russian passports if they wanted to leave.
On the Ukrainian side, rescuers are braving Russian snipers as they rush to ferry Ukrainians out of Russia-occupied flood zones.
Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko said Monday that the death toll resulting from the dam collapse had risen to 18 — 14 from drowning and four from gunshot wounds sustained during evacuation. A further 31 people were missing, he said.
Ukraine’s presidential office said Monday that the Kherson region affected by the flooding had endured 35 Russian attacks over the previous 24 hours.
Exclusive drone photos and information obtained by The Associated Press indicate that Moscow had the means, motive and opportunity to blow up the dam, which was under Russian control, earlier this month.
The explosion occurred as Ukraine mustered for a counteroffensive. Kyiv’s forces have intensified attacks along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line recently.
Some analysts saw the dam breach as a Russian effort to thwart Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the Kherson region.
The U.K. Defense Ministry said Monday that Russia had recently redeployed several thousand troops from the banks of the Dnieper to buttress its positions in the Zaporizhzhia and Bakhmut sectors, which reportedly have seen heavy fighting.
The move “likely reflects Russia’s perception that a major Ukrainian attack across the Dnieper is now less likely” following the dam’s collapse, the ministry said in a tweet.
Ukrainian forces have advanced up to 7 kilometers (4 miles) into territory previously held by Russia, she said. Russia’s Defense Ministry didn’t confirm losing any ground to the Ukrainian forces.
In response to “increased attacks by the occupiers,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday in his nightly address that Ukrainian soldiers were “moving forward in some directions, defending their positions in some directions.”
“We have no lost positions. Only liberated ones,” he asserted.
It wasn’t possible to independently verify battlefield claims by either side.
Russia is also pursuing offensive actions, according to Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar.
Russia has concentrated a significant number of its military units, and particularly airborne assault troops, in Ukraine’s east, she said. They are stepping up Moscow’s offensive around Kupiansk in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv province and Lyman in the eastern Donetsk province, Maliar said on Telegram.
Ukrainian forces may have put their counteroffensive operations on hold as they review their tactics, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank.
It noted that Kyiv “has not yet committed the majority of its available forces to counteroffensive operations and has not yet launched its main effort.”
Russia attacked south and southeast Ukraine overnight with cruise missiles and self-exploding drones, Ukraine’s air force reported Monday. Four Kalibr missiles and four Iranian-made Shahed drones were shot down, it said.
According to regional officials, the southern province of Odesa and the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region were targeted by the attack. No casualties or damage were immediately reported.
Three civilians were wounded by artillery fire in the Beryslav district of the Kherson province Monday, local officials said. A 64-year-old woman was in critical condition, according to their Telegram post. At least five residential buildings, two private residences and an administrative building sustained damage.
Officials in Russia’s southern Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, said Monday morning that seven people, including a child, were wounded in Ukrainian drone attacks over the previous 24 hours.
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Associated Press writer Elise Morton contributed from London.
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BELTON, Texas — Wayne Carpenter served his last day as mayor of Belton on Tuesday, but plans to continue to serve the rest of his term through City Council, according to the Belton, Texas city government Facebook page.
Carpenter plans to spend more time with his wife Ann and the rest of his family.
"Mayor Carpenter has modeled dignity and kindness during his tenure, and Belton has benefited from his leadership. One of the final things he did in office was turn the valve on at the new water tank in North Belton," the Facebook post said.
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Officials: Kayak of man who went missing on Lake Erie found in Canada
AVON LAKE, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - The kayak of a man who went missing on Lake Erie in November was found in Canada on Friday, according to officials.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources confirmed the kayak of 30-year-old Evan Zeller was found in Ontario.
On Nov. 5, the department said they received a call regarding a man who was unable to re-board his kayak after he fell out, WOIO reported.
The U.S. Coast Guard and search crews from fire departments attempted to find the man, who was later identified as Zeller. Their search was changed from rescue to recovery before it was suspended on Nov. 7.
Authorities said Zeller has still not been found.
Officials said Zeller is 6′2′' tall, 180 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. When he went missing, Zeller was reportedly wearing a gray shirt, shorts and a lime green life vest.
Zellar is survived by his wife and 5-year-old daughter. His family has planned a Celebration of Life on December 17 at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Findlay, Ohio.
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LAKE CITY, S.C. — Relatives of Americans abducted in Mexico said that a purported apology from the Mexican cartel blamed for the attack has done little to dull the pain of their loved ones being killed or wounded.
In a letter obtained by The Associated Press through a Tamaulipas state law enforcement official, the Scorpions faction of the Gulf cartel apologized to the residents of Matamoros where the Americans were kidnapped, the Mexican woman who died in the cartel shootout, and the four Americans and their families.
But later in the day, the father of Shaeed Woodard, one of the two Americans who died, said he was speechless upon hearing that the cartel had apologized for the violent abduction captured in video which quickly spread online.
“I’ve just been trying to make sense out of it for a whole week. Just restless, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat. It’s just crazy to see your own child taken from you in such a way, in a violent way like that. He didn’t deserve it,” James Woodard told reporters Thursday, referring to his son's death.
The cousin of Eric Williams, who was shot in the left leg during the kidnapping, said his family feels “great” knowing he's alive but does not accept any apologies from the cartel.
“It ain’t gonna change nothing about the suffering that we went through,” Jerry Wallace told the AP on Thursday. Wallace, 62, called for the American and Mexican governments to better address cartel violence.
The letter attributed to the cartel condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were responsible.
“We have decided to turn over those who were directly involved and responsible in the events, who at all times acted under their own decision-making and lack of discipline,” the letter reads, adding that those individuals had gone against the cartel’s rules, which include “respecting the life and well-being of the innocent.”
Drug cartels have been known to issue communiques to intimidate rivals and authorities, but also at times like these as public relations work to try to smooth over situations that could affect their business. And last Friday’s violence in Matamoros was bad for cartel business.
The Americans' killings brought National Guard troops and an Army special forces outfit running patrols that “heat up the plaza” in narco terminology, Mexican security analyst David Saucedo said.
“It is very difficult right now for them to continue working in terms of street-level drug sales and transferring drugs to the United States; they are the first ones interested in closing this chapter as soon as possible,” Saucedo said.
A photograph of five bound men face-down on the pavement accompanied the letter, which was shared with The Associated Press by the official on condition that they remain anonymous because they were not authorized to share the document.
State officials did not immediately publicly confirm having new suspects in custody.
A separate state security official said that five men had been found tied up inside one of the vehicles that authorities had been searching for, along with the letter. That official also spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the case.
Last Friday, the four Americans crossed into Matamoros from Texas so that one of them could have cosmetic surgery. About midday, they were fired on in downtown Matamoros and then loaded into a pickup truck. A Mexican woman, Areli Pablo Servando, 33, was also killed, apparently by a stray bullet.
Another friend, who remained in Brownsville, called police after being unable to reach the group that crossed the border Friday morning. Authorities located them Tuesday morning on the outskirts of the city, guarded by a man who was arrested. Zindell Brown and Shaeed Woodard died in the attack; Williams and Latavia McGee survived.
On Thursday, two hearses carrying the bodies of Woodard and Brown crossed the international bridge to Brownsville, where the remains were handed over to U.S. authorities.
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It's well-documented that Paxlovid — a 5-day course of antiviral pills from Pfizer — can reduce the risk of hospitalization in COVID-19 patients who are more likely to develop severe illness.
Now, researchers from the Veterans Health Administration find that taking the medication may also reduce the risks of later developing long COVID, according to a new study that was posted online this weekend and has not yet undergone peer review.
"We've already known for some time now that Paxlovid reduces the risk of acute problems," says Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of research and development at the VA Saint Louis Healthcare System, and co-author of the study, "Now we are adding the observation that Paxlovid also reduces the risk of long COVID."
The drug, which has been available in the U.S. for almost a year, is provided for free by the federal government at pharmacies across the country. It requires a prescription, and patients with COVID-19 must start it within five days of symptom onset.
Less virus, less long COVID?
In the study, long COVID was defined as developing one or more symptoms — including heart issues, blood disorders, fatigue and trouble breathing — one to three months after testing positive. By these metrics, patients that took Paxlovid were 26% less likely to develop long COVID.
To get to this finding, the researchers combed through electronic health records from more than 56,000 patients in the VA health system who tested positive for COVID-19 between March and June 2022, and had at least one risk factor for severe disease. They compared health outcomes of 9,000 patients that had taken Paxlovid early in their course of illness, with 47,000 patients that had not.
The benefits of taking Paxlovid didn't just apply to those who were unvaccinated. Patients who were vaccinated or boosted, or had repeat COVID-19 infections, had a similar reduction in the risk of developing long COVID, the study found.
The study is a preprint, meaning it was shared publicly before being reviewed and vetted by outside researchers. But experts who were not involved in the study tell NPR the findings make sense, given how Paxlovid works.
The antiviral drug stops the virus from replicating in cells. "We know that one of the key factors that predict long COVID is detectable virus in the bloodstream at the time of infection," Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease physician at the University of California, San Francisco, wrote in an email. "So it stands to reason that interventions that prevent the virus from making more copies of itself would therefore lead to a lower risk of long COVID."
Past studies have shown that Paxlovid reduces the risks of hospitalization and death from COVID-19. "Since the trigger of long COVID is acute infection with SARS-CoV-2, it makes intuitive sense that anything that lowers the severity of this infection would reduce the risk of long COVID, whether it's Paxlovid or other antiviral treatments," Dr. Paul Sax, an infectious disease physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, wrote in an email.
A starting point
Still, experts view the study as only a starting point for exploring the potential uses of Paxlovid. The VA study was observational, based on data entered into patient health records – in Sax's view, "the imprecision of the [long COVID] diagnosis makes definitive conclusions from this study challenging, especially with a retrospective review."
But the value of the study is that it points researchers down promising pathways for more research, says Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease physician at UCSF. "It's hypothesis-generating," she says, "It's exciting and hopeful [to think] that if you reduce the viral load... down to undetectable [early in the illness], maybe you can prevent post-COVID symptoms" altogether – a theory she thinks researchers could pursue.
Both Sax and Gandhi say they would feel more confident in the results if they were replicated in additional studies, especially in experimental, randomized controlled trials that compare long COVID outcomes in patients who took either Paxlovid or a placebo. The VA study's findings are also limited by the fact that the participants were predominantly white men, raising the possibility that the benefits of Paxlovid could be different in other groups of patients.
Currently, Paxlovid is only authorized for use in patients who have risk factors – like being older or having underlying health conditions – that put them at high risk of developing severe disease. Al-Aly says the reduction in long COVID risk, raised in his study, suggests others might benefit from taking Paxlovid, too. But many patients who currently have long COVID were relatively young and healthy before they got COVID-19 and may not have qualified for Paxlovid when they tested positive, he says.
"Does Paxlovid use in a lower-risk population reduce the risk of acute problems and subsequently reduce the risk of long COVID?" Al-Aly wonders, "I think that's a question that we all need to solve over the next several months."
It's also an open question whether a higher dose or a longer treatment course could provide a greater benefit, Chin-Hong says.
Side effects that include nausea and an off-putting taste have given patients pause about using the product. Reports of COVID rebound in Paxlovid patients, where the illness flares up after a seeming respite, has made some prescribers ambivalent about the product. These are real considerations, Al-Aly says, but they should be weighed against the benefits of Paxlovid treatment, including reduced risks of hospitalization and death in the acute phase, and the potential for avoiding long COVID in the months after.
Gandhi says the study's findings may now factor into clinicians' decisions, even if the results are preliminary and have not yet been replicated.
"This study is pushing me to use [Paxlovid] in people who are over 65, vaccinated and boosted, because it's probably going to have other benefits beyond preventing hospitalization," she says.
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro said Saturday that he'd done nothing illegal following reports that he tried to bring jewelry worth more than $3 million into the country in 2021 without declaring it to authorities.
The jewelry - a set of earrings, a necklace, a ring and a watch of the Swiss brand Chopard - had been given as a gift to Bolosonaro by the Saudi Arabian government when he was in office, according to a report Friday in the O Estado de São Paulo newspaper.
The set was found in luggage belonging to an adviser to Bolsonaro's mines and energy minister in São Paulo’s international airport, according to the newspaper. The minister had visited Saudi Arabia after attending a 2021 Middle East summit.
Under Brazilian law, goods that are bought from abroad worth more than $1,000 must be declared for taxation. According to a document obtained by the newspaper and later released by Bolsonaro’s former communications chief of staff, the jewelry was not declared.
The ex-communications chief, Fabio Wajngarten, wrote on his social media account that the box was sealed and was only opened in Brazil by the customs authorities. He said that because it was a presidential gift, neither he nor members from the delegation tied to open it.
Investigators will now see if Bolsonaro was trying to get the jewelry secretly into Brazil in order to avoid taxes or to prevent it going into the presidency's public collection. If it was put in the public collection, he wouldn't have been able to take it with him when he left office.
On Saturday, Bolsonaro said there was never any illegal activity by him, and that he’s being accused of a gift which he never asked for and never received, according to a statement given to CNN Brazil.
Justice Minister Flavio Dino wrote on his social media account that on Monday he’ll send a letter asking federal police to open an investigations for possible money laundering or misappropriation. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/brazil-s-bolsonaro-denies-illegal-acts-with-17820232.php | 2023-03-04 23:37:40 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/brazil-s-bolsonaro-denies-illegal-acts-with-17820232.php |
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Journalists in Somalia say the government is further restricting their work amid a significant military offensive against the al-Shabab extremist group, with a new directive to submit content for approval before publication.
In the latest incident, police in the central state of Hirshabelle detained four media personnel in Beledweyne for reporting that al-Shabab attacked rural areas after local militias fighting them withdrew over pay issues, media groups said.
Chief editor Mustaf Ali Adow of the independent Radio Hiiraanweyn and three colleagues were detained Thursday and the station was taken off the air.
A joint statement by the Somali Journalists Syndicate, the Somali Media Association and Somalia Mechanism for Safety of the Journalists condemned the raid and demanded the journalists’ immediate release.
“State security personnel shouldn’t use the continuing security operations as a justification to impose restrictions on press freedom,” Mohamed Ibrahim, president of the Somali Journalists Syndicate, told The Associated Press.
Media organizations have expressed concern about the new directive by the office of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud that instructs media outlets to submit news content for consent before it is aired.
Many journalists have denounced the order and said that submitting content for government approval would obstruct editorial independence and the public’s right to know.
“The president’s communication office issued a new order to local news outlets on Saturday demanding they submit their content for permission before any broadcast. We all refused,” the secretary-general of the Somali Media Association, Mohamed Osman Makaran, told the AP.
Authorities haven’t publicly acknowledged the directive.
Since the government declared an all-out war against al-Shabab earlier this year, there has been growing pressure on local journalists.
The government has said journalists reporting on al-Shabab’s activities should either go to the scene or abide by authorities’ restrictions.
Abdalla Ahmed Mumin, the secretary-general of the Somalia Journalists Syndicate, an independent journalists’ union based in Mogadishu, was arrested earlier this year after criticizing a government decree telling journalists not to report on al-Shabab propaganda. He was later released on bail pending his court hearing on Jan. 4.
Somalia is considered one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist. According to media watchdogs, journalists face risks including detentions, attacks and threats. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-journalists-in-somalia-slam-government-restrictions-arrests/ | 2022-12-23 19:15:33 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-journalists-in-somalia-slam-government-restrictions-arrests/ |
James Maddison makes England’s World Cup squad
By JAMES ROBSON
AP Soccer Writer
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — James Maddison was a surprising inclusion for England when coach Gareth Southgate named his 26-man squad for the World Cup. The Leicester playmaker has only made one appearance for his country. He came on as a substitute in a European Championship qualifier against Montenegro in 2019. But he has been rewarded for his fine form for Leicester this season. He has scored six goals and provided four assists. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/11/10/james-maddison-makes-englands-world-cup-squad/ | 2022-11-10 16:09:09 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/11/10/james-maddison-makes-englands-world-cup-squad/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Moving forward, irregardless of how you may feel about it, the judges of a Michigan university’s annual list would like you to quietly quit using some words and phrases, including “GOAT” and “amazing,” among others. Does that make sense?
Annually, since 1976, Lake Superior State University has released a list of words and phrases to be banished for the new year. More than 1,000 everyday terms have been banished – some more than once.
School officials explained the process to Nexstar’s WJMN last year. Anyone can submit a word or term they’d like to see banned. Then, the school’s English department decides which words will be banished.
Words and terms banned in 2022 included “no worries,” “you’re on mute,” and, topping out the list, “wait, what?”
After reviewing more than 1,500 submissions, the judges at Lake Superior State University found their GOAT to ban – GOAT, an acronym for ‘Greatest of All Time.’
“The many nominators didn’t have to be physicists or grammarians to determine the literal impossibility and technical vagueness of this wannabe superlative. Yet it’s bestowed on everyone from Olympic gold medalists to ‘Jeopardy!’ champions, as one muckraker playfully deplored. Meanwhile, other naysayers remarked on social media posts that brandish a photo of, for instance, multiple cricket players or soccer stars with a caption about several GOATs in one frame,” the school explained in a press release. Judges went on to call it “an indiscriminate flaunt.”
After GOAT was “inflection point,” which received its banishment for losing its original meaning as a mathematical term. “Moving forward,” landing at No. 5 on the list, was also banished because, as one person noted, “Where else would we go?”
Three of this year’s entries – “absolutely,” “amazing,” and “it is what it is” – have been banned before but were repeated this year for their reported overuse.
“Quiet quitting” and “gaslighting” were selected for their inaccuracy and overuse and misuse, respectively.
Quiet quitting, used to describe someone who does the minimum amount of work at their job, even has the potential to be banished again in 2024 for “ongoing misuse and overuse,” Lake Superior State University writes. Instead, judges recommend “normal job performance.”
“Does that make sense?” was listed because, as judges explain, you should “always make sense.” Those that submitted the term referred to it as “filler, insecurity, and passive aggression.”
Coming in at No. 8 was “irregardless.” Why? It isn’t even a word.
Here are the 10 words and terms that have been banished for 2023:
- GOAT
- Inflection point
- Quiet quitting
- Gaslighting
- Moving forward
- Amazing
- Does that make sense?
- Irregardless
- Absolutely
- It is what it is
You can now submit a word to be banished in 2024 on Lake Superior State University’s website. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/goat-tops-schools-list-of-banished-words-for-2023/ | 2023-01-02 16:39:23 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/goat-tops-schools-list-of-banished-words-for-2023/ |
Should you buy a new or existing home?
- A home is one of the most significant purchases a person will make in their lifetime.
- There are many important decisions to make when it comes to buying a new home based on price, location and type.
- A big question to consider is whether to buy an existing home or build a new one.
A home is one of the most significant purchases a person will make in their lifetime.
There is no question that the cost of purchasing a home has been challenging recently. Yet, despite some affordability hurdles, many individuals continue to buy a house to invest in their future.
According to a National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) analysis, in the fourth quarter of 2022, nearly half (46%) of prospective homebuyers were actively engaged in the purchasing process.
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There are many important decisions to make when it comes to buying a new home based on price, location and type.
One of the buyers' first decisions is to purchase a new or existing home. Older homes may offer charm or maybe in a preferred location, but existing homes generally need upgrades, costing homeowners more money in the long run.
An NAHB analysis of recent census data found that a third (35%) of owner-occupied homes were built before 1970. Building standards have changed a great deal over the decades, almost as fast as technology has evolved.
Due to this evolution, new homes can accommodate today’s advanced technology and be customized to meet an individual homeowner’s need. And knowing that the house was built by a qualified professional to adhere to the latest safety codes gives the owner added assurance.
In addition to being built to the most recent safety codes, today’s homes are more energy efficient than ever. With innovative materials and construction techniques, new homes are built to be much more energy efficient than homes constructed a generation ago.
As a result, not only can they be more affordable to operate, but new homes also are significantly more resource-efficient and environmentally friendly.
New homes also have adapted to modern homeowners' needs. The pandemic changed the way most individuals live, work and play. And new homes available on the market today are designed to accommodate a variety of lifestyles, from busy on-the-go families to flexible spaces ideal for spending more time at home.
Home builders offer a variety of floor plans and amenities to complement everyday family activities.
For more information on purchasing a new home and to connect with home builders in our community, contact the BIA at 330-494-5700 or info@biastark.org.
Josh Hostetler is president of the Building Industry Association of Stark & East Central Ohio. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/business/real-estate/2023/03/10/jeff-hostetler-should-you-buy-a-new-or-existing-home/69980781007/ | 2023-03-10 11:46:16 | 1 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/business/real-estate/2023/03/10/jeff-hostetler-should-you-buy-a-new-or-existing-home/69980781007/ |
George Santos now under investigation by House Ethics panel
The House Ethics Committee announced Thursday it is launching an investigation into embattled Republican Rep. George Santos, the New York congressman whose lies and embellishments about his resume and personal life have drawn deep scrutiny in Congress.
The bipartisan leaders of the committee announced the panel had voted unanimously to establish an investigative subcommittee to look into the allegations. The panel voted to take action on Tuesday.
The investigation appears to be far reaching. It seeks to determine “whether Representative George Santos may have: engaged in unlawful activity with respect to his 2022 congressional campaign” among other actions, the committee said in a statement.
The probe will review whether Santos "failed to properly disclose required information on statements filed with the House, violated federal conflict of interest laws in connection with his role in a firm providing fiduciary services, and/or engaged in sexual misconduct towards an individual seeking employment in his congressional office," the statement said.
Santos' office on Twitter said that he is “fully cooperating” with the investigation and would not be commenting further.
Panel leaders — Republican Rep. David Joyce of Ohio and Democratic Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania — will lead the probe, with two other lawmakers from each party.
Santos had already removed himself from his committee assignments but otherwise has refused calls from Republicans in New York to step down from office.
"The Committee notes that the mere fact of establishing an Investigative Subcommittee does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred," the statement said. | https://www.wgal.com/article/george-santos-under-investigation-house-ethics-panel/43165443 | 2023-03-02 20:22:23 | 1 | https://www.wgal.com/article/george-santos-under-investigation-house-ethics-panel/43165443 |
Multi-Unit Franchisees Further Investing in Bathroom Remodeling Franchise as Systemwide Sales Continue to Soar
CHICAGO, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Re-Bath, the nation's largest complete bathroom remodeling franchise, has announced a two-territory signed agreement servicing the greater Indianapolis, Indiana market, a signed agreement in Missouri servicing the Kansas City DMA, and a single-territory agreement for the greater Toledo, Ohio market. With large retailer partnerships contributing to the brand's growth and market share gains driving nearly an 80% YOY increase in systemwide sales, existing and new franchisees are flocking to the franchise opportunity. Leadership sees vast opportunity for Midwest growth with more than 10 available territories across five states.
Behind the two-territory Indianapolis agreement is Chris Horney who owns Re-Bath franchises in Cleveland, Columbus, and Pittsburgh. Having seen immense success across these existing locations over the past 12 years, Horney was ready for expansion. National retail partnerships continue to provide strong growth opportunity, and after more than a decade in business, Horney has sold over $1M in bathroom remodels. He now looks to the future, continuing to drive strong performance with Re-Bath open and operating in Indianapolis.
"I've been on an incredible growth journey with Re-Bath and there's definitely more expansion in front of us," said Horney. "Our team has now grown to 70 employees who all play a strategic role in the success and longevity of the business. We've built a remarkable culture, all working toward the same goal, and as a result have tenured employees with strong experience fueling our success. In fact, we have several relocating to Indianapolis to help launch the business in this new market."
The new Kansas City Re-Bath is owned by franchisees, Dan Brouillet, Brandon York, and Julie York. The trio currently own another Kansas City territory. Brouillet also owns Re-Bath Minneapolis that generated $16M in net sales last year alone. This team will use their knowledge of the industry and previous experience to create repeated success.
"Signing on for another Re-Bath location was a natural next step to continue our growth with the brand," said Julie York. "As an industry leader, Re-Bath has been extremely supportive in our journey and helped us strategically decide the markets that made sense for us to expand into. We're excited to continue our entrepreneurial journey with the Re-Bath team and further grow the brand's presence across the Midwest."
Set to open in January is Re-Bath – Toledo. This territory is owned and operated by existing franchisee Jeff Oslund. With nearly three decades of success operating Re-Bath in the Detroit DMA, Oslund is eager to capitalize on the Midwest expansion opportunity and bring Re-Bath's services to meet demand in the greater Toledo market.
"Expanding formally into the greater Toledo market is a natural extension of the success we continue to build in the Michigan market," said Oslund. "We have a great team of employees who are eager to extend our brand experience and capitalize on the remarkable growth we are experiencing."
Re-Bath boasts incredibly strong brand awareness across the Midwest with a vast number of locations, and has available territories for growth:
- Four available territories in Illinois: Chicago
- Three available territories for Indiana: Evansville, Fort Wayne, South Bend
- Two available territories in Kansas: Topeka and Wichita.
- Two available territories in Missouri: Columbia/Jefferson City and Northeast/Southeast side of St. Louis.
- Two available territories in Michigan: Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids and Traverse City
"These franchisees have proven to be ideal partners for our brand and I am thrilled they are continuing to grow and see success," said Brad Hillier, CEO of Re-Bath. "We are looking to expand in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, and Michigan as these territories have a large population we aren't currently reaching. A franchise candidate would have exclusive access to these areas and the opportunity to become a prosperous local business."
Per Re-Bath's Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees with territories between 500,000 and 1.25 million had average revenues of over $2.35 million in 2021, up 9.5% from 2020*.
The success achieved by the brand has not gone unnoticed as Re-Bath ranked No. 2 on Qualified Remodeler's Top 500 Nationals List and was recognized by Entrepreneur's Franchise 500®, the world's first, best and most comprehensive franchise ranking. Most recently, Re-Bath earned the No. 1 spot on Bob Vila's 2022 Best Home Improvement Contractors of 2022 Ranking for "Best Bathroom Renovations." The franchise is building off this momentum for repeated success throughout 2022, with a goal of awarding 18 franchise agreements while strengthening performance and same-store-sales.
As the largest bathroom remodeling company in the United States, Re-Bath has established a proven business model, unparalleled franchise office support, and an infrastructure for growth as it continues to seek strategic franchise partners to expand its footprint nationwide.
For more information on Re-Bath and franchise opportunities, visit www.rebathfranchise.com/ or call 888-454-8842.
*The figures reflect average and median sales revenue and average gross profits for 30 Re-Bath franchised businesses with territories of between 500,000 and 1.25 million residents, and which were in operation for at least one year. These averages and medians are based on a 52-week fiscal period from January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021. Of these 30 franchised businesses, 14 (or 47%) attained or exceeded the average sales revenue and 15 (or 50%) attained or exceeded the average gross profit. Some outlets have sold this amount. Individual results may vary. There is no assurance that you will sell as much as the average. See the Re-Bath 2022 Franchise Disclosure Document for details.
About Re-Bath
Re-Bath is the nation's largest complete bathroom remodeling franchise that has grown to more than 100 locations across the country. The parent company's first entry in the bathroom remodeling industry occurred in 1978 and focused on the hospitality sector. In 1991, Re-Bath launched its first franchise location to focus on the residential market. The company offers complete bathroom remodels, tub and shower updates, plus aging and accessibility solutions. From simple bathtub replacements to complete bathroom redesigns, Re-Bath makes bathroom remodeling effortless, convenient and affordable, all with professional, friendly and factory-trained installers. Re-Bath is a one-stop service that covers the entire process – from design to done – in three easy steps: consultation, removal, and installation. Re-Bath assembles its own exclusive line of products at its headquarters located in Phoenix, Ariz., and offers best-in-class products from national brands for its customers. For more information, please visit www.rebath.com or www.rebathfranchise.com for more details on the franchise opportunity.
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Dates are one of nature’s candies. Harvested from date palm trees in the Middle East, India, Africa, Mexico and California, dates are dark-brown fruits that have a naturally sweet caramel-like taste. They are sticky, chewy and make a healthy option to replace sugar in your diet.
The two most common varieties are medjool and deglet noor dates, which are high in fiber, antioxidants, potassium and vitamin B6. They are free of sodium and cholesterol and have been linked to weight loss and cardiovascular health in research studies that still need further evaluation. There are many creative ways to incorporate dates into your life.
In this article: Terrasoul Superfoods Organic Medjool Dates, Yupik Organic Pitted Dates and Date Lady Organic Date Syrup.
What are the benefits of consuming dates?
There are many benefits from incorporating dates into your regular diet. While there are claims of dates positively affecting cardiovascular and brain health, weight loss and diabetes management, the research studies have not been empirically proven and require more evaluation. What is reliably known about dates, though, is still good news for date lovers.
- High in natural fiber: A 3.5-ounce serving of dates has 7 grams of fiber, which can help with bowel movement frequency and consistency.
- Packed with vitamins and minerals: Vitamin B6, copper, magnesium, iron and potassium are among them.
- Antioxidant and anti-tumor properties: A National Institutes of Health study shows they could be helpful in preventing and treating cancer.
Dates as a natural sweetener
Sometimes a favorite meal or side dish needs an extra splash of sweetness. A healthier alternative than the sugar bowl is using dates to sweeten your favorite food and drink. Along with whole and pitted dates, dates come in powder, liquid and chopped forms that make blending easier.
Date syrup comes in convenient easy-pour bottles for mixing in coffee or tea, or you can drizzle it on waffles and pancakes to liven up the whole-grain taste.
You can take a smoothie or shake and add dates to give it an extra sweetness and provide extra fiber that dairy often doesn’t.
Dates as an add-on to other foods
Diced and chopped dates make great add-ons to meals and snacks. They impart substance and taste along with all their health benefits. You can:
- Add dates to your favorite salad for extra texture and nutrition.
- Take traditional trail mix and add date pieces for an even tastier combination.
- Add dates to anything you’re baking. Date sugar, which is actually just powdered dates, can easily be included.
- Add dates, and deliciousness, to a bowl of ice cream or frozen yogurt.
- Give cereal and oatmeal an added blast of taste by dropping dates on top.
Dates in their natural form
You often don’t need anything else but the dates. Eating whole dates is a tasty way to get theor nutrients and health benefits. Or consider carving out the date’s pit and replacing it with your favorite nuts, cheese or peanut butter.
Dates also come in dried form that can be great to snack on. They carry a long shelf life, too.
Best date products
Terrasoul Superfoods Organic Medjool Dates
This 2-pound bag of plump dates is bursting with flavor and nutrition. They are certified organic by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, lab-tested and come with a no-hassle refund promise if you are dissatisfied.
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These organic dates come in a 2.2-pound bag with approximately 25 servings. The whole dates are pitted, making for easy snacking or blending.
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This award-winning date syrup is certified organic by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It is non-GMO, gluten-free and kosher. There are no added sugars, but just the natural goodness of whole dates.
With the quality standards of the Whole Foods 365 Everyday Value brand, these dates can be trusted to be fresh and delicious. There are approximately six servings of six dates in each bag.
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If you’re looking to put dates on salads, desserts or your favorite side dish, these dates are already chopped and ready to be dropped in. The 8-ounce bag is from one of America’s most trusted food brands.
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Not actual sugar, these are granulated dried dates that can be used as a sweetener with a subtle note of butterscotch. It is easily absorbed into recipes and has multiple uses.
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Double Date Bulk Medjool Dates
Grown in California, these premium medjool dates come in a 5-pound gift box. It can be used for cooking or as a present for your favorite date lover. The quality is guaranteed.
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Aurora Products Organic Pitted Dates
Certified organic by the USDA, these dates are pitted for convenience and easy preparation. The 9-ounce container contains six servings and comes with a resealable lid.
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Made from dates grown in California, this date nectar is organic, vegan and non-GMO. It is a tasty alternative to maple syrup and honey for drizzling on pancakes, meats, desserts and salads.
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This 32-ounce bag is full of thick diced date chunks that can be used for snacking or adding to your favorite side dish, dessert or smoothie. They are healthy and convenient.
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Worth checking out
- For a sweet, delectable snack spread, try Wanna Date? Chocolate Date Spread. There are also spreads in pumpkin spice, cinnamon, vanilla and original date.
- Shortbread cookies made from premium Saudi dates are a tasty treat from HB Halwani Bros Cookies.
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BEIRUT (AP) — An international human rights group called Monday on the United Nations to ensure that countries hosting its climate conference commit to meeting human rights standards after it documented instances of repression against environmental groups in Egypt, the host of COP27 later this year.
Human Rights Watch said in a report based on interviews with more than a dozen academics, scientists and activists that government restrictions amount to a violation of basic human rights and throw into question the Egyptian government’s ability to meet basic climate commitments.
Egypt’s government has engaged in a widespread crackdown on dissent in recent years that has detained thousands, many without trial, according to rights groups. Under President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, Egypt has also intimidated activists and new laws have practically barred many civil society organizations from operating.
“The world needs more climate activism, not less, and there can be no such effective activism when the government treats civic groups as a threat, not an asset,” said Richard Pearshouse, environment director at Human Rights Watch, in the report. “The UN Framework Convention member states and the Secretariat should press the Egyptian government to make sure environmental groups feel it is safe to engage in and beyond the COP.”
Egypt’s human rights record is coming under scrutiny as the country prepares to host the international conference aimed at slowing climate change through coordinated global action.
In July, several dozen organizations called on Egypt to end its crackdown and allow people to exercise freedom of expression ahead of the summit.
In a joint statement signed by 36 groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, they expressed concern that Egypt will largely keep in place its prohibition on protests during the conference in November.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, who is also the president-designate of the next annual Conference of the Parties, told The Associated Press in a May interview that a facility is being developed next to the conference venue where demonstrations can take place. He also said activists would be given access, as is customary, to negotiations in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. He did not elaborate on whether protests would be allowed elsewhere.
An Egyptian government media officer did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Monday report from Human Rights Watch. The UN office responsible for overseeing the climate conference, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the right’s group’s call.
All of those interviewed for the report spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, the group said, and six declined to speak at all. Those who spoke described harassment by authorities, obstruction, and a “general atmosphere of fear” in the country and said they were wary of voicing opinions that could be seen as critical even during the UN-led conference.
Some described a partial opening in government policy for environmental campaigns in the run-up to the summit, but only for initiatives deemed to be compatible with authorities’ aims, like trash collection. They said speaking up about the country’s use of coal, and mega-infrastructure projects such as the construction of a new administrative capital, are deemed too risky of issues to tackle.
Some expressed hope that this year’s conference could be a chance to try to raise awareness of the free-speech environment that has existed inside Egypt for years.
“There can be no improvement in the environmental situation without improvement in freedom of expression and the overall human rights situation,” one person was quoted as saying in the HRW report. | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/ap-rights-group-egypt-stifles-environmental-work-ahead-of-cop/ | 2022-09-13 02:25:13 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/ap-rights-group-egypt-stifles-environmental-work-ahead-of-cop/ |
This summer, the biostation will debut its first ever Hawaii facility at the iconic Maui resort
WAILEA, Hawaii, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grand Wailea – an iconic resort nestled on 40 acres of lush, tropical gardens fronting Maui's Wailea Beach – is proud to partner with premier wellness center the biostation to launch Hawaii's first ever biostation facility this summer. The biostation at Grand Wailea will offer personalized treatment plans with proven, effective, and safe anti-aging solutions, furthering the resort's commitment to health and wellness.
"The biostation is well-known for their cutting-edge, anti-aging wellness services throughout the Southeast, and we are excited to bring them to our guests here in Hawaii," said JP Oliver, Grand Wailea's Managing Director. "We are proud to offer an array of curated wellness experiences that cannot be found anywhere else on the island, and the biostation is a perfect addition."
Founded by Cardiologist and Functional Medicine Expert Martin G. Bloom, M.D., the biostation uses customized medicine to help patients identify the root causes of any issues to restore the body to its peak performance, alleviate symptoms, and ultimately, reverse the effects of aging and prevent age-related diseases. The biostation at Grand Wailea will offer the most advanced and proven methods to prevent and treat age-related issues, including highly advanced testing, bioidentical hormone therapy, nutrient therapy, sexual health programs, medical aesthetics, weight loss, and much more. All Grand Wailea guests will receive a special offer of one complimentary b12 injection and 50% off their first IV therapy treatment.
"Wellness amenities while traveling are no longer just a trend, they're an expectation, and we're excited to add Grand Wailea to our portfolio of facilities within resort properties. The property's luxurious grounds, stunning natural surroundings, and commitment to wellness create the ideal setting for the biostation," said Ross Bloom, the biostation's Co-founder. "Our mission is to give guests the luxury of keeping up their wellness while traveling or the ability to embark on a wellness journey that they can continue when they return home."
As the resort continues to expand its wellness offerings, Grand Wailea will offer travelers the ultimate Summer Solstice Wellness Weekend, including a personalized treatment from the biostation. This rejuvenating retreat in celebration of the start of summer and the longest day of the year allows guests to reconnect with themselves through numerous on-property experiences that target mental and spiritual wellness, such as an intimate E Ala E cultural experience led by Cultural Programming Manager Kalei 'Uwēko'olani, a fiery yoga flow session, and a Solstice meditation and intention setting session with resident astrologer, Juliet Doty. To book the Summer Solstice Wellness Weekend, please visit www.grandwailea.com/offers/summer-solstice.
The iconic resort consistently ranks among the world's best in leading travel and consumer reports. Nestled on 40 acres of lush, tropical gardens fronting Wailea Beach, Grand Wailea provides a range of vacation experiences: open spaces for the active vacationer, beauty and seclusion for romantic getaways, and family fun with rope swings and a jungle-style river pool. Guests also have access to a new, intimate spa experience Mōhalu by Spa Grande, as well as eight restaurants, including the award-winning "Best of Maui" Humuhumunukunukuapua'a. Accommodation options include Grand Wailea's 776 rooms and suites and an enclave of 51 luxury villas Ho`olei at Grand Wailea ranging from 3,200 to 4,000 sq. ft., located nearby with access to Grand Wailea amenities. For reservations and information on what is currently available/open on property, please call 1-800-888-6100 or visit www.grandwailea.com
The biostation offers comprehensive, individualized, and holistic approach to total wellness and age management. By focusing on customized medicine, the biostation helps patients earlier in the aging process in order to help prevent, rather than treat age-related issues. Founded and run by Martin G. Bloom, M.D., a Cardiologist and Functional Medicine Expert with 40+ years of experience, the biostation is dedicated to helping patients identify the root causes of any issues in order to restore the body to its peak performance, alleviate symptoms and ultimately, reverse the effects of aging and prevent age-related diseases. the biostation creates personalized treatment plans with proven, effective and safe anti-aging solutions that include highly advanced testing, bioidentical hormone therapy, nutrient therapy, sexual health programs, medical aesthetics, weight loss and much more. For more information about the biostation, visit thebiostation.com or call 808-746-7447
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BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia is preparing to start Southeast Asia’s first high-speed rail service that will cut travel time between two cities from the current three hours to about 40 minutes.
The railway line, which connects Indonesia's capital Jakarta and Bandung, the heavily populated capital of West Java province, is part of China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative.
As the Jakarta-Bandung portion of the rail project approached 90% completion, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo on Thursday visited Bandung’s Tegalluar station — one of the railway’s four stations — where eight train cars and an inspection train that arrived from China in early September were parked.
“We hope with the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed train, the mobility of goods and people can be faster and improved, and our competitiveness will also be stronger,” Widodo told reporters during the visit.
Widodo also expected the bullet train to benefit other sectors.
Earlier reports said Widodo would invite his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to ride on the China-made bullet train after the Group of 20 biggest economies summit in Bali next month. However, Widodo told reporters Thursday, the plan is still being discussed with Xi and “it is still not final yet.”
The train cars were designed and built by China’s CRRC Qingdao Sifang railway company. September's delivery was CRRC's first export of high-speed trains in its 11-train contract for KCIC400AF eight-car trains and one KCIC400AF-CIT inspection train. The contract, worth $364.5 million, was awarded to CRRC in April 2017.
The rail line construction that began in 2016 was originally expected to start operating in 2019 but was delayed until June 2023 due to disputes that involved land purchases and environmental issues.
The 142.3-kilometer (88.4-mile) railway worth $7.8 billion is being constructed by PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia-China, or PT KCIC, a joint venture between an Indonesian consortium of four state-owned companies and China Railway International Co. Ltd. The joint venture said the trains will be the fastest in Southeast Asia.
The CRRC claimed that the KCIC400AF train can reach speeds up to 350 kilometers (217 miles) per hour, pass curves with a minimum radius of 150 meters (492 feet), and is equipped with electric motors, each with a power of 625,000 watts. The cars will be divided into three classes: VIP, first and second, and several cars with large spaces between seats will be allocated for passengers with limited mobility.
The manufacturer said the trains are specifically modified to adapt to Indonesia's tropical climate, and are equipped with an improved security system that has the ability to track earthquakes, floods and other emergency conditions. The length of the eight-car train is 208.9 meters (685.3 feet).
The rail deal was signed in October 2015 after Indonesia selected China over Japan in competitive bidding, and financed by a loan from the China Development Bank for 75%. The remaining 25% is the consortium’s own funds.
The project is part of a 750-kilometer (466-mile) high-speed train plant that would cut across four provinces on the main island of Java and end in the country’s second-largest city of Surabaya.
Infrastructure improvement, Widodo’s signature policy, helped him win a second term in 2019 elections.
Jakarta’s subway — a Japan-backed venture — was inaugurated in 2019 as part of the capital’s efforts to ease traffic congestion. Its second phase will soon be completed and the United Kingdom and Japan have offered the country soft loans for its third phase, said transportation minister Budi Karya Sumadi.
The government has completed other rail projects, including light-rail transit services in Palembang and Jakarta, while five other cities, including on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali, have LRT plans in the pipeline.
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PROGRAM: Hospice of Huntington offers a “Coping with the Loss of a Child” support group session at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18. The free bereavement event, designed for parents who are grieving the loss of a child at any age, is available in person or virtually. Other sessions are offered Feb. 1, 15, March 1 and 15. Contact hospiceofhuntington.org or 304-529-4217.
BABIES: Two families from Fifth Avenue Baptist Church were blessed with babies in December. Arriving Dec. 24 was Hallie Jean Hughes, born to Kyle and Jess Hughes, weighing 6 pounds, 5 ounces and measuring 19 inches long. Saying hello world on Dec. 29 was McKenzie Gail Wallace, born to Cody and Rebecca Wallace, weighing in at 6 pounds, 12 ounces and measuring 18.5 inches long. Congratulations on the births of these babies. May they bring much excitement, joy, laughter and love to the families.
TEENS: A “Teen Cooking Class” sponsored by West Virginia University Extension, continues at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, at Barboursville Public Library. The class teaches cooking skills at 4 p.m. Jan. 26 and Feb. 2, 9, 16 and 23. Registration is required before the week of class. Call 304-736-4621.
LOSS: Nearly two years after losing her late husband of almost 50 years, Garnet Bryant of Ceredo was called out of this world Dec. 28, 2022, at age 85. The lifelong Ceredo resident and aunt of Karen S. Holland Lemaster and Sharon K. Holland McNeely would have turned 86 years young Feb. 2 and celebrated her 49th anniversary with Robert “Bob” Bryant Feb. 9. Garnet graduated from Ceredo-Kenova High School in 1957, was employed 22 years as statistical coding clerk with Inland Mutual Insurance Co., and loved attending church. The mother of two sons, seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, was also a member of Marcum Chapter of Order of Eastern Star, where she was Worthy Matron and a presiding officer. She will be missed but her memory continues to live in the hearts and minds of many knowing and loving her.
LIVE SHOW: Mountain Stage, hosted by Kathy Mattea, presents a live show performance at 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, at Culture Center Theater, 1900 Kanawha Blvd. E., Charleston. Performers include Cass McCombs with Victoria Victoria, Charlie Hunter, Alisa Amador, Julianna Riolino and Steady Holiday. Advance tickets are $25 or $30 at door.
LISTED: Three Ashland residents were named to the dean’s list at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, Ky., for the fall semester. Congratulations to McKenna Barfield, Michael Kelly and Maya Madden.
HUNTING/FISHING: It’s not spring but the indoor West Virginia Hunting and Fishing Show is designed to help hunters, anglers and other outdoor enthusiasts to gear up for the season. The 35th annual event sponsored by West Virginia Trophy Hunters Association is set for Friday-Sunday, Jan. 20-22, at Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center. More than 150 outdoor exhibitors from Alaska, New Zealand, Spain, and Africa, plus the United States and Canada are featured from noon to 9 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday; and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
HUNTING/FISHING: Live award ceremonies, auctions and presentations by wildlife managers and experts are also available. Admission is $9; $1 ages 6-12; and free to ages 6 and under. Proceeds except for costs to run the show and association operating expenses, are donated to programs promoting/protecting hunting, fishing, wildlife, conservation and related educational activities. Visit http://www.wvtrophyhunters.com.
WISHES: A retired Cabell County deputy sheriff sergeant since July 2000 with nearly 32 years’ service blows out birthday candles Wednesday, Jan. 18. Fred Buchanan, Marshall University graduate majoring in criminal justice and corrections, is a member of American Legion Post 16 and Madison Avenue Christian Church. May his day be a surprise-filled one with family, friends and continued blessings.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Adam Harshbarger, Chelsey Lilly, Nellie D. Kirby, Emma Holdstock, Anna Lantz, Emily Morgan, Todd Taylor, Fred Herr, Marley Kate Moore is a ‘tween’ at 12, Erin Elizabeth Adkins closes in on number 30 at 28, Clyde DeVore, John Dransfeld, Haley Hall Waugh, Jill Cochran, Linda Prater, Pippa Lambros, Lois Keller, Jaclyn Pyles.
TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES: Mike and Suzy Richardson, Trevor and Caitlin Wilson.
CHUCKLE: Susan was reviewing her client’s case with him in prison when it was announced visitors had 15 minutes to leave or be locked in for the three-hour prisoner head count. She bade her client farewell and left. But somehow, she managed to get lost on her way out. Desperate for directions to the exit, she noticed some men wearing orange jumpsuits. Mistaking them for workmen, she called out to one of them. “Sir,” she said, “I need to get out of here.” He shrugged, “Lady, so do I.”
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Man charged in connection with online threat to synagogues
Published: Nov. 10, 2022 at 4:00 PM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A man accused of posting a broad online threat last week that spurred heightened security at Jewish synagogues and schools in New Jersey is now facing a criminal charge.
Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that 18-year-old Omar Alkattoul, of Sayreville, is charged with transmitting a threat in interstate and foreign commerce.
He’s scheduled to make his initial court appearance in Newark on Thursday afternoon, where he will be represented by a federal public defender.
That office generally does not comment on cases. He could face up to five years in prison if convicted.
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Jägermeister Hosts Exclusive Fan Experiences and Photo Moments at Each Tour Stop
Watch New Ad Spot Set to Lolo Zouaï's "Gummy Bear" HERE
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jägermeister has teamed with Lolo Zouaï to feature the rising pop singer and songwriter in the herbal liqueur's new advertising campaign. The new spot celebrates the moments that make a night out truly great. In the spot, Zouaï shares an ice-cold shot with friends as her song "Gummy Bear" plays, a moment which will be replicated with fans throughout her tour. The digital media buy is inclusive of CTV, OLV and programmatic placement. Watch in full here.
Continuing the partnership, Jägermeister is sponsoring the U.S. leg of Lolo's PLAYGIRL World Tour. Beginning April 11, the Jägermeister x PLAYGIRL branded tour bus will travel across the country. Fans will experience pop-up photo booths and have the chance to participate in a sweepstakes to win exclusive items including an all-expenses paid trip to the tour's Los Angeles show. Learn more and enter the sweepstakes here.
"I'm so excited to be partnering with Jägermeister to bring my PLAYGIRL Tour to life and see all my Lo-riders across the country," Zouaï shared. "There's no better moment than being on stage and feeling the energy from the room, and I look forward to raising a toast with the crowds along the way!"
"This partnership builds on Jägermeister's long history of championing creative communities and partnering with trendsetting musicians," said Chris Peddy, CMO Mast-Jägermeister US. "Jägermeister is proud to raise a toast to the creativity and hard work of Lolo and all the musicians, artists and creatives who make nightlife extraordinary."
PLAYGIRL reflects a new, futuristic evolution for Lolo Zouaï after the American-French-Algerian singer and songwriter took the music world by storm with her critically acclaimed debut album High Highs to Low Lows. For more information and tickets to the PLAYGIRL World Tour, please visit www.playgirl.lolozouai.com.
In addition to groundbreaking artist partnerships, Jägermeister remains committed to fostering safe, vibrant and unforgettable nightlife spaces for celebrations of all kinds with campaigns such as Save the Night and partnerships with the Lesbian Bar Project, Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative and more. To learn more, visit www.jagermeister.com.
About Jägermeister
Introduced over 80 years ago, Jägermeister, German for "Master Hunter," is one of the world's most successful liqueurs and available in over 150 countries. The iconic taste of Jägermeister is not left to chance but is due to decades of experience, a safely guarded secret recipe consisting of 56 natural herbs, blossoms, roots and fruits including star anise, cardamom, cinnamon and ginger roots, and 383 quality checks. The botanical ingredients are extracted in their raw, unprocessed form through a gentle, weeks-long process of cold maceration to create Jägermeister's base. The base, housed in more than 400 oak casks, then "breathes" for one full year, which is key to creating the complex and balanced flavor of Jägermeister's legendary taste profile. Jägermeister is 35% Alc./Vol. and imported exclusively by Mast-Jägermeister US, White Plains, NY. Visit www.jagermeister.com and follow @JagermeisterUSA on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. DRINK RESPONSIBLY.
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