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Byron Buxton Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Tigers - June 15
Published: Jun. 15, 2023 at 4:23 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Byron Buxton returns to action for the Minnesota Twins versus Matthew Boyd and the Detroit TigersJune 15 at 7:10 PM ET.
He returns to action for the first time since June 1, when he went 0-for-1 against the Guardians.
Byron Buxton Game Info & Props vs. the Tigers
- Game Day: Thursday, June 15, 2023
- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Target Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Tigers Starter: Matthew Boyd
- TV Channel: BSN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +300)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +135)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +105)
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Byron Buxton At The Plate
- Buxton has 40 hits and an OBP of .325, both of which lead Minnesota hitters this season.
- In 29 of 50 games this year (58.0%) Buxton has picked up a hit, and in 11 of those games he had more than one (22.0%).
- He has gone deep in 10 games this season (20.0%), homering in 4.7% of his trips to the dish.
- Buxton has had an RBI in 14 games this season (28.0%), including six multi-RBI outings (12.0%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in three contests.
- He has scored at least once 25 times this year (50.0%), including six games with multiple runs (12.0%).
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Byron Buxton Home/Away Batting Splits
Tigers Pitching Rankings
- The eight strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Tigers pitching staff ranks 26th in the league.
- The Tigers have a 4.63 team ERA that ranks 24th across all league pitching staffs.
- The Tigers rank 20th in baseball in home runs given up (83 total, 1.3 per game).
- Boyd (3-5 with a 5.86 ERA and 56 strikeouts in 58 1/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Tigers, his 13th of the season.
- The left-hander's most recent time out came on Saturday against the Arizona Diamondbacks, when he threw five innings, surrendering five earned runs while giving up six hits.
- The 32-year-old has put up an ERA of 5.86, with 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings, in 12 games this season. Opponents are hitting .247 against him.
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Indigenous communities in Taiwan celebrate summer with the harvest festival By Emily Feng Published July 29, 2023 at 8:05 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email A visit to a harvest festival in Taiwan, a celebration of summer by the island's indigenous communities. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.wboi.org/2023-07-29/indigenous-communities-in-taiwan-celebrate-summer-with-the-harvest-festival | 2023-07-29 12:35:15 | 1 | https://www.wboi.org/2023-07-29/indigenous-communities-in-taiwan-celebrate-summer-with-the-harvest-festival |
HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and TERESA CRAWFORD
Associated Press
A pilot declared over the loudspeaker on a cross-country Delta Air Lines flight that passengers were no longer required to wear masks, eliciting cheers from the cabin and prompting some on board to immediately toss their face coverings onto their seats.
“Feel free to burn them at will,” a train conductor told New Jersey commuters Tuesday. Other passengers were confused, startled and angered by the abrupt change, however, especially those who booked trips in the belief that their unvaccinated children would be traveling in a masked environment.
A federal judge’s decision Monday to throw out a mask requirement on public transportation did away with the last major vestige of federal pandemic rules and led to a mishmash of new locally created rules that reflected the nation’s ongoing division over how to battle the virus.
Major airlines and airports in places like Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City quickly switched to a mask-optional policy. New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Connecticut continued to require them on mass transit. But a host of other cities ditched their mandates, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continued to recommend masking on transportation.
Brooke Tansley, a television producer and former Broadway performer, boarded a flight with her 4-year-old and 8-month-old baby— neither old enough to be vaccinated — only to learn the mask mandate had ended mid-flight.
“Very very angry about this,” she said in a tweet, noting that her baby was too young to wear a mask.
For many, though, the news was welcome. A video showed some passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight cheering and applauding as they took off their masks upon hearing the announcement they were now optional. One man could be seen happily twirling his mask on his finger.
On a Southwest Airlines flight Monday from Detroit to Nashville, the change to optional status was incorporated into the safety announcements, prompting murmurs and fist pumps from some passengers and no audible complaints.
At the Seattle airport, Deb McLane continued to wear a mask because of the crowds but said she was “thankful that it’s not being forced on us anymore.”
In Portland, Oregon, transit employees were immediately working on taking down “mask required” announcements and signs, but said it would likely take several days to remove everything.
The city joined Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Kansas City, Missouri, and two of Alaska’s largest cities, Anchorage and Juneau, in making masking optional on mass transit.
“We know our riders have mixed feelings about the mandate ending,” Portland’s public transit agency, TriMet, posted on social media. “We ask everyone to be respectful of others as we all adjust to this change.”
Some passengers at Chicago’s Union Station said the rules were confusing. Both Amtrak and Metra, the regional commuter rail service, said masks still are required, but some passengers walking through the station didn’t wear them.
“It’s like this patchwork of different rules and enforcement of it,” said Erik Abderhalden, who wore a mask as he waited for a Metra train to his home in suburban Naperville. “I mean, it’s like Swiss cheese … there’s no uniformity and it seems pretty laissez faire.”
The Chicago Transit Authority also said it still will require masks on city trains and buses, for now.
Subway rider Cooper Klinges was pleased that New York City’s public transit system wasn’t following the trend and planned to keep its mask requirement in place. As he waited at a train station in Brooklyn, New York, he said he canceled a flight earlier this year over concerns about the virus.
“I don’t think we are out of the woods yet,” said Klinges, a teacher, citing concerns about the BA.2 omicron subvariant of the coronavirus. “It is still around. We have to still stick it out.”
The ride-sharing companies Lyft and Uber announced on their websites Tuesday that masks will now be optional while riding or driving.
The national mask rule for travelers was one of the last of the pandemic restrictions still in place. It sparked online flame throwing between those who felt they were crucial to protecting people and those who saw it as an unnecessary inconvenience or even government overkill.
Some flight attendants found themselves cursed and even attacked by passengers who refused to comply.
In a 59-page lawsuit ruling, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its authority in issuing the original health order on which the TSA directive was based. She also said the order was fatally flawed because the CDC didn’t follow proper rulemaking procedures.
The Justice Department declined to comment when asked if it would seek an emergency stay to block the judge’s order.
While airline and mass transit passengers around the country were ditching masks, the White House made clear that those traveling with President Joe Biden to New Hampshire on Tuesday would be required to keep face coverings on “in line with CDC guidance.” A Biden administration official also said there were no changes expected to the pre-departure testing requirement for international passengers bound to the U.S.
Asked Tuesday if people should still wear masks on planes, Biden replied: “That’s up to them.”
The CDC had recently extended the mask mandate, which was set to expire Monday, until May 3 to allow more time to study the BA.2 omicron subvariant now responsible for the vast majority of cases in the U.S. But the court ruling puts that decision on hold.
After a winter surge fueled by the omicron variant that led to record hospitalizations, the U.S. has seen a significant drop in virus spread in recent months that led most states and cities to drop mask mandates.
But several Northeast cities have seen a rise in hospitalizations in recent weeks, leading Philadelphia to bring back its mask mandate.
The federal mask requirement for travelers was the target of months of lobbying from the airlines, which sought to kill it. The carriers argued that effective air filters on modern planes make transmission of the virus during a flight highly unlikely. Republicans in Congress also fought to kill the mandate.
“We are relieved to see the U.S. mask mandate lift to facilitate global travel as COVID-19 transitions to a more manageable respiratory virus — with better treatments, vaccines and other scientific measures to prevent serious illness,” Delta announced in a news release.
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Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas, and Crawford from Chicago. Associated Press writers David Koenig in Dallas, Michael Balsamo and Will Weissert in Washington and Karen Matthews in New York contributed to this report.
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JIUQUAN, China, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Qilian International Holding Group Ltd (NASDAQ: QLI) ("Qilian" or the "Company"), a China-based pharmaceutical and chemical products manufacturer, today announced it has received a notice of non-compliance from Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") on February 16, 2023 stating that, as a result of not having timely filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended September 30, 2022, Qilian is not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1), which requires timely filing of periodic financial reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This notice has no immediate effect on the listing or trading of Qilian's ordinary shares on Nasdaq.
Under Nasdaq's listing rules, the Company has 60 calendar days to submit a plan to regain compliance. If the plan is accepted by Nasdaq, the Company can be granted up to 180 calendar days from the Company's Form 20-F's filing due date, or until August 14, 2023, to regain compliance.
About Qilian International Holding Group Ltd
Qilian International Holding Group Ltd, headquartered in Gansu, China, is a pharmaceutical and chemical products manufacturer in China. It focuses on the development, manufacture, marketing and sale of licorice products, oxytetracycline products, traditional Chinese medicine derivatives product, heparin product, sausage casings, and fertilizers. The Company's products are sold in more than 20 provinces in China. For more information, visit the Company's website at http://ir.qlsyy.net.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements that are other than statements of historical facts. When the Company uses words such as "may, "will, "intend," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project," "estimate" or similar expressions that do not relate solely to historical matters, it is making forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations discussed in the forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, the following: the Company's goals and strategies; the Company's future business development; products demand and acceptance; changes in technology; economic conditions; reputation and brand; the impact of competition and pricing; government regulations; fluctuations in general economic and business conditions in China; the COVID-19 outbreak and its impact on our operations and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing and other risks contained in reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For these reasons, among others, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements in this press release. Additional factors are discussed in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date hereof.
For media enquiries, please contact: Yubin Jiang, QLI@qlsyy.net.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Chaim Topol, a leading Israeli actor who charmed generations of theatergoers and movie-watchers with his portrayal of Tevye, the long-suffering and charismatic milkman in “Fiddler on the Roof,” has died in Tel Aviv, Israeli leaders said Thursday. He was 87.
The cause was not immediately released.
Israeli leaders on Thursday tweeted their memories and condolences to Topol's family.
Israel’s ceremonial president, Isaac Herzog hailed Topol as “one of the most outstanding Israeli actors,” who “filled the movie screens with his presence and above all entered deep into our hearts.”
Benny Gantz, Israel’s former minister of defense, praised Topol for helping Israelis connect to their roots.
“We laughed and cried at the same time over the deepest wounds of Israeli society,” he wrote of Topol’s performance.
Yair Lapid, head of Israel’s opposition, said Topol taught Israelis “love of culture and love of the land.”
Topol's charity, Jordan River Village, also announced his death, paying tribute to him as an “inspiration” whose “legacy will continue for generations to come.”
A recipient of two Golden Globe awards and nominee for both an Academy Award and a Tony Award, Topol long has ranked among Israel’s most decorated actors. More recently in 2015, he was celebrated for his contributions to film and culture with the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement, his country’s most prestigious honor. Up until a few years ago, he remained involved in theater and said he still fielded requests to play Tevye.
Topol got his start in acting in a theatrical troupe in the Israeli army in the 1950s, where he met his future wife Galia. His first major breakthrough was the lead role in the 1964 hit Israeli film Sallah Shabati, about the hardships of Middle Eastern immigrants to Israel. The film made history as the first Israeli film to earn an Academy Award nomination and also gave Topol his first Golden Globe Award.
Two years later, he made his English-language film debut alongside Kirk Douglas in “Cast a Giant Shadow.” But the role of his life arrived in the long-running musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” in which he played the dairyman protagonist, Tevye, a Jewish father trying to maintain his family’s cultural traditions despite the turmoil gripping their Russian shtetl.
With his rich voice, folkish witticisms and commanding stage presence, Topol’s Tevye, driving his horse-drawn buggy and delivering milk, butter and eggs to the rich, became a popular hero in Israel and around the world.
After years of playing Tevye on stage in London and on Broadway, he scored the lead role in the 1971 Norman Jewison-directed film version, winning the Golden Globe award for lead actor and being nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award. He lost out to Gene Hackman in “The French Connection.”
Topol played the part more than 3,500 times on stage, most recently in 2009. With the help of heavy makeup and costume work, he first portrayed the much older, burlier dairyman in his 30s and quite literally aged into the role.
Topol faced tough competition securing the role in Jewison’s hit film — scores of talents have played Tevye in over a dozen languages since “Fiddler on the Roof” first appeared. Topol has said his personal experience as the descendant of Russian Jews helped him relate to Tevye and deepen his performance.
In an interview with The Associated Press from his Tel Aviv home in 2015, on the occasion of accepting the Israel prize for lifetime achievement, Topol traced his meteoric rise from modest beginnings to worldwide fame.
“I wasn’t brought up in Hollywood. I was brought up in a kibbutz,” he said. “Sometimes I am surprised when I come to China or when I come to Tokyo or when I come to France or when I come wherever and the clerk at the immigration says ’Topol, Topol, are you Topol?”
Topol also starred in more than 30 other movies, including as the lead in “Galileo,” Dr. Hans Zarkov in “Flash Gordon” and James Bond’s foil-turned-ally Milos Columbo in “For Your Eyes Only" alongside Roger Moore.
But he became synonymous with just one role — Tevye. Pouring his heart out about his impoverished Jewish community over the years, Topol made audiences laugh and cry from Broadway and West End stages.
“How many people are known for one part? How many people in my profession are known worldwide?” he told the AP. “I’m not complaining.”
Yet Topol said he sometimes needed to look outside of acting to find meaning in his life. He devoted much of his later years to charity as chairman of the board of Jordan River Village, a camp serving Middle Eastern children with life-threatening diseases.
“I am interested in charities and find it more fulfilling than running from one (acting) part to another,” he said. ”When you are successful in a film and the money flows, yes, obviously, it is very nice. But to tell you that is the most important thing, I am not sure.”
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LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Thousands of miles from the front lines, a sprawling manufacturing plant in the small midwestern city of Lima, Ohio, is playing a critical role in the effort to arm Ukraine as it fends off the Russian invasion.
Owned by the Army and operated by General Dynamics, the plant is expected to refurbish Abrams tanks for the U.S. to send to Ukraine, and is already preparing to build an updated version of the vehicle for Poland, U.S. Army officials said Thursday as they toured the facility.
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, who walked through the plant with a number of other Army leaders and senior officers, said it’s highly likely the plant will provide the tanks for Ukraine.
“We’re still looking at options for exactly what variant of tanks will be provided to the Ukrainians. I think there’s still a little bit to be worked out, but certainly, the tanks being built here in Lima are central,” she said.
An Associated Press reporter was allowed to accompany Wormuth on the tour, the first journalist to walk the production lines since the U.S. pledged Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
U.S. officials have declined to provide details about the Abrams that will eventually go to Ukraine, saying they have to decide whether to send refurbished older Army tanks, Marine tanks or some other version. But in most cases, the tanks would need upgrades at the Lima plant before being shipped to Ukraine’s battlefront.
“Part of it is figuring out — among the different options — what’s the best one that can allow us to get the Ukrainians tanks in as timely a fashion as we can,” without disrupting foreign military sales, Wormuth said.
Officials said Thursday that production totals at the plant — which is formally called Joint Systems Manufacturing Center-Lima — vary, based on contract demands. And while the plant is currently building 15-20 armored vehicles per month — including tanks — it can easily boost that to 33 a month and could add another shift of workers and build even more if needed.
Wormuth said the timeline on sending Abrams to Ukraine depends on whether the U.S. takes tanks from existing American military training stocks or from Army units, which would be less desirable because it could affect their readiness to fight. And the development of tanks for Ukraine would also have to be squeezed in between the current contracts for foreign sales, which include 250 of the newest versions for Poland and about 75 for Australia.
In a dramatic reversal, the Biden administration announced in January that it will send 31 M1A2 Abrams tanks to Ukraine — after insisting for months that the 70-ton battle powerhouses were too complicated and too hard to maintain and repair. The decision was part of a broader political maneuver that opened the door for Germany to announce it would send its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and allow Poland and other allies to do the same.
Ukrainian leaders have pressed for the Abrams, which first deployed to war in 1991 and has thick armor, a 120 mm main gun, armor-piercing capabilities and advanced targeting systems. It runs on thick tracked wheels and has a 1,500-horsepower turbine engine with a top speed of about 42 miles per hour (68 kilometers per hour).
As she walked the production lanes in the 25-acre building, Wormuth got to see the newest version of the Abrams as it transformed from an empty steel hull into a shiny, newly painted tank — a process that takes 18 to 24 months. The U.S. doesn’t build new tanks from scratch. It has a fleet of about 2,500 Abrams, and takes older tanks, tears them down and and uses the empty hull as a starting point to build a new one. Some hulls have been refurbished multiple times.
Across the aisle from one empty hull, sparks flew as a worker welded pieces of the tank together. In another section, a worker showed where they will install a new auxiliary engine in the latest version, which will run on diesel when needed to save on the large amount of jet engine fuel the tank consumes. And, farther down the lane, workers had laid out the two rows of tracks the Abrams runs on, preparing to install them on one of the tank bodies. The tracks stretch out more than 60 feet (18 meters) and weigh two tons on each side.
Roughly 800 people work at the plant, which is spread across 369 acres in northwest Ohio. Its 1.6 million square feet of manufacturing space is the only place where the M1A2 Abrams is made. About 45% of the workers are focused on the tank, but the plant also churns out Stryker armored vehicles, tank support vehicles and some other equipment.
As Wormuth wrapped up her visit with a look at some of the finished tanks in another building, a long line of the newest Abrams sat outside on nearby train tracks. And as she was preparing to leave, the train cars began to move, taking the tanks on to Fort Hood, Texas, where they’ll get their radios and other equipment before going to their final destination with an Army unit.
Speaking to reporters afterward, Wormuth said the Army will invest about $558 million into improvements at the plant over the next 15 years. Some of those include expanded use of robotics.
“I think as the war in Ukraine has shown everyone here, there’s a real need to level up our defense industrial base,” she said. “The plant here in Lima is part of that.” | https://www.wowktv.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-tank-plant-in-small-ohio-city-plays-big-role-in-ukraine-war/ | 2023-02-17 13:07:36 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-tank-plant-in-small-ohio-city-plays-big-role-in-ukraine-war/ |
(NEXSTAR) – With heat records already falling this summer, you may be running your ceiling fan nearly non-stop, but did you know you may not be as cool as you could be?
If you’ve ever taken a close look at the fan, you may have noticed a small switch located on the side of the fan base. The switch, which is found on nearly every fan, can change the direction the fan spins.
Using that switch according to the season will not only keep you more comfortable, but it can also help you save money.
In the summer, make sure that your fan is going in a counterclockwise direction, which forces cool air directly downward and creates a “wind chill effect,” according to Home Depot. In the winter, you can switch it up so the fan rotates clockwise at a low speed, circulating the warm air that gets trapped near the ceiling.
If you have ceiling fans as well as air conditioning, using the fan correctly will allow you to raise the thermostat by roughly 4 degrees Fahrenheit and still feel just as comfortable, according to the Department of Energy. In moderately hot weather, you may even be able to turn off the AC. The DOE reminds people to turn off fans in unoccupied rooms.
According to Energy Star, if you raise your thermostat by just two degrees and use your ceiling fan, you can lower the cost of air conditioning by up to 14%.
If you’re in the market for a ceiling fan, larger fan blades will move more air than smaller ones, but you have to make sure it’s an appropriate size for the space.
The Department of Energy recommends blades be 7 to 9 feet above the floor and 10 to 12 inches away from the ceiling. The blades should be no closer than 8 inches from the ceiling and 18 inches from any walls. | https://phl17.com/nmw/overlooked-ceiling-fan-switch-could-make-you-cooler-this-summer/ | 2023-07-29 14:41:58 | 0 | https://phl17.com/nmw/overlooked-ceiling-fan-switch-could-make-you-cooler-this-summer/ |
Christian singer Lauren Daigle holds vigil in place of concert after Nashville school shooting
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) – Following the mass shooting at a Christian school in Nashville that killed three students and three adults, singer Lauren Daigle postponed her concert to instead host a community vigil.
In an Instagram story, the Christian singer asked her fans who had planned to come to her concert at Marathon Music Works in Nashville on Monday evening to instead join her for a community-wide prayer vigil.
Daigle’s post to her 2.2 million Instagram followers read:
“Today’s shooting is truly heartbreaking for our Nashville community and all of those impacted. I’m going to postpone my performance tonight, and in its place, host a community-wide Prayer Vigil. To everyone who was planning to come out, please continue to come join us as we share in a time of prayer and worship to honor the victims and everyone in need.
To those in the local Nashville area, if you need a safe place to come pray, mourn, and be with your community, please join us. The doors are open for all.
Same location. Same time.”
Daigle’s concert is rescheduled for April 5. All tickets for the originally scheduled date will be honored.
The shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville left six victims dead, including:
- 9-year-old students Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney
- 60-year-old Katherine Koonce, the school’s top administrator
- 61-year-old Cynthia Peak, a substitute teacher
- 61-year-old Mike Hill, a custodian.
Police identified the shooter as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a former student of the school. Hale was shot and killed by police during an exchange of gunfire.
While an official motive has not been identified, Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said in an interview with NBC News that investigators believe Hale had “some resentment for having to go to that school.”
Initially, police identified Hale as a woman, but Drake later said in a news conference that Hale was transgender. After the news conference, police spokesperson Don Aaron declined to elaborate on how Hale currently identified.
The Presbyterian school has about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade, as well as roughly 50 staff members.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco ousts progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin in heated recall that divided Democrats over crime.
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Justice Department to review police response to Uvalde school shooting
By Paula Reid, CNN
The Justice Department announced Sunday it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
“At the request of Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, the U.S. Department of Justice will conduct a Critical Incident Review of the law enforcement response to the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24,” DOJ spokesman Anthony Coley said in a statement.
The review is a significant development as Texas officials and law enforcement have been under intense scrutiny for the way officers responded to the shooting.
The massacre, America’s deadliest school shooting since the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012, has been followed by conflicting official accounts of how it unfolded. The delayed police confrontation with the mass shooter has compounded parents’ anger, with some saying a quicker response could have saved children’s lives.
CNN has reported that the response by law enforcement in Uvalde ran contrary to commonly taught active shooter protocol, established after the Columbine school shooting of 1999, to stop the shooter as quickly as possible and even bypass helping the injured. While the gunman was inside adjoining classrooms, a group of 19 law enforcement officers stood outside the classroom in the school for roughly 50 minutes as they waited for room keys and tactical equipment, CNN has reported.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday that he is demanding a full accounting of what happened during the school shooting, saying he had been initially “misled” about certain information he was given by law enforcement officials leading the investigation into the attack.
“My expectation is the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations … they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty,” the Republican governor said at a news conference in Uvalde.
The Justice Department review aims “to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,” said Conley, the DOJ spokesman.
“The review will be conducted with the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing,” he added. “As with prior Justice Department after-action reviews of mass shootings and other critical incidents, this assessment will be fair, transparent, and independent. The Justice Department will publish a report with its findings at the conclusion of its review.”
The DOJ’s announcement came the same day President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden traveled to Uvalde, where they visited a makeshift memorial to the 21 victims outside Robb Elementary School. The White House said the President and first lady will also meet community and religious leaders along with family members of the young victims during their visit to Texas.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Merrick Garland, addressing graduates at Harvard’s commencement ceremony on Sunday, spoke briefly about the massacre, saying: “As we gather today to celebrate this milestone in your life, we are also holding on to an enormous amount of grief because of yet another mass shooting at another school in our country.”
“An unspeakable act of violence has devastated families and an entire community in Uvalde, Texas. I know I speak for all of us here that our hearts are broken,” Garland said.
This story has been updated with additional details Sunday.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s central bank has ended its distorted foreign exchange rate, a move the new government in Africa’s biggest economy hopes will help woo investors and stabilize the local currency.
The announcement Wednesday from the Central Bank of Nigeria led to a record fall in the value of the naira currency to 755 per U.S. dollar. It has since recovered some.
The move reflects the changes that new President Bola Tinubu has pledged to make to strengthen the ailing economy, analysts said. He also has removed the head of the central bank following divisive policies and ended fuel subsidies, which economists have lauded as a long-term benefit even as they cause people short-term pain.
Nigeria has for years operated multiple exchange rates for the naira — with the official exchange rate dictated by the central bank, while a far higher unofficial rate determined the price of imported commodities like wheat, which are priced in dollars.
The exchange rate now will be determined by market forces and no longer the central bank, a move that analysts on Thursday said would boost inflows of money and help stabilize an economy battered by surging inflation and a record unemployment rate.
But it also is expected to make the price of imported goods more expensive, which could affect many in a country heavily reliant on imports.
“The multiple exchange rate regime was a major distortion to the workings of the market, such that there was no level playing field for many actors,” said Taiwo Oyedele, Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader at financial services firm PwC.
The policy led to trading that exploited the price differences between the two markets “at the expense of legitimate economic activities,” Oyedele said.
The multiple exchange rates also meant foreign investors had been forced to sell outside currencies to Nigeria’s central bank at the official rate and had been unable to access foreign money amid the country’s severe dollar shortage.
That has affected many foreign businesses, including international airlines whose revenues that were trapped in Nigeria amounted to $450 million as of June last year.
“This is the major reason why foreign portfolio investments and foreign direct investments have literally dried up over the past couple of years,” Oyedele said. “Addressing this critical issue will unlock investments which will lead to growth, employment generation and revenue for the government to provide social needs.”
Tinubu has vowed that his “economic policies shall be guided by our desire for a stronger, more stable Naira founded upon a vibrant and productive real economy.”
Shortly after he took office, Tinubu suspended Godwin Emefiele, the central bank governor who was under fire for pushing new currency notes that led to a critical lack of cash for people to pay for their everyday needs. He has since been arrested.
Tinubu also halted subsidies for gasoline, forcing people to pay far more for fuel they need to travel and power generators at home. Now, the currency devaluation is expected to push up prices for imports like food amid a significantly higher foreign exchange rate.
Both “will cost considerable short-term pain but will correct the economy,” economic analyst Kalu Aja said.
The Nigerian leader, meanwhile, on Thursday inaugurated a key economic team chaired by Vice President Kashim Shettima and which advises him concerning the country’s economic affairs. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/business/ap-business/nigeria-lets-market-set-currency-exchange-rate-to-stabilize-economy-woo-investors/ | 2023-06-15 19:19:47 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/business/ap-business/nigeria-lets-market-set-currency-exchange-rate-to-stabilize-economy-woo-investors/ |
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — A meeting with Border Patrol representatives didn’t go as expected for a group of advocates trying to save a public gathering spot along the San Diego-Tijuana border known as Friendship Park.
Advocates sought a 120-day delay for the proposed construction of two 30-foot walls to replace existing barriers on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean, but no compromise was reached.
The fencing there now, according to Border Patrol, is not safe for the public, migrants or the agents who patrol the area and that’s why the new structures are necessary.
It’s within these walls, in the so-called “enforcement zone,” that the public had been allowed to enter and meet family and friends who gather on the south side of the border wall.
Traditionally, Border Patrol agents open a gate for a couple of hours on weekends, so people can go in.
The practice was stopped as the pandemic began, and it has not resumed since.
Advocates, including a group that calls itself Friends of Friendship Park, worried the renovation project would not include a gate, essentially meaning an end to public access and a tradition that dates back several decades.
But it appears the Border Patrol and engineers behind the project have made a concession allowing for a gate.
“They have commented there will be a pedestrian gate but it will only open when it’s operationally feasible, and so, even though they have a gate it doesn’t necessarily mean it will be open to the public,” said Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee and a member of Friends of Friendship Park.
Rios said he was involved in Wednesday evening’s meeting with Border Patrol representatives.
“Now they know it’s not only Friends of Friendship Park, there are many other stakeholders that would want to have an opinion about how Friendship Park should look like,” he said.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the work includes replacing approximately 0.6 miles of deteriorated primary and secondary barrier located adjacent to Friendship Circle in Imperial Beach, California.
Rios stated they were hopeful Border Patrol would agree to postpone the project while more public input is generated and submitted.
“Input is absolutely important with any project impacting our region including border walls that bisect our communities,” said Rios. “They said they will take this up to the secretary of Homeland Security to consider it. … We don’t know what it actually means, they told us by next Friday they will provide us with an update on where that communication is.”
Rios expressed disappointment that Border Patrol was not more open to a stay in construction.
“They will proceed with the planned breaking ground by some time in August,” he said.
Added Rios: “It could be the end of decades for a unique area where thousands of families come to see their loved ones, many are immigrants, many are not, it’s a special place that is unique in that way.”
Border Report contacted CBP about Wednesday’s meeting with Rios and the others and about the status of the project and its timeline.
An agency spokesperson wrote the agency would stand by the following statement issued earlier this week:
“U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recognizes the value of having a safe meeting place for families and friends on both sides of the border. Upon completion of the San Diego Friendship Circle Project, including the replacement of a secondary barrier with a pedestrian gate in this area, we will identify opportunities to provide the public with access once it is operationally safe to do so. While these opportunities will continue to need to be based on other U.S. Border Patrol operational requirements, the replacement construction project will not be an impediment to potential opportunities for future access in this location. Upon completion of discussions with stakeholders and receipt of the schedule from the construction contractor, CBP will determine when construction will commence.” | https://www.texomashomepage.com/border-report/no-compromise-border-patrol-insists-on-new-border-walls-at-friendship-park/ | 2022-07-29 01:49:05 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/border-report/no-compromise-border-patrol-insists-on-new-border-walls-at-friendship-park/ |
NEW YORK (PIX11) — The folks over at Skirt Steak NYC know how to do one thing really well – or maybe medium rare.
The Chelsea restaurant is helmed by chef Laurent Tourondel, who joined New York Living on Thursday to chat about his decades working in the fine dining industry as well as his upcoming appearance at the New York City Wine & Food Festival. Watch the video for more on this story.
Skirt Steak NYC is located at 835 Sixth Ave. in Manhattan. For more information on the New York City Wine & Food Festival, visit nycwff.org. | https://pix11.com/new-york-living/chef-laurent-tourondel-talks-skirt-steak-nyc-and-wine-food-festival/ | 2022-10-06 21:14:25 | 0 | https://pix11.com/new-york-living/chef-laurent-tourondel-talks-skirt-steak-nyc-and-wine-food-festival/ |
Dutch soldier shot in Indianapolis dies of his injuries
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — One of three Dutch soldiers wounded in a shooting outside a hotel in downtown Indianapolis over the weekend has died, the Defense Ministry said Monday.
The commando “died tonight of his injuries. That happened surrounded by family and colleagues,” the ministry said in a statement.
The soldier, whose identity was not released, was one of three members of the Dutch Commando Corps who were shot and wounded early Saturday in downtown Indianapolis after what local police believe was a disturbance outside the hotel where they were staying, authorities said.
The two other wounded soldiers are conscious, the ministry said.
The shooting occurred about 3:30 a.m. in Indianapolis’ entertainment district. The Dutch Defense Ministry said the three soldiers were from the Commando Corps and were in Indiana for training.
Indianapolis police said they believe some sort of altercation between the three victims and another person or people led to the shooting. No arrests have been made.
The Indiana National Guard said the soldiers had been training at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, a 1,000-acre complex about 40 miles southeast of Indianapolis. The Guard said in a statement that the center is used for training by the Department of Defense “as well as other allies.”
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — Police in Delray Beach, Florida are investigating after a woman’s remains were found in three suitcases seen floating in the water Friday.
Police were called about a strange item seen floating along the Intracostal Waterway, north of Boca Raton on the state’s east coast, local outlet WPTV reported.
Three suitcases were found in the waterway, all containing human remains, Delray Police said.
According to local reporting, authorities believe the remains belong to one woman, who has not yet been identified. The remains were sent to a medical examiner to be identified.
Delray Police said the woman is white or Hispanic with brown hair. She is believed to be middle-aged, 5’4″ tall, and may have tattooed eyebrows. The woman was wearing a floral tank top, a black undershirt, and black mid-thigh shorts.
A day earlier, workers on a Texas ranch found human remains in a piece of luggage. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said there “wasn’t a whole lot of effort to hide the body, other than it was inside a suitcase.”
Investigators have yet to identify the cause of death, manner of death, or the remains, but authorities believe “it’s a homicide scene.” | https://www.wane.com/news/3-suitcases-with-human-remains-found-in-florida-waterway-police/ | 2023-07-23 14:53:21 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/3-suitcases-with-human-remains-found-in-florida-waterway-police/ |
Bright colored canopies lined the park with offerings of tastes and treats, eye-catching crafts, art and of all sorts of goodies. Under a large pavilion, square dancers kicked up their heels to a backdrop of catchy country music tunes.
“I didn’t expect it to be so many people and so big,” said Cheyenne Garrett of Leeds. “We love it.”
This was Garrett’s first trip to the annual Octoberfest in Moody, where hundreds came out for the gathering of the season-themed celebration.
This was the setting for the 19th annual Octoberfest, said Andrea Machen, executive director of the Moody Chamber of Commerce.
She said the day-long occasion attracted 115 arts, crafts and food vendors for this year’s Octoberfest, held Saturday at Moody City Park.
The event was jam packed with people strolling from one booth to another while taking in the sights.
“It’s a great crowd,” Machen said.
Garrett had both her children, Ava and Alexia, along for the fun at Octoberfest 19.
“There’s plenty for the kids to do out here,” she said. “It’s huge.”
Octoberfest raises funds for Moody Chamber of Commerce programs and events, while the adjoining car show raises money for the city’s Miracle League.
Ronny Swindle entered his 2008 Ford Mustang in the car show, one of 300 car owners who entered the show.
“We just do it because it is for charity,” Swindle said.
His fiancé, Joda Williams of Moody, said Octoberfest always has a great turnout with a variety of things to do.
“It’s a community event,” said Barry Simmons of Odenville. “We lived in Moody when we first moved here. We live In Odenville now. I think every community should have festivals like this. It brings the community together.”
Simmons’ wife, Michelle, said it also shows county pride, and brings new people into the community.
Machen said there are plenty of children’s activities planned for Octoberfest, along with live entertainment throughout the day.
She said the Moody High School Band kicked off the celebration performing the National Anthem, followed by other band selections.
“It’s a great crowd, lots of excitement and great weather,” Machen said. | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_st_clair_times/octoberfest---hundreds-gather-for-season-themed-celebration/article_cac833c6-4a4d-11ed-b382-87130f408b05.html | 2022-10-12 18:04:32 | 1 | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_st_clair_times/octoberfest---hundreds-gather-for-season-themed-celebration/article_cac833c6-4a4d-11ed-b382-87130f408b05.html |
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Police enforced a curfew in a community on the southern fringes of Jamaica’s capital Saturday after gunmen fired on people boarding a public minibus, wounding seven, including three children.
The Jamaica Constabulary Force gave no information on the conditions of the wounded from the brazen attack, which occurred at midafternoon Friday in Seaview Gardens, a poor area of Kingston.
There was speculation the gunmen were targeting one of the people trying to get on the bus, but authorities did not comment on a possible motive. Conflict among rival gangs has been blamed for an uptick in violence in the community.
Authorities ordered a two-day curfew in Seaview Gardens, and police said they were looking for two men for questioning about the shooting.
Crime statistics released by the police say 303 people were killed on the island in the first three months of this year, 20% fewer than during the same period of 2022. | https://www.wivb.com/news/curfew-in-jamica-district-after-gunmen-wound-7-boarding-bus/ | 2023-04-23 01:25:02 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/curfew-in-jamica-district-after-gunmen-wound-7-boarding-bus/ |
Guilford Creek Week
This week, the City of Greensboro will celebrate Guilford Creek Week, a collaborative effort with the City of High Point, Stormwater SMART and Guilford County along with, local businesses and nonprofits to emphasize the importance and benefits of clean and healthy local waters.
To cultivate an appreciation for local waterways, the city’s field operations, library, parks and recreation and water resources departments will host environmental education sessions for middle school girls, a Lake Brandt cleanup, environmental education workshops for adults, a recycling center tour and much more.
Visit www.greensboro-nc.gov/CreekWeek for details of the city’s events and www.guilfordcreekweek.org for a full listing of all local area events.
Tina Turner movie screening
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The Carolina Theatre of Greensboro at 310 S. Greene St. has announced a Community at the Carolina movie event, "Tina Turner: One Last Time in Concert," presented for free in celebration of Tina Turner.
The event, set for 7 p.m. June 14, will be hosted by WNAA’s Wild Irish Rose, and all are welcome. The theatre’s concession stand will be open for those who wish to purchase refreshments at the community movie screening.
Tickets are not required. Doors will open at 6:15 p.m.
Alamance Family Feud Fundraiser
Habitat for Humanity of Alamance County is hosting an Alamance Family Feud event from 6 to 9 p.m. June 23 at the Mebane Arts Center. There will be three rounds: Bright Penny Brewing vs. Burlington Beer Works, Burlington Police Department vs. Graham Police Department and Buckner HeavyLift Cranes vs. City of Graham. At the end of the evening, the inaugural Alamance Family Feud champions will be crowned.
Tickets are $30 or two for $50 and can be bought attinyurl.com/mrxv254f. Included in the ticket price is a meal (Mykonos will be catered for the event) and all proceeds will go toward construction costs for new Habitat homes.
For information, email info@habitatalamance.org.
Human Rights Celebration Gala
The City of Greensboro’s human rights department will honor valuable partners and local students at its annual celebration gala at 6 p.m. June 28 at Piedmont Hall, 2409 W. Gate City Blvd. in Greensboro. Seating is limited and guests are encouraged to register for free tickets online at tinyurl.com/5e9ya6jb.
The department will present Mosaic Awards to individuals and organizations who have supported and enhanced its programs in the 2022-23 fiscal year. The event also fetes the five recipients of the Morningside Award, presented annually to Dudley High School seniors with a demonstrated commitment to advancing social justice and equality.
The gala includes dinner and music provided by Triad-based musicians Mo’ Soul. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Guests are encouraged to dress in a “community formal” style, representing a particular culture, organization or community.
For information, contact Paula Washington at 336-373-7838.
Fans for Seniors
United Way of Greater High Point, in partnership with Senior Resources of Guilford's Operation Fan program, is launching its "Fans for Seniors" program.
Donated fans should be 20-inch box fans, new in the box and UL-approved.
Donated fans can be dropped off at United Way of Greater High Point.
Call 336-883-4127 beforehand to schedule a drop-off time.
Monetary donations are also accepted ($25 per fan) and can be made at the United Way located at 815 Phillips Ave., High Point or online at www.unitedwayhp.org.
Grants
Visit High Point, a nonprofit agency that promotes local tourism economic development, has announced a one-time grants program at the end of their fourth fiscal quarter ending June 30. “Our organization reached our fund balance goals and experienced an exceptional fiscal year. We want to invest those revenues back into our city to strengthen tourism opportunities that support our mission,” said Melody Burnett, president of Visit High Point.
The investment allocation is $250,000 where agencies can apply for specific areas of focus including sports tourism, tourism events, tourism strategic planning and autism travel. Agencies must prove that the scope of their project will support the visitor economy and destination development where priority will be given to those projects that can generate overnight stays in local lodging accommodations.
For information, visit https://visithighpoint.com/grant-funding/. The application deadline is June 21.
Volunteer opportunities
Beyond Sports NC, a company that supports Title I students in third through eighth-grades through both academic and athletic programs, is looking for teens and young adults to volunteer this summer. Volunteers can elect to serve at camps and clinics and can commit to a single date or an entire series.
A variety of sports and games will be offered to students, but volunteers do not need to have knowledge of or experience with any sport. All that’s required is a desire to impact a child's life through sports and have fun connecting with area youth.
Volunteer opportunities:
- Soccer Nights Camp: 5:30-8:30 p.m. July 10-13, Smith Soccer Complex.
- Saturday Soccer Outreach: 9-11:30 a.m. Saturdays, June 16-July 22, Church of the Cross.
- Drop-in Sports at Schools: Join to play pick-up sports games and stay for lunch. Each week Beyond Sports will introduce kids to a different sport. Schools include Washington, Hunter and Oak View.
- Recreation Center Clinics: Beyond Sports will be hosting a weekly sports clinic for campers at four different recreation centers: Warnersville, Glenwood, Windsor and Peeler.
- New Arrivals Institute Slamm Camp: 9:30-10:30 a.m. Thursdays. Join Beyond Sports as they share athletics with new refugee students.
For information visit www.beyondsportsnc.com.
City Academy applications announced
The City of Greensboro is accepting applications for its public education program, City Academy, now through July 1. This free program, celebrating its 18th year, is designed to develop civic leadership and build a stronger city through well-informed and engaged residents.
City Academy participants get a look behind the scenes into city government through hands-on activities and learning experiences offered by 15 departments in various city locations.
Classes are held weekly from 5:45 to 9 p.m., from September through November, with graduation scheduled during the Dec. 3 city council meeting.
City Academy is open to any resident living within the corporate limits of the City of Greensboro. Residents representing all city council districts and various backgrounds will be selected for the academy.
To apply for the fall 2023 session, visit www.greensboro-nc.gov/cityacademy or call 336-373-2723.
ICRCM gala in July
The International Civil Rights Center & Museum will mark the 63rd anniversary of the successful conclusion of the Greensboro civil rights sit-ins at 6 p.m. July 25 at its annual fundraising gala at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro.
This year also marks the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963. In recognition of this momentous demonstration, the ICRCM has named the theme of the upcoming gala, “The March to Washington Continues.”
Six significant contributors to civil and human rights will be honored:
- The Hon. U.S. Rep. Kweise Mfume - Alston/Jones International Civil & Human Rights Award
- Sandra Hughes - Trailblazer Award
- The Hon. Katie Cashion - Unsung Hero Award
- The Hon. Yvonne Johnson - Lifetime Community Service Award
- Kay Brown - Keeper of the Flame Award
- Mary Ellen Bender - Sit-In Participant Award | https://greensboro.com/lifestyles/community-briefs/article_ffe9bef2-ffca-11ed-af74-8f440853400d.html | 2023-06-04 04:43:07 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/lifestyles/community-briefs/article_ffe9bef2-ffca-11ed-af74-8f440853400d.html |
One of the most memorable lectures during my first year of medical school at the University of Michigan was delivered by Dr. Julian "Buz" Hoff. He was the chair of neurosurgery and a master at teaching the natural history of brain diseases. We learned about brain tumors, vascular diseases and trauma.
Hoff had a way of explaining things that made them really stick, and that was particularly clear in his lecture called "GSW." Anyone who works in a hospital likely knows the acronym GSW stands for "gunshot wound," and the way Hoff wanted us to learn the topic was for us see the impact firsthand.
So on the last day of his class, we went to an outdoor gun range in Ann Arbor for our GSW lecture. There were handguns there, as well as rifles. In the distance, I saw several watermelons on top of old barrels that would serve as targets. After putting in his ear plugs and donning safety glasses, Hoff shot a watermelon with a handgun. I saw the bullet hit the watermelon but wasn't confident I saw the bullet exit. The watermelon was then brought to us for inspection.
First thing to notice, he told us: There was an obvious entrance and exit "wound" and they were around the same size. We could see the green skin folding in on itself around the entrance wound and the outward beveled tissue around the exit. After we chopped the watermelon open, he pointed out that the bullet seemed to have traveled in a fairly predictable trajectory, a linear bullet-sized line through the body of the watermelon.
Next came the same demonstration with a rifle. This time, I saw the watermelon shudder as it was struck, and then immediately saw a significant amount of red tissue fly out the backside. Upon inspection, the first thing I noticed was how much bigger the exit wound was, compared to the entrance. And after opening the watermelon, the purpose of the demonstration became clear: Instead of a predictable linear track, the watermelon looked like it had been cored out and what was left was shredded. He explained this was a phenomenon known as cavitation, which is just what it sounds like -- the bullet doesn't simply travel through the body, it creates a big cavity inside it.
The message was clear: I want you to imagine that had been a human body.
Much in the way pictures of black lungs had left an indelible impression of smoking on all medical students, Hoff had done the same with me for GSWs.
I was reflecting on that demonstration recently when I operated on a patient with a GSW to the head. It was a handgun injury, and we were able to quickly control the bleeding and relieve the pressure on the brain. The patient spent one day in the ICU for observation and was discharged a few days later. Had it been a rifle injury, there was hardly any chance he would've survived.
With guns front and center in the news these past couple of weeks, I wanted to share what I have learned over the years about what bullets do to the human body and the challenge it is for surgeons to repair the damage.
More damage
Nearly 30 years after my med school gun range demonstration, Dr. Ernest E. Moore, trauma surgeon and director of trauma research at the Shock Trauma Center named after him at Denver Health, is also using the watermelon example to draw a comparison between different firearms.
"I often use the analogy that the injury to the liver [with a semi-automatic rifle] would be similar to just taking a watermelon and dropping it on the cement. It's incredible the amount of energy delivered. ... By comparison, the 9 millimeter would drill a hole through the liver. So you'd have a sizable hole, but if you didn't hit a major blood vessel, it's a pretty tolerable injury. In fact, we in civilian trauma will often manage a 9-millimeter liver injury without an operation whereas a patient with an assault rifle would be dead within 20 minutes if you didn't operate," he said.
Other human tissue in the body reacts differently. "If you struck a bone with an AR-15, like your femur in your leg, it would literally shatter into multiple fragments that would sort of serve as secondary missiles. Whereas ... we've seen 9 millimeters that will actually drill a hole right to the femur," he said. (An AR-15 is a lightweight, semi-automatic -- that is, self-loading -- rifle manufactured by Colt; other gunmakers make rifles in a similar style.)
Moore also brings up cavitation as a way of visualizing what is happening in the body. He describes cavitation "as the result of a rapid expansion of the tissues surrounding the path of the bullet. ... In essence, instead of a virtual drill hole with a 9 millimeter, your path of injury in tissue with an AR-15 will be six inches wide. And the path beyond that is even wider, but the tissue recoils back into it," said Moore, noting that inelastic tissue -- like the liver, heart and brain -- are the most vulnerable to this type of energy.
A brief history of the AR-15-style weapon
While the Department of Justice notes that 77.2% of mass shootings -- which they count as four or more deaths excluding the shooter -- involve handguns, many of the highest-profile incidents involved assault-style rifles: the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut; Orlando's Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016; the 2017 shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas; and the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, just to name a few.
This kind of rifle unleashes a lot of power, said Moore who, in addition to being a trauma surgeon since 1976 (who operated on some of the Columbine survivors), co-edited a major textbook on trauma surgery, authored more than 1,700 scientific articles and was the longtime editor of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.
"The capacity for tissue injury is reflected in the so-called kinetic energy. And the kinetic energy, simplistically, is the mass or weight of the bullet times the velocity squared. So the velocity -- the speed of the bullet exiting the gun -- is really its primary effectiveness," he said.
Moore said a 9 millimeter handgun has a muzzle energy -- the kinetic energy of a bullet as it leaves the gun's muzzle -- of roughly 400 foot-pounds of force. For a rifle like the AR-15, that number is 1,300. "So you have a huge increase in the amount of energy imparted from the gun," he explained.
He said the size of the bullet has less to do with the damage it causes.
"I think there are some misconceptions with ... rifles. A lot of people say, 'Oh, they're big bullets.' Actually, they're small bullets -- interestingly, they're even smaller than many handguns. So the actual bullet that's discharged from an AR-15, for example, is a half the size of the bullet from a 9 millimeter. The difference is the ... velocity," he said.
And, if that rifle is a semi-automatic weapon, the weapon can be fired repeatedly, without manually reloading, simply by pulling the trigger. In Uvalde, hundreds of rounds were fired into classrooms in the first four minutes, according to Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw.
Moore, who grew up in a hunting family, owns firearms and is an avid hunter, has been outspoken in his opposition to civilians owning AR-15-style semi-automatic weapons and does not own one himself. "The rifle that our military uses to fight our enemies is the same rifle that we allow civilians access to and can create these mass shootings," he said.
An Emmett Till moment
During my neurosurgery training and the first several years of my career, I didn't encounter these sorts of injuries. That's because between 1994 and 2004 certain semi-automatic firearms were banned. In fact, it was in 2003, while I was covering the war in Iraq, that I first saw the damage these weapons cause on the human body, not just a watermelon.
I was embedded with the Devil Docs, the Navy medical team that provides frontline medical care for the Marines. There are things that my cameraman Mark Biello and I saw on the battlefield that we still have a hard time talking about. They are still hard to even write about. Limbs blown clean off the body, and wounds so horrific, I thought for sure they must've been caused by a bomb or IED.
I never imagined that just a couple of years later, I would see the same sorts of injuries in US cities, including my own, Atlanta. Those are the days when I come home from the hospital simply unable to talk, let alone describe what I had just witnessed.
Still, as you may have read after the tragedy in Uvalde, some folks are now raising the issue about whether we should have an "Emmett Till moment."
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old Black teen who was abducted and violently murdered in 1955 by White racists in Mississippi after a white woman accused him of whistling at her. Till's mother took the unusual step of holding an open-casket funeral and allowing a photographer from Jet magazine to photograph her son's disfigured, unrecognizable face to show the country the result of racial violence. Many consider that moment a turning point in the country's collective support for the Civil Rights Movement.
Many of my colleagues have urged me to further describe the horrific injuries I have seen over the last nearly 20 years as a neurotrauma surgeon.
The truth is I'm not sure America is ready to see that. More importantly, it isn't a decision anybody can make unless it's their loss and their story to tell -- like Emmett Till's mother.
Public health emergency
Louis Klarevas, research professor at Columbia University and author of the 2016 book "Rampage Nation," credits the 10-year federal Assault Weapons Ban between 1994 and 2004 with significantly reducing the number of mass shooting incidents and deaths (which he defined as injuring or killing six or more people) before rebounding to even higher levels after the ban expired. In 2020, there were an estimated 20 million AR-15 style weapons in circulation in the United States, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
Between 1990 and 1999, during the decade in which I traveled to that gun range with Hoff, mass shootings claimed an average of 21 lives per year; from 2012 to 2021, that average had gone up to 51, according to the Violence Project. It defines a mass shooting as four or more people in a public place being killed with firearms, without any underlying criminal activity, excluding the shooter. (CNN defines mass shootings as those in which four or more people other than the shooter are injured or killed by gunfire during one event.)
Federal data on the overall impact of gun violence is lacking. Even obtaining the basic numbers can be a challenge, as I learned writing this article. While the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dashboards for Covid-19 and even monkeypox, gun violence is still an enigma for the public health community. That's in large part due to the Dickey amendment which, in 1996, made it challenging and potentially financially punitive for the CDC to conduct or fund research on gun violence if it were to be used in any way to promote gun control.
Even today, it is organizations like the Gun Violence Archive -- an independent data collection and research group that collects information on gun violence from more than 7,500 sources daily -- and not the CDC, that provide some of the most up-to-date statistics on gun violence and deaths on a daily basis.
The rise of gun violence is something Dr. Bellal Joseph has seen firsthand. He is the chief of the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns, and Acute Care Surgery at the Banner University Medical Center at the University of Arizona.
"I can tell you from our own data, but also from a national perspective, there's no doubt that ... every trauma center in the country is seeing unprecedented numbers of trauma," he said referring to "violent trauma: more shootings, more victims."
"Mass shootings are more prevalent at trauma centers than people actually think," said Joseph. "Oftentimes it takes a high [profile] school shooting to activate the media, but it actually happens a lot more than we think, unfortunately."
Joseph, who back in 2011 helped treat nine of the survivors of the mass shooting that targeted U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, like every other surgeon we spoke to, wanted to emphasize that injuries from AR-15 style semi-automatic firearms are not like other injuries.
"When you see ... victims from AR-type assaults, what you're seeing is a violent crime against others," he said.
Stalemate in the face of mounting violence
According to an analysis by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the US ranks first in firearm homicides per capita among high-income countries of more than 10 million -- that's an age-adjusted rate 13 times greater than France's and 23 times greater than Australia's. And, according to the CDC, the most recent data show firearms were the leading cause of death in children and adolescents up to age 19 in 2020, claiming more than 4,300 lives. That was a nearly 30% increase from 2019.
The deaths are only a small fraction of those affected. The lives of people who are injured, the victims' families, friends and the community at large are forever ripped apart.
And if you need a reason to look beyond the human cost of gun violence, there is also the cost to society: according to a February 2021 report by Everytown Research and Policy, it comes out to an estimated $280 billion a year, which includes medical, criminal justice and other expenses.
The American College of Surgeons, the professional organization that represents the people who see this type of injury all too often, has been calling for tighter control of weapons and more common-sense rules. In 2018, the ACS's Firearms Strategy Task Force released 13 recommendations that includes items like regulating heavy-duty firearms, more safety training, and increasing recognition of mental health issues. But the bipartisan legislation currently being considered in the House of Representatives falls short of these recommendations.
"There has to be some vetting, training," said Joseph, especially when it comes to weapons like AR-15-style semi-automatic rifles. He noted that to be allowed to drive, a person needs many hours of coaching and practice in order to pass an exam and get a license -- "no one is getting into a car and just driving."
As for objections that "the government can't tell us what to do," Moore says, yes citizens have rights, but they are not limitless.
"We don't drive tanks through the street. We don't throw a grenade into the parks. ... We need to have some rational thinking," he said.
The same sort of rational thinking Hoff impressed on us so many years ago on a gun range in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Taylor Swift drops ‘3am’ edition of ‘Midnights,’ music video
NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift has said “Midnights” was inspired by certain key sleepless nights — something many of her fans undoubtedly experienced as the singer-songwriter dropped seven bonus tracks and a music video just hours after the album’s release Friday.
“Midnights” was released at, well, midnight Eastern time. With a runtime of around 44 minutes, listeners would have had the opportunity to play the album four times before Swift unleashed “Midnights (3am Edition).”
“Surprise! I think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour,” she wrote on Instagram. “However! There were other songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13.”
The bonus tracks fit tonally with the rest of the darkly electric and moody album, beginning with “The Great War,” sweeping across “Paris” and exploring “High Infidelity” before ending with “Dear Reader.” In all, the seven additional songs — added to the end of the original “Midnights” track listing, encompass about 25 additional minutes.
Swift is the sole credited performer on the bonus tracks — the only person to get a featured credit on any “Midnights” track is Lana Del Rey. The extra songs are primarily written by Swift, Jack Antonoff — her “co pilot” on the album — and Aaron Dessner, a founding member of The National and another frequent Swift collaborator who was otherwise absent from “Midnights.”
And five hours after “Midnights (3am Edition),” Swift treated fans to a visual feast with a muted but lush music video for “Anti-Hero.”
Written and directed by Swift herself, reunited with “All Too Well” cinematographer Rina Yang, the video sees the singer be chased by chintzy sheet ghosts and do shots with a glammed-up double who instructs her: “Everyone will betray you.” Dark glitter oozes from the yolks she cuts into at the breakfast table, her wound from an arrow and her mouth after one too many shots.
“Watch my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real time,” Swift posted on Instagram.
The video includes references to Swift’s eating disorder, which she revealed in a documentary, and pokes fun at herself with a cutscene that breaks in midway. It features Mike Birbiglia, John Early and Mary Elizabeth Ellis playing her heirs (Preston, Chad and Kimber) who discover she’s left them only 13 cents in her will (Swift’s favorite number is famously 13).
“There’s probably a secret encoded message that means something else!” Early exclaims in character, referencing the field of cryptology Swift has created over the years.
“P.S. There is no secret encoded message that means something else. Love, Taylor,” Birbiglia reads seconds later.
The “Anti-Hero” video racked up more than 2 million views in the first three hours of its release and spawned the #TSAntiHeroChallenge. Swift is encouraging people to upload to YouTube Shorts a video of themselves sharing the traits that would make them an antihero. According to a blog post on YouTube, the challenge is “all about acknowledging and celebrating the traits that make each of us truly unique and showcasing one’s true self in a FUN way.”
“An anti-heroic trait could be as simple as always grabbing the last slice of pizza, clapping at the end of movies, always putting your feet on the car dashboard, using the same word to start your daily Wordle, leaving your clean laundry in the basket until the next time you do it, pretending you didn’t already watch the next episode of the series you watch with your pals, or even treating your cat like a human,” the post said. Swift chose that last one for her own submission.
While the challenge adds levity to the release cycle, Swift is clear on the tone she’s going for with the album and its associated projects.
“Midnights is a collage of intensity, highs and lows and ebbs and flows,” Swift posted on Instagram when the original album dropped. “Life can be dark, starry, cloudy, terrifying, electrifying, hot, cold, romantic or lonely. Just like Midnights.”
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Associated Press journalists Sophia Rosenbaum and Christina Paciolla contributed to this report.
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CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Rolling Cash 5" game were:
01-06-11-22-28
(one, six, eleven, twenty-two, twenty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000
CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Rolling Cash 5" game were:
01-06-11-22-28
(one, six, eleven, twenty-two, twenty-eight)
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NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. ("Fortuna" or the "Company") (NYSE: FSM). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Fortuna and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On January 5, 2022, Fortuna issued a press release "report[ing] that its Mexican subsidiary, Compania Minera Cuzcatlan ('Minera Cuzcatlan'), has received written notice of a resolution . . . issued by the Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales ('SEMARNAT') which provides that SEMARNAT is re-assessing the 12-year extension ('EIA Extension') to the environmental impact authorization ('EIA') for the San Jose Mine, located in Oaxaca, Mexico that it granted to Minera Cuzcatlan in December 2021[.]"
On this news, Fortuna's stock price fell $0.43 per share, or 10.97%, to close at $3.49 per share on January 5, 2023.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Paris is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomerantzlaw.com.
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PAPHOS, Cyprus (AP) —
Defense lawyers for a British man on trial for causing the death of his wife in Cyprus’ coastal resort town of Paphos said Monday they’re hopeful the court will suspend any sentence it hands down to their client after he pleads guilty to manslaughter next week.
Briton David Hunter faced a charge of premeditated murder in last year’s death of his wife, Janice, although his defense lawyers had asked Cyprus’ attorney-general to charge the 75 year-old only with assisted suicide in order to keep him from serving time in prison — a request they said was denied.
State Prosecutor Andreas Hadjikyrou said the court on Monday granted an adjournment until Dec. 13, when Hunter’s defense will also argue for mitigation. The court is expected to pass sentence a few days later, with defense lawyers hoping that will happen before Christmas.
Although manslaughter carries a maximum life sentence, it’s unlikely Hunter will receive a long prison term, Hadjikyrou said, adding that the prosecution won’t object to the Briton serving out any prison sentence in the U.K.
Michael, Polak, a spokesman for Justice Abroad, a group that defends Britons embroiled in legal difficulties in foreign countries, said there’s no precedent for such “euthanasia, manslaughter-type cases” in Cyprus and the court would have to to look to similar cases in other common law countries like Canada and India.
“And if the court follows their treatment of euthanasia-type cases, a suspended sentence is a distinct possibility and that’s what we’ll be asking the court to do,” Polak said after Monday’s hearing.
In Cyprus, any sentence of up to three years imprisonment can be suspended, according to Polak.
Hunter’s wife Janice, 74, died in December 2021 at the couple’s retirement home in Paphos, where many of the island’s up to 60,000 British expatriates live. The details of how she died have not yet been made public. Polak had said that Janice was on heavy medication for a type of terminal blood cancer.
Hunter’s daughter, Lesley, was quoted in British media as saying that her mother had “begged him for a long time (to assist her death) and was very clear about what she wanted.”
Hadjikyrou, the state prosecutor, had said defense attorneys turned down an earlier deal for Hunter to plead guilty to manslaughter and that there was no tangible evidence — like a written note — to suggest that Hunter’s wife had ever asked him specifically to help her die.
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ROCKVILLE, Md., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCQB: RGRX) ("RegeneRx" or "Company"), a clinical-stage drug development company focused on tissue protection, repair, and regeneration, is reporting today that its U.S. joint venture (JV) partner and licensee, HLB Therapeutics (HLBT), is planning to expand its ophthalmic clinical development program with RGN-259 in two indications, Neurotrophic Keratopathy (NK) and Dry Eye Disease (DED), beginning in November of 2022. The trials will be sponsored by the U.S. JV, ReGenTree, LLC.
The following is information provided to RegeneRx by HLBT, with minor edits and insertion of bracketed clarifications by the Company:
According the HLBT, "Although we at ReGenTree had focused on dry eye clinical trials in recent years, we now plan to run both DED and NK clinical development program simultaneously. In the case of DED, for which ReGenTree conducted a pre-BLA meeting in February this year, we plan to apply for SPA (Special Protocol Assessment) to the FDA around this October. SPA is a program in which FDA specialists provide a sponsor (ReGenTree) with collaboration in setting up clinical protocols and statistical analysis plans. The agreed clinical trial design with FDA is binding and this program will give the sponsor and FDA a clear understanding [of relevant trial criteria] by participating together at this stage of the clinical trial protocol development."
"In addition, ReGenTree will start the two phase 3 trials for NK simultaneously [to meet the requirement of two independent phase 3 clinical trials necessary for FDA marketing approval]. ReGenTree will seek to confirm the efficacy observed in SEER-1 despite the very small number of subjects in that trial. Based on the results of the SEER-1 study, ReGenTree has developed a plan to enter into two phase 3 studies (SEER-2, SEER-3) simultaneously with 60 patients in each study. To this end, it plans to retain a contract research organization (CRO) very shortly and start recruitment of patients around this November."
"We are pleased HLBT is moving forward with both NK and DED clinical trials with RGN-259 as we believe our product candidate has significant potential as an important therapeutic modality for numerous ophthalmic disorders. Accelerating NK clinical development by simultaneously conducting two trials will speed up the process while also working with the FDA under an SPA to refine our approach to DED. I believe this strategy indicates that HLBT is fully committed to RGN-259's clinical development in the field of ophthalmology," stated J.J. Finkelstein, RegeneRx's president and chief executive.
RegeneRx is focused on the development of novel therapeutic peptides, including Thymosin beta 4 (Tβ4) and its constituent fragments, for tissue and organ protection, repair, and regeneration. RegeneRx currently has three drug candidates in clinical development for ophthalmic, cardiac/neuro and dermal indications, four active strategic licensing agreements in the U.S., China, and Pan Asia (Korea and Japan, among others), and the EU, and has patents and patent applications covering its products in many countries throughout the world.
RGN-259 is a sterile, preservative-free, eye drop developed to reduce damage and improve healing for various ophthalmic indications including dry eye syndrome and neurotrophic keratopathy. To date, over 1700 subjects have received RGN-259 indicating various degrees of efficacy in both DED and NK. RGN-259 has shown to be quick-acting, well-tolerated and does not have the documented side effects of other approved pharmaceutical products for these indications.
Any statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements made under the provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this press release include but are not limited to statements from us, our partners, or within research published by third parties. There can be no assurance that positive results from any research or clinical trial by the Company, its collaborators, or independent parties in the U.S. or any other country will result in subsequent clinical confirmation or future value. There can also be no assurance that any of the Company's drug candidates will result in any approved products in the U.S. or any other country. Please view risks described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including those identified in the "Risk Factors" section of the annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and subsequent quarterly reports filed on Form 10-Q, as well as other filings it makes with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements in this press release represent the Company's views only as of the date of this release and should not be relied upon as representing its views as of any subsequent date. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation to update this information, as a result of future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
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LONDON, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International multi-asset trading platform Vantage (or "Vantage Markets") is announcing the launch of Vantage Connect, a liquidity solution for institutions and corporates in the UK.
To be officially announced at Finance Magnates London Summit 2022, the news comes as part of a wider strategic push by Vantage to expand the institutional side of their business in response to growing demand among hedge funds, family offices, banks, brokers, money managers and asset managers for bespoke trading solutions.
Widespread volatility has led to a 17.2% year on year increase in trading volumes globally this September. This presents both risks and opportunities for institutions, who must navigate rapidly changing market conditions, such as the LSE widened the spread limit on UK gilts, as well as bigger spreads, such as on the CFD and derivatives contracts that are commonly used in hedging strategies.
Vantage Connect allows these institutional clients to manage volatility effectively and make the most of market opportunities by leveraging Vantage's deep liquidity pool to buy and sell complex assets quickly.
The offering is customised depending on what the clients' needs are across the full range of Vantage's services, including in-house built risk management and their unique PAMM (percentage allocation management module). It is quick and secure, as clients can easily plug into the service via an API, ensuring speed to market, and are protected under Vantage's FCA license.
Vantage Connect will be exhibiting at this year's FMLS and will be joined by the McLaren Extreme E team, who will be featuring their new vehicle.
David Shayer, UK CEO at Vantage, commented: "Market volatility often brings opportunities for those who know where to look, and we've seen the increasing volumes over the last few months. We've built up a strong retail solution, and now is the right time to expand to institutional investors. We have a strong team in the UK, all of whom are excited to launch the new service, that ensures that Vantage can be a trusted partner and a one-stop shop for the institutional trading community, and gives them the springboard to make the most of market opportunities."
About Vantage
Vantage is a global, multi-asset broker offering clients access to a nimble and powerful service for trading CFDs on Forex, Commodities, Indices, Shares and ETFs.
With more than 13 years of market experience, Vantage now has over 1,000 employees across more than 30 global offices.
Vantage is more than a broker. It provides a trusted trading ecosystem and a user-friendly trading platform that enables clients to take advantage of trading opportunities.
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DALLAS, July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Katten announced today that Ted Huffman has joined the firm as a partner in the Class Action and Consumer Finance Litigation practice in Dallas.
Huffman represents businesses and financial institutions in various legal areas, including cases involving breaches of contract, securities law, corporate fraud, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property disputes, anticompetitive conduct, government enforcement actions and class action proceedings.
"Ted is a tested attorney who has proven he can successfully take on complex and high-risk litigation at the state and national level," said Gregory S. Korman, chair of Katten's Class Action and Consumer Finance Litigation department. "His extensive knowledge and experience in handling commercial litigation and financial services matters will add value to our clients who face increased regulatory and litigation issues in this area."
Named among D Magazine's 2023 "Best Lawyers Under 40," Huffman serves on committees for the Dallas Bar Association and the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, and volunteers for the Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity and the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program, among other local organizations.
"We look for top talent to add to our fast-growing office, and Ted is recognized as a rapidly 'up-and-coming' attorney who will enhance our litigation capabilities in Dallas and actively engage in the community," said Mark S. Solomon, managing partner of Katten's Dallas office.
Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm's core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals. For more information, visit katten.com.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
3-5-7, FIREBALL: 6
(three, five, seven; FIREBALL: six)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
3-5-7, FIREBALL: 6
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Roberts delays handover of Trump tax returns to House panel
Washington – Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday put a temporary hold on the handover of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to a congressional committee.
Roberts’ order gives the Supreme Court time to weigh the legal issues in Trump’s emergency appeal to the high court, filed Monday.
Without court intervention, the tax returns could have been provided as early as Thursday by the Treasury Department to the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee.
Roberts gave the committee until Nov. 10 to respond. The chief justice handles emergency appeals from the nation’s capital, where the fight over Trump’s taxes has been going on since 2019.
Lower courts ruled that the committee has broad authority to obtain tax returns and rejected Trump’s claims that it was overstepping.
If Trump can persuade the nation’s highest court to intervene in this case, he could potentially delay a final decision until the start of the next Congress in January. If Republicans recapture control of the House in the fall election, they could drop the records request.
The temporary delay imposed by Roberts is the third such order issued by justices in recent days in cases related to Trump.
The court separately is weighing Sen. Lindsey Graham’s emergency appeal to avoid having to testify before a Georgia grand jury that is investigating potential illegal interference by Trump and his allies in the 2020 election in the state.
Also before the court is an emergency appeal from Arizona Republican party chairwoman Kelli Ward to prevent the handover of phone records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The House Ways and Means panel and its chairman, Democrat Richard Neal of Massachusetts, first requested Trump’s tax returns in 2019 as part of an investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s audit program and tax law compliance by the former president. A federal law says the Internal Revenue Service “shall furnish” the returns of any taxpayer to a handful of top lawmakers.
The Justice Department, under the Trump administration, had defended a decision by then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to withhold the tax returns from Congress. Mnuchin argued that he could withhold the documents because he concluded they were being sought by Democrats for partisan reasons. A lawsuit ensued.
After President Joe Biden took office, the committee renewed the request, seeking Trump’s tax returns and additional information from 2015-2020. The White House took the position that the request was a valid one and that the Treasury Department had no choice but to comply. Trump then attempted to halt the handover in court.
Then-Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. obtained copies of Trump’s personal and business tax records as part of a criminal investigation. That case, too, went to the Supreme Court, which rejected Trump’s argument that he had broad immunity as president.
Trump had most recently sought the justices’ intervention in a legal dispute stemming from the search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in August. The court rejected that appeal. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/01/roberts-delays-handover-of-trump-tax-returns-to-house-panel/69609305007/ | 2022-11-01 16:26:39 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/01/roberts-delays-handover-of-trump-tax-returns-to-house-panel/69609305007/ |
Marmoset monkeys make complex vocalizations. Macaque monkeys don't. And the reason could help explain how the human brain evolved to produce speech.
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Marmoset monkeys make complex vocalizations. Macaque monkeys don't. And the reason could help explain how the human brain evolved to produce speech.
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Supreme Court upholds law barring encouraging illegal immigration
It was the second immigration ruling handed down on Friday
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit challenging a law that makes it a crime to "encourage or induce" illegal immigration -- dismissing a claim that the section was overbroad and unconstitutional.
The case, U.S. v Hansen, involved California-based Helaman Hansen, who promised hundreds of noncitizens entry and a path to citizenship via "adult adoption." However, no such pathway exists in U.S. law, yet he earned nearly $2 million out of the scam from over 450 foreign nationals.
The opinion, written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, noted how people used savings accumulated over decades to pay for the scheme.
Hansen was convicted for fraud and encouraging people to come to the U.S. illegally, but challenged the conviction on the basis that the law is overly broad. A district court ruled against him, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in his favor, finding that the law on encouragement is overbroad and violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment.
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Barrett dismissed the logic behind Hansen’s appeal, saying that a challenger must demonstrate that a statute prohibits a substantial amount of protected speech outside its legitimate coverage — and that the unconstitutional application must be disproportionate to its legitimate sweep.
Hansen did not meet these criteria, the 7-2 opinion found.
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"Hansen asks us to throw out too much of the good based on a speculative shot at the bad," she said.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, with Jackson pointing to supporting documents, "including briefs from lawyers, immigration advocacy organizations, religious and other charitable organizations, journalists, local governments, and nonprofit policy institutions from across the ideological spectrum" who argue that the law’s breadth "might well prove to be a significant obstacle for those on the ground who operate daily in the shadow of the law."
The case was the second immigration ruling handed down by the court on Friday. It also ruled 8-1 to throw out a Republican-state challenge to the Biden administration’s narrowed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) priorities.
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The states had argued that the narrowing led to fewer arrests and deportations, leading to greater costs for states who are dealing with additional illegal immigrants. But the majority found that the states did not have standing to challenge the priorities.
"In sum, the States have brought an extraordinarily unusual lawsuit. They want a federal court to order the Executive Branch to alter its arrest policies so as to make more arrests. Federal courts have not traditionally entertained that kind of lawsuit; indeed, the States cite no precedent for a lawsuit like this," the opinion, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, said.
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The conference championship games are over and the countdown to Super Bowl LVII begins.
Super Bowl LVII will be played at 3:30 p.m. PST on Sunday, Feb. 12. It will take place at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., the home of the Arizona Cardinals.
Here’s everything you need to know about the game.
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Who will be playing in the Super Bowl?
The Philadelphia Eagles will play the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII.
The Eagles are playing in the Super Bowl for the second time in six seasons following their 31-7 victory over the San Francisco 49ers for the NFC championship title. The Eagles are looking to win their second Super Bowl title following their victory over Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII in 2018.
The Chiefs reached the Super Bowl with a thrilling 23-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC championship game. Harrison Butker’s 45-yard field goal in the closing seconds sealed the win for the Chiefs on Sunday. It marks the second Super Bowl appearance in three years for the Chiefs following their loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV in February 2021.
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Countdown until kickoff
Curious about how much longer you’ll have to wait before watching Super Bowl LVII? Here’s a timer counting down the days, hours and minutes until the game on Feb. 12 at 3:30 p.m. PST.
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What channel is the Super Bowl on?
The game will be broadcast by Fox (Channel 11 in the Los Angeles market) and Fox Desportes (Español).
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Where can I stream the Super Bowl?
Super Bowl LVII can be livestreamed through the following connected TV, iOS and Android applications:
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How can I listen to the Super Bowl?
Listen to the Super Bowl LVII on the following providers:
- Fox Sports Radio (AM 570 in Los Angeles)
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How can I purchase Super Bowl tickets?
Super Bowl LVII tickets are available through the following vendors:
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Who will perform in the Super Bowl halftime show?
Rihanna will headline the Super Bowl halftime show in what will be her first public performance in five years.
It remains to be seen if any other notable names will be joining Rihanna on stage — the Super Bowl halftime show has a reputation for featuring multiple artists. Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar performed during last year’s Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.
It’s been six years since the release of Rihanna’s last studio album and her return to the public stage has sparked speculation about a potential album release later this year.
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Who will perform the national anthem?
Country music recording artist Chris Stapleton will perform the national anthem before Super Bowl LVII. Stapleton is an eight-time Grammy Award winner and 15-time Country Music Assn. award winner. Troy Kotsur will perform the national anthem in American Sign Language.
R&B artist Babyface, a 12-time Grammy Award winner, will perform “America the Beautiful” (with Colin Denny performing in ASL) and Abbott Elementary star Sheryl Lee Ralph will perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (Justina Miles in ASL) before the game.
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Latest Super Bowl odds
Immediately after the conclusion of championship Sunday, the Eagles emerged as favorites to win the Super Bowl as 1.5-point favorites over the Chiefs. The initial Super Bowl line for total points set minutes after the Chiefs’ win over the Bengals was at 48.5. Some sports books opened with the Eagles as -2.5 favorites, but most are at -1.5.
Here are the latest gambling odds and prop bets for Super Bowl LVII:
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What are the overtime rules for NFL playoff games?
The bulk of the NFL’s playoff overtime rules were implemented in 2010, with one change approved by the league’s competition committee last spring that allows for both teams to possess the ball at least once before a winner can be determined.
The change was made following renewed scrutiny of playoff overtime rules after the Kansas City Chiefs’ AFC divisional playoff win over the Buffalo Bills in January 2022. Prior to the possession rule change, 10 of the 11 playoff games that went to overtime under the post-2010 overtime rule changes were won by the team that received the ball first.
Here’s a breakdown of the playoff overtime rules:
- A coin flip determines which team receives the opening kickoff.
- Each team will have the opportunity to possess the ball at least once before a winner is determined.
- Teams play 15-minute periods until there’s a winner.
- If the score is tied after each team’s first possession, the next score by either team (touchdown, field goal or safety) will win the game.
- There are no coach challenges, with all reviews being initiated by the replay official.
- Each team gets three timeouts per half (two overtime periods).
- If there is no winner after the fourth overtime period, there will be another coin toss before play resumes.
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Who is the referee for Super Bowl LVII?
Carl Cheffers, an NFL official since 2000, will be the referee for Super Bowl LVII. The Whittier native has refereed two Super Bowls, the first in 2017 when Tom Brady and the New England Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons in overtime of Super Bowl LI. His last Super Bowl assignment was in 2021 when the Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs.
Cheffers, 62, and his crews ranked No. 1 in the league for penalties called during the 2022 regular season, averaging 14.4 flags per game, according to Profootballreference.com. During Super Bowl LV, Cheffers drew the ire of many Chiefs fans for eight first-half penalties against Kansas City. The Chiefs lost 95 yards in the game because of penalties — a Super Bowl record.
Here’s who will make up the rest of Cheffers’ Super Bowl LVII officiating crew: Roy Ellison (umpire), Jerod Phillips (down judge), Jeff Bergman (line judge), John Jenkins (field judge), Eugene Hall (side judge), Dino Paganelli (back judge), Mark Butterworth (replay official). | https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2023-01-29/super-bowl-2023-start-time-teams-location-channel-halftime-show | 2023-01-30 03:48:29 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2023-01-29/super-bowl-2023-start-time-teams-location-channel-halftime-show |
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas would become the largest state to ban gender-affirming care for minors under a bill sent Wednesday night to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has previously ordered child welfare officials to investigate such treatment as abuse.
The bill cleared the GOP-controlled Legislature after a final vote in the Senate over the objections of Democrats, who used parliamentary maneuvers in recent weeks to delay passage but could not derail it entirely.
Texas is now poised to join at least 17 other states that have enacted similar bans.
Abbott's office did not return an email seeking comment Wednesday night. Last year, Abbott became the first governor to order the investigation of families who were receiving care. The investigations were later halted by a Texas judge.
Every major medical organization, including the American Medical Association, has opposed the bans and supported the medical care for minors when administered appropriately.
Texas is among a number of states where Republican lawmakers have given priority status this year to measures limiting the rights of transgender people. Earlier Wednesday, the Texas House also gave preliminary approval to a bill that puts restrictions on transgender college athletes.
Transgender rights activists have disrupted the Texas House with protests from the chamber gallery, which have led to state police forcing demonstrators to move outside the building.
Earlier this month, a Texas hospital's care for transgender minors came under investigation by state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who said he was seeking evidence of alleged "potentially illegal activity" without elaborating.
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a more convenient way to enjoy a meal in the car," said an inventor, from Bartow, Fla., "so I invented the J C M FOLD AND SERVICE TABLE WITH STRAPS. My design eliminates the inconvenience and mess of always holding onto food, placing it directly upon the seat or setting it on the lap."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective way to support and eat a meal within a vehicle or other location. In doing so, it eliminates the hassle of holding or balancing food and drinks on the lap. As a result, it increases convenience and comfort and it helps to prevent spills and messes. The invention features a portable and lightweight design that is easy to use and store so it is ideal for individuals who eat on-the-go, drivers, travelers, campers, workers, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Tallahassee sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-TLS-262, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing’s crew taxi returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Wednesday, completing a repeat test flight before NASA astronauts climb aboard.
It was a quick trip back: The Starliner capsule parachuted into the New Mexico desert just four hours after leaving the orbiting lab, with airbags attached to cushion the landing. Only a mannequin was buckled in.
Aside from thruster failures and cooling system snags, Starliner appeared to clinch its high-stakes shakedown cruise, 2 1/2 years after its botched first try. Flight controllers in Houston applauded and cheered the bull’s-eye touchdown.
“It’s great to have this incredible test flight behind us,” said Steve Stich, director of NASA’s commercial crew program. He described the demo as “extremely successful,” with all objectives met.
Added Boeing’s Mark Nappi, a vice president: “On a scale of one to 10, I think I’d give it a 15.”
Based on these early results, NASA astronauts will strap in next for a trip to the space station, perhaps by year’s end. The space agency has long wanted two competing U.S. companies ferrying astronauts, for added insurance as it drastically reduced its reliance on Russia for rides to and from the space station.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is already the established leader, launching astronauts since 2020 and even tourists. Its crew capsules splash down off the Florida coast, Boeing’s Starliner returns to the Army’s expansive and desolate White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Boeing scrapped its first attempt to reach the space station in 2019, after software errors left the capsule in the wrong orbit and nearly doomed it. The company fixed the flaws and tried again last summer, but corroded valves halted the countdown. Following more repairs, Starliner finally lifted off from Cape Canaveral last Thursday and docked to the space station Friday.
Station astronauts tested Starliner’s communication and computer systems during its five days at the space station. They also unloaded hundreds of pounds (kilograms) of groceries and other supplies that flew up in the Boeing capsule, then filled it with empty air tanks and other discarded gear.
A folded U.S. flag sent up by Boeing stayed behind, to be retrieved by the first Starliner crew.
“We’re a little sad to see her go,” station astronaut Bob Hines radioed as the capsule flew away.
Along for the ride was Starliner’s test dummy — Rosie the Rocketeer, a takeoff on World War II’s Rosie the Riveter.
The repairs and do-over cost Boeing nearly $600 million.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
4-7-1
(four, seven, one)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
4-7-1
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While he’s known for what he does in a ring, Hulk Hogan has another ring he’s worrying about — a wedding ring.
The Hulkster is engaged!
The 69-year-old former pro wrestler announced that he has asked girlfriend Sky Daily, 45, to marry him and she said yes, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Daily shared on Instagram that the couple met when Hogan had sent a drink over to a group Daily was with and when one of the women approached him to thank him, he asked her “Who’s’ the blonde?”
The couple talked that night and went their separate ways, until the woman’s friend hit Hogan’s car window as he was trying to leave, telling him to call Daily because “She’s a nice girl!”
The woman who banged on Hogan’s window got married over the weekend, and at the wedding, handed her bouquet to Daily. Hogan said, “That makes her next [to get married].”
“I asked Sky to marry me, and she was crazy enough to say yes, brother.”
They got engaged at a Tampa restaurant, TMZ reported.
The couple went Instagram official in 2022 the Times reported.
He said he actually gave up alcohol to make their relationship better.
“Everything that I’ve ever had happened in my life — both of my two marriages — everything bad that’s ever happened to me had to do with alcohol,” Hogan shared on Theo Von’s podcast, CNN and the Times reported.
Hogan has been married twice — Linda Hogan from 1983 to 2009 and Jennifer McDaniel from 2010 to 2011, CNN reported.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Papua New Guinea had declared next Monday a public holiday in anticipation of an historic visit by U.S. President Joe Biden and other leaders from the region.
Police were tightening security, billboards were going up, and people were getting ready to sing and dance in the streets. Expectations were high for what would have been the first visit by a sitting U.S. president to any Pacific Island nation.
“I am very honored that he has fulfilled his promise to me to visit our country,” Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape had written on Facebook.
Those expectations were dashed Wednesday when Biden canceled the visit to focus on debt limit talks at home.
To be sure, many of the festivities will still be going ahead. Biden’s planned three-hour stopover — sandwiched between the Group of Seven meeting of wealthy democracies in Japan and a now-scrapped trip to Australia — was timed to coincide with a trip by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will still meet with Pacific Island leaders to discuss ways to better cooperate. But now that Biden plans to return home directly after the G-7 meeting, many in Papua New Guinea are feeling deflated.
Steven Ranewa, a lawyer in the capital, Port Moresby, said Biden’s planned visit had been very big news across the Pacific, and he planned to watch the motorcades from the street.
“Everyone was excited,” he said. “But now that it’s been canceled, it’s really demoralizing.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that Biden still planned to visit Papua New Guinea and the trip was “not canceled, postponed.”
“We’re looking forward to getting that back on the books,” she told reporters en route to Japan aboard Air Force One.
It’s unclear if the promise would assuage any of the disappointment.
Konio Anu, who manages a lodge in the capital, said she was saddened that Biden wouldn’t visit as expected, and wondered if people would still get the day off on Monday. She said she was waiting to see if one international guest who booked for Monday would cancel.
Some other leaders had their doubts as well. New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins deliberated most of the day before announcing that he would still go ahead with his trip to Papua New Guinea.
Anna Powles, a senior lecturer in international security at New Zealand’s Massey University, said that although Pacific leaders would understand that Biden was needed at home, the cancellation demonstrated how domestic U.S. politics can undermine the nation’s foreign policy agenda.
“Unfortunately, it speaks to a pattern of behavior that causes many in the region to regard the U.S. as a less-than-reliable partner,” Powles said.
She said the meeting had been framed as a sequel to a summit held with Pacific leaders in Washington last year, and was supposed to represent a deepening of the relationship between the U.S. and the Pacific at a time when China is increasingly exerting its influence in the region.
The U.S. has recently opened embassies in the Solomon Islands and Tonga, and plans to open more in the region as it tries to reassert its presence in the Pacific.
Powles said the hectic schedule leading into the U.S. elections next year would make it difficult for Biden to reschedule.
Home to nearly 10 million people, Papua New Guinea is the largest Pacific Island nation by population. It is located just north of Australia on the eastern side of New Guinea island, the world’s second-largest island. The western side of the island is part of Indonesia. Papua New Guinea is relatively poor, with many people leading subsistence lives.
During a 2016 speech in Australia when he was vice president, Biden talked about his connections to the Pacific region and said that two of his uncles had fought in Papua New Guinea during World War II. He said one had been killed and the other had returned home badly injured.
But China ended up sending a top-level delegation first, after Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Papua New Guinea for an APEC summit in 2018.
Ranewa, the lawyer, said that China’s increasing influence could be seen throughout the nation, whether it was in providing services or building infrastructure. He said some welcomed China’s help, while others did not.
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Product updates keep pace with today's financial pressures
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- More than three out of four Americans are concerned about safeguarding their current savings and finding ways to secure lifetime income for their future. Today, 76% of Americans say protecting their retirement nest egg and account is important to them, and 77% acknowledge concern for outliving their income in retirement.1
To address these growing concerns, North American Company for Life and Health Insurance® has refreshed one of its top-performing products to include key benefits to meet today's challenging financial realities. NAC BenefitSolutions® 10 is a fixed index annuity (FIA) with, for additional cost, a benefit rider.2 Together, the FIA and rider combination can offer security with a base benefit that may not dip below a floor of 125% of paid premium. Additionally, this base-level benefit increases in year 5 and 103 ensuring policyowners have a strong foundation of assets to use for either a lifetime of guaranteed payments or in event of death.
"This is an incredible update to a product that has been well received in our industry since it was first launched in 2015," said Bryce Biklen, chief distribution officer for North American. "In short, what this means is that on day one of a policyowner's contract, the benefit base is already 25% higher. For example, assuming a premium of $100,000, the benefit base would start at $125,000."
The improved BenefitSolutions FIA also addresses a client's evolving financial concerns and can better address market volatility through its index options and crediting methods. Through the benefit rider, NAC BenefitSolutions guarantees lifetime income payments to the policyowner and also includes a nursing home multiplier and death benefit paid to the beneficiary.3
"Planning for retirement is all about planning your financial security. Today, we have new solutions in place to meet challenges head on," said Biklen. "Managing through periods of low interest rates, targeting growth opportunities with index options from strong financial brands, and addressing market downturns are all top of mind for financial professionals and their clients."
North American first introduced BenefitSolutions to the market in 2015 and, in that time, the FIA has generated more than $1.4 billion in premium4 – dollars designed to help clients protect and grow their retirement nest egg.
"North American is a leader in delivering financial solutions that reduce risk and cover a chief concern of today's retirees: outliving their money," Biklen said. "That's what a fixed index annuity is designed to do, and there's a reason why BenefitSolutions has performed so well over these past seven years."
North American Company for Life and Health Insurance® is a member of Sammons® Financial Group, Inc. Since 1886, North American has established a tradition of providing quality insurance products to consumers throughout the U.S. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of term, universal life, and indexed universal life insurance products. North American also offers a wide variety of traditional fixed and fixed index annuities and consistently ranks among the top fixed index annuity carriers in the U.S. For more information, please visit here.
Disclosures:
1. Annuities, Retirement, and the Pandemic, page 7 – Assessing America's Readiness study performed by IALC
2. This amount is only applied to the Benefit Base, which is a value used only for determining Lifetime Payment Amounts (LPA) and/or the rider death benefit features. Benefit Base is not the same as the Contract Accumulation Value and may not be used for partial withdrawals, full surrender or as the base contract death benefit.
3. The Benefit Rider includes a rider charge of 1.20% of Benefit Base, deducted as a partial surrender from the Accumulation Value. Alternative death benefit options are available. Lifetime income refers to guaranteed payment of Lifetime Payment Amounts (LPA's) as defined in the Benefits Rider included in this contract. It does not refer to interest credited to the contract. Advise clients to consult with their own tax advisor regarding tax treatment of LPAs, which will vary according to individual circumstances. The Nursing Home Multiplier can be paid out for a maximum of five annual payments as long as the client continues to meet the requirements on each payment date. See the product brochure for further details and limitations. Rider death benefit includes option for 5 annual payments based on benefit base with 1-year waiting period (2-year in some states). Rider death benefit options vary by state. Additional death benefit and other features are explained in the product brochure and disclosure. For product materials, check for variations in your state.
4. Source: North American Company data, 2015-June 2022
The NAC BenefitSolutions® 10 is issued on form NA1006A/ICC14-NA1006A (contract) or appropriate state variation. Product features, riders and index options may not be available in all states or appropriate for all consumers.
Fixed index annuities are not a direct investment in the stock market. They are long term insurance products with guarantees backed by the issuing company. They provide the potential for interest to be credited based in part on the performance of specific indices, without the risk of loss of premium due to market downturns or fluctuation. Although fixed index annuities guarantee no loss of premium due to market downturns, deductions from your accumulation value for additional optional benefit riders or strategy fees associated with allocations to enhanced crediting methods could exceed interest credited to the accumulation value, which would result in loss of premium. They may not be appropriate for all clients. Interest credits to a fixed index annuity will not mirror the actual performance of the relevant index.
Sammons Financial® is the marketing name for Sammons® Financial Group, Inc.'s member companies, including North American Company for Life and Health Insurance®. Annuities and life insurance are issued by, and product guarantees are solely the responsibility of, North American Company for Life and Health Insurance.
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NEW YORK (AP) — While singing on the world’s great stages, Nathalie Stutzmann thought about blond lager.
“In Europe it’s very common to have the conductor getting a beer right backstage. I was so thirsty when I came offstage after a performance, I was always dreaming: It would be nice to be a conductor and get them,” she said with a laugh.
Minutes after a successful New York Philharmonic podium debut in February, Stutzmann had a beer in hand even before reaching her dressing room.
“That’s the best beer ever, the one you get as a conductor right after the performance,” she said.
Stutzmann gave up a quarter-century career as a contralto to become a conductor. She took over as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra last fall and makes her Metropolitan Opera debut in a new production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” on Friday night, a day before her 58th birthday. On July 28 she becomes only the second woman to conduct at the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany.
“She deals personally with familiar texts as a great singer would, but can transfer it to a large group of musicians,” said conductor Simon Rattle, one of Stutzmann’s mentors. “Nathalie is such a complete musician that our conversation is more to do with the psychology of dealing with orchestras, how to ask for more without discouraging. For me her expected strength is breathing, phrasing naturally and instinctively finding musical solutions. Unexpected: How deeply she can rethink so-called standard repertoire and make it sound new without exaggeration or point-making.”
A daughter of musical parents, soprano Christiane Stutzmann and bass Christian Dupuy, Nathalie learned piano when she was young, then cello and bassoon. She studied at the Paris Opéra’s Ecole d’Art Lyrique and sang her first concert at Paris’ Salle Pleyel in 1985.
“I tried to enter the conductor class when I was a teenager,” she recalled during an interview between Met rehearsals. “It was not forbidden for a girl, but the teacher was very misogynistic, so I was never able to conduct the orchestra.”
She won first prize at the Bertelsmann Foundation’s Neue Stimmen (New Voices Competition)” in 1987, made her U.S. singing debut in 1995 at a recital at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater and her Carnegie Hall debut two years later in a Mahler Second Symphony with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Rattle. She sang at Carnegie in 1988 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seiji Ozawa, who also became a mentor and provided a technical foundation.
“Because I started to sing so young, I achieved almost all my dreams as a singer,” Stutzmann said, “I pushed the limits of this contralto voice to the maximum. I explored the maximum of repertoire.”
She began to think about switching to conducting in the early 2000s, after perceived attitude changes.
“You can’t really fight all the time against the mentality of the society,” Stutzmann said. “People were starting to speak more about of what is equality, why a woman couldn’t do this and that. So, I thought, maybe it’s time for me to try. And also I wanted to give a try when I was still at the top of my vocal career to avoid that anyone could say: `She started conducting because she has no more voice.’”
Stutzmann approached Jorma Panula, a Finnish conductor and teacher who is now 92.
“All he says is about two words a day maximum,” she explained. “But those words are very important. He never shows you how to conduct. So, first of all, if he takes you, he thinks you have a natural talent. He takes only instinctive natural conductor. He films you conducting an orchestra. And then you sit with him, and he criticizes — lots of `That’s bad.’”
Stutzmann founded the chamber orchestra Orfeo 55 in 2009 and led it during its decade-long existence. She became principal guest conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2017 and chief conductor of Norway’s Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra the following year.
She was hired as principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2021 and last fall succeeded Robert Spano as music director in Atlanta, becoming only the second woman to head a major American orchestra, after Marin Alsop with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 2007-21.
Stutzmann also is to conduct Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)” at the Met starting May 18.
“Nathalie brings particular attention to the quirks and idiosyncrasies of Mozart in a natural manner. It’s effervescent and light, but not dainty or stuffy,” Met concertmaster Benjamin Bowman said. “She thrives on extremes, and her attitude toward the music seems to be anything but lukewarm. She conducts with sensitivity and yet is quite demanding of the singers, in ways that perhaps only a singer could be!”
The Met believes Stutzmann will become the first conductor to lead two new productions in a debut season since Rafael Kubelík in 1973-74.
“She can demonstrate how she wants a line to be sung. She can actually show us the feeling and the phrasing,” said soprano Erin Morley, Stutzmann’s Pamina. “It’s, first of all, just a delight to hear her sing sometimes in rehearsal, but it’s also informative. I get a direct feeling of what she wants.”
Stutzmann still sings — in the shower, and while rehearsing.
“I know my voice is perfectly in good shape,” she said. “I thought she was going to decline, but she doesn’t. So it’s a little bit challenging because sometimes I feel like, ah, I would love to sing this instead of explaining about the music.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/entertainment-news/nathalie-stutzmann-contralto-now-conductor-to-debut-at-met/ | 2023-05-05 06:09:58 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/entertainment-news/nathalie-stutzmann-contralto-now-conductor-to-debut-at-met/ |
MALMO, Sweden (AP) — With election day in Sweden approaching, Joakim Sandell, the leader of the Social Democratic Party in the city of Malmo, pulled on a jacket with his party’s rose emblem and headed out to ring doorbells and urge people to vote.
Many people in the Mollevangen district, an ethnically diverse neighborhood with roots in the labor movement, support Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats. But Sunday’s election is expected to be very close and the center-left party is fighting for every last vote as it faces a strong challenge from the right.
Sandell, who is running for reelection to the national parliament, the 349-seat Riksdag, began his campaign thinking voters would want to discuss health care after the COVID-19 pandemic, which took a heavy toll among the elderly. He also expected them to bring up NATO, after the historically non-aligned Scandinavian nation — which hasn’t fought a war since the Napoleonic era — decided to join the alliance after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.
But Swedish voters are mostly focused on rising energy costs in the wake of the war in Ukraine and violent crime at home.
Andersson, who became Sweden’s first female prime minister less than a year ago, enjoys high approval ratings. Her party is a defender of Sweden’s generous welfare state but its support has been declining for years.
“We lost many, many votes in the last 20 years. We’ve been struggling on our way down,” said Ines Pentmo, a 62-year-old nurse who was canvasing with Sandell this week in Malmo. She was welcomed in Sweden after fleeing Chile’s dictatorship with her family in the 1970s and doesn’t want Sweden to abandon its traditional openness to refugees.
“The threat is very strong from the right,” she said.
The Sweden Democrats, a right-wing populist party that takes a hard line against immigration and crime, is on the rise as other parties move closer to its approach. The prime minister herself campaigned on promises to increase the police force.
The Sweden Democratic party was founded by people from the neo-Nazi movement decades ago. They party has sought a more moderate course but many Swedes remain wary of that shift. When the party first won seats in parliament in 2010, other parties refused to work with them.
But polls now suggest that the party could get its best result yet with around 20% of the vote, which gives it a chance to overtake the Moderates, a traditional center-right party, to become the dominant party on the right.
If a right-wing bloc of four parties emerges ahead of the left-wing bloc of four parties, the Sweden Democrats would gain unprecedented power. Recent polls show the race as too close to predict.
The Sweden Democrats are “now considered a possible party to cooperate with when it comes to government formation. This was not the case in previous elections, but things have changed,” said Anders Sannerstedt, a political scientist at Lund University in southern Sweden.
The catalyst for this shift came in 2015, when large numbers of migrants and asylum-seekers from Syria and Afghanistan overwhelmed the county’s resources, Sannerstedt argued. The country of 10 million people took in a record 163,000 refugees that year.
The Sweden Democrats accuse Andersson and her left-wing allies of not doing enough to stop the shootings and explosions that have taken place largely in underprivileged neighborhoods that have many people from immigrant backgrounds who have not assimilated into Swedish society.
The violence has lately been spreading. In one high-profile case, a 15-year-old boy fatally shot a gang member inside an upscale shopping center in Malmo in August. A woman nearby was injured.
Mattias Sigfridsson, Malmo’s deputy police chief, said there’s actually been a decrease in violent crimes in recent years.
“But of course … when the crimes are very spectacular, when you shoot somebody in a shopping center in the middle of day” or when there are detonations, it creates feeling of insecurity for everyone, he said.
Even in the nearby town of Lund, a peaceful cobblestoned university town near Malmo, safety is a key concern. Victoria Tiblom of the Swedish Democrats in Lund, who was out meeting voters at a town square, was pleased that other parties are now speaking more openly about crime in immigrant neighborhoods, something long viewed as a taboo.
“You can only solve the problems in a no-go zone if you talk about them. And we feel like a lot of the other parties, they have just neglected the problems. Same thing with immigration,” she said. “So we have brought a lot of problems to the surface so we can talk about them and also solve them.”
Despite the Sweden Democrats’ attempts to clean up their image, party members sometimes still are accused of racism. One lawmaker recently tweeted a photo of a Stockholm metro train along with the message: “Welcome to the return train. You hold a one-way ticket. Next stop, Kabul!”
In a separate incident, a party employee sent an email encouraging people to celebrate the Nazi invasion of Poland 83 years ago on Sept. 1.
Karolin Lunden, a 40-year-old surgeon, said she always voted conservative. But as she visited the campaign stands in Lund with her 8-year-old daughter, she said she was voting for the left this year due to the willingness of other conservative parties to work with the Sweden Democrats.
“I don’t want them to have any influence,” she said. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-sweden-holds-election-amid-concerns-over-energy-bills-crime/ | 2022-09-09 23:22:19 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-sweden-holds-election-amid-concerns-over-energy-bills-crime/ |
Health care center estimates changes to KanCare could impact patients
LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) - A health care center estimates changes to KanCare could impact patients.
Heartland Community Health Center announced in December, congress moved the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement from the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). Starting April 1, the state will resume reviewing all KanCare employees’ eligibility and will begin ending coverage for those found ineligible.
Heartland Community Health Center is Lawrence’s main safety net health care provider that accepts patients regardless of income or insurance status. In 2022, Heartland Community Health Center cared for 20,358 patients for 64,520 visits. More than 40% of patients receiving care at Heartland utilize Medicaid as their only source of health insurance including 6,206 children.
“Since the Pandemic many families have relied on KanCare to receive critical health services, and their coverage is at risk of not being renewed,” said Elizabeth Keever, Heartland’s Chief Development Officer. “With Medicaid terminations resuming this week, we are concerned about the significant impact this will have on such a large percentage of our patients and its disproportional impact to marginalized communities.”
Heartland Community Health Center indicated as Douglas County’s Federally Qualified Health Center, Heartland offers comprehensive primary care, dental, behavioral health, and pharmacy services on a sliding scale for patients earning 200% or below the federal poverty level. Also, Heartland has a Compassionate Care Fund, allowing emergency assistance for certain individuals unable to pay for their health care services. The fund provides financial assistance to patients at all of Heartland’s locations and services including Panda Pediatrics and River City Pharmacy, but funding for this program is limited and is dependent on community donations. Currently, Heartland sees 1,815 uninsured adults and 809 uninsured children.
Heartland Community Health Center noted that according to the Kansas Health Institute (KHI), Douglas County, Kan., saw a nearly 30% growth in KanCare enrollment since the start of the pandemic. As of June 2022, 14,112 Douglas County residents were enrolled in the program. KHI estimates 47.6% of the enrollment growth is at risk of disenrollment which begins in April and will continue for 12 months.
Heartland Community Health Center said it is partnering with A Compass Project to provide patients with Medicaid eligibility assistance and support patients during their renewal process.
“As the Insurance Eligibility Coordinator for Heartland, I conduct over-the-phone screenings to see how I can help each patient individually find eligibility for Medicaid,” said Mitzi Robinson. “If I find Medicaid eligibility for minor children, parents, and pregnant women I can provide same-day KanCare coverage.”
In addition to helping Heartland patients with insurance eligibility, Robinson also serves as the manager of A Compass Project, assisting with Medicaid applications until approval is granted through KanCare.
“A Compass Project does exactly what our name says, we provide navigation as needed throughout the screening process,” said Robinson. “Each patient we are in contact with will receive an individual screening as each person’s household and medical needs are different.”
Heartland Community Health Center said A Compass Project is available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and patients can schedule an in-person appointment from 10 a.m. to noon, each weekday. More information is available on their website.
Individuals interested in supporting Heartland’s Compassionate Care Fund can make a donation online at www.heartlandhealth.org/donate.
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NEW YORK – A federal appeals court should reverse the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell or grant a new trial on charges that she joined and enabled the sexual abuse that Jeffrey Epstein committed on scores of teenagers and young women for more than a decade, her lawyers argued in court papers Tuesday.
The arguments the lawyers submitted to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely repeated claims she unsuccessfully made to a trial judge who sent her to prison for 20 years.
The 61-year-old British socialite argued through her lawyers that the convictions violate an agreement Epstein reached with federal prosecutors 15 years ago, they violated the statute of limitations and should be tossed because a juror failed to reveal he was a victim of child sex abuse.
She also cited judicial error and a miscalculation of the federal sentencing guidelines range as reason to reject her conviction and sentence.
Maxwell is serving her sentence at a low-security federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, where yoga, Pilates and movies are available.
She was convicted in December 2021 of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein, an American financier who had hundreds of millions of dollars and an appetite for daily massages used to persuade vulnerable and mostly financially desperate girls to engage in sexual acts for hundreds of dollars.
Her lawyers had unsuccessfully argued previously that Maxwell became a scapegoat for prosecutors desperate for someone to blame after Epstein committed suicide in a federal prison cell in August 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.
Her trial featured testimony from some women who were victimized when they were children as well as the testimony of pilots who dropped the names of famous men — Britain’s Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump — who flew on Epstein’s private jets.
Evidence showed that Epstein had transferred over $30 million to Maxwell, his onetime girlfriend, during and after a stretch of years from 1994 to 2004 when they were most closely connected.
Lawyers for Maxwell, a once privileged daughter of a shipping magnate, said in court papers that prosecutors never should have been able to press their case against her because a deal Epstein reached in September 2007 with federal prosecutors in Florida protected not only himself from prosecution but “any potential coconspirators.”
They also argued that a law used to convict her no longer applied once her accusers reached the age of 25, which all of them had by the time of the trial.
The lawyers repeated their claims that a juror's disclosure to reporters after the verdict that he had failed to reveal that he was a victim of child sex abuse even though he had been asked were grounds to reverse the verdict. They said the trial judge mishandled the controversy.
And they wrote that Maxwell's “deplorable conditions of confinement” at a federal jail in Brooklyn prior to trial left her “so disoriented and diminished that she was unable meaningfully to assist in her own defense, much less to testify.”
They also criticized the judge for letting three of four women who testified about sexual abuse they suffered to use pseudonyms even though one granted an interview with the Daily Mail after the verdict and another made public statements even before testifying. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/2023/03/01/ghislaine-maxwells-appeals-arguments-mirror-earlier-claims/ | 2023-03-01 16:43:02 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/2023/03/01/ghislaine-maxwells-appeals-arguments-mirror-earlier-claims/ |
Drug Policy Expert Andrea G. Barthwell, M.D. Named to Company's Board of Directors, Also to Lead New Therapeutics Business
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TR Processing LLC, a botanical-derivative manufacturer on a mission to transform health and well-being by proving and commercializing pharmaceutical ingredients, today announced it served as the Cannabidiol (CBD) supplier for NYU Langone Health's and Baptist Health/Jacksonville Orthopaedic Institute's Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating CBD safety and impact on post-operative pain, patient satisfaction, and opioid consumption following arthroscopic rotator cuff repair surgery. President William J. Clinton, who is following the study through the Clinton Foundation, said he is encouraged by the progress.
The clinical trial randomly assigned 99 participants between the ages of 18 and 75 into a placebo group or a group receiving buccally absorbed CBD. A day after surgery, patients receiving CBD experienced on average 23 percent less pain compared to patients receiving the placebo, and 22 to 25 percent greater satisfaction with pain control the first two days following surgery compared to those receiving placebo. No major side effects were reported.
President Clinton said, "The Clinton Foundation has worked for years to reduce opioid addiction and deaths. To succeed, we need non-addictive alternatives to pain management. The results of the trial conducted by NYU Langone, with TRP's CBD ingredient, are very encouraging and I'm eager to see the results of the next round."
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021 and one million lives were lost to overdoses in the past two decades. The epidemic costs the U.S. more than $1 trillion a year.
Kevin Kaplan, M.D., FAAOS, orthopedic surgeon and head team physician for the Jacksonville Jaguars led the trial for Baptist Health/Jacksonville Orthopaedic Institute and helped guide the research. Dr. Kaplan said, "We performed an exhaustive search looking for a manufacturer that could provide consistent and quality raw ingredients, while acknowledging the strict standard under which the FDA and pharmaceutical industry operate. We found that in TRP and thank them for their support."
TRP also appointed Andrea G. Barthwell, M.D. to the company's board of directors. She will also lead TRP's new therapeutics business, which plans to create patentable combinations of its ingredients for drug development across dozens of indications. Dr. Barthwell has more than 30 years' experience in addiction medicine and drug policy, serving the administration of President George W. Bush as deputy director for Demand Reduction at The Office of National Drug Control Policy. She also advised GW Pharmaceuticals in their application for FDA approval of Sativex, a cannabinoid-based drug prescribed for spasticity related to multiple sclerosis.
"I am excited by TRP's focus on responsible development of cannabinoids and believe patients, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies are looking for safe and effective solutions for pain management and general health and well-being," said Dr. Barthwell.
"We are committed to supporting the study and responsible commercialization of isolated cannabinoids, including CBD," said Chris Kanaley, chief strategy officer at TRP. "Tackling opioid abuse and addiction through the development of safer pain management alternatives is the first of many potential uses of our unique processing platform, and we are enthusiastic about the future. Our work has tremendous potential to become precision medicine at its best."
Based in Golden Valley, Minn., TR Processing is a botanical-derivative manufacturer on a mission to transform health and well-being by proving and commercializing pharmaceutical ingredients. The company powers businesses and institutions that are solving some of healthcare's biggest challenges. The company was purpose built to service the rigid demands of large enterprises and is Fortune 500 audited and approved. With purity, quality, and compliance as core values, the company sources only the best materials for its process, supports strict regulation, and tests every product beyond industry standard. Follow our progress at www.TRProcessing.com.
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Philadelphia Democrat leadership slammed after city lands in Mexico anti-drug campaign: 'Shame of the nation'
Footage of drug use and homelessness in the city's Kensington neighborhood used in Mexican PSAs
A Philadelphia Inquirer columnist is calling out Democratic leadership in the city after Mexico released anti-drug PSAs featuring homelessness and open drug use on the streets of the city's Kensington neighborhood.
Jennifer Stefano joined "America's Newsroom" Tuesday to point the finger at the mayor and district attorney for the drug and crime crisis plaguing her city.
"It is one of the most tragic things you'll ever see," Stefano said. "This is an example of a couple of things, the failed war on drugs, but also the total and complete totalitarian hold of the Democratic Party on the city of Philadelphia for the last 60-plus years. And also a George Soros-funded district attorney, Larry Krasner, overseeing this. There has been no solutions, no answers, and more lives lost and devastation."
AT LEAST 9 INJURED IN MASS SHOOTING OUTSIDE PHILADELPHIA BAR: POLICE
Mexico's national ad campaign to try to scare young people away from drugs never identifies the city or neighborhood shown. The use of the videos, apart from sparking concern over Philadelphia’s image, or whether those filmed had given their consent, raised questions, in part because Mexico is the source of most of the fentanyl being sold in the United States.
"It's no lost irony on any of us who love and care about the city of Philadelphia that Mexico is an enormous part of the problem," Stefano said. "They allow illegal drugs to flow through the border into the United States and do not protect their northern border, our southern border. [It's] hugely problematic."
As the city battles rising violent crime, a Pennsylvania House committee investigating Krasner released a report in October heavily criticizing the Philadelphia district attorney for policies they believe contributed to the crisis.
Stefano asked what Mayor Jim Kenney and Krasner are waiting for as they continue to promise to fix drugs and crime yet "never deliver," despite bipartisan support to find solutions.
"It is the shame of the nation that this is happening," she said.
"If you live in the city, your lives are worsening. The crime is worse, the murders are worse, and there's no safe neighborhood. There's no good neighborhood. Everywhere is vulnerable."
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According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Mayor's Office acknowledged the drug problem but said it is not limited to one city or neighborhood, and noted that all people are capable of "hope, healing, and resilience."
"The opioid and overdose crisis in Philadelphia is part of a national and even international epidemic, and we agree it is important for everyone to understand, as this video notes, that all street drugs now present an elevated risk of overdose because of fentanyl’s extreme prevalence," a spokesperson for Mayor Kenney said.
"Having said that, it is always hard to see our city’s people and neighborhoods portrayed in a limited and negative light. No neighborhood, and no person, should be defined by this tragic and widespread crisis," the office said.
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PENNSAUKEN, N.J. (AP) _ J&J Snack Foods Corp. (JJSF) on Monday reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $17.3 million.
On a per-share basis, the Pennsauken, New Jersey-based company said it had net income of 90 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $1.05 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 89 cents per share.
The drink and snack maker posted revenue of $400.4 million in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $383.6 million.
For the year, the company reported profit of $47.2 million, or $2.46 per share. Revenue was reported as $1.38 billion.
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Actress Anne Heche has 'long recovery ahead' after car crash
Anne Heche remains hospitalized and in intensive care after a car she was driving on Friday crashed into a residence in Los Angeles and became engulfed in flames.
"Anne is in the ICU, she's lucky to be alive. She has severe burns and has a long recovery ahead. Her team and her family are still trying to process what led up to the crash," a source close to Heche told CNN Saturday morning.
The vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed when it ran off the road and collided with a residence, Los Angeles Police Public Information Officer Jeff Lee told CNN on Friday.
Heche was taken to a local hospital by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics in critical condition. It took firefighters more than an hour to "access, confine and fully extinguish the stubborn flames within the heavily damaged structure," the LAFD said.
There were no other injuries reported.
CNN has contacted representatives of Heche for comment.
Heche first rose to fame on the soap opera "Another World," where she played the dual role of twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love from 1987 to 1991 and earned a Daytime Emmy Award. She followed that with films like "Donnie Brasco," "Six Days Seven Nights," and "Wag the Dog."
Her romantic relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late '90s resulted in intense media attention, much to Heche's professional frustration. In a 2021 interview with Page Six, Heche said she felt "blacklisted" after going public with their relationship.
"I didn't do a studio picture for 10 years," said Heche, who dated DeGeneres from 1997 to 2000.
Heche has appeared in numerous television series more recently, including "The Brave," "Quantico" and "Chicago P.D." She has several acting projects currently in post-production, according to her IMDB profile. | https://www.wtae.com/article/anne-heche-long-recovery-after-car-crash/40824515 | 2022-08-06 23:37:34 | 0 | https://www.wtae.com/article/anne-heche-long-recovery-after-car-crash/40824515 |
Report Highlights Continued Investment and Progress Towards Achieving Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Priorities
NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE: FL), the New York-based specialty athletic retailer, today released its FY21 Impact Report, which details the Company's key ESG initiatives, and highlights its progress in advancing those ESG priorities.
"Our commitment to purpose, driving meaningful changes in the communities we serve, and advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion are integral parts of who we are," said Richard Johnson, Chairman and CEO, Foot Locker, Inc. "This past year, we have continued to focus on key ESG priorities, and we are proud of the progress we have made. While we continue to make investments and push our ESG initiatives forward, we know there will always be room for us to do more. We will learn from our past performance and continue to advance our ESG priorities."
The report highlights the four ways in which the Company delivers on its purpose responsibly: (1) Leveraging the Power of Our People and Communities; (2) Strengthening the Sustainability of Our Supply Chain; (3) Managing and Reducing Our Environmental Impacts; and (4) Operating Ethically and Transparently.
Key accomplishments in priority areas include:
- Climate change pledge. Foot Locker, Inc. announced an ambition to achieve Net Zero GHG emissions by 2050 or sooner, in alignment with climate scientists' recommendations to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
- Empowering people and communities. Through our Leading Education & Economic Development (LEED) Initiative, the Company committed $200 million over five years towards enhancing the lives of our team members and the Black community. As of FY21 year-end, this includes investments in education and economic development initiatives that total nearly $54 million.
- Investing in people and advancing our Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging strategy (DIBs). Spanning career development, recognition, and wellness, Foot Locker, Inc. continues to place its people at the center of its strategy, creating opportunities for wellbeing, growth, and advancement across the company.
Additionally, Foot Locker, Inc. obtained third-party independent limited assurance of certain ESG metrics in the report.
Foot Locker, Inc.'s FY21 Impact Report is available for download here.
Foot Locker, Inc. leads the celebration of sneaker and youth culture around the globe through a portfolio of brands, including Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Champs Sports, Eastbay, atmos, WSS, and Sidestep. With approximately 2,800 retail stores in 28 countries across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as websites and mobile apps, Foot Locker, Inc.'s purpose is to inspire and empower youth culture around the world by fueling a shared passion for self-expression and creating unrivaled experiences at the heart of the global sneaker community. Foot Locker, Inc. has its corporate headquarters in New York. For additional information, please visit footlocker-inc.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Other than statements of historical facts, all statements which address activities, events, or developments that Foot Locker, Inc. anticipates will or may occur in the future, including, but not limited to, such things as future capital expenditures, expansion, strategic plans, financial objectives, dividend payments, stock repurchases, growth of Foot Locker, Inc.'s business and operations, including future cash flows, revenues, and earnings, and other such matters, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on many assumptions and factors which are detailed in Foot Locker, Inc.'s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
These forward-looking statements are based largely on our expectations and judgments and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are unforeseeable and beyond our control. For additional discussion on risks and uncertainties that may affect forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" disclosed in Foot Locker, Inc.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 29, 2022, filed on March 24, 2022. Any changes in such assumptions or factors could produce significantly different results. Foot Locker, Inc. undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A $275,000 grant will help three South Valley schools with a new Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program. The funds will go to Mountain View Elementary, Polk Middle School and Rio Grande High School.
The funding for the grant came from the Omnibus Bill approved by congress. The money will help the three schools in their efforts to launch a theme based agriculture STEM kindergarten through 12th pathway. Students will be able to learn coding and obtain certificates from universities in fields such as, drone flying, agricultural sustainability and clean energy technology. | https://www.krqe.com/news/education/275000-grant-awarded-to-three-albuquerque-schools/ | 2023-01-18 19:37:09 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/education/275000-grant-awarded-to-three-albuquerque-schools/ |
The Greensboro area can expect a hot day. The forecast calls for it to be a balmy 83 degrees. Today's forecasted low temperature is 66 degrees. Don't go out without an umbrella or raincoat. There is a 61% chance of precipitation in today's forecast. The UV index today is high. The sun's rays will be intense. Stay in the shade as much as possible. Wear sunglasses, a hat and sunscreen when in sunlight. The area will see gentle winds today, with forecast showing winds from the West, clocking in at 8 mph. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. For more daily forecast information, visit greensboro.com.
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NEW YORK — Teenagers will officially be allowed to open a Venmo account with their parent’s permission, the company said Monday, expanding the popular social payments app to an age demographic that is likely to embrace it almost immediately.
Using Venmo won’t necessarily be new to a good number of teens — parents often set up accounts for their children through their own accounts, which is a violation of Venmo’s terms of service. There have been guides on the Internet for some time showing parents how to create a child’s account without Venmo penalizing them.
Venmo has been a popular way to send money to individuals for years, and now has more than 90 million users. The product for teens comes at a time when other social apps are being watched closely by politicians and regulators. The state of Montana banned TikTok last week and other states are considering a ban as well.
Opening up Venmo to teenagers will be a significant expansion of Venmo’s market. Company executives in March estimated that a Venmo account for teenagers could create 25 million potential new customers. The company estimated that 9 million teenagers were using Venmo through their parents.
The Venmo Teen Account will be available for 13- to 17-year-olds and comes with a debit card as well. Parents will be able to monitor transactions, adjust privacy settings as well as move money to their teenager. Parents will also be able to lock and unlock the debit card and see who the teenager is sending money to and receiving it from.
Withdrawals from ATMs using the debit card will have a $400 daily limit and users will need to withdraw money from participating ATMs or incur a $2.50 fee. Otherwise there are no fees attached to creating or maintaining the account.
Parents will be able to monitor up to five Venmo accounts for teenagers.
Banks have been creating children’s bank account products for decades, but with the rise in e-commerce and financial technology companies, a basic checking account for a teenager no longer suffices.
Venmo acknowledged that opening the service to teenagers was done in response to frequent requests from users over the years, a nod to the fact that teenagers were likely using the service already. The mainstream accounts provide the teenagers more security and identity verification, and also give them access to the debit card. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/05/22/venmo-opens-for-teens-officially/ | 2023-05-22 23:28:57 | 0 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/05/22/venmo-opens-for-teens-officially/ |
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and former Attorney General Bill Barr each took jabs at former President Trump on Sunday, comparing him to a child and casting him as unfit to lead the country.
Trump was recently indicted on 37 counts of criminal conduct related to his handling of classified documents, including obstruction of a federal investigation and willful retention of national defense information.
The indictment against him outlines the lengths he allegedly took to retain classified information, despite repeated efforts by the federal government to retrieve the documents. Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges and maintains his innocence.
Barr, who served as Trump’s attorney general toward the end of his presidency, called Trump a “consummate narcissist,” who “constantly engages in reckless conduct.” Barr said Republicans ought to carefully consider whether he is the best candidate to lead their party and compared Trump to a nine-year-old child.
“He will always put his own interests, and gratifying his own ego, ahead of everything else, including the country’s interest, there’s no question about it,” Barr said of Trump, in an interview with Robert Costa on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”
“He’s like a nine-year-old, defiant nine-year-old kid, who’s always pushing the glass toward the edge of the table, defying his parents to stop him from doing it. It’s a means of self-assertion and exerting his dominance over other people. And he’s a very petty individual who will always put his interests ahead of the country’s, his personal gratification of his ego, but our country can’t be a therapy session for a troubled man like this,” Barr said of Trump.
In a separate interview Sunday with Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Christie, the former New Jersey governor and current Republican presidential primary candidate dismissed Trump’s attacks on former officials he personally appointed to serve in his Cabinet. Christie compared Trump to a “petulant child” lashing out at those who disagree with him.
Christie, who helped both of Trump’s previous bids at the White House, recalled Trump’s promise in 2016 to hire the best people to work in his Cabinet and that he would know how to manage them well. Christie then listed various officials who left his administration and who subsequently faced a barrage of insults about their intelligence and competence.
“Donald Trump, if you believe what he said when they left, that means he didn’t pick the very best people and doesn’t know how to pick personnel. If you believe what — about them what he said at the beginning, the great stuff, then this guy is the worst manager in the history of the American presidency,” Christie said of Trump.
“Either way, Republicans should listen to what he says. He’s a petulant child when someone disagrees with him … if you disagree with Donald Trump, the petulant child comes out and he calls you names,” Christie added. | https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/christie-barr-compare-trump-to-a-child/ | 2023-06-18 22:13:57 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/christie-barr-compare-trump-to-a-child/ |
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TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Chez Reavie holed a long chip shot for eagle on the par-5 sixth hole and took a three-point lead Friday in the Barracuda Championship.
Reavie had a 19-point round in the modified Stableford scoring system event at Tahoe Mountain Club, getting five points for the eagle and 14 for seven birdies. A point is deducted for bogey and three taken away for double bogey or worse.
“It’s actually 2 1/2 birdies, so if you can make an eagle, you can kind of leapfrog guys on the leaderboard,” Reavie said. “I hit an OK tee shot kind of up the right side, so I had a little further in. Had to hit a 5-wood, so I kind of favored toward the right bunker side, and I just missed the bunker and had to chip across the green and was fortunate to knock it in.”
Reavie played the back nine first in his morning round, making four birdies. He added birdies on Nos. 3 and 4, had the eagle on No. 6 and birdied No. 8 to take a 28-point total into the weekend in the event co-sanctioned by the European tour. He’s the only bogey-free player after 36 holes.
“I think really having control of the golf ball out here really helps you,” Reavie said. “You’ve got to be in the fairway. Once you get in the rough, with the greens being firm, you can’t really be aggressive with your irons, so you have to drive the ball in the fairway.”
The 40-year-old from Mesa, Arizona, has two PGA Tour victories, taking the 2008 Canadian Open and the 2019 Travelers Championship.
Mark Hubbard, tied for the first-round lead with Charley Hoffman with 13 points, was tied for second with Henrik Norlander at 25 points. Hubbard had a 12-point round, and Norlander a 14-pointer.
The 33-year-old Hubbard is winless on the PGA Tour. He was third last week in Kentucky in the Barbasol Championship, the first of two straight U.S. events co-sanctioned by the European tour.
“It was tough early, man, with the cold and the elevation,” Hubbard said. “It’s hard to know how far the ball is going, and it seemed like every pin on our front nine, the back nine, was front with water short, so you couldn’t really play with it. So it was just tough to get the ball close early. Once it heated up and started going another 10 percent, I started making some birdies.”
Norlander had seven birdies in a bogey-free round. The 35-year-old Swede, also winless on the PGA Tour, made a weekend cut for only the third time in his last 16 starts. He had missed five straight cuts.
“I’m very pleased,” Norlander said. “It’s, first of all, nice to not make travel arrangements on Friday afternoon. I’ve been sort of used to that lately. Just a lot better attitude this week. …
”There’s a lot of bad voices in there, I’m not going to lie. But I think the key for me is to like accept that and then move from there. When I get bad, I try to avoid those voices, but they’re there.”
Kevin Tway had 21 points. He birdied the first five holes in a 15-point day. Maverick McNealy and Martin Trainer followed at 19.
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BERLIN (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev was enduringly popular in Germany for enabling the country’s reunification after four decades of post-World War II division — and setting the scene for the peaceful collapse of communism that made it possible.
Even 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev was hailed with chants of “Gorby! Gorby!” as he attended a ceremony in 2014 marking the anniversary in the reunited capital.
The Cold War border that split Germany into capitalist West and communist East after World War II looked set in stone when Gorbachev came to power in the mid-1980s. But little more than five years later, the country was reunited as a member of NATO and with a pledge for the withdrawal of Soviet troops.
Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at 91, was remembered with fondness and gratitude in Berlin, and also with a hint of wistfulness at a time when the invasion of Ukraine has driven Russia and Germany apart.
“I don’t think we were able to imagine reunification at all during the Cold War,” veteran lawmaker Wolfgang Schaeuble, the West German interior minister at the time and one of the main negotiators of the country’s unity, told ARD television. “And that it then happened — in peace and freedom, without a drop of blood, couldn’t have been imagined without Gorbachev.”
Former Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Germany and worked as a scientist there, said that “Mikhail Gorbachev radically changed my life as well — I will never forget that.”
Soon after taking power in Moscow, Gorbachev had started the process of reform and increasing openness. Without that, Merkel said, “the peaceful revolution in East Germany would not have been possible.”
In 1989, pressure for change mounted in the communist countries of eastern Europe — including East Germany, whose long-serving hardline leadership had little appetite for reform.
Visiting East Berlin for the country’s 40th anniversary celebrations in October 1989, amid protests by demonstrators chanting “Gorby, help us,” Gorbachev is said to have warned its leaders that “life punishes those who come too late.” Whether he actually said those words is a matter of contention, but they did sum up his message.
Merkel said she could still recall the fear that she and others felt at the time of a military crackdown.
“But this time … no tanks rolled, there were no shots,” she said. “Instead, Mikhail Gorbachev reproached the aging East German leadership with the sentence: ‘Life punishes those who come too late.’”
Just over a month later, under pressure from ever-larger demonstrations, the East German government opened the highly fortified border that had stopped most of the country’s population from traveling to the West.
In an interview with Germany’s Stern magazine in 2013, Gorbachev said he wasn’t woken up with news of the fall of the Wall — a pivotal moment in the collapse of communism in the Soviet-dominated eastern bloc — “and it wasn’t necessary.”
“Our position was clear from the beginning,” he said. “We knew that Europe can’t live with a divided Germany, with a time bomb. I understood that Russians and Germans have to reconcile.”
“We were convinced that the reunification of the Germans was in everyone’s interest — even if Britain and France initially stood against it,” he added.
Gorbachev, who recalled growing up amid the horrors of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, said that he had forgiven the Germans.
The road from the fall of the Berlin Wall to German reunification just under 11 months later was stunningly swift. Gorbachev and his rapport with then-West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl were given much of the credit.
In February 1990, Kohl said during a visit to Moscow that Gorbachev had “pledged unambiguously that the Soviet Union will respect the Germans’ decision to live in one state, and that it is a matter for the Germans to determine the timing of and path to unification.”
In July, Kohl visited Gorbachev’s home region in southern Russia, returning with an agreement from Gorbachev to allow a united Germany to remain in the NATO military alliance and for a full withdrawal of Soviet troops from the east by 1994.
The two leaders’ informal “cardigan diplomacy” contrasts sharply with the current state of German-Russian relations, which are in deep freeze after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz lamented that Gorbachev set the path toward democracy in Russia but died at a time when “democracy in Russia has failed.”
Gorbachev, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said, “also stands for how relations between Russia and Europe could have developed.”
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HOUSTON, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.® (the "Company") (NYSE: PB), the parent company of Prosperity Bank®, today announced that its Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase program under which the Company may repurchase up to 5%, or approximately 4.6 million shares, of its outstanding common stock over a one-year period expiring on January 17, 2024, at the discretion of management.
Repurchases under this program may be made from time to time in open market transactions, and pursuant to any trading plan that may be adopted in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Repurchases under this program also may be made in transactions outside the safe harbor provided by Rule 10b-18 during a pending merger, acquisition or similar transaction. The timing and actual number of shares repurchased will depend on a variety of factors including price, corporate and regulatory requirements, market conditions, and other corporate liquidity requirements and priorities. Any repurchased shares will be held by the Company as authorized but unissued shares.
The repurchase program does not obligate the Company to purchase any particular number of shares and there is no guarantee as to the exact number of shares that will be repurchased by the Company. The Company may suspend, modify or terminate the program at any time and for any reason, without prior notice.
As of September 30, 2022, Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.® is a $37.844 billion Houston, Texas based regional financial holding company providing personal banking services and investments to consumers and small to medium sized businesses throughout Texas and Oklahoma. Founded in 1983, Prosperity believes in a community banking philosophy, taking care of customers, businesses and communities in the areas it serves by providing financial solutions to simplify everyday financial needs. In addition to offering traditional deposit and loan products, Prosperity offers digital banking solutions, credit and debit cards, mortgage services, retail brokerage services, trust and wealth management, and treasury management.
Prosperity currently operates 272 full-service banking locations: 65 in the Houston area, including The Woodlands; 30 in the South Texas area including Corpus Christi and Victoria; 62 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area; 22 in the East Texas area; 29 in the Central Texas area including Austin and San Antonio; 34 in the West Texas area including Lubbock, Midland-Odessa and Abilene; 16 in the Bryan/College Station area, 6 in the Central Oklahoma area and 8 in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area.
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Alex Jones seeks new trial after $1B Sandy Hook verdict
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook families, who say they were subjected to harassment and threats from Jones’ lies about the 2012 Newtown school shooting.
Jones filed the requests Friday, saying Judge Barbara Bellis’ pretrial rulings resulted in an unfair trial and “a substantial miscarriage of justice.”
“Additionally, the amount of the compensatory damages award exceeds any rational relationship to the evidence offered at trial,” Jones’ lawyers, Norm Pattis and Kevin Smith, wrote in the motion.
Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the 15 plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Jones, declined to comment on the filing Saturday, but said he and other attorneys for the Sandy Hook families will be filing a brief opposing Jones’ request.
Twenty first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School died in the attack on Dec. 14, 2012.
An FBI agent who responded to the shooting and relatives of eight children and adults killed in the massacre sued Jones for defamation and infliction of emotional distress over his pushing the bogus narrative that the shooting was a hoax staged by “crisis actors” to impose more gun control.
Six jurors in Waterbury, Connecticut, ordered Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, on Oct. 12 to pay $965 million in compensatory damages to the plaintiffs and said punitive damages also should be awarded. Bellis has scheduled hearings for early next month to determine the amount of the punitive damages.
During the trial, victims’ relatives said in often-emotional testimony that they were threatened and harassed for years by people who believed the lies told on Jones’ show. Strangers showed up at the families’ homes to record them and confronted them in public. People hurled abusive comments on social media. Relatives said they received death and rape threats.
The verdicts came after another jury in Texas in August ordered Jones and his company to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the parents of another slain Sandy Hook child. A third trial over the hoax claims, involving two more Sandy Hook parents, is expected to be held near the end of the year in Texas.
Jones, who has acknowledged in recent years that the shooting did occur, has blasted the lawsuits and trials on his Austin, Texas-based Infowars show, calling them unfair and a violation of his free speech rights.
But he lost his right to present those defenses when the judges in Connecticut and Texas found him liable for damages by default without trials, for what they called Jones’ repeated failures to turn over some evidence including financial documents and website analytics to the Sandy Hook lawyers.
With liability already established, the trials in both states focused only on how much Jones should pay in damages.
Pattis, Jones’ lawyer, wrote in the motions filed Friday that there was a lack of evidence directly connecting Jones with the people who harassed and threatened the Sandy Hook families. Pattis said the trial resembled a “memorial service, not a trial.”
“Yes, the families in this case suffered horribly as a result of the murder of their children,” Pattis wrote, adding that Jones did not send people to harass and threaten the families.
“There was no competent evidence offered at this trial that he ever did,” he wrote. “Instead, there was a shocking abuse of a disciplinary default and its transformation into a series of half-truths that misled a jury and resulted in substantial injustice.”
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- A new game using the Legend of Mir 2, the renowned IP of Wemade… Developed by XFun Games Limited
- Features a variety of content such as massive battles and the Siege of Sabuk, including three attractive professions
- Launching events such as character creation and CQB token airdrop
SEOUL, South Korea, July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ChuanQi IP, a subsidiary of Wemade (CEO Henry Chang) has officially released its new blockchain-based MORPG, MIR2M : The Dragonkin in 170 countries today, on the 19th July.
MIR2M : The Dragonkin is a new game developed by XFun Games Limited using the renowned IP of Wemade, the Legend of Mir 2. It provides three captivating professions, Warrior, Mage, and Taoist. The game features a variety of content such as the Siege of Sabuk, a massive battle to determine the strongest player in the server, and engaging elements such as "Clan Defense" and "Clan Escort", where players can form clans to safeguard regions or transport prisoners.
ChuanQi IP offers a special promotion to all users of MIR2M : The Dragonkin. Users who upload a screenshot of their characters on the game's Discord community by Tuesday, August 1 will receive special items crucial for character growth, such as EXP Pill, Shield Fragment, and Blood Talisman Essence.
In addition, there is a CQB airdrop event. Users who reach level 80 and Rebirth Level 2 by Friday, August 18 will receive CQB tokens as rewards.
More information about the game and events is available from the official website of MIR2M : The Dragonkin, as well as the global blockchain game platform Wemix Play.
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- Official website of MIR2M: The Dragonkin: https://bit.ly/TheDragonkin_LAUNCH
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- Official website of Wemix Play : https://wemixplay.com/games/dragonkin/game-info
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union energy ministers will meet Monday to discuss Russia’s decision to cut gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland, and debate planned new sanctions over Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
The 27 nation-bloc has imposed five rounds of sanctions on Russian officials, oligarchs, banks, companies and other organizations since Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February.
The European Commission is working on a sixth round of measures which could include oil restrictions, but Russia-dependent countries like Hungary and Slovakia are wary of taking tough action.
Germany believes it could cope if supplies of Russian oil were cut off due to an embargo or action by Moscow. Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Russian oil now accounts for 12% of total imports, down from 35% before the war, and most of it goes to the Schwedt refinery near Berlin.
Habeck acknowledged that losing those supplies could result in a “bumpy” situation for the capital and surrounding region, with price hikes and shortages, but that wouldn’t result in Germany “slipping into an oil crisis.”
Still, Habeck added, “other countries aren’t so far yet and I think that needs to be respected.”
The commission, the EU’s executive branch, could announce it new sanction proposals later this week. The measures would have to be approved by the member countries - a process that can take several days.
The energy ministers will also look at what steps to take should Russia ramp up its pressure by cutting gas supplies to other countries.
The EU imports around 40% of the gas it consumes from Russia, but some member countries are more heavily dependent on Russian supplies than others.
In a move last week branded in Europe as “blackmail,” Russian energy giant Gazprom cut supplies to Bulgaria and Poland. It came after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that “unfriendly” countries must start paying for gas in rubles, Russia’s currency.
Bulgaria and Poland have refused to do so, like most EU countries. More Gazprom bills are due on May 20, and the bloc is wary that Russia might turn off more taps then. Russia rejects the claims of blackmail and says that Bulgaria and Poland missed their payment deadlines.
The commission has warned that companies which comply with the terms of Putin’s decree insisting that companies convert euros to rubles through two accounts at Gazprombank would contravene the bloc’s sanctions.
Despite the pressure, Europe does have some leverage in the dispute since it pays Russia $400 million a day for gas, a huge dent in Moscow's coffers should it opt for a complete cutoff.
Off the Dutch North Sea coast, meanwhile, a fuel tanker stood idle at anchor after port workers in Amsterdam said they would not unload its cargo of Russian diesel. The Marshall Islands-flagged Sunny Liger was initially scheduled to unload in Sweden, but dockers there refused to carry out the work.
Dutch port employees who are members of the FNV dockers’ union say they also refused to unload the tanker out of solidarity with their Swedish colleagues. Union spokeswoman Asmae Hajjari told NOS Radio 1 over the weekend that “the ship is not welcome.”
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Frank Jordans in Berlin and Mike Corder in The Hague contributed to this report.
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Ketamine-Assisted Therapy is offered as part of a holistic corporate wellness program.
PROVO, Utah, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HempLucid, a leading provider of plant-based wellness supplements, is the first startup to offer medically supervised Ketamine-Assisted Therapy (KAP) as an employee benefit.
Ketamine is a general anesthetic, first used on the battlefields of Vietnam because it did not slow the heartrate like other anesthetics. Today, ketamine is used by first responders to calm people trying to take their own lives, and as an emerging medical treatment for depression.
"The interesting and exciting part is that it came out of neuroscience research, instead of by chance, said Gerard Sanacora, M.D., Ph.D., a psychiatrist at Yale Medicine involved in many ketamine studies.
Former first responder turned HempLucid CEO Chase Hudson's advocacy of psychedelic assisted therapies was cemented as a co-producer of Reborn, which chronicles Lamar Odom's use of psychedelic-assisted therapies during his recovery from drug addiction.
"We are in a new era," said Chase Hudson, CEO HempLucid.
"We know mental and physical health are deeply connected. HempLucid's corporate wellness program is the necessary bridge for our employees while our health care system catches up," he continued.
HempLucid's ketamine-infusion pilot program started in 2019 with executive leadership participation, including Hudson. In 2022, HempLucid, which now covers the full cost of ketamine infusions for employees, formalized the offering as a health care benefit through a first of its kind partnership with Canadian firm, Numinus Wellness.
The employee benefit ensures access to KAP to any employee with a mental health diagnosis. Traditional therapy is covered through HempLucid's existing health care plan and HempLucid continues to cover ketamine infusions. The combination of traditional therapy and ketamine infusions is the medical therapy known as KAP.
HempLucid's corporate wellness program also includes holistic approaches including massage, cryotherapy, hypobaric chambers, float tanks and weekly team building events.
"Our approach is holistic. We want to our employees to have access to all pathways to healing. As individuals and as a team, we have seen incredible shifts, in productivity, temperament, and empathy in ourselves and as a team. These benefits are now part of our corporate core." said Hudson.
HempLucid, a is a leading provider of premium wellness products, including mushroom and CBD supplements. By celebrating and empowering others to heal in harmony with nature, HempLucid's mission is to create innovative products that inspire others to become aware of their healing path. HempLucid's commitment to exemplary products and extraordinary corporate responsibility is driven by the company's core. HempLucid views healing and wellness through a holistic lens and stands on it. The company's core values of quality, education, self-worth and connection, compassion, and revolution. Current product offerings include plant-based edibles, topicals, tinctures, and capsules. HempLucid is based in Provo, Utah and founded by Chase Hudson in 2016.
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As Americans sit down to their Thanksgiving dinner this week, the story of celebrating a rich harvest in a time of straightened circumstances will be unusually resonant.
There’s one notable exception to the rule of rising costs, however. While you’re paying 21% more for turkey than 12 months ago and as much as 69% extra for cubed stuffing, the splash of color provided by fresh cranberries is 14% cheaper.
The most heartening thing about this change is that nothing very remarkable is happening. Far from being an exceptional season when optimum weather conditions helped produce bumper crops, the past year has been just … mediocre.
Cranberries evolved in frigid bogs, so love cold winters that kill off rival plants. They also like plenty of rainfall to plump up a fruit so well-adapted to the damp that farmers harvest them by flooding the fields to float hollow, buoyant berries off the vine.
That doesn’t match conditions over the past year. The 2021-2022 winter was unusually warm in Massachusetts and Oregon and just normal in Wisconsin, the three key growing states. Drought is still prevalent across most of the US, intensifying as you head west. The current survey for the 2022 crop suggests it would still be the smallest since 2010 if it wasn’t for the even weaker performance last year:
The market has found other ways to adapt. Exports of preserved berries were running about 10 million pounds below normal levels over the past 12 months, according to US Department of Agriculture data, providing more produce for the home market. Imports of frozen and prepared fruit are up by another 10 million pounds in the nine months through September, roughly a quarter above four-year average levels. (It’s too soon to know what’s happening with fresh berries, 90% of which are imported in October and November).
Beyond that, though, what we’re witnessing is the normal cycle of agricultural markets shifting with the seasons, as fall becomes winter and winter, spring. When the world is short of petroleum or metals, getting prices back to normal can be a wrenching, years-long experience. Oil companies and miners have to change their views on whether money is better spent rewarding shareholders or developing new supplies. Resources must be discovered and developed. Consumers need to find fresh ways of being thrifty with a constrained commodity. This requires dramatic shifts in capital allocation across entire industries.
Things are a lot easier in the world of soft commodities. As long as farmers don’t abandon the perennial work of tilling, feeding and harvesting, all that’s needed to turn a year of dearth into a year of plenty is a modest improvement in weather conditions. Within a few years, the rebuilding of stockpiles, and the addition of new hectares planted when prices were higher, will drive the market back into a glut, sending prices through the floor.
Cranberries on their own won’t make much of a difference to anyone’s hip pocket. They make up just 4% of the cost of items on a Thanksgiving table, where half of the spending this year is going on the bird and the stuffing inside it. Still, you can look at them as a bellwether of the way the entire agricultural complex is heading as we turn the page on an exceptional three-year La Nina climate cycle, which brought drought to the western hemisphere and floods to Asia.
Since peaking in the immediate wake of the invasion of Ukraine, the prices of a swath of farm goods have slumped. Wheat, cotton, palm oil and lumber are all down by roughly a third over the past six months. Rubber, soybeans, corn and lean hogs are between 10% and 20% cheaper. Even crop inputs are costing less: potash on the US Gulf coast is 32% less expensive and urea has fallen 10%. Worldwide, the food cost index compiled by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization is likely to fall this month for the first time in more than two years.
Much of the world will still be struggling with higher food costs over the coming years, since the sums people pay are affected more by the weakness of non-dollar currencies and local supply chains than the price of commodity futures traded in Chicago and London. The past year’s food price shock has shown us again how vulnerable our agricultural systems are to an increasingly chaotic climate.
Still, the cheaper cranberries on your table are a small reminder of an old lesson: even in the depths of despair, a decent harvest can be the first sign of a brighter future. That’s something for which we can all be thankful.
More From Bloomberg Opinion:
• A Truly Unfathomable Darkness at the Heart of Thanksgiving: Amanda Little
• What Food Crisis? Deflation Is Now on the Menu: Javier Blas
• Food Prices Are Falling. Why Is There Still a Hunger Crisis?: David Fickling
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
David Fickling is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy and commodities. Previously, he worked for Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.
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MAYFLOWER, Ark. – As the school year presses on, some districts in Arkansas still find themselves without bus drivers.
Mayflower Public Schools says it has been dealing with a bus driver shortage for years now and it doesn’t seem to be letting up.
“Here we all have to pitch in and help out where it’s needed,” Mayflower High School principal T.J. Slough said.
Right now, the district says it has two openings for bus drivers, positions that have gone unfilled since August.
“We only have 12 routes and so when you lose two bus drivers and you don’t have a lot of staff with CDL’s, it creates a big hardship,” Slough said.
To help fill the shortage, the district is calling on anyone on staff who has a CDL.
“Our superintendent has driven, we have probably 3-4 coaches that have also driven,” Slough said.
Slough said someone new is driving the bus 75 percent of the time.
“I don’t know what the reason is, why people are not wanting to drive,” Mayflower Superintendent Andy Chisum said.
Chisum says those similar questions are being asked in almost every position in education.
“From teachers to bus drivers, to food service staff, to substitutes, custodial staff, it’s been a challenge the last couple of years,” Chisum said.
For now, Chisum says the district is maneuvering through the sudden stops and turns.
“We took three routes down into two but they were busses that weren’t full, so we had space on there,” Chisum said.
He said he’s hoping the sudden call-ins will be few and far between soon.
If the shortage continues into the next school year, Chisum said the district may consider an incentive program to get more people behind the wheel. | https://www.fox16.com/news/education/mayflower-public-schools-still-facing-bus-driver-shortage-relying-on-staff-to-pick-up-the-slack/ | 2023-03-08 05:29:49 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/education/mayflower-public-schools-still-facing-bus-driver-shortage-relying-on-staff-to-pick-up-the-slack/ |
November 21, 1933-November 1, 2022
WATERLOO-Lois Emma Neuhaus Oberbroeckling, 88, of Waterloo, died Tuesday, November 1, at Grand Meadow Assisted Living in Dubuque.
She was born November 21, 1933, in New Vienna, the daughter of George and Eugenia Sebers Neuhaus. She married Robert “Bob” Oberbroeckling on September 21, 1954 at St. Boniface Catholic Church in New Vienna. He preceded her in death on September 16, 2019.
Lois was employed as waitress/hostess at Sunnyside Country Club and the Elks Club for 35 years, retiring in 2004. She was member of St. Edward Catholic Church, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, the Legion of Mary, and Cedar Valley Bluegrass.
Survivors include: her daughters, Nancy (Curt) Diehm of Dubuque and Joan (Nick Haaf) Craig of Waterloo; her sons, Dan (Carol) Oberbroeckling of Indianapolis, Ind. and Joe (Alice) Oberbroeckling of Sheboygan, Wisc.; twelve grandchildren, Katie (Joe) Schuhow, Fr. Noah Diehm, Emily Diehm, Megan Diehm, Jessica (Marko) Milanovic, Libby (Zack) Willard, Amy (Ross Erlenbaugh) Oberbroeckling, Erica (Zach) Watson, Ben Oberbroeckling, Jim Oberbroeckling, Greg Oberbroeckling, and John Oberbroeckling; four great grandchildren, Dori Schuhow, Drew Schuhow, C.J. Schuhow and Luka Milanovic; her sisters, Ruth Pape of Cedar Rapids, Pearl Hullermann of Lamont; her brothers, Jack (Karen) Neuhaus of Solon and Don (Becky) Neuhaus of Tulsa, Okl.
Preceded in death by: her parents; her daughter, Debra Oberbroeckling; two grandsons, Adam James Oberbroeckling and Michael John Craig; her brother, Cyril Neuhaus; her sister, Alice Burns.
Mass of Christian Burial: 10:30 a.m. Monday, November 7, at St. Edward Catholic Church with burial at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Public visitation from 2-6 p.m. Sunday, November 6, at Hagarty-Waychoff-Grarup Funeral Service on West Ridgeway, where there will be a 2 p.m. Catholic Daughters of the Americas rosary and a 5:30 p.m. vigil service. Visitation also one hour prior to the Mass on Monday at the church. The Mass will be livestreamed on church website www.sted.org (Click on the red YouTube link)
Memorials: may be directed to Columbus High School, St. Edward Resurrection Choir, Cedar Valley Hospice, or Hospice of Dubuque.
Online condolences may be left at www.hagartywaychoffgrarup.com | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/lois-emma-neuhaus-oberbroeckling/article_86cc1f0f-3965-571d-8510-3608f9ee9d7d.html | 2022-11-04 06:22:32 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/lois-emma-neuhaus-oberbroeckling/article_86cc1f0f-3965-571d-8510-3608f9ee9d7d.html |
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian missiles struck the city of Vinnytsia Thursday, killing 12 people and wounding 25 more in what Ukraine’s president called “an open act of terrorism” on the country’s civilian population in areas with no military value.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a child was among the dead. He suggested the attack was deliberately aimed at terrorizing civilians.
“Every day Russia is destroying the civilian population, killing Ukrainian children, directing missiles at civilian objects. Where there is no military (targets). What is it if not an open act of terrorism?” Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
The Vinnytsia strike came after Ukraine’s presidential office reported the deaths of five civilians and the wounding of another eight in Russian attacks over the past day. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ukraine-russian-missile-strike-kills-12-south-of-kyiv/2022/07/14/19bf46da-035a-11ed-8beb-2b4e481b1500_story.html | 2022-07-14 10:51:31 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ukraine-russian-missile-strike-kills-12-south-of-kyiv/2022/07/14/19bf46da-035a-11ed-8beb-2b4e481b1500_story.html |
LONDON (AP) — Britain announced Monday it is withdrawing its peacekeepers from Mali, saying the West African country’s growing reliance on Russian mercenaries is undermining stability.
Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said the 300-strong British force that has been stationed in Mali since 2020 as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission will leave earlier than planned. He did not give a timeline.
Heappey told lawmakers in the House of Commons that “responsibility for all of this sits in Bamako,” Mali’s capital. “Two coups in three years have undermined international efforts to advance peace.”
Tensions have grown between Mali, its African neighbors and the West after Mali’s government allowed Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group to deploy on its territory.
Heappey called Wagner’s forces “a bunch of murderous, human rights-abusing thugs.”
“The Wagner Group is linked to mass human rights abuses and the Malian government’s partnership with the Wagner Group is counterproductive to lasting stability and security in their region,” he said.
France announced earlier this year it was withdrawing its own, much larger force from Mali after relations deteriorated with a junta that seized power in 2020. France, the former colonial power in Mali, led a nine-year mission and had at its peak 5,500 troops in the country to combat Islamic militants.
Mali has been in turmoil since a 2012 uprising when mutinous soldiers overthrew the president. The power vacuum that resulted ultimately led to a jihadist insurgency and a French-led war that ousted the jihadists from power in 2013.
Insurgents remain active in Mali and extremist groups affiliated with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have moved from the arid north to more populated central Mali since 2015, stoking animosity and violence between ethnic groups in the region.
Heappey said Britain remained committed to Mali and the wider Sahel region, and he would meet colleagues from across Europe and West Africa in Ghana next week “to coordinate our renewed response to instability in the Sahel.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-uk-withdrawing-troops-from-mali-peacekeeping-mission/ | 2022-11-15 05:26:08 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-uk-withdrawing-troops-from-mali-peacekeeping-mission/ |
AUBURN — The Auburn Elks Lodge Roger and Joanne Wertenberger Memorial Golf Outing will take place Saturday, Sept. 10, at the Garrett Country Club. Registration is at 8:15 a.m. at the country club with tee time at 9 a.m.
The event will be a four-person scramble with proceeds benefiting Alliance Industries, formerly Wee Haven, and its capital campaign.
The cost is $80 per player. Singles are welcome and will be assigned to a team. The event is limited to 22 teams. Cart, snacks and lunch at the lodge is included. Lunch only is available for $15. A silent auction also will take place.
Tickets also are available for a drawing to win a “Wine, Dine, Drive Experience,” which will include a visit to a winery, dinner for two and being driven in a classic car. Tickets may be purchased at the Elks for $10 apiece.
Hole sponsorships are $15 and include lunch for two and a ticket for a grand prize drawing.
The golf sign-up deadline is Sept. 1 and the hole sponsorship deadline is Sept. 6.
Stop at the Elks Lodge, 311 E. 9th St., to sign up. Non-members are welcome. Lodge hours are 4-9 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 9 p.m. on Saturday. The lodge also can be reached at 925-2110. The Elks are at 503 B charity organization. | https://www.kpcnews.com/garrettclipper/article_3ffeebd0-730f-5c89-81e3-b6792a67df77.html | 2022-08-03 05:01:40 | 0 | https://www.kpcnews.com/garrettclipper/article_3ffeebd0-730f-5c89-81e3-b6792a67df77.html |
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A stampede during New Year’s celebrations at a popular mall in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, left at least nine people dead, including children, police said Sunday.
The stampede happened at the Freedom City Mall in Namasuba suburb as revelers rushed to watch fireworks.
The Kampala Metropolitan deputy police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, said the incident appeared to have occurred at midnight “when an event emcee encouraged attendees to go outside and watch a fireworks display.”
The Katwe Territorial Police are “investigating an incident of rash (behavior) and neglect” according to an official statement.
No arrests have been made so far.
Police said five people died at the scene and four others died of their injuries at the hospital where they had been taken for treatment. There was no immediate information on other injured people.
The police said the bodies had been taken to the city mortuary in Mulago.
The shopping mall is a popular venue for music concerts and new year celebrations. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-stampede-during-new-years-event-in-uganda-kills-at-least-9/ | 2023-01-02 05:00:29 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-stampede-during-new-years-event-in-uganda-kills-at-least-9/ |
EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — Opioids, including fentanyl continue to impact our children, families, and our communities. We are all in this together and communication is key to getting the message out, especially to our children.
One way to reach our children is in the classroom with their peers. 28/22 News recently had the opportunity to sit in on a message delivered to some teenagers thanks to a program by Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug Services.
With everything Greater Nanticoke Area High School’s class of 2023 has learned through the years, there’s been no lesson as painful as one in particular.
“It sucks that some of us aren’t here because of drug overdose,” said Alycia Knorr class of 2023, Greater Nanticoke Area High School.
Preventing such tragedies is why Stefanie Wolownik, a Prevention Education Specialist at Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug Services, has been visiting classrooms for 20 years.
“Once you’re addicted you’re no longer using to get high, you’re using to get normal,” Wolownik explained.
The prevention education specialist with Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug Services works in Luzerne County which ranks third among all Pennsylvania counties for overdose deaths.
“It’s like really surprising and eye opening to see how that’s come,” said Jordan Lamb, class of 2023.
“How concerning is that to you?” reporter Mark Hiller asked.
“It’s quite a bit concerning,” responded Lamb.
Wolownik discusses the danger of opioid abuse by sharing everything from statistics to visuals.
“If you put them side by side you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference what’s the real and what’s not,” Wolownik explained.
Narcotics prescribed to treat moderate and severe pain are substituted on the streets with pills laced with fentanyl.
“It’s stronger. It’s more readily available,” Wolownik continued.
Fentanyl is 50 times stronger and you cannot see it, smell it, or taste it.
“You never know. You truly never know what’s going to be in whatever you’re taking,” said Knorr.
Research shows drug usage among American adolescents is holding steady in part because it’s glamorized in pop culture and on social media.
“It’s just running rampant. People are just not seeing the dangers of it and not understanding that especially young people their brains are not fully developed yet and it makes them more susceptible to addiction,” Wolownik said.
“While the drugs may have changed, one thing hasn’t for decades now and that’s peer pressure,” Hiller added.
Multiple studies show that associating with people encouraging drug use can get you using, and addicted.
“I doubt many people just find it one day and decide to, like, ‘you know, I’m just going to try this.’ It has to (be) people introduce it to others,” says Xavier Skillens a student at Greater Nanticoke Area High School.
“Unfortunately, you know, people graduate from the snortable to the injectable,” Wolownik continued.
Wolownik hopes teaching about the dangers of opioids and addiction will sway students from using them.
“I think it opens up some kids’ eyes to what we are ingesting. Like if you are out doing drugs or smoking, drinking, it opens up your eyes to what you might be putting into your system and it’s a scary thought,” continued Knorr.
Wolownik vows to continue her mission in the schools but acknowledges the anti-drug lesson cannot end there.
Wolownik “It takes the whole community if we want to get rid of this problem if we want to make a dent in it. It has to be the whole community.” Wolownik said.
Pennsylvania public schools are required to teach students grades six through 12th about opioid use prevention. | https://www.pahomepage.com/opioid-crisis/teens-learn-risks-of-opioid-use-thanks-to-in-class-program/ | 2023-07-06 23:15:57 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/opioid-crisis/teens-learn-risks-of-opioid-use-thanks-to-in-class-program/ |
One of the safest bets in politics is that young people don't show up. That's especially true in the midterms when participation among younger voters trails significantly behind older generations.
"We have to start saying every election is important. And that's why we do the work that we do because we want folks to understand that it's each and every election, not just the general, not just the midterms, it's every election," said Stephanie Young, executive director of When We All Vote.
So, what does it take to get young voters to fill out a ballot? Stephanie Young from When We All Vote says it's as simple as asking.
"Especially with young people, they say, 'Oh, I didn't vote because nobody asked me to,'" said Young.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama started When We All Vote in 2018 with the goal of trying to meet voters where they are and make the voting process less intimidating.
"Sometimes we look to Mrs. Obama or big celebrities or other voices and think, 'Okay, well, you know, if they can't get people to move, then I can't.' And actually, that's the wrong thought. You are the best influencer for the people that are in your life, the people that you work with, go to church with, go to school with, go to synagogue, mosque, whoever. You influence them," said Young.
That idea of meeting voters where they are can lead to unexpected partnerships. This year, When We All Vote is working with BLK — a dating app for black singles that are popular with people aged 18-24.
"It was really those young voters, those first-time voters where we can actually help them, encourage them to at least get education and information about voting to really like shift the culture and make a positive impact on the community,” said Jonathan Kirkland, the head of brand and marketing at BLK.
National Voter Registration Day was first recognized in 2012 and has helped over 4.7 million people register to vote over the past decade.
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Elite distinction awarded for commitment and dedication to the Sitecore community
NEWTOWN, Pa., Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM), a leading digital transformation services and product engineering company, today announced that Sitecore®, the global leader in end-to-end digital experience management software, has named 16 of its employees as Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). The honorees were among only 137 technology MVPs, 30 strategy MVPs and 74 ambassadors worldwide to be named a Sitecore MVP this year.
Now in its 17th year, the MVP program recognizes professionals who actively share their fascination, knowledge and expertise with online and offline Sitecore communities to help them best utilize Sitecore products to deliver premier customer experiences.
Selected out of more than 16,000 certified developers and over 30,000 active community participants, the 241 MVPs are truly an elite group. This year's MVPs were selected by a panel of Sitecore employees for the quality, quantity and impact of the contributions they made in 2022, including the sharing of product expertise and advanced knowledge of the Sitecore platform to support both partners and customers.
"This year, we've marked an incredible milestone for EPAM, having been awarded the most Sitecore MVPs in our history as a partner. I'm so proud of our team for their efforts in continually growing our expertise and dedicating themselves to bringing our customers' digital strategies to life," said Andrew Fegley, Head of Digital Engagement, NA at EPAM. "This recognition not only shows the depth and global reach of our Sitecore experience but also is a testament to our deep commitment to the broader Sitecore community and to our customers who choose Sitecore as their platform of choice."
As a platinum enterprise solutions partner, EPAM has provided top-notch end-to-end Sitecore solutions and a proven track record of delivering seamless digital customer journeys since 2007.
With more than 1,000 experienced Sitecore professionals and multiple Sitecore Experience Awards under its belt, EPAM delivers large-scale, digital marketing solutions to some of the world's leading companies.
"We're pleased that for the seventeenth time we're honoring experts who have distinguished themselves through their technical acumen and dedication to helping others build great digital experiences," said Dave O'Flanagan, Sitecore chief product officer. "We continue to be impressed by the passion with which the MVPs share their professional and technical expertise and experience with customers and partners. They're an invaluable asset to the global Sitecore community, and we're truly grateful for their unique contributions."
Learn more about EPAM partnership with Sitecore here: www.epam.com/about/who-we-are/partners/sitecore
More information about the MVP Program can be found on the Sitecore MVP site: www.mvp.sitecore.com.
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Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has leveraged its advanced software engineering heritage to become the foremost global digital transformation services provider – leading the industry in digital and physical product development and digital platform engineering services. Through its innovative strategy; integrated advisory, consulting, and design capabilities; and unique 'Engineering DNA,' EPAM's globally deployed hybrid teams help make the future real for clients and communities around the world by powering better enterprise, education and health platforms that connect people, optimize experiences, and improve people's lives. In 2021, EPAM was added to the S&P 500 and included among the list of Forbes Global 2000 companies.
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It wasn’t hard to find praise for the Ravens’ 11-player 2022 draft class. It also wasn’t hard to find a thread linking most of the rookies.
Six of the Ravens’ picks participated in the 2022 Senior Bowl, the postseason all-star game for draft prospects held annually in Mobile, Alabama. No one in the NFL took more Senior Bowl products, and only three other teams — the Arizona Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks — took as many.
The Ravens would’ve had seven, too, had Iowa center Tyler Linderbaum, recovering from a late-season foot injury, been healthy enough to participate.
“That’s the goal every year, is just to bring the players [teams] want to see,” Senior Bowl executive director Jim Nagy, a former NFL scout, said in a recent interview. “I don’t think any of these guys go into a draft saying, ‘Well, let’s take all Senior Bowl guys.’ But I do think that a lot of teams really value the week down here and the type of guys that come down here and compete and put themselves on the line and aren’t afraid to put themselves out there. I think there’s teams that put more value in it than some others. I think time has shown that. I think the Ravens have shown that.”
The start of organized team activities this week offers another chance to evaluate the Ravens’ much-hyped rookie class. Here’s how Nagy sees the six Senior Bowl products, as well as Linderbaum, transitioning to the NFL.
C Tyler Linderbaum (first round, No. 25 overall)
“It would’ve been good to get him down here. It would’ve helped some of the teams see him against some bigger, stronger dudes. But what jumps off the tape to me first is just the athlete. Really good lateral mobility, very good initial quickness, second-level play, the ability to sustain in place, very heady. You can tell he’s played a lot of football. Just everything you want from the center position.
“He got picked apart a little bit through the process based off his size, and again, that’s what scouts do. They pick players apart as you go through the process. But just a really good player — a guy that you can plug in there Year 1 and feel good about moving forward as your center of the future. He’s pretty much a ready-made guy coming out of that Iowa program.
“I think the wrestling background certainly helps [compensate for his smaller frame]. He’s used to shooting and getting inside people and fitting people up. So I think that’s where the wrestling background comes in, for sure. I mean, you have to have a size standard at every position. You have to have those parameters. Now, that doesn’t mean you are beholden to them in every single case. I think you go in a case-by-case basis. What you don’t want to do is vary off too much from your standards, and then you’ve got a team of exceptions. It’s one thing to make an exception here or there. I think the old adage is, ‘You just don’t want a team full of exceptions.’
“But in Tyler’s case, obviously, the arms came back a little shorter than probably what most teams would have as a benchmark there at the center position. But he’s got really quick hands. And that matters, just being able to get up and win first off the snap, get that snap hand up. And then, again, just to the wrestling background, the ability to fit up and latch and keep your body in position and understand the natural leverage it takes to stay in a block and recover, too. I mean, wrestlers have a natural recoverability to them. You’re talking about undersized guys; they might lose the upper hand, they might get torqued and tipped a little bit, but those wrestlers have a way to compensate and figure out how to snap their body back in position.”
DT Travis Jones (third round, No. 76 overall)
“He had an incredible week. He had one of the best weeks of any player down here, regardless of position. And really, he was the player that I thought he was going to be all year on UConn tape. The last tape we had seen was 2019, when we did them last summer, because he opted out that COVID year [in 2020].
“So we talked to the coaches up there. They talked about him reshaping his body. They talked about him getting stronger. So you really thought, fast-forwarding two years from ‘19 to the fall of ‘21, that you were going to see this big jump. And it really didn’t happen. He started a little slow. There was some inconsistency. …
“And then he just came down here and he was what we thought we were going to see to start the 2021 year. It’s what we saw all week down here. There’s a ton of power in his body. He’s not your typical nose tackle where you just kind of pigeonhole him as the two-down, run-downs player. He can certainly do that, but he’s got really good in-line power and knock-back to get people on their heels. And he showed that against a couple of first-round picks. He had some really nice reps against Cole Strange, from Chattanooga, and Zion Johnson, from [Boston College]. I think both those guys will go to Pro Bowls in their careers, and Travis more than held his own against those guys. So I really thought Travis would have a chance to go in the back end of the first [round] or the early part of the second. …
“I do think he has three-down ability. I think he can collapse the pocket. When you look at some of the more effective inside rushers in the NFL right now, they’re not these undersized, quick-off-the-snap guys. You’re seeing a lot of guys that are big-bodied guys that are the most productive interior rushers right now. So I think he’s got a chance to be that. I think he’s going into a great situation there in Baltimore where he’s got a chance to contribute right away and potentially start.”
OT Daniel Faalele (fourth round, No. 110 overall)
“He certainly has the ‘They don’t grow on trees’ quality. There’s no doubt about that. When he walks into our room, you can’t miss him. And in my 20-plus years of scouting, you can count on one hand — maybe on three fingers — how many guys I’ve seen close to that size. He’s a mammoth human being, for sure. They got him in the fourth round; again, I thought he would be more of a Day 2 pick. So, really, another good-value pick for them. Just sticking to their board and taking a guy that was there for them and going into it looking for Daniel.
“He doesn’t have to play right away. He’s still relatively young at the sport. That’s what you have to remind yourself of. He’s just this big guy, but he’s a pup when it comes to football still. That’s a great situation. … There’s not going to be the pressure to come in and start right away. I think he could be functional and serviceable Year 1 if they had to play with him. But to me, you’ve got your starting right tackle of the future in the fourth round, and that’s a heck of a pick.”
TE Charlie Kolar (fourth round, No. 128 overall)
“I think Charlie’s a good combo tight end. He’s got some ‘Y’ ability [as an in-line tight end]. He’s got some ‘F’ ability [as a ‘move’ tight end] for a bigger guy. I do think you’re going to get more out of Charlie at the line of scrimmage than maybe they got out of him at Iowa State. Iowa State does do a lot of heavy-tight end stuff. I mean, they go ‘12′ [one running back, two tight ends and two wide receivers] and ‘22′ personnel [two running backs, two tight ends and one wide receiver] quite a bit.
“You’re talking about a guy that’s 6-6, 255, 260 pounds, with almost 35-inch arms and an 82-plus-inch wingspan. That’s a big frame. So he definitely has the frame to do it. That’s what NFL tight end coaches are paid for, is to teach these guys how to block, because not many of them know how to block coming out of college. So Charlie’s got the frame to do it.
“I think what stood out here during Senior Bowl week with Charlie was, he’s more athletic than what I thought he was on tape. When you see him in person, he looked more fluid down here athletically. He was quicker at the top of a route than I gave him credit for. He can separate. He’s a big guy, and a lot of those 6-6 guys have to be box-out guys, where they just kind of body people up and use their frame and their length to win at the catch point. I tweeted out a couple of reps from down here where this guy’s got some movement skills to him. He’s fluid and he has good separation quickness. So with that size and a good red-zone target, to me, he’s got a really nice all-around skill set.”
P Jordan Stout (fourth round, No. 130 overall)
“We had two different scouts go in the fall and look at Penn State. And it’s funny — I got texts from both of them during pregame, at the different games they went to, that, ‘Hey, this punter at Penn State is a real dude.’ So to get a scout’s attention during pregame — two different scouts that both reached out and thought enough of the guy’s leg during pregame to hit me up — that said enough.
“And then when we started to make calls around the league before we picked our specialists, he was the overwhelming No. 1 guy — he and [Georgia’s Jake] Camarda, actually. Usually, those punters tend to go more later on Day 3, and the grades we were getting back on he and Camarda, from Georgia, were more fourth, fifth [round] than sixth, seventh. So it did not surprise me that Jordan went when he went. … They’ve got their punter for the long term now.”
TE Isaiah Likely (fourth round, No. 139 overall)
“Isaiah is more of a true ‘F’ tight end [than Kolar]: pass catcher, might be able to do some fullback stuff with him because he does move so well. Not saying he’s going to be some hammerhead fullback for you, but he’s a guy that you could be creative with in terms of alignment and getting him matched up and using that athleticism on linebackers and things of that nature. But really good in the pass game, has a natural feel, nice catch radius. He’s athletic on the football when he has to adjust. And he can run after the catch.
“And to me, when you’re looking at the tight end position, those guys usually project really well to the next level — the guys that can make stuff happen with the ball in their hands. And Isaiah did that consistently there at Coastal [Carolina]. So, yeah, different guys. Definitely different guys in that fourth round, but to me, adding them with Mark Andrews and [Nick] Boyle, another couple of cool pieces for that offense.”
RB Tyler Badie (sixth round, No. 196 overall)
“I think the thing with Tyler being a little undersized, he’s not real shifty. A lot of guys his size are more shifty backs, whereas his game is rooted in his explosiveness. He can go from 0 to 50 [mph] pretty quick, in a couple of steps. So he’s really got a burst. He’s got a burst-y skill set, whether that’s in the run or the pass game.
“He’s one of those guys, when he gets a crease, he gets through it in the run game. And then, in the pass game, you get it to him, he gets upfield quick. And then when you get him in space, then you see that gear. So he’s not like a real shifty, make-you-miss guy. He’s just a guy that’s going to hit the accelerator and get away from you.
“But, yeah, really productive runner in the SEC. You’ve got to love that. Against really good defenses, he was productive. We had [Los Angeles Chargers running back] Larry Rountree [III] in the Senior Bowl last year, who started ahead of Tyler [at Missouri], so we had seen Tyler a little bit the year before watching Larry, and I had a pretty good idea of what Tyler was. And then to see him kind of break out and have the same type of season Larry had the year before as a starter really established himself. It was cool to see. So he was kind of a guy that just kept climbing the board for us all fall.”
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States tapping historic surpluses for tax cuts and rebates
By DAVID A. LIEB
Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Stoked by the largest surplus in state history, Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature devised a $500 million plan to send one-time tax refunds to millions of households. In a shock to some, GOP Gov. Mike Parson vetoed it.
Parson’s objection: He wanted a bigger, longer-lasting tax cut.
“Now is the time for the largest income tax cut in our state’s history,” Parson declared as he called lawmakers back for a September special session to consider a $700 million permanent tax reduction.
Upon its likely approval, Missouri will join at least 31 states that already have enacted some type of tax cut or rebate this year — an astounding outpouring of billions of tax dollars back to the people. Idaho lawmakers are convening Thursday to consider more tax breaks, and Montana lawmakers also are weighing a special session for tax relief.
Flush with federal pandemic aid and their own surging tax revenue, states have cut income tax rates for individuals and businesses, expanded tax deductions for families and retirees, pared back property taxes, waived sales taxes on groceries and suspended motor fuel taxes to offset inflationary price spikes. Many also have provided immediate tax rebates.
Republicans and Democrats alike have joined the tax-cutting trend during a midterm election year.
Yet divisions have emerged about how far to go. While Democrats generally have favored targeted tax breaks and one-time rebates, some Republicans have pressed for permanent income tax rate reductions that could lower tax bills — and state revenue — for years to come. Parson describes it as “real, lasting relief.”
Some budget analysts warn that permanent tax cuts could strain states during a future recession. The U.S. economy has shrunk for two straight quarters this year, meeting one informal sign of a recession.
“Quite simply, relying on the current surplus to fund permanent tax changes isn’t fiscally sustainable, or responsible, and will ultimately require cuts to state services,” said Amy Blouin, president and CEO of the Missouri Budget Project, a nonprofit that analyzes fiscal policies.
For some states, the current surpluses are unlike anything they’ve previously seen.
The 2022 fiscal year, which ended June 30 for most states, marked the second straight year of large growth in tax collections after economic shutdowns triggered declines early in the coronavirus pandemic. Many states reported their largest-ever surpluses, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers.
“I don’t think there’s been a time in history where states are better equipped to ride out a potential recession,” said Timothy Vermeer, senior state tax policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. “A majority, if not all, of the rainy day funds are in a really healthy position.”
Income tax rate cuts have passed in 13 states this year, already equaling last year’s historic total, according to the Tax Foundation. Republicans control the legislatures in all of those states except New York, where Democrats who wield power accelerated the timetable for a previously approved tax rate reduction.
Republican-led Arkansas was the most recent to take action during an August special session. A new law will speed up a gradual income tax rate reduction enacted last year and provide a one-time inflationary tax credit. Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson described the $500 million package as “a transfer of wealth from the government to the taxpayer” that “could not have come at a more important time.”
Nationwide, inflation is at a 40-year-high, raising prices on most good and services and squeezing incomes.
At least 15 states have approved one-time rebates from their surpluses, including 10 led by Democratic governors and legislatures, four by Republicans and one — Virginia — with split partisan control.
Democratic-led California, which posted a record $97 billion surplus, is sending rebates of between $200 and $1,050 to individuals earning less than $250,000 annually and households earning less than $500,000.
All four GOP-controlled states providing rebates — Georgia, Indiana, Idaho and South Carolina — also made permanent income tax rate cuts.
Though often popular, tax rebates do little to fight inflation and “may actually be counterproductive” by enabling additional consumer spending on items in scarce supply and thus contributing to higher prices, said Hernan Moscoso Boedo, an economist at the University of Cincinnati.
Still, big surpluses coupled with inflation make rebates a tempting option for politicians, especially during an election year.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican facing a re-election challenge from Democrat Stacey Abrams, has been among the most aggressive tax-cutters. He signed legislation gradually reducing the income tax rate from 5.75% to 4.99%. He also signed a measure providing a $1.1 billion tax rebate, with up to $250 for individuals and $500 for couples. He has proposed an additional $2 billion in income and property tax rebates. And after a law temporarily suspending the state’s gas tax expired in May, Kemp extended the gas tax break through mid-September.
“We’re trying to help Georgians fight through this tough time,” Kemp said.
In Colorado, legislative staff estimate it will cost $2.7 million to carry out legislation expediting an income tax refund of $750 for individuals and $1,500 for couples. The constitutionally mandated refund of surplus revenue was originally due to be paid next year but is being distributed now — along with a letter from Democratic Gov. Jared Polis touting it as inflation relief.
Polis, who is up for re-election in November, had been a previous critic of the automatic refund provision. His Republican challenger, Heidi Ganahl, is accusing him of “hypocrisy.”
Idaho Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, has called the Legislature back for a special session starting Thursday to consider more tax breaks.
He’s proposing to use part of the state’s projected $2 billion budget surplus for a $500 million income tax rebate this year. He also wants to cut more than $150 million annually by creating a flat 5.8% income tax rate starting next year. That comes after the state reduced the top tax rate each of the last two years.
“Folks, this is conservative governing in action,” Little said while asserting the tax cuts still would leave enough money to boost education funding by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Montana lawmakers are weighing whether to convene a special session later in September to provide tax breaks from a budget surplus. A proposal calls for giving $1,000 rebates to homeowners who paid property taxes during the past two years. It also would provide income tax rebates of $1,250 for individuals and $2,500 for couples.
Montana’s Republican House and Senate majority leaders said in a joint statement that the rebates would offer help “as soon as possible with expenses such as gas, groceries, school supplies and so much more.” But some lawmakers, including term-limited GOP Rep. Frank Garner, have expressed reluctance.
“My first concern is if this proposal is driven by an imminent emergency or by those wanting to write checks to voters because their emergency is merely an imminent election,” Garner wrote in an opinion column.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are meeting for a series of talks on migration, trade and climate change on Tuesday as the three leaders try to mend tensions that have divided the continent.
The three-way gathering is held most years, although there was a hiatus while Donald Trump was U.S. president. It’s often called the “three amigos summit,” a reference to the deep diplomatic and economic ties between the countries.
However, the leaders still found themselves at odds, especially as they struggle to handle an influx of migrants and to crack down on smugglers who profit from persuading people to make the dangerous trip to the United States.
In addition, Canada and the U.S. accuse López Obrador of violating a free trade pact by favoring Mexico’s state-owed utility over power plants built by foreign and private investors. Meanwhile, Trudeau and López Obrador are concerned about Biden’s efforts to boost domestic manufacturing, creating concerns that U.S. neighbors could be left behind.
The key takeaways from the summit revolve around better connections among the three nations and a shared goal of a stronger North America on energy and in particular semiconductors, climate and a pledge to cut methane emissions, an agreement to manage large waves of migrants coming to the region and a more cohesive regional strategy on dealing with future pandemic-related health threats.
The centerpiece of the summit will be hours of talks with all three leaders, but Biden will start Tuesday with a meeting with Trudeau. It’s unlikely to be as contentious as his sit-down with López Obrador on Monday.
During that meeting, the Mexican leader challenged Biden to improve life across the region, telling him that “you hold the key in your hand.”
“This is the moment for us to determine to do away with this abandonment, this disdain, and this forgetfulness for Latin America and the Caribbean,” Lopez Obrador said.
Biden responded by pointing to the billions of dollars that the United States spends in foreign aid around the world, saying that “unfortunately our responsibility just doesn’t end in the Western Hemisphere.”
It was a noticeably sharp exchange after the two leaders had smiled and embraced and shaken hands for the cameras.
Biden and López Obrador haven’t been on particularly good terms for the past two years. The Mexican leader made no secret of his admiration for Trump, and last year he skipped a Los Angeles summit of the Americas because Biden didn’t invite the authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
However, there have been attempts to thaw the relationship. Biden made a point of flying into the new Felipe Angeles International Airport, a prized project of the Mexican president even though it’s been a source of controversy.
The airport, which is expected to cost $4.1 billion when finished, is more than an hour’s drive north of the city center, has few flights and until recently lacked consistent drinking water. However, it’s one of the keystone projects that López Obrador is racing to finish before his term ends next year.
The U.S. and Mexico have also reached an agreement on a major shift in migration policy, which Biden announced last week.
Under the plan, the U.S. will send 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela back across the border from among those who entered the U.S. illegally. Migrants who arrive from those four countries are not easily returned to their home countries for a variety of reasons.
In addition, 30,000 people per month from those four nations who get sponsors, background checks and an airline flight to the U.S. will get the ability to work legally in the country for two years.
On Monday, before the summit began, López Obrador said he would consider accepting more migrants than previously announced.
“We don’t want to anticipate things, but this is part of what we are going to talk about at the summit,” López Obrador said. “We support this type of measures, to give people options, alternatives,” he said, adding that “the numbers may be increased.”
Mexico would likely require an increase in those receiving work authorization in the U.S. in order to receive more migrants who are being expelled.
Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, cautioned that nothing was decided yet.
“What we need is to see how the program announced last week works in practice, what if any adjustments need to be made to that program and then we can talk about taking the next steps,” he said.
The number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has risen dramatically during Biden’s first two years in office. There were more than 2.38 million stops during the year that ended Sept. 30, the first time the number topped 2 million.
Biden is expected to follow up his first trip to Mexico as president with another to Canada, although it has not yet been scheduled.
A senior Canadian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said Canada is working with Americans on a visit in the near future.
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On a national stage in front of a raucous crowd, the Eagles managed to live up to the gargantuan moment Sunday night.
A sellout crowd at the Linc, most of the fans riding the high of the Phillies playoff run and fueled by the hatred of the Dallas Cowboys, brought the energy and the Eagles answered the call with a 26-17 win. Notable attendees included first lady Jill Biden, rapper Meek Mill, and Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout.
Dallas came in 4-1, but the Eagles jumped out to an early lead and held on to remain the NFC East’s leader going into the bye week 6-0.
Hurts’ big-time drive
After jumping out to a 20-0 lead in the first half, the Eagles gave their crowd reason for some nervous silence for a large chunk of the third quarter.
Dallas reeled off 17 points and trailed by just three early in the fourth quarter. But the Eagles answered with a 13-play, 75-yard drive that spanned more than seven minutes of game time.
The run game was instrumental in the drive, but the biggest plays came from Jalen Hurts.
There was a 5-yard scramble to move the chains on third down, and a 22-yard completion to A.J. Brown on a slant route to get into the red zone. The next play, Hurts rolled out to his right and found a wide-open DeVonta Smith for a 7-yard touchdown pass to give the Birds a nine-point lead with seven minutes left.
Hurts finished with relatively modest stats: 15-for-25 for 155 yards and two touchdown passes. Still, he made the necessary plays to win the Eagles the game, quite a big-game, in fact.
Making Micah wrong
The Eagles knew Dallas edge rusher Micah Parsons would be a tough assignment going into Sunday night and game-planned accordingly.
On two pivotal downs during the first half, Nick Sirianni employed the old adage, If you can’t block him, read him. Once on a fourth-and-3 and again on a third-and-2 in the red zone, the Eagles left the defensive dynamo unblocked in space and read him on an option play. Parsons would have to choose: chase Brown in space or try to get to Hurts before he threw it to the star wideout. Just as Sirianni drew it up, Parsons was wrong regardless.
Brown had an 11-yard catch the first time the Eagles ran the play for him. The second resulted in a 15-yard touchdown to put the Eagles up 14-0. He finished with five catches for a team-high 67 yards.
The Eagles generally did a solid job protecting Hurts against the vaunted Dallas pass rush. The Cowboys were rated one of the league’s best defensive fronts in terms of generating pressure coming in, but the group didn’t wreck the game against the Eagles. Hurts was sacked four times, although only two were for significant losses. The Eagles also managed 136 rushing yards, which was pivotal on their lone fourth-quarter scoring drive.
Big play C.J.
The Eagles secondary continued its opportunistic ways against Cowboys backup quarterback Cooper Rush, coming up with three picks.
C.J. Gardner-Johnson led the way with two interceptions, one of which came after the Eagles safety had to go into the locker room with a hand injury so debilitating that he could barely jog into the locker room without doubling over in pain.
Gardner-Johnson’s first pick was set up by Eagles cornerback James Bradberry, who jumped a Michael Gallup route to set up the tip drill for Gardner-Johnson. The first pick set up an Eagles touchdown drive, giving them a 14-0 lead in the first half.
The second essentially sealed an Eagles victory. Brandon Graham pressured Rush off the edge and forced an errant throw, which Gardner-Johnson tracked to make an impressive diving catch despite the taped-up hand.
Slay gifts another pick
The second pick came from Darius Slay, who undercut Gallup on a third-and-9 to snag his third interception of the season. Slay’s play set up a field goal, which gave the Eagles a 20-0 lead with 1:47 left in the first half.
The Eagles defense has proved it can make opponents pay for mistakes. They came into the weekend tied for the most takeaways in the NFL, and the secondary displayed its playmaking ability once again on a national stage. Each of Slay’s interceptions has taken place on national television.
Similar to one of his two picks against the Minnesota Vikings on Monday Night Football last month, Slay sought out a celebrity to give the intercepted ball to, this time gifting it to Mill, who was seated in a box on the sideline.
Losing Lane
The Eagles were without right tackle Lane Johnson for the entire second half due to a concussion. Jack Driscoll, who filled in for Jordan Mailata at left tackle the previous week, took Johnson’s spot on the right side.
Johnson was the only starting lineman not listed on the injury report in the week leading into the game.
Johnson’s absence was certainly felt. Driscoll allowed several pressures to Parsons when matched up against the edge rusher and the Eagles seemed to use more heavy personnel groupings to help slow Parsons during a second-half scoring drought.
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Life Enrichment Group programming now available at Tacoma facility
TACOMA, Wash., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The rechristened Community Home at Beacon Center now offers more aid to young adults experiencing homelessness and new programming with a mental health focus to serve young adults ages 18-24 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week. The Day Program opened on July 11. The new programming expands activities at the center which also serves as an overnight shelter from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. daily.
Life Enrichment Group (L.E.G.) oversees the day-to-day management of the center and builds on their long-standing legacy of offering a safe space and structured programming to enrich the lives of young people and their families.
"It is a privilege to expand our services and provide a safe space for young people experiencing homelessness or who are in need of support," said Monika Mathews, founder of L.E.G. "We will ensure all those who enter the doors are treated with dignity, respect, and know their value to our community."
Mental health and social services advocates will be available to aid guests with personal, family, and adjustment issues that interfere with the effectiveness of their plan of care. Young adult programming includes resources to live and thrive independently with an emphasis on health and wellness, life skills trainings, workforce development, employment training, and housing.
"We are excited to introduce innovative mental health approaches that focuses the voice of young adults and provides genuine care and concern for the well-being of the individual," said Mathews.
The facility is also undergoing renovations and modernizations to upgrade amenities including an enhanced resource center, computer lab, lounge area, and interior cosmetic improvements like painting and floor refinishing. The center supplies basic needs support, access to showers, and laundry facilities in addition to breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Community Home at Beacon Center is located on the corner of 415 South 13th & Fawcett Street in Tacoma, Washington.
Imagined in 2003 and incorporated in 2006, L.E.G. supplies culturally relevant programs focused on academic achievement and social/emotional support for young adults across the greater Seattle and Tacoma areas, with a focus on the success of those most often overlooked in society. Visit Life Enrichment Group for more information.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- October marks the start of college application submissions, yet who gets in and how remains a mystery to many families. Jeff Selingo brings his two decades of higher education experience front and center for a live webinar next week about the college admission process, particularly in a landscape altered by COVID.
Selingo, author of Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions, will join Fusion Education Group (FEG) for a conversation about the current college admissions landscape and provide a generous question and answer session, as part of weeks' worth of events hosted by Fusion Education Group (FEG) October 17 – 20.
"Most of us don't buy a car without kicking the tires or a home without checking the pipes; choosing a college is no different – families need to do their homework," Selingo said. "A college education is one of the most significant investments we ever make, and I hope to help families identify the right schools for their children and also learn how to approach the process less emotionally."
Selingo has written about higher education extensively. His latest book, Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions, was published in September 2020 and was named among the 100 Notable Books of the year by the New York Times.
"As educators we work to empower our families the same way we do our students," said Stafford Slick, FEG Director of Post-Secondary Counseling. "College week is one way that we can help families navigate the complicated road to higher education."
Stafford added that FEG continues to open this up to all families because COVID limited plans to visit campuses and many parents have more questions than they can readily access answers. Research this past year found high school students were unable to take part in college preparation activities during the pandemic.
FEG's Fall Virtual College Week is free and open to all high school families across the country, and students do not need to attend a FEG school to attend. Students can learn about mission-driven colleges known for changing students' lives, attend a virtual college fair, prepare for the admission process with Selingo's webinar, and get help deciphering the standardized testing landscape.
Registration for events during FEG Fall College Week can be found here and include: (all times are EDT US and Canada):
Monday, October 17, 7 p.m. Colleges That Change Lives and Liberal Arts: Debunking the Myths. Colleges that Change Lives is a non-profit organization committed to a student-centered college search process. Speakers will present the benefits of a Liberal Arts Education including myths, what is it, how it prepares students for the future.
Tuesday, October 18, at 12:30 p.m. Understanding the College Admissions Landscape Post-Pandemic and Who Gets into College and Why. Jeff Selingo has written about higher education for more than two decades and is a New York Times bestselling author of three books. Jeff will take questions about the current college admissions landscape.
Wednesday, October 19, Virtual College Fair. Students can connect with a nationwide sampling of college, gap year, and post-secondary programs. Students can hear from multiple programs and ask questions. Advance registration required .
Thursday, October 20, at 7 p.m. Standardized Testing (SAT/ACT) and the College Admissions Landscape: The Rise of Test-Optional Admissions. The pandemic fundamentally shifted the conversation surrounding standardized testing within the context of college admissions. Matt McCorkle, of Clear Choice Test Prep, and Neill Seltzer, of Mindprint Learning will offer insights into navigating the Test-Optional landscape, and the continued significance of SAT/ACT Testing in College Admissions.
Friday, October 21, Meet With a Post-Secondary Counselor. FEG has a national team of post-secondary counselors who support 80 Fusion Academy campuses and Fusion Global Academy. The team is enthusiastic about helping students find and follow their post-high school path. They work with students one-to-one and personalize sessions for each student's goals. Services are open to all high school students, regardless of FEG enrollment status. Advance registration is required. Families can learn more here.
All webinar details can be found here. Attendees must register for each program individually.
About Fusion Education Group: Fusion Education Group (FEG) is an innovator of personalized education. FEG provides accredited personalized education for than 5,000 middle and high school students at Fusion Academy, with 80 campuses that offer one-to-one instruction; Barnstable Academy, which offers traditional college-prep in a small school setting in New Jersey; and Fusion Global Academy, which offers one-to-one personalized education through a completely virtual campus that currently serves students in all 50 states and 35 additional countries. Attend an upcoming Open House or learn more about FEG events here.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Authorities moved 150 migrants Thursday night from an overcrowded asylum seekers center in the northeastern Netherlands to two sports halls in a central city, alleviating the suffering of some of the people who have been camped in the open air in sweltering summer temperatures.
The city of Apeldoorn announced Friday that it had provided short-term accommodation to ease the crisis and that the asylum-seekers would move on after four days to another location.
Hundreds of migrants have been sleeping outdoors in squalid conditions just outside the small village of Ter Apel because the asylum center there is too full to house them, drawing comparisons to overcrowded migrant camps on Greek islands.
The government minister in charge of migration and asylum issues, Eric van der Burg, said ahead of a Cabinet meeting Friday that a number of municipalities have expressed willingness to help, but not enough to ensure that the makeshift camp outside the asylum center will be empty by Friday evening.
The situation is so grim that the Dutch arm of Doctors Without Borders sent a team there Thursday, the first time the agency has launched a mission in the Netherlands.
A 3-month-old baby died at the Ter Apel center this week. Authorities are investigating the cause of death. And on Thursday two men were taken to hospital, one after suffering a heart attack and another whose diabetes had gone untreated for weeks as he crossed Europe to reach the Netherlands.
“These are 700 people sleeping rough: no showers, very bad facilities, no health care from the institutions,” Doctors Without Borders’ Dutch director, Judith Sargentini, told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The Dutch government, an umbrella organization for municipalities and the asylum accommodation agency are in talks about providing more places to house migrants around the country.
While many Dutch towns and cities offered places for Ukrainians who fled the war in their country, the welcome has worn thin for asylum-seekers from other countries. The majority of people arriving in Ter Apel are Syrians fleeing their nation’s grinding civil war.
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***FREEZE WARNING UNTIL 9 AM FOR MERCER, DARKE, PREBLE, BUTLER, AUGLAIZE, SHELBY, MIAMI, MONTGOMERY AND WARREN COUNTIES…FROSTY ADVISORY FOR GREENE AND CLINTON COUNTIES.***
Starting out quite chilly this morning and we stay unseasonably cold, not only today but throughout the new week ahead. Some morning sunshine gives way to skies becoming cloudy and with the cold air in place we may see a stray shower or two this afternoon or this evening. Overnight for the next 2 nights, frost will once again be possible.
TODAY: Becoming cloudy and cold. Spotty PM shower. High 50
TONIGHT: Spotty evening shower. Areas of frost. Cold. Low 32
MONDAY: Continued unseasonably cold. Mostly cloudy with an isolated sprinkle. High 53
Chance again of frost Tuesday morning. Daytime highs for the rest of the week stay cool with highs in the 50s and low 60s. Increasing chances of rain by the end of the week. | https://www.wdtn.com/weather/daily-forecast/unseasonably-cold-with-a-stray-afternoon-shower-possible/ | 2023-04-23 10:43:46 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/weather/daily-forecast/unseasonably-cold-with-a-stray-afternoon-shower-possible/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
01-05-06-08-10-13-16-19-20-22-23-24
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanpowers, a company focused on innovating portable green power generation devices, is looking to get customers geared up for the Super Bowl. With the news that Rihanna will be performing during the Halftime Show, excitement is building among sports fans across the country. But Vanpowers wants to do more this February than powering tailgate parties and barbecues. To celebrate the approach of the big game, the brand is encouraging people to spend Super Bowl Sunday camping outdoors and getting away from the city—all without missing the action thanks to Vanpowers technology.
The brand wants to ensure that anyone can enjoy the Super Bowl from anywhere, so they'll be offering a special discount on the Vanpowers Super Power Pro 2000 portable power station in the coming weeks.
Vanpowers was founded on the idea of making environmentally friendly energy not only portable, but also accessible to everyone. They pride themselves on creating portable power stations and solar generators that run quietly, are easy to use, and get users' devices powered up in no time.
"We're excited to showcase backup power solutions for the Super Bowl camping to make life outside more enjoyable. " said the Vanpowers team, "This is why Vanpowers continuously tries to allow consumers to be truly independent of the power grid both inside and outside the home."
Vanpowers has already spoken at length about how portable power stations serve many useful functions when going camping, but they believe that this is especially true for those planning to watch the Super Bowl. Whether it's a single-person tablet setup with a portable Wi-Fi hotspot or a family of five crowding around a larger monitor and speakers, any sports fan will need a significant amount of power to be able to stream the game at their campsite. This kind of need can be met with a portable power station.
The Vanpowers Super Power Pro 2000's high 2096Wh capacity can continuously power home projectors for 16 hours within and outside the house. This has garnered widespread praise from reviewers in clean energy circles. With 14 ports of 8 different types and charging from 0% to 100% within only 1.5 hours, users can power all their handheld devices and household appliances at a fast speed. For extra convenience, the SPP 2000 features wheels and a collapsible handle, making it a breeze to move from place to place. Taking renewable energy on the go has never been easier.
To make sure anybody spends Super Bowl Sunday with a way to watch the game, the Super Power Pro 2000 will be a full $200 off from February 1st to February 28th. Sports fans who want to cheer on their favorite team while camping out in the wilderness are encouraged to check out the Vanpowers website to get this discount before it's gone.
About Vanpowers
"Escape the grid, not your life." Vanpowers understands the widespread feelings of anxiety surrounding power outages or power shortages. With a goal of creating sustainable methods of generating power, Vanpowers is committed to helping people find joy and fulfillment in life without relying on the power grid. With Vanpowers, any demand for electricity can be met without racking up excess charges on bills. Whatever the occasion, Vanpowers is always ready to keep people powered up.
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 8, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Imperial County in southeastern California...
* Until 645 PM PDT.
* At 556 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Ocotillo, and
is nearly stationary.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and outbuildings. Very
hazardous travel conditions for motorists.
* Locations impacted include...
Plaster City, Ocotillo, Fish Creek Wash and Coyote Wells.
This includes the following highways...
CA Interstate 8 near mile marker 1, and between mile markers 3 and
22.
CA Route 98 between mile markers 1 and 14.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Dense blowing dust and sand along with frequent cloud to ground
can also be expected.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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If you’re feeling a lot more isolated since the pandemic, you’re not alone. It’s almost a cliché these days to point out that the internet has simultaneously made communication easier while discouraging authentic connection. This was true well before a global health crisis pushed us closer to our screens … but finally, it looks like the current generation might be showing us how to put the “social” back in social media.
The most current example is The Washington Post’s profile on twenty-something Holly Cooke. As a new resident in London, Cooke attempted something a lot of people would call naive: She tried to find genuine friends online. Cooke created a Facebook group called the “London Lonely Girls Club,” and invited members to join her for brunch.
She was so worried that no one would show up, though, that she invited a friend from out of town.
“It was so vulnerable,” she told The Washington Post. “Saying that you’re lonely and you don’t have people around, admitting to that was really scary.”
According to The Washington Post, that humble goal brought out five women, but the Girls Club didn’t stay a cozy clique for long. The group now boasts more than 35,000 members and holds up to seven in-person events a month.
Clearly, those face-to-face meetings are key. The Washington Post story also spotlights New York City resident Marissa Meizz, who reached out for Facebook friendship via her own “No More Lonely Friends” (NMLF) group. The group was a direct response to a heartbreaking viral moment when a TikTok user caught Meizz’s so-called “friends” rescheduling a birthday party so she wouldn’t be able to attend. After more than 200 strangers showed up at an impromptu meetup in Central Park, Meizz says her group kept “spreading through word of mouth.” Now that NMLF hosts live gatherings around the country, that trend should continue.
As people continue to put their lives online through Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, users like Cooke and Meizz are showing us how life online can be a gateway to live interaction. It’s a method that may seem novel to many of us because we’ve forgotten how to do it, even though psychologists are probably saying “I told you so.” These examples show how maybe we could all stand to learn how to make friends the old-fashioned way.
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MARLBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) _ Hologic Inc. (HOLX) on Wednesday reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $187.4 million.
The Marlborough, Massachusetts-based company said it had profit of 75 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $1.07 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 90 cents per share.
The medical device maker posted revenue of $1.07 billion in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $981 million.
For the current quarter ending in March, Hologic expects its per-share earnings to range from 80 cents to 90 cents.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $930 million to $980 million for the fiscal second quarter. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had expected revenue of $921.4 million.
Hologic expects full-year earnings in the range of $3.55 to $3.85 per share, with revenue ranging from $3.85 billion to $4 billion.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays dugout got a laugh when slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. struck out against a position player. Given a second chance against Luke Raley, Guerrero hit his fourth career grand slam.
Guerrero had six RBIs and the Blue Jays stopped a five-game losing streak with a 20-1 rout of the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night, scoring their last 10 runs off position players.
Guerrero put Toronto ahead with an RBI single off Taj Bradley (3-1) in the first, had a run-scoring single in the fifth that opened a 10-0 lead and hit a 423-foot grand slam in a nine-run ninth against Raley.
“We were all kind of laughing,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said of Guerrero’s strikeout on a 50 mph pitch. “It’s hard to do against a dude throwing 40, whatever. You kind of take it for what it’s worth. The fact that he was laughing, I loved it.”
“But, you don’t get Vladdy twice on a position player,” Schneider added. “He’s going to get you.”
Guerrero is hitting .300 with eight homers and 33 RBIs. His six RBIs were one shy of his career high.
All 12 Toronto batters in the game had hits, and the Blue Jays finished with 27 hits — their most since getting 29 against Boston in a 28-5 win last July 22.
Tampa Bay entered with the second-fewest runs allowed in the majors at 170 and gave up its most since a 20-8 loss at Boston on Aug. 11, 2021.
“In fairness, it got a little ugly.” Rays manager Kevin Cash said.
George Springer had a career-high four hits, and Bo Bichette, Whit Merrifield, Danny Jansen and Guerrero had three apiece. Springer hit his seventh homer, a solo drive in the third.
“It’s good to see some positives on our side,” Springer said. “It’s just a good day. Hopefully spiral into a lot more.”
Raley, an outfielder and first baseman, allowed seven runs and eight hits over 1 2/3 innings. He threw 27 pitches of 47-54 mph.
“It’s something I can honestly say I never thought I would do … at least have one strikeout in the books,” Raley said.
Catcher Christian Bethancourt entered with two outs in the ninth and gave up Daulton Varsho’s RBI single and Jansen’s two-run homer.
Raley’s ERA is 30.38 after his second mound appearance this season. Bethancourt’s ERA is 81.00.
“It’s not my favorite place to be,” Raley said. “I told them before, I got rocked in high school, so I can’t imagine what these guys would actually do to me if I tried to pitch. So just try to lob it over the plate and save our bullpen.”
Cash said with a smile that Raley needs to add a changeup.
Zack Burdi gave up six runs in the fifth, five of them earned.
José Berríos (4-4) allowed one run, five hits and two walks, striking out five.
Isaac Paredes homered for the Rays, who dropped to 22-5 at home this season. Tampa Bay leads the majors with 95 home runs.
Bradley gave up four runs and nine hits in four innings.
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Merrifield is 7 for 9 in the series and stole his 14th base. … The 27 hits was most ever allowed by the Rays. … This largest margin of defeat in Tampa Bay history.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Blue Jays: LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu and reliever Chad Green, both coming back from Tommy John surgery, came over from the team’s spring training complex in nearby Dunedin and had bullpen sessions.
“They looked good,” Schnieder said.
Ryu and Green are both expected back this season,
RHP Adam Cimber (upper back) was reinstated from the 15-day injured list.
Rays: 2B Brandon Lowe (neck stiffness) was out of the lineup.
UP NEXT
Toronto LHP Yusei Kikuchi (5-1) and Rays LHP Shane McClanahan (7-0) are Wednesday night’s starters. McClanahan is looking to become the major’s first eight-game winner.
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Yellow Corporation, one of the nation's largest transportation companies, has filed a lawsuit against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) trucking union for alleged breach of contract and attempts to block Yellow's efforts to modernize its business.
Yellow claims the Teamsters caused more than $137 million in damages by "unjustifiably blocking, for over eight months, Yellow’s restructuring plan to modernize its business," which is necessary to avoid a looming bankruptcy.
Yellow and the Teamsters union have been tied up in negotiations since last year over the company's proposed restructuring efforts to consolidate its business operations and create a "super regional carrier" referred to as One Yellow. However, the company claims the Teamsters union is delaying it from initiating Phases 2 and 3 of its restructuring plan.
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Three years ago, Yellow received a $700 million pandemic-era bailout from the U.S. government in exchange for a 30% equity stake in the company. However, the company is reportedly running low on cash and accusing the Teamsters union of blocking Yellow's restructuring plan in attempt to force it into "economic ruin."
"For many months, we have made good faith efforts to meet with the IBT to propose a path forward that works for all parties, but they refuse even to meet, let alone engage in honest talks" Yellow Corporation management said in a statement. "We have communicated with all stakeholders in Washington, D.C., including the Biden Administration, to apprise it of the imminent loss of tens of thousands of jobs, the significant anti-competitive effects on the American economy and the devastating impact to the supply chain, and to seek their assistance in persuading the IBT to negotiate a mutually acceptable agreement. "
The complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas also alleges that Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien orchestrated a "militant approach" to block Yellow's restructuring plan by leveraging the company's dire financial position. The Teamsters union has vehemently denied those claims and blamed Yellow for bad business practices.
"Yellow Corp.’s claims of breach of contract by the Teamsters are unfounded and without merit," O'Brien responded in a statement. "After decades of gross mismanagement, Yellow blew through a $700 million bailout from the federal government, and now it wants workers to foot the bill. For a company that loves to cry poor, Yellow's executives seem to have no problem paying a team of high-priced lawyers to wage a public relations battle — all in a failed attempt to mask their incompetence."
Yellow's government loan allowed the company to stay afloat throughout its restructuring plan, but the company says economic headwinds and its contract dispute with the Teamsters union have put it in a dicey financial position. The current Teamsters contract is set to expire on March 31, 2024, and Yellow has warned that negotiations — or lack thereof — are putting the company's future at risk.
Yellow currently holds more than $1.5 billion in outstanding debt and has maintained that if the Teamsters continues to delay its restructuring plan, the company could run out of cash by as early as next month.
"Completion of One Yellow in 2023 is critical to Yellow’s ability to survive," the company said in a statement.
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PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona court has ruled that abortion doctors cannot be prosecuted under a pre-statehood law that criminalizes nearly all abortions yet was barred from being enforced for decades.
But the Arizona Court of Appeals on Friday declined to repeal the 1864 law, which carries a sentence of two to five years in prison for anyone who assists in an abortion and provides no exceptions for rape or incest.
Still, the court said doctors can’t be prosecuted for performing abortions because other Arizona laws passed over the years allow them to perform the procedure, though non-doctors are still subject to be charged under the old law.
“The statutes, read together, make clear that physicians are permitted to perform abortions as regulated” by other abortion laws, the appeals court wrote.
The pre-statehood law, which allows abortions only if a patient’s life is in jeopardy, had been blocked from being enforced shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing women a constitutional right to an abortion.
But after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision in June, Attorney General Mark Brnovich asked a state judge to allow the law to be implemented.
The Arizona Court of Appeals said it wasn’t viewing the pre-statehood law in isolation of other state abortion laws, explaining that “the legislature has created a complex regulatory scheme to achieve its intent to restrict — but not to eliminate — elective abortions.”
In a statement, Brittany Fonteno, president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood Arizona, said the decision means a state law limiting abortions to 15 weeks into a pregnancy will remain in place.
“Let me be crystal clear that today is a good day,” Fonteno said. “The Arizona Court of Appeals has given us the clarity that Planned Parenthood Arizona has been seeking for months: When provided by licensed physicians in compliance with Arizona’s other laws and regulations, abortion through 15 weeks will remain legal.”
The appeals court rejected Brnovich’s claim that doctors could be prosecuted under the pre-statehood law, saying the attorney general’s argument ignores the Legislature’s intent to regulate but not eliminate abortions and violates due process by promoting arbitrary enforcement.
“Brnovich’s interpretation would not merely invite arbitrary enforcement, it would practically demand it,” the appeals court wrote.
The attorney general’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision, which was released late Friday afternoon.
Abortion providers stopped providing the procedure in the state after Roe was struck down, restarted in mid-July after a “personhood” law giving legal rights to unborn children was blocked by a court, and stopped them again when a Tucson judge allowed the 1864 law to be enforced.
Planned Parenthood Arizona, the state’s largest provider of abortions, restarted abortion care across the state again after Brnovich’s office agreed in another lawsuit not to enforce the old law at least until next year.
A Phoenix physician who runs a clinic that provides abortions and the Arizona Medical Association also had filed a separate lawsuit that sought to block the territorial-era law, arguing that laws enacted by the Legislature after the Roe decision should take precedence and abortions should be allowed until 15 weeks into a pregnancy.
Brnovich sought to place that lawsuit on hold until the Court of Appeals decides the Planned Parenthood case. In an agreement with the abortion doctor and the medical association, he said he would not enforce the old law until at least 45 days after a final ruling in the original case.
A law enacted by the Legislature this year limits abortions to 15 weeks into a pregnancy, well before the 24 weeks generally allowed under the Roe decision that was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in June.
After the Roe decision was overturned and the issue of abortion was left up to the states, bans went into effects in some states.
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Montana Grizzlies (15-13, 9-7 Big Sky) at Idaho Vandals (10-20, 4-13 Big Sky)
TOP PERFORMERS: Yusef Salih is shooting 32.4% from beyond the arc with 1.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Vandals, while averaging 6.8 points. Isaac Jones is averaging 20 points and 8.1 rebounds over the past 10 games for Idaho.
Josh Bannan is averaging 15 points, 8.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists for the Grizzlies. Moody is averaging 16.1 points over the last 10 games for Montana.
LAST 10 GAMES: Vandals: 2-8, averaging 67.9 points, 26.0 rebounds, 11.3 assists, 5.0 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.5 points per game.
Grizzlies: 6-4, averaging 66.3 points, 25.0 rebounds, 12.5 assists, 4.9 steals and 1.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 67.2 points.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be an improved piece of luggage to provide users with added convenience and comfort while waiting in an airport," said an inventor, from Redwood City, Calif., "so I invented the KING6 BAG. My design eliminates the need to search for an available table, counter or power outlet while traveling."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved suitcase for use while traveling. In doing so, it ensures that a flat surface is available for eating, working, etc. It also offers a convenient cup holder for a drink and it enables the user to charge a phone or other device. The invention features an innovative design that is easy to use and transport so it is ideal for travelers. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype model is available upon request.
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Ken Block and Drew Copeland of Sister Hazel slated to perform at fundraiser that benefits the band's non-profit foundation, Lyrics for Life.
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TradePMR, a technology and custodial services provider for Registered Investment Advisors, will host its sixth annual Oktoberfest on Thursday, October 6, 2022, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. ET at TradePMR headquarters, 2511 NW 41st St in Gainesville, Fla. The event will feature craft beer selections from Gainesville's own Blackadder Brewing as well as dining options from local food trucks. Oktoberfest will also include a performance from Ken Block and Drew Copeland from Sister Hazel, with all proceeds benefiting the band's non-profit foundation, Lyrics for Life.
"Oktoberfest is a special event for our community and team members, and we are thrilled once again to gather with our neighbors and friends to support such a worthy cause," said Robb Baldwin, Founder and CEO of TradePMR. "We are proud to support Ken, Drew and Lyrics for Life in their fight against pediatric cancer. We invite the entire Gainesville community to our offices to join us in supporting such a worthy cause."
Lyrics for Life is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 by Sister Hazel to help fight children's cancer. Donations to the charity benefit research support programs as well as an annual three-day event at Camp Crystal Lake in North Central Florida for children and families managing a cancer diagnosis.
Oktoberfest has a $10 suggested donation at the door; however, all donations are welcome and will go directly to Lyrics for Life. There will also be a raffle at this year's event for items donated by local businesses – attendees can purchase one raffle ticket for $10 or three for $25 which will be available on-site at the event. There is parking available within walking distance of the event. Premium parking spots next to the event will be available on-site for a $50 donation. TradePMR will be matching donations dollar-for-dollar to benefit Lyrics for Life.
For more information on this year's event or to make a donation online, visit https://oktoberfest.tradepmr.com.
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HUNTINGTON — Members of the Marshall University Athletic Training department were among those to present their work at the 2023 West Virginia Athletic Trainers’ Association Symposium recently.
Members of the athletic training community gather each year to take a closer look at those doing research in their fields as well as to honor those making a difference in the state and region in athletic training.
Students and faculty presented on a variety of research from the field.
Poster presentations by Marshall students at the Symposium included: Anthony Whitlock’s “Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reinjury”; Madeline Beck’s “Bilateral Shin Pain Presenting as Bilateral Exertional Compartment Syndrome”; Lyndsie Wilson’s “Lower Back Radiofrequency Rhizotomy: Clinical 4 Case Study”; Bailey Pullen’s “Tibial Plateau Fracture Within Football”; and Heather Williamson’s “Tear of the Anterior Inferior Tibiofibular Ligament Resulting in a Tight Rope Surgery and Achilles Tendon Tendinopathy.”
A Marshall faculty presentation made at the symposium was Suzanne Konz’s “Update to the NATA Code of Ethics and How COPE Adjudicates Ethical Complaints.”
Other Marshall honorees at the symposium included: Blayne Lykins, WVATA Student of the Year, and Chris Lapole, WVATA Athletic Trainer of the Year. Lapole is assistant athletic director for sports medicine and head athletic trainer for Marshall.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — In the trial of a man charged with killing 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez, much of the focus remained on Christopher Clements' ex-girlfriend and her account of how he behaved the night the teenager disappeared.
Melissa Stark, Clements' ex-girlfriend, is an important way for the prosecution to compensate for holes in the evidence. There’s only a partial DNA match to a sample found on Maribel Gonzalez remains, so Clements' behavior the night the teen disappeared and his interest in the sort of cleaning that could destroy DNA evidence could be crucial.
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Stark says she argued with Clements on the night of June 3, 2014 and he left the house at about 8 p.m., then returned by midnight.
Clements demanded all the bleach in the house but there wasn't enough for him, so he took Stark’s car to get more. Stark says he asked if she looked in his car trunk while he was gone, then he got back in his car, left and did not come back until about dawn.
She says after he returned, Clements' asked again if she’d looked in his trunk. According to Stark, he ordered her to immediately wash the clothes he was wearing, clean the shower he was using with bleach and use bleach to clean the floor between the bathroom and the front door..
On further questioning in the morning session, Stark said she never asked why he demanded that bleach clean up. She never asked where he went and never looked in the trunk of that car even well after that night.
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By NOAH TRISTER
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BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — In Gee Chun shot a 3-under 69 on Friday to increase her lead to six strokes halfway through the Women’s PGA Championship.
Chun led by five after the first round, equaling the biggest 18-hole advantage in the history of women’s major championships. The Congressional Country Club course was a bit more forgiving Friday, and she began with three birdies in the first five holes.
Bogeys on Nos. 7 and 8, however, kept her from opening a even bigger lead,
Lydia Ko (67) and Jennifer Kupcho (68) were second. Kupcho took the first major of the season in early April in the California desert and won a playoff Sunday in Michigan for her second LPGA Tour title.
After wet conditions for the first round brought the course’s length into focus, it was a clear, warm day Friday. Ko’s impressive performance set the tone early on. Like Chun, Ko is trying for her third major title and first since 2016.
Lexi Thompson matched Ko with a 67 of her own, highlighted by an eagle when she holed out a wedge from 102 yards on the par-4 17th.
“I took one more club extra to control the spin,” Thompson said. “I had spun back a good amount of shots. So I tried to take one more and chip it, and I ended up spinning it back. It was still really going fast with the spin, but ended up going in. I just went off the crowd because we can’t see anything from down there.”
U.S. Women’s Open champ Minjee Lee (68) was with Thompson at 3 under.
Although there were far more birdies on day two than on Thursday, even the top players had their problems. After reaching 11 under par, Chun missed the green on the par-3 seventh and took a bogey. Then on No. 8, a 245-yard par 4, her tee shot went into the thick rough on the edge of a greenside bunker.
Chun punched out of it backwards, then failed to get up and down for par.
Still, those were her only two bogeys of the round, and she’s kept the field at arm’s length. Hye-Jin Choi and Pornanong Phatlum both shot 72 after first-round 69s. They now trail by eight.
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Polls shows support for Trump remains strong despite indictment
Support for President Donald Trump is growing, despite his Thursday indictment, according to recent polls.
WPTV examined how the indictment will impact both Democrats and Republicans ahead of the 2024 presidential race.
In the days leading up to his indictment, support Trump’s base remained strong and still does.
"Right now for Trump and his supporters, this is a loyalty test time," WPTV political analyst Brian Crowley said.
RELATED: What does Donald Trump's indictment mean for his presidential run?
Crowley agrees overwhelmingly that Republicans are showing they still believe in Trump and believe the indictment on several charges of alleged document fraud is an attack from Democrats.
In fact, a Quinnipiac poll found that more than six in 10 Americans, about 62% believe the case is motivated by politics.
"You know, I don't think this would be happening if Donald Trump wasn't running [in] 2024," Ashton Munholland, president of the Palm Beach County Young Republicans, said.
Munholland said the indictment has only strengthened the president's base.
A Quinnipiac poll found 72% of Republicans believe Trump has had a positive impact on the party.
"I think that Donald Trump carries the voice and the heart of this nation," Munholland said. "I think they are extremely intimidated by that connection and persecution against Trump is persecution against our country."
Mindy Koch, chair for the Democratic party of Palm Beach County, said the indictment is sending a message.
"We're very kind of pleased because it shows no one, not even a former president, is above the law," Koch said.
But what kind of impact the indictment has on the 2024 presidential race depends on many factors.
The same Quinnipiac poll found the majority of Americans polled, about 57%, believe the charges should disqualify Trump from running for president. Also, how does this impact Gov. Ron DeSantis' potential presidential run?
"Gov. DeSantis has said all along that he was going to wait till after the legislative session to 'make a decision,' which we all know he's already made to run," Crowley said. "I think he'll stay on the timeline for now. I think that there's going to be a lot of support leaning to Donald Trump."
For now, Koch believes the governor is using this opportunity to play to his base.
"The former president probably will surrender himself," Koch said. "But if he does not, the governor said he's not going to help and that's in violation of our Constitution, and that's a real problem for us."
Koch couldn't say whether the current scenario helps or hurts the Democratic Party, mostly because we don't know what's in the indictment yet.
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LEXINGTON, Mass., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Curis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRIS), a biotechnology company focused on the development of innovative therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, today announced that on July 22, 2022, the independent Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of Curis approved the grant of an inducement stock option to purchase a total of 540,000 shares of Curis common stock to a new employee, with a grant date of July 26, 2022, which is the employee's date of hire (the "Inducement Grant").
Such Inducement Grant has an exercise price per share equal to the closing price of the Company's common stock on July 26, 2022, which is the employee's date of hire. Such Inducement Grant has a 10 year term and vests over four years, with 25% of the original number of shares underlying the award vesting on the first anniversary of the employee's date of hire and an additional 6.25% of the original number of shares underlying the award vesting on each successive three-month period thereafter, subject to the employee's continued service with the Company through the respective vesting dates. Such Inducement Grant was granted as an inducement equity award outside of the Company's Fourth Amended and Restated 2010 Stock Incentive Plan and was made as an inducement material to the employee's acceptance of employment with the Company.
Curis is a biotechnology company focused on the development of innovative therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. In 2015, Curis entered into a collaboration with Aurigene in the areas of immuno-oncology and precision oncology. As part of this collaboration, Curis has exclusive licenses to oral small molecule antagonists of immune checkpoints including the VISTA/PDL1 antagonist CA-170, and the TIM3/PDL1 antagonist CA-327, as well as the IRAK4 kinase inhibitor, emavusertib (CA-4948). Emavusertib is currently undergoing testing in the Phase 1/2 TakeAim Lymphoma trial, in patients with hematologic malignancies, such as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other B cell malignancies, both as a monotherapy and in combination with BTK inhibitor ibrutinib, and the Phase 1/2 TakeAim Leukemia trial in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome, for which it has received Orphan Drug Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA has placed a partial clinical hold on the TakeAim Leukemia and TakeAim Lymphoma trials during which no new patients will be enrolled, and current study participants benefiting from treatment may continue to be treated with emavusertib at doses of 300mg BID or lower. In addition, Curis is engaged in a collaboration with ImmuNext for development of CI-8993, a monoclonal anti-VISTA antibody, which is currently undergoing testing in a Phase 1 trial in patients with solid tumors. Curis is also party to a collaboration with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, under which Genentech and Roche are commercializing Erivedge® for the treatment of advanced basal cell carcinoma. For more information, visit Curis's website at www.curis.com.
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TORONTO (AP) — Bob Bradley was fired as head coach and sporting director of Toronto on Monday after the team won just three of 20 Major League Soccer matches this season.
Terry Dunfield, a former Toronto player and Canadian international, was promoted to interim head coach. The 41-year-old, who also played for Vancouver and Manchester City, had been head coach of the under-17 team at the Toronto academy.
Mike Sorber, Toronto’s assistant coach and technical director, also was fired.
Toronto, which lost 2-1 at New England on Saturday, is 14th among 15 teams in the Eastern Conference with three wins, seven losses and 10 draws. The team has won just two of its last 17 matches in all competitions, drawing eight. Only Miami has a worse record with five runs, 13 losses and no draws.
The 65-year-old Bradley, a former U.S. national team coach whose son is Toronto captain Michael Bradley, was hired in November 2021 and led the team to 14 wins, 26 losses and 19 draws.
“Bob has been a consummate professional with Toronto FC and we thank him for his passion and tireless work during his time here,” Toronto president Bill Manning said in a statement. “We are all disappointed that we were not able to achieve the results we expected.”
Midfielder Federico Bernardeschi criticized Toronto’s style of play after a 1-0 loss at Austin on May 20. Toronto was missing 10 players due to injuries or suspensions.
“We don’t play,” Bernardeschi said. “We play long pass. We don’t have an idea to play.”
“I think this city, the fans, everybody, don’t deserve this,” he added.
Bradley benched Bernardeschi for the following weekend’s game against D.C. United, a 2-1 win, calling it a “coach’s decision” rather than a disciplinary action. Bernardeschi returned to the starting lineup for the following match against Chicago, a 0-0 draw.
Toronto went through a 418-minute league scoring drought after CJ Sapong’s strike in a 1-0 win over visiting New York City on April 29. Toronto failed to score during a four-game winless run in May against New England (2-0), Montreal (2-0), the New York Red Bulls (0-0) and Austin (1-0).
Toronto also was knocked out of the Canadian Championship at the first hurdle, beaten 2-1 May 9 by Montreal in a quarterfinal.
Bradley coached the U.S. from 2006-11 and Egypt from 2011-13. At club level, he coached Norway’s Stabæk (2014-15), France’s Le Havre (2015-16) and England’s Swansea (2016).
He became the fourth MLS coach fired since the start of the season. Chicago replaced Ezra Hendrickson with Frank Klopas on May 8, the same day the New York Red Bulls’ Gerhard Struber was replaced by Troy Lesesne, and Miami’s Phil Neville was fired on June 1 and replaced by Javier Morales.
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SHANGHAI, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE: ZTO and HKEX: 2057) ("ZTO" or the "Company"), a leading and fast-growing express delivery company in China, today announced that it will hold its extraordinary general meeting of shareholders ("EGM") on Friday, April 14, 2023, at 2 p.m (local time), at 9/F, The Center, 99 Queen's Road Central, Central, Hong Kong, for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing each of the Proposed Resolutions as defined and set forth in the notice of the EGM (the "EGM Notice"). An online live webcast of the meeting will also be made available for holders of ordinary shares of the Company as of the Record Date.The EGM Notice and the form of proxy for the EGM are available on the Company's website at http://zto.investorroom.com. The board of directors of the Company fully supports the Proposed Resolutions and recommends that shareholders and holders of American depositary shares ("ADSs") vote in favor of the Proposed Resolutions.
Holders of record of ordinary shares of the Company at the close of business on March 13, 2023, Hong Kong time (the "Record Date"), are entitled to notice of and to attend and vote at the EGM or any adjournment or postponement thereof. Holders of record of ADSs as of the close of business on March 13, 2023, New York time, who wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying Class A ordinary shares must give voting instructions to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., the depositary of the ADSs.
You may obtain an electronic copy of the Company's annual report, free of charge, from the Company's website at http://zto.investorroom.com, The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited's website at www.hkexnews.hk or from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov.
About ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc.
ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE: ZTO and SEHK: 2057) ("ZTO" or the "Company") is a leading and fast-growing express delivery company in China. ZTO provides express delivery service as well as other value-added logistics services through its extensive and reliable nationwide network coverage in China.
ZTO operates a highly scalable network partner model, which the Company believes is best suited to support the significant growth of e-commerce in China. The Company leverages its network partners to provide pickup and last-mile delivery services, while controlling the mission-critical line-haul transportation and sorting network within the express delivery service value chain.
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