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Suspect on the run after shooting leaves at least 1 injured at county fair
Posted/updated on: August 27, 2022 at 2:10 pm(FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.) -- At least one person has been shot in what police say was a targeted shooting at the Washington County Fair in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The incident occurred at approximately 10:30 p.m. when Fayetteville Police Officers responded to a report of a shooting at the annual Washington County Fair that is taking place this year From August 23 to 27.
“Upon the officers arrival they located one victim, and immediately began to render first aid,” said the Fayetteville Police Department in a statement published on social media. “The victim was then transported to a local medical facility.”
Local media was initially reporting that several other injuries were reported due to a stampede following the shooting but authorities have not yet confirmed this.
The Fayetteville Police Department said that their initial investigation has led them to believe that this was a targeted incident and not a random act of violence but did not elaborate further.
Authorities did confirm, however, that the suspect involved in the shooting was able to flee the scene of the crime and is currently on the loose. It is not clear if police know the identity of the suspect or not.
Officers are currently on the scene and investigating the incident and their investigation is ongoing.
The Washington County Fair was founded in 1857 and is the largest and most established county fair in Arkansas, according to the Washington County Fair Association.
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NEW YORK -- Wall Street's shuddering realization that inflation got worse last month, not better as hoped, sent markets reeling on Friday.
The S&P 500 sank 2.9% to lock in its ninth losing week in the last 10, and tumbling bond prices sent Treasury yields to their highest levels in years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 2.7%, and the Nasdaq composite dropped 3.5%.
Wall Street came into Friday hoping a highly anticipated report would show the worst inflation in generations slowed a touch last month and passed its peak. Instead, the U.S. government said inflation accelerated to 8.6% in May from 8.3% a month before.
The Federal Reserve has already begun raising interest rates and making other moves to slow the economy, in hopes of forcing down inflation. Wall Street took Friday's reading to mean the Fed's foot will remain firmly on the brake for the economy, dashing hopes that it may ease up later this year.
"Inflation is hot, hot, hot," said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments. "Basically, everything was up."
The growing expectation is for the Fed to raise its key short-term interest rate by half a percentage point at each of its next three meetings, beginning next week. That third one in September had been up for debate among investors in recent weeks. Only once since 2000 has the Fed raised rates by that much, last month.
"No relief is in sight, but a lot can change between now and September," Jacobsen said. "Nobody knows what the Fed will do in a few months including the Fed."
The nation's high inflation, plus the expectations for an aggressive Fed, have sent the two-year Treasury yield to its highest level since 2008 and the S&P 500 down 18.7% from its record set in early January. The worst pain has hit high-growth technology stocks, cryptocurrencies and other particularly big winners of the pandemic's earlier days. But the damage is broadening out as retailers and others are warning about upcoming profits.
The S&P 500 fell 116.96 points to 3,900.86. Combined with its losses from Thursday, when investors were rushing to lock in final trades before the inflation report, it was the worst two-day stretch for Wall Street's benchmark in nearly two years.
The Dow lost 880.00 points to 31,392.79, and the Nasdaq tumbled 414.20 to 11,340.02.
Stock prices rise and fall on two things, essentially: how much cash a company produces and how much an investor is willing to pay for it. The Fed's moves on interest rates heavily influence that second part.
Since early in the pandemic, record-low interest rates engineered by the Fed and other central banks helped keep investment prices high. Now "easy mode" for investors is abruptly and forcefully getting switched off.
Not only that, too-aggressive rate increases by the Fed could ultimately force the economy into a recession. Higher interest rates make borrowing more expensive, which drags on spending and investments by households and companies.
One of the fears among investors is that food and fuel costs may keep surging, regardless of how aggressively the Fed moves.
"The fact is that the Fed has very little ability to control food prices," Rick Rieder, BlackRock's chief investment officer of global fixed income, said in a statement. He pointed instead to mismatches in supplies and demand, higher costs for energy and wages, and the crisis in Ukraine, which is a major breadbasket for the world.
That raises the threat that central banks will overly tighten the brakes on the economy "and essentially fall into a damaging policy mistake," Rieder said.
The economy has already shown some mixed signals, and a report Friday indicated consumer sentiment is worsening more than economists expected. Much of the souring in the University of Michigan's preliminary reading was due to higher gasoline prices.
That adds to several recent profit warnings from retailers indicating U.S. shoppers are slowing or at least changing their spending because of inflation. Such spending is the heart of the U.S. economy.
The two-year Treasury yield zoomed to 3.05% after the inflation report from 2.83% late Thursday, a big move for the bond market. During the day, it touched its highest level since George W. Bush's presidency, according to data from Tradeweb.
The 10-year yield was also up, but not quite as dramatically as the two-year yield, which is more influenced by expectations for Fed movements. The 10-year yield climbed to 3.15% from 3.04% and touched its highest level since 2018.
The narrowing gap between those two yields is a signal that investors in the bond market are more concerned about economic growth. Usually, the gap is wide, with 10-year yields higher because they require investors lock away their dollars for longer.
A two-year yield higher than the 10-year yield would be a signal to some investors that a recession may hit in a year or two.
"This market is to some degree in this no-man's land, where you don't have a really good definite signal that says get constructive and buy the market, but you don't have solid information about a recession being more likely in order to get more defensive," said Jason Pride, chief investment officer of private wealth at Glenmede.
Friday's losses were widespread for the S&P 500, with more than 90% of stocks in the index dropping.
Stocks in big technology companies were some of the the heaviest weights amid broad losses for the biggest winners of the prior ultralow-rate era. Microsoft fell 4.5%, Amazon dropped 5.6% and Nvidia sank 6%.
Companies that depend on strong spending from consumers were also particularly weak after the reading on consumer sentiment. Caesars Entertainment fell 9.3%, and cruise operator Royal Caribbean dropped 7.3%.
Stocks fell in Europe for a second day after the European Central Bank said it would raise interest rates for the first time in more than a decade to combat inflation.
Information for this article was contributed by Elaine Kurtenbach of The Associated Press. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/11/market-report/ | 2022-06-11 08:45:19 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/11/market-report/ |
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Voter participation by early and absentee balloting in Tuesday's election has nearly surpassed participation in New Mexico's 2018 midterm election.
The New Mexico secretary of state's office on Monday said that nearly 440,000 ballots have been cast through the close of early in-person voting on Saturday and by absentee voting, with more than a day remaining in the election. That's only a few thousand votes shy of the 2018 tally for all early and absentee ballots.
Registered Democrats accounted for nearly 52% of early and absentee ballots cast so far in advance of Election Day. Registered Republicans have cast nearly 35% of the total.
New Mexico voters are deciding whether to reelect Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who won an open race in 2018 to succeed termed-out Republican Susana Martinez.
Republican nominee and former television meteorologist Mark Ronchetti has mounted a well-financed challenge that highlights concerns about crime, inflation and public school performance in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lujan Grisham is promoting her support for abortion access as a cornerstone of women's rights, while urging voters to stay the course on increased public investments in public education, health care and tuition-free college.
Biden campaigned in Albuquerque last week in support of Lujan Grisham, while Republicans ranging from Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to former President Donald Trump have endorsed Ronchetti.
New Mexico voters are picking their favorite candidates for a long list of statewide elected offices, including secretary of state, attorney general and land commissioner to oversee energy development across vast swaths of state trust land.
Three first-term congresswomen are seeking reelection, as Democrats defend their majority in the state House.
Republican Rep. Yvette Herrell is seeking a second term after flipping the 2nd Congressional District to Republican control in 2020. She's competing with Democratic former Las Cruces city councilor Gabe Vasquez.
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Former teacher’s aide charged with raping 12-year-old student, officials say
JEFFERSON PARISH, La. (WVUE/Gray News) – A former teacher’s aide in Louisiana is charged with raping a 12-year-old student, according to jail records.
Sophia Canales, 22, was arrested Saturday morning.
Canales previously worked at Stella Worley Middle School in Westwego, just outside of New Orleans.
Education leaders said she was employed as a paraprofessional, also known as a teacher’s aide, which provides classroom support for teachers. She no longer works for the school district.
The alleged victim’s attorney, Artis G. Ulmer III, said the situation was a textbook example of sexual grooming.
“Ms. Canales used her school position to identify her victim. She then gained his trust by filling a financial need. And after isolating him from his parents, Ms. Canales sexualized the relationship. In her final act, she then began to assert control and literally threaten his life,” Ulmer said. “My client didn’t deserve to have his innocence stolen, and his parents don’t deserve to have their son’s affection alienated by a pedophile. This child’s life will be forever destroyed.”
Ulmer provided WVUE with a voicemail Canales reportedly left on the juvenile’s phone. In it, she says, in part, “Hi boo. I miss you,” and threatens to “show up with a machete” if he was lying to her about whether his phone was dead or not.
According to jail records, Canales is charged with first-degree rape, indecent behavior with a juvenile under 13, being a fugitive, and a traffic violation. She is being held at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center without bond.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West once suggested slavery was a choice. He called the COVID-19 vaccine “the mark of the beast.” Earlier this month, he was criticized for wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt to his collection at Paris Fashion Week.
Now the rapper who is legally known as Ye is again embroiled in controversy — locked out of Twitter and Instagram over posts that the social networks said Sunday violated their policies. In one antisemitic post on Twitter, Ye said he would soon go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” according to internet archive records, making an apparent reference to the U.S. defense readiness condition scale known as DEFCON.
“You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda,” he said in the same tweet posted late Saturday, which was removed by Twitter.
The comment drew a sharp rebuke from the Anti-Defamation League, which called the tweet “deeply troubling, dangerous, and antisemitic, period.”
“There is no excuse for his propagating of white supremacist slogans and classic antisemitism about Jewish power, especially with the platform he has,” a statement said.
Representatives for Ye did not return requests for comment.
Ye has alienated even ardent fans in recent years, teasing and long tinkering with albums that haven’t been met with the critical or commercial success of his earlier recordings. Those close to him, like ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her family, have ceased publicly defending him after the couple’s bitter divorce and his unsettling posts about her recent relationship with comedian Pete Davidson.
But the social media suspensions cap a whirlwind week for Ye, even by his standards. On Oct. 3 he wore a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt while debuting his latest fashion line in Paris, prompting harsh criticism. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, White Lives Matter is a neo-Nazi group.
Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs posted a video on Instagram saying he didn’t support the shirt, and urged people not to buy it. On Instagram, Ye posted a screenshot of a text conversation with Diddy and suggested he was controlled by Jewish people, according to media reports.
Adidas said Thursday that it was placing its lucrative sneaker deal with Ye under review. And on Saturday, Instagram locked out posts by the rapper-entrepreneur over content violations. His Twitter account was locked Sunday.
The social media policies for Twitter and Instagram prohibit posting offensive language.
Ye’s Twitter suspension came just a day after he returned to Twitter after a nearly two-year hiatus — and was welcomed back by Elon Musk. “Welcome back to Twitter, my friend,” posted Musk, who last week renewed his $44 billion offer to buy Twitter following a monthslong legal battle with the company.
The billionaire and Tesla CEO has said he would remake Twitter into a free speech haven and relax restrictions, although it’s impossible to know precisely how he would run the influential network if he were to take over.
Ye’s Twitter account is still active but he can’t post until the suspension — of an unspecified duration — ends.
Meta, which owns Facebook as well as Instagram, at times will place restrictions on accounts that it deems repeatedly violate its rules. The sanctions may include temporary restrictions on posting, commenting or sending direct messages.
Ye has often earned a reputation less for his music and more for stirring up controversy since 2016, when he was hospitalized in Los Angeles because of what his team called stress and exhaustion. It was later revealed that he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
That year, he ended a show in Sacramento, California, after just four songs but not before a 10-minute tirade about Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Hillary Clinton, Mark Zuckerberg, the radio and MTV. West soon decided to scrap the entire tour.
Since then he has regularly made headlines: Running for president, continuing his running feud with Taylor Swift, causing an uproar when he suggested slavery was a choice, publicly defending R. Kelly and once inviting Marilyn Manson and DaBaby on stage with him as they faced sexual assault and anti-gay allegations, respectively. He also said he was suspicious of any COVID-19 vaccine, calling it “the mark of the beast.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-kanye-wests-twitter-instagram-locked-over-offensive-posts/ | 2022-10-10 19:44:15 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-kanye-wests-twitter-instagram-locked-over-offensive-posts/ |
A Ventnor man accused of downloading images of child exploitation from the internet used the file-sharing service Shareaza to access them, according to an affidavit.
Michael Heiler, 51, is charged with distribution of child abuse images via a peer-to-peer file-sharing platform and possession of photos of child exploitation, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said in announcing his arrest Tuesday.
Heiler was arrested after the federal office of Homeland Security Investigations informed the prosecutor's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force of inappropriate content being shared on a peer-to-peer network file-sharing service.
Heiler's criminal complaint identifies the images as showing juveniles engaged in sex acts.
A Ventnor man has been charged with distributing child pornography, the Atlantic County Pros…
In August 2021, special agents used investigative software to monitor the Gnutella peer-to-peer file-sharing network. That same month, the software linked an IP address to a Dorset Avenue home serviced by Comcast and Shareaza, finding the address user downloaded two files depicting child exploitation, the affidavit says.
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A search warrant at the home was executed Tuesday, through which multiple devices were seized for additional explicit media. Heiler admitted using Shareaza to download and share the content, the affidavit says. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/investigative-software-led-agents-to-ventnor-man-facing-child-porn-charges-affidavit-says/article_20baa1f4-555e-11ed-bb5b-77859b1870c1.html | 2022-10-26 22:13:43 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/investigative-software-led-agents-to-ventnor-man-facing-child-porn-charges-affidavit-says/article_20baa1f4-555e-11ed-bb5b-77859b1870c1.html |
JERICHO, N.Y., Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- J.S. Held, a specialized, global consulting firm, announced today that it has acquired TBG Security, a cyber security consultancy that provides offensive and defensive cyber consulting services. This acquisition expands J.S. Held's cyber security and investigation services globally and adds a specialized group to the firm's Global Investigations Practice in North America.
"J.S. Held is acquiring a market-leading cyber security company at a pivotal time for securing information ecosystems. The two firms will provide an unrivaled offering to clients seeking to secure their operations and minimize risk," said Stuart Witchell, Senior Managing Director and Global Investigations Practice Lead for J.S. Held.
Established in 2003 by Frank Murphy and Denis Calderone, TBG Security (TBG) is composed of information security engineers, risk and compliance analysts, and cyber security architects with extensive industry experience advising online gaming companies, corporations, real estate investment trusts, educational and financial institutions, and healthcare organizations. TBG is uniquely positioned as a penetration testing firm licensed in all U.S. states where iGaming is legal.
TBG advises clients on a wide spectrum of issues including virtual CISO services, comprehensive compliance solutions, cloud security, vendor risk management, data breach protection, information security, and incident response preparation and support.
"The addition of Frank and the TBG team strengthens our ability to provide a depth of offensive solutions, as well as defensive response services," said Stephen O'Malley, Senior Managing Director and Head of J.S. Held's Digital Investigations & Discovery (DI&D) team. "TBG's work in risk and compliance, internal and external penetration testing, and incident response services has given them a well-deserved, exemplary reputation. We are excited to add this group of experts to our DI&D team."
"Since inception, TBG has provided risk management solutions to help our clients minimize uncertainty in an increasingly hostile information environment. By joining forces with J.S. Held, we gain access to new resources and experts from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines that complement our team and core services," said Frank Murphy, Co-Founder and CEO of TBG Security. "This combination strengthens our ability to provide clients with the cyber security expertise they require domestically and abroad as they seek to minimize risk."
TBG Security clients will now have access to J.S. Held's specialized services, including global investigations; forensic accounting; economic damages and valuation services; restructuring, turnaround, and receivership; forensic architecture and engineering; property and infrastructure damage consulting; accident reconstruction; construction advisory services; surety services; equipment consulting; intellectual property strategy, valuation, and dispute services; and environmental, health, and safety services.
J.S. Held is a global consulting firm providing technical, scientific, and financial expertise across all assets and value at risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high-stakes events demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enable clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations.
J.S. Held and its affiliates and subsidiaries are not a certified public accounting firm and do not provide audit, attest, or any other public accounting services. J.S. Held is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. All rights reserved.
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LOS ANGELES, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BuildOps, the only all-in-one management software built specifically for the modern commercial contractor, today announced it has raised $50 million in additional funding. The funding effort was led by Fika Ventures and 01 Advisors, a venture capital firm backed by former Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, who has also joined the Board. The funds will further their explosive growth and cement BuildOps as the market leader revolutionizing the world of commercial specialty contractors.
This brings the total amount of funding BuildOps has raised to over $100 Million from high-profile investors including Fika Ventures, 01 Advisors, Next47, Founders Fund, B Capital Group, CBRE executives, the State of Michigan, Telstra Ventures, Gopher Asset Management, Boost Mobile CEO Stephen Stokols, former President of Salesforce Gavin Patterson, and CAA founder Michael Ovitz. The company has repeatedly impressed investors by achieving triple-digit growth rates over the past several years.
BuildOps is a purpose-built technology platform that integrates scheduling, dispatching, inventory management, contracts, workflow, purchasing, and invoicing into a single software suite for commercial contractors of all sizes, ranging from a dozen employees to several thousand.
"At BuildOps, we are on a mission to deliver a true all-in-one solution built on the latest technology to the people who keep our schools, hospitals, and communities running," said Alok Chanani, BuildOps Co-founder and CEO. "We are privileged to work closely with some of the country's top commercial contractors."
BuildOps software is the primary success engine to drive massive efficiencies for commercial service and project-oriented trade contractors. The platform's tools specifically meet the needs of these contractors' workflows and address industry-wide challenges like supply chain delays and the skilled labor shortage. Customers are seeing significant and measurable top-line growth, cost reductions, and overall profitability gains by using the BuildOps platform.
The industry response and customer impact caught the attention of Dick Costolo and Adam Bain, Co-Managing Partners at 01 Advisors. As the former CEO and COO of Twitter, the two are no strangers to hyper-growth, having scaled the company tremendously in users and international expansion while catapulting revenue from $300 Million to over $2 Billion under their leadership.
"The construction and commercial contractor industry is being transformed by BuildOps game-changing technology, and the passion the leadership team has brought to bear," shared Dick. "We are massive believers in the team and their impact on the industry – particularly for any sophisticated enterprise or private equity player – they cannot operate without a best-in-class platform, and BuildOps is the heartbeat of their businesses. It's incredible to witness their growth. We are so excited to partner with Alok and the rest of the team to fuel BuildOps to an IPO."
This exceptional vote of confidence is echoed by Liquid 2 Ventures Managing Partner and former National Football League superstar, Joe Montana.
"Liquid 2 Ventures has an investment thesis in supporting the blue-collar trades. I just love the idea of making their lives far easier and better," said Montana. "You have one solution that does it all and talks seamlessly to every single part of their business, from parts to ordering to inventory, and more. There are very few world-class technology solutions for commercial subcontractors like BuildOps and we believe in the leadership."
"BuildOps has quickly become integral to our portfolio of world-class service companies, particularly when it comes to servicing our large enterprise customers," said Joel Lehman, President of Smart Care - Climate Solutions, a national repair and service provider for commercial foodservice, refrigeration, HVAC and cold storage equipment with service coverage spanning 80+% of the US population. "We happily converted four separate systems and replaced them all with BuildOps which resulted in an immediate impact to service ticket efficiency, thus decreasing our days to resolve. This, along with dozens of other optimizations, has led to a dramatic lift in profit margin and revenue. It's now the foundation for our operations and we are rolling it out across our entire portfolio."
BuildOps' exponential trajectory confirms the desperate need for a modern, cloud-based solution built for the commercial contractor," said Scott Nolan of Founders Fund, a venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel. "Before BuildOps, commercial contractors didn't have great options for software to run their whole business. We're thrilled to support BuildOps and their industry-leading technology that serves the people keeping the country running."
About BuildOps
BuildOps is a fast-paced, high-growth technology company committed to transforming a $300B+ industry through an innovative all-in-one SaaS platform. We're taking commercial specialty contractors from the world of pen and paper and legacy platforms to world-class cloud-based, data-driven operations.
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Street, the preeminent provider of commercial real estate intelligence in the U.S. and Europe, has launched an enhanced DataLink Excel plug-in, expanding its suite of analytical tools for property- and portfolio-level analysis. DataLink offers over 1,000 unique metrics across Green Street's U.S. and Pan-European products, covering operating fundamentals, commercial property price indices, market grades and forecasts, detailed REIT data sets, and much more.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
1-3-9, FIREBALL:
(one, three, nine; FIREBALL: zero)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
1-3-9, FIREBALL:
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Marc Whyte has a campaign team lined up — a treasurer, campaign consultant, finance director and digital advertising firm.
And he’s preparing the paperwork to put $50,000 of his own money into a campaign account for a District 10 City Council race.
The one thing he’s missing? A candidacy — that is, his decision to put name on the May 6 ballot.
On ExpressNews.com: San Antonio is holding back some bodycam footage of a dazed Clayton Perry
The filing deadline for the May 6 election is one week away but Whyte said he will take the weekend to decide whether to run in the the Northeast Side district — potentially against embattled incumbent Clayton Perry, who’s facing charges of drunken driving and fleeing the scene of an accident.
Whyte, 42, has the backing of several former District 10 councilmen, including Mike Gallagher, John Clamp and Carlton Soules. Word of his likely candidacy has been circulating in the district for weeks.
So, why is Whyte taking so long to decide?
“It’s a big decision,” he said. “It’s a big commitment for my family. I don’t see any reason to rush it. We’re gonna have some quality family time this weekend. I just want to take the time that we have to make sure everybody is on board and we are ready to go. If we’re gonna do it, we’ll have the money in the bank and the team in place to hit the ground running.”
The $50,000 he said he’d put in his campaign fund would be a loan, not a contribution.
In November, Whyte initially said he would only run if Perry did not seek a fourth term in the May 6 election. Later, Whyte shifted to saying he was preparing to run even if Perry is in the race.
On Thursday, Perry, 67, told reporters that he hasn’t decided whether to run this spring.
“I don’t know whether he’s going to run or not, but I am confident that if he decides not to run, I think he would support us,” Whyte said. “But I really don’t know what he’s going to do.”
On ExpressNews.com: Former District 10 councilmen have lobbied Clayton Perry to not seek re-election
And at least one member of Perry’s campaign team plans to join Whyte this election cycle — political fundraiser Norma Denham, according to Whyte. That is, if he decides to run. Denham was Perry’s finance director in his winning 2019 and 2021 campaigns.
His campaign treasurer would be Eddie Aldrete of Aldrete Strategic Partners and political consultant Christian Anderson would be his campaign manager. Whyte would use Austin-based Raconteur Media for digital advertising.
Perry appointed Whyte to the city’s Zoning Commission in 2019. (Whyte would have to step down from the commission to run for council.)
Also in 2019, Perry said he wanted Whyte to take his place on the council if he opted to step down to campaign for county commissioner in Precinct 3 in North Bexar County. Perry, however, decided to remain on the council.
Another one of Perry’s appointees is also running for the seat. Retired engineer Joel Solis filed Tuesday to run for the District 10 seat on City Council. Perry named Solis, 62, to the city’s Building Standards Board in December 2021.
District 10 had been the only seat without an official candidate for the May election before Solis filed.
Perry is accused of driving while intoxicated the night of Nov. 6 — of plowing his black Jeep Wrangler Rubicon into a Honda Civic sitting at a Northeast Side intersection and then fleeing the scene. Body-camera video of a San Antonio police officer who questioned Perry at his home later that night showed the councilman dazed, babbling, and yet careful not to say he’d driven his vehicle that night.
The councilman was charged with leaving an accident scene without providing information on Nov. 10 and with DWI on Dec. 28 — both Class B misdemeanors. The driver of the Civic and a passenger weren’t injured in the accident.
Police say surveillance video at the Evil Olive bar and restaurant on Thousand Oaks Drive showed Perry downing 14 drinks in four hours the night of the accident.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the creator economy has become extraordinarily prosperous. According to a report in New York Times in July last year, more than 50 million content creators from all over the world worked in the digital space, making money online through photography, video and others; the related function applications like video editing were being developed continuously.
VivaCut is a video editing app serving creators. Launched on the global market in 2019, it is characterized by professional video editing functions such as keyframe animation and chroma key for image matting. But its popularity is not just because of its rich features. VivaCut developed the "Creator Program" in 2020, inviting the global creators to join.
Abdelrahman Gamal, a 17-year-old boy from Egypt, joined VivaCut's "Creator Program" in September, 2021; in just half a year, he created 500 short video templates, considered as the well-deserved "model". Sqmvii from the Philippines was recognized as "technical elite" after becoming the creator of VivaCut, and his video template always uses many cool, advanced and professional editing effects in VivaCut. Barisxezgizem, a girl from Turkey, ranked the first among Turkish creators; she has always been very active and creative, and the templates created by her are very popular. ANGRYCAT from Indonesia has an earlier relationship with VivaCut; she has been providing users with creative short video templates as the creator of VivaCut since 2020.
VivaCut's "Creator Program" can provide more people with a ready-made work platform. But, more importantly, it is proactively building the inclusive creative atmosphere to offer unlimited space for creators.
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NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Dentsply Sirona Inc. ("Dentsply" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: XRAY) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Dentsply investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased Dentsply's common stock between June 9, 2021, and May 9, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
XRAY investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: According to the filed complaint, defendants orchestrated a scheme to inflate Dentsply's revenue and earnings by manipulating the Company's accounting for a distributor rebate program so that senior executives would be eligible for significant cash and stock-based incentive compensation. In order to facilitate this scheme, Dentsply and its executives made numerous false and misleading statements to investors during the class period. As a result of defendants' misrepresentations, Dentsply's common stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the class period.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Dentsply during the relevant time frame, you have until August 1, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
4-7-8
(four, seven, eight)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
4-7-8
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WASHINGTON -- Federal officials are investigating the crash of an unresponsive plane that flew near the US Capitol region on Sunday, prompting military fighter jets to rush to intercept the aircraft before it went down in northern Virginia, leaving no survivors, authorities say.
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board are expected to arrive at the crash site Monday, where they will "begin the process of documenting the scene and examining the aircraft," the agency said in a statement.
The civilian aircraft, which had four people on board, missed its destination by more than 300 miles before plunging to the ground in Virginia Sunday afternoon, sources familiar with the investigation said.
The small plane took off from an airport in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and was headed for New York's Long Island MacArthur Airport, a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration said.
No surviving passengers were found at the crash site Sunday night, Virginia State Police said, noting their identities will be released when they become available.
The details of why the plane veered so far off course and what caused the crash are still unclear, CNN reported.
Some aviation experts speculated that hypoxia may have incapacitated the pilot.
Hypoxia "occurs when there is not enough oxygen in the cabin," said Steve Ganyard, an ABC News aviation contributor. Ganyard said he believes Sunday's incident may be another example of hypoxia incapacitating those aboard the Cessna.
"The pressure should keep enough air in the cabin to stay alert and stay awake. In this case, it can happen insidiously where you lose consciousness, you begin to feel tingling, you get a sense of euphoria and it very slowly overcomes the people in the cabin," Ganyard said.
The US Capitol complex was placed on an "elevated alert" when the plane flew near the area on Sunday afternoon, according to a statement from US Capitol Police.
F-16 fighter jets were "authorized to travel at supersonic speeds" as they raced to make contact with the aircraft, a Cessna 560 Citation V, according to a release from the Continental US North American Aerospace Defense Command Region.
The jets' extraordinary speed caused a sonic boom across the Washington, DC, area, officials said, and some residents reported being startled by the sudden and resounding sound.
"The house rocked, the windows rattled, and it was done like that. We were obviously freaked out a little bit," Chuck Martin, who felt the boom in Fairfax County, Virginia, told CNN affiliate WJLA. "I started calling the police. Their nonemergency line was busy forever. When I finally got through, they said, 'Oh this DOD aircraft went supersonic, which sounded a little bit strange.'"
Residents in Maryland also reported hearing the boom.
"Our Ring notifications were going crazy with so many different options. Was it the Navy? Or was it a sonic boom? Or was it an earthquake?" Sandy Abuarja, who lives in Gambrills, Maryland, told CNN affiliate WBAL.
When the F-16s reached the Cessna around 3:20 p.m., the jet pilots set off flares in an effort to get the pilot's attention, the release said.
"The pilot was unresponsive and the Cessna subsequently crashed near the George Washington National Forest, Virginia," the release said. "NORAD attempted to establish contact with the pilot until the aircraft crashed."
The F-16s did not shoot down the aircraft, a US official told CNN. The official noted that it is typical for the FAA to call in jets if someone is flying unsafely.
State and local police in Virginia searched the area for hours after being notified of a possible crash near the northern city of Staunton, the agency said.
No survivors found in the wreckage
None of the plane's passengers were found alive when first responders reached the crash site around 8 p.m. Sunday night, state police spokesperson Corinne Geller confirmed.
The private aircraft is registered to Encore Motors of Melbourne, Inc., a company based in Florida, according to FAA records.
John Rumpel, whose wife Barbara is listed as the president of the company, told CNN that they own Encore. The husband confirmed Barbara Rumpel is safe, but declined to comment further.
John Rumpel told The New York Times that his daughter, a 2-year-old granddaughter and her nanny were onboard the plane. He told the Times that the family was returning home to East Hampton, New York, after a four-day trip to his home in North Carolina.
On her Facebook profile, Barbara Rumpel commented, "My family is gone, my daughter and granddaughter," on an unrelated post in which others were asking if she was on the plane.
Plane flew near US capital area
As the plane veered off course Sunday afternoon, it passed over Washington, D.C, and was not responding to efforts to make contact, prompting the F-16 fighter jets to respond.
US Capitol Police placed the Capitol Complex on an "elevated alert" as the aircraft passed through the region, the agency said.
"This afternoon, our officials were working closely with our federal partners to monitor an unresponsive pilot who was flying an airplane near the National Capital Region. The U.S. Capitol Complex was briefly placed on an elevated alert until the airplane left the area," a statement from the department said.
It's unclear whether the aircraft entered restricted airspace.
President Joe Biden was golfing at the Andrews Air Force Base golf course near Maryland's Joint Base Andrews when the sonic boom resounded through Washington. The US Secret Service said it did not alter its posture for keeping President Biden secure after the fighter jets were scrambled.
The president was briefed on the incident, according to a White House official.
ABC News contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of Celsius Financial Products, including CEL Tokens, Earn Rewards high-interest accounts, and/or Celsius Loan products, between February 9, 2018, and June 13, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"), against Celsius Network LLC ("Celsius"), Celsius Lending LLC, Celsius KeyFi LLC (collectively, the "Celsius Entities") and its executives Alexander Mashinsky, Shlomi "Daniel" Leon, David Barse, and Alan Jeffrey Carr (together, "Defendants"), of the important September 13, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Celsius Financial Products, including CEL Tokens, Earn Rewards high-interest accounts, and/or Celsius Loan products you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Celsius class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7586 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 13, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, Defendants violated provisions of the Securities Act by selling non-exempt securities without registering it. The complaint alleges that Celsius and Individual Defendants violated provisions of the Securities Act by also participating in Celsius' failure to register the Celsius Financial Products. The complaint alleges that the Defendants violated provisions of the New Jersey Common Law by possessing the monetary value of Celsius Financial Products of inflated value which rightfully belongs to the Plaintiff and members of the Class.
Also according to the lawsuit, Defendants violated provisions of the Exchange Act by carrying out a plan, scheme, and course of conduct that Celsius intended to and did deceive retail investors and thereby caused them to purchase Celsius Financial Products at artificially inflated prices; endorsed false statements they knew or recklessly should have known were material misleading, and they made untrue statements of material fact and omitted to state material facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading.
To join the Celsius class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7586 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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15 dead in Appalachian flooding, toll expected to rise
JACKSON, Ky. (AP) — Search and rescue teams backed by the National Guard searched Friday for people missing in record floods that wiped out entire communities in some of the poorest places in America. Kentucky’s governor said 15 people have died, a toll he expected to grow as the rain keeps falling.
“We’ve still got a lot of searching to do,” said Jerry Stacy, the emergency management director in Kentucky’s hard-hit Perry County. “We still have missing people.”
Powerful floodwaters swallowed towns that hug creeks and streams in Appalachian valleys and hollows, leaving vehicles in useless piles, crunching runaway equipment and piles of debris against bridges and swamping homes and businesses. Mudslides on steep slopes left many people marooned and without power and made rescues more difficult.
Gov. Andy Beshear told the AP before touring the disaster area that the 15 dead in Kentucky includes children, “but I expect that number to more than double, probably even throughout today.”
Determining the number of people unaccounted for is “tough,” he said, with cell service and electricity out across the disaster area. More than 200 people have sought shelter, Beshear said. He deployed National Guard soldiers to the hardest-hit areas. Three parks set up shelters, and with property damage so extensive, the governor opened an online portal for donations to the victims.
“I do believe it will end up being one of the most significant, deadly floods that we have had in Kentucky in at least a very long time,” Beshear said Thursday.
While floodwaters receded in places after peaking Thursday, the National Weather Service said flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall remained possible through Friday evening across the mountains of eastern Kentucky, western Virginia and southern West Virginia, where thunderstorms dumped several inches of rain over the past few days. As much as 6 inches (15 centimeters) of rain had fallen in some spots by Thursday, and 1 to 3 more inches (2.5 to 7.5 centimeters) could fall, the weather service said.
“Places where there were mobile homes and houses, there’s nothing there now ... It’s unbelievable to see,” Stacy said. “You get 8 inches of rain in three hours, it’s just not anything that we have ever seen -- ever, here.”
Krystal Holbrook’s family raced to move vehicles, campers, trailers and equipment before dawn Thursday as rapidly rising floodwaters menaced her southeastern Kentucky town of Jackson. “Higher ground is getting a little bit difficult” to find, she said.
More rain Friday tormented the region after days of torrential rainfall. The storm sent water gushing from hillsides and surging out of streambeds, inundating roads and forcing rescue crews to use helicopters and boats to reach trapped people. Parts of western Virginia and southern West Virginia were also hit by flooding.
In Whitesburg, Kentucky, floodwaters seeped into Appalshop, an arts and education center renowned for promoting and preserving the region’s history and culture.
“We’re not sure exactly the full damage because we haven’t been able to safely go into the building or really get too close to it,” said Meredith Scalos, its communications director. “We do know that some of our archival materials have flooded out of the building into Whitesburg streets.”
Poweroutage.us reported more than 33,000 customers remained without electricity Friday in eastern Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia, with the bulk of the outages in Kentucky.
Rescue crews worked feverishly to try to reach people in places where roads weren’t passable.
In West Virginia’s Greenbrier County, firefighters pulled people from flooded homes, and five campers who got stranded by high water in Nicholas County were rescued, WCHS-TV reported.
Gov. Jim Justice declared a state of emergency for six counties in West Virginia after severe thunderstorms this week caused significant local flooding, downed trees, power outages and blocked roads.
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Associated Press Writers Rebecca Reynolds and Dylan Lovan in Louisville, Ky., and Sarah Brumfield in Silver Spring, Md., contributed to this report.
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Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon in New York's Upper West Side over 40 years ago, was denied parole for the 12th time.
The 67-year-old prisoner, serving a 20-years-to-life sentence at Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York, was once again denied parole in August. The parole board has decided to keep Chapman behind bars every two years since he was first eligible for parole in 2000.
Additional details about Chapman's parole case, including the transcript, have yet to be made available through the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
When Chapman was denied in 2018, his 10th time seeking parole, the panel told NPR that releasing him would be "incompatible with the welfare and safety of society." Chapman had shown "a callous disregard" of human pain and suffering, the panel said.
Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, has historically sent a letter to the parole board every two years to request her husband's murderer remain in prison, CNN reported.
Chapman traveled from Hawaii to New York to assassinate Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980, and had even met the Beatles star earlier that same day, according to the 2012 parole hearing transcript. During that parole hearing, Chapman told the panel that he had briefly struggled internally on whether to carry out the murder.
"It wasn't all totally cold-blooded, but most of it was. I did try to tell myself to leave. I've got the album, take it home, show my wife, everything will be fine," Chapman said in 2012. "But I was so compelled to commit that murder that nothing would have dragged me away from that building."
His next opportunity for parole is scheduled for February 2024, the Associated Press reported.
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STARKVILLE, Miss. (WTVA) — Mississippi State has moved up its Friday game against Vanderbilt to 4 p.m.
This is due to the risk of severe weather.
STARKVILLE, Miss. (WTVA) — Mississippi State has moved up its Friday game against Vanderbilt to 4 p.m.
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It is easy to think that taking a cool photo to post on Instagram or recording a fun dance for TikTok will make you famous overnight. The reality, though, is that becoming an influencer is less about finding a trend to follow and more about consistent and strategic planning to build a brand from scratch.
Many people don't fully understand the behind-the-scenes work that goes into becoming a full-time influencer. Although this career path might seem like a risky, maybe mysterious, lifestyle to many, there are several concrete steps you can take that could turn your passion into your full-time job.
Like all entrepreneurs, successful influencers always start their career with an idea of what they are passionate about and what content best fits their talents.
Talia Lichtstein and Audrey Trullinger both knew they wanted to enter the entertainment space, specifically in comedy or late night television, so they used social media to create funny videos that allowed them to showcase their talents and work toward their future goals.
Lichtstein, who now has 1.1 million followers on TikTok, is known for her "stuff that I hate" lists and her generally satirical content.
"It all started with the 'things I hate' persona and that has evolved but this character is still at the core of everything I am posting," Lichtstein explained. "The people who follow me are mostly there for that and I know that. You have to be conscious of why people like you and why they follow you and then keep creating the content that they followed you for."
Her one-minute rants (like the one below) are jam-packed with things Lichtstein hates — everything from boys in tube socks to red nail polish. And every one includes a telltale disclaimer that you can disagree with her opinions but you can't change her mind! She'll tell you straight that she likes to fight so if you disagree, bring it.
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Trullinger leaned into her comedic passions on her TikTok account and has garnered 1.4 million followers who love her point of view videos, sketches, and story times. Trullinger's dance content first went viral on TikTok, but she came to the conclusion that she could use the platform for content that she was more passionate about.
"I really love to make people laugh, so I decided if I'm gaining this following I should try to make the kind of content I wanted to make ... when I was younger," Trullinger said. "So I would say my TikTok is mainly geared toward relatable content and comedy sketches with a little bit of fashion and lifestyle sprinkled in there and my YouTube and Instagram are mostly fashion and lifestyle."
In the one-minute video below, she hilariously impersonates a sales associate at Lululemon. "Hey, girl, welcome to Lulu. Let me know if I can help you find anything. Oh, those leggings you're looking at? I love those. I wear them to my 5 a.m. yoga class. Yeah they're really great. You should get them. … Oh, yeah! They are $148. I know! Ha ha. But they're so worth it. … Like, I have like five pairs."
For some influencers, developing a brand starts with one or two viral videos that let them know what their niche is and what content they should focus on. That was the case for Claire-Lise Greve, an influencer from Texas known for her sorority-advice videos that have brought her 944,000 TikTok followers. After going through sorority recruitment at UT Austin, Greve saw how difficult the process could be and took to social media to share the guidance that helped her find her home in sorority life.
"I would do sorority recruitment videos and those would get tons of views and I was like — OK, this is something that people are responding to, something that younger girls want to know a lot about, so then I started making a lot more videos about that, pretty much answering any question I could, while still being in the chapter."
In this one-minute video, Greve goes through the top reasons you might not get into a sorority, including low GPA and inappropriate posts on social media like underage drinking or smoking.
She was able to stumble upon her audience by creating content that was important to her and her experiences and has continued to let this guide her as she looks to grow her account.
So, to get started, you need to figure out what type of content you want to post: Is it fashion? Things I hate? Advice? Reaction videos? Remember, you don't have to stick with one — try different things out and see what you like — and what your followers like.
What makes these influencers so successful?
Jay Baer, an author, influencer and founder of marketing advisory firm Convince & vinConvert, described the three strategies that work for successful TikTok influencers:
The first strategy is to create an emotion on the part of the viewer. According to Baer, these are the five emotions that unlock growth on TikTok:
1. Happy
2. Sad
3. Laughter
4. Anger
5. Inspiration
The second strategy is to create perceived intimacy. Baer says that "this is when the audience feels they are a part of the life of the account creator. This is why you see a lot more "raw" production on TikTok v.s Instagram or YouTube. It just feels more real.
The third and last strategy is usefulness. Baer explained that "many of the best accounts on TikTok are similar to the best on YouTube in that they just answer questions that people have difficulty finding answers to otherwise."
Baer analyzed the accounts of the previously mentioned influencers and determined their particular "success equations." Talia Lichtstein, for example, has seen success because she is able to ignite an emotion (anger) while creating a feeling of intimacy with her audience, while Audrey Trullinger's content also brings out an emotion (laughter) and allows her to build intimacy with her followers. Claire-Lise Greve relies less on emotions while using a combination of intimacy and usefulness to attract followers.
When figuring out what content you are going to create, take some time to derive your particular success equation and how you plan to employ it. How will emotions, intimacy and usefulness come together to form your brand?
Just do it
One of the scariest step is that first post when you actually put your content out for people to see.
"Anyone who is interested in the idea of entertaining — you need to just do it," Lichtstein said. "You have a camera in your hands now, you have the editing software right there."
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While it is easy to let the fear of being judged by your peers stop you from posting, the piece of advice repeated by every influencer was to just get started and push through the fear.
"You might deal with a little bit of adversity from the people around you thinking that you're never going to actually become an influencer," Trullinger said.
Everyone has encountered the haters online — even when you're just posting a comment on someone else's Tik Tok or Instagram post. But you should be prepared that when you are a public figure, you will get a lot more feedback — both positive and negative.
"People will always knock you down and you always have to keep it going if it's something you really want to do," Trullinger said. "Try to block out the people that are unkind because it's usually rooted in jealousy. Plain and simple. They wish they had the courage to do that. Who doesn't want to make fun videos for a living?"
How to build your following
As most of us know, having a natural talent for something does not automatically translate into gaining a following or becoming famous.
"The key to a successful post is creating content that is based on feedback from your audience," said Sam O'Brien, chief marketing officer at Affise, a company that specializes in using trackers and analytics to simplify partnerships between creators and brands. "That will not only help you gain more followers but increase the engagement on your posts. "
"Hang out in the forums," O'Brien advised. "When people are chatting with you in the comments, take the time to actually respond. That increases the engagement so you'll get more people following you and more people appreciating you as a person."
This means that staying on the app and interacting with anyone commenting on your content will help you build stronger relationships with people who already follow you and extend the reach of your posts to help you gain more followers.
Trullinger was able to build a base of followers by listening to feedback from viewers. Her followers make it clear which videos resonate with them by commenting "More of this please!" or even "I need you to be my best friend" on the TikToks they find funny. She takes that feedback and works to give the people what they want.
Lichtstein often posts content with her opinions about things she dislikes, so she'll get everything from people who find her hilarious to those who disagree. Some videos have comments like "Main character energy!" or "I need this kind of attitude in my life," while others can be more negative. She often responds to negative comments with TikToks that poke fun at the way the commenters did not understand her jokes, and this only adds to her content and her relationship with her followers. By responding and interacting with a variety of viewers and comments, influencers are able to build a community and refine their content to what is doing well with their audience.
Once you have one or two posts that gain traction, it is more important than ever to sustain intimacy with your followers by letting them into your life and making them feel like they really know you.
"If you look at some of the most successful influencers, one of the things that they have in common is that they let their audience in. They're not afraid to be vulnerable. They're not afraid to show their audience bits and pieces of their life," said Baer. "You turn your audience into a community by making your audience feel like they are a part of your success."
It is also important to remember that depending on which app you are primarily using, there are different tips to use the app's algorithm to your advantage and increase your reach.
According to Shopify.com, here are some of the best ways to grow your following on Instagram:
1. Post Reels regularly: Instagram has been promoting Reels as a newer feature on the app and is more likely to show your posts if you create high quality and relatable content. This is a great way to end up on the explore page of potential followers.
2. Cross-promote content: If you use any other social media platforms such as TikTok or YouTube, you can gain more engagement with your posts by posting them on all of your accounts. This helps you get noticed by a larger variety of people and increase your following.
3. Use the right hashtags: Using popular hashtags makes it easier for people searching for specific content to find your posts and your account. It is important that instead of using a lot of hashtags that you make specific choices that help promote your content to your target demographic.
4. Use geotags to boost local discovery: Tagging your location helps new followers to discover your posts when traveling to that area.
5. Organize your stories into highlights: Highlights provide a quick way for followers to gain more insight into the type of content you post and helps to give a taste of what they might see if they follow you.
If you are starting out on TikTok, here are some of the top tips from Shopify.com to gain a larger audience:
1. Have a good hook: TikTok promotes videos based on several factors including whether or not users finish watching your video. To increase the chances of this, get straight to the point of your video within the first two to three seconds. You want to stop the viewer from skipping to the next video in their queue.
2. Lean toward shorter videos: With video completion rates being a significant factor in your video being promoted, it is much easier to gain views with a shorter video that people do not scroll away from.
3. Post at the right time: In order to increase engagement on your posts, you should post during the hours that your followers are most active. Look at your TikTok analytics to better understand the activity of your audience and post when they are most likely to be on the app.
4. Use trending sounds: TikTok has a strong focus on audio, so the TikTok algorithm will show your videos to people interacting with posts with that same audio. Using a trending audio means that it is more likely people will be interacting with that audio clip.
5. Use keyword-rich captions: Use captions that make it clear what your post is about without becoming too long. This will catch the interest of viewers and make it more likely for them to stop scrolling to watch your video.
How do you start making money?
Coming up with the idea for content may seem like the hardest part of the job, but according to the influencers it is actually what comes after gaining a following that can be the most confusing and tricky to navigate.
Once you have a solid base of followers, you are in a position to start making money, and this often comes in the form of brand deals. That happens when an influencer is paid to promote a product or brand on their account. It's the most common way to start making money on social media, but it's not always the most stable income if you do not know how to negotiate a payment that accurately reflects your worth in terms of engagement with your followers.
According to Baer of Convince & Convert, if you are hoping to get noticed by some of your favorite brands, you can optimize your account by focusing on increasing the size of your audience, increasing engagement and being clear about your topics of interest. Having a short, incomplete bio is a common mistake as brands will often use these bios in their search for brand ambassadors.
Another thing to keep in mind is that while you might find that certain jokes or posts get a good reaction from your followers, it does not mean that this is what brands are looking for. "Most brands don't want to be associated with influencers who walk too close to the edge. It's hard because that stuff that's a little edgy actually really succeeds with the audience but you have to remember that for a corporation to write you a check they have to be really comfortable with everything you've ever published."
Consider getting a manager
One piece of advice that all the influencers emphasized was looking for a manager or someone to help you negotiate and understand the contracts you are signing. Lichtstein and Trullinger both worked with managers who negotiate their brand deals, and allow them to better understand how transactions within the industry work, so that they are paid commensurate to their worth. Trullinger explained that her management company even helps her to edit her videos, giving her more time to focus on creating more content and growing her account.
As an influencer it is up to you to seek out management if you feel that it will help your brand in the long run. Trullinger found that she was struggling to determine the rates she should be charging brands when negotiating deals. That's when she found a management company that best fit her needs.
"If you want to start monetizing, it is best to get a little bit of guidance. There are people whose whole job is figuring out the rates that you can charge and they can help you immensely." Without a manager, you face the risk of misreading contracts or underselling yourself to brands, which could hold you back in expanding your business.
However, it is important to keep in mind that managers take a cut of every deal so if you are not at the point where you can afford to give up any of your profit, it may be better to wait until you have reached a higher number of followers and can charge higher rates. Trullinger had around 200,000 followers when she looked into management and found that with their help she was able to turn the brand deals into a full-time job, making the partnership worthwhile.
However, with the new technology that tracks your analytics it is becoming even easier to take care of the negotiations on your own. If you do not have the budget to hire a manager, you can look into online data analytics platforms, such as Affise.
O'Brien at Affise advises creators to look at platforms that will show them their analytics and reach so that they can expand their opportunities without giving up a cut of their income. This will allow them to invest their money into other business ventures instead and begin building more stable revenue streams.
"I'd go on the side that the creators should be getting more of their money. Look at a platform where you're able to get recurring revenue from your traffic," O'Brien said. "Start selling to people instead of focusing on brand posts. Focus on selling a product, selling a subscription, etc." He acknowledges that brand partnerships and sponsored posts are a good way to begin making money, but to solidify a career in social media it is important to start creating a more solid stream of income and a more developed business model.
So, you've started making money — now what?
When you start making money from social media, the proceeds can go into savings or be invested back into your brand.
One big misconception that many people have is that becoming an influencer is only achievable if you are in a position to take risks without having to fully support yourself financially. While it can be risky or unstable as a profession at times, by getting started while you're still in college or already working a full-time job you can build your following without taking on the kind of risk that might be true later in life.
Greve explained that while she is beginning to make money from brand deals, social media is not her full-time job, and as she prepares for grad school, her income goes into savings to help her in the future. This strategy allows her to continue growing her account without relying on social media for her total income.
Trullinger, who just graduated from college in May and has used her income as an influencer to work toward paying off student loans, rent an apartment in New York and pay for her day-to-day needs.
Here's how she described how she was able to balance supporting herself while starting her new social media career.
"My parents did take out parent loans, but then there were also loans that I have myself. I felt really bad relying on them so the first two years of college I waitressed at my college bar. That's how I supported myself for the first two years. Sometimes when you want to start you can't give up everything. Sometimes you have to start working a 9-5, or working a service job or a retail job, so that you can support yourself while you grow until you have that opportunity to monetize your content," Trullinger said.
Gaining a following takes time and it is important to make sure that you are not relying on your account to be your full-time job until you are making enough money to not only support yourself but save for the future.
Trullinger had to quickly learn how to manage her finances because as an influencer income can vary month-to-month, making it difficult to plan and save.
"I decided to look into credit cards, investing, and high yield savings accounts," Trullinger said. "Every time I get a check I put 15% of the check away into a high yield savings account, so that if one month doesn't do super well I always have that money to fall back on. Also, since I am technically self-employed, every time I get a check I put about 25% into a different savings account for my taxes."
She recommends that others should also take the time to research the best financial options the works for them if they are serious about building a career on social media.
Baer advises that you be conservative with your spending, even if the money is going toward building your career.
"No influencer, unless they are the very top, should ever assume that the fact they were successful means that they will be successful tomorrow," Baer said. "Lots of people want to be influencers and … competition will be more fierce tomorrow than today. You need to operate in the influencer business as if it is a short-term business."
How to make being an influencer your full-time job
Greve, Lichtstein and Trullinger were all college students when they started their accounts just a couple years ago and were able to pursue their social media careers full time straight after graduation by building marketable and sustainable brands focused on their talents. This isn't something that happens to everyone, of course — you might need to do it as a hobby or side hustle at first and also keep a job that pays the bills.
The transition from making some money off of social media on the side to making it your full-time job requires extensive research into what career options are available to you and which ones will best resonate with your followers. For some influencers, this means working on podcasts or shows. This was the case for Lichtstein, who explained that signing a contract to work on a podcast often means a more steady and consistent income.
"It's a little bit scary because it's a little bit inconsistent. You know you can have one month where you have three brand deals that you post and the next month you don't get any," she said. "I need a consistent flow of money in order to feel comfortable. I knew very early on that I would need to leverage my following into an opportunity where I could get consistent pay and that meant podcasts and, in my case, a Snapchat show."
Lichtstein has been working to grow her reach through a podcast called "The Influence" by Doing Things Media, a platform that originated as a meme account and is now branching into other forms of content. She also hosts a TikTok show called "Just The Tips" created by Fallen Media where she gives dating advice.
Baer also supported this idea of looking for revenue streams from carefully chosen ventures that best resonate with your audience. In his experience, while many influencers tend to gravitate toward brand deals, shows and podcasts, they should also look into projects that include public speaking, writing books, creating training courses or selling their own products. This can often mean a more steady stream of income and helps to tap into different audience demographics.
"As quickly as possible you need to bury your revenue streams and create as many as you possibly can," Baer said. "If you have three ways you're getting [revenue], the most important thing you can do is make it four. Every additional way that somebody can pay you creates less risk in your business."
Anyone can become an influencer
For most of us, the idea of becoming an influencer seems almost unattainable: a glamorous and exclusive group of people who were able to gain large amounts of followers simply by sharing their lives online. But in reality most influencers are simply hardworking entrepreneurs looking to use their talent for connecting with people.
Lichtstein had her doubts at first but now loves being a content creator and sees that this is an industry that opens the door for anyone to follow their passions and create a lifestyle that is the best fit for them.
"I graduated college and I was looking for a 9-5 job in the media realm and then on the side I was making these videos because I figured I might as well start practicing, and I thought maybe in 10 years I'll be able to host videos for someone else and get paid for that. It was just a mix of luck and strategy and I went super viral the summer after I graduated. It took a long time to convince myself and convince my parents that I didn't need to do the conventional thing. It was sort of like I skipped a step and I had some hesitancy accepting that. It just felt really unconventional but at the end of the day I wanted to entertain for a living and it happened faster than I thought and in a different medium than I ever expected it to."
So, if you want to do it, you've got to hustle. You have to be out there creating content as often as you can, engaging with your followers and figuring out what works. Plus, the more you do — the better you'll get on camera. And you never know where that might lead!
″College Voices″ is a guide written by college students to help the class of 2022 learn about big money issues they will face in life — from student loans to budgeting and getting their first apartment — and make smart money decisions. And, even if you're still in school, you can start using this guide right now so you are financially savvy when you graduate and start your adult life on a great financial track. Ananya Mehrotra is a four-term intern, who has been working with the program research team for The News Group at NBC Universal since the summer of 2021. She is currently a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, pursuing a double major in political economy and media studies. The guide is edited by Cindy Perman.
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We are now into the second week of March. It is time for residents who have made any changes in their property last year to visit the tax office to make any changes if you have not already done so.
You have some 18 days left to get this done if you want to have your proper exemptions on your 2023 taxes for next year.
It is very important to file these changes before the deadline or you will not get homestead or other exemptions until the next calendar year, in other words you will have to pay the full tax rather than getting homestead exemptions for the 2023 calendar year.
And be mindful of this, April 1 is on a Saturday, so make sure you are there by Friday, March 31 to do business with the county.
If you had changes in your life due to being married, divorced or widowed, if you turned 65 on or before January 1, 2023 and have not filed for the special exemption, please bring proof of age.
If you were declared disabled before January 1, 2023, you will need to bring your Social Security Award Letters.
If you bought additional land, if you bought or moved into another house, had a deed change of ownership of land during 2022 you MUST file a change before this date.
When you come to make your changes, please bring the following items:
warranty deed,
spouse and your social security numbers,
amount paid for house, amount of monthly payments,
all tag numbers,
proof of your date of birth if filing for over 65,
your award letter if declared disabled.
If you are filing on a new residence you will need to bring your recorded Warranty Deed, you and your spouse’s social security numbers, and your Mississippi license plate numbers. Your Warranty Deed must be acknowledged by December 31, 2022 and recorded by January 7, 2023. You must be living in the residence January 1 of the year in which you are filing. The Homestead Exemption Law allows you to file on one residence only.
If you are married, both names must be on the application, but only one is required to sign the form.
If you have any questions please call Pontotoc County Tax Assessor/Collector Van McWhirter’s office at 489-3903.
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STANTON, Texas —
Trinity Oaks Permian Basin will host their 3rd annual clay shoot on March 31.
On top of the shoot, the event, presented by OVINTIV, will include lunch and a raffle.
The goal of the event is to raise money to offer free hunting, fishing and outdoor activities to those in need.
Trinity Oaks offers programs like youth outdoor activities, heroes celebrations and dream trips.
“We have the privilege of hosting free youth activities in the Permian to teach kids about the outdoors, which is something I’m very passionate about instilling in the next generation,” Trinity Oaks Permian Basin Branch President Andrew Talley said.
The event will be held at Windwalker Farms, located at 2551 County Road C2801, Stanton, Texas 79782.
Check in will begin at 7 a.m., followed by the clay shoot at 8 a.m. and the lunch, raffle and gun board at noon.
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ALBANY, Ga., April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A study from the University of Barcelona has found that eating peanuts and peanut butter may benefit the hearts of young, healthy people1. The findings are significant since the incidence of heart disease, heart failure and endocarditis has been on the rise in young adults2 – an alarming trend because those conditions are typically seen in an older population.
The research, which was recently published in the journal Antioxidants and shared by The Peanut Institute, discusses a preventive medicine approach for younger generations.
"The bottomline finding is that peanuts can play an important role in promoting heart health by preventing atherosclerosis, reducing inflammation and improving vascular health," says Dr. Samara Sterling, a nutrition scientist and research director for The Peanut Institute. "It's encouraging because this is the first study of its kind to show this kind of protection in young people simply by eating peanuts."
The six-month study conducted by the University of Barcelona involved 63 healthy young adults ages 18-33 who included a single serving of peanuts or peanut butter in their regular, daily diet. Researchers discovered that the antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds in peanuts may lead to key changes in the gut microbiota, which in turn produce compounds that improve vascular biomarkers.
"There's an urgent need to focus cardiovascular disease education and prevention efforts on young adults," says Dr. Sterling. "The increases in high blood pressure and obesity are impacting the hearts of young people and leading to serious conditions that are usually seen in those who are decades older."
A serving of peanuts, which is about a handful, costs approximately 15 cents and delivers seven grams of plant-based protein plus 19 vitamins and minerals, heart-healthy fats and beneficial fiber. A daily serving of peanut butter is two tablespoons and costs about 19 cents.
"In addition to protecting the heart, optimal vascular health is important for a variety of other functions like cognition, memory, mental health and even sexual function," says Sterling.
Rosa M. Lamuela, professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences of the University of Barcelona and member of the Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety Research (INSA) and the Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBEROBN), led the study.
"In addition to helping lower the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, the consumption of nuts and peanuts has been linked to a lower risk of diabetes, especially due to the protective effect of the polyphenols found in these foods," says Isabella Parilli-Moser, first author of the study.
For more health news and recipe ideas that incorporate peanuts and peanut butter, visit PeanutInstitute.com. The Peanut Institute also provides news and updates on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
Based in Albany, Ga., The Peanut Institute is a non-profit organization supporting nutrition research and developing educational programs to encourage healthful lifestyles that include peanuts and peanut products. The Peanut Institute pursues its mission through research programs, educational initiatives and the promotion of healthful lifestyles to consumers of all ages. As an independent forum, The Peanut Institute is uniquely positioned to work with all segments of the food industry, the research community, academia, consumer organizations and governmental institutions.
Sources:
- Parilli-Moser, I.; Domínguez-López, I.; Vallverdú-Queralt, A.; Hurtado-Barroso, S.; Lamuela-Raventós, R.M. "Urinary Phenolic Metabolites Associated with Peanut Consumption May Have a Beneficial Impact on Vascular Health Biomarkers". Antioxidants, March 2023. Doi: 10.3390/antiox12030698
- Allen N, Wilkins JT. The Urgent Need to Refocus Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Efforts on Young Adults. JAMA. 2023;329(11):886–887. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.2308
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Charlie Blackmon has seen the Colorado Rockies experience a lot of tough moments against the San Francisco Giants over the past few seasons, so he was happy to take matters into his own hands on Tuesday.
The 35-year-old Blackmon was the hero with a go-ahead, three-run homer and will attempt to lead the Rockies to another win over the host Giants on Wednesday night in the middle contest of a three-game series.
The left-handed-hitting Blackmon came off the bench in the sixth inning to hit a pinch-hit blast into McCovey Cove off Giants southpaw Jose Alvarez to pave the way for a 5-3 win.
The victory was Colorado’s second straight against the Giants after losing the previous 12 meetings, including the first five of this season.
Furthermore, it marked just the sixth time the Rockies defeated San Francisco in 26 matchups since the start of the 2021 season.
The homer was the 200th of Blackmon’s career. He is the seventh player in franchise history to reach the milestone.
“It was just really cool to come up in that spot,” Blackmon said in a postgame television interview. “Pinch hit off the bench, kind of cold with the lefty, tight game. It was a really cool memorable spot to do it.”
Blackmon wasn’t the only Colorado standout. Connor Joe led off the game with a homer while reaching base three times on two hits and a walk. Joe has reached safely in his past 33 games, the second-longest streak in the majors.
His streak is the longest by a Colorado player since DJ LeMahieu reached in 38 straight games in 2016.
The victory also snapped a four-game slide and was just the eighth in the past 28 games for the Rockies.
San Francisco has lost 11 of its past 18 games and could play without three-time All-Star shortstop Brandon Crawford on Wednesday.
Crawford departed in the bottom of the fifth inning on Tuesday with right quadriceps tightness. Giants manager Gabe Kapler said afterward that Crawford’s availability will be determined Wednesday.
Crawford said he also is dealing with a sinus infection. He said he felt discomfort in the quad while running to first base when he grounded out in the first inning.
“It wasn’t getting any better as the game went on,” Crawford told reporters. “I mentioned it to the trainers, and we collectively decided to get me out of there.”
San Francisco left-hander Alex Wood (3-5, 4.66 ERA) will oppose Rockies right-hander Antonio Senzatela (2-3, 5.40) for the third time this season.
The 31-year-old Wood beat the Rockies on May 10 when he allowed one unearned run and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings in San Francisco. He started against Colorado six days later in Denver and received a no-decision while allowing three runs and six hits in 4 1/3 innings.
Wood has since dropped three straight starts, allowing 10 runs in 14 innings for a 6.43 ERA during the stretch. He gave up two runs and four hits over 5 1/3 innings in a road loss to the Miami Marlins last Thursday.
Wood is 7-3 with a 5.36 ERA in 21 appearances (18 starts) vs. the Rockies. Blackmon is 14-for-33 with eight RBIs against him.
The struggling Senzatela has allowed 61 hits in just 35 innings.
The 27-year-old sustained a lower back strain in his May 16 start against San Francisco and exited after two scoreless innings. Six days earlier, he was roughed up for five runs and seven hits in 3 2/3 innings by the Giants in defeat.
He returned from his back injury on June 1 and gave up six runs and 13 hits in 5 1/3 innings while losing to the Miami Marlins.
Senzatela is 5-2 with a 4.61 ERA in 12 career appearances (10 starts) against the Giants. He has consistently handled Crawford (3-for-22).
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The Saudi government is considered one of the most conservative and repressive in the world, with strict gender-based laws and an expansive death penalty. But now, a country that once had a decades-long ban on movie theaters has morphed into a regional hub for arts and entertainment.
Later this month, it will host a Formula One Grand Prix race for the third year in a row. But there's also a massive rave in the desert outskirts of the capital Riyadh in December, an Andy Warhol exhibition currently underway in the oasis city AlUla and an international film festival whose third edition starts in November. Each year, the capital Riyadh is now punctuated with artworks for the world's largest festival of lights.
Critics say these shifts are purely transactional, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman trading the appearance of an open culture to paper over a dismal human rights record and buy political capital from the country's young population, but arts practitioners speak of real change on the ground.
Jeed Basyouni, who investigates the use of the death penalty across the Middle East and North Africa for rights group Reprieve, says the unprecedented level of changes comes at a price.
"Why we take particular issue with the use of art and sports and entertainment in this way is because it's very strategic on the behalf of Mohammed bin Salman," she told NPR's Leila Fadel.
"It's not out of the goodness of his heart that he's opening up Saudi society. There's a lot of money there for himself and the public... Saudi Arabia has a very young population who have been mostly very bored for the last 30 years because of how restricted society has been. If you distract them with these things, they won't notice that from the other hand, he's making society more repressive than it's ever been."
Reprieve published a report earlier this year with a Saudi partner, the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights. They found an 82% jump in executions since King Salman and his son the crown prince came to power in 2015.
Basyouni pointed to child defendants or the case of scholar Hassan al-Maliki, who has been imprisoned since 2017 on charges such as owning unauthorized books, publishing tweets and being interviewed by Western outlets. While he has not been sentenced, the public prosecutor has called for the death penalty.
"Mohammed bin Salman will decide what Saudi Arabia will look like and anyone that has any view will be punished," Basyouni added.
But despite these very real numbers, creatives from around the region are now flocking to Saudi Arabia as a place to showcase their work.
Lebanese filmmaker Dania Bdeir recently premiered her short film Warsha, which explores gender identity, at the Red Sea International Film Festival.
"There is a willingness to at least allow for some stories to be told, and maybe when it comes to completely talk about politics — that stuff, not quite yet, I don't know if that will ever happen — but at least starting with human self-expression and each one telling their own story. That's beginning."
Dubai-based cultural strategist and art consultant Myrna Ayad has worked in Saudi Arabia for years. She is quick to point to the long history of art practice and appreciation in the kingdom, where late Jeddah mayor Mohammed Saeed Farsi installed more than 400 sculptures by Saudi, Arab and international artists across the city. And in 1968, Munira Mosli and Safeya Binzagr were the first Saudi women whose work was featured in an exhibition in the country.
Art, Ayad says, can break down barriers.
"I do fundamentally believe that you can change somebody's mind, you can influence their opinion, you can alter their thought if you do it through art and culture. I think that this is how we develop tolerance, we develop understanding," she said.
Saudi artists find ways around censorship, such as Nasser Al-Salem, who uses mixed media to re-contextualize traditional Arabic calligraphy.
She rebukes critics who focus on the political expediency behind the crown prince's apparent cultural opening, asking the public instead to focus on what the art itself has to say.
"We are a determined few, and we work very hard and we are committed to what we are doing. We believe in our countries and our region and our heritage, and we are proud of it," said Ayad, who is Lebanese and was born in Beirut. "If you are going to look at me based on my country's government, what's left? You have to you have to see me from another light. You have to see me for who I am: I'm an arts practitioner or I am a Saudi artist or I'm an Emirati artist or I'm a Lebanese artist. Come on."
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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - New Pacific Metals Corp. ("New Pacific" or the "Company") (TSX: NUAG) (NYSE American: NEWP), together with its local Bolivian partner, are pleased to report the preliminary metallurgical testwork results of the five variability samples from its Carangas Silver-Gold Project in Oruro Department, Bolivia (the "Carangas Project" or the "Project"). This ongoing metallurgical testwork program consists of scoping-level cyanide leach and flotation testing and is carried out by Bureau Veritas's Metallurgical Division in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.
Mineralized materials sampled from rejects of selected Carangas drill cores with assays were composited to five samples based on the type of mineralization and degree of oxidization. Host rock sample is altered volcanoclastic rocks of dacitic-rhyolitic composition.
Cyanide leach tests for the fresh gold samples for the sample with less than 1% sulfur content have achieved 98.8% gold recovery and the second gold sample with approximately 3% sulfur content achieved 98.5% gold recovery.
The near surface, overlying oxidized, oxidized to semi-oxidized, and fresh silver-lead-zinc samples were tested with cyanide leaching and flotation. The cyanide leach tests achieved silver recoveries of 84.1%, 85% and 74.3%, respectively. Whole ore flotation tests achieved silver recoveries of 72-77%, 90-94% and 99%, respectively. Flotation tests for oxidized to semi-oxidized samples also achieved zinc recoveries of 93-95%. Furthermore, 98-99% lead and 96-97% zinc flotation recoveries were achieved for the fresh silver-lead-zinc sample.
These preliminary test results clearly demonstrate that high recovery rates can be expected for gold using cyanide leaching and for silver, lead, and zinc through conventional cyanide leaching and flotation for silver-lead-zinc mineralized materials. The results of testwork are summarized below in Table 1.
Table 1 Summary of scoping level metallurgy tests of Carangas Project
Sample 1
Sample 1 was an oxidized composite silver-lead sample consisting of drill core rejects from shallow depth (25-66 m) with head grades of 183 g/t silver and 1.20% lead. Zinc content was negligible. The majority of the lead was present in an oxidized form.
Initial whole ore cyanide leach testing showed that silver dissolved rapidly in cyanide solution with 84.1% silver recovery. Further cyanide leach tests along with gravity concentration will be carried out to improve silver recovery.
Early flotation testing indicated that silver recovery during rougher flotation was modest in the 72-77% range, and lead recovery was very poor. Further improvement work is in progress.
Sample 2
Sample 2 was an oxidized to semi-oxidized composite silver-lead-zinc sample consisting of core rejects from shallow depth (9-46 m) with head grades of 106 g/t silver, 0.86% lead and 0.47% zinc. A portion of the lead was present in an oxidized form.
Silver in this sample also dissolved rapidly in cyanide solution, and silver recovery was 85.0% based on a single cyanide leach test. Silver recovery is expected to improve further with additional cyanide leach testing.
Sequential selective flotation was applied to Sample 2 to produce a silver/lead concentrate and a zinc concentrate. Initial flotation testing demonstrated promising recoveries for silver (90-94%) and for zinc (93-95%) into the combined silver/lead and zinc rougher concentrates. Lead recovery was relatively poor due to partially oxidized lead minerals. Based on what has been learned from Sample 1, lead recovery of Sample 2 is expected to increase considerably when the same approaches are applied.
Sample 3
Sample 3 was a fresh composite silver-lead-zinc sample consisting of core rejects from 110-172 m depths with head grades of 151 g/t silver, 0.85% lead and 1.28% zinc. Oxidation has not occurred in this sample.
Silver in Sample 3 dissolved very slowly in cyanide solution. After 72 hours, silver dissolution was still incomplete. Silver recovery was only 74.3% based on a single cyanide leach test. A number of options are available to increase silver recovery and will be explored in future testwork.
As with Sample 2, sequential selective flotation was applied to Sample 3 to produce separate silver/lead and zinc concentrates. Initial flotation testing showed excellent flotation performance for silver, lead and zinc. When silver/lead concentrate and zinc concentrate are combined, total recoveries were 99% for silver, 98-99% for lead and 96-97% for zinc.
Sample 4
Sample 4 was a fresh composite gold sample consisting of core rejects with low sulfur content from 425-754 m depths and a head grade of 2.5 g/t gold and 0.62% sulfur. Contents of silver, lead and zinc were very low. Preliminary cyanide leach testing demonstrated exceptionally high gold recoveries in a range of 98.2-99.2%. Gold recovery was very robust and dropped only by 1.0% after grind size was coarsened from 80% passing 50 µm to 80% passing 150 µm, and cyanide concentration was reduced from 1.0 g/L NaCN to 0.50 g/L NaCN and oxygen sparging was replaced with air sparging. Sample 4 did not show any preg-robbing issue.
Sample 5
Sample 5 was a fresh composite gold sample consisting of core rejects with high sulfur content from 430-746 m depths and a head grade of 3.88 g/t gold and 3.07% sulfur. Contents of silver, lead and zinc were also insignificant. As with Sample 4, exceptionally high gold recoveries (97.2-99.0%) were achieved from initial cyanide leach tests. Gold recovery dropped only by 1.8% after grind size was coarsened from 80% passing 50 µm to 80% passing 150 µm, cyanide concentration was reduced from 1.0 g/L NaCN to 0.50 g/L NaCN and oxygen sparging was replaced with air sparging. Sample 5 also did not show any preg-robbing issue.
Based on the preliminary metallurgical test results, the following recommendations can be made with respect to the selection of flowsheet for the future process plan:
For gold materials represented by Sample 4 and Sample 5, a simple process based on cyanide leach and carbon-in-pulp (CIP) can potentially achieve an average of 98.6% gold recovery. A gravity concentration may be included to reduce gold lockup in the circuit. Gold dore will be the final product.
For silver-lead-zinc materials represented by Sample 2 and Sample 3, separate silver/lead concentrate and zinc concentrate will be produced by sequential selective flotation. The silver/lead concentrate may further be treated by cyanide leach to enable silver dore production at the mine site. The residue after cyanide leach can still be sold as silver/lead concentrate, although with significantly lower silver content.
For silver-lead-zinc materials represented by Sample 1, if lead can be effectively concentrated via flotation, the silver/lead concentrate will be produced first via bulk flotation. Gravity concentration may be included to increase silver and lead recoveries. The resultant silver/lead concentrate may also be treated by cyanide leach to enable silver dore production at the mine site. The residue from cyanide leach will be sold as silver/lead concentrate. If the residue from cyanide leach cannot be sold as silver/lead concentrate, a fallback option for the materials similar to Sample 1 is the whole ore cyanide leach for silver dore production.
This metallurgy test program was designed and supervised by Dr. Jinxing Ji who is an internationally recognized metallurgist with more than 25 years experience in working for senior Canadian mining companies related to gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead recovery, including mineral/metallurgical research and test work, development of process flowsheet and process design criteria, scoping study, pre-feasibility study, feasibility study, engineering design, plant commissioning and plant operational support/optimization for projects/mines in Turkey, Greece, Canada, China, Romania, Brazil and Papua New Guinea. Dr. Ji was the Director, of Metallurgical Services for Eldorado Gold Corp. for 15 years and the Consulting/Research Metallurgist for Placer Dome Inc. for 10 years.
The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Alex Zhang, P. Geo., Vice President of Exploration, who is a Qualified Person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 — Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101"). The Qualified Person has verified the information disclosed herein, including the sampling, preparation, security and analytical procedures underlying such information, and is not aware of any significant risks and uncertainties that could be expected to affect the reliability or confidence in the information discussed herein.
New Pacific is a Canadian exploration and development company with precious metal projects in Bolivia. The Company's flagship Project, the Silver Sand Silver Project, is expected to deliver a new Mineral Resource Estimate Update and a PEA by the end of 2022. The recently discovered Carangas Silver-Gold Project is undergoing a 40,000 m drill program. The third project, the Silverstrike Silver-Gold Project, commenced a 6,000 m discovery drill program in June 2022 and a near surface broad gold zone was discovered its first drill hole.
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Former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon has been sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of Congress. A jury in Washington, D.C., convicted him of two misdemeanor charges earlier this year. NPR's justice correspondent Carrie Johnson is with us for details of today's court proceedings. Good morning, Carrie.
CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Good morning.
FADEL: OK, so before we get to more on Bannon's sentencing, this is all about Bannon not cooperating with the January 6 committee, right? What did Congress want from him?
JOHNSON: Congress wanted documents and testimony from Bannon. A day before the assault on the Capitol, Steve Bannon said all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. And Congress wanted to know why he said that. Congress also pointed out that Bannon was involved in planning for the political rally on the Ellipse on January 6 and some of the strategy for former President Trump, and lawmakers on the January 6 panel also suspected Bannon knew a lot more about the likelihood of violence that day on Capitol Hill.
FADEL: OK. So they suspect he knew a lot more. He did not cooperate, and now he got four months in prison. What else did the judge decide in the hearing today?
JOHNSON: Four months in prison - also a fine of $6,500. Judge Carl Nichols said he will allow Bannon to remain free, pending an appeal. And the heart of that appeal will be whether it was enough for the Justice Department to prove Bannon simply blew off this demand from Congress or whether prosecutors also needed to show Bannon had a guilty mind or bad intent here. Bannon, of course, had asked for no prison time at all. That was a nonstarter with this judge. He said the statutes involved in this case required a minimum of one month in prison, and Bannon, of course, got four.
FADEL: Now, Carrie, what was the atmosphere like at the courthouse?
JOHNSON: You know, Steve Bannon, who does a lot of talking, didn't say anything to the judge. He let his lawyer speak for him, and talk they did. Attorney David Schoen - you may remember from President Donald Trump's second impeachment - launched into a string of arguments. Schoen said his client, Bannon, had no remorse and said Bannon's contempt for Congress could have been even worse. Then he went on to use some coarse language, and then the defense attorney out of nowhere launched a rhetorical attack at a member of former President Trump's legal team and extensively quoted from the Federalist Papers, all while the judge sat there scratching his chin. Prosecutor J.P. Cooney for the Justice Department kept things rather short. He said Bannon chose hiding behind fabricated claims of executive privilege to thumb his nose at Congress. The prosecutor said Bannon is not above the law. He wanted this court to send a message that no one else is above the law either.
FADEL: So no one else is above the law - that's the message. What are the wider implications for other cases, then?
JOHNSON: There are some. Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro is facing trial next month here in D.C. for contempt of Congress. He's also accused of blowing off demands from the House January 6 committee. And prosecutors have decided not to charge Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, with contempt because Meadows did actually share some materials with Congress, unlike Steve Bannon. But Trump himself is staring down a subpoena from the January 6 panel. And we're going to have to see what happens next with that as well in the weeks ahead, before the Congress ends.
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Collaboration with University of Wisconsin Professors Krishanu Saha (PI) and Christian Captini (co-PI) to discover novel and improved GD2 CAR designs to treat solid tumors and validate them in vivo
MADISON, Wis. and BOSTON, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), which has a mission of supporting research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), which is building the leading platform for cell programming and biosecurity, today announced a partnership to leverage Ginkgo's proprietary high-throughput combinatorial CAR discovery and screening platform with the aim of discovering next generation GD2 CAR T-cell therapies with improved persistence, proliferation, fitness, and other functional properties to improve efficacy for the treatment of solid tumors.
Through this partnership, Ginkgo will collaborate with the University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers Professor Krishanu Saha, Ph.D., as principal investigator (PI) and Dr. Christian Capitini, M.D. as co-PI. Professor Saha's lab focuses on developing the next-generation cell engineering techniques to advance human therapeutics, and Dr. Capitini is a pediatric oncologist who has extensive clinical experience with CAR T-cell therapies, including serving as a site PI for the clinical trial that led to the first FDA approval of a CAR T-cell therapy. The two have collaborated on the development of a GD2 CAR T-cell therapeutic candidate for the treatment of neuroblastoma, a type of cancer generally affecting young children, using a non-viral, site-specific integration method developed by Professor Saha and published in the Journal for the Immunotherapy of Cancer: Production and characterization of virus-free, CRISPR-CAR T cells capable of inducing solid tumor regression.
Under this collaboration, Ginkgo will use its pooled CAR screening platform to design and characterize novel intracellular signaling domains that prevent the exhaustion of T-cells in the GD2 solid tumor context. Any novel designs will be validated in high throughput in vitro screens and in in vivo murine models. In addition, Ginkgo and WARF plan to collaborate on the development of a pooled in vivo screening platform to advance novel CAR discovery further.
"Ginkgo's high throughput screening method has proven successful in enabling massively parallel testing of CAR designs, and has already led to the discovery of new intracellular domains (ICD) combinations," said Krishanu Saha, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "By partnering with Ginkgo, we aim to unlock the potential to transform patient outcomes and reimagine the future of solid tumor cancer treatment."
CAR T-cell therapies show tremendous promise for the treatment of cancer. However, their use has thus far largely been limited to targeting blood cancers because they have failed to show consistent efficacy in treating solid tumors, which represent approximately 90% of adult human cancers. Part of the challenge when applying CAR T-cell therapies to solid tumors is T-cell exhaustion, a state of dysfunction arising from excessive antigen stimulation in the immunosuppressive environment of a solid tumor.
WARF and Ginkgo hope to work towards solving this challenge by utilizing Ginkgo's high-throughput combinatorial CAR discovery platform. As a platform technology company, Ginkgo can leverage its full stack of mammalian cell engineering expertise and capabilities to enable the high throughput screening of CAR T-cells to help discover and optimize future next-generation therapeutic candidates for its partners.
"WARF is delighted to see this important collaboration," says Erik Iverson, WARF CEO. "We know these alliances between our university researchers and leading biotech industry partners have the potential to result in benefits that positively impact human health."
"This collaboration represents a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate the potential value of pooled CAR screening approaches directly in the context of devastating diseases like early childhood cancers," said Narendra Maheshri, Head of Mammalian Engineering at Ginkgo. "It's especially exciting to work with pioneers like Professors Saha and Capitini, who have pushed R&D boundaries in the laboratory and whose approach is thoroughly grounded in the translation of their findings for clinical impact."
About Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo Bioworks is the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, providing flexible, end-to-end services that solve challenges for organizations across diverse markets, from food and agriculture to pharmaceuticals to industrial and specialty chemicals. Ginkgo's biosecurity and public health unit, Concentric by Ginkgo, is building global infrastructure for biosecurity to empower governments, communities, and public health leaders to prevent, detect and respond to a wide variety of biological threats. For more information, visit ginkgobioworks.com and concentricbyginkgo.com, read our blog, or follow us on social media channels such as Twitter (@Ginkgo and @ConcentricByGBW), Instagram (@GinkgoBioworks and @ConcentricByGinkgo), or LinkedIn.
About WARF
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) helps steward the cycle of research, discovery, commercialization and investment for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and provides annual support to the university to advance research and innovation. Founded in 1925 as an independent, nonprofit foundation, WARF manages more than 2,000 patents and an investment portfolio as it funds university research, obtains patents for campus discoveries and licenses inventions to industry. For more information, visit warf.org and view WARF's Cycle of Innovation.
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Partnership to increase the number of nurses graduating from OU
OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To help meet the critical demand for nurses in Michigan, Oakland University and BHSH System announced a new partnership focused on increasing the number of nurses graduating from OU. Through this collaboration, BHSH System will provide Oakland University with financial resources totaling more than $20 million over the next five years for the BHSH Beaumont Health Nurse Scholar program.
This investment includes more than $10 million for student grants and more than $10 million for infrastructure investments. To accommodate the influx in students and remain in compliance with state regulations and national accreditation standards, OU will use the infrastructure funding to expand lab and classroom space, purchase instructional equipment and hire faculty to teach additional course sections. Grant recipients will be on a path to become BHSH System team members for at least two years after graduation.
"The nursing shortage in our state is a critical and complex challenge that must be solved with bold and collaborative solutions," said Tina Freese Decker, president & CEO, BHSH System (formerly Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health). "We are proud of our long-standing partnership with Oakland University and to have this amazing opportunity to invest in talented, compassionate people who want to become nurses. We are incredibly excited about the impact the BHSH Beaumont Health Nurse Scholar program will have in health care and for our communities."
"We deeply appreciate BHSH System's partnership and investment into the education of the next generation of health care providers," said Oakland University President Ora Hirsch Pescovitz. "This magnanimous gift directly responds to the need for more highly skilled nurses and the workforce shortage that has become more critical since the beginning of the COVID-19 global pandemic. We are proud that BHSH System and OU have a shared commitment to improve the quality and delivery of patient care in Michigan."
"This visionary investment by BHSH System strengthens the health of Michigan's residents and the health of our economy, both of which are a major focus of Oakland University's mission," Pescovitz added.
BHSH Beaumont Health President Dr. Benjamin Schwartz said recruitment and retention of the next generation of nurses is one of his top priorities. "Students have so many choices and options about where they can work after graduation. I'm convinced that after these OU students spend some time working with us, they will want to spend their career serving our patients. We have an incredible team," he said.
OU's nursing school educates BSN Pre-Licensure students via two tracks: a Traditional BSN track and an Accelerated Second-Degree track. The university currently admits 96 students into the Traditional BSN program two times per year and 64 students into the Accelerated Second Degree (ASD) BSN program three times per year.
"OU also will add a recruitment specialist to attract diverse students and ensure the success of candidates and graduates. OU Career Services will work in collaboration with the School of Nursing to design a marketing strategy specifically geared toward the recruitment of second-degree students working across industries," added School of Nursing Dean Judy Didion.
OU's School of Nursing has approximately 770 BSN Pre-Licensure students at any time, graduating approximately 350 BSN nurses every year. The graduation rate is approximately 95% and the average NCLEX first-time pass rate during the pandemic is approximately 86%, which is above the Michigan average of 79% and on par with the national average of 87%. Prior to COVID, the OU pass rate was 91%, while the Michigan average was 89%. Overall, 94% of OU's Traditional BSN graduates report being employed in Michigan, while 88% of ASD graduates report they are employed in Michigan.
About Oakland University
Oakland University is a doctoral, Carnegie Classification R2 "High Research Activity" university located in Oakland and Macomb counties, Michigan. The main campus is located on 1,443 acres of scenic land in Rochester Hills and Auburn Hills. Oakland University offers bachelor's degrees, graduate degrees and certificate programs. Oakland University is organized into the College of Arts and Sciences (which includes a School of Music, Theatre and Dance), the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and the Schools of Business Administration, Education and Human Services, Engineering and Computer Science, Health Sciences, Nursing, and The Honors College. This rich campus atmosphere is complete with residence halls, Greek life, Division I athletics and more than 250 student groups that lend to the total college experience. Learn more at www.oakland.edu
About BHSH System
Formed from two leading health systems in Michigan (Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health), BHSH System is a not-for-profit health system that provides care and coverage with an exceptional team of 64,000+ dedicated people—including more than 11,500 physicians and advanced practice providers and more than 15,000 nurses offering services in 22 hospitals, 300+ outpatient locations and several post-acute facilities—and Priority Health, a provider-sponsored health plan serving over 1.2 million members across the state of Michigan. Through experience, innovation and collaboration, we are building a system designed to meet the needs of the people we serve through care and coverage that is simple, affordable, equitable and exceptional.
About Beaumont Health
Beaumont Health is a division of BHSH System. Our mission is to improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope. With eight hospitals, more than 150 outpatient locations, nearly 5,000 physicians and 33,000 employees, Beaumont's commitment to patient and family-centered care contributes to the health and well-being of residents throughout the communities we serve and beyond.
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NEW YORK — Pitchers and catchers report to camp in just over three weeks and there are still a number of MLB free agents waiting patiently to be signed.
Here is your list of the top remaining baseball free agents by position and combined 2021-2022 Fangraphs WAR (Wins Above Replacement). WAR is a widely used "overall" statistic that aims to measure a player's value to his team in all facets of the game by citing how many additional wins he'd be worth over a replacement-level player, meaning a minor league or readily available free agent fill-in.
Catcher: Gary Sanchez - 2.8 WAR
In Gary Sanchez’s first 175 games with the Yankees, he hit 57 home runs and had an OPS of .923 and it looked like he’d be the new Jorge Posada but better. And yet, other than an All-Star appearance in 2019, his production fell off leading the Yankees to include him in the trade for Isaiah Kiner-Falefa and Josh Donaldson in 2022.
Sanchez hit .205/.282/.377 with 16 home runs in 128 games for the Twins in 2022 and there were reports that the Angels could be interested in the 30-year-old catcher. Time will tell if he has anything left in his bat but some team out there may have a need for a catcher with an occasional pop at the plate Or maybe, he can be a DH?
First Base: Yuli Gurriel - 2.3 WAR
Yuli Gurriel made his debut in 2016 at age 32 and since then, he’s been a serviceable player with a career WAR of 13.4 and he’s collected two World Series rings with the Houston Astros.
But 2023 will be Yuli Gurriel’s age-39 season and after a not-so-stellar 2022 in which he batted .242/.288/.360 with eight home runs in 146 games, it’s clear his numbers are on a downward trend. In fact, the reason his combined 2021-22 WAR is 2.3 is because of his 2021 numbers. His 2022 WAR was -0.3 which means he was below replacement level. Still, some team may want to sign him for playoffs and his World Series experience.
Second Base: Josh Harrison - 3.7 WAR
Josh Harrison will turn 36 in July and he’s listed here as a second baseman because even though he split time at different positions, he spent the majority of time at second base for the White Sox—he made 85 starts at second out of a total of 119 games played.
Harrison batted .256/.317/.370 in 2022 which works out to a 94 OPS+. He’s never been much of a power hitter but he still hits for contact and there may be a team who could use that kind of hitter in their lineup.
Shortstop: Elvis Andrus - 5.1 WAR
After spending most of his career with the Texas Rangers, Elvis Andrus was traded to the Oakland A’s in February 2021. He batted .243/.294/.320 which worked out to a 73 OPS+ in 146 games that season.
But after posting a .237/.301/.373 with eight home runs in the first 106 games of 2022, he was released by the A’s. Andrus was picked up by the White Sox a few days later, and in only 43 games, he seemed to be revived at the plate hitting .271/.309/.464 with nine home runs. A team could see that short sample size as a sign that Andrus isn’t quite done yet and that he could help a lineup.
Third Base: Donovan Solano - 1.8 WAR
Donovon Solano played with Cincinnati Reds in 2022 and while he wasn’t a world-beater, he was a serviceable player who batted .284/.339/.385 with four home runs in 80 games.
There’s a reason he won a Silver Slugger with the San Francisco in 2020. Unfortunately injuries derailed his season. He missed time with a hamstring problem to start the season and an eye issue also caused him to miss games. A team may be weary of Solano’s injury past because the hamstring was also an issue for him in 2018 but Solano also stepped in admirably at first base while Joey Votto was injured and didn’t make an error in 26 games.
Left Field: David Peralta - 3.4 WAR
David Peralta has hit .281/.339/.457 in his career with 110 home runs and a 111 OPS+. In 2022, he split time between Arizona and Tampa—he was traded at the deadline to the Rays for minor leaguer Christian Cerda—and in 134 games, he batted .251/.316/.335 with 12 home runs which worked out to an OPS+ of 112.
He has played all three outfield positions in his career but he seems better suited to play in left field and has primarily played in that spot since the 2018 season. The Dodgers were interested in him before he was traded to the Rays last July so it’s possible they could try again to acquire him before the season starts.
Center Field: Odubel Herrera - 1.8 WAR
Odubel Herrera has been a Phillie his entire career. He made his debut in 2015 and made the National League All-Star team in 2016. But he only played in 62 games in 2022 due to injury—he batted .238/.279/.378 in 2022 with five home runs—and he ended up being released by the Phillies before they went on their run to the World Series.
There was also the domestic violence suspension that cost him playing time in 2019 and all of 2020 which could also make it difficult for him to find a suitor. He’s still relatively young–he turned 31 in December–and it’s possible he could turn things around in a new place but is there a team willing to take that chance?
Right Field: Tyler Naquin - 1.5 WAR
When Tyler Naquin arrived in Cleveland in 2016, it looked like he’d be a part of that team abd specifically their outfield for a long time to come but as everyone knows, things can happen that people don’t expect. In Naquin’s case it would be injuries.
After batting .296/.372/.514 with 14 home runs and 43 RBI in 114 games in 2016, he only played in 169 games combined from 2017-2019. He saw a resurgence in 2021 when he was with Reds in 2021 batting .270/.333/.477 with 19 home runs and 70 RBI in 127 games but struggled this past season when he split his time with the Reds and the Mets.
Naquin could be the perfect player for a one-year deal that doesn’t cost a lot and isn’t a high-risk.
Designated Hitter: Luke Voit - 0.4 WAR
Pickings are slim in the DH position but Luke Voit still has some pop in his bat. He hit 22 home runs between San Diego and Washington in 2022 and his OPS + was a 106.
He played a total of 135 games in 2022 which was an increase from 2021 when he was felled by injuries and the Yankees acquired Anthony Rizzo essentially making Voit expendable. Voit turns 32 next month but with the universal DH, he has a lot more options and who knows? Maybe some NL team will take a chance on him.
Starting Pitcher: Zack Greinke - 3.1 WAR
Zack Greinke and Michael Wacha are very close numbers-wise but we’re choosing to look at the veteran Greinke for this exercise. Grienke turned 39 in October and he’s been around so long that he played with guys like Benito Santiago and Matt Stairs in his first season (2004).
He’s become the old, grizzled veteran and he’s still a servicable starting pitcher. In 2022, he was on a bad Kansas City team and although he finished with a 4-9 record, his ERA was 3.68 which was better than his 2021 ERA with Houston (4.16). He also pitched 137 innings. No team would expect him to be their ace but his experience could help a team’s rotation.
Relief Pitcher: Andrew Chafin - 2.3 WAR
Andrew Chafin appeared in 64 games in 2022 and posted a 2.83 ERA. The left hander signed a two-year deal with the Tigers before the 2022 but opted out this offseason. He had a 10.5 K/9 rate in 57 ⅓ innings and performed well in high-leveration situations. The Mets have been linked a possible destination for Chafin and Jon Heyman reported that the market for Chafin is heating up but it’s possible the Mets could go for a different free agent reliever, Zack Britton.
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According to the Mental Health Index, cognitive function hi-jacked by increases in depression, stress, and anxiety
SAN FRANCISCO and WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the Mental Health Index: U.S. Worker Edition, fall malaise is setting in. Americans' risk of depression soared 106% in September when compared to the peak of the sunshine season. Further, data shows that a rise in depression coupled with a 40% increase in anxiety and 16% increase in stress since August is impacting U.S. workers' ability to be decisive and meet complex business goals. In other words, employees' all-important planning capacity dropped a consequential 16% – hi-jacked by the downward mental health spiral.
"Employers take note," warned Matthew Mund, CEO, Total Brain. "Our data shows that a seasonal pattern of mental health improvement in summer months is consistently followed by emotional and cognitive decline during a season marked by the onset of shorter, darker days. Now is the time to increase communications about the availability of employee-sponsored mental health resources and tools and engage workers in robust discussions about emotional wellbeing."
The Mental Health Index: U.S. Worker Edition, powered by Total Brain, a mental health monitoring and support platform, is distributed in partnership with the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, One Mind at Work, and the HR Policy Association and its American Health Policy Institute.
"Mental health and stress are not just a product of the pandemic," said Michael Thompson, National Alliance president and CEO. "Employers need to better understand and anticipate the diverse factors that impact the mental wellbeing of their workforce and then try to stay ahead of these trends in their organizational and program strategies."
Margaret Faso, director, Health Care Research and Policy of HR Policy Association said, "Recognizing the seasonal pattern of mental health risk is one of the many ways Total Brain data is so helpful to employers. Planning for the ups and downs allows employers to be prepared with communication about the resources employees need knowing that programs need to be used to be effective."
According to Katy Riddick, One Mind at Work, "We are seeing an important trend among leaders - looking beyond our current environment and the challenges it presents to mental health to a more intentional effort to foster belonging and a sense of purpose in workplaces. We know that this is the long-term strategy that builds more mentally healthy organizations."
The full Q2 2022 Mental Health Index results can be found here. Hear what the experts have to say about the Mental Health Index data.
Methodology: The Mental Health Index: U.S. Worker Edition contains data drawn from a weekly randomized sample of 500 working Americans taken from a larger universe of Total Brain users. The Index is NOT a survey or a poll. Data is culled from neuroscientific brain assessments using standardized digital tasks and questions from the Total Brain platform. Participants include workers from all walks of life and regions, job levels, occupations, industries, and types of organizations (public vs. private). The brain assessments used to compile the Mental Health Index were taken weekly from the first week of February 2020 until the week ending September 25, 2022, inclusive. The two weeks from June 13 to June 26 (inclusive) were compared to the last two weeks of September (from September 12 to 25, inclusive) to evaluate the changes that occurred in data trends in the last three months from June to September 2022. Changes since the pre-pandemic baseline (beginning of February 2020) to September 2022 were also evaluated.
About Total Brain Limited (ASX: TTB): Total Brain Limited is an applied, integrative neuroscience company, based in San Francisco and Sydney, that has developed and offers Total Brain, a mental health monitoring and support platform powered by the world's largest standardized brain database. Its SaaS platform has helped more than one million registered users to-date scientifically measure and optimize their brain capacities while managing the risk of common mental conditions. Benefits for providers include improved patient outcomes, tracking of evidence-based outcomes across the continuum of care, and a reduction in clinician fatigue. Benefits for populations and payers include better mental healthcare access, lower costs, and higher productivity. For more information, please visit www.totalbrain.com and follow on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
About the National Alliance: The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions (National Alliance) is the only nonprofit, purchaser-led organization with a national and regional structure dedicated to driving health and healthcare value across the country. Its members represent private and public sector, nonprofit, and Taft-Hartley organizations, and more than 45 million Americans spending over $300 billion annually on healthcare. nationalalliancehealth.org
About One Mind at Work: Launched in 2017, One Mind at Work is a global coalition of leaders from diverse sectors who have joined together with the goal of transforming approaches to mental health and addiction. One Mind at Work now includes more than 90 global employers and 18 research and content partners. The coalition covers more than 8 million people under its charter. onemindatwork.org
About HR Policy Association: HR Policy Association is the lead organization representing Chief Human Resource Officers at major employers. The Association consists of over 390 of the largest corporations doing business in the United States and globally, and these employers are represented in the organization by their most senior human resource executive. Collectively, their companies employ more than 10 million employees in the United States, over nine percent of the private sector workforce, and 20 million employees worldwide. These senior corporate officers participate in the Association because of their commitment to improving the direction of human resource policy. hrpolicy.org.
About American Health Policy Institute: American Health Policy Institute is a non-partisan non-profit think tank, started by the HR Policy Foundation, which examines the practical implications of health policy changes through the lens of large employers. The Institute examines the challenges employers face in providing health care to their employees and recommends policy solutions to promote the provision of affordable, high-quality, employer-based health care. The Institute serves to provide thought leadership grounded in the practical experience of America's largest employers. Their mission is to develop impactful strategies to ensure that those purchasing health care can not only bend the cost curve, but break it, by keeping health care cost inflation in line with general inflation. americanhealthpolicy.org.
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WASHINGTON — Seventy-year-old Cassandra Gentry is looking forward to a hefty cost-of-living increase in her Social Security benefits — not for herself but to pay for haircuts for her two grandchildren and put food on the table.
The three live in a Washington apartment building that houses 50 “grandfamilies” — where grandparents take care of children who do not have parents present.
Gentry, who took in her grandkids to keep them in a safe environment, says the boost in benefits will help her make ends meet. “I never thought about contributing to Social Security when I was working, but now that’s what I depend on," the communications retiree said. “I depend on my Social Security to care for these kids."
How much is the Social Security increase for 2023?
Social Security’s cost of living adjustment, otherwise known as the COLA, for 2023 is expected to be around 9% or even higher, the highest in 40 years, analysts estimate. It will be announced Thursday morning.
It’s not just old people who will gain. About 4 million children receive benefits, and an untold number of others also will be helped because they’re being cared for by Social Security beneficiaries, sometimes their grandparents.
The impact will be immense, especially for low-income retirees like Gentry, who feels the painful sting of high food and energy costs as she cares for a growing 12-year-old granddaughter and 16-year-old grandson. “They eat everything,” she joked.
She said the financial boost "is going to help us, and it's going to be a benefit because the cost of everything has gone up.”
High inflation remains a burden on the broader economy, which has caused the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in hopes of cooling high prices.
But in many ways, inflation hits older Americans harder than the rest of the population. Medical costs are a big part of the burden.
Coupled with a decline in Medicare Part B premium, the Social Security COLA will put more money in the hands of the 70 million Americans who receive benefits, including the growing number of grandfamilies like Gentry’s. According to the U.S. Census, in 2020, there were about 2.4 million grandparents responsible their grandchildren.
That number has increased exponentially since the government has adopted a “kinship care” approach to child welfare, which centers on keeping kids in homes with their next of kin, as opposed to foster care.
And in turn, while Social Security is generally regarded as a program for older Americans, it also is the nation's largest children's support program.
Since the pandemic, Social Security has become even more important for children, as “COVID has taken a lot of parents,” said Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings Metro, which is part of the Brookings Institution, and the CEO of Global Policy Solutions, a social change strategy firm.
The National Institutes of Health reported last October that at least 140,000 U.S. children under age 18 had lost a parent or guardian due to COVID.
Cummings says she estimates the actual number is much higher. “We should understand the increase in the COLA will have a positive net benefit on the entire household — not just older members of the family,” she said.
Gentry is an advocate for grandparents who raise their grandkids, and the building her family lives in is at capacity. She said many of the grandparents, who are African American and support each other in their tight-knit community, rely solely on Social Security for their income.
A study by Global Policy Solutions shows that African American children are in the greatest need of the added help from Social Security benefits.
Grandparent caregivers are 60% more likely to live in poverty than are grandparents not raising grandchildren, according to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
The Child Tax Credit program, which was expanded during the pandemic, helped tens of millions of kids and their families, contributing to a 46% decline in child poverty since 2020, according to a September Census report.
But that program has ended and already there are indications t hat child poverty is increasing.
Nancy Altman, co-director of Social Security Works, an advocacy group, said “benefits in many other federal programs are eroding — but the COLA makes Social Security unique.”
“And for the children who receive Social Security benefits,” both directly and indirectly, “low-income kids benefit the most,” she said.
William Arnone, chief executive of the National Academy of Social Insurance, an advocacy organization for Social Security, said while the expected COLA is “generous, it is just a catch-up” for many older Americans who are often more impacted by price hikes caused by inflation, especially grandparents taking care of grandkids.
“With Social Security, all generations benefit," Arnone said.
Gentry said she hopes more grandfamily communities like hers pop up around the country so residents can provide support for one another when resources are not readily available.
She said she'd also like to see more federal programs factor in grandparents like her when making policy determinations.
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CIA director makes unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia
By Alex Marquardt, CNN
CIA Director William Burns made an unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia earlier this week to meet with intelligence counterparts.
“Director Burns traveled to Saudi Arabia where he met with intelligence counterparts and country leaders on issues of shared interest. The Director reinforced our commitment to intelligence cooperation especially in areas such as counterterrorism,” a US official told CNN.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that Burns expressed frustration with Saudi officials over Riyadh’s recent rapprochement with Iran through a diplomatic deal brokered by China as well as the kingdom’s openings with Syria.
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In addition to $3.7 billion investment in Boone County, Lilly will commit $15 million to Ivy Tech to foster a diverse talent pipeline for high-tech manufacturing jobs
INDIANAPOLIS, April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced today that it will invest an additional $1.6 billion and add another 200 new jobs at its two new manufacturing sites within LEAP Innovation Park in Boone County, bringing the company's total commitment to $3.7 billion and up to 700 new jobs. The company also today committed $15 million over five years to the Ivy Tech Foundation to fund up to 1,000 scholarships for individuals interested in pursuing careers in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Lilly's commitments within LEAP Innovation Park represent the largest manufacturing investment at a single location in the company's history. The up to 200 additional jobs announced today represent positions for highly skilled workers, such as engineers, operating personnel and lab technicians, who will utilize advanced technology to create innovative medicines.
"Through these new facilities, Hoosiers will make life-changing medicines that patients around the world need to address serious health challenges, including diabetes and cancer," said Lilly's Chair and CEO Dave Ricks. "We're investing at record levels in our home state to help our communities and economy thrive and enhance educational opportunities for more students. We look forward to doing our part to make Indiana an even better place to work and live, while fostering cutting-edge innovation in our state."
Lilly has introduced 19 new medicines, including Jaypirca (recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for mantle cell lymphoma), since 2014 and plans to introduce several additional potential medicines in 2023. These new facilities will expand the company's manufacturing network for active pharmaceutical ingredients, support increased demand for existing Lilly products and play a key role in bringing the next generation of therapeutic modalities, including genetic medicines, to patients globally.
"Lilly has played a critical role in shaping Indiana's economy over the past 145-plus years, and today's groundbreaking makes it clear – the company will be at the forefront of driving Hoosier innovation and job creation forward for generations to come," said Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb. "As a state, we are proud to partner with Lilly in accelerating Indiana's talent pipeline and career opportunities while leveraging the state's manufacturing excellence to develop life-changing and life-saving solutions for people across the world."
The new $15 million Lilly Scholars program announced today with the Ivy Tech Foundation, will create a scholarship and an experiential learning program at Ivy Tech Community College for high school and college students with diverse backgrounds who intend to pursue careers in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Over the next five years, the company's collaboration with Ivy Tech will provide scholarships to individuals interested in pursuing two-year degrees or certificates in manufacturing, quality or related fields. Through the Lilly Scholars @ Ivy Tech program, students will be able to access a smart manufacturing lab to support their education. Preference will be given to those who are among the first generation in their family to attend college – which constitutes 40% of Ivy Tech's student population – and those who have overcome socioeconomic disadvantages.
Additionally, the program supports a new pathway for high school students, which allows them to receive a college certificate in pharmaceutical manufacturing or medical device quality upon graduation.
"Today, we are taking our collaboration with Lilly to the next level with the creation of Lilly Scholars @ Ivy Tech," said President of Ivy Tech Community College, Dr. Sue Ellspermann. "Lilly Scholars provides high school and adult students with a unique opportunity to leverage the world-class education at Ivy Tech with an exceptional employer partner in Lilly and put their education to work in high-wage, high-demand careers that contribute to the growth and prosperity of our state."
Last year, Lilly committed $42.5 million over 10 years to Purdue University to create the first Lilly Scholars program, which includes 75-100 pharmaceutical manufacturing scholarships with a guaranteed internship or co-op at Lilly to incoming students each year.
"Today's announcements demonstrate the strong collaboration between industry, academia and government in Indiana," said Edgardo Hernandez, executive vice president and president, Lilly manufacturing operations. "Through our new academic commitment, we're looking to grow life sciences education in the state and foster a diverse pipeline of local talent to fill the new jobs created through our recent investments."
Over the past three years, Lilly has invested $6.4 billion in U.S.-based manufacturing sites to deliver medicines to patients worldwide. As Lilly prepares for future growth expected from potential new medicines to treat obesity, Alzheimer's disease and autoimmune conditions, the company anticipates further expansion of its global manufacturing footprint to ensure a sufficient supply of medicine.
About Lilly
Lilly unites caring with discovery to create medicines that make life better for people around the world. We've been pioneering life-changing discoveries for nearly 150 years, and today our medicines help more than 47 million people across the globe. Harnessing the power of biotechnology, chemistry and genetic medicine, our scientists are urgently advancing new discoveries to solve some of the world's most significant health challenges, redefining diabetes care, treating obesity and curtailing its most devastating long-term effects, advancing the fight against Alzheimer's disease, providing solutions to some of the most debilitating immune system disorders, and transforming the most difficult-to-treat cancers into manageable diseases. With each step toward a healthier world, we're motivated by one thing: making life better for millions more people. That includes delivering innovative clinical trials that reflect the diversity of our world and working to ensure our medicines are accessible and affordable. To learn more, visit Lilly.com and Lilly.com/newsroom or follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. C-LLY
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This press release contains forward-looking statements (as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) about planned capital investments in new manufacturing capacity and scholarship and related initiatives and reflects Lilly's current beliefs and expectations. There are substantial risks and uncertainties in the manufacturing process, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical products which could impact the overall commercial success of our products, and as related to cost, completion timing, expected capacity, personnel, and other factors which could impact expected benefits of the capacity expansion and related initiatives. For further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, see Lilly's most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, Lilly undertakes no duty to update forward-looking statements to reflect events after the date of this release.
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A growing number of Republican politicians are moving to penalize Wall Street investors who consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues when they decide where to put clients' money.
In Florida, a state board chaired by Gov. Ron DeSantis recently barred investment fund managers and advisors from considering "social, political, or ideological interests" when making decisions for Florida's retirement system. In Texas and West Virginia, GOP leaders say they will block investors from state business who they claim "boycott" the fossil fuel industry. Fifteen other states are considering similar measures. And Republicans have said that if they retake Congress in the midterms, they plan to push federal legislation to curtail investment decisions they attack as "woke."
Anti-ESG Republicans say big financial firms are abusing their power to advance a liberal agenda on issues like diversity, social justice and, especially, climate change.
Many experts disagree, saying Republicans are distorting the goals and strategies of ESG investing.
It's hard for most people to get a clear read of what ESG is amid the overheated rhetoric. Is the idea to bring about social changes that couldn't be achieved at the ballot box? And what does it mean for things like your 401K when investors follow ESG principles?
This FAQ is for anyone who wants to better understand an investing trend that is becoming core to global financial markets and a new battlefront in American politics — including, possibly, in your own state.
What is ESG?
It's probably easiest to think of this as a set of considerations that investors are using to try to understand risks and opportunities that aren't accounted for in traditional financial models.
Climate change is one of the simplest examples: Investors are trying to find out how physical risks from things like rising sea levels and worsening drought could impact a company's operations. For example, does a company rely on water to operate its factories, or to move goods in places like Europe or China where rivers have dried to a trickle this summer?
Investors also want information about "transition risk" — how companies will fare as governments enact policies aimed at cutting emissions and demand grows for things like renewable energy and batteries.
"It's about looking at a business and saying, 'Are they prepared for the climate transition that's coming?'" says Witold Henisz, faculty director of the ESG Initiative at The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. "Some companies are, and some companies aren't. And that tilts your portfolio, it shifts your investment strategy."
ESG is different from impact investing, where the goal is to make money by investing in companies that are trying to achieve certain social or environmental outcomes.
"In our view, ESG is more of a sort of defensive framework," says Kunal Shah, a managing director at iCapital, a financial technology company. "Whereas impact investing ... is focused on investing in companies with a clear mission to make a change to the positive."
Are ESG investors boycotting fossil fuels?
It doesn't look that way. Big banks continue to provide hundreds of billions of dollars in financing to the fossil fuel industry every year. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager and a favorite target of anti-ESG Republicans, is one of the top shareholders in many leading oil and gas companies.
"ESG isn't about a boycott," says Henisz of the Wharton School. "It's a question of which fossil fuel company do you hold? And how long do you hold them?"
In fact, BlackRock's CEO, Larry Fink, has said he thinks selling off fossil fuel stocks — or divestment — is an ineffective way to fight climate change. Instead, Fink has advocated for engagement, urging shareholders to press fossil fuel executives to be transparent about their plans for the future.
That said, it has gotten more expensive for fossil fuel companies to borrow money in recent years, reflecting the risks those companies face from climate change, says Tensie Whelan, director of New York University's Stern Center for Sustainable Business.
"It's not so much that [lenders are] punishing the companies. They're just saying, 'Hey, there's risk. And just like we would with any other products, we need to financially assess those risks and build them into the cost of credit,'" Whalen says.
Is ESG hurting the financial performance of companies or investors?
It doesn't appear to be.
NYU's Whalen co-authored a report examining the relationship between ESG and financial performance. After reviewing more than 1,000 research papers published between 2015 and 2020, Whalen's team found that corporate sustainability initiatives often seemed to drive better financial performance. They also found that in many cases, using ESG investment strategies appeared to deliver similar or better financial results compared to conventional approaches.
That doesn't mean proponents of ESG investing think it's being done perfectly. ESG disclosures vary from company to company. Ratings agencies that assess the data use proprietary methods, making it hard for investors to know how firms reach their conclusions. And there is growing concern that some asset managers are slapping ESG labels on funds that don't deserve them.
"The problem is we don't have good data," says Henisz of the Wharton School. "And so we struggle to measure whether companies are delivering."
Why is ESG becoming a political fight now?
Observers point to two potential factors, which aren't mutually exclusive.
One is that ESG — and climate considerations more broadly — are becoming ingrained deeply enough in corporate America and financial markets to begin changing the way some industries operate, says Mindy Lubber, CEO of Ceres, a sustainability nonprofit.
Hundreds of companies and investment firms, for example, have now promised to eliminate or offset their greenhouse gas emissions. Only a few years ago, there were hardly any.
The other explanation is that Republicans are trying to score political points ahead of elections.
"Taking climate risk as investment risk is just good business," says Henisz of the Wharton School. "Now, we can argue about how we do it and who does it well and who does it poorly. That's a legitimate argument. [But] the idea that ESG is ideological and not economics is a political argument."
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- Record first quarter passenger revenues of $4.088 billion, more than double the first quarter of 2022, on a 53 per cent increase in operated capacity
- Record first quarter operating revenues of $4.887 billion, 90 per cent higher than first quarter 2022 and about 10 per cent higher than first quarter 2019
- Operating loss of $17 million, improved from an operating loss of $550 million in the first quarter of 2022
- Adjusted EBITDA* of $411 million with adjusted EBITDA margin* of 8.4 per cent
- Cash flows from operations of $1.437 billion
- Total liquidity of over $10.5 billion at March 31, 2023
MONTREAL, May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Air Canada today reported its first quarter 2023 financial results.
"Air Canada's impressive first quarter performance reflects the strength of our brand, the very strong demand environment across all markets and the effective execution of our strategic plan. When compared to the same quarter in 2022, passenger revenues more than doubled and hit a first quarter record of close to $4.1 billion, supported by our diversified network and our strong international franchise. Adjusted EBITDA surged by $554 million to $411 million, and our adjusted CASM* fell nearly seven per cent from a year ago," said Michael Rousseau, President and Chief Executive Officer of Air Canada.
"Our first quarter financial results exceeded both internal and external expectations and we expect demand to persist, supported by strong advance bookings for the remainder of the year. For this reason, as well as lower-than-expected fuel costs, we increased our 2023 adjusted EBITDA guidance last week. I thank all employees for their continued focus on improving all aspects of our company through effective and positive teamwork, and our customers for their loyalty.
"All areas of the business contributed meaningfully during the quarter. Air Canada Cargo is expanding its network and fleet, Aeroplan is gaining more members and gross billings have increased 50% when compared to the first quarter of 2022, and Air Canada Vacations produced remarkable results. System yields improved approximately 9 per cent compared to the first quarter of 2022. We achieved a strong free cash flow* of nearly $1 billion. This will allow us to continue investing in our future, including by further deleveraging our balance sheet," said Mr. Rousseau.
First Quarter 2023 Financial Results
- First quarter operating revenues of $4.887 billion increased $2.314 billion from the same quarter in 2022, primarily from higher passenger revenues due to increased travel demand. Compared to the first quarter of 2019, operating revenues increased about 10 per cent. Operated capacity increased about 53 per cent from the first quarter of 2022 (about 84 per cent of first quarter 2019 ASMs), in line with the projection provided in Air Canada's February 17, 2023 news release.
- Operating expenses of $4.904 billion increased $1.781 billion or 57 per cent from the first quarter of 2022. The increase included the impact of the year-over-year capacity increase, an increase of about 83 per cent in passengers carried and an approximate 30 per cent increase in jet fuel prices.
- Operating loss of $17 million, improved from an operating loss of $550 million in the first quarter of 2022.
- Net income of $4 million, increased $978 million from the first quarter of 2022. Diluted loss per share of $0.03 compared to a diluted loss per share of $2.72 in the first quarter of 2022.
- Adjusted net loss* of $188 million improved $559 million from the first quarter of 2022. Adjusted loss per share* of $0.53 compared to an adjusted loss per share of $2.09 in the first quarter of 2022.
- Adjusted CASM (adjusted cost per available seat mile) of 14.52 cents improved 6.9 per cent from the first quarter of 2022. The unit cost improvement resulting from higher operated capacity was partially offset by a favourable maintenance cost adjustment of $159 million recorded in the first quarter of 2022. First quarter 2023 CASM of 20.38 cents increased 2.5% from the first quarter of 2022 due to significantly higher fuel prices, higher ground package costs and higher passenger service costs due to higher traffic and higher selling costs, which are largely driven by revenues.
- Adjusted EBITDA of $411 million, with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 8.4 per cent, improved from a negative adjusted EBITDA of $143 million in the first quarter of 2022.
- Net cash flows from operating activities of $1.437 billion increased $1.070 billion from the first quarter of 2022.
- Free cash flow of $987 million increased $896 million from the first quarter of 2022.
Outlook
For the second quarter of 2023, Air Canada plans to increase its ASM capacity by about 22 per cent from the same quarter in 2022. On May 4, 2023, Air Canada updated its 2023 guidance:
Major Assumptions
Assumptions were made by Air Canada in preparing and making forward-looking statements. As part of its assumptions, Air Canada assumes moderate Canadian GDP growth for 2023, that the Canadian dollar will trade, on average, at C$1.34 per U.S. dollar for the full year 2023 and that the price of jet fuel will average C$1.09 per litre for the full year 2023.
The revised guidance for adjusted EBITDA reflects expected earnings resulting from an improvement in traffic and yield from a stronger-than-anticipated demand environment and lower-than expected fuel price. The revised guidance for adjusted CASM reflects adjustments to various expense items including those resulting from the higher-than-expected traffic. Air Canada's 2023 capacity guidance remains substantially unchanged.
Air Canada also modified the baseline comparison for its 2023 adjusted CASM guidance, comparing it to a 2022 instead of a 2019 baseline. Given the new cost environment, prior comparisons to the 2019 baseline are no longer as meaningful, and comparisons to 2022 are more appropriate.
Air Canada is not updating its 2024 targets at this time and will continue evaluating them as it progresses with its plans and executes on its strategic priorities.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Below is a description of certain non-GAAP financial measures and ratios used by Air Canada to provide readers with additional information on its financial and operating performance. Such measures are not recognized measures for financial statement presentation under GAAP, do not have standardized meanings, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other entities and should not be considered a substitute for or superior to GAAP results.
Adjusted CASM
Air Canada uses adjusted CASM to assess the operating and cost performance of its ongoing airline business without the effects of aircraft fuel expense, the cost of ground packages at Air Canada Vacations, impairment of assets, and freighter costs as these items may distort the analysis of certain business trends and render comparative analysis across periods less meaningful and generally allows for a more meaningful analysis of Air Canada's operating expense performance and a more meaningful comparison to that of other airlines.
In calculating adjusted CASM, aircraft fuel expense is excluded from operating expense results as it fluctuates widely depending on many factors, including international market conditions, geopolitical events, jet fuel refining costs and Canada/U.S. currency exchange rates. Air Canada also incurs expenses related to ground packages at Air Canada Vacations which some airlines, without comparable tour operator businesses, may not incur. In addition, these costs do not generate ASMs and therefore excluding these costs from operating expense results provides for a more meaningful comparison across periods when such costs may vary.
Air Canada also incurs expenses related to the operation of freighter aircraft which some airlines, without comparable cargo businesses, may not incur. Air Canada had six Boeing 767 dedicated freighter aircraft in its operating fleet as at March 31, 2023 compared to one Boeing 767 dedicated aircraft as at March 31, 2022. These costs do not generate ASMs and therefore excluding these costs from operating expense results provides for a more meaningful comparison of the passenger airline business across periods.
Adjusted CASM is reconciled to GAAP operating expense as follows:
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA
EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) is commonly used in the airline industry and is used by Air Canada as a means to view operating results before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization as these costs can vary significantly among airlines due to differences in the way airlines finance their aircraft and other assets. In calculating adjusted EBITDA, Air Canada excludes impairment of assets as this may distort the analysis of certain business trends and render comparative analysis across periods or to other airlines less meaningful.
Adjusted EBITDA Margin
Adjusted EBITDA margin (adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of operating revenues) is commonly used in the airline industry and is used by Air Canada as a means to measure the operating margin before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization as these costs can vary significantly among airlines due to differences in the way airlines finance their aircraft and other assets.
EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin are reconciled to GAAP operating income (loss) as follows:
Adjusted Net Income (Loss) and Adjusted Earnings (Loss) Per Share – Diluted
Air Canada uses adjusted net income (loss) and adjusted earnings (loss) per share – diluted as a means to assess the overall financial performance of its business without the after-tax effects of impairment of assets, foreign exchange gains or losses, net financing expense relating to employee benefits, gains or losses on financial instruments recorded at fair value, gains or losses on the sale and leaseback of assets, gains or losses on debt settlements and modifications, and gains or losses on disposal of assets as these items may distort the analysis of certain business trends and render comparative analysis to other airlines less meaningful.
Adjusted net income (loss) and adjusted earnings (loss) per share are reconciled to GAAP net income as follows:
The table below reflects the share amounts used in the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share on an adjusted earnings per share basis.
Free Cash Flow
Free cash flow is a non-GAAP financial measure used by Air Canada as an indicator of the financial strength and performance of its business, indicating how much cash it can generate from operations after capital expenditures. Free cash flow is calculated as net cash flows from operating activities minus additions to property, equipment, and intangible assets, net of proceeds from sale and leaseback transactions. Such measure is not a recognized measure for financial statement presentation under GAAP, does not have a standardized meaning, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other entities and should not be considered a substitute for or superior to GAAP results.
The table below reconciles free cash flow to net cash flows from (used in) operating activities for the periods indicated.
Net Debt
Net debt is a capital management measure and a key component of the capital managed by Air Canada and provides management with a measure of its net indebtedness. It refers to total long-term debt liabilities (including current portion) less cash, cash equivalents. and short- and long-term investments.
Net Debt to Trailing 12-Month Adjusted EBITDA (Leverage Ratio)
Net debt to trailing 12-month adjusted EBITDA ratio (also referred to as "leverage ratio") is commonly used in the airline industry and is used by Air Canada as a means to measure financial leverage. Leverage ratio is calculated by dividing net debt by trailing 12-month adjusted EBITDA.
For further information on Air Canada's public disclosure file, including Air Canada's 2022 Annual Information Form dated March 29, 2023, consult SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
First Quarter 2023 Conference Call
Air Canada will host its quarterly analysts' call today, Friday, May 12, 2023, at 8:00 a.m. ET. Michael Rousseau, Air Canada President and Chief Executive Officer, Amos Kazzaz, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Mark Galardo, Executive Vice President, Revenue and Network Planning, will present the results and be available for analysts' questions. Immediately following the analysts' Q&A session, Mr. Kazzaz and Pierre Houle, Vice President and Treasurer, will be available to answer questions from term loan B lenders and holders of Air Canada bonds.
Media and the public may access this call on a listen-only basis. Details are as follows:
CAUTION REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION
This news release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking statements relate to analyses and other information that are based on forecasts of future results and estimates of amounts not yet determinable. These statements may involve, but are not limited to, comments relating to guidance, strategies, expectations, planned operations or future actions. Forward-looking statements are identified using terms and phrases such as "preliminary", "anticipate", "believe", "could", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "may", "plan", "predict", "project", "will", "would", and similar terms and phrases, including references to assumptions.
Forward-looking statements, by their nature, are based on assumptions including those described herein and are subject to important risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements cannot be relied upon due to, among other things, changing external events and general uncertainties of the business of Air Canada. Actual results may differ materially from results indicated in forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those discussed below.
Factors that may cause results to differ materially from results indicated in forward-looking statements include economic and geopolitical conditions such as the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Air Canada's ability to successfully achieve or sustain positive net profitability, industry and market conditions and the demand environment, competition, the remaining effects from the COVID-19 pandemic, Air Canada's dependence on technology, cybersecurity risks, Air Canada's ability to successfully implement appropriate strategic and other important initiatives (including Air Canada's ability to manage operating costs), energy prices, Air Canada's ability to pay its indebtedness and maintain or increase liquidity, interruptions of service, climate change and environmental factors (including weather systems and other natural phenomena and factors arising from anthropogenic sources), Air Canada's dependence on key suppliers (including government agencies and other stakeholders supporting airport and airline operations), Air Canada's dependence on regional and other carriers, Air Canada's ability to attract and retain required personnel, the availability and onboarding of Air Canada's workforce, other epidemic diseases, changes in laws, regulatory developments or proceedings, employee and labour relations and costs, terrorist acts, war, Air Canada's ability to successfully operate its loyalty program, casualty losses, Air Canada's dependence on Star Alliance® and joint ventures, Air Canada's ability to preserve and grow its brand, pending and future litigation and actions by third parties, currency exchange fluctuations, limitations due to restrictive covenants, insurance issues and costs, and pension plan obligations, as well as the factors identified in Air Canada's public disclosure file available at www.sedar.com and, in particular, those identified in section 18 "Risk Factors" of Air Canada's 2022 MD&A and in section 14 "Risk Factors" of Air Canada's first quarter 2023 MD&A.
The forward-looking statements contained or incorporated by reference in this news release represent Air Canada's expectations as of the date of this news release (or as of the date they are otherwise stated to be made) and are subject to change after such date. However, Air Canada disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether because of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under applicable securities regulations.
About Air Canada
Air Canada is Canada's largest airline, the country's flag carrier and a founding member of Star Alliance, the world's most comprehensive air transportation network. Air Canada provides scheduled service directly to more than 180 airports in Canada, the United States and Internationally on six continents. It holds a Four-Star ranking from Skytrax. Air Canada's Aeroplan program is Canada's premier travel loyalty program, where members can earn or redeem points on the world's largest airline partner network of 45 airlines, plus through an extensive range of merchandise, hotel and car rental rewards. Its freight division, Air Canada Cargo, provides air freight lift and connectivity to hundreds of destinations across six continents using Air Canada's passenger and freighter aircraft. Air Canada has committed to a net zero emissions goal from all global operations by 2050. Air Canada shares are publicly traded on the TSX in Canada and the OCTQX in the US.
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Which crew neck sweatshirt is best?
If you’re looking for a simple, timeless garment that can take you from the gym to the store to a casual night out, you can’t go wrong with a crew neck sweatshirt. Sporty yet stylish, these classic sweaters pair with all kinds of outfits, from jeans to shorts to dresses.
You might already have an idea of the kind of sweatshirt you want, but it pays to narrow down your options. The Champion Men’s Powerblend Fleece Crew is a classic choice that’s available in many hues.
What to know before you buy a crew neck sweatshirt
Materials
What differentiates sweatshirts from sweaters is that they’re sewn while sweaters are knitted. Most are made from the classic sweatshirt fabric that you’d instantly recognize, which is smooth on the outside and lightly fleecy on the inside.
This material is usually a straight-up blend of cotton and polyester. However, the ratio of cotton to polyester varies. In some cases, it contains as much as 90% cotton and 10% polyester, while on the other end of the spectrum, it can be around 30% polyester and 70% cotton.
The more cotton in a blend, the more likely the sweatshirt is to shrink slightly in the wash. It’s wise to size up if you choose a high-cotton blend.
Sizing
Although there’s nothing inherently gendered about sweatshirts, manufacturers still usually divide them into “men’s” and “women’s” categories, although some make unisex options. Naturally, people of any gender — or none — can wear any sweatshirt they prefer, as long as they pay attention to differences in sizing.
Sweatshirts for men tend to run slightly larger than sweatshirts for women. So, expect a men’s XL to be bigger than a women’s XL. Unisex sizing varies but is more likely to be closer to men’s sizing than women’s. You’ll sometimes find women’s sweatshirts are cut more generously in the chest, but this isn’t always the case.
You’ll also find plenty of kids’ crews if you’re buying for a child in your life. These are usually sold in age-related sizes, so it’s easier to get the right fit. Of course, you need to adjust for kids who are smaller or larger than average for their age.
What to look for in a quality crew neck sweatshirt
Cuffs and hem
If you want a sweatshirt with a classic, retro silhouette, choose one with ribbed, elasticated cuffs and hems. However, you can also find sweatshirts with loose, open cuffs and hems, which some buyers prefer the look of or find more comfortable.
Brands
Many big sportswear brands make sweatshirts. While choosing a name brand isn’t a guarantee of quality, you’re more likely to get a well-made garment than you are from an unknown manufacturer.
Color
Most sweatshirts are solid-colored, although you can occasionally find prints. You can find them in practically any hue, but you may need to shop around to find less popular shades.
Washability
Sweatshirts often get a lot of wear, especially in cooler months, so they must be easy to wash and dry. It’s rare to find ones that aren’t machine washable, but some need air drying, which can be inconvenient.
How much you can expect to spend on a crew neck sweatshirt
An average crew costs around $20-$50, but like most clothing, prices can range much higher. If you want a designer sweatshirt, you could pay anywhere from $100-$1,000.
Crew neck sweatshirt FAQ
What is a crew neck sweatshirt?
A. It’s a collarless sweatshirt with a rounded neckline. The neckline sits relatively high, as opposed to a scoop neck or a deeper round neck. Not all crew neck garments are sweatshirts. You can also find crew neck sweaters and crew neck T-shirts. The term dates back to 1939 and was named after the type of sweaters worn by people who rowed crew.
How should a crew neck fit?
A. It should fit snugly around the hips to keep warmth in, but it can be looser on the body and around the chest. The elasticated hem found on many sweatshirts makes it easier to achieve this fit. Of course, it’s down to the individual how they want their clothing to fit, so it’s fine to have a tighter or baggier fit if you prefer.
What’s the best crew neck sweatshirt to buy?
Top crew neck sweatshirt
Champion Men’s Powerblend Fleece Crew
What you need to know: This classic sweatshirt is great for working out or casual wear.
What you’ll love: You can choose from a huge range of colors, including team gold, maroon, hiker green and Oxford gray. The wider ribs in the cuffs and hem help them lay flat. It has a subtle Champion C logo on the chest and one on the sleeve.
What you should consider: The fabric is on the thin side, so it isn’t a great cold weather sweater.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top crew neck sweatshirt for the money
Gildan DryBlend Adult Set-in Crew Neck Sweatshirt
What you need to know: Affordable with a classic sweatshirt silhouette, this unisex crew is a versatile choice.
What you’ll love: It’s made from a light, pill-resistant cotton-polyester blend. You have a choice of 14 colors, including cardinal red, forest green and safety orange. Sizes range from S to XXL.
What you should consider: Some buyers say these shirts run small and others say they run large, so it’s a good idea to check the sizing chart before buying.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Adidas Women’s Essentials Three-Stripes Fleece Sweatshirt
What you need to know: With the iconic Adidas three-stripes down the sleeves, it’s both stylish and practical.
What you’ll love: It’s made from a blend of cotton, polyester and viscose, which gives the material some stretch and a soft, fleecy interior. You can choose from seven colors, including halo blush, victory crimson and black, all with contrasting stripes and a logo.
What you should consider: Some colors look darker in real life than they do on the screen.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Georgia election probe enters new phase with search warrants
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies broke the law trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state is seeking search warrants in the case, a sign that the wide-ranging probe has entered a new phase.
The revelation came Monday in a court order filed by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who’s overseeing the special grand jury seated to help the investigation. In an order sealing any search warrants and related documents from being made public, McBurney wrote that District Attorney Fani Willis’ office is “now seeking to obtain and execute a series of search warrants, the affidavits for which are predicated on sensitive information acquired during the investigation.”
Disclosure of the information could compromise the investigation, McBurney wrote, “by, among other things, causing flight from prosecution, destruction of or tampering with evidence, and intimidation of potential witnesses.” It could also result in risks to the “safety and well-being” of people involved in the investigation, he wrote.
It wasn’t immediately clear who the targets of the search warrants are or whether any search warrants had yet to be approved by a judge. To obtain a search warrant, prosecutors must convince a judge they have probable cause that a crime occurred at the location where authorities want to search.
As Willis’ investigation ramps up, the public court filings in the case have provided a rare window into the workings of a special grand jury that meets behind closed doors.
Willis, a Democrat, opened the investigation early last year, shortly after the release of a recording of a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call in which Trump suggested that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger could “find” the votes needed to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
In addition to the Trump-Raffensperger call, Willis confirmed early on that she was investigating a call that Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina made to Raffensperger, the sudden departure of the U.S. attorney in Atlanta in early January 2021 and statements made during legislative committee meetings by people pushing debunked claims casting doubt on the legitimacy of the state’s election.
Court filings in recent months have also shown that Willis is interested in a slate of fake electors who signed a certificate in December 2020 falsely stating that Trump had won the state and that they were the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors. She said in a court filing that the 16 Georgia Republicans who signed that certificate have all been notified they are targets of the investigation, meaning they could face criminal charges.
Attorneys for Rudy Giuliani, a former New York mayor and Trump lawyer, say their client has also been notified that he’s a target of Willis’ investigation. He appeared at state legislative committee hearings in December 2020 and made claims of election fraud in Georgia. Giuliani was also involved in coordinating the fake elector plan, Willis wrote in a court filing. He testified before the special grand jury in August.
Willis’ investigation has also expanded into a breach of voting equipment at the elections office in a rural Georgia county, some 200 miles southeast of Atlanta.
Documents, emails, security video and deposition testimony produced in response to subpoenas in a long-running lawsuit have shown that lawyer Sidney Powell and other Trump allies hired a computer forensics team to go to Coffee County to make complete copies of data and software on elections equipment there. Willis is seeking testimony from Powell and has also requested documents from the company that employs the computer forensics team.
Another thread Willis seems to be pursuing is alleged attempts to pressure a Fulton County election worker. A petition filed last month indicates she wants to question Harrison Floyd, a director of Black Voices for Trump. Willis said in the petition that Floyd and Trevian Kutti, whom Willis described as a Chicago-based “purported publicist,” tried to pressure Ruby Freeman. Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, were election workers falsely accused by Trump allies of pulling fraudulent ballots from a suitcase during ballot counting.
As the investigation has progressed, a number of people who have been summoned to testify have tried to avoid testifying. Most have been unsuccessful.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican who’s facing a reelection challenge from Democrat Stacey Abrams, managed to delay his testimony until after next month’s election.
Graham’s attempt to fight his subpoena is currently pending before a federal appeals court. Willis has said in a court filing that she wants to talk to Graham about calls he made to Raffensperger and his staff in which he reportedly asked about “reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump.” Graham has denied any wrongdoing and said his status as a senator shields him from having to testify.
A number of high-ranking Georgia state officials, including Raffensperger and Attorney General Chris Carr, have already testified before the special grand jury. Others in Trump’s orbit who’ve undergone questioning include attorneys John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro. And the panel is still expecting testimony from others, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Willis has indicated she could seek to compel testimony from Trump himself. The former president has hired a legal team in Atlanta and last month disparaged the investigation as a “strictly political Witch Hunt!”
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NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 27.3 million people watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on television, the second smallest audience for the annual event in at least 30 years, the Nielsen company said on Wednesday.
It was also down nearly 28% from the 38.2 million people who saw Biden’s address in 2022.
The only smaller audience since 1993 was the 26.9 million who watched Biden’s address to Congress in 2021 — not officially a State of the Union speech, since he had just taken office a few months earlier. That speech was delivered on the unusually late date of April 28.
Nielsen did not have figures available from before President Bill Clinton’s first address to Congress, which reached 66.9 million people in 1993, when entertainment options were fewer.
Nearly three-quarters (73%) of the people who watched Biden’s speech were 55 and older, Nielsen said. Only 5% were young adults under age 35.
The speech was carried live on 16 television networks.
Biden’s largest audience came on Fox News Channel, where the speech was seen by 4.69 million people, Nielsen said. ABC had 4.41 million viewers for Biden, NBC had 3.78 million, CBS had 3.64 million, MSNBC had 3.55 million, CNN had 2.4 million and the Fox broadcast network had 1.66 million. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-bidens-state-of-the-union-draws-audience-of-27-3-million/ | 2023-02-09 23:20:08 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-bidens-state-of-the-union-draws-audience-of-27-3-million/ |
Former Doraville police officer accused of concealing 16-year-old girl's death
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Authorities have charged a Doraville police officer with concealing the death of 16-year-old Susana Morales.
Gwinnett County police identified the officer as Miles Bryant, 22, of Norcross.
"Detectives developed enough probable cause to get an arrest today, but the investigation is still on going," said Gwinnett County Police spokesperson Officer Hideshi Valle.
Miles Bryant (Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office)
Bryant faces charges of concealing the death of another and false report of a crime.
"This is a very tragic incident and not just for our community, but the law enforcement community as well," said Officer Valle. "Gwinnett Police is determined to get all of the facts and all of the information to get justice regardless of who the individual is."
He is being held at the Gwinnett Detention Center without bond.
"The criminal investigation has been handled by the Gwinnett County Police Department, but we have been in constant communication with the Doraville Police Department and letting them know of the case," Officer Valle said.
The city of Doraville released a statement on Monday evening that reads:
"The City of Doraville was notified the afternoon of Monday, February 13 that a now former police officer was being served felony arrest warrants by the Gwinnett Police Department in connection with the disappearance and murder of Susana Morales. The City of Doraville and its Police Department are fully cooperating with the Gwinnett Police Department in its investigation of Mr. Bryant. Our prayers rest with the family and friends of Susana Morales and everyone else affected by this tragedy."
Bryant is expected to make his first appearance on Tuesday morning.
Last week, the Gwinnett County Medical examiners' office positively identified human remains as that of the then missing 16-year-old girl. Morales was first reported missing late July.
Susana Morales, 16. (Credit: Gwinnett Police Department)
Timeline of Susana Morales' Disappearance
Morales' family members told police they hadn't seen her since the evening of July 26. That night, detectives said Morales texted her mom at 9:40 p.m. to tell her she was on her way home to Windscape Village Lane. Officials confirmed an app on Morales' cell phone showed that she was walking in that direction between 10:07 p.m. and 10:21 p.m., but detectives said they have reason to believe she had actually gotten into a vehicle.
Between 10:21 p.m. and 10:26 p.m., her phone indicated that she was in the area of Oak Loch Trace and Steve Reynolds Boulevard. Her phone pinged that location until it either died or was turned off. Morales never made it home.
On Feb. 6, officers responded to the area between Drowning Creek and Barrow County after someone reported seeing what they believed were human remains in the forest.
The Gwinnett Medical Examiners' office tested the remains and said the DNA matched Morales' dental records.
Anyone with information to share in this case should contact Gwinnett County Police Department at 770-513-5300, or call Crime Stoppers Greater Atlanta at 404-577-TIPS (8477) to remain anonymous.
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Listening to Damar Hamlin speak, you hear echoes. Like most of his teammates, the Bills free safety channels his head coach, Sean McDermott. One play and one game at a time, next man up, all the operative cliches.
You can also detect the sage voice of his mentor, injured safety Micah Hyde, who has been the leader and emotional conscience of the NFL’s top secondary since coming to Buffalo as a free agent in 2017.
On Wednesday, ESPN reported that Hyde had undergone successful surgery in Los Angeles for a herniated disc in his neck. His recovery is expected to take from six to nine months. But Hyde has been a constant source of support for Hamlin and the other young defensive backs, like an honorary assistant coach.
“I talked to Micah today,” Hamlin said at his locker Wednesday afternoon. “He texted me. It’s private. But he’s a big mentor. That’s a big brother of mine, one of the guys who took me under his wing from the jump. Even when I was speaking to him, I was learning from him.
“He’s in my ear for sure. It’s a testament to him as a leader.”
It has been a trying month for the Buffalo secondary, which twice has played a game without all four of its recognized starters: Cornerbacks Tre’Davious White and Christian Benford, and safeties Jordan Poyer and Hyde.
Despite that, the Bills have remained an elite defense. They’re tied for first in the NFL in points allowed with the Niners (12.2). They’re second to the Niners in yards allowed at 260 a game. They’re fourth in passing yards (182.6), but first by a full half-yard in adjusted yards per pass attempt (4.3), a telling stat.
That’s amazing when you consider how compromised Leslie Frazier’s unit has been by injury. But don’t use that word around Hamlin, a sixth-round draft choice in 2021 who became a starter three games ago.
“It’s only compromised to you-all,” said Hamlin, a McKees Rocks, Pa., native who played his college ball at nearby Pitt. “You don’t get to see the day-ins and day-outs of how we bond, how we get along, who’s ready.
“All the outside sees is who’s on the field at that time. I don’t like to say compromised. I would just say, the guys that are finally getting a chance, we’ve been in the incubator, just getting ready, working.
“Whenever someone’s time comes up, you’re ready,” Hamlin said. “It’s a standard in the room, and whoever’s out there the standard is going to be upheld, regardless. You’re seeing the benefits of it.”
Since Hyde went down, the Bills have held down Tua Tagovailoa after he had a career game; shut out Lamar Jackson in the second half of a comeback win (they’ve allowed seven points after halftime all year); and kept the Steelers out of the end zone in a 38-3 rout.
As Hamlin says, they’ve upheld their own lofty standard. But things get appreciably tougher at 4:25 p.m. on Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium, when the Bills take on the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes in the latest installment of what has become the most compelling rivalry in the NFL, if not all of American team sports.
Mahomes is seen by many as the league’s best player, though the Bills’ Josh Allen is making a strong case. Mahomes has led the Chiefs to four straight AFC title games, two Super Bowls and one Lombardi Trophy. He’s been a league MVP (2018 season) and Super Bowl MVP (2019 season). KC is 54-14 in the regular season with him as the starter.
Two years in a row, the Chiefs have knocked the Bills out of the playoffs, in the AFC title game two years ago and the division round last season. In those two games, Mahomes has completed 76 percent of his passes for 703 yards, six touchdowns and no interceptions.
McDermott and the Bills insist this is just another game on the schedule. But it could well decide who hosts the conference championship game. And of course, there’s the gnawing memory of last year’s 42-36 playoff loss, when the Bills allowed Mahomes to tie the game in the last 13 seconds of regulation, then march the Chiefs to a ridiculously easy TD to win the game after winning the coin toss in overtime.
“I mean, that did happen,” McDermott said when reminded that the 13 seconds is still an issue in the media. “That’s part of our past. We’re looking ahead to this game. That’s going to happen. People are going to write what they want to write. This team will take on its own identity.
“You learn from things like that,” he said. “and you move forward. You’re not afraid to learn from things and correct things and adjust and evolve. That’s what you do. That’s what you do in life and a sport like football.”
What the Bills have learned is that Mahomes is a remarkable quarterback and competitor, an audacious playmaker who can improvise his way through difficult situations. Left-handed passes, spin moves in traffic, you name it.
“You think you’ve got things covered up, and then he starts moving around, and it becomes backyard football, and guys are scrambling and trying to get into position to make plays,” said Leslie Frazier, the Bills’ defensive coordinator.
“He’s just a terrific athlete who can make throws from anywhere at any angle,” Frazier added. “There really is no defense for that. You’ve just got to hold on and hope you can make some plays along the way.”
Von Miller, the Bills’ supreme pass rusher, put it more succinctly: “Patrick Mahomes is the definition of a Hall of Famer.” Miller never beat the Chiefs when he was in Denver and Mahomes was the opposing quarterback.
Miller said he learned to hate the Chiefs because of the one-sided AFC West rivalry. He was rooting for the Bills in that epic playoff game against the Chiefs last January, which he watched on a plane while the Rams were returning from a road playoff victory against Tampa Bay.
“It was a great game for the ages,” he said. “Whenever they’re getting ready to put Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen in the Hall of Fame, that game and of course games in the upcoming years will be talked about.”
Allen’s brilliance is beyond question as he leads the NFL in passing and remains the favorite for MVP (Mahomes is second). But he needs to beat the Chiefs and get to the Super Bowl to ascend to Mahomes’ level in the eyes of many observers.
At any rate, this is the matchup football lovers have awaited since last year’s KC-Buffalo playoff game, which some called the greatest game ever played. It’s the two best players in the NFL, and with apologies to the Eagles, quite likely the two best teams in the league, perhaps destined to meet again in January.
The Bills beat the Chiefs at Arrowhead last year in October, 38-20. Allen soundly outplayed Mahomes, completing 15 of 26 passes for 315 yards, three TDs and no interceptions. He also ran for 59 yards and a touchdown.
“I haven’t watched last year’s (regular-season) game yet,” said Bills defensive end A.J. Epenesa. “I know that we’ve got a different team and they have a different team.”
One thing that hasn’t changed is the guy lining up under center. Mahomes is at his best in the biggest games. His average passing yards per game in the playoffs (307.4) is the best all-time. His playoff passer rating (105.7) is second in history. Josh Allen is first at 106.6. Yeah, this is a pretty nice rivalry.
Hamlin didn’t play a single defensive snap in two games against the Chiefs last season. His work was limited to special teams. He has been solid in his three starts this season. He hit his former Pitt teammate, Kenny Pickett, at the end of a scramble, setting off a brief melee between the teams last Sunday.
The former Pitt teammates hugged it out on the field after the game. Pickett said he and Hamlin will be friends for life and told him, ‘You’re my brother.’
Hamlin feels the same way about Hyde, who texted him soon after neck surgery to help him prepare for the game. Like a true coach, he mainly talked about what the defensive backs need to do to uphold that high standard.
“He didn’t tell me nothing about Mahomes,” Hamlin said. “There’s nothing to really say. He’s already stamped. He is who he is. It’s just about worrying about us and making sure we’re doing the right things to be successful on Sunday.
“We don’t try to focus too much on the other team. It’s really all about us, and how we execute what we’ve got to do.”
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FULTON, Mo. (AP) — At the entrance to Missouri prisons, large signs plead for help: “NOW HIRING” … “GREAT PAY & BENEFITS.”
No experience is necessary. Anyone 18 and older can apply. Long hours are guaranteed.
Though the assertion of “great pay” for prison guards would have seemed dubious in the past, a series of state pay raises prompted by widespread vacancies has finally made a difference. The Missouri Department of Corrections set a record for new applicants last month.
“After we got our raise, we started seeing people come out of the woodwork, people that hadn’t worked in a while,” said Maj. Albin Narvaez, chief of custody at the Fulton Reception and Diagnostic Center, where new prisoners are housed and evaluated.
Public employers across the U.S. have faced similar struggles to fill jobs, leading to one of the largest surges in state government pay raises in 15 years. Many cities, counties and school districts also are hiking wages to try to retain and attract workers amid aggressive competition from private sector employers.
The wage war comes as governments and taxpayers feel the consequences of empty positions.
In Kansas City, Missouri, a shortage of 911 operators doubled the average hold times for people calling in emergencies. In one Florida county, some schoolchildren frequently arrived late as a lack of bus drivers delayed routes. In Arkansas, abused and neglected kids remained longer in foster care because of a caseworker shortage. In various cities and states, vacancies on road crews meant cracks and potholes took longer to fix than many motorists might like.
“A lot of the jobs we’re talking about are hard jobs,” said Leslie Scott Parker, executive director of the National Association of State Personnel Executives.
Lingering vacancies “eventually affects service to the public or response times to needs,” she added.
Workforce shortages worsened across all sorts of jobs due to a wave of retirements and resignations that began during the pandemic. Many businesses, from restaurants to hospitals, responded nimbly with higher wages and incentives to attract employees. But governments by nature are slower to act, requiring pay raises to go through a legislative process that can take months to complete — and then can take months more to kick in.
Meanwhile, vacancies mounted.
In Georgia, state employee turnover hit a high of 25% in 2022. Thousands of workers left the Department of Corrections, pushing its vacancy rate to around 50%. The state began a series of pay raises. This year, all state employees and teachers got at least a $2,000 raise, with corrections officers getting $4,000 and state troopers $6,000.
The Georgia Department of Corrections used an ad agency to bolster recruitment and held an average of 125 job fairs a month. It’s starting to pay off. In the first week of July, the department received 318 correctional officer applications — nearly double the weekly norm, said department Public Affairs Director Joan Heath.
Almost 1 in 4 positions — more than 2,500 jobs — were empty in the Missouri Department of Corrections late last year, which was twice the pre-pandemic vacancy rate in 2019.
Missouri gave state workers a 7.5% pay raise in 2022. This spring, Gov. Mike Parson signed an emergency spending bill with an additional 8.7% raise, plus an extra $2 an hour for people working evening and night shifts at prisons, mental health facilities and other institutions. The vacancy rate for entry level corrections officers now is declining, and the average number of applications for all state positions is up 18% since the start of last year.
At the Fulton prison, where staff shortages have led to a standard 52-hour work week, newly hired employees can earn around $60,000 annually — an amount roughly equal to the state’s median household income. The prison also is proposing to provide free child care to correctional officers willing to work nights.
If prison staffing is too low, “it can get dangerous” for both inmates and guards, Narvaez said.
Public safety concerns also have arisen in Kansas City, where a country music fan attacked before a concert last month waited four minutes for a 911 call to be answered and an hour for an ambulance to arrive. About one-quarter of 911 call center positions are vacant — “a huge factor” in the longer wait times to answer calls, said Tamara Bazzle, assistant manager of the communications unit for the Kansas City Police Department.
In Biddeford, Maine, a 15-person roster of 911 dispatchers dipped to just eight employees in July as people quit a “pressure cooker job” for less stress or better pay elsewhere, Police Chief JoAnne Fisk said. The city is now offering fully certified dispatchers $41 an hour to help plug the gaps on a part-time basis — $10 an hour more than comparable new workers normally would earn.
This month, Biddeford also launched a $2,000 bonus for city employees who refer others who get jobs. That comes a year after Biddeford adopted a four-day work week with paid lunch periods to try to make jobs more appealing, said City Manager Jim Bennett.
To attract workers, other governments have dropped college degree requirements and spiced up drab job descriptions.
Nationally, the turnover rate in state and local governments is twice the average of the previous two decades, according federal labor statistics.
Uncompetitive wages were the most common reason for leaving cited in exit interviews, according to a survey of 249 state and local government human resource managers conducted by MissionSquare Research Institute, a Washington, D.C. -based nonprofit. The hardest positions to fill included police and corrections officers, doctors, nurses, engineers and jobs requiring commercial driver’s licenses.
Along Florida’s east coast, the Brevard County transit system and school district have been competing for bus drivers. On days when drivers are lacking, the transit system has cut the frequency of bus stops on some routes. The school system, meanwhile, has asked some bus drivers to run a second route after dropping children off at school, often resulting in the second busload arriving late.
Since 2022, the county has twice raised bus driver wages to a current rate of $17.47 an hour. The school board recently countered with a $5 increase to a minimum $20 an hour for the upcoming school year. The goal is to hire enough drivers to regularly get kids to class on time, said school system communications director Russell Bruhn.
In Arkansas, the goal is to get foster kids into permanent homes in less than a year. But during the first three months of this year, the state met that target for just 32% of foster children — well below the national standard of over 40%. More than one-fifth of the roughly 1,400 positions in the Arkansas Division of Children and Family Services are vacant.
Many new employees leave in less than two years because of heavy caseloads and the “very difficult, emotionally tolling work,” Mischa Martin, the Department of Human Services’ deputy secretary of youth and families, told lawmakers last month.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pocus, the leader in Product-Led Sales, has launched its Revenue Data Platform to democratize data for go-to-market teams. Pocus' Revenue Data Platform accelerates revenue by enabling go-to-market teams to analyze, visualize, and action data about their prospects and customers without needing engineers.
"When we first started Pocus, people called us PLG CRM or Product-Led Sales (PLS) tool, because it was the primary use case we enabled for customers," said Alexa Grabell, CEO and Co-Founder at Pocus. "As we've onboarded more customers, their needs have expanded beyond sales and PLG use cases. Our customers have explicitly called Pocus the engine that runs their go-to-market, and Revenue Data Platform accurately captures that value."
Modern GTM teams rely heavily on product usage data to drive better experiences at every point of the customer journey. These teams get the most value from consuming data. Yet, go-to-market teams are underserved by existing data platforms built for more technical teams.
Pocus was founded to solve this problem for sales teams and has since evolved to serve the entire go-to-market function - sales, success, growth, and marketing.
Key components of our updated platform include:
- Revenue Data Graph: Break down data silos by combining data from various sources into a format that is accessible for GTM teams to run any playbook.
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Since launching, customers have analyzed billions of rows of data and surfaced millions of new leads in the Pocus platform. Customers see a 50% increase in qualified lead volume, 20%+ conversion on those leads, and a 32% lift in average deal sizes. Pocus has become central to the go-to-market workflows for customers like Miro, Webflow, Loom, Superhuman, and more. Users are also noticing the time savings and efficiency, on average, users are saving 10+ hours a week digging through various data sources.
"Our PLG motion generates a ton of sign-ups every week and it's difficult for our reps to find high potential opportunities that are a perfect customer fit for our enterprise product," said Taylor Gibson, Director of Commercial Sales at Loom. "Pocus makes it easy to analyze our usage data and target the right users. Beyond the platform, Pocus has been a great thought partner as we scale our product-led and sales motions, arming us with proven playbooks across the customer journey."
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North wins regional gymnastics title
Sofie Garcia was fourth in the all-around with three 9s to lead the Bloomington North gymnastics team to its first regional title since 1981 on Friday at Franklin Central.
Bloomington South will also be represented at state for the first time since 2017 with senior Mia Langley making it on beam and junior Maddie Kawanishi on floor.
North, which made it to the state finals last year for the first time since that same '81 squad, scored a 108.625 to edge Columbus North (107.475), with New Palestine taking third (105.9) over South (103.3), which still had one of its best scores of the season. But only the top three teams advance to Ball State next Saturday.
CN was the best scoring team on vault and bars, while North prevailed by a slightly wider margin on beam and floor. North had a 27.6 on beam and a 28.225 on floor.
Garcia, a sophomore, was a force for the Cougars, posting a 36.725. She as fourth on floor (9.5), fifth on beam (9.375), sixth on bars (8.725) and eighth on vault (9.125).
North's Hope Taylor tied for second on vault (9.45) and tied for eighth on floor (9.275) and Jessica Floyd was fourth on beam (9.425) and fifth on floor (9.45). Claire Dann was 10th on beam (8.8).
South pair advance
Kawanishi (34.575) and Langley (23.325) went 9-10 in the all-around. Kawanishi tied for seventh on bars and Langley was seventh on floor as both just missed adding to their state loads.
Kawanishi did score an 8.6 on bars to move on while Langley had a 9.175 on beam. Both were sixth.
"Mia's been working for four years and her scores were just not falling in a good place," Stroud said. "She was the fourth one to go on beam, so the fact her score held up is a big deal. She deserves it and we're super excited.
"Maddie's been adding difficulty and has been pushing herself to do more. She hit her routine nicely tonight. She had a great routine and I'm glad she has the opportunity to go."
But as a team, the Panthers came up just a tad short. New Pal had the third best team scores on vault, bars and floor and was second on beam.
"New Pal was really clean," Stroud said. "You could tell they really wanted it. I told the girls all week that those girls wanted it and they'd have to come in the same way. They did and our 103,4 was one of our higher scores of the season.
"The whole team hit floor beautifully, probably the best we have all season. The judge even complimented us. They always remind the girls to smile and have fun and we did that. Beam, we struggled a little bit. We had some falls, which definitely hurt us. We came back and hit bars and we had one fall on vault. But Alex Riggs stuck her landing on both vaults for the first time all season."
But Stroud is just happy for one more week with her last team.
"It's a great way to end my career," she said.
FRANKLIN CENTRAL REGIONAL
Team scores (top 3 advance to state): 1. Bloomington North 108.625; 2. Columbus North 107.475; 3. New Palestine 105.9; 4. Bloomington South 103.3; 5. New Castle 100.8; 6. Rushville 93.675.
Individual results (top 6 in each advance to state)
Vault: 1. Reece Euler, CN, 9.675; T2. Lilly Boyd, Martinsville, 9.45; Hope Taylor, BN, 9.45; 6. Gabby Grubb, Martinsville, 9.275. (8. Sofie Garcia, BN, 9.125; T11. Jessica Floyd, BN, 8.85; T14. Mia Langley, BS, 8.775; 17. Stella Eibling, BS, 8.725; T18. Claire Dann, BN, 8.7; 25. Alex Riggs, BS, 8.1.)
Bars: 1. Boyd, Martinsville, 9.1; 2. Lindsey Mullis, CN, 9.075; 6. Garcia, BN, 8.725. (T7. Maddie Kawanishi, BS, 8.6; 11. Hannah Abel, BN, 8.35; 17. Maddie Rich, BN, 7.825; T18. Sayen Antinao, BS, 7.8; 22. Eibling, BS, 7.2; 23. Langley, BS, 7.0.)
Beam: 1. Euler, CN, 9.55; 2. Dykes, FC, 9.5; 4. Floyd, BN, 9.425; 5. Garcia, BN, 9.375; 6. Langley, BS, 9.175. (10. Dann, BN, 8.8; 11. Rich, BN, 8.725; 13. Violet Leis, BS, 8.5; 14. Kawanishi, BS, 8.45.)
Floor: 1. Euler, CN, 9.625; 2. Dykes, FC, 9.575; 4. Garcia, BN, 9.5; 5. Floyd, BN, 9.45; 6. Kawanishi, BS, 9.425. (7. Langley, BS, 9.375; T8. Taylor, BN, 9.275; 17. Leis, BS, 8.8; 18. Eibling, BS, 8.75; 20. Dann, BN, 8.45.
All-Around: 1. Euler, CN, 37.65; 2. Dykes, FC, 37.35; 4. Garcia, BN, 36.725; 5. Boyd, Martinsville, 35.975; (9. Kawanishi, BS, 34.575; 10. Langley, BS, 23.325; 14. Eibling, BS, 32.7.)
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NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Legendary music executive Mo Ostin passed away peacefully in his sleep last night at the age of 95.
Tom Corson, Co-Chairman & COO, Warner Records & Aaron Bay-Schuck, Co-Chairman & CEO, Warner Records
"Legendary music executive Mo Ostin passed away peacefully in his sleep last night at the age of 95. Mo was one of the greatest record men of all time, and a prime architect of the modern music business. For Mo, it was always first and foremost about helping artists realize their vision. One of the pivotal figures in the evolution of Warner Music Group, in the 1960s Mo ushered Warner/Reprise Records into a golden era of revolutionary, culture-shifting artistry. Over his next three decades at the label, he remained a tireless champion of creative freedom, both for the talent he nurtured and the people who worked for him. Mo lived an extraordinary life doing what he loved, and he will be deeply missed throughout the industry he helped create, and by the countless artists and colleagues whom he inspired to be their best selves. On behalf of everyone at Warner, we want to thank Mo for everything he did, and for his inspiring belief in our bright future. Our condolences go out to his family at this difficult time."
Max Lousada, CEO, Warner Recorded Music
"In an era when creative entrepreneurs are revered, we celebrate Mo Ostin as a pioneer who wrote the rulebook for others to follow. Warner Music Group and Warner Records wouldn't exist without his passion, vision, and intelligence. He not only helped build one of the world's greatest music companies, but he inspired a culture driven by bravery and ingenuity. Mo saw artists for who they really were and gave them the space and support to fully realize their originality. Our condolences to Michael and the whole Ostin family. Mo was a legend, and he will be deeply missed."
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Griner gets warm welcome in first home game since being detained in Russian prison
PHOENIX (AP) — Brittney Griner won the opening tip and ran to her familiar spot in the low post.
There was nowhere else the ball was going to go on the Phoenix Mercury’s opening possession of the season — not after what Griner had gone through to get here.
Her back to the basket, Griner faked as though she would shoot a turnaround, spun the other way and put up another up-fake. Chicago’s Elizabeth Williams fell for the deke, Griner absorbed the contact and hit the shot to begin a three-point play.
After all the emotional buildup, Griner got off to the perfect start in her first regular-season home game since being released after more than 10 months in a Russian prison.
It didn’t end quite the way she wanted.
Griner finished with 27 points, 10 rebounds and four blocked shots, but the Chicago Sky held on for a 75-69 win on Sunday.
Griner received a warm reception in her lone preseason game and again in the Mercury’s season opener at the Los Angeles Sparks.
Her home debut had an entirely different vibe.
Many fans wore Griner’s 42 jersey and some waved small black towels with "BG" on the front. One young fan held a sign that said "We (heart) BG. Welcome home!"
During warmups, Griner shared hugs with her teammates, Sky players and Chicago coach James Wade, who had coached her overseas. Just as warmups were winding down, Mercury guard Sophie Cunningham grabbed a microphone near midcourt and addressed the crowd.
"Last year, all we wanted was to get BG home. We did that, and we’re all together now," Cunningham said, drawing roars from the crowd.
Just before player introductions, a poet paid tribute to Griner while being surrounded by the Mercury’s dancers. Once introductions started, the fans gave each of the Mercury players loud cheers before Griner came out last.
The 6-foot-9 forward walked out from behind a wall and, surrounded by flashing lights, stepped into the bowl of the arena, drawing a massive ovation.
PHOENIX, ARIZONA - MAY 21: Brittney Griner #42 of the Phoenix Mercury watches a three-point shot against the Chicago Sky during the second half of the WNBA game at Footprint Center on May 21, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona. NOTE TO USER: User expressly ack
Griner had an immediate impact against the Sparks Friday night, finishing with 18 points, six rebounds and four blocked shots in the 94-71 loss.
She opened with the three-point play against Chicago, blocked a shot on the Sky’s second possession and dropped a nifty bounce pass to Diana Taurasi for a backdoor layup.
Griner swatted another shot and sprinkled in some trash talk as she turned up the floor. She added another three-point play late in the second half to pull the Mercury within seven points.
Griner drew a laugh from the crowd early in the third quarter when, after fouling Courtney Williams, forcefully helped up Williams, who flew through the air to accentuate it.
The support turned into a roar when Griner hit a 3-pointer, the fans rising from their seats and to match the two-handed, three-fingered gesture she flashed while screaming on the court.
Griner scored on a three-point play to pull Phoenix within 69-67 with just under two minutes left, but it was hers and the Mercury’s last gasp.
Phoenix had a couple of sloppy turnovers, Chicago’s Dana Evans scored on a running bank shot and the Sky held on for the win.
Griner ended her home debut by hugging Sky players and Wade again before heading to the baseline to hug her wife Cherelle. | https://www.fox29.com/sports/brittney-griner-warm-welcome-first-home-game-detained-russian-prison | 2023-05-22 10:42:29 | 1 | https://www.fox29.com/sports/brittney-griner-warm-welcome-first-home-game-detained-russian-prison |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Happy the elephant may be intelligent and deserving of compassion, but she cannot be considered a person being illegally confined to the Bronx Zoo, New York’s top court ruled Tuesday.
The 5-2 decision by the state Court of Appeals comes in a closely watched case that tested the boundaries of applying human rights to animals.
The zoo and its supporters warned that a win for advocates at the Nonhuman Rights Project could open the door to more legal actions on behalf of animals, including pets, farm animals and other species in zoos.
The court’s majority echoed that point.
The decision written by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore said that “while no one disputes that elephants are intelligent beings deserving of proper care and compassion,” a writ of habeas corpus is intended to protect the liberty of human beings and does not apply to a nonhuman animal like Happy.
The decision affirms a lower court ruling and means Happy will not be released to a more spacious sanctuary through a habeas corpus proceeding, which is a way for people to challenge illegal confinement.
Extending that right to Happy to challenge her confinement at a zoo “would have an enormous destabilizing impact on modern society.” And granting legal personhood in a case like this would affect how humans interact with animals, according to the majority decision.
“Indeed, followed to its logical conclusion, such a determination would call into question the very premises underlying pet ownership, the use of service animals, and the enlistment of animals in other forms of work,” read the decision.
Operators of the Bronx Zoo argued Happy is neither illegally imprisoned nor a person, but a well-cared-for elephant “respected as the magnificent creature she is.”
The advocates at the Nonhuman Rights Project argued that Happy is an autonomous, cognitively complex elephant worthy of the right reserved in law for “a person.”
Two judges, Rowan Wilson and Jenny Rivera, wrote separate, sharply worded dissents saying the fact that Happy is an animal does not prevent her from having legal rights. Rivera wrote that Happy is being held in “an environment that is unnatural to her and that does not allow her to live her life.”
“Her captivity is inherently unjust and inhumane. It is an affront to a civilized society, and every day she remains a captive — a spectacle for humans — we, too, are diminished,” Rivera wrote.
The ruling from New York’s highest court cannot be appealed. The Nonhuman Rights Project has failed to prevail in similar cases, including those involving a chimpanzee in upstate New York named Tommy.
Steven Wise, the group’s founder, said he was pleased it managed to persuade some of the judges. He noted that the group has a similar case underway in California and more planned in other states and other countries.
“We will take a really close look at why we lost and we’ll try to make sure that that doesn’t happen again to the extent that we can,” he said.
Happy was born in the wild in Asia in the early 1970s, captured and brought as a 1-year-old to the United States. Happy arrived at the Bronx Zoo in 1977 with fellow elephant Grumpy, who was fatally injured in a 2002 confrontation with two other elephants. | https://www.wjhl.com/science/ap-science/top-state-court-rejects-effort-to-free-bronx-zoo-elephant/ | 2022-06-15 08:15:52 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/science/ap-science/top-state-court-rejects-effort-to-free-bronx-zoo-elephant/ |
IRVING, Texas, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vistra (NYSE: VST) today announced that its board of directors has appointed company veteran Kris Moldovan as its next chief financial officer, effective Aug. 1. Moldovan assumes the CFO role from Jim Burke, who, as previously announced, will transition to chief executive officer on Aug. 1. Moldovan's appointment marks the completion of Vistra's search process.
"With a unique combination of deep industry expertise, company knowledge, and financial acumen, Kris is the right leader to be our next CFO," said Burke, Vistra's president and incoming CEO. "For more than a decade, Kris has been instrumental to our finance team and has played a key role in the design and execution of our capital allocation strategy, having managed several critical transactions, including our green perpetual preferred equity offering. Importantly, Kris is a thoughtful and well-respected leader with a consistent track record of strong performance and positive engagement with key external stakeholders. The board and I are excited to partner with Kris and look forward to his continued contributions to Vistra."
In his new role, Moldovan will continue to report to Burke and will assume broad responsibility for the company's accounting, risk, internal audit, treasury, tax, planning, investor activities, and other various functions.
"It is an exciting time to be a part of Vistra and I am humbled to be named CFO. In all the years I've been with the company, I don't believe it has ever been better positioned for success than it is now," said Moldovan. "I am looking forward to working with Jim, the board, the finance team, and the rest of the Vistra organization to execute on our strategic imperatives, including Vistra's clean energy transformation, and create value for all our stakeholders."
Moldovan, 50, has been with Vistra and its predecessor companies since 2006 and, for the past five years, has served as senior vice president and treasurer, where he is responsible for all treasury-related activities, including financing activities and assuring availability of liquidity and cash resources, among other responsibilities. From 2010 to 2017, he was the company's assistant treasurer. Moldovan originally joined the company as senior counsel, where much of his work focused on finance and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining the company, he was an attorney for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP in Dallas and for Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon in Chicago, where he gained extensive experience in M&A, finance, and general corporate advisory.
Moldovan holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Illinois, a juris doctor from Duke University School of Law, and a graduate finance certificate from Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business.
Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, providing essential resources for customers, commerce, and communities. Vistra combines an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with safe, reliable, diverse, and efficient power generation. The company brings its products and services to market in 20 states and the District of Columbia, including six of the seven competitive wholesale markets in the U.S. Serving approximately 4 million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers with electricity and natural gas, Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and offers over 50 renewable energy plans. The company is also the largest competitive power generator in the U.S. with a capacity of approximately 39,000 megawatts powered by a diverse portfolio, including natural gas, nuclear, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. In addition, Vistra is a large purchaser of wind power. The company owns and operates the 400-MW/1,600-MWh battery energy storage system in Moss Landing, California, the largest of its kind in the world. Vistra is guided by four core principles: we do business the right way, we work as a team, we compete to win, and we care about our stakeholders, including our customers, our communities where we work and live, our employees, and our investors. Learn more about our environmental, social, and governance efforts and read the company's sustainability report at https://www.vistracorp.com/sustainability/.
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US ambassador to Russia leaving post as Ukraine war drags on
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, ended his tenure as America’s top diplomat in Moscow on Sunday after nearly three years, spanning the Trump and Biden administrations, and will retire from a lengthy career in government service, the embassy announced. His departure comes as Russia’s war with Ukraine is in its seventh month.
His four-decade public service career included postings as deputy secretary of state and senior positions in the departments of Justice, Defense and Commerce.
Elizabeth Rood, the deputy chief of mission to Russia, will be the top U.S. diplomat in Moscow until a successor nominated by President Joe Biden replaces Sullivan.
On Saturday, Sullivan attended a farewell ceremony in Moscow for former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday.
The departure comes as U.S.-Russian relations remain tense. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the war has slowed to a grind with both sides trading combat strikes and small advances in the east and south. Both Russian and Ukraine have seen thousands of troops killed and injured, and Russia’s bombardment of cities has killed countless innocent civilians.
The U.S. has imposed numerous waves of sanctions on Russia and provided billions of dollars worth of military assistance to Ukraine, shifting to a longer-term support strategy in recent weeks.
In April 2021, Sullivan headed back to the U.S. for consultations after officials in Moscow “suggested” he follow the example of the Russian ambassador to Washington who was recalled from Washington after Biden described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “killer.”
A Boston native, Sullivan was nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate with unusually strong bipartisan support as ambassador to Russia in December 2019. Biden asked him to remain in the post when Biden took office last year.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ark. — The number of people without power climbed throughout the day in Jefferson County. Energy companies report the main reason why is limbs and trees falling.
Video even caught a tree over 100 feet tall falling just feet away. Terry Threlkeld had an even closer call when a tree fell right in front of his home.
“It sounded like World War 2 going off in the woods out there. Pine trees popping, and limbs breaking, and then you hear and then you hear a couple bangs going off,” Threlkeld remembered when his power shut off.
Entergy Arkansas said at 6 AM Thursday, 25,000 customers were without power, but that number grew to over 53,000 at its peak.
“We’ve had more power going out than we’ve been able to restore the past few hours,” Brandi Hinkle, an Entergy spokesperson, admitted.
Jefferson County Roads Department officials also admitted trees are falling down more quickly than they can pick them up.
“It really hindered progress for us to get where we need to be, to assess the damage, determine what it’s going to take to restore power in the way of crews and resources, materials, machinery,” Hinkle stated.
Even without electricity, Terry is doing the best he can to stay empowered with a butane heater, deep freezer, and plenty of light.
Entergy was unable to provide estimates for reconnection Thursday afternoon, but Terry says he’s ready for days.
“We were prepared for it basically, but I know there are a lot of people out here that was not,” he said.
Entergy said they will have people working throughout the night doing what they can to safely restore it.
“I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes working in all this,” Threlkeld admitted. “They got their work cut out for them this time.” | https://www.kark.com/severe-weather-coverage/falling-trees-cause-power-outages-in-jefferson-county/ | 2023-02-03 02:41:09 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/severe-weather-coverage/falling-trees-cause-power-outages-in-jefferson-county/ |
Much of the housing built in the state since the 1970s has been in sprawling subdivisions on the far outskirts of metro areas. While expedient, this development pattern has put thousands more Californians in the pathway of deadly wildfires and floods.
That problem at the intersection of two existential crises has long bedeviled legislators: How can the state confront its worsening housing shortage while also discouraging construction in wildland areas that are being pummeled by disasters made increasingly common and severe by a changing climate?
An unlikely coalition of housing advocates and environmentalists have joined forces in an attempt to take on that third rail of California politics with legislation they unveiled Thursday.
The proposal, sponsored by California YIMBY and The Nature Conservancy, would make it much harder to build subdivisions in areas prone to fires or flooding. At the same time, the bill would require cities to make it much easier and cheaper for developers to build housing in urban areas.
Supporters said the goal is to promote housing development in existing communities -- where residents often have a better quality of life because they can live close to where they work and utilize existing public amenities like mass transit, schools and parks — rather than construction in outlying areas where residents usually have to drive more and taxpayers must spend heavily to build infrastructure and amenities.
State Assembly Member Chris Ward, who is carrying the bill, said California has enabled an unhealthy pattern of exurban growth for the past 50 years by making it overly complicated to build within existing communities while allowing cities and towns to annex land and permit unchecked development in grassy foothills or along seasonal floodplains.
“That has come to roost in the form of thousands of homes burning down,” said Ward, a Democrat from San Diego and a former environmental planner. “Mother Nature doesn’t know about our political boundaries.”
More than one in four Californians, or more than 11 million people, live in a high fire-risk zone, known as the wildland-urban interface, according to researchers at the UC Berkeley Center for Community Innovation and the nonprofit think tank Next10. One in five residents live in an area vulnerable to flooding, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
Ward’s bill, Assembly Bill 68, has a major set of teeth: provisions that would limit development in areas that are considered extremely high risk for wildfire and floods.
The full text of Ward’s bill hasn’t been published yet. But he said it would prohibit cities, towns and unincorporated counties from upzoning land or streamlining approval to allow denser development in dangerous wildland areas unless the local government can prove that it’s unable to construct the same amount of housing in an existing urbanized area, out of harm’s way. The details of how a local government could meet that test under the bill are still being drafted.
In practice, that could put the brakes on much of the state’s exurban development for cities and towns and make it “very rare or close to impossible” for unincorporated county areas, Ward said.
That provision is likely to stir strong opposition from some builders, unions representing construction workers and business groups. There have been past legislative attempts to ban or limit construction in wildfire-prone areas, but those efforts have fizzled in Sacramento amid protests from the building industry.
Melissa Breach, chief operating officer for California YIMBY, helped craft AB68, which she said is unlike past failed measures because it couples limits on development in wildland areas with provisions to speed up construction within existing communities.
“We want to put that housing where it makes the most sense,” she said.
The bill is new territory for California YIMBY, one of the state’s most aggressive pro-housing groups that is often aligned with the building industry on legislation. But Breach said the effort to limit development in wild areas is in lockstep with the organization’s mission, which she said has always been focused on building homes in urban areas, where construction has a smaller environmental footprint and people tend to use less water and drive less.
“YIMBY is ‘Yes in My Backyard,” she said. “There are a lot of parts of the state where there are no backyards, pristine parts. YIMBYs are environmentalists.”
The other major provisions of the bill would require cities and towns to expedite approval of multi-family housing projects on “climate smart” lots, such as areas within one-half mile from transit or within a mile walk of parks, grocery stores and small businesses.
Such fast-tracked development happens through a process known as ministerial approval, which removes city officials’ discretion to arbitrarily reject denser housing or neighbors’ ability to challenge it at a hearing or through lawsuits filed under the guise of California’s stringent environmental law known as CEQA. AB68 would build on recent state laws that have expanded the number of projects that can use the faster approval route.
More than a decade ago, California legislators passed a bill that tried to nudge cities to allow denser and more infill development by requiring them to plan for housing in transit-friendly areas.
But cities have largely ignored those plans they created. AB68 aims to change that by requiring local governments to also streamline approval for housing projects that would be allowed under the planning documents that cities have drafted and stuck on the shelf.
Moreover, supporters of AB68 said wildlife habitat land has two other key public benefits: preserving land helps to mitigate planet-warming emissions because such land functions as “carbon sinks;” and the land can serve as a buffer between nearby communities and fires and flood runoff.
The partnership between California YIMBY and The Nature Conservancy, one of the country’s largest environmental groups, signals an important shift under way in the nexus between housing and environmental policy. In the past, environmentalists and housing advocates were often opponents, particularly as older generations of environmental advocates sought to discourage growth.
Elizabeth O'Donoghue, director of sustainable and resilient communities strategy at The Nature Conservancy, said the growing alliance between the two movements is a natural evolution as activists see how decades of sprawling development has contributed to climate change and put people in the path of the dangerous weather events it fuels.
“They’re both systemic issues, but they’re connected,” O'Donoghue said. “We need to solve these together.”
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EDWARDS, Colo., Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Richard Cunningham, MD, a top knee and shoulder specialist at Vail-Summit Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery (VSON), is the first orthopedic surgeon in Colorado's Vail Valley to complete the new Bridge-Enhanced ACL Restoration® (BEAR®) technique. With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Cunningham has performed thousands of ACL reconstructions, and many primary ACL repairs. A primary ACL repair saves the native ACL instead of removing and reconstructing the ACL with a graft. This is the first time Dr. Cunningham has done an ACL repair augmented with the BEAR® implant. This advancement in surgical technology may provide an improvement in patient outcomes for primary ACL repairs.
Dr. Cunningham and his team have successfully completed the BEAR® ACL repair procedure on a patient at Vail Valley Surgical Center in Edwards, Colorado. The patient was an ideal candidate for the BEAR® procedure as the tear had occurred recently and was torn close to the bone attachment on the femur. Dr. Cunningham states, "In the past, the biggest barrier to ACL repair was the poor blood supply and lack of a healing scaffold to allow the patient's native ACL to heal. With newer micro-surgical instruments and implants, a torn ACL can more frequently be saved and repaired instead of removed and reconstructed with a tendon graft."
The Federal Drug Administration's (FDA) recently approved the Bridge-Enhanced ACL Restoration® (BEAR®) technique. The BEAR® Restoration technology utilizes a bovine collagen implant inserted into the ACL repair site that provides a scaffold to allow the body's healing cells to migrate and attach to promote healing of the torn ACL. This advanced technology may make it possible to repair tears not previously repairable, leading to shorter recovery times, and more normal joint biomechanics.
Dr. Cunningham is Vail-Summit Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery's longest tenured orthopedic surgeon. Formerly the Chief of Surgery at the Vail Valley Medical Center, he was recognized by his colleagues with the Clinical Excellence Award. He is known for his passion in utilizing proven, advanced technologies. Compassionate care is defined by his commitment to optimizing patient outcomes.
CONTACT: Jill Lau, jill@jrldigitalmedia.com
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TX Lubbock TX Zone Forecast for Friday, November 4, 2022
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National Weather Service Lubbock TX
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
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Lubbock-
Including the cities of Lubbock, Wolfforth, and Slaton
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy and not as cool with highs in the upper
60s. West winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
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308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming north in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Not as cool with lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
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Including the cities of Friona, Bovina, and Farwell
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy and not as cool with highs in the upper
60s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Not as cool with lows in the
mid 40s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to south 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Breezy with highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Breezy, cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much colder with lows in the
upper 20s.
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Including the cities of Dimmitt and Hart
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy and not as cool with highs in the upper
60s. West winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to south 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much colder with lows in the
upper 20s.
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winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming north in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
50s. Temperature rising to around 60 after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much colder with lows around 30.
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Including the cities of Silverton and Quitaque
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming north in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Not as cool with lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower
50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
lower 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
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Including the cities of Turkey and Memphis
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming north 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Not as cool with lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ027-051615-
Bailey-
Including the city of Muleshoe
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy and not as cool with highs in the upper
60s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Not as cool with lows in the
upper 40s. West winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
50s.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Breezy with highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much colder with lows around 30.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ028-051615-
Lamb-
Including the cities of Littlefield, Amherst, and Olton
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy and not as cool with highs in the upper
60s. West winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
50s. Temperature rising into the lower 60s after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much colder with lows in the
lower 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ029-051615-
Hale-
Including the cities of Plainview and Hale Center
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy and not as cool with highs in the upper
60s. West winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
50s. Temperature rising into the lower 60s after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much colder with lows in the
lower 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ030-051615-
Floyd-
Including the cities of Floydada and Lockney
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy and not as cool with highs in the upper
60s. West winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
lower 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ031-051615-
Motley-
Including the cities of Matador and Roaring Springs
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows around 50.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Not as cool with lows around 60.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ032-051615-
Cottle-
Including the cities of Paducah and Cee Vee
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows around 50.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Not as cool with lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
upper 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
$$
TXZ033-051615-
Cochran-
Including the cities of Morton and Whiteface
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy and not as cool with highs in the upper
60s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s.
West winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much colder with lows in the
lower 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ034-051615-
Hockley-
Including the cities of Levelland and Sundown
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy and not as cool with highs in the upper
60s. West winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 40s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy with lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
lower 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ036-051615-
Crosby-
Including the cities of Ralls and Crosbyton
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy and not as cool with highs in the upper
60s. West winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ037-051615-
Dickens-
Including the cities of Spur and Dickens
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
$$
TXZ038-051615-
King-
Including the cities of Dumont and Guthrie
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows around 50.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower
60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
upper 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
$$
TXZ039-051615-
Yoakum-
Including the cities of Denver City and Plains
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s. West
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Breezy with highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ040-051615-
Terry-
Including the cities of Brownfield, Meadow, and Wellman
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 70. West winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming south around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
$$
TXZ041-051615-
Lynn-
Including the cities of Tahoka, New Home, and ODonnell
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 70. West winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid
30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
$$
TXZ042-051615-
Garza-
Including the cities of Post and Lake Alan Henry
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower
60s.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Breezy with highs in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
upper 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
$$
TXZ043-051615-
Kent-
Including the city of Jayton
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower
60s.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Breezy with highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
upper 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
$$
TXZ044-051615-
Stonewall-
Including the cities of Aspermont and Old Glory
308 AM CDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Much cooler with lows in the
upper 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
$$
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DUESSELDORF, Germany — It’s crunch time for Thomas Tuchel and Bayern Munich.
Leipzig is a tricky opponent for Bayern and got a 1-1 draw in their last game in January. Third-place Leipzig and coach Marco Rose have won seven of their last eight games in all competitions and know that a win over Bayern would guarantee Champions League qualification for next season.
There are plenty of links between the two clubs, with former Leipzig players Dayot Upamecano in the Bayern defense and Joshua Kimmich in midfield. Former Leipzig coach Julian Nagelsmann may have been replaced by Tuchel nearly two months ago, but his influence still shapes the way Bayern plays, and Leipzig midfielder Konrad Laimer is reportedly close to agreeing to move to Bayern when his contract expires at the end of the season.
Chasing a record-extending 11th consecutive title, Bayern has got back on form with three straight wins since the 3-1 loss to Mainz last month which briefly handed Dortmund the lead in the standings. Not all has gone smoothly for Bayern this week, though.
Goalkeeper Yann Sommer, himself a stand-in for the injured Manuel Neuer, missed training on Wednesday with what the club called “a stomach complaint,” potentially opening the way for third-choice Sven Ulreich to get a game Saturday. The future of Sadio Mané remains unresolved after a largely disappointing season for the Senegal forward.
At first glance, Augsburg might seem an ideal opponent for Dortmund. Likely safe from relegation in 13th, Augsburg may have little to play for but has raised its game against Germany’s top teams all season.
In its last game against Dortmund, Augsburg leveled the score three times before Gio Reyna finally scored the winning goal in a 4-3 victory for Dortmund. Augsburg stunned Bayern in a 1-0 win in September and went down fighting in a dramatic 5-3 loss in March.
This weekend could decide the relegation fight, too.
Anything but a win against Bochum will doom Hertha Berlin to relegation from the Bundesliga, a final humiliating blow after the team spent much of the last decade dreaming of becoming a “big city club” in the Champions League, putting Berlin on par with European capitals like London, Paris and Madrid.
To make matters worse for Hertha, the city of Berlin could be getting a Champions League club next season — Union Berlin. Hertha’s cross-city rival could secure a spot in Europe’s top competition with a draw against Hoffenheim on Saturday if Freiburg loses to Wolfsburg the day before.
Stuttgart also could be relegated, but only if it loses to Mainz on Sunday and Schalke, Hoffenheim and Bochum all win their games.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) warned Friday that an escalation in violent rhetoric by former President Trump has the potential “to get someone killed.”
Trump, who is under investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) related to hush money payments to an adult film actress, had written hours earlier that charges brought against him in that case could lead to “potential death & destruction.”
Jeffries said such threats bear echoes to Trump’s message leading up to the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, warning the former president might spark another episode of violence if he doesn’t tone down his language.
“The twice-impeached former president’s rhetoric is reckless, reprehensible and irresponsible. It’s dangerous, and if he keeps it up, he’s going to get someone killed,” Jeffries said during a press briefing in the Capitol.
“We’ve already seen the consequences of incitement from the former president,” he continued. “He is principally responsible for inciting the violent insurrection that happened on Jan. 6. But clearly he has not learned his lesson.”
Trump is the subject of a series of state and federal investigations for his role in the Jan. 6 rampage, his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and the discovery of classified documents at his palatial residence in South Florida. But the Manhattan case is the longest-running, based on $130,000 paid to the actress Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election, and Bragg has given recent signals that an indictment against Trump might be imminent.
Trump, who is the leading GOP contender for the White House in 2024, has denied any wrongdoing, accusing Bragg of conducting a political witch hunt. And in the earliest hours of Friday morning, he issued a statement on social media warning of violence if he is indicted.
“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
“Why & who would do such a thing? Only a degenerate psychopath that truely hates the USA!”
Despite Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 attack, and his repeated false assertions that the 2020 election was “stolen,” a number of Republicans on Capitol Hill are already endorsing his presidential bid.
Jeffries on Friday took a shot at those GOP lawmakers, suggesting they are complicit in any violence that stems from Trump’s remarks.
“It’s also very unfortunate that the extreme MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives continue to back President Trump and his reckless, and his violent, and his hateful and his disgusting rhetoric,” Jeffries said. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/jeffries-warns-trumps-words-may-get-someone-killed/ | 2023-03-24 19:36:01 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/jeffries-warns-trumps-words-may-get-someone-killed/ |
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has subpoenaed his friend and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as part of an effort to back out of his $44 billion agreement to acquire the company Dorsey helped found, according to court documents.
Twitter and Musk are headed for an Oct. 17 trial in Delaware that should determine whether or not Twitter can force the billionaire to go through with the acquisition.
Twitter has subpoenaed a host of tech investors and entrepreneurs connected to Musk, including prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and David Sacks, the founding chief operating officer of PayPal.
Musk has claimed that Twitter failed to provide adequate information about the number of fake, or “spam bot,” Twitter accounts, and that it has breached its obligations under the deal by firing top managers and laying off a significant number of employees. Musk’s team expects more information about the bot numbers to be revealed in the trial court discovery process, when both sides must hand over evidence.
Twitter argues that Musk’s reasons for backing out are just a cover for buyer’s remorse. Shortly after Musk agreed to pay 38% above Twitter’s stock price, the stock market stumbled and shares of the electric-car maker Tesla, where most of Musk’s personal wealth resides, lost more than $100 billion of their value.
The subpoena was served last week. It asks Dorsey for documents and communications related to the acquisition, as well as information on the effect of fake or spam accounts on Twitter’s business and its measurement of daily active users.
A lawyer representing Dorsey did not immediately respond to a message for comment on Monday. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/musk-subpoenas-former-twitter-ceo-and-friend-jack-dorsey/ | 2022-08-22 20:57:30 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/musk-subpoenas-former-twitter-ceo-and-friend-jack-dorsey/ |
“So far, I am ecstatic with them.” Those are homeowner, Pam Herron’s, easy and exact words.
After trying several different things to make her patio a better place to be, Herron finally found Rubber Stone. They are a company that uses a rubber overly that’s designed to enhance the look of your home or business while remaining resilient, durable, and flexible.
“We’ve done quite a bit. Almost $7,000 worth of trying to get this patio to look nice. And what finally got to me was that my grandson slipped on it while we were blowing bubbles and I said, you know, this is it. I’m done,” explains Herron when asked why she chose to give Rubber Stone a call.
“We specialize in covering any solid surfaces. So, pool decks, patios, driveways. We put half an inch of rubber down and we can seal basically any failing concrete, things of that nature”, says Michael Cordova, a design specialist with Rubber Stone.
There were several things that drew Herron to Rubber Stone’s product.
“They were recycling tires from Canada and I lived in Canada for a couple of years so I said well this works great, I love recycling,” says Herron, “and I was guaranteed that you wouldn’t slip and I said that’s what I need.”
“Traditionally, I’ll talk to people who have a pool deck or patio that’s concrete basically, it’s very slippery when it’s wet. What’s nice about what we do is when we install our product on the surface, it’s a non-slip surface. It’s incredibly durable. So, when you’re looking at pools, you know, kids are always in pools and they’re running. Half of the time they’re going to fall, right? So it’s nice if you’re going to fall on something better to fall on rubber than concrete,” Cordova says.
Rubber Stone offers 30 different colors to choose from so you can pick the design that perfectly fits your space.
“The colors, we could pick the colors, we could do what we need. Instead of somebody saying ‘Oh you’re going to do checkerboard’ or ‘you’re going to do a finger thing, you know, finger painting’,” says Herron.
“Compared to traditional concrete pool deck surfaces, we’re actually 30 to 40 degrees cooler. So, in the hot sun, Arizona where it’s 110 degrees and we’re installing all summer long, people can enjoy their pool decks. Out here, same thing basically, you can walk on it with your bare feet,” Cordova says.
While Herron was working with Rubber Stone, she says they always made her project feel like a priority.
“One of the things that I do like is that somebody lets me ask 50,000 questions. He didn’t rush me through it. He didn’t say ‘Hurry up and make a decision’. They answered quickly on the emails or called me,” Herron tells us.
“So, it’s really more of a personal experience. It’s not a 10-minute meeting. We’re talking a couple of hours maybe to get this done right for them and make sure they are comfortable with it and that we have reviewed everything and they know exactly where we’re going,” Cordova says.
Herron also had this to say about the work being done.
“These guys that are working on it are amazing. They’ve been very kind and very thoughtful and hard-working, really hard workers,” Herron says, ” and so it was just a no-brainer to go with him.”
All in all, Herron says she would absolutely recommend Rubber Stone to anyone looking to redo their space.
“I’m going to have this for the rest of my life. I mean, and I’m getting older, it’s just a guarantee that it looks nice, I can put a good patio on it, I don’t have to worry about it anymore,” Herron says, “Would I recommend them, right now, yes, so far so good.”
Right now, Rubber Stone is offering $300 off your service.
You can contact Rubber Stone at (505)-587-1084. | https://www.krqe.com/new-mexico-living/rubber-stone-can-help-new-mexicans-with-better-patios/ | 2023-07-31 19:42:21 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/new-mexico-living/rubber-stone-can-help-new-mexicans-with-better-patios/ |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan launched a new anti-polio drive on Monday, more than a week after officials detected the third case so far this year in the country’s northwestern region bordering Afghanistan.
The campaign — the third one this year — is to last for five days, aiming to inoculate 40 million children under the age of 5 across the country.
Pakistan has previously carried out two anti-polio campaigns this year, in January and March, after discovering only one case of the disease last year, which raised hopes the country was close to eliminating polio. This year’s first case was registered in April.
A statement from Dr. Shahbaz Baig, the spokesperson for the country’s polio program, urged parents to cooperate with polio workers in the door-to-door campaign.
Pakistan’s anti-polio campaigns are regularly marked by violence. Islamic militants often target polio teams and police assigned to protect them, falsely claiming the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize children.
During the March campaign, gunmen in northwestern Pakistan shot and killed a female polio worker as she was returning home after a day of vaccinations. And in January, gunmen shot and killed a police officer providing security for polio vaccination workers, also in the country’s northwest.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only remaining countries in the world still trying to eradicate polio, which can cause severe paralysis in children. | https://www.cenlanow.com/health/pakistan-launches-new-anti-polio-drive-after-3rd-case-found/ | 2022-05-23 17:19:06 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/health/pakistan-launches-new-anti-polio-drive-after-3rd-case-found/ |
BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that his country has intercepted plans by Russian secret services to destroy Moldova
Speaking to European Union leaders in Brussels, Zelenskyy said he recently told Moldovan President Maia Sandu about the alleged scheme.
“I have informed her that we have intercepted the plan of the destruction of Moldova by the Russian intelligence,” Zelenskyy said through a translator.
Zelenskyy said the documents showed “who, when and how” the plan would “break the democracy of Moldova and establish control over Moldova.”
Zelenskyy said the plan was very similar to the one devised by Russia to take over Ukraine. He added that he did not know whether Moscow ultimately ordered the plan to be carried out.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov charged last week that the West was considering turning Moldova into “another Ukraine.” He alleged that the West backed the 2020 election of the pro-Western Sandu, claiming that she is eager to take the country into NATO, merge Moldova with Romania and “practically is ready for anything.”
In December, Moldova’s national intelligence agency warned that Russia could launch a new offensive this year with the aim of creating a land corridor through southern Ukraine to Moldova’s Moscow-backed breakaway region of Transnistria.
Transnistria broke away after a 1992 civil war but is not recognized by most countries. It extends roughly 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the eastern bank of the Dniester River to the country’s border with Ukraine. Russia has about 1,500 troops nominally as “peacekeepers” in the breakaway region. | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-zelenskyy-ukraine-intercepted-plans-to-destroy-moldova/ | 2023-02-09 14:04:46 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-zelenskyy-ukraine-intercepted-plans-to-destroy-moldova/ |
Canned pumpkin, stuffing mixes, graham cracker pie crust and masa flour are on the Community Food Bank’s list of most-needed items for its Holiday Food Drive on Saturday, Nov. 19.
Special to the SentinelThanksgiving is just around the corner and it is a time many of us start to think about all those delicious holiday foods.
Our family loves to order the yummy pumpkin pie from Homestyle Bakery, 924 N. Seventh St., and their delightful “turkey butter” — it’s literally butter in the shape of a mini turkey — to go along with all the other foods we make.
We enjoy gathering with friends and family and savoring these foods and relationships.
Unfortunately, with food prices and food insecurity on the rise, many people in the valley are unable to afford a special holiday meal.
I recently saw that Community Food Bank, 476 28½ Road, will host a Holiday Food Drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19. Its list of most needed items includes frozen turkeys and hams, canned pumpkin, gravy mixes, spices, canned pie fillings, boxed stuffing, cornbread mix, graham cracker pie crusts, masa flour and corn husks.
I reached out to Alisha Wenger, the executive director of Community Food Bank, to learn more about the food drive and the organization.
“The Community Food Bank has been serving Mesa County for nearly 45 years. Since 2019, we have increased our program service by 450% and are currently distributing an average of 80,000 pounds of nutritious food directly to our community members every month,” Wenger told me.
“Our programs include an in-person choice pantry (with 50% fresh items), home and partner delivery, on-site resource navigation, SNAP application assistance, and nutrition exploration tastings and demonstrations in our pantry lobby. Our current monthly food costs average around $17,000.”
The foods donated during the Holiday Food Drive will be available for people to choose at Community Food Bank’s pantry and also will be delivered to people.
If you are interested in volunteering your time or donating money in addition to donating foods, you can learn how to do so at foodbankgj.org or call them at 970-640-0336.
I look forward to buying some holiday foods and taking them to the Community Food Bank on Saturday.
Please reach out and ask your friends and coworkers to join you in this important endeavor. Together, we can help bring some culinary cheer to our neighbors in the valley.
Thank you for helping others during the upcoming holidays. May we feel grateful for our many blessings and for the wonderful people and organizations who work day in and out to make the world a better place. | https://www.gjsentinel.com/lifestyle/food/all-things-food-give-thanks-by-donating-to-holiday-food-drive/article_4159a8f4-5ee3-11ed-a227-bb499ea511b5.html | 2022-11-16 08:04:10 | 0 | https://www.gjsentinel.com/lifestyle/food/all-things-food-give-thanks-by-donating-to-holiday-food-drive/article_4159a8f4-5ee3-11ed-a227-bb499ea511b5.html |
Wilmington Jumpstart grads to transform city properties into affordable housing
Wilmington’s Jumpstart program offers real estate development training to city residents and connects participants with real estate professionals who can offer advice and network connections.
The program designed to help redevelop parts of the city that have been left vacant in recent years has a new perk.
On Thursday, members of Wilmington City Council passed a measure that would give seven vacant properties on the city’s west side to graduates of the Jumpstart program. The goal is to help residents of the neighborhoods where these homes are located become redevelopers within the community.
“This is the dream that the community is doing for itself,” said Councilman Chris Johnson. “I was just excited because this is where it begins. People want to know what the plan of council is and what [the] council president’s vision for the city is and what we’re working on, this is it.”
The resolution officially declares the properties as surplus. That allows the city’s Dept. of Real Estate and Housing, which previously owned the properties, to start the process of transferring them to Jumpstart grads.
Council’s action was sponsored by Councilwoman Bregetta Fields, who represents part of the West Center City community. She’s hopeful the move will kickstart growth in homeownership. Currently, 85% to 90% of homes in her district are rentals.
“This shows them that community wealth, not just community wealth, but family wealth, that it’s doable. Owning your own house is doable, and I think when our individuals and our community begins to own their own properties, they begin to take ownership of their neighborhood and of their blocks,” Fields said. “I am just really ecstatic that Council came together and voted for this ordinance because this means we’re all for our community, our Black and brown community.”
Supporting the effort was a no-brainer for Councilwoman Shané Darby. She’s a graduate of the Jumpstart program herself.
“Being able to create stability and to build wealth are key to generational, to break the generational curses of poverty in our community, specifically for Black and brown people,” Darby said. “I just want to say I am in full support.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Norfolk Southern’s CEO is apologizing to Congress on Thursday and pledging millions of dollars to help East Palestine, Ohio, recover from the fiery hazardous materials train derailment as senators investigate rail safety and the Biden administration’s response to the disaster.
“I am deeply sorry for the impact this derailment has had on the people of East Palestine and surrounding communities, and I am determined to make it right,” CEO Alan Shaw said in prepared remarks released ahead of the Senate Environment and Public Works panel hearing.
Shaw says the railroad will do “the right thing” with a $20 million commitment to help the community recover.
The company has announced several voluntary safety upgrades. Senators, however, have promised a pressing inquiry into the derailment, the company’s safety practices and the emergency response to the toppling of 38 railcars, including 11 carrying hazardous materials. Federal regulators have also said Norfolk Southern must do more to improve safety.
No one was injured in the crash, but state and local officials decided to release and burn toxic vinyl chloride from five tanker cars, prompting the evacuation of half of the roughly 5,000 residents of East Palestine. Scenes of billowing smoke above the village, alongside outcry from residents that they are still suffering from illnesses, have turned high-level attention to railroad safety and how dangerous materials are transported.
Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., the chair of the committee opened the hearing by calling it an “an opportunity to put ourselves in the shoes of those impacted by this disaster, examine the immediate response and ensure long-term accountability for the cleanup efforts.”
Carper joined the top Republican on the committee, Sen. Shelley Capito of West Virginia, in a call with reporters on Wednesday to emphasize they would work in bipartisan fashion “to deliver accountability to the communities and folks who have been impacted.”
The East Palestine disaster as well as a spate of other recent train derailments have sparked a show of bipartisanship in the Senate. The committee on Thursday will also hear from Ohio and Pennsylvania senators — Republican JD Vance and Democrats Sherrod Brown and Bob Casey — who are pushing new safety regulations called the Railway Safety Act of 2023.
“It shouldn’t take a train derailment for elected officials to put partisanship aside and work together for the people we serve – not corporations like Norfolk Southern,” Brown said in prepared remarks. “Lobbyists for the rail companies spent years fighting every effort to strengthen rules to make our trains and rail lines safer. Now Ohioans are paying the price.”
Train derailments have been getting less common but there were still more than 1,000 last year, according to data collected by the Federal Railroad Administration. But even a single train derailment involving hazardous materials can be disastrous.
Noting that a train had derailed in her home state of West Virginia on Wednesday, Capito cast the hearing as the Senate’s first step among several on railway safety and emergency response.
Hazardous materials shipments account for 7% to 8% of the roughly 30 million shipments railroads deliver across the U.S. each year. But railroads often mix shipments and might have one or two cars of hazardous materials on almost any train.
The Association of American Railroads trade group says 99.9% of hazardous materials shipments reach their destinations safely, and railroads are generally regarded as the safest option to transport dangerous chemicals across land.
But lawmakers want to make railroads safer. The Railway Safety Act of 2023, which has gained support from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., would require more detectors to be installed to check the temperature of wheel bearings more frequently, make sure railroads notify states about the hazardous materials they are transporting, and fund hazmat training for first responders.
Meanwhile, House Republicans have voiced skepticism about passing new regulations on railroads. GOP senators discussed the bill in their weekly luncheon on Tuesday, but Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., said most would prefer the bill be ironed out in a committee.
Norfolk Southern is also under pressure from federal regulators. The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Railroad Administration both announced investigations this week into the company’s safety culture. The NTSB said its investigators will look into five significant accidents involving Norfolk Southern since December 2021.
The company has said it is immediately implementing safety upgrades, including adding “approximately 200 hot bearing detectors” to its network. The NTSB has said a detector warned the crew operating the train that derailed Feb. 3 outside East Palestine, but they couldn’t stop the train before more than three dozen cars came off the tracks and caught fire.
Republican Sen. Vance of Ohio pointed to those voluntary steps as a sign his bill was “on the right track.” But Democratic sponsors of the legislation have said regulations should require operators to go further.
The Senate bill also touches on a disagreement between railroad worker unions and operators by requiring train crews to continue to have two people. Unions argue that railroads are riskier because of job cuts in the industry over the past six years. Nearly one-third of all rail jobs were eliminated and train crews, they say, deal with fatigue because they are on call night and day.
Republicans, at the same time, are more eager to delve into the emergency response to the East Palestine derailment. Thursday’s Senate hearing also features environmental protection officials from the federal, state and local levels.
Capito said President Joe Biden should have visited the community in the aftermath of the derailment. The Democratic president has said he will visit at some point. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg went to East Palestine last month and has pressed for increased safety protocols for trains.
Several East Palestine residents were making their way to Washington for Thursday’s hearing, including Misti Allison, who has joined a group called Moms Clean Air Force. Officials have told the town’s residents that air and water tests don’t show any dangerous levels of toxins, but Allison and other residents worry about potential long-term effects.
“Everybody here wants it to be fine. We want that to be true so badly. Everybody loves this community and nobody wants to leave. … But if it’s not, we need to know that,” Allison said.
A chemical odor can still be smelled in East Palestine at times, she said, adding: “Congress must hold accountable Norfolk Southern and these polluters and companies that run these train bombs through neighborhoods like ours.” | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/politics/ap-politics/norfolk-southern-ceo-bringing-apology-aid-to-senate-hearing/ | 2023-03-09 16:10:26 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/politics/ap-politics/norfolk-southern-ceo-bringing-apology-aid-to-senate-hearing/ |
TOKYO, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atonarp, a leader advancing clinical diagnostics, life science research, semiconductor and industrial process control through digital molecular profiling, announces that James Rothman, Ph.D., has agreed to serve on its board as an independent director. Dr. Rothman will add his expertise to inform and advance the Company's roadmap of next-generation molecular sensing and diagnostic products.
Dr. Rothman is currently the Sterling Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale in 2008, he served as Chief Scientist of General Electric Healthcare and its predecessor, Amersham. Dr. Rothman also served as an advisor to top research management at Genentech, Merck & Co., Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, and Eli Lilly. He previously has been a professor at Stanford, Princeton, and Columbia Universities and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he served as Vice-Chairman of the Sloan-Kettering Institute. Dr. Rothman is a recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and the 2002 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for work showing how tiny sac-like structures (called vesicles) help transport substances within the body. This research provided the conceptual framework for understanding such diverse and important processes as the release of insulin into the blood, communication between nerve cells in the brain, and the entry of viruses to infect cells.
Dr. Rothman's current research concerns the biophysics of membrane fusion and its regulation in exocytosis; the dynamics of the Golgi apparatus at super-resolution; and the use of bio-inspired design in nanotechnology. He is a member of the US National Academies of Science and of Medicine.
"We are truly honored to have such a highly distinguished scientist join us," said Prakash Murthy, Atonarp Founder and CEO. "Dr. Rothman will be an invaluable resource as we work to achieve our mission of unlocking molecular insights to accelerate human progress."
"I am delighted to work with Atonarp because I am deeply impressed by their unique multi-laser optical spectroscopy and mass spectrometry technology platforms. I envision broad applications in life sciences and look forward to working with the team to make our vision a reality," said Dr. Rothman.
Atonarp is advancing clinical diagnostics, life science research, semiconductor, and industrial process control through digital molecular profiling. Our ASTON and ATON platforms harness the power of innovative spectrometry technologies with advanced analytics to generate real-time, actionable results. Our platforms can be applied to a wide variety of applications across multiple industries. In-situ, highly sensitive and fast molecular metrology in advanced manufacturing processes means higher throughput, improved efficiency, and reduced waste. Our quantitative, multiplex chemistry-free diagnostic tests enable disease diagnosis and monitoring at the point-of-care, which can improve outcomes and patient satisfaction at lower cost.
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Vermonters rush to dry out flooded homes and businesses with more storms on the horizon
(AP) - Vermonters worked Friday to dry out homes and businesses damaged by historic flooding but kept a wary eye on the horizon, with another round of storms forecast for the weekend.
Parts of the state got more rain on Thursday and about 14,000 customers lost power at the height of the storm. More rain is expected on Sunday, and further out, next Tuesday.
“We don’t know the extent of some of these storms,” Gov. Phil Scott said at a news conference.
Storms dumped up to two months’ worth of rain in a couple of days in parts of the region this week, surpassing the amount that fell when Tropical Storm Irene blew through in 2011 and caused major flooding. Officials called this week’s flooding the state’s worst natural disaster since floods in 1927.
The flooding has been blamed for one death — a man who drowned in his home in Barre, a city of about 8,500 people in central Vermont. Stephen Davoll, 63, died Wednesday, said Vermont Emergency Management spokesman Mark Bosma, who urged Vermonters to continue to take extra care as they return to their homes and repair damage.
“The loss of a Vermonter is always painful, but it is particularly so this week,” Vermont U.S. Sen. Peter Welch said in a statement.
It was the second flood-related death stemming from a storm system and epic flooding in the Northeast this week. The first was in upstate New York, where a woman was swept away by floodwaters in Fort Montgomery, a small Hudson River community about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of New York City.
President Joe Biden on Friday approved Scott’s request for a major disaster declaration to provide federal support for recovering communities.
Many communities have been in touch with Vermont emergency management officials to discuss their needs, but state officials said Friday that they hadn’t yet heard from about two to three dozen of them. National Guard troops were being sent to establish contact with them.
In addition to roads, homes and businesses, farms took a big hit, with the flooding coming soon after many growers endured a hard freeze in May.
It’s expected to “destroy a large share of our produce and livestock feed,” the state’s agriculture secretary, Anson Tebbetts, said at a news conference. “In our hilly state, some of our most fertile farmland lies in the river valleys, and countless fields of corn, hay, vegetables, fruit, and pasture were swamped and buried.”
It was too soon to determine damage costs, he said.
Meanwhile, Scott and other officials talked about the many Vermonters who have been volunteering to help flood-affected areas.
“I’ve been inspired by the thousands of Vermonters, businesses and organizations who have reached out, wanting to help. As we transition to recovery, we know we’ll need all the help we can get.”
In Marshfield, a small community about 45 miles (72 kilometers) east of the state’s biggest city, Burlington, the Marshfield Village Store was used as a makeshift shelter one night during this week’s flooding, housing as many as three dozen people.
On Friday, it was serving as a distribution point for clean water, as damage to a water main had left the town in need. And officials were still trying to reach people who might need help.
“We’re about to start putting it out more formally, if there are other folks who haven’t been able to get the support that they need yet, so that we can get equipment and volunteers to them, emergency medication, work on their properties, that’s where we’re at right now,” said Michelle Eddleman McCormick, the store’s general manager.
Philip Kolling, director of SerVermont, said as of Friday, about 5,200 people statewide had registered to help relief efforts through the state Emergency Management agency and an online volunteer recruitment effort.
“What we are doing does not even begin to capture all of the volunteers being organized through local organizations, towns, and informal networks, and we encourage those local efforts as they often can address critical needs more quickly,” he said.
Some volunteers have offered drive for the charity Meals on Wheels or take people to medical appointments. Others have offered to help with general cleanup.
In the southern Vermont ski village of Ludlow, Calcutta’s restaurant was getting two truckloads of food to prepare meals for first responders, volunteers, and anyone else who might need one. Many people were working on cleanup and fixing roads.
The large banquet room was set up with cots, water, and toiletries for anyone who was displaced.
“There’s plenty of work that needs to be done to get us back to normal,” said Michael Reyes, who works for a hospitality group that owns the restaurant.
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McCormack reported from Concord, New Hampshire. Associated Press reporters Lisa Rathke in Marshfield, Vermont, and Michael Casey in Boston contributed to this report.
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President Biden on Tuesday will designate two new national monuments, putting nearly 514,000 acres off-limits to development as part of his pledge to protect a third of America’s lands and waters by 2030.
The Washington Post reported in November that Biden would safeguard the vast expanse in Nevada using his authority under the 1906 Antiquities Act. It will rank as the largest protected area of Biden’s presidency.
The moves reflect the administration’s efforts to protect wildlife while slashing planet-warming emissions by preventing mining and oil drilling on public lands. They follow a flurry of conservation announcements from the White House in recent weeks, including one banning oil and gas leasing in U.S. waters in the Arctic Ocean.
The designations come as Biden faces intense criticism from environmentalists over the administration’s approval this month of a massive oil drilling project in Alaska. In a sign of these tensions, climate activists on Tuesday will protest the Willow oil project outside the Interior Department even as Biden will declare the national monuments at a conservation summit with tribal leaders inside the building.
The Fort Mojave and 11 other tribes consider Avi Kwa Ame a central part of their creation story and the site from which their ancestors emerged. Environmental groups have also supported the designation, saying it will help preserve critical habitat for the desert tortoise and other species.
The proclamation will render about 507,000 acres — spanning almost the entire triangle at the bottom of the Nevada map — off-limits to mining and other kinds of development. It will also prevent renewable energy projects from breaking ground there, although administration officials have argued the monument will not undermine Biden’s clean-energy agenda.
Outside of the national monument boundaries, Interior’s Bureau of Land Management has identified more than 9 million acres of land in the state for potential large-scale solar development and another 16.8 million acres for possible wind energy projects. Federal officials have also designated more than three-quarters of the monument area as either wilderness or “areas of critical environmental concern” as part of an effort to provide continuous habitat for the desert tortoise, the desert bighorn sheep and the Gila monster, a venomous lizard.
The Castner Range National Monument will encompass 6,672 acres that the U.S. Army used for training and testing during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. The Army stopped training at the site in 1966, when it closed to the public because of unexploded ordnance.
The Defense Department, which manages Castner Range, has been studying the feasibility of cleaning up the site under the nation’s Superfund law. The department will continue to manage the national monument and will help clean up the site until it is safe for public access.
While Castner Range is currently off-limits to people, it provides habitat for an array of wildlife, including the American peregrine falcon, the golden eagle, the black-tailed prairie dog and the Texas horned lizard. The endangered Sneed’s pincushion cactus and other rare plants also grow in the area. In addition, the range contains archaeological artifacts from early Native American settlements, including rock art and pottery.
Biden had previously suggested he would travel to southern Nevada to designate Avi Kwa Ame. But scheduling difficulties have prevented the president and Nevada’s congressional delegation from traveling to the state for a ceremony there. Aides in recent weeks began exploring whether to hold a ceremony in Washington to better accommodate lawmakers’ schedules.
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: NBIX) today will present data on the effects of ONGENTYS® (opicapone) capsules on soluble-catechol-O-methyltransferase (S-COMT) enzyme inhibition. These data (abstract #1025) are being shared at the MDS International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders® September 15-18 in Madrid, Spain.
"These data demonstrate that COMT inhibition shown by opicapone leads to more consistent daily levodopa exposure, which continues to be a challenge and goal in treating Parkinson's disease," said Eiry W. Roberts, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Neurocrine Biosciences. "Adding a once-daily dose of opicapone 50 mg to levodopa/carbidopa resulted in inhibition of S-COMT activity and reduced fluctuations in L-dopa concentrations regardless of disease state, age, sex, ethnicity, or BMI."
The post-hoc analyses were conducted using data from 2 previous open-label Phase 1 studies of ONGENTYS, an approved once-daily adjunctive treatment to levodopa/carbidopa in patients with Parkinson's disease experiencing OFF time. Results of this post-hoc analysis showed that once-daily ONGENTYS 50 mg, when added to levodopa/carbidopa, decreased mean S-COMT activity by more than 80 percent in both patients with Parkinson's disease and healthy participants. Mean percentage reduction in S-COMT activity was 79–85 percent for all subgroups in both individual and pooled studies, although some subgroups had small participant numbers. ONGENTYS also reduced inter-patient variability in S-COMT activity by 86 percent from baseline.
Neurocrine Biosciences will also present survey results (abstract #993) on the continuing educational needs of U.S. clinicians managing OFF episodes in Parkinson's disease, demonstrating the variability in approach to managing OFF episodes and need for relevant Continuing Medical Education approaches.
A full list of abstracts being presented by Neurocrine Biosciences at MDS International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders® is available on the meeting website.
About ONGENTYS® (opicapone) Capsules
ONGENTYS is a once-daily, oral, peripheral, selective, and reversible catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitor approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April 2020 as an add-on treatment to levodopa/carbidopa in patients with Parkinson's disease experiencing "OFF" episodes. ONGENTYS inhibits the COMT enzyme, which breaks down levodopa, making more levodopa available to reach the brain.
In June 2016, BIAL – Portela & CA, S.A. (BIAL) received approval from the European Commission for ONGENTYS as an adjunct therapy to preparations of levodopa/DOPA decarboxylase inhibitors in adult patients with Parkinson's disease and end-of-dose motor fluctuations who cannot be stabilized on those combinations. BIAL currently markets ONGENTYS in several European countries. Neurocrine Biosciences in-licensed opicapone from BIAL in 2017 and has exclusive development and commercialization rights in the U.S. and Canada.
Important Information (U.S.)
Approved Use
ONGENTYS® (opicapone) capsules is a prescription medicine used with levodopa and carbidopa in people with Parkinson's disease (PD) who are having "OFF" episodes.
It is not known if ONGENTYS is safe and effective in children.
Important Safety Information
Do not take ONGENTYS if you:
- take a type of medicine called a non-selective monoamine-oxidase (MAO) inhibitor.
- have a tumor that secretes hormones known as catecholamines.
Before taking ONGENTYS, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you:
- have daytime sleepiness from a sleep disorder, have unexpected periods of sleep or sleepiness, or take a medicine to help you sleep or that makes you feel sleepy.
- have had intense urges or unusual behaviors, including gambling, increased sex drive, binge eating, or compulsive shopping.
- have a history of uncontrolled sudden movements (dyskinesia).
- have had hallucinations or psychosis.
- have liver or kidney problems.
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant, or are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Especially tell your healthcare provider if you take nonselective MAO inhibitors (such as phenelzine, tranylcypromine, and isocarboxazid) or catecholamine medicines (such as isoproterenol, epinephrine, norepinephrine, dopamine, and dobutamine), regardless of how you take the medicine (by mouth, inhaled, or by injection).
ONGENTYS and other medicines may affect each other causing side effects. ONGENTYS may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how ONGENTYS works.
What should I avoid while taking ONGENTYS?
Do not drive, operate machinery, or do other dangerous activities until you know how ONGENTYS affects you.
What are the possible side effects of ONGENTYS?
ONGENTYS may cause serious side effects, including:
- Falling asleep during normal activities such as driving a car, talking or eating while taking ONGENTYS or other medicines used to treat Parkinson's disease, without being drowsy or without warning. This may result in having accidents. Your chances of falling asleep while taking ONGENTYS are higher if you take other medicines that cause drowsiness.
- Low blood pressure or dizziness, light headedness, or fainting.
- Uncontrolled sudden movements (dyskinesia). ONGENTYS may cause uncontrolled sudden movements or make such movements worse or happen more often.
- Seeing, hearing, or feeling things that are not real (hallucinations), believing things that are not real (delusions), or aggressive behavior.
- Unusual urges (impulse control and compulsive disorders) such as urges to gamble, increased sexual urges, strong urges to spend money, binge eating, and the inability to control these urges.
Tell your healthcare provider if you experience any of these side effects or notice changes in your behavior.
The most common side effects of ONGENTYS include uncontrolled sudden movements (dyskinesia), constipation, increase in an enzyme called blood creatine kinase, low blood pressure, and weight loss.
These are not all of the possible side effects of ONGENTYS. Call your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Please see ONGENTYS full Product Information.
About Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's disease is a chronic, progressive, and debilitating neurodegenerative disorder that affects approximately 1 million people in the U.S. and 6 million people worldwide. Parkinson's disease is associated with low dopamine levels produced in the brain. Dopamine helps transmit signals between the areas of the brain that control all purposeful movements, including talking, walking, and writing. As Parkinson's disease progresses, dopamine production steadily decreases, resulting in increased problems with motor symptoms including slowed movement (bradykinesia), tremor, rigidity, impaired posture and balance, and difficulty with speech and writing.
There is presently no cure for Parkinson's disease and management of the disease consists of the use of treatments that attempt to control motor symptoms primarily through dopaminergic mechanisms. The current gold standard for treatment of motor symptoms is levodopa/carbidopa. While levodopa/carbidopa improves patients' motor symptoms, as the disease progresses, the beneficial effects of levodopa begin to wear off more quickly. Patients then experience motor fluctuations throughout the day between "on" time, periods when the medication is working and Parkinson's disease symptoms are controlled, and "OFF" time, when the medication is not working and motor symptoms return.
About Neurocrine Biosciences
Neurocrine Biosciences is a neuroscience-focused, biopharmaceutical company with a simple purpose: to relieve suffering for people with great needs, but few options. We are dedicated to discovering and developing life-changing treatments for patients with under-addressed neurological, neuroendocrine, and neuropsychiatric disorders. The company's diverse portfolio includes FDA-approved treatments for tardive dyskinesia, Parkinson's disease, endometriosis* and uterine fibroids*, as well as over a dozen mid- to late-stage clinical programs in multiple therapeutic areas. For three decades, we have applied our unique insight into neuroscience and the interconnections between brain and body systems to treat complex conditions. We relentlessly pursue medicines to ease the burden of debilitating diseases and disorders, because you deserve brave science. For more information, visit neurocrine.com, and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. (*in collaboration with AbbVie).
Neurocrine, the Neurocrine logo, and ONGENTYS are registered trademarks of Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.
Forward-Looking Statements
In addition to historical facts, this press release contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to the benefits to be derived from Neurocrine's products and product candidates. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements are: our future financial and operating performance; risks associated with the commercialization of ONGENTYS; risks and uncertainties associated with the scale and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting global, national, and local economic and financial disruptions; risks related to the development of our product candidates; risks that the FDA or other regulatory authorities may make adverse decisions regarding our products or product candidates; risks that our products, and/or our product candidates may be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary or regulatory rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; risks associated with potential generic entrants for our products; risks associated with our dependence on BIAL for manufacturing activities for ONGENTYS, and our ability to manage BIAL; risks that clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all, or may be delayed for regulatory, manufacturing, COVID-19 or other reasons, may not be successful or replicate previous clinical trial results, may fail to demonstrate that our product candidates are safe and effective, or may not be predictive of real-world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; risks that the potential benefits of the agreements with our collaboration partners may never be realized; and other risks described in our periodic reports filed with the SEC, including without limitation our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. Neurocrine disclaims any obligation to update the statements contained in this press release after the date hereof.
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Lately, our Record-Eagle staff has been bumping into a word at various community gatherings and it’s stopping us cold: Media.
At public presentations and governmental meetings, someone will get up and, invariably, make reference to “the media.” In most cases, it’s usually to point a finger, to criticize and lay blame.
Often, a speaker will indicate that “the media” deliberately twisted the truth and, sometimes, go on to express the opinion that this alleged twisting of the truth has been done for nefarious reasons.
In some cases, the speaker even seems to believe, without proof, that there is collusion between various media organizations to report — or not report — some news stories. Conspiracy theories abound these days.
These public rebukes of the media make perfect sense, especially given what’s happening nationally with regard to broadcast news. That industry sure doesn’t help build any public trust in any news providers, no matter the medium.
But daily newspapers our size tend to reside apart from this tangled news heap. And that’s fine with us.
As a community newspaper, we form the foundation for local news and information. And that’s how the founders saw it back in the day. When the Constitution was written, the word “media” would have had them all scratching their heads.
According to techopedia.com: “Media is the plural form of medium, which (broadly speaking) describes any channel of communication. This can include anything from a printed paper to digital data, and encompasses art, news, educational content and numerous other forms of information.”
Merriam-Webster explains: “The singular ‘media’ and its plural ‘medias’ seem to have originated in the field of advertising over 70 years ago; they are still so used without stigma in that specialized field.
“In most other applications, ‘media’ is used as a plural of ‘medium.’ The popularity of the word in references to the agencies of mass communication is leading to the formation of a mass noun, construed as a singular.”
Part of the problem with this spoken word is that it lends itself to some sort of amorphous bloblike catch-all reference. The media is imprecise, at best.
Even if the word “media” had existed in 1787, the founders would not have chosen to carefully craft an amendment for “Freedom of the Media.” No way.
They understood the importance of the press and the freedom it requires to cover the community it serves, to seek out the facts and report them, without fear or favor. They also understood the citizens’ need and the ability to hold the press accountable for what it prints.
It’s truly a symbiotic relationship, the public and the press. Consistently, day in and day out, it’s unlike any other relationship that can be found with any other form of the so-called “media.”
Frankly, this news organization is quite different from other forms of media.
We know we’re not alone in that view because, whenever we challenge a speaker in their use of the word “media,” they all have said — without exception — that they weren’t referring to the newspaper. They can take up their criticism with us directly. Where they become frustrated is when they try to hold anyone else accountable.
Yet, because our language is dynamic and ever-changing, it’s sometimes tough to know precisely what people mean.
They can’t qualify their comments by saying “electronic media,” because those lines have blurred. We are electronic as well. Thousands of Record-Eagle readers across the country can access their subscriptions online, no matter where they go.
We are the traditional press — but we’re not just ink on paper anymore.
The nature of news coverage — and the crowded cacophony that assaults us every time we look at a screen on our phone or computer — makes precise communication precarious.
And so we ask to be considered — not as part of some amorphous blob called “media” — but as the local news staff dedicated to covering the community and committed to doing it well.
So what do people really mean when they say the word “media?”
It’s not always clear.
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HI-Bio is developing precision therapies for patients with immune-mediated diseases
Company launches with multiple clinical-stage programs and a robust translational toolkit with potential to address multiple diseases with high unmet medical needs
Company funded by ARCH Venture Partners, Monograph Capital, Jeito Capital and others
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Human Immunology Biosciences (HI-Bio™), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing targeted therapies for patients with severe immune-mediated diseases (IMDs), today announced its launch with $120 million in financing. The company was incubated by ARCH Venture Partners and Monograph Capital, joined by Jeito Capital and unnamed institutional investors and family offices.
Few targeted therapies exist for the autoimmune, allergic and inflammatory diseases that can together be referred to as IMDs. As much as 4 percent of the world's population may have one of these diseases, representing an enormous health burden. Conventional therapies are generally broad acting, and do not address the root causes of disease. As a result, many patients with IMDs experience limited relief from their symptoms and may experience unnecessary side effects. More than half of people treated with currently available therapies are not in remission. With such large unmet medical needs remaining, the global therapeutic market for these diseases could reach $150 billion by 2025.
"We know the power of precision medicine to achieve better results for patients, and HI-Bio is the first company to combine that approach with a focus on the latest in genetics and immunology for immune-mediated diseases," said Paul Berns, HI-Bio Chairman and Managing Director at ARCH Venture Partners. "HI-Bio is uniquely positioned to lead the transformation in clinical immunology away from one-size-treats-all medicines and to improve the lives of patients through the development of novel, targeted therapies for immune-mediated diseases."
Many IMDs stem from the dysfunction of cells that make up the immune system, including plasma cells, neutrophils, mast cells and more. These cells are responsible for critical functions and processes, including, for example, the secretion of antibodies, signaling mediators, tissue repair and allergic responses. HI-Bio's programs apply a precision medicine approach to target, modulate or deplete these cellular drivers of disease with therapeutics.
"We at HI-Bio are an embodiment of the urgent need to develop precision therapies that are more targeted for patients suffering from immune-mediated diseases," said Travis Murdoch, M.D., CEO of HI-Bio. "Immune-mediated diseases represent a landscape where the scale of unmet need and potential patient benefit is truly enormous. We are grateful to investors like ARCH, Monograph and Jeito, who share our vision for HI-Bio. They see that we have an enormous opportunity to bring an unprecedented degree of precision and creativity to clinical immunology, with all the potential safety and efficacy enhancements that come with our approach."
HI-Bio's clinical-stage assets include felzartamab, an anti-CD38 antibody, and HIB210, an anti-C5aR1 antibody. Felzartamab targets a protein expressed on the surface of mature plasma cells whose dysfunction is thought to drive several IMDs. When applied, felzartamab is believed to deplete plasmablasts and plasma cells, resulting in the removal of cells that produce disease-causing autoantibodies. HI-Bio is testing felzartamab for membranous nephropathy (MN) and IgA nephropathy (IgAN), with the potential to be the best-in-class therapy for autoantibody diseases. HIB210 is currently in ongoing Phase 1 safety testing, with anticipated studies in IMDs currently being planned.
Felzartamab and HIB210 were in-licensed through a transaction with MorphoSys in June 2022. HI-Bio holds exclusive worldwide rights for felzartamab, with the exception of Greater China, and exclusive worldwide rights except Greater China and South Korea for HIB210. Terms included a 15 percent equity stake in HI-Bio, milestone payments and single- to low- double-digit royalties on net sales. Both programs are believed to hold potential for expansion in multiple other indications in the IMD landscape. In addition to these programs, HI-Bio is advancing discovery programs targeting the dysfunction of mast cells implicated in several undisclosed indications.
Underlying HI-Bio's clinical pipeline is a toolkit that encompasses human genetics, human immunophenotyping, data sciences and therapeutic engineering. This discovery toolkit leverages emerging insights from research and development efforts to profile the immune phenotypes that drive IMDs. The toolkit will allow HI-Bio to rapidly advance its programs from early discovery through clinical development and can be applied to virtually all areas of the immune landscape.
HI-Bio's leadership includes:
- Travis Murdoch, M.D., as Chief Executive Officer;
- Matthew Albert, M.D., Ph.D., as Chief Translational Officer;
- Christina Carlson, J.D., as General Counsel;
- Carl Enell as Chief Business Officer;
- Ariella Kelman, M.D., as Senior Vice President of Development;
- Jaideep Dudani, Ph.D., as Head of Portfolio Development;
- Joyce Liaw as Vice President, Finance; and
- Lorna Dean as Vice President, Clinical Operations
HI-Bio's Board of Directors includes:
- Chairman Paul Berns, Managing Director at ARCH Venture Partners;
- Fred Cohen, M.D., D.Phil., Co-Founder and Chairman at Monograph Capital Partners;
- Barbara Krebs-Pohl, Ph.D., Chief Business Officer at MorphoSys;
- Rachel Mears, J.D., Partner at Jeito Capital;
- Mark Murcko, Ph.D., Founding Chief Scientific Officer at Dewpoint Therapeutics and Relay Therapeutics; and
- Carol Suh, Partner at ARCH Venture Partners
In addition to HI-Bio's executive team and Board, the company will benefit from the expertise of several accomplished scientific advisors. The company's Scientific Advisory Board includes Mark Daly, Ph.D., Founding Chief of the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital; John Davis, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., former Senior Vice President, Head of Early Clinical Development at Pfizer; Chris Goodnow, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research; Stefan Härtle, Ph.D., Head of Clinical Pharmacology at MorphoSys; Kristin Hogquist, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Center for Immunology at the University of Minnesota; Brian Kotzin, M.D., Senior Vice President, Clinical Development and Head of Immunology at Nektar Therapeutics; John Lowe, M.D., former Senior Director of Pathology at Genentech; Andrew Luster, M.D., Ph.D., Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital; and Gregg Silverman, M.D., Mamdouha S. Bobst Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine at NYU Langone Health.
About HI-Bio
Human Immunology Biosciences, Inc. (HI-Bio™) is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing precision medicines for people suffering from immune-mediated diseases (IMDs). HI-Bio is leading clinical immunology into its next chapter with more targeted therapies that target cellular drivers of disease. To learn more about HI-Bio, visit us at www.hibio.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- V-Soft Consulting announced its elevation to ServiceNow Elite Partner status, placing the company among the top performing ServiceNow partners in the industry. V-Soft's ServiceNow practice operates under the V-Soft Digital brand, the innovation arm of V-Soft Consulting.
"We've been working hard to build a base of client success and develop a world class team of consultants across the ServiceNow platform for three years, first attaining Premier status, now demonstrating our success as Elite," stated Leslie June, VP – ServiceNow Customer Experience at V-Soft Digital. "We are committed to continuing to apply our professional expertise to bring value to our clients."
The Elite Partner status is awarded to organizations that demonstrate expertise in five or more ServiceNow products across IT, employee experience, and customer service workflows. As a ServiceNow Elite Partner, V-Soft Digital helps their clients achieve digital transformation through ServiceNow's suite of industry-leading products, such as ITSM, ITOM, ITAM, SPM, CSM, GRC, SecOps, HRSD, and MSP offerings.
David Roy, V-Soft Digital's VP – ServiceNow Delivery Excellence, said, "An increase in our sales accreditations and certification requirements will ensure our teams will have the latest ServiceNow release updates to help guide our customers on their ServiceNow investments."
This recognition by ServiceNow has reinvigorated V-Soft Digital's dedication to further excel in the ServiceNow ecosystem and provide clients with tailored solutions, including consulting, implementation, managed services, hosting, specialized staffing and 24x7x365 support. With plans to extend operations to more locations, V-Soft Digital is confident they will achieve the next milestone as a ServiceNow Global Elite Partner.
"Our next goal is to become a distinguished Global Elite Partner of ServiceNow," said June. "This means continuing to grow our professional services and bring our expertise to more clients around the globe, strategizing with our clients and ServiceNow to leverage the power of the platform in the most effective ways to make and sustain our clients as leaders in their industries."
Visit us here to learn more about V-Soft's ServiceNow capabilities and offerings.
V-Soft Consulting, founded in 1997, is a Minority-Owned Business Enterprise (MBE) and Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE). V-Soft is an award-winning IT consulting firm headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. As a trusted partner of industry leading companies, V-Soft has over 20 years of experience in delivering innovative technology solutions for today's complex business challenges to include information technology (IT) business solutions, managed services, engineering, and IT staffing across North America and internationally.
V-Soft's ServiceNow Practice operates under the V-Soft Digital brand, the innovation arm of V-Soft Consulting.
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Twinsburg man faces charges for shooting at customer in Summit County phone store
SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - An employee of a cell phone store in Northfield Center Township is now facing criminal charges for allegedly shooting at a customer on Saturday, July 8.
Summit County Sheriff deputies said Tre’Von Rondo, 27, of Twinsburg, fired two rounds at a customer inside the Victra store located in the 8200 block of Golden Link Blvd. around 12:15 p.m.
Nobody inside the store was struck by either of the rounds; however, one of the bullets exited the business and struck a vehicle at a car dealership across the street, said deputies.
After the shooting, Rondo fled the scene, but was quickly located by deputies.
He was charged with discharging a firearm over a public roadway. Deputies added further charges are pending the outcome of the investigation.
Sources tell 19 News that the phone store employee and the customer knew each other, and were previously roommates.
Victra provided the following statement to 19 News:
“We are aware of the incident at the Northfield location and are fully cooperating with authorities. It is our understanding that the employee and customer in question had a prior personal relationship and that this was not a random encounter. Notwithstanding, it is our policy to not allow firearms in any of our retail stores. The safety of our customers and our employees is of the utmost importance and this individual will be held responsible.”
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy put the silver-plated shovels into a pile of dirt and left sizable divots.
With that, their high-tech golf league got a bit closer to launch.
The ceremonial groundbreaking for the arena that will house the league that’s being called TGL was held Tuesday at Palm Beach State College, with Woods and McIlroy — two of the co-founders of TMRW Sports — there for the first step of actual construction.
TMRW — pronounced “tomorrow” — says TGL play will begin early next year, and the league will be in partnership with the PGA Tour. Woods and McIlroy, so far, have 11 players committed to the league. Besides them, the league will include world No. 1 Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Adam Scott, Collin Morikawa, Matt Fitzpatrick, Max Homa, Billy Horschel, Justin Rose and Xander Schauffele.
That list includes six players currently ranked 10th or better in the world, plus the game’s biggest draw in Woods.
“In terms of fan experience, it’s going to be nothing like golf has offered before,” McIlroy said.
The concept is this: six teams of three PGA Tour players, squaring off in match play on a data-driven virtual course that also includes a short-game complex for chipping and putting.
It’ll be played on Monday nights, and will take only two hours, with in-arena fans all very close to the action. There will be 15 matches in the regular season, followed by semifinals and a final.
“We’re going to have excitement, we’re going to have something different, something that is is passionate,” Woods said. “We’ve been involved in teams before whether it’s Ryder Cup, President’s Cup, Irish national teams, for me high school, college, whatever it is. You’re going to get home and away, you’re going to get some people that you want to win and not win. We’re going to have that type of excitement.”
And you can bet on it. Literally, Woods pointed out.
“Wagering is part of our sport, part of our culture,” Woods said, then turned and looked at McIlroy. “We don’t know how to play golf without it.”
Access is part of the allure of the concept, along with the technology. Only a handful of fans at typical golf events can get close to the action, and they’re often running from hole to hole to stay with a certain group.
TGL players will be mic’d-up, and fans won’t have to guess what their thought processes are on certain shots.
“It’s going to give the viewer at home and also the people in the arena just more of an in-depth of sort of how we do things and how we sort of think through things in our head,” McIlroy said. “It’s just a more in-depth look into that.”
Mike McCarley, another co-founder and former Golf Channel president, said the arena will be built on a 10-acre (435,600-square feet) parcel of unused land. The partnership includes educational and recreational initiatives that will benefit Palm Beach State students, along with offering paid internships and other opportunities for students in technology, hospitality and administrative services.
“Think about how cool this will be for this land, this campus, to become a launching pad for future leaders in sports and media and technology as they learn here as part of TGL,” McCarley said. “We are breaking ground on much more than a dream, much more than a prime-time golf league.”
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s New Year’s address to the nation usually is rather anodyne and backed with a soothing view of a snowy Kremlin. This year, with soldiers in the background, he lashed out at the West and Ukraine.
The conflict in Ukraine cast a long shadow as Russia entered 2023. Cities curtailed festivities and fireworks. Moscow announced special performances for soldiers’ children featuring the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus. An exiled Russian news outlet unearthed a video of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, now the Ukrainian president despised by the Kremlin, telling jokes on a Russian state television station's New Year’s show just a decade ago.
Putin, in a nine-minute video shown on TV as each Russian time zone region counted down the final minutes of 2022 on Saturday, denounced the West for aggression and accused the countries of trying to use the conflict in Ukraine to undermine Russia.
“It was a year of difficult, necessary decisions, the most important steps toward gaining full sovereignty of Russia and powerful consolidation of our society,” he said, echoing his repeated contention that Moscow had no choice but to send troops into Ukraine because it threatened Russia’s security.
“The West lied about peace, but was preparing for aggression, and today it admits it openly, no longer embarrassed. And they cynically use Ukraine and its people to weaken and split Russia,” Putin said. “We have never allowed anyone and will not allow anyone to do this."
The Kremlin has muzzled any criticism of its actions in Ukraine, shut independent media outlets and criminalized the spread of any information that differs from the official view — including diverging from calling the campaign a special military operation. But the government has faced increasingly vocal criticism from Russian hardliners, who have denounced the president as weak and indecisive and called for ramping up strikes on Ukraine.
Russia has justified the conflict by saying that Ukraine persecuted Russian speakers in the eastern Donbas region, which had been partly under the control of Russian-backed separatists since 2014. Ukraine and the West says these accusations are untrue.
“For years, the Western elites hypocritically assured all of us of their peaceful intentions, including the resolution of the most difficult conflict in the Donbas,” Putin said.
Western countries have imposed wide sanctions against Russia, and many foreign companies pulled out of the country or froze operations after Moscow sent troops into Ukraine.
“This year, a real sanctions war was declared on us. Those who started it expected the complete destruction of our industry, finances, and transport. This did not happen, because together we created a reliable margin of safety,” Putin said.
Despite such reassurances, New Year’s celebrations this year were toned down, with the usual fireworks and concert on Red Square canceled.
Some of Moscow’s elaborate holiday lighting displays made cryptic reference to the conflict. At the entrance to Gorky Park stand large lighted letters of V, Z and O – symbols that the Russian military have used from the first days of the military operation to identify themselves.
“Will it make me a patriot and go to the front against my Slavic brothers? No, it will not,” park visitor Vladimir Ivaniy said.
Moscow also announced plans to hold special pageant performances for the children of soldiers serving in Ukraine.
The Russian news outlet Meduza, declared a foreign agent in Russia and which now operates from Latvia, on Saturday posted a video of Zelenskyy, who was a hugely popular comedian before becoming Ukraine’s president in 2019, performing in a New Year’s Day show on Russian state television in 2013.
Zelenskyy jokes that the inexpensive sparkling wine Sovietskoe Shampanskoye, a popular tipple on New Year’s, is in the record books as a paradox because “the drink exists but the country doesn’t.”
Adding to the irony, the show’s host was Maxim Galkin, a comedian who fled the country in 2022 after criticizing the military operation in Ukraine.
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These pro tips and advice will reduce the stress of meal planning
In today’s busy world, planning healthy meals can be difficult. Add the challenges of choosing nutritious foods and budgeting amid inflation, and many people opt for processed or fast foods that are affordable but lacking in nutritional value. So, we turned to our nutrition expert to help consumers plan meals and eat beneficial foods for advice.
Molly Bremer, MS, RD; is the director and dietitian at Mosaic Nutrition in Burlington, Vermont. We asked her to weigh in on some common issues that lead to unhealthy eating. Her meal prep tips and product recommendations will help you improve your diet. The Cuisinart MultiClad Pro Triple Clad 12-Piece Cookware Set, All-Clad Programmable Slow Cooker and OXO Good Grips POP Container Set are three of the recommended products featured in this article.
Focusing on the foods you eat
Healthy meal planning begins with assessing the types of foods to include in your diet. Bremer said that eating a variety of healthy foods is essential, but so is including foods that are enjoyable to eat. “I recommend having a variety of the five food groups (grains, protein, dairy, fruits and vegetables) and fun foods,” she said. “This might surprise some folks, but having fun foods included in your diet is as important for your health as including fruits and vegetables. When we expand our view of health to a more holistic approach (physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual), “health” is seen as more than just physical health.”
Eating healthy while budgeting
When it comes to shopping for food in 2022, inflation is a major factor for many people. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, food prices are up 11.4% higher than in August of 2021.
“Due to our current economic situation, many Americans are having to think about how to continue to eat healthy while staying within a tighter budget,” Bremer said, adding that planning helps consumers keep costs in check. “I would first suggest trying to plan ahead by assessing what food you have already and creating a grocery list after that. This is a helpful strategy to cut back on buying unnecessary foods and ultimately save money,” she said.
Bremer also suggests that shoppers consider low-cost foods such as rice, eggs, bananas, beans, peanut butter and frozen and canned foods to save money.
“I would also recommend looking into the qualification requirements for food assistance programs such as SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; formerly known as food stamps), WIC (Women, Infants and Children), or other federal and local programs.”
Healthy meal planning and time management
As a nutrition expert, Bremer said that she’s frequently asked for food shopping and cooking tips for those with busy lifestyles. “I suggest trying to come up with a meal planning system, incorporating canned and frozen foods and if you have the resources, to outsource as you can.” Bremer offered additional times-saving tips:
- “When meal planning, I encourage people to make a list of proteins, grains, fruits, vegetables, dairy, drinks and fun foods.”
- Once you buy your groceries, prepping the food all at once can help save time. Meal prepping looks different for everyone. For some, it means washing and cutting vegetables for easy grab-and-go snacks. For others, it means making lasagna and wild rice soup for the week.
- Including frozen and canned foods can be game-changing. “I always have a variety of frozen and canned entrees and sides on hand. Some staples I include are frozen meatballs, canned soup, boxed mac and cheese, frozen vegetables, canned beans and frozen dumplings.”
- “I would recommend including other people, such as kids, spouses or babysitters, to participate with grocery buying or cooking if possible to distribute responsibility and help lighten one’s task load.”
Planning healthy meals for kids
Cooking for kids poses several challenges, but Bremer offered suggestions for preparing meals that they’ll enjoy and that are good for them.
“My number one recommendation for meal planning for families with children is to think of Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility, which simply states: parents are responsible for what, when and where food is offered and children are in charge of if they will eat and how much to eat,” she explained. The parent who cooks food is often viewed as a short-order chef, but this can cause a lot of added stress and limit the variety of foods the children are exposed to. If parents are struggling with feeding all members of their family, I recommend trying to find a meal where there are options and choices.”
Bremer continued. “For example, having a taco night where family members can decide if/what protein and veggies and what amount of cheese and other toppings they desire. Or if there is a steak night and one of the kids is a vegetarian, use the same marinade on tofu and serve the same side dishes. It can be difficult and nuanced, so I recommend working with a dietitian specializing in family feeding. If that is not an option, I would look at literature from the Ellyn Satter Institute.”
Healthy snacking
“Snacks are a helpful tool to help bridge the gap between meals,” said Bremer, who recommends indulging in two to three snacks each day to prevent decreases in blood sugar that can lead to overeating. “I recommend pairing protein, fiber and fat to create satiating and satisfying snacks. Some of my go-to snacks are trail mix (with M&Ms and cereal), greek yogurt parfaits with fruit and granola, apples with peanut butter, or a smoothie made with fruit, veggies, ground flax seed, nut butter and milk. If I am in the mood for just a bag of BBQ chips, I eat those chips since they will be satisfying for my mental hunger, but I know that they will probably not physically keep me full and I might need to have a meal or another snack soon,” she advised.
Bremer’s product recommendations for healthy meal planning and eating
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In vitro study of the ELIAS Cancer Immunotherapy (ECI®) showed personalized T cell immunotherapy initiated a significant immune response against target cancer cells.
OLATHE, Kan., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ELIAS Animal Health recently presented new mechanism of action data for the ELIAS Cancer Immunotherapy (ECI®) at the 2022 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum.
ECI is an adoptive cell therapy that stimulates a patient's immune system to recognize and attack cancers. ECI uses a personalized vaccine made from a patient's own cancer cells to "prime" the immune cells to recognize the cancer. These primed immune cells—which are collected from the patient through a procedure called apheresis—are activated and expanded ex vivo for reinfusion into the patient, where they travel to the cancer cells and attack them.
The mechanism of action for ECI has been demonstrated in an in vitro study using cancer cells and T cells collected from pet dogs being treated with ECI for osteosarcoma, a deadly form of bone cancer. In the presence of target cancer cells, activated T cells from vaccinated dogs demonstrated cytotoxic activity, meaning the T cells acted in such a way to kill cancer cells.
Read: ECI® Mechanism of Action Technical Summary
Results from a previously reported clinical trial evaluating ECI in pet dogs with appendicular osteosarcoma were impressive, with several long-term survivors.
A second ECI trial completed enrollment early 2022, with over 100 pet dogs enrolled at 10 sites across the United States. Results from that study are expected late 2022.
ELIAS Animal Health is a medical biotechnology company advancing novel targeted T cell-based immunotherapies for the treatment of canine cancers. The ELIAS Cancer Immunotherapy is available to veterinarians commercially under 9 CFR 103.3 as an experimental autologous prescription product for the treatment of canine osteosarcoma. The company's novel therapeutic approach offers the prospect of improved clinical outcomes and the potential for fundamentally changing the way cancer is treated. Learn more at www.eliasanimalhealth.com.
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Facebook tests bringing back in-app messaging features as it competes with TikTok
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Nearly a decade after Facebook angered some users by splitting off messaging features from its flagship social networking application and forcing people to download a separate app to chat with friends, the company is now testing out reversing the move.
In an interview with CNN, Facebook head Tom Alison said the platform is testing bringing messaging capabilities back to the Facebook app so users can more easily share content without having to use the Messenger app. The test comes as Facebook looks to beat back competition from TikTok by bolstering its position both as a platform to discover new content and discuss it.
"We believe that content feeds into not just you consuming it but being conversation starters and starting that message thread with your friends or being something that you can share into a group of people who share your same interests," Alison said. "I think the thing that will differentiate Facebook and Instagram from TikTok and others is just the depth of being able to start a conversation with your friends from this content and have that kind of social dimension."
The move, which Alison also announced in a blog post Tuesday, comes after Facebook revised its strategy last year amid concerns about a stagnant and aging user base. No longer would the platform simply be about connecting friends and family. Instead, founder Mark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook to become a "discovery engine."
Facebook redesigned its home feed to surface more entertaining posts from across the platform, with AI-powered content recommendations, rather than just showing posts from those specifically in a user's network. (A new, separate tab fulfilled the desire for the latter.) The goal was clear: to keep users engaged longer and help the platform better compete with TikTok and its steady stream of recommended content.
Nine months later, that shift has begun to pay off, Alison told CNN. The platform last month reported that it hit 2 billion daily active users in the December quarter.
"A lot of the narrative leading up to this has been that Facebook is in decline or Facebook's best days are behind it," Alison said. "And part of what we're trying to do with this milestone is say, 'hey, look, that's actually not true.'"
There has been no shortage of rumors of Facebook's demise over the years, from its admission of having a "teen problem" a decade ago to the more recent series of PR debacles for the social network and its parent company, Meta. TikTok's rapid rise and even the success of Facebook's sister service, Instagram, have also taken some of the shine off the aging social network Zuckerberg launched in a dorm room nearly 20 years ago. But its audience has resumed growing, for now.
Alison, who has been in charge of the Facebook app since July 2021, said the introduction of the "discovery engine" strategy is just the beginning of a larger shift for the platform, as Facebook works to forge a path to continued growth and relevance over the next two decades.
"For the last almost 20 years ... we've been really known for friends and family, but over the next 20 years, what we're really working toward is being known for social discovery," he said. "It's going to be about helping you connect with the people that you know, the people that you want to know and the people that you should know."
While Facebook and Instagram have struggled in their attempts to keep pace with TikTok, including through copycat features like Reels, Alison argues Facebook has a leg up on TikTok thanks to its roots in helping people connect with their networks.
For some creators, for example, Facebook has become a place to create groups of fans and hold conversations beyond the content they share to Instagram and TikTok, Alison said. "I think it's helping them get closer to their fans on Facebook in a way they can't do on other platforms."
As Facebook plots its evolution, it will have to contend with what Zuckerberg has called the company's "year of efficiency," an effort to cut costs after a broader reckoning in the tech industry and investor skepticism around its pricey plan to center its business model around the future version of the internet it calls the metaverse.
"One of the things that we are embracing with the year of efficiency is prioritization and, frankly, just focusing more effort on some of our bigger bets," Alison said. The platform has, over the past year, shuttered some smaller efforts, such as its Bulletin newsletter subscription service, in favor of investing in key areas like AI. "That's a lot of the culture that we're kind of instituting across Meta is just like, how do we do fewer things better? And how do we do them, sometimes, more quickly? Efficiency is not just about cost savings." | https://www.wmur.com/article/facebook-tests-bringing-back-in-app-messaging/43239463 | 2023-03-08 00:41:59 | 0 | https://www.wmur.com/article/facebook-tests-bringing-back-in-app-messaging/43239463 |
WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, November 30, 2022
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HIGH WIND WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Seattle WA
103 AM PST Wed Nov 30 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST THIS MORNING...
...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED...
* WHAT...South winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.
* WHERE...San Juan County, Western Whatcom County, Western
Skagit County and Admiralty Inlet Area.
* WHEN...Until 7 AM PST this morning.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
Winds have eased below advisory levels, but will remain breezy
through the morning.
Winds have eased below advisory levels.
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For Kyle Richards, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 12 reunion was just as scary as a horror movie.
In fact, the Halloween Ends star exclusively told E! News that it was her absolute "least favorite reunion" ever, mainly because of her half-sister, Kathy Hilton's, feud with co-star Lisa Rinna.
As teased in the reunion trailer, things do not go smoothly for the pair while confronting their ongoing drama—which includes Lisa accusing Kathy of insulting cast members during a "meltdown" on the group's Aspen trip—resulting in hurt feelings for all, especially Kyle.
So where do the siblings stand today?
"Things are not great right now," Kyle shared before adding that she has "high hopes" they will be able to make things right.
"We're a family and we'll always come back together," she continued. "I know that's why I was so emotional at the reunion. For me, I don't think people realize how much it affects my family and the relationships, and I have been holding that in for so long, and that's why I felt so emotional."
As for how her friendship with Lisa has been affected by everything, the 53-year-old said, "Things pretty much remain as you saw on the season finale," adding that the reunion didn't do much to resolve this season's biggest drama.
"It was the first reunion that we left and we didn't have drinks or dinner or do a group photo or hug or anything," she revealed. "It was just done, so I kind of was left with not a good feeling, and just trying to work through that."
All in all, Kyle said her biggest takeaway from the reunion was that "it was the most difficult one I've ever done and that I wish it had gone differently."
Fans will have to see the drama play out for themselves on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills three-part season 12 reunion, which begins Oct. 12 at 8 p.m. on Bravo.
Halloween Ends premieres in theaters and on Peacock Oct. 14.
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WSGW OnLine Poll: Tracking the Tigers All Season Long (results)
March 1, 2023 4:04AM EST
(February 22 – March 1)
WSGW OnLine Poll: Tracking the Tigers All Season Long
Baseball season is fast approaching! It’s preseason time now and Opening Day is March 30!
WSGW is proud to be your home for Tigers baseball for 56 consecutive years! Best of all, it remains free to listen!
Yet, we know some fans will pay to watch the Tigers on TV, or via streaming services.
POLL QUESTION: How will YOU Track the Tigers All Season Long?
I will mostly listen on Radio with WSGW – 45%
I will mostly watch on TV – 8%
I will mostly watch a streaming service – 2%
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US diplomatic convoy attacked in Sudan amid new truce appeal
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Washington’s top diplomat said Tuesday that a U.S. Embassy convoy came under fire in Sudan and denounced “indiscriminate military operations” as the country’s armed forces and a powerful rival unleashed heavy weapons in urban areas for a fourth day.
The convoy of clearly marked embassy vehicles was attacked on Monday, and preliminary reports link the assailants to the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group battling Sudan’s military, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters. Everyone in the convoy was safe, Blinken said.
The Sudanese military said the attack took place in Sudan’s restive Darfur region.
The convoy attack, along with earlier assaults on aid workers and the EU envoy’s residence in the capital of Khartoum, signaled further descent into chaos since the battle by two rival generals for control of Africa’s third-largest country erupted over the weekend.
More than 185 people have been killed and more than 1,800 wounded, according to U.N. figures. The death toll could be much higher because there are many bodies in the streets in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, especially around the city center, that no one can reach because of the clashes.
The two sides have been using tanks, artillery and other heavy weapons in densely populated areas. Late Monday, fighter jets swooped overhead and anti-aircraft fire lit up the skies as darkness fell. Fighting resumed early Tuesday around each side’s main bases and at strategic government buildings — all of which are in residential areas.
The turmoil comes just days before Sudanese were to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting.
Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC analyzed Tuesday by The Associated Press showed the extent of the destruction from days of fighting. At Khartoum International Airport, which also has a military side, the AP counted some 20 damaged aircraft in an image taken early Monday afternoon. Some had been completely destroyed, with one still belching smoke. At the El Obeid and Merowe air bases, north and south of Khartoum, several fighter jets were among the destroyed aircraft.
Top diplomats have urged the two rival generals — armed forces chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and RSF leader Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo — to halt fighting, so far to no avail.
The Sudanese military said Tuesday that more troops would join the battle and that it would “widen the scope of its operations” against the RSF.
The State Department said late Monday that Blinken spoke by phone separately with the two generals.
“I made very clear (in my calls) that any attacks or threats or dangers posed to our diplomats were totally unacceptable,” Blinken told reporters at the Group of Seven wealthy nations meeting in Japan on Tuesday,
He appealed for an immediate 24-hour cease-fire, as a foundation for a longer truce and a return to negotiations. “Indiscriminate military operations have resulted in significant deaths and injuries, recklessly endangering civilians, diplomats, including U.S. personnel, and humanitarian personnel,” he said.
Burhan and Dagalo, former allies who jointly orchestrated an October 2021 coup, have dug in, demanding the other’s surrender. The violence has raised the specter of civil war just as Sudanese were trying to revive the drive for a democratic, civilian government after decades of military rule.
The Sudanese military blamed the RSF, which grew out of the notorious Janjaweed militias in Sudan’s Darfur region, for the attack on the U.S. convoy and an earlier assault on the home of the EU envoy in Khartoum. The military said the convoy was attacked in al-Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur province.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell tweeted Monday that the EU ambassador to Sudan “was assaulted in his own residency,” without providing further details.
The RSF denied involvement in the attack on the ambassador’s home, instead blaming the military. However, a Western diplomat in Cairo said the residence was ransacked by armed men in RSF uniforms. No one was hurt but the armed men stole several items, said the diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to talk to media.
Under international pressure, Burhan and Dagalo had recently agreed to a framework agreement with political parties and pro-democracy groups, but the signing was repeatedly delayed as tensions rose over the integration of the RSF into the armed forces and the future chain of command.
Both generals have a long history of human rights abuses and their forces have cracked down on pro-democracy activists.
Only four years ago, Sudan inspired hope after a popular uprising helped depose long-time autocratic leader Omar al-Bashir.
But the turmoil since, especially the 2021 coup, has frustrated the democracy drive and wrecked the economy. A third of the population — around 16 million people — now depends on humanitarian assistance in the resource-rich nation.
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Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writers Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Matthew Lee in Karuizawa, Japan, contributed to this report.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Rocky Wirtz, who won three Stanley Cup titles as owner of the Chicago Blackhawks and presided over the team during one of the NHL’s biggest scandals, has died. He was 70.
The Blackhawks said in a release that Wirtz died on Tuesday, calling it a “sudden passing.” No further details were provided.
“Our hearts are very heavy today,” Blackhawks CEO Danny Wirtz, Rocky’s son, said on Twitter. “Our dad was a passionate businessman committed to making Chicago a great place to live, work and visit, but his true love was for his family and close friends. … His passing leaves a huge hole in the hearts of many and we will miss him terribly.”
Rocky Wirtz was 2 years old when his grandfather, Arthur Wirtz, purchased the Blackhawks in 1954. Rocky Wirtz took over the team after his father, William, died in September 2007.
William Wirtz was nicknamed “Dollar Bill” for his frugality when it came to acquiring the services of the game’s best players. And the team struggled, making only one playoff appearance from 1998-2008.
Everything changed when Rocky Wirtz became the team chairman. He helped re-establish the franchise’s connection to some of its best players from the past. He put the team’s games back on local TV, and the Blackhawks had a lengthy sellout streak that ended in 2021.
“The National Hockey League family is deeply saddened by the sudden passing of W. Rockwell ‘Rocky’ Wirtz,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said in a release. “Devoted to family and the Chicago Blackhawks, Rocky was a native son of Chicago and an accomplished businessman. Rocky took over control of the Blackhawks in 2007 and almost immediately restored the passion and following of this storied, Original Six franchise.”
With Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane leading the way, the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2010, 2013 and 2015. The team also made it to the 2014 Western Conference Final, losing to the Los Angeles Kings in seven games.
With the Blackhawks’ success on and off the ice, Wirtz became a beloved figure in his native Chicago. He also was lauded by the NHL for his leadership.
Jerry Reinsdorf, who owns the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and baseball’s White Sox, called Wirtz a great man.
“We were far more than partners at the United Center. We were very close; he was a dear friend and our trust, our bond, was unbreakable,” Reinsdorf said in a release. “We never had a disagreement or argument during all of our many years together.
“Everyone liked Rocky. He was smart, passionate, generous, personable and friendly. He cared deeply about the Blackhawks, the people who worked for the team and at the United Center, Blackhawks fans and the city of Chicago.”
However, Wirtz’s tenure as owner was forever tarnished by the organization’s response when a player said he was sexually assaulted by an assistant coach during the team’s run to the 2010 Stanley Cup title.
A review by an outside law firm, commissioned by the team in response to two lawsuits and released in October 2021, found that the franchise badly mishandled Kyle Beach’s allegations that he was assaulted by then-video coach Brad Aldrich.
The investigation by Jenner & Block found no evidence that either Rocky or Danny Wirtz was aware of the allegations before Beach’s lawsuit was brought to their attention ahead of its filing.
The Blackhawks reached a confidential settlement with Beach. Aldrich told investigators for the team’s report that his encounter with the player was consensual.
A second suit filed by a former high school student whom Aldrich was convicted of assaulting in Michigan was quietly dismissed “by stipulation or agreement.”
The NHL fined the Blackhawks $2 million for “the organization’s inadequate internal procedures and insufficient and untimely response,” and longtime general manager Stan Bowman resigned. Rocky Wirtz also successfully petitioned the Hockey Hall of Fame to have Aldrich’s name removed from the Stanley Cup.
At a town hall in February 2022, Wirtz angrily rejected any conversation connected to the franchise’s response to Beach’s allegations. Wirtz apologized for his remarks that same night.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A fire swept through an apartment building in an older neighborhood of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, killing at least 16 people and injuring another nine, authorities said Sunday.
The blaze Saturday in the Al Murar area of Dubai’s historic Deira neighborhood struck an apartment believed to have been shared by multiple individuals, a common practice for laborers who power the economy in this city-state known more for its towering skyscrapers. But the tight quarters, often subdivided by makeshift barriers of plywood, drywall or shower curtains, can become a major risk in fires.
A statement from Dubai Civil Defense issued by the city-state’s Dubai Media Office gave the death toll. Authorities did not answer questions from The Associated Press.
On Sunday, char marks could be seen on the five-story apartment building, home also to a grocery store, a smoke shop and other businesses on its ground floor. Yellow police crime scene tape cordoned off the building, which also still had a heavy police presence. Massive Airbus A380s and Boeing 777s owned by the long-haul carrier Emirates roared overhead as the neighborhood sits only 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Dubai International Airport along its flight path.
On several neighboring balconies, a wardrobe’s worth of clothes could be seen hanging — a common practice when closets are converted into living space for laborers sharing an apartment that was initially designed for a single family. That’s seen throughout Deira, which is located alongside the Dubai Creek and is also home to its gold and spice markets, a major tourist attraction in the city.
A man working nearby at the time of the blaze put the start of the fire at just after noon Saturday. He told the AP that there had been an explosion, like from a gas cylinder catching fire, followed by thick black smoke. He said neighbors believed people were asleep inside at the time, something typical for the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan when the faithful abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset.
A Dubai police officer stopped the AP journalist from talking to the man before he gave his name and told the reporter to leave the area.
The Dubai Civil Defense statement described the fire as starting on the fourth floor. The char marks could be seen on the fifth floor, where glass appeared to have been blown out by the blaze.
“Preliminary investigations showed that lack of compliance with building security and safety requirements caused the fire,” the statement said. “Relevant authorities are conducting a comprehensive investigation to provide a detailed report on the causes of the” fire.
The statement did not elaborate. The building’s management declined to answer any questions when reached by the AP, citing the ongoing police investigation. It wasn’t immediately clear who owned the building.
Dubai in recent years has faced a spate of high-rise fires, fueled by flammable siding material. However, other fires at warehouses and smaller structures can strike, particularly in the summer when temperatures top 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). On Saturday, Dubai saw a high of 28 degrees Celsius (82 degrees Fahrenheit) with strong winds.
Illegal apartment partitioning has been a problem in Dubai for decades, worsened when the city-state sees real estate booms and economic growth like it now is experiencing. Authorities have launched crackdowns in the past, but landlords persist in offering partitioned apartments as workers from Africa and Asia try to save every penny to send back home.
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Kurdish forces who fought ISIS in Syria are hoping their U.S. allies will convince Turkey to stop an offensive of punishing air strikes against them.
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SACRAMENTO — Lawmakers in the California Assembly on Monday voted down a bill that would have banned “secret settlements” in cases where products cause or were likely to cause serious injury or harm, a victory for business groups that opposed the measure.
The measure would have banned settlement agreements that include provisions to keep facts about a defective product or environmental hazard hidden from the public in sealed court records.
Supporters of the bill argue such a law could have brought information about the harms of the prescription opioid OxyContin to public attention years earlier. They point to secret settlement agreements consumers reached with OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma in the early 2000s that prevented the public from seeing records showing the drug wore off faster than advertised, and that the company encouraged doctors to prescribe dangerously high doses as a result. The documents were shielded from public view in sealed court files, some for more than a decade, until they were leaked to the Los Angeles Times and published in 2016.
Supporters led by the nonprofit groups Consumer Reports and Public Justice say similar settlements about dangerous car seats, defective birth control devices and other products could also have been brought to light sooner and prevented thousands of deaths and injuries under the bill, SB1149 by Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino.
A coalition of business groups, including the pharmaceutical industry trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, oil industry group Western States Petroleum Association and the California Chamber of Commerce, opposed the bill.
The coalition argued the measure would have hurt industries like pharmaceuticals that rely on competitive original research. They argued it was unfair because the measure would apply to settlements, which are reached before a jury makes a determination about whether a product really was dangerous.
Under the bill, facts not related to defective products or environmental hazards, such as medical information, personal identifying information, settlement amounts, trade secrets and citizenship status could still be kept secret. It also included a mechanism for companies to argue before a judge that additional information should be excluded from public view in settlement agreements because it contains trade secrets. But opponents argued the bill still threatened companies’ competitive edge.
Assembly Member James Gallagher, R-Yuba City, said he thought the bill was unnecessary because the free market already provides an incentive for companies not to create defective products and the state already has laws regulating defective products. He added that sometimes settlement agreements should be kept secret to protect trade secrets.
“We already have a very robust group of laws that covers dealing with defective products,” he said during a debate in the Assembly. “We don't need this bill.”
Assembly Member Mark Stone, D-Scotts Valley, argued that transparency is essential for the state’s consumer protection laws and for consumers to avoid buying products that are defective. He argued that making settlement agreements public in the Purdue Pharma cases could have saved people from getting addicted to opioids because the drug’s dangers would have come to light sooner.
“We cannot let the market correct those defects if the market does not know about what those defects are,” he said.
The measure failed in the Assembly with just 32 votes in support, well short of the 41 needed to pass. Many lawmakers abstained from voting, while 17 voted in opposition. Stone, the leading supporter of the bill in the Assembly, was given permission to take the bill up again later this week. That leaves the bill with only a slim chance to pass if lawmakers can whip up enough support ahead of a midnight Wednesday deadline.
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The current sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro bows out with the 2024 model year, and while Chevy hasn’t announced a retirement of the nameplate, there isn’t a direct successor in sight.
To mark the end of the current car’s run, Chevy will celebrate with a special Collector’s Edition package available on the 1LT, LT1, SS, and ZL1 grades. The package doesn’t bring any performance to the table but focuses on enhancing the style of the Camaro.
For the 1LT, LT1, and SS grades, the package adds a unique black paint finish called Panther Black Metallic Tintcoat. The Panther name is a reference to the Camaro’s original code name used during the early development days in the 1960s, and at one point was considered for the final name of the car.
“We found it fitting for this Collector’s Edition Camaro to officially recognize the significance of the original code name and share it with Camaro enthusiasts,” Rich Scheer, Chevrolet Performance’s design director, said in a statement.
Also included in the Collector’s Edition package are satin black accent stripes, 20-inch wheels, a front splitter borrowed from the 1LE package, and a rear spoiler (coupe only) borrowed from the ZL1 grade.
For the Camaro ZL1, the Collector’s Edition package brings the same Panther Black paint but with a unique matte finish. The package will also add the front splitter and rear wing (coupe only) from the hardcore ZL1 1LE, a black metallic stripe and red brake calipers. The ZL1 Collector’s Edition will also be limited to 350 units, and each will feature a serialized steering wheel badge.
All Collector’s Edition cars will also come with custom badging on the outside, custom floor mats, and a welcome kit with posters and a matching watch from Shinola.
The prices for the package are $4,995 for the 1LT, which also requires the $1,950 RS package; $5,495 for the LT1, which requires the $1,495 RS package; $5,995 for the 1SS, and $14,995 for the ZL1. That brings the total prices for Camaros with the Collector’s Edition package to $39,440 for the 1LT, $47,385 for the LT1, $49,890 for the SS, and $88,690 for the ZL1. The prices include destination but the gas-guzzler tax is excluded from the ZL1’s price.
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This award recognizes U.S. Renal Care's impact and commitment to creating a culture where diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are intentionally embedded throughout every aspect of the organization.
PLANO, Texas, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Renal Care, a leading provider of kidney care for people living with Chronic Kidney Disease and End Stage Kidney Disease, is proud to announce that it has been recognized by Newsweek as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity 2023 and America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2023. Both lists honor companies that foster an inclusive workplace, valuing and respecting diverse talent within the organization.
Sarrah Johnson, DNP, MBA, RN, U.S. Renal Care Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer and SVP of Operations commented on the dual recognition, "U.S. Renal Care represents a vibrant mix of genders, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, and backgrounds. We care for an equally diverse community of patients across the nation. As a leader in the dialysis industry, our workforce celebrates the diverse populations we serve and creates equitable opportunities for everyone in our community."
U.S. Renal Care has made diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) a business imperative and is dedicated to creating lasting change that improves the lives of all people. Mark Caputo, U.S. Renal Care Chairman and CEO reflected on the company's values, "Supporting a culture that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive enables our clinical teams and physician partners to achieve the highest quality outcomes and best experience for our patients. The recognition by Newsweek is a testament to our inclusive culture led by Dr. Sarrah Johnson, Dr. Mary Dittrich, and many others in the U.S. Renal Care leadership team who imbue equality and inclusiveness in the heart of our organization."
To identify U.S. Renal Care as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity, Newsweek examined over 350,000 company reviews on topics related to corporate culture and working environment. When selecting America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2023, more than 37,000 female employees were surveyed on key equality issues for women such as compensation and benefits, work-life balance, and proactive management of a diverse workforce.
About U.S. Renal Care
U.S. Renal Care partners with nephrologists to care for more than 26,000 people living with kidney disease nationwide. For over two decades, U.S. Renal Care has been a leader in clinical quality, innovation, and operational excellence – delivering the best experience and outcomes for our patients. U.S. Renal Care operates nearly 400 in-center and home dialysis programs across 33 states in the U.S. For more information, please visit usrenalcare.com.
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Noel Kopriva is a member of Missouri Moms Demand Action, a nonpartisan group working toward common sense gun regulation.
She spoke about how gun owners can keep their families safe and help prevent suicide deaths using the “Be SMART” model of ownership.
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Noel Kopriva: I think it's 35, 34% of the gun – of gun deaths are suicides, and safe, secure storage is one way to save lives, and that's what Be SMART is about.
So, “S” stands for secure your weapon. Store it safely. So, you store it and lock it up, and then you store your ammunition somewhere else also locked up.
And that in itself, I think is the most important thing because many suicides are, they're impulsive, and if you can slow down in the amount of time that it takes for somebody to get to a weapon, you can save lives.
I just think that kids, I mean, when I was little, I used to get out my Dad's shells and play with them. I pretended they were lipstick because they were red, and I just thought they were – I did, I probably did think they were played lipstick.
And I think that kids like guns because they're shiny, and they look like toys, and that is how you hear these stories of kids accidentally shooting themselves or other people, because they don't realize the gun is loaded. That's why the “S” is so important, as well.
And I think for parents and people who are gun owners, the “M” is model. So, you're raising your kids to become responsible gun owners. When you model safe storage, you're raising them to be aware.
The other thing you can do, “A” – ask. This is the hardest thing to do ask, you know, like if you're having a play date, for example, you don't, you just have to make yourself say “Hey, you know, if you have guns are they safely stored.”
And then we come to “R,” which is to respect suicide. I think times have changed. When I was coming up, suicide was something that wasn't talked about at all, or if it was it was considered a sign of weakness.
"Many suicides are, they're impulsive, and if you can slow down in the amount of time that it takes for somebody to get to a weapon, you can save lives."Noel Kopriva
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas lawmakers issued a call for Congress to finally pass funding for the "CHIPS" Act.
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"The U.S. Congress now has the opportunity to build on our state's success by passing the CHIPS Act of 2022. If passed, the legislation would further improve our competitive advantage in an increasingly important semiconductor industry, spur additional investment in our manufacturing capability and allow Texas to add even more high-income, highly-skilled jobs to our workforce," Phelan wrote in the letter.
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Nicolas Jarry 2023 Terra Wortmann Open Odds
The field is dwindling at the Terra Wortmann Open, with Nicolas Jarry set for a quarterfinal versus Alexander Zverev. Jarry is +1200 to win it all at OWL Arena.
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Jarry at the 2023 Terra Wortmann Open
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: June 16-25
- Venue: OWL Arena
- Location: Halle, Germany
- Court Surface: Grass
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After defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-6, 7-5, Jarry will face Zverev in the quarterfinals on Friday, June 23 at 6:00 AM ET.
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- In his 53 matches over the past 12 months, across all court surfaces, Jarry has averaged 25.0 games.
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Nick Kyrgios outlasted British wild-card entry Paul Jubb in five sets to advance to the second round at Wimbledon.
The 27-year-old Australian won 3-6, 6-1, 7-5, 6-7 (3), 7-5 against his 219th-ranked opponent.
Kyrgios, ranked 40th, broke Jubb in the sixth game of the deciding set to go ahead 4-2. He broke again with Jubb serving to try to stay in the match.
The 22-year-old Jubb lost in the first round at Wimbledon in 2019 in his only other Grand Slam appearance.
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3:45 p.m.
American teenager Coco Gauff rebounded from a set down to beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the first round at Wimbledon.
The 18-year-old Gauff was the runner-up at the French Open but needed three sets to get past the 54th-ranked Romanian.
The 11th-seeded Gauff got the go-ahead break in the third set at 5-5 on her sixth break point of the game when Ruse double-faulted.
Gauff accumulated 25 break points but converted only four. Ruse was more efficient on break points, converting four of six.
Ruse made more than twice as many unforced errors: 54 to Gauff's 26.
Gauff reached the fourth round in her previous two appearances at Wimbledon.
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2:55 p.m.
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek extended her winning streak to 36 matches — the longest run on the women's tour since 1997.
Swiatek beat Croatian qualifier Jana Fett 6-0, 6-3 on Centre Court.
After dominating early, Swiatek fell behind 3-1 in the second set before winning the next five games. She saved five break points to avoid going down 4-1.
It was the 21-year-old Polish player’s first match since winning the French Open title earlier this month.
The previous wins in her streak were on either clay or hard courts — this was her first on grass.
Martina Hingis reached 37 wins in a row before losing at the 1997 French Open final.
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12:30 p.m.
Three-time Grand Slam semifinalist Grigor Dimitrov retired from his first-round match at Wimbledon against American opponent Steve Johnson after having a medical evaluation of his leg.
The 18th-seeded Dimitrov won the first set 6-4 and was trailing 5-2 in the second when the 31-year-old Bulgarian stopped playing on No. 2 Court.
Dimitrov reached the last four at the All England Club in 2014.
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11:20 a.m.
Matteo Berrettini, the 2021 Wimbledon runner-up, has pulled out of the grass-court Grand Slam tournament after testing positive for COVID-19.
The All England Club announced Berrettini’s withdrawal and he posted about it on Instagram.
The eighth-seeded Italian was supposed to play Cristian Garín in the first round on Tuesday.
Berrettini is being replaced in the field by Elias Ymer, who lost in qualifying.
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11 a.m.
Serena Williams makes her return to singles on Day 2 at Wimbledon.
Her last singles match was a year ago at the All England Club when she was injured in the first round.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion will play Harmony Tan of France on Centre Court.
First up on Centre Court is top-ranked Iga Swiatek. She'll put her 35-match winning streak on the line against Croatian qualifier Jana Fett.
Then it's 22-time major champion Rafael Nadal, who will face Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. — Zach Edey made a go-ahead shot at the front of the rim with 2.2 seconds left and finished with a career-high 32 points and 17 rebounds to help No. 3 Purdue hold off Michigan State for a 64-63 win on Monday.
Tyson Walker put the Spartans ahead with 11 seconds remaining with a mid-range jumper, giving him a season-high 30 points, but they could not stop the 7-foot-4 Edey on the ensuing possession or make a shot with tenths of a second left on the clock.
The Boilermakers (17-1, 6-1 Big Ten) have won 17 of their first 18 games, matching a school mark set during the 1987-88 season.
The Spartans (12-6, 4-3) dropped a second straight game after winning seven in a row.
After Edey's last basket, A.J. Hoggard's long inbound pass was knocked out of bounds by Purdue's Brandon Newman with 1.8 seconds left. That left Tom Izzo with a chance to draw up a play to potentially win the game on Purdue's end of the court.
Walker was set up with what seemed to be an open jumper on the left wing only to have Boilermakers guard Ethan Morton get a hand up to deflect the shot, leaving it short of the rim.
Purdue freshman guard Foster Loyer had 17 points, including a go-ahead free throw with 25.7 seconds left in a game that had the intensity of a matchup in March.
Hoggard had 14 points and eight assists, while Joey Hauser added 10 points for the Spartans, who looked like they were going to be overmatched early in the game.
Purdue led by 13 points with 5:47 to go in the first half, but was ahead by just two at halftime after Michigan State started to make shots and cut down on turnovers.
The Spartans surged ahead by five points early in the second half before both teams took turns with the lead in a closely contested game with 13 lead changes and eight ties.
BIG PICTURE
Purdue: Edey's improved play and conditioning makes his tough to stop and sets up everything for coach Matt Painter's offense that runs through the junior from Toronto.
Michigan State: Izzo said senior forward Malik Hall will be out “a while," with a foot injury that is potentially a major setback for a team that lacks front court depth.
UP NEXT
Purdue: Plays at Minnesota on Thursday night.
Michigan State: Hosts No. 23 Rutgers on Thursday night. | https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/ncaa/ncaab/zach-edey-scores-32-no-3-purdue-boilermakers-beats-michigan-state-spartans/531-f849afeb-e53c-402a-88d5-74d1ff944687 | 2023-01-16 23:55:16 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/ncaa/ncaab/zach-edey-scores-32-no-3-purdue-boilermakers-beats-michigan-state-spartans/531-f849afeb-e53c-402a-88d5-74d1ff944687 |
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Mint is adding some "Azucar!" to its quarters.
Celia Cruz, the late Cuban icon who dominated the salsa genre, is one of five honorees for the 2024 American Women Quarters Program. Cruz will be the first Afro Latina to be on a U.S. quarter.
She is known as "The Queen of Salsa" for her impact and dominance of the Latin music genre. Cruz, who was born in Havana, Cuba, and later moved to the U.S., was a five-time Grammy award winner and received a National Medal of Arts among other honors.
In 2016, she received a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Grammy.
“All of the women being honored have lived remarkable and multi-faceted lives, and have made a significant impact on our Nation in their own unique way,” the Mint Director Ventris C. Gibson said. “The women pioneered change during their lifetimes, not yielding to the status quo imparted during their lives."
Cruz, who died in 2003 at the age of 77, recorded more than 80 albums during her life. During the last decade of her career, she was inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame and the International Latin Music Hall of Fame.
Aside from her flamboyant and extravagant costumes, Cruz is known for her trademark phrase, "Azucar!"
Here's who else is honored in 2024:
- Patsy Takemoto Mink - the first woman of color to serve in Congress.
- Dr. Mary Edwards Walker - a Civil War era surgeon, women’s rights advocate, and an abolitionist.
- Pauli Murray - a poet, writer, activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest, as well as a staunch advocate for civil rights, fighting against racial and sex discrimination.
- Zitkala-Ša - a writer, composer, educator, and political activist for Native Americans’ right to United States citizenship and other civil rights they had long been denied.
The mint will release five new quarters featuring a different woman in American history each year through 2025. The designs for the 2024 quarters will be released by mid-2023. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/celia-cruz-us-quarter/507-4e46c809-a74b-4e7c-b88c-3e66f8ab53c8 | 2023-02-09 01:27:49 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/celia-cruz-us-quarter/507-4e46c809-a74b-4e7c-b88c-3e66f8ab53c8 |
NEW YORK (AP) — His caseload has featured charges against former President Donald Trump's company and some of Trump's closest associates in business and politics.
Now Judge Juan Manuel Merchan is poised to take the historic hush-money prosecution of Trump himself.
Merchan, a former prosecutor with 16 years on the bench, is expected to preside Tuesday over the unprecedented arraignment of a former U.S. commander in chief. Trump will appear to answer charges arising from a grand jury investigation into payments made during his 2016 campaign to bury allegations that he had extramarital sexual encounters.
Trump, who is running for the White House again, says he's “completely innocent” and has called the case a “political persecution.” He has also seized on Merchan's involvement.
The judge “HATES ME,” Trump railed on his social media platform.
For any jurist, it would be a legacy-shaping case. And a crucible.
“There’s a lot of pressure here because this is a novelty," said Patricia Brown Holmes, a former state court judge in Illinois, who is now in private practice in Chicago.
As a judge, "you have to do it right. It has to be fair, the public has to know it’s fair, and then the outcome is the outcome,” she said. “You want to make sure that you are staying away from all the politics, because it is only about the law.”
If politics make for one headache, another is balancing the need for openness against courtroom security for the former president and others, said Geoffrey Puryear, a former state court judge in Texas.
“It’s a logistical nightmare, from a judge’s perspective,” said Puryear, now a defense lawyer in Lubbock.
Merchan did not respond to a message seeking comment sent through court officials.
He got Trump’s case because of a rotation in which judges are assigned to oversee grand juries and any cases that arise from them, according to the court system. Merchan also often handles financial cases.
The Colombian-born Merchan, 60, emigrated as a 6-year-old and grew up in New York City. The first member of his family to go to college, he worked his way through school and went on to earn a law degree from Hofstra University in 1994.
He was a Manhattan prosecutor and worked in the state attorney general’s office before then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed him as a family court judge in 2006.
Three years later, Merchan was assigned to a trial court called the Supreme Court in New York. His particular duties now include overseeing a Manhattan mental health court where some defendants get a chance to resolve their cases with treatment and supervision, a program he views as a success story.
Like a lot of New York judges, he's had experience with headline-making stories.
After skydivers were convicted of misdemeanors for leaping from the World Trade Center's now-signature tower while it was under construction in 2013, Merchan sentenced them to community service, saying they had " sullied the memories of those who jumped on 9/11 not for sport but because they had to."
Merchan also oversaw the real-life case underlying the 2021 Lifetime movie "Soccer Mom Madam," about a suburban mother with a secret sideline running a high-end Manhattan escort service. The woman, Anna Gristina, now wants to unwind her 2012 guilty plea.
If those cases put Merchan in the public eye, the last two years trained a Trump-orbiting telescope on his courtroom.
First came the tax fraud case against Trump's company and its longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg.
Merchan was heavily involved in negotiations that led to Weisselberg's 2022 guilty plea for skirting taxes on big-dollar job perks, including Manhattan apartments and school tuition. Under the deal, Weisselberg got a five-month jail sentence in exchange for agreeing to testify against the company.
After hearing Weisselberg's testimony at trial, Merchan said he wished he could impose a tougher penalty. He was especially appalled that Weisselberg's wife got a one-time $6,000 payment for a no-show job to qualify for Social Security benefits, even as her husband made big money.
“So many Americans work so hard with the hopes that they may someday benefit from their contributions to Social Security," the judge observed. Nonetheless, he kept his sentencing promise.
Nicholas Gravante, who represented Weisselberg in the plea negotiations, said Merchan was “a real listener, well-prepared, always accessible, and a man who kept his word.”
"He was mindful of the role my colleagues and I played as advocates, treating us with the utmost respect both in open court and behind closed doors,” Gravante recalled.
The Trump Organization went to trial, saying that the company didn't benefit from Weisselberg's scheme and that Trump and his family knew nothing about it. A jury convicted the company, and Merchan imposed a $1.6 million fine — the legal maximum.
Trump himself was not charged in that case. But when it came time for closing arguments, Merchan let prosecutors claim that Trump knew about the tax-cheating maneuvers. The judge said it was "only fair" because the defense summation had mentioned Trump repeatedly. The defense sought a mistrial over the issue; Merchan said no.
Merchan said he wanted to keep politics out of the trial, which he conducted with a largely even-tempered and kindly tone.
He got annoyed when the Trump Organization's lawyers sought to introduce new evidence late in the trial, ultimately allowing them to do so in a limited fashion. After the verdict, it emerged that Merchan had secretly held the company in contempt of court for "willfully disobeying" four grand jury subpoenas and three court orders.
Separately, former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon is on Merchan's docket. Charged with duping donors who gave money to build a southern U.S. border wall, Bannon has called the case "nonsense." A presidential pardon from Trump truncated a similar federal prosecution.
Trump has a history of questioning judges’ legitimacy or impartiality in cases involving his business or administration. While he was a candidate trumpeting his planned border wall, he pointed to an Indiana-born federal judge's “Mexican heritage” to suggest he couldn't fairly handle a lawsuit against the now-defunct Trump University.
As president, Trump referred to another federal jurist as a "so-called judge" after he ruled against Trump's initial travel ban affecting seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Trump has already gone on the offensive against Merchan, claiming he “railroaded” Weisselberg into a plea and acted “viciously” in the Trump Organization case.
For any judge, criticism can come with the job. But jurists need to focus on their courtrooms, not the court of public opinion, Holmes noted.
“You’re not the center of attention. The evidence is the center of attention,” she said.
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Ben Shelton and Oliver Crawford competed in the US Open this week. University of Florida Men’s Tennis players were represented in the championships for the second year in a row. In 2021, Shelton and Sam Riffice competed. Shelton lost in men’s singles on Monday, while Crawford met his end in the tournament Wednesday Aug. 24. Shelton will compete in men’s doubles on Thursday with Christopher Eubanks.
Ben Shelton
Shelton ended his college career two years early to pursue his professional career. The Gator National Champ announced his move to the pros, Aug. 23, just ahead of the Open. He won the 2021 NCAA Champion after a match with Baylor during his freshman year at Florida, was awarded the 2022 ITA National Player of the Year and was the 2022 NCAA Singles Champion.
Shelton entered the US Open with a wildcard into the main draw. During the tournament, Shelton went 3-2, ranked 171 in Men’s Singles and No. 516 in Men’s Doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals. In his last match he competed against Nuno Borges for round one: Borges took the win.
Two young guys, 🇵🇹 Nuno Borges and 🇺🇸 Ben Shelton have the attention on Court 10 👀 pic.twitter.com/akQu7QBFuD
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) August 29, 2022
In Singles, Shelton has a 77% win rate and won 19 and lost seven. In Doubles, Shelton has a win rate of 57% with four wins and three losses.
Oliver Crawford
Crawford ended his college career a year early to go pro in 2020. During college he was awarded a three-time ITA All-American and was 2019 NCAA-All Tournament Team.
Good luck to our guy Oliver Crawford in the @usopen Qualifying Tournament 👊
Oliver faces ATP #150 Geoffrey Blancaneux on Wednesday!#GoGators 🐊🎾 | #USOpen pic.twitter.com/oJIwACDojb
— Gators Men's Tennis (@GatorsMTN) August 23, 2022
Crawford entered the US Open through a wildcard into the qualifying draw. He was then ranked No. 309 for Men’s Singes and 695 for Doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Crawford lost to Geoffrey Blancaneaux on Aug. 24.
Overall, he has a 66% win rate with 39 wins and 20 losses.
His win rate on clay is 71%, 36 wins and 15 losses. On hard floor, 38% with three wins and five losses.
When does the US Open conclude?
The US Open concludes on Sept. 11. | https://www.wruf.com/headlines/2022/08/31/two-former-uf-mens-tennis-players-in-us-open/ | 2022-08-31 19:18:56 | 1 | https://www.wruf.com/headlines/2022/08/31/two-former-uf-mens-tennis-players-in-us-open/ |
BEIJING (AP) — Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus and a close ally of the Russian leader, will visit Beijing this week, China’s Foreign Ministry said, as U.S. concerns grow that China is considering providing military aid to Russia.
Spokesperson Hua Chunying said Lukashenko is due to visit Tuesday through Thursday, but gave no details about his agenda.
Belarus has strongly backed Moscow and allowed its territory to be used as a staging ground for the initial invasion of Ukraine a year ago.
Lukashenko has been Belarus’ only president since the position was created in 1994, and crushed 2020 protests over his disputed reelection in a vote that the opposition and Western countries regard as fraudulent.
The visit comes as top U.S. officials repeated warnings to China against providing military aid to Russia in its war on Ukraine, saying that would bring heavy consequences.
CIA Director William Burns repeated those earlier statements in an interview due to be broadcast on American channel CBS on Sunday, saying, “We’re confident that the Chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment.”
However, Burns added, “We also don’t see that a final decision has been made yet, and we don’t see evidence of actual shipments of lethal equipment.”
Providing such aid “would be a very risky and unwise bet,” he said.
Beijing claims to have a neutral stance in the war that began one year ago, but has also said it has a “no limits friendship” with Russia and has refused to criticize Moscow’s invasion or even call it that. It has accused the West of provoking the conflict and “fanning the flames” by providing Ukraine with defensive arms.
It has accused the U.S. of smearing it over the military aid allegations and reiterated that it seeks only peace between Russia and Ukraine.
Beijing on Friday issued a proposal calling for a cease-fire and peace talks between Ukraine and Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cautiously welcomed China’s involvement — but said success would depend on actions not words.
The plan released by China’s Foreign Ministry mainly reiterated long-held positions, and analysts said Beijing would be an unlikely broker given its close ties to Russia and unwavering stance over the conflict.
However, some observers warned that Ukraine and its allies need to tread carefully, saying that rejection of what China sees as its peace overture could move Beijing closer toward providing arms to Russia instead.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is believed to be preparing to visit Russia sometime in the coming months. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-belarus-leader-and-putin-ally-lukashenko-to-visit-china/ | 2023-02-26 17:17:33 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-belarus-leader-and-putin-ally-lukashenko-to-visit-china/ |
Police in Atlanta arrest 3 behind bail fund supporting protests against police training complex
By JEFF AMY and KATE BRUMBACK
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Police have arrested three key organizers supporting people protesting Atlanta’s proposed police and fire training center, which opponents call “Cop City.” The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says its agents and Atlanta police on Wednesday arrested three officers of the group that runs the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. The fund has bailed out protesters and helped them find lawyers. Charged with money laundering and charity fraud are 39-year-old Marlon Scott Kautz of Atlanta, 30-year-old Savannah D. Patterson of Savannah, and 42-year-old Adele Maclean of Atlanta. Opponents say it’s an “extreme provocation” to arrest leaders of a bail fund. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says they’re part of a criminal organization. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/05/31/police-in-atlanta-arrest-3-behind-bail-fund-supporting-protests-against-police-training-complex/ | 2023-05-31 18:44:48 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/05/31/police-in-atlanta-arrest-3-behind-bail-fund-supporting-protests-against-police-training-complex/ |
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