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Leverages PlantX's Existing E-commerce Fulfillment Capabilities
VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - PlantX Life Inc. (CSE: VEGA) (Frankfurt: WNT1) (OTCQB: PLTXF) ("PlantX" or the "Company"), the digital face of the plant-based community, operating a one‑stop shop for plant-based products, today announced it has entered into a new ecommerce partnership with The Very Good Food Company Inc. (NASDAQ: VGFC) (TSXV: VERY.V) (FSE: OSI) ("Very Good"), an emerging plant-based food technology company that offers a premium product portfolio of minimally-processed, whole ingredients, and taste-forward plant-based meats and cheeses. In accordance with the partnership, PlantX will execute ecommerce logistics operations for Very Good, including warehousing inventory and fulfillment of orders for customers visiting Very Good's verygoodbutchers.com website in the United States.
"This complementary partnership leverages PlantX's sophisticated warehousing and logistics capabilities to help Very Good effectively service its customers and grow its business," said PlantX CEO, Lorne Rapkin. "We are able to support this partnership with minimal incremental cost by utilizing our existing warehousing capacity. PlantX anticipates being able to service Very Good orders in an efficient and cost-effective way".
"Very Good's partnership with PlantX provides an expanded customer reach and the ability to immediately drive sales, for both, Very Good's product line, and for the other projects in our portfolio", added Mr. Rapkin. "We will promote Very Good's products on PlantX.com, and we will be able to fulfill orders across the United States. With our state-of-the-art fulfillment technology and integrated warehouse, PlantX believes it can help increase online sales for Very Good."
"This is an important partnership for Very Good. Inclusion on the PlantX platform is an effective venue that will offer continued support to our United States subscriber base for online orders," said Very Good CEO, Parimal Rana.
As the digital face of the plant-based community, PlantX's platform is a one-stop shop for plant-based products. With its fast-growing category verticals, the Company offers customers across North America more than 5,000 plant-based products. In addition to offering delivery service for meals and indoor plants, the Company currently has plans underway to expand its product lines to include a juice and coffee company. The Company uses its digital platform to build a community of like-minded consumers and, most importantly, to provide education. Its successful enterprise is being built and fortified on partnerships with the top nutritionists, chefs, and brands. The Company's digital presence works to eliminate the barriers to entry for anyone interested in living a plant-based lifestyle and thriving in a longer, healthier, and happier life.
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Very Good is an emerging plant-based food technology company that produces nutritious and delicious plant‑based meat and cheese products under The Very GOOD Butchers and The Very Good Cheese Co. brands. Very Good's mission is lofty but beautifully simple. Get millions to rethink their food choices while helping them do the world a world of good. By offering plant-based food options so delicious and nutritious, Very Good is helping this kind of diet become the norm.
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Mya Conrad has been a fan of former President Trump ever since she was 12 years old.
So now that she's 18 and eligible to vote, there's no question of who she's casting her ballot for.
"I love all the other candidates. I think it's a really solid lineup," said Conrad, who goes to Belmont University in Nashville.
"But I'm very loyal to the MAGA movement," she added.
Conrad spoke to NPR just minutes before Trump took the stage at a recent conference hosted by Turning Point Action, the advocacy wing of Turning Point USA, one of the largest — and only — national organizations focused on engaging and educating young Americans on conservative issues.
"From the earliest days of our republic, every generation has been called to defend America," Trump told the packed crowd at the Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla.
"...Now they really mean it. We're in big trouble," Trump warned of his view of the current state of the country.
Far-right Republican political and media leaders dominated the two-day conference, trumpeting conservative talking points about restricting transgender rights and abortion, and changing the education system.
But, with 15 months until Election Day, Republicans face an uphill battle with young voters. In recent major elections, younger millennials and Gen Z have largely turned out for Democratic candidates, partly motivated by issues like protecting abortion access.
That said, for some of the younger attendees at the conference — who are already part of the Turning Point network and involved in political activism in their communities — the core conservative social issues discussed on stage are the same ones they're passionate about. Still, it remains unclear if that messaging will resonate with other young voters on the fence about who to choose in 2024.
For South Alabama University student Hayden Haddock, even though he hasn't chosen a candidate, the top issue is restricting abortion.
"We cannot have a conversation about any other human rights without the foundational right to life," Haddock said, adding, "whoever of these GOP candidates will stand for that the most is the one who has my vote."
But to Clemson University student Blaine Hibbert, Republicans can't lose sight of promoting policies traditionally related to the party, including pocketbook issues, which appeal to a wider swath of the electorate.
"Look, I'm pro-life, I'm pro-gun. But when it comes to these swing states, these swing districts where we need to attract moderates into the fold, that's where we have to run on these fiscal conservative issues that the left is just not with us on," he said, sporting a pro-Trump cowboy hat.
Unsurprisingly, at an event full of Trump hats (along with T-shirts, stickers and banners), the topic everyone weighed in on was the eventual 2024 nominee.
If Trump's in the Republican Party, that's who I'm voting for. If he was in the Democratic Party, I'd be voting for him there. It's really, I like Donald Trump.
NPR spoke with more than two dozen young attendees throughout the conference, and virtually all supported another Trump presidential bid, mirroring his widespread favorability among Republicans nationwide.
"Trump all the way. I'm on that Trump train," Austin Nellius, a 23-year-old cabinet maker, said.
Nellius spoke with NPR near a wall of big poster board cutouts of the faces of all the major Republican candidates. Attendees quickly filled them up with written messages on sticky notes.
Trump's face was in the middle, covered in notes including, "We love you," "You deserve it!" and "Stay your course, stick to your accomplishments!"
A cutout of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who skipped the event, hung next to Trump. His messages were mixed, with some urging him to wait for another election cycle and others praising his gubernatorial tenure. One just said, "De Loser."
"I feel like conservatives would have been more in favor of supporting him in '28. But now that he went in the race against Trump, I feel like his chances are shot for the long haul," Nellius explained.
The Florida governor has faced campaign setbacks since announcing, reducing staff and battling widening poll margins between himself and Trump.
And to some young voters, that intraparty rivalry turns them off.
"The biggest problem with the country that I see going into this new election is the fact that the Republican Party as a whole is so divided, and really, our ultimate goal should be about winning," said University of Florida student Megan Ramon.
She plans to support Trump next year and argues it isn't time for DeSantis to run.
"It should be about getting back into office. And I feel like it's become such a warzone," Ramon added.
For many, supporting Trump is the logical answer when looking at the primary field.
In addition to DeSantis' absence at the conference, former Vice President Mike Pence, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declined invitations.
Negative sticky notes dominated the poster board cutouts of their faces.
The biggest problem with the country that I see going into this new election is the fact that the Republican Party as a whole is so divided, and really, our ultimate goal should be about winning.
"How are you going to expect support if you don't even show up and talk?" attendee Jacob Lawrence asked. To Lawrence, who is a student at the University of South Alabama, the decision holds more weight, given the event attracts young conservatives.
Other than Trump, just a handful of declared candidates did show up, including entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez.
Ramaswamy was the only Trump alternative that received a warm welcome. According to the event's straw poll, run by the Republican-leaning firm Trafalgar Group, 51% chose the political newcomer as their second choice. Trump won nearly 86% of the primary vote for the nominee.
On the other hand, more moderate candidates, Hutchinson and Suarez, were heckled throughout their remarks on Sunday — at one point during Hutchinson's speech, the crowd began chanting Trump's name.
"We've got some great people that are running. And what we need is respect for those that might have a differing opinion," said Hutchinson, who has been publicly critical of Trump.
By NPR's count, 11 major Republican candidates have jumped into the primary — a staggering difference from the Democratic side, where President Biden stands as the clear front-runner.
But Biden's approval remains low among young Americans. According to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, just 38% of people under 30 approve of his job in office.
And between Trump and Biden, Wheaton College student Dolan Bair argues Trump is more effective at reaching young people this time around — despite the fact Biden won the age group by 24 percentage points in 2020, according to exit polling.
"Biden's older than Trump for sure, and he doesn't have the same sort of energy that Trump is having," Blair said. (Trump, 77, was the oldest president in U.S. history until Biden, 80, surpassed him.)
"[Trump] gets all these younger people out to the crowds, people like me," he added.
But attendance at the conference varied in age, with many older people also present. Turning Point staff told NPR that 2,500 students were at the event — less than half of the estimated 7,000-person crowd on the day of Trump's speech. Total attendance dropped to 5,000 the following day.
And while Trump's popularity is strong among Turning Point's younger cohort, for some attendees, having a big primary field is a good sign for the party's future.
"On the Democrat side, I don't see anybody who can take Joe Biden," said 21-year-old Clay Montgomery, adding. "But at least on the conservative side, we can say we have multiple candidates that even if '45 [Trump] gets reelected again, and becomes '47, we have guys down the pipeline who can come in after Trump."
To Montgomery, a student at the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, looking past this election, the GOP is better suited to bring in new blood.
"Democrats don't have that. So, it's concerning having a lot of people but also see it as a good thing. It's a double-edged sword," he added.
And though young voters trend liberal, party allegiance is much more split. According to the latest Harvard Youth Poll, 35% of people under 30 identify as a Democrat, compared to 24% for Republicans and 40% for independents.
Houston student Cierra Becker votes on issues and candidates over party. She considers herself a libertarian but often leans towards Republicans.
Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, Trump is the candidate who she is focusing on.
"There seems to be a part of him that is still a regular person. And that is what I can identify with. I can't identify with somebody who gives perfect speeches every time," Becker said, who also works as a firefighter and EMT.
"If Trump's in the Republican Party, that's who I'm voting for. If he was in the Democratic Party, I'd be voting for him there. It's really, I like Donald Trump," she explained, "not necessarily, I am a Republican or Democrat."
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James Rado, who co-created pioneering ‘Hair,’ dies at 90
NEW YORK (AP) — James Rado, co-creator of the groundbreaking hippie musical “Hair,” which celebrated protest, pot and free love and paved the way for the sound of rock on Broadway, has died. He was 90.
Rado died Tuesday night in New York City of cardio respiratory arrest, according to friend and publicist Merle Frimark.
“Hair,” which has a story and lyrics by Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot, was the first rock musical on Broadway, the first Broadway show to feature full nudity and the first to feature a same-sex kiss.
“Hair” made possible other rock musicals like “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Rent.” Like “Hamilton,” it was one of only a handful of Broadway shows in the past few decades to find its songs on the pop charts.
The so-called “American tribal love-rock musical,” had its world premiere at the Public Theater in New York City’s East Village in 1967 and transferred the following year to Broadway, where the musical ran more than 1,800 performances. Rado played Claude, a young man about to be drafted and sent to the war in Vietnam.
Clive Barnes, theater critic for The New York Times, called the show “the first Broadway musical in some time to have the authentic voice of today rather than the day before yesterday.” The New York Post said it had “unintentional charm,” contagious high spirits and a “young zestfulness” that “make it difficult to resist.” Variety, however, called it “loony.”
It lost the Tony in 1969 to the more traditional “1776″ but won a Grammy Award. The 2009 revival won the best revival Tony. The show was revived on Broadway in 1977 and again in 2009. It was made into a movie directed by Milos Forman in 1979 starring Treat Williams and Beverly D’Angelo.
“Hair” spawned four top four singles on the American pop charts, including the No. 1 hit “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” by the Fifth Dimension, which won the Grammy Award for record of the year and best pop vocal performance by a group in 1970. Others included “Hair” by the Cowsills, “Good Morning, Starshine” by the singer Oliver and “Easy to Be Hard” by Three Dog Night. The cast album itself stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks
“Hair” tells the story of Claude and Berger, best buddies who find freedom in the late 1960s. Between draft-card burnings, love-ins, bad LSD trips and a parade of protest marches, the two wander through a New York filled with flower children, drugged-out hippies and outraged tourists who don’t approve of the wild goings-on. In one song, Claude poignantly sings, “Why do I live, why do I die, tell me where do I go, tell me why.”
The show is playful and chaotic, but there’s also a sense of outrage in its protests against war, racism, sexism, pollution and the general hypocrisy of an era dominated by the American involvement in Vietnam.
“I’d still like ‘Hair’ to be about what it was about then,” Rado told The Associated Press in 1993. “‘Hair’ had a spiritual message, and it has a mystical message I hope is coming through — there’s more to life than the way it’s been devised for us, explained to us, taught to us.”
The songs of “Hair” have been used in everything from the films “Forrest Gump,” “Minions” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” to TV shows like “Glee,” “So You Think You Can Dance” and “My Name Is Earl.” Billboard magazine lists “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” at No. 66 of all-time top 100 songs.
In 2019, the original 1968 Broadway cast recording was inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden deemed “these aural treasures worthy of preservation because of their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the nation’s recorded sound heritage.”
Rado was born in Venice, California, and raised in Rochester, New York, and Washington, D.C. After serving two years in the U.S. Navy, he moved to New York and studied acting with Paula and Lee Strasberg.
Rado was part of the ensemble of the Broadway play “Marathon ‘33″ in 1963 and played Richard Lionheart in “The Lion in Winter” in 1966 opposite Christopher Walken. He met Ragni when he was cast in the off-Broadway musical “Hang Down Your Head and Die.”
The two were interested in birthing a new kind of show and focused on the hippie scene. They wrote the script while sharing an apartment in Hoboken, New Jersey. Rado originated the “Hair” role of the draftee Claude on Broadway.
“Hair” met resistance across the country. In addition to the use of four-letter words, the flouting of authority, sexual references and gross-out humor, the end of Act 1 had the entire cast strip naked to “Where Do I Go” and there was what many believed was desecration of the American flag.
There were church pickets in Evansville, Indiana. Municipal officials in Chattanooga, Tennessee, denied a request to stage the show, determining that it would not be “in the best interest of the community.” In Denver, police threatened to arrest anyone who appeared nude onstage. A Boston visit was challenged in court on the basis of flag desecration.
The original Public Theater production had cut the nude scene, but the creators wanted it back for the Broadway debut. Under the law at that time, New York City allowed nudity onstage onstage as long as the actors weren’t moving, which is why the whole cast of “Hair” stood together in a row, nude and perfectly still.
After “Hair,” Rado wrote the music and lyrics of the off-Broadway show “Rainbow,” co-authoring the book with his brother, Ted Rado. He later teamed up with Ragni to create the book and lyrics for the show “Sun.” Ragni died in 1991. Rado wrote a new show called “American Soldier” with his brother.
In 2009, Rado, MacDermot and Ragni were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., of the group The Fifth Dimension, were joined onstage by the Broadway cast at the time for a finale that brought the ceremony’s approximately 1,000 guests to their feet. MacDermot died in 2018.
Rado told the Hudson Reporter in 2009 that none of the show’s creators anticipated that it would have such an enormous impact. “We thought we’d stumbled on a great idea, and something that potentially could be a hit on Broadway, never thinking of the distant future.”
He is survived by his brother Ted Rado, sister-in-law Kay Rado, nieces Melanie Khoury, Emily DiBona and Melissa Stuart, great-nieces and a great-nephew.
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Oktoberfest in Rochester October 1, chance to dunk Caitlin Alexander
Published: Sep. 28, 2022 at 3:39 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Several companies are collaborating for the second annual Oktoberfest event to raise money for suicide prevention.
There will be live bands a beer tent, food, live auction, bean bag tournament, carnival games and more. KTTC will even be participating in a dunk tank. You can test your luck dunking our very own Caitlin Alexander.
The event will be at 3708 Broadway Ave N in Rochester on October 1.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP) (TSX: BLDP) today announced consolidated financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022. All amounts are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted and have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
"We made important customer progress across our verticals during Q3, while also advancing our global manufacturing strategy and product cost reduction initiatives," said Mr. Randy MacEwen, President and CEO. "On the customer front, we continued to focus on platform wins, with commercial milestones achieved in our truck and rail verticals. In truck, we announced an order from Quantron for 140 fuel cell engines to support their planned deployment of heavy-duty fuel cell trucks in Europe. In rail, we announced orders across three continents, including an order from Siemens Mobility to power seven trains in the Berlin-Brandenburg region and an LOI for up to an additional 200 engines for the European commuter rail market. Our total order backlog grew 11 percent from last quarter to a total of $102 million, with Europe now contributing over half of our total backlog."
"As part of our 'local for local' global manufacturing strategy, we announced our plan to invest $130 million in a new MEA manufacturing facility in Shanghai, with an annual production capacity of approximately 13 million MEAs, which can supply approximately 20,000 fuel cell engines," Mr. MacEwen continued. "With the facility planned to be in operation in 2025 to support anticipated growth in MEA demand, this investment is expected to reduce MEA manufacturing costs, align with China's fuel cell value chain localization policy, and position Ballard more strongly in the large China market."
Mr. MacEwen added, "We continue to advance on our product cost reduction roadmap, with measured progress from technology innovation, supply chain developments and advanced manufacturing initiatives. We are running ahead of our cost reduction targets which we expect to enable significant gross margin expansion in our long-term financial plan."
"This quarter our revenue and gross margin were $21.3 million and (22)%, respectively. As previously communicated, we continue to see a challenging gross margin picture which we expect to persist through 2023 until our volume ramps and our product cost reduction initiatives move into production. We exited the quarter with a strong balance sheet to support our growth strategy."
Q3 2022 Financial Highlights
(all comparisons are to Q3 2021 unless otherwise noted)
- Total revenue was $21.3 million in the quarter, down 15% year-over-year.
- Heavy-Duty revenues of $12.1 million increased 8% due to increased sales in North America, Europe and other areas offsetting lower sales in China.
- Stationary Power Generation revenues of $2.1 million increased 9% due to increased sales in North America, offsetting lower sales in Europe.
- Material Handling revenues of $1.7 million decreased 46%, primarily as a result of lower shipments to Plug Power.
- Gross margin was (22)% in the quarter, a decrease of 33-points, driven by a combination of shift to lower overall product margin and service revenue mix including the impacts of pricing strategy, investment in manufacturing capacity, increases in supply costs and inventory adjustments.
- Total Operating Expenses and Cash Operating Costs3 were $40.0 million and $30.0 million in the quarter, an increase of 46% and 32%, respectively. Increases were driven primarily by higher expenditure on research, technology and product development activities. Costs were also higher as a result of increased general and administrative expenses.
- Adjusted EBITDA3 was ($35.1) million, compared to ($23.1) million in Q3 2021, primarily a result of the decrease in gross margin and increase in Cash Operating Costs.
- Ballard received approximately $31.8 million of new orders in Q3, and delivered orders valued at $21.3 million, resulting in an Order Backlog of approximately $101.7 million at end-Q3. Order Backlog growth was driven predominantly by increased orders from Europe, which now represents approximately 55% of the total Order Backlog, compared to approximately 38% at end-Q3 2021.
- The 12-month Order Book was $51.0 million at end-Q3, a decrease of $10.4 million from the end of Q2 2022.
Ballard 2022 Total Operating Expense4 and Capital Expenditure5 guidance remains unchanged, but now expects to be at the higher end of the Total Operating Expense range and the lower end of the Capital Expenditure range.
Q3 2022 Financial Summary
For a more detailed discussion of Ballard Power Systems' third quarter 2022 results, please see the company's financial statements and management's discussion & analysis, which are available at www.ballard.com/investors, www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.
Ballard will hold a conference call on Monday, November 7, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time (11:00 a.m. Eastern Time) to review third quarter 2022 operating results. The live call can be accessed by dialing +1.604.638.5340. Alternatively, a live audio and webcast can be accessed through a link on Ballard's homepage (www.ballard.com). Following the call, the audio webcast and presentation materials will be archived in the 'Earnings, Interviews & Presentations' area of the 'Investors' section of Ballard's website (www.ballard.com/investors).
Ballard Power Systems' (NASDAQ: BLDP; TSX: BLDP) vision is to deliver fuel cell power for a sustainable planet. Ballard zero-emission PEM fuel cells are enabling electrification of mobility, including buses, commercial trucks, trains, marine vessels, and stationary power. To learn more about Ballard, please visit www.ballard.com.
This release contains forward-looking statements concerning the hydrogen economy and markets for our products and the effects of governmental regulations on such markets, expected revenues, operating expenses, capital expenditures, corporate development activities, impacts of investments in manufacturing and R&D capabilities and market growth, and our carbon emissions goals. These forward-looking statements reflect Ballard's current expectations as contemplated under section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Any such statements are based on Ballard's assumptions relating to its financial forecasts and expectations regarding its product development efforts, manufacturing capacity, and market demand. For a detailed discussion of the factors and assumptions that these statements are based upon, and factors that could cause our actual results or outcomes to differ materially, please refer to Ballard's most recent management discussion & analysis. Other risks and uncertainties that may cause Ballard's actual results to be materially different include general economic and regulatory changes, detrimental reliance on third parties, successfully achieving our business plans and achieving and sustaining profitability. For a detailed discussion of these and other risk factors that could affect Ballard's future performance, please refer to Ballard's most recent Annual Information Form. These forward-looking statements are provided to enable external stakeholders to understand Ballard's expectations as at the date of this release and may not be appropriate for other purposes. Readers should not place undue reliance on these statements and Ballard assumes no obligation to update or release any revisions to them, other than as required under applicable legislation.
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Although more research is needed, researchers suggest that trauma centers may benefit from monitoring COVID patients for additional complications and screening all patients
Key takeaways
- Compared with trauma patients who tested negative for COVID, asymptomatic trauma patients with similar injuries and conditions who tested positive had higher rates of myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest; spent more days on a ventilator, in the intensive care unit, and in the hospital overall; and had significantly higher hospital charges and use of resources.
- The authors encourage trauma centers to screen all patients for COVID, if possible, and to more closely examine and monitor patients who test positive for potential complications.
- Future studies are needed to understand why asymptomatic COVID trauma patients are at greater risk for complications and to determine what kinds of injuries put these trauma patients most at risk.
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trauma patients who show no symptoms for COVID, yet test positive for the virus, have significantly higher rates of cardiac events, stay in the hospital longer, and incur higher hospital charges than do similar trauma patients who test negative for COVID, according to study results presented at the Scientific Forum of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2022.
"I found it shocking that just having the virus in the body could potentially cause more complications in trauma patients," said study coauthor, Lydia Lam, MD, FACS, a general surgeon at LAC+USC Medical Center (Los Angeles). When it comes to COVID positive patients, no symptoms do not necessarily mean no health consequences, she explained.
Dr. Lam and colleagues at LAC+USC Medical Center reviewed the COVID status of all trauma patients admitted to their urban Level 1 trauma center during the initial wave of the pandemic (March 2020 to October 2021), excluding all positive patients with symptoms. They matched the positive, asymptomatic patients with negative COVID patients based on type and severity of injury, demographics, and comorbidities. They concluded that even though they were without symptoms, patients who tested positive for COVID fared significantly worse than comparable patients who did not have the virus.
"This is the one of the first studies to look at the impact of COVID in trauma patients with no clinical or radiological signs of infection, and we demonstrated higher incidence of cardiac events, longer length of stay and increased costs in positive trauma patients compared with a matched population of similar negative patients," said lead author and research fellow, Marco Sozzi, MD.
"Simply put, you don't have to have symptoms for the virus to potentially affect your body. Further studies will need to look at further indicators that may put patients at risk," he said.
Although we know very little about the relationship between virus and the human host, the study does indicate that the virus may have implications for the health of even COVID patients who are asymptomatic, Dr. Lam said. The study also reinforces the need to screen all trauma patients for COVID so that positive patients can be isolated to prevent spreading the virus to other patients, according to Dr Sozzi.
Using a propensity score model, each trauma patient who tested positive for COVID was matched to three COVID-negative trauma patients based on the mechanism of injury, severity of injury, demographic characteristics, and various comorbidities. A total of 185 asymptomatic COVID-positive patients were matched with 554 COVID-negative patients. The researchers looked at death rate, complications, and use of hospital resources for each population group.
Compared with similar trauma patients who tested negative for COVID, positive, asymptomatic COVID trauma patients had:
- Higher rates of myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest (3.2% vs 0.9%)*
- More ventilator days (3.33 vs 1.49 days)
- Longer stay in the intensive care unit (4.92 vs 3.41 days)
- Longer overall length of stay (11.41 vs 7.24 days)
- Higher hospital charges ($176,505 vs $107,591)
At LAC+USC Medical Center, Dr. Lam said she plans to more closely examine and monitor trauma patients who test positive for COVID. "At the minimum, I have a heightened awareness about those patients that tested positive for cardiac events," she said.
The authors also plan to conduct prospectively designed studies to explore the reasons behind the correlation of positive, asymptomatic COVID patients and other complications besides myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest, which were the only complications their study detected. They will also try to determine what type of injuries put these patients at greater risk for complications.
"We need more studies to understand the reason for this relationship between COVID-positive patients and the higher incidence of cardiac and other complications after a trauma," Dr. Sozzi said.
Demetrios Demetriades, MD, FACS, is also a study coauthor.
Authors have no disclosures to report.
Citation: Sozzi M, et al. Asymptomatic Covid-19 Trauma Patients Have Worse Outcomes and Resource Utilization: A Matched Cohort Study. Scientific Forum, American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2022.
The American College of Surgeons is a scientific and educational organization of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to raise the standards of surgical practice and improve the quality of care for all surgical patients. The College is dedicated to the ethical and competent practice of surgery. Its achievements have significantly influenced the course of scientific surgery in America and have established it as an important advocate for all surgical patients. The College has more than 84,000 members and is the largest organization of surgeons in the world. "FACS" designates a surgeon is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
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In his 2010 short documentary Last Address, filmmaker Ira Sachs streamed images of the exteriors of the houses, apartments, and lofts where New York City artists had lived at the time of their deaths from AIDS-related complications. When Alex Fialho saw the elegiac film as a young curator in his mid-20s, it struck him as a powerful meditation on loss, and a statement about the ongoing presence of these artists in memory and history.
Having just moved to New York, Fialho says he was inspired to visit these sites himself. "Keith Haring's address at 542 LaGuardia Place, Felix Gonzales-Torres's address at London Terrace on W. 23rd Street," Fialho recalls, "That personal ritual of remembrance really gave me a sense of the lived experience of these artists who I greatly admired."
As Programs Director of the non-profit arts organization Visual AIDS (a position now held by Kyle Croft), Fiahlo wanted to make that experience public, so he started approaching cinemas and museum partners to hold "Last Address" tribute walks in neighborhoods across the city, events to collectively memorialize key AIDS-related sites and recognize the ongoing presence, contributions, and impact of queer artists.
Beginning in 2014, tribute walks took place in the East Village, then Chelsea (2015), the Lower East Side (2016), the West Village (2017), the Meatpacking District (2018), and Times Square (2019). Before the pandemic forced a pause, Fialho says the walks grew from year to year. "At our last event, in Times Square, we had over a hundred people."
When Last Address resumes this year, on Saturday, May 28, the approach will be a little different. The location, Harlem, was suggested by the poet and activist Pamela Sneed, who points out that Black artists have always led AIDS activism, but their losses and contributions have often been overlooked or erased from AIDS narratives. At the same time, Sneed notes that Harlem's queer legacy hasn't been fully recognized, "You would go to Lenox Lounge, and even though you knew it was a Black queer spot, you wouldn't think of it as such."
Blake Paskal, who's affiliated with Visual AIDS and the Studio Museum in Harlem, says both organizations have been planning the 2022 tribute walk for a year. In addition to conventional archival research, they sought input from Black LGBTQ+ elders such as Antionettea "Dreadie" Etienne, Luna Luis Ortiz, and Lee Soulja Simmons, and used oral histories, conversations, personal correspondence, and photographs to document people and places of creativity, community, and care.
As in past years, Harlem's Last Address tribute walk will kick off with a screening of Sachs' film, which will be followed by opening remarks from Sneed. Doorstep tributes will commence along an established route, led by those who have a close relationship with the site or artist.
Ballroom icons Tracey "Africa" Norman and David Ultima will speak at the former site of the Elks Lodge, one of the central locations in the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning, paying tribute to a venue that fostered identity, community, and support for people living with HIV/AIDS. Historian Michael Henry Adams will speak at the former address of Lenox Lounge, where greats such as Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane once performed, spotlighting how the iconic jazz club also became a significant LGBTQ+ social spot in the early 2000s.
The writer Robert E. Penn will also honor their late friend B.Michael Hunter outside the home in Malcolm Shabazz Gardens where he died in 2001 with his husband Johnny and other loved ones at his side. Penn and Hunter became friends as members of Other Countries, a close-knit collective of Black gay writers founded by Daniel Garrett in 1986. Also known as Bert, B.Michael Hunter edited the group's work for publication, including the 1993 Lamda Literary award-winning anthology "Sojourner: Black Gay Voices In the Age of AIDS."
Penn says they were particularly impressed by B.Michael Hunter's 1991 poem "Bridgetown." "He was basically talking about intersectionality 20 years before it became a term that lots of people recognize and can discuss," Penn says. Speaking of his nom de plume, they explain, "It makes sense that B.Michael is 'Be Michael': Be Michael to the fullest you can be, be Michael authentically, be Michael without needing to explain yourself."
Saturday's route will stretch for more than a mile, yet Sneed says it only represents a fraction of the history that Visual AIDS and the Studio Museum have mapped. She describes the tribute walk as a starting point for mourning loss and recovering legacy.
Daonne Huff, Director of Public Programs and Community Engagement explains, "For a lot of people, when we think of Harlem we think of art, when we perhaps think of queer art histories it stops in the Harlem Renaissance. I think this project was an opportunity to really spotlight the fact that queer creatives never left."
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Louisiana's Supreme Court has ruled that the man who killed a former NFL player in a New Orleans-area road rage incident cannot be tried again for murder after his conviction on a lesser charge was overturned.
Authorities in the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson Parish originally charged Ronald Gasser with second-degree murder in the 2016 shooting of Joe McKnight. A jury convicted Gasser of manslaughter instead. But that verdict was later overturned because it came from a non-unanimous jury.
Prosecutors went to the Supreme Court after lower courts said they could retry McKnight for manslaughter but not on the murder charge. Gasser claimed he shot McKnight in self-defense.
Writing for the court, Justice Jay McCallum said state and federal double jeopardy protection “bars the reinstatement and retrial of a defendant on a higher charge when he has been lawfully convicted of a lesser included offense, even though the conviction is later vacated.” | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/former-nfl-player-joe-mcknights-killer-cant-be-re-tried-for-murder | 2022-06-30 00:06:13 | 1 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/former-nfl-player-joe-mcknights-killer-cant-be-re-tried-for-murder |
Coal for making electricity experienced a revival last year, but it’s expected to decline this year.
The use of coal to generate electric power declined every year from 2014 to 2020, then surged last year with increased demand and higher natural gas prices.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, coal has resumed its decline this year.
While coal generated 23 percent of U.S. electricity last year, the agency forecasts the share will be 20 percent this year.
The EIA forecasts a slight increase in coal production this year, but most of that will be exported.
Coal plant retirements have continued, and some utilities have reported problems obtaining coal supplies for their power plants.
The EIA reports that coal shipments to U.S. power plants – most of which move by rail or barge – have fallen by half since 2010. | https://www.wvpublic.org/energy-environment/2022-10-28/coal-resumes-decline-for-making-electric-power-federal-data-show | 2022-10-28 18:53:09 | 1 | https://www.wvpublic.org/energy-environment/2022-10-28/coal-resumes-decline-for-making-electric-power-federal-data-show |
WUXI, China, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FIFA announced Yadea, the world's leading electric two-wheeled vehicle brand is an Official FIFA Women's World Cup 2023TM Supporter, which is a third time of cooperation after the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018TM and the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022TM.
"FIFA World Cup™ tournaments are the most popular sporting events in the world that bring global fans celebrating together regardless of backgrounds, cultures and nationalities. The conveyed inclusiveness, happiness and fairness resonate the mission of Yadea, initiating an enjoyable and green commuting lifestyle for the global," said Jerry Zhou, President of Yadea Overseas Business Group.
"The essence of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023TM are also part of Yadea's genes, the going beyond spirit, the strong willpower of conquering difficulties and challenges and the perseverance of breaking down barriers and limits. We are glad to connect with the fans and reinfornce those values which drive Yadea. As an Official Asia-Pacific Supporter of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023TM, Yadea will build its brand awareness and engage the passionate football fans here by offering premium e-motorcycles, e-bicycles, e-scooters."
Although aligning with FIFA for a third major tournament, it is the first time Yadea will be a Tournament Supporter of FIFA Women's World CupTM. Yadea celebrates and supports women who break down barriers in sports. Women users account significantly for Yadea, the action reinforces Yadea's recognition of the values and achievements of women.
"We're delighted to welcome Yadea back to our commercial programme and we're excited to work with them once again on what promises to be an incredible tournament of firsts," said Romy Gai, FIFA's Chief Business Officer. "The FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand is going to be incredibly popular across the region, and Yadea are the perfect partner in helping to bring a refreshing and young audience to the women's game's pinnacle event."
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Final defendant in fake military gear scheme gets 2 years
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The third and final defendant in an illegal scheme to supply 20 million dollars’ worth of substandard counterfeit clothing and gear made in China to the U.S. military has been sentenced to two years in prison. Federal prosecutors say 49-year-old Terry Roe, of Burlington, North Dakota, was also sentenced in federal court in Rhode Island to three years of probation. Authorities say Roe was the manager of a supplier that purchased the counterfeit apparel from the other members of the conspiracy and acted as the point of contact with supply personnel at military bases. The counterfeit items were passed off as American- made and often did not meet safety specifications. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/10/21/final-defendant-in-fake-military-gear-scheme-gets-2-years-2/ | 2022-10-21 16:28:52 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/10/21/final-defendant-in-fake-military-gear-scheme-gets-2-years-2/ |
Sen. Jim Risch (Idaho), the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says he will hold up a $735 million arms sale to Hungary until it drops its opposition to Sweden joining NATO, of which Hungary is a member.
“For some time now, I have directly expressed my concerns to the Hungarian government regarding its refusal to move forward a vote for Sweden to join NATO,” Risch said in a statement.
“Given promises that were made to me and others last year that this vote would be done, and the fact that it is now June and still not done, I decided that the sale of new U.S. military equipment to Hungary will be on hold. Hungary should take the actions necessary to allow Sweden into the alliance, and soon,” Risch said.
Risch’s hold will delay the sale of 24 HIMARS rocket launchers and more than 100 rockets.
The Washington Post first reported Risch’s move to block the arms sale.
Hungary has blocked Sweden’s accession to NATO because of grievances over Sweden’s criticisms of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
President Biden and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met Tuesday at the White House and hope to announce Sweden’s membership into NATO at the alliance’s summit in Lithuania this summer.
Finland and Sweden applied for membership in NATO last year in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Finland joined the group in April.
Turkey initially opposed Sweden’s accession to NATO because of concerns about how Sweden viewed its national security priorities. Turkey has accused Sweden of not taking a harder-line stance against Kurdish militant groups. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/idaho-republican-to-hold-up-arms-sale-to-hungary-for-delaying-swedens-nato-entry/ | 2023-06-14 15:49:15 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/idaho-republican-to-hold-up-arms-sale-to-hungary-for-delaying-swedens-nato-entry/ |
Colorado voters legalized psychedelic mushrooms last November. Rules are being written for licensing their therapeutic use. Meanwhile, therapists are offering treatments in a legal grey area.
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Colorado voters legalized psychedelic mushrooms last November. Rules are being written for licensing their therapeutic use. Meanwhile, therapists are offering treatments in a legal grey area.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 22, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
237 AM EDT Thu Sep 22 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM EDT
FOR CAYUGA COUNTY...
At 236 AM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Weedsport, or 8
miles north of Auburn, moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines.
Locations impacted include...
Weedsport and Port Byron.
This includes Interstate 90 near exit 40.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Cayuga,
northwestern Cortland and northeastern Tompkins Counties through 300
AM EDT...
At 236 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Locke, or 14 miles west of Cortland, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Cortland, Homer, Groton, Locke, Preble, Moravia, Scott, McGraw,
Sempronius and East Homer.
This includes the following highway exits...
New York Interstate 81 between 10 and 13.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 4256 7604 4261 7652 4273 7653 4278 7623
4278 7607
TIME...MOT...LOC 0636Z 263DEG 33KT 4265 7645
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Arcadia Trail's newest dog toys, clothing, and outdoor gear help adventure-seekers bring their pup on any excursion
PHOENIX, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PetSmart is empowering pets and pet parents to explore the great outdoors together by expanding its Arcadia Trail™ collection with adventure approved clothing, gear and toys for dogs. To show more kindness to the planet, new this year are apparel items made from recycled materials, a first for the line. Senior dogs, short-legged pups and those that just need a break will love the new collapsible Pet Wagon, a dog carrier that helps ensure all pups have the confidence and freedom to explore, comfortably.
"Exploring the outdoors is an experience that brings pets and people closer together," says Kristin Shane, senior vice president and chief merchandising officer at PetSmart. "Available only at PetSmart, our Arcadia Trail collection features gear and apparel to get you and your dog outside, so you can make lifelong memories together. And since many of our apparel items are made with 100% recycled material, you can explore the planet, while being kind to it, too."
According to a recent PetSmart survey*, more than half of pet parents (61 percent) report it is important they bring their pet along on outdoor adventures, and nearly a third share the lack of proper outdoor pet gear is the main deterrent from including their pets on these excursions. To provide pet parents with durable and functional outdoor canine equipment options, Arcadia Trail's collection of dog toys, clothing, and gear are tough enough for all outdoor activities, including camping, hiking and water play.
New Arcadia Trail Products
PetSmart will do Anything for Pets, indoors and out. The latest Arcadia Trail expansion includes products designed to make outdoor exploration easier and more enjoyable for pet parents and their pups, and includes:
- Gear: Tackle any outdoor terrain with products designed to give pet parents the freedom to explore further like the Arcadia Trail Pet Wagon, Camelback Dog Harness, Ultimate Safety Harness, Hands-Free Dog Leash with Adjustable Waistband and Compact Paw Cleaner.
- Toys: Indulge dogs in outdoor play with durable water-repellant toys like the Arcadia Trail Water-Repellent Canvas Duck Dog Toy, Glow-In-The-Dark Flyer Dog Toy, Monkey Rope and Adjustable Ball Launcher.
- Travel: Get to more remote destinations with Arcadia Trail travel support products including a Portable Showerhead, Collapsible Bowls, Waterproof Care Seat Cover and a Pet Car Booster Seat.
Exploring the Planet Safely and Sustainably
Arcadia Trail celebrates the freedom to explore with several new items made with 100% recycled material that help dogs roam the great outdoors in style while reducing their environmental paw prints. This includes Arcadia Trail Pet Bandanas, Dog T-shirts, and Dog Hoodies, as well as Dog Caps which are made of 50% recycled material
New Arcadia Trail products are available now in stores and online. For more information on PetSmart's Arcadia Trail collection, including ways to shop, visit PetSmart.com.
*Survey methodology: This random double-opt-in survey of 2,000 American pet owners was commissioned by PetSmart on Jan. 4-5, 2023. It was conducted by market research company OnePoll, whose team members are members of the Market Research Society and have corporate membership to the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and the European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR).
About PetSmart
PetSmart LLC is the leading pet retailer offering products, services and solutions for the lifetime needs of pets. At PetSmart, we love pets and we believe pets make us better people. Every day with every connection, PetSmart's passionate associates help bring pet parents closer to their pets so together they can live more fulfilled lives. This vision impacts everything we do for our customers, the way we support our associates and how we give back to our communities.
PetSmart operates approximately 1,660 pet stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, as well as more than 200 in-store PetSmart PetsHotel® dog and cat boarding facilities. We provide a broad range of competitively priced pet food and products, as well as services such as dog training, pet grooming, pet boarding, PetSmart Doggie Day Camp™ and pet adoption.
PetSmart, PetSmart Charities® and PetSmart Charities® of Canada work with nearly 4,000 animal welfare organizations to bring adoptable pets into stores so they have the best chance possible of finding a forever home.
Through this in-store adoption program and other signature events, PetSmart has facilitated over 10 million adoptions, more than any other brick-and-mortar organization.
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First Round's on Me (FROME) a brand new dating app geared towards helping singles connect in real life
LOS ANGELES, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New dating and social networking app, First Round's On Me (FROME), is now available for iOS and Android devices. Founded on the concept of bringing back real dating and driven by the pervasive need for in-person connection, FROME is an online dating app designed to get people off their phones and together in real life. With its unique feature offering discounts at some of LA's hottest bars, coffee shops and restaurants, FROME also helps users find the perfect date spot, and alleviate the stress (and awkwardness!) when it comes to the bill.
The inspiration behind the name First Round's On Me is a nod to a time when people met for the first time, by chance, in person. You'd see someone across the bar, go up to them and ask if you could buy them a drink. In today's online dating world, and especially during a global pandemic with exposure to social and professional interactions slowly coming back, this "natural" style of meeting rarely occurs. Over the years, singles have gravitated towards a digital dating experience — whether they like it or not. With its venue partnerships offers and prompts to actively set up dates, FROME helps facilitate the old school way of kismet experiences in dating through the comfort and safety of their home.
"I am proud to help humans connect and stop relying only on technology," says founder and CEO, Joe Feminella who was inspired to design FROME after years spent on dating apps that never resulted in actual in person dates. Disillusioned with a dearth of bland digital interactions and the endless swiping cycle, he was motivated to find a way to encourage people to put the phone down and set a date to get to know each other in person, how he believes people should get to know each other.
"The dating-app world is saturated, yet it consistently leaves people unsatisfied. The more time I spent swiping, the more I realized it wasn't an effective way to make a real connection. Technology has solved so many problems in today's world, but one thing it hasn't done and probably will never do, is help people fall in love. That needs to be done in person." says Feminella.
With an emphasis on both inclusivity and intimacy, FROME melds the ease of technology with the value of organic meetings: Instead of forcing users to rely on an app for a potentially infinite amount of time, it motivates them to get out in public and meet each other. Each time a user signs on, they have the option to select between one of two modes: Available Today (those free for a date tonight) and Available This Week (those who like to plan ahead). When a user finds someone they're interested in, they send an invitation for a time and place to meet for a drink. If the recipient accepts — it's date! The date is then added to their calendars, (one date per day, Romeo!). One of the app's unique features is a time-based chat made available six hours prior to the date, giving users some time to break the ice before meeting in person later that day. From there, the rest is up to them!
FROME is proud to be partnering with a number of Los Angeles bars and coffee spots, including The Bungalow, Cha Cha Matcha, Juneshine, Library Alehouse, Independence Bar and Bravo Toast. A premium version of the FROME app will be launched later in 2022 and is slated to hit other major U.S. cities including Miami, New York, Austin, Dallas, and Chicago, in the coming year.
For more information, visit firstroundsonme.co or follow us on Instagram @firstroundsonme
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NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- August 15, 2022 - Attention Enochian BioSciences, Inc. ("Enochian") (NASDAQ: ENOB) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between January 17, 2018, and June 27, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Enochian, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/enochian-biosciences-inc-loss-submission-form?prid=30819&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Enochian includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's co-founder and inventor Serhat Gumrukcu was engaged in a variety of frauds; (2) Gumrukcu was not a licensed doctor anywhere in the world; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Gumrukcu's purported contributions to the Company lacked a reasonable basis; (5) as a result of the foregoing, the Company had overstated its commercial prospects; (6) Gumrukcu had improperly diverted approximately $20 million from Enochian to entities he owned; and (7) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: September 26, 2022
Aggrieved Enochian investors only have until September 26, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Hundreds of millions of dollars for local schools are in the balance as the Ohio House and Senate hammer out differences in their proposed state budgets in conference committee.
Go here for a story explaining the differences in the budget and insight from education funding experts, state lawmakers and local school districts.
What does your local school district stand to gain or lose from the proposals? How does that compare to current funding? Search the data below.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden unveiled new measures Tuesday to protect access to abortion, 100 days after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy, and called on Americans to pressure Congress to pass legislation that would ensure abortion is legal across the United States.
The actions came as reproductive rights have become a central issue in political campaigns across the nation before next month’s midterm elections. Democrats have seized on the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade to motivate voters to elect lawmakers who will expand abortion rights nationally and block Republicans from imposing further restrictions.
“Right now we’re short a handful of votes,” Biden said as he convened his task force on reproductive health at the White House. “The only way it’s going to happen is if the American people make it happen.”
Biden assailed Republican lawmakers who have been pushing for a national ban on abortion and urged voters to remember what was at stake if Democrats lost control of power in Washington.
“It means that even if you live in a state where extremist Republican officials aren’t running the show, your right to choose will still be at risk,” Biden said.
Most abortions are now banned in at least 14 states, and other states are engaged in legal fights over abortion access. Biden administration officials estimate that nearly 30 million women of reproductive age now live in a state with a ban and that about 22 million women cannot access abortion care after six weeks.
The White House said Tuesday that the Department of Education will issue a reminder to universities that they cannot discriminate against students on the basis of pregnancy, including if a pregnancy has been terminated.
Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services is announcing $6 million in grants to expand access to family planning clinics that receive Title X federal funding. The White House has asked Congress for an additional $400 million for the clinics.
The White House believes that public sentiment is on its side when it comes to abortion.
A Pew Research Center survey this summer showed that 61% of Americans believe that abortion should be legal in most cases, although the political divide over those questions has become more stark.
In close races around the country, Democrats are amplifying the issue. The House Democrats’ super PAC is investing heavily in advertisements focused on reproductive rights, including one that dramatizes the consequences of a national abortion ban. It features police officers handcuffing doctors, nurses and patients who sought or performed “health care services that have been legal for nearly 50 years.”
Some Republicans have tried to play down abortion in favor of a focus on crime and inflation. However, the issue reemerged last month when Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced legislation that would institute a federal ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, has said that he does not expect Republicans to try to enact a national abortion ban.
The Biden administration has faced criticism for failing to do more to protect the abortion rights of women after the court’s decision this year. Despite calls from some activists to declare a public health emergency to expand abortion access, White House officials have been skeptical about what such a move would achieve and leery of inviting new legal fights.
In a memo before the announcement, Jennifer Klein, director of the White House’s Gender Policy Council, laid out some of the steps that the Biden administration has taken to preserve abortion access. She pointed to executive orders defending the right to travel across state lines for an abortion and guidance intended to ensure that doctors can provide abortions in cases in which patients are “presenting with an emergency medical condition” and need to be stabilized.
But White House officials acknowledged that there was only so much that they could do to protect abortion access without Congress and cast reproductive rights as a moral matter.
“I certainly believe that a woman should have the freedom to make decisions about her own body and that her government should not be making those decisions for her,” Vice President Kamala Harris said at the task force meeting. “Today extremist so-called leaders are attacking the freedom and liberty of millions of women at a state level.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/white-house-unveils-new-measures-to-protect-abortion-access/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-10-05 02:31:59 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/white-house-unveils-new-measures-to-protect-abortion-access/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
Pfizer expects to roughly quadruple the price of its COVID-19 vaccine to between $110 to $130 per dose once the U.S. government’s purchasing program ends early next year, a company official said.
Angela Lukin said during an investor call Thursday the company is still in discussion with insurers but that they are confident the price will ensure equitable access and reimbursement. The federal government currently pays about $30 a dose and then distributes the vaccine to the public for free.
Pfizer in June signed a $3.2 billion deal with the Biden administration for 105 million doses.
“We are confident that the U.S. price point of the COVID-19 vaccine reflects its overall cost effectiveness and ensures the price will not be a barrier for access for patients,” Lukin said.
Lukin said Pfizer is working on manufacturing a single-dose shot, and the increased cost reflects that, as well as the cost of distribution.
She said the manufacturer was working in unknown territory during the pandemic’s emergency phase, but “we will now be moving into our sweet spot of the traditional commercial marketplace.”
Once the public health emergency ends and the federal supply of vaccines runs out, Lukin said she still anticipates that every American with private insurance or government insurance who is eligible for vaccination will not have any out-of-pocket costs.
Still, it’s not clear how the millions of uninsured people in the country will have access to the vaccine. Once the federal supply runs out, private insurers will be required to pay for the doses themselves, which could increase premiums.
Pfizer’s contract with the U.S. government runs through the end of the year. Federal health officials have said they anticipate shifting COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments to the commercial marketplace sometime next year.
Lukin said she does not expect purchasing of the vaccines to transfer to the private sector until the first quarter of 2023 “at the earliest.”
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Florida's Republican incumbent Marco Rubio has been reelected to the U.S. Senate, beating his Democratic opponent in a key battleground state.
Rubio maintained a steady lead against the Democratic candidate, Rep. Val Demings, in the weeks leading up to election night. Demings had hoped to oust Rubio and improve the Democrats' majority in the Senate.
The national outlook for control of the Senate shifted four weeks before election night, with Republicans favored to retake the majority, NPR previously reported.
The candidates squared off in a debate three weeks before election night, where Rubio and Demings swapped blows about issues such as inflation, abortion, the Second Amendment and voting rights.
During the debate Rubio accused the Biden administration of releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to try to win votes. And when Demings, a former Orlando police chief currently serving in the House of Representatives, accused the senator of not doing enough to prevent school shootings, he countered that her suggested precautions would have stopped nothing.
"Everything she is for would have done nothing to stop any of those shootings," Rubio said during the debate. "Every one of these shooters would have passed the background check that she keeps insisting on. No one here is in favor of mass shootings and violence."
It's unclear what would have happened had Rubio not won. In September, the senator joined 11 other Republicans — including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — in declining to answer whether they would accept the election results, The Washington Post reported.
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It was July 5th 1997: Opening night of the groundbreaking all-female music festival Lilith Fair.
The lineup featured a who's who of female alternative musicians of the moment: Sheryl Crow, Jewel, The Indigo Girls, Lisa Loeb, Fiona Apple, Shawn Colvin, Tracy Chapman, Natalie Merchant and more.
Lilith Fair was the culmination of a year of work by its founder, a Canadian singer-songwriter. Sarah McLachlan had been told by music and concert industry executives that putting more than one woman back-to-back on a lineup or radio playlist wouldn't sell.
"Like, I'd walk in and do an interview and they said, 'Well, we'd love to add this song but we can't add you this week because we had a Tori Amos or because we added Tracy Chapman or because we added Sinéad O'Connor,'" she recalls. "And it was extremely frustrating. So the beginning of this was just born out of a desire to come together as a community. And it became this — we're going to break down some barriers. We're going to prove these guys wrong."
So McLachlan started to fundraise and work with performers to join her on stage before launching Lilith in the summer of 1997.
In its first summer, Lilith easily outpaced the then-fading Lollapolooza festival, in both audience size and ticket sales. It returned for two more summers and went on to become the top-grossing music festival of the late 1990s, racking up $60 million in ticket sales over its three-year run.
The eclectic group of women artists included folk, rock, country and pop musicians and sold out nearly every single show its first year. But as Lilith's popularity increased, critics disparaged the festival as "mom music" and called out its mostly white bill of performers.
Exactly 25 years later, musicians who participated in Lilith Fair and journalists who covered it reflected on the festival's importance in interviews with NPR.
Jessica Hopper, who authored an oral history of the Lilith Fair, says Lilith's lessons remain relevant today.
"Safe space is something that we're still trying to foster and kind of hold it up as an ideal, and it's like wait — this was accomplished three summers in a row with the biggest names in music," she explains. "It showed people models of possibility."
Criticism was quick, but so was change
Perhaps inevitably, Lilith became a target for comedians and cultural critics scoring points at the expense of female musical agency. It took just a few months after Lilith's very first show for Saturday Night Live to introduce a recurring character mocking the overly earnest stereotype of a Lilith artist, played by Ana Gasteyer, who droned on about her folkist approach.
By 1998, the organizers of Lilith had more money to work with, and could point to the marked success of the previous summer. The festival expanded from 37 shows to 57 shows, expanding its lineup to include more than 100 artists across three stages. Festival programmers challenged perceptions of Lilith Fair as a majority-white group of folk and alternative artists at a time when R&B, rap and hip-hop were gaining broader popularity.
In the lead-up to its second year, McLachlan worked with organizers to intentionally add more artists of color to the ticket: Erykah Badu and Queen Latifah joined the main stage for Lilith's second year, along with up-and-coming Missy Elliott, who made her debut live performance at Lilith Fair in a giant vinyl trash-bag-inspired suit.
"All of that second year, I think, is really significant because those were artists who were changing things in different worlds than the world that [McLachlan] occupies," says NPR Music critic Ann Powers, who attended all three summers of Lilith Fair. "And through a 2022 lens, we could say, 'Oh I wish it'd been even more diverse' ... but you got to give them credit."
The addition of more artists of color opened the festival to a broader audience, and exposed its up-and-coming Black female artists to a new set of fans. Meshell Ndegeocello, a bassist and composer who joined the show in 1998, recalls the festival's comforting atmosphere and the thrill of getting to see such powerful female artists — from Paula Cole to Erykah Badu to Natalie Merchant — performing together and supporting each other.
"I was able to see people I admired but cherished in a way that had a musical connection to me that was uplifting and healing," she remembers. "And I think I flourished as a musician because I was out of the male gaze and music where it's just, you know, 'Show me what you got.' And it was more like, 'What can you make me feel?'"
"To create an environment where everybody gets to be seen and heard and valued, and come as you are, you know, let your freak flag fly ... this is the place you get to do that and there is no judgment here,"
Sarah McLachlan said that's exactly what Lilith Fair was always supposed to achieve.
"To create an environment where everybody gets to be seen and heard and valued, and come as you are, you know, let your freak flag fly ... this is the place you get to do that and there is no judgment here," she recalls.
But the show couldn't go on forever — or make a comeback
After its third successful summer on the road, the 90's iteration of Lilith came to an end.
By that time, many stars could look back and point to Lilith Fair as a major catalyst for their success — like Jewel, who graced the cover of Time Magazine in 1997 and sang the National Anthem at the 1998 Super Bowl. Or English singer Dido, whose song "Thank you" was featured in movie soundtracks and sampled in Eminem's award-winning single "Stan."
"Some of these women were told by their agents, 'This is going to kill your career if you do this, and in fact the opposite happened ... It minted stars."
"Some of these women were told by their agents, 'This is going to kill your career if you do this,'" says Hopper, referring to early industry doubts around the festival's founding. "And in fact the opposite happened ... it minted stars."
It was partly the demands of Sarah McLachlan's own celestial career that brought an end to Lilith Fair. Releasing two albums in three years, kick-starting a major touring festival and getting married –- all milestones that left the singer exhausted. As McLachlan recounted to Glamour Magazine in 2017, "I've got to go home. And I have to have a life. People have been having babies and getting married and divorced, and I've missed it all."
But in 2010, McLachlan tried to get Lilith off the ground again, turning to former festival favorites such as Erykah Badu and Tegan and Sara.
Lilith Fair's second iteration faced several obstacles. For one, McLachlan was now the mother of two daughters and was busy finishing yet another album. As she explained to Glamour, she was headlining the tour and working with many of the same behind-the-scenes coordinators who had helped manage previous tours. Still, disorganization and shoddy financial management caused many artists — including Kelly Clarkson and Norah Jones — to drop out of shows at the last minute.
What's more, the music industry had undergone a seismic change over a decade. The digital music era meant that audiences were now discovering new music online, rather than on touring festival lineups. Ticket prices had also increased, with some Lilith VIP packages costing $750.
McLachlan later speculated that, much like herself, Lilith's original audience had developed a different set of priorities. "A lot of the young women who came to Lilith back then now have kids at home, have busy careers," she told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2012. "And I don't think we did enough due diligence in discovering how our audience had changed and how to reflect that. In a new show, we kind of threw up the same model, which, you know, obviously in hindsight was quite stupid and it didn't get the audiences that we expected to get."
McLachlan and her partners ended up canceling the tour after only a few shows.
Lilith's legacy 25 years later
Looking back, did Lilith achieve what it set out to accomplish?
Ann Powers says yes. She says it upended longstanding presumptions that audiences wouldn't connect with the femininity and eclecticism of an all-female music festival. Not only that, Lilith Fair radically expanded creative possibilities for women musicians, who took to its stages to triumph, to experiment, even to fail and to try again.
"This is a snapshot of a huge array of what women were doing in music in this era when there was a lot of space and demand for women of all kinds to be taking risks in music," Powers says. "And Lilith Fair is almost like, 'Here's your compilation of every every wild idea that women had in music in the '90s.' And I think so much of that stuff is just like forgotten."
For the artists and fans who experienced it, Lilith Fair felt revolutionary. It's success upended concert industry norms and created a new place where female artistry could evolve and flourish. Lilith Fair was a cultural phenomenon that coalesced at just the right time.
NPR researcher Will Chase contributed to this report
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Boy swept away, Montecito evacuated in California storms
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rescuers ended the search for a 5-year-old boy who was swept away by floodwaters in central coastal California while the entire community of Montecito was ordered evacuated Monday as residents grappled with flooding and mudslides as the latest in a series of powerful storms walloped the state.
Tens of thousands of people remained without power, and some schools closed for the day. The number of deaths related to the storms climbed from 12 to 14 on Monday, state officials said.
The search for the boy, who has not been declared dead, was called off around 3 p.m. because the current and rising water levels of the Salinas River were too dangerous for divers, said spokesperson Tony Cipolla of the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office.
The boy’s mother was driving a white truck when it became stranded in floodwaters just before 8 a.m. near Paso Robles, according to Tom Swanson, assistant chief of the Cal Fire/San Luis Obispo County Fire Department.
Bystanders were able to pull the mother out of the truck, but the boy was carried out of the vehicle and swept downstream, Swanson said. There was no evacuation order in the area at the time. A firefighter discovered one of the boy’s shoes, but crews still had not found the child more than five hours later.
Meanwhile, south of Paso Robles, the entire community of Montecito and surrounding canyons scarred by recent wildfires were under an evacuation order that came on the fifth anniversary of a mudslide that killed 23 people and destroyed more than 100 homes in the coastal enclave.
The National Weather Service reported that at least 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rain fell over 12 hours, with several more inches predicted before the latest storm system moves through an area where roads wind along wooded hillsides studded with large houses. Upscale Montecito is squeezed between mountains and the Pacific and is home to celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Rob Lowe and Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Jamie McLeod’s property was under the Montecito evacuation order, but she said there is no way for her to get out with an overflowing creek on one side and a mudslide on the other.
“As of two hours ago, I am trapped,” she said Monday afternoon. “I can’t get off the mountain.”
The 60-year-old owner of the Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary said one of her employees came to make a weekly food delivery and is stuck too.
McLeod said she feels fortunate because her home sits on high ground and the power is still on. But she said she tires of the frequent evacuation orders since the massive wildfire followed by the deadly landslide five years ago.
“It is not easy to relocate,” said McLeod. “I totally love it — except in catastrophe.”
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said the decision to evacuate nearly 10,000 people was “based on the continuing high rate of rainfall with no indication that that is going to change before nightfall.” Creeks were overflowing, and many roads were flooded, he said.
Northbound lanes of U.S. 101, a key coastal route, were closed, along with several other highways and local roads.
Up the coast, evacuation orders were issued in coastal, woodsy Santa Cruz County for about 32,000 residents living near rain-swollen rivers and creeks, said Melodye Serino, the deputy county administrative officer. The San Lorenzo River was declared at flood stage, and drone footage showed numerous homes sitting in muddy brown water, the top halves of autos peeking out.
A large, muddy slide blocked both lanes of southbound Highway 17, a key but windy route into Santa Cruz from the San Francisco Bay Area. Vehicles were turned back at the summit as crews arrived to clean up.
Despite the deadly nature of storms, residents of tiny, flooded Felton remained calm and upbeat.
Christine Patracuola, the owner of Rocky’s Cafe for 25 years, handed out free coffee to customers whose homes lacked power Monday. Her staff couldn’t come in because of closed roads, including a bridge over the San Lorenzo.
“A little coffee can’t hurt anybody,” she said. “You can’t really change Mother Nature; you just have to roll with the punches and hope you don’t get swept up into it.”
Nicole Martin, third-generation owner of the Fern River Resort in Felton, said Monday that her clients sipped coffee, sat on cabin porches amid towering redwood trees, and were “enjoying the show” as picnic tables and other debris floated down the swollen San Lorenzo.
The river is usually about 60 feet (18 meters) below the cabins, Martin said, but it crept up to 12 feet (4 meters) from the cabins. Still, Martin said she wasn’t worried — her family has owned the property for about 60 years, and her grandfather checked out conditions Monday and shrugged it off.
In Northern California, several districts closed schools while the California Highway Patrol shared video of large boulders skidding down hillsides to block state roads.
More than 35,000 customers remained without power in Sacramento, down from more than 350,000 a day earlier after gusts of 60 mph (97 kph) knocked majestic trees into power lines, according to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
The National Weather Service warned of a “relentless parade of atmospheric rivers” — long plumes of moisture stretching out into the Pacific that can drop staggering amounts of rain and snow. The precipitation expected over the next couple of days comes after storms last week knocked out power to thousands, flooded streets, and battered the coastline.
President Joe Biden issued an emergency declaration Monday to support storm response and relief efforts in more than a dozen counties, including Sacramento, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Sunday that 12 people died as a result of violent weather during the past 10 days, and he warned that this week’s storms could be even more dangerous and urged people to stay home. On Monday, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services reported two more deaths by falling tree, one of a homeless person in Sacramento and the other of a person inside a home.
The first of the newest, heavier storms prompted the weather service to issue a flood watch for a large portion of Northern and Central California, with 6 to 12 inches (15 to 30 centimeters) of rain expected through Wednesday in the already saturated Sacramento-area foothills.
In the Los Angeles area, there was potential for as much as 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rain in foothill areas late Monday and Tuesday. High surf was also expected on west-facing beaches.
Since Dec. 26, San Francisco received more than 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain, while Mammoth Mountain, a popular ski area in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, got nearly 10 feet (3 meters) of snow, the National Weather Service said.
The storms won’t be enough to officially end California’s drought, but they have helped.
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, expects a break in the rain after Jan. 18.
“That is my best guess right now, which is good because it will give the rivers in Northern California, and now in Central California, a chance to come down,” he said.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — National player of the year Zach Edey of Purdue has declared for the NBA, but will keep open the option of returning to school next season.
The 7-foot-4 center, who led Purdue to a Big Ten regular-season title last season by averaging 22.3 points, 12.9 rebounds, 2.1 blocks and 1.5 assists per game, has one season of college eligibility remaining. The Boilermakers also became the second No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament to lose to a No. 16 seed last month.
“My basketball career has been unorthodox to say the least, but I wouldn’t change a thing about it,” Edey wrote on Twitter. “From ranked 437 in my recruiting class to national player of the year, I can’t put into words what Purdue University, my teammates, my coaches and our fans mean to me. Though we fell short of our ultimate goal this season, I loved every minute of it.”
He added: “I will evaluate my future after going through the process and look forward to what’s next.”
Edey became the first player from Purdue to win the national player of the year award since Glenn Robinson in 1994. Robinson was the No. 1 overall pick that season.
Edey is the first player in NCAA history to finish a season with at least 750 points, 400 rebounds, 70 blocks and 50 assists in a season — since blocks became an official stat. He finished in the top 25 nationally in all four categories, was a unanimous first team All-American, the Big Ten player of the year and swept the national player of the year awards.
But where Edey fits in the draft is unclear in an evolving league that values 3-point shots and perimeter play over post players. That was one reason Edey’s former teammate, Jaden Ivey, went No. 5 overall in last year’s draft.
Most of the current projections, though, don’t have Edey being selected in the first round. Still, his upside remains high because the Canadian has played just five seasons of high-level basketball after giving up hockey and baseball.
Purdue has had at least one player selected in each of the past seven drafts, and Edey is the best hope to keep that streak intact.
In 99 career games, Edey has 1,533 points, 847 rebounds, 148 blocks and 106 assists. In 2022-23, Edey became the second player in Big Ten history to lead the league in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticized officials over slow medicine deliveries and mobilized the military to respond to a surge in suspected COVID-19 infections, as his nation struggled to contain a fever that has reportedly killed dozens and sickened nearly a million others in a span of three days.
North Korean health authorities said Monday that eight more people died and an additional 392,920 were newly found to have feverish symptoms. That brings the death toll to 50 and illnesses to more than 1.2 million, respectively. It’s a sharp jump from six dead and 350,000 sick reported last Friday, a day after the North said that it found that an unspecified number of people in capital Pyongyang tested positive for the omicron variant.
Kim has acknowledged that the fast-spreading fever, highly likely driven by COVID-19, is causing “great upheaval” in the country, and outside experts say the true scale of the outbreak is likely much bigger than what’s described in the state-controlled media.
Some suspect that North Korea has understated its fatalities or illnesses to shield Kim's leadership from criticism. The North likely lacks test kits and other tools to detect virus carriers with no or mild symptoms, which means that several million might already have been infected.
“When people die, North Korean authorities will say they’ve died of overwork or from natural deaths, not because of COVID-19,” said Nam Sung-wook, a professor at Korea University in South Korea. Nam said the North is likely understating the death toll to protect “the dignity of its supreme leader.”
While neighboring South Korea and China have offered to send medical supplies and other help, experts say it’s too late to inoculate the North’s 26 million people, and that the only realistic outside help would be offering limited supplies of vaccines to reduce deaths among high-risk groups, including the elderly and people with preexisting conditions.
It's also unclear whether and how soon Kim would accept outside offers of aid because he has previously rallied for unity at home to guard against the pandemic without resorting to foreign help.
State media didn’t specify how many of the fever cases were confirmed as COVID-19. Among the 50 fatalities, North Korea officially identified only one as a COVID-19 case so far.
North Korea is believed to be mostly relying on isolating people with symptoms at shelters. Analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at South Korea’s Sejong Institute said the North’s limited number of test kits are likely mainly reserved for the ruling elite.
Failing to slow the virus could have dire consequences for North Korea, considering its broken health care system and that its people are believed to be unvaccinated. There's also malnourishment and chronic poverty.
The North imposed what it described as maximum preventive measures that restricted travel between cities and counties, and Kim ordered public health officials, teachers and others to identify people with fevers so they could be quarantined. As of Sunday, more than 564,860 people were in quarantine, North Korea's state media reported.
The explosive growth in fever cases may underscore how fast omicron could travel across an unvaccinated population without access to proper health tools, and fatalities will surely jump in coming weeks considering time lags between infections and deaths, said Jung Jae-hun, a professor of preventive medicine at South Korea’s Gachon University.
While it's clear COVID-19 is spreading at an alarming speed, there are questions about the accuracy of North Korea's fever tally. Jung said it's unlikely that North Korean health workers are able to make reliable daily updates, considering the lack of tests and other resources, and are possibly adding multiple days of cases into their single-day counts following delays.
Cho Han Bum, an analyst at Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification, said North Korea's fever totals seemed an “outright lie.”
"North Korea says about 390,000 more fell ill but only eight died in the past day, while South Korea (on Sunday) reported 25,000 new cases and 48 deaths,” he said.
Yang Moo-jin, a professor at Seoul’s University of North Korean Studies, said that the real number of COVID-19 infections in North Korea is likely at least three times larger than North Korea's tally of fever patients because of underreporting, the bad health care system and poorly computerized administrative networks.
Kim during a ruling party Politburo meeting on Sunday criticized government and health officials over what he portrayed as a botched pandemic response, saying medicine supplies aren’t being distributed to pharmacies in time because of their “irresponsible work attitude” and lack of organization.
The Politburo had issued an emergency order to immediately release and quickly distribute state medicine reserves and for pharmacies to open for 24-hour shifts, but Kim said such steps weren’t being properly implemented. Kim ordered the medical units of his military to get involved in stabilizing the supply of medicine in Pyongyang, KCNA said.
North Korea’s previous claim of a perfect record in keeping out the virus for 2 1/2 years was widely doubted. But its extremely strict border closure, large-scale quarantines and propaganda that stressed anti-virus controls as a matter of “national existence” may have staved off a huge outbreak until now.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol told the National Assembly on Monday that the South was willing to send vaccines, medicine, equipment and health personnel to the North if it’s willing to accept.
South Korean officials say Pyongyang so far has made no request for Seoul’s help. The North also shunned millions of vaccine doses offered by the U.N.-backed COVAX distribution program, likely because they carried international monitoring requirements.
Kim still stressed the country’s economic goals should be met, which likely means huge groups will continue to gather at agricultural, industrial and construction sites.
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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Connor McDavid each had a goal and three assists and the Edmonton Oilers snapped a two-game skid with a 6-4 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night.
Zach Hyman, Ryan McLeod, Evander Kane and Leon Draisaitl also scored for the Oilers (2-2-0). Jack Campbell made 36 saves.
Andrei Svechnikov had a hat trick and Martin Necas added another goal for the Hurricanes (3-1-0) in their first loss of the season. Sebastian Aho added three assists, and Frederik Andersen stopped 27 shots.
Edmonton scored the game’s first goal for the first time this season 8:22 into the opening period. On the power play, Tyson Barrie intercepted a clearing attempt and floated a puck on net for Hyman to tip past Andersen.
Carolina pulled even 1:38 into the second period when Svechnikov beat Campbell glove-side to extend his points streak to four games.
Just over eight minutes into second, the Oilers regained the lead with their second short-handed goal of the season. Nugent-Hopkins sent the puck across to McLeod on a two-on-one, and he beat Andersen through the legs.
Edmonton made it 3-1 a couple of minutes later as McDavid sent a long pass to spring Kane and he scored his first of the season on the backhand.
The Hurricanes cut into the deficit 12:35 into the second as a Svechnikov shot ticked off a defender’s stick and past Campbell.
A little over a minute into the third period, the Oilers restored their two-goal lead. Andersen coughed up the puck behind his net and Hyman was able to kick it out to Nugent-Hopkins who scored into a wide-open net.
However, just a couple of minutes later, Carolina struck again on the power play as the puck deflected off a skate from the faceoff circle to Svechnikov, who scored his third goal of the game and sixth of the young season.
The Oilers struck on a power play of their own 5:16 into the third as McDavid sent it across to Draisaitl for a one-timer into the net.
Carolina once again punched back with a power-play goal on a tick-tack-toe passing play converted by Necas 8:55 into the third period.
The Hurricanes had a great chance to tie it up with a minute left as Aho went on a breakaway, but Campbell came up with a huge save.
McDavid scored an empty-netter to put the game away with 10 seconds remaining.
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Hurricanes: At Calgary on Saturday night.
Oilers: Host St. Louis on Saturday.
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London's caroline typically performs in a circle, a visual metaphor attuned to the connections made as members face each other. But in its Tiny Desk performance, the group adjusted its stage plot slightly for a new setting, still singing together of yearning, of fatigue, of kinship. Gusts of post-rock, emo, folk and minimalism sweep around the octet's sound, but the musical mish-mash isn't quite the point — caroline stresses a communal spirit, witnessed here in a beautiful set.
Over three songs performed from caroline's self-titled debut — one of NPR Music's 50 best albums of 2022 — strings skitter and swoon, guitars stutter and drum sticks roll atop the Tiny Desk itself. In sprawling arrangements and frenzied improvisations, this is impatient music that awaits patient ears. There's power and vulnerability in choral singing, where different kinds of voices aid and uplift the moment for something better. That's especially the case on "Dark blue," with a mournful-yet-triumphant chord progression you could sit inside forever, as the music shifts and shuffles over a bustling drone and the band offers a deceptively simple carpe diem: "I want it all."
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Storable, the leading technology company for self storage operators, and The William Warren Group (WWG), a privately held entrepreneurial real estate company that operates the StorQuest® Self Storage family of brands, announced today that they have entered into a Facility Management Software Development Agreement in order to co-develop and support customized facility management software and related operating platform solutions for the benefit and continued growth of both businesses.
WWG, a technology and innovation leader in the industry, is one of the largest privately-held development, acquisition and property management companies in the self storage industry with more than 280 facilities in 22 states and 600 employees nationwide.
"Storable is at the forefront of the industry as tech innovators delivering comprehensive end-to-end capabilities and business solutions to help operators like us continue to innovate in real-time. Their storEDGE technology platform will allow us to seamlessly integrate our proprietary systems to achieve business results that matter to our organization. We are excited to collaborate with them to jointly accelerate innovation efforts that will benefit the industry." said Gary Sugarman, Chief Operating Officer, WWG.
Chuck Gordon, CEO of Storable said, "We could not be more excited about our groundbreaking new partnership with The William Warren Group. Our industry leading Facility Management Software will now serve as the system of record for one of the top self storage brands in the world in addition to 27,000 other storage facilities worldwide. This collaboration will enable both parties to accelerate innovation and ultimately drive technology forward for self storage as a whole."
The William Warren Group, Inc. (WWG) is a privately held, entrepreneurial self storage development, acquisition, property and asset management company based in Santa Monica, CA. Since inception in 1994, the company's focus has been on investments in major metro markets across the United States that offer significant cash flow, revenue growth through its Private Operator Advantage third party management program and long-term capital appreciation opportunities. To learn more, visit www.williamwarren.com.
StorQuest Self Storage, StorQuest Express and StorQuest Economy Storage are registered trademarks, and an owned and operated asset of WWG's national portfolio of self storage facilities. The StorQuest family of brands deliver best-in-class support, amenities and simple, easy-to-use technology - built on a foundation that is focused on a guest-centric service approach. To learn more visit: www.storquest.com.
Based in Austin, Texas, Storable is the world's leading provider of self-storage technology. The business exists to help storage operators do more using their fully-integrated suite of products. Offering management software, websites, access control, insurance, payment processing and the internet's largest marketplace for renting self-storage units, Storable products power the storage industry. Backed by decades of experience leading innovation, the Storable family of companies includes: SiteLink, storEDGE and Easy Storage Solutions among others. With a fully distributed workforce, Storable is proud to serve more than 37,00 facilities with at least one of their products and more than 27,000 facilities with their system of record software. To learn more visit www.storable.com.
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NEXTMap® elevation data and analytics will drive efficiency and save costs for an industry leader in solar energy site planning
Developing scalable, custom analytics to meet the growing demand for solar energy around the world
DENVER, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Intermap Technologies (TSX: IMP) (OTCQX: ITMSF) ("Intermap" or the "Company"), a global leader in 3D geospatial data and intelligence solutions, today announced a new contract with a major solar energy company to provide NEXTMap® elevation data as a service and analytics to support solar farm planning and site assessment. Intermap's solution saves renewable energy companies significant time and resources.
Intermap's elevation data as a service business model is scalable to meet the specific needs of customers. The Company developed custom slope analytics to the solar energy company's specific requirements. It rapidly provides detailed information about the steepness of the terrain for site assessments, visualization and planning. This type of analysis typically happens in the preliminary stages of planning so organizations can focus on the most promising sites. Once solar sites are prioritized, survey teams deploy drones and other equipment to evaluate and model the locations further. A major benefit is the reduction of these more costly and time-consuming surveys. Clients can access the elevation data and analytics they need without purchasing the elevation models, resulting in a cost-effective solution that can be used by non-geospatial experts.
"We are excited to provide solar energy companies with cutting-edge elevation data and analytics to support solar projects around the world," said Patrick A. Blott, Intermap's Chairman and CEO. "Intermap's easily accessible geospatial data and analytics make it simple for solar energy companies to manage multiple projects and save time and money associated with sending ground crews in the early stages of planning."
Today's newest subscription reflects Intermap's continued expansion into the renewable energy market where its NEXTMap elevation data and analytics meet the growing demand for solar energy. The global solar power market is expected to grow from $184.03 billion in 2021 to $293.18 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 6.9% (Source). The growth in demand for solar energy is driven by environmental urgency and incentives set forth by governments to help reduce carbon emissions. Intermap's global data coverage enables energy companies to expand operations to meet the growing renewable energy demand while maintaining confidence that the data will provide accurate and consistent results anywhere in the world.
Recent wins with other major renewable energy companies show the growing demand for Intermap's unique capabilities in providing the necessary tools for renewable energy planning and climate resilience projects. The Company is building recurring revenue at a high margin with a focus on elevation data as a service and analytics to meet the global demand for clean energy.
This new contract includes access to Intermap's NEXTMap elevation data and custom slope analytics, enabling the client to assess viability, evaluate canopy heights and perform cut-fill analysis in the preliminary planning stages of proposed solar projects.
To learn more about Intermap's elevation data and analytics for renewable energy, visit www.intermap.com/renewable-energy.
Certain information provided in this news release constitutes forward-looking statements. The words "anticipate", "expect", "project", "estimate", "forecast", "will be", "will consider", "intends" and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Although Intermap believes that these statements are based on information and assumptions which are current, reasonable and complete, these statements are necessarily subject to a variety of known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Intermap's forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties pertaining to, among other things, cash available to fund operations, availability of capital, revenue fluctuations, nature of government contracts, economic conditions, loss of key customers, retention and availability of executive talent, competing technologies, common share price volatility, loss of proprietary information, software functionality, internet and system infrastructure functionality, information technology security, breakdown of strategic alliances, and international and political considerations, as well as those risks and uncertainties discussed Intermap's Annual Information Form and other securities filings. While the Company makes these forward-looking statements in good faith, should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary significantly from those expected. Accordingly, no assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so, what benefits that the Company will derive therefrom. All subsequent forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, attributable to Intermap or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as at the date of this news release and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or to revise any of the forward-looking statements made herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable securities law.
Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intermap (TSX: IMP) (OTCQX: ITMSF) is a global leader in geospatial intelligence solutions, focusing on the creation and analysis of 3D terrain data to produce high-resolution thematic models. Through scientific analysis of geospatial information and patented sensors and processing technology, the Company provisions diverse, complementary, multi-source datasets to enable customers to seamlessly integrate geospatial intelligence into their workflows. Intermap's 3D elevation data and software analytic capabilities enable global geospatial analysis through artificial intelligence and machine learning, providing customers with critical information to understand their terrain environment. By leveraging its proprietary archive of the world's largest collection of multi-sensor global elevation data, the Company's collection and processing capabilities provide multi-source 3D datasets and analytics at mission speed, enabling governments and companies to build and integrate geospatial foundation data with actionable insights. Applications for Intermap's products and solutions include defense, aviation and UAV flight planning, flood and wildfire insurance, disaster mitigation, base mapping, environmental and renewable energy planning, telecommunications, engineering, critical infrastructure monitoring, hydrology, land management, oil and gas and transportation.
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Authorities report ‘alarming’ increase in carbon monoxide emergencies as snow blankets Sierra homes
Authorities in the Sierra are warning residents of another danger that often comes along with heavy snow: carbon monoxide poisoning.
Since the beginning of the year, North Tahoe fire says that emergencies relating to carbon monoxide and other hazards from repeated storms have accounted for nearly 20% of the non-emergency medical service calls.
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These incidents happen when heavy snow builds up on combustion-appliance venting, buried foundation vents and home generator ventilation systems.
An increase in gas leaks was also reported.
“The repetitive freeze-and-thaw cycles following winter storms combined with the weight of the snowpack places glacial-like torsional stress on tanks and propane plumbing systems, causing dangerous leaks,” officials with North Tahoe fire said.
Roof snow shedding is often an issue as well. Along with the dangers it poses to people and pets, it can also damage gas meters, propane tanks and above-ground gas plumbing.
Residents are asked to be cautious when clearing snow, avoid using sharp tools around tanks, avoid piling snow around tanks and meters and to call 911 if they smell propane or natural gas.
Propane leaking into snow may release more of a musty odor instead of the typical rotten egg smell. If you do smell propane or natural gas, call 911 immediately.
Nevada County has also issued tips for those using generators. They should always be used outdoors and at least 20 feet away from windows, doors or attached garages.
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C.J. Cron Player Prop Bets: Rockies vs. Athletics - July 28
Published: Jul. 28, 2023 at 11:24 AM CDT|Updated: 30 minutes ago
C.J. Cron returns to action for the Colorado Rockies versus JP Sears and the Oakland AthleticsJuly 28 at 8:40 PM ET.
He returns to action for the first time since July 21, when he went 2-for-5 with a home run and two RBI against the Marlins.
C.J. Cron Game Info & Props vs. the Athletics
- Game Day: Friday, July 28, 2023
- Game Time: 8:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Coors Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Athletics Starter: JP Sears
- TV Channel: SportsNet RM
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +200)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +230)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +105)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -125)
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C.J. Cron At The Plate
- Cron is hitting .255 with 11 doubles, 11 home runs and 12 walks.
- Cron enters this game on a six-game hitting streak. In his last games, he's hitting .333 with four homers.
- Cron has recorded a hit in 35 of 53 games this season (66.0%), including 12 multi-hit games (22.6%).
- He has gone deep in 18.9% of his games this year, and 5.2% of his chances at the plate.
- In 34.0% of his games this year, Cron has tallied at least one RBI. In six of those games (11.3%) he recorded more than one RBI, while he was responsible for three or more of his team's runs in three contests.
- He has scored at least once 24 times this season (45.3%), including seven games with multiple runs (13.2%).
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C.J. Cron Home/Away Batting Splits
Athletics Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Athletics has a collective 8.2 K/9, which ranks 23rd in MLB.
- The Athletics have the last-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (5.86).
- Athletics pitchers combine to surrender the most home runs in baseball (146 total, 1.4 per game).
- Sears (1-7) gets the starting nod for the Athletics in his 21st start of the season. He's put together a 4.11 ERA in 111 2/3 innings pitched, with 101 strikeouts.
- The left-hander's last appearance came on Saturday against the Houston Astros, when he tossed 5 2/3 innings, surrendering five earned runs while allowing eight hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 27-year-old ranks 38th in ERA (4.11), fourth in WHIP (1.039), and 38th in K/9 (8.1).
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(NEXSTAR) – S’mores — the official treat of people who enjoy having sticky hands — have existed in some form or another for over a hundred years.
But the name “s’more”? That came about decades later.
One of the earliest known recipes for the s’more was published around 1920, in a cookbook commissioned by the Campfire Marshmallow Company. Much like today’s s’more, the treat consisted of chocolate and toasted marshmallow sandwiched between two graham crackers — but it went by a different and arguably more accurate name: the “Campfire Graham Cracker Sandwich.”
Even then, the authors of the recipe noted that the toasty treats were already “especially” enjoyed by Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. But the latter began calling them by a different name by 1925, as evidenced articles published by newspapers in Alabama, Connecticut and Tennessee, all of which reported on Girl Scout leaders who sampled the sweet confections — dubbed “some-mores” — at various camp-based functions. (These occurrences may have been prompted by a recipe provided to troop leaders in a 1925 issue of Girl Scout Leader magazine, though the Girl Scouts of the USA does not maintain a copy of the issue.)
It wasn’t until 1927 that the Girl Scouts widely published its first official recipe for “Some Mores” (no hyphen) in the organization’s “Tramping and Trailing With the Girl Scouts” guidebook. The reason they were called “Some Mores” in the first place, however, has likely been lost to time.
The recipe itself only offered one clue: “Though it tastes like ‘some more’ one is really enough,” the passage concluded.
Despite being credited with popularizing the s’more and perhaps giving the treat its name, the Girl Scouts of the USA readily admit they are unclear on the origin of the s’more, or where the term “some more” first came from.
“We do not know if the Girl Scouts were the first to make and enjoy S’mores, but we also are not aware of any earlier claims to this special treat,” the organization added in a statement shared with Nexstar.
It’s also unclear when “some more” was shortened to “s’more,” though accounts from Colorado State University and Canada’s Museum of Northern History, among others, trace it back as far as 1938, when a recipe for “s’mores” was included in the “Recreational Programs for Summer Camps” guidebook by William Henry Gibson.
The shortened name — s’mores — ended up sticking around, much like the gluey marshmallowy gloop that sticks to one’s fingers after eating them. Even the Girl Scouts ditched the term “some mores” in the early 1970s, when the organization switched to using the abbreviated version in its publications.
The Girl Scouts and s’mores have stuck together ever since.
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Q: Too bad Tom Brady isn’t on the Dolphins this season to join Udonis Haslem in bringing the fountain of youth to Miami. UD said this is his last year. Who gets the torch? — Stuart, Miami.
A: The twist there is that Bam Adebayo repeatedly has said that he wants to be the franchise’s next Heat lifer. That, of course, means keeping him off the trade table. But other than Adebayo, with all due respect to Tyler Herro, it doesn’t appear as if the Heat have another such emerging leader. As it is, Jimmy Butler would seem to be the heir apparent to Udonis Haslem’s captaincy. But Jimmy also is about to turn 33, and I doubt he has Haslem-like plans to play to 42.
Q: Great to hear that Udonis Haslem (Mr. 305) is coming back for his 20th season. In my opinion, UD epitomizes the true meaning of Heat Culture. – Greg, Jacksonville.
A: Actually, that somewhat sells Udonis Haslem short. He epitomizes professionalism, of which there may be no higher compliment for an athlete.
Q: One thing I noticed about this year’s schedule for the Heat is they have a few baseball-like series, with consecutive games against the same teams. I feel like while it certainly alleviates some of the travel for teams, it does dull out those games and create a fatigue or lack of interest from fans in those games. That and it’s really hard to win both those games no matter who you play. – Aaron, Miami.
A: I, too, am not a big fan from a fan’s perspective, but as I wrote in my Sunday column, if the reduced travel makes the league’s stars available more often, and therefore less likely to practice load management, then it might prove to be an acceptable tradeoff. But, yes, playing the Hornets in consecutive home games is not optimal.
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The unique collection, exclusive to Anthropologie, is an assortment of both fashion and homeware pieces.
PHILADELPHIA, May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthropologie, the American lifestyle retailer, and Copenhagen-based designer, stylist, and influencer, Pernille Rosenkilde, announced the launch of their exclusive collaboration today.
Part stylist, part influencer, and full-time creative spirit, Pernille Rosenkilde focuses on imaginative projects that blend her editorial experience with her love of color, unusual materials, and vintage treasures – and the Pernille Rosenkilde exclusively for Anthropologie collection embodies just that. The collaboration features an assortment of both fashion and homeware pieces, all in fun shapes and beautiful pastel and color-pop shades. From a specially curated interiors assortment that includes dinnerware, candles, throws, plates, and more, to apparel made up of sweaters, skirts, and blouses that incorporate tulle, bows, pinstripes, puff sleeves, and ruffles, each quirky style emulates Pernille's naturally free-spirited and playful look.
"We are thrilled to unveil our collection with Pernille Rosenkilde," said Louie Higaki, General Merchandising Manager for AnthroLiving, Anthropologie's home assortment. "This collection is accessible and affordably priced, without compromising that only-at-Anthro touch our customer both loves and expects. Each piece in the collection evokes the designers playful yet bold, creative charm, and we are delighted to introduce our Anthropologie community to Pernille's colorful and eclectic style."
"What I have really loved about working with Anthropologie is our shared passion for creativity. Designing for me is all about being open and having fun with the design process," said Pernille Rosenkilde. "We started out with a home collection, and quickly, we had a shared wish to have apparel and accessories to back it up. What I had in mind when designing every piece of the collection was a spring day of fun in Copenhagen. There are very few things I love more than a chill picnic on a big blanket in one of my favorite city gardens, having friends come and go, sipping champagne from beautiful glasses, eating cake from cute ceramic plates, and wearing colorful and over-the-top pieces, even on a casual Sunday. This is the day I had in mind when I designed the collection, and I can't wait for this day to come."
The Pernille Rosenkilde exclusively for Anthropologie collection will be available both in-store and online beginning today. The line is priced between $12 for coasters and $198 for a skirt.
About Pernille Rosenkilde
Pernille Rosenkilde is a stylist, influencer, and creative spirit based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Pernille Rosenkilde finds happiness in the mixing of colors and materials and is constantly searching for vintage treasures that inspire her designs.
About Anthropologie
A unique lifestyle brand, Anthropologie is in constant conversation with our thoughtful, creative-minded community, and we take pride in our connection with individuals who prioritize self-expression and are in active pursuit of inspiration. We are committed to exceeding our customer's expectations in unexpected, personalized ways. Over the years, our product offering has expanded to encompass apparel, shoes, accessories, activewear, bridal, beauty, wellness, furniture, home décor, garden (through our sister brand terrain), and so much more, the majority of which is available only at Anthropologie. Founded in 1992, Anthropologie now ships to over 100 countries (through www.anthropologie.com) and operates more than 200 stores around the world.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Before the season even starts, the Lobo women’s basketball team is generating buzz around the conference. The Mountain West preseason awards were given out on Wednesday, and the Lobos were among the best in the conference.
In the predicted order of finish, UNM ranked second out of 11 total teams. Defending conference champion UNLV is the favorite to win the Mountain West by a comfortable margin, however UNM did receive first place votes and was the only other school to do so.
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The preseason All-Mountain West team also featured a Lobo. Senior forward Shai McGruder earned her first preseason conference honor following a season where she was named to the all-conference and all-defensive teams. Last season McGruder led the Mountain West with a 60.8 field goal percentage.
In her return to her hometown, Florida State transfer Amaya Brown was named preseason newcomer of the year. The former Cibola high standout joins the Lobos as a redshirt senior after playing in 44 games with the Seminoles while racking up 55 rebounds, 37 assists, 17 steals, and six blocks.
The final Lobo selected for a preseason award is also in her first year in cherry and silver. Hannah Robbins was selected as preseason freshman of the year, becoming the fourth Lobo to do so. The Albuquerque native played high school ball for PHH Prep in Phoenix, Arizona. | https://www.krqe.com/news/community/unm-womens-team-shines-in-conference-preseason-awards/ | 2022-10-12 23:38:38 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/community/unm-womens-team-shines-in-conference-preseason-awards/ |
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute for International Economics about what a new U.K. prime minister may mean for Britain's economy and beyond.
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Benefit is Payable up to $70,000 for Cancer, Heart Attack, and Stroke
DALLAS, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Bankers Insurance Group (LBIG), a nationally recognized provider of life, health, and financial products, today announced its critical illness product has increased the maximum lump sum benefit from $30,000 to $70,000. This increased benefit is available through the company's independent agent distribution channel in twenty states.
The critical illness product includes cancer, heart attack, and stroke plans and is offered through Liberty Bankers Life Insurance Company, a member of Liberty Bankers Insurance Group.
"If a policyholder is diagnosed with cancer, or had a heart attack or stroke, the critical illness benefit is payable to them in a single lump sum," said Dave Peters, senior vice president, supplemental health division at Liberty Bankers Insurance Group. "With our product, the lump sum benefit provided only depends on the plan selected, not on the treatment received."
The critical illness product offers an automatic recurrence benefit on every policy. One year after a heart attack or stroke, or one year after cancer goes into remission, the policyholder's lump sum benefit starts to rebuild. After five years, it is back to 100% of the original benefit. This recurrence benefit is payable an unlimited number of times.
"Battling cancer or recovering from a stroke is expensive," said Brian Clark, chief marketing officer at Liberty Bankers Insurance Group. "From medication to childcare and living expenses, policyholders can feel financially prepared should the unexpected happen."
The lump sum benefit increase for the critical illness product is now available in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. In other states where the critical illness product is available, the lump sum benefit will increase to $70,000 in the near future.
About Liberty Bankers Insurance Group
Based in Dallas, Texas, Liberty Bankers Insurance Group (LBIG) is a nationally recognized and respected insurance group that offers a variety of life, health, and financial products. Rated A- Excellent by AM Best, LBIG is comprised of American Monumental Life Insurance Company, American Benefit Life Insurance Company, Capitol Life Insurance Company, and Liberty Bankers Life Insurance Company.
More information is available at www.lbig.com.
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The White House was briefly evacuated Sunday evening while President Joe Biden was at Camp David after the Secret Service discovered suspicious powder in a common area of the West Wing, and a preliminary test showed the substance was cocaine, two law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
Secret Service agents were doing routine rounds on Sunday when they found the white powder in an area accessible to tour groups, not in any particular West Wing office, the officials said. The officials were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
The complex was evacuated at about 8:45 p.m. Sunday as fire and emergency crews were brought in to do a rapid test, which preliminarily identified cocaine. The White House was soon reopened and the powder was sent for further testing.
Biden and his family left for Camp David on Friday and returned to the White House on Tuesday.
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The Secret Service said in a statement the White House was closed as a precaution as emergency crews investigated, and that the District of Columbia fire department was called in to evaluate and determine that the substance was not hazardous.
“The item was sent for further evaluation and an investigation into the cause and manner of how it entered the White House is pending,” the Secret Service said. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/suspicious-powder-found-at-the-white-house-sunday-was-cocaine-sources-say/3598036/ | 2023-07-04 20:55:34 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/suspicious-powder-found-at-the-white-house-sunday-was-cocaine-sources-say/3598036/ |
By JIM VERTUNO
AP Sports Writer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — With Formula’s One popularity and viewership booming in the United States, ESPN and the global motorsports series announced a new broadcast deal Saturday through 2025.
ESPN has broadcast F1 in the U.S. since 2018 and the new deal will keep commercial-free, live telecasts for all races on ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC, all owned by the Walt Disney Co. ESPN Deportes will continue as the Spanish-language home of F1 in the U.S.
The deal comes ahead of Sunday’s U.S. Grand Prix, which will air on ABC. Terms were not disclosed.
“To continue to build and grow and push behind the tremendous momentum that exits with Formula One in the United States for another few seasons is really exciting for us,” ESPN President Burke Magnus said. “We’re not going to let up. We’re just going to continue to push hard because it’s spectacular content and spectacular competition.”
Under the new deal, at least 16 races will be on ABC or ESPN and all race weekends will include live coverage of practice and qualifying.
Magnus said ESPN has been pleased with its partnership with Sky Sports, which allows ESPN to use the Britain-based broadcaster’s race and practice productions.
“The next step for us is to build around their great production of the races,” Magnus said. “Having a more consistent presence on site, having more highlights on Sports Center, having more editorial coverage.
“The Sky production of the race is world class, I’m not sure we can replicate that ourselves without a lot of time, effort and expense.”
The network said the new deal also expands its direct-to-consumer rights, with details for more content on digital platforms to be announced later.
ESPN has been the U.S. rights holder in a boom time for F1, and the series will expand its calendar to a record 24 races in 2023. That includes three in the U.S. in Austin, Miami and Las Vegas. Only the Texas race was on the calendar when ESPN took over broadcast rights four years ago.
Last season had an average of 949,000 viewers, the network said. That has increased to more than 1.2 million tuning in on average over the first 18 races this season.
“They (ESPN) were really the first to believe on us here in America,” said Stefano Domenicali, president and chief executive officer of F1. “Now it seems easy because we seen the booming of the market. But we will not take it for granted. What ESPN did for the American fans is really special and is a reason why we are renewing this collaboration for the next three years.”
The inaugural Miami Grand Prix on ABC generated an average viewership of 2.6 million, the largest U.S. audience on record for a live F1 race.
Domenicali said the continued growth of the U.S. audience remains critical for F1.
“They (ESPN) know how to connect with the American audience,” Domenicali said. “They know what the American audience wants to hear.”
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Americans can expect their 401K to benefit from the federal spending package.
"The overall goal of this legislation is to help more Americans feel secure when they are preparing for retirement and also for the rest of their financial needs," said Shai Akabas of the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Under the legislation, any eligible workers will be automatically enrolled in their employer-sponsored plan at a 3% contribution.
Part-time workers will also be allowed to make contributions for the first time.
The bill simplifies the saver's credit so more people can use it.
"That would mean it's fully available to people all of the way down the income distribution. Right now, it's not refundable so if people don't owe federal income taxes, then they can't take advantage of the credit," Akabas said.
Akabas adds that anyone who has earnings low enough to qualify can make contributions up to $2,000 into their retirement accounts, which would be matched to a certain amount.
"That is a meaningful contribution to their retirement that will be made through the tax code if they make those retirement contributions," he said.
The federal spending package passed the Senate on Thursday. It still needs to pass the House and be signed by President Joe Biden. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/government-funding-bill-may-help-people-save-more-for-retirement | 2022-12-22 21:24:19 | 0 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/government-funding-bill-may-help-people-save-more-for-retirement |
LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientology Network's DOCUMENTARY SHOWCASE, the weekly series providing a platform for independent filmmakers to air films on important social, cultural and environmental issues, presents the award-winning documentary Losing Sight of Shore.
DOCUMENTARY SHOWCASE airs Fridays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Scientology Network.
Losing Sight of Shore documents the incredible journey of four women who set out to accomplish what has never been done before—crossing the Pacific Ocean in an ocean rowboat by themselves. Ultimately, their epic journey stands as a powerful testament to the human spirit.
Directed by Sarah Moshman, the feature-length documentary follows a team of four women as they attempt a once-in-a-lifetime feat—spending more than nine months at sea, rowing a small vessel 8,000 miles from America to Australia. The challenges they must overcome include harrowing and violent sea swells, seasickness, blistering equatorial temperatures, boredom, and not least of all, mental anguish. The story is ultimately more than a chronicle of a record-setting feat, but the affirmation of the power of perseverance, friendship and courage to overcome the impossible.
Losing Sight of Shore was an Official Selection at the Newport Beach and Bentonville Film Festivals and the winner of Best of the Fest at the Adventure Travel Film Festival.
ABOUT SARAH MOSHMAN
Sarah Moshman is an Emmy® Award-winning documentary filmmaker and TEDx speaker whose work has been featured on Upworthy, Marie Claire, CNN and Good Morning America.
After directing two short documentaries about empowerment of young women, Girls Rock! Chicago (2010) and Growing up Strong: Girls on the Run (2012), she set out to direct her first feature documentary, The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things (2014). That film has been screened over 700 times around the U.S. and around the world, in schools, organizations and corporations, adding a vital voice to the conversation of gender equality. Sarah is dedicated to telling stories that uplift, inform and inspire as well as showcasing strong female role models on-screen.
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Fundamental to Scientology is a humanitarian mission that extends to some 200 nations with programs for human rights, human decency, literacy, morality, drug prevention and disaster relief. For this reason, the Scientology Network provides a platform for independent filmmakers who embrace a vision of building a better world.
DOCUMENTARY SHOWCASE debuts films weekly from award-winning independent filmmakers whose goal is to improve society by raising awareness of social, cultural and environmental issues.
For more information, visit scientology.tv/docs.
The Scientology Network debuted on March 12, 2018. Since launching, the Scientology Network has been viewed in over 240 countries and territories worldwide in 17 languages. Satisfying the curiosity of people about Scientology, the network takes viewers across six continents, spotlighting the everyday lives of Scientologists, showing the Church as a global organization, and presenting its social betterment programs that have touched the lives of millions worldwide. The network also showcases documentaries by independent filmmakers who represent a cross-section of cultures and faiths, but share a common purpose of uplifting communities.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Megan Thee Stallion took the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday and told jurors that rapper Tory Lanez fired five shots at her feet, yelled at her to dance and wounded her as she tried to walk away from him in the Hollywood Hills more than two years ago.
“I’m in shock. I’m scared,” the Grammy-winning hip-hop superstar testified Tuesday, according to The Los Angeles Times. “I hear the gun going off, and I can’t believe he’s shooting at me.”
Her testimony came on the second day of the trial of the Canadian rapper Lanez, 30, who has pleaded not guilty to discharging a firearm with gross negligence, assault with a semiautomatic firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle.
With supporters gathered both outside the courthouse and in the courtroom hallway, Megan walked into the courtroom wearing a purple suit with heavy security late Tuesday morning.
“I just don’t feel good,” Megan, 27, said at the beginning of questioning from Deputy District Attorney Kathy Ta. “I can’t believe I have to come in here and do this.”
She said that on July 12, 2020, she left a party at the Hollywood Hills home of Kylie Jenner in an SUV with Lanez, his bodyguard and her friend Kelsey Harris.
Megan said she and Lanez had become close, bonding over the loss of their mothers, and had an occasionally sexual relationship. Her friend Harris, who had a “crush” on Lanez, tried to stir up trouble between the women by telling Megan she needed to stop lying to her friend.
The argument spiraled out of control, and became even more heated when she and Lanez started trashing each other’s music and careers, Megan said.
“I feel like that really rubbed him the wrong way,” she said. “He kept yelling and cursing.”
She was wearing a bikini, but got out of the vehicle and tried to walk away when Lanez leaned out and opened fire, she said, leaving the back of her feet wounded. At one point, he yelled “Dance, b——-!” she testified.
“I looked down at my feet, and I see all the blood,” she said. “Now everybody’s screaming. He looked shocked. Kelsey looked shocked.”
Lanez’ attorney George Mgdesyan said in his opening statement that her injury showed she could not have gotten a clear look at the shooter behind her, and that he would present more evidence that countered her story during the trial.
Lanez, sitting at the defense table in a tan suit and turtleneck, took notes as she spoke.
He arrived at court holding his young son’s hand. He carried the boy out of the courthouse at lunch break and at the end of the day.
“This is my support system and I’m his too,” he told reporters.
Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, could get more than 22 years in prison if convicted on all counts. He could also be deported to his native Canada.
Lanez has had a successful run of mixtapes and major-label records since his career began in 2009, with his last two albums reaching the top 10 on Billboard’s charts.
Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Pete, was already a major up-and-coming star at the time of the incident, and her career has skyrocketed since. She won a Grammy for best new artist in 2021, and had No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 with her own song “Savage” featuring Beyoncé and as a guest on Cardi B’s “WAP.” | https://www.kron4.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-megan-thee-stallion-faces-down-tory-lanez-at-shooting-trial/ | 2022-12-14 10:13:42 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-megan-thee-stallion-faces-down-tory-lanez-at-shooting-trial/ |
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hidden Road, the global credit network for institutional investors, today announced it has recently closed a $50 million Series A, led by Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Citadel Securities, FTX Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, Greycroft, XBTO Humla Ventures, Wintermute, SLN Capital, Profluent Trading, Coinbase Ventures and Corner Capital, among other global investors.
Hidden Road solves many of today's problems in credit intermediation and prime brokerage caused by legacy technology, archaic workflows and conflicts of interest. Among these problems is the difficulty that institutional investors have in getting the credit and financing they need to trade efficiently across fragmented global markets.
Hidden Road's quantitatively-driven platform provides real-time risk management and seamless credit across venues, products and asset classes. The company's products include prime brokerage, clearing and financing for traditional and digital assets.
Hidden Road Partners is the global credit network for institutional investors, enabling seamless access to traditional and digital markets. Conflict-free and built on a modern technology stack, we remove complexity and cost in prime brokerage, clearing and financing. For more information, please email info@hiddenroad.com.
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SALEM, Ore. — A man accused of torturing a woman he held captive in Oregon, and who was convicted in Nevada of keeping another woman in captivity, is using dating apps to find people who can help him avoid the police or to find new victims, authorities said Friday.
On Thursday night, Grants Pass police, sheriff’s deputies, an Oregon State Police SWAT team and federal agents raided a property in the unincorporated community of Wolf Creek, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Grants Pass, where they seized Foster’s car and arrested a 68-year-old woman for hindering prosecution.
Foster managed to escape. Authorities provided no other details, but the area, right off Interstate 5, is thickly forested and mountainous.
The arrested woman, Tina Marie Jones, had followed Foster in a vehicle earlier Thursday as he drove to a remote location in Wolf Creek then intentionally drove his 2008 Nissan Sentra over an embankment, according to court documents. Jones then gave Foster a ride to the property that was raided Thursday night and where Foster had been hiding while police searched for him, according to Josephine County Circuit Court records.
Grants Pass police said Foster “is actively using online dating applications to contact unsuspecting individuals who may be lured into assisting with the suspect’s escape or potentially as additional victims.”
Police offered a $2,500 reward on Friday for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of Foster, who is charged with attempted murder, kidnapping and assault in the attack on the Grants Pass woman.
Foster’s public defender in the Las Vegas case did not immediately respond to emails from The Associated Press seeking comment on Foster’s behalf.
Grants Pass Police Chief Warren Hensman told AP on Thursday that it is “extremely troubling” that Foster was out and able to prey on other women instead of still being behind bars for the Nevada crimes.
In 2019, before moving to Oregon, Foster held his then-girlfriend captive inside her Las Vegas apartment for two weeks. He initially was charged with five felonies, including assault and battery, and faced decades in prison upon conviction. But in August 2021, Foster reached a deal with Clark County prosecutors that allowed him to plead guilty to one felony count of battery and a misdemeanor count of battery constituting domestic violence.
A judge sentenced him to up to 2 1/2 years in a Nevada prison. The 729 days he had spent in jail awaiting trial were factored into his punishment, leaving Foster with fewer than 200 days to serve in state custody.
Foster’s girlfriend suffered seven broken ribs, two black eyes and injuries from being bound at the wrists and ankles with zip ties and duct tape during her two-week captivity, according to a Las Vegas police report.
The woman also told police she was forced to eat lye and was choked to the point of unconsciousness.
She escaped when Foster let her out of his sight during a trip together to a grocery store and gas station.
Court records show, Foster was out of custody at the time on a suspended jail sentence for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. He also was awaiting trial in another 2018 case involving domestic violence. But Foster’s plea deal with prosecutors in 2021 settled the domestic violence case, a copy of the agreement shows, and he was “sentenced to credit for time served.”
Police in Grants Pass, a town of some 40,000 in southwest Oregon, said Foster is believed to be armed and “extremely dangerous.”
“We are using every piece of technology available to locate this man,” said Hensman, the police chief.
Hensman said he didn’t have time to think about how authorities in Nevada handled Foster’s crimes there.
“Whatever happened in the past,” he said, “we can talk about those situations later.”
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Yamat reported from Las Vegas. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/police-warn-that-oregon-torture-suspect-is-using-dating-apps/2023/01/27/bf1cae40-9e8e-11ed-93e0-38551e88239c_story.html | 2023-01-27 23:44:57 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/police-warn-that-oregon-torture-suspect-is-using-dating-apps/2023/01/27/bf1cae40-9e8e-11ed-93e0-38551e88239c_story.html |
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A revived Hurricane Ian set its sights on South Carolina’s coast Friday and the historic city of Charleston, with forecasters predicting a storm surge and floods after the megastorm caused catastrophic damage in Florida and left people trapped in their homes.
With all of South Carolina’s coast under a hurricane warning, a steady stream of vehicles left Charleston on Thursday, many likely heeding officials’ warnings to seek higher ground. Storefronts were sandbagged to ward off high water levels in an area prone to inundation.
Along the Battery area at the southern tip of the 350-year-old city’s peninsula, locals and tourists alike took selfies against the choppy backdrop of whitecaps in Charleston Harbor as palm trees bent in gusty wind.
With winds holding at 85 mph (140 kph), the National Hurricane Center’s update at 5 a.m. Friday placed Ian about 145 miles (235 km) southeast of Charleston and forecast a “life-threatening storm surge” and hurricane conditions along the Carolina coastal area later Friday.
The hurricane warning stretched from the Savannah River to Cape Fear, with flooding likely across the Carolinas and southwestern Virginia, the center said. The forecast predicted a storm surge of up to 7 feet (2.1 meters) into coastal areas of the Carolinas, and rainfall of up to 8 inches (20 centimeters).
In Florida, rescue crews piloted boats and waded through riverine streets Thursday to save thousands of Floridians trapped amid flooded homes and buildings shattered by Hurricane Ian.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at least 700 rescues, mostly by air, were conducted on Thursday involving the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Guard and urban search-and-rescue teams.
Ian had come ashore Wednesday on Florida’s Gulf Coast as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane, one of the strongest storms ever to hit the U.S. It flooded homes on both the state’s coasts, cut off the only road access to a barrier island, destroyed a historic waterfront pier and knocked out electricity to 2.6 million Florida homes and businesses — nearly a quarter of utility customers. Some 2.1 million of those customers remained in the dark days afterward.
Climate change added at least 10% more rain to Hurricane Ian, according to a study prepared immediately after the storm, said its co-author, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab climate scientist Michael Wehner.
At least four people were confirmed dead in Florida, while three other people were reported killed in Cuba after the hurricane struck there on Tuesday.
In the Fort Myers area, the hurricane ripped homes from their slabs and deposited them among shredded wreckage. Businesses near the beach were completely razed, leaving twisted debris. Broken docks floated at odd angles beside damaged boats. Fires smoldered on lots where houses once stood.
“I don’t know how anyone could have survived in there,” William Goodison said amid the wreckage of a mobile home park in Fort Myers Beach where he’d lived for 11 years. Goodison said he was alive only because he rode out the storm at his son’s house inland.
The hurricane tore through the park of about 60 homes, leaving many destroyed or mangled beyond repair, including Goodison’s single-wide home. Wading through waist-deep water, Goodison and his son wheeled two trash cans containing what little he could salvage — a portable air conditioner, some tools and a baseball bat.
The road into Fort Myers was littered with broken trees, boat trailers and other debris. Cars were left abandoned in the road, having stalled when the storm surge flooded their engines.
Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said his office was scrambling to respond to thousands of 911 calls in the Fort Myers area, but many roads and bridges were impassable.
Emergency crews sawed through toppled trees to reach stranded people. Many in the hardest-hit areas were unable to call for help because of electrical and cellular outages.
A chunk of the Sanibel Causeway fell into the sea, cutting off access to the barrier island where 6,300 people live.
Hours after weakening to a tropical storm while crossing the Florida peninsula, Ian regained hurricane strength Thursday evening over the Atlantic. The National Hurricane Center predicted it would hit South Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane Friday.
National Guard troops were being positioned in South Carolina to help with the aftermath, including any water rescues. And in Washington, President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for the state, a needed step to speed federal assist for recovery once Ian passes.
The storm was on track to later hit North Carolina, forecasters said. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper urged residents to prepare for torrents of rain, high winds and potential power outages.
Visiting the state’s emergency operations center Thursday, Cooper said that up to 7 inches (17.8 centimeters) of rain could fall in some areas, with the potential for mountain landslides and tornadoes statewide.
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Gomez Licon reported from Punta Gorda, Florida; Associated Press contributors include Terry Spencer and Tim Reynolds in Fort Myers, Florida; Cody Jackson in Tampa, Florida; Freida Frisaro in Miami; Mike Schneider in Orlando, Florida; Seth Borenstein in Washington; and Bobby Caina Calvan in New York. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/ap-hurricane-ian-heads-for-carolinas-after-pounding-florida/ | 2022-09-30 10:20:16 | 0 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/ap-hurricane-ian-heads-for-carolinas-after-pounding-florida/ |
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro has asked prosecutors to investigate accusations against his brother and one of his sons that could deal a blow to his presidency and undermine his plans for peace and to fight corruption.
Petro, a former guerrilla who was elected as Colombia's first leftist president last year, has promised to battle endemic corruption and bring “total peace” to the South American country which only recently, in 2016, signed a peace pact largely ending decades of internal war.
The prosecutor’s office said it had started looking into the accusation against Nicolás Petro, the president’s son, made by his former partner that he kept irregular donations to his father’s presidential campaign.
Meanwhile, the president’s brother is accused of involvement in a ring that allegedly received benefits for promising to help drug traffickers enroll in the government’s “total peace” program.
“I have a responsibility to be loyal to the votes that many of you cast for me,” the president said the day before he asked for both cases to be investigated.
The cases strike at the core pillars of Petro’s election campaign and will have an impact on the president’s public image and could call into question the legitimacy of the government’s peace process, said political analyst Carlos Arias Orejuela, a professor at the Externado University of Colombia.
“This, given that Petro based his narrative on him bringing ‘change’, not only of government, but in the forms of practicing politics and its background with anti-corruption and the mishandling of political nepotism,” he said.
Nicolás Petro’s ex-partner, Day Vásquez, has said that he received improper money from donations to his father’s campaign.
In an interview with Semana magazine, Vásquez said the president’s son received more than 600 million Colombian pesos (about $125,000) from Samuel Santander Lopesierra, who is known as the “Marlboro Man” and was imprisoned in the United States for drug trafficking.
The donation “never legally reached the campaign because he kept the money as well as others,” Vásquez said without providing proof. She added that the president had no knowledge of the money.
“Everything has been behind the father’s back,” she said.
According to Vásquez, Nicólas Petro, who is a lawmaker in Atlantico province, also received up to 400 million pesos (around $83,000) from Alfonso del Cristo Hilsaca, a businessman from northern Colombia.
The president’s son denied the accusations, claiming to not know either Lopesierra or Hilsaca.
“I have not met or received any type of political, personal or economic favor from any questionable character,” he said in a statement.
President Petro has six children.
There have also been complaints made against the president’s brother, Juan Fernando Petro, in connection with a network of lawyers and organizations that allegedly took money to link drug traffickers and people wanted for extradition with the government’s “total peace” program.
Colombia's 2016 peace pact was with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, but smaller groups remained. President Petro has proposed negotiations with such groups for their members to turn themselves in to the justice system in exchange for benefits.
He has proposed to Washington changing the extradition agreement with his country so that drug traffickers who turn themselves to Colombian authorities and don't return to trafficking can avoid extradition.
The president’s brother has denied any involvement in the network and indicated that he has already responded to the call from the prosecutors investigating the case. He said malicious third parties are using his name to deceive drug traffickers.
Petro and his government have reiterated that the only official who has their endorsement to have contacts with illegal groups is the High Commissioner for Peace.
“Whoever wants to interfere in that purpose (of achieving peace), or take personal advantage of it, has no place in the government, even if they are members of my family,” said President Petro. “I trust that my brother and my son can prove their innocence, but I will respect the conclusions reached by the courts.”
Sandra Borda, a political analyst and professor at the Universidad de Los Andes, said the accusations are a political blow to the president reminiscent of the scandal that shook the Ernesto Samper administration (1994-1998). He was eventually found not guilty of receiving money from drug traffickers in his campaign.
“We have the precedent of drug money entering a campaign in the past, but in that case it was not people so close, like the president’s own family,” said Borda.
Analysts agree the accusations against Petro’s relatives could impact October’s local elections. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/world/article/accusations-against-relatives-a-blow-to-colombian-17819209.php | 2023-03-04 01:50:25 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/world/article/accusations-against-relatives-a-blow-to-colombian-17819209.php |
HOUSTON, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nutex Health Inc. ("Nutex Health" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NUTX), a physician-led, technology-enabled integrated healthcare delivery system comprised of 21 state-of-the-art micro hospitals in 8 states and primary care-centric, risk-bearing physician networks, today announced that six Nutex hospitals have won notable awards this quarter.
Each award was voted on by their respective communities, as a reflection of patient satisfaction and unparalleled emergency care.
- Albuquerque ER & Hospital won "Best Places to Work 2023" from Albuquerque Business First.
- East Valley ER & Hospital won "Best Large Business of the Year 2023" from the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce.
- The Colony ER Hospital won "Best of The Colony Readers' Choice Award 2023" from Star Local Media's Best of The Colony.
- Wylie ER won "Best ER Readers' Choice Award 2023" from C&S Media Publication.
- Oklahoma ER & Hospital won "Best Emergency Room" and "Best Medical Clinic/Physician Network" from The Journal Record's 2023 Reader Rankings.
- NW Indiana ER & Hospital won "Best of the Region" from The Times of Northwest Indiana's Best of the Region 2023.
"We are extremely proud of the accolades from our partner hospitals. These awards validate our mission of providing great, concierge level care for the population that we serve." said Tom Vo, M.D., MBA, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nutex Health.
Nutex Health hospitals have historically provided a quality safety net option for the communities in which we serve. We believe that the main reason our hospitals are recognized for superior healthcare delivery is our organization's primary focus on patient care. Patients always come first, and our entire organization and its processes revolve around delivering the best patient care possible for our community.
The Nutex management model ensures that our hospitals can thrive in their communities, which is echoed by thousands of positive reviews as well as numerous nominations and awards each year.
About Nutex Health Inc.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas and founded in 2011, Nutex Health Inc. (NASDAQ: NUTX) is a healthcare management and operations company with two divisions: a Hospital Division and a Population Health Management Division.
The Hospital Division owns, develops and operates innovative health care models, including micro-hospitals, specialty hospitals, and hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs). This division owns and operates 21 facilities in 8 states.
The Population Health Management division owns and operates provider networks such as Independent Physician Associations (IPAs). Through our Management Services Organization (MSO), we provide management, administrative and other support services to our affiliated hospitals and physician groups. Our cloud-based proprietary technology platform aggregates clinical and claims data across multiple settings, information systems and sources to create a holistic view of patients and providers, allowing us to deliver greater quality care more efficiently.
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Certain statements and information included in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words or phrases "will", "will likely result," "expected to," "will continue," "anticipated," "estimate," "projected," "intend," "goal," or similar expressions are intended to identify "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are subject to certain risks, known and unknown, and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Such uncertainties and risks include, but are not limited to, our ability to successfully execute our growth strategy, changes in laws or regulations, including the interim final and final rules implemented under the No Surprises Act , economic conditions, dependence on management, dilution to stockholders, lack of capital, the effects of rapid growth upon the Company and the ability of management to effectively respond to the growth and demand for products and services of the Company, newly developing technologies, the Company's ability to compete, conflicts of interest in related party transactions, regulatory matters, protection of technology, lack of industry standards, the effects of competition and the ability of the Company to obtain future financing. An extensive list of factors that can affect future results are discussed in the Current Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2023 under the heading "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item IA thereof, and other documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such factors could materially adversely affect the Company's financial performance and could cause the Company's actual results for future periods to differ materially from any opinions or statements expressed within this press release.
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Kevin Mitnick, whose pioneering antics tricking employees in the 1980s and 1990s into helping him steal software and services from big phone and tech companies made him the most celebrated U.S. hacker, has died at age 59.
Mitnick died Sunday in Las Vegas after a 14-month battle with pancreatic cancer, said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO of the security training firm KnowBe4, where Mitnick was chief hacking officer.
His colorful career — from student tinkerer to FBI-hunted fugitive, imprisoned felon and finally respected cybersecurity professional, public speaker and author tapped for advice by U.S. lawmakers and global corporations — mirrors the evolution of society’s grasp of the nuances of computer hacking.
Through Mitnick’s professional trajectory, and what many consider the misplaced prosecutorial zeal that put him behind bars for nearly five years until 2000, the public has learned how to better distinguish serious computer crime from the mischievous troublemaking of youths hellbent on proving their hacking prowess.
“He never hacked for money,” said Sjouwerman, who became Mitnick’s business partner in 2011. He was mostly after trophies, chiefly cellphone code, he said.
Much fanfare accompanied Mitnick’s high-profile arrest in 1995, three years after he’d skipped probation on a previous computer break-in charge. The government accused him of causing millions of dollars in damages to companies including Motorola, Novell, Nokia and Sun Microsystems by stealing software and altering computer code.
But federal prosecutors had difficulty gathering evidence of major crimes, and after being jailed for nearly four years, Mitnick reached a plea agreement in 1999 that credited him for time served.
Upon his January 2000 release from prison, Mitnick told reporters his “were simple crimes of trespass.” He said ”I wanted to know as much as I could find out about how phone networks worked.”
He was initially barred for three years from using computers, modems, cell phones or anything else that could give him internet access — and from public speaking. Those requirements were gradually eased but he wasn’t allowed back online until December 2002.
Mitnick’s forte was social engineering. He would impersonate company employees to obtain passwords and data, a technique known as pretexting that remains among the most effective in hacking and which typically requires considerable research to pull off successfully.
“His ingenuity challenged systems, incited dialogues, and pushed boundaries in cybersecurity. He will remain a testament to the uncharted power of curiousity,” tweeted Chris Wysopal, who as a member of the white-hat hacking group L0pht testified before the U.S. Senate a few years before Mitnick did the same.
“My hacking activity actually was a quest for knowledge, the intellectual challenge, the thrill and the escape from reality,” Mitnick said during a March 2000 congressional hearing in response to a question by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., about what motivated him.
In his prepared testimony, Mitnick boasted that he had “successfully penetrated some of the most resilient computer systems ever developed.”
Mitnick had first been arrested for computer crimes at age 17 for brazenly walking into a Pacific Bell office and taking a handful of computer manuals and codes to digital door locks. For that, he served a year in a rehabilitation center, deemed by a federal judge as being addicted to computer tampering.
Mitnick had been raised in the bleak Los Angeles suburb of Panorama City by his mother, who divorced his father when he was 3. An overweight, lonely teenager, he dropped out of high school and found friends only when he stumbled into the world of phone phreaks – teens who used stolen phone codes to make free long-distance calls.
Phones led to computers, and Mitnick showed himself to be a persistent, if not stellar, hacker. Enthralled by the possibility of using computers to gain access and power, Mitnick began breaking into voice mail and computer systems, rifling through private files and taunting those who crossed him.
But another side of Mitnick became clear in his conversations with investigative journalist Jonathan Littman printed in in the mid-1990s in “The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick.” The hacker seems less a threat than a fearful, disturbed young man, more annoying than vindictive.b
And though a computer file containing 20,000 credit card numbers copied from the internet service provider Netcom was found on Mitnick’s computer after a 1994 arrest, there is no evidence he ever used any of the accounts.
Mitnick became a cause celebre for hackers who considered his 5-year prison term excessive. Some defaced websites to post messages demanding his release. Among the targets was The New York Times — which some sympathizers accused of exaggerating the societal danger Mitnick posed.
Exaggerated stories of Mitnick’s exploits and abilities also made the rounds, sometimes fueling hysteria.
One led prison officials to put him in solitary confinment for nine months, said Sjouwerman, because they feared he could start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone — emulating a modem “to hack NORAD and trigger a ballistic missile.”
Mitnick is the author of “The Ghost in the Wires,” which recounts his adventures as a wanted hacker and three other books co-written with others including “The Art of Deception.”
In addition to his work at KnowBe4, where Mitnick was not involved in day-to-day operations, he ran a separate penetration-testing business with his wife, the former Kimberley Barry.
She is a native of Australia, where the two met. | https://www.fox16.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-pioneering-hacker-kevin-mitnick-fbi-wanted-felon-turned-security-guru-dead-at-59/ | 2023-07-21 05:19:31 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-pioneering-hacker-kevin-mitnick-fbi-wanted-felon-turned-security-guru-dead-at-59/ |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The chair of San Diego County’s board of supervisors said he will resign amid accusations that he sexually assaulted a government employee, completing a swift and shocking fall for a decorated Marine combat veteran whose star rose with his Democratic Party’s ascendancy in the nation’s eighth-largest city.
Nathan Fletcher, who defected from the Republican Party in 2012, was elected to a second term with 65% of the vote in November, two years after Democrats won a board majority that eluded their grasp for decades.
Fletcher, 46, was the face of the San Diego region’s muscular response to COVID-19 at daily news conferences. He became half of San Diego’s most powerful political couple after his 2017 marriage to Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, a well-known liberal Democratic state assemblywoman who became a top California labor leader last year.
Fletcher’s progressive positions and telegenic presence made him a solid favorite to succeed another prominent California politician, Toni Atkins, in the state Senate. But he announced late Sunday that he was dropping his bid after less than two months to seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol abuse.
Days later, Fletcher resigned as chair of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System after a a government staffer alleged sexual harassment and assault in a lawsuit that included screenshots of lurid messages from Fletcher.
Hours after that, Fletcher said he would resign from the county board of supervisors, calling the pressure on his family over the last week “immense and unbearable.”
“A combination of my personal mistakes plus false accusations has created a burden that my family shouldn’t have to bear,” he said. He will leave office May 15.
Fletcher’s fall jolted the city a week after officials made a critical turn in a saga that has captivated the city and threatened other top politicians.
A 2017 lease-to-own deal for employees to occupy a 19-story downtown office building turned disastrous after asbestos and other deficiencies were discovered and rendered the space uninhabitable. Jason Hughes, an unpaid adviser to the city on the deal, pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor and agreed to repay $9.4 million that he collected in a dual role as adviser to the building’s seller, Cisterra LLC.
The deal was bungled under Mayor Kevin Faulconer, one of California’s most promising Republican leaders until a resounding defeat in a failed 2020 recall effort against Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat.
Brian Adams, a political science professor at San Diego State University, likened Fletcher to other fallen leaders, including Andrew Cuomo and Eliot Spitzer, both former governors of New York, and former U.S. Sen. John Edwards.
“They were all seen having promising futures collapse over sexual harassment claims,” said Adams.
Fletcher's name entered conversations about who San Diego might elect mayor or member of Congress, Adams said. His troubles may open the way for new faces if Todd Gloria, the Democratic mayor, faces questions over how he handled fallout from the real estate debacle.
San Diego’s political drama doesn’t appear to have gripped residents like earlier scandal, including the resignation in 2013 of Bob Filner, the first Democratic mayor in 20 years, after weeks of near-daily allegations of harassing women, including city employees.
A Republican mayor, Dick Murphy, resigned in 2004 after a pension crisis made San Diego a poster child for financial mismanagement.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in San Diego Superior Court, the government staffer says she began exchanging messages with Fletcher in 2021 when he started visiting her social media accounts. He once wrote, “Home alone — no wife and kids.” He urged her to delete his texts and be discreet.
The staffer says Fletcher kissed her in the stairway of a hotel where he was staying in May 2022. Weeks later, he allegedly texted her during a meeting that he had five minutes and asked her to go to an adjacent conference room, where he kissed and grabbed her.
The worker was fired Feb. 6 after she “attempted to engage in meaningful, pre-litigation discussions with Fletcher to resolve her claims quietly and amicably,” her lawsuit says. On Sunday — just before Fletcher ended his Senate run — Fletcher’s attorney threatened to sue the worker for extortion, she said.
Fletcher acknowledged “consensual interactions” with someone outside his marriage.
“I haven’t done the things that are alleged but I did violate the basic trust of my marriage and set a terrible example for our children,” he said in a statement.
San Diego County Democratic Party Chair Becca Taylor said Thursday that Fletcher’s decision to resign was appropriate, echoing other political leaders.
Gonzalez Fletcher, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation, said she loves her husband and believes “his name will be cleared" but that she urged him to resign.
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This story was first published on March 30, 2023. It was updated on March 30, 2023 to remove the name of the government worker making accusations of sexual assault, per Associated Press policy. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/politics/article/san-diego-county-supervisor-to-resign-after-17870347.php | 2023-03-31 04:06:35 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/politics/article/san-diego-county-supervisor-to-resign-after-17870347.php |
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The last week of February, and climatological winter, is covered in the latest edition of Snow Search. Despite chill air the weekend of Feb. 25-26, a ridge of high pressure will keep it feeling like spring for the work week. That being said, there are true signs of a change. The region should move away from above average temperatures into March.
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BALTIMORE, Md. — Every year, potholes cost American drivers billion of dollars in damages and repairs. However, new technology is hitting American roadways to help better detect potholes and it could save drivers from costly repairs.
Randy Shiflett, the interim superintendent for the Baltimore County Bureau of Highways, hears about potholes constantly from drivers.
"Every time there's a storm, any type of weather it's going to pop a pothole," he said.
But this county is deploying what could be a game-changer in curing America of its plague of potholes—it's a converted commercial van, outfitted with sophisticated new 3D laser technology. That can tell engineers the conditions roads are in down to the centimeter.
"It should get us out to the roads that need attention immediately," Shiflett said.
Baltimore County recently contracted the engineering consulting firm O'Connell & Lawrence Inc. They will spend the next 12 months surveying all 6,633 miles of roadway managed by the county, looking at cracks, bumps and any signs of wear. That data can then help create maps for road crews to use in determining where they need to focus maintenance work.
"It helps with finances. It makes you more financially responsible, as you have data-driven information that you can go back to and say 'this is why we paved this road," he added.
Potholes are more than just an annoyance. According to AAA, damage related to pothole repairs in 2021 cost American drivers $26.5 billion. The problem is so bad that 1 out of every 10 U.S. drivers reports dealing with pothole damage.
"It's a tremendous problem," said Tim Geary with a company called American Road Patch.
American Road Patch is also working to fix our country's pothole problem by deploying innovative new pothole repair techniques. The company is using new sealing methods over traditional asphalt repairs to make pavement repairs more permanent.
"Part of the problem is they're using old methods to fill they aren't updating as we go along," Geary said. | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/new-technology-is-helping-to-better-detect-potholes | 2022-10-10 16:47:23 | 0 | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/new-technology-is-helping-to-better-detect-potholes |
Wet weather takes out racing at Chateau Speedway
Published 1:52 pm Friday, August 12, 2022
By Matthew Grage
Rain overnight and through much of the morning made conditions to wet for racing Friday Night at Chateau Speedway.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Marjorie Taylor Greene took her seat directly behind Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy, a proximity to power for the firebrand congresswoman that did not go unnoticed, as he unveiled the House GOP’s midterm election agenda in Pennsylvania.
Days later, she appeared on stage warming up the crowd for Donald Trump, when the former president rallied voters in Michigan to cast ballots for Republicans, including for control of Congress.
Once shunned as a political pariah for her extremist rhetoric, the Georgia congresswoman who spent her first term in the House stripped of institutional power by Democrats is being celebrated by Republicans and welcomed into the GOP fold. If Republicans win the House majority in the November election, Greene is poised to become an influential player shaping the GOP agenda, an agitator with clout.
“No. 1, we need to impeach Joe Biden. No. 2, We need to impeach Secretary Mayorkas. And No. 3, we should impeach Merrick Garland,” Greene told The Associated Press outside the U.S. Capitol. Alejandro Mayorkas is the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Garland the attorney general.
Scolding the media for having been “wrong about me” from the start, she said those who know better “take me very seriously.”
“I’m going to be a strong legislator and I’ll be a very involved member of Congress,” she predicted. “I know how to work inside, and I know how to work outside. And I’m looking forward to doing that.”
This is the outlook for the Republican Party in the Trump era, the normalizing of once fringe figures into the highest ranks of political power. It’s a sign of the GOP’s rightward drift that Greene’s association with extremists and nationalists, violent rhetoric and remarks about Jewish people have found a home in elected office. Her ascent brings into focus the challenge ahead for McCarthy, whose GOP ranks are filling with far-right political stars with the potential to play an oversized role in setting the policies, priorities and tone of the new Congress.
“I’ve said for a long time there’s a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party,” said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, at a briefing ahead of the midterm elections.
When the congresswoman says outlandish things — as she did at the Trump rally earlier this month claiming “Democrats want Republicans dead, and they’ve already started the killings” — few Republican leaders dare a public or private rebuke of such incendiary language. In this case, she was exaggerating two local incidents involving politics, one that ended tragically in a fatality.
Greene’s political currency stretches beyond her massive social media following and her ability to rake in sizable sums from donors. Her proximity to Trump makes her a force that cannot be ignored by what’s left of her mainstream GOP colleagues.
McCarthy’s allowance for Greene to sit front and center with leadership for the campaign rollout was not by accident but design. The Republican lawmakers in attendance celebrated her presence, calling it a sign of the GOP’s “big tent” that welcomes all comers. But Greene’s arrival also signaled a stark normalizing of the most extreme elements in the Republican Party.
Longtime political strategist Rick Wilson, a former Republican who left the party in the Trump era, calls Greene’s brand of politics “government by trolling” that marks a dangerous new era for the GOP and will make it difficult to govern. McCarthy is in line to become House speaker if Republicans regain the majority.
“No matter what the trolling part of the Republican caucus does, you can’t ever satisfy them,” said Wilson, now at the Lincoln Project.
With the departure of the last vestiges of the anti-Trump wing of the House GOP — Liz Cheney defeated by a primary opponent and Adam Kinzinger deciding to step down rather than seek reelection — “that’s it,” Wilson said.
Greene swept onto the national stage in the 2020 election, catapulted forward even before she took office. As the lawmaker-elect from northwest Georgia, she attended a key organizing meeting at the Trump White House as lawmakers laid plans to object to the certification of Joe Biden’s election on Jan. 6, 2021. When she arrived to be sworn into Congress, she wore a “Trump Won” face mask.
Democrats moved swiftly and unequivocally to reprimand Greene, voting to strip her of congressional committee assignments over her incendiary rhetoric, including trafficking in volatile conspiracy theories. Greene drew rebuke from her own party a few months later for comparing mandatory COVID-19 face masks to the treatment of Jewish people by Nazi Germany.
While some have tried to compare Greene to outspoken far-left lawmakers, it became clear even to Republican leaders that Greene stood in a category of her own.
At that time, McCarthy called her comments about the Holocaust “wrong” and “appalling.” Greene later apologized.
In many ways, Greene’s arrival in the House traces the arc of the Republican Party’s rightward evolution from the Newt Gingrich revolution that brought conservatives to power in the 1994 election, to the “tea party” Republicans that regained the House majority in 2010.
Jack Kingston, a former Republican congressman who rose during those earlier eras, said McCarthy was smart in welcoming Greene to unfurl the House GOP’s “Commitment to America” last month.
“He’s got to work with her, and he knows that,” Kingston said.
“Getting Marjorie Taylor Greene on board is very important,” he said. “If you don’t bring everybody in the tent, they’re going to find their own niche.”
In the interview, Greene said she is certain she will be reinstated on her congressional committees if Republicans win the majority, eyeing the House Oversight panel, and is talking to leadership about other opportunities in the new Congress.
Not only does Greene want to impeach Biden and Cabinet officials, she is eager to conduct investigations, including into the origins of COVID-19.
Last month, Greene unveiled legislation that is another priority — her bill to prohibit some gender reassignment procedures on minors — flanked by a dozen Republican lawmakers and leaders in the conservative movement. Many of them praised the congresswoman for her work.
“I want to thank Marjorie Taylor Greene — who is soon to get her full legislative powers back, by the way,” said Matt Schlapp, chairman of the Conservative Political Action Committee, who hugged her afterward.
“If this is the type of thing that you’re going to have the courage to do, I think that’s something everybody needs to understand,” Schlapp said.
McCarthy and Greene appear to have come to an understanding that they need each other. The leader needs Greene to come into the GOP fold rather than throw rocks from outside. She needs McCarthy’s blessing to regain committee assignments, enabling her to participate more fully in Congress and put her imprint on legislation.
At the Pennsylvania event McCarthy batted away questions about his ability to govern if Republicans win the majority.
“Name me one person in the conference that is opposed to this,” he said afterward of their platform. “Is that a difference? Yes.”
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How to Watch Kentucky vs. Providence on TV or Live Stream - NCAA Tournament First Round
Published: Mar. 17, 2023 at 4:16 AM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago
The No. 6 Kentucky Wildcats (21-11) and the No. 11 Providence Friars (21-11) battle on Friday to compete for a place in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The opening round matchup begins at 7:10 PM.
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Kentucky vs. Providence Game Info
- When: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina
- TV: CBS
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Kentucky Stats Insights
- This season, the Wildcats have a 45.9% shooting percentage from the field, which is 1.6% higher than the 44.3% of shots the Friars' opponents have knocked down.
- In games Kentucky shoots better than 44.3% from the field, it is 17-4 overall.
- The Wildcats are the ninth-ranked rebounding team in the nation, the Friars sit at 29th.
- The 75.1 points per game the Wildcats average are just 3.8 more points than the Friars allow (71.3).
- Kentucky is 15-4 when scoring more than 71.3 points.
Providence Stats Insights
- The Friars are shooting 45.9% from the field, 3% higher than the 42.9% the Wildcats' opponents have shot this season.
- Providence has compiled a 19-2 straight-up record in games it shoots over 42.9% from the field.
- The Friars are the 29th-ranked rebounding team in the nation, the Wildcats sit at third.
- The Friars score 10.1 more points per game (78.1) than the Wildcats give up to opponents (68).
- Providence has a 17-4 record when giving up fewer than 75.1 points.
Kentucky Home & Away Comparison
- Offensively Kentucky has performed better at home this year, scoring 78.4 points per game, compared to 71.4 per game on the road.
- In 2022-23, the Wildcats are allowing 64.1 points per game at home. In away games, they are allowing 70.9.
- At home, Kentucky is sinking 0.9 more threes per game (6.6) than on the road (5.7). It also has a better three-point percentage at home (38.1%) compared to in road games (33.1%).
Providence Home & Away Comparison
- At home Providence is putting up 82.9 points per game, nine more than it is averaging on the road (73.9).
- At home, the Friars allow 70.5 points per game. On the road, they allow 71.8.
- Beyond the arc, Providence sinks fewer treys away (6.2 per game) than at home (7.1), and shoots a lower percentage on the road (34.4%) than at home (37%) too.
Kentucky Schedule
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Federal investigators held a multi-day hearing on the causes of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment and fire that spewed toxic chemicals into the air.
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Federal investigators held a multi-day hearing on the causes of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment and fire that spewed toxic chemicals into the air.
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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Eureka CA
1100 AM PST Wed Jan 11 2023
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in
California...
Russian River near Hopland affecting Mendocino County.
For the Russian River...including Hopland...Minor flooding is
forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at weather.gov/eka.
The next statement will be issued this evening at 1100 PM PST.
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Russian River near Hopland.
* WHEN...Until further notice.
* IMPACTS...At 17.0 feet, Significant flooding of Highway 175 at the
approaches to the Russian River bridge. Minor flooding of Highway
222 near Ukiah, and in crop land along the left and right banks of
the Russian River near Hopland.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 11:00 AM PST Tuesday the stage was 10.5 feet.
- Forecast...The river will oscillate around flood stage with a
maximum value of 17.0 feet late tonight through this weekend.
- Flood stage is 15.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
16.9 feet on 12/29/2010.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
- At 10:30 AM PST Wednesday the stage was 10.5 feet.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Three white men serving prison sentences in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery are asking an appeals court to throw out their federal hate crime convictions, with two of them arguing their histories of making racist comments don't prove they targeted Arbery because he was Black.
“Every crime committed against an African American by a man who has used racist language in the past is not a hate crime,” defense attorney Pete Theodocion said in an appellate brief written on behalf of defendant William “Roddie” Bryan.
Arbery, 25, was chased by pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a Georgia subdivision outside the port city of Brunswick on Feb. 23, 2020. His killing sparked a national outcry when cellphone video Bryan recorded of the shooting leaked online more than two months later.
Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, armed themselves with guns and pursued Arbery after he was spotted running past their home. Bryan joined the chase in his own truck and recorded Travis McMichael shooting Arbery at close range with a shotgun.
All three men were sentenced to life in prison after a jury convicted them of murder in a Georgia state court in 2021. The following year, they stood trial again in U.S. District Court and were found guilty of committing federal hate crimes in Arbery's death. That jury was shown roughly two dozen racist text messages and social media posts by the McMichaels and Bryan.
They all filed legal briefs in their federal appeals March 3 with the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Attorneys for Bryan and Greg McMichael say their hate crime convictions should be overturned because the evidence shows they pursued Arbery thinking he was a criminal, not because of his race.
Greg McMichael initiated the chase when Arbery ran past his home because he recognized the young Black man from security camera videos that in prior months showed Arbery entering a neighboring home under construction. None of the videos showed him stealing, and Arbery was unarmed and had no stolen property when he was killed.
Arbery's race was “a fact of no greater import to Gregory McMichael’s calculus than Mr. Arbery’s biological sex, the shorts he was wearing, his hairstyle, or his tattoos,” wrote Greg McMichael's attorney, A.J. Balbo. He said there would have been no chase had the runner been a Black woman.
Bryan didn't know the McMichaels and had never seen the security camera videos. Still, his attorney said that Bryan “had every right to assume” Arbery was likely a criminal after seeing him run by with the McMichaels in pursuit and ordering Arbery to stop.
“Arbery never called out for help or gave any signs that he was the victim of an unprovoked attack,” Theodocion wrote on Bryan's behalf.
Travis McMichael's appeal makes no effort to challenge whether racism motivated Arbery's killing. Instead, his attorney argues a technicality, saying prosecutors failed to prove that Arbery was chased and killed on public streets — as stated in the indictment used to charge the three men.
Defense Attorney Amy Lee Copeland says documents show that Glynn County officials declined to take over responsibility for the streets of Satilla Shores from a private developer when the subdivision was dedicated in 1958. She argued there's no record that the county ever changed its mind.
Defense attorneys made the same arguments challenging racial motives and whether the streets were public during the federal trial in February 2021.
Prosecutors argued at the trial that the McMichaels and Bryan chased and shot Arbery out of “pent-up racial anger.”
Bryan had used racist slurs in text messages saying he was upset that his daughter was dating a Black man. A witness testified Greg McMichael had angrily remarked on the 2015 death of civil rights activist Julian Bond: “All those Blacks are nothing but trouble.” In 2018, Travis McMichael commented on a Facebook video of a Black man playing a prank on a white person: “I’d kill that f----ing n----r.”
On the question of whether the streets were public, prosecutors showed 101 service tickets for work the county performed in the neighborhood, mostly dealing with ditches and drainage. Copeland argued nothing showed the county paving or maintaining the streets except in relation to drainage repairs.
The U.S. Justice Department, which prosecuted the hate crimes case, has 30 days to file legal briefs in response to the hate crime appeals. A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Jill Steinberg, the federal prosecutor for Georgia's Southern District, declined to comment Friday. The Justice Department in Washington did not respond to an emailed request for comment.
The 11th Circuit has not set a date to hear oral arguments in the hate crime appeals. Both McMichaels received life prison sentences in the federal case, while Bryan was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Also pending are appeals by all three men of their murder convictions in Glynn County Superior Court. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/ahmaud-arberys-killers-deny-racist-motives-in-appeals/SAI73FA7EFD2BKVRKWQUUJSI4E/ | 2023-03-10 20:54:55 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/ahmaud-arberys-killers-deny-racist-motives-in-appeals/SAI73FA7EFD2BKVRKWQUUJSI4E/ |
In Honor of Video Game Day AviaGames Surveyed Pocket7Games Users to Learn More About Where Their Gaming Started and Where it is Today
SAN MATEO, Calif., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With Video Game Day right around the corner, AviaGames, creator of the award-winning "Bingo Tour" app and Pocket7Games social competition platform, conducted a survey with Pocket7Games players to learn a bit more about players' history of gameplay, what motivates them and how they play games today. Dating back to the 1940s, video games have come a long way and mobile gaming alone saw a massive boom in the early 2000s as smartphones became a primary avenue for taking on the competition and winning prizes. Incidentally, over 80% of survey respondents are driven by competition and more than 40% turn to mobile games for prize satisfaction.
"At AviaGames, we love any opportunity to celebrate gaming and it's nostalgic to take a look back at where it all started and see how far the industry has come," said Vickie Chen, CEO and founder, AviaGames. "Games have always played an important role in my life, from playing in person as a child to diving full force into mobile gaming startup territory with AviaGames. We are at an exciting space in the industry right now and I look forward to what the future holds for gamers."
Parallel to digitization, advancements in technology and innovation in hardware and software, the gaming industry – mobile in particular – has aged at an attractive rate. While the pandemic played an immense role in recent gaming popularity, numbers aren't slowing down. In fact, according the Newzoo's latest Global Gamer Study, 79% of today's total online population are games enthusiasts and mobile devices remain the most common way to play video games, mostly attributed to lower barrier to entry and more accessibilty.*
What may have started on consoles and arcade games has now primarily shifted to playing on smartphones with competition and prizes being heavy drivers behind game motivation, following are a few key takeaways from the recent AviaGames Pocket7Games survey:
- Competition and Prizes for the Win: While time to relax was high on the list as a reason for diving into mobile games, the opportunity to win prizes was at 34% and more than 40% say the prizes are what make or break the fun and quality of a game. In addition, the number of respondents who prefer competition over cooperative games was over 80%, solidifying that Pocket7Games users crave a challenge with prizes in the end.
- Making Friends in Similar Game Genres: We asked players what type of games they prefer and over 68% of participants favor casino or card games and a little over 47% prefer testing their skills in puzzle games. Those who play together, stay together. The survey also concluded that while playing their favorite genre of games, over 50% of respondents have picked up new friends along the way.
- Evolution Moved Them to Mobile: Stepping back in time, almost 45% of respondents have been playing video games for more than 10 years and nearly 30% have been playing for over 20 years. While more than 62% of respondents started off gaming on consoles and arcade games, now 80% of respondents turn to mobile as their preferred gaming platform.
The informal survey demonstrates that while people have been playing video games across different platforms and devices for decades, mobile has, and continues to play a crucial role in the growth of the industry as the leading platform choice today. In addition, competition with a chance to win prizes are key factors to consider when looking at what players are looking for in terms of game quality and what motivates them to return for more game time.
Methodology
The SurveyMonkey audience survey was conducted in June 2023 and includes Pocket7Games players who are at least 18 years old with respondents primarily between the ages of 18 – 46 and in the United States. More information surrounding the survey finding is available on an infographic here: https://waltandco.box.com/v/aviagames-video-game-day.
About AviaGames, Inc.
Founded in 2017 by Vickie Chen and Ping Wang, AviaGames is a mobile, social competition gaming company and publisher of Pocket7Games, a unified gaming platform. The platform features 15+ unique, skill-based games linked to a single membership and wallet, allowing players to seamlessly switch among casino, puzzle, action, card, casino, math, and brain games. AviaGames is committed to providing an inclusive competition platform where everyone can play, make money, and have fun. To date, AviaGames has awarded more than $1.4 billion in prizes to its players. Select titles are available as individual apps for download, including Bingo Clash, Bingo Tour, 21 Gold, and Match 'n Flip.
*Source: How consumers engage with video games today, Newzoo's Global Gamer Study 2023, https://newzoo.com/resources/trend-reports/global-gamer-study-free-report-2023
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Millions of students trooped back to public schools across the Philippines on Wednesday as the government enforced the mandatory resumption of in-person classes after more than two years of coronavirus pandemic lockdowns.
Daunting problems hounded the reopening of classes in grade and high schools in several cities and provinces — primarily the extensive damage and flooding caused by Tropical Storm Nalgae, which blew out of the archipelago on Sunday. The storm left more than 130 people dead and a trail of destruction, including damaged school buildings.
Shortages in teachers and classrooms have also been a longstanding problem.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has taken steps to fully reopen the economy, which plunged in 2020 to its worst recession since World War II after his predecessor shut down schools, workplaces and public transport to combat spiking coronavirus infections in what would become one of the world's longest lockdowns.
Marcos Jr. has lifted the mandatory requirement for people to wear face masks in public areas and indoors.
Nearly 29 million students enrolled for the school year, including in privately owned schools, which can decide whether to resume in-person classes or maintain a mix of face-to-face or online classes each week.
Many schools resumed in-person classes in August at the start of a transition period to normal classes. The prolonged school closures had sparked fears that literacy rates among Filipino children — already at alarming levels before the pandemic — could worsen.
A World Bank study last year showed about nine out of 10 children in the Philippines were suffering from “learning poverty,” or the inability of children by age 10 to read and understand a simple story. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Philippine-schools-ordered-to-reopen-after-virus-17551343.php | 2022-11-02 04:38:16 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Philippine-schools-ordered-to-reopen-after-virus-17551343.php |
There are 6 days until polls close on Election Day. Here's what to know, including the top stories of the day, videos and photos from the campaign trail, the latest polls and key races in focus.
STORY OF THE DAY
Biden to speak on threats to democracy ahead of midterms
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver remarks Wednesday evening on threats to democracy, as he seeks to raise the stakes for voters less than a week before the midterm elections.
Biden, who has repeatedly said that “democracy is on the ballot” on Nov. 8, will speak at 7 p.m. from Washington's Union Station, blocks from the U.S. Capitol, the White House said.
“It’s from Capitol Hill, because that is where there was an attempt to subvert our democracy,” White House senior adviser Anita Dunn told Axios, referencing the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Previewing Biden's remarks, Dunn said the Democratic president “will be very clear tonight that he is speaking to people who don’t agree with him on any issues, who don’t agree on his agenda, but who really can unite behind this idea of this fundamental value of democracy.” Full story here:
Colorado's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, has emphasized in his reelection campaign his efforts to ease inflation’s burdens on families and fight crime while touting first-term triumphs in health care affordability, public education funding and climate policy. Crime, drugs, inflation and underperforming schools are the chief talking points for his challenger, Republican Heidi Ganahl, a University of Colorado regent and successful entrepreneur. Ganahl is targeting women voters with a “#MadMom” campaign and vows to shrink government, eliminate income taxes and ask voters what to do about abortion rights. Once a swing state, Colorado has shifted to blue over the past decade and Ganahl is trying to become its first Republican governor since 2007.
Real clear politics polling average: Polis (D) 54.7%, Ganahl (R) 39.7%
Why has The Associated Press tallied votes and declared winners in U.S. elections since the middle of the 19th century? Because the Founding Fathers didn’t establish a national clearinghouse for counting the vote, and the states all do it a little differently. The Federal Election Commission regulates some aspects of federal elections. But the FEC has no oversight over election results, laws or vote counting. So the AP stepped in to fill that void by counting the votes for president in 1848 and declaring Zachary Taylor the winner.
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PHOTOS FROM THE TRAIL
Photos: 6 days out, scenes from the campaign trail
The intruder who attacked Speaker Pelosi's husband in their San Francisco home confronted him shouting, "Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?" Live updates here.
Police say eight people have been found dead in suspected homicides after a fire was extinguished at a Tulsa-area house. Police are mum; get updates here.
The man accused of attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer told police he wanted to hold the Democratic leader hostage and “break her kneecaps”. Get more trending news here.
President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally for Florida gubernatorial candidate Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., and Senate candidate Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., at Florida Memorial University, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, in Miami Gardens, Fla. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/6-days-to-go-biden-to-speak-on-threats-to-democracy-judge-limits-patrols-of/article_7ea92261-f00e-5c53-b89e-2014a34b72bd.html | 2022-11-02 16:36:43 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/6-days-to-go-biden-to-speak-on-threats-to-democracy-judge-limits-patrols-of/article_7ea92261-f00e-5c53-b89e-2014a34b72bd.html |
SHANGHAI, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To improve its supply chain planning capabilities and customer satisfaction, NOVOSENSE Microelectronics, a highly robust and reliable analog and mixed signal integrated circuit (IC) design company, has selected to implement Blue Yonder's supply planning solution, part of Luminate® Planning.
Since its establishment in 2013, NOVOSENSE has focused on three major initiatives: signal sensing, system interconnection, and power drive semiconductor products, including sensor, signal chain, isolator, interface, power management, driver IC, etc., which are widely used in automotive, industrial control, information communication, and consumer electronic industries. As the pioneer of automotive IC in China, NOVOSENSE has established automotive management system covering R&D, quality as well as delivery, and achieved massive supply to major OEMs and Tier 1s.
NOVOSENSE turned to Blue Yonder for a supply chain solution to optimize supply, enhance customer service levels, and improve asset utilization.
By implementing Blue Yonder's solution, NOVOSENSE will be able to:
- Develop a comprehensive supply chain upgrade strategy with the supply planning solution as the core.
- Produce more accurate, insightful, and coordinated plans.
- Focus on organizational efficiency to help grow its business and expand production.
"NOVOSENSE has always been committed to providing customers with robust products and reliable services. We have continuously increased our investment in all aspects of the company, including supply chain, R&D, management process and digitalization so as to enhance the quality and efficiency of products delivered, " said Doctor Long ZHANG, Strategic Investment Director & Process IT Director, NOVOSENSE. "Blue Yonder is a world leader in supply chain solution, who has provided services for many global top semiconductor companies for a long time. I believe that the cooperation with Blue Yonder can further help us improve the efficiency of supply chain management process, improve the product quality management system, and enhance the overall competitiveness of enterprises, which will enable us to better serve our customers."
Blue Yonder's supply planning solution will provide NOVOSENSE with a holistic and connected view of its supply chain planning processes. NOVOSENSE will be able to balance global objectives for demand satisfaction, collaborate on planning scenarios in situations of material shortage, and use prescriptive recommendations to make accurate and faster decisions throughout the manufacturing and distribution network in order to minimizing stock-outs and maximizing inventory turns, ultimately improving the customer experience.
"We are pleased to become a supply chain solutions provider to NOVOSENSE, who is an outstanding analog and mixed signal IC design company. The supply chain solutions provider that NOVOSENSE seeks is not only the one that can help their business grow but expand their capabilities in the future. By utilizing our Luminate Planning, NOVOSENSE can form and execute their supply chain transformation strategy while taking their supply planning capabilities to the next level," said Antonio Boccalandro, President, APAC, Blue Yonder.
About NOVOSENSE Microelectronics
NOVOSENSE Microelectronics (NOVOSENSE, SSE Code 688052) is a highly robust & reliable analog and mixed signal IC design company. Since its establishment in 2013, the company has been focusing on signal sensing, system interconnection and power drive, providing comprehensive semiconductor products and solutions such as sensor, signal chain, isolator, interface, power driver and power management, which are widely used in automotive, industrial control, information communication and consumer electronics markets.
With the mission of "Sense & Drive the Future, Build a Green, Smart and Connected World with Semiconductors", the company is committed to providing chip-level solutions to link the digital world and the real world.
For more information, please visit: www.novosns.com
About Blue Yonder
Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain transformations and omni-channel commerce fulfillment. Our end-to-end, cognitive business platform enables retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers to best fulfill customer demand from planning through delivery. With Blue Yonder, you'll unify your data, supply chain and retail commerce operations to unlock new business opportunities and drive automation, control and orchestration to enable more profitable, sustainable business decisions. Blue Yonder - Fulfill your Potential™ blueyonder.com
"Blue Yonder" is a trademark or registered trademark of Blue Yonder Group, Inc. Any trade, product or service name referenced in this document using the name "Blue Yonder" is a trademark and/or property of Blue Yonder Group, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of the companies with which they are associated.
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NEW YORK -- Donald Trump is set to arrive in Manhattan Monday ahead of what is expected to be a historical arraignment of a former president.
Sources say he will be staying at Trump Tower, where security has been heightened and nearby streets have been blocked off.
This criminal case has the potential to send a former president to prison for the first time in the United States.
Trump has been charged with around two dozen counts, including felonies, sources familiar with the indictment told ABC News.
The Manhattan district attorney's office declined to comment.
Trump lawyer Joseph Tacopina said during TV interviews Friday he would "very aggressively" challenge the legal validity of the Manhattan grand jury indictment. Trump himself, on his social media platform, trained his ire about what he calls a "political persecution" on a new target: the judge expected to handle the case.
While Trump and his lawyers prepared for his defense, the prosecutor in his hush money case defended the grand jury investigation that propelled him toward trial, as congressional Republicans painted it all as politically motivated.
In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told three Republican House committee chairs Friday that such claims are "misleading and meritless" and rebuffed congressional probing into the grand jury process - by law, a confidential one.
"We urge you to refrain from these inflammatory accusations, withdraw your demand for information, and let the criminal justice process proceed without unlawful political interference," Bragg wrote to Reps. James Comer, Jim Jordan and Bryan Steil.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has vowed to use congressional oversight to probe Bragg. Steil, Jordan and Comer have asked Bragg's office for grand jury testimony, documents and copies of any communications with the Justice Department.
Trump's indictment, announced Thursday, came after a grand jury probe into hush money paid during the 2016 presidential campaign to squelch allegations of an extramarital sexual encounter. The indictment itself has remained sealed, as is standard in New York before an arraignment.
Trump, a Republican, has denied any wrongdoing and denounced the investigation as a "scam," a "persecution," an injustice and a political low blow aimed at damaging his 2024 presidential run.
WATCH | ABC News special report on Trump indictment
Indeed, Trump was asked to surrender Friday, but his lawyers said the Secret Service needed more time to make security preparations, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Even for defendants who turn themselves in, answering criminal charges in New York generally entails at least several hours of detention while being fingerprinted, photographed, and going through other procedures.
Bragg's office said Thursday it had contacted Trump's lawyer to coordinate a surrender. Ahead of the court's announcement of the arraignment date, Trump's attorney, Joseph Tacopina, said that Tuesday was the likely date for Trump to turn himself in.
The investigation dug into six-figure payments made to porn actor Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. Both claim to have had sexual encounters with the married Trump years before he got into politics; he denies having sexual liaisons with either woman.
As Trump ran for president in 2016, his allies paid the women to bury their allegations. The publisher of the supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer paid McDougal $150,000 for rights to her story and sat on it, in an arrangement brokered by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
After Cohen himself paid Daniels $130,000, Trump's company reimbursed him, added bonuses and logged the payments to Cohen as legal expenses.
MORE: Trump responds after New York grand jury votes to indict him
Federal prosecutors argued - in a 2018 criminal case against Cohen - that the payments equated to illegal aid to Trump's campaign. Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violation charges, but federal prosecutors didn't go after Trump, who was then in the White House. However, some of their court filings obliquely implicated him as someone who knew about the payment arrangements.
The New York indictment came as Trump contends with other investigations that could have grave legal consequences.
In Atlanta, prosecutors are considering whether he committed any crimes when trying to get Georgia officials to overturn his narrow 2020 election loss there to Joe Biden.
At the federal level, a Justice Department-appointed special counsel also is investigating Trump's efforts to unravel the national election results. Additionally, the special counsel is examining how and why Trump held onto a cache of top secret government documents at his Florida club and residence, Mar-a-Lago, and whether the ex-president or his representatives tried to obstruct the probe into those documents.
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Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Farnoush Amiri contributed from Washington.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a convenient cooler that can be used to store food and drinks as well as provide a bar-style workstation for picnics, tailgating and camping," said an inventor, from Coquitlam, BC, Canada, "so I invented ANYBAR. My design would be easy to set up, use and transport over sand, gravel, grass and pavement."
The patent-pending invention provides a versatile cooler for storing and transporting food and drinks. It also offers a convenient station for mixing and serving drinks. As a result, it ensures that stored items are chilled and organized and it eliminates the need to find or create a makeshift bar. The invention features a portable and durable design that is easy to use and transport so it is ideal for outdoor enthusiasts. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Toronto sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TRO-630, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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General Counsel
Holmusk
The University of Michigan School of Law
Holly Logue received her law degree from the University of Michigan and her MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has leveraged this dual training to advise innovative companies on both legal issues and business strategy throughout her career. As general counsel, she practices across a broad range of legal areas but has focused her practice for over two decades in the healthcare space, including data science, biotech, pharma, medical device, and diagnostics companies.
Logue is currently the general counsel and an executive team member at Holmusk Technologies, a global, real-world evidence and data analytics company that seeks to revolutionize research and care delivery for behavioral health. She is committed to guiding Holmusk in realizing its mission by leading the legal function of the company. | https://www.latimes.com/b2bpublishing/business-of-law-trends-updates-visionaries-and-the-in-house-counsel-awards-recap/finalist-holly-jean-logue | 2023-06-25 15:07:00 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/b2bpublishing/business-of-law-trends-updates-visionaries-and-the-in-house-counsel-awards-recap/finalist-holly-jean-logue |
Which Blink doorbell is best?
The Blink video doorbell is a smart device that can add to your home’s security system. These devices can send alerts directly to your smartphone or tablet, as well as let you answer the door without having to be there in person. This makes them handy for anyone who wants to keep an eye on their home from wherever they are. The best Blink doorbell is the Blink Video Doorbell, Floodlight Mount And Solar Panel Charging Mount With Outdoor And Indoor Cameras. It’s a large bundle set that comes with everything you need to watch over multiple areas of your property.
What to know before you buy a Blink doorbell
Subscription
Blink video doorbells come with two optional subscription plans: Basic and Plus. Each plan comes with several additional features and benefits, such as:
- Extra remote storage
- Live view streaming and recording
- Motion-activated notifications to your mobile device
- Video recording and history
- Motion detection
- Rapid video access
- Image capturing
- Video sharing
Here are the main differences between the two plans:
- Basic: The Basic plan only covers one Blink device. It costs $3 a month per device or $30 on an annual subscription.
- Plus: This plan covers an unlimited number as long as they’re connected to the same account. It also comes with extended warranty coverage and a 10% discount on Blink devices purchased through Amazon. It costs $10 a month or $100 a year.
You can use Blink devices without a plan. However, certain features, such as live viewing and rapid video access, are only available with a subscription.
Recordings, for example, are saved to the cloud with a monthly plan, something many smart homeowners find essential. Still, you can use a compatible USB with the Sync Module 2 to save motion clips locally. You can also use the doorbell’s two-way communication, motion alerts and live view settings without a subscription.
Installation
It’s easy to install a Blink video doorbell. Start by downloading the Blink app to any smart device. The app can help you through the installation process.
Then, find a flat surface to mount the backplate. If you already have existing wires, often called chime wires, you can connect them to the screws on the back of the Blink doorbell. This usually requires pushing the wires through the mount to reach the backplate.
Next, screw the back cover to the door frame using the screws that come with the doorbell. Finally, slide the Blink doorbell down into the installed backplate.
Once installed, you can pair the doorbell with any other compatible devices, such as an Amazon Echo. You can also connect it with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant.
Connection requirements
Many smart devices, including Blink video doorbells, require a high-speed Wi-Fi internet connection of at least 2.4 gigahertz. You can connect the doorbell to the Alexa voice assistant for audio notifications when someone arrives at the door.
What to look for in a quality Blink doorbell
Battery
Although you can connect your Blink doorbell with chime wires, the device still requires two AA AA 1.5-volt lithium batteries. These batteries last, on average, around two years.
The Blink app can send alerts to tell you if the battery consumption is higher than normal. It can also let you know how much battery remains and when it needs replacing.
If your doorbell is only charged with batteries and doesn’t have the Sync Module activated, it will switch to “Event Response” mode. This mode drains the battery faster. It also only provides motion alerts and lets you know when someone presses the doorbell. This feature is available without a subscription plan.
App alerts and settings
Using the Blink app, you can do many things with the doorbell, including:
- Connect other smart devices that have Alexa enabled.
- Receive alerts and notifications about nearby activity or motion, unresponsive features and if the device is offline. This includes blinking lights and audio sounds.
- Adjust to night vision for enhanced viewing in dim lighting.
- Change the audio and video for crisp two-way communication.
- Adjust motion sensor sensitivity to more easily capture movement outside.
- Operate live view with a high-definition video of what’s happening nearby.
With Alexa, you can also give the doorbell specific commands, such as “Alexa, talk to the front door” or “Alexa, show the last activity at my front door.” These make using the smart device easier and more convenient.
Recording quality
When it comes to recording, Blink video doorbells have the following specifications:
- 1080p resolution in high-definition
- Variable frame rate between 15 and 30 frames
- Field of view that’s 135 degrees horizontal by 80 degrees vertical
- 16:9 recording format
At night and in dim lighting, these devices also have an infrared LED light that records in black and white. The motion sensor has a maximum range of about 23 feet but is most effective at around 12 feet.
Design
The Blink doorbell is available in solid black and white. Each device comes with an LED light ring, which alternates between the following:
- Red: This indicates the device isn’t connected or working properly.
- Green: This means the doorbell is connected and working as intended.
- Blue: A blue light indicates the device is ready to be activated.
These doorbells are weather-resistant and can function in extreme temperatures ranging from minus 4 degrees to 113 degrees. They weigh 3.2 ounces and have a sleek, modern appearance with a camera at the top.
Accessories
Besides doorbells, Blink also offers:
- Corner and wedge doorbell mounts
- Solar panel charging mounts
- Outdoor floodlights
- Indoor and outdoor cameras with 1080 HD video
These accessories can make your home more private and secure.
How much you can expect to spend on a Blink doorbell
On its own, a Blink video doorbell costs around $50. Bundle deals cost $150 or more.
Blink doorbell FAQ
Is there a free trial?
A. Some Blink devices come with a 30-day free trial. Besides that, there’s a monthly subscription fee based on your chosen plan.
Do I need Alexa to use my Blink devices?
A. You don’t need Alexa to use your Blink cameras, doorbells or other devices. The voice assistant does make using the device convenient, though. You should, however, download the Blink app to pair with the video doorbell.
What’s the best Blink doorbell to buy?
Top Blink doorbell
What you need to know: This large bundle set includes several smart devices and accessories, such as the Blink doorbell, a solar panel charging mount and smart cameras.
What you’ll love: The set comes with all the features you’d expect from a smart doorbell, such as the Sync Module 2. It’s compatible with the Amazon Alexa virtual assistant. It’s a great way to secure your home from wherever you are.
What you should consider: There’s a slight delay in the audio and video.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Blink doorbell for the money
What you need to know: This standalone video doorbell is best for anyone who wants a simple device that lets them access the front door from anywhere.
What you’ll love: Available in black and white, this device has a 1080p HD camera that works well day or night. It has two-way audio, remote storage options, motion sensitivity and more.
What you should consider: The visuals can appear shadowed if there’s a bright backdrop.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Blink Video Doorbell Plus One Outdoor Camera System With Sync Module 2
What you need to know: This set comes with the Blink doorbell and an outdoor camera that provides extra recording, storage and security options.
What you’ll love: Available in both white and black, the doorbell has two-way audio, a 1080p HD display and can pair with Alexa. It works all day and night, and you can operate it remotely.
What you should consider: Mounting it can be tricky.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEW YORK, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of the not-for-profit Specialty Food Association (SFA) approved a slate of directors for the 2023/24 term. The new Board of Directors and Officers were announced at the SFA's Annual Member Meeting on Monday, June 26, at the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City.
The 15-member Specialty Food Association Board of Directors is responsible for the overall governance of the SFA as a 501(c)(6) tax-exempt organization. Board members must be employees, partners, or other individuals actively involved in the business or management of SFA member companies in good standing.
The newly-approved Class of 2026 Board members are:
Each of these elected Directors will serve a three-year term through June 2026.
In addition to the newly-approved Directors, Sarah Masoni, Oregon State University Food Innovation Center, was appointed to a one-year term to fill a vacancy.
"We appreciate the high level of engagement from our membership in identifying the slate of Board members who will guide implementation of SFA's strategic plan over the next term," said Phil Robinson, SFA's Sr. Vice President, Member Development. "The makeup of our Board reflects the unique ecosystem represented by the SFA, including makers, buyers, brokers, and business services professionals from a broad range of industry categories and a diversity of backgrounds."
The following Board members were appointed as the Officers for 2023/24:
Incumbent members who will serve on the Board in 2023/24 are:
Class of 2024
Class of 2025
In addition to the Board of Directors, more than 40 SFA members were appointed to serve on SFA councils and committees for the 2023/24 term.
For more information, visit specialtyfood.com.
About the Specialty Food Association
The not-for-profit Specialty Food Association (SFA) is the leading membership trade association and source of information about the $194 billion specialty food industry. Founded in 1952 in New York City, the SFA prides itself on being an organization by the members and for the members, representing thousands of specialty food makers and manufacturers, importers, retailers, buyers, distributors, brokers, and others in the trade. The SFA owns and operates the Fancy Food Shows—which are the largest specialty food industry events in North America—as well as the sofi™ Awards—which have honored excellence in specialty food and beverage annually since 1972. The SFA produces the Trendspotter Panel annual predictions, the State of the Specialty Food Industry Report, Today's Specialty Food Consumer research, the Spill & Dish podcast, year-round educational programming for professionals at every stage in their business journey, and SFA Feed, the industry's go-to daily source for news, trends and new product information. Find out more online and connect with SFA on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok.
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Man charged in connection with woman’s death
SCIOTO COUNTY, Ohio (WSAZ) - A man is facing charges after deputies say a woman died from injuries due to neglect.
The Scioto County Sheriff’s Office arrested Matthew Vansickle, 58 of Franklin Furnace Saturday for the second time in four days in connection with the case.
Sheriff David Thoroughman says a woman was admitted to Southern Ohio Medical Center Wednesday, showing signs of possible abuse. Vansickle was arrested that day on neglect charges, but was released on bond Thursday.
Sheriff Thoroughman says the victim, 79-year old Patricia Vansickle, died Saturday as a result of injuries dude to neglect. Matthew Vansickle was arrested later Saturday, charged with involuntary manslaughter. The sheriff’s office has not confirmed the relationship between the victim and suspect.
The sheriff says more charges are pending. Matthew Vansickle is due in court Monday morning in Portsmouth.
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Gainesville woman is dead and three others are in serious condition after a crash in Clay County
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - A Gainesville woman died and three others are seriously injured after a crash in Clay County.
The crash happened on Monday between US Highway 301 and County Road 218.
A driver from Gainesville was headed north on 301 when he veered left crossing the median.
A driver from Chiefland was heading south and had the front of his car struck.
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Both cars rotated and came to a final stop on the right shoulder.
The Gainesville man’s passenger died.
The Chiefland driver and passenger as well as the Gainesville driver are in serious condition.
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SAN ANTONIO — It didn't take long after the release of the San Antonio Spurs 2022-23 season to see how rough the team's start to the new season is going to be.
Immediately, the young Spurs will have to face some of the NBA's heavy-hitters with dates against the Sixers, multiple games versus the Timberwolves, Bulls, Nuggets, Lakers, Clippers, Bucks, Warriors, and many others.
I repeat, this is to start their new season.
So it is not a surprise to see the Spurs have one of the toughest schedules in the NBA.
An NBA number-cruncher put together data-driven charts to see which NBA teams will be going through a rough season schedule-wise.
And coming in with the second-toughest schedule overall is the Silver and Black trailing the Thunder.
To drive home just how tough the Spurs' schedule will be, the are among teams with fewer rest days than their opponent in the upcoming season.
In addition, the Spurs have the seventh most back-to-back set of games next season.
Ouch!
The Spurs are projected to have a win-total of about 23.5 next season according to Las Vegas oddsmakers.
Based on their strength of schedule, no All-Star on the roster, the franchise in a total rebuild, and the influx of additional younger players (Jeremy Sochan, Blake Wesley, and Malakai Branham) it is no wonder why Vegas projects San Antonio to have minimal wins next season.
If this holds true, then the Spurs draft odds spike to net the top pick in the 2023 NBA Draft with the grand prize projected to be a French phenom: Victor Wembanyama.
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Updated November 2, 2022 at 1:27 PM ET
The NFL's Washington Commanders could soon be for sale, after owners Dan and Tanya Snyder said they have hired Bank of America Securities to "consider potential transactions."
The team announced the surprising decision Wednesday to enlist the investment bank's services. Asked if the Snyders were considering selling part or all of the team, a spokesperson said, "We are exploring all options."
That could mean a full sale amid mounting pressure and multiple ongoing investigations — Snyder has said many times he would never sell the team — or bringing on new investors more than 18 months after the Snyders bought out the previous minority owners.
BofA Securities has handled other sales of professional sports teams, including Steve Ballmer buying the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers in 2014. A message sent to the firm seeking additional comment was not immediately returned.
The Commanders are worth an estimated $5.6 billion, according to Forbes — a sevenfold increase over the then-record $800 million Snyder paid for the team in 1999. That ranks sixth among the league's 32 teams and would be more than the $4.65 billion Walmart heir Rob Walton paid for the Denver Broncos earlier this year.
It was not immediately clear how soon a possible sale could happen. Citing anonymous sources, Forbes reported Snyder has already received at least four calls from groups interested in buying the team.
League spokesperson Brian McCarthy said, "Any potential transaction would have to be presented to the NFL Finance Committee for review and require an affirmative vote by three-quarters of the full membership." That means 24 of 32 owners.
In the statement announcing the decision, the team said, "The Snyders remain committed to the team, all of its employees and its countless fans to putting the best product on the field and continuing the work to set the gold standard for workplaces in the NFL."
Snyder's ownership in Washington has come under increased criticism after an investigation found a toxic workplace culture and prompted a $10 million fine and additional reviews that are ongoing. The league office and Congress are currently investigating various organizational improprieties, including allegations of sexual harassment and potential financial improprieties.
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said at the most recent league meeting there was "merit" to removing Snyder, who has been accused of groping a team employee and of overseeing a workplace in which women were frequently harassed and demeaned.
It would take 24 of the other 31 owners to vote to remove Snyder, unless he voluntarily chose to sell the team that was renamed the Commanders earlier this year. The day of Irsay's comments, a team spokesperson said the Snyders wouldn't consider selling the franchise.
Lisa Banks and Debra Katz, lawyers representing more than 40 former team employees, called the move to explore selling "a good development."
"We will have to see how this unfolds, but this could obviously be a big step towards healing and closure for the many brave women and men who came forward," they said in a statement.
The team has won just two playoff games during Snyder's 23 years as owner and has among the worst records in the league over that span.
The Snyder family took full control of the team in March 2021 after buying out the 40.5% stake of Washington Football Inc. owned by Fred Smith, Dwight Schar and Bob Rothman.
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LAVAL, Quebec (AP) — Blayre Turnbull scored twice in a 32-second span midway through the second period and Canada overcame a three-game deficit to win the Rivalry Series, beating the United States 5-0 in Game 7 on Wednesday night in the women's hockey showdown.
Turnbull scored on a power play with 9:34 left in the second to chase U.S. goalie Nicole Hensley, then quickly beat Maddie Rooney to make it 4-0.
Ann-Renée Desbiens made 25 saves for Canada.
Ella Shelton opened the scoring with 2:58 left in the first period, and Marie-Philip Poulin made it 2-0 at 3:41 of the second. After Turnbull's goals, Victoria Bach scored on a backhander on a breakaway for a five-goal lead with 7:26 to go in the second.
Canada tied the series — which began Nov. 15 in Kelowna, British Columbia — with a 5-1 victory Monday night in Trois-Rivieres.
The U.S. won the opener 4-3 in a shootout, then took the second game 2-1 in Kamloops, British Columbia, on Nov. 17 and the third 4-2 in Seattle on Nov. 20. Canada rallied with a 3-2 victory in Game 4 in Henderson, Nevada, on Dec. 15 and a 3-2 overtime win in Los Angeles on Dec. 19. | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/canada-completes-rivalry-series-comeback-with-5-0-17800315.php | 2023-02-23 03:06:17 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/canada-completes-rivalry-series-comeback-with-5-0-17800315.php |
Former Vice President Mike Pence took questions from an audience at Georgetown University on Wednesday. During the Q&A, Pence was asked whether he would support former President Donald Trump if he becomes the 2024 GOP presidential nominee.
Pence was coy with his answer.
"Well, there might be somebody else I'd prefer more,” Pence said. “You know, what I can tell you is I have every confidence that the Republican Party is going to sort out leadership. All my focus has been on the midterm elections and it will stay that way for the next 20 days. But after that, we'll be thinking about the future, ours and the nation's. I'll keep you posted, OK?"
Pence may have presidential aspirations of his own. Although some have considered him a likely candidate in the Republican field in 2024, he has not said one way or another if he intends to run.
If Pence opts to run, it could create an unusual matchup pitting two former running mates against each other.
But the events following the 2020 election turned the two partners into rivals. Pence opposed Trump’s calls to reject the results of the 2020 Electoral College as Trump tried to remain in power.
In the primaries leading up to the 2022 election, Pence largely backed Republican candidates who did not object to the certification of the 2020 presidential election. Trump, on the other hand, backed many candidates who said they would have discarded the results of the 2020 election. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/former-vp-pence-asked-if-he-would-back-trump-in-2024-election | 2022-10-20 15:08:14 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/former-vp-pence-asked-if-he-would-back-trump-in-2024-election |
UAB safety Grayson Cash set the tone for the second half with an interception on the first play and sealed the deal with another pick on the opponent’s final opportunity of the game.
The Blazers got off to a rocky start but got back on track in the second frame in bullying their way to a 34-20 victory over Charlotte, Saturday, Oct. 15, at Protective Stadium in Birmingham.
The announced attendance for the game was 22,101 as UAB improves to 4-2 overall and 2-1 in league action.
DeWayne McBride led the rushing attack, amassing 137 yards and 2 touchdowns on 29 carries, extending his touchdown streak to 12 straight games, and Jermaine Brown Jr. added 56 total yards on 16 touches.
Trea Shropshire and Tejhaun Palmer led the receiving effort, both bringing down 3 catches in the game and combining for 89 yards. T.J. Jones added 2 catches for 59 yards, Fred Farrier II had 2 receptions for 24 yards and Samario Rudolph had a clutch 35-yard reception on UAB’s first drive of the second half.
Defensively, UAB held the 49ers to 321 total yards of offense and a 3-for-10 performance on third-down conversions. The Blazers collected only a single sack but forced three turnovers with Grayson Cash securing two interceptions. Noah Wilder had 11 tackles, moving him into seventh place on UAB’s all-time tackles list (284), and Jaylen Key had 8 tackles and a forced fumble.
Early miscues and errors
Coming off an impressive offensive outing last week, UAB chose to go deep on the first play from scrimmage and did not end well for the Blazers. Rather than checking down, Dylan Hopkins drove a pass downfield into double coverage, intended for Trea Shropshire, and was intercepted but Charlotte’s Geo Howard. The 49ers scored the opening touchdown three plays later, catching the UAB defense napping on a 60-yard pass from Chris Reynolds to Elijah Spencer.
The Blazers answered on their second possession, scoring on a 1-yard touchdown run by DeWayne McBride, but Matt Quinn missed a 48-yard field-goal attempt after UAB had 1st-and-10 at the 24-yard line of Charlotte. Hopkins took an unavoidable sack on third down, pushing UAB just inside Quinn’s threshold.
Charlotte took a 14-7 lead near the end of the first frame with Reynolds slicing up UAB’s formidable pass defense. The senior quarterback was 4-of-4 for 61 yards on the drive, dropping a 28-yard dime to Spencer on 2nd-and-19 and Shadrick Byrd capping the possession with a 2-yard touchdown run.
Second-quarter turnaround
After falling behind 14-10 in the opening frame, UAB’s defense was roused from its first-quarter slumber. The Blazers forced Charlotte into a three-and-out on both of its second-quarter possessions, allowing only six offensive plays for 10 yards in the second frame.
UAB opened the second quarter with a 1st-and-10 at its 43-yard line and promptly entered Charlotte territory on a 22-yard reception by Trea Shropshire to open the frame. However, the drive eventually stalled and Hopkins was taken down for a 9-yard loss on 4th-and-Goal at the 1-yard line after a botched snap.
The Blazers forced their first three-and-out of the quarter on the ensuing Charlotte possession and cut into the lead on a 20-yard field goal by Quinn, capping a grueling 15-play, 50-yard drive. Charlotte was forced into its second three-and-out on the following drive and UAB ended the half with a 6-yard pass to Shropshire.
The defense did not fall back asleep in the second half, forcing turnovers on Charlotte’s first two possessions of the third quarter -- an interception by Grayson Cash, who intercepted his second pass with 41 seconds left in the game, and a fumble recovery by Will Boler that was forced by Jaylen Key. The Blazers scored on each ensuing possession to take a 19-14 lead near the end of the third quarter.
Hopkins grinds away for another win
Despite throwing an interception on the first play of the game, Dylan Hopkins has a solid day in leading the UAB offense. He finished 15-of-23 for 231 yards and a touchdown, including the pick, and added 103 yards and a score on 10 rushing attempts.
Hopkins was efficient on third down, completing 3-of-5 passes for 28 yards and converting multiple times with both his arm and legs, and completed passes to seven different receivers in the game. He was unable to avoid an early sack but escaped pressure time and time again, including a 13-yard run on a 3rd-and-11 play and two straight runs for 34 yards to open UAB’s second possession of the third quarter.
The junior quarterback may have made the most important play of the game on a simple 7-yard run out-of-bounds at the 27-yard line as Charlotte was pegged with a late hit on the play. UAB scored on the next play on a 14-yard touchdown run by McBride and Hopkins connected with Shropshire on the 2-point conversion attempt to put the Blazers up 27-20 early in the final frame.
Interestingly enough, Hopkins almost was responsible for a turnover in the fourth quarter after the ball squirted from his hand before attempting to throw a pass. Given it’s the month of October, Hopkins could always blame a spooky ghost for the almost near-disaster.
While attempting to milk the clock in the final two minutes, Hopkins found an open running lane and scampered downfield 61 yards for a touchdown with 1:01 remaining in the game. | https://www.al.com/uab/2022/10/instant-analysis-uab-overcomes-rough-start-defense-shines-second-half.html | 2022-10-16 00:48:23 | 0 | https://www.al.com/uab/2022/10/instant-analysis-uab-overcomes-rough-start-defense-shines-second-half.html |
KeyOps raises $4 million seed round to fuel expansion in the U.S. while growing its physician network across North America
TORONTO, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - KeyOps, a Toronto-based Insights-as-a-Service (IaaS) startup today announced it has raised $4 million (CAD) in seed funding. The digital platform connects doctors and other key opinion leaders (KOL) to life science companies to enable faster commercial decision making and better respond to patients' needs.
The round was led by Graphite Ventures, with participation from MaRS IAF, StarForge, an Archangel Network fund, and the Velocity Fund. A group of experienced SaaS experts and CEOs including Carol Leaman (CEO of Axonify), James Novak (ex-CEO of Fiix Software), Danny Ardellini (CEO of Environmental 360 Solutions), and a network of physicians from HaloHealth also participated in this round.
Led by CEO Peter Doulas (Microsoft, Fiix), KeyOps has experienced rapid growth since its launch in 2020 as their platform allows leading global pharmaceutical sales and marketing teams to intelligently match and deploy short digital surveys, asynchronous advisory board meetings, and test marketing content with a network of expert physicians.
"As pharmaceutical companies continue their shift from traditional face-to-face interactions with physicians to digital channels, KeyOps has found growing demand for its platform,'' said Doulas. "By building to meet the needs of KOL physicians, we've achieved engagement rates that are as high as 80%, and a net promoter score on par with tech titans such as Apple and Google."
Since rolling out its platform in 2021, the startup now boasts a notable list of customers that include some of the world's largest pharmaceutical and medical device companies, including Amgen Inc., GlaxoSmithKline plc, Sanofi Canada, and Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD).
Darren Anderson, Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer, who brings over 25 years of pharmaceutical expertise to the founding team, says that "life science companies are drawn to our solution because we provide decision makers with on-demand insights from top KOLs and faster insights for faster decision making."
KeyOps was first conceived by Drs. Sam Elfassy and Saeed Darvish-Kazem who recognized pharmaceutical companies were spending billions each year trying to guide physician strategies for products or services like patient support programs, but were out of touch with KOL needs – often demanding hour-long meetings, unnecessary dinners or showing up at doctors' offices.
"Busy physicians had to find 1 to 3 hours and schedule a meeting with sales representatives or listen to a PowerPoint presentation that may be irrelevant to their patients' needs," says Dr. Darvish. "Between treating patients, teaching students, and administrative office work, you may have as little as 15 minutes in a given day to share top-of-mind insights."
KeyOps currently works with device manufacturers, laboratory testing companies, and pharmaceutical customers across a range of therapeutic areas.
Funding will be used to grow the team to aggressively expand U.S. market reach, while growing its physician network across North America. KeyOps plans to use its funding to add engineering, product development and sales/marketing roles in the next year with a focus on its U.S. commercial team build out.
"There are a number of small players who are attempting to enable commercial insights for life science sales and marketing teams," says Graphite Venture Partner and new KeyOps Board Director, Kevin Madill. "KeyOps is the first to take an innovative physician-centric approach and we were impressed with their vision for building a collaborative and modern approach to physician-pharma engagement."
About KeyOps
KeyOps is an insights and engagement platform that breaks down the communication barriers between life science companies and healthcare providers to enable better, real-time decision making for medical affairs, marketing and sales teams. Through a trusted and compliant digital platform, customers can build and manage on-demand relationships with a diverse, influential community of key opinion leaders and medical experts. For more information visit www.keyops.io, email at contact@keyops.io or follow @keyopsinc on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Graphite Ventures
Graphite Ventures is an early-stage seeding-for-scale venture capital firm that invests in early-stage B2B SaaS, fintech, proptech, digital health and capital-efficient hardware companies. Graphite is one of Canada's most active and consistent VC firms, and the team has invested in more than 200 companies over the past decade. Graphite launched the $100M Graphite Fund IV in 2021 with a focus on Seed and Series A opportunities across Canada. For more information please visit graphitevc.com, email hello@graphitevc.com or follow @graphitevc on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Suspending an elected Democratic prosecutor. Forbidding gender-affirming treatments for minors. Expanding the “Don’t Say Gay” law to high schools.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has exercised his executive powers to advance elements of his aggressive conservative agenda, drawing on appointees, boards and the state Constitution in a deliberate manner as he builds toward an expected presidential candidacy.
The approach displays the Republican’s willingness to leverage his office to notch political wins and punish political enemies, even as the GOP-dominated Legislature has sped his proposals through the statehouse. It also signals the meticulous style that underpins his brash public persona and offers hints about how he could govern if elected president.
For DeSantis, the unilateral moves are part of his broad mandate as the elected chief executive of Florida. He is coming off a dominant reelection victory last fall where he campaigned on a host of conservative policies that energized the state’s Republican base and helped flip reliably Democratic counties such as Miami-Dade.
“November’s election results represent a vindication of our joint efforts over these past four years. The results also vest in us the responsibility to lead and provide us the opportunity to shoot for the stars,” DeSantis told lawmakers in his annual address to begin the legislative session this year. “Boldness be our friend in this endeavor. We have a lot we need to accomplish.”
A spokesman for the governor said DeSantis compiled a full accounting of his powers after he won office so he could effectively execute his agenda and added that many of his policies have been adopted by the Legislature.
DeSantis gained a national following through his resistance to extensive coronavirus lockdowns, and has since bolstered his place as a Republican firebrand by positioning himself on the front lines of the nation’s culture wars. He’s expected to formally launch his White House bid after the state Legislature finishes its regular session in early May.
In the meantime DeSantis has been ramping up his out-of-state travel with visits to presidential battleground states. Statehouse Republicans, who have a supermajority, are already moving quickly to deliver on several of DeSantis’ conservative priorities, which will give him an additional boost before he announces his candidacy.
While DeSantis is seen as former President Donald Trump’s most formidable Republican rival, his path to the presidential nomination may not be easy. Trump maintains wide support in the Republican Party, which is largely rallying around him after he became the first former president to face criminal charges. The move by a district attorney in New York has put Republicans eyeing a challenge to Trump, including DeSantis, in the awkward position of defending him against what they argue are politically motivated charges.
Those headwinds make DeSantis’ activity in Florida all the more important as they bolster the argument by his supporters that the governor would advance the same policy agenda as Trump, but without the constant turmoil.
One of his signature policies bans classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade or in a manner that isn’t age appropriate, a law opponents have labeled “ Don’t Say Gay.” DeSantis did not initially push for the law but has since championed it in Florida and beyond as part of his fight against what he calls the “woke” indoctrination of children in schools.
This year, as lawmakers seem ready to expand the prohibition to the eighth grade, the DeSantis administration quietly filed an administrative proposal with state education regulators that would ban the subjects from being taught in all grades.
The measure filed by the state Education Department, which is led by a DeSantis appointee, will be considered later this month by the state Board of Education, a body appointed by the governor. It does not need legislative approval.
DeSantis has not commented on the proposal and directed questions to Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr., who said it was meant to clarify confusion around the existing law and reinforce that teachers should not deviate from existing curriculums.
The governor took a similar approach last year, when he and his administration’s Health Department campaigned against gender-affirming care for minors and pushed state health regulators to ban the treatments.
The prohibition, which was approved by two state boards and took effect this year, bans sex reassignment surgeries and puberty blocking therapies for minors. Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, a DeSantis appointee, has said the treatments are experimental and risky for children.
Brandon Wolf, press secretary for the LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Florida, warned of the potential for similar actions under a potential DeSantis presidency.
“The very same ways he has perverted and weaponized state agencies and state boards in Florida, you can imagine he would do the same thing on the federal level,” Wolf said. “And what makes him potentially more dangerous than Donald Trump is that DeSantis actually knows how government works.”
Jamie Miller, a former executive director of the Republican Party of Florida, said it’s difficult to forecast what kind of president DeSantis would be but noted the governor’s Florida policies won wide support last fall.
“Our entire system is based on conducting the will of the majority while protecting the rights of the minority,” said Miller, noting the governor’s nearly 20 percentage point reelection win.
DeSantis’ agenda has faced few substantive obstacles in Florida. Democrats have no power at any level of state government, and his policies often withstand legal challenges when cases reach the conservative appeals courts in the region.
Still, the governor has proved willing to engage his office against any dissent, as his ongoing feud with Disney has shown.
The company drew his ire last year when it criticized the “Don’t Say Gay” law and, as punishment, DeSantis pushed lawmakers to give him control of a self-governing district Disney oversees in its theme park properties.
But before a set of new DeSantis appointees could assume control of the district, Disney’s board passed restrictive covenants that strip the incoming members of most of their powers, blunting the governor’s retaliation.
DeSantis, determined to maintain one of his key political victories, has dispatched the chief inspector general, another appointee, to investigate the Disney board’s move and has vowed to take additional revenge against the company.
One of DeSantis’ most high-profile uses of executive power came last year when he suspended Andrew Warren, an elected Democratic prosecutor in Tampa, using a provision in the state Constitution that allows a governor to remove officials for incompetence or neglect of duty.
In an executive order, DeSantis cited Warren’s signing of statements that he wouldn’t pursue criminal charges against those seeking or providing abortion or gender transition treatments as key reasons for the suspension.
“When you flagrantly violate your oath of office, when you make yourself above the law, you have violated your duty, you have neglected your duty and you are displaying a lack of competence to be able to perform those duties,” DeSantis said while announcing the suspension.
Warren immediately filed a federal lawsuit to get his job back. The judge ruled that DeSantis violated the First Amendment and the Florida Constitution by removing Warren, but that the federal courts lack the power to reinstate him. Warren is appealing the decision.
“He loves to talk about the free state of Florida, but it’s absolutely not free unless you agree with everything Ron DeSantis says,” Warren said in an interview. “He’s exploiting cracks in the system to trample on both the spirit and letter of the law to punish those who disagree with him.” | https://wgntv.com/politics-3/ap-politics/desantis-flexes-executive-powers-while-eyeing-white-house/ | 2023-04-12 13:18:53 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/politics-3/ap-politics/desantis-flexes-executive-powers-while-eyeing-white-house/ |
Amor Towles’ “The Lincoln Highway” – Lincoln’s One Book One Lincoln selection and a really great 10-day adventure that starts in Nebraska – was the most checked-out book from Lincoln City Libraries last year.
The 1,243 times library patrons checked out the 588-page novel was among 2.8 million items checked out from Lincoln’s eight branches and the Lied Bookmobile. That’s a 4.3% increase in circulation of print materials over 2021.
Some other statistical trivia: Patrons visited library web pages over a million times last year and borrowed nearly 700,000 items electronically.
The top 10 most popular books in 2022 and how many times they were checked out, following “The Lincoln Highway, are (drum roll): “Sparks Like Stars” by Nadia Hashimi (805); “Sparring Partners” by John Grisham (610); “The 6:20 Man” by David Baldacci (522); “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens (504); “Run, Rose, Run” by Dolly Parton and James Patterson (484); “The Hotel Nantucket” by Erin Hilderbrand (473); “Dream Town” by David Baldacci (471); “Shattered” by James Patterson (463); and “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days” by Jeff Kinney (456).
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Lincoln Police arrested a 29-year-old resident on suspicion of second-degree murder for the shooting near 18th Street and Euclid Avenue Saturday morning.
Community members and state officials squeezed into a classroom at the UNL College of Law to support the first graduating class of Lincoln's DUI Court.
A 20-year-old man displaying "lethargic behavior" got inside Irving two times on Monday morning before he struck a car in the parking lot and crashed into a nearby fence.
The 29-year-old opened his apartment door and shot the teen before shutting and locking his door, police alleged in new court documents filed Tuesday afternoon.
"If police officers, firefighters and other first responders aren’t safe on the job, how can our community have confidence when they seek help in emergency situations?" Angela Sands said.
The complaint filed by the Sioux City Board of Education, which accuses Paul Gausman of bribery, became public when the LPS superintendent sued his former district.
Lincoln Fire and Rescue bomb technicians disabled five explosive devices, two of which were uncovered amid a traffic stop Wednesday morning, the police chief said.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have launched a search for a separatist leader who has revived calls for an independent Sikh homeland, stirring fears of violence in northwestern Punjab state where there’s a history of bloody insurgency.
Police have accused Amritpal Singh, a 30-year-old preacher, and his aides of creating discord in the state, which is still haunted by the memories of an armed insurgency in the 1980s for an independent Sikh state called Khalistan. The insurgency had prompted a controversial military operation by the Indian government that killed thousands of people, according to official estimates.
Authorities have deployed thousands of paramilitary soldiers to the state and suspended mobile internet services in some areas to prevent unrest, Sukhchain Singh Gill, the inspector general of police for Punjab, said Wednesday. He said police have so far arrested 154 supporters of Singh and seized 10 guns and some rounds of ammunition.
The hunt for Singh was launched on Saturday and he has been on the run since.
Singh, who has said he supports the Khalistan movement, captured national headlines in February after hundreds of his supporters stormed a police station in Punjab with swords and guns to demand the release of a jailed aide.
Very little is known about Singh, who for years drove a truck in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. He emerged in 2022 in Punjab and began leading marches calling for protecting rights of Sikhs who account for about 1.7% of India’s population.
His speeches have become increasingly popular among supporters of the Khalistan movement, which is banned in India. Officials see it and affiliated groups as a national security threat. Even though the movement has waned over the years, it still has some support in Punjab and beyond — including in countries like Canada and the United Kingdom, which are home to a sizable Sikh diaspora.
On Sunday, supporters of “Khalistan” movement pulled down the Indian flag at the country’s high commission in London and smashed the building’s window in a show of anger against the move to arrest Singh. India’s foreign ministry denounced the incident and summoned the U.K.’s deputy high commissioner in New Delhi to protest what it called the breach of security at the embassy in London.
On Wednesday, police removed temporary security barricades outside the British High Commission in New Delhi, news agency Press Trust of India reported. There was no immediate comment from the police or the government whether it was in retaliation to the incident in London.
The supporters of the Khalistan movement also vandalized the Indian Consulate in San Francisco on Monday.
Singh claims to draw inspiration from Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a Sikh militant leader accused by the Indian government of leading an armed insurgency for Khalistan. Bhindranwale and his supporters were killed in 1984 when the Indian army stormed the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine in the Sikh religion.
Singh also heads Waris Punjab De, or Punjab’s Heirs, an organization that was part of a massive campaign to mobilize farmers against the government’s controversial agriculture reforms under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The legislation triggered a year of protests that began in 2020, as farmers — most of them Sikhs from Punjab state — camped on the outskirts of New Delhi through a harsh winter and devastating coronavirus surge. The protests ended after Modi government withdrew the legislation in November 2021.
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Which Carhartt jackets are best?
When searching for a durable and rugged jacket, you’ll have a hard time finding a brand more reliable than Carhartt. Since the late 1890s, Carhartt has been producing some of the most versatile winter, workwear and casual jackets available.
Though originally designed for use while working in harsh conditions, Carhartt jackets are now worn in a wide variety of settings. Before deciding on your ideal Carhartt jacket, you’ll want to consider jacket type, sizing, material and extra features. For warmth, quality and versatility, the Carhartt Quilted Flannel Lined Duck Active Jacket is a bestseller.
What to know before you buy a Carhartt jacket
Jacket type
There are several different types of Carhartt jackets, though most will fall into four specific categories:
- Cold weather: Carhartt winter and cold weather jackets will be the warmest option, and will usually feature a lining or added insulation to provide an extra level of protection from the cold.
- Workwear: Carhartt’s workwear jacket collection will feature many of their classic pieces, designed for superior durability and protection when performing any type of strenuous manual labor. Some may feature linings while others will be unlined.
- Rain jacket: Carhartt rain jackets and soft shell jackets are usually constructed from synthetic materials that have waterproof properties to help keep you dry in all conditions.
- Casual jackets: There are also Carhartt jackets designed for everyday wear that feature a more fashion-forward design, especially jackets within the Carhartt WIP line. These may not feature all of the same technical features but will still be highly durable and long-lasting.
Size
Depending on which type of jacket you’ll need, sizing should also be high on your list of priorities. Carhartt offers several big and tall sizes along with standard sizes. Many of their jackets will feature a loose or relaxed fit, so keep that in mind when considering the proper size.
What to look for in a quality Carhartt jacket
Material
Many Carhartt workwear jackets will be made from 100% cotton materials such as duck canvas or similar styles. This material provides premium durability for high-energy activities.
Lightweight jackets and rain jackets will likely be constructed from water-resistant nylon or polyester which makes them perfect for wet days or as an additional outer layer.
Warmth
If you want a jacket that will keep you toasty in freezing conditions, choose a model that features some type of interior lining. You can find jackets that feature flannel lining, sherpa lining, quilted lining, thermal lining and other options which all sport a slightly different warmth rating.
Some of their winter parka-style jackets will even feature additional insulation in addition to a lining, which can be a good option for anyone in extremely frigid regions.
Water-resistant
Not all Carhartt jackets will be waterproof unless you opt for a specific rain jacket, but many will have water-resistant properties. If you think you may need your jacket in wet weather, look for a material that can easily shed water and keep you dry from the occasional shower. Many cotton canvas materials will have adequate water protection and some may even be treated with a DWR coating.
Pockets
Pockets are always useful especially on workwear jackets considering you may need extra room to hold tools or other objects. Many Carhartt jackets are equipped with spacious side hand pockets, while others feature interior pockets and even additional exterior chest pockets for maximum storage.
Hood
Carhartt jackets that sport a hood provide extra defense against cold or windy weather. Not every style includes a hood, as some may feature a standard or lined collar instead. Hoods with drawstring closures are also convenient for achieving a snug fit.
Cuffs
Ribbed and adjustable cuffs are a great option for keeping out the cold and providing a comfortable fit. They will also help prevent rain, snow or debris from entering your sleeve.
How much you can expect to spend on a Carhartt jacket
Some lightweight jackets can be purchased for as little as $60 while highly insulated parka-style jackets can run upward of $300. Expect to spend between $80-$150 for a quality Carhartt model with adequate warmth.
Carhartt jacket FAQ
How long do Carhartt jackets last?
A. Carhartt jackets are known for their durability and high-quality build. Many people will wear their Carhartt jackets for more than a decade without any serious rips or tears forming. The maximum life span depends on how often you wear your jacket and the overall level of care.
Are Carhartt jackets good for snow?
A. Many Carhartt jackets are great for cold and harsh winter conditions, though some non-waterproof models may not be ideal for heavy and wet snow. Look for fully waterproof options if you plan on wearing it often in the snow.
What are the best Carhartt jackets to buy?
Top Carhartt jacket
Carhartt Men’s Quilted Flannel Lined Duck Active Jacket
What you need to know: This classic Carhartt jacket is a great workwear or cold weather option that comes in sizes ranging from small to 5XL.
What you’ll love: The quilted flannel lining offers both wind and water resistance, making this jacket suitable for most weather conditions. This active jacket also features two additional interior pockets and a flannel-lined hood. The cuffed hem and sleeves help trap in heat, keeping you warm all day long.
What you should consider: For some people, this jacket was too large.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top Carhartt jacket for the money
Carhartt Men’s Relaxed Fit Washed Duck Sherpa-Lined Jacket
What you need to know: A perfect winter jacket, this Carhartt model combines comfort with functionality.
What you’ll love: Aside from the large hand pockets, this jacket also sports a zip chest pocket and two interior pockets to hold all of your essentials. The soft sherpa lining will keep you comfortable even during unpleasant winter weather.
What you should consider: There have been a few complaints about the quality of the zipper.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: The Carhartt Crowley jacket is a great soft-shell option for light to moderate rain or chilly days.
What you’ll love: By using their signature Rain Defender coating, this jacket allows for water to run off the material without soaking through. The polyester interior has a soft feel for cooler weather, while the lightweight design is less bulky than other Carhartt models.
What you should consider: The overall fit was occasionally a problem for a few buyers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Tuesday that his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts have agreed to separate meetings with a delegation of African heads of state to discuss a possible plan to end the war in Ukraine.
Ramaphosa spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by phone over the weekend and they each agreed to host "an African leaders' peace mission" in Moscow and Kyiv, respectively, a statement from the South African leader's office said.
The leaders of Zambia, Senegal, Congo, Uganda and Egypt plan to join Ramaphosa on the mission, the president said. He said Putin and Zelenskyy gave him the go-ahead to “commence the preparations.”
No details were provided on the possible parameters of the talks. Zelenskyy has previously said he would not consider a peace deal to end the 15-month war until Russian forces withdraw completely from Ukrainian territory.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres also was briefed on the African delegation's planned meetings and “welcomed the initiative,” Ramaphosa said.
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LOS ANGELES , May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, reminds investors of a class action lawsuit against Cano Health, Inc. f/k/a Jaws Acquisition Corp. ("Cano" or "the Company") (NYSE: CANO) for violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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COLUMBUS -- The Iowa Hawkeyes are good at defense.
Again.
The Hawkeyes rank third in the country in points allowed per game (9.8), third in pass defense (154 yards per game) and seventh in total defense (265 ypg.)
How do they do it?
Pretty much the way they have always done it.
“So the structure, it’s an umbrella that’s sound and slow to back up,” said Ohio State defensive coordinator Kevin Wilson, who noted he has been going against similar Iowa defenses since the beginning of Kirk Ferentz’s time as head coach of the Hawkeyes.
Wilson arrived in the Big Ten as an assistant to head coach Randy Walker, a Troy native, at Northwestern in 1999, the same year Ferentz took the reins in Iowa City.
Then the coordinator was Phil Parker. Now it is Norm Parker (no relation), a native of Amherst, Ohio.
The Hawkeyes still play a four-man front that invites double teams to free up the linebackers to make tackles. That has benefited linebacker Jack Campbell, who leads the Big Ten with 10.5 tackles per game, while Seth Benson is fourth with 8.5.
Lukas Van Ness leads the defensive front with six tackles for loss, including three sacks.
In the secondary, Iowa still prefers variations of zone to man coverage, and Cooper DeJean is second in the Big Ten with three interceptions and sixth with 1.3 pass break-ups per game.
“It’s easy to come down and add on the run,” Wilson said of a safety being able to get into the box quickly if necessary. “It all starts up front. When they stop the run and get you on long yardage and then their D-line’s pushing the pocket and not giving the quarterback a lot of time to throw.
“I just think it’s a credit to the scheme and not only how it’s coached but the players know it, and they got really good players. And it’s not just this year. That’s every year for the Iowa defense.”
Iowa has made one significant change over the years, and that came since the last meeting between the Buckeyes and Hawkeyes in 2017.
After famously sticking to a 4-3 nearly every snap, Iowa finally relented in 2018 and joined the majority of programs at the major college and pro levels in switching to nickel personnel as its “base” package, replacing a true linebacker with a lighter, faster player in most situations.
Overall, that did not have much impact on the style of play but rather minimized matchup problems against offenses who would attack the third linebacker with a speedy receiver.
Some defenses call that role the “Star,” but Iowa calls it the “Cash” position. DeJean, a 6-foot1, 209-pound sophomore, fills that spot this season when he isn’t playing cornerback.
“They’re by no means a bend-but-not-break defense,” Wilson said. “I mean, they’re sitting there, and they’re slow to get out of (back)pedals and breaks because they’re driving on balls.”
And according to Wilson, playing one style so much and for so long has an advantage in that it helps Parker anticipate what his opponent will try to do to beat it.
“They know how they’re gonna get worked, so they know when you’re going to attack them deep and use double moves and things you try to do and they rally great,” Wilson said.
He also noted that Iowa defensive backs typically excel at making plays on the ball.
That could come into play Saturday with how often Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud likes to give his receivers a chance to make catches against tight coverage, a practice that has yielded some big plays and red zone touchdowns.
“They play the ball very, very well so when you do take those one-on-ones, those quote ‘50/50 balls,’ they’re sometimes not 50/50 against their guys,” Wilson said.
SATURDAY’S GAME
Iowa at Ohio State, Noon, Fox, 1410
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Percentages: FG .462, FT .778.
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3-Point Goals: 9-22, .409 (King 4-9, Potter 3-8, Perdue 1-1, Roberts 1-1, Ngumezi 0-1, Jackson 0-2).
Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 1 (Zeliznak).
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Turnovers: 16 (Potter 6, King 3, Ngumezi 3, Zeliznak 2, Platt, Roberts).
Steals: 2 (Brigham 2).
Technical Fouls: None.
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Percentages: FG .439, FT .739.
3-Point Goals: 7-24, .292 (Rodgers 3-8, Youngblood 2-5, Jennings 1-1, Burden 1-6, Ademokoya 0-1, Cottle 0-1, Stroud 0-2).
Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 2 (Robinson, Youngblood).
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Turnovers: 6 (Rodgers 3, Burden, Peterson, Stroud).
Steals: 6 (Burden 3, Youngblood 2, Robinson).
Technical Fouls: None.
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Marlon Wayans warns 'social media' 'world problems' have killed society's sense of humor: 'Too damn sensitive'
'Life is about laughter...We all need to be less sensitive,' Wayans advised
Comedian and actor Marlon Wayans doubled down on his comments criticizing cancel culture, slamming society as "too damn sensitive," during a Monday morning interview.
Wayans said a film like his 2004 comedy, "White Chicks," was needed in today's hypercritical culture, reliant on social media.
"People are too damn sensitive. This society has replaced laughs and comedy with social media and worries. Like we are so anxious about everything ‘cuz all we do is look at world problems and give our opinions," he said on "CBS Mornings."
‘WHITE CHICKS’ STAR MARLON WAYANS PUSHES BACK ON CANCEL CULTURE, VOWS TO NEVER SELF-CENSOR
Wayans derided people "hiding behind" their computer and online presence as he warned about artificial intelligence robots from other countries "influencing us."
The comedian suggested all of this time online had made society lose some of its humanity and ability to enjoy life.
"We're not just enjoying each other anymore," he remarked. "We have to learn to laugh at each other. Life is about laughter."
Wayans revealed that when he faces struggles in life, he looks for the silver lining and finds a way to laugh about it.
"So the darkest thing happens to me, the first thing I go, ‘What’s funny about it?'" he recalled. "The sooner I get to laughing, the sooner I get to healing."
BILL MAHER DENIES HE'S IMMUNE TO CANCEL CULTURE: 'IN TWO SECONDS, I COULD GET CANCELED'
"I just think we all need to be less sensitive," the actor reiterated, warning how stress and anxiety was "messing up" the younger generations.
Wayans, who is guest hosting "The Daily Show" this week, hoped his humor didn't get the show "canceled."
"They've had 35 hosts. If I'm the one to get 'em canceled, damn!" he joked.
Wayans called the state of comedy "sad" in a recent interview with Buzzfeed.
"It's sad that society is in this place where we can't laugh anymore," the comedian said. "I ain't listening to this damn generation. I ain't listening to these folks: These scared-ass people, these scared executives. Y'all do what you want to do? Great. I'm still gonna tell my jokes the way I tell them."
"If a joke is gonna get me canceled, thank you for doing me that favor," he told the outlet.
BEN STILLER SAYS HE NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR ‘TROPIC THUNDER’: I'M ‘PROUD OF IT’
Other actors and entertainers have recently stood up in defiance to a cultural push to get rid of films, books and other entertainment that may be politically incorrect in today's culture.
Actor Ben Stiller told fans recently that he was "proud" of his 2008 comedy "Tropic Thunder," and denied he had ever "apologized" for it.
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QYOU Advises that Q2 2022 Revenue Will Be An All Time Quarterly Record
TORONTO, MUMBAI and LOS ANGELES, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - QYOU Media Inc., (TSXV: QYOU) (OTCQB: QYOUF) a company operating in India and the United States producing and distributing content created by social media stars and digital content creators, is reporting final financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022. Highlights include as follows:
- Record Breaking Quarterly and YOY Revenue Growth: For the three months ended March 31, 2022 revenue was $5,234,680 representing a year over year increase of 2410% and the highest Q1 revenue mark in company history.
- Guidance: The Company is formally providing guidance for Q2 2022 advising that revenue is expected to be an all time quarterly record
- Seasonality: The Company's lines of business (primarily ad sales and influencer marketing) are subject to seasonality such that Q1 is typically the lowest revenue and Q4 the highest, all else being equal.
- Improved Adjusted EBITDA*: For the three months ended March 31, 2022 compared to same period prior year, adjusted EBITDA loss was $662,270 representing a decrease of $981,074 or 60% driven by the revenue growth offset by higher operating expenses related to the growth of the business across all operating business units.
- Net Loss: Net loss for the quarter is $2,308,200, a decrease of 10% or $244,689 driven by revenue growth across all business units. In addition to the EBITDA loss, the Net loss includes income tax provisions of $166,802 and non-cash losses from share based compensation, marketing credits and amortization of $1,479,128.
- Cash Balance: The Company concluded the three months ended March 31, 2022 with cash of $5,082,637 (December 31, 2021 $6,548,890).
QYOU Media CEO and Co-Founder, Curt Marvis commented, "What a difference a year makes would be an apt description for the astounding difference in our year over year growth from 2021 to 2022. Revenue growth in the current quarter is expected to again be strongly positive on a quarter over quarter basis and even more significant again on a year over year basis. Q2 2022 is currently expected to break all previous quarterly revenue records for the company and we expect this trend to continue throughout 2022. I am super proud of what the entire team has achieved and as I always say…the best is yet to come."
Note on Adjusted EBITDA:
To supplement our consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"), we present Earnings Before Interest Tax Depreciation and Amortization ("Adjusted EBITDA") which is a non-IFRS financial measure. The presentation of non-IFRS financial measurement are not intended to be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, or superior to, operating loss or net income (loss) or any other performance measures derived in accordance with IFRS or as an alternative to net cash provided by operating activities or any other measures of cash flows or liquidity.
We define earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("Adjusted EBITDA") as revenue minus operating expenses excluding non-cash operating expenses of stock-based compensation, marketing credits, depreciation and amortization (interest and taxes are not included in the Company's operating expenses). Adjusted EBITDA is used as an internal measure to evaluate the performance of our operating segments. We believe that information about this non-IFRS financial measure assists investors by allowing them to evaluate changes in operating results of our business separate from non-operational factors that affect operating income (loss) and net income (loss), thus providing insights into both operations and other factors that affect reported results. A limitation of the use of
Adjusted EBITDA as a performance measure is that it does not reflect the periodic costs of certain amortizing assets used in generating revenue in our business. Furthermore, this measure may vary among companies; thus Adjusted EBITDA as presented herein may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.
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Protesters of LB574, including Eliza Cline (center) and Madison Tewes (right), both of Lincoln, gather outside the legislative chamber on Friday at the Capitol.
JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
Juju Tyner of Lincoln (right) leads the singing of Over the Rainbow during a protest in the Capitol of LB574 on Friday.
While senators were debating the bill, two people — a 24-year-old from Omaha and a 36-year-old from Lincoln — threw objects over the balcony onto the floor of the Legislature. Both were arrested on suspicion of obstructing a government operation and disturbing the peace.
Another person — a 25-year-old from Lincoln — was yelling repeatedly and refused law enforcement orders to leave the balcony. They were arrested on suspicion of disturbing the peace and trespassing.
The Legislature's presiding officer, Lt. Gov. Joe Kelly, then ordered the balconies to be cleared for the remainder of debate. One woman — a 56-year-old from Seward — refused to leave and was arrested on suspicion of disobeying a lawful order.
Then at about 3:25 p.m., a State Patrol trooper observed a person intentionally preventing a sergeant-at-arms from opening a door at the back of the legislative chamber. The trooper told the man to leave the area, and after he did not comply the trooper attempted to arrest him. The man — a 40-year-old from Lincoln — resisted and was eventually arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest and trespassing.
As troopers were attempting to take the man into custody, a woman — a 33-year-old from Lincoln — approached and tried to push past another trooper. The trooper held her back, at which point she punched the trooper in the chest. She was then arrested on suspicion of obstructing a peace officer.
All six were lodged in the Lancaster County Jail.
After the arrests, 33 senators voted to shut off a filibuster and send the bill (LB754) that prompted Friday's protests to Republican Gov. Jim Pillen for his signature.
In a tweet Friday afternoon, Pillen thanked the Capitol Security troopers for "keeping our senators, legislative staff members, and our citizenry safe while they gathered to exercise their First Amendment rights."
And in a statement following the bill's passing, Pillen said the bill would allow trans youth in Nebraska to "grow and explore who they are" without first making "irreversible decisions that should be made when they are fully grown."
Because the bill has an emergency clause attached, LB574 will become law a day after Pillen signs it.
When it does, gender-affirming surgeries for individuals under 19 would be outlawed in Nebraska, and the Department of Health and Human Services would be required to develop regulations for puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
As amended earlier this week, the bill also bans abortions after 12 weeks gestational age, which is marked from a woman's last menstrual period. That's about 10 weeks after fertilization.
Opponents raised concerns about the lack of exceptions for fetal anomalies, and that the amendment did not remove criminal penalties for abortion from state statute.
Sen. Ben Hansen of Blair, the chair of the Health and Human Services Committee, told Sen. Merv Riepe of Ralston, who raised those concerns, that he would work to remove those criminal penalties in a future legislative session.
An amendment from Sen. Lynne Walz of Fremont would have changed 12 weeks gestational age to 12 weeks post fertilization and added "fetal anomalies incompatible with life" to the bill. But that amendment was not considered on Friday.
Photos and video: Scene at Nebraska Capitol as lawmakers debate LB574 for final time
A Kansas City, Missouri, native, Andrew Wegley joined the Journal Star as breaking news reporter after graduating from Northwest Missouri State University in May 2021.
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Alex Murdaugh admits story about dogs tripping housekeeper was fake, court documents say
COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) – Disbarred South Carolina attorney and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh is making some new claims about the 2018 death of the family’s housekeeper.
Murdaugh initially told authorities Gloria Satterfield died at his home after tripping and falling over the family’s dogs on the stairs.
In a recent court filing, Murdaugh now said he lied about those circumstances but can’t remember why she was at Murdaugh’s home on the day of the accident.
His attorneys said Murdaugh invented the story so insurers would pay a settlement.
After Satterfield’s death, Murdaugh initially claimed he worked with her family to help them get settlement money from his policy with Nautilus.
However, Satterfield’s family claimed they never received any settlement and Murdaugh admitted that he owed them millions.
In May of 2022, Nautilus filed a complaint against Murdaugh and other defendants, stating that the information they received from Murdaugh regarding this case was incorrect.
On May 1, 2023, Murdaugh filed a response to their complaint addressing their allegations.
In the response, Murdaugh admitted that he approached the Satterfields and encouraged them to seek a settlement.
Murdaugh continued in the response, admitting that the money from the settlement went to an account he owned rather than to the Satterfield family.
Despite admitting his lies in the response, Murdaugh denied any allegations that he co-conspired with anyone else to get the money.
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CLEVELAND, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Like many other industries, the global pumps market was affected by supply chain disruptions associated with the pandemic. A new Freedonia Group analysis finds that supply shortages and rising raw materials prices led to pump suppliers hiking prices, which contributed to very strong sales growth in value terms as markets began to recover in 2021.
While the pumps market achieved double-digit growth in 2021, even faster gains were prevented by difficulties meeting orders. Many firms reported order intake well in excess of revenues as they struggled to keep up with demand. Supply chain issues are expected to persist through 2022, with China's attempts to implement zero-COVID policies leading to ongoing disruption in manufacturing and logistics. Those firms that are able to cut through these issues and provide timely deliveries will have significant opportunities for sales.
While the global pumps market includes a variety of general-purpose products, much of the market consists of relatively specialized products that are mainly used in a particular target market. As a result, firms in the industry vary greatly in their level of exposure to different markets. Most of the global pumps market leaders pursue a strategy of market diversification and make pumps for a wide variety of applications. However, the industry includes a number of firms that have chosen to heavily emphasize the oil and gas market, and these companies underperformed in 2020 as the global oil and gas industry contracted. Market losses have contributed to further consolidation, as companies that participated in oil and gas as a non-primary market (e.g., Weir Group) reduced their participation.
For more information about solar pumps and the global pump industry in general, see Global Pumps, now available from The Freedonia Group. This study presents historical data (2011, 2016, and 2021) and forecasts for 2022, 2026 and 2031 for demand in the global fluid handling pumps industry by product and market in US dollars.
Products:
- Centrifugal
- positive displacement (rotary, reciprocating, diaphragm)
- specialty and other pumps, which includes pumps with designs that are uniquely specialized for specific applications, such as domestic water system pumps, turbine, drilling mud pumps, sump pumps, beverage service pumps, microfluidic laboratory pumps, and others
- associated drivers, parts, and accessories
Pump demand is also segmented by market:
- process manufacturing
- water infrastructure
- construction
- oil and gas
- electricity generation
- other, which includes healthcare, marine, mining, and other manufacturing industries
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Thirty Students from HBCUs Win Scholarships
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Risk Management Association today announced 118 new scholarships were granted this fall for college students pursuing financial services careers, pushing the amount awarded in the seven years of the RMA program past $1.5 million. Thirty students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities were among the scholarship winners as RMA has broadened its efforts to provide a pipeline of diverse talent to its financial institution members.
RMA President and CEO Nancy Foster said the scholarships help attract new and diverse talent to the industry at a critical time. "While financial institutions face many risks today, a top issue cited by most is difficulty in recruiting and retaining talent," Foster said. "RMA is proud of the steps our members are taking to introduce more students to the industry and help them achieve their career goals."
For Jacqueline Chung, a business major at Toronto Metropolitan University, the scholarship reduces the financial stress of paying tuition and allows her to concentrate on her studies. "This generous contribution has inspired me to help others reach their goals in higher education and give back to the community once I begin my career," Chung said.
This year's RMA scholarships provide $219,000 in awards, ranging from $1,500 to $5,000 per student. The next round of scholarships will open for application on January 3, 2023.
Institutions attended by the most recent scholarship winners include:
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
- Liberty University
- North Dakota State University
- Spelman College
- Texas A&M University
- The University of Alabama
- The University of British Columbia
- The University of Iowa
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Yale University
The scholarships are part of RMA's work with colleges and universities to cultivate and train bankers from their pre-graduate days through executive leadership. In October, RMA launched Ignite, its new online learning and development platform that allows users to design a curated curriculum to build their careers. RMA executive opportunities include the Wharton Advanced Risk Management Program and the Texas A&M Executive Development Program.
Learn more about the scholarships here.
In addition to providing scholarships to the next generation of bankers, RMA is piloting a new membership model with universities. Benefits include complimentary individual student memberships, an online subscription to The RMA Journal, access to the RMA online member forum, opportunities to network with current bank practitioners, invitations to attend RMA chapter meetings and workshops, and more. Students are also able to earn the Credit Essentials Certificate, which demonstrates proficiency in business and financial knowledge and helps certificate holders stand out to employers.
Founded in 1914, the Risk Management Association is a not-for-profit, member-driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk management principles in the financial services industry. RMA promotes an enterprise approach to risk management that focuses on credit risk, market risk, and operational risk. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, RMA has 1,600 institutional members that include banks of all sizes as well as nonbank financial institutions. They are represented in the Association by 35,000 individuals located throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia/Pacific.
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New testing has been developed to rapidly detect Monkeypox and help scientists better understand the prevalence of the disease.
DENTON, Texas, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthTrackRx, the nation's leading polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing lab, is working in a partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct an epidemiologic study to help to understand how widespread Monkeypox is within the United States.
Martin Price, CEO and Chairman of HealthTrackRx stated, "We are excited to conduct this study with the CDC. Molecular testing is essential to understanding the epidemiology of emerging threats such as Monkeypox. Applying molecular diagnostics to rapidly detect infectious diseases is central to our mission of getting people healthier faster."
As part of this study, HealthTrackRx has developed a test for Human Monkeypox Virus. The test is being used to screen specimens from patients with diagnostic codes indicating that the patient has skin lesions or ulcerations that may be compatible with Monkeypox. Specimens that test positive for Monkeypox will be sent to the CDC for confirmation.
While no Monkeypox test results from this study will be reported to patients or their providers, the study will be accruing critical data regarding the spread of Monkeypox across the United States.
The HealthtrackRx diagnostic assay is a multiplex real-time PCR test based on the TaqMan® technology from Thermo Fisher Scientific.
HealthTrackRx is the nation's leading PCR-based infectious disease laboratory, delivering industry-leading testing turnaround times to clinicians nationwide. For more than 20 years, the company has mobilized accurate clinical decisions through advances in pathogen testing, antimicrobial stewardship, and value-based care programs. For more information, visit HealthTrackRx at healthtrackrx.com and LinkedIn.
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JENNIE-O® team members and Carla Hall visit Blue Grass Elementary School today
WILLMAR, Minn., Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The makers of the Jennie-O® turkey brand – category leader and trusted brand for turkey products – announced a partnership with esteemed chef, cookbook author and beloved TV personality Carla Hall. The team will honor school cafeteria staff of Blue Grass Elementary School in Knoxville, Tenn. As part of this partnership, Jennie-O® and Hall will visit schools across the nation to honor these unsung heroes by hosting School Cafeteria Takeovers.
"This partnership with the Jennie-O® brand is very special to me and really hits close to home because we are recognizing some of the hardest working people in school districts – those who prepare school breakfasts, lunches and after-school meals for kids and are an essential part of the school day. I know how incredibly hard they work and I'm excited to let them kick up their feet for once, as we cook for them and provide a time of rest and relaxation," Hall said. "Our children need proper nutrition to focus, learn and play, and I'm so grateful that school cafeteria staff and Jennie-O® turkey products provide the protein and nourishment that kids need to succeed."
Hall and the Jennie-O® brand team worked together to develop a delicious menu featuring Jennie-O® turkey for the school cafeteria staff. During the School Cafeteria Takeovers, Hall will lead a baking tutorial of her famous biscuits with school cafeteria staff and treat them to a fabulous meal. Additionally, the brand will bring in local businesses to offer refreshments and other relaxing amenities for school cafeteria heroes, and finally, staff will receive heartfelt notes of gratitude from the student body.
"Our school nutrition staff are tireless workers and are truly irreplaceable members at Blue Grass. They love our students deeply and serve them with a smile daily," said Dr. Casey Cutter, principal of Blue Grass Elementary. "We rarely get to celebrate them the way they deserve to be celebrated and we are so thankful to Carla Hall and Jennie-O® brand for providing us with an opportunity to do just that!"
"We are so thankful to work with Carla Hall to celebrate the unsung heroes of every school — the school cafeteria staff," said Renee Cool, brand manager at Jennie-O Turkey Store. "They work tirelessly and take such amazing care of children, so, for one day, we want to pamper them and show our appreciation for all they do with a delicious Jennie-O® turkey meal and relaxation."
In addition to Blue Grass Elementary School in Knoxville, the Jennie-O® brand team and Hall will also visit:
- Nov. 17, 2022: Los Angeles
- Feb. 2023: Houston
- May 2023: Detroit
As part of the School Cafeteria Takeovers program with Hall, the makers of the Jennie-O® brand will provide $25,000 to four additional schools throughout the year to help fulfill wish lists for cafeterias in need of new equipment and supplies.
Jennie-O® is the leading turkey provider to school districts in the United States.
- Jennie-O is the leading turkey provider in 9 of the top 10 school districts in the nation.
- Jennie-O serves more than 5,000 school districts in the U.S.
- Jennie-O has the largest variety of K-12 turkey products in America.
- The Jennie-O sales team has more than 100 years of combined experience in servicing K-12.
- 90 percent of USDA-donated turkey is processed by Jennie-O.
For more information about Jennie-O® turkey products, including recipes, nutritional information and where to buy, visit JennieO.com or follow the brand on social media at Facebook.com/JennieOTurkey, Instagram.com/JennieO, TikTok.com/@jennieobrand and Twitter.com/JennieO.
ABOUT JENNIE-O TURKEY STORE
For over 80 years, the Jennie-O® brand has been helping consumers live well by eating well. As the category leader, Jennie-O® turkey is the trusted brand for quality turkey and a source of expertise. We provide a full portfolio of delicious, nutritious turkey proteins and inspiration for everyday meals or special occasions. Known for our bright green awning evoking the nostalgia of a local farmer stand, our round logo with a touch of yellow and our distinct name from our founders' daughter Jennifer, the Jennie-O® turkey brand has the right amount of small-town friendliness paired with leading company expertise and quality. For more information, visit JennieO.com.
ABOUT HORMEL FOODS – INSPIRED PEOPLE. INSPIRED FOOD.™
Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minn., is a global branded food company with over $11 billion in annual revenue across more than 80 countries worldwide. Its brands include Planters®, SKIPPY®, SPAM®, Hormel® Natural Choice®, Applegate®, Justin's®, Wholly®, Hormel® Black Label®, Columbus®, Jennie-O® and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named on the "Global 2000 World's Best Employers" list by Forbes magazine for three years, is one of Fortune magazine's most admired companies, has appeared on the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list by 3BL Media 13 times, and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts. The company lives by its purpose statement — Inspired People. Inspired Food. ™ — to bring some of the world's most trusted and iconic brands to tables across the globe. For more information, visit https://www.hormelfoods.com/and https://csr.hormelfoods.com/.
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Envirotech Vehicles Inc. announced Friday that Arkansas-based Olympus Construction will lead renovation efforts for the manufacturer's facility in Mississippi County.
Envirotech is moving its headquarters and production operations, previously located in California, to the 580,000-square-foot facility at 1425 Ohlendorf Road in Osceola. Total cost of the industrial renovation is estimated at more than $80 million to update the facility and to purchase machinery and equipment to increase production capacity and efficiency.
"Throughout 2022, we are making tremendous progress in pushing the transportation industry forward towards innovation," said Phillip Oldridge, Envirotech Vehicles' chief executive officer. "Since announcing our relocation to Arkansas in February of 2022, the company has spent in excess of $100,000 a quarter."
Envirotech builds zero-emission electric vehicles focused on reducing the cost of vehicle ownership and helping fleet operators unlock the benefits of green technology. The company builds heavy-duty electric vehicles for last-mile fleets, school districts, public and private transportation service companies and colleges and universities. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/04/envirotech-to-renovate-plant/ | 2022-06-04 09:27:31 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/04/envirotech-to-renovate-plant/ |
Tina Knowles-Lawson is teasing what fans can expect from Renaissance! ET spoke with Beyoncé's mom on the red carpet at HollyRod Foundation's 2022 DesignCare Gala, and the 68-year-old businesswoman gushed about her daughter's forthcoming solo album -- her first in six years.
"I’m a fan too. I’m very, very excited," she said. "I just posted recently that I really miss her singing, and I do. I’m as excited as everybody else. I can’t wait for you guys to hear it."
"She put two years of love into this. Many, many nights [she spent] all night working," she added of Renaissance, which is due out July 29. "I can’t wait for the world to hear it."
Another family member Tina's proud of? Her 10-year-old granddaughter, Blue Ivy, Beyonce and JAY-Z's eldest child. "She’s just blossoming and turning into her mother," Tina praised.
While Tina eagerly awaits Renaissance's release, she passed the time by stepping out to support her longtime pal, Holly Robinson Peete, at HollyRod Foundation's 2022 DesignCare Gala.
The charity offers medical, physical, and emotional support to individuals living with Parkinson's disease as well as families of children with autism. Much of their work is done at RJ's Place, a facility that provides free access to families and individuals living with Parkinson’s disease or autism.
"I’ve been a fan of Holly's since 21 Jump Street. I didn’t know her then, but when I came to L.A... I was like, 'I just wanna meet her.' I had heard about all of her work with autism, which is so important because for so many people, they don’t have the resources and the treatment is very expensive," Tina said. "She is so dedicated to getting the word out."
"Even personally, I’ve had friends move here with autistic kids and she’s hooked them up with all the organizations. She helped one of my godchildren get in college. This work is super important," she added. "... I think it's just so badly needed. I’m a big fan of hers. Personally, she’s like my little sister. We're like family."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman broke down on the witness stand Wednesday while giving graphic testimony about a 2003 night when she said she emerged from unconsciousness to find actor Danny Masterson raping her.
She is the first of three women who say Masterson raped them to testify during his Los Angeles trial. She said at one point she grabbed Masterson's hair to try to pull him away, but he shoved a pillow into her face.
“I was smothered,” she said, crying. “I could not breathe.”
She said she later grabbed his throat to try to push him away but he held her down and began choking her.
Asked by the prosecutor what she was thinking at the time, she replied: "That he was going to kill me. That I was going to die.”
By this point she was weeping. After she said “I can't do this," the judge called for a brief break and a court victims' services advocate comforted her at the witness stand.
When she took the stand again, she testified that Masterson pulled a gun from a drawer in his bedside table and ordered her to be quiet when there was a commotion — and voices — at the door.
She said that, throughout the night, she passed in and out of consciousness despite drinking only about half of a fruity vodka drink Masterson had handed her.
Masterson, 46, who at the time was a star of the Fox TV sitcom “That '70s show,” has pleaded not guilty to three counts of rape.
His attorney was set to cross-examine the woman later Wednesday or Thursday.
A previous defense lawyer for Masterson contended the three women had each reframed consensual sex as rape.
The Associated Press does not name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly.
Masterson, sitting at the defense table in a suit, looked toward the woman as she testified, but had no visible reaction. His wife, actor and model Bijou Phillips, sat behind him at the front of the gallery, along with several of his family members and friends.
The woman, then 27, was the best friend of Masterson’s assistant and part of the same social circle of Church of Scientology members.
She testified that she had only intended to go to Masterson's house to pick up a set of keys, and that her relationship had been uneasy with Masterson since the two had sex several months earlier, an incident she told police was consensual in 2004 but later decided she hadn’t consented to.
When she told several mutual friends from the church about that incident, including her close friend Lisa Marie Presley – daughter of Elvis Presley and former wife of Michael Jackson – and Masterson’s assistant Brie Shaffer, it opened a rift in the group.
All three of Masterson’s accusers were members of the Church of Scientology at the time they say they were raped, but have since left. Masterson remains a member. Judge Charlaine Olmedo said before the trial that she would not allow Scientology to become a de facto defendant, but would allow limited discussion of it.
Before the woman took the stand Wednesday after beginning her testimony Tuesday, the judge warned her not to stray too far into discussions of the religion, an issue she had already admonished Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller about.
Scientology still came up. The woman testified that some of her mutual friends filed so-called “knowledge reports” signaling their unhappiness with her after she told them about the initial incident with Masterson, and she was summoned by an ethics officer who forced her to make peace with him and take responsibility.
“You can never be a victim,” the woman said. “No matter what happens, you’re always responsible.”
She testified that she signed a non-disclosure agreement with Masterson in 2004, and accepted $400,000 over the course of a year, because the church was going to tar her as a “suppressive person” otherwise.
She testified that she had only expected to be at Masterson’s house, a social hub for their friend circle, for a few minutes.
The woman would file a police report about the night the following year, but no charges resulted. She went back to police late in 2016 after connecting with one of the other women who will testify.
Masterson’s is one of several trials with #MeToo themes going on simultaneously on from coast to coast. They include Harvey Weinstein’s second rape and sexual assault trial just down the hall, and civil trials in New York for actor Kevin Spacey and for screenwriter and director Paul Haggis, who are both being sued for sexual assault.
Scientology also has a major role in the trial of Haggis, a church dissident who is being allowed to argue that the institution is behind the allegations against him.
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WASHINGTON — America's surprisingly resilient job market may have delivered yet another month of solid hiring and pay gains in May, if economists' forecasts prove to be correct. Still, some signs of cooling could emerge in the government report being released Friday.
Analysts have estimated that hiring slowed to a still-healthy pace of 190,000 added jobs last month, according to a survey by the data provider FactSet. That would mark a decline from the robust 253,000 jobs that were gained in April and would fall below the average for the previous three months of about 220,000. The unemployment rate is projected to rise slightly to 3.5% from a five-decade low of 3.4%.
Companies have steadily slowed hiring since January, when the three-month average pace of gains was an unusually strong 330,000.
Federal Reserve officials would welcome a more modest rate of job growth. The central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate 10 times in 14 months in an aggressive drive to conquer high inflation. Fed officials have said they think strong hiring can often fuel inflation if companies feel compelled to raise pay to attract and keep workers. These companies typically pass on their higher labor costs to their customers by raising prices.
A slowdown in job growth and pay raises could help the Fed reach its 2% inflation target. Though inflation has dropped steadily from its peak of 9.1% a year ago, it remained elevated in April at 4.9%, measured year over year.
Top Fed officials have signaled that they expect to forgo a rate increase at their June 13-14 meeting. Doing so would afford them time to assess how their previous rate hikes have affected the inflation pressures underlying the economy. Higher rates typically take time to affect growth and hiring. The Fed wants to avoid raising its key rate to the point where it would slow borrowing and spending so much as to cause a deep recession.
In remarks this week, several Fed officials pointed to Friday's jobs report — along with the next government report on inflation, to be released June 13 — as important factors in their decision-making. It's possible that a much stronger-than-expected May jobs report could cause the Fed's policymakers to consider imposing yet another rate hike this month instead of pausing.
Slower hiring could suggest that the job market is moving toward a more sustainable balance after two years of gangbusters gains that followed the economy's explosive rebound from the 2020 pandemic recession.
The U.S. economy as a whole has been gradually weakening. It grew at a lackluster 1.3% annual rate from January through March, after 2.6% annual growth from October through December and 3.2% from July through September.
Some signs have emerged that demand for workers, too, is easing just as more Americans are coming off the sidelines and looking for jobs. The low unemployment rate and rising pay have helped persuade more than 2 million people to take jobs or begin looking for work in just the past six months.
“We are seeing some calming down in terms of the jobs market, even if it remains pretty strong overall,” said Sarah House, an economist at Wells Fargo.
The number of people who are quitting their jobs — a sign of confidence in the employment market — has dropped back to near pre-pandemic levels. Companies have also shed temporary employees for the past three months, evidence that labor demand has begun to ebb.
The Federal Reserve's so-called Beige Book, a collection of anecdotal reports mostly from businesses across the country, reported Wednesday that the pace of hiring gains in April and May had “cooled some” compared with previous reports. Many companies reported that they were fully staffed.
At the same time, despite some high-profile job cuts by financial and high-technology companies, the pace of layoffs remains unusually low. The number of people seeking first-time unemployment benefits, a proxy for layoffs, barely rose from a low level last week.
Many employers are still engaged in so-called “catch-up hiring,” particularly in such sectors as restaurants, hotels and entertainment venues. Though customer demand in these industries has spiked, the number of employed workers remains below pre-pandemic levels.
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