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NEW YORK (AP)The NBA 2K League is taking its 2023 season to Washington.
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ROME (AP) — Ukrainian embassies and consulates in six European countries have received packages containing animals’ eyes in recent days, a Ukrainian official said Friday.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko wrote on Facebook that the “bloody parcels” were received by the Ukrainian embassies in Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia and Italy, as well as by consulates in Naples, Italy; Krakow, Poland and the Czech city of Brno. He said that “we are studying the meaning of this message.”
“It’s a very strong signal,” the Ukrainian consul in Naples, Maksym Kovalenko, said, confirming his office received two letters containing fish eyes at around 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Nikolenko said the parcels arrived after a package containing an explosive device sent to the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid ignited upon opening on Wednesday and injured an employee. That was one of multiple explosive parcels found in Spain this week.
Spain´s Interior Ministry said police evacuated the Madrid embassy on Friday after another suspect package was detected. The ministry said the parcel was posted from outside Spain and might be part of the chain of mail sent to other embassies in Europe. Police were investigating the contents and did not find any explosives, the ministry said.
Elsewhere, the entrance to the residence of the Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican was vandalized and the Ukrainian Embassy in Kazakhstan was warned of an attack with explosives, though that wasn’t confirmed, Nikolenko said.
In Poland, a spokesman for the police in Warsaw confirmed by email that a package arrived at the Ukrainian Consulate in the Polish capital on Thursday that “raised concern” from one of the employees. The police department for protecting diplomatic missions was notified and “we quickly eliminated the danger” spokesman Sylwester Marczak said. He provided no further details. Marczak said he was not aware of any such parcel arriving at the Ukrainian Embassy in Warsaw.
Police in Krakow, in southern Poland, did not confirm an incident at the consulate there but said a suspicious package was identified at a post office Thursday. Police said the contents were being examined but would not say to whom the package was addressed.
In the Czech Republic, police said an X-ray scan found no explosives in a checked package, but they added later that animal tissue was found inside that has been submitted to laboratory tests.
Ukraine’s ambassador to the Vatican, Andrii Yurash, said the entrance to his Rome residence was vandalized Thursday afternoon with what he believed to be animal feces. The door to the apartment and the stairs and walls in the entryway were “smeared with a dirty substance with an unpleasant smell,” he told The Associated Press. He said his wife and son were not home at the time, and police were called.
“And also the diplomatic mission in Italy received some letters also with some very unpleasant stuff inside, I mean some animal eyes. I don’t know exactly but it looks like eyes from fish or some other animals,” Yurash said. “So it is hard to explain completely why, and what is the reason of this terrible message, but it is no doubt a systematic trend, a systematic attack on Ukrainian missions around Europe.”
In Croatia, police said the Ukrainian Embassy in Zagreb called to report that a suspicious package meant for the embassy arrived at the post office, but diplomatic personnel didn’t collect it following the warning from the Foreign Ministry.
Croatian police took custody of the package and are investigating where it was sent from and what it contained. No other details were revealed.
All Ukrainian embassies and consulates have stepped up security measures. Nikolenko quoted Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba as saying that “we have reason to believe that a well-planned campaign of terror and intimidation of Ukrainian embassies and consulates is taking place.”
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Ravens in Reality will include interactive, augmented reality versions of Lamar Jackson, Tyus Bowser, Kyle Hamilton, and mascot Poe
VANCOUVER, BC and ERIE, Pa., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Imagine AR Inc. (CSE: IP) (OTCQB: IPNFF) ("ImagineAR" or "Company"), an Augmented Reality Company that enables sports teams, businesses, and enterprises to create their own AR mobile campaigns, is excited to announce the NFL's Baltimore Ravens' new Ravens in Reality will include authentic, virtual players integrated into their mobile app. Fans around the world can take videos and pictures with some of their favorite Ravens using the official team app. QB Lamar Jackson, OLB Tyus Bowser, S Kyle Hamilton, and Ravens mascot Poe will be available at launch, with new players added before each week's game.
To engage with this immersive AR experience, fans will download the official Baltimore Ravens Mobile app (available for iOS & Android), choose "Ravens in Reality" from the Menu, select a player, and then point their device's camera at the floor or flat surface to place the life-size virtual player. Users can take an unlimited number of videos and photos that can be instantly shared on social media.
Dave Lang, Director of Digital Strategy & Innovation for the Baltimore Ravens, said, "After launching Ravens in Reality last month – giving our fans the ability to scan images and bring AR objects to life – we're excited to expand this platform with new features. This latest update allows the #RavensFlock around the world to enjoy and share new high-quality, immersive AR experiences in our mobile app. We look forward to offering new Ravens in Reality virtual players and objects every week through the rest of the season."
Alen Paul Silverrstieen, CEO of ImagineAR, stated, "It's exciting to finally launch AR versions of Ravens players, including superstar quarterback Lamar Jackson. The quality is exceptional, and I think fans will have fun sharing videos and pictures with their favorite players on social media. This will be a fan engagement game changer and certainly will receive a lot of attention from other sports teams and leagues around the world."
ImagineAR Inc. (CSE: IP) (OTC: IPNFF) is a self-publishing augmented reality (AR) platform that enables businesses of any size to create and implement their own AR campaigns with no programming or technology experience. Every organization, from professional sports franchises to small retailers, can develop interactive AR campaigns that blend the real and digital worlds. Customers simply point their mobile device at logos, signs, buildings, (products, landmarks and more to instantly engage videos, information, advertisements, coupons,3D holograms and any interactive content all hosted in the cloud and managed using a menu-driven portal. Integrated real-time analytics means that all customer interaction is tracked and measured in real-time. The AR Enterprise platform supports both IOS and Android mobile devices and upcoming wearable technologies. The AR Platform is available as an SDK Plug-in for existing mobile apps.
For more information or to explore working with ImagineAR, please email info@imaginear.com, or visit www.imagineAR.com.
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, November 2, 2022
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MARLBOROUGH, Mass., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Phio Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Nasdaq: PHIO), a clinical stage biotechnology company developing the next generation of therapeutics based on its proprietary self-delivering RNAi (INTASYL™) therapeutic platform, today presented new preclinical data showing that silencing BRD4 with PH-894, a self-delivering RNAi INTASYL compound, can be used to improve the characteristics of CAR-T cell products during the activation and expansion phases of the cell manufacturing process. These new data will be presented at the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) 25th Annual Meeting, which is being held in Washington D.C., from May 16-19, 2022.
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"Hurdles that are faced with current CAR T-cell therapy treatment for solid tumors include cell persistence and cell exhaustion. Due to the immunosuppressive environment of the tumor, CAR T-cells may become exhausted, thereby limiting the efficacy of treatment for cancer patients," said Dr. Simon Fricker, Phio's VP of Research and Development. "These data demonstrate that PH-894 could enhance the activity of CAR-T cells by improving the quality of the final CAR-T cell product by overcoming immunosuppression, reversing exhaustion, and preserving a phenotype associated with cell persistence. There is potential for PH-894 to play a role in boosting the potency of the next generation of CAR-T cell products to enhance adoptive cell therapy for solid tumors without using genetic manipulation."
Data from the studies conducted assessed the potential of PH-894 to improve the quality and potency of HER2-targeted CAR-T cells in a CAR-T expansion model. CAR-T cells were activated with an OKT3 antibody and treated with PH-894. Results showed that PH-894 reduced the expansion-associated production of BRD4 and BRD4-regulated genes and mitigated the production of inhibitory receptors and markers of T cell exhaustion, PD-1, TIGIT and TIM3. Additionally, PH-894 preserved putative T cell stem-cell memory and central memory, phenotypes associated with cell persistence, on HER2-CAR-T cells that were otherwise depleted by cell expansion without the use of PH-894.
Phio's presentation detailing the data presented at ASGCT titled, "Self-delivering RNAi Targeting BRD4 (PH-894) Improves the Phenotype of HER2-CAR-T Cells During Expansion" will be made available on the "Investors – Events and Presentations" section of the Company's website (click here).
About Phio Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Phio Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Nasdaq: PHIO) is a clinical stage biotechnology company developing the next generation of immuno-oncology therapeutics based on its self-delivering RNAi (INTASYL™) therapeutic platform. The Company's efforts are focused on silencing tumor-induced suppression of the immune system through its proprietary INTASYL platform with utility in immune cells and the tumor micro-environment. Our goal is to develop powerful INTASYL therapeutic compounds that can weaponize immune effector cells to overcome tumor immune escape, thereby providing patients a powerful new treatment option that goes beyond current treatment modalities. For additional information, visit the Company's website, www.phiopharma.com.
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LINCOLN, Neb., July 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Sandhills Global's newest market reports, used heavy-duty truck, semitrailer, and construction machinery in Sandhills marketplaces are following the same trends observed in previous months. Inventory levels in these markets have increased, driving asking and auction values down. The used tractor market, however, is a notable exception to these trends.
Used combine inventory levels have remained steady for the past few months while asking and auction values continue to soften. Recent inventory gains in Q2 among high-horsepower (300 HP and greater) tractors have driven auction values downward. Despite the increasing inventory levels and decreasing auction values, however, asking values for high-HP tractors remain elevated. Buyers and sellers should monitor and assess values in the short term.
"Asking values for high-horsepower tractors were up compared to last year, but auction values are trending down," says Sales Manager Mitch Helman. "It will be well worth paying attention to changes in this market as the spread between auction and asking values grows."
The key metric used in all of Sandhills' market reports is the Sandhills Equipment Value Index (EVI). Buyers and sellers can use the information in the Sandhills EVI to monitor equipment markets and maximize returns on acquisition, liquidation, and related business decisions. The Sandhills EVI data include equipment available in auction and retail markets as well as model year equipment actively in use.
Additional Market Report Takeaways
Sandhills market reports highlight the most significant changes in Sandhills' used heavy-duty truck, semitrailer, farm machinery, and construction equipment markets. Key points from the current reports are listed below. Full reports are available upon request.
U.S. Used Tractors Over 300 Horsepower
- Used farm equipment inventory levels continued to climb through June, with a substantial number of late-model high-horsepower tractors coming to market.
- Inventory levels of used high-HP tractors increased 10.27% M/M and 59.81% YOY in June. This continues a months-long trend of inventory increases.
- Since the beginning of 2023, asking values have held steady while auction values have declined. The subsequent gap between asking and auction values continued to grow larger in June. Used high-HP tractor asking values increased 1.4% M/M and rose 10.6% YOY in June and are currently trending sideways. Auction values dropped 0.55% M/M and rose 3.66% YOY and are trending down.
U.S. Used Combines
- Used combine inventory levels held steady in June, decreasing 0.75% M/M but increasing 18.32% YOY.
- Asking and auction values have been in decline since the start of the year. Asking values decreased 2.84% M/M in June but rose 6.61% YOY. Auction values pushed further into negative YOY territory in June, falling 3.94% M/M and 2.7% YOY, and are trending down. Asking values typically lag auction values by a few months.
U.S. Used Compact and Utility Tractors
- Inventory levels of used compact and utility tractors under 100 HP continued to rise in June, increasing 3.40% M/M and 66.78% YOY, and are trending up. The under-40-HP tractor category showed the largest M/M inventory increases.
- Asking values were 0.06% lower M/M but 2.5% higher YOY and are currently trending sideways. Auction values decreased 0.64% M/M and 1.57% YOY and are trending down.
U.S. Used Heavy-Duty Trucks
- Used inventory levels were up 4.45% M/M and 32.52% YOY in June following several months of increases. Day cab trucks are driving continued inventory level increases among used heavy-duty trucks overall.
- Asking and auction values fell in June, continuing a months-long trend of decreases. Asking values dropped 1.51% M/M and 20.75% YOY while auction values decreased 2.07% M/M and 24.42% YOY.
U.S. Used Semitrailers
- Used semitrailer inventory levels have shown consecutive months of increases, driving asking and auction values down. Continuing the trend, inventory levels were up 1.67% M/M and 38.47% YOY in June.
- Asking values fell 1.84% M/M and 23.53% YOY while auction values were down 3.31% M/M and 26.61% YOY. Asking and auction values have both shown decreases for several months.
- The highest M/M changes in inventory and values are occurring within the dry van trailer category.
U.S. Used Medium-Duty Trucks
- Like inventory changes among used heavy-duty trucks, medium-duty truck inventories continue to grow. Inventory levels rose 8.58% M/M and 30.54% YOY in June following months of increases.
- Values continue showing decreases of 2% to 3% each month. Asking values were down 2.52% M/M and 10.62% Y/Y in June and are trending down. Auction values fell 4.01% M/M and 16.72% YOY. As with heavy-duty trucks and semitrailers, these value drops follow months of declines.
U.S. Used Heavy-Duty Construction Equipment
- Used heavy-duty construction equipment inventory levels have been increasing since January. Inventories were up 2.63% M/M and 3.5% YOY in June and are currently trending up.
- Values, meanwhile, have been declining since January. Asking values decreased 2.15% M/M and 4.85% YOY in June and are trending down. Auction values fell 3.06% M/M and 6.94% YOY.
U.S. Used Medium-Duty Construction Equipment
- Following numerous months of increases, inventory levels of used medium-duty construction equipment rose 9.15% M/M and 42.80% YOY. Inventory in this category has increased more rapidly since January compared to heavy-duty construction equipment.
- Asking values remained steady but auction values fell in June, and Sandhills has observed a slight gap between asking and auction prices. Asking values decreased 0.59% M/M and 2.13% YOY in June while auction values fell 1.82% M/M and 5.86% YOY.
U.S. Used Lifts
- Similar to inventory increases in used medium-duty construction equipment, the used lift market has posted consecutive months of inventory increases since February. June increases were relatively modest for lifts, however, with inventory levels rising 5.30% M/M and 0.12% YOY.
- Asking values dropped 0.50% M/M and rose 6.14% YOY in June and are currently trending up. Auction values decreased 5.21% M/M and 1.97% YOY in June and are trending down.
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The Sandhills Equipment Value Index (EVI) is a principal gauge of the estimated market values of used assets—both currently and over time—across the construction, agricultural, and commercial trucking industries represented by Sandhills Global marketplaces, including AuctionTime.com, TractorHouse.com, MachineryTrader.com, TruckPaper.com, and other industry-specific equipment platforms. Powered by FleetEvaluator, Sandhills' proprietary asset valuation tool, Sandhills EVI provides useful insights into the ever-changing supply-and-demand conditions for each industry.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — New York Jets right tackle Mekhi Becton will “more than likely” miss the entire season because of another injury to his surgically repaired right knee, coach Robert Saleh announced Tuesday.
Becton was having a second evaluation after suffering a chip fracture to his kneecap, Saleh confirmed, during the second play of 11-on-11 team drills Monday. The initial prognosis was optimistic, but an MRI later in the day revealed more damage to the knee than first expected.
“It’s probably the inevitable,” Saleh said of the severity of the injury. “I’m just sick for Mekhi.”
When asked to clarify if Becton’s season appears over, Saleh said: “Yeah, it’s more than likely.”
The 6-foot-7 Becton, entering his third NFL season, injured the same knee last year in the opening game at Carolina and missed the rest of the season. The latest injury is new and not related to the one last year when he suffered a dislocated right kneecap and cartilage damage.
“Everything happens for a reason,” Becton wrote on his Instagram page. “I know God and my Grandma got me up there I JUST KNOW IT! TRUST!#IMSTILLHIM.”
Becton was run-blocking at right tackle Monday when he went down on the grass and immediately grabbed at his knee. The 2020 first-round draft pick was down a few moments before trying to get up, but needed assistance from trainers to walk off the field.
He took off his pads and eventually walked very gingerly on his own to the locker room with a noticeable limp.
“It just sucks, man,” quarterback Zach Wilson said.
It’s another major setback for Becton, who was adjusting to moving to right tackle this season after previously playing on the left side. George Fant, who slid over from right tackle and played well in Becton’s place, is slotted as the starter on the left side.
Becton appeared to be making strides at right tackle in recent practices, but began wearing a brace on his right knee late last week. His weight — he’s listed at 363 pounds after reportedly ballooning to 400 last year — was also a popular target of criticism for some fans and media. That only increased when Becton chose to not report for voluntary offseason workouts, instead opting to stay with his pregnant girlfriend and work out with his personal trainer.
Becton attended mandatory minicamp in June, predicting he’d make critics “eat their words” and showed up for training camp noticeably slimmer.
“These are young men and I think sometimes with social media and this world, we dehumanize these athletes in the worst way imaginable,” Saleh said. “Mekhi has walked in this building and he has taken every single punch you can get from every which way, and he shows up and he works his tail off and he grinds every single day.
“He shows up to camp and he’s fighting to get himself back into shape and he’s got videos of him vomiting and people are throwing shade and he’s limping and he’s doing all those different things. And he’s fighting for his family, for himself, for his teammates, for this organization, for this fan base. And he’s doing everything, and then everyone wants to drop him like a wet rag.”
Saleh insisted that is not the case as far as the team is concerned, despite all the outside criticism of Becton.
“We love Mekhi,” the coach said. “We appreciate everything he’s done and his ride is not over. His story is not over. He’s got full support of this organization.
“And if you’re a fan that wants to support him, you’re more than welcome. Otherwise, just keep it moving.”
Becton saw video of Saleh’s comments posted by the team and expressed his appreciation in a quote-tweet.
“I appreciate you more than you know coach!!” Becton wrote. “Love you coach!!! ITS NOT OVER!!!”
With Becton out indefinitely, the Jets now must focus on who’ll replace him at right tackle.
The versatile Chuma Edoga, a third-rounder in 2019, appears to be the front-runner — for now. Conor McDermott is dealing with a lower-ankle sprain that will sideline him a week or two. Max Mitchell, a fourth-rounder this year, Grant Hermanns and Derrick Kelly are other options.
New York also hosted free agent Duane Brown over the weekend and general manager Joe Douglas said during an interview on WFAN that “the wheels are in motion” for potentially adding him. Brown, who turns 37 on Aug. 30, was selected to the Pro Bowl for the fifth time last season with Seattle.
Brown, a first-round pick of the Texans in 2008, has been a left tackle his entire career. So Fant would likely have to slide back over to the right side if Brown is signed.
NOTES: The Jets signed guards Caleb Benenoch and Chris Glaser, and waived OL Parker Ferguson and DL Hamilcar Rashed Jr. … CB D.J. Reed, RB Ty Johnson and DE Vinny Curry all sat out practice with hamstring injuries. … CB Brandon Echols (undisclosed) also didn’t practice.
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DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan lawmaker who is Jewish said Friday that she and two other legislators were contacted by the FBI about an armed man who was charged with making death threats on Twitter against Jewish state officials.
The FBI hasn't publicly identified the officials. But state Rep. Samantha Steckloff, a Democrat from suburban Detroit, said she was contacted when agents arrested Jack Carpenter III last week.
“They just said there were credible threats against myself and the other Jewish legislators and they were getting ready to arrest” Carpenter, Steckloff told The Associated Press.
Carpenter, who remains in custody, was due in federal court Friday for a bond hearing. Prosecutors want to keep him locked up while his case is pending.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel identified herself as a target Thursday.
“You're getting threats constantly. ... It didn't really affect me probably like it should because I've been dealing with extremism and antisemitism since October, November,” Steckloff said.
She said threats took off last year when Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, made antisemitic comments in interviews and on social media. He has expressed some regret.
The FBI said Carpenter of Tipton, Michigan, was in Texas when he tweeted on Feb. 17 that he was returning to “to carry out the punishment of death to anyone” who is Jewish in Michigan government “if they don’t leave, or confess, and now that kind of problem.”
Carpenter also declared a new country — “New Israel” — around his home, according to the criminal complaint.
Investigators said he had firearms and ammunition in his vehicle.
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NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased certain redeemable senior notes (the "Notes") of Waste Management, Inc. ("WM" or the "Company") (NYSE: WM) between February 13, 2020 and June 23, 2020, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The Notes include the following senior redeemable notes issued by WM in May 2019: (i) 2.95% Senior Notes due 2024; (ii) 3.20% Senior Notes due 2026; (iii) 3.45% Senior Notes due 2029; and (iv) 4.00% Senior Notes due 2039. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
On April 14, 2019, WM entered into an agreement and plan of merger (the "Merger") to acquire Advanced Disposal Systems, Inc. ("ADS") for $4.9 billion, or $33.15 per share. The Merger was conditioned upon an ADS shareholder vote and obtaining antitrust clearance from regulators, including the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ").
On October 25, 2019, WM, ADS, and the DOJ entered into a timing agreement that provided for a minimum 70-day settlement period during which the parties would attempt to reach an agreement on DOJ approval for the Merger, which included DOJ approval of the amount of WM's asset divestures. Unbeknownst to investors, during this process the DOJ informed WM that its agreement to divest $200 million in revenue-producing assets to address antitrust concerns would be insufficient for regulatory approval. The DOJ concluded that the combination of WM and ADS would, without divestures significantly in excess of $200 million, cause harm to municipal solid waste disposal in 24 geographic markets across 8 states, and cause harm to small container commercial waste collection in 33 geographic markets located in 6 states.
Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made materially false and misleading statements throughout the Class Period, including omitting material facts relating to: (i) the DOJ's indication to WM that it would require WM to divest significantly more than $200 million; and (ii) the impact of the DOJ's indication on the completion of the Merger and the redemption of the Notes.
On June 24, 2020, WM disclosed that the Company and ADS had revised the terms of the Merger and that WM needed to divest substantially more assets than previously disclosed to receive DOJ approval for the deal. Under the revised Merger terms, WM agreed to purchase ADS for $4.6 billion, or $30.30 per share, thereby reducing WM's acquisition cost by approximately $300 million to $4.6 billion. In addition, WM and ADS had agreed to sell $835 million worth of assets in an attempt to satisfy antitrust regulators, which assets were responsible for generating approximately $345 million in 2019 revenue. WM also revealed that the deal was now not expected to close until "the end of the third quarter of 2020" – six months later than had been represented by defendants at the start of the Class Period and, critically, after the end date which triggered the redemption feature of the Notes.
On this news, the prices of the Notes fell significantly. For example, the 3.45% Notes fell from 109% on June 23, 2020 to just 103% of par on June 24, 2020.
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- CMA CGM and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have launched a second buoy to aid in the survival of the North Atlantic right whale, one of the world's most critically endangered species.
- While preserving marine biodiversity, the buoy near Savannah, Ga., fills a critical gap along the East Coast.
- Through this new step, the CMA CGM Group strengthens its initiatives to protect the environment and preserve biodiversity in the United States and worldwide.
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SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, in partnership with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution deployed a second acoustic monitoring buoy, aptly named CMA CGM Sea Guardian-Savannah, 39 miles off the coast of Savannah, Ga. The first was launched off the coast of Norfolk, Va., last month. The buoys are designed to increase North Atlantic right whale detection efforts along this heavily trafficked route and will thus help protect the critically endangered species.
Although North Atlantic right whales are protected under the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, serious threats to their survival abound with only approximately 336 of these great whales remaining on the planet. The installment of the buoys aims to aid in right whale's survival and will fill a critical gap in monitoring along the East Coast.
The Norfolk and Savannah locations were chosen for the new systems because the ports are among the busiest in the United States, which often puts ships directly in the path of migrating whales. The Port of Savannah is one of the largest and fastest-growing container terminals in North America and a key strategic partner in the Group's East Coast operations.
In addition to the assembly and deployment of the new buoys to alert mariners of the presence of whales near critical U.S. ports, CMA CGM and WHOI will lead the development of an industry consortium focused on reducing risks to right whales from vessels and supporting the continued operation of the WHOI-developed digital acoustic monitoring buoys. This unique collaboration, started in the United States, aims to have a global impact by significantly improving marine mammal protection.
These buoy launches reaffirm CMA CGM's commitment to preserve marine biodiversity in the United States and worldwide. On the East Coast of the United States and Canada, CMA CGM requires its vessels to reduce their speed to a maximum of 10 knots in certain areas recognized as breeding grounds for cetaceans. On the West Coast, CMA CGM has voluntarily committed to the "Green Flag" speed-reduction program that was introduced in the sanctuary near the Santa Barbara Islands. Wherever possible, the Group strives to lower its speeds and thus limit the risk of collision in these cetacean-protection sanctuaries.
In addition to speed-reduction programs, the CMA CGM Group is participating in a variety of projects designed to revolutionize marine mammal protection through the development of innovative technology. Examples include:
- REPCET, a collaborative system based on the density of the mesh created by navigation that allows merchant ships to receive and transmit alerts on whale positions in real time.
- SEA DETECT, a European project that tests innovative solutions for detecting cetaceans and floating objects at sea.
- CMA CGM has also joined the LIFE-PIAQUO consortium, whose objective is to develop and test various equipment to reduce the noise of maritime traffic and its impact on aquatic biodiversity.
The CMA CGM Group, as part of its sustainability commitment, no longer carries plastic waste on board any of its ships, since June 2022. Through its partnership with WHOI and others, the CMA CGM Group continues to make conserving biodiversity one of the top priorities of its CSR policy and to develop trade that is more responsible and fairer for everyone and for the planet.
Heather Wood, CMA CGM Head of Sustainability-North America, said, "At CMA CGM, we act for the planet with a focus on advancing decarbonization and increasing biodiversity within the oceans. The launch of our two CMA CGM Sea Guardian buoys is yet another step in the Group's roadmap to preserve the health of the ocean and to slow climate change ensuring that future generations of terrestrial and aquatic species will be able to call the planet home."
Mark Baumgartner, project principal investigator and WHOI marine ecologist, said, "This buoy deployment is a great addition to the network of buoys along the East Coast that strive to protect marine life, including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. Savannah being a highly trafficked route makes it an important location to use this technology to avoid collisions and to protect the species."
Joanne Caldwell, director of risk management and sustainability for Georgia Port Authority, said, "Protecting our biodiversity in Georgia is paramount to sustaining the natural resources we enjoy. Georgia Ports commends the CMA CGM Group and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for their work to protect critically endangered right whales. Georgia Ports is proud to be a part of the industry consortium that is focused on reducing risk to right whales."
Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, serves more than 420 ports around the world across 5 continents, with a fleet of 580 vessels. The Group transported 22 million TEU containers (twenty-foot equivalent units) in 2021. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a global logistics player which transported 474,000 tons of air cargo and more than 21 million tons of inland freight, and its air cargo division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is constantly innovating to provide customers a comprehensive and increasingly efficient offering, thanks to new shipping, inland, airfreight and logistics solutions.
Firmly committed to the energy transition in shipping and a pioneer in its use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a Net Zero-Carbon target for 2050.
Each year, via the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group supports thousands of children as part of its efforts to promote education for all and equal opportunities. The CMA CGM Foundation also intervenes in humanitarian crises requiring an emergency response by calling on the Group's shipping and logistics expertise to deliver humanitarian supplies around the world.
Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs 150,000 people worldwide, including 2,900 in Marseille where its head office is located. In the United States, CMA CGM, which is headquartered in Norfolk, Va., employs more than 22,000 people. Its subsidiary, American President Lines (APL), operates a fleet of U.S.-flagged vessels and supports U.S. territories and American military stationed around the world.
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Loanspark Continues to Strengthen SMB Funding Security and Compliance with Mastercard, Middesk, and LexisNexis
BOSTON, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Loanspark partnered with world-leading tech brands Mastercard, Middesk, and LexisNexis to enhance, speed up, and secure service delivery for its co-branded partners and their business customers.
Founder and CEO Michael Barnett stated that these partnerships were vital to Loanspark's mission. He said, "We are committed to bringing sanity, normalcy, confidence, and compliance to the SMB lending landscape. Integrating Mastercard, Middesk, and LexisNexis into our processes is in the best interest of our co-branded partners and their business customers."
Mastercard for Powerful Open Banking Connections
A partnership with Mastercard enables Loanspark to leverage Mastercard's open banking platform, with some services delivered through its subsidiary, Finicity, allowing businesses to establish direct consumer-permissioned connections with their customers' bank accounts. This enables SMB owners to submit financial information securely and easily while focusing on running their business, and in turn allowing Loanspark to make better credit decisions by quickly verifying the borrower's financial details. Accurate borrower information minimizes the lending risks and increases accuracy and speed of funds for SMBs. "Small businesses are increasingly looking for greater choice in how they borrow, pay and manage their finances. Partnering with organizations like Loanspark, provides small businesses with a streamlined process to gain access to capital and putting their financial worries at ease," said Andy Sheehan, EVP, US Open Banking, Mastercard.
Middesk for Onboarding Co-Branded Partners
With Middesk's business identity platform, Loanspark accurately verifies its co-branded partners. To ensure compliance, security, and trust, Loanspark only partners with authorized U.S. companies. Business identity data from Middesk ensures Loanspark continues to onboard the right co-branded partners.
LexisNexis for Lending Risk Mitigation
LexisNexis is a part of the RELX corporation, a global leader in information-based analytics, business intelligence, and decision tools. Loanspark leverages LexisNexis's trusted risk intelligence to analyze and validate borrowers on behalf of its co-branded partners.
By establishing these three partnerships, Loanspark continues to drive easy, transparent, secure, and compliant lending practices, creating a safe lending marketplace for its co-branded partners as well as their customers. Michael Barnett believes mutual trust is critical in building a thriving commercial lending ecosystem.
"Security, trust, and compliance are not a one-way street. We must all work together to ensure things are done the right way. It's on all of us to end dubious business practices that have no place in the financial industry." — CEO Michael Barnett
True to Michael's word, Loanspark is doing its part to clean up the commercial funding landscape by pulling all the stops to incorporate trusted resources into its fintech processes.
About Loanspark
Loanspark is a fintech start-up at the forefront of creating accessible and affordable funding solutions for SMBs. It empowers B2B businesses, accounting firms, financial brokers, and lenders to provide favorable business funding solutions to their customers. It does so through co-branded partnerships, a robust loan origination platform, and an ever-growing marketplace with over 100 SMB funding programs.
Loanspark creates a commercial financing ecosystem that's mutually beneficial to lenders and borrowers. It promotes growth to its partners by positioning them as value-added lenders to their customers. And in the process, SMBs gain quick, easy, safe, and affordable access to much-needed capital.
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The afternoon of March 30
Tonight is expected to be partly cloudy with a low around 41 degrees and west-northwest winds of 7-15 mph.
The lowest temperature today has been 55 degrees with the latest occurrence at 1:10 p.m. The highest temperature so far today has been 63 degrees as of 2:55 p.m.
The record high for March 30 is 93 degrees, set in 2015. The record low is 31 degrees, set in 1901.
Yesterday's high was 83 degrees and the low was 48.
The afternoon of March 29
Tonight should be mostly clear with a low around 48 degrees and southwest winds of 8-17 mph becoming south-southeast later in the evening.
The lowest temperature today has been 48 degrees which last happened at 6:45 a.m. The highest temperature so far today has been 82 degrees as of 3:20 p.m.
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The record high for March 29 is 92 degrees, set in 2015. The record low is 27 degrees, set in 1998. The record precipitation for the date is 82 hundredths of an inch, set in 1998.
Yesterday's high was 83 degrees and the low was 43.
The afternoon of March 28
Tonight should be clear with a low around 46 degrees and west-northwest winds of 5-10 mph, and becoming light and variable later.
The lowest temperature today has been 43 degrees, with the latest occurrence at 6:25 a.m. The highest temperature so far today has been 83 degrees, which occurred at 2:53 p.m.
The record high for March 28 is 93 degrees, set in 2015. The record low is 28 degrees, set in 1898.
Yesterday's high was 73 degrees and the low was 41.
The afternoon of March 27
Tonight should be clear with a low around 44 degrees and northwest winds of 5-10 mph. Winds will become light and variable after midnight.
The lowest temperature today has been 41 degrees, which happened at 6:20 a.m. The highest temperature so far today has been 72 degrees with the latest occurrence so far at 2:53 p.m.
The record high for March 27 is 94 degrees, set in 1988. The record low is 28 degrees, set in 1913.
Yesterday's high was 69 degrees and the low was 42.
The afternoon of March 24
Tonight should be clear with a low around 39 degrees and northwest winds of 5-10 mph, becoming light and variable after midnight.
The lowest temperature today has been 43 degrees with the latest occurrence at 7 a.m. The highest temperature so far today has been 63 degrees as of 2:55 p.m.
The record high for March 24 is 93 degrees, set in 1896. The record low is 25 degrees, set in 1897. Record snowfall for this date is 1.5 inches, set in 1902.
Yesterday's high was 65 degrees and the low was 50.
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Just when it seems Edwin Diaz’s walkout music couldn’t get any more epic, the New York Mets have upped the ante going directly to the source of the sound -- Australian DJ Timmy Trumpet.
The musician will reportedly make the trip to New York on Sunday, Aug. 28, to play Diaz in live against the Colorado Rockies.
Diaz has taken the MLB by storm this season with 26 saves and 91 strikeouts, backing up his impressive field performance with a classic rendition of “Narco” by Dutch duo Blasterjaxx and Timmy Trumpet. It’s a fiery song by itself, but the live trumpets are an experience second-to-none and a fan-favorite of the Citi Field faithful.
The Aug. 28 matchup will be the final contest of a four-game series in which the NL East-leading Mets should be comfortably favored over the worst team in the NL West.
It remains unclear what the Mets plan to do if Diaz doesn’t enter the game, but there’s certainly a lot of hype around this collaboration.
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Narco was released in 2017 but has reached newfound popularity during the 2022 MLB season, The song has transcended the baseball diamond to the point where one lucky Mets fan managed to broker a deal with his fiance and Twitter to play the song during the entrance at their wedding reception.
The New York Giants seemed to be joining the fad, playing “Narco” during practice in East Rutherford, N.J on Aug. 9
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Leading global pizza chain announces strategy to open 16 locations in Hawaii, targeting military presence with veteran incentives and discounts as pathway to business ownership
DETROIT and HONOLULU, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Little Caesars is looking to grow its presence in paradise with a goal of opening more than 16 new franchise stores across the Hawaiian Islands by 2027. The bulk of franchise ownership opportunities are available on the island of Oahu, but the brand has also identified Kauai, Maui, the Big Island and Molokai as territories ripe for growth.
A major focus of this expansion is on providing interested military veterans located on the islands with financial incentives to open a franchise through the company's Veterans Program. Established in 2006 by Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch, a Korean War military veteran, the program is designed to expand business opportunities for servicepeople.
"With more than 10 percent of the population made up of veterans and over 13 military bases in the state, Hawaii is home to some of our country's greatest heroes," said Craig Sherwood, Little Caesars vice president of U.S. development and a military veteran himself. "Our brand knows from experience—with hundreds of veteran-owned Little Caesars stores across the country—that military veterans make some of the best business owners out there. And in a market with such a large military presence, there are endless opportunities for veterans and other entrepreneurs to pursue business ownership by franchising with Little Caesars."
With six franchise locations currently open and operating across the Hawaiian islands and two new stores coming soon to Keaau, Hawaii, and Kahului, Maui, Little Caesars is building momentum to continue expanding, currently seeking both multi-unit and single-unit investors looking to grow their business endeavors.
Potential prospects interested in learning more about Little Caesars and its growth opportunities on the Hawaiian islands are invited to attend a live webinar on Thursday, July 7 at 6 p.m. HST. To register for this free event hosted by Little Caesars U.S. Development Manager Danny Knipper, please visit bit.ly/LCEHawaii.
Little Caesars franchising investments start at around $379,000, with incentive programs available for veterans and first responders. Interested prospects should visit Franchise.LittleCaesars.com.
Headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, Little Caesars was founded by Mike and Marian Ilitch in 1959 as a single, family-owned restaurant. Today, Little Caesars is the third largest pizza chain in the world, with stores in each of the 50 U.S. states and 27 countries and territories.
Known for its HOT-N-READY® pizza and famed Crazy Bread®, Little Caesars products are made with quality ingredients, like fresh, never frozen, mozzarella and Muenster cheese and sauce made from fresh-packed, vine-ripened California crushed tomatoes. Little Caesars is known for unique product offerings and promotions like the Pretzel Pizza, Detroit-Style Deep Dish Pizza, the Batman Calzony, and now offers 33% more pepperoni on its Classic pizza.
An exceptionally high growth company with over 60 years of experience in the $145 billion worldwide pizza industry, Little Caesars is continually looking for franchisee candidates to join our team in markets around the world. In addition to providing the opportunity for entrepreneurial independence in a franchise system, Little Caesars offers strong brand awareness with one of the most recognized and appealing characters in the country, Little Caesars.
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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will go public with its findings Thursday night when the nine-member panel plans to give an overview of its 11-month investigation.
More than 1,000 people have been interviewed by the panel. Only portions of that testimony have been revealed to the public — mostly through court filings.
HOW TO WATCH
NewsNation will stream the hearings live on this page and YouTube Thursday starting at 8 p.m. Eastern. Leland Vittert will anchor special on-air coverage of the hearing from 8-10 p.m. Eastern.
WHAT TO EXPECT
The first of six hearings is set to take place in a large House office building in the U.S. Capitol complex.
The committee, composed of seven Democrats and two Republicans, plans to lay out several areas of information it has gathered throughout its investigation.
The panel’s probe has so far been divided into a series of focus areas, including the efforts by former President Trump and his allies to cast doubt on the election and halt the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory; the financing and organizing of rallies in Washington that took place before the attack; security failures by Capitol Police and federal agencies; and the actions of the rioters themselves.
Lawmakers plan to display a series of never-before-seen images and exhibits relating to the lead-up to the insurrection and the attack itself.
The committee has not released details about who is likely to testify, but it is expected that traditional testimony as well as a multimedia presentation will be included.
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Patriots owner Robert Kraft said Tuesday the team plans to “have [Tom Brady] back here and celebrate his 20 years with the Patriots.”
Kraft, in a statement to Malcolm Johnson of Boston’s NBC 10, said there’s something in the works to honor the quarterback, but did not reveal specifics.
“He’s a Patriot from start to finish,” Kraft said. “We’re going to have him back here and celebrate his 20 years with the Patriots. Hopefully we’ll have occasions to do it every year for different reasons.
“He’s a very special person. He’s been, I like to say like a brother to me, but really a son, and he’s pretty special.”
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Kraft already has talked about Brady signing a one-day contract and retiring as a Patriot. Asked about the possibility of that, or a different tribute, Kraft said, “All of the above.”
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Cubs first. Rafael Ortega called out on strikes. Seiya Suzuki singles to shallow left field. Willson Contreras singles to shallow center field. Seiya Suzuki to third. Ian Happ singles to shallow left field. Willson Contreras to second. Seiya Suzuki scores. Patrick Wisdom grounds out to shallow infield, Michael Chavis to Yoshi Tsutsugo. Ian Happ to second. Willson Contreras to third. Jonathan Villar walks. Jason Heyward pops out to second base to Cole Tucker.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Cubs 1, Pirates 0.
Cubs second. Alfonso Rivas lines out to center field to Bryan Reynolds. Nico Hoerner singles to right field. Rafael Ortega singles to center field. Nico Hoerner to third. Seiya Suzuki singles to shallow right field. Rafael Ortega to third. Nico Hoerner scores. Willson Contreras singles to shallow center field. Seiya Suzuki scores. Rafael Ortega scores. Ian Happ reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Willson Contreras to second. Fielding error by Kevin Newman. Patrick Wisdom walks. Ian Happ to second. Willson Contreras to third. Jonathan Villar reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Patrick Wisdom to third. Ian Happ scores. Willson Contreras scores. Fielding error by Kevin Newman. Jason Heyward pops out to first base to Cole Tucker. Alfonso Rivas homers to right field. Jonathan Villar scores. Patrick Wisdom scores. Nico Hoerner singles to left field. Rafael Ortega reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Nico Hoerner out at second.
8 runs, 6 hits, 2 errors, 2 left on. Cubs 9, Pirates 0.
Cubs fourth. Patrick Wisdom walks. Jonathan Villar reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Patrick Wisdom out at second. Jason Heyward hit by pitch. Jonathan Villar to second. Alfonso Rivas singles to shallow left field. Jason Heyward to third. Jonathan Villar scores. Nico Hoerner grounds out to shallow infield, Miguel Yajure to Yoshi Tsutsugo. Alfonso Rivas to second. Jason Heyward scores. Rafael Ortega grounds out to shallow right field, Cole Tucker to Yoshi Tsutsugo.
2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cubs 11, Pirates 0.
Cubs fifth. Seiya Suzuki doubles to deep right center field. Willson Contreras doubles to right field. Seiya Suzuki scores. Ian Happ doubles to shallow left field. Willson Contreras scores. Patrick Wisdom pops out to Yoshi Tsutsugo. Jonathan Villar singles to left field. Jason Heyward doubles to deep right field. Jonathan Villar to third. Ian Happ scores. Alfonso Rivas singles to center field. Jason Heyward to third. Jonathan Villar scores. Nico Hoerner singles to shallow center field. Alfonso Rivas to second. Jason Heyward scores. Rafael Ortega flies out to left field to Ben Gamel. Michael Hermosillo pinch-hitting for Seiya Suzuki. Michael Hermosillo grounds out to shortstop, Michael Chavis to Yoshi Tsutsugo.
5 runs, 7 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Cubs 16, Pirates 0.
Cubs seventh. Jonathan Villar grounds out to shallow infield, Cole Tucker to Yoshi Tsutsugo. Jason Heyward singles to shallow right field. Alfonso Rivas grounds out to shallow infield, Aaron Fletcher to Yoshi Tsutsugo. Jason Heyward to second. Nico Hoerner singles to shallow center field. Jason Heyward scores. Rafael Ortega grounds out to shallow infield to Andrew Knapp.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cubs 17, Pirates 0.
Cubs eighth. Michael Hermosillo singles to center field. Willson Contreras walks. Michael Hermosillo to second. Ian Happ singles to shallow infield. Willson Contreras to second. Michael Hermosillo to third. Patrick Wisdom singles to shallow left field. Ian Happ to second. Willson Contreras to third. Michael Hermosillo scores. Jonathan Villar singles to right field. Patrick Wisdom to third. Ian Happ scores. Willson Contreras scores. Jason Heyward grounds out to shallow infield. Jonathan Villar out at second. Patrick Wisdom scores. Alfonso Rivas grounds out to shallow right field, Cole Tucker to Yoshi Tsutsugo.
4 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cubs 21, Pirates 0. | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Pittsburgh-Chicago-Cubs-Runs-17122124.php | 2022-04-23 21:54:00 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Pittsburgh-Chicago-Cubs-Runs-17122124.php |
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Democratic governor in Kansas is defending changes in the sex listings on transgender people’s birth certificates in a federal court filing arguing that continuing the changes doesn’t violate a new state law rolling back transgender rights.
An attorney for Gov. Laura Kelly’s office also argued in the filing this week that the new Kansas law is discriminatory and “represents a willful failure of the Kansas Legislature” to protect people’s rights. It took effect July 1 and defines male and female based on a person’s sex assigned at birth for any other state law or regulation, barring legal recognition of transgender people’s gender identities.
The state’s Republican attorney general, Kris Kobach, argues that the new law prevents the state health department, which issues birth certificates, from changing the sex listing while also requiring it to undo past changes.
The issue is in federal court because of a lawsuit filed in 2018 over a previous no-changes policy. Kelly’s administration settled that lawsuit, and a judge’s order enforcing the settlement requires the state to allow transgender people to alter their birth certificates. More than 900 people have done so over the past four years.
Kobach last month asked a federal judge to lift the requirement — and make Kansas among only a few U.S. states that don’t allow birth certificate changes. The original lawsuit named only three health department officials as defendants, so Kelly’s office filed a request Wednesday for permission to file written “friend of the court” arguments. The judge has not yet ruled on Kelly’s request.
Ashley Stites-Hubbard, an attorney for Kelly, argued that Kobach’s opinion about the law is “nothing but a political grandstanding that promotes discrimination and violence against the transgender community.”
“It is hard to fathom how legislation that made the discrimination worse, not better, warrants relief,” Stites-Hubbard wrote.
Montana, Oklahoma and Tennessee don’t permit transgender people to change their birth certificates. Montana and Tennessee also don’t allow changes in the sex listing on driver’s licenses.
Kobach is attacking birth certificate changes in federal court while also attacking changes in the sex listings on driver’s licenses in a state-court lawsuit.
In the birth certificates case, Kobach argued in a filing last month that Kelly agreed to the settlement before “any definitive legislative statement on the matter.”
“But now that the Legislature has spoken, the agency is bound to execute the law as written,” Kobach said. The Republican-controlled Legislature enacted the new law over Kelly’s veto.
In the governor’s filing, Stites-Hubbard acknowledged that a specific section of the new state law says that in its data, the state must identify people as “either male or female at birth.” But, she argued, the law doesn’t specifically prohibit recording a change in gender identity or amending a birth certificate.
“Thus, there is nothing preventing any state data set from BOTH identifying an individual as male or female at birth and also identifying them accurately later — that is to reflect their true sex, consistent with their gender identity,” Stites-Hubbard wrote.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Departing U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina has been told to pay over $14,000 to charity after the House Ethics Committee found he financially benefited while purchasing a cryptocurrency that he was promoting and violated conflict of interest rules.
The investigation examined the one-term Republican's purchase of LGB Coin, named for the chant “Let’s Go Brandon” mocking Democratic President Joe Biden.
The committee found Cawthorn, who lost his reelection bid in May's primary, “acted in a manner that did not reflect creditably upon the House” based on his total conduct, according to the panel’s report and admonishment released Tuesday. That conduct, the report found, included “his repeated and knowing promotion of a cryptocurrency in which he held a financial interest.”
“While cryptocurrency promotion, particularly of a ‘meme coin,’ may be a novel issue before the committee, whether a member may promote an asset in which that member has a financial interest is not a novel question,” the report said. Cawthorn also was told to pay $1,000 in late fees on reports filed for his cryptocurrency transactions.
The committee also accepted other findings and recommendations from a investigative subcommittee — led by committee chairwoman Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, ranking member Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss. — that located no evidence Cawthorn had an improper relationship with a staff member.
Committee leaders announced an investigation of Cawthorn on the matters a week after his primary defeat to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, who went on to win the general election for a western North Carolina seat last month. Cawthorn, who was a strong supporter of President Donald Trump, was seen as a rising star by many conservatives when at age 25 he won the seat vacated by Mark Meadows, Trump’s then-chief of staff.
His term in office has been marked by a series of unforced political and personal errors, including stops by police while driving; being caught with guns at airport checkpoints; calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug;” and the release of videos showing him in sexually suggestive poses.
Cawthorn “is pleased to note that the committee fully exonerated him of the false, malicious, and stupendously idiotic allegations of an improper relationship with staff members,” spokesperson Micah Bock said in an emailed statement. Cawthorn plans to make donations to a gun-rights group and a spinal cord and paralysis treatment center, Bock said.
The subcommittee’s report found that in December 2021 Cawthorn provided a $150,000 check for 180 billion LGB Coin.
But the actual value of the amount of LGB Coin at the time he received it was more than what he had paid, according to the report, which called it an improper gift. That prompted the committee to direct Cawthorn to give $14,237.49 to charity.
The transaction occurred just before LGB Coin announced it would sponsor NASCAR driver Brandon Brown in 2022, but NASCAR soon withdrew its approval in early January. Cawthorn sold nearly all of the “meme” coin in three batches in December 2021 and January 2022, the committee said, but the congressman didn’t disclose either the purchase or sales until the investigative subcommittee was announced.
Cawthorn also had been in photographs and videos encouraging people to purchase LGB Coin. The subcommittee said it didn’t reach a consensus on whether Cawthorn intended to profit personally from those promotions. And while the subcommittee found he violated ethics law by failing to disclose timely his investment, it decided the failure wasn’t knowing or willful, declaring he was misinformed about relatively new requirements related to cryptocurrency.
As for the investigation into Cawthorn's relationship with a staff member, the staffer at issue told investigators that he is Cawthorn's second cousin. House rules or law related to nepotism apply to first cousins, the report said. The staffer was hired as Cawthorn’s scheduler and assisted him with his disability. Cawthorn uses a wheelchair after being partially paralyzed from a car accident as a teenager.
The investigation followed the release in the spring of photographs and videos depicting Cawthorn and the staffer “engaging in explicit and sexually suggestive comments and conduct.” At the time, Cawthorn described a video as “just stupid locker room talk between two cousins that grew up like brothers, taken long before I served in Congress.” | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Cawthorn-broke-rules-over-meme-crypto-told-to-17635986.php | 2022-12-07 00:49:04 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Cawthorn-broke-rules-over-meme-crypto-told-to-17635986.php |
ROME — The Vatican on Thursday released the first images of Pope Francis since his June 7 abdominal surgery, showing him in his wheelchair visiting the children’s cancer ward in a sign he is getting ready to be discharged soon from the hospital.
The Vatican said on Wednesday that Francis was expected to be released from Gemelli “in the coming days.” When he was hospitalized in 2021, Francis paid a visit to the children’s cancer ward the day before he left and returned to the Vatican.
The 86-year-old pope was admitted to Gemelli hospital on June 7 for surgery to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall and remove intestinal scar tissue that had caused intestinal blockages. Francis in 2021 had 33 centimeters (13 inches) of his colon removed at Gemelli because of a narrowing of the intestine, and had at least two prior abdominal surgeries in Argentina.
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When I was 15, I worked at an Albertsons supermarket. I boxed, I bagged, I even cashiered. I quit after six months. Why? Hated it!
Now, Albertsons and Kroger are proposing a $24 billion merger. Antitrust or no antitrust, I’m all in favor — on the condition that Krogertsons doesn’t make me punch the clock every time I need a half-gallon of 2 percent.
Dear grocery store owners: Have you seen me in the break room? No? There’s a reason: I don’t work for you! I don’t want to work for you — I was bad at it as a middle-schooler and I’m worse now!
And it’s not just grocery stores. Apparently, I work at United Airlines, too, where I now book my own flight, tag my own bags and drop them on the belt. I also have part-time jobs at Target, CVS, Uniqlo and even McDonald’s. I’m checking myself out more often now than a seventh-grade girl on TikTok.
It’s not like I want to go to self-checkout. It’s that these giant chains are firing cashiers to save money. The last time I went to my local Safeway, there were nine self-checkout stands open but only two live cashiers. The lines for them went all the way back to the Milk-Bones. I had no choice but to do it myself. I have Christmas plans.
“But they’re faster!” I hear you saying. Doesn’t feel like it. About every other time at the supermarket, the self-checkout thinks my olive oil is liquor or mistakes my honeydew for a gourd or I do some tiny thing wrong and the machine barks: “Help is on the way.” But help is not on the way. Help is over there trying to get the old man’s checkbook out of the receipt slot.
Worse, a lot of stores position a “receipt checker” to see whether people actually paid for all the stuff they have. Wait a second. You set up this system. You made us do all this. So, now that we’ve slogged our way through our temp job with zero training, you’re going to audit us?
Well, they probably shouldn’t trust us. Self-checkout theft is skyrocketing. You might call it shoplifting. The bean counters call it “external shrinkage.” Just stick the price tag from an inexpensive item on a 12-pack of pork chops and — voila! — inflation solved. Or use a lemon UPC — toward the reader to run interference — for a steak’s UPC. Or “absent-mindedly” skip the scanner altogether.
Hey, I’m not recommending shrinkage. I’m saying surveys show that 20 percent of Americans have done it. In a way, stores are accessories to the crime wave. Self-checkout is so infuriating that people think: “As long as this soulless megacorp is making me work, I deserve a little employee discount, right? After all, who am I ripping off? A robot?”
Walmart has had enough. The company’s new ceiling cameras can track your hands and any little “mistake” you might make while working your three-minute shift. Walmart is prosecuting.
I can just see the Walmart greeters waving — for a police officer.
I know I sound like the old guy sitting on his front porch with a baseball bat. I don’t care. I think it’s wrong. And here’s why:
Between our attention-hogging phones and coronavirus skittishness, we’re millions of people tromping through the same places each day yet rarely speaking to one another. We’re turning into walking silos. I miss talking to the old blue-haired cashier with 17 cats. I miss talking to the tatted-up straightedge cashier who’s into arm wrestling. I miss the 42-year-old developmentally disabled bagger who never stops smiling.
My buddy hates it, too, but he’s got a fix that makes him feel better. Once he finishes checking out, he turns to the “associate” overseeing things and quips: “You need my address?”
Associate: “Address?”
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ORLANDO, Fla., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Warner Baxter, executive chairman of St. Louis-based Ameren Corporation, today was elected chair of the board of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), the national association of investor-owned electric companies. Also elected were two vice chairs: Pedro J. Pizarro, president and CEO of Rosemead, Calif.-based Edison International, and Maria Pope, president and CEO of Portland, Ore.-based Portland General Electric.
The announcement was made during EEI's June board meeting in Orlando, Fla. EEI's chairmanship rotates on an annual basis, and Baxter succeeds Gerry Anderson, executive chairman of Detroit-based DTE Energy.
"On behalf of EEI and our member companies, I extend our sincerest thanks to Gerry Anderson for his service as EEI chair," said EEI President Tom Kuhn. "Gerry's continued dedication to delivering a resilient clean energy future to our customers led to the successful inclusion of many key industry priorities in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. This law provides significant investments in critical energy infrastructure and new carbon-free technologies and includes a solid down payment on the electric vehicle charging infrastructure needed to accelerate the electrification of the transportation sector."
"We also are pleased to announce that Warner Baxter was elected EEI chair for the 2022-2023 cycle," added Kuhn. "Warner previously served as an EEI vice chair and is an outstanding leader for Ameren and for our industry. I look forward to continuing our work together to advance our common goals and to advance public policies that benefit the customers we so proudly serve."
"America's electric companies are committed to getting the energy we provide as clean as we can as fast as we can, without compromising on the reliability or affordability that our customers depend on," said Baxter. "Throughout the challenges of the past few years, our industry has remained focused on making investments that enhance energy grid resilience and energy security while enabling a cleaner and affordable future for all."
Kuhn also applauded the vice chairs who will support Baxter as part of the leadership team.
"Pedro and Maria are tremendous leaders for our industry, particularly in their efforts to reduce economy-wide carbon emissions and to enhance energy grid resilience through investments in innovative new technologies. We are extremely fortunate to have them serve on the EEI leadership team."
Warner Baxter is executive chairman of St. Louis-based Ameren Corporation, parent company of rate-regulated energy companies that serve more than 2.4 million electric and nearly 1 million natural gas customers in Illinois and Missouri.
During his more than 25-year tenure at Ameren, Baxter has served in a variety of leadership roles, including chairman, president, and CEO of Ameren, a role he held from 2014 through 2021. He previously had served as chief financial officer and president of Ameren Missouri.
Baxter earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and has made meaningful and long-lasting contributions to higher education through his involvement with the University of Missouri System. He is a member of the University of Missouri-St. Louis Chancellors Council and the Missouri 100 advisory board.
Baxter sits on several industry boards, including the Electric Power Research Institute (past chairman of the board). Baxter also serves on the board of directors of U.S. Bancorp, BJC HealthCare, and Greater St. Louis Inc. In addition, Baxter serves as vice chair of the American Cancer Society's Coaches vs. Cancer Council and on the board of CEO's Against Cancer in St. Louis (past chairman of the board).
Pedro J. Pizarro is president and CEO of Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation's largest electric companies. Edison International also is the parent company of Edison Energy, a portfolio of competitive businesses providing commercial and industrial customers with energy management and procurement services. He is a member of Edison International's board of directors.
Pizarro served as president of SCE from October 2014 through May 2016, when he was elected president of Edison International. He was elected CEO in October 2016. Previously, Pizarro was president of Edison Mission Energy and chaired its board of directors from 2011 until the sale of its assets to NRG Energy in April 2014.
Pizarro earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and held National Science Foundation and Department of Defense graduate fellowships. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Harvard University.
Pizarro first was elected an EEI vice chair in June 2020 and he also serves on the boards of the Electric Power Research Institute, Argonne National Laboratory, Caltech, and the Analysis and Resilience Center for Systemic Risk. He previously served on the boards of the Electric Power Supply Association, California Power Exchange, Colburn School, House Research Institute, Southern California Leadership Council, and Western Energy Institute.
Maria Pope is president, CEO, and a member of the Board of Directors of Portland General Electric (PGE), which offers its nearly 1 million customers voluntary renewable energy programs that let them choose how much clean energy they want to use. Pope joined PGE in 2009 as chief financial officer and treasurer. She went on to serve as senior vice president of Power Supply, Operations, and Resource Strategy.
Pope represents the electric power industry on the U.S. Department of Energy's Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. Her other board work includes the Electric Power Research Institute, the Oregon Business Council, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and The Nature Conservancy of Oregon.
Pope is an alumna of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and she earned a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University.
EEI is the association that represents all U.S. investor-owned electric companies. Our members provide electricity for more than 235 million Americans, and operate in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. As a whole, the electric power industry supports more than 7 million jobs in communities across the United States. In addition to our U.S. members, EEI has more than 65 international electric companies, with operations in more than 90 countries, as International Members, and hundreds of industry suppliers and related organizations as Associate Members.
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High school female athlete scolded for wearing sports bra while boys practiced shirtless, ACLU says
HOUSTON (Gray News) – A high school student in Houston is at the center of a debate about dress code for student athletes, saying she was reprimanded for wearing just a sports bra in 100-degree heat while male athletes were allowed to be shirtless.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas got involved, sending a letter to the Spring Branch Independent School District, saying the student was subject to a discriminatory gendered dress code and other gender inequities at Spring Woods High.
The student, identified as G.H., is the only Black student athlete on the girls’ cross-country and track teams. According to the ACLU, G.H. was “mistreated and denied opportunities and rewards by school district employees” after she complained about the dress code which required her to wear a shirt over her sports bra while male athletes were allowed to practice shirtless in the heat.
The ACLU said that after G.H. complained about the gender inequity, the school district dismissed her concerns and later denied her an award for being the top runner on the girls’ cross-country team. The ACLU said this award would have been a critical credential for college applications and recruiting, potentially denying G.H. future opportunities.
According to the ACLU, G.H. had the best performance record on the team and was the only student-athlete to have never missed a practice.
“I never thought it would come to this point,” G.H. said in a statement. “I had faith that the people meant to protect us would do so and do right by us. Me stepping forward for my teammates may never benefit me, but it will benefit the next young woman of color that looks like me.”
The ACLU letter warns school district officials that their existing policies and practices “potentially put them in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.”
Liza Davis, Skadden Fellow at the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, said the alleged discrimination that G.H. faced is unfortunately all too common for Black girls in schools.
“G.H. bravely challenged unfair discrimination and was roundly punished for it, hurting her academic and athletic career and potentially denying her future opportunities in sports,” Davis said in a statement. “We refuse to stand by while Spring Branch ISD staff mistreat the cross-country team’s only Black athlete because she dared to speak up for herself and her fellow students.”
In a statement from the Spring Branch Independent School District to KHOU, the district denied any discrimination and said it treats students equally and fairly.
“We are aware of the situation with one student at one of our high schools who is dissatisfied with SBISD practices, which are applied to all athletes at that campus. SBISD is currently investigating this matter,” the statement reads.
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NEW YORK, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, global software investor Insight Partners announced the establishment of its Government Advisory Board, a group of government and defense leaders whose combined expertise will provide a valuable, actionable network for Insight's portfolio of software startup and ScaleUp companies. With a 25+ year legacy of investing in software, Insight Partners already has a long history of investing in government across federal, defense, state, and local sectors (including K12). The Government Advisory Board will advise Insight Partners about important public sector investment opportunities and risks, and bring their deep experience to the broad set of portfolio companies that are working with government customers.
The government, across all sectors, needs the next generation of great software companies to better serve constituents, modernize government, and deliver services more effectively and securely. With investments in companies from all corners of the globe, Insight has always maintained a belief that great software companies can originate from anywhere, and with the right strategic partner, expand rapidly into new markets. The Government Advisory Board allows Insight to bring the perspectives of former government leaders to provide strategic counsel to portfolio companies—so they can be better equipped to support government agencies across a range of important missions.
Insight Partners' Government Advisory Board is made up of preeminent leaders with many decades of experience in the U.S. government, including:
- Secretary Ash Carter, the 25th United States Secretary of Defense, and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
- Honorable Sue Gordon, former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, former Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and career Central Intelligence Agency official.
- Lieutenant General (ret.) Jack Shanahan, former Director of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), and first Director of the Algorithmic Warfare Cross- Functional Team (Project Maven).
- Essye Miller, former Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer and CISO of the U.S. Department of Defense.
- Honorable Dr. Will Roper, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, and founding Director of the Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office.
- Nicole Wong, former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Google, Twitter's Legal Director for Products, and inaugural member of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Advisory Committee.
- General (ret.) Joe Votel, former Commander of Central Command (CENTCOM) and Special Operations Command (SOCOM), and President and CEO of Business Executives for National Security (BENS).
"We're honored to launch a Government Advisory Board of leaders who bring a diverse set of experiences across government and administrations at the most senior levels. They are passionate about supporting entrepreneurs and believe commercial software is key to modernizing government in its important missions," said Richard Wells, Managing Director at Insight Partners. "Insight believes there is significantly more opportunity to invest in the software solutions transforming the government sector, and the Government Advisory Board has the opportunity to shape and strengthen our success as we continue to scale up in government and defense."
"The ability of the United States government to deliver on its important missions—from national defense to Veterans health care to local K12 education—increasingly rests on government agencies being able to find, try, and use great commercial software," said Secretary Ash Carter. "That's why I rebuilt the Defense Department's links closer to the proverbial Silicon Valley when I was Secretary of Defense—via the creation of the Defense Innovation Unit, Defense Digital Services, and the Defense Innovation Board—and why I'm so dedicated to working with Insight Partners and their portfolio of leading software companies."
"I'm enthusiastic about the opportunity to work with these accomplished, inspiring colleagues at Insight Partners to help companies advance their capabilities and the government achieve its aims," said Sue Gordon.
"After my experiences running two AI 'startups' in the Department of Defense, I am honored to join my esteemed colleagues on Insight Partners' government advisory board," said Lt General (ret.) Jack Shanahan. "We are excited by the opportunity to work closely with Insight Partners in their quest to find the country's best technology companies and help solve the government's most pressing challenges."
"Insight Partners is very thoughtful and deliberate in identifying companies with innovative solutions and helping them scale to meet the critical needs of our nation and the world. I am excited to partner with the other amazing Government Advisory Board members to support Insight," said Essye Miller.
"Digital technology is driving the world at an accelerated rate. Yet the U.S. government keeps falling further behind. I'm very excited to work with Insight Partners' to navigate challenges of working with the government at software speeds," said Will Roper.
"Government—as a customer, funder, and regulator—needs to be working with the best software companies, to promote economic growth, fairness, and innovation," said Nicole Wong. "I'm delighted to join the Insight Partners Government Advisory Board, and am excited to work with the team at Insight and the word-class entrepreneurs they support."
"I am really excited to work with Insight Partners as they try to help these highly innovative companies that are so important to helping the US maintain its competitive edge," said General (ret.) Joe Votel.
About Insight Partners
Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of February 24, 2022, the closing of the firm's recent fundraise, Fund XII, brings Insight Partners' regulatory assets under management to over $90B. Insight Partners has invested in more than 600 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight has offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto. Insight's mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Insight Partners supports great software leaders at all stages of their growth journey, from first investment to IPO. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit insightpartners.com or follow us on Twitter @insightpartners
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A judge in Russia has left Brittney Griner's verdict in place, upholding on Tuesday the U.S. basketball star's conviction on drug smuggling charges and reducing only slightly her nine-year prison sentence.
Griner's sentence will be modified to count the time she spent in pretrial detention after her February 17 arrest at a Moscow airport, the judge ruled, with each day in pretrial custody counting as 1.5 days toward her prison sentence.
It was not immediately clear exactly how much that would reduce the sentence.
The decision came after an appeal hearing Tuesday at which Griner, whom the U.S. considers wrongfully detained, again apologized as she and her attorneys asked the court for a more lenient sentence, arguing the verdict was unfair and unjustified under Russian law.
The attorneys urged the court to acquit her, calling her sentence disproportionate and the previous court ruling wrong in saying Griner had criminal intent.
"I've been here almost eight months, and people with more severe crimes have been given less than what I was given," Griner said Tuesday, appearing at the hearing via video link from her detention center, Correctional Colony No. 1 in Novoye Grishino, north of Moscow.
"I really hope the court will adjust this sentence," she said before the judgment, "because it has been very, very stressful and very traumatic to my mental and my psyche and being away from my family, not being able to communicate."
Griner's attorneys expressed disappointment after the hearing, saying in a statement the verdict "contains numerous defects" and they feel "the punishment is excessive."
US officials have tried to secure the release of Griner and Paul Whelan, another American imprisoned in Russia, by proposing a prisoner swap with Russia.
Those efforts have continued in recent weeks, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday in a statement that called the latest hearing a "sham," adding, "President Biden has been very clear that Brittney should be released immediately."
But with her appeal unsuccessful, Griner, a two-time US Olympic gold medalist, is concerned she will have to serve out the remainder of her sentence in Russia, her attorneys said, if the United States and Russia can't strike a deal for a prisoner swap.
"She had hopes for today," the lawyers said, "as each month, each day away from her family and friends matters to her."
The U.S. State Department has maintained Griner is wrongfully detained, and her case has prompted concern she is being used as a political pawn amid the backdrop of Russia's war against Ukraine. That has not changed, the most senior American diplomat in Moscow told reporters Tuesday outside the Moscow Regional Court.
"Nothing in the previous sentence, nothing in the result of today's appeal changes the fact that the United States government considers Griner to be wrongfully detained," U.S. Embassy Charge d'Affaires Elizabeth Rood said.
Griner was initially taken into custody days before the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- when authorities accused her of trying to smuggle less than a gram of cannabis oil in her luggage. Griner plays in Russia during the WNBA's offseason.
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The All-Star center for the Phoenix Mercury pleaded guilty to drug charges, telling the court during her trial that vape cartridges containing the cannabis oil were in her luggage because she had packed her bags in a hurry.
In court Tuesday, defense attorney Maria Blagovolina cast doubt on the Russian examination of Griner's alleged drug use, calling the results of that examination "doubtful and unconfirmed."
"Continuous narcotic substance use is incompatible with a career as a professional athlete," added Blagovolina, a partner at Rybalkin, Gortsunyan, Dyakin and Partners law firm.
"No lawyer will be able to say in all honesty that this verdict is in line with Russian judicial practice," Griner's other attorney, Alexander Boykov of the Moscow Legal Center, said.
Both attorneys previously indicated they felt Griner's nine-year sentence was extreme, with Blagovolina calling it "very severe for this type of crime and this amount of this substance."
Ahead of the hearing, Blagovolina and Boykov called Griner a "strong person" with a "champion's character" who was nevertheless "severely stressed being separated from her loved ones for over eight months."
The court hearing the appeal could have left Griner's verdict in place, overruled it and sent it back to the lower court, or reduced her prison term, her lawyers said.
"She is very nervous waiting for the appeal hearing," they added in a written statement to CNN. "Brittney does not expect any miracles to happen but hopes that the appeal court will hear the arguments of the defense and reduce the term."
U.S. officials work to secure Griner's release
While Griner's case plays out, US officials have separately proposed a potential prisoner swap with Russia, offering to exchange convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout for Griner and Whelan, an American citizen who's been held by Russia for alleged espionage since 2018.
Whelan, who has consistently denied the charges, was convicted and sentenced in June 2020 to 16 years in prison.
Despite the "pretty persistent" pace of discussions between the U.S. and Russia to secure the Americans' release, a senior administration official told CNN last week the Biden administration has yet to receive a serious counteroffer from the Russian side.
"They're not nonresponsive. I would say that they continue to respond with something that they know not to be feasible or available," the official said of the Russian response.
Former Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico -- whose namesake center works on behalf of families of hostages and detainees, and who recently traveled to Russia to discuss the possible release of Griner and Whelan -- recently said he was "cautiously optimistic" the two Americans could be released.
Richardson, who also served as US ambassador to the United Nations under President Bill Clinton, said he's working with both their families and coordinating with the White House to work toward their releases.
The former governor played a role in the release of Trevor Reed, an American veteran detained in Russia for three years before his release in April.
Meanwhile, Griner's wife Cherelle and their supporters have continued to highlight her case and maintain support and pressure to ensure she's brought home, starting a #WeAreBG campaign on social media.
The WNBA on Tuesday reiterated its desire to see Griner brought home, saying in a statement the outcome of her appeal "is further verification that BG is not just wrongfully detained -- she is very clearly a hostage."
"We must unite and support the stated public commitment of the Biden Administration and Congressional leaders to do everything possible to get her home," the statement said, adding, "No athlete should be used as a political pawn."
After months of pushing, Cherelle Griner met last month with Biden, telling CNN the meeting illustrated the administration's commitment to bringing her wife home.
"It wasn't a meeting where the President told me the news that I want to hear," Cherelle Griner said. "It wasn't that, but it was one of those still pivotal meetings where ... it allowed me to have confidence in what he's doing right now."
As for Griner, she turned 32 last week, celebrating her birthday in a cell in the suburbs of Moscow, her attorneys told CNN. They spent a few hours with her in an effort to "cheer her up" as much as they could, relaying birthday messages from around the world.
"Thank you everyone for fighting so hard to get me home," Griner said in a message shared by her attorneys. "All the support and love are definitely helping me."
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A European Central Bank poised to raise interest rates for the first time in 11 years vowed Wednesday to create an unspecified market backstop that could buffer member countries against financial turmoil like that seen during a debt crisis more than a decade ago.
Pressed by a government bond selloff, the bank’s governing council called an unscheduled meeting to address worrisome market shifts following the bank’s decision to hike rates in July and September.
ECB bond purchases and record low interest rates have kept borrowing costs low for businesses and governments. But those measures are coming to an end as the bank pivots to deal with record inflation of 8.1% in the 19 European Union countries using the euro currency.
The bank last week announced it will raise rates to cool rising prices but did not offer a specific measure to halt market turbulence caused by suddenly higher borrowing costs for more indebted EU countries, such as Italy and Spain.
Instead, the central bank simply said it would act if needed against “fragmentation,” or excessively high borrowing costs plaguing one part of the eurozone and not another. That is one complication of having one currency and central bank for 19 countries.
The unspecific pledge to act wasn’t enough to satisfy government bond markets, and the “spread,” or difference between what Italy pays for borrowing and what financially solid Germany pays, began to increase.
Those so-called spreads are a key fear index for the eurozone. Spreads widen when investors sell off Italian bonds, lowering their price and raising interest yields, which move opposite from price. Rising yields can reflect investor views that a country’s bonds carry more risk of loss.
The ECB said it would speed development of “a new anti-fragmentation instrument” that could be reviewed for approval by the governing council. Its statement didn’t say what that instrument would be.
The bank also said it could use money it gets from maturing bonds it holds to make new purchases and fight excessive borrowing costs if individual countries face market pressure.
The ECB already has an emergency bond-market backstop that could allow it to step in and buy the debt of a troubled country. That tool helped calm the 2010-2012 debt crisis after the bank announced it as part of then-President Mario Draghi’s promise to do “whatever it takes” to keep the eurozone from breaking up.
But that program, which never actually had to be used, can come with tough conditions for reform and governments may be reluctant to turn to it.
Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg bank, said the “situation today is different from the euro crisis a little more than a decade ago” because countries have improved growth prospects and the ECB has the bond-market backstop in its back pocket if needed. Current conditions “should not present an imminent risk even for fiscally challenged Italy,” he said.
A top ECB official, Isabel Schnabel, tried to calm market concerns Tuesday, saying the bank “will not tolerate” unjustified market rate increases.
“Our commitment to the euro is our anti-fragmentation tool,” she said in a speech at Paris’ Sorbonne University. “This commitment has no limits. And our track record of stepping in when needed backs up this commitment.”
Interest yields on Italy’s 10-year government bonds have risen from around 1.2% at the start of the year to 4.1% on Wednesday. The ECB’s pandemic support programs, including 1.7 trillion euros ($1.8 trillion) of bond purchases, helped keep government borrowing costs low across the eurozone. That program, however, came to an end in March, and markets are now looking at increases in interest rates from record low levels.
The ECB’s surprise meeting comes the same day that the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to announce its largest interest rate hike since 1994. Europe’s bank has trailed the Fed and other central banks in raising rates to combat decades-high levels of inflation, including the Bank of England, which has hiked rates four times since December and will meet again Thursday.
But now the ECB has scheduled rate increases for July and September and indicated September’s increase might be a larger-than-usual half-percentage point. | https://www.wivb.com/news/business/european-central-bank-to-gather-after-borrowing-costs-rise/ | 2022-06-15 22:52:06 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/business/european-central-bank-to-gather-after-borrowing-costs-rise/ |
Ruling is seen as limiting federal agencies' ability to address major issues. Recent polling shows that Republicans, Independents, & Democrats are united around protecting water.
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had limited authority to regulate and enforce the Clean Air Act. The ruling could also mean that the federal government's ability to enforce the Clean Water Act is now similarly limited, even as polling shows this is the opposite of what the majority of voters want.
"While this decision is a setback, we are optimistic that it will not change the overwhelming momentum we are seeing from industry and community leaders who are dedicated to tackling climate change, protecting water, and ushering in a clean energy future," said Lukas Walton, chair of the Walton Family Foundation's Environment Committee, and also CEO of the Builder's Vision. "An increasing number of leaders know that the long-term benefits of acting on climate change far outweigh the costs and that inaction is the most costly scenario for our planet, our economy, and our communities."
"Americans are very unified around protecting water resources, and this decision may make it harder for the federal government to enforce laws that conserve our rivers, streams, and wetlands," said Moira Mcdonald, director of the Walton Family Foundation's Environment Program. "An undeniable majority of voters support protecting water during climate change – Americans want and expect leadership right now. This is a time for communities, water advocates, policymakers, and industry leaders to come together and double down on solutions that work for people and nature."
Recent polling, conducted by Morning Consult, shows a majority of Americans agree climate change will alter important aspects of life in the U.S. like agriculture (76% total, 89% Democrats, and 61% Republicans), water resources (76% total, 90% Democrats, and 59% Republicans) and the economy (71% total, 87% Democrats, and 55% Republicans). The poll also shows 73% of Americans are worried about climate change and water scarcity, with at least three-in-five voters saying that drought, increased temperatures, wildfires, extreme weather, and flooding are a product of climate change's effect on water resources.
Notably, Black and Hispanic voters expressed more concern about climate change's impacts on the economy (84% Black, 81% Hispanic, 68% White), health (88% Black, 78% Hispanic, 67% White), and issues around equality (69% Black voters, 62% Hispanic voters, 44% White).
One-quarter of American voters believe their state will not have enough water during their grandchildren's lifetimes (the next 100 years). The numbers are even higher in western states - 55% in Colorado said their state would not have enough water in the next 100 years and 53% said the same in Arizona.
"At a time when one-quarter of all Americans - and more than half of the residents in Arizona and Colorado - don't think that there will be enough water in their home states for their grandchildren, we clearly need to be doing more to protect and conserve water," said Mcdonald.
Other key findings from the poll include:
- 74% of voters agree that political parties should find more common ground on addressing climate change (87% of Democrats, 74% of independents, and 60% of Republicans).
- 73% of voters agree that there is still time to address climate change (79% of Democrats, 70% of independents, and 70% of Republicans).
- People of color and younger people feel the most urgency on these issues:
- 68% Black
- 58% Hispanic
- 43% White
- 77% Black
- 74% Hispanic
- 65% White
To read the full poll results, visit www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/worldwaterday.
Polling Methodology:
The national poll was conducted between March 4-March 6, 2022 among a sample of 2005 Registered Voters across the United States. The interviews were conducted online, and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of registered Voters based on gender by age, educational attainment, race, marital status, homeownership, race by educational attainment, 2020 presidential vote, and region. Results from the full survey have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
The state-level polls were conducted between March 4-March 8, 2022, among a sample of 298 Registered Voters in Arizona and a sample of 300 registered voters in Colorado. The interviews were conducted online, and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of Registered Voters based on gender, age, education, race, ethnicity, marital status, homeownership, and 2020 vote choice. Results from the full survey have a margin of error of plus or minus 6 percentage points.
About the Walton Family Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation is, at its core, a family-led foundation. Three generations of the descendants of our founders, Sam and Helen Walton, and their spouses, work together to lead the foundation and create access to opportunity for people and communities. We work in three areas: improving K-12 education, protecting rivers and oceans and the communities they support, and investing in our home region of Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta. To learn more, visit waltonfamilyfoundation.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (WFRV) – The mother who is accused of killing her 8-year-old son was found competent to stand trial after a judge ordered a mental evaluation back in April.
41-year-old Natalia Hitchcock was back in court on Thursday where a judge deemed her competent to stand trial for strangling and killing Oliver Hitchcock.
She is being charged with one count of First Degree Intentional Homicide and one count of Attempt First Degree Intentional Homicide.
On March 30, 2022, Sheboygan Falls Police Department responded to a home on Plank Trail Lane for reports of a stabbing involving Hitchcock and her 8-year-old son, Oliver.
Upon arrival, officers found the boy laying on his back with bruising around his neck, consistent with being strangled, but there was no blood or other wounds. He was transported to a local hospital but would die from his injuries a few days later.
Natalia Hitchcock is expected to be back in court for a preliminary hearing on November 11. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/sheboygan-mother-found-competent-to-stand-trial-for-strangling-killing-8-year-old-son/ | 2022-09-30 03:04:38 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/sheboygan-mother-found-competent-to-stand-trial-for-strangling-killing-8-year-old-son/ |
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It’s not often that banks give away free money. But if you sign up as a new Chase customer, you could be eligible for a nice bonus in your checking account.
Chase Bank is offering $200 to qualifying new customers who open an account by July 19, 2023.
To qualify for the $200 sign-up bonus, you must first open a Chase Total Checking account. No minimum deposit is required to start this checking account. Just sign up and deposit what you can.
To ensure you get the $200 bonus, you’ll have to use a coupon code provided by Chase to open your account. You can set up your account online on the promotion offer page, which automatically applies the coupon code when you open your account. The other option is to have a coupon code e-mailed to you and use it to set up an account in person.
Once approved, you have 90 days to set up a direct deposit directly to the new checking account. With the direct deposit confirmed, Chase promises to deposit your free $200 within 15 days automatically. It’s that simple.
The Chase Total Checking account does have a few requirements to avoid a $12 monthly fee. According to the bank’s terms of service, customers must do one of the following in order to waive the monthly fee:
- Have electronic deposits made into the account totaling $500 or more, including payroll, government benefits, using the ACH network or third-party services that make payments to your attached debit card.
- Keep an account balance of $1,500 or more at the start of each day.
- Keep an average balance of $5,000 or more in any connected Chase savings and checking accounts.
This offer is only offered to new Chase customers. So, if you already have an account with Chase, you can’t open a new checking account to earn the $200 bonus.
New Chase customers looking for other promotions can earn an extra $100 for a Secure Savings account, $500 for a Business Complete Checking account, $100 for a College Checking account or even up to $3,000 for a Private Client Checking account. Read the terms and conditions for each account to see if you qualify for these deals.
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HOUSTON (KIAH) — Goodbye, summer. Hello, (meteorological) fall!
The autumnal equinox, which marks the beginning of astronomical fall, isn’t scheduled to arrive until Sept. 22. But for weather and climate record-keeping purposes, the seasons are neatly divided into “meteorological” seasons of three months each — and “meteorological fall” consists of September, October and November.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center believes that most of the U.S. is likely to experience warmer-than-normal temperatures over the course of September, October and November.
The map below shows nearly the entire country in shades or orange, indicating NOAA’s forecast for a warm fall. The darker shades of orange around Colorado and the Northeast mean those states are the most likely to see hotter-than-average temperatures.
The rain outlook isn’t quite as clear, but favors a drier-than-normal season for a large swath of the country. Only Washington state and Florida are looking wetter than usual, while Colorado, Utah, southern Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky all have especially high chances of a dry meteorological fall.
Some of the most populated areas, along the coasts, for example, fall in the “equal chances” category. This doesn’t mean these areas will see near-normal precipitation, but rather that these areas have an equal chance of above-normal, below-normal or near-normal precipitation. Essentially, there is no clear indicator to make a confident forecast one way or another.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center weighs several factors into their long-range outlooks. One of those is the ongoing La Niña pattern. La Niña means the sea surface temperatures of the Pacific Ocean near the equator are cooler than normal, which impacts global weather patterns in a specific way.
The warm temperatures and potentially dry skies are an ongoing drought concern, a NOAA spokesperson told Nexstar earlier this month. La Niña lasting through the fall and winter would likely mean making a very bad drought even worse for the band of states from California to Texas, which are seeing the worst drought conditions.
The outlook for September, specifically, indicates that temperatures in a large area of the West are leaning toward warmer-than-normal. But there’s also a large area (mainly in the Southeast) in the vague “equal chances” range.
September’s precipitation outlook is even more tricky. Again, a large area falls in the “equal chances” forecast zone. Of course, in September, the wild card for the Gulf Coast states is the arrival of a tropical system. As of Wednesday, a named storm is not expected to make landfall within the next five days.
La Niña, which often has an impact on hurricane season in the Atlantic, runs through November. La Niña years typically correspond with busy and especially destructive hurricane seasons, and this year NOAA expects somewhere between three and five “major” hurricanes to form. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/noaa-releases-fall-outlook-predicting-warm-and-dry-weather-for-many/ | 2022-08-31 20:30:28 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/noaa-releases-fall-outlook-predicting-warm-and-dry-weather-for-many/ |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday set a February execution date for a suburban St. Louis man who was convicted of killing his girlfriend and her three young children nearly 18 years ago.
In May 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Jennings’ case, leading to the setting of an execution date.
Taylor’s execution would come about a month after another convicted killer is scheduled to die. Scott McLaughlin, who was convicted of raping and killing an ex-girlfriend 19 years ago, is scheduled for execution on Jan. 3.
Another convicted killer, Kevin Johnson, faces the death penalty on Nov. 29 for killing Kirkwood Police Sgt. Bill McEntee in suburban St. Louis in 2005. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/february-execution-date-set-for-missouri-man-who-killed-four/2022/10/18/c3b1e782-4f1e-11ed-ada8-04e6e6bf8b19_story.html | 2022-10-18 20:21:52 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/february-execution-date-set-for-missouri-man-who-killed-four/2022/10/18/c3b1e782-4f1e-11ed-ada8-04e6e6bf8b19_story.html |
NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The least affordable state for personal auto insurance continues to be Louisiana, where the share of household income going to pay for auto insurance was three time higher than in the most affordable state, according to a new study from the Insurance Research Council (IRC), a division of The Institutes.
"The Insurance Research Council study shows improving affordability of personal auto insurance, with expenditures as a percentage of median household income steadily declining between the 1990s and 2010s across the U.S. and dropping to 1.56% in 2019, the latest year for which data is available," said Dale Porfilio, FCAS, MAAA, president, IRC. "However, our study indicated there is a 3:1 disparity in affordability between the least affordable and most affordable state."
According to the IRC study, the three least affordable states for personal auto insurance, based on expenditures as a share of median household income, are:
- Louisiana (3.01%)
- Florida (2.42%)
- Michigan (2.33%)
The three most affordable states, based on expenditures as a share of median household income, are:
- Hawaii (0.95%)
- New Hampshire (0.99%)
- North Dakota (1.00%)
The IRC's study, State Variations in Auto Insurance Affordability, focused on the key drivers of the costs that underlie insurance pricing. Factors that determine affordability vary given the state-based regulatory system which governs auto insurance in the U.S. The criteria the IRC assessed when examining the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia included the following:
- Accident frequency
- Repair costs
- Injury claim relative frequency
- Injury claim severity
- Medical utilization
- Attorney involvement
- Claim abuse
- Uninsured motorists
- Litigation climate
Porfilio, who also serves as chief insurance officer of the Triple-I, said, "Our report seeks to illuminate these differences with a comprehensive state-by-state analysis that may help guide policymakers as they work to improve overall affordability of auto insurance in their market."
In the 1990s, auto insurance expenditures averaged 1.93% of household income, dropping to 1.70% in the 2000s and 1.60% in the 2010s, the IRC study indicated. The arrival of the pandemic in 2020 and the increasing frequency and severity of auto accidents in 2021 and 2022 have changed the auto insurance market considerably since year-end 2019, an Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) Issues Brief found earlier this year.
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Hurricane Ian Recovery: Three things you need to know
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Here are three items of information regarding Hurricane Ian Recovery in the Suncoast that you need to know this Thursday evening.
1. Sarasota County collecting vegetative debris.
Sarasota County Solid Waste began collecting vegetative storm debris Thursday morning and the collection continues in unincorporated Sarasota County.
Vegetative storm debris are large, loose and bulky items that cannot be bagged or placed in containers including tree trunks, logs, palm fronds, large tree limbs and branches. These items are being collected by debris removal contractors equipped with the grapple “claw” that lifts materials off the ground into trucks and transported to debris management sites for process and repurposing.
Those debris must be placed out of the roadway and away from vehicles, telephone poles, fire hydrants, street signs, light poles, mailboxes, or anything that could be damaged during collection. If the items are not properly prepared or inaccessible will be tagged and collected at a later date if corrected.
This will be a lengthy process as the vegetative storm debris from Hurricane Ian is estimated to be five times the amount Sarasota County processed after Hurricane Irma. Debris collection trucks will make multiple passes throughout the community which is tracked in real-time and updated daily on the interactive debris collection map. View your estimated pick-up window by entering your address, if there is no date listed for your zone continue to check back as more trucks are added to the collection fleet.
There are two free public drop-off sites that are available for residents to self-haul and self-unload vegetative storm debris from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., daily:
- Rothenbach Park, 8650 Bee Ridge Road, Sarasota.
- Jackson Road Transfer Station, 250 S. Jackson Road, Venice.
2. Charlotte County schools set to return to school Oct. 24
Charlotte County Schools will remain closed for a bit longer, with officials saying they hope to reopen by Oct. 24.
The School District confirms that all schools and ancillary facilities received hurricane damage and that four of the schools have no power.
Most of the damage was structural and crews are working to repair the buildings but this will take some time. An assessment of damage will be conducted and crews will begin clearing debris from the area.
3. Neighbors helping neighbors Facebook groups here to help communities organize
People in the Suncoast always take care of their neighbors. In the aftermath of Ian, ABC7 has created two community Facebook groups for residents to organize and spread information following Hurricane Ian.
There is a group for Sarasota and Manatee Counties and a group for Charlotte and DeSoto Counties. We encourage you to get involved, ask questions, post information about drives and local businesses.
You can find the Sarasota/Manatee group here.
You can find the Charlotte/Desoto group here.
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MERIBEL, France (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin had more than just a gold medal hanging around her neck during the awards ceremony for her latest world championship title.
The American skier was also wearing a heart-shaped pendant containing two miniature photos of her late father, which she held open as photographers snapped away to capture the touching moment.
Jeff Shiffrin died at age 65 three years ago this month following an accident at the family home in Colorado.
He was an anesthesiologist who leaned on his background in clinical science to help Mikaela develop original training and workout methods. He taught her to focus and not distract herself while racing with so much as a self-admonishing yelp.
That advice certainly paid off over the past week when Shiffrin first endured a small protest by environmentalists who mistakenly thought she was using a helicopter for training, then had her personal team thrown into disarray two days before her giant slalom victory when her longtime coach, Mike Day, left suddenly when Shiffrin told him she wanted to change her staff at the end of the season.
The split with Day was a surprise to everyone in the skiing community and left questions over whether Shiffrin could refocus in time for her next race.
“She just shows people that they can say whatever they want, but she will still deliver,” Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Shiffrin’s boyfriend, said Friday.
“Everything that happens doesn’t stand in her way (and she handles) different and difficult situations. She’s unstoppable,” added Kilde, a standout Norwegian skier who has earned two medals of his own at worlds (both silver).
After a challenging stretch in major championships that included three unfinished races and no medals at last year’s Beijing Olympics followed by a straddled gate in the slalom portion of the combined to open worlds, Shiffrin is getting accustomed to being on the podium again.
The giant slalom victory on Thursday came eight days after Shiffrin earned silver in super-G.
“The toughest lessons are often the ones that stick with you and teach you the most,” U.S. women’s head coach Paul Kristofic said. “It was certainly not easy a year ago. But she’s doing a great job with it (now).”
Up next for Shiffrin is her best event, slalom, on Saturday.
“In a way the pressure is off and the most important thing for me is to try to enjoy the last event of this world championships and enjoy my skiing because it feels really quite good,” Shiffrin said.
After worlds, Shiffrin will take a short break before resuming her record-breaking World Cup season. She already eclipsed Lindsey Vonn’s women’s World Cup record of 82 wins last month and needs only one more to match Ingemar Stenmark’s overall mark of 86 victories.
Wins at the world championships don’t count toward World Cup totals.
No matter how many wins she ends up with, though, Shiffrin is not about to declare herself the greatest skier of all time — or rank herself among the greatest female athletes from all sports.
“That title is something meant for people to decide on their own and everybody gets to decide who their favorite athlete is. And for many people, it’s not me. And that’s OK,” Shiffrin said. “I’m trying to push the sport and push the limits and show my passion. … Some people will consider me the greatest. And some people don’t even consider me part of the conversation. I think both of those things are perfectly fine.”
After worlds, Shiffrin will sit down with her team to assess her coaching situation.
“We have a job to do here and then when the time comes, we’ll start talking about what we’re going to do going forward,” U.S. Alpine director Patrick Riml said.
Day led Shiffrin’s individual team within the U.S. squad.
Shiffrin’s personal team is also led by her mother, Eileen, who has coached the skier her entire life, and traveled the circuit with her virtually uninterrupted since Shiffrin made her World Cup debut 12 years ago when she was 15.
“Eileen taught her to ski, so that’s been her project for a lot of years,” Kristofic said. “And Eileen is fantastic. She knows Mikaela better than anybody and she knows ski racing really well. She has good eye for technique and tactics and has always engaged with us on all of those things. And we have a great working relationship with her and I actually value her quite a lot. And I know Mikaela does tremendously.”
Might Shiffrin want to engage with the rest of the U.S. team more often?
The U.S. women are on the rise, with Paula Moltzan finishing second behind Shiffrin in December for the American team’s first 1-2 finish in a women’s World Cup slalom in more than half a century.
It was probably not a coincidence that Shiffrin trained with Moltzan and the team before that race in Semmering, Austria.
Moltzan and Nina O’Brien, along with Tommy Ford and River Radamus, helped the United States win gold in the team event on Tuesday.
“They push me, especially Paula, in training, and Nina as well, and it’s such an incredible atmosphere. Everybody’s competitive,” Shiffrin said. “I absolutely want to be more with my teammates whenever I can be. Of course, the limiting factor is when I’m racing speed, then I’m not with them and when I’m racing tech then I’m not with the speed team but that’s basically the only limiting factor.”
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A lawyer for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin made his case on Wednesday for why his client's three convictions in the murder of George Floyd should be overturned, which the state vehemently rebutted.
Speaking before a three-member panel on the Minnesota Court of Appeals, lawyer William Mohrman argued that extensive pre-trial publicity made it impossible for Chauvin to get a fair trial in 2021 and said the main remedy they are seeking is a new one.
"Our primary argument here is that this case could not be tried in Minneapolis because of the pretrial publicity which was pervasive ... and also just the physical pressure on the courthouse," Mohrman said.
Former Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal, representing the state of Minnesota, countered the defense's claims by calling Chauvin's trial "one of the most transparent and thorough ... in our nation's history."
He said that many of the arguments before the appeals court "do not come close" to justifying a reversal, and that even if they did, "the evidence of Chauvin's guilt was captured on video for the world to see."
Each side had 15 minutes to make an opening statement and respond to questions from the judges, after which Mohrman had about five minutes to give a rebuttal.
The panel said it will issue an opinion within 90 days, meaning we can expect a decision by mid-April.
Chauvin will spend decades in prison either way
Floyd, who was Black, died during an attempted arrest on May 25, 2020 after Chauvin, who is white, pinned him to the ground with his knee on his neck for more than 9 minutes. His death was captured in widely-circulated bystander video and sparked protests against racism and police brutality across the U.S. and around the world.
The following June — after jurors found Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter — Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill sentenced him to 22 ½ years in state prison. A federal judge later sentenced Chauvin to 21 years prison for violating Floyd's civil rights.
Chauvin is serving both sentences concurrently in a federal prison in Arizona. He waived his right to appeal under the federal plea deal, which is why he is pursuing it in state court only.
Because of the differences in parole eligibility between the Minnesota prison system and the federal system, he is poised to spend nearly three more years behind bars than he would have with only the state murder conviction, the Associated Press explains.
In other words, even if Chauvin were to win an appeal in state court, he would still serve a considerable amount of time in federal prison. Still, the AP notes, a successful appeal could set a precedent for future cases involving police officers.
The appeal has been in the works for a while
Chauvin formally announced his intention to appeal his conviction and sentence in Sept. 2021, and his lawyers officially filed the request last April.
They are asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to either throw out his conviction and send his case back to the county, reverse the result and order a new trial in another venue or order Chauvin a reduced sentence.
They say issues with the trial include the considerable pretrial publicity, the city's $27 million settlement with Floyd's family (which was announced during the jury selection process), unrest over a separate police killing in a Minneapolis suburb during that time and unprecedented courthouse security.
They are also alleging prosecutorial misconduct, mishandling of witnesses and the judge's exclusion of evidence that could have been favorable to Chauvin. Chauvin's defense team has long argued that the trial should have been held somewhere else.
Prosecutors have in turn stated that Chauvin did receive a fair trial and a just sentence, contending that a change of venue wouldn't have made a difference and noting that the judge took steps to ensure the selection of impartial jurors and shield them from outside influences.
The hearing focused mostly on venue and jury issues
Wednesday's hearing offered both sides an opportunity to highlight key pieces of their arguments and answer judges' questions in real time.
Some of the issues that came up involved allegations of "cumulative testimony" by the prosecution, the nuances of presumptive prejudice and the permissibility of the third-degree murder conviction. Much of the back-and-forth centered on one juror, referred to as Juror 52.
Chauvin's team is again pushing for what's known as a Schwartz hearing to probe alleged bias, because they say the juror didn't honestly answer a question on the jury selection questionnaire about whether he had attended any protests against police brutality after Floyd's death.
The juror did not mention his participation in a Washington, D.C. march honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., at which Floyd's death was mentioned but not the central focus. Mohrman said if he had answered otherwise, counsel would have asked more questions before deciding to seat him.
One judge on the panel took issue with that, saying the questionnaire used the word "protest" rather than "rally," and that even the defense's brief seemed to acknowledge the difference because it did not use those words synonymously.
He added — and Katyal also argued later — that Juror 52 was truthful in all of his other answers, including his views on discrimination in the Minneapolis Police Department, Black Lives Matter, law enforcement in general and his ability to render an impartial verdict.
"It's not as if Juror 52 was some closeted trojan horse trying to hide his views, he was as forthright as possible time and again," Katyal said, adding that the standard requires proving that he "necessarily lied" while, in his view, the evidence shows "at most ... an honest mistake."
Mohrman said a Schwarz hearing will not be necessary if the court decides to send the case back to the district court, either to hold a new hearing or choose another venue for one.
The venue was another topic discussed at relative length.
Mohrman stated that trial should have been held somewhere else in the state, citing jurors' self-expressed concerns for their safety and the fact that the governor had deployed the National Guard throughout the city days in advance of the verdict out of concerns about riots of Chauvin was acquitted.
He said the jurors had a personal stake in the outcome of the case because they lived in the community where the riots occurred, and believes it would have been a different situation if the trial were held outside of Minneapolis.
Katyal disagreed, saying that "if pre-trial publicity is going to blanket the state then there is no advantage to shifting the venue."
He added that Cahill had already said on the record that having the trial in Hennepin County would be safer and actually make the the jury more impartial, because there were still fears of civil unrest outside the city and security precautions would actually stand out more.
The panel pushed back and asked questions of both parties throughout.
And while their ruling could be months away, they stressed repeatedly that theirs is an "error correcting court" that defers to the district court's discretion — which they said is very broad in many of the areas up for discussion.
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On Tuesday, it was announced that the Jets will play in the 2023 Hall of Fame Game against the Cleveland Browns in Canton, Ohio at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium, located next to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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In the age of social media and worldwide TV success, many trends will come from influencers, celebrities or characters on a popularshow. From nostalgic fads to glowy looks, here are 10 beauty trends to try in 2023.
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Hair and nail trends in 2023
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- Healthy nails: Whether you’re rocking chrome or classy nude nails, the focus in 2023 will be healthy nails. It doesn’t matter how elaborate your nails are if you don’t perform the proper preparation. Natural nails also accompany this trend, including short nails and the no-polish look.
- Anything nostalgic: Anything and everything nostalgic is in, from Y2K to grunge glam to Barbie beauty. For this trend, think about makeup and clothes that Jenna Ortega would wear while reprising her role as Wednesday Addams, Avril Lavigne in her 2000 era and ’90s-style Barbie makeup.
Makeup trends in 2023
- Hybrid products: Less is more in 2023, and full glam is out of style for everyday wear. Instead, keep an eye out for makeup products that also offer skin care benefits. Think about minimalist products that look like skin, such as tinted moisturizers, instead of heavy bronzer.
- Shimmer and glowy makeup: To accompany the fresh, natural makeup look is a radiant, glowy finish. However, rather than adding a touch of highlighter to top off your makeup, this year’s glow is the entire look.
- Embellished eyelids: For a night on the town or to add a pop to a fabulous outfit, opt for an embellished eyelid. Choose eyeshadow palettes that include deep chrome or bright colors, and we’ll also see rhinestones and jewels adorning eyes. Body jewels are a definite yes.
- Matte skin: Glass skin was popular for several years, which involved hydrating skin care and no powder. For 2023, matte skin is back. However, don’t think about the matte skin trend popular a decade ago that was dry and opaque looking. Instead, this trend involves satin or velvety skin that looks fresh and healthy.
Skin care trends in 2023
- Innovative skin care: It’s typical for beauty trends to piggyback off one another. For example, since light makeup is in, we’ll also see innovative skin care become popular in 2023. Instead of covering up fine lines or dark spots with makeup, treat the underlying problem with reparative, replenishing skin care ingredients, such as retinol, niacinamide, peptides and hyaluronic acid. The focus this year is looking and feeling good in your skin. Also, forget about 12-step skin care routines and pick a few powerhouse products.
- Body care: Instead of products getting all the attention, 2023 focuses on full body care, including hydrating body washes and reparative retinol body moisturizers.
- Wellness from the inside out: Beauty starts on the inside, and a much-needed trend in 2023 will ensure everyone starts paying attention to their internal cues. This includes vitamins, CBD products, collagen and probiotics.
Best 2023 beauty trend products
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From Y2K to grunge glam, create the perfect look with this liquid eyeliner that glides on with ease. Since it’s waterproof, don’t worry about smudges or runs until you’re ready to take it off. Plus, it’s ophthalmologist tested to be safe for sensitive eyes and those who wear contact lenses.
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Those trying to get their skin to glow like never before should check out this liquid highlighter wand. It comes in three shimmer finishes and three radiant finishes, formulated with silica to blur imperfections.
Maybelline Fit Me Matte + Poreless Liquid Foundation
Since dewy glass skin is out, a soft-focus matte foundation is perfect to create a natural makeup look. With 40 shades, anyone can find their ideal match.
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Paula’s Choice 1% Retinol Treatment
From fine lines to uneven tone, this retinol treatment tackles it all, thanks to the addition of peptides, antioxidants and vitamin C. As a bonus, there’s no fragrance or parabens.
La Roche-Posay Niacinamide Serum
This serum is meant to help with uneven skin tone and discoloration so that glowing skin can shine through. It also contains hyaluronic acid to help smooth lines.
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Care for the skin on your body as much as the skin on your face. This product is made with sesame seed oil and is fragrance-free. Plus, you get two of them.
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These gummies start working on the inside to keep our hair, skin and nails in tip-top shape. They’re naturally flavored with grapefruit and contain no artificial colors or flavors.
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Closing your laptop at 5 p.m. Doing only assigned tasks. Spending more time with family. These are some practices in the workplace trend of "quiet quitting" — which some experts say is a misnomer.
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Closing your laptop at 5 p.m. Doing only assigned tasks. Spending more time with family. These are some practices in the workplace trend of "quiet quitting" — which some experts say is a misnomer.
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NEW YORK, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner of the class action firm Monteverde & Associates PC (the "M&A Class Action Firm"), a national securities firm rated Top 50 in the 2018-2021 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report and headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City, is investigating BioHaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. (BHVN), relating to its proposed merger with Pfizer Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, BHVN shareholders will receive 0.5 shares of New Biohaven and $148.50 in cash per share. Click here for more information: http://monteverdelaw.com/case/biohaven-pharmaceutical-holding-company-ltd. It is free and there is no cost or obligation to you.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) _ Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) on Tuesday reported third-quarter net income of $13.91 billion.
The Mountain View, California-based company said it had net income of $1.06 per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.25 per share.
The internet search leader posted revenue of $69.09 billion in the period. After subtracting Alphabet's advertising commissions, revenue was $57.27 billion, also falling short of Street forecasts. Ten analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $58.36 billion.
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Reports: ‘QAnon Shaman’ released from prison, transferred to halfway house
(Gray News) - Jacob Chansley, also known as the “QAnon Shaman,” was transferred from a federal prison to a halfway house, according to several reports.
The Bureau of Prisons and Chansley’s lawyer confirmed he was moved to “community confinement,” according to the Hill.
Chansley was sentenced to 41 months in prison in November 2021 after pleading guilty to a federal charge of obstruction of an official proceeding for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
Chansley previously admitted to using a bullhorn to rile up the crowd and writing a threatening note to then-Vice President Mike Pence during the assault on the Capitol.
CBS News reported Chansley’s release date is now listed as May 25, 2023. Originally, he was to be released in July.
The Bureau of Prisons has declined to comment on the details of Chansley’s transfer and new release date. A spokesman for the bureau did note in a statement to CBS News that a law passed in 2018 changed how frequently federal inmates can earn sentence reductions.
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Storms blamed in deaths of 3
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG/Gray News) - Severe storms that brought damaging winds, heavy rains and flash flooding to parts of the Midwest and the South on Monday are being blamed for the deaths of three people.
A woman is dead after a tree fell on her during Monday night’s storms in Toledo, officials confirmed. It happened around 6:30 p.m. Monday, WTVG reported.
“Crews responded a short time later and found that there was an adult patient underneath the tree, and unfortunately that patient had succumbed to their injuries and was declared deceased,” says Toledo Fire and Rescue Fire Chief Allison Armostory.
It’s unclear at this time exactly where the woman was when the tree came down.
In Monroe, Michigan, a 14-year-old girl died after touching a downed electrical line in her backyard, police said.
Multiple emergency agencies responded to the scene Monday. Police said the girl was still in contact with the energized electrical line when first responders arrived at the scene.
DTE Energy crews disconnected the power lines so first responders could help the girl, but she died by the time the scene was safe.
According to Monroe Police detectives, the girl was walking with a friend in her backyard when they believed they could “smell a bonfire.”
The victim reached for what she believed was a stick when she was electrocuted by a charged electrical line.
The safety department said it is working to support the families of the victim.
Authorities in Arkansas said an 11-year-old boy died after he was swept into a storm drain during heavy rainfall Monday, the Associated Press reported.
A 47-year-old woman who tried to help the child was also pulled from the drain and taken to a hospital for treatment, according to police in Bentonville.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday directed federal agencies to go door-to-door in East Palestine, Ohio, to check on families affected by the toxic train derailment that has morphed into a heated political controversy.
Under Biden’s order, teams from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Emergency Management Agency will visit homes beginning Saturday. Workers will ask how residents are doing, see what they need and connect them with appropriate resources from government and nonprofit organizations, the White House said.
The “walk teams” are modeled on similar teams following hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Biden directed employees to get to as many homes as possible by Monday. Officials said the immediate goal was to visit at least 400. The president said he currently has no plans to personally visit Ohio.
Meanwhile, the controversy spread far beyond the little Ohio town. Officials in Texas and Michigan expressed concern about contaminated wastewater and soil being transported to their states for disposal.
Biden’s order came as House Republicans opened an investigation into the Feb. 3 derailment, blaming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for what they contend was a delayed response to the fiery wreck. The focus on DOT came even though the EPA took charge of the federal response this week and ordered Norfolk Southern railway to pay for the cleanup and chemical release.
Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, became the latest lawmaker to jump into what has become a political proxy war as each party lays into the other after the derailment and chemical leak that led to evacuation of the small Ohio community.
“Despite the U.S. Department of Transportation’s responsibility to ensure safe and reliable transport in the United States, you ignored the catastrophe for over a week,” the Kentucky Republican said in a letter to Buttigieg. “The American people deserve answers as to what caused the derailment, and DOT needs to provide an explanation for its leadership’s apathy in the face of this emergency.”
A preliminary report released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board stated that the crew operating the Norfolk Southern freight train didn’t get much warning before dozens of cars went off the tracks and there is no indication that crew members did anything wrong.
Republicans are framing the incident as a moral failing at the hands of the Biden administration, noting Buttigieg’s failure to visit the site until nearly three weeks after the wreck. Democrats point to rollbacks former President Donald Trump made during his term that weakened rail and environmental regulations. EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited the site last week and again on Tuesday.
Biden on Friday rejected the notion that his administration hasn’t been present in providing assistance.
“We were there two hours after the train went down. Two hours,” Biden said at the White House. “I’ve spoken with every single major figure in both Pennsylvania and in Ohio. And so the idea that we’re not engaged is simply not there.”
A timeline given out by the White House Friday said DOT provided “initial incident notification” to members of the Ohio congressional delegation and relevant committees on Saturday, Feb. 4, less than a day after the derailment.
That same day, EPA deployed real-time air monitoring instruments in 12 locations surrounding the wreck site and in the neighboring community, the White House said.
White House staffers reached out to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s office on Sunday, Feb. 5 to offer additional federal assistance, the White House said in its most detailed account of the initial federal response to the wreck, which has led to round-the-clock news stories.
The Oversight letter requests documents and communications concerning when DOT leaders learned of the derailment and whether they received any guidance about what the public response should be, as well any recent changes to agency train maintenance and procedures.
A day earlier, Buttigieg made his first visit to the crash site and hit back at Trump, who had visited the day before and criticized the federal response.
Buttigieg told reporters that if the former president — and current Republican presidential candidate — felt strongly about increased rail safety efforts, “one thing he could do is express support for reversing the deregulation that happened on his watch.”
On Friday, Buttigieg chided Comer for referring in his letter to “DOT’s National Transportation Safety Board,” saying he was “alarmed to learn” the committee chairman “thinks that the NTSB is part of our Department. NTSB is independent (and with good reason). Still, of course, we will fully review this and respond appropriately.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre excoriated “political stunts that we’re seeing from the other side.”
Norfolk Southern said the NTSB report showed the train’s heat detectors worked as intended and the crew operated “within the company’s rules.” Nevertheless, the company said it would “need to learn as much as we can from this event” and “develop practices and invest in technologies that could help prevent an incident like this in the future.”
The freight cars that derailed on the East Palestine outskirts, near the Pennsylvania state line, included 11 carrying hazardous materials. Residents evacuated as fears grew about a potential explosion of smoldering wreckage.
Worried about an uncontrolled blast, officials released and burned toxic vinyl chloride from five rail cars, sending flames and black smoke into the sky. That left people questioning potential health effects, though authorities maintained they were doing their best to protect people.
“This incident is an environmental and public health emergency that now threatens Americans across state lines,” Comer and nearly two dozen Republicans said in their letter to Buttigieg.
Environmental controversy extended more than 1,000 miles to Texas, where a Harris County official raised questions about the transportation and disposal of toxic wastewater that was moved to a Houston suburb from the site of the Ohio derailment.
County Judge Lina Hidalgo said a half-million gallons of wastewater from the site had been delivered to Deer Park, Texas, with 1.5 million more gallons set to arrive. The wastewater has been delivered to Texas Molecular, which injects hazardous waste into the ground for disposal.
Contaminated soil from the site will be moved by truck to a disposal site near Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ohio Gov. DeWine’s office said, prompting a complaint from Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich.
“We were not given a heads up on this reported action,” said Dingell, who represents the area. She said she would contact DeWine’s office as well as federal and Ohio officials and Norfolk Southern “to understand what is being shipped … and how we ensure the safety of all Michigan residents.”
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HAPEVILLE, Ga. — Hapeville Police said they uncovered a lot more than just a stolen car after it crossed into its jurisdiction Monday night.
The city's flock camera system alerted officers to the stolen car. Police then pulled the car over on Dogwood Drive and arrested the two people inside.
After the car was recovered and confiscated, officers said they found 21,989 grams of marijuana inside the car – a street value worth a whopping $329,835. They also discovered a loaded pistol in the car as well.
"Thank you Sgt. Williams, Officer K. Stevens, and Officer T. Brown for a job well done!" the Hapeville Police Department said in a statement.
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Mbappe was widely expected to move to the Santiago Bernabeu at the end of his contract in Paris, but he conducted a late U-turn last week and chose to sign a new three-year contract with the Ligue 1 champion.
But Madrid showed it has the firepower to cope without the 2018 World Cup winner as it beat Liverpool 1-0 in Sunday's (AEST) Champions League final, with Vinicius Junior scoring the only goal of the game.
Benzema played a key role during Madrid's 14th European triumph, scoring 15 Champions League goals this season to fall just two strikes short of Cristiano Ronaldo's single-season record (17 for Madrid in 2013-2014).
The striker, who has been tipped to win the Ballon d'Or later this year, also became just the second French player to win a European Cup/Champions League final as captain after Didier Deschamps with Marseille in 1993.
Mbappe, meanwhile, scored 39 goals and added 21 assists in all competitions in a fine individual campaign.
Although Benzema admits he would have been delighted to see Mbappe join Los Blancos, he respects the 23-year-old's decision and is looking forward to teaming up with him for France's upcoming Nations League fixtures.
"I would have liked him to be able to realise his dream of playing at Real Madrid, together," Benzema told Telefoot.
"He chose PSG, you have to respect [his decision]. He is young, he has a lot of responsibilities on him.
"It's his choice, he's a PSG player, so we will enjoy playing together in the [national] selection.
"Everyone makes their choices. "I'm not disappointed, I'm happy and I hope he does good things. We're good friends, it won't affect our relationship."
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(Motor Authority) — Nissan in 2021 rolled out a handful of concepts previewing potential designs for the brand’s upcoming EV portfolio. One of them was a pickup truck called the Surf-Out, which could prove popular as both a lifestyle truck and a light-duty workhorse in the U.S.
Nissan design chief Alfonso Albaisa told Motor Authority in a 2022 interview that his design team was investigating an electric pickup truck, and now an executive representing Nissan dealerships has revealed that Nissan is studying one for the U.S.
The information was revealed by Nissan Dealer Advisory Board Chairman Tyler Slade in an interview with Automotive News (subscription required) published on Sunday.
Slade also said in the interview that dealers are asking for a mid-size electric truck and that commercial buyers could benefit as running costs could potentially be lower compared to a traditional gas-powered truck.
While Ford already offers an electric truck in the form of the full-size F-150 Lightning, and General Motors and Ram are readying full-size electric trucks of their own for 2024, any Nissan electric truck is likely to be in the mid-size category or smaller. There is already a mid-size electric pickup on the market in the form of the R1T, though it comes at a hefty price, starting at $73,000.
According to Automotive News’ sources, Nissan plans to exit the full-size pickup truck segment, potentially as soon as this year. Nissan’s current option in the segment, the Titan, managed just 27,406 sales in 2021 and only 15,063 sales in 2022.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed updates to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Fine Particulate Matter, Harold Wimmer, President and CEO of the American Lung Association, issued the following statement:
"Today's proposal from EPA to update the national annual limits on particulate matter pollution misses the mark and is inadequate to protect public health from this deadly pollutant.
"Particle pollution kills. It can cause breathing problems, asthma attacks and a host of other harms, from cardiovascular problems to lung cancer to fetal harm. Children, seniors, people with lung or heart disease and people who work outdoors are disproportionately at risk, as are people in low-income communities and many communities of color who are exposed to higher levels.
"The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for criteria air pollutants. The NAAQS for particulate matter, a particularly dangerous criteria pollutant, is currently at levels that do not protect health. Current science shows that stronger limits are urgently needed at the levels of 8 µg/m3 for the annual standard and 25 µg/m3 for the 24-hour standard to protect vulnerable populations.
"We are deeply disappointed that EPA's proposal today did not include a standard of 8 µg/m3 in the proposed range of options for the annual standard. The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee recommended a range of standards that included an annual level as protective as 8 µg/m3 and a 24-hour range as protective as 25 µg/m3. EPA did not follow these expert recommendations.
"Rather than actually proposing the science-based, most protective 8 µg/m3 annual level or the 25 µg/m3 24-hour level, EPA is only inviting comments on those protective levels. This falls far short of what is needed to meet the White House's stated goals of furthering public health and environmental justice. The Clean Air Act requires standards that are requisite to protect public health with an adequate margin of safety. EPA must follow the law and strengthen both the annual and 24-hour standard to protect public health.
"Health organizations and experts are united in their ask of EPA to finalize the national standards for particle pollution at 8 µg/m3 for the annual standard and 25 µg/m3 for the 24-hour standard. More protective standards are necessary to drive cleanup nationwide in communities that currently experience unhealthy levels of deadly particle pollution. This is vitally important in communities with a polluting source, like a power plant or port, located nearby. Inadequate standards leave too many communities behind. Strong particulate matter standards are needed to protect public health and further environmental justice.
"A stronger 24-hour standard is also important to better inform the public when air pollution levels are unhealthy. The NAAQS are the basis for EPA's air quality index (AQI), which people nationwide use to plan their activities based on the air quality forecast that day. Right now, EPA's outdated 24-hour standard means that people may be told that the air outside is safe to breathe on a day when it is not. EPA's failure to propose stronger 24-hour standards is a missed opportunity for public health. We note that EPA is proposing updates to air monitoring and the AQI. We will provide detailed comments in support of improving public understanding of air pollution threats in their communities.
"We will file detailed technical comments and provide testimony at the public hearing to urge EPA to strengthen the final standards and to promptly finalize this proposal no later than August 2023. We encourage the public to do the same by taking action today at Lung.org/stronger-standards.
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Houston Astros: Dusty Baker wins 1st World Series as manager
HOUSTON (AP) - For now and forever, Dusty Baker, the epic storyteller, first-class namedropper, toothpick chewer and baseball lifer will bear a most distinguished title.
World Series champion manager.
The man who can weave a tale like few others, wistfully recalling his time under Hank Aaron’s tutelage or chance encounters with Jimi Hendrix, John F. Kennedy Jr. and countless more, completed the only missing chapter in his own story Saturday night.
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After 25 seasons as a big league skipper peppered with a couple of painful near-misses, the 73-year-old Baker finally made it all the way home when his Houston Astros beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 to win the title.
"Had this happened years ago, I might not even be here," Baker said. "So maybe it wasn’t supposed to happen so that I could hopefully influence a few young men’s lives and their families and a number of people in the country through showing what perseverance and character can do for you in the long run."
When Yordan Alvarez connected on a go-ahead three-run homer in the sixth inning, cameras panned to a beaming Baker who raised both arms high above his head. At the end of the game, the coaching and training staff circled around Baker, jumping up and down, chanting "Dusty! Dusty! Dusty!" in the dugout before they joined the players on the field.
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Baker's wife, Melissa, and son Darren Baker were on the field to celebrate his long-awaited title and they all shared a hug not long after the final out.
HOUSTON, TX - NOVEMBER 05: Framber Valdez #59 of the Houston Astros celebrates with teammates in the clubhouse after the Astros defeated the Phillies, 4-1, in Game 6 of the 2022 World Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Houston Astros at
"He’s put in a lot of blood, sweat and tears and the game almost killed him when he had a stroke in 2017," she said. "So just to see all this come together — he’s worked so hard and if anybody earned it... it’s him."
He became the oldest manager to win a World Series in his third trip as a manager to the Fall Classic. As a player he went three times with the Dodgers, winning it all in 1981.
He entered Saturday’s game as the winningest manager without a World Series title and improved to 2,094-1,790 with this most memorable victory.
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"I got 2,000 wins and all they talk about is I haven’t won the World Series yet," he said Thursday.
They can’t say that anymore.
Houston ace Justin Verlander raved about the skipper.
"To... be the team that was able to pull it off for him, I know how much it means to him and it means so much to us," he said. "Couldn’t be happier for him. Couldn’t be happier for us. Couldn’t be happier for the city."
HOUSTON, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 05: Jose Altuve #27 of the Houston Astros celebrates after defeating the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 to win the 2022 World Series in Game Six of the 2022 World Series at Minute Maid Park on November 05, 2022 in Houston, Texas.
Baker joins Dave Roberts (Dodgers, 2020) and Cito Gaston (Blue Jays, 1992, 1993) as the only Black managers to win a World Series.
"I don’t think about being an African-American manager because I look in the mirror every day and I know what I am," he said before the game. "You know what I’m saying? (But) I do know that there’s certain pressure from a lot of people that are pulling for me, especially people of color. And that part I do feel. I hear it every day… and so I feel that I’ve been chosen for this."
He didn't realize he was the oldest manager to win a title, but he was keenly aware that he was just the third Black man to do so.
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"I don’t think about being the oldest," he said. "I don’t think about my age. But I do think about being the third Black manager with Dave Roberts and my good friend Cito Gaston, who was responsible really for me as a kid when I first signed with the Braves."
He helped the Astros to their second World Series title and first since the scandal-tainted one in 2017 that made Houston the most hated team in baseball. Baker helped clean up the team’s image after that and some begrudgingly began rooting for the Astros because they admired him.
While beloved across the game, he quickly became a fan favorite in Houston. Saturday night several fans proudly displayed signs that read "Do it 4 Dusty."
"I’ve had some ups and downs, some disappointments, you know? But those disappointments make you stronger or they break you," Baker said. "So this has kind of been the story of my life where people tell me what you can’t do or even now, I won a bunch of games, my teams won a bunch of games, and all I hear about is what you don’t do, you don’t like this or you don’t like young players, you can’t handle pitchers, you can’t, and I’m like, well, damn, what did I do? After awhile I quit listening to folks telling me what I can’t do."
Baker is the 12th manager in major league history to reach 2,000 wins and the first Black man to do it. Ten of the 11 other managers who have accumulated at least 2,000 wins are in the Hall of Fame. Bruce Bochy (2,003), who isn’t yet eligible, is the only exception.
Baker managed San Francisco, the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati and Washington before coming to Houston. He’s the only manager in major league history to take five different teams to the postseason.
Baker had come close before. In 2002, his San Francisco Giants starring Barry Bonds entered Game 6 against the Anaheim Angels a win away from a title. As the road team for the last two games of that series, the Giants squandered a five-run lead in a 6-5 loss in the sixth game before the Angels won the title with a 4-1 victory in Game 7.
After the crushing loss in Game 7, Baker met with his father, Johnnie B. Baker Sr., who delivered a harsh message.
"He goes: ‘Man, after the way (you) lost that one, I don’t know if you’ll ever win another one," Baker recalled last year.
Even though his father has been gone for more than a decade he stills thinks about him every day and often recalls that moment. He’s been driven to prove his father wrong.
After being fired by the Nationals following a 97-win season in 2017, Baker wondered if he’d ever get another shot to manage, much less win that elusive title.
Back home in Northern California, as he worked on his wine business and grew collard greens in his garden, he often felt perplexed he had been passed over for interviews so many times as managerial openings came and went, having made inquiries that he said were unanswered over the years.
Then came 2019 and the stunning revelation that the Astros had illicitly stolen signs in 2017 and again in 2018. Manager A.J. Hinch was suspended for a year and subsequently fired, making way for Baker to return to the game.
Baker took over for the 2020 COVID-19-shortened season. The Astros squeaked into the postseason as a wild-card team before heating up in playoffs to come one win shy of reaching the World Series.
Baker made his return to the Series last season but came up short again as Houston fell to Atlanta in six games.
Baker was lifelong friends with Aaron, who died in January 2021 at 86. He joked that he probably didn’t have Aaron on his side last year against his Braves, but that things should be different this time around.
"He was probably rooting for the Braves last year," Baker said last month. "I figure now he’s rooting for me."
Hammerin’ Hank would certainly have been proud to see his buddy finally reach this milestone since Baker was by his side for his biggest one.
Baker was on deck and among the Braves congregated at the plate to celebrate with Aaron on April 8, 1974, when he hit his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth for most all-time.
When the fact that Baker's future is uncertain because he isn't under contract for next season was raised, he interjected before the question could be finished. "I ain’t worried about none of that," he said. "I’m just going to enjoy today and I’m sure it will be taken care of."
Baker went through his normal routine before coming to the ballpark Saturday. He picked up coffee from a favorite spot in Rice Village and retrieved his clothes from the dry cleaners.
Baker also went to the cobbler to get some "expensive shoes" that he was having repaired because the sole came off.
Good thing, too because after Saturday night’s win he’ll need a nice pair of shoes at the end of his career for a likely walk into the Hall of Fame. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/sports/houston-astros-dusty-baker-wins-1st-world-series-as-manager | 2022-11-06 16:05:25 | 1 | https://www.fox35orlando.com/sports/houston-astros-dusty-baker-wins-1st-world-series-as-manager |
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Companies that piled on debt throughout the pandemic and the economic recovery could be in for a tough road ahead as the bills come due.
Corporate borrowers will have to pay more of that debt back as refinancing grows more difficult with rising interest rates. The persistent squeeze from inflation is keeping costs high for many companies while stifling consumer demand and sapping purchasing power.
Corporate debt rose from roughly $16.3 trillion just before the pandemic hit to about $19.8 trillion near the end of 2022, according to the Federal Reserve. Economists and analysts expect some kind of recession to hit the U.S. economy in 2023 and the severity of it could weigh heavily on both large and small companies as they repay debt.
“Near-term profit pressures on U.S. corporate borrowers look set to intensify,” noted a report from S&P Global Ratings on the outlook for corporate credit.
The report shows that corporate debt coming due steadily rises through 2026, with speculative-grade debt surpassing investment-grade debt in 2027. Speculative-grade debt carries a higher risk of default than investment-grade.
“Faced with an overhang of pandemic-era debt that begins to mature in 2025, companies will be looking for refinancing opportunities,” S&P Global Ratings said.
Refinancing risks are increasing partly because of the potential for a recession. Credit rating trends are already turning negative, with more downgrades than upgrades on debt since August. It all adds up to default risks rising as companies get pinched by a weakening economy and have a difficult time refinancing existing debt.
The Federal Reserve has sharply raised its benchmark interest rate in an effort to tame inflation, but that has made borrowing more expensive. The rate is currently in a range of 4.50% to 4.75% after starting last year at basically zero. The widespread expectation is now for the Fed to increase the rate to at least 5.25% by June and some bets on Wall Street are calling for a rate of up to 5.50%.
The tougher financing atmosphere is running up against an economic slowdown. Google’s parent company Alphabet, Dell and other big technology companies have been cutting staff in an effort to control costs as demand wanes. Retailers, including Walmart and Home Depot, have been issuing warnings about weaker consumer spending.
“Many companies will find it more difficult to balance still-elevated input costs and waning demand amid the prospects of a downturn in the world’s largest economy,” S&P Global Ratings said.
The broader labor market has remained relatively strong, but a downturn in employment could further weaken consumer spending and hit corporate earnings. Companies in the S&P 500 reported a broad 4.6% contraction in earnings during the fourth quarter of 2022 and analysts expect similar results during the first half of 2023. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/corporate-borrowers-squeezed-by-rising-rates/ | 2023-03-10 18:10:39 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/corporate-borrowers-squeezed-by-rising-rates/ |
President Biden will meet with his South Korean counterpart. House Speaker McCarthy needs to convince his party to support his debt ceiling plan. There's much at stake in the current Sudan conflict.
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President Biden will meet with his South Korean counterpart. House Speaker McCarthy needs to convince his party to support his debt ceiling plan. There's much at stake in the current Sudan conflict.
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Alabama is withdrawing from a voter registration partnership involving thirty two states. New Secretary of State Wes Allen sent a letter to the Electronic Registration Information Center state that Alabama was leaving, Allen cited concerns over privacy. He says he was troubled at the idea of providing people's information to the organization. The partnership is designed to maintain accurate voter rolls but has become the target of conservative ire and conspiracy theories. Allen made a promise during his campaign to withdraw from group known as “ERIC.” He announced the decision one day after being sworn into office.
The database was created as a tool to maintain accurate voter rolls and combat fraud by allowing states to know when someone moves, dies or registers elsewhere, but has sometimes been targeted by critics. In November, former Secretary of State John Merrill criticized Allen's intent to withdraw. He said then that “ERIC” provides information that Alabama couldn't otherwise access. The list includes other states' voter registration and motorist driver's license records. Merrill says it’s been a crucial tool for maintaining voting rolls. The issue of participation in ERIC was raised in at least one other state. The Republican candidate for Arizona secretary of state said during the campaign that he would withdraw from ERIC if elected, but he lost. Louisiana withdrew earlier this year.
However, another Republican campaigned on joining the partnership. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, also a Republican, proudly noted in stump speeches that the state had joined ERIC. Raffensperger said in 2019 that it would be a tremendous step forward for the integrity of Georgia's voter rolls. | https://www.apr.org/news/2023-01-18/alabama-decides-on-whether-to-stay-in-voter-registration-partnership | 2023-01-18 12:49:17 | 0 | https://www.apr.org/news/2023-01-18/alabama-decides-on-whether-to-stay-in-voter-registration-partnership |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – High gas prices are putting a strain on drivers across the country.
President Joe Biden has announced several actions aimed at changing that. He claims they’re already working.
“Americans should already be seeing the savings. Although it’s only gone down about 18 cents, the savings are starting,” President Biden said.
AAA spokesperson Andrew Gross confirms prices are trending down.
“Gas prices reached their peak on March 11 when they hit $4.33 and, since that time, they’ve slowly been working their way down,” Gross said.
One of the things that helped was the president’s release of oil from the strategic petroleum reserves.
“Just the news of that announcement, not the actual physical release from the reserve, that helped drive prices down,” Gross said.
Geoff Cooper, the CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, says the decision to let gas stations sell a higher ethanol blend this summer is also making a difference.
“Those drivers that are choosing higher blends of ethanol like E-15 are absolutely seeing savings,” Cooper said.
Ultimately, experts say the president only has a limited impact on prices.
“There are very few weapons in the president’s arsenal they can use and he’s pretty much trying everything,” Gross said.
Costs are really set by the global market, according to those experts.
“There really are limits on how much policymakers can do to really drive down the price at the pump,” Cooper said.
With conflict in Ukraine and resurging COVID across the world, gas prices may continue to fluctuate with international instability.
“You have this upward pressure from the war, a downward pressure from COVID and all of us are stuck in between,” Gross said. | https://www.wane.com/news/washington-dc/are-president-bidens-efforts-to-bring-down-gas-prices-working/ | 2022-04-20 22:50:53 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/washington-dc/are-president-bidens-efforts-to-bring-down-gas-prices-working/ |
One person is dead after an officer-involved shooting behind the Coconino Skatepark, often called "The Basin," in East Flagstaff.
Izabel Street was closed from Sixth Avenue to Colanthe Avenue, following the fatal incident.
Police tape marked off the scene and Flagstaff police officers and civilian aides redirected traffic following the incident, which occurred after 3 p.m. on Wednesday, according to police sources.
The Arizona Daily Sun has learned no officers with the Flagstaff Police Department were directly involved in the incident despite their presence at the scene. Officers on scene confirmed that the U.S. Marshals Service was involved, and the investigation would be taken over by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Law enforcement officials advised the public to steer clear of the area from the skate park to the Sunnyside Community Garden. Officers on scene were clear that no one at the Wednesday night football game at Coconino High School was in any danger. Additionally, officers said the community center was also safe.
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Behind yellow police tape, threaded through the black bars of the skate park gate and around a ponderosa pine tree, a bunker was placed to shield from view the body of the person involved.
Flagstaff police officers confirmed while at the scene that no peace officers were injured.
Residents in the apartment complex behind the skate park said they heard the gunshots. One woman said she thought it was a confetti popper, or the regular noise of children playing in the neighborhood.
Helen Taylor had stepped outside to smoke a cigarette when she saw two people running down Izabel Street.
“It scared me to death. I saw two people running," Taylor said. "It was horrible because I didn’t know what was happening. It was terrifying, and they got shot right there.”
FBI officers were on scene by 6 p.m. Wednesday and were investigating. According to Flagstaff Police Department public information officer Sgt. Odis Brockman, local law enforcement is waiting to learn more from federal authorities before a formal press release will be issued. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-now-one-dead-after-us-marshals-involved-in-shooting-behind-sunnyside-skate-park/article_457ced04-348d-11ed-8f7e-1f69ed94683e.html | 2022-09-15 04:27:05 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-now-one-dead-after-us-marshals-involved-in-shooting-behind-sunnyside-skate-park/article_457ced04-348d-11ed-8f7e-1f69ed94683e.html |
WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, April 14, 2023
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FLOOD WARNING
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Warning
National Weather Service Hanford CA
855 AM PDT Fri Apr 14 2023
...The National Weather Service in Hanford CA has issued a Flood
Warning for the following rivers in California...
Merced River at Stevinson affecting Merced County.
For the Merced River...including Stevinson...Minor flooding is
forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued this evening at 900 PM PDT.
...FLOOD WARNING FOR SNOWMELT IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING UNTIL
FURTHER NOTICE...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Merced River at Stevinson.
* WHEN...From Saturday morning until further notice.
* IMPACTS...At 70.5 feet, Water is up to the maintenance building in
Hagaman Park.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 8:00 AM PDT Friday the stage was 70.7 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage
late tomorrow morning and continue rising to 71.1 feet
tomorrow afternoon. Additional rises are possible thereafter.
- Flood stage is 71.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
71.4 feet on 03/21/2023.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
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Katrina Kohel was ready to go to a statewide competition when her three teammates quit. Her coach in Morill, Neb., said Kohel could still go to watch, but Instead, she took the floor solo.
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Katrina Kohel was ready to go to a statewide competition when her three teammates quit. Her coach in Morill, Neb., said Kohel could still go to watch, but Instead, she took the floor solo.
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We received some rainfall across the Concho valley throughout our afternoon. Temps increased into the upper 60s and lower 70s for our afternoon highs. Mostly cloudy skies persist and some isolated showers continue into our nighttime hours. Temps cool into the lower 50s for our lows tonight. Winds out of the north northeast at about 5 mph, and we’ll see some foggy conditions across the Concho Valley.
We won’t be continuing our showers into tomorrow though we will be seeing mostly cloudy skies and continue seeing some fog as well. Temps cool down a bit tomorrow as temps only reach the upper 50s and lower 60s for afternoon highs. Winds will be out of the north northeast at about 5 mph throughout the afternoon but shift out of the southeast as we go into the evening though still at about 5 mph. Temps cool down to the mid 50s for lows.
To start our workweek we’ll warm back into the low 70s for our afternoon highs. Skies remain mostly cloudy and winds will be out of the south at 5-15 mph. As we get past sunset we cool down into the low 50s for our overnight lows. We’ll be seeing partly cloudy skies and some isolated showers also across the Concho Valley. Winds out of the south at 10-15 mph though shifting out of the west after midnight.
Temps drop for our Tuesday as we will see showers for the morning hours. Afternoon highs only getting into the low 60s. Breezy conditions will take over with winds out of the west at 10-15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. We will finally get rid of our mostly cloudy skies as we receive some sunny conditions, finally seeing the pretty blue sky. Cooler temps expected for our night as well as we drop into the upper 30s and lower 40s for overnight lows. Continuing mostly clear skies into our night as well and winds out of the west at 10-15 mph. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/weather/klst-evening-forecast-saturday-november-10th-2022/ | 2022-12-11 02:29:31 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/weather/klst-evening-forecast-saturday-november-10th-2022/ |
SHANGHAI, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The first Integrated Bladder Cancer Center (IBCC) in Hainan Province was inaugurated in Hainan General Hospital at the Hainan Provincial Urology Annual Meeting. A patient-centered facility, the IBCC serves to improve inpatient experiences as well as medical service efficiency through a full-course management model. Gao Xinpu, Director of the Medical Administration Bureau of the Hainan Provincial Health Commission, Li Cheng, Vice President of Hainan General Hospital, Wang Lin, Director of the Medical Department, Wu Duohu, Director of the Medical Department and Outpatient Department, and Professor Kang Xinli, Director of the Department of Urology alongside its medical staff attended the unveiling ceremony. The ceremony was presided over by Professor Wang Fei, Deputy Director of the Department of Urology.
Bladder cancer has been identified as one of the top 10 highest incidence cancers in the world according to the latest cancer data for 2020 released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization. According to Frost & Sullivan, in China, the number of newly diagnosed bladder cancer patients reached 86,000 in 2020, and is expected to climb to 101,000 by 2025. Bladder cancer patients can survive for as long as 7.5 years1, meaning that in 2020 the actual number of bladder cancer patients in China is estimated to be higher than the annual increase in newly diagnosed patients. It is precisely because due to the high recurrence rate, long survival time, and regular follow-up and treatment among bladder cancer patients that effective out-of-hospital management is indispensable to in-hospital diagnosis and treatment services.
IBCC, with "case management" and "patient follow-up" as the interfaces, can enable an online patient follow-up management system to provide patients with timely reminders for infusion therapy and follow-up visits. This will improve patient compliance through cooperation with the doctor service platform "Miyihui". In daily life, it will also promote high-quality health science articles to patients at different treatment stages to cultivate patients' self-care awareness. In addition to these measures, IBCC will organize offline health education activities among bladder cancer patients and their family members to improve their understanding of the disease. Bringing into full play the roles of both online and offline channels, IBCC can provide patients with personalized management services inside and outside the hospital for greater diagnosis and treatment efficiency.
Gao Xinpu, Director of the Medical Administration Bureau of the Hainan Provincial Health Commission extended his congratulations and noted: "Hainan is actively working its way toward the goal of "treatment of minor illnesses in the neighborhood, and critical illnesses in Hainan" to push ahead aggressively with the medical reform. Under the leadership of Director Kang Xinli, the Department of Urology of Hainan General Hospital has actively responded to the call of the country to build an all-round and full-life cycle health service system. The launch of IBCC that puts patients first and foremost will contribute to the pooling and deployment of high-quality medical resources, and help solve the challenges people face in seeking medical services. We will also give full play to the advantages of Hainan as a free trade port and further explore innovative models, to blaze the trail for healthcare development that conforms to the characteristics of the free trade port and China."
"The Department of Urology is second to none in discipline construction in Hainan General Hospital." Wang Lin, Director of the Medical Department of Hainan General Hospital, said, "Led by Director Kang, we have made remarkable achievements through discipline construction over years. This year, our department has managed to be one of the top 100 departments in urological tumors in China in 2022, marking that the urological tumor discipline of our hospital has won the recognition of experts across the country. I am honored to attend this unveiling ceremony and wish that the establishment of IBCC could promote the development of disciplines and benefit the public."
"We used to put more emphasis on the diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer, but in this process, we found that the recurrence rate of bladder cancer is high, and the survival time of patients is long. The management of patients' conditions thus needs to be advanced or prolonged. That is, it is necessary to construct the diagnosis and treatment integrated system that spans prevention, early screening, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up." Professor Kang Xinli, Director of the Department of Urology at Hainan General Hospital said, "The establishment of IBCC is an upgrade and reshuffle of the existing medical process, and it also marks the improvement and maturation of the medical service capacity. We would also like to express our appreciation to Asieris for its support with the construction of IBCC, and its contribution to and investment in precise clinical treatment, which have promoted the fulfilment of new technologies and concepts."
Mr. Jiang Xinming, Vice President of Marketing Department of Asieris said: "Bladder cancer is one of the main focuses for Asieris. We have dug deep into the pain points and demands of patients, and offered active support to the establishment of IBCC to make possible integrated diagnosis and treatment, provide diagnosis-treatment integrated solutions from prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, to follow-up for the clinic, and create a truly patient-centered health service system. Being committed to maturing the digital platform-based service system, we will help doctors to serve patients with more convenient, efficient and comprehensive disease and health management services, to benefit patients with bladder cancer in China."
It is with the strong support of Hainan Boao's franchise policy that Hainan General Hospital has managed to carry out the first operation with Hexvix (a diagnostic drug for bladder cancer) in combination with blue light cystoscopy, as well as the first nationwide use of single-use cystoscop Uro-G and electronic endoscope image processor Uro-3500 for bladder cancer diagnosis and follow-up.
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Asieris Pharmaceuticals (688176.SH), founded in March 2010, is a global biopharma company specializing in discovering, developing, and commercializing innovative drugs for the treatment of genitourinary tumors and other related diseases. We strive to improve human health and help people live more dignified life. We aim to become a global pharma leader that integrates R&D, manufacturing, and commercialization in our areas of focus, as we provide best-in-class integrated diagnosis and treatment solutions for patients in China and worldwide.
The company has been developing its proprietary R&D platform and core technologies, exploring new mechanisms of action, and efficiently screening and evaluating drug candidates. With a well-established in-house R&D system and expertise in global drug development, Asieris is committed to launching first-in-class drugs and other innovative products to address huge unmet needs in its areas of focus.
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Man training for marathon triggers school lockdown in Wildwood Crest, NJ
A man training for a marathon triggered a lockdown at a New Jersey school on Monday.
Police in Wildwood Crest got the call just after 8 a.m. about a man walking near Crest Memorial School wearing a bullet proof vest.
As police raced to the scene, the school was placed into lockdown out of what police called "an abundance of caution."
Initially, police were unable to locate the man. Other law enforcement agencies were called to aid in the search.
In a statement, police say they were able to locate the man the witness described later in the day. He was found to be wearing a weighted vest, not body armor.
A weighted vest is use to intensify workouts. The man, who was not identified, told police he was training for a marathon.
It is not known what type of weighted vest the man was wearing, but a search of available products does show it could easily have been mistaken for body armor.
Police thanked the public and school officials for their response.
"The administration and faculty at Crest Memorial School followed their safety protocols," Wildwood Crest Police said in a statement, "All students at the school were safely sheltered until they were reunited with their parents."
Eric Scott is the senior political director and anchor for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at eric.scott@townsquaremedia.com
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Chirping sounds lead airport officials to bag filled with smuggled parrot eggs
LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. (AP) — The 24 bright green baby parrots began chirping and bobbing their heads the second anyone neared the large cages that have been their homes since hatching in March.
The Central American natives, seized from a smuggler at Miami International Airport, are being raised by the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation — a round-the-clock effort that includes five hand feedings a day in a room filled with large cages.
At just 9 weeks old, these parrots have already survived a harrowing journey after being snatched from their nests in a forest. They are almost fully feathered now and the staff has started transitioning them from a special formula to a diet of food pellets and fruit.
“You ready to meet the children?” asked Paul Reillo, a Florida International University professor and director of the foundation, as he led visitors Friday into a small building tucked behind a sprawling house in Loxahatchee, a rural community near West Palm Beach.
“They are hand-raised babies,” he said, as the chicks squawked and looked inquisitively at the visitors. “They’ve never seen mom and dad; they’ve been raised by us since they hatched.”
It was the hatchlings’ faint chirping inside a carry-on bag at the Miami airport that brought them to the attention of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer. The passenger, Szu Ta Wu, had just arrived on TACA Airlines flight 392 from Managua, Nicaragua, on March 23, and was changing flights in Miami to return home to Taiwan, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Miami.
Officers stopped Wu at a checkpoint. He was asked about the sound coming from his bag, which Reillo later described as a “sophisticated” temperature controlled cooler.
Wu reached in and pulled out a smaller bag and showed the officer an egg, the complaint said. The officer then looked inside and saw more eggs and a tiny featherless bird that had just hatched.
He told the officer there were 29 eggs, and that he did not have documentation to transport the birds, according to the complaint.
Wu was arrested, and on May 5 pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling birds into the United States. He faces up to 20 years in prison when he’s sentenced Aug. 1.
A lawyer who could speak on his behalf was not listed on court records, but Wu told investigators through a Mandarin interpreter that a friend had paid him to travel from Taiwan to Nicaragua to pick up the eggs. He denied knowing what kind of birds they were.
The officer took the bag and contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By then, eight of the birds had already hatched or were in the process of hatching.
It didn’t take long for federal officials to reach out to Reillo.
“They didn’t know what these things were and wanted my advice on it,” Reillo said. Baby parrots are featherless, so it’s difficult to properly identify them.
He helped set up a makeshift incubator in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s aviary at the airport in a mad dash to save the now-hatching parrots.
The next day, Dr. Stacy McFarlane, a USDA veterinarian who initially tended to the birds and eggs at the airport, and other officials, delivered the baby parrots and remaining eggs to Reillo’s conservatory.
“At that point we were off to the races,” he said. “We’ve got all these eggs, the chicks are hatching, the incubator’s running and by the time it was all said and done, we hatched 26 of the 29 eggs, and 24 of the 26 chicks survived.”
USDA regulations required the birds to be quarantined for 45 days, meaning that Reillo and his team had to scrub down when entering and leaving the room.
But they still weren’t sure which of the 360 varieties of parrots they were dealing with.
A forensics team at Florida International extracted DNA samples from the eggshells and the deceased birds to identify the species. They discovered the 24 surviving parrots were from eight or nine clutches and included two species — the yellow naped Amazon and the red-lored Amazon.
Both birds are popular in the trafficking and caged-bird industries because they are pretty and have a nice temperament, Reillo said.
The trafficking pipeline out of Central America is well established and has gone on for years, he said.
“In fact, the biggest threat to parrots globally is a combination of habitat loss and trafficking,” Reillo said, adding that about 90% of eggs are poached for illegal parrot trade.
BirdLife International lists the yellow-naped Amazon as “critically endangered” with a population in the wild of between 1,000 and 2,500. The red-lored Amazon is also listed as having a decreasing population.
“The vast majority of these trafficking cases end in tragedy,” Reillo said. “The fact that the chicks were hatching the first day of his travel from Managua to Miami tells you that it’s extremely unlikely that any of them would have survived had he actually gotten all the way to his destination in Taiwan. That would have been another 24 to 36 hours of travel.”
Reillo is now faced with the challenge of finding a permanent home for the birds, which can live 60 to 70 years, or longer. He said he’s working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services on a plan “to have the birds fly free and help restore their species in the wild.”
“Parrots live a long time. They are sentient creatures. They’re highly intelligent, very social, and these guys deserve a chance,” he said. “The question will be where will they wind up? What is their journey going to be? It’s just beginning.”
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president on Tuesday called for stronger air defenses and high-tech stealth drones while the military apologized for failing to shoot down North Korean drones that crossed the border for the first time in five years.
South Korea’s military scrambled warplanes and attack helicopters on Monday, but they failed to bring down any of the North Korean drones that flew back home or disappeared from South Korean radars. It raised serious questions about South Korea’s air defense network at a time when tensions remain high over North Korea’s torrid run of missile tests this year.
On Tuesday, the military again launched fighter jets and attack helicopters after spotting suspicious flight paths at a front-line area. A local county office sent emergency text messages notifying residents of a new batch of North Korean drones. But the military later said it was a flock of birds.
“We have a plan to create a military drone unit tasked with monitoring key military facilities in North Korea. But we’ll advance the establishment of the drone unit as soon as possible because of yesterday’s incident,” President Yoon Suk Yeol said during a regular Cabinet Council meeting. “We’ll also introduce state-of-the art stealth drones and bolster our surveillance capability.”
He said that South Korea’s military needs more intensive readiness and exercises to cope with threats posed by North Korean drones.
Lt. Gen. Kang Shin Chul, chief director of operation at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a televised statement the military feels sorry because of its failure to shoot down the North Korean drones and for causing big public concerns.
Kang acknowledged South Korea lacks capacities to detect and strike small surveillance drones with a wingspan of less than 3 meters (9.8 feet) though it has assets to spot and bring down bigger combat drones. Kang said South Korea will establish drone units with various capacities and aggressively deploy military assets to shoot down enemy drones.
It was the first time North Korean drones entered South Korean airspace since 2017. The drone flights came three days after South Korea said North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles, extending its record testing activities this year.
North Korea has touted its drone program, and South Korean officials have previously said the North had about 300 drones. Advanced drones are among modern weapons systems that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to procure, along with multi-warheads, underwater-launched nuclear missiles and a spy satellite.
Since taking office in May, Yoon, a conservative, has expanded regular military drills with the United States and vowed to sternly deal with North Korean provocations. He’s offered massive support plans to North Korea if it abandons its nuclear weapons, but the North has rejected his overture.
On Monday, South Korea sent its own surveillance assets, apparently unmanned drones, across the border as corresponding steps against the North Korean drone flights. South Korea’s public confirmation of reconnaissance activities inside North Korea is highly unusual and likely reflects a resolve by Yoon’s government to get tough on North Korean provocations.
Yoon used the drone incident to hit at his liberal predecessor’s engagement policy with North Korea. He said Tuesday South Korea’s military had conducted little anti-drone training since 2017, when Moon Jae-in was inaugurated.
“I think our people must have seen well how dangerous a policy relying on the North’s good faiths and (peace) agreements would be,” he said.
Moon’s liberal opposition Democratic Party accused Yoon of shifting his government’s “security disaster” to someone else. Party spokesperson Park Sung-joon called on Yoon to thoroughly disclose what he did when the North Korean drones were flying in South Korean territory.
Moon was credited with arranging now-dormant diplomacy on North Korea’s nuclear program, but also faced criticism that his appeasement policy allowed North Korea to buy time and boost its nuclear arsenal despite international sanctions. During his campaigning, Yoon described Moon’s government as “subservient” to North Korea and accused him of undermining South Korea’s seven-decade military alliance with the United States.
Earlier Tuesday, North Korea’s state media announced the start of a key ruling Workers’ Party meeting the previous day to review past policies and discuss next year’s plans.
During the meeting, Kim Jong Un called for stronger efforts to overcome hardships and challenges facing his country. But he still claimed North Korea has reported some successes “in the arduous course” and said his country’s national strength has “remarkably” increased in military, economic and other areas, according to the Korean Central News Agency.
Some observers say Kim may need such propaganda-driven claims to draw greater public loyalty to bolster his weapons arsenal and address economic woes while facing U.S.-led sanctions and pressure campaigns to curb his nuclear ambitions.
The North Korean Workers’ Party meeting is expected to last several days, and Kim will likely address issues such as his arms buildup, relations with the United States and the economy in later sessions. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/ap-kim-claims-north-korean-successes-says-it-faces-challenges/ | 2022-12-27 17:39:00 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/ap-kim-claims-north-korean-successes-says-it-faces-challenges/ |
The redesigned 2023 Honda CR-V compact crossover starts at a much higher price than the outgoing model, but it also comes with a much better-equipped base model. Honda ditched the LX grade on its bestseller, and the new base EX starts at $32,355, including a $1,245 destination fee, Honda announced Tuesday.
The dinky 5.0-inch dash display gets taken out with the LX in favor of a standard 7.0-inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility (as well as a physical knobs for volume and tuning), heated front seats, dual-zone climate control, heated side mirrors, 18-inch wheels, and LED headlights.
Every 2023 CR-V comes with standard driver-assist features such as automatic emergency braking, blind-spot monitors, adaptive cruise control that works down to a stop, active lane control, and a driver attention monitor.
The 2023 CR-V EX carries at least an $1,800 price increase over the 2022 Honda CR-V EX.
The EX and EX-L use the same 190-hp 1.5-liter turbo-4 from last year’s model and it is mated to a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT). It comes in front-wheel drive, and available all-wheel drive adds $1,500 to either model. The CR-V has grown larger by 2.7 inches but Honda hasn’t released final specs to show the change in vehicle weight. It has the same EPA rating as last year of 28 mpg city, 34 highway, 30 combined. AWD costs it 1 mpg combined.
The $35,005 EX-L adds more creature comforts and upgraded tech. It comes with a 9.0-inch touchscreen, wireless smartphone compatibility with a wireless charger, and an 8-speaker audio system.
The big news for the 2023 Honda CR-V is the revised hybrid model, which Honda expects to account for more than 50% of CR-V sales.
Sport and Sport Touring grades use a hybrid powertrain with a refined 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine and a pair of electric motors. The system outputs 204 hp and 247 lb-ft of torque, an improvement of 3 hp and 15 lb-ft of torque over last year’s Hybrid model. Honda says it does a better job of mimicking the stepped acceleration feel of a gas drivetrain. Front-wheel drive is standard on all trims except for the Sport Touring with AWD. The Hybrid can tow up to 1,000 lb, which is a first, and hill descent control and a snow mode have been added for 2023.
The 2023 CR-V Hybrid improves where it matters most: the EPA rating increases to 43 mpg city, 36 highway, 40 combined. The 2022 CR-V Hybrid was rated at 40 mpg city, 35 highway, 38 combined.
The 2023 CR-V Sport starts the hybrid bidding at $33,695. All-wheel drive adds $1,500. It comes with EX features as well as blacked-out trim pieces, black 18-inch wheels, and a leather-wrapped steering wheel and shift knob.
The Sport Touring hybrid tops the lineup with standard AWD and a $39,845 starting price. AWD lowers the efficiency to 40/34/37 mpg. Sport Touring features 19-inch wheels, Bose 12-speaker audio, navigation, and a wi-fi hotspot.
Built in the U.S., the sixth-generation 2023 Honda CR-V goes on sale September 22, followed by Hybrid models in October.
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UN: US buying big Ukraine grain shipment for hungry regions
Bulla Hagar, Kenya — The United States is stepping up to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in the next few weeks for an upcoming shipment of food aid from ports no longer blockaded by war, the World Food Program chief has told The Associated Press.
The final destinations for the grain are not confirmed and discussions continue, David Beasley said. But the planned shipment, one of several the U.N. agency that fights hunger is pursuing, is more than six times the amount of grain that the first WFP-arranged ship from Ukraine is now carrying toward people in the Horn of Africa at risk of starvation.
Beasley spoke Friday from northern Kenya, which is deep in a drought that is withering the Horn of Africa region. He sat under a thorn tree among local women who told the AP that the last time it rained was in 2019.
Their bone-dry communities face yet another failed rainy season within weeks that could tip parts of the region, especially neighboring Somalia, into famine. Already, thousands of people have died. The World Food Program says 22 million people are hungry.
“I think there’s a high probability we’ll have a declaration of famine” in the coming weeks, Beasley said.
He called the situation facing the Horn of Africa a “perfect storm on top of a perfect storm, a tsunami on top of a tsunami” as the drought-prone region struggles to cope amid high food and fuel prices driven partly by the war in Ukraine.
The keenly awaited first aid ship from Ukraine is carrying 23,000 metric tons of grain, enough to feed 1.5 million people on full rations for a month, Beasley said. It is expected to dock in Djibouti on Aug. 26 or 27, and the wheat is supposed to be shipped overland to northern Ethiopia, where millions of people in the Tigray, Afar and Amhara regions have faced not only drought but deadly conflict.
Ukraine was the source of half the grain that WFP bought last year to feed 130 million hungry people. Russia and Ukraine signed agreements with the U.N. and the Turkish government last month to enable exports of Ukrainian grain for the first time since Russia’s invasion in February.
But the slow reopening of Ukraine's ports and the cautious movement of cargo ships across the mined Black Sea won't solve the global food security crisis, Beasley said. He warned that richer countries must do much more to keep grain and other assistance flowing to the hungriest parts of the world, and he named names.
“With oil profits being so high right now — record-breaking profits, billions of dollars every week — ... the Gulf states need to help, need to step up and do it now,” Beasley said. “It’s inexcusable not to. Particularly since these are their neighbors, these are their brothers, their family.”
He asserted the World Food Program could save “millions of lives” with just one day of Gulf countries’ oil profits.
China needs to help as well, Beasley said.
“China’s the second-largest economy in the world, and we get diddly-squat from China,” or very little, he added.
Despite grain leaving Ukraine and hopes rising of global markets beginning to stabilize, the world’s most vulnerable people face a long, difficult recovery, the WFP chief said.
“Even if this drought ends, we’re talking about a global food crisis at least for another 12 months,” Beasley said. “But in terms of the poorest of the poor, it’s gonna take several years to come out of this."
Some of the world's poorest people without enough food are in northern Kenya, where animal carcasses are slowly stripped to the bone beneath an ungenerous sky. Millions of livestock, the source of families’ wealth and nutrition, have died in the drought. Many water pumps have gone dry. More and more thousands of children are malnourished.
“Don’t forget us,” resident Hasan Mohamud told Beasley. “Even the camels have disappeared. Even the donkeys have succumbed.”
With so many in need, aid that does arrive can disappear like a raindrop in the sand. Local women who qualified for WFP cash handouts described taking the 6,500 shillings (about $54) and sharing it among their neighbors — in one case, 10 households.
“The most interesting thing we hear is people saying, ‘We’re not the only ones,’” WFP program officer Felix Okech told the AP. “'We’re the ones who have been selected (for handouts), but there are many more like us.' So that is very humbling to hear.”
In a small crowd that had gathered to listen to stories of children too weak to stand and milk gone dry, one woman at the edge of the woven plastic mat spoke up. Sahara Abdilleh, 50, said she makes perhaps 1,000 shillings ($8.30) a week from gathering firewood, scouring a landscape that gives less and less back every day. Like Beasley, she was thinking globally.
“Is there any country, like Afghanistan or Ukraine, that is worse off than us?” she asked. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2022/08/20/africa-drought-world-food-program-chief/7854131001/ | 2022-08-20 17:17:18 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2022/08/20/africa-drought-world-food-program-chief/7854131001/ |
Last year's one-point victory by Century over Fargo Davies broke a five-year, four-season hold on the top spot in girls track and field by the Eagles.
Now the Patriots look to start their own streak with a repeat at this weekend's state track and field meet at the MDU Community Bowl.
"Looking forward to the state meet, it should definitely be a battle," Century head coach Brennan Doan said. "Fargo Davies is going to be really good and they'll be tough to beat, they have talented girls in almost every event."
The win last season was the confluence of a number of different factors that broke in Century's favor.
That's something that will need to occur again if they want to make it a two-year streak with Davies having built themselves into a powerhouse.
"Last year's meet was pretty special, because I (came in) having us losing by over 40 points," Doan said. "So to walk away with the victory was exciting to say the least. We took some gambles with our entries, and luckily they all paid off.
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"This year we'll need everything to fall in our favor again if we want a shot at winning state, but I'm excited to see how the girls do, because every year this time comes around, the girls have stepped up to the challenge."
Century got a good start in their postseason run last Saturday when they pushed through a poor weather day to take a 20-point win (147.33 to 127) over second-place Bismarck High.
"Any time you win a West Region title, it helps bring some momentum into state," Doan said. "I was happy with how the girls performed last weekend."
Erin Palmer and Hope Stein had particularly good days for the Patriots, as Palmer won the 200, 400, and anchored Century's winning 1600 relay team and Stein won both the high and triple jump.
"Hope Stein is awesome, she's extremely talented and she's running track and field at NDSU next year," Doan said. "As far as Erin Palmer goes, I can't say enough good things about her, she's been a phenomenal leader for our program over the last six years and I'm excited to see how she will cap off her high school career."
As for the Demons, their success at the West Region meet came from a team effort. Thirteen Bismarck individuals placed in the top five in at least one event, and all four of Bismarck's relay teams placed in the top five, despite no first-place finishers.
"The kids were motivated to persevere through the conditions," Bismarck High coach Dale Colby said. "We got a couple of girls qualified, we got a relay team qualified right at the end that hadn't been qualified, and the girls proved to themselves they could compete. It was fun.
"It's tough to single one person out because we had so many placers, our strength was we competed as a team."
This year's state track and field meet will look a little different for everyone in attendance, as the NDHSAA has moved from a two-day event to a three-day event.
While he and his team have yet to undergo the processes for the three-day event to know for sure, Doan is in favor of the change.
"Having three days will benefit all of the athletes," Doan said. "It spreads out some of the distance events, the mile and two mile are on different days, the jumping events will be spread out, which will eliminate some conflicts with the running events. It will give (the athletes) adequate time to recover between events and things won't be as crammed together."
"It's just like anything, you have to try it and see how it works," Colby said. "We've done many different things throughout the years to better the sport, and if this betters the sport, then it's good."
The three-day schedule at state still has a relatively light schedule on Thursday to start things off. After the opening ceremonies, the only track events taking place at the 800 meter relay prelims and the 3200 meter run finals.
On the field side of the schedule, the Class A girls compete in the long jump and shot put, while the Class A boys get started with pole vaulting, shot put, and long jump.
After sleet and snow even went as far as putting a slight pause on the festivities in Dickinson last weekend, the forecast for this weekend has plenty of sun. That's something Colby is plenty happy about.
"It's an interesting time of year, I remember we went to Pierre in the middle of April and it was 75 there, and on the way home we had to go through sleet and snow," Colby said. "Last weekend it was 40 degrees with sleet and snow. The weather should be good."
While the events are a little more spread out, the same limitations are still set on the number of events individuals can participate in.
Colby talked about the calculus that coaches have to do to gameplan where they put their athletes.
"For us, the big decision is how you can spread out your distance runners and jumpers," he said. "Every day has a throw, every day has a jump, every day has a distance race, so those are key components in making sure kids not only compete but get themselves ready for the next day."
While not quite at the level to compete with teams like Century and Fargo Davies, particularly with Century and Davies having athletes at the level of Erin Palmer and Cece Deebom, Colby talked about his team's goals for this weekend.
"Every year, it's a little different," he said. "For us, (our goal) is to find different ways to score points, and if you're in the top five in the state, that's a spot everyone competes for.
"There are a lot of good schools and every point matters. You can be the 16th-best time in the mile and have the run of your life and take eighth, and that can make or break being sixth or seventh. It's an unbelievable experience to be a part of." | https://bismarcktribune.com/sports/high-school/track-and-field/century-bismarck-ready-for-tough-state-meet/article_21619344-dba9-11ec-b497-b38ba11e0dd7.html | 2022-05-26 04:12:13 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/sports/high-school/track-and-field/century-bismarck-ready-for-tough-state-meet/article_21619344-dba9-11ec-b497-b38ba11e0dd7.html |
Earthquake death toll passes 5,000 as Turkey, Syria seek survivors
Rescuers raced Tuesday to find survivors in the rubble of thousands of buildings brought down by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and multiple aftershocks that struck eastern Turkey and neighboring Syria, with the discovery of more bodies raising the death toll to more than 5,000.
Countries around the world dispatched teams to assist in the rescue efforts, and Turkey's disaster management agency said more than 24,400 emergency personnel were now on the ground. But with such a wide swath of territory hit by Monday’s earthquake and nearly 6,000 buildings confirmed to have collapsed in Turkey alone, their efforts were spread thin.
Attempts to reach survivors were also impeded by temperatures below freezing and close to 200 aftershocks, which made the search through unstable structures perilous.
Nurgul Atay told The Associated Press she could hear her mother's voice beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in the city of Antakya, the capital of Hatay province, but that her and others efforts to get into the ruins had been futile without any rescue crews and heavy equipment to help.
“If only we could lift the concrete slab we'd be able to reach her,” she said. “My mother is 70-years-old, she won't be able to withstand this for long.”
Across Hatay province, just southwest of the earthquake's epicenter, officials say as many as 1,500 buildings were destroyed and many people reported relatives being trapped under the rubble with no aid or rescue teams arriving.
Video below: Aerials of collapsed buildings in northern Syria after earthquakes
In areas where teams worked, occasional cheers broke out through the night as survivors were brought out of the rubble.
The quake, which was centered in Turkey’s southeastern province of Kahramanmaras, sent residents of Damascus and Beirut rushing into the street and was felt as far away as Cairo.
Sebastien Gay, the head of mission in Syria for Doctors Without Borders, said health facilities in northern Syria were overwhelmed with medical personnel working around “around the clock to respond to the huge numbers of wounded.”
In Turkey's Hatay province, thousands of people sheltered in sports centers or fair halls, while others spent the night outside, huddled in blankets around fires.
Turkey has large numbers of troops in the border region with Syria and has tasked the military to aid in the rescue efforts, including setting up tents for the homeless and a field hospital in Hatay province. Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said a humanitarian aid brigade based in Ankara and eight military search and rescue teams had also been deployed.
A navy ship docked on Tuesday at the province's port of Iskenderun, where a hospital collapsed, to transport survivors in need of medical care to the nearby city of Mersin. Thick, black smoke rose from another area of the port, where firefighters have not yet been able to douse a fire that broke out among shipping containers that were toppled by the earthquake.
Video below: Volunteers to join quake aid effort in Turkey
In the Turkish city of Gaziantep, a provincial capital about 20 miles from the epicenter, people took refuge in shopping malls, stadiums, mosques and community centers.
Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay said the total number of deaths in Turkey had risen to 3,419, with another 20,534 people injured.
The death toll in government-held areas of Syria climbed to 812 people, with some 1,450 injured, according to the Health Ministry. In the country’s rebel-held northwest, the opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense, or White Helmets, the paramedic group leading rescue operations, said that at least 790 were killed and more than 2,200 injured.
That brought the overall total to 5,021.
Authorities fear the death toll will keep climbing as the rescuers look for survivors among tangles of metal and concrete spread across the region beset by Syria’s 12-year civil war and refugee crisis.
In the latest pledges of international help, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he was preparing to swiftly dispatch a 60-person search and rescue team as well as medical supplies and 50 soldiers. Pakistan's government sent a flight carrying relief supplies and a 50-member search and rescue team early Tuesday, and said there will be daily aid flights to Syria and Turkey from Wednesday. India said it would send two search and rescue teams, including specially trained dogs and medical personnel.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will travel to Ankara Wednesday to express his condolences and solidarity, according to a statement from Islamabad.
U.S. President Joe Biden called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to express condolences and offer assistance to the NATO ally. The White House said it was sending search-and-rescue teams to support Turkey’s efforts.
Video below: Turkish community in Massachusetts seeks help after earthquake devastates home country
The quake piled more misery on a region that has seen tremendous suffering over the past decade. On the Syrian side, the affected area is divided between government-controlled territory and the country’s last opposition-held enclave, which is surrounded by Russian-backed government forces. Turkey is home to millions of refugees from the Syrian civil war.
In the rebel-held enclave, hundreds of families remained trapped in rubble, the opposition emergency organization known as the White Helmets said in a statement. The area is packed with some 4 million people displaced from other parts of the country by the war. Many live in buildings that are were already damaged by military bombardments.
Strained medical centers quickly filled with injured people, rescue workers said. Some facilities had to be emptied, including a maternity hospital, according to the SAMS medical organization.
More than 7,800 people were rescued across 10 provinces, according to Orhan Tatar, an official with Turkey’s disaster management authority.
The region sits on top of major fault lines and is frequently shaken by earthquakes. Some 18,000 were killed in similarly powerful earthquakes that hit northwest Turkey in 1999.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured Monday’s quake at 7.8, with a depth of 11 miles. Hours later, another quake, likely triggered by the first, struck more than 60 miles away with 7.5 magnitude.
The second jolt caused a multistory apartment building in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa to topple onto the street in a cloud of dust as bystanders screamed, according to video of the scene.
Thousands of buildings were reported collapsed in a wide area extending from Syria’s cities of Aleppo and Hama to Turkey’s Diyarbakir, more than 200 miles to the northeast.
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Alsayed reported from Azmarin, Syria, while Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey. Associated Press writers David Rising in Bangkok, Zeynep Bilginsoy and Robert Badendieck in Istanbul, Bassem Mroue and Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut, Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul, South Korea, and Riazat Butt in Islamabad, contributed to this report. | https://www.wesh.com/article/earthquake-turkey-syria-death-toll/42785966 | 2023-02-07 11:54:13 | 0 | https://www.wesh.com/article/earthquake-turkey-syria-death-toll/42785966 |
A strong cold front is forecast to move through the state and could lead to severe storms capable of producing damaging winds and tornadoes later in the week.
Surface analysis Monday afternoon depicts a strengthening area of low pressure in the Colorado Rockies. This area of low pressure is expected to move into the Great Plains through Monday, with an unstable atmosphere pushing as far north as the Missouri River Valley. Thunderstorms that develop ahead of the accompanying cold front Monday afternoon will develop and could produce hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes from Texas to the Nebraska Panhandle. Storms are expected to maintain strength into Tuesday, where the risk for severe weather slides into the Lower Mississippi River Valley. An approaching upper-level low accompanied by above-average temperatures and abundant moisture will result in the risk of severe weather across the Florida Panhandle late Wednesday into early Thursday, with strong thunderstorms possible across much of the Peninsula through Thursday.
Model guidance is consistent with regards to timing, with both American and European models suggesting the arrival of storms in the Panhandle Wednesday evening. The severe risk gradually shifts from west to east overnight Wednesday, with storms arriving in the Tallahassee area during the early morning hours Thursday. As the line shifts east early Thursday, the severe potential in the Panhandle should gradually begin to diminish. Across the central Peninsula, the severe risk will likely linger into the early evening before storms finally push off the east coast of Florida.
Specific details of severe risk types will come into better view in the days to come, however, initial forecast thinking does depict a mainly damaging wind and tornado threat. This risk will be especially prominent in the Panhandle, where it looks likely the most instability will be present in this area Wednesday afternoon through early Thursday. Depending on how quickly the atmosphere destabilizes Thursday, the risk for damaging winds and an isolated tornado will likely continue across the Peninsula through early Thursday evening.
The severe weather season in the Sunshine State typically does persist through the winter months, especially along the Gulf Coast where powerful cold fronts can sometimes spark stronger storms. There is the potential for watches and warnings Wednesday and Thursday. If a watch is issued, it means that the ingredients for severe weather or tornadoes are present in the atmosphere. Watches are typically issued before the weather turns severe and tend to cover a fairly large geographic area for several hours. A warning on the other hand is issued when severe weather is ongoing for a specific location and is typically on a smaller geographic scale, typically covering only a few counties at a time.
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Putin warns West against sending arms; Kyiv hit by missiles
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin’s new warning to the West against sending longer-range rocket systems to Ukraine came as his forces claimed to have destroyed Western military supplies in their first such airstrikes on Ukraine’s capital in more than a month.
The attack showed that Russia still had the capability and willingness to hit at Ukraine’s heart, despite refocusing its efforts to capture territory in the east.
Putin’s comments, in a TV interview that aired Sunday, came days after the U.S. announced plans to deliver $700 million of security assistance for Ukraine, including four precision-guided, medium-range rocket systems, as well as helicopters, Javelin anti-tank systems, radars, tactical vehicles and more.
“All this fuss around additional deliveries of weapons, in my opinion, has only one goal: to drag out the armed conflict as much as possible,” Putin said. He insisted such supplies were unlikely to change the military situation for Ukraine’s government, which he said was merely making up for losses of similar rockets.
If Kyiv gets longer-range rockets, Putin added, Moscow will “draw appropriate conclusions and use our means of destruction, which we have plenty of, in order to strike at those objects that we haven’t yet struck.”
The U.S. has stopped short of offering Ukraine longer-range weapons that could fire deep into Russia.
Military analysts say Russia hopes to overrun Ukraine’s embattled eastern industrial Donbas region before the arrival of any U.S. weapons that might turn the tide. The Pentagon said last week that it will take at least three weeks to get the U.S. weapons onto the battlefield. Russia-backed separatists have fought the Ukrainian government since 2014 in the Donbas.
Moscow also accused the West of closing off lines of communication by forcing Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s plane to cancel a trip to Serbia for talks Monday.
Serbia’s neighbors closed their airspace to Lavrov’s plane, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Italian television in comments reported by Russian news agencies. Earlier in the day, Serbian newspaper Vecernje Novosti had said that Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro would not allow Lavrov’s plane to come through.
“This is another closed channel of communication,” Zakharova said.
The missiles that struck Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on Sunday destroyed T-72 tanks supplied by Eastern European countries and other armored vehicles, the Russian Defense Ministry said on the Telegram app.
Ukraine, however, said the missiles hit a train repair shop. Ukraine’s railway authority led reporters on a guided tour of the repair plant in eastern Kyiv that it said was hit by four missiles. The authority said no military equipment had been stored there, and Associated Press reporters saw no remnants of any in the facility’s destroyed building.
“There were no tanks, and you can just be witness to this.” said Serhiy Leshchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office.
Yet a government adviser said on national TV that military infrastructure also was targeted. AP reporters saw a building burning in an area near the destroyed railcar plant. Two residents of that district said the warehouse-type structure that billowed smoke was part of a tank-repair facility. Police blocking access to the site told an AP reporter that military authorities had banned the taking of images there.
The Russian Defense Ministry also said air-launched precision missiles were used to destroy workshops in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, including in Druzhkivka, that were repairing damaged Ukrainian military equipment.
And Ukraine’s General Staff said Russian forces fired five X-22 cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea toward Kyiv, and one was destroyed by air defenses. Four other missiles hit “infrastructure facilities,” but Ukraine said there were no casualties.
Before Sunday’s early morning attack, Kyiv had not faced any such Russian airstrikes since the April 28 visit of U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.
Russian forces remained focused on capturing Ukraine’s eastern cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk. West of those cities, in the towns of Sloviansk and Bakhmut, cars and military vehicles were seen speeding into town from the direction of the front line. Dozens of military doctors and paramedic ambulances worked to evacuate civilians and Ukrainian servicemen, many of whom had been hurt by artillery shelling.
The U.K. military said in its daily intelligence update that Ukrainian counterattacks in Sieverodonetsk were “likely blunting the operational momentum Russian forces previously gained through concentrating combat units and firepower.” Russian forces had been making a string of advances in the city, but Ukrainian fighters have pushed back in recent days.
The statement also said Russia’s military was partly relying on reserve forces of Luhansk separatists.
“These troops are poorly equipped and trained, and lack heavy equipment in comparison to regular Russian units,” the intelligence update said, adding that the move “indicates a desire to limit casualties suffered by regular Russian forces.”
In other developments:
— In the Azov Sea port of Mariupol, which Russia claimed to have captured in May after a monthslong siege, a mayoral aide said water supplies contaminated by decomposing corpses and garbage were causing dysentery and posing a threat of cholera and other diseases. In remarks carried by Ukraine’s Unian news agency, Petro Andriushchenko said Russian authorities controlling the city have imposed a quarantine. His report could not be independently confirmed.
— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the Zaporizhzhia region in the southeast, which is partly under Russian control. He received a battle report, thanked troops and met with refugees in what was only his second public visit outside the Kyiv area since the war began.
— The Spanish daily El Pais reported that Spain planned to supply anti-aircraft missiles and up to 40 Leopard 2 A4 battle tanks to Ukraine. Spain’s Ministry of Defense did not comment on the report.
— And far from the battlefield, Ukraine’s national soccer players missed out on qualifying for a World Cup spot, losing 1-0 to Wales in an emotionally charged match in Cardiff. Back home, some Ukrainians gathered in bars to watch the game.
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Associated Press journalists David Keyton and Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv contributed to this report.
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Collaboration to advance cardiology and neurology targets using phenomics and genomic data to improve human health
NEW YORK , Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deerfield Management, a healthcare investment firm, and BioSymetrics, a phenomics-driven drug discovery company, today announced a five-year joint venture to accelerate the advancement of new therapeutics, with an initial focus on cardiovascular and neurological diseases. The collaboration will identify new drug discovery programs that combine BioSymetrics' AI-powered target discovery and validation platform with Deerfield's drug discovery and commercial modeling capabilities.
"BioSymetrics' platform creates proprietary and highly valuable insights into biology that can help identify novel therapeutics," said James Flynn, Managing Partner, Deerfield Management and Cure Founder. "Our collaboration focuses on complex conditions in cardiovascular and neurological disease where BioSymetrics' data and analytical capabilities can be particularly important. We are excited about the breakthroughs possible through this partnership."
BioSymetrics takes a phenomics-driven approach to advancing drug discovery. The company's target discovery platform uses machine learning to connect clinical and experimental data – including patient data from millions of electronic medical records, genomics, and experimental data captured in zebrafish models using proprietary computer vision – to identify high-confidence targets for drug discovery. Targets discovered using BioSymetrics' platform are grounded in human genetic evidence, giving them twice the likelihood of clinical success as demonstrated in the seminal paper by Matt Nelson, VP Genetics & Genomics at Deerfield Management. BioSymetrics is advancing programs in cardiometabolic, neurological, and rare diseases, including familial dilated cardiomyopathy, atherosclerosis, and epilepsy.
"Deerfield shares our philosophy of using human genetic evidence and rapid in vivo validation in target discovery," said Anthony Iacovone, Co-founder and CEO. "For a prolific target discovery platform like ours, Deerfield's strengths in drug discovery and healthcare expertise ensure that together we can aim to focus on the programs with the highest probability of success and drive forward the best science. We are enthusiastic to begin this effort and work together with Deerfield in translating complex clinical and experimental biology into actionable therapeutic development programs."
Under the terms of the agreement, Deerfield and BioSymetrics will identify therapeutic targets using BioSymetrics' platform and database. Deerfield will provide target product profiles and due diligence support, commercial modeling services, and drug development plans and infrastructure for projects that the parties decide to advance.
Deerfield Management is an investment management firm committed to advancing healthcare through investment, information and philanthropy. The Firm works across the healthcare ecosystem to connect people, capital, ideas and technology in bold, collaborative and inclusive ways. For more information, please visit www.deerfield.com.
BioSymetrics is a phenomics-driven drug discovery company with a vision to translate data into discoveries. BioSymetrics integrates clinical and experimental data, using machine learning, to translate human disease biology and advance precision medicines. For more information, please visit www.biosymetrics.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
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New capabilities to Verta's MLOps platform address ML engineering and deployment challenges, improving ML model production by 30x
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Verta, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI) model management and operations solutions, today announced continued momentum with enhanced enterprise-focused capabilities added to its MLOps platform. The new updates include additions to Verta's native integration ecosystem and subsequent capabilities around enterprise security, privacy and access controls, model risk management, and the pursuit of responsible AI. These updates can improve ML model production time by 30x, a feat that furthers Verta's commitment to solving challenges organizations face with running intelligent products in production in efficient and safer ways at scale.
"The focus of ModelOps is steadily evolving from model experimentation to operational AI where business value is ultimately realized," said Manasi Vartak, CEO and Founder of Verta. "The consequences and technology ecosystem of AI operating in a production setting are far different from when and where the models are built. We continue to innovate and deliver on our roadmap to provide organizations with a platform to maintain operational excellence and perform to their service-level agreements (SLA), system reliability and high availability requirements, model performance expectations, and governance policies and procedures."
Automating the delivery, monitoring, governance and scalability of AI has become increasingly important to business success. Verta's model monitoring capabilities help data science teams ensure their models remain accurate and that their intelligent products keep providing value to customers. By monitoring model performance, data drift and service levels across deployment environments, Verta ensures model-based applications continue to perform at their best.
"With Verta, we were able to quickly deploy a model registry that seamlessly integrated with our identity systems and access control requirements, providing the trusted model supply chain Scribd needs to succeed," said R. Tyler Croy, Director of Platform Engineering at Scribd. "Not only does this positively impact the customer experience by improving the time needed to get models into production, but it also helps attract and retain top talent by removing obstacles between them and their projects shipping to users."
Verta was recently recognized as a Cool Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in AI Core Technologies— Scaling AI in the Enterprise report.1 The report states, "Automating delivery, monitoring, governance and scaling up of AI models is becoming a priority for end-user clients."
The Gartner report also provides recommendations for data and analytics leaders tasked with AI implementation, including that they should:
- Accelerate the time to value from AI initiatives by exploring and leveraging new solutions offered by startup vendors based on your use cases and industry needs.
- Explore the breadth of solutions that address your priorities such as faster model development, ModelOps, data quality, AI explainability and security.
- Compose AI projects by choosing solutions that allow you to measure ROI, be agile, reduce risk and ensure higher model performance.
Verta strives to seamlessly integrate with the tools and products enterprises already use in their IT infrastructure and ML workflows. Along with an extensible platform and open APIs, Verta has built several native integrations for secure and faster onboarding and roll-out in enterprises. New additions to the Verta native integration ecosystem include:
- Active Directory & OAuth2 support: Verta now supports seamless integration with LDAP-based systems like Active Directory. Additionally, for 3rd party Identity Providers like Okta used at enterprises, Verta supports OAuth2-based workflows with OpenID and SAML. This enables Single Sign On (SSO) and automates user management and provisioning with the enterprise identity provider of choice. Verta's authentication integration eliminates the need for a shadow IT infrastructure and reduces the burden on IT when provisioning and deprovisioning users, as everything can happen from a centralized system. In addition to being critical for security and compliance reasons, SSO makes it easier for users to access Verta applications and avoid managing multiple passwords.
- Python Package Index (PyPI) Integration: The PyPI Index is the most commonly used central repository for Python packages and dependencies. As an enterprise-grade model management and deployment platform, Verta provides seamless support for both public and private PyPI repositories for models packaged and served in Verta. This enables teams to securely share python packages and dependencies within the organization with fine-grained access control and guarantee uptime and availability.
- Datadog Integration: ML models are typically embedded in products and business applications and tightly integrated with other production APIs and services. Verta is bridging this gap with a new integration with Datadog — enabling users to get deep visibility into the operational health of their ML models with just a few simple steps. The integration allows you to send operational and endpoint metrics from Verta to Datadog, enabling SREs and IT teams to get a unified view of operational health and achieve faster troubleshooting.
- Apache Kafka Integration: Verta provides simplified and scalable model deployment and inference serving for batch, real-time and streaming ML applications. With the latest Apache Kafka integration, users can take any model and deploy it in a scalable infrastructure. With Verta as the serving platform, the models can autonomously use their inputs to push predictions into Kafka streaming cluster –– one of the most popular data stream systems used in ML.
- Vulnerability Scanning: Verta is invested to improve the security of AI models with vulnerability detection. It has standardized vulnerability scanning at multiple points of the ML lifecycle to help models get to production faster and stay secure when they're deployed. As part of Verta's implementation process, customer admins can configure the image scanning software their company prefers and Verta runs vulnerability scans automatically to surface issues.
Building and managing AI is a collaborative process involving stakeholders across multiple teams and functions. As the number of people increases, management of security, compliance and collaboration not only becomes essential but also becomes more complex. Verta provides a comprehensive set of roles and permissions to meet the needs of complex security policies while simultaneously enhancing collaboration and productivity for teams and individuals. The platform's user management interface provides administrators with detailed platform audit logs, allowing them to easily establish integrations and apply IT policies and controls in a completely self-served manner.
[1] Gartner, "Cool Vendors in AI Core Technologies — Scaling AI in the Enterprise," Farhan Choudhary, Alexander Linden, Chirag Dekate, Soyeb Barot, Sumit Agarwal, Afraz Jaffri], 27 May 2022
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with a resident of Odesa, Ukraine about what the last several days — and nights — have been like, under repeated attack from Russian missiles and drones.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The general election campaign for Kentucky governor got off to a feisty start this week as Democrats worked to link the freshly minted Republican nominee to heavily criticized pardons by the vanquished predecessor of Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat who is trying to win a second term in GOP territory.
Republicans united behind attacks of their own, declaring at a morning unity rally that Beshear has overstated his role in achievements they say were based on actions taken by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature.
“The governor has a press conference to take credit for the sun rising,” said Republican state Senate President Robert Stivers. “And I’m sure tonight he’ll probably have a press conference taking credit for the sun setting.”
But if there was any doubt about national interest in the race, which could offer something of a preview of voter sentiment ahead of the 2024 presidential campaign, that was put to rest with a blistering ad launched on statewide television against Republican gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron by a group tied to the Democratic Governors Association.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, the association’s chair, has vowed to spend heavily in Kentucky on Beshear’s behalf, “maybe even at a historic pace to make sure he gets reelected.”
The association-backed ad accuses the Kentucky attorney general, who won the GOP nomination for governor in Tuesday’s primary, of shirking his duties by failing to hold former Gov. Matt Bevin accountable for issuing hundreds of pardons and commutations in his final days in office.
It claims Cameron “passed the buck” by failing to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the last-minute pardons of violent criminals and others by Bevin before he left office following his electoral loss to Beshear in 2019.
Cameron joined other Republican nominees for statewide offices Friday at the rally, where he ripped into the governor’s decision to allow the early release of some nonviolent inmates during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the people released ended up committing new crimes, Cameron said. They were mostly nonviolent drug and property crime offenders who were released to help ease the spread of the virus in prison populations, according to the governor.
“Daniel Cameron is the law-and-order candidate,” he said. “Andy Beshear is the catch-and-release candidate.”
The Democratic attack ad is the first volley in what is sure to be a bitterly fought campaign. It previews a strategy of linking Cameron to Bevin, whose pugnacious style was rejected by many Kentuckians in favor of Beshear four years ago.
“Instead of passing the buck again, Daniel Cameron must finally answer for why he sided with Bevin and his cronies instead of Kentuckians by refusing to get to the bottom of this dangerous scandal,” Sam Newton, spokesperson for the Democratic Governors Association, said in a news release Friday.
Cameron was just weeks into his tenure as attorney general when he asked the FBI to investigate the flurry of Bevin pardons. The pardons included clemency for a convicted killer whose family held a fundraiser for Bevin and a convicted sex offender whose mother was married to a millionaire road contractor. Bevin’s actions drew bipartisan repudiations.
Cameron responded that the Democratic attack ad was “completely absurd.” He said his decision to turn the investigation over to the FBI drew broad support at the time. Cameron also signaled that Beshear’s record will be ripe for attacks.
“We’re going to remind people of what his actual record is,” Cameron said. “It’s a record that does not reflect the values of the men, women and children of all 120 counties” in Kentucky.
The attack is part of an aggressive rollout by Beshear’s team after he spent months taking hits from a crowded field of Republicans vying to challenge him in November. Beshear launched a statewide bus tour Friday and debuted his first ad Thursday, stressing record economic development gains during his term and the state’s resilience after being hit by devastating tornadoes and flooding.
In another twist in the Bevin pardons scandal, Cameron hired Steve Pitt, who served as Bevin’s general counsel, as one of his top advisers in the attorney general’s office. Pitt pushed for one of Bevin’s most controversial last-minute pardons while serving as the governor’s general counsel, the Courier Journal reported in 2020.
Pitt recommended in a handwritten note that Bevin pardon or commute the sentence of Dayton Jones, a convicted sex offender, writing “personally, I think he’s served long enough and should at least get a commutation,” the Louisville newspaper reported. Pitt later resigned from Cameron’s staff.
State Democratic Chair Colmon Elridge said Cameron’s inaction in the matter was “a slap in the face to the victims, their families, law enforcement and prosecutors who took these dangerous criminals off the streets.”
“People who are a danger to our community were pardoned over three years ago, and the sitting attorney general has done nothing. He has been silent,” Elridge said during a call with reporters Thursday.
Cameron, Kentucky’s first major-party Black nominee for governor, claimed a convincing victory Tuesday in a 12-candidate field that included state Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles, who finished second, and former U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft, who finished third. Beshear easily dispatched two under-the-radar Democratic challengers in his own primary.
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(KTLA) — A motorist on the 405 Freeway in Orange County, California, was captured on video driving her vehicle with the hatchback completely open and a missing passenger-side front tire.
“Rather dangerous situation happening here on the 405, tailgate open. There’s no tailgate party going on in sight,” Instagram user Chad Towersey, who captured the video, can be heard saying.
Sparks are seen flying off the passenger-side rim as the woman drives down the roadway, seemingly unaware of the situation.
The vehicle also looked as though it had recently been in an accident.
Towersey and another driver moved in front of the woman and were able to slow her down and direct her off the freeway.
When the woman finally came to a stop and was confronted by Towersey and the other driver, she appeared disoriented and maintained that nothing was wrong.
“You’re on drugs right now. You’re on painkillers,” Towersey can be heard saying to the woman, who denied that she was.
“I am not. Oh my God, absolutely not,” she can be seen saying.
According to Towersey, the woman had no idea what was going on nor how many people she was putting at risk.
In an emailed statement to KTLA, the Irvine Police Department said it was aware of the online videos and indicated the woman has not been arrested, but the matter remained under investigation.
The vehicle involved has been impounded as part of the investigation.
“Alleged medical conditions can complicate driving under the influence investigations and are a consideration in this case,” the statement read. “IPD is conducting a thorough investigation into this matter which will be forwarded to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.”
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BANGKOK (AP) — The leader of the progressive opposition party that won a stunning victory in Thailand’s national election said Thursday that eight parties have agreed to form a coalition government with him as prime minister, despite fears among supporters that his military-aligned opponents may use the unelected Senate to block them.
Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat said at a news conference that the proposed coalition would have a total of 313 seats in the House of Representatives, a solid majority of its 500 members.
But under Thailand's Constitution, drafted under military rule after a 2014 coup, the lower house and the 250-seat Senate must vote together to select a new prime minister. All of the senators were appointed by the military junta that took power after the coup.
Because of the joint vote, Sunday’s election victor is not certain to take power.
“The key message of today’s news conference is to assure the public that my coalition is firmly taking shape,” said Pita, a Harvard-educated businessman. “There’s momentum, there’s progress and we also a have very clear roadmap from today until the day I become prime minister."
He said the plans include teams to work out any differences among the parties and to "make sure there is a continuation of power, minimizing risk as well as reducing destabilizing factors that could damage the country or the economy or the financial markets.”
Move Forward’s progressive agenda resonated with a public weary of nine years of military-steered rule under Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led the 2014 coup as army chief.
It enjoyed a surge in support before last Sunday’s poll, driving it to become the largest party with 151 seats. Prayuth’s United Thai Nation Party captured only 23 House seats.
Move Forward edged out another opposition party, Pheu Thai, aligned with popular former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in an earlier 2007 military coup.
Pheu Thai leader Cholanan Srikaew pledged unequivocal support for Pita as prime minister and for Move Forward's bid to form a new government.
Young voters were particularly attracted by Move Forward’s policies, including a proposed amendment of Thailand's harsh lese majeste law, under which criticizing the monarchy is punishable by up to 15 years’ imprisonment. Critics say the law is frequently misused to punish critics of the government, while conservatives who consider the royal institution sacrosanct strongly oppose any amendment.
All senators voted for Prayuth as prime minister after the last election in 2019, allowing him to remain in office despite a Pheu Thai victory in those polls. Some senators have already said they will not support Pita as prime minister because they oppose any change to the lese majeste law.
The law, known as Article 112, is also a sensitive subject within Pita's coalition.
“I confirm we want to protect the monarchy but also not allow 112 to be used to harm other people," said Sudarat Keyuraphan, leader of the Thai Sang Thai Party and a former public health minister.
She said each party in the coalition has a different stance on the law. "We have to talk about this article, as well as all the other policies,” she said.
Pita said the parties will sign a memorandum of understanding next week to create a common understanding of how they will work together as a government.
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Associated Press video journalist Jerry Harmer contributed to this report.
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The Fort Kent town hall is just a short walk away from the Canadian border. Down the street is a landmark where U.S. Route One begins.
On a Tuesday night, people who live at the top of Aroostook County were packed into the town hall to talk about Northern Maine Medical Center.
Northern Maine Medical announced earlier this month that it's closing its obstetrics ward due to low numbers of births, and is trying to fix a budget deficit and combat staffing difficulties. The group Save NMMC quickly formed in response, and pulled together the forum to give the public an outlet to air their concerns.
At risk, supporters say, is the community's future. The hospital, opened in 1952 by a Catholic order of nuns, is still one of Fort Kent's biggest employers. But Save NMMC says that in the last year, more than a dozen staffers have left, or say they've been pressed to leave.
The American Hospital Association reported last year that 136 rural hospitals closed from 2010 to 2021, and cited waning patient volumes, low Medicaid reimbursement rates and higher staffing costs. But Save NMMC members have been skeptical of the hospital's claims that it is struggling; some more sympathetic to the hospital say its struggles are no different than what other rural hospitals face.
Among those who turned out was former hospital board member Thomas Kent of Madawaska.
"I'm sick and tired of the revolving door," he said. "The doctors, I just get comfortable with one and then they leave."
Janine Welch's husband was a family physician at the hospital until this year. She said they will have to leave the region, and feels they were pushed out by hospital administration.
"It's not, you know, my first home, but my neighbors have made me family, we're so close. And I can't stand that, that we have to leave."
It's a story Marty Wilder told the crowd she saw play out at her own local hospital in Bradford, Pennsylvania, after Northern Maine Medical Center's current CEO took over. The two towns are similar, she told the audience over Zoom.
"Until this happened, we had a really good hospital, you guys probably do too. Everything was going along fine," she said. "You know, we had no inkling that there was any trouble till they closed the maternity wards."
Wilder said the hospital now has only 10 inpatient beds, as services were consolidated after then-CEO Jeff Zewe closed the birthing unit there in 2019.
Jennifer Levesque, a leader of the group Save NMMC, says she hopes Wilder's story doesn't play out in Fort Kent.
"That's their past. I don't know if it's our present, and I hope it's not our future," she said. "But I'm worried, I'm really worried."
Board members and hospital administration were in attendance but were not invited to speak. One of them was hospital chief operating officer Alain Bois. He and Zewe told reporters last week that the hospital could face a loss of more than $10 million dollars this year.
He said after the forum Tuesday that more information will be available when the nonprofit hospital's 990s are made public.
Bois could not confirm how many people had left the hospital. But he said he would have offered some insight into concerns if he had been allowed to speak
"We've tried to be transparent about where we're at, the challenges that is facing multiple rural hospitals across America," he said.
Some in attendance at the Fort Kent town hall, including local pharmacist Charlie Ouelette, defended the board. Ouelette said it was making the best choices it could in a tough situation.
"I think it's a little ingenuous to basically say, save NMMC from what the board is doing, what the hospitals doing," he said. "I think they're trying to do that."
And Fort Kent selectmen Jake Robichaud said while he welcomed the forum as a means of gather input, hospital administrators have heard these kinds of concerns from the public before.
"But I don't believe that anything, they're hearing is new," he said. "I was born and raised here. People have moved here and moved away for generations."
As locals filed out Tuesday night, they signed petitions seeking information, including about the hospital's finances. They also picked up black-and-white yard signs that read "Save NMMC."
After the forum, hospital board chair Donald Guimond said he didn't know what the trustees might do about Save NMMC's demands. But he said there are some details, such as why some employees have left, that can't be disclosed for privacy reasons.
"The outcome will be what the outcome will be, I don't predispose what might come of this," he said. "I suspect that some other concerns may be answered. Then some may not."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The three Los Angeles City Council members at the center of a scandal over a recording of racist comments have all had long, influential careers in state and local politics.
Those careers are now in jeopardy as Kevin de Leon, Nury Martinez and Gil Cedillo face enormous backlash to comments, made nearly a year ago, that were revealed this week.
The recording captured a crude conversation between the three council members and a powerful labor union leader that included language to mock their colleagues while discussing the city’s redistricting process.
Martinez resigned from the council Monday. De Leon and Cedillo have not resigned, despite calls to do so from numerous groups and politicians, including President Joe Biden.
KEVIN DE LEON
Known simply as “KDL,” de Leon has been a force in California politics for decades. Born in Los Angeles to immigrant parents, de Leon got his start organizing against Proposition 187, an ultimately unsuccessful initiative that sought to bar immigrants living in the country without legal permission from using state services.
He was elected to the Legislature in 2006, rising to become the leader of the state Senate, a powerful position that gave him a major say in decisions about the state’s budget and policies.
In 2017, de Leon made the brazen decision to challenge veteran U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, setting up a bitter intraparty fight that he would ultimately lose. He soon got elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 2020. He ran for mayor this year but finished third in the primary behind businessperson Rick Caruso and U.S. Rep. Karen Bass.
NURY MARTINEZ
Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, Martinez is a veteran of Los Angeles-area local governments.
Martinez got her start on the San Fernando City Council, where she was first elected in 2003 and also served as mayor. She got elected to the Los Angeles Unified School District board in 2009, helping to run the second largest district in the nation. While there, she battled unions over policies to make it easier to fire teachers in sexual misconduct cases.
In 2013, Martinez got elected to the Los Angeles City Council, replacing Tony Cárdenas, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She helped pass a law raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
The Los Angeles City Council unanimously chose Martinez as president, a position she assumed in 2020, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. She oversaw the city’s response, including setting up a renters’ assistance program. She resigned her seat Wednesday.
GIL CEDILLO
Cedillo rose to prominence as the leader of Los Angeles County’s largest union in the early 1990s, but he lost the job in a power struggle with the union’s board, the Los Angeles Times reported.
He got elected to the Legislature in 1998, where he was known for his futile attempts to pass a law allowing people who were not U.S. citizens to get driver’s licenses from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Former Gov. Jerry Brown finally did sign that law in 2013, after Cedillo had left the Legislature.
Cedillo was more successful with the California Dream Act, which lets some students who are not U.S. citizens qualify for some financial aid and other scholarships.
Cedillo left the Legislature in 2012 because of term limits but was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 2013. He served two terms and was trying to have at least one more, but he lost in the primary election this summer to community activist Eunisses Hernandez. Cedillo will leave office in January, but many have called on him to resign immediately following the recording of the racist comments. | https://www.kark.com/news/national/ap-racist-comments-could-end-careers-of-powerful-la-politicians/ | 2022-10-13 11:02:04 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/national/ap-racist-comments-could-end-careers-of-powerful-la-politicians/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top administrator with Washington’s health insurance exchange apologized to House members on Wednesday for the data breach that resulted in the disclosure of personal information for thousands of users, including members of Congress.
The leak was the result of human error, Mila Kofman, executive director of the District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority, told a joint session of two House Oversight subcommittees.
She said a server was incorrectly configured in mid-2018 when they installed the internal communications program Slack. That faulty configuration allowed an unauthorized individual to access the server and steal two reports containing personal information of “56,415 current and past customers including members of Congress, their families, and staff.”
Some of that information was later offered up for sale in an online forum. The issue first came to public attention when members of the House of Representatives and the Senate were informed that they and their staffers may have been affected.
Kofman repeatedly apologized for the mistake, but she praised her agency’s reaction once the breach was discovered in early March. She said outside experts and the FBI Cyber Security Task Force were brought in to quickly identify and shut down the security flaw. And those potentially impacted by the leak were immediately offered identity theft and credit monitoring protection, she said.
“We will not fail in our response,” Kofman told the committee.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. praised the agency’s reaction, telling Kofman, “from a crisis standpoint, the response was excellent.”
However, Mace took exception to what she called an “unacceptable” lack of detail on who exactly was responsible and whether that employee or contractor had been punished or fired.
“We want to know who is responsible and we want to know how those responsible are being held accountable,” she said.
Mace also criticized a report by the cyber-security firm Mandient, which helped identify the security flaw — saying it was thin on crucial details. Mace called the report “pretty lame and uninformed.”
Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., wondered if the seven-page report was some sort of early draft, calling it “wildly underwhelming if that’s the final report.”
And Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., a former IT professional, said Kofman’s entire testimony shed very little light on when exactly the data theft took place or who exactly was responsible.
“I have become more confused sitting here today as to what happened. I thought this would be clarifying,” he said.
The hearing comes in the larger context of a sweeping effort by the Republican-held House of Representatives to increase their oversight on the government of the District of Columbia. Congress has already overturned a rewrite of the D.C. criminal code — which passed the Senate with significant Democratic support.
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SEOUL, South Korea , Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- P&C Solution, an XR (extended reality) specialist, announced the concurrent launch of its new product, "METALENSE" in the Korean and overseas markets on October 4, 2022. In Korea, P&C Solution plans the product launch at the Korea Electronics Show (KES) 2022 to be held at COEX, Seoul for four days from October 4 (Tue.) to 7 (Fri.). The product will also be concurrently launched overseas through the distribution of a promotional article across North America, Europe, and Asia.
P&C Solution won recognition of its technological power by receiving the Innovation Awards presented only to innovative products at the KES. KES is Korea's top-tier exhibition of IT convergence products. KES is a large-scale event, so a number of overseas buyers as well as domestic companies will attend (participate in) this exhibition. In addition, KES 2022 will showcase a variety of items including various electronic equipment and ICT, IoT, AR, and XR solutions and also offer the related side events.
P&C Solution provides a wide range of services based on the AR, XR, and digital twin technologies. As key services, the company proposes AR glasses and a differentiated XR solution to handle issues caused by communication errors between administrators and operators, and recognition errors of operators in industrial sites. The products can not only be used in industrial sites, but also be customized for application to various fields including logistics, construction, manufacturing, military, medicine, education, and culture.
METALENSE, a new product to be unveiled at the exhibition, was created by upgrading the optical part and AR engine functions of the existing AR glasses. Through lens offering high resolution and clarity, it provides a huge sense of immersion, enabling users to experience mixed reality more realistically.
The company is preparing to demonstrate remote cooperation solution and AR drawing using METALENSE at the exhibition. "We look forward to introducing our new AR glasses model and service at the KES 2022," said a P&C Solution official. He expressed great expectations for the company's participation in the event by saying, "We will make thorough preparations to make the event a meaningful opportunity to announce the launch of our new product, METALENSE."
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Ready for Itineraries this Summer, Travelers' Choice Best of the Best "Things to Do" Awards Feature Vacation Activities for All
NEEDHAM, Mass., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the summer travel season heats up to be the busiest since pre-pandemic years, and appetites for jet-set adventures soar, Tripadvisor®, the world's largest travel guidance platform, today announces the next in its coveted Travelers' Choice® Award series: The Best of the Best Things to Do. Revealing all the must-do activities in travel hotspots around the world, this accolade also includes hidden gems in off the beaten path locations: from Oahu's chilled-out North Shore to Reykjavik's foodie enclaves, and much more. As part of this next iteration of Travelers' Choice Awards, Tripadvisor outlines subcategories corresponding with the wants and needs of every traveler.
With high demand for travel, vacationers want to make up for lost time, desperately seeking those trips of a lifetime. The Travelers' Choice Awards are the ultimate resource of tried-and-true experiences, curated by travelers within Tripadvisor's community, ready to bring holiday itineraries to the next level.
An Elevated Way to Travel
Travelers across all ages indicated (60%) in a 2021 Tripadvisor survey that emerging from the pandemic they intend to book a local experience to get to know more about the destinations they plan to visit on their next trip, with interest rising further for millennial travelers*. Whether it's an adrenaline-pumping ATV tour through the red dunes of Dubai or a relaxing sunset cruise with a glass of local wine along the gorgeous Lisbon harbor, Tripadvisor has an unmatched inventory of over 300,000 bookable activities to help all travelers - from adventure lovers to beach bums - discover the best things to do.
To this end, Tripadvisor's second annual "Things to Do" Awards celebrate travelers' favorite experiences and the attractions they love to visit around the world. As priorities evolve for many travelers since the pandemic, vacations are much more than just booking a flight, selecting a hotel room and sitting poolside within a resort. It's the experiences travelers have on a trip that leave lasting impressions, frequently retold stories and unforgettable memories.
How does Tripadvisor determine the best?
For all Travelers' Choice Awards, Tripadvisor analyzes the authentic feedback from its community to identify and rank the best in travel. With over one billion reviews and opinions from real, global travelers, Tripadvisor has the authority and guidance on what to book to truly experience the best of a destination. The Travelers' Choice Best of the Best Things to Do Awards are based on the reviews and ratings of experiences, tours, attractions and activities over the past 12 months from Tripadvisor travelers, celebrating a vast array of travelers' most highly recommended activities of 2022.
Tripadvisor is awarding top things to do in 11 subcategories, ranging from quintessential favorites like the best Food Experiences and Nature & Outdoor Activities to new and exciting areas like Pop Culture Tours and Bucket List Experiences. For the thrill seekers, Tripadvisor is also recognizing the Top Amusement & Water Parks and celebrating everyone's favorite Attractions.
Kate Urquhart, General Manager, Experiences at Tripadvisor, says: "We hear from travelers year-round that the experiences and activities found on Tripadvisor are the highlights of their trips. Today, I'm thrilled to announce the winners of the 2022 Travelers' Choice Things to Do Awards, celebrating the past year's most amazing tours and activities. The awards bring well-deserved recognition to the hard-working and skilled tour operators who have managed to provide exceptional experiences to their guests while still navigating the pandemic. From a luxurious food-filled evening to a long-haul trek, there is something for every traveler on this list, and we know Tripadvisor offers an unparalleled platform to find and book things to do. So, check out this year's winners to discover the tours and activities travelers say you can't miss!"
Outdoor activities dominated the 2021 awards, and they made another strong showing this year, as beach and nature spots in Florida and Hawaii are home to the most U.S. winners. But city tours are increasingly popular this year as well, as travelers have begun gaining confidence to return to big tourist destinations.
Among all the different types of activities, the No. 1 Top Experience in the world for 2022 is an Amsterdam Open Boat Canal Cruise. This is a scenic cruise along Amsterdam's stunning canals that passes iconic spots like the Anne Frank House, the Jordaan, the Houseboat Museum, Leiden Square, Rijksmuseum, De Duif and much more. With nearly 10,000 reviews, this tour has travelers raving about its guides, as well as the accompanying wine and cheese.
In the U.S., it's Hawaii's Tour of North Shore (70%) and Sightseeing (30%), hosted by North Shore Beach Bus, at No. 1. Skip the hassle of renting a car and see the highlights of Oahu's North Shore with this awesome tour. Along the way, a guide shares details about the island that you would likely miss if traveling on your own. Plus, enjoy time to swim, shop, paddleboard, kayak or do a waterfall hike while getting to know the island.
The Top 10 Experiences in the World for 2022
- Amsterdam Open Boat Canal Cruise - Live Guide - from Anne Frank House - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Red Dunes Quad Bike, Sandsurf, Camels & BBQ at Al Khayma Camp from Dubai - Dubai, UAE
- Tour of North Shore (70%) and Sightseeing (30%) - Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
- Natural Pool & Indian Cave Jeep Safari - Aruba
- Clear Kayak Tour of Shell Key Preserve and Tampa Bay Area - Tierra Verde, Florida, U.S.
- Classic Inca Trail Trek 4D/3N to Machu Picchu - Cusco, Peru
- Reykjavik Food Walk - Local Foodie Adventure in Iceland - Reykjavik, Iceland
- High-Speed Thames River RIB Cruise in London - London, U.K.
- Rafting - Sprouts - Rio Jacaré Pepira by Wild Canoe Territory - Brotas, Brazil
- City & Beatles Tour - BLUE ROUTE - Liverpool, U.K.
The Top 10 Experiences in the U.S. for 2022
- Tour of North Shore (70%) and Sightseeing (30%) - Honolulu, Hawaii
- Clear Kayak Tour of Shell Key Preserve and Tampa Bay Area - Tierra Verde, Florida
- Little Havana Food and Walking Tour in Miami - Miami, Florida
- Half-Day Mojave Desert ATV Tour from Las Vegas - Las Vegas, Nevada
- Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, 7 Magic Mountains Small Group Day Tour from Las Vegas - Las Vegas, Nevada
- 3 Hour Guided TomCar ATV Tour in Sonoran Desert - New River, Arizona
- Pearl Harbor City Tour - Honolulu, Hawaii
- 5 Island Maui County -Private- Discovery Flight, for up to 3 people: See it All! - Maui, Hawaii
- Little Toot Dolphin Adventure at Clearwater Beach - Clearwater, Florida
- Party Bike Private Party Up To 15 People in Old Town Scottsdale - Scottsdale, Arizona
Food Experiences: Tours and experiences that are known for their great taste (literally).
- No. 1 in the world: Reykjavik Food Walk - Local Foodie Adventure in Iceland - Reykjavik, Iceland
- No. 1 in the U.S.: Undiscovered Charleston: Half Day Food, Wine & History Tour with Cooking Class - Charleston, South Carolina
- See all the winners here
Nature & Outdoor Activities: Fresh air, new heights, wildlife sightings—the greatest outdoor adventures start here.
- No. 1 in the world: Clear Kayak Tour of Shell Key Preserve and Tampa Bay Area - Tierra Verde, Florida (also No. 1 in the U.S.)
- See all the winners here
Sailing & Day Cruises: Get out on the open water with traveler-loved expeditions.
- No. 1 in the world: Amsterdam Open Boat Canal Cruise - Live Guide - from Anne Frank House - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- No. 1 in the U.S.: Little Toot Dolphin Adventure at Clearwater Beach - Clearwater, Florida
- See all the winners here
Cultural & Historical Tours: Discover a new city on foot, bike, even Vespa(!) with the best guides in the game.
- No. 1 in the world: Renaissance & Medici Tales - Explore Florence with the best storytellers - Florence, Italy
- No. 1 in the U.S.: Pearl Harbor City Tour - Honolulu, Hawaii
- See all the winners here
Snorkeling & Water Sports: From snorkeling and scuba diving to kayaking and surfing, these are the best things to do under—and over—the sea.
- No. 1 in the world: Rafting - Sprouts - Rio Jacaré Pepira by Wild Canoe Territory - Brotas, Brazil
- No. 1 in the U.S.: Manatee Snorkeling Tours - Crystal River, Florida
- See all the winners here
Wine, Beer, and Spirits Experiences: Sip your way through these top-rated tours and tastings.
- No. 1 in the world: St. Augustine's Wine, Cocktail and Food Experience - St. Augustine, Florida (also No. 1 in the U.S.)
- See all the winners here
Bucket List Experiences: Unique things to do that'll make your trip—and give you the best stories for later, too.
- No. 1 in the world: Premium Red Dunes, Camel Safari & BBQ at Al Khayma Camp™️, Dubai - Dubai, UAE
- See all the winners here
Pop Culture Tours: Go behind the scenes of your favorite movies, shows, and artists with fan-favorite experiences.
- No. 1 in the world: Full-Day Iconic Sights of LA, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Beaches and More - Los Angeles, California (also No. 1 in the U.S.)
- See all the winners here
Top Attractions: Loved by travelers, they're the iconic landmarks you simply have to see to believe.
- No. 1 in the world: Basílica de la Sagrada Familia - Barcelona, Spain
- No. 1 in the U.S.: Empire State Building - New York City, New York
- See all the winners here
Amusement Parks: The best places to scream, splash, and get your adrenaline fix, according to travelers who love a good thrill.
- No. 1 in the world: Siam Park - Adeje, Spain
- No. 1 in the U.S.: Dollywood - Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
- See all the winners here
See all the winners across subcategories here.
Note to editor
*From Tripadvisor consumer sentiment survey, Q4 2021
Methodology
Travelers' Choice Best of the Best Things to Do Awards are determined based on the quality and quantity of traveler reviews and ratings for experiences, tours, activities and attractions on Tripadvisor over the 12-month period from May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2022, specific to each award subcategory, as well as an additional editorial process.
Tripadvisor is proud to serve a broad and diverse community of travelers from all over the world. As such, Tripadvisor reserves the right to determine the eligibility of any property, business, destination or point of interest listed on Tripadvisor for an award based on additional factors that reflect Tripadvisor corporate policies and values. For more details on Tripadvisor's awards policy, see here.
Experiences are classified as bookable tours and activities on Tripadvisor. Non-bookable experiences, or attractions, are activities on Tripadvisor that travelers can visit without booking any ticket. Nine of the Best of the Best Things to Do subcategories are limited to experiences, except Top Attractions and Amusement & Water Parks, where attractions are included, for a bigger picture of travelers' favorite things to do.
About Tripadvisor
Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel guidance platform*, helps hundreds of millions of people each month** become better travelers, from planning to booking to taking a trip. Travelers across the globe use the Tripadvisor site and app to discover where to stay, what to do and where to eat based on guidance from those who have been there before. With more than 1 billion reviews and opinions of nearly 8 million businesses, travelers turn to Tripadvisor to find deals on accommodations, book experiences, reserve tables at delicious restaurants and discover great places nearby. As a travel guidance company available in 43 markets and 22 languages, Tripadvisor makes planning easy no matter the trip type.
The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIP), own and operate a portfolio of travel media brands and businesses, operating under various websites and apps, including the following websites:
www.bokun.io, www.cruisecritic.com, www.flipkey.com, www.thefork.com, www.helloreco.com, www.holidaylettings.co.uk, www.housetrip.com, www.jetsetter.com, www.niumba.com, www.seatguru.com, www.singleplatform.com, www.vacationhomerentals.com, and www.viator.com.
* Source: SimilarWeb, unique users de-duplicated monthly, March 2022
** Source: Tripadvisor internal log files
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure company™, today announced its commitment to reducing its overall power use by increasing operating temperature ranges within its data centers – the first such commitment by an operator of colocation data centers. Starting immediately, Equinix will begin to define a multi-year global roadmap for thermal operations within its data centers aimed at achieving significantly more efficient cooling and decreased carbon impacts, all while continuing to deliver the premium operating environment Equinix is known for. Over time, this initiative is expected to enable thousands of Equinix customers to reduce the Scope 3 carbon emissions associated with their data center operations as supply chain sustainability becomes an increasingly important part of the overall environmental initiatives of today's businesses.
IT equipment within data centers, including routers, servers and storage arrays, emit high levels of heat that requires data centers to be fitted with robust cooling systems to remove that heat. "Most datacenters operate within restrictive temperature and humidity bands, resulting in environments that are unnecessarily cooler than required," said Rob Brothers, Program Vice President, Datacenter Services, IDC. "Equinix will work with enterprises to change the way we think about operating temperatures within datacenter environments and how the industry can ensure optimal service levels for mission-critical digital infrastructure, while improving data center efficiencies. With this initiative, Equinix will play a key role in driving change in the industry and help shape the overall sustainability story we all need to participate in."
"As a long-time partner, we are pleased to see that Equinix is driving efficient data center operations through smart, sustainable operating practices," said Sue Preston, vice president and general manager, Advisory and Professional Services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). "Optimizing data center temperatures results in more efficient operations, benefitting businesses and the planet. Through the HPE GreenLake alliance, both HPE and Equinix offer a comprehensive, cloud-smart and sustainable customer solution."
As a part of this new efficiency initiative, Equinix expects to operate its facilities closer to 27°C (80°F), aligning operating limits across its global data center portfolio with the globally accepted boundaries of the A1A standards from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). When combined with existing Equinix initiatives such as optimizing the use of outside air temperatures to cool its data centers, this new initiative will contribute to the overall sustainability of its data centers through efficiency improvements measured through Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). PUE represents the total amount of power being used by a data center divided by the power used to run the IT equipment within the data center, providing an industry standard for data center energy efficiency.
"Our cooling systems account for approximately 25% of our total energy usage globally," said Raouf Abdel, Executive Vice President, Global Operations for Equinix. "With this new initiative, we can intelligently adjust the thermostat in our data centers in the same way that consumers do in their homes. Once rolled out across our current global data center footprint, we anticipate energy efficiency improvements of as much as 10% in various locations."
"Data centers are critical to our daily lives, housing the equipment and interconnecting the businesses that fuel our digital lives – from online shopping to sending emails to streaming movies and video calls," said Jon Lin, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Services for Equinix. "As more than 10,000 businesses globally rely on Equinix's digital infrastructure, it plays a critical role in their supply chains. This initiative, once deployed, has the potential to significantly benefit these businesses as they seek to reduce the Scope 3 carbon emissions in their supply chain to meet their overall climate targets. It marks an important step in our comprehensive sustainability program and our climate-neutral commitment."
Highlights/Key Facts
- Equinix was the first in the data center industry to commit to becoming climate neutral, aligned to approved science-based targets, for emissions reduction across its global operations and supply chain by 2030.
- Equinix recently signed two new Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in Finland for the creation of new renewable energy generation, bringing its total renewable energy capacity under long-term contract globally to approximately 300MW.
- Equinix's renewable energy coverage has been over 90% since 2018. In 2021, the company achieved 95% renewable energy coverage.
Additional Resources
- The 4 Principles of Sustainable Data Center Design [Equinix blog]
- Equinix Sustainability & Reports [Equinix website]
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure company™. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.
Forward-Looking Statements
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(WKBN)- Former NFL player and WWE superstar Darren Drozdov has died. He was 54 years old.
WWE announced Drozdov’s death Friday, calling him a “gifted athlete” and an “imposing force in the ring.”
“Drozdov captivated audiences in the late 1990s with his time spent in the Legion of Doom teaming with Animal and his Droz’s World vignettes,” the company wrote. “WWE extends its condolences to Darren Drozdov’s family, friends and fans.”
Before entering the world of professional wrestling, Drozdov played in the NFL for the New York Jets, Denver Broncos and Philadelphia Eagles as a nose tackle. He also played in the Canadian Football League.
“Droz,” as he was known to wrestling fans, debuted in the WWE in 1998, competing with Road Warrior Animal as a part of The Legion of Doom. He also teamed with Prince Albert for a brief period of time.
In the ring, Drozdov had also competed under the name “Puke,” a moniker derived from Drozdov’s ability to vomit on command, USA Today reported. He had also once vomited on a football in 1993 during his time with the NFL, according to Fox Sports.
Drozdov’s time in the WWE was cut short after a tragic accident during a taping of “SmackDown!” in 1999, when he suffered a serious spinal cord injury during a match that left him paralyzed from the neck down.
“Man I’m so sorry to hear one of our ring brothers has passed away,” WWE legend Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said of Drozdov following news of his passing. “We wrestled on a lot of cards together. Such an awesome dude. Great personality and great wrestling talent. We always talked about football and fishing. Sending love, strength, mana and light to his family. RIP brother.”
In a statement shared via the WWE, Drozdov’s family said he died of natural causes. They also thanked the company, as well as his colleagues and fans.
“He would not want anyone to be sad at this moment and would want to this to be a celebration of his life, to be remembered for all the great things that he accomplished, the fun, the laughter, the great memories he shared with everyone,” the family’s statement read, in part. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/darren-droz-drozdov-former-wwe-wrestling-star-and-nfl-player-dies-at-54/ | 2023-07-01 19:05:33 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/darren-droz-drozdov-former-wwe-wrestling-star-and-nfl-player-dies-at-54/ |
Which juicers are best?
Nothing you buy from the store will ever compare to a freshly squeezed glass of orange juice in the morning. Whether you’re looking to up your vegetable intake or simply looking for a cost-effective way to enjoy some of your favorite beverages, buying a juicer is the way to go. Fresh juice will also provide you with all the vitamins and minerals that some of the store-bought juices lack. It may be a significant investment at first, but buying a juicer will pay off down the line if you or your family is big on juice.
And the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer EVO820GM is a top whole-fruit juicer.
What to know before you buy a juicer
Type
The type of juicer you buy depends on what you plan on using it for and the amount of juice you plan on making. There are three main types of at-home juicers: the centrifugal, masticating, and triturating juicer. The triturating juicer is best for big yields and soft and hard fruit and vegetables, but it tends to be the most expensive. The masticating juicer is another excellent option for both soft and hard foods, but the centrifugal tends to be the most cost-effective and the easiest to clean of them all.
Time
How often do you plan on juicing? If you are juicing for a big family, you also need to consider how long the juicers take to extract the liquid from your fruit and vegetables. Masticating juicers produce the best juice but take a very long time. Centrifugal juicers produce larger quantities but may sacrifice quality. The masticating juicer takes almost twice as long as a centrifugal juicer, but if it is quality you are after, you will just have to be patient.
Yield
There’s nothing more inconvenient than waiting 7 minutes for your juicer to do its thing only for there to be half a glass of juice by the end of it. Your juicer’s yield is important to keep in mind. As the juice yield increases, so does the price, unfortunately. Work out how much juice you will need throughout the day and look for a juicer that will either match that or get you as close as possible to the budget you have set. Twin-gear masticating juicers provide the most significant yield and driest pulp, while centrifugal juicers produce wet pulp and low yields.
What to look for in a quality juicer
Versatility
A good-quality juicer can do a bit of everything. From juicing hard vegetables such as beetroot, celery and carrots to softer fruits such as oranges, strawberries and tomatoes, you want one that does it all. To get this, you will need to look at the yield size, the size of the feed chute, the juicer’s ability to work with hard and soft foods, and the quality of the pulp it leaves behind.
Chute size
An attractive feature in a juicer is the big chute. A big chute means less preparation time. Masticating juicers have a lower capability than centrifugal, but this prevents you from overfeeding the juicer and overworking it. Smaller chutes are also becoming a safety requirement in an attempt to prevent children from getting hurt. Some brands have introduced a two-step feed chute that can take whole pieces of food and prevent injuries.
Features and accessories
A quality juicer worth the investment has plenty of additional accessories. Some juicers can make oils and spreads, while others help you make fresh almond milk and ice cream. Keep an eye out for product descriptions and features you might want to use.
How much you can expect to spend on a juicer
A quality juicer that will produce big yields and dry pulp won’t be cheap. The higher the quality, the more expensive, costing anywhere between $200 and $800.
Juicer FAQ
Is juice actually good for you?
A. Just as with anything, too much of a good thing can be bad for you. Fruit and vegetable juices are high in vitamins and minerals but can also be extremely sugary and calorific. Juice is good for you, but only in moderation.
Is it OK to juice every day?
A. Juiced versions of your favorite greens can be highly beneficial as they are usually rich in minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants.
What are the best juicers to buy?
Top juicer
Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer EVO820GM
What you need to know: This slow-masticating juicer has a wide feed chute and fast production rate.
What you’ll love: This juicer can handle whole fruits and vegetables and will produce big yields. The wider chute means you will spend less time on prep, and the powerful motor is durable and quiet.
What you should consider: It’s not as good with leafy vegetables.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top juicer for the money
Mueller Austria Juicer Ultra Power
What you need to know: It’s a budget-friendly juicer with a generous feed chute.
What you’ll love: This juicer will produce 16 ounces of juice every time and has a decent-sized feed chute. The juicer is also anti-drip and can handle a variety of fruits and vegetables.
What you should consider: The blade can be tricky to clean.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This top masticating juicer is both powerful and effective.
What you’ll love: This juicer produces high yields of good-quality juice. The juicer is stable and robust, with an automatic pulp-ejection function. The pulp will come out dry, as this juicer will squeeze every last nutrient out of it.
What you should consider: It’s an expensive option.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Colorado considers allowing local rent control amid crisis
By JESSE BEDAYN
Associated Press/Report for America
DENVER (AP) — Democratic lawmakers in Colorado are considering repealing the state’s ban on rent control, as housing prices reach crisis levels. The bill, which was heard in a committee hearing Wednesday, would allow local towns and counties to pass their own caps on rents. If passed, Colorado would join a small group of states, including California and New York, that have some level of statewide or local rent control. Even while nearly two-dozen Democratic lawmakers signed on as bill sponsors and the party holds majorities in both state chambers, the legislation faces an uphill battle. | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/02/15/colorado-considers-allowing-local-rent-control-amid-crisis/ | 2023-02-16 04:34:47 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/02/15/colorado-considers-allowing-local-rent-control-amid-crisis/ |
WASHINGTON — The next Powerball jackpot will officially be the largest prize ever offered in a U.S. lottery.
After nobody won Wednesday's $1.2 billion Powerball drawing, the estimated jackpot for Saturday began climbing, and hit $1.6 billion Friday after strong sales. That mean's Saturday's jackpot will take the top spot for largest Powerball grand prize.
The winning numbers for Wednesday's drawing were 2-11-22-35-60, Powerball 23 and Power Play 2.
Despite no grand prize winner, there were still multiple new millionaires Thursday morning. Players in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas and Virginia have million-dollar tickets matching all five numbers but not the red Powerball. Players in Arkansas, Montana and New Jersey have tickets worth $2 million, matching five numbers with the Power Play.
In the 39 draws since Aug. 3, there hasn't been a jackpot winner.
The Multi-State Lottery Association, which oversees the Powerball game, reported 131.6 million Powerball tickets sold for Monday's drawing. As a result, 36.3% of all possible number combinations were covered, with millions of players picking the same ones.
With a jackpot odds of 1 in 292.2 million, that still means about 186 million number combinations weren't covered.
The new $1.6 billion prize is actually for winners who opt for an annuity, paid out annually over 29 years. Nearly all winners choose cash, which for Saturday’s drawing would be $782.4 million. But some financial experts say that might not always be the smartest choice.
Over the past few years, huge lottery jackpots have become more common as lottery officials have changed the rules and ticket prices to boost top prizes. The latest change came in August, when Powerball officials added a third drawing day to the weekly schedule to pump prizes and sales.
The previous biggest prize was a $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot won by three ticketholders in 2016. Once a winning ticket matches the drawing, the Powerball jackpot starts over again at $20 million and continues to grow each drawing until it is won.
Powerball is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
What time is the Powerball drawing?
The drawing will take place on Saturday at 10:59 p.m. Eastern (9:59 p.m. Central Time, 8:59 p.m. Mountain Time, 7:59 p.m. Pacific Time)
What days are the Powerball drawing?
Back in Aug. 2021, Powerball shifted to three drawings a week in an effort to build larger prizes and boost sales. The drawings currently happen every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
How late can you buy Powerball tickets?
The cut-off times for buying Powerball tickets vary by state. Usually, it's within one or two hours of the scheduled drawing. However, you should check with your local lottery. Tickets cost $2 per play.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Top 10 biggest US lottery jackpots
- $1.6 billion (estimated) Powerball, Nov. 5, 2022
- $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
- $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
- $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)
- $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
- $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
- $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
- $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
- $687.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 27, 2018 (two tickets, from Iowa and New York)
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SALT LAKE CITY, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX), the clinical-stage biotechnology company industrializing drug discovery by decoding biology, today announced its participation in the following upcoming investor conferences:
- Jefferies Healthcare Conference — June 8 through June 10, 2022
- Goldman Sachs Annual Global Healthcare Conference — June 13 through June 16, 2022
- Morgan Stanley's Putting the Tech in Biotech Conference — June 28, 2022
About Recursion
Recursion is the clinical-stage biotechnology company industrializing drug discovery by decoding biology. Enabling its mission is the Recursion Operating System, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world's largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets, the Recursion Data Universe. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset the Recursion Map, a collection of hundreds of billions of searchable inferences across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.
The company is proudly headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montréal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There is one bright spot in Sunday’s Chiefs loss to the Buffalo Bills. The loss is helping Kansas City kids.
Children’s Mercy Hospital said it received thousands of dollars in donations after Sunday’s game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.
The donations are in response to something Chiefs Kingdom started last season.
Hundreds of Kansas City Chiefs fans donated to Oishei Children’s Hospital in Buffalo after the Chiefs beat the Bills in the playoffs.
Fans donated in $13 increments to symbolize the 13 seconds it took for the Chiefs to march down the field and tie the game. The Chiefs won in overtime.
The hospital said it received more than $300,000 from generous Chiefs fans after the game.
This season, members of the Bills Mafia returned the favor.
A Facebook group called Mafia Babes had a bet with Chiefs Kingdom and members are now paying up.
“We are women of our word. Thanks for the amazing game and we look forward to this rivalry lasting for years to come!” Mafia Babes shared on Facebook.
Children’s Mercy Hospital said it’s received $7,500 from nearly 400 Buffalo Bills fans.
The hospital said one fan decided to donate $14.09 to honor the games played by Stefon Diggs, who wears 14 for the Bills, and Juju Smith-Schuster, who is number 9 for the Chiefs.
The people behind Chiefs Kingdom Memes said they hope to return the favor in the postseason, meaning the Chiefs would beat the Bills. | https://www.wivb.com/news/bills-mafia-donates-to-kansas-city-hospital-following-win/ | 2022-10-18 23:11:25 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/bills-mafia-donates-to-kansas-city-hospital-following-win/ |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
2-3-0
(two, three, zero)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
2-3-0
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DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware health officials announced Monday that they will soon include fentanyl test strips in Narcan kits distributed to the public.
The effort is aimed at preventing accidental overdoses due to fentanyl consumption, the Division of Public Health’s Office of Health Crisis Response said in a news release.
Fentanyl is now the leading cause of drug overdose deaths in Delaware, found in more than 80% of fatal overdoses, officials said. There were 515 overdose deaths in Delaware last year, an increase of 15% from 2020, according to Division of Forensic Science data. Fentanyl was found in 83% of those deaths.
The test strips are highly sensitive and marijuana, cocaine, meth, ecstasy, and other substances can be tested for the presence of fentanyl, officials said. Most overdoses are unintentional, officials said and people may not realize how strong a drug is or that it contains fentanyl, which cannot be detected by sight, taste, smell or touch.
The Division of Public Health also distributes 10-pack fentanyl test strip kits through a free mail-order program. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Delaware-to-include-fentanyl-test-strips-in-17405815.php | 2022-08-29 22:44:32 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Delaware-to-include-fentanyl-test-strips-in-17405815.php |
EPA to limit toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed limiting the amount of harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water to the lowest level that tests can detect, a long-awaited protection the agency said will save thousands of lives and prevent serious illnesses, including cancer.
The plan marks the first time the EPA has proposed regulating a toxic group of compounds that are widespread, dangerous and expensive to remove from water. PFAS, or per- and polyfluorinated substances, don’t degrade in the environment and are linked to a broad range of health issues, including low birthweight babies and kidney cancer. The agency says drinking water is a significant source of PFAS exposure for people.
“The science is clear that long-term exposure to PFAS is linked to significant health risks,” Radhika Fox, assistant EPA administrator for water, said in an interview.
Fox called the federal proposal a “transformational change” for improving the safety of drinking water in the United States. The agency estimates the rule could reduce PFAS exposure for nearly 100 million Americans, decreasing rates of cancer, heart attacks and birth complications.
The chemicals had been used since the 1940s in consumer products and industry, including in nonstick pans, food packaging and firefighting foam. Their use is now mostly phased out in the U.S., but some still remain.
The proposal would set strict limits of 4 parts per trillion, the lowest level that can be reliably measured, for two common types of PFAS compounds called PFOA and PFOS. In addition, the EPA wants to regulate the combined amount of four other types of PFAS. Water providers will have to monitor for PFAS.
The public will have a chance to comment, and the agency can make changes before issuing a final rule, which is expected by the end of the year. Water providers will have time to adjust.
Environmental and public health advocates have called for federal regulation of PFAS chemicals for years. Over the last decade, the EPA has repeatedly strengthened its protective, voluntary health thresholds for the chemicals but has not imposed mandatory limits on water providers.
Public concern has increased in recent years as testing reveals PFAS chemicals in a growing list of communities that are often near manufacturing plants or Air Force bases.
Until now, only a handful of states have issued PFAS regulations, and none has set limits as strict as what the EPA is proposing. By regulating PFOA and PFOS at the minimum amounts that tests can detect, the EPA is proposing the tightest possible standards that are technically feasible, experts said.
“This is a really historic moment,” said Melanie Benesh, vice president of government affairs at the Environmental Working Group. “There are many communities that have had PFAS in their water for decades who have been waiting for a long time for this announcement to come out.”
The agency said its proposal will protect everyone, including vulnerable communities, and reduce illness on a massive scale. The EPA wants water providers to do testing, notify the public when PFAS are found and remove the compounds when levels are too high.
Utilities that have high levels of a contaminant are typically given time to fix problems, but they could face fines or loss of federal grants if problems persist.
The proposal would also regulate other types of PFAS like GenX Chemicals, which manufacturers used as a substitute when PFOA and PFOS were phased out of consumer products. The proposal would regulate the cumulative health threat of those compounds and mandate treatment if that threat is too high.
“Communities across this country have suffered far too long from the ever-present threat of PFAS pollution,″ EPA Administrator Michael Regan said. The EPA’s proposal could prevent tens of thousands of PFAS-related illnesses, he said, “and marks a major step toward safeguarding all our communities from these dangerous contaminants.”
Emily Donovan, co-founder of Clean Cape Fear, which advocates for cleaning up a PFAS-contaminated stretch of North Carolina, said it was important to make those who released the compounds into the environment pay cleanup costs.
“Today is a good step towards tackling our nation’s massive PFAS public health crisis by including commercially relevant PFAS like GenX,” she said.
The EPA recently made $2 billion available to states to get rid of contaminants such as PFAS and will release billions more in coming years. The agency also is providing technical support to smaller communities that will soon be forced to install treatments systems, and there’s funding in the 2021 infrastructure law for water system upgrades.
But still, it will be expensive for utilities to install new equipment, and the burden will be especially tough for small towns with fewer resources.
“This is a problem that has been handed over to utilities through no fault of their own,” said Sri Vedachalam, director of water equity and climate resilience at Environmental Consulting & Technology Inc.
Many communities will need to balance the new PFAS requirements with removing poisonous lead pipes and replacing aged water mains prone to rupturing, Vedachalam said.
Fox said there “isn’t a one-size answer” to how communities will prioritize their needs. She said, however, that there are billions of dollars in federal resources available for water improvements.
Several states have already imposed PFAS drinking water limits. Officials in Michigan, which has the tightest standards of any state, said costs to remove PFAS in communities where it was found were reasonable.
If the rules are finalized and imposed, many communities will learn they have been supplying drinking water with harmful compounds. When people learn of problems, they may stop using tap water altogether, distrusting its safety, and turn instead to bottled water. That’s often a more expensive choice and one that can have negative health effects if people replace tap water with sugary drinks that cause cavities and contribute to obesity and other health problems.
“This,” Fox said, “is such an issue of concern for people.”
- Phillis reported from St. Louis.
- The Associated Press receives support from the Walton Family Foundation for coverage of water and environmental policy. The AP is solely responsible for all content. Follow the AP’s environmental coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environment.
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SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. — On Monday, traditional public schools in north Sarasota County will reopen for the first time since Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida.
That includes schools in Sarasota and in and north of Venice.
Traditional public schools in south Sarasota County, including Englewood and North Port, are scheduled to reopen on October 17.
The school district is reopening in phases because damage from the storm is much worse in certain areas.
Six assessment teams have checked every single school and found all campuses in the district had water intrusion and loss of electricity.
Many schools had roof damage, fallen ceiling tiles, soffit and fascia impacts, lighting issues, walkway canopies torn off, exterior and interior fencing down, exhaust fan and air conditioner failure, and a lot of debris.
“We’ve had facility management and maintenance teams in our facilities since Friday, September 30, assessing, cleaning and repairing damages,” said Dr. Brennan Asplen, Superintendent of Sarasota County Schools.
Crews have been removing water, securing buildings, drying out spaces, running humidifiers, cleaning rooms, and moving debris to ensure a safe return for all.
The school district is anticipating many bus routes could experience delays both to and from school. They’re asking families to consider driving their kids if they can to try to reduce bus delays.
There’s also still a lot of damage in the area, like debris, standing water, and broken traffic lights. For children who usually bike or walk to school, leaders are asking parents to go with them to make sure it’s safe. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-sarasota-manatee/schools-in-north-sarasota-county-reopen-monday | 2022-10-10 10:38:20 | 1 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-sarasota-manatee/schools-in-north-sarasota-county-reopen-monday |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing logistical support to import the equivalent of about 16 million 8-ounce baby formula bottles from Mexico starting this weekend, as part of its efforts to ease nationwide supply shortages caused by the closure of the largest U.S. manufacturing plant.
The Department of Health and Human Services is expediting the travel of trucks that will drive about 1 million pounds of Gerber Good Start Gentle infant formula from a Nestlé plant to U.S. retailers, the White House said, nearly doubling the amount imported to the U.S. to date. Cargo flights from Europe and Australia already have brought baby formula into the U.S., including two new rounds of air shipments that begin this weekend.
The White House has been working to make supply more available as it has faced pressure from parents over supply issues after regulators in February shuttered a Michigan plant run by Abbott that is the largest domestic manufacturer of baby formula over safety concerns. The plant reopened on June 4 after the company committed to additional sanitizing and safety protocols, but shuttered again more than a week ago after severe weather caused damage to the plant.
The company said it needs time to assess damage and re-sanitize the factory after severe thunderstorms and heavy rains swept through southwestern Michigan on June 13.
Last month, the Food and Drug Administration moved to ease federal import regulations to allow baby formula to be shipped to the U.S., and Biden authorized the use of the Defense Production Act to provide federal support to move formula from overseas into the U.S.
Wednesday’s announcement also includes air shipments of 1.65 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents of Nestlé NAN Supremepro 2 infant formula from Germany to Texas this weekend, and 5.5 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents of Bubs infant formula in two shipments on June 26 and July 5.
The White House says that by June 26, it efforts, dubbed “Operation Fly Formula,” will have brought 32 flights and almost 19 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents of infant formula into the U.S. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/top-stories/us-importing-baby-formula-from-mexico-to-ease-shortage/ | 2022-06-23 01:27:31 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/top-stories/us-importing-baby-formula-from-mexico-to-ease-shortage/ |
White House Gender Policy Coordinator Jennifer Klein talks about the administration's plan to assist women now that abortion laws are being decided by states following the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
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White House Gender Policy Coordinator Jennifer Klein talks about the administration's plan to assist women now that abortion laws are being decided by states following the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
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Cold temps help contain chemicals in North Dakota derailment
By JOSH FUNK
Associated Press
The cold weather in North Dakota kept chemicals that spilled from a derailed Canadian Pacific train from spreading very far. Richland County Emergency Management Director Brett Lambrecht said Tuesday that with temperatures well below freezing all of the chemicals that leaked remained within about 100 feet of where 31 cars derailed Sunday night. The crash happened in a rural area about 60 miles southwest of Fargo not far from the town of Wyndmere. No injuries or fire were reported in the derailment and no one had to be evacuated. Railroad officials have said they believe a broken rail caused the derailment. The railroad tracks reopened Monday evening. The cleanup is expected to take about two weeks. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/03/28/cold-temps-help-contain-chemicals-in-north-dakota-derailment/ | 2023-03-28 23:11:06 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/03/28/cold-temps-help-contain-chemicals-in-north-dakota-derailment/ |
ATLANTA, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Representatives from Realty Trust Group (RTG), Northside Hospital, and Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE: DOC) joined on June 26 to celebrate groundbreaking for a new 100,000-square-foot medical office building in the north Gwinnett community near Atlanta, GA.
Northside Hospital will lease the majority of the new building and plans to provide a range of specialized healthcare services to meet the diverse needs of the growing community, including primary care, family medicine, medical oncology, imaging services, cardiology, orthopedics, physical therapy, a surgery center focusing on total joint replacement, and third-party physician office space.
RTG and Northside began site selection and planning efforts in 2019 and closed on the purchase of the 21-acre site in April 2020. Construction is now underway and the facility is scheduled to open next summer. While no formal plans have been announced, the site also provides an opportunity for a second, future building.
"We knew we wanted to be in or around the Buford/Lawrenceville market and really understood that Highway 20 was a big growth corridor," RTG Senior Vice President Charlie Dickhaus said. "We wanted to secure a property on Highway 20 that not only could satisfy the needs for the next five years but could satisfy the needs for a lot longer than that. That's why we ended up purchasing such a big piece of property that has potential for a second phase."
RTG will provide project management services for the construction of the new building, which is being developed and financed by Physicians Realty Trust, a prominent real estate investment trust, or REIT, focused on healthcare properties. Upon completion, RTG will also provide ongoing property management and leasing support.
For more information about the project, check out this article from the Gwinnett Daily Post: Northside Gets Underway on Buford Outpatient Medical Office Facility.
About Realty Trust Group
Realty Trust Group, LLC (RTG) is a nationally recognized real estate advisory and services firm serving the healthcare and life science industry since 1998. With objective, accountable, and trusted expertise, RTG provides innovative healthcare real estate solutions through a full platform of advisory, development, transactions, operations, and regulatory compliance services.
RTG acts as an extension of healthcare leadership teams, working to leverage real estate as a strategic asset to support broader organizational objectives. In a rapidly changing healthcare industry, RTG provides real estate strategies that gain market share, enhance patient experience, and increase speed to market. These solutions include strategic planning, portfolio optimization, capital strategies, facility feasibility and development, transaction support, portfolio management, regulatory compliance, and other tailored client solutions.
For more information about RTG, visit www.realtytrustgroup.com, Facebook, and LinkedIn, or call 865-521-0630.
Contact:
Angie Surface
865-684-2891
asurface@realtytrustgroup.com
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