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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Ambulances in short supply, police cars blocking access for medical vehicles and helicopters with critical blood supplies stationed miles away from Robb Elementary all delayed life-saving care for victims in the Uvalde, Texas school massacre, according to a report published Tuesday.
New records obtained by The Texas Tribune, ProPublica and The Washington Post about the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary that left 19 students and two teachers dead show a delayed medical response to the shooting due to confusion and blocked roadways and entrances.
The records shed new light on the medical delays of that day, adding to the scrutiny facing local, state and federal officials over the botched response to the shooting after officers waited 77 minutes to confront the gunman.
According to the news outlets, helicopters carrying critical supplies of blood were told by an unidentified fire department official to wait at a nearby airport instead of landing at the school. Though available, no helicopters were used to carry victims from the scene and dozens of police vehicles parked along the roadways made it difficult for ambulances to reach victims.
Some law enforcement cars were left locked and could not quickly be moved, forcing medics to frantically try various routes to the school, crisscrossing through residents’ yards.
Though two ambulances were outside of the Texas elementary school where a gunman rampaged inside, it was not enough for the 10 gunshot victims still alive.
33 minutes after police waited more than an hour to confront and kill the gunman, one ambulance was still struggling to reach the school, according to the Tribune.
The records show that three of the victims pulled from the school had a pulse and later died, two of whom did not have critical resources available to them when it was expected there would be. Another victim survived an hour after she was shot, and was placed in an ambulance after medics finally accessed the classroom but died during transport. Six other students, including one who was seriously wounded, were transported to a hospital in a school bus without trained medical staff, according to Texas EMS records reviewed by the news organizations.
Because autopsy reports have yet to be released, it remains unclear whether any of the victims could have survived had the emergency response been different. However, some experts told the news outlets that at least one victim — teacher Eva Mireles, who was shot in the first few minutes of the attack — may have had survivable injuries since she was conscious and responsive when she was found. Records show that while Mireles was initially treated at the scene because an ambulance was not immediately accessible, a decision was made not to take her to the hospital. She later died in an ambulance that never left school grounds.
Another teacher, Elsa Avila, who was in a classroom a few doors from Mireles’, told The Associated Press in September that she was shot in the first rounds of gunfire. Avila was pulled from her classroom window an hour later and survived.
An investigation into the response to the attack remains ongoing by the Texas Rangers, an arm of the Texas Department of Public Safety. The results will be reviewed by the Uvalde County District Attorney, Christina Mitchell Busbee, who is investigating the response to the incident and could decide to bring criminal charges to any responding officials. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/ap-report-delays-and-confusion-slowed-uvalde-medical-response/ | 2022-12-21 15:49:28 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/ap-report-delays-and-confusion-slowed-uvalde-medical-response/ |
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s newest president, Dina Boluarte, swore in her Cabinet on Saturday just three days after becoming the country’s first female head of state and asked each minister to pledge not to be corrupt while in office.
The 17 ministers picked by Boluarte, who on Wednesday was elevated from vice president to replace the ousted Pedro Castillo as the country’s leader, will be key to further inflaming or calming a South American country experiencing a seemingly endemic political crisis.
Boluarte presented her centrist government amid demonstrations across Peru calling for her resignation and the scheduling of general elections to replace her and Congress.
She asked each of the nine men and eight women to swear or promise to perform their duties “loyally and faithfully without committing acts of corruption.” All Cabinet members knelt before her and wore red-and-white sashes tied around their waists. A large crucifix was placed in front of most Cabinet members when they responded to Boluarte’s question.
Fluent in Spanish and Quechua, Boluarte was elected as vice president on the presidential ticket that brought the center-left Castillo to power last year. She was minister of development and social inclusion during the 17-month administration of Castillo, a rural schoolteacher with no previous political experience.
Boluarte, 60, replaced Castillo after he stunned the country by ordering the dissolution of Congress, which in turn dismissed him for “permanent moral incapacity.” He was arrested on charges of rebellion. His failed move against the opposition-led Congress came hours before lawmakers were set to start a third impeachment attempt against him.
She addressed the nation after Saturday’s ceremony and promised Peruvians a government open to dialogue. She said her team will work for the country’s economic reactivation and social justice and walk “the path of progress.”
“I want to assure you that I have worked hard to form a ministerial Cabinet for unity and democratic consolidation (and) that is at the level of what the country requires,” Boluarte said. “… The national unity government will be for all Peruvians.”
Castillo cycled through more than 70 Cabinet members during his administration. Some of them have been accused of wrongdoing.
Boluarte has said she should be allowed to hold the office for the remaining 3 1/2 years of his term. But protesters are demanding new elections. Some of those demonstrating in favor of Castillo have called her a “traitor.”
Boluarte’s Cabinet includes lawyers Pedro Angulo, an anti-corruption prosecutor who was named prime minister, and Alberto Otárola, who will serve as minister of defense, a job he held a decade ago. She also swore in Alex Contreras and Ana Gervasi as ministers of economy and foreign affairs, respectively. They both previously served as deputy ministers in those agencies.
She is yet to appoint ministers of labor and transportation.
On Saturday, people protesting Castillo’s detention broke the windows of a police station in a community in the Andes as they tried to storm into the building, according to state media, which showed footage from inside the facility. A state news channel reported that protesters briefly detained two police officers.
Some people were injured in the demonstration by about 3,000 people in Andahuaylas. Anthony Gutiérrez, director of a local hospital, told The Associated Press that 16 people were being treated for concussions, with one of them in serious condition.
Andahuaylas is a remote city in the Andes, where a rebellion against then-President Alejandro Toledo took place in 2005.
Former army Maj. Antauro Humala was sentenced to 19 years in prison in connection with the uprising. Humala, the brother of former President Ollanta Humala, called on Boluarte to hold early elections.
“With the departure of Pedro Castillo, if the right believes that the crisis has been solved, they are totally wrong. It has done nothing but worsen and enter a chapter to another degree,” Antauro Humala told reporters Saturday in Lima. “Here, the only thing that can lower the social pressure is the announcement of the advancenment of elections.”
Meanwhile, several highways were still blocked by protesters calling for the closure of Congress, the resignation of Boluarte and new elections. In Lima, about a 1,000 Castillo supporters gathered to call for his release.
“Congress has given us a kick and has mocked the popular vote,” said protester Mauro Sánchez in Lima, where police have used tear gas to end demonstrations that began Wednesday. “Let’s take to the streets, let’s not let ourselves be governed by this mafia-like congress.”
Peru has had six presidents in the last six years, including three in a single week in 2020 when Congress flexed its impeachment powers.
The power struggle in the country has continued as the Andes and its thousands of small farms struggle to survive the worst drought in a half-century. Without rain, farmers can’t plant potatoes, and the dying grass can no longer sustain herds of sheep, alpacas, vicuñas and llamas.
The government also confirmed that in the past week, Peru has seen a fifth wave of COVID-19 infections. The country has recorded about 4.3 million infections and 217,000 deaths since the pandemic began.
Boluarte lacks support in Congress. Like Castillo, she was kicked out in January of the far-left party with which the pair was elected as president and vice president.
Omar Coronel, political science professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, said an important variable for Boluarte’s government will be her ability to manage the waves of discontent and generate a coalition in Congress that can sustain her but that at the same time “is not aberrational for the left.”
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Associated Press writer Franklin Briceño contributed to this report. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-perus-president-asks-cabinet-to-take-anti-corruption-pledge/ | 2022-12-11 01:25:10 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-perus-president-asks-cabinet-to-take-anti-corruption-pledge/ |
Due to an unavoidable educational commitment (school), I spend about nine and a half months of my year dozing off in classrooms and hacking my way through homework assignments.
This year, it left me exactly 92 days to unwind. I choose to spend that time throwing money at lures and boat gas, and embracing the inevitable “hooligans” (my family uses some other words that are inappropriate for publishing) that run around the lake without concern for 18-year-olds fishing in aluminum boats.
Yup, I fish. A lot. About every day, I take my 1977 Sears Gamefisher out to deep water. I usually troll for togue and target salmon when I can. The boat, aptly titled “The Rig,” is a 14-footer equipped with an eight-horse motor. It’s a great trolling boat, and sits fairly high in the water.
I do try to limit my trolling to the morning and evening hours, when I’m relatively protected from unsafe boaters. It may sound ridiculous, but I’ve had my fair share of close calls and scary situations with other boats, and try to avoid traffic when I can.
I’ve recently begun to try out something relatively new to me: night fishing. We keep our large pontoon boat on a mooring in front of our camp, in about 40 feet of water. I’ve been paddling out in the evening, equipped with a sleeping bag, and spending the night on board.
I have a 10-foot saltwater rod and rig it up with a sliding sinker rig, circle hook and large, dead baitfish. I cast toward deeper water and manage to get my bait to where it settles unceremoniously on the bottom at 55 feet.
I tried this for the first time last August, and was surprised to have luck — a lot of luck. I landed a 29.75-inch togue in the wee hours of the morning, which was one of the highlights of my whole summer.
A few days ago, I spent another night on the boat. After paddle-boarding out in the fading light, I cast my heavy rod, baited with a dead sucker, into deeper water. I flipped the “baitfeeder” switch, which allows line to come off the reel with the sound of a clicker and minimal resistance. I set up my sleeping bag and read for a while, before dozing off.
I awoke at around 5 in the morning by falling off of the vinyl seat onto the sandy floor. After regaining a little bit of consciousness, I realized that my reel was rolling out line!
I snatched up the rod, and nearly taking an unfortunate swim, I began to reel in the mystery fish. It fought well, but didn’t shake like a salmon might; it was mostly dead weight.
After a couple minutes, I got the creature to the boat and netted it. On deck, I quickly identified the slimy fish as a cusk, a bottom-feeding fish that primarily hunts at night. I have experience with cusk from previous ice fishing seasons, but it’s pretty uncommon to catch them in the summer.
Cusk, which in other places are known as burbot, have white, delicate meat that flakes nicely. They are considered a delicacy by some. I have always had good luck with cusk chowder because of how delicate it is. I’d heard that there’s a way to cook cusk to taste like lobster, and was willing to give it a shot.
The recipe is simple: mix water and Sprite (yup, the soda), 50-50, into a pot. Bring it to a boil and drop in the cusk meat, cut up into chunks. They don’t need to boil in there for long, just until they begin to float on the surface. Take them out, allow them to cool and dry, and dip them in melted butter.
I’ll be the first to admit it. I was skeptical of this “poor man’s lobster.” I figured I’d give it the benefit of the doubt, and I’m glad I did!
I got my Sprite and water boiling in a lobster pot on the grill. After dropping my “cusk nuggets” into the briny mix, it was only about five to eight minutes before they began to float. I was pleasantly surprised that it tasted exactly like lobster, right down to the texture.
It just goes to show that there’s more than one way to get on the water in a way that works for you. I strongly believe that you don’t need the biggest, best equipment to have fun catching fish. Night fishing is a great way to stay out of dangerous boat traffic and to enjoy some unique fishing. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/13/outdoors/cusk-make-a-poor-mans-lobster-xoasq1i29i/ | 2022-07-13 16:24:26 | 1 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/13/outdoors/cusk-make-a-poor-mans-lobster-xoasq1i29i/ |
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- What a difference a few weeks can make.
Heading into that Dallas game on Christmas Eve, the Eagles were sitting pretty at 13-1.
Not only were we talking about that top seed, a bye week and a Super Bowl run - we were talking about resting players.
Giving Jalen Hurts and the other key starters time off.
We got cocky.
Look at us now - Week 18, needing Hurts and others to play to earn that top seed.
Where have things gone wrong?
It's easy to point toward Jalen Hurts' shoulder injury.
But the problems started before he started missing games.
Against the Bears, their turnover trouble began.
The Eagles were so good with the turnover differential.
They led the league in that category for much of the season. But they don't anymore.
And in the last three games, the Eagles have turned the ball over eight times.
The last one was a pick-six that lost the game to the Saints.
That needs to be cleaned up - especially come playoff time, when the games are tighter and the stakes will be much higher. | https://6abc.com/jalen-hurts-return-philadelphia-eagles-finale-losing-streak-week-18/12659485/ | 2023-01-06 00:21:35 | 1 | https://6abc.com/jalen-hurts-return-philadelphia-eagles-finale-losing-streak-week-18/12659485/ |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC), the nation's largest producer of construction aggregates, today provided an update with respect to its Mexican SAC TUN operations.
Today, Vulcan Materials Company ("Vulcan" or the "Company") confirmed that the Mexican government has suspended the three-year customs permit granted in March 2022 to the Mexican subsidiary of the Company and has begun a proceeding that could result in the revocation of that permit. A decision to maintain or revoke the permit will be made within weeks.
This routinely renewed permit had been recently granted for customs purposes at the port terminal within our property. The port terminal is operated by the Company pursuant to a concession that is valid through 2037. The permit enables Vulcan's subsidiary to export its production to the United States; however, absent the customs permit no export or import operations of any kind may be conducted by any entity at the port terminal.
As with the arbitrary shutdown orders to immediately cease underwater quarrying and extraction operations received on May 5, Vulcan strongly believes that this latest action by Mexico is arbitrary and illegal.
These adverse measures have the effect of shutting down the operations of SAC TUN in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Vulcan has sought injunctive relief in Mexico that, if granted and complied with, would enable the Company to resume normal operations including the extraction, processing and export of materials. Should the Company be unable to fully operate in Mexico for the balance of 2022, the potential EBITDA impact would range from $80 million to $100 million, which would approximate 5% of Vulcan's Adjusted EBITDA guidance of $1.720-$1.820 billion for 2022. The Company intends to vigorously pursue all lawful avenues available to it in order to protect its rights, under both Mexican and international law, and resume normal operations as soon as permitted.
The Company has quarried limestone legally in Mexico – on land that it owns – for over 30 years. Vulcan has the right to maintain full ownership of its properties, owns the limestone reserves in the same, and complies and has always complied with Mexican law, including the laws and permitting regulating our operations from which we service our customers in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean basin.
Since late 2018, Vulcan Materials has been engaged in a NAFTA arbitration with Mexico over Mexico's repudiation of an agreement to unlock a portion of Vulcan's aggregates reserves in Mexico and the arbitrary shutdown of a different portion of the Company's quarrying operations there. A hearing took place in July 2021, and a decision is expected in the second half of 2022. This decision may be delayed if the Tribunal accepts the Company's recent request to hear the new NAFTA violations related to Mexico's latest measures. Vulcan has continued to engage with government officials to pursue an amicable resolution of the dispute while awaiting the final resolution from the NAFTA tribunal.
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This document contains forward-looking statements. Statements that are not historical fact, including statements about Vulcan's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Generally, these statements relate to future financial performance, results of operations, business plans or strategies, projected or anticipated revenues, expenses, earnings (including EBITDA and other measures), dividend policy, shipment volumes, pricing, levels of capital expenditures, intended cost reductions and cost savings, anticipated profit improvements and/or planned divestitures and asset sales. These forward-looking statements are sometimes identified by the use of terms and phrases such as "believe," "should," "would," "expect," "project," "estimate," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "will," "can," "may" or similar expressions elsewhere in this document. These statements are subject to numerous risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, including but not limited to general business conditions, competitive factors, pricing, energy costs, and other risks and uncertainties discussed in the reports Vulcan periodically files with the SEC.
Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results, developments, and business decisions may vary significantly from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements. The following risks related to Vulcan's business, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: general economic and business conditions; a pandemic, epidemic or other public health emergency, such as the COVID-19 outbreak; Vulcan's dependence on the construction industry, which is subject to economic cycles; the timing and amount of federal, state and local funding for infrastructure; changes in the level of spending for private residential and private nonresidential construction; changes in Vulcan's effective tax rate; the increasing reliance on information technology infrastructure, including the risks that the infrastructure does not work as intended, experiences technical difficulties or is subjected to cyber-attacks; the impact of the state of the global economy on Vulcan's businesses and financial condition and access to capital markets; risks related to international business operations and relationships, including recent actions taken by the Mexican government with respect to Vulcan's property and operations in that country; the highly competitive nature of the construction industry; the impact of future regulatory or legislative actions, including those relating to climate change, wetlands, greenhouse gas emissions, the definition of minerals, tax policy or international trade; the outcome of pending legal proceedings; pricing of Vulcan's products; weather and other natural phenomena, including the impact of climate change and availability of water; availability and cost of trucks, railcars, barges and ships as well as their licensed operators for transport of Vulcan's materials; energy costs; costs of hydrocarbon-based raw materials; healthcare costs; labor shortages and constraints; the amount of long-term debt and interest expense incurred by Vulcan; changes in interest rates; volatility in pension plan asset values and liabilities, which may require cash contributions to the pension plans; the impact of environmental cleanup costs and other liabilities relating to existing and/or divested businesses; Vulcan's ability to secure and permit aggregates reserves in strategically located areas; Vulcan's ability to manage and successfully integrate acquisitions; the effect of changes in tax laws, guidance and interpretations; significant downturn in the construction industry may result in the impairment of goodwill or long-lived assets; changes in technologies, which could disrupt the way Vulcan does business and how Vulcan's products are distributed; and other assumptions, risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in the reports filed by Vulcan with the SEC. All forward-looking statements in this communication are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Vulcan disclaims and does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement in this document except as required by law.
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When East Los Angeles Community College announced its new Central American Studies program in August, it represented a win for students and faculty in the field who say they have long been fighting for space and respect in higher education.
Now, those scholars are hoping to capitalize on the current momentum for ethnic studies across the state to further expand their field of study.
“Since the summer of 2020, we have a lot of people talking about diversity, equity, and inclusion. There was almost a renewed invigoration of developing ethnic studies,” said Jocelyn Duarte, a professor of Central American Studies at East Los Angeles College and Cal State University Northridge. “We were already ahead of the curve. We’ve been fighting for this. Now, it’s time to amplify the conversation.”
There are about 7 million people in the U.S. who were either born in Central America or have Central American ancestry, according to the Migration Policy Institute — and a quarter of them live in California. The state is home to three of the nation’s 10 metropolitan areas with the highest concentration of Central American immigrants: Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Riverside.
But for a long time, Central American Studies scholars say, the community was ignored within academia – or worse, stereotyped.
“I developed (my classes) really thinking about: How is it that Central Americans have been typified in the United States? It’s very sensationalist, and just looking at us as if we are a people without history, without culture, without knowledge production,” said UCLA Professor Karina Alma, who has developed three Central American Studies courses for her department.
East Los Angeles College’s new two-year program offers students the opportunity to pursue an associate of arts degree in Central American Studies, which will be official in Spring 2023. The first program of its kind in California, it is housed within the college’s Chicano/a Studies department and offers five courses for credits that will transfer to a University of California or California State University campus.
Part of the idea is to fortify students’ knowledge of Latin American Studies, Chicano Studies, and Central American Studies before they transfer to a four-year university, creating a pipeline to universities such as Cal State Northridge, the only one in California to have a department dedicated to Central American and Transborder Studies.
“It was definitely a great experience to be in a campus like CSUN, where you have such an appreciation for ethnic studies and it’s not looked upon as just a requirement,” said Duarte, who earned her bachelor’s degree there. “When I graduated from (CSUN’s) program, I understood the importance of expanding Central American Studies beyond CSUN. It all starts with one course, but there has to be a bigger commitment.”
Duarte said she hopes the new program will soon be mirrored at other colleges within the Los Angeles Community College District, which houses East Los Angeles College and eight other campuses. Nearly 14,000 students who identified as Central American were enrolled in the district as of fall 2021.
“Promoting these programs throughout the district… typically occurs among faculty, who have purview over curriculum,” said Daniel Keller, the district’s dean of Curriculum and Instructional Support Services. “I have no doubt East will make a success of their new program and will generate much interest at their sister campuses, both in and outside the LACCD.”
A long history of activism
East Los Angeles College’s program is one of several recent efforts to bring Central American Studies to California colleges. In 2019, the faculty of UCLA’s Cesar Chavez Chicana/o Studies Department voted overwhelmingly to expand its name to include Central American Studies.
After years of students organizing for Central American Studies representation at UCLA, the department now has three full-time faculty members hired specifically to teach courses in the field: Alma, Leisy Abrego and Floridalma Boj Lopez.
The three professors are co-teaching a class for the first time this fall to graduate students, focusing on the field of Central American Studies itself.
“We’re looking at it as an opportunity to learn the field along with students who are telling us where they want it to go and where they see themselves going,” Abrego said.
The rising interest in Central American Studies reflects patterns in migration and demographics, Abrego said.
Since 1980, the Central American-born population in the United States has grown ten-fold, with a 24% increase since 2010, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Regional civil wars in the 1980s threatened residents with displacement and economic instability, causing a wave of migration. Hurricanes and earthquakes in the late ’80s and early 1990s further spurred people to leave the region.
About 81% of immigrants from Central America came when they were of working age, with a median age of 40 years old, the Migration Policy Institute reported.
“As Central Americans and the children of those immigrants are getting to the age and (given) the chance to attend college, we’re just seeing more and more of that population in our classes,” Abrego said.
Iris Ramirez, a student at UCLA pursuing a Ph.D. in Chicana/o and Central American Studies, was first drawn to the university because of UCLA’s cluster of Central American scholars that didn’t yet exist on other campuses.
Ramirez, who hopes to become a Central American Studies professor, said it’s important to carve out spaces within higher education where Central American scholars can come together and critically think about the diaspora.
“It’s really complex to be part of a history that’s literally in the making,” Ramirez said. “I get very emotional thinking about it because, for a long time, I felt like I was crazy. Like my ideas weren’t valid because I didn’t have like-minded people around me.”
Ramirez said she hoped the discipline would expand, noting that she has only been able to take two Central American Studies classes so far during her five years at UCLA.
“I think a lot of us hope that we can have our own space once the institution understands that we can’t homogenize Latinos,” Ramirez said. “We should get our own autonomy and not always have to ask the question of why we are important within the context of Chicano Studies.”
The development of ethnic studies fields takes a lot of work and organizing from students and faculty alike, Abrego said. She pointed out that the Chicano Studies department at UCLA was only established after decades of activism including a 14-day hunger strike by eight students and one faculty member in 1993.
“Now that I’m chair of the department, I see how tough and complicated it is. There’s just so many layers of bureaucracy,” she said.
“Sometimes folks think, ‘Well why can’t we have Central American Studies everywhere?’ ” Duarte said. “Because it takes a certain type of leadership to make that happen. And not only leadership in terms of faculty members, but also deans and college presidents. They have to see the importance of creating these programs.”
UC Berkeley senior Osirus Polachart arrived on campus as a transfer student in 2020, and helped revive the Central Americans for Empowerment organization on campus.
He and other students noticed a lack of Central American Studies courses at Berkeley, so they developed their own, centered on the history of colonialism and its impact on Central American populations.
Registered through the Chicanx Student Development Program, the course is taught by current students, drawing on research by Abrego and other UCLA scholars.
The class has had full enrollment every quarter it’s taught, and the waitlist often fills up, Polachart said.
“The reason why we did this class in the first place is to show the university that we have people who are interested in taking these classes,” Polachart said. “We want to create an initiative for UC Berkeley to implement Central American Studies.”
Despite outreach to University leadership, Polachart said the student group’s effort to organize for Central American Studies have not been as successful as they hoped.
In response, Dan Mogulof, an assistant vice chancellor at UC Berkeley, said in a statement to CalMatters that “the Central Americans for Empowerment student organization made clear to the relevant academic department its interest in a program name change, and more courses that focus on Central Americans The department has been working to expand its course offerings and expertise in Central American studies.”
Mogulof added that the university is “working to offer more courses and research opportunities focused on the Central American experience.”
The students opened the Berkeley course to non-students as a way to break down barriers to higher education, said Polachart, who also hopes to teach Central American Studies in the future.
“Academia is just used as a gatekeeper to keep regular people from knowing about things,” Polachart said. “People are longing to know about their history because it’s a long history of exploitation, of colonialism. And if we don’t know anything about our history, how can we change it?”
East Los Angeles Community College’s Central American Studies program is also rooted in community engagement. Central American Studies courses were first taught in 2015 through a dual enrollment program at the Central American Resource Center, a local immigrant rights organization.
Enrollment was open to community members as an attempt to increase college access and further develop the program before officially establishing it on campus.
“When we’re talking about college access, this is college access – being out in the community, bringing college courses to our students so that we’re preparing them to either go into a four-year or continue their educational path,” said Duarte, who taught those early classes.
As scholars continue developing coursework within this field of study, Alma notes the importance of Central American representation within leadership roles. Faculty with strong connections to Central American countries can share their own life stories and experiences that are immensely valuable in providing an accurate understanding of the Central American experience in the United States, Alma said.
“We want to inspire our students, and what greater inspiration than seeing themselves in front of a classroom and knowing that– if they want to be there– they can too,” Alma said. “They are like us and we are like them, and we share similar struggles. We know it’s not easy being Central American in the United States.”
Luna is a fellow with the CalMatters College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. This story and other higher education coverage are supported by the College Futures Foundation. | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/10/21/central-american-studies-gains-popularity-on-california-campuses/ | 2022-10-21 15:34:45 | 0 | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/10/21/central-american-studies-gains-popularity-on-california-campuses/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TipRanks Ltd. announced today it has agreed to acquire New Jersey-based The Fly, a leading digital publisher of real-time financial news.
"TipRanks is committed to empowering investors with the best data and research tools, and now with one of the fastest and most accurate breaking news services," said Uri Gruenbaum, Chief Executive Officer, TipRanks. "We have been working with the excellent team at The Fly for many years, and we have always been impressed by the professionalism, speed, and accuracy with which they analyze data and publish breaking news stories. We see a lot of synergy between our companies and are excited that we can expand our offerings to provide breaking news – one of the top requirements of our Enterprise customers and end users. With The Fly, TipRanks is furthering its vision of becoming the ultimate one-stop-shop platform for the retail investor."
Founded in 1998, The Fly is a leading digital publisher of real-time financial news, reporting on and explaining the news that impacts publicly traded companies. The Fly's exclusive live-streaming subscription service breaks the material information moving stocks. The Fly's team scours all sources of company news, from mainstream to cutting-edge, then filters out the noise to deliver short-form stories consisting of only market-moving content. Analyst research notes, company press releases, SEC filings, newspapers, blogs, social media and trading desk sources are among the many areas monitored by its experts.
"TipRanks is a natural home for The Fly," said Ron Etergino, The Fly's President. "Both companies strive to level the playing field for investors and TipRanks' institutional-grade research tools and data will enhance The Fly's financial news products. We have been impressed with TipRanks' vision and are very excited about entering this new chapter, both for our employees and our clients. The combination will further The Fly's mission of breaking the news that is moving stocks."
Completion of this transaction is expected to close in Q1 and is subject to customary closing conditions.
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SPRINGDALE, Ark., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockline Industries announced that the Arkansas Department of Labor has recognized its Springdale, Arkansas campus with an award for exceptional safety, achieving 15 million safe work hours without a lost time accident (LTA) on May 10, 2022. This recognition puts Rockline Industries' Northwest Arkansas (NWA) facility among the very best as this milestone has only been achieved one other time since Arkansas began recognizing workplace safety in 1976.
"It is so wonderful to work for a company that from top to bottom supports safety in such a genuine way," said Mark Fougerousse, environmental health & safety manager of Rockline NWA. "We have been able to accomplish this achievement because all our associates truly care about being safe day in and day out. It has taken us 11 ½ years to get here with approximately 650 employees working in Springdale."
The award from the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Division is part of the state's overall educational program to encourage workplace safety by honoring companies whose employees have accumulated a significant number of work hours without a lost day away from work due to a work-related injury or illness.
"Fifteen million hours worked without a lost time accident is truly an amazing achievement," said Joel Slank, general manager of Rockline's Springdale facility. "Achievements like this are very rare and can't be overstated. This would not be possible without a committed culture of teamwork, focus and attention to even the littlest of details that could affect an employee's safety."
Rockline Industries was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It is one of the world's largest manufacturers of coffee filters and consumer, health care, industrial and institutional wet wipes. A family-owned company, Rockline has repeatedly created first-to-market product design solutions for the wet wipe consumer and continues to provide innovative products to the nonwovens industry. Rockline employs nearly 2,500 people worldwide and has manufacturing facilities in Wisconsin, Arkansas, New Jersey, Tennessee and England. For more information on Rockline Industries, visit www.RocklineInd.com.
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SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Detectives on Thursday were investigating what prompted a fight between three students at a Northern California high school that ended in one fatally stabbing another as more than two dozen classmates watched.
A 15-year-old freshman was booked on suspicion of homicide and other charges in connection with Wednesday’s fatal stabbing in an art classroom at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, California. One 16-year-old junior was killed and another injured, police said.
The attack shocked Santa Rosa — a community best known for its wineries about 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) north of San Francisco — and prompted lockdowns of several nearby schools as officers searched for the teenage suspect.
The school will be closed for the rest of the week. Principal Adam Paulson, in a message to parents, students and the school community, called the stabbing “the darkest day anyone can remember at Montgomery High,” according to the Press-Democrat.
The deceased victim was identified as Jayden Jess Pienta, 16, according to Santa Rosa police. He was a junior. The victim who survived the stabbing is also a 16-year-old junior.
Jayden’s grandmother, Cheryl Griffith, told reporters that her daughter was struggling with his loss.
“How is she going to get through this?” Smith asked. “How do you let her bury her baby? I don’t understand.”
Santa Rosa Police Sgt. Christopher Mahurin on Thursday said investigators are working to interview the 27 students who were inside the classroom at the time, as well as the teacher and teacher’s aides.
Members of the New Vintage Church gathered Thursday morning to pray for the school community.
Officers will be on the school’s campus Monday when it reopens, Mahurin said.
The violence started when the two juniors came into the classroom and started a fight with the freshman, police said. Teachers initially broke up the brawl but the freshman then pulled out a knife and allegedly stabbed the juniors.
Mahurin said detectives have not yet discovered why the upperclassmen began the brawl, though the three students appear to have known each other and had fought previously.
Santa Rosa police have not released the name of the 15-year-old student, a freshman, because he is a juvenile. He was booked on felony charges of homicide, attempted homicide and having a weapon on a school campus. He was additionally booked on a misdemeanor charge of battery on a school campus.
The teenager was taken into custody Wednesday hiding in a creek bed after he fled the classroom. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately have a comment Thursday about the potential filing of charges.
“This is truly a sad day. The tragedy that happened here today is heartbreaking,” Anna Trunnell, the Santa Rosa City Schools superintendent, said at a news conference.
Several students raised questions at the news conference about their safety and asked why school officials did not do more to stop the students’ behavior despite knowing there were problems between the three teens. The officials walked out instead of answering.
Officials had earlier said none of the campuses in the Santa Rosa City Schools District have metal detectors or police officers inside.
There were no mentions of the violence on the district’s website or social media accounts on Thursday morning. A Facebook page for Montgomery High School appeared to have been taken down.
Paulson, the high school’s principal, and Santa Rosa City School District spokeswoman Vanessa Wedderburn didn’t answer voice and email messages seeking comment Thursday.
With more than 1,600 students, Montgomery High School is the second largest school in Santa Rosa and in need of major repairs, according to a report published by The Press-Democrat last week.
The school built in 1958 has exposed wires hanging from the rafters in hallways, wooden skirting around the foundation of old portable classrooms is rotting and students often must wait to get home to go to the bathroom because the ones at the school are foul smelling and there aren’t enough available, according to students who spoke to the newspaper.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of LifeStance Health Group, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of LFST during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of all purchasers of LifeStance common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the documents issued in connection with LifeStance's June 10, 2021 initial public stock offering.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the number of virtual visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was decreasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby flatlining LifeStance Health's out-patient/virtual revenue growth; (ii) the percentage of in-person visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was increasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby causing LifeStance Health's operating expenses to increase substantially; (iii) LifeStance Health had lost a large number of physicians due to burn-out and, as a result, its physician retention rate had fallen significantly below the 87% highlighted in the initial public offering's registration statement, and LifeStance Health had been expending additional costs to onboard new physicians who were less productive than the outgoing physicians they were replacing; and (iv) as a result, LifeStance Health's business metrics and financial prospects were not as strong as the initial public offering's registration statement represented.
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Woman sentenced for pretending to be dead mother, receiving VA benefits for nearly 50 years
CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) - A Cincinnati woman impersonated her own mother for nearly half a century in a successful effort to steal nearly half a million dollars from the federal government, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Cole on Thursday sentenced 76-year-old Irene Ferrin to five years of probation, including one year of home detention. Ferrin must also repay the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs what she stole, currently valued at $461,780.
Ferrin impersonated her dead mother on several occasions and once lied to a U.S. Bankruptcy Court to help hide her scheme, according Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Landry.
She pleaded guilty on Aug. 11, 2022.
Arguing for a prison sentence even at her late stage in life, Landry said Ferrin’s age “is more like an aggravating factor than a mitigating factor” considering the duration of the crime.
He also equated stealing from the VA to stealing from veterans, saying she “callously exploited her own mother’s death” to steal from a government program “designed to help those who have served their country.”
Ferrin’s mother was receiving widow’s and dependency benefits from the VA when she died in 1973, according to the DOJ. The benefits should have ceased upon her death, but no one—including Ferrin, who was 26 years old at the time—notified the VA. The paper checks kept coming, and Ferrin endorsed them by forging her mother’s signature.
The government’s sentencing memorandum begins: “In 1973, a gallon of gas was 39 cents, ‘The Godfather’ won an Oscar, fax machines were an emerging form of technology, and the defendant, Irene Ferrin, was beginning an ongoing theft from the military veterans of this country that would last nearly half a century.”
The monthly checks started at $250 in 1974. The last check she received before the VA caught her was for $1,357.60.
Ferrin received more than 500 checks in total and several times submitted fraudulent paperwork to the VA to keep the scheme alive.
“Clearly this was not a one-time lapse in judgement,” Landry said. “[...]She could have stopped any time, but each month she decided to continue stealing the money. Similarly, each time the defendant submitted forged paperwork to the VA, she reaffirmed her decision to continue stealing.”
The memo acknowledges when the scheme began, Ferrin’s parents were dead and she had several adolescent siblings to support as well as her own children, two with her first husband and one with her second.
“Although this may explain (though not excuse) her decision to take the VA benefits for a short time in the early 1970′s, it does not remotely begin to justify her subsequent theft from the VA for the ensuing four decades,” Landry said.
A forged letter she sent the VA in 1982 claimed her mother had recently moved and sought a change of address.
In a 1984 letter sent to the VA, Ferrin, writing now on her own behalf, said, “Sometimes my mother has trouble remembering where all her information is located, so I will do my best to get it all put together for her.”
In 2017, Ferrin forged her mother’s signature on a form directing the VA to deposit the benefits into a bank account she controlled.
Ferrin filed for bankruptcy in 2019, claiming falsely she had no income.
Ultimately, Ferrin received the five years of probation her defense requested. The sentencing memorandum on her behalf notes she has no criminal history and “provides around-the-clock care for her 80-year-old husband,” who has a degenerative neuromuscular condition.
The defense also noted Ferrin in 1971 married a man, whom she later divorced, but who would become abusive during their marriage. She had six children to raise, including her siblings, whom the rest of her family allegedly wanted to place into foster care. Moreover, she said it was her then-husband who told her to continue to cash the VA checks.
“Irene, overwhelmed beyond measure and with no one safe or trustworthy to turn to for support or advice, did just that. She knew that she should have informed the VA of her mother’s death, but she did not understand that the payments were not also for her three minor siblings, she needed the money to keep all of her now-six kids fed and housed and together, and [her husband] had been controlling her since their relationship started,” the memorandum reads, later adding that she “spent nearly an entire decade being abused and controlled by men who had promised to love and protect her[...]”
The man to whom Irene is currently married was Ferrin’s first husband, whom she married at 18 and divorced at 23 after producing two children. They rekindled their relationship following Ferrin’s second divorce and have been married ever since — 45 years.
She says she never told him of the VA theft scheme out of fear and shame.
When federal agents showed up at Ferrin’s door, per the memo, “Irene was truthful, cooperative and immediately took responsibility for her crime.”
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MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Personal injury law firm Elk + Elk announced a partnership with Cleveland Browns guard Wyatt Teller #77 in the "Block Hunger" campaign. Throughout the campaign, donations will support St. Augustine Hunger Center. Starting on September 11, for every point scored by the Cleveland Browns during the 2022 season, Elk + Elk will donate $77. In addition, every game Wyatt has a pancake block, Elk + Elk will donate an additional $770.
When asked about the "Block Hunger" campaign, Elk + Elk managing partner Jay Kelley said, "For the last 18 years, we have had the privilege of working with St. Augustine Hunger Center to help feed the poor and homeless in Cleveland. We are very excited to advocate for this great cause through our campaign in partnership with Cleveland Browns Guard Wyatt Teller. We hope the campaign will create awareness and encourage others to help St. Augustine during the 2022 Browns season."
Wyatt Teller started his career with the Cleveland Browns as an offensive guard in 2019. Known for his legendary pancake blocks, Teller has become a strong name in the league. After signing a contract extension last season, Wyatt and his wife, Carly, have officially put down roots in Cleveland. They both express passion for this city and look forward to giving back while getting the opportunity to raise their first child here.
After speaking with Wyatt and Carly Teller about the "Block Hunger" campaign, they said, "We are proud to partner with Elk + Elk and St. Augustine Hunger Center to block hunger in Cleveland this football season. We look forward to pancakes from #77 on the field so we can serve the people in our community off the field."
For more information and to learn how to donate to the St. Augustine Hunger Center, visit the Elk + Elk website or follow the law firm on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Instagram.
The St. Augustine Hunger Center cares for Cleveland's poor, disabled, and homeless. The Center serves daily meals and provides clothing for thousands of people each month. Emergency funding and housing are also available to the Center's clients, among other advocacy and outreach programs. Learn more at staugustinecleveland.org.
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Dear Miss Manners: I have hosted several teas for five to eight friends, most of them around my age (mid-20s) or a little younger. My difficulty is with RSVPs: Each time, I’ve had multiple guests tell me the day of the tea that they’re no longer able to attend — for reasons such as being tired, having work to get done or needing to go grocery shopping.
I've gone to increasing lengths to formalize the event in the hope that that would build more commitment into the responses, with no success. For the most recent tea, I gave out formal handwritten invitations three weeks in advance, requested and received responses two weeks in advance, and still went from seven expected guests to four within hours of the event.
I haven’ t wanted to invite more people than I can host and rely on last-minute cancellations because it is, of course, always possible that everyone who accepts my invitation will come. I don’t want the possibility of not having a teacup, seat or scone for an expected guest.
It’s also been suggested to me that asking someone to bring a dish will make her presence feel more essential and thus make her more likely to attend; I haven’t wanted to pursue that course, either, because I very much prefer to host the tea rather than just organize it.
But I need to find some solution; neither my salary nor my energy allows for continuing to prepare for twice as many guests as will actually attend. How can I, while being mannerly myself, request or instill a sense of commitment in my friends’ responses to my invitations?
Stop inviting the ones who consistently fail to show. That will likely be the only way to teach your guests commitment. Asking them to bring a dish, Miss Manners agrees, is not wise. It not only compromises the pleasure of hosting, but also increases the chance that you will find yourself lacking in both a guest — and something to serve for tea.
Dear Miss Manners: I am going to visit my 28-year-old daughter and meet her new boyfriend, who is 41 and a Marine. I have invited them to lunch at an appropriate restaurant, and I intend to get the check.
I suspect the boyfriend will be a gentleman and insist on paying. As the person who issued the invitation, should I insist? Or, as a lady, can I accept his gracious offer? It is very important to me that I make a proper impression.
As, one hopes, it will be for him.
You are correct that, as the person who issued the invitation, you should pay. However, if the gentleman insists, it will be better not to make a fuss and instead, graciously say, “Thank you. I hope that this is the first of many such occasions and that you will let us be the hosts next time.”
That is, Miss Manners warns, if he does indeed make that proper impression — and your daughter concurs.
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Oil is the world’s foremost commodity. Nations fight wars to control it; economies wax and wane based on its price. But oil is also useless without a process to transform it into the stuff everyone needs: gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and petrochemicals. Over the last couple of years, the refining industry became a chokepoint, pushing the cost of turning crude into fuels to an all-time high, in turn inflating gasoline and diesel prices. The “refinery wall” was the buzzword. Now, the bottleneck is easing.
What changed? The world is building new refineries and expanding older ones at a speed unseen in nearly two generations. It may sound counterintuitive given efforts to ease the climate emergency, but oil demand continues to grow and, to accommodate that, oil companies are again investing billions of dollars in new refineries.
RBC Capital Markets LLC, an investment bank, reckons that net global refinery capacity will increase by 1.5 million barrels a day this year, and by another 2.4 million next year. The combined 2023-24 boost is the largest two-year increase in net global refining capacity in 45 years, according to the bank.The construction boom matters beyond the oil industry. For central banks trying to decide whether their campaign of interest-rate hikes has subdued inflation, the increased capacity offers some hope that gasoline and diesel prices will stay low.The buildup is, in part, a fluke: Refinery projects got delayed over the pandemic, with many of them now coming online simultaneously in places such as Kuwait, Nigeria, Mexico and China. Happenstance or not, the increase nonetheless marks a turnaround for the oil industry. In 2021, net global refining capacity fell for the first time in 30 years as the pandemic forced some plants to close.Exxon Mobil Corp. is emblematic of the new trend. Last month, it fired up the expansion of its plant in Beaumont, Texas. With 250,000 barrels a day of extra capacity, it is the largest addition in the US in more than 10 years.The new plants are starting to have an impact on the cost of processing crude into everyday fuels. Add pockets of demand weakness here and there, and the result is a significant drop in refining margins over the last few weeks. While both factors are at play, I believe many are over-emphasizing consumption weakness and downplaying the fact that there’s more processing capacity around.Oil refineries are complex machines, capable of processing multiple streams of crude into dozens of different products. For simplicity’s sake, the American oil industry measures refining margins using a rough calculation called the “3-2-1 crack spread”: For every three barrels of West Texas crude crude oil the refinery processes, it makes two barrels of gasoline and one barrel of distillate fuel like diesel and jet-fuel.
At one point last year, as the global economy struggled to process enough crude into fuels, the WTI 3-2-1 crack spread surged to a record high of nearly $65 a barrel, compared to a 2000-2020 average of less than $15 a barrel. Turning a barrel of crude into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel became so expensive that for consumers, it was like oil was trading at $250 a barrel.Since then, the American oil refining benchmark has fallen nearly 50% to $32 a barrel — although it remains well above its long-term average. Excluding 2022, current refining margins are among the highest ever, comparable to the 2010-2013 period referred to in the industry as refining’s golden age.Another factor is pushing margins down: Russian refineries are still operating at high rates despite Western sanctions, defying naysayers that thought they would cut processing after losing access to the European market. Instead, they have found new outlets in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.Going forward, even if petroleum demand growth remains healthy in 2023 and 2024 — and so far, rear-view mirror data suggests it will — refiners are unlikely to repeat the super-charged profits of last year. By historical norms, it won’t be a collapse. After all, current refining margins are nearly double the 2010-2020 average. But the fall would still hurt.
It’s bad news for Big Oil, as companies like Exxon, Chevron Corp., and Shell Plc run big refining businesses, and have gotten used to them performing as cash machines. It would be even worse for pure-player refiners like Marathon Petroleum Corp. and Valero Energy Corp., which have attracted hordes of new shareholders on the back of the 2022 super spike. But for consumers and policymakers, the increase in refining capacity offers welcome relief on the inflation front — if not so much for the climate.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Abbott Laboratories.
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We may be entering a new chapter in the gamification of American politics: election betting.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently considered whether to allow a company called Kalshi Inc. to open the first U.S.-based election betting market, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal.
Election betting is a sticky business. It opens all manner of ethical questions, including incentives for buying and selling votes. And it's currently illegal in most places. According to the sports book Draft Kings, only two U.S.-based markets have recently allowed election betting, both receiving exemptions to do so by the CFTC because they can be used for research purposes. In August, one of those exemptions was revoked.
That has not always been the case. Election betting was a big deal a century ago. In 2004, two researchers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill published a study of election betting in the early 1900s in the Journal of Economic Perspectives that said: "The extent of activity in the presidential betting markets of this time was astonishingly large.
"For brief periods, betting on political outcomes at the Curb Exchange in New York would exceed trading in stocks and bonds." For the 1916 presidential election, more money was wagered in election betting than was spent by the candidates, the report said.
In 1896, 1900, 1904, 1916 and 1934, The New York Times, Sun, and World provided regular quotations, alongside other market updates, from October until election day.
Regardless of whether there's a regulated market, Americans will bet on elections. People bet on all manner of things. We remember when you could get action on an over/under for how many times a president would be interrupted by applause during a state of the union address, or what color the first lady's dress would be. CFTC regulations aside, friendly wagers will continue. It's a free country.
But election betting points out a troubling trend in our democracy: increasingly, people interact with news and politics the same way they interact with reality TV or spectator sports. The problem is our politics is not a game.
Journalism students used to be taught that local news is most important to readers and that "all politics is local" because people cared most about policies that would directly affect their lives. But that doesn't seem to be true any longer. In recent decades, the most popular news sources focus almost entirely on national news because news consumers are less interested in how policies will affect them, and more interested in seeing their team win.
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First-time C-section rates among US women on the rise
Published: Jul. 6, 2022 at 7:44 AM CDT|Updated: 42 minutes ago
(CNN) - First-time cesarean section rates among U.S. women are on the rise, according to the data the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Wednesday.
Between 2016 and 2019, the first-time C-section delivery rate generally declined. But the data shows it increased by 1% in 2020 and 2% percent in 2021, reaching a rate of 22.4 %.
That’s the highest number reported since comparable national data on first-time C-sections specifically became available in 2016.
While the rate of first-time C-sections is climbing, the rate of repeat C-sections is falling.
It decreased every year between 2016 and 2021, resulting in a 2% total decline.
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CARY, N.C., Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fathom Realty, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fathom Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: FTHM), a national, technology-driven, end-to-end real estate services platform integrating residential brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance, and SaaS offerings for brokerages and agents, today announced that Josh Harley, Fathom's Founder and CEO, was awarded the prestigious Icon Award from DFW Real Producers during the Annual ESPE Awards Gala in Dallas, hosted by Real Producers magazine.
DFW Real Producers is a community of the top 2,000 producing real estate agents, leaders, and vetted businesses in the Dallas - Ft. Worth area. Harley was one of five finalists among top industry leaders in the region, including Jim Fite, President of Century 21 Judge Fite Company; Allie Beth Allman, Executive Director and Founder of Allie Beth Allman & Associates (a Berkshire Hathaway company); Roxann Taylor, License Partner of Engel & Völkers Dallas Southlake; and Dave Jenks, a Vice President at Keller Williams, before he passed away last year.
"I am so honored to be in the company of such amazing industry titans…people who were already legends in the Dallas - Ft. Worth area when I first received my real estate license. I'm truly humbled to share the stage with them," said Harley. "As an industry, we have an amazing opportunity to touch the lives of so many people. Leaders must lead by example, and I strive daily to live by Fathom's culture of servant leadership for our agents, employees and home buyers and sellers. It is validating to be recognized for these efforts."
"All of us at Fathom are proud of everything Josh has accomplished. This honor speaks to his unwavering dedication to the principles of servant leadership," said Samantha Guiggio, Fathom Realty's Chief Operations Officer. "As a business that puts agents first and provides them with the opportunity to control the trajectory of their careers, Fathom is a special place with a strong culture. Josh may have been surprised that he won, but the rest of us had no doubt."
"When the nominations opened up, Josh's name kept showing up. I was excited to see that because when I think of a Real Estate Icon, I definitely think of Josh Harley. With what he has accomplished and built and how he places others first....it was a well-deserved recognition. It was our honor to be able to present Josh with the prestigious Icon Award," said Jordan Espeseth, Owner and Publisher of DFW Real Producers.
About Fathom Realty LLC
Fathom Realty, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fathom Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: FTHM), is a national, cloud-based, real estate brokerage powered by intelliAgent, a proprietary technology platform that simplifies agent transaction management. The Company currently operates in 38 states and the District of Columbia with nearly 10,000 agents, who earn higher incomes through Fathom's transaction fee compensation model, plus the ability to offer their clients a host of related services, from title insurance to arranging mortgages, and in some states, homeowner's insurance. Fathom Realty is the sixth largest independent firm in the country as ranked by the 2022 RealTrends 500 Ranking Report. For more information, visit www.fathomcareers.com.
About Fathom Holdings Inc.
Fathom Holdings Inc. is a national, technology-driven, real estate services platform integrating residential brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance, and SaaS offerings to brokerages and agents by leveraging its proprietary cloud-based software, intelliAgent. The Company's brands include Fathom Realty, Dagley Insurance, Encompass Lending, intelliAgent, LiveBy, Real Results, and Verus Title. For more information, visit www.FathomInc.com.
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Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Make Pledge on AI Safety and Security
ChatGPT creator OpenAI is also among the companies that met with President Biden to sign the voluntary agreement.
Tech giants have made "voluntary commitments" with the White House that they'll help reduce the risks involved in artificial intelligence.
US President Joe Biden met with Microsoft, Meta, Google, OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic and Inflection on Friday, where they agreed to emphasize "safety, security and trust" when developing AI technologies. Here are some details in each of those categories:
- Safety: The companies agreed to "testing the safety and capabilities of their AI systems, subjecting them to external testing, assessing their potential biological, cybersecurity, and societal risks and making the results of those assessments public."
- Security: The companies also said they will safeguard their AI products "against cyber and insider threats" and share "best practices and standards to prevent misuse, reduce risks to society, and protect national security."
- Trust: One of the biggest agreements secured was for these companies to make it easy for people to tell whether images are original, altered or generated by AI. They will also ensure that AI doesn't promote discrimination or bias, they will protect children from harm, and will use AI to solve challenges like climate change and cancer.
The arrival of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022 was the beginning of a stampede of major tech companies releasing generative AI tools to the masses. OpenAI's GPT-4 launched in mid-March. It's the latest version of the large language model that powers the ChatGPT AI chatbot, which among other things is advanced enough to pass the bar exam. Chatbots, however, are prone to spitting out incorrect answers and sometimes sources that don't exist. As adoption of these tools has exploded, their potential problems have gained renewed attention -- including spreading misinformation and deepening bias and inequality.
What the AI companies are saying and doing
Meta said it welcomed the White House agreement. Earlier this week, the company launched the second generation of its AI large language model, Llama 2, making it free and open source.
"As we develop new AI models, tech companies should be transparent about how their systems work and collaborate closely across industry, government, academia and civil society," said Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs.
The White House agreement will "create a foundation to help ensure the promise of AI stays ahead of its risks," Brad Smith, Microsoft vice chair and president, said in a blog post.
Microsoft is a partner on Meta's Llama 2. It also launched AI-powered Bing search earlier this year that makes use of ChatGPT and is bringing more and more AI tools to Microsoft 365 and its Edge browser.
The agreement with the White House is part of OpenAI's "ongoing collaboration with governments, civil society organizations and others around the world to advance AI governance," said Anna Makanju, OpenAI vice president of global affairs. "Policymakers around the world are considering new laws for highly capable AI systems. Today's commitments contribute specific and concrete practices to that ongoing discussion."
Amazon is in support of the voluntary commitments "as one of the world's leading developers and deployers of AI tools and services," Tim Doyle, Amazon spokesperson, told CNET in an emailed statement. "We are dedicated to driving innovation on behalf of our customers while also establishing and implementing the necessary safeguards to protect consumers and customers."
Amazon has leaned into AI for its podcasts and music and on Amazon Web Services.
Anthropic said in an emailed statement that all AI companies "need to join in a race for AI safety." The company said it will announce its plans in the coming weeks on "cybersecurity, red teaming and responsible scaling."
"There's a huge amount of safety work ahead. So far AI safety has been stuck in the space of ideas and meetings," Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI, wrote in a blog post Friday. "The amount of tangible progress versus hype and panic has been insufficient. At Inflection we find this both concerning and frustrating. That's why safety is at the heart of our mission."
What else?
"Today is a milestone in bringing the industry together to ensure that AI helps everyone," said Kent Walker, Google's President of Global Affairs, in a blog post later Friday. "These commitments will support efforts by the G7, the OECD, and national governments to maximize AI's benefits and minimize its risks."
Google, which launched a chatbot called Bard in March, previously said it would watermark AI content. The company's AI model Gemini will identify text, images and footage that have been generated by AI. It will check the metadata integrated in content to let you know what's unaltered and what's been created by AI.
Image software company Adobe is similarly ensuring it's tagging AI-generated images from its Firefly AI tools with metadata indicating they've been created by an AI system.
Elon Musk's new AI company xAI wasn't part of the discussion Friday, and Apple also appeared to be absent amid reports it has created its own chatbot and large language model framework.
You can read the entire voluntary agreement between the companies and the White House here. It follows more than 1,000 people in tech, including Musk, signing an open letter in March urging labs to take at least a six-month pause in AI development due to "profound risks" to society from increasingly capable AI engines. In June, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, along with other scientists and notable figures, also signed a statement warning of the risks of AI. And Microsoft in May released a 40-page report saying AI regulation is needed to stay ahead of potential risks and bad actors.
The Biden-Harris administration is also developing an executive order and seeking bipartisan legislation "to keep Americans safe" from AI. The US Office of Management and Budget is additionally slated to release guidelines for any federal agencies that are procuring or using AI systems.
See also: ChatGPT vs. Bing vs. Google Bard: Which AI Is the Most Helpful?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday that it is creating a new task force to crack down on an explosion of the illegal exploitation of migrant children for labor in the U.S.
Hundreds of companies that employed nearly 4,000 children last year were found in violation of federal labor laws, a dramatic increase in the last five years.
The growing problem has put Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra in the hot seat, with concerns mounting that migrant children have been discharged from shelters and out of federal custody too quickly, pushing them into vulnerable situations where they’re more likely to become victims of child labor.
In a new video that’s been circulating, first reported by The New York Times, the secretary urged his staff to discharge children from the federal government’s broken system of shelters faster.
“If Henry Ford had seen this in his plants, he would have never become famous and rich,” Becerra told staff during a meeting last summer in a recording. “This is not the way you do an assembly line.”
The Times’ investigation identified more than 100 migrant children, some as young as 12 years old, who say they’re working overnight shifts and dangerous jobs for companies big and small throughout the U.S.
President Joe Biden still has “full confidence” in Becerra, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday when asked about the secretary’s job in light of the new report.
“Of course the president does not believe that processing migrants should be treated like an assembly line, and neither does Secretary Becerra,” she said.
Becerra has long been viewed as an advocate for immigrants. He often talks about his own parents’ experience immigrating from Mexico to the U.S.
The administration has struggled with how to respond to a surge of migrants, including children who travel alone, at the U.S. border since Biden first took office. In the fiscal year that ended last September, migrants were stopped 2.38 million times, up 37% from 1.73 million times the year before. The total was more than twice the highest level during Donald Trump’s presidency in 2019.
HHS and the Department of Labor rolled out new policies and the task force on Monday, while also promising stronger follow up for children who are moved from shelters to live with sponsors in the U.S. The agency will help migrant children register for school. It will also now require staff to follow up with children who call the Office of Refugee Resettlement National Call Center to report safety concerns.
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Faculty and staff at a third Illinois state university will be heading to the picket line next week amid stalled contract negotiations with administration over compensation and workload.
Late Thursday night, faculty and staff at Governors State University announced they will strike Tuesday, joining their counterparts at Chicago State University and Eastern Illinois University who have been picketing since Monday and Thursday, respectively.
The GSU union — which represents some 280 tenured and tenure-track faculty, nontenure-track lecturers and academic support professionals — said the next bargaining session is scheduled for Wednesday.
"Our members are among the lowest paid in the state," said GSU President Mike Hart in a statement. "The increase they're offering wouldn't cover a year's worth of gas to drive to work. We are dedicated to this university. We've sacrificed raises when times were tough under Gov. Rauner — we shouldn't have to keep sacrificing."
All three schools are locked in battles with administration over future compensation, which the unions want to be more closely tied to inflation. Both administrations at CSU and EIU have said that such increases could harm future budgets. GSU administration did not respond to a request for comment.
"The union's financial demands far exceed our current economic position," read a statement issued by CSU's administration, a sentiment echoed by leaders at EIU.
Earlier this year, faculty at the University of Illinois Chicago went on strike during contract negotiations that stalled over compensation increases and funding for student services, including mental health and testing accommodations. The two sides came to an agreement after nearly one week of strikes.
CSU staff have announced plans to strike on Monday, their sixth day in a row, should the two sides not come to an agreement before week's end. EIU is currently in a bargaining session today but intends to continue picketing on Monday if no deal can be struck. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/governors-state-university-staff-will-go-strike | 2023-04-07 22:28:00 | 0 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/governors-state-university-staff-will-go-strike |
• NAME: Evan Barker
• SPORT: Football
• SCHOOL: Kokomo
• GRADE: Senior
• ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Barker rushed for 230 yards and four touchdowns to fuel the No. 7-ranked Wildkats' 44-13 victory over Mississinewa in the Class 4A Sectional 20 championship. Barker averaged 11.5 yards per carry. For the season, the Kat QB has rushed for 1,168 yards (97.3 per game) and 24 touchdowns. | https://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/barker-is-co-athlete-of-the-week/article_65ee31e8-5e26-11ed-89c9-53da4bd2b1e8.html | 2022-11-07 01:15:08 | 1 | https://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/barker-is-co-athlete-of-the-week/article_65ee31e8-5e26-11ed-89c9-53da4bd2b1e8.html |
NEW YORK, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for CVNA, BIVI, ABNB, RLX, and MLCO.
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BERLIN, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global appliance company Electrolux - under its premium brand AEG - reveals a new range of washing machines and tumble dryers that automatically adjust time, water, and energy usage. A new add-on filter catches up to 90% of microplastic fibers released by synthetic clothing. The world premiere takes place at global tech event IFA in Berlin on September 2-6, 2022. At IFA, AEG will also showcase its new range of food waste-saving fridges and freezers with unique models made with up to 70% recycled plastic in the inner liner walls.
"We innovate to make life easier and more enjoyable while enabling people to make more sustainable choices. By working with recycled materials, energy efficient solutions and applying sustainable practices we show that it is possible for consumers to make great tasting, healthy food and keep clothes looking like new for longer whilst taking care of the environment at the same time," says Chris Braam, CEO of Electrolux Europe.
"IFA plays an important role in putting a spotlight on innovation and it's great to be back here. When Covid put the physical event on hold, our strive to innovate has not taken a break. We are looking forward to showcasing our latest sustainable innovations and meet with our trade partners and consumers in person in Berlin," adds Braam.
Spotlight on new laundry range
AEG highlights at IFA include the new laundry range with award-winning appliances. The unique range of washing machines offers new features such as SoftWater, a ground-breaking technology to filter and purify the water it utilizes, and a PowerClean program that cleans your clothes efficiently and removes stains at only 30°C. Washing clothes too often and at hot temperatures can ruin the color and fabric. Instead of washing, users can opt for a steaming function that gets rid of odors in 25 minutes using 96% less water than a regular washing cycle. In addition, an add-on filter for washing machines catches up to 90% of microplastic fibers released by synthetic clothing.
The new range of tumble dryers has been developed to minimize energy use and use 3D Scan Technology to identify humidity levels inside the items ensuring that even layered garments are evenly dried.
New kitchen innovations
Within kitchen appliances, AEG will be showing its new range of food waste-saving fridges and freezers, among them the 7000 GreenZone/GreenZone+ – a unique fridge with up to 70% recycled plastic in its inner liner walls. Cooling 360° technology in the new 8000 series helps reduce waste by keeping food fresh longer providing an important contribution to preventing food waste as current research shows that up to 60% of people throw away food at least once a week. The main reason is food passing the before due date, but food waste also occurs due to fresh food going off too quickly.
At IFA, AEG will also display two new extractor hobs: the 6000 Bridge with eXTractor and the 8000 Bridge/FlexiBridge with eXTractor, designed to bring freedom to kitchen planning, as people upgrade and make the cooking space more sociable. Located in the middle of the hob, the extractor fan is activated once a cooking zone is used, powerfully removing vapor quietly and quickly at the source. It filters and recycles the air back into the room and the breeze function ensures a fume-free kitchen after the cooking has been completed, by continuing to refresh the air.
Join the media event
Electrolux will hold a media conference at IFA in Berlin to present its newest innovations including the new AEG laundry range. The event takes place on September 1, 2022, at 13.00 CET, at the AEG booth in hall 4.1, booth 101.
Journalists interested in attending the media conference can register here.
The media conference will also be streamed live between 13.00-14.00 CET via this link.
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IFA, the world's most significant trade show for consumer and home electronics is the main marketplace for key retailers, buyers, and experts from the industry and the media. IFA 2022 takes place at Messe Berlin from September 2-6.
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OAK BROOK, Ill., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TreeHouse Foods, Inc. (NYSE: THS) will host an audio webcast on Monday, August 7, 2023, at 8:30 a.m. ET to discuss the results for the second quarter and its outlook for the balance of the year.
An earnings release will be issued before the market opens on the same date, and the accompanying slides will be posted on the Company's website at https://www.treehousefoods.com/investors/investor-overview/. A replay will also be available on the site following the call.
ABOUT TREEHOUSE FOODS
TreeHouse Foods, Inc. is a leading private label food and beverage manufacturer in North America. Our purpose is to engage and delight - one customer at a time. Through our customer focus and category experience, we strive to deliver excellent service and build capabilities and insights to drive mutually profitable growth for TreeHouse and for our customers. Our purpose is supported by investment in depth, capabilities and operational efficiencies which are aimed to capitalize on the long-term growth prospects in the categories in which we operate.
Additional information, including TreeHouse's most recent statements on Forms 10-Q and 10-K, may be found at TreeHouse's website, http://www.treehousefoods.com.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is turning to a Cold War-era law to boost production of lithium and other minerals used to power electric vehicles, but experts say the move by itself is unlikely to ensure the robust domestic mining Biden seeks as he promotes cleaner energy sources.
Biden's action, part of his efforts to find alternatives to fossil fuels and combat climate change, does not waive or suspend existing environmental and labor standards, the White House said. Nor does it address the chief hurdle to increased domestic extraction of so-called critical minerals: the years-long process needed to obtain a federal permit for a new mine.
Even so, the mining industry and supporters in Congress cheered Biden’s use of the 1950 Defense Production Act to increase U.S. supplies of lithium, nickel and other minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries and other clean-energy technology.
His March 31 executive order is a historic step by the White House to "recognize the critical importance of minerals and push to electrify the car industry,″ said Rich Nolan, president and CEO of the National Mining Association.
But “unless we continue to build on this action'' and approve new hardrock mines, Nolan added, "we risk feeding the minerals dominance of geopolitical rivals'' such as China and Russia.
“We have abundant mineral resources here," he said. “What we need is policy to ensure we can produce them and build the secure, reliable supply chains we know we must have."
Environmentalists, meanwhile, worry that Biden is activating a war-time tool to boost mineral extraction that can contaminate groundwater and harm ranching and wildlife.
“The clean energy transition cannot be built on dirty mining,” said Lauren Pagel, policy director of Earthworks, an environmental group that has pushed for stronger restrictions on hardrock mining.
Biden's order directs the Defense Department to consider at least five metals — lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel and manganese — as essential to national security and authorizes steps to bolster domestic supplies. Biden and former President Donald Trump both used the defense production law previously to speed the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On minerals, Biden wants to ensure the U.S. has enough lithium and other materials needed for EV batteries, heat pumps and large-capacity batteries for the electric grid. A majority of global lithium production comes from China, Australia, Argentina and Chile, while Russia dominates the global nickel market and the Democratic Republic of Congo is the world's largest cobalt producer.
“We need to end our long-term reliance on China and other countries for inputs that will power the future,'' Biden said, vowing to "use every tool I have to make that happen.''
Although lithium reserves are distributed widely across the globe, the U.S. is home to just one active lithium mine, in Nevada. New and potential lithium mining and extracting projects are in various stages of development in Nevada, Maine, North Carolina and California. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has labeled California the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” and two projects there could produce lithium by 2024.
Under Biden's order, the Pentagon is authorized to spend millions of dollars to support a range of activities, including feasibility studies to determine economic viability of a proposed mine and develop mineral-waste recycling programs. Money also could help existing mines and other industrial sites produce valuable materials, the Pentagon said. For example, a copper mine could also produce nickel.
It’s unclear how much money will be available for mining, but the Defense Department is authorized to keep up to $750 million on hand for its strategic and critical material stockpile.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., called Biden's order "a good first step toward expanding our electric vehicle battery manufacturing and infrastructure.'' But she and other lawmakers said the U.S. needs a long-term strategy to improve the domestic supply chain of critical minerals.
“Unless the president streamlines permitting, we should not expect to see any meaningful increase in American mineral production,'' said Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. At a recent committee hearing. Barrasso urged Biden to “stand up to mining opponents in his own party.”
Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat who chairs the House Natural Resources Committee, called Biden's order misguided. "Fast-tracking mining under antiquated standards that put our public health, wilderness and sacred sites at risk of permanent damage just isn’t the answer,” he said.
Grijalva and Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., introduced legislation to modernize the 1872 law that governs hardrock mining in the U.S.
(asterisk)Our current mining law was put in place before we even knew what a car was, much less an electric one,'' Grijalva said. "Modernizing this relic of a law isn’t extreme or anti-industry — it’s just common sense.”
Mining companies have extracted hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of gold, silver, copper and other minerals from federal lands over the past 150 years “without paying a cent in federal royalties,” Grijalva and Heinrich said in a statement. The House bill would establish a 12.5% royalty on new mining operations and an 8% royalty on existing operations.
The bill also would set up a Hardrock Minerals Reclamation Fund to make the industry pay for cleanup of abandoned mine sites.
About 40% of watersheds in the western U.S. are contaminated by hardrock mine drainage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Many nickel, copper, lithium and cobalt reserves are located within 35 miles or 56 kilometers of tribal lands.
Indigenous people living near a proposed lithium mine in Nevada assailed Biden's order.
"I believe this is going to be the second coming of environmental destruction,'' said Day Hinkey, a member of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone tribe and an organizer with People of Red Mountain, a group that opposes the vast Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada.
Another Nevada lithium mine is planned near a desert ridge where a rare wildflower has been proposed for listing as an endangered species. The mine’s developer, Australia-based Ioneer, said the expected habitat protections for the rare Tiehm’s buckwheat would not affect its mining activities, and company operations would not jeopardize conservation of the species.
Opponents dispute that. Hinkey said the first environmental crisis was caused by the fossil fuel industry “and I believe this next one will be lithium mining." | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-order-to-boost-mining/507-e639763f-1533-4771-a1f0-d43db7bfb387 | 2022-04-30 19:58:31 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-order-to-boost-mining/507-e639763f-1533-4771-a1f0-d43db7bfb387 |
Gov.-elect Wes Moore will deliver his inaugural address to crowds in a somewhat cloudy Annapolis, with little chance of rain on festivities celebrating the incoming administration.
The National Weather Service forecasts a mild temperature of 52º in Annapolis during the new Democratic governor’s inauguration ceremony at noon Wednesday outside the Maryland State House. Only a 1% chance of precipitation is forecasted for the outdoor event, although the weather service predicts mostly cloudy skies.
A moderate breeze is forecasted with gusts up to 22 mph during the ceremony. Attendees are asked to dress appropriately for the winter weather.
The Inauguration Day weather forecast is typical for January weather in Maryland. Outgoing Gov. Larry Hogan’s second inauguration in 2019 was under similar climate conditions, although his first address in 2015 was hit by gentle snowfall.
Moore and Lt. Gov.-elect Aruna Miller’s swearing-in at the Lawyer’s Mall is free and open to the public. Outdoor seating will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
Several parking and traffic restrictions will be in place throughout Annapolis this week as festivities progress. Inaugural attendees can park at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium and take a shuttle between the stadium and the inauguration location.
For more information, visit the inauguration committee’s website at: https://www.mooremillerinauguration.com/
The cloudy skies during the address will be accented by a recently-renovated dome atop the State House, which was surrounded by scaffolding for several months during its restoration.
Following the ceremony, the inaugural committee will be hosting a “People’s Ball” at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Baltimore Convention Center. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/weather/bs-md-moore-inauguration-weather-forecast-20230117-46atk4gubfea7gc33gm4bnuuou-story.html | 2023-01-17 23:32:00 | 0 | https://www.capitalgazette.com/weather/bs-md-moore-inauguration-weather-forecast-20230117-46atk4gubfea7gc33gm4bnuuou-story.html |
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first week of school was supposed to mark a triumphant return to classrooms at San Francisco’s Everett Middle School after more than a year of distance learning.
But as computer science teacher Yesi Castro-Mitchell welcomed a class of sixth graders last fall, a student started punching her, again and again.
Castro-Mitchell wrapped her arms around her head and hoped for the blows to stop. She remembers the stunned silence in her classroom as other students witnessed the assault. The teacher suffered a concussion, a dislocated jaw, chipped teeth and hearing loss in her left ear that now requires a hearing aid.
Across America, one of the nation’s most difficult academic years was also one of the most violent. Experts who track school behavior nationwide said fights and other aggressive behavior, including shootings, appear to have increased. Now, with students heading out on summer break, schools are taking stock of what went wrong and how to fix it.
At Everett, many of this year’s problems were no different than before the pandemic, but “they were absolutely greater in severity, intensity and frequency,” said Cris Garza, a teacher at Everett for eight years and the teachers’ union representative.
In addition to the attack on the teacher, fights broke out almost daily among students, according to several teachers and parents. One brawl left a student hospitalized for at least two days. In other incidents, packs of students would barge into classrooms, disrupting lessons and sometimes destroying school property.
Educators and psychologists say the pandemic contributed to the volatility in schools by causing a surge in student mental health problems, trauma at home, a lack of socializing opportunities, and a shortage of teachers and counselors that reduced adult supervision and guidance.
There is no national data that tracks school fights and assaults, but education officials across the country say violence erupted more often and more fiercely.
“Without doubt, we are hearing across the board that schools are experiencing significantly more crises related to school violence and emotional behavioral crises,” said Sharon Hoover, co-director of the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
The same issues are likely to resurface in the fall, she said, if struggling adolescents don’t get the help and structure they need.
Students at Everett felt the pandemic’s effects acutely. About 70% of the school’s 600 students are Latino, many are English learners and most are economically disadvantaged. Many lost parents or grandparents to COVID-19 or lost their homes because families couldn’t pay rent, said school social worker Bridget Early.
Castro-Mitchell said nobody warned her that her attacker had a history of behavioral problems. After the assault, the teacher transferred to another school but left before the end of the year as she struggled with PTSD.
Several Everett staff members complained that a pandemic rule intended to improve air circulation had the unintended effect of inviting misbehavior. Teachers were not allowed to close and lock classroom doors, and groups of students who skipped class would roam the halls and burst into other classes in session.
Reports from members of the National Association of School Resource Officers suggest there were more weapons on school campuses, more assaults and more fist fights across the country, said Mo Canady, the group’s executive director.
The Clark County School District in Las Vegas, one of the country’s largest, has said it will provide teachers with panic buttons after an increase in violence, including an April attack on a teacher that left her unconscious in her classroom. The district’s police chief, Mike Blackeye, said the 2021-22 school year was the busiest in his department’s 40-year history.
Hoover said when the pandemic hit, young people in particular lost what gave their lives structure: They were cut off from going to school and isolated from peers.
Many schools have tried to address the underlying causes.
When students returned to Savanna High School in Anaheim, California, it was “fight after fight after fight,” said Penny Hatzis, the school’s lead counselor. The school hired a specialist in restorative justice, which emphasizes mediation over punishment, although they are looking for more balance with discipline next year. In October, they used grant money to open a “relaxation room,” where students could talk to a mental health counselor.
“We got it open, and we saw a humongous decline in fights and discipline issues. It was night and day,” Hatzis said. The school also held support groups for students who suffered loss, LGBTQ+ students and others — sometimes several in one day.
A freshman at Savanna, Clara Oliver, struggled with anxiety that intensified when she returned to in-person school and found it difficult to carry out face-to-face conversations with classmates. For her, the relaxation room became a refuge. Eventually talking to people became easier.
“The room would give us a break from everything,” she said. “When we were stressed out about school, we would just go to that room. There was someone to talk to, there were snacks, there were fidget toys and card games. We could relax, then go back to class and continue our day.”
At Everett, school officials attempted a “January reset,” with new strategies to bring students together, efforts to make lessons more fun and more social-emotional work with kids, Early said.
But they couldn’t pull it off. As elsewhere, the omicron-led surge of the coronavirus sidelined educators, deepening a staffing crisis at the school where there was already a shortage of security guards and substitutes.
“In a year where mental health was more important than ever,” Early said, she spent most of her time “putting out fires.” She frequently served as a substitute.
Parents worried about their children’s safety and encouraged them to steer clear of danger zones.
“My son did not usually use the bathrooms. He would wait until school was over,” said Dheyanira Calahorrano, mother of a seventh grader who had no science teacher, no music teacher and no gym teacher for several months.
Principal Esther Fensel resigned at the end of the school year and did not respond to interview requests.
A spokesperson for the San Francisco Unified School District, Laura Dudnick, said Everett, like many other schools, struggled with the rise of student mental health challenges and staffing shortages.
During the year, she said the district hired an additional security guard, increased substitute coverage and required students to lock up cellphones during class.
Next year, Early said, the school will open a grant-funded wellness center with an on-site therapist and other staff to focus on students’ social and emotional needs.
“What all kids need, especially kids who experience trauma, is consistency and stability," Early said. "We could not provide that for them the whole year.”
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MONZA, Italy (AP) — Nyck De Vries will make his Formula One race debut at the Italian Grand Prix after Williams driver Alex Albon was ruled out with appendicitis on Saturday.
Williams announced the news ahead of the third and final practice session at Monza, with qualifying to come later Saturday.
“Williams Racing can confirm that, after feeling unwell this morning and seeking medical advice from the FIA and local hospital, Alex Albon is now undergoing treatment for appendicitis,” the team said in a statement.
“Following on from this, we can confirm that the team’s reserve driver Nyck de Vries will drive in place of Alex for the remainder of the Italian Grand Prix weekend. Alex is in good spirits and the team wishes him a speedy recovery.”
The 27-year-old De Vries, a former Formula 2 and Formula E champion, had taken part in Friday’s first practice session — subbing in for Sebastian Vettel at Aston Martin — and finished 19th.
Albon was 10th and 11th in the practice sessions and Williams’ straight-line speed looked set to put him in the fight for points at Monza, with a number of drivers taking grid penalties.
The Thai driver appeared to be remaining upbeat despite surgery, as he ended a tweet with the words: “Positives — Weight reduction for Singapore, Cool scars.”
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(The Hill) – President Trump’s legal team on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in its legal battle to have a third party review the thousands of pages of government records he stored at his Florida home.
The filing from the Trump team asks the high court to lift a stay granted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit that allowed the Justice Department to review more than 100 classified records taken from Mar-a-Lago during its August search.
Trump’s lawyers, in court papers, argued that the federal appeals court erred by allowing the Justice Department to appeal a move that was procedural in nature.
“Nonetheless, the Eleventh Circuit granted a stay of the Special Master Order, effectively compromising the integrity of the well-established policy against piecemeal appellate review and ignoring the District Court’s broad discretion without justification,” they wrote. “This unwarranted stay should be vacated as it impairs substantially the ongoing, time-sensitive work of the Special Master.”
A three-judge panel for the 11th Circuit ruled late last month that the Justice Department could access the classified records, a reversal from a Florida district court judge who has sided with Trump in granting the request for a special master and dictating that the review include all records at Mar-a-Lago, even intelligence records.
“Plaintiff has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents. Nor has he established that the current administration has waived that requirement for these documents,” the appeal court judges wrote.
The court ruled that Florida district court Judge Aileen Cannon “erred” in including the classified records and cast doubt on whether a special master should have been appointed at all.
The latest motion from the Trump team follows a move by the Justice Department to expedite its appeal before the 11th Circuit challenging the special master appointment. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-intervene-in-legal-fight-over-special-master/ | 2022-10-04 21:21:34 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-intervene-in-legal-fight-over-special-master/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Aeglea Biotherapeutics Inc. (AGLE) on Thursday reported a loss of $18.4 million in its first quarter.
The Austin, Texas-based company said it had a loss of 20 cents per share.
The biopharmaceutical company posted revenue of $198,000 in the period.
The company's shares closed at 16 cents. A year ago, they were trading at $1.47.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson said Friday that it’s cutting 8% of its global workforce as it looks to reduce costs, the latest in a wave of tech company layoffs.
The Stockholm-based company, which provides equipment for high-speed 5G wireless networks, said it is expecting to lay off 8,500 employees this year and into 2024 as part of a strategy to reduce its spending by 9 billion Swedish kronor ($857 million) by the end of this year.
“Our aim is to manage the process in every country with fairness, respect, professionalism and in line with local labor legislation,” Ericsson said in a statement.
The company in December announced its push to slash costs. It said Friday that it expects to see results in the second quarter as it simplifies and becomes more efficient, including cutting back its workforce of about 105,000 people worldwide.
“We are also working on our service delivery, supply, real estate and IT. We have already started to implement and accelerate various initiatives to help us reach” the cost-cutting goal, Ericsson said.
It comes as tech companies ranging from Spotify and Amazon to Microsoft and Facebook parent Meta have each slashed thousands of jobs in recent months. They had gone on hiring sprees over the past several years as demand for their products, software and services surged with millions of people working and studying remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last month, Ericsson reported profit of $1.86 billion and revenue of $26.93 billion for 2022. | https://www.yourbasin.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-telecom-maker-ericsson-to-cut-8-of-its-global-workforce/ | 2023-02-24 21:04:13 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-telecom-maker-ericsson-to-cut-8-of-its-global-workforce/ |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday released a revised proposal for social studies standards in public schools that lays out a mostly shining vision of American history, after an initial draft of the standards came under heavy criticism last year from conservatives and Native American educators.
The Republican governor claimed the new proposed standards are free from "political agendas" and include an increased focus on Native American history. But they received swift criticism from some educators as a thinly-veiled political document. They emphasize the qualities of America's founders and mimic language Noem has used as she jumped on the conservative cause of weeding certain "divisive" teachings on race from public schools.
The 15-member standards work group, selected partially by the governor, included Noem's chief of staff, two Republican lawmakers and the director of the South Dakota Catholic Conference, but just three educators certified by the Department of Education. The group's work was facilitated by William Morrisey, a former professor at Hillsdale College — a conservative institution in Michigan that has tried to remake education across the country.
"South Dakota's children deserve the very best social studies education in the nation," Noem said in a statement. "These standards raise the bar for the breadth and depth of civics and history education. They feature a true, honest, and balanced approach to American history that is not influenced by political agendas."
Noem, who is seen as a potential 2024 White House contender, has also advocated for the "1776 Pledge to Save Our Schools" as part of a conservative drive to emphasize the qualities of the founders of the United States. She has also tried to purge so-called critical race theory from the state's public schools.
Despite the academic framework being one of her favorite targets, her administration has provided scant evidence that teaching associated with critical race theory — an academic framework that centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation's institutions and that those institutions maintain the dominance of white people — exists in South Dakota schools. The state Department of Education spent hundreds of hours combing through its policies, guidance materials and websites, but its report released Monday found "a very small number" of instances where its material didn't line up with Noem's order to get rid of anything that contained "divisive concepts" on race.
The governor in a statement cast the report as "proactively removing" critical race theory as she promotes "America's true and honest history."
The social studies standards, which provide a list of topics students should comprehend at each K-12 grade level, give her an opportunity to stamp that vision of U.S. history on the state's public schools. They are widely followed by school districts but are not mandatory.
The new 128-page document more than doubles the length of the proposed standards the Department of Education released last year. They would make the sprawling argument that the United States, though not without fault, is an exceptional nation that has uniquely advanced rights for every race and gender. They are also peppered with Christian history and explore the religion's influence on the nation's leading figures and on Western civilization.
For example, seventh grade students are expected to explain how the nation's founders advanced equal rights for every person and advanced the idea that each person "is endowed with these rights by the God that created them, and that the existence of human slavery was understood by most, but not all, of the founders to be a contradiction of the principle of human equality."
Seventh graders are also to be taught: "Patriotism is the love of country, meaning that one holds his or her country up to an objective standard of moral right and wrong, preserving the ways in which the country does good and correcting the ways it sometimes does wrong."
The standards state they are intended, in part, to "foster a love of country that, like any love, is not blind to faults."
Nick Tilsen, the president of an Indigenous advocacy organization called NDN Collective, said that when the standards start out with goals like that, they are bound to further a narrative that continues to treat minority groups unjustly.
"Her approach in this curriculum further perpetuates ignorance, further perpetuates racism and white supremacy," he said, adding "These priority areas are dominated by nationalism."
The proposed standards are the Noem administration's second attempt to update the learning objectives. Both the political left and right criticized last year's standard-setting process and led Noem to scrap that proposal and relaunch the process. Noem's new version, released Monday, appeased conservative critics.
Republican state Rep. Sue Peterson, who resigned in protest from last year's work group, praised the new standards in a statement released by the governor's office. She called them "substantial and straightforward standards that emphasize our founding documents, our pursuit of freedom and treat our nation's history honestly."
Noem's office also attempted to head off criticism from Native American education advocates and included a statement from Joe Circle Bear, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe who was part of the work group.
"Governor Noem promised to tell our story as part of American history, and these standards do that," Circle Bear said in the statement.
The new standards ask schools to teach students about the "removal and relocation" of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota, major battles and massacres in their history, the effects of forced boarding schools on Native Americans, as well as Indigenous leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and Spotted Tail. It also covers the Civil Rights Movement and its leading figures, such as Rosa Parks and Malcolm X.
But Native American educators, who protested after the Department of Education last year cut references to Indigenous culture and history from a draft the work group submitted for final approval, said the new standards continued to push Indigenous history and culture to the periphery.
"They are not inclusive to say the least. The goal was to get away from inclusivity to push an agenda that the governor deems important," said Sarah White, who directs the South Dakota Education Equity Coalition. "It's definitely going to further disenfranchise our students when it's missing that Indigenous lens."
White said her group is strategizing how to weigh in on the social studies standards as they next become open to public comment at several hearings in the coming months. After the public comment period and potential revisions, the Board of Education Standards, which is appointed by the governor, will approve the new education standards.
White said, "We're hopeful that we can pack the house at all the public hearings."
The Department of Education is planning a separate review of the instructions for teachers included in the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings and Standards, which teach Lakota, Dakota and Nakota culture and history. The department also found two content standards in a technical education course called Introduction to Law and Public Safety II that ran afoul of Noem's executive order. Even though those standards align with industry expectations for law enforcement training, the department said it would recommend changes to the courses. | https://www.phillytrib.com/governor-releases-social-study-standards-burnishing-u-s-history/article_59a050ae-e66c-52cc-b63f-fe662ffbc609.html | 2022-08-16 21:25:28 | 1 | https://www.phillytrib.com/governor-releases-social-study-standards-burnishing-u-s-history/article_59a050ae-e66c-52cc-b63f-fe662ffbc609.html |
Top Players to Watch: UConn vs. Miami (FL) - Final Four
Saturday's Final Four matchup between the UConn Huskies and the Miami Hurricanes at NRG Stadium at 8:49 PM ET features the Huskies' Adama Sanogo and the Hurricanes' Norchad Omier as players to watch.
In the article below, we'll give you all the info you need to know about who to keep your eye on in this matchup on CBS.
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How to Watch UConn vs. Miami (FL)
- Game Day: Saturday, April 1
- Game Time: 8:49 PM ET
- Arena: NRG Stadium
- Location: Houston, Texas
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UConn's Last Game
UConn won its most recent game versus Gonzaga, 82-54, on Saturday. Jordan Hawkins was its leading scorer with 20 points.
Miami (FL)'s Last Game
Miami (FL) was victorious in its most recent game against Texas, 88-81, on Sunday. Jordan Miller was its leading scorer with 27 points.
UConn Players to Watch
Sanogo leads the Huskies with 17.1 points per game and 7.5 rebounds, while also posting 1.3 assists.
Hawkins posts 16.3 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game. Defensively, he averages 0.7 steals and 0.5 blocked shots.
Tristen Newton is posting 9.9 points, 4.6 assists and 4.3 rebounds per game.
Andre Jackson is tops on his team in assists per contest (4.7), and also posts 6.8 points and 6.4 rebounds. At the other end, he puts up 1 steal and 0.5 blocked shots.
Alex Karaban averages 9.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.7 assists per contest. At the other end, he puts up 0.5 steals and 0.6 blocked shots.
Miami (FL) Players to Watch
Omier is averaging a team-leading 10.1 rebounds per contest. And he is producing 13.3 points and 1.3 assists, making 57.9% of his shots from the floor.
Miller gives the Hurricanes 15.4 points, 6.1 rebounds and 2.7 assists per contest. He also delivers 1.3 steals and 0.4 blocked shots.
Nijel Pack gives the Hurricanes 13.8 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.4 assists per contest. He also delivers 1 steal and 0.2 blocked shots.
Wooga Poplar gets the Hurricanes 8.7 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game. He also puts up 1.1 steals and 0.2 blocked shots.
UConn Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
Miami (FL) Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
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ATLANTA — There were no chairs in the lobby of the Fulton County District Attorney's Office Wednesday but there were several no loitering signs posted and a large sign reading, "STOP - DO NOT ENTER." The large sign was next to a door separating the lobby from the district attorney's grand jury room.
That is where members of a special grand jury were meeting as the district attorney's office pushes forward its investigation focused on former President Donald Trump and his allies, and whether they tried to interfere with the 2020 election results here in Georgia.
On Wednesday, a spokesman for the district attorney's office would only confirm the jury spent the day being presented with evidence in the case.
Testimony from witnesses is expected to begin on Thursday morning. Subpoenas sent to witnesses and obtained by 11Alive show Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is expected to be one of the first to testify before the jury.
As the state's top election official, Raffensperger is who Trump called in January of 2021 and asked him to find "11,780 votes," which would have tipped Georgia's results in his favor.
Trump had lost in Georgia to now President Joe Biden by 11,779 votes.
11Alive has also confirmed throughout the month of June the jury is expected to hear testimony from other witnesses who have also received subpoenas.
The list includes a total of five current and former members of Raffensperger's staff, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, and multiple state senators. Those senators were present for state senate committee hearings focused on the 2020 election where Trump attorney Rudy Giuliana and others shared unfounded allegations of voter fraud and other misconduct. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/special-grand-jury-proceedings-donald-trump-fulton-county-2020-election-investigation-evidence/85-fec86ec3-71f7-4424-8955-d6ea342ee954 | 2022-06-01 23:09:09 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/special-grand-jury-proceedings-donald-trump-fulton-county-2020-election-investigation-evidence/85-fec86ec3-71f7-4424-8955-d6ea342ee954 |
- Topline Phase 3 NEURO-TTRansform results show eplontersen continued to halt neuropathy disease progression and improve quality of life through 85 weeks
- Data further strengthen eplontersen's differentiated profile, positioning it to be an important potential treatment for patients with ATTRv-PN
CARLSBAD, Calif., July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ionis Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: IONS) today announced positive topline, 85-week data from the Phase 3 NEURO-TTRansform study in patients with hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloid polyneuropathy (ATTRv-PN). Ionis and AstraZeneca's eplontersen continued to show sustained improvements in measures of neuropathy disease and a favorable safety and tolerability profile.
An overview of key results from the 85-week topline analysis is available here. At 85 weeks, eplontersen continued to show a sustained reduction in serum TTR concentration compared to baseline and continued to halt disease progression as measured by the modified Neuropathy Impairment Score +7 (mNIS+7). Eplontersen also showed continued improvement on the Norfolk Quality of Life Questionnaire-Diabetic Neuropathy (Norfolk QoL-DN) compared to baseline. Results from the NEURO-TTRansform primary analysis at 66 weeks were presented earlier this year.
"These positive findings further strengthen eplontersen's efficacy and safety profile, underscoring its potential to be an important, differentiated advancement for patients with this progressive, debilitating and fatal disease," said Eugene Schneider, M.D., Ionis' executive vice president and chief clinical development officer. "A substantial number of eplontersen-treated patients showed improvement in neuropathy impairment and quality of life through 19 months of treatment. ATTRv-PN continues to be an underserved patient population and we look forward to working with regulatory authorities to bring this important new, self-administered treatment to patients."
Results from the 85-week exploratory analysis of NEURO-TTRansform will be submitted for presentation at an upcoming medical meeting. As part of a global development and commercialization agreement, Ionis and AstraZeneca are seeking regulatory approval for eplontersen for the treatment of ATTRv-PN in the U.S. and plan to seek regulatory approval in Europe and other parts of the world. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted the New Drug Application for eplontersen for the treatment of ATTRv-PN with a PDUFA action date of Dec. 22, 2023. Eplontersen was granted Orphan Drug Designation in the U.S.
Eplontersen is currently being evaluated in the Phase 3 CARDIO-TTRansform study for transthyretin-mediated amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), a systemic, progressive and fatal condition that typically leads to progressive heart failure and often death within three to five years from disease onset.
About Eplontersen
Eplontersen is an investigational LIgand-Conjugated Antisense (LICA) medicine designed to inhibit the production of TTR protein. Eplontersen is being developed as a monthly self-administered subcutaneous injection to treat all types of ATTR. ATTR amyloidosis is a systemic, progressive and fatal disease in which patients experience multiple overlapping clinical manifestations caused by the inappropriate formation and aggregation of TTR amyloid deposits in various tissues and organs, including peripheral nerves, heart, intestinal tract, eyes, kidneys, central nervous system, thyroid and bone marrow. The progressive accumulation of TTR amyloid deposits in these tissues and organs leads to organ failure and eventually death.
About Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloid Polyneuropathy (ATTRv-PN)
Hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloid polyneuropathy (ATTRv-PN) is caused by the accumulation of misfolded mutated TTR protein in the peripheral nerves. Patients with ATTRv-PN experience ongoing debilitating nerve damage throughout their body resulting in the progressive loss of motor functions, such as walking. These patients also accumulate TTR in other major organs, which progressively compromises their function. The damage from misfolded TTR protein accumulation leads to disability within five years of diagnosis and is generally fatal within a decade.
About the NEURO-TTRansform Study
NEURO-TTRansform is a global, open-label, randomized trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of eplontersen in patients with ATTRv-PN at week 35, week 66 and week 85. The final analysis comparing eplontersen to an external placebo group was completed at week 66. All patients were then followed on treatment until week 85 and evaluated four weeks after the last dose in an end-of-trial assessment. Following treatment and the end-of-trial assessments, patients were eligible to enter an open-label extension study to continue receiving eplontersen once every four weeks or enter a 20-week post-treatment evaluation period. For more information on the NEURO-TTRansform study, please visit: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04136184
About Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
For more than 30 years, Ionis has been a leader in RNA-targeted therapy, pioneering new markets and changing standards of care. Ionis currently has four marketed medicines and a promising late-stage pipeline highlighted by cardiovascular and neurological franchises. Our scientific innovation began and continues with the knowledge that sick people depend on us, which fuels our vision to become the leader in genetic medicine, utilizing a multi-platform approach to discover, develop and deliver life-transforming therapies.
To learn more about Ionis visit www.ionispharma.com and follow us on Twitter @ionispharma.
Ionis' Forward-looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements regarding Ionis' business and the therapeutic and commercial potential of eplontersen, Ionis' technologies and other products in development. Any statement describing Ionis' goals, expectations, financial or other projections, intentions or beliefs is a forward-looking statement and should be considered an at-risk statement. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties including those related to our commercial products and the medicines in our pipeline, and particularly those inherent in the process of discovering, developing and commercializing medicines that are safe and effective for use as human therapeutics, and in the endeavor of building a business around such medicines. Ionis' forward-looking statements also involve assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove correct, could cause its results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Although Ionis' forward-looking statements reflect the good faith judgment of its management, these statements are based only on facts and factors currently known by Ionis. As a result, you are cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. These and other risks concerning Ionis' programs are described in additional detail in Ionis' annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2022, and the most recent Form 10-Q quarterly filing, which are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these and other documents are available from the Company.
In this press release, unless the context requires otherwise, "Ionis," "Company," "we," "our," and "us" all refer to Ionis Pharmaceuticals and its subsidiaries.
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Bald eagle swipes lunch to go as Connecticut nature photographer snaps picture: 'America's bird likes pizza'
Bald eagle flew off with handheld Italian cuisine in Wethersfield, Connecticut
A nature-focused photographer recently captured an image of a bald eagle grabbing lunch to-go as he took flight in Connecticut skies.
Doug Gemmell, a resident of South Windsor, went out to Wethersfield Cove inlet on March 8 to snap some photos of eagles on his Nikon D500 camera.
The retired banker has been photographing birds, insects and nature for the last seven years.
Much of his work is dedicated to photographing eagles and Gemmell said he tries to catch the birds "fishing."
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"I want to get some action shots and well, that was some action shot," Gemmell told Fox News Digital of the March 8 photo he took.
"It’s not quite the fish [picture], but it was an interesting photo to say the least."
Gemmell said he was posed on a path between the waterway and the Department of Motor Vehicles building.
When he saw the eagle, Gemmell said, the bird began putting its legs down.
"That’s a sign they are going to grab something," Gemmell said. "I didn’t know it was a pizza until I got home."
Gemmell said the juvenile bald eagle, which he estimated to be a year-and-a-half old, swooped down and grabbed a slice of pepperoni pizza before being chased by crows that appeared to want the same piece of the pie.
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Gemmell was able to grab a shot of the surprising moment.
"It’s pretty unique. I don’t know if there’s any other pictures of eagles snatching a pizza," Gemmell commented.
"It lends itself to a lot of talk, 'What’s his favorite pizza?’ ‘Does he like anchovies?’ It’s sort of a funny thing, and I’m glad it’s getting some attention."
Gemmell’s eagle-with-a-pizza photo has been featured on news sites — and most recently, Gemmell appeared on a local radio show to speak about the moment.
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"The real joy of this whole thing is seeing something I’ve never seen before," Gemmell said.
"It’s America’s bird, and it likes pizza," he added.
"They’re just a beautiful, graceful bird to watch."
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BEIJING, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SANY Heavy Industry ("SANY", SSE: 600031), a leading global heavy machinery manufacturer, has published the annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, detailing the group's progress and achievements of social responsibility strategy and practice with heightened emphasis on sharing SANY's experience in tackling the climate challenges. Upholding the mission of "Quality Changes the World," SANY remains true to its aspirations and thrives to build a better world with its customers and partners.
Adhering to the strategy of "intelligent digitalization, electrification, and internationalization," SANY has been consistently improving the corporate governance and risk management efficiency, driving sustainable development through technological innovations, and meeting environmental governance targets to pursue green economy.
SANY is also promoting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and reaching China's carbon peaking and carbon neutralization goals, while taking better care of employees, focusing on talent development, and actively investing in and engaging in social welfare events.
"SANY has always been actively fulfilling our economic, social, and environmental responsibilities to achieve sustainable development. Looking ahead into 2023, we will continue to seize opportunities and collaborate with our partners and all stakeholders to explore a sustainable development path that tackles global challenges, creates greater value for employees, shareholders, and society, and contributes to reaching the global sustainable development goals," said Xiang Wenbo, chairman of SANY Heavy Industry.
Intelligent digitalization, electrification, and internationalization: SANY's global roadmap for the transformative time
SANY's global development roadmap emphasizes leveraging intelligent digitalization to reach the "Dual Carbon" goals, advancing electrification development to target clean energy opportunities, and accelerating global industrial layout.
The group is shifting conventional manufacturing and consumption models towards green, energy-saving, and circular development. Driving the future with the power of data, its intelligent digitalization strategy is leading the industry's technological progress, especially in the area of low-carbon transformation of product development – integrating clean technology optimization for construction machinery equipment, including pure electric and hydrogen energy technologies.
SANY is also stepping up its commitment to allocate more resources in expanding the overseas market and sales network. It recorded an annual international sales revenue of 36.571 billion yuan (USD 5.3 billion) in 2022.
Strengthening corporate governance to promote technological innovation, sustainable and green development, people development and social responsibility
SANY has established a standardized and effective risk management and internal control structure to achieve long-term sustainable development, while improving the systems of R&D, quality control, and supplier management with sustainability the key to the corporate governance processes.
In 2022, SANY invested 7.826 billion yuan (USD 1.13 billion) in R&D, representing a 1.68 percent increase year-on-year and accounting for 9.78 percent of its operational revenue.
SANY is implementing clean production technologies to conserve resources, boost recycling, and reduce environmental pollution. In 2022, it invested 3.22 million yuan (USD 466,673.31) in photovoltaic projects that generate an average of 900,000 KWH annually, with its total clean energy usage amounting to 16.013 million KWH. SANY also invested over 140 million yuan (USD 20.29 million) to control gas emissions and reduce VOCs emissions by 134.83 tons.
Building on a human touch, SANY has been improving its safety production and occupational health management systems to guarantee and support the well-being and safety of employees and suppliers. In addition, it has organized various events for employees to promote engagement and communication, as well as creating a better environment for work and life.
In 2022, SANY employees completed 687.4 hours of volunteer work. The group's total investment in various social welfare projects reached 45.769 million yuan (USD 6.63 million), encompassing poverty alleviation, disaster relief, and public welfare initiatives.
For more information about SANY Group, the parent company of SANY Heavy Industry. please visit www.sanyglobal.com or follow us on Facebook or YouTube.
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CAIRO (AP) — Iranian authorities arrested one of the country’s most renowned actresses Saturday on charges of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests that grip the country, state media said.
The report by IRNA said Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-winning movie “The Salesman,” was detained a week after she made a post on Instagram expressing solidarity with the first man recently executed for crimes allegedly committed during the protests.
The announcement is the latest in a series of celebrity arrests, that have included footballers, actors and influencers, in response to their open display of support for anti-government demonstrations now in their third month
According to the report published on the state media’s official Telegram channel, Alidoosti was arrested because she did not provide ’’any documents in line with her claims.″
It said that several other Iranian celebrities had also ″been summoned by the judiciary body over publishing provocative content,″ and that some had been arrested. It provided no further details.
In her post, the 38-year-old actress said: ”His name was Mohsen Shekari. Every international organization who is watching this bloodshed and not taking action, is a disgrace to humanity.”
Shekari was executed Dec. 9 after being charged by an Iranian court with blocking a street in Tehran and attacking a member of the country’s security forces with a machete.
In November, Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi, two other famous Iranian actresses, were arrested by authorities for expressing solidarity with protesters on social media. Voria Ghafouri, an Iranian soccer player, was also arrested last month for ‘’insulting the national soccer team and propagandizing against the government.” All three have been released.
Since September, Alidoosti has openly expressed solidarity with protesters in at least three posts on Instagram. Her account, which had some 8 million followers, has been suspended.
Last Week, Iran executed a second prisoner, Majidreza Rahnavard, in connection with the protests. Rahnavard’s body was left hanging from a construction crane as a gruesome warning to others. Iranian authorities alleged Rahnavard stabbed two members of its paramilitary force.
Both Shekari and Rahnavard were executed less than a month after they were charged, underscoring the speed at which Iran now carries out death sentences imposed for alleged crimes related to the demonstrations. Activists say at least a dozen people have been sentenced to death in closed-door hearings. Iran is one of the one the world’s top executioners.
Iran has been rocked by protests since the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after being detained by the morality police. The protests have since morphed into one of the most serious challenges to Iran’s theocracy installed by the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Alidoosti had previously criticised the Iranian government and its police force before this year’s protests.
In June 2020, she was given a suspended five-month prison sentence after she criticized the police on Twitter in 2018 for assaulting a woman who had removed her headscarf.
At least 495 people have been killed in the demonstrations amid a harsh security crackdown, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that has been monitoring the protests since they began. Over 18,200 people have been detained by authorities.
Other well-known movies Alidoosti has starred in include “The Beautiful City” and “About Elly.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-iran-authorities-arrest-actress-of-oscar-winning-movie/ | 2022-12-18 14:07:01 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-iran-authorities-arrest-actress-of-oscar-winning-movie/ |
NJ creates division to help crime victims, break cycle of violence
The state of New Jersey now has an office specifically devoted to servicing victims of sexual, domestic and other types of violence.
The Attorney General's Office on Friday announced the creation of the Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance. It'll bring together victim-related services and violence intervention and prevention services that are currently dispersed throughout the Department of Law and Public Safety.
"The move marks a transformational step in how law enforcement in New Jersey approaches public safety," the announcement said. "Until now, there was no single office focused on policy, training, or coordination and management of victims’ services, including victims of domestic and sexual violence. And while the state has invested in innovative violence intervention and prevention strategies, it has yet to create a dedicated team of experienced professionals to develop, guide, and expand these programs."
According to a March 2021 report from the National Institute of Justice, violent crime victims have been shown to be more likely to later engage in violence.
Violence is also costly, officials note. According to the national research institution Everytown, gun violence costs New Jersey $5.3 billion each year, of which $168.9 million is paid by taxpayers.
“The creation of VIVA is the culmination of the innovative work that has made New Jersey a leader in creative methods of combating violent crime and disrupting cycles of violence,” said Acting Attorney General Matthew Platkin. “Ensuring that we have a systematic, statewide approach for critical victim services is not only the right thing to do for people who have suffered pain and loss, but it is also a proven strategy for making our communities safer."
According to the release, the new division will have four distinct components:
- Office of Violence Intervention and Prevention, to oversee community-based violence intervention programs
- Office of Victim Support and Assistance, to provide centralized leadership on victim issues
- Take over the Victims of Crime Compensation Office
- House the new Office of Trial and Criminal Justice Process
Patricia Teffenhart, who is currently the senior vice president of strategic initiatives at the NJ Chamber of Commerce, will serve as the executive director of the new division. Teffenhart once served as the executive director of the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
Dino Flammia is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at dino.flammia@townsquaremedia.com
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RIVERSIDE, Calif., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jean-Simon Serrano, associate at prestigious Inland Empire personal injury firm Heiting & Irwin, was installed as President of Consumer Attorneys Of Inland Empire at the December Board Meeting.
After serving on the CAOIE Board for five years Mr. Serrano was honored with being named the organization's president.
"This is the premier trial attorney association in the Inland Empire, and I'm proud to serve my local and legal communities," he said. "Over the past couple of years, the trial lawyer associates of California have been able to effectuate real change for Californians including changes to the laws governing medical malpractice (MICRA) as well as an increase in the required minimum coverage for auto insurance policies. It's exciting to be a part of the group effectuating these changes and I look forward to helping make other progress to help and protect consumers."
Mr. Serrano has had a busy couple of years, recovering millions of dollars for his clients since 2020 alone.
Mr. Serrano is an experienced trial attorney who has been with the firm since 2007. Previously a president of the Riverside County Bar Association as well as the Riverside County Barristers Association, he's become one of the top plaintiff attorneys in the Inland Empire.
In addition, he's been honored by several prestigious legal ranking services for his work on behalf of clients. He was named a Top 10 Attorney Under 40 by the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys in 2013. He was honored by the University of LaVerne College of law as one of three "Distinguished Alumni" in 2017 and he was selected as a Super Lawyers' Rising Star numerous time.
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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
NBA star Carmelo Anthony announced Monday that he's retiring in a video posted to Twitter.
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CARMELO ANTHONY: My purpose was strong - my communities, the cities I represented with pride and the fans that supported me along the way. I am forever grateful for those people and places.
SHAPIRO: Over 19 seasons, Anthony made a name for himself with his grace, athleticism and bullying physical prowess, says The Athletic's Mike Vorkunov.
MIKE VORKUNOV: He had a great pull-up jumper that he could use from anywhere on the court. He could go into the post and the jab step was just kind of a signature Carmelo Anthony move, where he would keep the ball, keep a pivot foot and jab his other foot out to try to create space.
JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
He played for several teams over the course of his career, but Vorkunov says many fans will most fondly remember his days playing for the New York Knicks, where he led the team to its most successful season in decades. In a 2014 game, he even made a little history.
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UNIDENTIFIED SPORTSCASTER: Thirty-seven first-half points.
SHAPIRO: While playing for the Knicks, Anthony set a record for the most points ever scored at Madison Square Garden.
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UNIDENTIFIED SPORTSCASTER: That shot is good - Carmelo Anthony with the greatest-scoring game in Knicks history.
VORKUNOV: That one night really encapsulated the full Carmelo Anthony experience. He scored 62 points, but he had zero assists, right? Which could be emblematic of the style of play for him, which was much more individualistic than it was team-oriented, which was a criticism of his.
SUMMERS: Anthony never secured an NBA championship title, but he made up for that in Olympic wins. Anthony retires with three gold medals, more than any other men's basketball player.
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HEAR FROM WANDA AND A TED EXPERT ON HOW TO SPOT THE SIGNS OF TED, WHERE TO SEEK CARE, AND HOW OTHERS CAN BE THE 'MVP' OF THEIR OWN HEALTH
DUBLIN, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
BACKGROUND:
Wanda Durant, mother of National Basketball Association (NBA) Most Valuable Player (MVP) and three-time Olympic gold medalist, Kevin Durant, has been living with Graves' disease – the most common form of hyperthyroidism – for 17 years. Throughout those years, "Mama Durant" or "The Real MVP" as she is affectionately known, has also had problems with her eyes, suffering from eye bulging, pain, pressure and irritation. Only recently did she learn that her eye symptoms may be caused by a separate, but related, condition called Thyroid Eye Disease (TED), which may affect up to 50% of people with Graves'. For TED Awareness Week, Wanda is partnering with Horizon Therapeutics alongside Dr. Ana Victoria, an oculofacial plastic surgeon and TED Eye Specialist, to raise awareness of the possible symptoms, risks and impact of TED. Wanda and Dr. Victoria are encouraging those with Graves' disease or other thyroid conditions to pay close attention to their eye health so they can seek the care they need if symptoms appear.
Experience the full interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/9088551-wanda-durant-and-thyroid-eye-disease-expert-discuss-how-to-spot-the-signs-of-ted/
DID YOU KNOW
- TED Awareness Week 2022 marks the third year for this important public health initiative
- Thyroid Eye Disease, or TED, is most common in those with Graves' disease but requires separate care from a TED Eye Specialist, such as an oculoplastic surgeon or neuro-ophthalmologist
- Women are more at risk (up to 5x more likely to develop TED than men)
- TED can occur at any age, but predominantly in the 40s and 60s
For more information, please visit www.FOCUSonTED.com
MORE ABOUT WANDA DURANT:
Wanda Durant, affectionately known as "Mama Durant" and "The Real MVP," is a leader, entrepreneur, philanthropist and patient advocate, who has been living with Graves' disease for 17 years. She is a mother of two sons: NBA Champion and MVP, Kevin Durant, and businessman Anthony (Tony) Durant. As president and CEO of motivation platform "Hope, Dream, Believe, Achieve" (HDBA, LLC), Wanda shares her blueprint for parenting that she used to help her children become successful adults. One of her mantras is "where there is hope, there are possibilities." Her passion is to inspire underserved children, single mothers, families, and communities to move beyond their immediate circumstances and to aim for higher heights in life.
MORE ABOUT DR. ANA VICTORIA:
Dr. Ana Victoria is an oculofacial plastic and reconstructive surgeon at the Center for Excellence in Eye Care in Miami, Florida. Dr. Victoria routinely treats patients with Thyroid Eye Disease and is accredited by the American Board of Ophthalmology, the oldest medical certifying board in the United States. Dr. Victoria gained experience in clinical and surgical experience while serving as the chief resident in the ophthalmology residency at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She also spent two years as an American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery fellow at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, specializing in TED.
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Uncertainty looms ahead of Trump’s historic arraignment
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - A historic Tuesday ahead as former President Donald Trump is expected to be arraigned – a first in American history. Trump is expected to turn himself in despite his vocal opposition to the entire process.
“It’s so hard to know in advance what’s going to happen because we don’t know the severity or the scope of what these charges are,” said Mushtaq Gunja, a legal expert at Georgetown University Law Center.
The historic move comes after a grand jury voted to indict Trump for allegedly sending hush money payments to the porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 after an alleged affair.
Gunja says Trump will appear at a courthouse in Manhattan Tuesday, charges will be unveiled, a not guilty plea will almost certainly follow, and the president will be released. It could be as simple as that, but Gunja notes, Trump consistently attacks the justice system, especially Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg who is bringing the charges in this case.
“When all a defendant is doing is sort of attacking a judge or attacking the prosecutors, then their legal arguments are not quite as strong,” said Gunja.
Gunja says with charges currently sealed it is unclear exactly how many there are. He says if there are 30-plus charges as has been reported, this could be more significant than just hush money payments. John Malcolm from the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation argues this case appears to be selective enforcement of the law.
“I certainly have my own suspicion that had we not been talking about Donald Trump, these charges would not have been filed,” said Malcolm.
Trump’s arraignment comes as he faces investigations in other cases, including one in Georgia relating to 2020 election meddling, and investigations in Washington, D.C. related to his handling of classified documents after leaving office and efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Trump and his supporters argue Democrats are using the Justice Department to interfere in the 2024 election. Democrats say no one is above the law.
“Just as sacrosanct as ‘no man is above the law’ is an apolitical, equal handed approach to enforcing our criminal laws,” said Malcolm.
Following his arraignment in New York Trump will fly home to Florida where he says he will address his supporters from Mar-a-Lago.
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Man with hit-and-run history jailed after crash kills 5 young women in Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man who served a hit-and-run sentence in a California prison until his release earlier this year remained jailed Tuesday, awaiting charges after a crash killed five young women in Minneapolis when a speeding driver blew past a state trooper, ran a red light and slammed into their car.
Derrick John Thompson, 27, of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, was evaluated at a hospital and then booked into the Hennepin County Jail on Monday in the aftermath of Friday’s crash. The victims — Salma Abdikadir, Siham Adam, Sabiriin Ali, Sahra Gesaade and Sagal Hersi — were all between 17 and 20 years old.
Thousands of mourners from the area’s large Somali American community attended the young women’s funeral Monday at the Dar Al-Farooq mosque in Bloomington, where the five had been active members. They were returning home from a Somali mall where they had henna applied in preparation for a friend’s wedding scheduled for the next day when their car was struck.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office was reviewing the case and would make a charging decision soon. Prosecutors have until noon Wednesday due to the holiday weekend.
“Our community is grieving the loss of the five bright young people whose lives were cut short in a senseless, selfish act of reckless driving,” Moriarity said in a statement. “Instead of celebrating a joyous wedding, these families were forced to plan funerals and deal with the devastation of this tragedy.”
California court records show that Thompson was released from a prison there earlier this year after serving part of an eight-year sentence for his conviction in a 2018 hit-and-run that severely injured a woman in Montecito, California. Minnesota court records also show he was convicted twice of fleeing police in his own state. Jail records don’t show whether he currently has an attorney.
In Friday’s crash, a state trooper first spotted a speeding driver on Interstate 35W in Minneapolis around 10 p.m., police said in a statement. The driver exited the highway before the trooper could attempt a traffic stop and crashed into another vehicle with four women and a girl inside. All five died at the scene.
Police said the driver ran from the scene. Officers searched the area before taking Thompson into custody. He was evaluated at a hospital and then booked into the jail Monday.
Minnesota court records show that Thompson is the son of former state Rep. John Thompson, of St. Paul, who was a sharp critic of police during his one term in office. The elder Thompson became a Black Lives Matter activist following the police killing of his friend, Philando Castile, in suburban St. Paul in 2016. Minnesota House Democrats expelled him from their caucus in 2021 after old allegations of domestic abuse resurfaced, following an acrimonous traffic stop in St. Paul in which he claimed he was racially profiled, and he lost his primary election last year. A working number for the father could not immediately be found.
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In his first public comments since stepping down as Maryland men’s basketball coach last December, Mark Turgeon said he was “extremely burnt out” when he left the program.
Turgeon told Rick Peterson of TopSports.news, a site that covers sports in Topeka, Kansas, that he had coached for a long time and is content with his career. When asked about a possible return to coaching, he said the door is “mostly closed.”
“It’s 98% closed but you don’t ever want to say it’s 100% closed,’’ said Turgeon, who coached at Maryland for 10-plus seasons before stepping down on Dec. 3, 2021.
Turgeon said he promised his wife that he would take a full year off before potentially returning to the sport in some capacity.
“Whether I coach again we’ll see, but it’s not where I’m thinking I absolutely have to do it,” he said. “It’s something that if the right thing comes along and at the right time, and it’s the best thing for my family, we’ll do it. Otherwise, I’m content with my career. I had a good career, I had a lot of fun doing it.”
Turgeon went 226-116 and made five NCAA Tournaments, including a Sweet 16 appearance in 2015-16, coaching the Terps. He is 476-275 overall as a head coach.
But Turgeon shocked the Maryland community when he stepped down eight months after signing a three-year, $17 million contract extension through the 2025-26 season. The Terps, who entered the season with high hopes, were a disappointing 5-3 when former assistant Danny Manning stepped in as interim coach, guiding the team through a turbulent season to 15-17 record.
In March, Maryland hired former Iona and Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard, who has rejuvenated the program in his first year. The Terps are 8-0 and ranked No. 13 in the latest Associated Press Top 25 Poll after beating then-No. 16 Illinois, 71-66, on Friday night. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/terps/bs-sp-coach-mark-turgeon-burnt-out-20221206-uetz74do2vbkbogghmmf6jdasy-story.html | 2022-12-06 00:59:54 | 0 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/terps/bs-sp-coach-mark-turgeon-burnt-out-20221206-uetz74do2vbkbogghmmf6jdasy-story.html |
Sami Stroebel, an aspiring obstetrician-gynecologist, started medical school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison last summer within weeks of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
"I sat there and was like, 'How is this going to change the education that I'm going to get and how is this going to change my experience wanting to provide this care to patients in the future?'"
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the Democrat from Wisconsin, has an answer to that question.
Today, she and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the chair of the powerful Senate appropriations committee, are introducing the Reproductive Health Care Training Act. It establishes a grant program, to provide $25 million each year – for the next five years – to fund medical students who leave their states to learn abortion care, and programs that train them. It's especially important in states like Wisconsin that have near total bans on abortion.
"Students and their supervising clinicians have to travel out of state to get that component of their training," Baldwin tells NPR. "Meanwhile, neighboring states — and this is happening across the United States, are accepting an influx of students."
Stroebel, who co-leads her school's chapter of the national advocacy group Medical Students for Choice, wants to learn to provide abortion care. The same procedures and medications used to provide abortion are also needed when a pregnancy ends in miscarriage and in other women's health care that has nothing to do with pregnancy.
To be licensed, aspiring OB-GYNs must learn to perform the procedures and prescribe the medications. But in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health, the Supreme Court essentially made abortion rights a state-by-state issue.
"Wisconsin reverted to the 1849 law where abortion is essentially completely illegal, except in cases where they say that the woman's life is in imminent danger," Stroebel says.
Medical schools in Wisconsin and the other states with near total bans can't teach abortion care.
Baldwin says that, since the Dobbs decision, there's been a documented drop in OB-GYN medical residents who are applying to practice in Wisconsin and other states with bans.
"It is exacerbating what was already a shortage of providers in the state providing maternity care and cancer screenings and other routine care," Baldwin says.
Dr. Christina Francis, head of the American Association of Pro-Life OB-GYNs, says medical training in pregnancy care does need to be better, but from her perspective, it should focus on routine care for issues that make pregnancy complicated and unsafe such as preeclampsia, diabetes and all the problems that lead to the high rate of cesarean sections in the U.S.
"We need to be investing money into taking better care of women during their pregnancies and after, and not investing money in ending the life of one of our patients and harming our other patient in the process," Francis says.
Studies show that most patients who have had abortions don't regret getting one, and abortion procedures are far safer than pregnancy and childbirth itself.
Francis also says miscarriage care and other gynecological problems give aspiring doctors all the training they need. "I trained in a Catholic hospital. We did not perform abortions," Francis says. "We were very well-trained in how to empty a woman's uterus. That's just part of normal OB residency."
But state laws in the wake of Dobbs are upending miscarriage care, too. Abortion care training has been a problem for years in states like Texas that began severely restricting abortion long before the Dobbs ruling.
Given the new legal landscape, Stroebel's not sure how or where she'll practice in the future. For now, she wants to finish her medical education with the state school where she's enrolled, but she worries about her classmates and other students in abortion-restricted states.
"It is scary to think that, you know, if a lot of OB-GYNs and up and coming medical students want this training and they can't get it in places like Wisconsin or Idaho or Alabama or Texas, you know what's going to happen to the people who need that care in those states?"
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has dropped its probe of retired four-star Gen. John Allen for his role in an alleged illegal foreign lobbying campaign on behalf of the wealthy Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, his lawyer told The Associated Press.
Attorney David Schertler said in a statement Tuesday that the Justice Department had informed him that it was closing its investigation of Allen and no charges would be filed. The Justice Department declined to comment but a law enforcement official familiar with the inquiry who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly confirmed the decision on condition of anonymity.
The AP first reported last June that the FBI had outlined a potential criminal case against Allen in a confidential search warrant application that appeared to have been filed in error on a federal courts website. Days later, the former Marine general who oversaw U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan resigned as head of the influential Brookings Institution think tank.
Schertler said it was “deeply unfortunate” and “unfair” that the public release of the FBI’s confidential document had damaged Allen’s reputation and livelihood. A Brookings spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The 77-page document detailed Allen’s behind-the scenes efforts to help Qatar influence U.S. policy in June 2017 when a diplomatic crisis erupted between the gas-rich monarchy and its neighbors. That included traveling to Doha to advise top Qatari officials and then lobbying U.S. officials, the FBI said.
An FBI agent said in an affidavit in support of a search warrant there was “substantial evidence” that Allen had knowingly broken foreign lobbying laws, and had made false statements and withheld “incriminating” documents.
Allen denied any wrongdoing, saying his involvement with Qatar was meant to help benefit the United States.
The federal investigation has previously ensnared Richard G. Olson, a former ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan who pleaded guilty to federal charges last year, and Imaad Zuberi, a prolific political donor now serving a 12-year prison sentence on corruption charges.
The Justice Department has made enforcing foreign lobbying laws a higher priority in recent years but suffered some high-profile defeats in contested cases.
Qatar has spent lavishly on its influence efforts in the U.S. and Europe. The country is allegedly behind a massive cash-for-favors corruption scandal currently unfolding at the European Union’s parliament.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO says Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is visiting Ukraine for the first time since last year’s invasion by Russia.
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People needed to welcome Ky. veterans back from Honor Flight
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - The first of three honor flights out of Lexington’s Blue Grass Airport each for 2023 happens this Saturday.
Honor Flight Kentucky is hosting its spring flight over the weekend.
More than 60 veterans will board a flight that takes them from Lexington to Washington, D.C. However, Honor Flight Kentucky is asking for the public’s help in welcoming them home when they land back here in Lexington.
Spring flight director Kelli Parmley says the spring flight will include three female vets and a 97-year-old veteran of the Korean conflict.
“We’re going to have a full day in Washington, D.C. with our veterans, but the thing that we need from the people here at home is to come out to Blue Grass Airport,” Parmley said.
Parmley is asking folks to be there around 8 Saturday night and to wear patriotic clothes and bring signs or flags.
However, you’re also welcome to come as you are with Parmley saying there will be a sign-making station on site. Even after a day in D.C., Parmley says the welcome home is the most emotional part of the day.
“Most of the veterans we’re taking on this flight served in Vietnam. They did not receive the welcome home they deserved for their service to our country,” said Parmley. “So, we’re trying to give them the welcome and the fanfare and the love and appreciation that they may not have gotten.”
Parmley says free parking will be available in the overflow lots. People can then take a complimentary shuttle to the terminal starting at 7:30 Saturday evening to wish the veterans well.
The other two Honor Flights this year will take place in September and October.
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Anna Nicole Smith's life and career is the subject of a new documentary, Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me, coming to Netflix in May. Ahead of its debut, the streaming service released a trailer, offering viewers a closer look at director Ursula Macfarlane's unflinching look back on the late model and actress.
According to Netflix, the film offers a "humanizing examination of the life, death and secrets of Vickie Lynn Hogan -- better known as model and actress Anna Nicole Smith. From her first appearance in Playboy in 1992, Anna Nicole’s dizzying ascent was the very essence of the American dream, brought to a tragic halt with her untimely passing in 2007."
The upcoming documentary features access to never-before-seen footage as well as home movies and interviews with key figures who have previously not spoken out about the quintessential blonde bombshell.
"I want audiences to understand that Anna Nicole was a complex woman,” Macfarlane told Tudum. "She was someone who above all else wanted to be a good mother and a free-spirited exuberant woman who wanted to live life on her own terms. But her story is also a cautionary tale about how the desire for the American dream can swallow you up and spit you out, blurring your self-image and make you lose sight of your authentic self."
The film, meanwhile, marks the latest look back on the '90s' biggest icons, including Pamela Anderson (A Love Story) and Britney Spears (Britney vs. Spears), who were both the subject of must-see Netflix documentaries.
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me premieres Tuesday, May 16 on Netflix.
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NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Oscar Health, Inc. (NYSE: OSCR) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
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PITTSBURGH — PITTSBURGH — Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp. (WAB) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $158 million.
The maker of parts for locomotives, subways and buses posted revenue of $2.31 billion in the period, exceeding Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.23 billion.
For the year, the company reported profit of $633 million, or $3.46 per share. Revenue was reported as $8.36 billion.
Wabtec expects full-year earnings in the range of $5.15 to $5.55 per share, with revenue in the range of $8.7 billion to $9 billion.
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Celine Dion wishes fans 'the best of health' for Christmas after revealing neurological disorder
Dion revealed earlier this month that she suffers from Stiff Person Syndrome
Singer Celine Dion released a new video message for Christmas, her first since posting one earlier this month that revealed she suffers from the neurological disorder Stiff Person Syndrome.
More than two weeks since she discussed the condition and announced the postponement of European tour dates in an Instagram video, Dion had kind words for her followers in both English and French.
"Merry Christmas, everyone," the Canadian superstar said in a video posted to Instagram and Twitter on Christmas Eve. "Wishing you love, happiness, the best of health."
It was on December 8 that Dion revealed to her 5.4 million Instagram followers that she has Stiff Person Syndrome, which the Cleveland Clinic defines as "a rare autoimmune movement disorder that affects the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord)."
CELINE DION REVEALS INCURABLE NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER DIAGNOSIS IN EMOTIONAL VIDEO
The Cleveland Clinic says that those afflicted by the condition, which Dion said is roughly one in a million people, "first experience a stiffening of the muscles of their trunk followed, over time, by the development of stiffness and rigidity in the legs and other muscles in the body."
Dion said that she suffers from spasms that make it difficult to walk and that affect her singing.
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"I'm working hard with my sports medicine therapist every day to build back my strength and my ability to perform again," Dion said. "But I have to admit it's been a struggle. All I know is singing. It's what I've done all my life. And it's what I love to do the most."
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BEIJING (AP) — More Chinese cities eased some anti-virus restrictions as police patrolled their streets to head off protests Thursday while the ruling Communist Party prepared for the high-profile funeral of late leader Jiang Zemin.
Guangzhou in the south, Shijiazhuang in the north, Chengdu in the southwest and other major cities announced they were easing testing requirements and controls on movement. In some areas, markets and bus service reopened.
The announcements didn’t mention last weekend’s protests in Shanghai, Beijing and at least six other cities against the human cost of anti-virus restrictions that confine millions of people to their homes. But the timing and publicity suggested President Xi Jinping’s government was trying to mollify public anger after some protesters made the politically explosive demand that Xi resign.
With a heavy police presence, there was no indication of protests. Notes on social media complained that people were being stopped at random for police to check smartphones, possibly looking for prohibited apps such as Twitter, in what they said was a violation of China’s Constitution.
“I am especially afraid of becoming the ‘Xinjiang model’ and being searched on the excuse of walking around,” said a posting signed Qi Xiaojin on the popular Sina Weibo platform, referring to the northwestern region where Uyghur and other Muslim minorities are under intense surveillance.
Protesters have used Twitter and other foreign social media to publicize protests while the Communist Party deletes videos and photos from services within China.
On Thursday, the government reported 36,061 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, including 31,911 without symptoms.
Meanwhile, Beijing was preparing for the funeral of Jiang, who was ruling party leader until 2002 and president until the following year. The party announced he died Wednesday in Shanghai of leukemia and multiple organ failure.
No foreign dignitaries will be invited in line with Chinese tradition, the party announced. It has yet to set a date for the funeral or announce how it might be affected by anti-virus controls.
Xi’s government has promised to reduce the disruption of its “zero COVID” strategy by shortening quarantines and making other changes. But it says it will stick to restrictions that have repeatedly shut down schools and businesses and suspended access to neighborhoods.
The protests began Friday after at least 10 people were killed in a fire in an apartment building in Urumqi in Xinjiang. That prompted questions about whether firefighters or victims trying to escape were blocked by locked doors or other controls. Authorities denied that, but the deaths became a focus for public frustration.
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North Korea launches 2 ballistic missiles eastward
North Korea has launched two ballistic missiles in the early hours of Wednesday, Tokyo and Seoul both said.
The two missiles appear to have fallen outside Japan's exclusive economic zone, Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada said.
He told reporters the first missile reached an altitude of 50 kilometers (31 miles), whereas the second also rose as high as 50 kilometers.
The US military said in a statement the launches pose no immediate threat to US personnel or territory, or to Washington's allies. It added that the United States' commitment to Tokyo's and Seoul's defense remained "ironclad."
What do we know about the launch?
The launch was first reported by South Korea's Yonhap news agency, citing Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff.
South Korea said they were analyzing the type of missile fired, adding that it landed in the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan between the Korean peninsula and Japan.
The launch is the latest in a string of weapons tests by North Korea, as Seoul and Washington step up their defense cooperation.
Earlier on Tuesday, the two countries announced a port visit to Busan by a US nuclear submarine, for the first time since 1981.
Also on Tuesday, a US service member crossed the border from South Korea into North Korea and was likely now in North Korean custody.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) _ Verve Therapeutics Inc. (VERV) on Tuesday reported a loss of $40.9 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company said it had a loss of 84 cents.
The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 63 cents per share.
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7 arrested in House office building linked to Colbert show
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Capitol Police said Friday that officers arrested seven unauthorized people in a congressional office building Thursday night and charged them with unlawful entry.
The people identified themselves as being affiliated with CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Another person familiar with the matter provided the AP with a list of nine people who had been stopped by Capitol Police. They included several producers, along with Robert Smigel, the voice behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
The two people who spoke with the AP could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The incident Thursday night followed the third public hearing by the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
Capitol Police said they received a call about a disturbance in the Longworth House Office Building around 8:30 p.m. “Responding officers observed seven individuals, unescorted and without Congressional ID, in a sixth-floor hallway,” the agency said in a statement. “The building was closed to visitors, and these individuals were determined to be a part of a group that had been directed by the USCP to leave the building earlier in the day.”
In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, CBS said the production team was at the Capitol Wednesday and Thursday to record a comedy segment featuring Triumph.
“Their interviews at the Capitol were authorized and pre-arranged through Congressional aides of the members interviewed,” the network said. “After leaving the members’ offices on their last interview of the day, the production team stayed to film stand-ups and other final comedy elements in the halls when they were detained by Capitol Police.”
The USCP statement said the case remains “an active criminal investigation, and may result in additional criminal charges.” Capitol Police, departing from standard practice, refused to provide the names of the people who were arrested.
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Editor’s Note: This is the 456th in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes.
HUNTINGTON — For more than 50 years, expert crews from the Mott Core Drilling Co. peered under the ground and told the mining and construction industries what was there.
Mott Core Drilling began its work in West Virginia but over the years worked at sites throughout the United States as well as in Canada and Mexico.
The company was founded by three brothers. B.H. Mott was president, and his two brothers, Blair A. and W.J. Mott, were vice presidents. The brothers were natives of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, where they learned the core drilling business from the ground down.
In 1917, the brothers established their own core drilling business in Beckley, W.Va., in the heart of the state’s underground coal fields. In 1932, the brothers moved the business to Huntington, where they located in the 800 block of 8th Avenue. In 1936, they built a large two-story brick building that today houses the headquarters of Cabell County Emergency Medical Services.
At its peak, Mott Core Drilling employed as many as 200 workers, of whom more than 100 were skilled technicians trained by its specialists in the exploration and analysis of underground strata.
In the 1950s, the nation urgently needed to find new sources of uranium for use in adding to its stock of nuclear weapons. Responding to that need, the company conducted extensive core drilling in a number of western states.
According to records in the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office, Mott Core Drilling went out of business in 1969.
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Workers Joined Teamsters Local 322 in December of Last Year
RICHMOND, Va., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, July 23 drivers at Epes Transport Systems in Chester, Va. came together to vote on their first contract. This came after less than seven months of negotiations following their vote to join Teamsters Local 322. The drivers made the decision to join the Teamsters after growing tired of the way that they were being treated on the job, with low wages and poor working conditions.
The drivers went to management with a grievance letter in September of last year outlining problems that they were experiencing, but management was not responsive to it. After not getting any response, a group of drivers contacted Local 322 Organizer Dwayne Johnson to seek help. The drivers were concerned that their low pay and lack of raises would not keep up with inflation. They were also not receiving shut down pay when the companies they serviced were closed.
All their hard work paid off this month, when they voted to ratify the contract that was negotiated between the bargaining committee and the company. It is a three-year agreement that includes higher wages at its start, annual raises each year and an increase in vacations and holiday pay. They also negotiated to receive paid sick leave, a personal holiday, shutdown pay and a weekend work incentive bonus.
"Local 322 is happy to welcome our new union brothers and sisters from Epes Transport Systems," said Brian Peyton, Local 322 President. "We commend them for their courage and solidarity."
Recording Secretary and Organizer Dwayne Johnson was the lead organizer on this campaign.
"I'm pleased to congratulate our newest members from Epes Transport," said Johnson. "Our brothers and sisters fought a good fight and were determined to get the dignity and respect they deserve. Now they have higher wages with yearly increases, paid sick days, personal holidays, shut down pay and much more!"
One of the leading voices from the beginning of the campaign was Patrick Olivier, a member of the organizing committee and the negotiating committee. He is now a shop steward at Epes Transport Systems, representing approximately 60 drivers under the new contract.
"A huge thank you to Dwayne Johnson for helping me lead my fellow drivers through this process," said Oliver. "Dwayne made himself available every minute and was masterful at the negotiation table.
"We have a great set of drivers at Epes who deserve to be valued, respected and compensated fairly. Thanks to Local 322, under the leadership of President Brian Peyton, we have made history in our company. Our voices are heard and our first contract has been achieved."
Teamsters Local 322 represents over 1,600 members. Visit www.facebook.com/teamsters322 for more information.
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The Writers Guild of America seems poised to go on strike next week, when their current contract with The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers expires.
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Al Roker and Eric Burris to kick off Start Today Walking Club at Universal
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MONSOUR. SHE IS LIVE IN STUDIO THIS MORNING WITH WESH 2’S SANIKA DANGE. SANIKA, TAKE IT AWAY. SANIKA: WE ARE SO EXCITED TO HAVE YOU HERE IN THE STUDIO, TALKING ABOUT ALL THINGS TOMORROW, BUT ALSO THE WALKING CHALLENGE. STEPHANIE: IT HAS BEEN A HUGE SUCCESS. WE HAVE ALMOST 115,000 VIEWERS IN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP, SO HEAD OVER TO FACEBOOK, TYPE IN START TODAY. PEOPLE ARE HAVING SUCCESS THAT THEY DID NOT KNOW WAS POSSIBLE. THEY ARE LOSING 30 POUNDS IN THE MATTER OF MONTHS, GOING TO THE DOCTOR AND GETTING CLEAN BILLS OF HEALTH. THEY ARE LOWERING THEIR BLOOD PRESSURE. THE ENTHUSIASM AND EXCITEMENT FROM A 20 MINUTE DAILY WALK IS ENORMOUS. SANIKA: A SMALL AMOUNT OF TIME CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE. SO, TOMORROW, FOR THE WALK WITH AL, THIS IS THE GREAT REMINDER THAT YOU CAN REFRESH AT THE START OF A NEW MONTH. SO, AS HALLOWEEN FESTIVITIES COME TO AN END WE’RE ALL GOING , TO HAVE LOTS OF PUMPKINS SITTING AROUND. BUT WE CAN ACTUALLY INCORPORATE THESE INTO OUR WORKOUT? STEPHANIE: I AM GOING TO HAVE US PICK UP ONE PUMPKIN. YOU CAN GO UP TO 5, 7 OR EIGHT POUNDS, BUT YOU ARE GOING TO USE IT LIKE A WEIGHT. PULL THE ABS IN, STICK THE BOOTY BACK, DOWN THROUGH THE HEELS TO STAND UP, PRESS UP THE PUMPKIN. NOW, NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE A 20 MINUTE DAILY WALK AS PART OF OUR START TODAY WALKING PROGRAM, BUT WE ALSO HAVE STRENGTH TRAINING. WE LIKE TO BUILD MUSCLES BECAUSE IT WILL HELP US TO SPEED UP THE METABOLISM, BURN CALORIES. ARE YOU FEELING IT? SANIKA: I AM. STEPHANIE: IT ALSO HELPS US TO WALK FASTER AND LONGER. NOW A SIDE LUNGE. KEEP THE OTHER LEG STRAIGHT. COMB THROUGH THE CENTER, LIFT UP THE KNEE WITH THE ARMS UP. SANIKA: OH MY GOODNESS. THIS IS LIKE THE ADVANCED VERSION. STEPHANIE: YES. WE HAVE BALANCE HERE. WE’RE WORKING ON STABILIZING THE MUSCLES IN THE LOWER LEGS, BUT ALSO WORKING ON THE SHOULDERS SO YOU CAN WALK, PUMP YOUR ARMS AND HAVE MORE OOMPH WITH EVERY STEP. SANIKA: I AM SO IMPRESSED. YOU ARE TALKING AND DOING THIS AT THE SAME TIME. THAT BRINGS ME TO MY NEXT POINT. I’M AN AVID WALKER, BUT THIS SUMMER GOT AWAY FROM ME. SO HOW CAN PEOPLE WHO FEEL LIKE -- OH MY GOSH, GOING BACK TO SQUARE ONE, HOW CAN YOU FIND MOTIVATION TO TAKE THAT FIRST STEP AGAIN? STEPHANIE: THE NAME OF THE PROGRAM IS START TODAY. DO NOT THINK THAT 20 MINUTES IS TOO LONG, FOR I CANNOT DO THE PUMPKIN WORKOUT. ONE MEMBER, HER SUCCESS WAS BEING ABLE TO WALK OUT HER FRONT DOOR TO HER MAILBOX, THEN WALK BACK IN. THAT MIGHT SOUND LIKE, OK, I DO THAT EVERY DAY, BUT FOR OTHERS IT IS A HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT. WHEREVER YOU ARE, DO NOT COMPARE YOURSELF TO THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU, BUT USE OTHER PEOPLE FOR SUPPORT AND KNOW WE ARE GOING TO DO SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS PICKING UP WATER BOTTLES IN YOUR HOUSE AND DOING 10 BICEP CURLS. DO YOU FEEL THAT? SANIKA: I DO. STEPHANIE: NICE AND TIGHT. SANIKA: YES. STEPHANIE: DOING 10 OF THESE WILL HELP YOU REMEMBER, THIS IS SIMPLE, EASY AND FUN FOR ME TO MOVE MY BODY. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF US HVE GOTTEN AWAY FROM. WE THINK IT HAS TO BE A BURDEN OR A CHORE, BUT IT CAN BE ENJOYABLE. SANIKA: JUST EVERY LITTLE BIT PUSHES US A LITTLE BIT FURTHER. STEPHANIE: INCH BY INCH. SANIKA: ANYMORE PUMPKIN WORKOUTS? STEPHANIE: ONE MORE. WE WILL BALANCE WITH THE KNEE UP.WE ARE GOING TO HOLD THE PUMPKINS AT THE SIDES. REACH UP ALL THE WAY TO THE SHOULDERS. THEN LOWER DOWN. DO YOU FEEL THAT IN THE BICEPS AGAIN? SANIKA: YEAH, AND IN THE SHOULDERS. STEPHANIE: PULL THE ABS IN. FIVE MORE. FOUR. PRESS DOWN. YOU CAN DO THIS WITH US, TOO. ONE MORE, HERE WE GO. NICE JOB. SANIKA: I FEEL BETTER ABOUT THAT ONE. TALK ABOUT THE WALK TOMORROW. GIVE US TIPS ON HOW PEOPLE CAN WALK FURTHER AND FASTER. STEPHANIE: A SNEAK PEEK TOMORROW, WE HAVE A TRAINING PLAN FOR OUR VIEWERS. SO, IF YOU ARE WALKING 20 MINUTES EVERY DAY, THAT IS GREAT. BUT IF YOU ARE STEPPING IT UP, PREPARING FOR A TURKEY TROT OR A REINDEER RUN, WE HAVE A PLAN FOR YOU. IT INCLUDES STRENGTH TRAINING AND STRETCHING. SANIKA: ARE YOU READY FOR THE WARM WEATHER TOMORROW? STEPHANIE: I AM SO PUMPED. I’M READY TO GET A LITTLE BIT SWEATY. SANIKA: YOU HAVE TO BE READY FOR THAT IN FLORIDA. NOW LET’S PUT THE INFORMATION ON THE SCREEN FOR TOMORROW’S WALK. EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO SIGN UP FOR THE WALK TOMORROW, BECAUSE IT IS SO POPULAR, YOU CAN JOIN THE START TODAY WALKING COMMUNITY ON FACEBOOK. AS YOU MENTIONED, THERE ARE OVER 111,000 MEMBERS. MANY ARE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. THERE IS THE INFORMATION FOR TOMORROW MORNING. IT IS ALL BOOKED UP, BUT JOIN VIRTUALLY. STEPHANIE: OUR VIRTUAL COMMUNITY IS HUGE. START TODAY, POST YOUR WALKS. WE ARE THERE TO CHEER YOU ON. SANIKA: I AM SO OUT OF BREATH. THANKS FOR BEING HERE. I KN
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Tuesday is the start of a new month, which means the "Today" show is starting another 30-day walking challenge with its Start Today Walking Club.And to kick it all off, Al Roker is coming to Orlando!He's leading a walk around Universal Studios.First Warning Meteorologist Eric Burris will be walking alongside him.And we'll take you out there live starting at 6 a.m. on WESH 2 News Sunrise.Start Today coach Stephanie Monsour will be part of that walk as well.She joined WESH 2 in the studio Monday, showing us how to use pumpkins to spice up our daily workout.And she also reminded people that it's all about taking the first step."You don't want to psyche yourself by saying, 'OMG, 20 minutes is too long,' or, 'I can't do this pumpkin workout with us,'" she said. "So, what you want to do — one of our members, her success was being able to walk out her front door to her mailbox and then walk back in. For some of us, that might sound like, 'OK, I do that every day,' but for other people, that is a huge accomplishment."
Tuesday is the start of a new month, which means the "Today" show is starting another 30-day walking challenge with its Start Today Walking Club.
And to kick it all off, Al Roker is coming to Orlando!
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He's leading a walk around Universal Studios.
First Warning Meteorologist Eric Burris will be walking alongside him.
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Start Today coach Stephanie Monsour will be part of that walk as well.
She joined WESH 2 in the studio Monday, showing us how to use pumpkins to spice up our daily workout.
And she also reminded people that it's all about taking the first step.
"You don't want to psyche yourself by saying, 'OMG, 20 minutes is too long,' or, 'I can't do this pumpkin workout with us,'" she said. "So, what you want to do — one of our members, her success was being able to walk out her front door to her mailbox and then walk back in. For some of us, that might sound like, 'OK, I do that every day,' but for other people, that is a huge accomplishment." | https://www.wesh.com/article/al-roker-and-eric-burris-universal/41820680 | 2022-10-31 16:48:18 | 0 | https://www.wesh.com/article/al-roker-and-eric-burris-universal/41820680 |
PLEASANT PLAINS, Staten Island (WPIX) — A man walking his dog in New York found a human hand on Thursday, but police have since determined where it came from.
The unnerving find was made on Staten Island, in a wooded area near the North Mount Loretto State Forest in Pleasant Plains around 2:30 p.m. Thursday, the NYPD said.
Officials from the city medical examiner’s office responded and confirmed the body part to be a right hand.
On Saturday morning, officials with the NYPD’s Public Information office confirmed that investigators identified the severed hand’s fingerprints and determined it had belonged to a 63-year-old woman who died in 2011.
The woman had been buried at Resurrection Cemetery, about a mile’s drive from where the hand was found. Police said a plot next to hers had recently been excavated on Feb. 27 for a new burial.
It is believed the equipment used to remove the soil from the plot severed the deceased’s hand, and that soil was later dumped along the tree line near the state forest.
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HANGZHOU, China, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, [December 9th, 2022], Zhejiang Doer Biologics Co., Ltd. ("Doer Bio"), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative biotherapeutics for metabolic diseases and cancers, today announced that it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement with MSD (Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA), to investigate Doer Bio's anti-Claudin18.2 antibody DR30303, in combination with MSD's anti-PD-1 therapy, KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab), in patients with Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer.
Under this agreement, Doer Bio will conduct a clinical study based on a mutually- agreed and finalized protocol, to evaluate the safety and efficacy of DR30303 in combination with KEYTRUDA® in patients with Claudin18.2-positive, locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GC/GEJ) cancer.
"DR30303 is a humanized anti-Claudin18.2 heavy chain antibody Fc fusion protein (VHH-Fc) generated via Doer Bio's proprietary SMART-VHHBody platform. We believe DR30303 exhibits strong and highly selective binding to Claudin18.2, enhanced antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) activity, and low immunogenicity risk. Its smaller size may allow DR30303 to penetrate solid tumors faster and deeper. We believe that DR30303 is a potential best-in-class anti-Claudin18.2 antibody." said Yanshan Huang, Ph.D., founder and Chief Executive Officer of Doer Bio. "DR30303 has shown favorable safety profile in ongoing trials as monotherapy and displayed encouraging anti-tumor signals in patients with Claudin18.2-positive solid tumor. We are excited to test DR30303 in combination with KEYTRUDA® for the treatment of Claudin18.2-positive GC/GEJ cancer." commented Yongliang Fang, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer of Doer Bio.
KEYTRUDA® is a registered trademark of Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA.
About DR30303
DR30303 is a humanized anti-Claudin18.2 heavy chain antibody Fc fusion protein (VHH-Fc) generated via Doer Biologics' proprietary SMART-VHHBody platform. Claudin 18.2 is an attractive target for cancer treatment due to its tumor specificity and aberrant overexpression in gastric cancer and pancreatic adenocarcinomas. DR30303 exhibits strong and highly selective binding to Claudin18.2, enhanced antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) activity as a result of Fc engineering, and low immunogenicity risk validated via in-silico T-cell epitope predictor. It demonstrated promising anti-tumor activity, both alone and in combination with chemotherapies and PD-1 checkpoint blockade, in a variety of murine tumor models, and favorable pharmacokinetic properties in preclinical studies.
About Doer Bio
Zhejiang Doer Biologics Co., Ltd. ("Doer Bio") is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery and development of multi-domain based multi-specific biotherapeutics to address unmet medical need in the field of metabolic diseases and cancers.
Doer Bio has developed multiple proprietary platform technologies, including xLONGylation®, MultiBody®, AccuBody®, and SMART-VHHBody. For more information about Doer Bio, please visit www.doerbio.com.
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Hailey Bieber is a wife, a model and an open book when it comes to her mental health.
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Hailey got candid about how she nurtures her emotional and mental well-being.
"There are several things I like to do to check in with myself," the model noted in a video posted to her YouTube channel on May 31. "One of those things being talk to somebody you trust."
Hailey also shared that she talks with a therapist—a practice that has been a part of her journey for the past four years.
"It's something that I felt not sure of in the beginning; but the more I've grown my relationship with my therapist, it has been such a game changer for me and it's a space where I feel really safe to be able to talk about what's going on in my mind, say things out loud and feel safe and not feel judged."
Hailey explained that she also likes to spend time in nature, take baths and practice breathing exercises such as counted breathing, which she credits with helping her "in times of just feeling a lot of anxiety."
During her sit-down, Hailey shared that her relationship with social media has been "taxing" on her inner peace.
"I'm somebody who struggles with people-pleasing and really wanting everybody to like me and caring a lot about what people have to say and what they think," she said.
And while Hailey acknowledged the "negativity" and "comments" that can come with social media, the 25-year-old said there is a side to the digital world she appreciates.
"I think it's a really wonderful and beautiful tool to be able to connect with people," Hailey shared. "There's a lot about it that I also do love and I'm just in a space where I'm trying to have the healthiest relationship with social media that I possibly can."
It's not the first time the former ballet dancer has given her honest take on social platforms. Back in April, the Drop the Mic host revealed a rule she has when it comes to using Instagram.
"There's so much going on, I had to give myself a break from looking at myself and other people, though," she shared in an interview with Harper's Bazaar. "I had to start doing this thing where I don't go on Instagram Monday through Friday. If something needs to be posted, I have somebody who I work with who runs it for me. I had to remove myself."
At the time, the media personality said that being on the app led her to go through "so much comparison."
"Comparing myself to other people, getting compared to other people, feeling like I need to have this type of body in order to feel good about myself," Hailey explained. "It can be such a dark hole that you go down, and it happens so quickly and easily. With social media, you click on one thing, and you see another, and then you're in this weird rabbit hole, and you're putting yourself down."
And while Hailey has seemingly taken the journey of self-love by the reins, she noted it's one that "doesn't ever stop."
"I hope I'm on it even when I'm old and saggy," she shared with the publication. "I hope I love myself then." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1332970/hailey-bieber-credits-this-game-changer-for-helping-her-mental-health-journey | 2022-06-01 01:48:38 | 0 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1332970/hailey-bieber-credits-this-game-changer-for-helping-her-mental-health-journey |
TURNER, Maine— A pedestrian died from her injuries after being hit by a car while walking along County Road near Fortin Drive in Turner on Saturday.
Turner Fire-Rescue, along with medical crews, responded to the scene where they found 46-year-old Tina White of Turner on the side of the road with life-threatening injuries.
White — who lived near the crash scene — was walking in the dirt shoulder facing traffic when she was struck from behind and died at the scene, officials said.
A short time after deputies arrived on the scene, dispatchers received a report of a woman passed out behind the wheel at a business on Auburn Road in Turner.
Deputies found 36-year-old Amber Smith of Sabattus in a car that had damages consistent with the crash, officials said.
Smith was arrested and charged with manslaughter, aggravated operating under the influence of drugs causing death and causing death while license is revoked as well as a misdemeanor warrant for failure to appear out of Kennebec County Court, officials said.
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AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — Ibrahim Al-Ghanim, a former Qatar national soccer team defender, was dressed like thousands of other local men as he rushed to his seat through a main foyer at Al Bayt Stadium.
He wore the traditional thobe — the long-sleeve, floor-length white robe — and came to celebrate Qatar's national team on Tuesday in its final match at the World Cup.
“We are all here to support Qatar and the team, and to enjoy it,” Al-Ghanim said. “Of course, no Qatari expected to win the World Cup."
Al-Ghanim suggested not using the World Cup as the barometer. He pointed to Qatar winning the 2019 Asian Cup, beating Japan in the final.
“We have had success, but this is bigger,” he said. “We are progressing.”
Qatar lost Tuesday's match against the Netherlands 2-0. Qatar lost all three of its group games, scored only one goal, and was eliminated from its own tournament even before this final game.
Qatari fans applauded courteously at the end, some held up banners expressing support, and one group displayed a sign in English with the Arabic word for “thank you" thrown in.
“Win or Lose — Shukran,” it read.
Qatar was the first host nation to lose its opening match, and only the second to be eliminated from the group stage. But that was not the main point. Simply having the World Cup — the first in the Middle East — was the focus.
Qatar has a population of 3 million, but only about one in 10 is Qatari. Workers — both skilled and unskilled — come from all over the world.
Throngs came wearing Qatar's colors, children wore “I love Qatar” shirts, and a man on stilts performed near the VIP entrance.
“We are here to support the team and say goodbye," said Ramzy Dabbous, a Lebanon-born chef who has lived in Qatar for 12 years.
He carried a maroon and white Qatar flag in one hand with a large flag covering his back.
He also wore an orange sweater.
“I also like the Netherlands football," he said.
Prathik Venkatesh was born in Qatar and has lived in the country most of his life. But his roots are in India and he studies in the United States.
“I'm not Qatari, but I was born here and live here since I was a kid,” said Venkatesh, also draped in Qatar's maroon and white colors.
Prem Lama, a Nepalese who said he has worked for 19 years in Qatar, and his daughter, Avilasha, were also saturated in Qatar colors.
“I like football," Avilasha explained. “And it's the World Cup in Qatar."
And maybe the last for a long time.
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San Jose Sharks goalie James Reimer won't take part in pregame warmups, saying the team's decision to wear Pride-themed jerseys in support of the LGBTQ community runs counter to his religious beliefs.
Reimer said in a statement Saturday that he made the decision based on his Christian beliefs, adding that he “always strived to treat everyone with respect” and that members of the LGBTQ community should be welcome in hockey.
“In this specific instance, I am choosing not to endorse something that is counter to my personal convictions, which are based on the Bible, the highest authority in life,” Reimer said.
Reimer is the second NHL player this season to refuse to take part in warmups with Pride-themed jerseys, with Philadelphia's Ivan Provorov declining to in January. Reimer was not slated to play in Saturday night's home game against the New York Islanders, which is Pride night.
Additionally, the New York Rangers opted not to wear Pride jerseys or use Pride stick tape as part of their night in January despite previously advertising that plan.
The Sharks said in a statement that they are proud to host Pride Night, saying the event reinforces the team's commitment to inclusiveness.
“As we promote these standards, we also acknowledge and accept the rights of individuals to express themselves, including how or whether they choose to express their beliefs, regardless of the cause or topic," the team said in a statement. “As an organization, we will not waver in our support of the LGBTQIA+ community and continue to encourage others to engage in active allyship.”
The You Can Play Project, which works to promote inclusiveness in sports, said the organization was disappointed in Reimer's actions.
“Religion and respect are not in conflict with each other, and we are certainly disappointed when religion is used as a reason to not support our community,” the organization said. “Wearing pride jerseys, like any celebration jersey worn, is not about the personal feelings of an athlete; rather the communication from the team that a community is welcome in the arena and the sport.”
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FEENEY EARNS SUMMIT HONOR
Cade Feeney has been named the Summit League Pitcher of the Week.
The former Century High standout earned his first win of the season with seven innings of one-run ball for North Dakota State on Friday in its 10-2 road win over Omaha.
On the season, the junior right-hander is 1-3 in six starts with a 6.83 ERA in a team-high 41 innings.
The Bison (5-18) play at Nebraska (13-8-1) tonight at 7 p.m.
JANDRIC, SIDORSKI GET PRO SHOTS
Chris Jandric has signed with the Rochester Americans of the AHL and Ryan Sidorski has landed an amateur tryout agreement with the Milwaukee Admirals of the AHL.
Both were defenseman for North Dakota this season.
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Jandric totaled 33 points in 39 games for UND, ranking among the top five defenseman in points.
Sidorski had nine points, all assists, in 36 games for the Fighting Hawks.
Jandrick and Sidorski join fellow defensemen Ethan Frisch and Tyler Kleven and forward Mark Senden as signing pro contracts since UND's season ended at 18-15-6. | https://bismarcktribune.com/sports/baseball/area-sports-briefs-march-28/article_c539fd62-ccda-11ed-a736-dbed2ff8756b.html | 2023-03-28 03:58:26 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/sports/baseball/area-sports-briefs-march-28/article_c539fd62-ccda-11ed-a736-dbed2ff8756b.html |
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LONDON (AP) — Climate change is the global economy's biggest long-term challenge but one the world is least prepared to tackle because of short-term problems led by a cost-of-living crisis, the World Economic Forum said in a report Wednesday.
The group's Global Risks Report, released ahead of its annual gathering of government leaders and business elites next week in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos, offers a bleak outlook.
The report based on a survey of 1,200 risk experts, industry bosses and policymakers says the biggest challenges over the next decade involve the environment, yet more immediate challenges are distracting world leaders, some of whom will be in Davos for panel discussions and schmoozing at an event that has faced criticism for not producing concrete action.
“The coming years will present tough trade-offs for governments facing competing concerns for society, the environment and security," according to the report co-authored with global insurance broker Marsh McLennan and Zurich Insurance Group.
“A failure to mitigate climate change is ranked as one of the most severe threats in the short term but is the global risk we are seen to be the least prepared for,” the report said.
Out of the top 10 long-term challenges, respondents said the top four are climate related: failure to limit or adapt to climate change; natural disasters and extreme weather; biodiversity loss; and ecosystem collapse.
Short-term risks are testing pledges to reach net zero emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and “have exposed a gap between what is scientifically necessary and politically palatable,” the report said.
“We need to be better at balancing the short-term outlook of risk with the long-term outlook of risk," said Carolina Klint, risk management leader at Marsh, “and we need to make decisions now that might feel counterintuitive because they might be a little bit costly upfront, but it’s just unavoidable.”
One example is the big investment needed to speed up the transition away from fossil fuels to sustainable energy, Klint said.
Top of the list of challenges over the next two years is a cost-of-living crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's war in Ukraine, which has sent food and energy prices soaring, squeezing household finances worldwide.
Other aftershocks set off by the pandemic and the war have signaled a new and gloomier era for the global economy.
Governments and central banks face the dilemma of reining in inflation by hiking interest rates, which runs the risk of sparking recession, or spending money to shield people from its worst effects, which could add to already-high public debt levels.
The report also said deglobalization is increasingly in vogue. The war in Ukraine highlighted Europe's dependence on Russian oil and natural gas while microchip shortages sparked by pandemic restrictions spotlighted the prevalence of semiconductor manufacturing in Asia.
“Economic warfare is becoming the norm,” the report said. Tensions will rise as global powers use economic policies defensively to reduce reliance on rivals and offensively to limit the rise of competing nations.
On top of that, society is increasingly polarized. Economic and social divisions are turning into political ones with people far apart on immigration, gender, reproductive rights, religion, climate and more — contributing to the decline of democracies.
A big factor is misinformation and disinformation from political influencers spreading extreme beliefs and swaying elections with social media “echo chambers," the report said.
Another growing risk is cybercrime and cyber insecurity stemming from increasingly connected public services such as transport, financial and water systems, which leaves them vulnerable to online disruptions and attacks.
The race to develop new technologies in areas like artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biotechnology will offer partial solutions to some crises, the report said, but it also could widen inequality because poorer countries can't afford them.
“The resulting new economic era may be one of growing divergence between rich and poor countries,” the report said, “and the first rollback in human development in decades.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Davos-report-Cost-of-living-crisis-overshadows-17709938.php | 2023-01-11 10:23:03 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Davos-report-Cost-of-living-crisis-overshadows-17709938.php |
LOCAL NEWS
Gamez: Safety concerns over the holidays with ‘tripledemic’ surge
The flu is spreading fast and unusually early this year all across the country. Even my family was hit with Influenza A over the Thanksgiving holiday. It was so bad that we had to take our daughter to Seattle Children’s Hospital twice because of breathing issues. We also had a hard time finding children’s Tamiflu and had to use the Children’s pharmacy to ultimately fill the prescription – QFC and Safeway were both out.
So with Christmas and Hanukkah approaching, what can we do to stay safe?
Rise of pediatric flu causes worst medication shortage in ’15 years’
CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook joined CBS Mornings and shared tips on how to keep safe during the holiday season. However, his advice still holds true for future holiday gatherings:
1. Mask up – don’t let anyone shame you for wearing a mask.
2. Ventilate – if you are in a room with a lot of people, open a window, and maybe take your get-together outside.
3. Test for Covid-19 before you meet up (we are testing Thursday evening before we travel).
4. Get vaccinated. The flu and Covid vaccines are available. There is, unfortunately, no vaccine for RSV.
5. Keep your distance
It is possible that COVID-19 restrictions helped lower influenza transmissions, however now that mask restrictions aren’t in effect, cases appear to be going up.
Over the past few weeks, weekly hospital visits for “influenza-like illness” increased from 1,300 per week (3%) to nearly 6,000 visits per week (13%), according to data from the Washington State Department of Health (WSDH). And those numbers are just from the 73 providers who share data with the WSDH.
Each county tracks data differently, but Pierce County alone shows nearly 4,000 people went to the emergency department or urgent care last week from influenza-like illnesses – accounting for 14% of all visits.
So far, 13 deaths have been reported in Washington, including one child.
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Pension protests raise tension between police, demonstrators
PARIS (AP) — French authorities see the police as protectors who are ensuring that citizens can peacefully protest President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious retirement age increase. But to human rights advocates and demonstrators who were clubbed or tear-gassed, officers have overstepped their mission.
In the months since mass protests against the proposed pension changes began roiling France, some law enforcement officers have been accused of resorting to gratuitous violence. A man in Paris lost a testicle to an officer’s club, and a police grenade took the thumb of a woman in Rouen. A railroad worker hit by grenade fragments lost an eye.
“Where is your humanity?” a woman shouted at officers who knocked an apparently homeless man to the ground in Paris, kicked him and used vulgar language while ordering him to get up and go. In a video posted on Twitter, another passerby helped the man to his feet at the scene last month near the Place de la Bastille.
The violence adds to the anger in the streets and complicates efforts to invite dialogue between the government and labor unions, who are planning an 11th round of mass demonstrations Thursday.
The protests, which began in January, gained momentum after Macron’s decision last month to push a bill to raise the retirement age through the lower house of parliament without a vote. The common French reference to law enforcement officers as “forces of order” has been turned on its head. Now the question is whether police represent force or order.
Jarred by the bad publicity, authorities have shifted to damage control by offering accolades for security forces.
“There is no police violence,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Wednesday on RTL radio while condemning “individual acts” of officers who use disproportionate force. “Can’t we occasionally thank the forces of order?” he pleaded.
The concerns about police brutality have reverberated beyond France. Amnesty International, the International Federation of Human Rights and the Council of Europe — the continent’s main human rights body — were among the organizations that cited excessive police violence during what has been a largely peaceful protest movement.
French police are sent into demonstrations with weapons that are prohibited in most European countries, including stun grenades and rubber bullets, according to Sebastian Roche, an expert on security forces with France’s National Center for Scientific Research.
Demonstrations and potentially mutilating weapons are a combustible combination, Roche said, because “the temptation will be very big to use these armaments” especially when police come under a cascade of objects hurled at them, including Molotov cocktails.
The strategy is “at once very violent” and in some aspects illegal, Roche said, citing cases in which demonstrators were detained en masse and then released without charges the next morning. Lawyers’ and magistrates’ associations have said such practices are an abuse of the law.
Jonas Cardoso, a 20-year-old student, was among more than 100 people detained during a March 23 protest in Paris.
“I spent hours in a cell for four people with nine other protesters. I slept on the floor,” he told The Associated Press. Cardoso denied any wrongdoing and was released without charges.
Worse, Cardoso said, is that violence may beget more violence.
“If the government doesn’t listen to us, the violence will rise. Our worst fear is that someone will die while protesting,” the young man said.
Videos of police brutality posted on social media largely fail to capture the presence of black-clad ultra-leftists or anarchists who have infiltrated the protest marches, destroyed property and attacked police officers.
“There are troublemakers, often extreme left, who want to take down the state and kill police and ultimately take over the institutions,” Darmanin said after a protest in March that turned especially violent.
The ranks of these provocateurs have grown, bolstered by opportunists and some leftist students. The intruders work in small, highly mobile groups, appearing and disappearing in formations known as black blocs.
Black blocs are not a new phenomenon, but they represent a danger to police. In one dramatic video posted on social networks, an officer is seen crashing to the ground after being hit with a paving stone. Colleagues dragged him away.
Violence by and against police is not limited to Paris, or to protests over Macron’s retirement plan.
Gendarmes and militants opposed to an artificial water basin recently clashed in rural France. Four people — two gendarmes and two protesters — were hospitalized in serious condition.
According to French policing rules, the use of force “must be absolutely necessary, strictly proportionate and graduated.”
“Of course, the police response is proportionate,” Paris Police Chief Laurent Nunez insisted in a television interview. Police intervene only when black blocs move into action, he said.
“Without police, demonstrations wouldn’t take place,” he said, insisting on their role as guardians of peace.
However, some protesters have found themselves trapped by police tactics such as encirclement, in which officers surround marchers so police can chase down troublemakers. But protesters stuck inside the police bubble can’t escape tear gas fumes.
Roche said the latest tensions show that France has “an accumulation of (police) crises that no other European country has.”
He cited the 2018-2019 Yellow Vest protests for social and economic justice where a brutal police response left two people dead, and multiple protesters lost eyes. Next came a debacle during last year’s Champions League Cup final when British soccer fans were gassed by police at the Stade de France.
Amnesty International’s France chief, Jean-Claude Samouiller, said last week at a news conference that France should improve its policing strategy and cited “a doctrine of de-escalation and dialogue” that is observed in Germany, Belgium and Sweden.
Compared with other European countries, Samouiller said, the two protest deaths in France in recent years put the nation at the bottom of the class, in the category of “bad student.”
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Associated Press writers Jade Le Deley and Lori Hinnant in Paris contributed to this report.
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SAN ANTONIO — A man ran to a firehouse for help after he was shot multiple times by some men who were said to be chasing him.
It happened just after 4 a.m. on West Laurel Street and North Zarzamora Street on the west side of town.
Officers responded to the location for reports of a shooting. Firefighter began treating the man who ran up to the station with several gunshot wounds to his body.
Officers say the shooting took place at West Laurel Street and North Zarzamora Street, then behind the Dollar Tree at Carter and Zarzamora.
Witnesses told police the man was running and being chased bysome men in a car, who were also shooting at him.
The victim was taken to a local hospital with several gunshot wounds in critical condition.
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GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Oct 28 Beijing Time, as an enterprise representative, Midea Residential Air Conditioner Division ("Midea RAC") participated in an online certification observation meeting as part of the Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Mutual Recognition Action Plan between the customs of China and Thailand ("the Plan").
The purpose of the virtual meeting, as part of the protocols of the Plan, was to allow Thai Customs to better understand the field certification process carried out by China Customs and conduct face-to-face communication between the customs authorities of the two countries. In addition, it helped Thai Customs to gain comprehensive knowledge of China's benchmark enterprises and contributed to the optimization of the AEO mutual recognition process between the two countries.
During the meeting, Midea RAC demonstrated to Thai Customs its compliance and standardized management capabilities as a Chinese AEO benchmark enterprise in enterprise management, IT-based control, trade security control and other aspects.
Midea RAC has met pre-determined standards under the AEO program and has been certified by China Customs as an "Advanced Certified Enterprise" (ACE) in 2016. In April this year, it was selected by China Customs as one of the first batches of AEO international mutual recognition enterprises for observation purposes, to serve as a benchmark for other companies on how to conduct themselves regarding the AEO mutual recognition process.
Liu Quanfa, Head of Global Customs Affairs, Midea Group, said, "As a leading large-scale Chinese foreign trade firm, Midea RAC exports products to Thailand, Malaysia, and many other Southeast Asian countries. Thanks to the AEO system, the customs clearance process has been vastly simplified and accelerated and enables us to expand our business in Southeast Asia without the obstacle of bureaucratic red tape."
The AEO system is supported by the World Customs Organization, in which customs authorities of member countries certify manufacturers that have demonstrated higher levels of compliance, credit status, and security, and provides prioritized and accelerated customs clearance for those who pass the certification. An AEO can enjoy reduced customs inspection and prioritized customs clearance when shipping goods between the two countries who reached mutual recognition agreements.
Specializing in the R&D, production, and sales of household air conditioners, Midea RAC has in place a complete industrial chain. In line with the group's mission of creating a digital and intelligence-driven firm that provides technology leadership and direct access to users in addition to being a technology innovator, Midea is committed to becoming a global leader in the home air conditioning sector, exporting products to nearly 400 million users in 200 countries and regions worldwide.
As Customs of both China and Thailand have pledged to accelerate talks on AEO mutual recognition under the Plan, Midea RAC is expected to reduce trade-related expenses such as port, insurance, and logistics costs, boost production at its factory in Thailand, enhance international competitiveness, and streamline its development roadmap which includes participation in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
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37 million garage door openers in the market today are not being used to their full potential
OAK BROOK, Ill., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Chamberlain Group, a Blackstone Company that manufactures LiftMaster® and Chamberlain® brand garage door openers powered by myQ®, 37 million garage door openers in the market today are not being used to their full potential. If you installed a new LiftMaster® or Chamberlain® smart garage door opener within the last seven years or just moved into a newly constructed home, chances are you have a garage door opener that you can monitor and control through the myQ app – anytime, from anywhere.
"With myQ, homeowners are not limited to opening and closing the garage door within line of sight of the garage. They can control, secure and monitor the garage door from anywhere with their smartphone through the myQ app," said Patrick Leitch, Marketing Director for Residential & In-Garage Delivery, Chamberlain Group. "We want to make sure everyone who has a myQ smart garage door opener knows it. So, we are calling for all homeowners to look up to see if there is a myQ logo plus Wi-Fi logo, or if it says "powered by myQ" on their garage opener."
In partnership with independent creative agency Schafer Condon Carter (SCC), Chamberlain Group has developed the nationwide, integrated "Look Up" campaign which will run across CTV, online video, direct mail, paid social (Twitter, Snapchat, IG and FB) and CRM.
"myQ is an amazing smart home technology that millions of homeowners don't realize they already have," said SCC Chief Creative Officer Denny Hebson. "To get people excited about the possibilities that already exist in their own garage, we created an integrated campaign encouraging our target to simply look up -- and see their garage door opener a little differently. With a movie trailer feel and stellar visual effects, we dramatize the mesmerizing power of myQ. It's so captivating, not even an alien invasion can get you to look away!"
Today, more than 7 million people use the highly rated myQ app (4.8-star app store rating with over one million verified reviews) to control, secure and monitor their garage door. This innovative technology helps enhance the security of the garage and home with real-time alerts that let homeowners know if they left the garage door open. The app's Guest Access feature also provides a safer way to share access to the home – no need to share keys or codes. Additionally, myQ works with Amazon Key for convenient and secure in-garage delivery of packages and groceries. You can even add a myQ camera or lock to enhance home security for greater peace of mind.
For those who do not have a myQ smart garage door opener, for less than $30, you can easily upgrade any leading brand garage door opener with a myQ Smart Garage Control device.
About Chamberlain Group
Chamberlain Group, a Blackstone company, is a global leader in smart access solutions across residential and commercial properties. Our prominent brands LiftMaster®, Chamberlain®, Merlin® and Grifco® are found in millions of residential and commercial access applications across the globe. Our innovative products and partnerships, powered by our myQ® smart technology, provide customers with smart access solutions to move safely through garages, homes, communities, businesses and storage facilities. Chamberlain Group pioneered vehicle-to-home connectivity through patented technology aboard hundreds of millions of vehicles. Chamberlain Group includes Controlled Products Systems Group, a leading wholesale distributor of perimeter access control equipment in the U.S., and Systems, LLC, one of North America's leading dock leveler manufacturers. Follow Chamberlain Group on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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The 19-year-old only penned his previous deal last year and fresh terms come due to his continued development, which has seen him become established in Jurgen Klopp's first-team plans.
"It's always nice to know that I'm going to be here for many more years, which is always a great thing with it being my boyhood club and there is nothing in this world that makes me more happy and more excited than this," he told the club's official website.
Our diamond is here to stay 💎 pic.twitter.com/vF3kiTEE1X
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) August 11, 2022
Arriving at the club from Fulham in 2019, Elliott caught the eye during a loan spell with Blackburn Rovers in the 2020-21 season and begun to make an impact in the first team at the start of last season.
The teenager missed a large chunk of the campaign after sustaining an injury against Leeds United in September, marking his return with a goal in the FA Cup against Cardiff City in March.
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CA Medford, OR Zone Forecast for Sunday, December 11, 2022
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Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s. East winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
20s to lower 30s. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in
the mid 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
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Central Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Hilt, Klamath River, and Yreka
301 AM PST Mon Dec 12 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog this morning. A 10 percent
chance of snow showers until early afternoon. Highs in the mid
30s to lower 40s. Southwest winds around 5 mph shifting to the
northeast this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy freezing fog. Lows in the lower
to mid 20s. East winds around 5 mph shifting to the north late in
the evening and overnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Patchy
freezing fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 30s to lower 40s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph shifting to the southeast in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy freezing fog. Lows in the lower to mid 20s. South
winds around 5 mph shifting to the northwest well after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Patchy
freezing fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
East winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
to mid 20s. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to
mid 20s. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower to mid 20s. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the mid 30s to mid 40s.
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South Central Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Mount Shasta, Dunsmuir, and McCloud
301 AM PST Mon Dec 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A 10 percent chance of snow showers early this
morning. Highs in the lower to mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 10 to 20. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 30s to lower 40s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 15 to 20. North winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the mid 30s to lower 40s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 15 to 25.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 15 to
25. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the mid 30s to lower 40s.
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North Central and Southeast Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Pondosa, Bray, and Tennant
301 AM PST Mon Dec 12 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy early this morning then becoming partly
cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow showers this morning. Highs
in the mid 20s to mid 30s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower to mid 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 15 to 20. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the mid 30s to lower 40s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
Highs in the lower 30s to lower 40s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 15 to 20.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the lower to mid 30s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 10 to
20. Highs in the lower to mid 30s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the mid 30s.
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Northeast Siskiyou and Northwest Modoc Counties-
Including the cities of Newell, Tulelake, Dorris, and Macdoel
301 AM PST Mon Dec 12 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow showers
this morning, then partly cloudy this afternoon. Highs in the
lower to mid 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15. West winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the southeast well after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the mid 20s to lower 30s. East winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the lower to mid 30s. East winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15.
Highs in the mid 20s to mid 30s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 10 to 15.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs
around 30.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 5 to 10.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the mid 20s to lower 30s. Wind chill readings near zero in the
morning.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 15.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 30s.
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Modoc County-
Including the cities of Day, Lookout, Adin, Alturas, Canby,
Davis Creek, and Likely
301 AM PST Mon Dec 12 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow showers.
Highs around 30. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of snow showers in
the evening. Lows 10 to 15. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the mid 20s to lower 30s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 5 to 15. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the lower to mid 30s. East winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows
10 to 15. Highs in the lower to mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs
around 30. Wind chill readings around 1 below in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 5 to 10. Highs in
the mid 20s to mid 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 10 to 20.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the lower to mid 30s.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Don't fall ill or get into accidents: That's the advice doctors in Sri Lanka are giving patients as the country's economic crisis leaves its health care system short of drugs and other vital supplies.
The South Asian island nation lacks the money to pay for basic imports like fuel and food, and medicine is also running out. Such troubles threaten to undo its huge gains in public health in recent decades.
Some doctors have turned to social media to try to get donations of supplies or the funds to buy them. They're also urging Sri Lankans living overseas to help.
That means 15-year-old Hasini Wasana might not get the medicine she needs to protect her transplanted kidney. Diagnosed with a kidney ailment as a toddler, she got a transplant nine months ago and needs to take an immune suppressant every day for the rest of her life to prevent her body from rejecting the organ.
Hasini's family is depending on donors to help now that her hospital can no longer provide the Tacrolimus tablets that she received for free until a few weeks ago. She takes eight and a half tablets a day and the cost adds up to more than $200 a month, just for that one medicine.
"We are being told [by the hospital] that they don't know when they will have this tablet again," said Ishara Thilini, Hasini's older sister.
The family sold their home and Hasini's father got a job in the Middle East to help pay for her medical treatment, but his income is barely enough.
Cancer hospitals, too, are struggling to maintain stocks of essential drugs to ensure uninterrupted treatment.
"Don't get ill, don't get injured, don't do anything that will make you go to a hospital for treatment unnecessarily," said Samath Dharmaratne, president of the Sri Lanka Medical Association. "That is how I can explain it; this is a serious situation."
Dr. Charles Nugawela, who heads a kidney hospital in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, said his hospital has kept running thanks to the largesse of donors but has resorted to providing medicine only to patients whose illness has advanced to the stage where they need dialysis.
Nugawela worries the hospital might have to put off all but the most urgent surgeries because of a shortage of suture materials.
The Sri Lanka College of Oncologists gave a list of drugs to the Health Ministry that "are very essential, that all hospitals have to have all the time so that we could provide cancer treatment without any interruption," said Dr. Nadarajah Jeyakumaran, who heads the college.
But the government is having a hard time providing them, he said.
And it's not just medicine. Patients having chemotherapy are susceptible to infections and can't eat normally, but hospitals don't have enough food supplements, Jeyakumaran said.
The situation threatens to bring on a health emergency at a time when the country is still recovering from the coronavirus pandemic.
Hospitals lack drugs for rabies, epilepsy and sexually transmitted diseases. Labs don't have enough of the reagents needed to run full blood count tests. Items like suture material, cotton socks for surgery, supplies for blood transfusions, even cotton wool and gauze are running short.
"If you are handling animals, be careful. If you get bitten and you need surgery and you get rabies, we don't have adequate antiserum and rabies vaccines," said Dr. Surantha Perera, vice president of the Sri Lanka Medical Association.
The association is trying to help patients by seeking donations through personal contacts and from Sri Lankans living overseas, Perera said.
Dharmaratne, the association president, said if things don't improve doctors may be forced to choose which patients get treatment.
It's a reversal of decades of improvements thanks to a universal health care system that has raised many measures of health to the levels of much wealthier nations.
Sri Lanka's infant mortality rate, at just under 7 per 1,000 live births, is not far from the U.S., with 5 per 1,000 live births, or Japan's 1.6. Its maternal mortality rate of near 30 per 100,000 compares well with most developing countries. The U.S. rate is 19, while Japan's is 5.
Life expectancy had risen to nearly 75 years by 2016 from under 72 years in 2000.
The country has managed to eliminate malaria, polio, leprosy, the tropical parasitic disease filariasis commonly known as elephantiasis, and most other vaccine-preventable diseases.
The U.S., Japan, India and other countries have pledged funds and other humanitarian support.
But in the hospital wards and operating rooms, the situation seems much less reassuring and it threatens to erode public trust in the health system, Dharmaratne said.
"Compared to covid, as a health emergency today's situation is far, far worse," he said. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jul/16/dont-fall-ill-sri-lanka-doctors-warn-of-drug/ | 2022-07-16 10:54:57 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jul/16/dont-fall-ill-sri-lanka-doctors-warn-of-drug/ |
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PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — Russell Henley finally made a bogey, and that’s about all that went wrong for him Sunday as he closed with a 1-under 70 for a four-shot victory in the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba.
Henley, staked to a six-shot lead going into the final round at El Camaleon, had the lead reduced to three when he missed a 5-foot par putt on the par-5 fifth hole.
He responded with three straight birdies, and no one got closer than four shots the rest of the way.
Henley won for the fourth time on the PGA Tour, and the first time since the Houston Open five years ago.
The previous five times Henley had at least a share of the 54-hole lead, he failed to convert the victory. The most recent was the Sony Open in January, when Hideki Matsuyama made up a two-shot deficit and beat him in a playoff.
“I just tried to learn from my past and my screw-ups,” Henley said with a smile. “All those events I didn’t close out, they hurt. You never know if you’ll win another. To come down 18 with a four-shot lead was really cool.”
Henley finished at 23-under 261 to tie the tournament record. He came into the final round as the only player who had not made a bogey all week.
Brian Harman closed with a 66 to finish alone in second, while the group five shots behind included Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and Seamus Power of Ireland, who was coming off a victory last week in Bermuda.
Scheffler lost the No. 1 ranking he had held since March when Rory McIlroy won the CJ Cup two weeks ago. Scheffler closed with a 62 at Mayakoba, leaving him a good chance to reclaim the No. 1 ranking next week at the Houston Open.
McIlroy is not playing again until the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.
Power shot a 68, and his tie for third with Scheffler, Joel Dahmen, Troy Merritt and Will Gordon put the Irishman atop the FedEx Cup standings and moved him to No. 29 in the world, his highest ranking ever.
Henley moved to No. 33 in the world and is assured of returning to the Masters. Last time, he didn’t secure a spot at Augusta National until moving into the top 50 a week before the Masters.
Henley lost three-shot leads at the Wyndham Championship in 2021 and the CJ Cup at Shadow Creek in 2020. The other times he was either tied or led by one or two shots, which is not much of a lead on the PGA Tour.
This was a six-shot margin, and it’s rare for someone not to win from there. That didn’t make it any easier.
“It’s tough. I don’t sleep well on a lead. I need a lot more practice,” Henley said. “I have no idea how Tiger did this 80-some times. It’s tough for me just to kind of calm down. You definitely don’t feel the same as when you’re practicing at home, but that’s the fun of it. That’s why we play.
“We want to see what we’re made of out here and get tested under pressure.”
The victory also sends Henley to Kapalua in January for the Sentry Tournament of Champions, the first elevated event in a new year of big purses.
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HOPEWELL, Va. (WRIC) — A hot air balloon made an unexpected landing at a middle school in Hopewell, Virginia, over the weekend.
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- Guardians pitchers combine to surrender 89 home runs (one per game), the fourth-fewest in the league.
- Williams (0-1 with a 3.79 ERA and 12 strikeouts in 19 2/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Guardians, his fourth of the season.
- The righty's last appearance was on Monday against the Atlanta Braves, when he went 6 1/3 innings, surrendering four earned runs while giving up seven hits.
- The 23-year-old has an ERA of 3.79, with 5.7 strikeouts per nine innings, in three games this season. Opponents are hitting .185 against him.
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Phase one of plans that will transform FMG's powerful content engine into a personal library for financial advisors
SAN DIEGO, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FMG Suite, a SaaS company specializing in marketing software and services for financial advisors, today announced the launch of a new AI-powered content personalization engine for social media content.
This game-changing technology is a product of a powerful combination of two AI platforms: the Vestorly AI-powered content curation and compliance platform acquired by FMG in 2022 and OpenAI GPT. Together, these platforms allow FMG to provide compliant, one-click personalization of its content, starting with social media posts and expanding to emails, blog posts, video scripts, newsletters, landing pages, and more.
Since the Vestorly acquisition, FMG has been engineering GPT to personalize content by personas, summarize articles, and create engaging social posts. Extensive testing has made it clear that the winning combination is well-written content + proprietary GPT prompts + AI compliance screening + human quality assurance.
"The acquisition of Vestorly, combined with the advances at OpenAI, have greatly accelerated our efforts to provide personalized content to financial advisors," said Dave Christensen, Chief Product Officer. "We've always envisioned a world where advisors can leverage our content library as a starting point and, with the click of a button, customize it to be authentically and uniquely theirs. GPT-3.5 is a disruptor unlike anything we've seen before in marketing technology and will likely displace and shift the strategies of many firms in our space. FMG has assumed the perfect position to harness advancements in AI and put the power of content personalization and automation, across every marketing channel, in the hands of advisors. It's a very exciting time!"
The FMG's new "one-click" AI-powered social media content engine is currently in Beta and being rolled out to all customers in March. It works within the Curator product on our Mobile App to provide a tool for advisors to generate custom captions for their social media posts based on best practices set by FMG's thought leaders, such as using questions to engage readers, including bullets and emojis, summarizing key points, and including hashtags. The future phases will enable enhanced personalization based on preferences for tone, length, and formatting - in essence, a "digital voice print" that will be added to their profile and can be applied to any content on the platform.
Also on the roadmap is a feature that alerts advisors if their content may be flagged by compliance departments. This will help streamline the review process and significantly reduce the workload for compliance teams. In time, customers of FMG will be able to use the "one-click" personalization tool for all content types, including emails, blogs, white papers and e-books, greeting and note cards, and video scripts, making it simple to repurpose and distribute content across channels.
"Content marketing is the one undebatable ingredient of successful financial advisor marketing," said Susan Theder, Chief Marketing and Experience Officer. "The new 'one-click' personalization feature will enable advisors to create marketing content that reflects their unique voice across all channels while also complying with industry regulations. I am excited to help advisors leverage this advancement to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their marketing efforts."
About FMG
FMG powers an all-in-one marketing platform that helps more than 40,000 financial advisors and insurance agents stay connected with clients and grow their businesses. Creating over 200 new pieces of timely and authentic content for its library each month, FMG empowers its customers to execute effective marketing campaigns in an efficient and compliant manner. FMG is rated first in market share and customer satisfaction by T3 Software Survey Report and is the recipient of many industry awards, including Best Marketing Automation and Social Media Platform. Based in San Diego, CA, with satellite offices nationwide, FMG is a thought leader in combining marketing best practices with cutting-edge technology to give its customers a competitive advantage. For more information on FMG Suite and its innovative marketing solutions, please visit www.FMGsuite.com.
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TULSA, Okla. — Three Northern Iowa Panthers advanced to the semifinals of the 2023 Big 12 Wrestling Championship on Saturday.
Kyle Biscoglia (133), Colin Realbuto (149) and Parker Keckeisen (184) represent the trio of Panthers to remain unblemished after session I. Along with advancing to the semifinals, all three earned spots at the 2023 NCAA National Championships in Tulsa March 16-18.
Keckeisen, the top overall seed at 184, topped Wyoming's Quayin Short via tech fall, 22-6. The reigning Big 12 Champion remained dominant with a win via major decision, 16-3, over No. 8 Anthony Carman. He will face No. 4 Colton Hawks of Missouri in the semifinal round. Keckeisen owns a 3-0 collegiate record against Hawks.
Realbuto advanced to the 149 semifinals as the No. 2 seed. The redshirt junior topped Alek Martin of South Dakota State via decision, 8-2. In the quarterfinals, Realbuto took care of No. 7 Chris Sandoval of Northern Colorado via major decision, 14-1. Realbuto will face No. 3 Paniro Johnson of Iowa State in the semifinal round. The semifinal matchup will be the first meeting between the two wrestlers.
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At 133, the second-seeded Biscoglia will face No. 3 Zach Redding of Iowa State. Biscoglia is 0-2 all-time against Redding, losing earlier this season 4-2 at the Cliff Keen Invite in Las Vegas. Biscoglia advanced via bye and a 12-2 major decision over South Dakota State's Derrick Cardinal in the quarterfinals.
In addition to Redding and Johnson, Iowa State sent four other wrestlers to the semifinals on Saturday. David Carr (165), Marcus Coleman (184), Yonger Bastida (197) and Sam Schuyler (285) also advanced to Saturday's semifinals.
Redding, Johnson, Carr, Bastida and Schuyler all locked up a spot at the 2023 NCAA National Championships.
At 133 pounds, Redding beat California Baptist's Hunter Leake via a 4-2 decision in the quarterfinals. Johnson advanced to the semifinals with a win over Oklahoma's Mitch Moore, 3-2.
Carr received a bye in the first round as the No. 1 seed at 165. The senior won in dominant fashion, 21-6, to get the tech fall win over UNI senior Austin Yant. Carr registered eight takedowns in the win.
After a first round bye, Coleman scored a 20-5 tech fall over Air Force's Noah Blake at 184 pounds. He will face No. 3 Travis Wittlake from Oklahoma State in the semifinals.
Bastida racked up 10 takedowns against Wyoming's Tyce Raddon in the first round, winning 24-9 via tech fall. In the quarterfinals, Bastida edged by No. 6 Evan Bockman of Utah Valley, 9-5.
Schuyler managed a 6-0 win over UNI senior Tyrell Gordon to advance to the semifinals.
After session I, Iowa State sits in third place with 52.5 points while UNI stands in sixth with 32.5 points.
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia’s war with Ukraine says he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart.
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett emerged as an unlikely intermediary in the war’s first weeks, becoming one of the few Western leaders to meet President Vladimir Putin during the war in a snap trip to Moscow last March.
While Bennett’s mediation efforts appear to have done little to end the bloodshed that continues until today, his remarks, in an interview posted online late Saturday, shed light on the backroom diplomacy and urgent efforts that were underway to try to bring the conflict to a speedy conclusion in its early days.
In the five-hour interview, which touched on numerous other subjects, Bennett says he asked Putin about whether he intended to kill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“I asked ‘what’s with this? Are you planning to kill Zelenskyy?’ He said ‘I won’t kill Zelenskyy.’ I then said to him ‘I have to understand that you’re giving me your word that you won’t kill Zelenskyy.’ He said ‘I’m not going to kill Zelenskyy.’”
Bennett said he then called Zelenskyy to inform him of Putin’s pledge.
“’Listen, I came out of a meeting, he’s not going to kill you.’ He asks, ‘are you sure?’ I said ’100% he won’t kill you.’”
Bennett said that during his mediation, Putin dropped his vow to seek Ukraine’s disarmament and Zelenskyy promised not to join NATO.
There was no immediate response from the Kremlin, which has previously denied Ukrainian claims that Russia intended to assassinate Zelenskyy.
Reacting to Bennett’s comments in his widely reported interview, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote Sunday on Twitter: “Do not be fooled: He is an expert liar. Every time he has promised not to do something, it has been exactly part of his plan.”
Bennett, a largely untested leader who had served as prime minister for just over six months when the war broke out, unexpectedly thrust himself into international diplomacy after he had positioned Israel into an uncomfortable middle ground between Russia and Ukraine. Israel views its good ties with the Kremlin as strategic in the face of threats from Iran but it aligns itself with Western nations and also seeks to show support for Ukraine.
An observant Jew and little known internationally, he flew to Moscow for his meeting with Putin during the Jewish Sabbath, breaking his religious commitments and putting himself at the forefront of global efforts to halt the war.
But his peacemaking efforts did not appear to take off and his time in power was short-lived. Bennett’s government, an ideologically diverse union that sent current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into a brief political exile, collapsed in the summer over infighting. Bennett stepped away from politics and is now a private citizen. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-former-israeli-pm-putin-promised-not-to-kill-zelenskyy/ | 2023-02-05 16:14:31 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-former-israeli-pm-putin-promised-not-to-kill-zelenskyy/ |
Conservative Republicans on the House Freedom Caucus are not OK with the compromises made to get the deal done. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Republican Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina about why.
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Conservative Republicans on the House Freedom Caucus are not OK with the compromises made to get the deal done. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Republican Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina about why.
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NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — Next month, you can support a local organization while enjoying a breakfast buffet.
The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Chaplaincy will be hosting its Prayer Breakfast Fundraiser on Wednesday, April 26th. This event is open to anyone and everyone, and it will offer more information about the Chaplaincy and feature a speaker who has benefited from its programs.
Chaplains work to help people spiritually, emotionally, and physically. They pray for those in need, but they also assist law enforcement and members of the community, appear at weddings and funerals, and more.
They even work closely with inmates. For example, they secure clothing and/or temporary housing for newly released inmates, get bus tickets for released individuals to help them get home, provide food, and help with relocations.
If you would like to attend the fundraiser, you and your family can join from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Mill Top Conference & Banquet Center in Noblesville. Registration will start at 7 a.m.
You can purchase single tickets in advance here. Single tickets cost $35, or you can secure an entire table for $300 here.
Senior Chaplain Mark Fidler says funds donated to the Chaplaincy are all carefully managed. Every penny is overseen by a Board of Directors comprised of various community members, including Sheriff Quakenbush.
If you cannot make it to the breakfast, but would still like to support the Chaplaincy, learn more about how to do so here. The organization will be celebrating its 30th anniversary this summer. | https://wibc.com/147355/support-a-local-chaplaincy-at-a-breakfast-buffet/ | 2023-03-10 22:50:37 | 1 | https://wibc.com/147355/support-a-local-chaplaincy-at-a-breakfast-buffet/ |
Thousands of inmates continue to strike in Alabama. They've stopped working unpaid jobs in some state facilities to protest sentencing policies and a parole process that contribute to poor conditions.
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Thousands of inmates continue to strike in Alabama. They've stopped working unpaid jobs in some state facilities to protest sentencing policies and a parole process that contribute to poor conditions.
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Oakland A's broadcaster Glen Kuiper apologized on air Friday night after an apparent slip-up sounded like a racial slur.
During the game against the Royals in Kansas City, Kuiper was talking with broadcast partner and former A's pitcher Dallas Braden when he mentioned visiting the Negro Leagues Museum. Kuiper appeared to use a racial slur instead.
In the top of the sixth inning, Kuiper apologized for the incident.
"A little bit earlier in the show, I said something, didn't come out quite the way I wanted it to and I just wanted to apologize if it sounded different than I meant it to be said," Kuiper said. "I just wanted to apologize for that."
The team issued a statement after the A's beat the Royal 12-8.
"The language used by Glen Kuiper during today's pregame broadcast is unacceptable," the A's said in a statement.
Kuiper has been the team's primary play-by-play man since 2006.
The incident is the latest blow for the team, which recently announced a deal to buy land in Las Vegas to build a stadium, angering fans.
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Biden aims to deliver reassurance in State of Union address
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is ready to offer a reassuring assessment of the nation’s condition rather than roll out flashy policy proposals as he delivers his second State of the Union address seeking to overcome pessimism in the country and concerns about his own leadership.
His speech before a politically divided Congress comes Tuesday night as the nation struggles to make sense of confounding cross-currents at home and abroad — economic uncertainty, a wearying war in Ukraine, growing tensions with China among them — and warily sizes up Biden’s fitness for a likely reelection bid.
The president will stand at the House rostrum at a time when just a quarter of U.S. adults say things in the country are headed in the right direction, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. About three-quarters say things are on the wrong track. And a majority of Democrats don’t want Biden to seek another term.
Biden will aim to confront those sentiments head on, aides said, while at the same time trying to avoid sounding insensitive to Americans’ concerns.
Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council, said Biden would “acknowledge and meet American people where they are,” adding that their “economic anxiety is real.”
“I think the core message is: We have to make more progress, but people should feel optimism,” he added.
Chapman University presidential historian Luke Nichter said the closest parallel to Biden’s present circumstance may be the 1960s, when global uncertainty met domestic disquiet. Biden, he said, has an opportunity to be a “calming presence” for the country.
“Usually we’re looking for an agenda: ‘Here’s what he plans to do.’ I don’t know that that’s really realistic,” Nichter said. “I think Americans’ expectations are pretty low of what Congress is actually going to achieve. And so I think right now, sentiment and tone, and helping Americans feel better about their circumstances, I think are going to go a long way.”
The setting for Biden’s speech will be markedly different than a year ago, when it was Democratic stalwart Nancy Pelosi seated behind him as speaker. She’s been replaced by GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and it’s unclear what kind of reception restive Republican will give the Democratic president.
With COVID-19 restrictions now lifted, the White House and legislators from both parties are inviting guests designed to drive home political messages with their presence in the House chamber. The parents of Tyre Nichols, who was severely beaten by police officers in Memphis and later died, are among those expected to be in the audience.
Biden is shifting his sights after spending his first two years pushing through major bills such as the bipartisan infrastructure package, a bill to promote high-tech manufacturing and climate legislations. With Republicans now in control of the House, Biden is turning his focus to implementing the massive laws and making sure voters credit him for the improvements rather than crafting major new initiatives.
It’s largely by necessity. Biden faces a newly empowered GOP that is itching to undo many of his achievements and vowing to pursue a multitude of investigations — including looking into the recent discoveries of classified documents from his time as vice president at his home and former office.
At the same time, Biden will need to find a way to work across the aisle to raise the federal debt limit by this summer and keep the government funded. Biden has insisted that he won’t negotiate on meeting the country’s debt obligations; Republicans have been equally adamant that Biden must make spending concessions.
One the eve of the president’s address, McCarthy challenged Biden to come to the negotiating table with House Republicans to slash spending as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling.
“Mr. President, it’s time to get to work,” McCarthy said in remarks from the speaker’s balcony at the Capitol.
While hopes for large-scale bipartisanship are slim, Biden was set to reissue his 2022 appeal for Congress to get behind his “unity agenda” of actions to address the opioid epidemic, mental health, veterans’ health and fighting cancer.
The speech comes days after Biden ordered the military to shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew brazenly across the country, captivating the nation and serving as a reminder of tense relations between the two global powers.
Last year’s address occured just days after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine and as many in the West doubted Kyiv’s ability to withstand the onslaught. Over the past year, the U.S. and other allies have sent tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to bolster Ukraine’s defenses. Now, Biden must make the case — both at home and abroad — for sustaining that coalition as the war drags on.
“The president will really want to reinforce just what a significant accomplishment has already been achieved and then to reinforce how much more has to be done, how we are committed to doing it, and how we will ask for a bipartisan basis the U.S. Congress to join us in doing that work,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday.
While COVID-19 has eased at home, Biden will turn his sights to other national ills, including the deadly opioid epidemic, gun violence and police abuses.
The president spent much of the weekend into Monday reviewing speech drafts with aides at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.
Senior White House adviser Anita Dunn will preview broad themes of Biden’s address to Democratic lawmakers throughout the day on Tuesday, starting with a breakfast with House Democrats on Capitol Hill.
McCarthy called on Biden to embrace the Republican effort to put the nation’s finances on a path toward a balanced budget, which would require deep and politically unpopular reductions in federal spending that Biden and Democrats have vehemently resisted.
“We must move towards a balanced budget and insist on genuine accountability for every dollar we spend,” McCarthy said.
He insisted cuts to Medicare and Social Security, the popular health and retirement programs primarily for older Americans, were “off the table” in any budget negotiation. The GOP leader also said “defaulting on our debt is not an option.”
The White House has insisted Republicans cannot be trusted to protect the programs and blasted Republicans for “threatening to actively throw our economy into a tailspin with a default” by putting conditions on the debt limit.
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AP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.
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ADNOC is an early mover in the production of clean hydrogen, and the station under development in Masdar City will support the UAE National Hydrogen Strategy
Toyota and Al Futtaim Motors to provide hydrogen-powered vehicles to test the high-speed hydrogen refueling station
ADNOC has allocated $15 billion to new energies and decarbonization technologies to reduce its carbon intensity by 25% by 2030 and enable its Net Zero by 2050 ambition
ABU DHABI, UAE, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ADNOC, today announced that it has begun construction on the Middle East's first high-speed hydrogen refueling station. The station, which is being built in Masdar City by ADNOC, will create clean hydrogen from water, using an electrolyser powered by clean grid electricity.
Hydrogen, which creates no carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions when used, has the highest energy per mass of any fuel and can give vehicles a longer driving range and quicker refueling times compared with battery electric vehicles.
ADNOC also announced a partnership with Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) and Al-Futtaim Motors to test the high-speed hydrogen refueling station using a fleet of clean hydrogen-powered vehicles.
His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and ADNOC Managing Director and Group CEO, said: "The need to reduce carbon emissions to address climate change is clear and urgent. ADNOC is placing sustainability and decarbonization at the heart of its strategy and, while we decarbonize our operations today, we are making robust investments to be a supplier of choice for the clean energies of tomorrow.
"Hydrogen will be a critical fuel for the energy transition, helping to decarbonize economies at scale, and it is a natural extension of our core business. Through this pilot program, we will gather important data on how hydrogen transportation technology performs as we continue to develop the UAE's hydrogen infrastructure."
Under the partnership, Toyota and Al Futtaim Motors will provide a fleet of hydrogen-powered vehicles. The pilot program will help ADNOC understand how hydrogen with high-speed refueling can best be used in mobility projects to support the UAE's National Hydrogen Strategy, which aims to position the country among the largest producers of hydrogen by 2031.
ADNOC Distribution will operate the station upon its completion later this year. A second station, in Dubai Golf City, will be fitted with a conventional hydrogen fueling system.
ADNOC has allocated $15 billion (AED55 billion) to advance and accelerate lower-carbon solutions, investing in new energies and decarbonization technologies to reduce its carbon intensity by 25% by 2030 and enable its Net Zero by 2050 ambition.
About ADNOC
ADNOC is a leading diversified energy and petrochemicals group wholly owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. ADNOC's objective is to maximize the value of the Emirate's vast hydrocarbon reserves through responsible and sustainable exploration and production to support the United Arab Emirates' economic growth and diversification. To find out more, visit: www.adnoc.ae
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LOS ANGELES, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- yoshikitty has been selected to compete against Hello Kitty in Sanrio's global voting competition for the ninth straight year. yoshikitty is the first Sanrio character to be modeled after a real person, YOSHIKI – leader of the rock bands X JAPAN and THE LAST ROCKSTARS.
Voting runs from April 11 at 11:00am JST through May 26 at 5:00pm JST. Fans can support their favorite character by voting every day from all their devices and through purchases at Sanrio stores in Japan.
https://ranking.sanrio.co.jp/en/characters/yoshikitty/
yoshikitty has been nominated in the Sanrio Character Ranking every year since 2015 and was voted more popular worldwide than Hello Kitty in 2018 among over 450 different characters. In regional voting, yoshikitty has been ranked #1 in Brazil, China, France, Germany, and Thailand.
YOSHIKI said, "I'm so moved by how strongly yoshikitty has been embraced by fans all over the world. I hope yoshikitty can keep inspiring others."
Hello Kitty designer Yuko Yamaguchi – who also designed yoshikitty – explains the true story of yoshikitty's origin in a new YouTube video from the Blu-ray release of We Are X, the award-winning documentary film about YOSHIKI and his band X Japan.
WATCH: Hello Kitty Designer Yuko Yamaguchi Reveals the True Story of yoshikitty
https://youtu.be/BIYNaNMSzNY
WATCH: yoshikitty at Evening/Breakfast with YOSHIKI 2023
https://youtu.be/5J2RQyJ2kO8
YOSHIKI will visit Sanrio Puroland with yoshikitty on April 11 at 9:00pm JST for a special broadcast of Yoshiki Channel, which can be viewed worldwide on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/live/0ZUvrGOxDck
Sanrio is the world's largest entertainment company focusing exclusively on "kawaii" (cute) merchandise from Japanese popular culture. With over 450 popular characters, Sanrio's global media and retail network includes theme parks, stores, television, film, and mobile games.
38th Annual Sanrio Character Ranking
Voting period: April 11 (Tue.) to May 26 (Fri.)
*Start: 11:00 on April 11 (Tue.)
*End: 17:00 on May 26 (Fri.)
Announcements:
*1st Day results (1st to 10th place): April 13 (Thu.) 13:00
*"Sanrio+" member-only announcement (1st to 20th place): April 28 (Fri.) appx. 12:00
*Interim announcement (1st to 20th place): May 11 (Thu.) 13:00
*Results announcement (1st to 90th place) June 11 (Sun.) TBD
All times JST; subject to change.
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