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STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma will sit out the Huskies’ game at Xavier on Thursday, the fourth game he has missed this season due to illness.
The Hall of Fame coach also sat out Tuesday’s win at Butler. The school didn’t release a timetable for his return.
Associate head coach Chris Dailey, who has been at UConn with Auriemma since 1985, will take over the head coaching duties. She is 16-0 when filling in for him.
“It’s been an extremely difficult month for me, and I’ve been feeling under the weather and run down,” Auriemma said in a statement. “I thought I was ready to return, but I need a little more time. I’m going to take a step back to focus on my health and will return when I feel ready.”
His 91-year-old mother Marsiella Auriemma died on Dec. 8.
No. 5 UConn (12-2) has been beset with injuries and illness this season. Former national player of the year Paige Bueckers and freshman Ice Brady are out for the season with knee injuries. Leading scorer Azzi Fudd is expected to return shortly from a knee injury that has kept her on the bench since early December. Shooting guard Caroline Duchareme is sitting out her second consecutive game in concussion protocol.
Only three Huskies have played in every game this season.
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York City shooting leaves 3-year-old injured
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York City shooting leaves 3-year-old injured
There was a shooting at the 400 block of East Philadelphia Street in York city at around 4:33 p.m. Friday afternoon. There were three people shot. The victims were a 23-year-old female, a 21-year-old male and a 3-year-old male.We are unsure of their conditions currently.If you know any information, the police are asking for you to call them at (717) 849-2204.
There was a shooting at the 400 block of East Philadelphia Street in York city at around 4:33 p.m. Friday afternoon.
There were three people shot. The victims were a 23-year-old female, a 21-year-old male and a 3-year-old male.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It's no strange(r) thing that philanthropists Shawn and Serena Levy will be taking center stage alongside comedian Hasan Minhaj and Dr. Beena Patel Minhaj at the Laughter Is the Best Medicine 2022 gala on Monday, December 5, at the Beverly Wilshire, hosted by global health nonprofit Jhpiego.
An extraordinary storyteller and prolific filmmaker, Shawn explored communication with extraterrestrials in the multi-Oscar-nominated "Arrival," shared the supernatural adventures of a group of teens in the award-winning Netflix series "Stranger Things," and directed hit movies "Free Guy," "The Adam Project," and highly anticipated "Deadpool 3"and the upcoming limited series "All the Light We Cannot See." His wife Serena, who has practiced as an early childhood development specialist privately and at Cedars Sinai Medical Center Early Childhood Center, also serves on the Board of Trustees for A Sense of Home.
The couple will receive Jhpiego's Elyse Bila Ouedraogo Award, named for a Burkina Faso nurse who screened hundreds of women for cervical cancer—the preventable disease that ultimately took her life. This award is given to honorees who exemplify Ouedraogo's selfless determination to make a difference.
"The work that Jhpiego does, the ways in which this organization is changing lives, is bettering lives, aligns with the values that Serena and I hold," said Shawn. "Through this award, we hope to amplify the work of Jhpiego, their empowerment of women, to ensure that the people they serve receive the quality health care all of us want for our families."
Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, will present its Visionary Award the same evening to Hasan, a two-time Peabody Award-winning comedian, and his wife, Beena, Executive Director of Vituity Cares Foundation. The Visionary Award recognizes leaders who use their public platforms for activism aligned with the work and mission of Jhpiego – women's empowerment, education and access to health care. The Minhajs are passionate advocates for equitable health care for women, men and their families wherever they live.
Beena, who holds advanced degrees in public health, previously developed a nationally recognized and replicated model of patient-centered health care for homeless veterans. Hasan is the co-founder and chief executive officer of 186K Films, which will produce its first feature, "For the Culture," with Amazon Studios. His second comedy special, "The King's Jester," premiered on Netflix on October 4, 2022.
"We're honored to be able to bring awareness to public health initiatives through both creative and grassroots mediums," said Beena. "Empowering people, especially women, to advocate for improved and expanded health care access leads to better overall public health. We hope to continue our work in this space in a way that exceeds the significant expectations of the Visionary Award."
Laughter Is the Best Medicine, which this year takes place during Jhpiego's 50th anniversary year, highlights the work of Jhpiego's staff all over the world, in addition to the philanthropic and humanitarian contributions of the honorees. An evening of celebration and inspiration, the evening features performances from top comedians and special guests from Jhpiego's country offices.
100% of gala proceeds go toward improving the health and well-being of women and their families in the developing world.
Working for the past half century in 155 countries to ensure equity, quality and respect in health care services, Jhpiego insists that where a woman lives should not determine if she lives.
For more information about Jhpiego and its annual gala, visit www.jhpiego.org or contact Ann LoLordo, 443.831.3834, ann.lolordo@jhpiego.org.
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Burden shines as Mizzou rolls past Louisiana Tech, 52-24
By DAVE SKRETTA
AP Sports Writer
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — When things went awry for Missouri last year, the defense was usually the culprit.
It was that side of the ball that gave the Tigers a lift in their opener against Louisiana Tech on Thursday night.
With their offense off to a slow start, the new-look bunch of coordinator Blake Baker came up with a trio of first-half interceptions, including one that Joseph Charleston returned for a score. And that was all the spark needed for the Missouri offense, who got on a roll behind heralded recruit Luther Burden III in a 52-24 victory over the Bulldogs.
“We struggled early to find a rhythm. We were not in sync,” Tigers coach Eli Drinkwitz acknowledged, “but we were able to capitalize on the momentum the defense created.”
Brady Cook, who won the starting job in fall camp, threw for 196 yards with an interception and a touchdown run. And the trio of Cody Schrader, Nathaniel Peat and BJ Harris in the backfield each reached the end zone.
Yet it was Burden, the five-star prospect from St. Louis, who delivered on the hype. He caught a swing pass from Cook before making one defender miss and splitting two more for his first score, then he took a direct snap and ran for another.
Burden’s only real gaffe came on a sharp throw that bounced off his hands for an interception.
“I see it every day, to be honest with you,” Drinkwitz said of his freshman star. “I just didn’t want to build it up too much.”
Louisiana Tech’s Matthew Downing threw for 184 yards with a touchdown and three interceptions in new coach Sonny Cumbie’s version of the Air Raid offense. Downing didn’t get much help from the Bulldogs’ ground game, though, which ran 22 times for 11 yards against what was one of the worst rush defenses in the Football Bowl Subdivision last season.
“That’s got to be better,” Cumbie acknowledged. “I have to be more patient with the run.”
Indeed, most of the focus around Missouri has been on the defense, which was rebuilt for new coordinator Baker around a slew of Division I transfers. And they got into the act right away: Florida arrival Ty’Ron Hopper and Charleston, a newcomer from Clemson, had two of the Tigers’ three first-half interceptions.
It was the first time Missouri picked three passes in a first half since Sept. 4, 1982, against Colorado State.
“When you turn the football over three times on the road against a good team,” Cumbie said, “and your margin for error is very small, and you give them seven points, the momentum builds against you.”
Charleston’s pick-six early in the second quarter came two plays after Schrader, who transferred in after leading Division II in rushing last season for Truman State, had catapulted into the end zone to give Missouri an early 7-3 lead.
It wasn’t a perfect performance by any means for the Tigers, who nonetheless led 24-10 at the break.
They were on the move after Charleston’s score when tight end Tyler Stephens fumbled the ball away inside the Louisiana Tech 10. The Tigers also blew coverage on a simple slant that Griffin Herbert turned into a 75-yard TD reception, and twice spanning halftime the Tigers were stuffed on fourth-and-short conversions.
Burden’s short TD run and Cook’s 20-yard scoring scamper late in the third quarter put the game away.
“The thing that is kind of good for me, the mistakes are all correctable, all really correctable — lack of execution, turnovers, the penalties,” Drinkwitz said. “There’s a bright future ahead of us but we have to get out of our own way.”
WIN IT FOR LUPER
WR Chance Luper, who was expected to start for Missouri, went to the hospital Thursday with what Drinkwitz called “an illness” that is expected to keep him out at least six weeks. Luper is the son of Tigers running backs coach Curtis Luper.
THE TAKEAWAY
Louisiana Tech kept slinging the ball, even when the game was out of reach, and backup QB Parker McNeil was rewarded with a pair of late touchdown passes. It was a positive sign for the future of an offense designed around the pass.
Missouri will need much better offensive line play beginning with next week’s trip to Kansas State. Along with failing to push the pile on fourth-and-short, the Tigers’ front struggled to protect Cook and committed far too many penalties.
UP NEXT
Louisiana Tech plays its home opener against Stephen F. Austin on Sept. 10.
Missouri visits the former Big 12-rival Wildcats the same day.
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IRVING, Texas, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The chill is on this summer as 7-Eleven, Inc.'s signature community outreach program, Operation Chill®, returns for its 27th consecutive year. The Operation Chill program presents local law enforcement agencies an opportunity to make positive connections with their community's youth through FREE Slurpee® drink coupons.
This year, 7-Eleven will issue more than 650,000 coupons to more than 1,200 participating law enforcement agencies that will, in turn, be rewarded to children in their local communities seen observing safety rules, participating in positive activities, or performing good deeds and acts of kindness. Each coupon can be redeemed for one FREE small Slurpee drink at participating 7-Eleven® stores. Although the reasons for being rewarded vary – wearing a helmet while riding a bike, picking up litter, helping a neighbor or holding the door open – the result is the same: a FREE Slurpee drink and encouragement for being a great citizen. What's more, this summer, kids can use their coupon for new Slurpee flavors including Mango Lemonade.
"It's no surprise that Operation Chill continues to be our most popular community engagement program. Through a simple Slurpee coupon, officers can easily connect and engage with their local youth, helping to build long-term positive relationships," said 7-Eleven President and CEO Joe DePinto. "With more law enforcement agencies participating in the program than ever before, we're thrilled to create more positive interactions and memories between officers and youth this summer."
Last year, the Operation Chill program was completely reimagined into an innovative, digital experience, complete with the launch of a new website, where law enforcement agencies can easily register online, request Slurpee drink coupons, and access best practices, tools and tips for making Operation Chill a success in their local communities. Also, the Operation Chill logo and corresponding social media assets were updated, ensuring that the program continues to remain fresh, fun, and engaging for the next generation of youth. As a result of the reimagination, 300 more law enforcement agencies participated than in previous years, and coupon redemptions increased 70 percent.
"The relationship between law enforcement and the people we serve, especially our youth, is vital to effective community policing," said Chief Eddie Garcia of the Dallas Police Department. "It is important for this department to build a strong relationship with our youth across the city. Not only does this program give us the opportunity to thank our kids and teens for good deeds in our community, but it helps us to build a positive foundation with them and leads to a stronger and safer Dallas."
The Operation Chill program was founded in Philadelphia with a goal to give law enforcement officers a positive way to interact with children and teens. Since its inception in 1995, Operation Chill has expanded to hundreds of cities across the country, donating more than 24 million coupons to U.S. law enforcement agencies in 7-Eleven communities.
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7–Eleven, Inc. is the premier name in the convenience-retailing industry. Based in Irving, Texas, 7–Eleven operates, franchises and/or licenses more than 14,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to 7–Eleven stores, 7–Eleven, Inc. operates and franchises Speedway®, Stripes®, Laredo Taco Company® and Raise the Roost® Chicken and Biscuits locations. Known for its iconic brands such as Slurpee®, Big Bite® and Big Gulp®, 7–Eleven has expanded into high-quality sandwiches, salads, side dishes, cut fruit and protein boxes, as well as pizza, chicken wings and mini beef tacos. 7–Eleven offers customers industry-leading private brand products under the 7-Select™ brand including healthy options, decadent treats and everyday favorites at an outstanding value. Customers can earn and redeem points on various items in stores nationwide through its 7Rewards® loyalty program with more than 50 million members, place an order in the 7NOW® delivery app in over 2,000 cities, or rely on 7–Eleven for bill payment service, self-service lockers and other convenient services. Find out more online at www.7–Eleven.com.
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Mercedes-Benz’s Maybach division on Thursday revealed its first plug-in hybrid in the form of the S 580 e.
The electrified sedan based on the Mercedes-Benz S-Class starts sales in China later this year, followed by Europe and a handful of other markets, though there’s been no mention of its availability in the U.S.
Its powertrain consists of a 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-6 combined with a single electric motor; power goes to the rear wheels. Combined output is a healthy 502 hp, or enough for 0-62 mph acceleration in 5.1 seconds and a governed top speed of 155 mph.
Switching to pure EV mode drops the output to 147 hp. Maybach hasn’t mentioned the size of the battery but said a full charge can deliver a range of 62 miles on the WLTP cycle used overseas. The stricter EPA cycle would result in a lower range. Using a DC fast charger can charge the battery in around 30 minutes, according to Maybach.
There’s little to designate this particular version of the Maybach S-Class as an electrified model, though hints include an extra cover for the charging port, blue accents in the headlights, and hybrid-specific info in the instrument cluster and infotainment system.
Maybach is preparing an update for its version of the U.S.-built Mercedes GLS-Class, and it could also get a plug-in hybrid option.
The ultra-luxury division is also planning to jump into the EV game. The first electric vehicle will be based on the Mercedes EQS SUV, which is built in the U.S.
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The owner of a driving school pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Boston to charges that he bribed a road test examiner to issue driver’s licenses to people who did not take or pass road tests at the Registry of Motor Vehicles in Brockton, according to the US Attorney’s office for Massachusetts.
Estevao Semedo, 61, of Brockton, was charged with conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud, prosecutors said in a statement. He was charged on March 2, the statement said.
The name of the driving school was not disclosed.
Semedo paid a road test examiner at least $17,000 for fraudulently passing scores on road tests for driver’s license applicants who had either not passed their road test or did not show up to take the test, the statement said.
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Driver’s licenses were then mailed to the unqualified applicants as a result.
Semedo is scheduled to return to court Aug. 1 for sentencing, the statement said.
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Unvaccinated Djokovic can’t travel to US, out of Miami Open
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Novak Djokovic withdrew from Miami Open again because he still can’t travel to the United States as a foreign citizen who is not vaccinated against COVID-19.
Djokovic is out of the field for the event that begins next week, a tournament spokesman said Saturday. The 35-year-old from Serbia won that event six times, most recently in 2016.
Djokovic is No. 1 in the ATP rankings and is tied with Rafael Nadal — who is injured and also won’t be in Miami — at 22 Grand Slam titles, the record for most won by a man. In 2023, Djokovic is 15-1 with two titles, including at the Australian Open in January.
But he will now have missed the first two Masters 1000 events of the season. He pulled out of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, which ends this weekend, because he couldn’t get into the U.S. without having received any shots for the illness caused by the coronavirus.
In 2022, Djokovic also missed the trips to Indian Wells, Miami and the U.S. Open.
Back in in April 2020, as the pandemic raged, Djokovic said he was opposed to needing to be vaccinated to travel. He later said he would not get inoculated even if it meant missing tournaments.
In January 2022, he tried to get an exemption to compete at the Australian Open and traveled to Melbourne. But after his case went to court, his visa was revoked and Djokovic was deported from the country.
Pandemic restrictions have been eased in Australia since, and Djokovic returned this year without a problem and won the season’s first major championship.
Meanwhile, Nadal has been sidelined since hurting his left hip flexor during a second-round loss at Melbourne Park. He is aiming to return to action at the Monte Carlo Masters next month.
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ROCKPORT, Mass. (AP) — When Laura Hernandez fell into the water and lost her iPhone while paddleboarding off Massachusetts earlier this month, she figured it was probably gone for good.
But the next day the New York woman returned to the Rockport beach and approached the instructor of a novice scuba diving class and told him her situation.
Instructor Larry Bettencourt told her the odds of finding it, even with its distinctive pink case, were not good, but he told the class to keep an eye out for it, The Boston Globe reported Thursday.
Amazingly, Vanessa Kahn, 26, of Peabody, making her first open-water ocean dive spotted the phone in water about 25 feet deep.
“The bright pink waterproof case stuck out like a sore thumb … it was like almost neatly placed into a bed of green seaweed,” Kahn said. She waved the phone around in the water and the screen glowed. She returned to the surface, turned on the camera and snapped a selfie, then waved the phone in triumph to Hernandez standing on the beach.
“Her face lit up,” she said. “I could tell that she was so excited.”
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Major League Baseball is trying to get out of the mud once again.
In a continued effort to find a solution to lingering concerns about how well pitchers can grip a baseball without using “sticky stuff” like Spider Tack, the league will be testing “a new iteration of an “enhanced-grip” baseball” in the Double-A Southern League this season, according to a report from Yahoo!’s Hannah Keyser.
Per Keyser, a “similar test was called off early last year after it became clear that the ball being tested was not going to be the solution.”
“Changes were made based on player feedback, resulting in the ball that will be tested this year — though implementation at the major-league level would be a long way off and, indeed, might never come to pass if the league ultimately decides that the long-standing process of “muddying” the baseball is better than any synthetic alternative,” Keyser wrote.
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The product required for the “muddying” of the ball is made in New Jersey. Along with his wife and daughter, Jim Bintliff, a 66-year-old in Longport, is responsible for the mud that’s rubbed on every baseball used in a major league game.
From an NJ Advance Media report in 2022:
There’s nothing worse than a super-slick baseball. It’s harder to manipulate and control, especially in colder weather, and that can lead to wild pitches, hit batters, bench-clearing brawls, suspensions and fines, unaccepted apologies and running feuds.
The Bintliff family doesn’t just have the antidote to slick baseballs, it has a mom-and-pop monopoly, cornering the market on harvesting, curating, packaging and shipping of the mud. Bintliff won’t say how much revenue he generates, but ask if he’s ever considered cashing out and finally retiring, and the answer comes in the form of a slightly-arched eyebrow, as if to say: Are you kidding?
Nevertheless, Rawlings has this mom-and-pop mud enterprise in its crosshairs — and has for years — determined to invent an enhanced-grip baseball that will put Bintliff out of business.
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In a way, pitchers have tried — unsuccessfully — to squeeze Bintliff out of business, too. First, they cheated with pine tar, then insisted the sticky substance used by hitters should be legal for pitchers, too. Then they cheated with Spider Tack, the even stickier substance created to help weightlifters maintain a grip. And while some hitters were willing to let pitchers use pine tar — because, after all, who wants to take a fastball in the ear — these same hitters protested when Spider Tack sliders defied physics, and the barrels of their bats, with spin rates that made baseballs nearly unhittable.
All of which puts Bintliff in the middle of a controversy Major League Baseball is still trying to solve. For now, though, Bintliff’s mud is the only way major league pitchers legally will get a grip.
And as the latest report shows, MLB is determined to change that.
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Woman trying to retrieve phone goes over 68-foot waterfall, survives
WHITLEY COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT/Gray News) – A woman survived with no injuries after going over a waterfall in Kentucky while trying to retrieve her phone.
According to Whitley County Emergency Management, the 36-year-old woman was taking photos at Cumberland Falls State Park when she dropped her phone in the river Wednesday afternoon. When she tried to retrieve the phone, she was swept away by the current.
“We all want to get really close to something so beautiful, but I can see how easy it would be to misjudge how close you are to something like that,” Cumberland Falls visitor Tonya Scherf said.
Witnesses called 911 and told dispatchers a woman had fallen into the river and went over the waterfall, landing downstream.
When first responders arrived, they found the woman at the bottom of the waterfall. She was able to swim to rescuers and was pulled out of the water.
Officials said she was checked out by EMS at the scene and, shockingly, did not need to be taken to the hospital, as she was uninjured.
Located in southeastern Kentucky, Cumberland Falls is 68 feet high by 125 feet wide, reaching depths of up to 400 feet at the base of the falls.
Anthony Christie, the Whitley County Emergency Management director, credits the woman’s ability to swim with saving her life.
“If she didn’t know how to swim, it probably would have been a different outcome,” Christie said.
Officials said the woman breached the security gate to get a closer look at the falls, and they are reminding visitors to stay behind the barricade for safety reasons.
Visitors who disobey safety rules can be fined. Officials did not say if the woman who went over the falls would be fined.
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WAKEFIELD, Mass. (AP) _ Franklin Street Properties Corp. (FSP) on Tuesday reported a key measure of profitability in its third quarter.
The real estate investment trust, based in Wakefield, Massachusetts, said it had funds from operations of $9 million, or 9 cents per share, in the period.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $17.2 million, or 17 cents per share.
The hybrid real estate investment trust posted revenue of $40.8 million in the period.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Americans eager to buy a home this spring, beware: It’s slim pickings out there.
The number of U.S. homes on the market is at near-historic lows, which could dim would-be buyers’ prospects for finding a house or condo and fuel competition for the most affordable properties, economists say.
As of the end of February, just as the spring homebuying season got under way, some 980,000 homes were on the market nationally, according to the National Association of Realtors.
That’s an increase of 15.3% from February last year, when the number of homes for sale sank to an all-time low.
February’s tally of homes for sale translates into a 2.6-month supply at the current sales pace, according to NAR. In a more balanced market between buyers and sellers, there is a 5- to 6-month supply.
While homebuyers will have more properties to choose from now than last spring, the low supply and sharply higher mortgage rates set the stage for a higher overall price tag for homeownership.
“Buyers are facing a tough market, both in terms of inventory availability and in terms of how that matches up to affordability,” said Hannah Jones, an economic data analyst at Realtor.com.
A big reason there are more homes for sale than a year ago: Properties are taking, on average, nearly twice as long to sell. New listings, meanwhile, were down about 16% in February from a year earlier, according to Realtor.com data.
Homebuyers have had to contend with a shrinking pool of homes for sale for much of the last decade, partly due to underbuilding of new homes since the mid-2000s housing crash and years of ultra-low mortgage rates, which give homeowners less incentive to sell after years of soaring home prices.
“Homeowners aren’t giving up their current house and low monthly payments to join a tight, expensive market,” said Skylar Olsen, chief economist for Zillow.
The last year that the monthly tally of homes on the market averaged more than 2 million was 2015, according to NAR data. That’s steadily declined, reaching 995,833 last year.
Despite the thin inventory of home listings, sales of previously occupied U.S. homes surged 14.5% last month as homebuyers seized on a modest drop in mortgage rates. Sales were down 22.6% from a year earlier, when mortgage rates were, on average, more than 2 percentage points lower. | https://www.mrt.com/business/article/slim-pickings-for-buyers-amid-near-record-low-17855673.php | 2023-03-23 12:16:25 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/business/article/slim-pickings-for-buyers-amid-near-record-low-17855673.php |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WGHP) — It’s probably not something they teach at the nation’s elite business schools: open a cafe, let people pay what they can, and give away tens of thousands of meals each year. But it’s working for Maggie Kane.
“We’ve been here for 5-and-a-half years, which is wild,” says Kane about her cafe, A Place at the Table, on Hargett Street in downtown Raleigh. “Am I surprised? I’m surprised, every single day, by just how beautiful this place is. I’m surprised that it’s worked, that it’s continued to work and I’m grateful.”
A large percentage of restaurants close, each year, even in relatively good times so, when the pandemic came and closed everything in North Carolina under government order, Maggie didn’t know what they’d do, at first.
“We actually became a serving line out here, so we just passed out meals, everything was free, we had a line upwards of 450 people, every single day,” she says. And when asked how they could afford that, she replies, “Whew! A lot of amazing people in this community.”
That’s referring to people who donate, generally, but you can also donate each time you eat there.
“We run like any normal restaurant would,” says Maggie. “You walk in and, you’ll see in a minute, it looks and feels like a normal restaurant. You wouldn’t know until you walk up to the register and you see suggested pricing, you see some folks with volunteer name tags.”
Nexstar’s WGHP visited Maggie’s project soon after it opened on Jan. 28, 2018.
“When y’all first came, we were a small café. We had maybe 100 people coming in here, every single day, right?” she says. “So, pandemic happens, we go to 400, 450 people every single day. We actually hired a security guard to come in here and really just do crowd control. With that many people, you need someone to manage it.”
They then hired a de-escalation expert to handle the crowds because so many of the people who find their only sustenance here can make it, in Maggie’s words, “A beautifully chaotic place,” at times. But to Nate Blackmon, it’s home. Nate was homeless for 5 years but found affirmation here and is doing well, now, and A Place at the Table has been key to that.
“One reason is, everyone here loves you and you can feel the love,” says Nate. “I feel good whenever I leave here. I come here just about every day – like, I woke up late this morning, had a lot of stuff to do, said well, I’m going to go by Place at the Table and still go by because I feel good the rest of the day.” | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/a-pay-what-you-can-cafe-in-north-carolina-is-thriving/ | 2023-06-11 19:19:32 | 0 | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/a-pay-what-you-can-cafe-in-north-carolina-is-thriving/ |
Expansion of services for health and life sciences companies include corporate brand strategy, scientific counsel and strategic communications
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. and ARLINGTON, Va., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deerfield Agency, one of the fastest growing independent marketing and commercialization partners for life sciences companies, today announced the acquisition of Verge Scientific Communications, a Virginia-based, brand strategy and strategic communications agency dedicated to shaping the stories of emerging and pioneering health and science-driven companies. With the addition of Verge Scientific, Deerfield Agency is expanding its services and ability to support corporate and brand marketing for pre-commercial healthcare clients, along with deepening experience in branding, strategic communication, scientific and medical communications, and storytelling.
"We are thrilled to welcome Verge Scientific as part of Deerfield Agency. The team at Verge have strong scientific and strategic expertise that will allow us to support clients earlier in their brand's lifecycle," said Frank Burrell, Managing Partner, Deerfield Agency. "The expansion of services including corporate brand strategy, corporate communications, scientific counsel and strategic communications are a great complement to our current offerings and will allow us to further serve our clients for both their corporate and product commercialization needs."
Founded in 2016, Verge Scientific has quickly become one of the leading boutique health and science communications agencies in the country serving as a trusted partner to biotech start-ups, early-stage biotech and pharmaceutical companies, health technology firms, consumer science brands and space exploration organizations. With nearly 40 people, Verge Scientific brings a full creative team, PhD scientists and seasoned communications strategists.
Recognized as a top 10 PRovoke Global Agency Fast Mover, Verge Scientific was named PRWeek's 2021 Outstanding Boutique Agency, and a finalist this year for both top Small Agency and Boutique Agency by PRWeek and PRovoke, respectively.
"It's been an incredible time for both Verge Scientific and Deerfield and we are excited to join forces. Combining with Deerfield will deepen our creative, digital and media services while allowing us to support innovator companies seamlessly as their products advance to commercialization and beyond," said Lissette Steele, Founder and Managing Partner, Verge Scientific Communications. "What's more is that both companies share in our commitment to our people and are aligned on the opportunity to focus on the growth and development of our teams and provide a path toward rewarding and fulfilling careers."
Lissette Steele and Amanda Sellers, partners and owners of Verge Scientific, will continue to lead day-to-day operations, and Verge Scientific will operate as an independent, sister company to Deerfield Agency. Both Ms. Steele and Ms. Sellers will also join the senior leadership team and become shareholders in the combined organization of Deerfield Pharma Services Holdings, LLC. Deerfield is a portfolio company of The Edgewater Funds, a Chicago-based private equity firm with over $2.8 billion of capital commitments raised since 2001.
Deerfield is a full-service agency that specializes in healthcare marketing and is founded on the principle of providing extraordinary work at an exceptional value. Deerfield has redefined the agency experience to become a true extension of your team and keep your brand at the forefront of our compelling strategy, creative, media, print, and digital innovation. Comprised of industry leaders and experts who are well versed in every stage of a brand's life cycle, our team is ready to provide you with a personalized agency experience that will meet the unique goals and objectives of your business. Deerfield has been recognized in the MM&M Top 100 Agencies for the last two consecutive years and is currently ranked 57th on the prestigious list. Since 2017, Deerfield has earned the designation as a Certified Great Place To Work® - speaking to the Company's strong culture and rewarding workplace. For more information, please visit DeerfieldAgency.com.
Verge is a strategic communications firm shaping the stories of pioneering companies and brands. Verge partners with innovator companies pushing the bounds of science, inventing new products, and advancing technologies that change the way we live. With a proven approach built on the science of storytelling, we bring clarity to the chaos, establish credibility for new ideas and build meaningful connections to strengthen a company's value story. To learn more about Verge Scientific, please visit VergeScientific.com.
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NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) — The City of New Haven launched its remote worker recruitment program Wednesday, joining a list of more than two dozen Indiana cities that have made similar moves.
The cities involved are working with MakeMyMove, a talent recruitment company, with the goal of adding more than 500 new Hoosiers and over $40 million in annual economic impact to the state.
“We’re all-in on using this support to recruit new city residents and support continued investment into these efforts statewide,” said New Haven Mayor Steven McMichael.
In April 2022, Indiana lawmakers passed a new law — Senate Enrolled Act 361 — that allows city leaders to secure funding for talent attraction and retention activities through local tax increment financing dollars.
Through the program, New Haven has a total recruitment budget of $200,000, and about half of the budget will be distributed as incentives to the remote workers.
The other half of the funds are marketing expenses and services provided by MakeMyMove.
The incentives offered will include a $5,000 relocation cost and free access to co-working space for one year.
“There’s a bunch of free agents out there looking for a new place to live, let’s bring them to New Haven,” said Mike Rutz, an employee at MakeMyMove.
With remote work becoming more popular, things like co-working spaces are becoming commonplace. Fort Wayne’s Electric Works development is another local example.
“They (remote workers) feel a lot more productive just being around other people, but not necessarily working with those people,” said Jordyn Hogan, who manages Electric Works’ co-working space. “They’re technically considered remote workers but they’re doing it in a co-working space.” | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/new-haven-becomes-latest-indiana-city-to-push-for-remote-workers/ | 2023-01-18 23:39:00 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/new-haven-becomes-latest-indiana-city-to-push-for-remote-workers/ |
WASHINGTON - Like one of the endangered species whose impending extinction it has chronicled, National Geographic magazine has been on a relentlessly downward path, struggling for vibrancy in an increasingly unforgiving ecosystem.
On Wednesday, the Washington-based magazine that has surveyed science and the natural world for 135 years reached another difficult passage when it laid off all of its last remaining staff writers.
The cutback - the latest in a series under owner Walt Disney Co. - involves some 19 editorial staffers in all, who were notified in April that these terminations were coming. Article assignments will henceforth be contracted out to freelancers or pieced together by editors. The cuts also eliminated the magazine's small audio department.
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The layoffs were the second over the past nine months, and the fourth since a series of ownership changes began in 2015. In September, Disney removed six top editors in an extraordinary reorganization of the magazine's editorial operations.
Departing staffers said Wednesday the magazine has curtailed photo contracts that enabled photographers to spend months in the field producing the publication's iconic images.
In a further cost-cutting move, copies of the famous bright-yellow-bordered print publication will no longer be sold on newsstands in the United States starting next year, the company said in an internal announcement last month.
National Geographic writer Craig Welch noted the moment in a tweet on Wednesday: "My new National Geographic just arrived, which includes my latest feature - my 16th, and my last as a senior writer. . . . I've been so lucky. I got to work w/incredible journalists and tell important, global stories. It's been an honor."
The magazine's current trajectory has been years in the making, set in motion primarily by the epochal decline of print and ascent of digital news and information. In the light-speed world of digital media, National Geographic has remained an almost artisanal product - a monthly magazine whose photos, graphics and articles were sometimes the result of months of research and reporting.
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At its peak in the late 1980s, National Geographic reached 12 million subscribers in the United States, and millions more overseas. Many of its devotees so savored its illumination of other worlds - space, the depths of the ocean, little-seen parts of the planet - that they stacked old issues into piles that cluttered attics and basements.
It remains among the most widely read magazines in America, at a time when magazines are no longer widely read. At the end of 2022, it had just under 1.8 million subscribers, according to the authoritative Alliance for Audited Media.
National Geographic was launched by Washington's National Geographic Society, a foundation formed by 33 academics, scientists and would-be adventurers, including Alexander Graham Bell. The magazine was initially sold to the public as a perk for joining the society. It grew into a stand-alone publication slowly but steadily, reaching 1 million subscribers by the 1930s.
The magazine was eventually surpassed for profits and attention by the society's video operations, including its flagship National Geographic cable channel and Nat Geo Wild, a channel focused on animals. While they produced documentaries equal in quality to the magazine's rigorous reporting, the channels - managed by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox - also aired pseudoscientific entertainment programming about UFOs and reality series like "Sharks vs. Tunas" at odds with the society's original high-minded vision.
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The magazine's place of honor continued to dim through a series of corporate reshufflings that began in 2015 when the Society agreed to form a for-profit partnership with 21st Century Fox, which took majority control in exchange for $725 million. The partnership came under the Disney banner in 2019 as part of a massive $71 billion deal between Fox and Disney.
Among those who lost their jobs in the latest layoff was Debra Adams Simmons, who only last September was promoted to vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion at National Geographic Media, the entity that oversees the magazine and website.
At the time, David Miller, executive vice president of National Geographic Media, said the magazine was "realigning key departments to help deepen engagement with our readers while also nurturing existing business models and developing new lines of revenue."
In an email to The Post on Wednesday, National Geographic spokesperson Chris Albert said staffing changes will not affect the company’s plans to continue publishing a monthly magazine “but rather give us more flexibility to tell different stories and meet our audiences where they are across our many platforms.” | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/28/arts/national-geographic-lays-off-its-last-remaining-staff-writers/ | 2023-06-28 21:56:11 | 1 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/28/arts/national-geographic-lays-off-its-last-remaining-staff-writers/ |
STOCKHOLM and MILAN, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Autoliv, Inc. (NYSE: ALV) (SSE: ALIVsdb), the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, is looking beyond the car and developing a series of products to significantly improve motorcycle safety. The concepts include the world's first motorcycle helmet with an integrated airbag for enhanced head protection in collaboration with AIROH, airbags for protective clothing, and a motorcycle airbag. The innovations will be presented at the EICMA trade fair in Milan, Italy on November 8-13, 2022.
A uniquely holistic approach to motorcycle safety Instead of focusing on one specific safety product, Autoliv Research has identified the types of severe injuries that are most frequently sustained by motorcycle riders. The injury mechanisms were then reproduced in virtual and physical testing. Based on insights derived from the tests, two sets of new safety solutions were developed: on-vehicle- and on-rider safety solutions. "To substantially reduce the number of motorcycle rider injuries and fatalities, we need to take a holistic approach where we investigate several combined countermeasures. We have always developed our products based on real world data to ensure the benefit for the end user. We intend to use the same approach to other mobility modes, like motorcycle riders, to save more lives", said Mikael Bratt, President, and CEO of Autoliv.
On-rider safety solutions
Together with Italian helmet manufacturer AIROH, Autoliv has studied and developed a concept of a motorcycle helmet with an integrated airbag. Autoliv's testing shows that the peak linear head acceleration and head injury risk in an impact can be significantly reduced by utilizing airbag technology. In addition, Autoliv is focused on improving chest and shoulder protection for motorcycle riders, primarily to protect a rider that is ejected from a motorcycle. Consequently, Autoliv is developing inflators and airbags for high-quality protective clothing such as rider jackets.
"We have always focused on the safety of those who wear our helmets, which has impacted the development of the world's first motorcycle helmet with an integrated airbag. The early discussions we had with Autoliv convinced us of the feasibility of such an ambitious concept that could revolutionize the safety of millions of motorcycle riders", said Antonio Locatelli, CEO, and founder of AIROH.
On-vehicle safety solutions
Extensive virtual simulations and crash tests have shown that an airbag in a frontal collision can reduce injury risk to head, neck, and chest. Autoliv has developed an airbag mounted on the vehicle frame which is deployed in milliseconds during a crash. Autoliv's portfolio of new safety systems for motorcycle riders will be displayed at the EICMA trade fair, which is taking place November 8-13, 2022, in Milan, Italy.
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14 things to do in SW Oregon's Illinois Valley, from swimming holes to marble caves
My family moved to the Illinois Valley in Oregon's southwest corner when I was just a few years old, where my conscious memories begin and my formative years flew by. Growing up in one of Oregon’s most lush and simultaneously rugged areas, the same valley where my mother spent her own childhood, I find myself often thinking about the river valleys and mountains of home no matter how far I travel today.
The perfect outdoor playground, the Illinois Valley has everything to offer in the realm of recreation, from hiking mountaintops to swimming in emerald pools and waterfalls or even stepping into the depths of a cave hundreds of feet below the earth’s surface. If you haven’t found your way to the magic hidden in Oregon’s southwest corner yet, I highly recommend it for folks of all ages.
For inspiration on your next outdoor itinerary, here are my top suggestions on can’t-miss destinations in the Illinois Valley. This journey ranges from Selma to just shy of the California state line and includes a variety of destinations from lush old growth forest hikes to caverns hidden beneath the earth's surface and swimming holes that will make you swear off of public pools forever.
Lake Selmac
To start this list, I have to go with a longtime valley classic, Lake Selmac, just a few miles down Lakeshore Drive in Selma. While this freshwater lake wasn’t always the happening place to be, it’s been spruced up over the last few years and is now a delightful place to relax for the sunset or try and catch a record-breaking bass. Boating rentals, camping, an adorable (and well-stocked) country store and even a disc golf course are just a few of the recreation options at Lake Selmac.
Kerby Peak Trail
Albeit steep, the Kerby Peak Trail makes up for it's difficulty with mind boggling panoramic views of the Illinois Valley, located just outside of Selma but more than 3,000 feet in elevation. Roughly 7 miles out and back, this trail is not to be taken lightly but promises sweeping views of wildflowers, ancient rock formations and just about everything else in the area.
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Crystal Kaleidoscope
OK, at the risk of breaking habit too quickly, my second stop isn’t technically an outdoor destination, but is worth the visit for any rockhound or lover of shiny things. Crystal Kaleidoscope is the largest rock shop in southern Oregon and has both an indoor and outdoor gallery to peruse to find a mineral of your liking or learn about local geology. Shop around for the perfect crystal or admire the owner’s personal collection of rare stones while taking an air-conditioned break from the heat.
Eight Dollar Mountain (Babyfoot Lake, Green Bridge, Little Falls)
Eight Dollar Mountain, just off the Redwood Highway along 8 Dollar Road, has a treasure trove of places to explore, from swimming in the refreshing pools at the Green Bridge or hiking to an intricate mapping of waterfalls and wildflowers on the Little Falls Trail. Pack the car with snacks, fill up the gas tank and spend a full day exploring the stops along this (mostly paved, but sometimes gravel) road as it travels deeper into the unique Kalimiopsis wilderness. My personal favorite venture on this road is a hike to Babyfoot Lake – right around 2.5 miles with a gentle 550 elevation gain. This out and back trail will get your steps in for the day and reward you with a gorgeous blue lake at the end.
Illinois River Road
Ah, the infamous Illinois River Road. Because of its sheer popularity and genuinely stellar swimming holes, I have to include this road on the list to be true to the valley. But, on that same note, I also have to include this disclaimer: Recreate at (and drive down in general) the Illinois River Road at your own risk and practice extreme caution in this area. The journey to all destinations on this drive are along an incredibly steep, pothole-riddled and treacherous road that is not for the meager – or the inebriated. Alcohol is not allowed anywhere along the river road, but it's not unusual to encounter a couple of drunk drivers whipping around corners that were already dangerous.
Phew. OK, now that you know what you’re getting into, if you’re still interested in traversing the Illinois River Road, I can’t stress enough that it is totally worth the trip; there are dozens of gorgeous swimming holes to cool off in after the stressful drive. Diver’s Hole, Sixmile, Store Gulch and Echo Beach are just a handful of parks along the drive to jump in, float in the sun or relax on the rocky beaches with friends.
For the hikers out there, the Illinois River Trail is hard to beat in terms of river views and was recently cleared for thru-hikes thanks to the Siskiyou Mountain Club.
Please enjoy this area responsibly and safely so the locals can continue to enjoy it with you!
Oregon Caves
Every year of school, we loaded onto a bus and took the most exciting fieldtrip of the year: venturing down, down and farther down into the chilly depths of the Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve. Even if you’ve been before, a cave tour or quick hike up to the “big tree” never disappoints, and I love to hear the story about Elijah Davidson and his sweet dog, Bruno. You’ll have to book a tour to hear the whole thing. Don’t forget to bring a jacket, as the cave is a crisp 44 degrees year-round. For folks interested in extra adventure, check out the off-trail caving tour – not suited for those with claustrophobia.
It’s A Burl
This next stop off Redwood Highway in Kerby, one of the most magical places the Illinois Valley has to offer, riddled with secret nooks and crannies and fairies and wizards watching you from the treetops. No, seriously – It’s A Burl, a woodworking yard, gallery and shop is covered in all sorts of mystical wonders, with redwood wizard faces perched in trees and flying driftwood cars hanging from the rafters of hand-crafted treehouses, each with a different story and theme. From wooden mirrors to walking sticks to full-sized furniture and a pottery studio, this gallery will keep patrons of all ages entranced for hours.
Grayback Interpretive Trail
Along Highway 46 toward the Oregon Caves is another lush gem of the valley, shortened by local slang to simply Grayback. This interpretive trail is blanketed with a variety of trees and wildflowers that make up the diverse ecosystem of the Illinois Valley, snaking along both Sucker Creek and Grayback Creek. Both are great for a quick dip or getting your toes wet, but only on the hottest of summer days, as the water in both creeks is cold enough to provide quite a shock year-round.
Forks State Park
A great local spot for swimming just south of Cave Junction, Forks State Park is a classic stop for picnics and river days. Featuring gazebos, walking trails and picnic tables, this park showcases where the east and west forks of the Illinois River collide. There are several deep pools and rope swings to enjoy the water. The latest addition to the park is a 9-hole disc golf course, which can be enjoyed year-round and is free to play.
Rough n’ Ready Botanical Wayside
Hidden at the end of a passing lane just south of the Illinois Valley Airport on Redwood Highway, this area is full of both designated trails and choose-your-own-adventure walking paths to explore the unique and ecologically diverse landscape. It’s a great spot for wildflowers in early summer or early morning hikes on a hot day. Exploration is permitted by foot traffic only, in order to protect those delicate plant and animal species. Stop and visit the Siskiyou Smokejumper Base and Museum and famous Moon Tree on the way.
Bolan Lake / Tanner Lakes
Climbing up in altitude, Bolan Lake is high above the Illinois Valley, featuring a campsite, picnic area and gorgeous mountain lake to swim in during the summer. Beautiful and often uncrowded, this lake is great for a day trip when the temperatures are skyrocketing or even a winter venture to see the icy tundra that the lake surface becomes. While worth the journey, it’s important to note the drive to Bolan Lake is best for seasoned drivers and durable vehicles, passing both steep cliffs and some rough terrain on the way up. Tanner Lakes are nearby in the Siskiyou Mountains, a collection of beautiful wild alpine lakes that can be reached with a short hike or climb up and around to the Tanner Mountain Summit.
Out n’ About Treehouse Resort
A playground perfect for children and adults who want to feel like a child again, Out n’ About Treehouse Resort – or Treesort – is a must-stop when visiting the valley. Nestled in the woods of Takilma, I spent every summer of my childhood celebrating the fourth of July at the Treehouse, swimming in their freshwater pool and dancing the night away to live music among the trees. Breathtaking treehouse designs, ziplining courses, horseback riding and guided rafting tours are just a few of the recreational opportunities at this wooded resort.
East Fork Illinois / Black Butte Trail
When driving into Cave Junction, the mountain range you can see far in the distance holds the Siskiyou Wilderness, with gems such as Raspberry Lake, Devil's Punchbowl and Clear Creek. One outstanding trail in the area is the Black Butte Trail. Following the East Fork of the Illinois River, follow signage down to the depths of the valley and enjoy dozens of stellar swimming holes and a gorgeous walk through the canyon. The trail will eventually spit you out again back in Takilma.
Lone Mountain / Historic Wimer Road
When I have to say goodbye to the valley for any period, I like to take a drive-up Lone Mountain Road and get a view of the rolling mountains and trees from a higher perspective. Once known as the Wimer Road, this gravel drive used to be the main highway for connecting the Oregon valley to the beaches of California near Crescent City. Today, you can still make the trip all the way to the ocean, stop along the creek for a quick swim or pull over at one of the many turnouts to enjoy the crisp valley views. From mountain peaks to burn scars to fish-filled streams, it’s quite the beauty to admire.
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Paulesha Green-Pulliam, the woman accused of killing two young girls in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood, pleaded not guilty to murder charges in court Friday morning.
Green-Pulliam, 34, is accused of killing a 5-year-old, identified in court records as Justice A., and a 1-year-old, identified as Paragon A.
San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Phoenix Streets confirmed Friday that Green-Pulliam was the mother of the two slain children. Streets said he requested Green-Pulliam undergo medical and psychological examinations before her next court appearance.
She faces life in prison if convicted.
On Friday, Pulliam-Green, wearing a bright orange sweatshirt, pants and shoes, sat completely still beside Streets as San Francisco Superior Court Judge Cecilia Castellanos read the charges against her.
Pulliam-Green is expected to appear in court again next week, where a judge will likely set a date for a preliminary hearing.
She will continue to be held without bail in the meantime.
Police responded to what was first described as a “suspicious death incident” on Dec. 23. According to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, the father of the girls called 911 that morning to report that the two children were unresponsive.
Medics performed lifesaving measures, but both children were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
An official cause of death was not immediately available Friday morning.
When she announced the murder charges against Green-Pulliam, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins offered her condolences to the grieving family and said her office would maintain an “unwavering commitment to... justice” while pursuing the case.
Phoenix, with the public defender’s office, stressed to reporters after the arraignment that the circumstances surrounding the deaths are still unknown.
“We really don't know what's going on or what happened. It's a very tragic situation and circumstance for everyone involved,” he said. “We’re going to find out what happened, but it's going to take a little bit of time to get through all the evidence.”
“Please reserve judgment until you have an opportunity to hear the evidence and have a truer understanding of what happened,” he added.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aaron Judge felt like he was “stuck” on 29 home runs for “a while.”
Of course, “a while” is a relative term when it comes to the New York Yankees slugger. What Judge considered a drought of sorts was in reality a span of four games.
One mighty swing put Judge back on track and helped the Yankees start the second half of their schedule with a bang.
Judge sent a laser to the seats in left field in the eighth inning for his third career grand slam — and 30th homer of the season, most in the majors — as New York drilled the Pittsburgh Pirates 16-0 on Wednesday night to split their two-game interleague set.
Aaron Hicks added a grand slam of his own an inning later on a night when the Yankees hit six home runs in all to push their team total to a major league-leading 139.
Giancarlo Stanton, Josh Donaldson, Joey Gallo and Kyle Higashioka also homered for New York to back Luis Severino.
“Games like this help guys get rolling,” Judge said. “Guys had good at-bats, put a couple of balls in the gaps and all of a sudden guys take off for a week or two or a whole month or even the rest of the season.”
It’s a zone Judge has seemingly been in since opening day. Hours after Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner admitted it may take a record contract to keep Judge from hitting free agency next winter, the outfielder looked worth every penny. He finished with three of New York’s season-high 22 hits while becoming the first Yankees player to reach the 30-homer plateau before the All-Star break twice in his career.
It’s a number that left New York manager Aaron Boone shaking his head.
“It’s hard for me to relate to that,” said Boone, who never hit more than 26 home runs in a season during his 12-year career. “So it’s been pretty impressive, whatever — halfway in here — the kind of baseball he’s playing. Obviously the power has been right there.”
Hicks cleared the bases in the ninth when he went deep against Pirates utility infielder Josh VanMeter, who was making his third relief appearance of the season.
“It feels like any one of those guys could hit a homer at any point,” VanMeter said. “You just go out there and throw strikes and whatever happens happens, really. You’re not out there competing. You’re just trying to save some pitchers’ arms and pick them up.”
Severino (5-3) allowed four hits over six dominant innings, striking out three without a walk to pick up his first victory in more than a month. The right-hander retired 12 straight and 18 of the final 20 hitters he faced after giving up a single to Ke’Bryan Hayes and a double to Bryan Reynolds to begin the bottom of the first.
The victory ended a two-game skid for New York, which began the second half of the season with the same recipe that carried the Yankees to the best record in the majors and the second-best start in franchise history through 81 games: dominant starting pitching and plenty of power.
After using some small ball to take a 2-0 lead in the fourth thanks in part to a hit-and-run and a stolen base, Donaldson and Gallo took Mitch Keller (2-6) deep twice in the span of three pitches in the sixth to break it open.
New York was just getting started, adding one in the seventh, then five in the eighth and six in the ninth to improve to 3-3 on a four-city, 10-game road trip.
“It’s tough to hold this lineup down,” Pirates manager Derek Shelton said. “You don’t see it happen very often. They score a bunch of runs and (Judge) is the catalyst for that.”
Reynolds had two of Pittsburgh’s four hits but the Pirates could muster little against Severino and three New York relievers.
Keller worked in and out of trouble over six innings, allowing four runs on a season-high 10 hits with a walk and seven strikeouts. He was long gone by the time New York overwhelmed Pittsburgh’s overtaxed bullpen.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: Held 1B Anthony Rizzo out of the lineup for a second straight game due to back stiffness. Boone indicated Rizzo would likely miss Thursday’s game in Boston, too.
Pirates: OF Greg Allen (hamstring) was scheduled to begin a rehabilitation assignment at Class A Bradenton. Allen, claimed off waivers from the Yankees last fall, hasn’t played all season.
ON THE MOVE
The Yankees reinstated reliever Miguel Castro from the restricted list and designated reliever Ryan Weber for assignment.
Pittsburgh reinstated reliever Yerry De Los Santos from the COVID-19 list. The Pirates optioned reliever Cam Vieaux to Triple-A Indianapolis and designated reliever Austin Brice for assignment.
UP NEXT
Yankees: Head to Boston for the first time this season when they begin a four-game weekend series at Fenway Park on Thursday night. Gerrit Cole (7-2, 2.99 ERA) faces Boston’s Josh Winckowski (3-2, 3.12) in the opener.
Pirates: Play a day-night doubleheader in Cincinnati on Thursday.
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CLEVELAND, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Many of the core attitudes about work have shifted since 2020, despite having held steady for a decade or more before then. These move are small, but indicate a change in how at least some Americans view work and their work-life balance:
- Fewer people admit to working most weekends, which could be due in part to the closures of retail stores and foodservice entities where workers routinely work during weekend hours.
- Fewer people say they would continue working if they won the lottery, which is possibly linked to a shift in priorities during the pandemic, as they realized that life is short and time is valuable.
- Fewer people say that juggling family and work demand is very stressful. Remote work has, for many families, allowed a level of flexibility that could make family care easier. Children returning to in-person schooling in 2021 also helped as remote schooling would have made even working from home more stressful for people with family responsibilities.
Attitudes about work vary by generation:
- Commitment to work drops off as people age, which is likely linked to older respondent groups including retired or semi-retired people. Additionally, older people are more likely to be working in jobs that were intended as supplementary income or as something to keep busy, so the growth and reward associated with career-oriented work are not there.
- The view that juggling work and family is very stressful declines with age. This is likely because respondents in Gen Z, Millennial, and Gen X groups are more likely to have children still living at home. Still, older respondents in the Baby Boomer and Older group also include people who care for grandchildren or have other family care responsibilities such as an ailing or disabled family member.
- Younger respondents are most likely to say they will continue working even if they won the lottery. These workers are less likely to have any other significant savings set aside in retirement funds. They are also more likely to have a longer expected lifespan, and either expect to keep working for personal growth, to stay busy, or to supplement their winnings in order to maintain their lifestyle for their remaining years.
- Interest in working as a team is highest among younger respondents, probably due to the fact that they are more recently removed from school, where they likely worked on group projects.
- Working on weekends is highest among younger respondents. They are not only more likely to be trying to establish themselves in their careers by putting in longer hours to reflect their commitment, but they are also more likely to be working in foodservice, retail, and other industries where weekend hours are the norm.
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President Biden’s budget proposal includes ambitious measures seeking to bring down health care costs, but the divided government poses a steep challenge to these proposals, and lawmakers have yet to indicate where they’re willing to come together.
Biden’s budget proposes increasing discretionary funding for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by $14.8 billion over 2023, raising taxes on people making more than $400,000 a year to keep Medicaid solvent, making ObamaCare tax premiums permanent and enacting a $35 cap on monthly insulin costs across the commercial market.
Republicans leaders have already stated that a tax increase is a non-starter, and GOP lawmakers have indicated a desire to cut the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax premiums that Biden is seeking to set in stone.
While Republicans have not yet released their own budget plan, which Biden has not hesitated to point out while promoting his proposal, they are expected to call for cuts in health care spending in some areas, such as the ACA and Medicaid. Programs including Medicare and Social Security have been deemed off the table, but lawmakers in the party insist that cuts are necessary to address the national debt.
With the House under GOP control, compromises will have to be made in order for the budget to pass in Congress. Democratic senators seemed optimistic on Thursday that they could come together with their Republican colleagues on a few issues.
Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) said he wasn’t aware of any measures that Republicans had expressed an openness to considering yet, but pointed to the ACA tax credits as one where he felt bipartisanship could occur.
“There’s constituents in every one of our states that benefit from these credits, and when I hear all my colleagues talk about issues that constituents are facing, every one of us is concerned about higher costs in whatever the space may be,” Luján said. “As someone that survived a stroke, I can tell you how important it is to have access to care. It’s life-saving.”
Fellow Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions member Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) signaled a degree of confidence in several issues that he felt both sides could come together on.
“I was pleased to see good solid investments on the technology on the border that can be used to stop fentanyl from coming in and that should be a place where we can work together,” Kaine said. “Some of the child care stuff, we got some good, solid [Republican] votes on that with an omni last year so there may be some possibilities there.”
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said he appreciated the effort and the amount of measures that Biden had put into his budget.
“A lot of them I disagree with. On the health care front, we’re going through them, so I don’t have a response for it yet,” said Romney.
When asked which of Biden’s health care proposals he was open to considering, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he wanted to see expansions in health savings accounts (HSA), which were not included in the president’s budget.
HSAs are savings accounts where pre-tax dollars can be contributed for later use to pay qualified medical expenses. Individuals can only contribute to HSAs if they have a high deductible health plan. In December, Paul introduced legislation that would allow more people to contribute to HSAs, regardless of if they have insurance or not, and also expand what expenses HSA contributions could go towards. | https://who13.com/hill-politics/biden-divided-congress-seek-common-ground-on-health-care-reforms/ | 2023-03-17 23:48:00 | 1 | https://who13.com/hill-politics/biden-divided-congress-seek-common-ground-on-health-care-reforms/ |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A man was arrested and charged with murder in Raleigh Friday.
Raleigh police responded to calls about a serious assault at 3:59 p.m. in the 7000 block of Longstreet Drive. According to police, the assault happened in a private home, but evidence led to a nearby greenway.
The greenway was closed for a few hours during the investigation.
Police arrested Christopher Scott, 27, in connection with the assault. he is being charged with the murder of Shakeem Smith, 26, police said.
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Which heated travel blankets are best?
With all the cheer of the holidays and the refreshing feeling of a brand new year around the corner, it’s easy to forget about the uncomfortable necessities of the holidays. Among the worst necessities is the dreaded holiday travel. From impatient drivers to dangerous winter conditions, accidents can happen at any time. Or everything can go perfectly, except for the cold. Whether you want to be prepared for the worst or just want to stay warm on the road, consider a heated travel blanket.
In this article: Eddie Bauer Heated Travel Blanket, Magiona Heated Travel Blanket and Stalwart Heated Travel Blanket
Power source
Heated travel blankets typically have one of three power sources, though a handful may have two or all three. They include:
- Car plug: Otherwise known as a 12-volt plug, this is the most common power source for heated travel blankets, as they’re most often made for use in your car. It’s the same plug that cigarette lighters used to use. Most cars have at least one of these plugs, but a few don’t, so triple-check that your car has one before buying. Additionally, you also need to know how much power one of these blankets draws from your car battery. Most are low-amperage, meaning they draw little power, so they can be used in a car that’s turned off without risk of draining the battery to the point that it won’t start again. If your blanket is mid- to high-amperage, only use it in a car that’s turned on.
- USB: An alternative that’s more modern is having a USB cord for power. These can be plugged into anything if you have the right adapter, making them among the best for those traveling with every type of vehicle.
- Battery: An onboard battery is the next most common power source. These can be charged to give you warmth anywhere, but they’re usually expensive and the battery only lasts for so long and can only provide so much warmth.
- Wall plug: This is the standard power source for non-travel heated blankets. These options exist but are chiefly meant for air travel rather than car travel.
Temperature
When it comes to the temperature of a heated travel blanket, there are two aspects to consider:
- Range: The temperature range of a heated travel blanket covers just how much heat it can provide. Travel blankets typically provide less heat than standard heated blankets as their power source, a car battery, is usually less powerful.
- Settings: Some heated travel blankets have several heat settings you can choose from, though this usually just means low and high with the occasional medium setting also being available.
Other aspects to consider
Smaller considerations that can help you break a tie if you’re torn between a few options include:
- Cord length: The average cord length for a heated travel blanket is roughly 6 feet. Some of the better blankets have 7- or 8-foot cords.
- Indicator light: A great way to tell if your blanket is working properly is if it has indicator lights. Otherwise, you might wait around for 30 minutes only to find it wasn’t heating at all.
- Timer: This feature is good for many things, but primarily for avoiding draining your car battery or overheating while you sleep.
- Auto shut-off: This feature generally gets rolled into the timer feature. It can also exist separately though, in cases where it’s used for safety, such as for overheating prevention.
Cost
Most heated travel blankets cost $30 or less. Better blankets, whether it be because of higher temperatures, better features and extra settings, can cost up to $60. A handful of unique versions can cost $100-plus.
Best heated travel blankets
Car Cozy Heated Travel Blanket
This blanket uses a 12-volt plug and is made of polyester fleece. It has a safety timer and automatic shut-off. It measures 58 by 42 inches, big enough for two in a backseat.
Sold by Amazon
Eddie Bauer Heated Travel Blanket
This blanket uses a battery for heat anywhere, and even has five heat settings and can be set to turn off after two, three or four hours. It measures 40 by 50 inches and comes in nine styles.
Sold by Amazon
This blanket has three heat settings and uses a USB cord for power. It can even run off of a standard power bank and comes with a travel bag. It measures 58 by 38 inches.
Sold by Amazon
Great Working Tools Heated Travel Blanket
This blanket has three heat settings and three timer settings to shut off after 30, 45 or 60 minutes. It measures 55 by 40 inches and comes in three styles.
Sold by Amazon
This blanket is machine-washable and all you have to do is take off the heating controller before it is washed and dried. It measures 55 by 40 inches and comes in two styles.
Sold by Amazon
Motor Trend Heated Travel Blanket
This blanket has an extra-long cable of 78 inches, so it can comfortably reach anyone in your car. It measures 58 by 42 inches and comes in two styles.
Sold by Amazon
This blanket uses a USB cord for power and comes with a travel bag. It has three heat settings, with its highest reaching 100 degrees. It measures 57 by 37 inches.
Sold by Amazon
This blanket has a high and low heat setting and automatically shuts off after 45 minutes. The power cord is 72 inches long and it measures 57 by 40 inches.
Sold by Amazon
Stalwart Heated Travel Blanket
This blanket is one of the largest, measuring 59 by 43 inches, plus it has one of the longest cords at 96 inches. It can’t be machine-washed, though, and uses only a 12-volt plug.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Zonetech Heated Travel Blanket
This blanket comes with both a 12-volt plug and a wall outlet adapter so you can use it almost anywhere. It measures 59 by 43 inches and comes with a travel bag.
Sold by Amazon
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Eugene Lee, award-winning Broadway, ‘SNL’ set designer, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Eugene Lee, the six-time Emmy Award-winning production designer for “Saturday Night Live” who won three Tony Awards for his Broadway sets, including the complicated, greenified Emerald City of “Wicked,” has died. He was 83.
Lee died Tuesday in Providence, Rhode Island, said Trinity Repertory Company, where he had been a resident artist since 1967 and designed sets for more than 100 productions.
“Eugene Lee was a once-in-a-generation theater artist, one of the greatest minds to ever answer the question ‘What is theater?’” artistic director Curt Columbus said in a statement.
His numerous Broadway productions include the original Stephen Sondheim musicals “Sweeney Todd” in 1979 and “Merrily We Roll Along” in 1981, “Seussical” in 2001, the “Show Boat” revival of 1994-1997 and, more recently, “Amazing Grace” and “Bright Star.”
His work for the Broadway stage varied from building a seedy Chinese restaurant for David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” to spare, interlocking wood frames for “The Other Place.” His most imaginative work can be seen today in “Wicked,” complete with a smoke-breathing dragon, a giant fantasy clock and a bubble-blowing pendulum that carries a witch.
Lee designed the big clock, based on a mention in the Gregory Maguire novel, and defined his vision by creating a series of moving panels of gears and cog wheels that became the central image for the set. Cued to the music and lighting by computers, the panels and the wheels seem in constant motion during transitions from one song and scene to the next, rolling and sliding along the floor in grooves disguised by clouds of smoke. The clock image envelops all the characters in the Oz story.
During a set visit in 2004, Lee smiled often when he talked about this project.
“Where else can you build a dragon?” he asked.
Lee was the production designer on “Saturday Night Live” from the show’s premiere until his death. He also led the production design for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and the 2000 television movie “On Golden Pond,” among others. For his work in TV production design, Lee was nominated for 18 Emmys, winning six.
“His contribution to the arts and our culture, at both a local and national level, is massive and he will forever be remembered as one of the giants of the field,” said Lee’s longtime co-designer and assistant Patrick Lynch at Trinity.
Lee is survived by his wife, Brooke, and their two sons.
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Securities Litigation Partner James (Josh) Wilson Encourages Investors Who Suffered Losses Exceeding $100,000 In Silvergate To Contact Him Directly To Discuss Their Options
NEW YORK, Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential claims against Silvergate Capital Corporation ("Silvergate" or the "Company") (NYSE: SI) and reminds investors of the February 6, 2023 deadline to seek the role of lead plaintiff in a federal securities class action that has been filed against the Company.
If you suffered losses exceeding $100,000 investing in Silvergate stock or options between November 9, 2021 and November 17, 2022 and would like to discuss your legal rights, call Faruqi & Faruqi partner Josh Wilson directly at 877-247-4292 or 212-983-9330 (Ext. 1310). You may also click here for additional information: www.faruqilaw.com/SI.
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The complaint filed in this class action alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that the Company's platform lacked sufficient controls and procedures to detect instances of money laundering; (2) that Silvergate's customers had engaged in money laundering in amounts exceeding $425 million; (3) that, as a result of the foregoing, the Company was reasonably likely to receive regulatory scrutiny and face damages, including penalties and reputational harm; and (4) that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendant's positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
On November 15, 2022, Marcus Aurelius Research tweeted that "Recently subpoenaed Silvergate bank records reveal $425 million in transfers from $SI crypto bank accounts to South American money launderers. Affadavit from investigation into crypto crime ring linked to smugglers/drug traffickers."
On this news, the Company's Class A common stock price fell $6.13, or 17%, to close at $29.36 per share on November 15, 2022, on unusually heavy trading volume.
On November 17, 2022, The Bear Cave newsletter released an article about several companies with potential exposure to recently collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, including Silvergate. The article highlighted the connection linking Silvergate to a money laundering operation that transferred $425 million off cryptocurrency trading platforms.
On this news, the Company's Class A common stock price fell $3.00, or 10.7%, to close at $24.90 per share on November 18, 2022, on unusually heavy trading volume.
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A look at what’s happening around the majors Monday:
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DEADLINE WATCH
It’s nearing times for best-and-last offers for clubs trying to land starts Juan Soto, Willson Contreras and J.D. Martinez ahead of Tuesday’s 6 p.m. ET trade deadline.
Soto is the biggest name on the block, with Washington considering bids for the 23-year-old slugger after he turned down a $440 million, 15-year deal to stay with the team. Soto can be a free agenty after 2024, and the St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers are considered to be among the clubs most likely to convince Nationals GM Mike Rizzo to unload his franchise cornerstone.
Contreras, Martinez and Josh Bell lead the list of likely available hitters, while Oakland’s Frankie Montas is likely the top starter available from a pool that also includes Giants left-hander Carlos Rodón, Marlins right-hander Pablo López and Red Sox righty Nathan Eovaldi.
SCHERZER VS. CORBIN AS PRELUDE TO DEGROM
Max Scherzer (6-2, 2.09 ERA) makes his second start at Nationals Park since Washington traded him last year, opening a three-game series for the New York Mets.
Scherzer, 92-47 in seven seasons with the Nationals, won at Washington on April 8 by allowing three runs and three hits over six innings. The three-time Cy Young Award winner is 1-1 with a 1.39 ERA in five starts since returning from a trip to the injured list caused by a strained oblique muscle.
Washington left-hander Patrick Corbin (4-14, 6.49) leads the major leagues in losses and his ERA is the highest among 63 qualified pitchers.
Mets co-ace Jacob deGrom is to make his season debut on Tuesday. The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner has not pitched for the Mets since July 7, 2021.
ON THE MEND
In the span of four days, Mike Trout went from his career in peril to possibly picking up a bat by the end of next week.
The Los Angeles Angels star visited Thursday with Dr. Robert Watkins, a back specialist and co-director of the Marina Spine Clinic in Los Angeles. Trout is slated to begin rotational exercises on Wednesday and could return to swinging a bat shortly after that.
“It went from my career is over to now hopefully I’m going to play here soon,” Trout said with a laugh.
Trout’s future appeared uncertain when athetic trainer Mike Forstad said before Wednesday’s game in Kansas City that the three-time AL MVP had a rare spinal condition, and that it was an issue Trout could have to “manage not just through the rest of this season.”
“I think that’s what Frosty was initially getting at — keeping a routine so that it doesn’t come back,” Trout said. “Once you let it settle down, get the inflammation out of there and build the muscles up around, it’ll be good.”
WEBB VS. DODGERS
San Francisco’s Logan Webb is 1-2 in seven career starts against the Los Angeles Dodgers going into Monday’s outing at Oracle Park despite a 3.28 ERA. Webb has held Los Angeles to a .219 batting average, allowing two homers in 35 2/3 innings. Andrew Heaney, 1-0 with a 0.47 ERA in four starts, will be on the mound for Los Angeles.
SLUMPING GREENE
Cincinnati’s Hunter Greene (3-12, 5.59) starts at Miami on Sunday and is 0-5 in eight starts since beating Arizona on June 6. The Reds went 14-12 in July, improving to 40-61 and moving out of last place in the National League Central.
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany's main opposition party has called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to explain his role in a large-scale tax evasion scam while he was mayor of Hamburg.
Scholz has been dogged by questions about meetings he had with private bank M.M. Warburg in 2016 and 2017. Hamburg officials later dropped demands for the bank to repay millions of euros in tax refunds it had wrongly claimed for share trades.
Dozens of bankers are being investigated in connection with so-called cum-ex share transactions that are said to have cost the German state billions.
Scholz has denied wrongdoing and claimed not to recall details of his meetings with Warburg. But Thorsten Frei, a leading lawmaker with the center-right Christian Democrats, said recent revelations about 200,000 euros in cash being found in a safe belonging to a close party associate of Scholz raise further questions about the cum-ex affair.
“Olaf Scholz needs to explain himself," Frei said in an interview published Thursday by German media group RND.
The chancellor is holding his first annual summer news conference in Berlin on Thursday, during which the issue is likely to feature prominently.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Swiss watchmaker Swatch said Tuesday that Malaysian authorities raided its stores and confiscated 164 watches from its Pride Collection.
It said Ministry of Home Affairs officials raided its outlets in various malls across Malaysia on May 13 and 14 and seized the watches because they "bore LGBT connotations.”
The watches come in a choice of six colors, matching those on the gay pride flag, and have two rainbow loops on their straps.
“We strongly contest that our collection of watches using rainbow colors and having a message of peace and love could be harmful for whomever,” Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek Jr. said in a statement.
“On the contrary, Swatch always promotes a positive message of joy in life. This is nothing political. We wonder how the Regulatory and Enforcement Division of the Home Ministry will confiscate the many beautiful natural rainbows that are showing up a thousand times a year in the sky of Malaysia,” he said.
Predominantly Muslim Malaysia criminalizes same-sex relationships, with punishments ranging from caning under Islamic laws to 20 years in prison for sodomy under colonial-era civil laws. The opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party recently criticized a scheduled concert in November by British band Coldplay because of its support of the LGBT movement.
Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution told the AP that he is waiting for a full report on the matter before issuing a statement.
Swatch said it has resumed selling the Pride Collection watches and that its legal department is looking into the seizure.
Gay rights group Jejaka slammed the confiscation of the watches, saying it showed “a deeply unsettling level of intolerance.”
"It is more than a matter of colorful watches. It’s about respect for diversity, freedom of expression, and, most importantly, love,” it said in a statement. It urged the government to promote a culture of acceptance and understanding rather than repression and discrimination. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/malaysia-raids-swatch-stores-seizes-colorful-18113956.php | 2023-05-23 11:44:30 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/malaysia-raids-swatch-stores-seizes-colorful-18113956.php |
Kari Lake doesn’t commit to accepting Arizona election result if she loses
By Kate Sullivan, CNN
Arizona Republican Kari Lake would not commit Sunday to accepting the results of her upcoming election for governor if she loses.
“I’m going to win the election, and I will accept that result,” the GOP nominee told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” after being asked three times whether she would accept the election’s outcome. Lake dodged the question the first two times.
“If you lose, will you accept that?” Bash asked, to which Lake replied again: “I’m going to win the election, and I will accept that result.”
Lake, who has the backing of former President Donald Trump, has repeatedly promoted his false claims about the 2020 election. A former news anchor at a local Fox station in Phoenix, she has said that she would not have certified President Joe Biden‘s 2020 victory in Arizona, repeatedly calling the election “stolen” and “corrupt.” She said Sunday that the “real issue” is that “the people don’t trust our elections.”
Lake is currently in a close race with her Democratic opponent, Katie Hobbs, who currently serves as Arizona’s secretary of state. Hobbs’ national profile rose in the aftermath of the 2020 election amid Republican efforts to sow doubt over the presidential result in Arizona.
In a separate appearance on “State of the Union” on Sunday, directly following Lake’s interview, Hobbs said Lake’s refusal to say whether she would accept the results of their election was “disqualifying.”
“This is somebody who will have a level of authority over our state’s elections, the ability to sign new legislation into law, the responsibility of certifying future elections. And she has not only, as you heard, refused to say if she will accept the results of this election, but also whether or not she would certify the 2024 presidential election if she’s governor,” Hobbs said.
She continued, “This is disqualifying. This is a basic core of our democracy.”
Hobbs on Sunday defended her refusal to debate Lake in the gubernatorial election, saying the Republican was “only interested in creating a spectacle.” Hobbs said she believed Arizonans would not base their voting decision on whether or not there was a debate between the two candidates.
Lake had earlier slammed Hobbs’ decision not to engage in a debate, accusing her opponent of “cowardice.”
Bash pressed Hobbs on her stance on abortion rights, and the Democrat declined to specify what, if any, restrictions she would support in an abortion law.
“So just to be clear, if you become governor, you will push for a law that has absolutely no limits in any point of the pregnancy on abortion? That’s your position? That’s what you would want to be the law of the land in Arizona?” Bash asked.
Hobbs responded: “The fact is right now that we have very limited options and that we need to get politicians out of the way and let doctors provide the care that they are trained to provide, the health care that their patients need. Politicians don’t belong in those decisions.”
An Arizona appeals court earlier this month temporarily blocked the enforcement of a ban on nearly all abortions across the state. The ruling temporarily allows health care providers to perform abortions up to 15 weeks of pregnancy until Planned Parenthood Arizona’s appeal is resolved.
Abortion has been a key issue in this year’s midterm elections following the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn of Roe v. Wade that held there was no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion. A recent survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that about half of US registered voters said they were more motivated to vote in the midterm elections because of the high court’s abortion ruling.
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BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers considered Wednesday whether to create the country’s first “citizen assembly’” to advise parliament on the issue of food and nutrition.
Germany’s three governing parties back the idea of appointing consultative bodies made up of members of the public selected through a lottery system who would discuss specific topics and provide nonbinding feedback to legislators. But opposition parties have rejected the idea, warning that such citizen assemblies risk undermining the primacy of parliament in Germany’s political system.
Baerbel Bas, the speaker of the lower house, or Bundestag, said that she views such bodies as a “bridge between citizens and politicians that can provide a fresh perspective and create new confidence in established institutions.”
“Everyone should be able to have a say,” Bas told daily Passauer Neue Presse. “We want to better reflect the diversity in our society.”
Environmental activists from the group Last Generation have campaigned for the creation of a citizen assembly to address issues surrounding climate change. However, the group argues that proposals drawn up by such a body should at the very least result in bills that lawmakers would then vote on.
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Annual list recognizes excellence in clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, patient experience, and financial health
TAMPA, Fla., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tampa General Hospital is the only Major Teaching Hospital in Florida – and one of only 15 in the country – to be named to the 2022 Fortune/Merative (formerly IBM Watson Health) 100 Top Hospitals® list.
Tampa General was not only ranked among the top 15 Major Teaching Hospitals nationally, but it was also one of 25 hospitals selected by Fortune/Merative to receive the 2022 Everest Award, which honors hospitals that have demonstrated both the highest current performance and the fastest long-term improvement.
The Everest Award recognizes the boards, executives and medical staff leaders at hospitals who developed and executed the strategies that drove the highest rates of improvement, resulting in the highest performance in the U.S. at the end of five years.
"We are proud of this recognition, as it not only reflects our team members' and physicians' commitment to patient safety, experience and clinical outcomes, but also emphasizes Tampa General's focus on designing the future of healthcare," said John Couris, Tampa General's President and CEO. "We are committed to enhancing the quality of healthcare while making it more accessible and affordable to everyone. As a leading academic medical center in the United States, we are also committed to providing world class training to the next generation of doctors, nurses, and specialists, as well as transforming the way our hospital operates to provide better care for our patients in the future."
Merative, a data, analytics and technology partner for the health industry, identified the nation's top hospitals through a rigorous evaluation of 2,650 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals in the U.S. This recognition highlights Tampa General's ongoing commitment to prioritizing patient-centered care and is based on its results of key clinical and operational performance indicators. These include survival rates, patient complications, healthcare associated infections, 30-day mortality and 30-day hospital-wide readmission rates, length of stay, throughput in emergency departments, inpatient expenses, profitability and ratings from patients.
The Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list also incorporates a community health measure into its ranking process. For this measure, hospitals were surveyed across three components: 1) assessing hospital contributions to community health as a provider of critical services for community health and preventive care; 2) identifying ways that hospitals contribute to community health as a community partner teaming up with local organizations to implement critical programs; and 3) focusing on ways that hospitals promote community health through their practices as anchor institutions supporting local economic and social progress. The community health measure is weighted equally with other ranking measures.
Tampa General recently activated a major, multi-year community health and wellness initiative, TampaWell, in partnership with the City of Tampa. TampaWell is focused on engaging the entire community in preventative health efforts and creating a unique and holistic wellness ecosystem for residents. The partnership will focus on three initiatives in 2022 – routinely prescribing exercise and healthy food as medicine, enhancing fitness trails and parks in the downtown and adjacent areas, and developing a community garden and food pantry in East Tampa. Tampa General is dedicated to empowering communities and transforming lives, and TampaWell is an embodiment of that.
Tampa General is affiliated with the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and serves as the primary teaching hospital for the university. Over 300 residents and fellows are assigned to Tampa General for specialty training in areas ranging from general internal medicine to neurosurgery.
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Tampa General Hospital, a 1,041-bed, not-for-profit, academic medical center, is one of the largest hospitals in America and delivers world-class care as the region's only center for Level l trauma and comprehensive burn care. Tampa General Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in the market in U.S. News & World Report's 2021-22 Best Hospitals, and one of the top four hospitals in Florida, with five specialties ranking among the best programs in the United States. Tampa General Hospital has been designated as a model of excellence by the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list. The academic medical center's commitment to growing and developing its team members is recognized by two prestigious 2021 Forbes magazine rankings – America's Best Employers by State, third out of 100 Florida companies and first among health care and social organizations, and 13th nationally in America's Best Employers for Women. Tampa General is the safety net hospital for the region, caring for everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and in fiscal year 2020, provided a net community benefit worth more than $182.5 million in the form of health care for underinsured patients, community education, and financial support to community health organizations in Tampa Bay. It is one of the nation's busiest adult solid organ transplant centers and is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. With six medical helicopters, Tampa General Hospital transports critically injured or ill patients from 23 surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. Tampa General houses a nationally accredited comprehensive stroke center, and its 32-bed Neuroscience, Intensive Care Unit is the largest on the West Coast of Florida. It also is home to the Jennifer Leigh Muma 82-bed Level IV neonatal intensive care unit, and a nationally accredited rehabilitation center. Tampa General Hospital's footprint includes 17 Tampa General Medical Group Primary Care offices, TGH Family Care Center Kennedy, TGH Brandon Healthplex, TGH Virtual Health, and 19 outpatient Radiology Centers. Tampa Bay area residents also receive world-class care from the TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track network of clinics, and they can even receive home visits in select areas through TGH Urgent Care at Home, powered by Fast Track. As one of the largest hospitals in the country, Tampa General Hospital is the first in Florida to partner with GE Healthcare and open a clinical command center that uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to improve and better coordinate patient care at a lower cost. For more information, go to www.tgh.org.
The Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list is determined using independent and objective research to analyze hospital performance. Organizations do not apply or pay for this honor or pay to promote their award. Award-winning hospitals serve as a model of excellence for the industry.
Merative is a data, analytics and technology partner for the health industry, including providers, payers, life sciences companies and governments. With trusted technology and human expertise, the company works with clients to drive real progress. Merative helps clients orient information and insights around the people they serve to improve healthcare delivery, decision making and performance. Formerly IBM Watson Health, Merative became a new standalone company as part of Francisco Partners in 2022. Learn more at www.merative.com.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man convicted of selling firearms while he was an N.C. State Highway Patrol trooper has been sentenced to three years in prison, federal officials said.
Timothy Jay Norman, 47, of Browns Summit, was sentenced on Thursday, U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Hairston said in a news release. Norman pleaded guilty in March, the news release said. Norman also was ordered to pay a $15,000 fine and will face three years of supervised release after his prison sentence.
Court documents said that beginning in January 2021, the FBI learned that Norman was selling firearms while he was a trooper. Prosecutors said he sold one weapon to a convicted felon.
In May 2021, law enforcement used a confidential source to buy a decommissioned semi-automatic pistol with the patrol's badge engraved on it. The next month, another confidential source bought multiple items, including a 12-gauge shotgun and an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle from Norman's home.
Later in June 2021, law enforcement says Norman sold a semi-automatic pistol from his patrol car to a source. In July, investigators using a search warrant at Norman’s home seized thousands of rounds of ammunition and over 50 firearms, as well as two guns inside his patrol car. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Ex-North-Carolina-trooper-sentenced-for-selling-17217124.php | 2022-06-03 13:20:41 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Ex-North-Carolina-trooper-sentenced-for-selling-17217124.php |
More lawsuits have been filed against Northwestern University accusing the school of ignoring hazing incidents in its football program and other sports programs.
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More lawsuits have been filed against Northwestern University accusing the school of ignoring hazing incidents in its football program and other sports programs.
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DETROIT, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC; Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C.; Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios LLP; and Spector Roseman & Kodroff, P.C. as Class Counsel for the proposed TK Holdings Settlement Class ("Settlement Class Counsel") announce that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division ("Court") has approved the following announcement of a proposed class action settlement with Joseph J. Farnan, Jr., solely as Trustee of the Reorganized TK Holdings Trust (the "TK Holdings Trustee"). The lawsuit claims that Defendants conspired to raise, fix, maintain, and stabilize prices, rig bids, and allocate markets and customers for Occupant Safety Systems sold in the United States in violation of federal antitrust laws.
Plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and the TK Holdings Settlement Class, entered into a settlement agreement with the TK Holdings Trustee, which allows Plaintiffs' claim as a general unsecured, non-priority claim in the amount of $84,000,000 under the TK Holdings Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Reorganization Plan.
The settlement affects direct purchasers of Occupant Safety Systems in the United States from any of the following entities (or their controlled subsidiaries, affiliates, or joint ventures) during the period from January 1, 2003 through June 25, 2017: Autoliv Inc.; Autoliv SP Inc.; Autoliv BV & Co. KG; Autoliv Japan Ltd.; Takata Corp.; TK Holdings Inc.; Tokai Rika; TRAM Inc.; TRW Automotive Holdings Corp.; TRW Deutschland Holding GmbH; Toyoda Gosei Co Ltd.; Toyoda Gosei North America Corp.; and TG Missouri Corp.
A hearing will be held on September 15, 2022, at 2:00 p.m., before the Honorable Sean F. Cox, United States District Judge, at the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, 231 West Lafayette Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48226, Courtroom 817 (or such other courtroom as may be assigned for the hearing), to determine whether to approve the proposed settlement and the proposed plan of distribution of the TK Holdings Settlement Fund.
A Notice of Proposed Settlement and Claim Form (the "Notice") was mailed to potential Settlement Class members on or about June 20, 2022. The Notice describes the litigation and options available to Settlement Class members with respect to the TK Holdings settlement in more detail. The Notice also explains what steps a Class Member must take to: (1) remain in the Settlement Class and share in the settlement proceeds; (2) object to the proposed settlement; or (3) request exclusion from the Settlement Class. The Notice and other important documents related to the settlement can be accessed at www.AutoPartsAntitrustLitigation.com/OSS, or by calling 877-797-6093 or writing to Occupant Safety Systems Direct Purchaser Antitrust Litigation, P.O. Box 5110, Portland, OR 97208-5110. Those who believe they may be a member of the TK Holdings Settlement Class, are urged to obtain a copy of the Notice.
SOURCE: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division
URL: www.AutoPartsAntitrustLitigation.com/OSS
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LONDON (AP) — King Charles III hasn’t even been crowned yet, but his name is already etched on the walls of Hill House School in London.
A wooden slab just inside the front door records Nov. 7, 1956, as the day the future king enrolled at Hill House, alongside other notable dates in the school’s 72-year history. There is a photograph of staff welcoming the then Prince Charles on his first day of school, and another of the 7-year-old boy getting into a Ford Zephyr with his bodyguard for the short trip back to Buckingham Palace.
To say Hill House is proud of its royal connection as Charles prepares for the coronation ceremony on May 6 would be an understatement.
“It’s just so fun to think the king went to our school,” said 11-year-old Lola Stewart. “Like, he’s worn our uniform. He’s probably been in this room. It’s just very exciting knowing that.”
Charles, the first U.K. monarch to be educated outside the palace walls, began his school career at Hill House, although he spent less than a year there before moving on to Cheam, an elite boarding school in the countryside west of London. Hill House, a family-run primary school in London’s tony Knightsbridge neighborhood is just a stone’s throw from the luxury department store Harrods and a short drive from Buckingham Palace.
But the future king was treated like anyone else, wearing the school uniform with a burnished gold jumper and walking through the streets to the nearby sports field without a bodyguard, though the headmaster’s wife was nearby.
Blessed with anonymity, Charles flourished, said Richard Townend, the son of the school’s founder who attended Hill House at the same time, though he was a few years older. The school focused — and still does — on giving students a broad range of experiences in sport, art, music and drama, alongside more academic pursuits.
Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, made a “leap of faith” when they enrolled Charles at Hill House because until then royal children had been educated by tutors, Townend said.
“My father was summoned to tea with the queen in Buckingham Palace. So, of course, he went and met with the queen and she grilled him as I understand it,” he said. “And at the end she said, ‘I think this is the right school for Charles to go to.’ It was a simple as that.”
But why Hill House?
“I think it was just the general wackiness of the place,” said Townend, whose family still operates the school, which costs up to 19,800 pounds ($24,575) a year.
The main school, housed in a three-story red brick building, is something of a living monument to the traditions of English private schools — Harry Potter without robes and broomsticks.
The walls are plastered with huge wooden plaques engraved with the names of head boys and girls and winners of contests. Old wooden skis and a racing oar frame the door to the music room. An Olympic flag hangs in the entryway, a souvenir of Townend’s father’s work on the 1948 London Games.
All pupils learn to swim. Music and art are stressed. French lessons begin in the first year of school, known as reception.
Townend’s father — remembered throughout the school as Col. Townend — founded Hill House in 1951 to provide an English education to the children of London’s burgeoning international community. After serving in the army during World War II, he believed that bringing children from many countries together at a young age was the path to peace, Townend said.
“This was his great passion,” he said. “He wanted to have this international school in which all the children would mix with each other and understand that though children are different, they are all basically the same, they’re all similar, and in this way build a more peaceful world.”
But it is also an unapologetically English school.
When the school choir, which includes children from Azerbaijan, Japan and Finland as well as Britain, was asked to sing the patriotic hymn “Jerusalem,” the kids belted it out. They didn’t need a sheet with the words.
“And did those feet in ancient times Walk upon England’s mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen,’’ they sang with gusto.
Townend himself looked horrified when asked if the U.K., a multicultural, multiethnic nation of 67 million, still needs a monarchy in the 21st century.
“Absolutely,’’ he said. “Can you imagine if we had a president like you had in America recently or in some of the other countries? No. You need a figurehead who is above politics, who is a focus for all sorts of enthusiasms.”
The kids, too, are anxiously awaiting the coronation — particularly the big moment when the crown is placed on Charles’ head.
“I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone all together — all the country celebrating and watching it or going to see it … and seeing the country unify because of such an important event,” said James Harris, 13. “It’s a really important symbol of our country.’’
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Dodgers vs. White Sox Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - June 14
Wednesday's game that pits the Los Angeles Dodgers (38-29) versus the Chicago White Sox (29-39) at Dodger Stadium has a projected final score of 5-3 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of the Dodgers, who is a slight favorite in this matchup according to our model. Game time is at 10:10 PM on June 14.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Dodgers will send Clayton Kershaw (8-4) to the mound, while Mike Clevinger (3-4) will take the ball for the White Sox.
Dodgers vs. White Sox Game Info & Odds
- When: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 10:10 PM ET
- Where: Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Dodgers vs. White Sox Score Prediction
Our pick for this contest is Dodgers 5, White Sox 3.
Total Prediction for Dodgers vs. White Sox
- Total Prediction: Over 8 runs
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Dodgers Performance Insights
- The Dodgers have played as the favorite in nine of their past 10 games and won four of those contests.
- Los Angeles and its opponents have combined to hit the over three times in its last 10 games with a total.
- The Dodgers have two wins against the spread in their last four chances.
- This season, the Dodgers have won 33 out of the 55 games, or 60%, in which they've been favored.
- Los Angeles has entered three games this season favored by -275 or more, and won each of those games.
- Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Dodgers have a 73.3% chance to win.
- Los Angeles has scored the third-most runs in the majors this season with 372.
- The Dodgers' 4.45 team ERA ranks 19th among all league pitching staffs.
White Sox Performance Insights
- In four games as the underdog over the last 10 matchups, the White Sox have a record of 2-2.
- When it comes to the over/under, Chicago and its opponents are 2-8-0 in its previous 10 games.
- The White Sox have had a spread listed in two of their past 10 matchups and have covered every time.
- The White Sox have come away with 11 wins in the 37 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- This will be the worst odds to win that sportsbooks have placed on Chicago this season with a +225 moneyline set for this game.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the White Sox have a 30.8% chance of coming away with a victory in the contest.
- Chicago scores the 22nd-most runs in baseball (280 total, 4.1 per game).
- White Sox pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.59 ERA this year, which ranks 23rd in MLB.
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Company delivers on its commitment to product innovation with biggest and longest-term loan product to date.
ATLANTA, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - IOU FINANCIAL INC. ("IOU" or "the Company") (TSXV: IOU), a leading online lender to small businesses (IOUFinancial.com), announced today the introduction of its new Premier PLUS term loan product for small businesses, with terms of 36 months and loan amounts ranging from US$500K to US$1.5M.
"Small business needs are growing, and IOU is thrilled to introduce our biggest and longest-term loan to date," said Robert Gloer, President and CEO. "Being able to access up to US$1.5 million within 24 hours of completing an application can be a powerful option for quickly financing growth strategies."
IOU's Premier PLUS term loan is available to businesses that have been in operation for at least 5 years and rewards those with high credit scores. Available to qualified new and returning clients, the Premier PLUS term loan is designed to provide small business owners with easy access to larger loan amounts and payments spread out over 36 monthly instalments.
Premier PLUS is the latest instalment in IOU's commitment to deliver innovative new term loan products designed to help broker partners fulfill an expanding range of business funding needs. In 2021, the Company extended its product range with a 24-month term loan and the industry-first Cash-Back Loan, a unique term loan product for small businesses that encourages and rewards perfect payment histories with a cash reward of 3% of the original loan amount.
Product innovation is a cornerstone of the Company's Post-Pandemic Growth Plan, for which it was awarded a Silver Stevie® at the American Business Awards®.
IOU broker network partners can find out whether their clients qualify for the Premier PLUS term loan by contacting their IOU Financial Account Executive. Small business owners can find a broker, and independent brokers can apply to join IOU Financial's broker network, by visiting www.IOUFinancial.com.
About IOU Financial Inc.
IOU Financial Inc. is a wholesale lender that provides quick and easy access to growth capital to small businesses through a network of preferred brokers across the US and Canada. Built on its proprietary IOU360 technology platform that connects underwriters, merchants and brokers in real time, IOU Financial has become a trusted alternative to banks by originating over US$1 billion in loans to fund small business growth since 2009. IOU was named one of the 50 Best Places to Work in Fintech for 2022 by American Banker and trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol IOU (TSXV: IOU), and on the US OTC markets as IOUFF. To learn more about IOU Financial's corporate history, financial products, or to join our broker network please visit www.IOUFinancial.com.
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Certain information set forth in this news release may contain forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements are statements, other than statements of historical fact, that address or discuss activities, events or developments that IOU expects or anticipates may occur in the future. These forward looking statements can be identified by the use of words and phrases such as "anticipates", "believes", "estimates", "expects", "may", "plans", "projects", "should", "will", "intends", "seeks", "allows", "creates a path for", "puts in a position to" or the negative thereof or other variations thereon. These forward-looking statements are subject to and involve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond the control of IOU, including, but not limited to, the impact of general economic conditions, industry conditions, dependence upon regulatory and shareholder approvals, the uncertainty of obtaining additional financing, risks related to the Company's incapacity to execute on its business plan, dependence on third-party service providers, competition, dependence on key personnel, security and confidentiality risk, technological development risk, IT disruptions, maintenance of client relationships, and litigation risk. No assurance can be given that any of the events anticipated by such statements will occur or, if they do occur, what benefit IOU will derive from them. Readers are cautioned that the assumptions used in the preparation of such information, although considered reasonable at the time of preparation, may prove to be imprecise and, as such, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements. IOU does not assume any obligation to update or revise its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Additional information concerning these and other factors can be found beginning on page 20 under the heading "Risks and Uncertainties" in IOU's management's discussion and analysis dated May 18, 2022, which is available under IOU's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
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WEST MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — On FOX 14 Your Morning News, Christina Coleman reported from Moscow, Idaho, with the latest on the University of Idaho shooting that happened more than three weeks ago; parents are voicing concerns about the investigation. For more details, watch the clip above. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/morning-show/fox-14-your-morning-news-parents-speaking-out-after-three-weeks-since-university-of-idaho-shooting/ | 2022-12-06 17:08:57 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/morning-show/fox-14-your-morning-news-parents-speaking-out-after-three-weeks-since-university-of-idaho-shooting/ |
By MICHAEL TARM
AP Legal Affairs Writer
CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago that starts Monday is in many ways a do-over of his 2008 state child pornography trial, at which jurors acquitted the singer on charges that he produced a video of himself when he was around 30 having sex with a girl no older than 14.
There’s one big difference: This time, prosecutors say, she will testify.
Kelly, 55, goes into Chicago federal court already sentenced by a New York federal judge to a 30-year prison term for a 2021 conviction on charges he parlayed his fame to sexually abuse other young fans.
Among the most serious charges the Grammy Award winner faces at his federal trial is conspiracy to obstruct justice by rigging the 2008 trial, including by paying off and threatening the girl to ensure she did not testify.
Testimony by the woman, now in her 30s and referred to in filings only as “Minor 1,” will be pivotal. The charges against Kelly also include four counts of the enticement of minors for sex — one count each for four other accusers. All are also slated to testify.
Even just one or two convictions in Chicago could add decades to Kelly’s New York sentence, which he is appealing. With the New York sentence alone, Kelly will be around 80 before qualifying for early release.
Prosecutors at the federal trial plan to play the same VHS tape that was “Exhibit No. 1″ at the 2008 trial. While it was the only video in evidence 14 years ago, at least three other videos will be entered into evidence at the federal trial.
Prosecutors say Kelly shot the video of Minor 1 in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home between 1998 and 2000 when she was as young as 13. In it, the girl is heard calling the man “daddy.” Federal prosecutors say that she and Kelly had sex hundreds of times over the years in his homes, recording studios and tour buses.
Before the 2008 trial, Kelly carried a duffle bag full of sex tapes everywhere he went for years, but some tapes later went missing, according to court filings. In the 2000s, bootleg copies of some videos appeared on street corners across the U.S.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, knew a conviction in 2008 would effectively end his life as he knew it.
On June 13, 2008, Kelly shut his eyes tight and bowed his head as jurors returned from deliberations. As a court official read the jury’s decision and it became clear Kelly would be acquitted on all counts, tears streamed down his cheeks and he said over and over, “Thank you, Jesus.”
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants in Chicago. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they have also denied any wrongdoing.
Double jeopardy rules bar the prosecution of someone for the same crimes they were acquitted of earlier. But that shouldn’t apply to the Chicago federal trial because prosecutors are alleging different crimes related to Minor 1, including obstruction of justice for fixing the 2008 trial.
Minor 1 first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer working with Kelly’s music. Soon after that meeting, Minor 1 told her parents Kelly was going to be her godfather.
In the early 2000s, the aunt showed the parents a copy of a video she said depicted their daughter having sex with Kelly. When they confronted Kelly, he told them, “You’re with me or against me,” a government filing says.
The parents took it as a threat.
“Minor 1’s mother did not want to go up against Kelly’s power, money, and influence by not following what he said,” the filing adds.
Kelly told the parents and Minor 1 they had to leave Chicago, paying for them to travel to the Bahamas and Cancun, Mexico. When they returned, prosecutors say Kelly sought to isolate Minor 1, moving her around to different hotels.
When called before a state grand jury looking into the video, Minor 1, her father and mother denied it was her in it. Prosecutors say an attorney for Kelly sat in on their testimony and reported back to Kelly what they said.
Prosecutors from the Cook County state’s attorney’s office chose to push ahead with charges and to take the case to trial in 2008 despite what they knew was a major hurdle: their inability to call the girl in the video to testify.
Any confidence Kelly may have had of beating similar charges a second time were likely dashed when he learned Minor 1 was now cooperating with the government. With more resources, federal prosecutors also boast conviction rates of more than 90% compared to around 65% for their state counterparts.
In 2008, his lawyers argued the man in the VHS video who appeared very much to be Kelly was not Kelly. They showed jurors that Kelly has a large mole on his back, then played excerpts of the video in which no mole was visible on the man.
One of Kelly’s attorneys, Sam Adam Jr., told jurors during closings that no mole on the man’s back meant one thing: “It ain’t him. And if it ain’t him, you can’t convict.”
Some 2008 jurors told reporters after the trial that they weren’t convinced the female in the video was who state prosecutors said she was.
That shouldn’t be an issue at the Chicago federal trial. Prosecutors say both the girl and her parents will testify.
What defense Kelly’s legal team will present this time isn’t clear.
The defense is likely to say Kelly’s accusers are misrepresenting the facts. Kelly was more blunt in a 2019 interview with Gayle King of “CBS This Morning,” saying about the women: “All of them are lying.”
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Aris Gold Corporation (Aris Gold or the Company) (TSX: ARIS) (OTCQX: ALLXF) reports financial and operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022. All amounts are in US dollars, unless otherwise indicated.
Aris Gold CEO Neil Woodyer stated: "During Q2 our team became the operator and completed the acquisition of a 20% interest in the Soto Norte project, with the option to increase to 50% ownership. This marked a big step forward for the company, which we quickly followed with the announcement to combine with GCM Mining to create a new, stronger Aris Mining. On completion of this transaction our portfolio of assets will include two producing mines, two development projects, and an advanced exploration project. We are delivering on our strategy to create a leading Americas focused gold company."
On April 12, 2022, Aris Gold completed the acquisition of a 20% interest in the Soto Norte gold project in Colombia, with the option to increase to a 50% interest, and became operator. A feasibility study on the Soto Norte project estimates steady-state production of 450,000 ounces of gold per year at life-of-mine all-in sustaining costs (AISC) of $471 per ounce of gold. Concurrently with the acquisition, Aris Gold amended its $110 million precious metals stream at the Marmato mine with Wheaton Precious Metals International to increase the total funding amount by $65 million to $175 million.
Also in Q2 2022, Aris Gold advanced construction of the Marmato Lower Mine, including advancing the ventilation decline, furthering the land acquisition process, finalizing updates to the Environmental Management Plan, continuing the geotechnical and environmental studies for advancement of the Lower Mine decline, progressing construction of the camp and access road, and refining the engineering design, cost and completion schedule.
Optimization work at the Marmato Upper Mine continued to advance in Q2 2022, including relocating the gravity concentrator to the primary milling circuit to improve recoveries, implementing a new strategy to optimize the ventilation system and further improve conditions underground, and modifying the mechanized mining methods to decrease stope widths and further reduce dilution.
Subsequent to Q2 2022, on July 25, 2022 Aris Gold announced an agreement with GCM Mining to combine and create a gold producer with increased diversification of operating and project development risk, an improved capital markets profile, and reduced overhead costs. GCM Mining and Aris Gold shareholder meetings to approve the transaction are planned for September 19, 2022, subject to receipt of shareholder and regulatory approvals and satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Completion of the transaction and the launch of the new Aris Mining Corporation is expected to occur promptly thereafter.
Gold production from the Marmato Upper Mine in Q2 2022 increased year-over-year by 24% to 7,411 ounces, driven by a 13% increase in throughput and a 12% increase in grade compared to Q2 2021. These increases in both volumes mined and grade realized demonstrate the steady improvements of the Upper Mine optimization program. Revenue increased by 29% for Q2 2022 compared to Q2 2021, primarily driven by the increase in gold sold.
Aris Gold's Q2 2022 financial statements and related MD&A are available on SEDAR and in the Investors section of Aris Gold's website here.
Aris Gold is a Canadian mining company listed on the TSX under the symbol ARIS and on the OTCQX under the symbol ALLXF. The Company is led by an executive team with a demonstrated track record of creating value through building globally relevant gold mining companies. In Colombia, Aris Gold operates the 100%-owned Marmato mine, and is the operator and 20% owner of the Soto Norte development project with an option to become 50% owner. Aris Gold also owns the Juby project, an advanced exploration stage gold project in the Abitibi greenstone belt of Ontario, Canada. In July 2022, Aris Gold entered into an agreement to combine with GCM Mining, which will add the Segovia operations, also in Colombia, and the Toroparu development project in Guyana. The transaction with GCM Mining is expected to close in mid-September 2022 following receipt of regulatory approvals and satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Aris Gold plans to pursue additional acquisition and growth opportunities to unlock value creation from scale and diversification.
Additional information on Aris Gold can be found at www.arisgold.com and www.sedar.com.
This news release contains "forward-looking information" or forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation. All statements included herein, other than statements of historical fact, including without limitation statements relating to anticipated timing for completion of the transaction with GCM Mining, expected benefits to be derived from the completion of the transaction with GCM Mining, estimated production rate and life of mine AISC at the Soto Norte Project, and statements made relating to Aris Gold's strategic plans to pursue additional acquisition and growth opportunities and the expected impact of successful execution, are forward-looking. Generally, the forward-looking information and forward looking statements can be identified by the use of forward looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "will continue" or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Statements concerning mineral resource estimates may also be deemed to constitute forward looking information to the extent that they involve estimates of the mineralization that will be encountered. The material factors or assumptions used to develop forward looking information or statements are disclosed throughout this presentation.
Forward looking information and forward looking statements, while based on management's best estimates and assumptions, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Aris Gold to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information or forward looking statements, including but not limited to: uncertainties relating to obtaining the requisite shareholder and regulatory approvals in order to complete the transaction with GCM Mining, the ability of the Aris Gold management team to successfully integrate with the GCM Mining operations post-closing, risks related to international operations, risks related to general economic conditions, uncertainties relating to operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, actual results of current exploration activities, availability of quality assets that will add scale, diversification and complement Aris Gold's growth trajectory; changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; fluctuations in prices of metals including gold; the ability to convert mineral resources to mineral reserves; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, increases in market prices of mining consumables, risks associated with holding derivative instruments (such as credit risks, market liquidity risk and mark-to-market risk), possible variations in mineral reserves, grade or recovery rates; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; changes in national and local government legislation, taxation, controls, regulations, regulations and political or economic developments in Canada or Colombia, accidents and operations, labour disputes, title disputes, claims and limitations on insurance coverage and other risks of the mining industry; delays in obtaining governmental approvals including obtaining required environmental and other licenses, or in the completion of development or construction activities, changes in national and local government regulation of mining operations, tax rules and regulations, and political and economic developments in countries in which the Company operates, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in Aris Gold's most recent AIF available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Although Aris Gold has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information and forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information or statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information or statements. The Company has and continues to disclose in its Management's Discussion and Analysis and other publicly filed documents, changes to material factors or assumptions underlying the forward-looking information and forward-looking statements and to the validity of the information, in the period the changes occur. The forward-looking statements and forward-looking information are made as of the date hereof and Aris Gold disclaims any obligation to update any such factors or to publicly announce the result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking statements or forward-looking information contained herein to reflect future results. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and information.
This announcement does not constitute an offer of securities for sale in the United States, nor may any securities referred to herein be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration as provided in the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 as amended (the "Securities Act") and the rules and regulations thereunder. The securities referred to herein have not been registered pursuant to the Securities Act and there is no intention to register any of the securities in the United States or to conduct a public offering of securities in the United States.
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States rose 7.4% in November from a year earlier, a fifth straight slowdown and a hopeful sign that inflation pressures across the economy are continuing to cool.
The latest year-over-year figure was down from 8% in October and from a recent peak of 11.7% in March. On a monthly basis, the government said Friday that its producer price index, which measures costs before they reach consumers, rose 0.3% from October to November for the third straight month.
Still, a measure of “core” producer prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs, accelerated, rising 0.4% from October to November. The core figure had risen just 0.1% from September to October. Looked at over the past 12 months, though, core producer prices were up 6.2% in November, less than the 6.7% in October.
The latest figures reflect an ongoing shift in inflation from goods to services. The cost of goods rose just 0.1% from October to November, with wholesale gas prices tumbling 6%. (Food prices were an exception: They jumped 3.3% last month, fueled by costlier vegetables, eggs and chicken.)
By contrast, services prices rose more, up 0.4%, led mostly by more expensive financial services. The wholesale cost of airfares and hotel rooms both fell, though, and overall services prices have slowed in the past three months.
“Overall inflation is moving in the right direction, though at a slow pace,” PNC Financial Services Group said in research note. “The Federal Reserve’s monetary policy tightening plans will remain aggressive until clear, consistent signs of inflation’s demise have been demonstrated.”
Rising prices are still straining Americans’ finances, particularly for food, rent and services such as haircuts, medical care and restaurant meals. Yet several emerging trends have combined to slow inflation from the four-decade peak it reached during the summer. Gas prices have tumbled after topping out at $5 a gallon in June. Nationally, they averaged $3.33 a gallon Thursday, according to AAA, just below their average a year ago.
And the supply chain snarls that caused chronic transportation delays and shortages of many goods, from patio furniture to curtains, are unraveling. U.S. ports have cleared the backlog of ships that earlier this year took weeks to unload. And the cost of shipping a cargo container from Asia has fallen sharply back to pre-pandemic levels.
As a result, the prices of long-lasting goods, from used cars and furniture to appliances and certain electronics, are easing.
Friday’s producer price data captures inflation at an early stage of production and can often signal where consumer prices are headed. Next week, the government will report its highest-profile inflation figure, the consumer price index. The most recent CPI report, for October, showed a moderation in inflation, with prices up 7.7% from a year earlier. Though still high, that was lowest year-over-year figure since January.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell, in a speech last week, pointed to the decline in goods prices as an encouraging sign. Powell suggested that housing costs, including rent, which have been a major driver of inflation, should also start to slow next year.
The Fed chair also signaled that the central bank will likely raise its benchmark interest rate by a smaller increment when it meets next week. Investors foresee a half-point Fed hike, after four straight three-quarter-point increases.
Yet Powell noted that services prices, which reflect the largest sector of the U.S. economy, are still increasing at a historically fast pace. Rapidly rising wages are a key driver of services inflation, he noted. That’s because as wages rise, many businesses pass on their higher labor costs to their customers through higher prices, which drives up inflation.
Pay is still rising quickly and could continue to fuel higher inflation through most of next year. In last week’s jobs report for November, the government reported that average hourly pay jumped 5.1% from a year earlier, far above the pre-pandemic pace. Powell said wage gains closer to 3.5% would be needed to bring inflation down toward the Fed’s 2% annual target.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro is expected to emphasize funding for Pennsylvania's poorest school districts and making the state more competitive for cutting-edge tech firms when he delivers his first budget to the Legislature on Tuesday.
Shapiro's budget proposal comes as Pennsylvania keeps taking in robust tax collections, leaving it with $11 billion in reserve cash, even as it faces demands for more money for schools and social services and what Shapiro calls a workforce crisis.
Shapiro, a Democrat, will address a joint session of the House and Senate late Tuesday morning.
MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MAURA HEALEY UNVEILS STATE BUDGET PROPOSAL HIGHLIGHTED BY FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Perhaps the most prominent feature of Shapiro's budget will be what he called a "down payment" on the billions of dollars that public school allies say are necessary to comply with a court decision that found Pennsylvania’s school funding system violates the constitutional rights of students in the poorest districts.
Shapiro also has said he wants to be a cheerleader to attract new high-tech firms and slash the state's corporate net income tax rate by more than half by 2025, a move that would save businesses billions of dollars.
That pledge comes as Pennsylvania competes for a federally funded hydrogen hub and tries to attract the kind of multibillion-dollar battery plants and microchip factories that other states are landing.
All told, Shapiro's budget plan for the 2023-24 fiscal year that starts July 1 is likely to exceed the current fiscal year's $42.8 billion approved budget. He has said he will seek no tax increases.
Whatever Shapiro proposes will require approval from the Democratic-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate.
GOV. EVERS LOOKS TO SPEND $1.8B ON UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN CAMPUSES
Most details of Shapiro’s plan remain under wraps, but he has discussed some parts of it publicly.
In addition to boosting school funding, Shapiro has said he wants to put a mental health counselor in every school building and pump more money into subsidies for child care, local civic improvement projects, university research on cutting-edge manufacturing and STEM programs in schools.
He also said he will seek financial incentives to help address complaints from school boards, police departments and hospitals about the growing difficulty in filling critical positions in public safety, health and education.
The year will be challenging, as federal pandemic subsidies expire and the state begins removing hundreds of thousands of people from Medicaid rolls who were allowed to stay on during the COVID-19 pandemic emergency, even though they were no longer eligible.
In the meantime, good fiscal times could be ending.
A legislative agency, the Independent Fiscal Office, projects that Pennsylvania will soon return to its long-term pattern of deficits now that federal pandemic aid has been spent and inflation-juiced tax collections subside. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/pa-gov-shapiro-to-emphasize-funding-for-state-s-poorest-school-districts-in-his-1st/article_b0612544-54ce-5365-bbd8-bb018df9174c.html | 2023-03-07 19:04:19 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/pa-gov-shapiro-to-emphasize-funding-for-state-s-poorest-school-districts-in-his-1st/article_b0612544-54ce-5365-bbd8-bb018df9174c.html |
Democrats stand for safe and fair elections. Democracy thrives when citizens have the opportunity to choose their representatives in a secure, efficient and professionally run process. Santa Fe and the state have been fortunate to have leaders like Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver and County Clerk Katharine Clark, who have made voting accessible, open and fair.
The Santa Fe County Democratic Party, which represents tens of thousands of county voters, has passed a resolution urging the Santa Fe County Commission to invest in the personnel needed by the County Clerk’s Office to replace employees who have been leaving the office in droves and a secure location to process absentee ballots.
Though there is funding in the free and fair elections section in Senate Bill 180 passed by the Legislature, it will not cover needed salary increases and ballot-processing space. We have recommended to the commission structural changes to address these issues.
On pay, a recent county compensation and reclassification study resulted in low raises to vital election bureau personnel. The result is a 70% vacancy rate in the County Clerk’s Office as employees leave for higher-paying jobs across the hall. Citizens and voters expect qualified election staff to be paid for their expertise comparable to other county departments and for the deputy clerk to be paid on par with other county deputies.
Furthermore, the office needs the ability to establish a career ladder to maintain institutional knowledge as well as to retain expert elections bureau technical staff. We have called on the commission to examine and restructure this compensation.
On the issue of space, the party sees the need for 15,000 square feet to efficiently run free, secure and fair elections, including processing absentee ballots. The current situation is not tolerable for the elected officials who work hard in their election campaigns, nor for the voters who have come to expect high standards of voting administration in Santa Fe County. A warehouse or similar safe, stable location must meet secretary of state specifications, such as:
Complete control of ballots by the County Clerk’s Office.
Installation of a generator to protect critical infrastructure.
An adequate electrical system to support 140 tabulators, etc.
We cannot expect election volunteers to “camp out” to protect absentee ballots; nor should we expect the increased expense of security guards when the County Clerk’s Office has already identified a secure building that could be easily renovated to meet these requirements.
While the Legislature appropriated to the County Clerk’s Office close to $1.3 million for renovation, we recommend the commission ask the 2024 Legislature to adjust this amount to meet the cost to buy a building and be election-ready in time for the November 2024 vote count. The commission should invest in a building that will serve citizens well into the future.
In Santa Fe, we respect our election workers and believe they should have adequate compensation and an adequate facility to do a good job for the voters. We thank the commissioners for their respectful consideration of these requests to make Santa Fe a model for fair and secure elections. Our voters, whether Democrat, Republican or independent, deserve no less.
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ALIQUIPPA, Pa., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PGT Trucking Inc., a multi-service transportation firm offering flatbed, dedicated, international and specialized services, announces the promotion of Laurence Cox to a new executive position as Vice President, Sustainability, leading PGT's decarbonization efforts, effective immediately.
As part of PGT's focus on progressive transportation and fleet evolution, they are embracing change, leveraging technology and stretching their capabilities to continuously improve the services they provide to their customers. In this position, Larry will help lead these projects and ensure a responsible use of resources throughout the company.
"There's an old saying that 'one should either lead, follow or get out of the way.' PGT Trucking has decided to lead with our Future of FlatbedSM initiatives, which will ensure the long-term sustainability of our trucking business," said Cox regarding his promotion.
Larry is a Beaver County, PA, native and received his Engineering degree from Penn State University and his MBA from the University of Chicago. He spent over two decades serving the steel industry in various leadership roles at National Steel Corporation before moving to Pittsburgh Logistics Systems in 2004.
In 2010, Larry joined PGT Trucking as Process Improvement Manager, overseeing various high-level projects. In 2017, Larry served as Interim Director of Maintenance, and a year later, he was promoted to Director of Continuous Improvement with a focus on developing new products, managing large projects, resolving cost issues and addressing areas of needed performance improvement.
He is a member of the AIST Transportation & Logistics Technology Committee, and the AIST Material Handling Committee.
"Larry is thorough and comprehensive in his work and weighs in on many topics throughout the company with his opinion, insight and experience," said Gregg Troian, PGT Trucking President. "I am certain that in his new role he will champion for our organization to adopt new, sustainable best practices with a strong focus on the Future of Flatbed."
PGT Trucking, Inc., is a multi-service transportation firm offering flatbed, dedicated, international and specialized services. PGT is the leader in progressive freight transportation and fleet evolution, exceeding customer expectations with a strong focus on the Future of FlatbedSM. At PGT Trucking, "Safety is Everyone's Job – All the Time." Visit www.pgttrucking.com.
Contact: Katie Irvine, PGT Trucking
Phone: 724.987.1812 Email: kirvine@pgttrucking.com
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PARIS (AP) — Art returned to a glittering Chanel couture universe Tuesday with monumental animal sculptures gathering in the center of the runway-in-the-round like a surreal zoo for its Paris Fashion Week show.
Designer Virginie Viard collaborated again with contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan who used a bestiary in house founder Coco Chanel’s apartment as a creative springboard for the carnival-like spring decor.
Yet as much as the animals — constructed in unpainted wood, paper and cardboard — appeared simplified, lifeless and monochrome, the Chanel collection itself contrasted dramatically, sparkling with color and sequins in an unusually vibrant display.
Here are some highlights:
CHANEL’S ANIMAL PARADE
Veilhan said he wanted to "evoke the relationship to animals which is constantly evolving in our societies.”
A VIP front row that included Marion Cotillard, Tilda Swinton, G-Dragon and Vanessa Paradis, watched on as a gargantuan camel, bull, fish, horse and lion resembling blown-up mobiles were wheeled onto this strange runway, beneath a ceiling installation of large geometric discs.
When a bird was pushed on set with a large beak and myriad scruffy wooden plumes, there were gasps. The chick seemed to give birth to a model in a top hat and a split white riding jacket with fringed skirt. It had guests reaching for their cameras -- with one guest commenting that it was the “Trojan chick.”
The rest of the embellished collection seemed less directly connected to the animal theme — and this level of subtlety was not a bad thing. There were strong equestrian styles, building on ideas from previous Viard seasons. Here, the riding jacket was a key theme, constructed in gleaming silken tweeds above gamine miniskirts and youthful skorts.
There were fun quirks galore in the long white gloves, black and white bow ties and skintight gold or black capped boots with white boxer-like lace ups — even though such accessories sometimes felt disconnected from the general aesthetic.
Couture is second nature to Chanel. The detailing of this superlative and at times poetical couture — which sparkled throughout with brocade, paillettes, sequins and gleaming silks — spoke for itself.
One loose amorphous gown glistened like a silver fish with its thousands of embroidered sequins and black, white and gold silken breast. Elsewhere, a thickly textured bell skirt was constructed using rippling layers of white-colored silk like a underwater shell. Or was it a delicate stratus cloud?
ALEXIS MABILLE’S COLOR
His couture fusion dripped with drama.
French designer Alexis Mabille mixed old-school Grecian draping with a take on the Indian sari in the bright colors of South Asian dress. It produced a soft spring collection with longer length silhouettes that used dozens of meters of floor-sweeping silk.
Bejeweled flowers adorned hairstyles, which like the dangling lengths of fabric, flowed freely.
A bottle green gown cut a sublime hourglass silhouette. It reshaped the model’s body, open at the sides, wider at the top, and held in place by a Grecian waistband. A cerulean blue gown, flowingly unstructured from a round neck and hanging to the floor, was notable for its pure simplicity.
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GT Resort hosting scramble state championship
ACME — The Grand Traverse Resort & Spa will welcome teams from across Michigan for the 11th GAM Scramble State Championship Sunday and Monday.
The teams will compete in a special scramble format over two days with 18-hole rounds on two of the resort’s courses, Spruce Run and The Bear. Championship teams will be determined by gross and net scoring.
Half of the teams will play their first round Sunday on Spruce Run and the other half will play on The Bear and then switch for the final round Monday.
Spruce Run, which was redesigned in 1979, is more forgiving than The Bear but retains challenging elements. It was the original three-year host course for the Michigan Open, which has been played at the resort 33 times. The course winds among rolling hills that surround the resort hotel and overlook Grand Traverse Bay, and water comes into play on 13 of the holes.
The format for the championship is a 4-person team “step aside” scramble, which means on each hole members of the team hit a tee shot from their designated tee (four sets of tees). The team then selects one of the tee shots and marks the spot from which to play. The player whose shot is selected WILL NOT play the next shot (step aside). This procedure is repeated until the ball is holed.
Teams are made up of any four GAM members — men, women, senior men, and/or senior women, each with a valid GAM/USGA Handicap Index. A team’s total index must equal 36.0 or higher. Teams cannot have more than two players with a GAM/USGA Handicap Index lower than 10.0 in the last 12 months. | https://www.record-eagle.com/sports/local_sports/sports-in-brief-grand-traverse-resort-spa-hosting-11th-gam-scramble-state-championship/article_57b7afe0-3b7c-11ed-af87-07f450b1d628.html | 2022-09-24 14:43:21 | 0 | https://www.record-eagle.com/sports/local_sports/sports-in-brief-grand-traverse-resort-spa-hosting-11th-gam-scramble-state-championship/article_57b7afe0-3b7c-11ed-af87-07f450b1d628.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida were prepared to hold wide-ranging talks at the White House on Friday as Japan looks to build security cooperation with allies amid growing concerns about provocative Chinese and North Korean military action.
The two administrations were also ready to seal an agreement Friday to bolster U.S.-Japanese cooperation on space with a signing ceremony by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa.
The Oval Office meeting and signing ceremony at NASA’s Washington headquarters will cap a weeklong tour for Kishida that took him to five European and North American capitals for talks on his effort to beef up Japan’s security.
It all comes as Japan announced plans last month to raise defense spending to 2% of gross domestic product in five years, a dramatic increase in spending for a nation that forged a pacifist approach to its defense after World War II. Japan’s defense spending has historically remained below 1% of GDP.
“Japan is stepping up and doing so in lockstep with the United States,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.
Blinken said earlier this week that the U.S.-Japan space cooperation framework was a “decade in the making” and “covers everything from joint research to working together to land the first woman and person of color on the moon.”
He added that the U.S. and Japan are in agreement that China is their “greatest shared strategic challenge” and confirmed that an attack in space would trigger a mutual defense provision in the U.S.-Japan security treaty.
Ahead of Friday’s meeting of the two leaders, U.S. and Japanese officials announced an adjustment to the American troop presence on the island of Okinawa in part to enhance anti-ship capabilities that would be needed in the event of a Chinese incursion into Taiwan or other hostile acts in the region. Japan is also reinforcing defenses on its southwestern islands close to Taiwan, including Yonaguni and Ishigaki, where new bases are being constructed.
Japan’s push to step up defense spending and coordination comes amid growing concerns that China could take military action to seize Taiwan and worry that North Korea’s spike in missile testing could augur the isolated nation achieving its nuclear ambitions.
The talks with Biden “will be a precious opportunity to confirm our close cooperation in further strengthening the Japan-U.S. alliance and our endeavor together toward achieving a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Kishida told reporters just before departing Japan for his five-country tour.
His sit-down with Biden is the final face-to-face in a week of talks with fellow Group of Seven leaders that focused largely on his efforts to surge Japan’s defense spending and urge leaders to improve cooperation.
With Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, he cemented Japan’s first defense agreement with a European nation, one that allows for the two countries to hold joint military exercises.
Kishida also discussed with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and French President Emmanuel Macron his hopes to improve security cooperation between Japan and their respective nations. Germany was the lone G-7 country not on Kishida’s itinerary.
Japan last month announced plans to buy U.S.-made Tomahawks and other long-range cruise missiles that can hit targets in China or North Korea under a more offensive security strategy, while Japan, Britain and Italy unveiled plans to collaborate on a next-generation jet fighter project.
“Just a few years ago, there would have been some discomfort in Washington with a Japan that has this kind of military capability,” said Chris Johnstone, a former National Security Council official in the Biden administration who is now the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Those days are gone.”
Biden administration officials have praised Japan for stepping up in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Japan was quick to join the U.S. and other Western allies in mounting aggressive sanctions on Moscow, and Japanese automakers Mazda, Toyota and Nissan announced their withdrawal from Russia.
Biden administration officials have been pleasantly surprised by Japan’s intensified effort to reconsider its security.
A senior administration official, who requested anonymity to discuss negotiations with the Japanese, noted that historically negotiations involving U.S. force posture in Okinawa have been “unbelievably fraught, incredibly challenging and difficult” and often took years to complete. But negotiations ahead of this week’s meetings were completed with striking speed, the official said.
The official said Biden is expected to raise the case of Lt. Ridge Alkonis, a U.S. Navy officer deployed to Japan who was jailed after pleading guilty last year to the negligent driving deaths of two Japanese citizens in May 2021.
Alkonis’ family says he suddenly fell unconscious behind the wheel during a family trip on Mt. Fuji. He veered into parked cars and pedestrians in a parking lot, striking an elderly woman and her son-in-law, both of whom later died.
The Navy officer was sentenced to three years in prison in October, a sentence that the family and U.S. lawmakers have called unduly harsh considering the circumstances. Alkonis also agreed to pay the victims $1.65 million in restitution.
The official added that the administration was working “to find a compassionate resolution that’s consistent with the rule of law.”
Kishida was scheduled to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday ahead of his meeting with Biden.
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SANTA FE, N.M. — Prosecutors in New Mexico plan to drop an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film "Rust," Baldwin's attorneys said Thursday.
"We are pleased with the decision to dismiss the case against Alec Baldwin and we encourage a proper investigation into the facts and circumstances of this tragic accident," Baldwin's attorneys Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro said in a statement.
Prosecutors didn't immediately comment on the case. It wasn't immediately clear whether charges could be refiled.
Baldwin and the film's weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were both charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting.
Baldwin was pointing a pistol at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when the gun when off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.
Baldwin has said the gun went off accidentally and that he did not pull the trigger. An FBI forensic report found the weapon could not have fired unless the trigger was pulled.
The case against Baldwin had already been diminishing. A weapons charge that would have meant a much longer sentence had already been dismissed, and the first special prosecutor in the case resigned.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the charge against Gutierrez-Reed would also be dropped.
The charges against Baldwin had marked a stunning fall for an A-list actor whose 40-year career included the early blockbuster "The Hunt for Red October" and a starring role in the sitcom "30 Rock," as well as iconic appearances in Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" and a film adaptation of David Mamet's "Glengary Glen Ross." In recent years, he was known for his impression of former President Donald Trump on "Saturday Night Live."
"Rust" safety coordinator and assistant director David Halls pleaded no contest in March to a conviction for unsafe handling of a firearm and a suspended sentence of six months of probation.
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Photos: Alec Baldwin through the years
Dalton reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writer Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico, contributed.
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Casting company hiring movie extras for Hallmark Christmas film at Biltmore Estate
ASHVILLE, N.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - Want to be a part of a Christmas movie in January? A casting company is looking for some extra help.
WHNS reports The Casting Office, Inc. currently has an open call out for movie extras in North Carolina.
The casting call is for an upcoming Hallmark Channel Christmas movie called “A Biltmore Christmas.”
The film is scheduled to start work at the historic estate in January 2023 and be in theaters in November of next year.
A spokesperson for the Hallmark Channel described “A Biltmore Christmas” as a love story with a little Christmas charm.
“Each year we look for ways to create exciting, new holiday viewing experiences for our audience,” said Samantha DiPippo, of Hallmark Media.
According to the casting company, it’s looking for people who live in the area to be background performers in the film. The company has handled casting for major films such as “Forrest Gump,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” and “Venom.”
No experience is needed to be a movie extra and those interested must apply online.
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HOUSTON, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today its SOCAR-KBR joint venture has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED), turnaround engineering, and procurement support services contract by BP Exploration for the Shah Deniz Alpha (SDA) platform in Azerbaijan.
This project will significantly reduce SDA's overall carbon footprint and increase operational efficiency, providing a robust, long-term, high-availability power supply. SOCAR-KBR will be responsible for the FEED services for decommissioning the existing five main power generators on the SDA platform. They will then create a power supply from the KBR-designed Shah Deniz Bravo platform through subsea cables and a back-up power generator.
"KBR has been working in the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey region since 1993, which gives us unrivaled expertise with on- and off-shore greenfield and brownfield assets," said Jay Ibrahim, president of KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions. "Our SOCAR-KBR joint venture allows us to combine KBR's proven tools, systems, procedures and project track record in the region with SOCAR's operations knowledge and experience in the energy sector."
This project will be delivered from SOCAR-KBR's Baku office to maximize local execution, with specialist subject matter expert support provided from KBR's London operations. KBR is proud that more than 95% of its current Baku-based SOCAR-KBR team are Azerbaijani engineers.
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission critical roles in 34 countries.
KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long- term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.
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The company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K, any subsequent Form 10-Qs and 8-Ks, and other U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss some of the important risk factors that the company has identified that may affect its business, results of operations and financial condition. Except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason.
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Ex-Californian pleads guilty in child mutilation-sex scheme
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Southern California man who convinced troubled girls as young as 12 to perform masochistic acts and urged one to become his sex slave pleaded guilty Monday to a federal charge, prosecutors said.
Matthew Christian Locher, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a child for the purpose of producing a sexually explicit visual depiction, the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement.
In his plea agreement, prosecutors said Locher acknowledged that while living in Redondo Beach in 2020 and 2021, Locher got into online conversations targeting girls suffering from mental health issues such as depression, anorexia and suicidal thoughts.
“Locher groomed his victims to engage in self-mutilation and instructed a victim struggling with an eating disorder to starve herself, ordering her to film herself cutting her body when she disobeyed him,” the U.S. attorney’s office statement said.
Two girls sent him images of self-harm, prosecutors said.
He convinced a third victim, who was 12, to run away from her Ohio home and attempt to reach California to have sex with him, prosecutors alleged.
Encouraged by Locher, the girl first set fire to her home in a failed bid to kill her parents, prosecutors alleged.
Locher had promised he would pick her up, “bring her to California, and make her his ‘slave,’ ” the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Locher moved to Indiana after authorities searched his home. He was arrested on Jan. 10 of this year in Indianapolis and sent back to California, authorities said.
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Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery fell $3.02 to $69.51 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for August delivery fell $2.98 to $74.14 a barrel.
Wholesale gasoline for July delivery fell 7 cents $2.55 a gallon. July heating oil fell 9 cents to $2.47 a gallon. July natural gas rose 1 cent to $2.61 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Gold for August delivery fell $21.20 to $1,923.70 an ounce. Silver for July delivery fell 34 cents to $22.47 an ounce and July copper fell 2 cents to $3.89 a pound.
The dollar rose to 143.07 Japanese yen from 141.80 yen. The euro fell to $1.0959 from $1.0984. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/closing-prices-for-crude-oil-gold-and-other-commodities-819/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-06-22 19:27:53 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/closing-prices-for-crude-oil-gold-and-other-commodities-819/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
ORRVILLE, Ohio, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The J.M. Smucker Co. (NYSE: SJM) today issued its 2022 Corporate Impact Report, including its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Disclosure Report, detailing its commitment to responsible business practices and continued progress on its Thriving Together agenda.
The Company's Thriving Together agenda centers on five key pillars: ensuring access to quality food, aiding access to education, promoting equitable and ethical treatment for all, making connections to necessary community resources and ensuring a healthier planet.
This agenda came to life in many important ways this past fiscal year. Some notable highlights include:
- Supported delivery of more than 23 million meals to people and pets in need
- Acted as a founding sponsor of Opening Track, a unique music education program from Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio
- Donated more than $1.2 million to the Red Cross and United Way to support the unique needs of communities across North America
- Launched initial Employee Resource Groups to support marginalized communities, promote a spirit of community and foster allyship
- Worked with a number of external conservation partners, including World Wildlife Fund, Pollinator Partnership and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, to conserve resources, restore biodiversity and promote healthier ecosystems
The Company recognizes its responsibility to support all constituents and provide updates on progress made toward its ESG goals.
"We have high expectations for the important role we must play in support of our communities and planet, and recognize our stakeholders share in our passion," said Mark Smucker, Chair of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Our Corporate Impact Report and ESG disclosure are opportunities to keep these engaged constituents informed while also sharing our sincere appreciation to our employees and partners who helped us deliver these results."
Learn more about the Company's impact and Thriving Together agenda by visiting: www.jmsmucker.com/our-impact.
About The J.M. Smucker Co.
Each generation of consumers leaves their mark on culture by establishing new expectations for food and the companies that make it. At The J.M. Smucker Co., it is our privilege to be at the heart of this dynamic with a diverse portfolio that appeals to each generation of people and pets and is found in more than 80 percent of U.S. homes and countless restaurants. This includes a mix of iconic brands consumers have always loved such as Folgers®, Jif® and Milk-Bone® and new favorites like Café Bustelo®, Smucker's® Uncrustables® and Rachael Ray® Nutrish®. By continuing to immerse ourselves in consumer preferences and acting responsibly, we will continue growing our business and the positive impact we have on society. For more information, please visit jmsmucker.com.
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Akron murder suspect arrested in New York
Published: Sep. 29, 2022 at 11:08 AM EDT|Updated: 21 minutes ago
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - A man wanted for deadly shooting in July, was arrested by police in New York on Wednesday.
Akron police said Alexander Quarterman, 48, of Akron, murdered Derrick Patterson around 3 p.m. on July 17.
Patterson, 55, was shot in the 900 block of Copley Road.
He was pronounced dead at Cleveland Clinic Akron General Medical Center.
Police have not released a motive for the murder.
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The 25th annual Stringbean Bluegrass Festival takes place in Jackson County
TYNER, Ky. (WYMT) - For 25 years, the Stringbean Bluegrass Festival in Tyner has been showcasing local and out-of-state bluegrass performers.
“It’s just something that’s really good for this community and you know, to kind of come together around this music and everything and just to be a part of that and its just really special and really important,” said Derrick Shepherd, one of the performers at the festival.
The festival was created by Phillip Akemon in memory of his uncle, David “Stringbean” Akemon, a banjo picker who made a name for himself in the bluegrass music world on the show Hee Haw.
“All my family play and it’s been a part of our heritage, you know, and a lot of people in Eastern Kentucky here,” said Akemon.
Akemon said, through this festival, he hopes bluegrass music can live on through the younger generations.
“You see those young people playing on the stage, it’s not going to die,” he said. “It’s kindly in their system, it’s in their blood.”
Akemon added he hopes the memory of his uncle Stringbean can remind other bluegrass artists who hit the festival stage that anything is possible.
“For young people, anybody that wants to pursue what their dream is, whether it’s music or something else, if they’ll stay with it, they can accomplish it,” said Akemon. “If a feller out of this area can do that, you can from anywhere.”
The festival kicked off Thursday and concluded on Saturday.
Akemon said the event brought in performers from California, Texas and Arkansas, as well as several local performers from right here in the mountains.
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LONDON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smith+Nephew (LSE: SN), (NYSE: SNN), the global medical technology company, today announces the first robotic-assisted surgery using its LEGION CONCELOC Cementless Total Knee System was performed by Dr. Cyna Khalily, an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in adult reconstructive surgery of the hip and knee in Louisville, KY.
Smith+Nephew is the only medical device company to offer both total and partial cementless knee implants, and now, a robotic-assisted solution for cementless total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with the CORI◊ Surgical System. The LEGION CONCELOC Cementless Total Knee System addresses the critical elements of the cementless total knee through its unique design. The asymmetrical keel is designed to provide immediate rotational stability, while the patented 3D printed structure of CONCELOC Advanced Porous Titanium encourages biological ingrowth.
The CORI Surgical System is a second-generation platform that is small, portable, and capable of performing robotic-assisted knee and computer-guided hip surgery on a single platform. Unlike other systems, it eliminates time, costs, and radiation exposure1 associated with preoperative CT imaging.
"The accuracy2 of precision milling, combined with the tactile feel of the press-fit and initial stability of the CONCELOC porous structure during implantation, are going to give surgeons the confidence to perform cementless total knee procedures," said Dr. Cyna Khalily.
Smith+Nephew continues to provide technological innovation with its robotics platform, coupled with advanced materials science and a history of successful clinical performance*3-6 with leading implants, like the LEGION CONCELOC Cementless Total Knee System.
"As an orthopaedics company focused on driving technology enabled procedures, it is important for us to continue delivering on our promises and provide customers innovative, comprehensive solutions, like our cementless knee portfolio which now includes a TKA solution enabled by CORI handheld robotics," said Randy Kilburn, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Orthopaedic Reconstruction, Robotics and Digital for Smith+Nephew.
Smith+Nephew is uniquely positioned to accommodate a comprehensive suite of procedural needs for primary implant solutions using enabling technologies and handheld robotics. To learn more please visit www.real-intelligence.com.
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- Victor J, Ghijselings S, Tajdar F, et al. Total knee arthroplasty at 15-17 years: does implant design affect outcome? Int Orthop. 2014;38(2):235-241.
- Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry (AOANJRR) 2021. Hip, Knee & Shoulder Arthroplasty Annual Report.
- National Joint Registry for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. Hertfordshire, UK 2021. 18th Annual Report.
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* We thank the patients and staff of all the hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland who have contributed data to the National Joint Registry. We are grateful to the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), the NJR Steering Committee and staff at the NJR Centre for facilitating this work. The views expressed represent those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Joint Registry Steering Committee or the Health Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) who do not vouch for how the information is presented.
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If you plan on doing some shopping this week, you’ll find great deals on everything from pajama sets to vacuums, furniture and even puzzles for rainy days.
A few of the retailers offering great sales this week include Nordstrom, Amazon, Walmart and Zulily. Unless otherwise stated, there are no coupon codes or memberships required, but you will need an Amazon Prime membership to get free 2-day shipping for anything you purchase from there.
Take a look at 12 of the best items you’ll find on sale this week that are definitely worth the money.
1. Moonlight Eco Short Knit Pajamas
You’ll save $18.01 on these Moonlight Eco Short Knit Pajamas from Nordstrom, now priced at $40.99.
Made of 91% Tencel modal and 9% spandex, the pajama set comes with shorts and a button-up top. The pajamas come in five colors and six sizes, but some color and size combinations are already sold out, so you’ll want to add these to your cart quickly.
MORE: The Best Pajamas for Women
The pajamas appear to be part of Nordstrom’s anniversary sale, but the store does not say when the sale will end.
Buy Moonlight Eco Short Knit Pajamas from Nordstrom for $40.99 (was $59).
2. Women’s Arizona Big Buckle Slide Sandal
You can get these Women’s Arizona Big Buckle Slide Sandal from Nordstrom for $129.99, a savings of $40.01 from the regular price of $170.
Available in just one color, the sandals have two buckles and “glossy leather,” along with a contoured footbed for arch support. The brand says the cushioning helps absorb shock and mimics the shape of a healthy foot to make you comfortable.
Like the pajamas above, the sandals are part of Nordstrom’s anniversary sale.
Buy Women’s Arizona Big Buckle Slide Sandal from Nordstrom for $129.99 (was $170).
3. Asbocer Pickleball Paddles
Have you been interested in joining in on the pickleball craze? You can start by grabbing this set of Asbocer Pickleball Paddles from Amazon for nearly 50% off, now priced at $37.59.
Weighing just 7.8 ounces, the USAPA-approved pickleball paddles are made with fiberglass and a “polypropylene honeycomb” technology, which the company says reduces vibration. The set comes with two pickleball paddles, two cooling towels, a bag and four pickleball balls.
Amazon prices change frequently and there’s no saying when the deal will end, so you’ll want to add them to your cart soon.
Buy Asbocer Pickleball Paddles from Amazon for $37.59 (was $69.99).
4. INSE Cordless Vacuum Cleaner
You can save a grand total of $350.02 on this Inse Cordless Vacuum Cleaner, now priced at just $99.97.
The vacuum works on hard floors, carpets and stairs, and because it is cordless and can transform into a handheld vacuum, you can even take it outside and use it to clean your car. It also comes with attachments for cleaning other parts of your home, like curtains, furniture and hard-to-reach areas.
Not only do Amazon prices change frequently, but at 78% off, this is a pretty great deal and may not be around for long. There’s also a chance it will sell out, so you’ll want to order it soon.
Buy INSE Cordless Vacuum Cleaner from Amazon for $99.97 (was $449.99).
5. Vans Pink & Green Tropical Vans Realm Backpack
You’ll save $34.74 on this Vans Pink & Green Tropical Vans Realm Backpack from Zulily, now priced at $20.26.
Made of 100% polyester, it has adjustable straps, a zippered pocket and zip closure. Zulily does not say when the sale will end, so you will want to purchase this quickly before it goes back to regular price or sells out.
Buy Vans Pink & Green Tropical Vans Realm Backpack from Zulily for $20.26 (was $55).
6. Shark Pet Pro Cordless Stick Vacuum
Walmart is offering a great deal on this Shark Pet Pro Cordless Stick Vacuum, now priced at $169, a savings of $130.
The Shark vacuum has a 40-minute runtime and can be converted into a handheld vacuum. It can maneuver under furniture and works on both hard floors and carpets.
Walmart does not say when the sale ends, but at 43% off, there’s a chance it won’t last long or will sell out quickly, so you will want to purchase it soon.
Buy Shark Pet Pro Cordless Stick Vacuum from Walmart for $169 (was $299).
7. Cobble Hill “The Four Seasons” 2000-Piece Puzzle
Looking to stock up on puzzles for your next rainy summer day? Zulily is offering discounts on a handful of puzzles, including this Cobble Hill “The Four Seasons” 2000-Piece Puzzle, priced at $19.99.
Recommended for ages 12 and up, the puzzle features scenes for all four seasons so you can dream about crisp fall mornings or snowy winter days.
Not the puzzle for you? Zulily has dozens of others on sale as well, all priced at under $20. You’ll find other seasonal puzzles like this Haunted House or this one full of holiday baking inspiration, plus others you can put together year-round like this hummingbird or this one with a picturesque scene of a rainy day stroll.
Buy Cobble Hill “The Four Seasons” 2000-Piece Puzzle from Zulily for $19.99 (was $26.99).
8. Arctix Kids Insulated Snow Bib Overalls
It may be summer, but if you’re already planning ahead for the next winter storm, you’ll find these Arctix Kids Insulated Snow Bib Overalls on sale from Amazon.
The machine-washable overalls have a zipper closure and help keep your child warm in temperatures as low as -20 degrees Fahrenheit.
While a handful of size and color combinations are on sale, one of the lowest prices you’ll find is medium in the color purple, priced at $8.57. Other sizes go for as high as $45, so this is definitely a steal. All prices may change without notice, so if the size you need is on sale, you may want to order now.
Buy Arctix Kids Insulated Snow Bib Overalls from Amazon for $12.09 (was $45).
9. eufy Security by Anker SmartTrack Card
You’ll save $13 on this eufy Security by Anker SmartTrack Card from Amazon, now priced at $16.99.
The card helps you keep track of whatever you place it on by alerting you via an alarm through an app if the object is no longer near your phone. You can put it on any belonging, including inside your wallet, so you can always know if you’ve left something behind.
Amazon prices change frequently and because this is 43% off, chances are it will go back to full price soon, so you may want to order quickly.
Buy eufy Security by Anker SmartTrack Card from Amazon for $16.99 (was $29.99).
10. Mainstays Classic Open Shelf Nightstand
Looking to freshen up your bedroom? You can save $19 on this Mainstays Classic Open Shelf Nightstand from Walmart, now priced at $20.
The nightstand does not have drawers, so you can use it for things like books and plants, or anything else you’d like to display. The top is large enough to accommodate a lamp, alarm clock, your phone and more.
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The $20 price tag is only for white and black oak, but if you don’t mind paying a bit more, you can also get it in four other colors: canyon walnut, dove gray, espresso and rustic oak.
Buy Mainstays Classic Open Shelf Nightstand from Walmart for $20 (was $39).
11. Urban Shop Novelty Glass Mushroom Lamp
If you’re into funky decor items, you can save $5 on this Urban Shop Novelty Glass Mushroom Lamp from Walmart, now priced at $24.94.
Coming in five colors including blue, clear, pink, white and orange, the lamp is made of glass and works with a 15-watt type B bulb or 2-watt LED bulb. It also has a 5-foot cord, so you do not need to have it directly near an outlet.
Walmart does not say when the sale ends, so if you’re wanting the retro ’70s-style lamp, you should order it soon.
Buy Urban Shop Novelty Glass Mushroom Lamp from Walmart for $24.94 (was $29.94).
12. Air Choice Quiet Evaporative Air Cooling Cooler
We still have a while to go before cooler fall weather begins, so if you’re in need of some cooling down, you may want to check out this Air Choice Quiet Evaporative Air Cooling Cooler, currently priced at $39.99 on Amazon.
The air cooler is designed for personal use, not to cool your entire house, and works with or without water for different levels of cooling. The cooler runs for up to 10 hours and weighs just 1.5 pounds so you can take it with you anywhere — including outside, as it runs on batteries or USB charging.
The price may change without notice, so you’ll want to order soon before it goes back to the full price of $49.99.
Buy Air Choice Quiet Evaporative Air Cooling Cooler from Amazon for $39.99 (was $49.99).
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Lincoln, NE. (June 28, 2022) The Nebraska Rural Response Council, sponsor of the Rural Response Hotline, announced that their new website is up and running. Click on the link https://farmhotline.com.
The Rural Response Hotline has been serving rural communities in Nebraska since 1984 providing information and resources in times of crisis. Rural Response Council Chairman, Vern Jantzen of Plymouth said, “In addition to our (800) 464-0258 Hotline telephone number, farm, ranch, and rural residents now also have access to the website to obtain resources. We thank the Nebraska Department of Agriculture for their assistance in establishing this new website.”
Creation of the website was supported by a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant awarded to the Nebraska Department of Agriculture to support and expand behavioral health services to farm, ranch, and rural residents. The Counseling Outreach and Mental Health Therapy (COMHT) project that provides free counseling vouchers for farmers, ranchers, and rural residents in times of crisis is one of many services offered through the farm hotline.
Michelle Soll, administrator for Legal Aid of Nebraska’s Farm and Ranch Project that staffs the Hotline said, “Of course, we will still be answering the Hotline phone and providing that personal touch. We are excited that there is now an additional on-line option.”
Jantzen concluded, “There is a wealth of useful information on the new website. We are asking all our organizational partners to link to our new website from their website, as well as to help spread the news.” The farm hotline is supported through grants, and by private, industry and charitable donations. For folks who want to financially support the nation’s longest, continuously serving hotline for rural residents, it is as simple as clicking on the “Donate” button at farmhotline.com. | https://www.kfornow.com/new-nebraska-farm-crisis-hotline-website-is-available/ | 2022-06-28 21:48:42 | 0 | https://www.kfornow.com/new-nebraska-farm-crisis-hotline-website-is-available/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — TV personalities Gayle King and Charles Barkley will headline a new prime-time weekly CNN show, “King Charles,” debuting in the fall, the network announced Saturday as it tries to engineer a turnaround amid tumbling ratings.
CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht said in a statement that the show “will be an exciting new way we are delivering culturally relevant programming and unique perspectives to our audience, from two incredibly dynamic personalities.”
Licht said King will continue to anchor “CBS Mornings,” and former NBA star Barkley will continue his current role at Warner Bros. Discovery Sports.
Appearing on TNT to discuss the new show, King said she hadn’t been looking for an additional job but relished the chance to work with Barkley.
“What I think is so great for the both of us is that it’s live TV,” she said. “To me, live TV is like working without a net. So whatever happens, happens. I like that.”
The duo said they’d talk about politics but that the show would not be political.
“We don’t want to say, ‘We’re a liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat,'” Barkley said. “That’s one of the things that’s already ruined television in general.”
Cable news ratings are down across the board compared to 2022, when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was fresh in the news. CNN’s dip has been most dramatic — 61% in prime time in March.
CNN is a year into new corporate management with Warner Bros. Discovery, which hired ex-CBS producer Licht to run the network.
Licht’s revamp of “CNN This Morning” last fall was plagued with bad publicity in the wake of co-host Don Lemon’s ill-advised reference to a woman’s “prime” years, which offended many. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/gayle-king-charles-barkley-announced-for-weekly-cnn-show/ | 2023-04-23 18:40:17 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/gayle-king-charles-barkley-announced-for-weekly-cnn-show/ |
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A police investigation of a cyberattack on an Australian telecommunications company in which the personal data of more than one third of Australia’s population was stolen has resulted in its first arrest, investigators said Thursday.
Police launched Operation Hurricane in cooperation with the U.S. Federal Bureau Investigation after Optus, Australia’s second-largest wireless carrier, lost the personal records of 9.8 million current and former customers on Sept. 21.
The hacker dumped the records of 10,000 of those customers on the dark web last week as part of an attempt to extort $1 million from Optus, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., also known as Singtel.
A 19-year-old Sydney man was arrested on Thursday and charged with using the dumped data in a text message blackmail scam, police said in a statement.
The man, who has not been identified publicly, has yet to appear in court on two charges that carry prison sentences of up to 10 and seven years.
Police allege he sent text messages to 93 Optus customers demanding 2,000 Australian dollars ($1,300) be deposed in a bank account or the data would be used in a financial crime. None of the targets paid.
One of the extortion targets, identified only as Belinda and described as a mother of a 5-year-old child with cancer, told Nine Network News last week, “To be honest, it’s just not what we need.”
“I guess they’re just trying to hopefully pressure people into paying,” she told Nine.
Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Justine Gough said the investigation is continuing.
“The Hurricane investigation is a high priority for the AFP and we are aggressively pursuing all lines of inquiry to identify those behind the attack,” Gough said.
“Just because there has been one arrest does not mean there won’t be any more arrests,” she added.
The Australian government announced changes to its telecommunications law to protect vulnerable Optus customers.
The changes to the Telecommunications Regulations allow Optus and other providers to better coordinate with financial institutions and governments to detect and mitigate the risk of cybersecurity incidents, fraud, scams and other malicious cyber activities, a government statement said.
Optus ran full-page ads in Australian newspapers on Saturday under the headline, “We’re deeply sorry.”
The ad included a link to an Optus website that details actions that customers can take to avoid identity theft and fraud.
The government can change regulations without legislative approval. But the government hopes to pass changes to the Privacy Act in Parliament during the final four weeks of its 2022 session in response to the Optus breach.
The changes would include increased penalties for companies with lax cybersecurity protections and curbs on the quantities and types of customer data that businesses can amass, as well as the duration for which personal information can be kept. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/technology/ap-australia-updates-law-to-protect-data-after-optus-hack/ | 2022-10-06 18:39:53 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/technology/ap-australia-updates-law-to-protect-data-after-optus-hack/ |
SHANGHAI (AP) — Global and Chinese automakers plan to unveil more than a dozen new electric SUVs, sedans and muscle cars this week at the Shanghai auto show, their first full-scale sales event in four years in a market that has become a workshop for developing electrics, self-driving cars and other technology.
Automakers are competing to roll out faster, more luxurious, more feature-drenched electric vehicles in the technology’s biggest, most crowded market. The ruling Communist Party has invested billions of dollars in subsidies to buy an early lead in an emerging industry. Established global brands face intense competition from Chinese rivals.
For the first time since 2019, executives are flying in from the United States, Europe and Japan for the world’s biggest auto show after anti-virus curbs that blocked most travel into China were lifted in December. Auto shows in the industry’s biggest market went ahead during the pandemic, but on a smaller scale. Global brands were represented by employees of their China operations.
Drivers in the world’s biggest auto market bought 5.4 million pure-electric vehicles last year, or about two-thirds of the global total of 8 million, plus 1.5 million gasoline-electric hybrids. That was more than one-quarter of total auto sales of 23.6 million. This year’s EV sales are forecast to rise another 30%.
“Consumers lost interest in gasoline cars. That is the biggest challenge for foreign brands to compete in China,” said industry analyst John Zeng of LMC Automotive. “They are going to have to show their best EV products.”
Beijing is winding down government support and shifting the burden to automakers by requiring them to earn credits for EV sales. Manufacturers are pouring billions of dollars into developing models that can compete on price and features without subsidies. Many are forming partnerships to share soaring costs.
Auto Shanghai 2023 fills the cavernous Shanghai exhibition center, a 1.5 million-square-meter (16 million-square-foot) subcontinent of a building that is among the world’s biggest.
Volkswagen AG, the country’s top-selling brand, says it plans to display 28 models, half of them electrified. VW says it will debut its ID.7 limousine, which promises a 700-kilometer (435-mile) range on one charge.
China’s BYD Auto, which competes with Tesla Inc. for the title of world’s biggest-selling electric automaker, says it will display for the first time its U9 supercar from its luxury Yangwang brand. The automaker says the U9, with a 1 million yuan ($145,000) sticker price, can accelerate from zero to 100 kph (60 mph) in two neck-straining seconds.
China’s auto sales peaked in 2017 at 24.7 million but collapsed in 2020 to 20.2 million after dealerships closed as part of efforts to contain COVID-19. They are recovering but are yet to return to the pre-pandemic level.
The ruling party’s support for EV development is part of plans to gain wealth and global influence by transforming China into a creator of profitable technologies.
That campaign has strained relations with Washington and other trading partners, which are cutting off access to advanced processor chips used by makers of smartphones, electric cars and other high-tech products. China’s own foundries can supply low-end chips used in many cars but not processors for artificial intelligence and other advanced functions.
Sales of gasoline-electric hybrids and pure-electric vehicles rose 26.2% over a year ago in the first three months of 2023 to 1.6 million, according to the China Association of Auto Manufacturers. Sales of pure electrics rose 14.4% to 1.2 million while hybrids increased 75.1% to 433,000.
Tesla and some other brands cut prices by 5% to 15% starting in January after sales growth slowed, though to still-robust levels compared with the slack U.S. and European markets. That prompted warnings the squeeze on an industry with dozens of fledgling brands might force smaller automakers into mergers or out of business.
China also is, along with the United States, a leader in development of self-driving taxis and trucks.
Baidu Inc., best known as a search engine operator, is the most prominent among developers that also include Pony.ai. Geely Group, owner of Volvo Cars, Lotus and Polestar, has announced plans for satellite-linked autonomous vehicles. Network equipment maker Huawei Technologies Ltd. is working on self-driving mining and industrial vehicles.
Baidu and Pony.ai received China’s first licenses to offer autonomous ride-hailing services in Beijing with a safety driver aboard to take over in the event of an emergency in 2022. That came 18 months after Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo started driverless ride-hailing service in Phoenix, Arizona.
“We see very strong support from the government,” said Jason Low of Canalys.
At the auto show, Chinese brand Aito plans to display its new M5 SUV with autonomous technology developed in an alliance with Huawei Technologies Ltd. The telecom equipment maker is expanding into the auto and other industries after U.S. sanctions imposed in a feud with Beijing over technology crushed Huawei’s smartphone business.
China’s market is so huge that even brands whose strongest selling point is roaring, gasoline-powered engines are embracing electrics.
BMW AG says its whole vehicle lineup at Auto Shanghai will be electrified. The German sport luxury brand says it will unveil two new models, the i7 M70L and XM Red Label, and show its M760Le in China for the first time.
Italy’s Maserati, a Stellantis unit known for using high-performance Ferrari engines, plans to unveil its first electric SUV and says its electric sports car will get an Asia premiere.
Chinese luxury EV brand NIO Inc., which competes with Tesla at the premium end of the market, plans to display its latest SUV, the ES6. It promises a 610-kilometer (380-mile) range on one charge.
Mercedes Benz plans to unveil an electric SUV under its luxury Maybach brand and two SUVs. The company also has EV joint ventures with BYD Auto and Geely Group.
Toyota says it plans to unveil two new models in its bZ line of zero-emissions vehicles. Nissan plans to display its Max-Out electric convertible concept car. Honda is debuting a new prototype for its China-focused e:N electric brand.
Despite such investments, Western and Japanese brands need to be more aggressive about EV development to keep up with China’s rapid evolution, said LMC’s Zeng. He said many take too long to create models abroad without Chinese input.
“The model they bring to China lags behind Chinese models by three or four years in driving range and equipment,” Zeng said. “They have to learn to design and test cars in China for China.” | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/china-auto-show-highlights-intense-electric-car-competition/ | 2023-04-16 19:49:43 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/china-auto-show-highlights-intense-electric-car-competition/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In the central Oregon city of Bend, the sole Planned Parenthood clinic serving the eastern half of the state is bracing for an influx of patients, particularly from neighboring Idaho, where a trigger law banning most abortions is expected to take effect this summer.
“We’ve already started hiring,” said Joanna Dennis-Cook, the Bend Health Center Manager.
Across the U.S. West, many abortion providers serving rural areas were already struggling to meet demand in a vast region where staffing shortages and long travel distances are barriers to reproductive services for women. Oregon alone is larger geographically than the entire United Kingdom.
Some facilities serving rural communities in states where abortion remains legal worry those pre-existing challenges could be further compounded by the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as more patients travel from states where the procedure is banned or greatly restricted.
Anticipating an abortion ban in Idaho, Oregon lawmakers earlier this year created a $15 million fund to increase access to abortion services.
Northwest Abortion Access Fund, a nonprofit that helps patients pay for travel and the procedure itself, has been tapped to receive the first $1 million. NWAAF has worked with the Bend clinic for 20 years, and they are collaborating to meet the needs of a growing number of patients.
Dennis-Cook says her clinic is providing additional training for staff and modifying schedules “to ensure that we can accommodate increases in patient numbers” as more people travel farther for care.
Before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 20% of U.S. women already had to travel at least 42 miles to reach the nearest abortion clinic, according to 2014 data analyzed by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, which published its findings in The Lancet Public Health. Across much of eastern Oregon, that distance can jump to nearly 180 miles. As more states move to enact trigger bans on abortion, distances could increase further for many patients.
Dennis-Cook says the Bend health center has been seeing patients coming from as far away as Texas.
Bend’s clinic has six exam rooms and receives about 600 visits per month. As it is “on the smaller side,” Dennis-Cook said it is “limited” in what it can provide.
“We only do first trimester procedures here,” she explained. She added the clinic can’t do procedures involving general anesthesia. “We don’t have a plethora of nurses who can do that type of work to draw from.”
Smaller abortion clinics, particularly ones in rural areas, have historically grappled with shortages of staff and doctors who can perform the procedure. This in turn affects scheduling availability.
Amidst growing demand for travel funds, NWAAF has already exhausted its planned operating budgets for this year, according to Riley Keane, a Practical Support Lead for the group.
“Last year we gave away about $1 million all told,” Keane explained, referring to grants given to clinics to cover abortion costs and travel funds provided to patients. She said this year NWAAF is “on track to double that potentially.”
Keane expects the $1 million from Oregon’s new abortion access fund will make “a huge difference” for NWAAF, which normally relies on individual donors. She says this year marks the first time the group is receiving government money.
NWAAF says it is concerned about providing travel funds to patients in states where abortion is banned or greatly restricted, but added it is working with legal professionals to assess the shifting landscape.
“They keep us up to date on things we need to be concerned about,” Keane said.
In response to laws such as those passed in Texas allowing private individuals to sue abortion providers, the governors of Oregon, Washington and California announced a joint commitment to protect patients and doctors “against judicial and local law enforcement cooperation with out-of-state investigations, inquiries and arrests.”
The three Democratic governors also said they will refuse “extradition of individuals for criminal prosecution” for receiving or supporting abortion services that are legal in their states.
NWAAF’s service region includes Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska.
Keane says NWAAF will continue its work for now. “Currently, our legal advisers haven’t told us that we need to stop operating,” she said. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/lifestyles/healthminute/in-rural-west-more-worries-about-access-to-abortion-clinics/ | 2022-07-05 15:04:12 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/lifestyles/healthminute/in-rural-west-more-worries-about-access-to-abortion-clinics/ |
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Entergy Texas, Inc. board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend payment of $0.3359375 per share on its Series A Preferred Stock. The dividend is payable Oct. 15, 2022, to shareholders of record as of Oct. 1, 2022.
About Entergy Texas
Entergy Texas, Inc. (NYSE: ETI-PR) provides electricity to more than 486,000 customers in 27 counties. Entergy Texas is a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR), a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New Orleans. Entergy powers life for 3 million customers through its operating companies across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy is creating a cleaner, more resilient energy future for everyone with our diverse power generation portfolio, including increasingly carbon-free energy sources. With roots in the Gulf South region for more than a century, Entergy is a recognized leader in corporate citizenship, delivering more than $100 million in economic benefits to local communities through philanthropy and advocacy efforts annually over the last several years. Our approximately 12,000 employees are dedicated to powering life today and for future generations.
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NASA to crash spacecraft into an asteroid
Published: Sep. 13, 2022 at 8:05 AM CDT|Updated: 54 minutes ago
(CNN) - In about two weeks, NASA scientists will slam a refrigerator-sized spacecraft into an asteroid called “Dimorphos.”
The crash is only a test, and the asteroid is not threatening Earth.
Scientists want to see if the collision can change the asteroid’s orbit.
It’s the first test of its kind and could be a crucial step in learning how effective a crash could be in protecting the Earth from potentially being hit by an asteroid.
The mission is expected to happen Sept. 26.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s defense team has rested its case and closing arguments will begin later Wednesday at the Los Angeles rape trial of the former movie magnate.
Weinstein’s lawyers called six witness as they sought to cast doubt on the accounts of the women who have accused Weinstein of raping or sexually assaulting them.
Defense witnesses included a firefighter and a former security guard who testified that a false fire alarm went off at a Los Angeles hotel around the time an Italian model and actor alleges Weinstein raped her in her room in February of 2013.
The accuser, who went by the name Jane Doe 1 during the trial, made no mention of the alarm in her testimony, though prosecutors established in their cross-examination of the guard that it may not have been heard on her floor.
One Weinstein accuser returned to the stand Wednesday to provide evidence that she was in Puerto Rico and worked as a dancer on a film produced by Weinstein’s company Miramax, “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.”
The woman, known in court as Ashley M., was brought back by the prosecution as a rebuttal witness after the defense called the choreographer from the film to testify that she had no memory of working with her.
Ashley M. testified that call sheets from the film and pay stubs prove she was there. She has accused Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in a hotel room during the shooting of the film in 2003.
The allegations are not part of the charges against Weinstein. Ashley M. and three others gave accounts of sexual assaults by Weinstein to show he had a pattern of such acts.
The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused.
Prosecutors are set to start closing arguments in the afternoon after nearly five weeks of testimony at the Los Angeles trial. The defense will give its closing argument Thursday.
Jurors will be tasked with deciding on two counts of rape and five other counts of sexual assault dating from 2005 to 2013 and involving four women.
Weinstein has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys have said, and are likely to argue in their closing, that two of the women had consensual sex for career advancement with the former movie mogul, who was then among Hollywood’s most powerful men. The attorneys have said the encounters with the other two women didn’t happen at all.
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Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Maria Hinojosa, Alicia Menendez, Daniela Pierre-Bravo, Maria Teresa Kumar, Bianca Betancourt to serve on the Host Committee.
NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ColorComm will host the Latinas in Media dinner on Friday, October 6 at L 'Avenue at Saks in New York City to celebrate the work and accomplishments of the diverse Hispanic and Latinx voices in media and business.
"We are excited to bring together a powerful group of Latinas in media and business that are bounded and rooted by shared ideals," said Lauren Wesley Wilson, Founder and CEO of ColorComm, Inc. "The Latinas in Media dinner is a reminder that there is strength in unity and inclusivity when interwoven, and look forward to connect, support, and empower Latina women working in communications," said Wesley Wilson.
The private, intimate dinner will bring together high-impact guests including media hosts, journalists, anchors, correspondents, corporate executives and more.
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Mar-a-Lago worker charged in Trump’s classified documents case to make first court appearance
MIAMI (AP) — An employee of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Carlos De Oliveira, is expected to make his first court appearance Monday on charges accusing him of scheming with the former president to hide security footage from investigators probing Trump’s hoarding of classified documents.
De Oliveira, Mar-a-Lago’s property manager, was added last week to the indictment with Trump and the former president’s valet, Walt Nauta, in the federal case alleging a plot to illegally keep top-secret records at Trump’s Florida estate and thwart government efforts to retrieve them.
De Oliveira faces charges including conspiracy to obstruct justice and lying to investigators. He’s scheduled to appear before a magistrate judge in Miami nearly two months after Trump pleaded not guilty in the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith.
The developments in the classified documents case come as Trump braces for possible charges in another federal investigation into his efforts to cling to power after he lost the 2020 election. Trump has received a letter from Smith indicating that he is a target of that investigation, and Trump’s lawyers met with Smith’s team last week.
An attorney for De Oliveira declined last week to comment on the allegations. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and said the Mar-a-Lago security tapes were voluntarily handed over to investigators. Trump posted on his Truth Social platform last week that he was told the tapes were not “deleted in any way, shape or form.”
Prosecutors have not alleged that security footage was actually deleted or kept from investigators.
Nauta has also pleaded not guilty. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had previously scheduled the trial of Trump and Nauta to begin in May, and it’s unclear whether the addition of De Oliveira to the case may impact the case’s timeline.
The latest indictment, unsealed on Thursday, alleges that Trump tried to have security footage deleted after investigators visited in June 2022 to collect classified documents Trump took with him after he left the White House.
Trump was already facing dozens of felony counts — including willful retention of notional defense information — stemming from allegations that he mishandled government secrets that as commander-in-chief he was entrusted to protect. Experts have said the new allegations bolster the special counsel’s case and deepen the former president’s legal jeopardy.
Video from Mar-a-Lago would ultimately become vital to the government’s case because, prosecutors said, it shows Nauta moving boxes in and out of a storage room — an act alleged to have been done at Trump’s direction and in effort to hide records not only only from investigators but Trump’s own lawyers.
Days after the Justice Department sent a subpoena for video footage at Mar-a-Lago to the Trump Organization in June 2022, prosecutors say De Oliveira asked a information technology staffer how long the server retained footage and told the employee “the boss” wanted it deleted. When the employee said he didn’t believe he was able to do that, De Oliveira insisted the “boss” wanted it done, asking, “What are we going to do?”
Shortly after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago and found classified records in the storage room and Trump’s office, prosecutors say Nauta called a Trump employee and said words to the effect of, “someone just wants to make sure Carlos is good.” The indictment says the employee responded that De Oliveira was loyal and wouldn’t do anything to affect his relationship with Trump. That same day, the indictment alleges, Trump called De Oliveira directly to say that he would get De Oliveira an attorney.
Prosecutors allege that De Oliveira later lied in interviews with investigators, falsely claiming that he hadn’t even seen boxes moved into Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House.
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QUEBEC CITY, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - FLO, a leading North American electric vehicle (EV) charging network operator and a smart charging solutions provider, named Martine St-Onge as Chief Manufacturing Operation Officer (CMOO), effective Feb. 6. St-Onge joins a seasoned leadership team guiding FLO as it expands its technology portfolio and manufacturing presence.
"I'm delighted to welcome Martine, a highly qualified and effective leader, to the FLO executive team. With more than 25 years of experience in supply chain and operations management, Martine brings highly valuable expertise on how to strengthen FLO's manufacturing, procurement and logistics strategy," said Louis Tremblay, President and CEO of FLO. "Momentum for EVs is building fast, and Martine will play a key role in helping FLO execute its ambitious growth strategy while continuing to provide EV drivers with the best charging experience."
As the leader of FLO's manufacturing operation team, St-Onge will be responsible for the development and implementation of FLO's manufacturing, procurement and logistics strategy. She will manage the three FLO assembly plants, as well as the implementation of future plants to meet the growing demand for smart EV charging solutions. She will play a key role in the introduction of new products from a manufacturing standpoint and will support customer needs for FLO products, as well as the supply of parts to FLO's charging network deployment and support teams.
Based in Bromont, Québec, St-Onge holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.A.A.), Operations and Production Management from HEC Montreal, and a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management of Technology (M.Sc.A.) from École Polytechnique de Montréal. Over the last 25 years, she has developed strong operational experience at companies such as Bombardier, Hershey Canada, Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. and Abitibibowater Inc. Green Belt Six Sigma and LEAN certified, she will use her continuous improvement skills to manage growth intelligently and efficiently. Her management style is strongly influenced by her training as a business coach. Certified ACC with the International Coach Federation (ICF), she advocates a mobilizing coach-leaders approach.
FLO is a leading North American electric vehicle (EV) charging network operator and a smart charging solutions provider. We fight climate change by accelerating EV adoption through a vertically integrated business model and by delivering EV drivers the most dependable charging experience from curbside to countryside. Every month, we enable more than 1 million charging events thanks to over 75,000 fast and level 2 EV charging stations deployed at public, private and residential locations. FLO operates its network across North America and our high-quality charging stations are assembled with care in Michigan and Quebec. To learn more about what "EV charging done right™" means to us, visit flo.com.
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ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting a young Indiana police officer last month during an early morning traffic stop, officials announced Wednesday.
Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings said his office consulted with relatives of slain Elwood police Officer Noah Shahnavaz, the Indiana attorney general's office and prosecutors experienced in handling death penalty cases.
Cummings said “the unanimous decision" was to pursue the death penalty against Carl Roy Webb Boards II, the Anderson man charged with murder, resisting law enforcement and unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon in the slaying of Shahnavaz.
“The death sentence is the law in the state of Indiana and if it was going to be pursued this is the kind of case where it needs to be pursued,” Cummings said during a news conference in Anderson with police officials, other prosecutors and the late officer's relatives.
Cummings recently requested an additional $50,000 for his 2023 budget in anticipation of filing a death penalty request in the case.
Boards, 42, is accused of fatally shooting Shahnavaz, 24, through the windshield of his police cruiser early on July 31 in Elwood, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Indianapolis.
Shahnavaz had joined the Elwood Police Department about 11 months earlier. His father spoke with emotion during the news conference after placing his late son’s sunglasses onto a podium.
“He loved those sunglasses. He has those beautiful blue eyes, supersensitive to sunlight, so if you saw Noah you knew a pair of shades would be close by,” Matt Shahnavaz said.
He said colleagues at the Elwood Police Department would tease his son about how he perched his sunglasses on the back of his head, ready for use when needed — a habit he began in childhood.
“If you want a small, simple way that you can remember Noah, wear your sunglasses on the back of your head, Noah-style,” Shahnavaz said, before placing his son's glasses on his own head that way.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A family says they are in desperate need of help after losing their precious toy elephant while visiting Disney World last week.
On Saturday, Iowa resident Liz Atkinson made a post on Facebook asking for help after losing a stuffed elephant that once belonged to her late son Gabryel.
Atkinson said the elephant, named Bruce, was given to her son when he was in the NICU and was with him for over 50 surgical procedures that were done to save his life. Unfortunately, Gabryel did not survive.
“He slept with it every night and since his passing my husband and I have had it in our bed with us,” Atkinson said.
To honor their son’s memory, the Atkinson family took their surviving son, Sebastyan, to Disney World on Gabryel’s birthday.
“Bruce, of course, was brought on our trip and a small bag of our son’s ashes were inside the pouch on Bruce’s back,” she wrote. “The trip was a bit hectic with 3 different cities and hotels and grief brain kicked in at some point with all of the emotions, making me really struggle with simple memory tasks.”
According to Atkinson, the family was first at the Beachside Resort in Cocoa Beach from April 22 to April 24. During that time, the family went parasailing, with Sebastyan holding Bruce on the trip.
“This is where the trip gets hazy in my memory due to emotions and grief,” Atkinson said. “Thinking back, I don’t recall Sebastyan bringing him back to our vehicle.”
She said that they spent some time at Disney Springs on April 24 and then the Palazzo in Kissimmee until April 25.
Atkinson said she did not recall carrying the stuffed elephant to the hotel, and while it would usually be packed in a suitcase, the toy was not packed due to the parasailing trip.
By the time the family checked into Disney’s Art of Animation Resort on April 25, they noticed Bruce was nowhere to be found. They remained there on April 30.
“Because vehicles get messy on trips, I kept thinking maybe he was just mixed in somewhere (very unlike me, I know where everything is 100% of the time even on trips, thank you grief) but once we got home May 1 I searched EVERYWHERE,” she wrote. “Every bag. He’s gone.”
Atkinson said she called every location her family visited and filed a lost and found form for Disney, but Bruce is still nowhere to be found.
“I feel sick, struggling to sleep. I’m desperate,” she said.
Atkinson said she believes the elephant could be in the parking lot near Cocoa Beach Parasailing, the Palazzo, or the orange parking ramp of Disney Springs, probably after falling out of the car.
“I never in a million years would’ve thought that struggling with grief would have impaired my memory enough to forget him somewhere, and I tried very hard to make sure he was always in a bag or in my arms so this didn’t happen,” she said.
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NEW YORK, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: March 5, 2021 to March 22, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 19, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Okta, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Okta had inadequate cybersecurity controls; (ii) as a result, Okta's systems were vulnerable to data breaches; (iii) Okta ultimately did experience a data breach caused by a hacking group, which potentially affected hundreds of Okta customers; (iv) Okta initially did not disclose and subsequently downplayed the severity of the data breach; (v) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Okta's business, financial condition, and reputation; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Okta you have until July 19, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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BRONX, N.Y., Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Immune checkpoint inhibitors such as Keytruda and Opdivo work by unleashing the immune system's T cells to attack tumor cells. Their introduction a decade ago marked a major advance in cancer therapy, but only 10% to 30% of treated patients experience long-term improvement. In a paper published online today in The Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI), scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe findings that could bolster the effectiveness of immune-checkpoint therapy.
Rather than rally T cells against cancer, the Einstein research team used different human immune cells known as natural killer (NK) cells—with dramatic results. "We believe the novel immunotherapy we've developed has great potential to move into clinical trials involving various types of cancer," said study leader Xingxing Zang, M.Med., Ph.D., the Louis Goldstein Swan Chair in Cancer Research and professor of microbiology & immunology, of oncology, of urology, and of medicine at Einstein and a member of the Cancer Therapeutics Program of the Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center.
The surfaces of immune cells are studded with receptors known as "checkpoint" proteins, which prevent immune cells from straying beyond their usual targets (pathogen-infected cells and cancer cells). When checkpoint receptors on immune cells bind with proteins expressed by the body's own normal cells, the interaction puts the brakes on a possible immune-cell attack. Diabolically, most types of cancer cells express proteins that bind with checkpoint proteins, tricking immune cells into standing down and not attacking the tumor.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are monoclonal antibodies designed to short-circuit immune-cell/cancer-cell interactions by blocking either the tumor proteins or the immune-cell receptors that bind with tumor proteins. With no brakes to impede them, immune cells can attack and destroy cancer cells.
The limited effectiveness of checkpoint inhibitors prompted Dr. Zang and other scientists to look at checkpoint pathways involving NK cells, which—like T cells—play major roles in eliminating unwanted cells. A cancer-cell protein called PVR soon captured their attention. "We realized that PVR may be a very important protein that human cancers use to hobble the immune system's attack," said Dr. Zang.
PVR protein is usually absent or very scarce in normal tissues but is found in abundance in many types of tumors including colorectal, ovarian, lung, esophageal, head and neck, stomach, and pancreatic cancer as well as myeloid leukemia and melanoma. Moreover, PVRs appeared to inhibit T cell and NK cell activity by binding to a checkpoint protein called TIGIT—prompting efforts to interrupt the TIGIT/PVR pathway by using monoclonal antibodies made against TIGIT. More than 100 clinical trials targeting TIGIT are now in progress worldwide. However, several clinical studies including two large phase 3 clinical trials have recently failed to improve cancer outcomes.
Meanwhile, the cancer-cell protein PVR was found to have another "binding partner" on NK cells: KIR2DL5. "We hypothesized that PVR suppresses NK cell activity not by binding with TIGIT but by binding with the recently recognized KIR2DL5," said Dr. Zang. To find out, he and his colleagues synthesized a monoclonal antibody targeting KIR2DL5 and carried out in vitro and in vivo experiments using the antibody.
In their JCI paper, Dr. Zang and colleagues demonstrated that KIR2DL5 is a commonly occurring checkpoint receptor on the surface of human NK cells, which PVR cancer proteins use to suppress immune attack. In studies involving humanized animal models of several types of human cancers, the researchers showed that their monoclonal antibody against KIR2DL5—by blocking the KIR2DL5/PVR pathway—allowed NK cells to vigorously attack and shrink human tumors and prolong animal survival (see accompanying illustration). "These preclinical findings raise our hopes that targeting the KIR2DL5/PVR pathway was a good idea and that the monoclonal antibody we've developed may be an effective immunotherapy," said Dr. Zang.
Einstein has filed a patent application for KIR2DL5/PVR immune checkpoint including antibody drugs and is interested in a partnership to further develop and commercialize the technology.
Dr. Zang has previously developed and patented more than 10 immune checkpoint inhibitors. One of those inhibitors is now being tested in China in phase 2 clinical trials involving several hundred patients with advanced solid cancers (non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, head and neck cancer, melanoma, lymphoma) or recurrent/refractory blood cancers (acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes). Another of Dr. Zang's immune checkpoint inhibitors will be evaluated starting next year in cancer clinical trials in the United States.
The title of the JCI study is "Blockade of the immunosuppressive KIR2DL5/PVR pathway elicits potent human NK cell–mediated antitumor immunity." Additional authors include lead authors Xiaoxin Ren, Ph.D., and Mou Peng, M.D., Ph.D., Peng Xing, M.D., Ph.D., Yao Wei, M.D., Phillip M. Galbo Jr., Ph.D., Devin Corrigan, B.S., Hao Wang, Ph.D., Yingzhen Su, Ph.D., Xiaoshen Dong, M.D., Ph.D., Qizhe Sun, Ph.D., Yixian Li, M.D., Xiaoyu Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., Winfried Edelmann, Ph.D., Deyou Zheng, Ph.D., all at Einstein.
About Albert Einstein College of Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine is one of the nation's premier centers for research, medical education and clinical investigation. During the 2022-23 academic year, Einstein is home to 740 M.D. students, 194 Ph.D. students, 118 students in the combined M.D./Ph.D. program, and approximately 225 postdoctoral research fellows. The College of Medicine has more than 1,900 full-time faculty members located on the main campus and at its clinical affiliates. In 2022, Einstein received more than $202 million in awards from the National Institutes of Health. This includes the funding of major research centers at Einstein in cancer, aging, intellectual development disorders, diabetes, clinical and translational research, liver disease, and AIDS. Other areas where the College of Medicine is concentrating its efforts include developmental brain research, neuroscience, cardiac disease, and initiatives to reduce and eliminate ethnic and racial health disparities. Its partnership with Montefiore, the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein, advances clinical and translational research to accelerate the pace at which new discoveries become the treatments and therapies that benefit patients. For more information, please visit einsteinmed.edu, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and view us on YouTube.
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Highlights
- SQM will hold a hybrid Investor Day virtually and at the New York Stock Exchange on September 15, 2022. For more information or to register please visit https://sqm.connectid.cloud/.
- As a result of our operations during the first half of the year, over US$2.2 billion will go to public coffers.
- SQM reported net income for the six months ended June 30, 2022 of US$1,655.4 million.
- Earnings per share totaled US$5.80 for the first half of 2022, higher than the US$0.55 reported for the first half of 2021.
- Revenues for the first half of 2022 were US$4,618.6 million.
SQM will hold a conference call to discuss these results on Thursday, August 18, at 12:00pm ET (12:00pm Chile time).
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) (NYSE: SQM; Santiago Stock Exchange: SQM-B, SQM-A) today reported earnings for the six months ended June 30, 2022 of US$1,655.4 million (US$5.80 per share), an over 940% increase from US$157.8 million (US$0.55 per share) reported for the six months ended June 30, 2021. Gross profit reached US$2,462.1 million (53.3% of revenues) for the six months ended June 30, 2022, 663% higher than US$322.5 million (28.9% of revenues) recorded for the six months ended June 30, 2021. Revenues totaled US$4,618.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022, representing an increase of 314% compared to US$1,116.5 million reported for the six months ended June 30, 2021.
The Company also announced earnings for the second quarter of 2022 of US$859.3 million (US$3.01 per share), an increase of 857% compared to US$89.8 million (US$0.31 per share) for the second quarter of 2021. Gross profit for the second quarter of 2022 reached US$1,297.4 million, 598% higher than the US$185.9 million recorded for the second quarter 2021. Revenues totaled US$2,598.8 million for the second quarter 2022, an increase of approximately 342% compared to US$588.0 million for the second quarter of 2021.
SQM's Chief Executive Officer, Ricardo Ramos, stated: "We are very pleased with our results for the first half of the year. These results were related to favorable market conditions related to fertilizers, iodine and lithium and decades of investment, hard work, R&D and know-how. In fact, this year we are celebrating 25 years in the lithium industry. During this time, we have become a great partner to the government in this "public-private" alliance with CORFO. As a result of our operations during the first half of the year, over US$2.2 billion are going to public coffers due to the lithium operations. More than financial contributions, we are content that we have been able to develop the Salar de Atacama in such a way that we have become a world-renowned, integrated producer of value-added lithium products in Chile that are directly used in cutting edge batteries all over the world creating value to the local surrounding communities. All of this through a successful public-private partnership."
He closed by saying: "We are close to reach 180,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate capacity and as mentioned previously, we are not stopping there. Today, we are working to complete a lithium carbonate capacity of 210,000 metric ton of sought after, top quality, value-added product which will be produced right here in Chile. We remain committed to reducing our usage of brine and water through technology and continuous innovation. This new capacity will let us produce high value-added lithium products to power more than 5 million electric vehicles."
SQM is a global company that is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Santiago Stock Exchange (NYSE: SQM; Santiago Stock Exchange: SQM-B, SQM-A). SQM develops and produces diverse products for several industries essential for human progress, such as health, nutrition, renewable energy and technology through innovation and technological development. We aim to maintain our leading world position in the lithium, potassium nitrate, iodine and thermo-solar salts markets.
For further information, contact:
Gerardo Illanes 56-2-24252022 / gerardo.illanes@sqm.com
Kelly O'Brien 56-2-24252074 / kelly.obrien@sqm.com
Irina Axenova 56-2-24252280 / irina.axenova@sqm.com
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is asking state leaders to form a special legislative committee in the wake of last week's mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school where 19 students and two teachers were killed.
In a letter to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dade Phelan, Abbott outlined topics the committee should consider.
"I request that these committees review what steps previous legislatures have enacted, what resources the State has made available to local school districts, and make recommendations to the Legislature and the Executive Branch so that meaningful action can be made on, among other things, the following topics to prevent future school shootings:
- School safety
- Mental health
- Social media
- Police training
- Firearm safety
It is important the process begin immediately," Abbott wrote.
The request falls short of growing calls from some Texas House Democrats for Abbott to call a special legislative session.
State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who represents Uvalde, made the call for the session to change existing laws.
“To make sure we have a special session on about four issues — number one, raise the age limit to 21 on just like handguns. Number two, we limit magazine capacity. Number three, red flag laws. We absolutely need them. Number four, waiting period huge. It’s important," Gutierrez said last week.
Abbott said last week that existing laws would not have stopped the rampage in Uvalde.
"Evil stole those gifts from their parents on Tuesday," Abbott said during a recorded video message played for the NRA Convention last week. "And also remember this. There are thousands of laws on the books across the country that limit the owning or using of firearms. Laws that have not stopped madmen from carrying out evil acts on innocent people in peaceful communities." | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/abbott-calls-for-special-legislative-committee-after-uvalde-school-shooting/285-4742fa32-3223-4b36-885c-642a31417aa8 | 2022-06-01 17:07:47 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/abbott-calls-for-special-legislative-committee-after-uvalde-school-shooting/285-4742fa32-3223-4b36-885c-642a31417aa8 |
Several sport and gun clubs around the state of Delaware have filed suit against Gov. John Carney in the wake of the historic legislation passed at the close of the General Assembly session targeting a variety of firearms-related issues.
The lawsuit announced Wednesday specifically targets Carney's signing into law on June 30, 2022, House Bill 450, which immediately banned a number of what lawmakers classified as "assault weapons." Delaware State Sportsmen's Association President Jeff Hague called the new law "unconstitutional."
"We've promised from the beginning that if this was passed and signed by the governor, that we would take action and we have done so today by filing for declaratory, injunctive relief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware," Hague told WDEL.
The DSSA was joined by the Bridgeville Rifle and Pistol Club, The Delaware Association of Federal Firearms Licensees, the Delaware Rifle and Pistol Club and several individual members of those organizations in filing the suit.
Only law-abiding citizens are going to be harmed by this new law, Hague said, and while HB450 doesn't ban access to all firearms, it does directly interferes with an individual's right to keep and bear arms, he said.
"This is another effort to demonize an object that doesn't hurt people unless it's used by people that want to injure people in a violent way," Hague said. "DSSA has maintained for years that the way to solve violent crime that's done by any means--whether it's knives, fists, feet, guns, golf clubs, tire irons, hammers--is to look at the person behind the weapons, not the weapon itself."
Hague claimed this law would do nothing to lower violent crime in the state of Delaware, and said legal action was pending against the other bills passed as part of a gun control package, including HB451 and SS1 for SB6. Request for comment on the filing, found in full below, was submitted to the governor's office, and this coverage will be updated if an when a response is provided. | https://www.wdel.com/news/gun-clubs-file-suit-against-carney-over-hb450-assault-weapons-ban/article_6cf06da4-0867-11ed-85d0-cf04680fa883.html | 2022-07-20 23:56:42 | 0 | https://www.wdel.com/news/gun-clubs-file-suit-against-carney-over-hb450-assault-weapons-ban/article_6cf06da4-0867-11ed-85d0-cf04680fa883.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s move Wednesday to raise its key rate by a half-point brought it to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, the highest level in 14 years.
The Fed’s latest increase — its seventh rate hike this year — will make it even costlier for consumers and businesses to borrow for homes, autos and other purchases. If, on the other hand, you have money to save, you’ll earn a bit more interest on it.
Wednesday’s rate hike, part of the Fed’s drive to curb high inflation, was smaller than its previous four straight three-quarter-point increases. The downshift reflects, in part, the easing of inflation and the cooling of the economy.
As interest rates increase, many economists say they fear that a recession remains inevitable — and with it, job losses that could cause hardship for households already badly hurt by inflation.
Here’s what to know:
WHAT’S PROMPTING THE RATE INCREASES?
The short answer: Inflation. Over the past year, consumer inflation in the United States has clocked in at 7.1% — the fifth straight monthly drop but still a painfully high level.
The Fed’s goal is to slow consumer spending, thereby reducing demand for homes, cars and other goods and services, eventually cooling the economy and lowering prices.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has acknowledged that aggressively raising interest rates would bring “some pain” for households but that doing so is necessary to crush high inflation.
WHICH CONSUMERS ARE MOST AFFECTED?
Anyone borrowing money to make a large purchase, such as a home, car or large appliance, will take a hit, according to Scott Hoyt, an analyst with Moody’s Analytics.
“The new rate pretty dramatically increases your monthly payments and your cost,” he said. “It also affects consumers who have a lot of credit card debt — that will hit right away.”
That said, Hoyt noted that household debt payments, as a proportion of income, remain relatively low, though they have risen lately. So even as borrowing rates steadily rise, many households might not feel a much heavier debt burden immediately.
“I’m not sure interest rates are top of mind for most consumers right now,” Hoyt said. “They seem more worried about groceries and what’s going on at the gas pump. Rates can be something tricky for consumers to wrap their minds around.”
HOW WILL THIS AFFECT CREDIT CARD RATES?
Even before the Fed’s latest move, credit card borrowing rates had reached their highest level since 1996, according to Bankrate.com, and these will likely continue to rise.
And with prices still surging, there are signs that Americans are increasingly relying on credit cards to help maintain their spending. Total credit card balances have topped $900 billion, according to the Fed, a record high, though that amount isn’t adjusted for inflation.
John Leer, chief economist at Morning Consult, a survey research firm, said its polling suggests that more Americans are spending down the savings they accumulated during the pandemic and are using credit instead. Eventually, rising rates could make it harder for those households to pay off their debts.
Those who don’t qualify for low-rate credit cards because of weak credit scores are already paying significantly higher interest on their balances, and they’ll continue to.
As rates have risen, zero percent loans marketed as “Buy Now, Pay Later” have also become popular with consumers. But longer-term loans of more than four payments that these companies offer are subject to the same increased borrowing rates as credit cards.
For people who have home equity lines of credit or other variable-interest debt, rates will increase by roughly the same amount as the Fed hike, usually within one or two billing cycles. That’s because those rates are based in part on banks’ prime rate, which follows the Fed’s.
HOW ARE SAVERS AFFECTED?
The rising returns on high-yield savings accounts and certificates of deposit (CDs) have put them at levels not seen since 2009, which means that households may want to boost savings if possible. You can also now earn more on bonds and other fixed-income investments.
Though savings, CDs, and money market accounts don’t typically track the Fed’s changes, online banks and others that offer high-yield savings accounts can be exceptions. These institutions typically compete aggressively for depositors. (The catch: They sometimes require significantly high deposits.)
In general, banks tend to capitalize on a higher-rate environment to boost their profits by imposing higher rates on borrowers, without necessarily offering juicer rates to savers.
WILL THIS AFFECT HOME OWNERSHIP?
Last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported that the average rate on the benchmark 30-year mortgage dipped to 6.33%. That means the rate on a typical home loan is still about twice as expensive as it was a year ago.
Mortgage rates don’t always move in tandem with the Fed’s benchmark rate. They instead tend to track the yield on the 10-year Treasury note.
Sales of existing homes have declined for nine straight months as borrowing costs have become too high a hurdle for many Americans who are already paying much more for food, gas and other necessities.
WILL IT BE EASIER TO FIND A HOUSE IF I’M STILL LOOKING TO BUY?
If you’re financially able to proceed with a home purchase, you’re likely to have more options than at any time in the past year.
WHAT IF I WANT TO BUY A CAR?
Since the Fed began increasing rates in March, the average new vehicle loan has jumped more than 2 percentage points, from 4.5% to 6.6% in November, according to the Edmunds.com auto site. Used vehicle loans are up 2.1 percentage points to 10.2%. Loan durations for new vehicles average just under 70 months, and they’ve passed 70 months for used vehicles.
Most important, though, is the monthly payment, on which most people base their auto purchases. Edmunds says that since March, it’s up by an average of $61 to $718 for new vehicles. The average payment for used vehicles is up $22 per month to $565.
Ivan Drury, Edmunds’ director of insights, says financing the average new vehicle with a price of $47,000 now costs $8,436 in interest. That’s enough to chase many out of the auto market.
“I think we’re actually starting to see that these interest rates, they’re doing what the Fed wants,” Drury said. “They’re taking away the buying power so that you can’t buy a vehicle anymore. There’s going to be fewer people that can afford it.”
Any rate increase by the Fed will likely be passed through to auto borrowers, though it will be slightly offset by subsidized rates from manufacturers. Drury predicts that new-vehicle prices will start to ease next year as demand wanes a little.
HOW HAVE THE RATE HIKES INFLUENCED CRYPTO?
Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have dropped in value since the Fed began raising rates. So have many previously high-valued technology stocks.
Higher rates mean that safe assets like Treasuries have become more attractive to investors because their yields have increased. That makes risky assets like technology stocks and cryptocurrencies less attractive.
Still, bitcoin continues to suffer from problems separate from economic policy. Three major crypto firms have failed, most recently the high-profile FTX exchange, shaking the confidence of crypto investors.
WHAT ABOUT MY JOB?
Some economists argue that layoffs could be necessary to slow rising prices. One argument is that a tight labor market fuels wage growth and higher inflation. But the nation’s employers kept hiring briskly in November.
“Job openings continue to exceed job hires, indicating employers are still struggling to fill vacancies,” said Odeta Kushi, an economist with First American.
WILL THIS AFFECT STUDENT LOANS?
Borrowers who take out new private student loans should prepare to pay more as as rates increase. The current range for federal loans is between about 5% and 7.5%.
That said, payments on federal student loans are suspended with zero interest until summer 2023 as part of an emergency measure put in place early in the pandemic. President Joe Biden has also announced some loan forgiveness, of up to $10,000 for most borrowers, and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients — a policy that’s now being challenged in the courts.
IS THERE A CHANCE THE RATE HIKES WILL BE REVERSED?
It looks increasingly unlikely that rates will come down anytime soon. On Wednesday, the Fed signaled that it will raise its rate as high as roughly 5.1% early next year — and keep it there for the rest of 2023. | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/how-the-feds-rate-increases-could-affect-your-finances/ | 2022-12-16 02:53:07 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/how-the-feds-rate-increases-could-affect-your-finances/ |
NJ residents captured the spectacular fall foliage
We're just about a week or so past peak and the colors of fall are quickly fading to grey in New Jersey.
This year seemed to be one of the more colorful years of the past few.
Leaf peepers all over the state got some pretty good shots of Mother Nature's display.
Now with everyone armed with a camera, people are much more likely to get a shot of something they find particularly striking.
We asked listeners to share any shots they captured of the fall foliage in New Jersey in the last few weeks.
From the northern corners of the state to the tip of Cape May there was no shortage of color this year.
When European settlers came to the shores of the northeastern part of what now is the United States, they were astonished at the colors in autumn that they just didn't get back across the pond.
We tend to take it for granted here every year, but this year it was tough not to notice.
Thanks to our listeners who sent in these shots.
NJ Residents Captured The Spectacular Fall Foliage
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Downtown Atlanta Riot: Police release names, photos, charges of six arrested
ATLANTA - Atlanta police have released the names, mugshots and charges for the six suspects arrested during a riot in downtown Atlanta Saturday evening. Only one of the suspects was a Georgia resident.
Nadja Geier, 24, of Nashville, Tenn.; Madeleine Feola, 22, of Spokane, Wash.; Ivan Ferguson, 22, of Nevada; Graham Evatt, 20, of Decatur, Ga.; Francis Carrol, 22, of Kennebunkport, Maine; and Emily Murphy, 37, of Grosse Isle, Mich. were each charged with four misdemeanors and four felonies.
The misdemeanor charges include: rioting, pedestrian in a roadway, willful obstruction of a law enforcement officer and unlawful assembly.
The felony charges include: second degree criminal damage, first degree arson, interference with government property and domestic terrorism.
TIMELINE: HOW ‘STOP COP CITY’ MOVEMENT LED TO VIOLENT DOWNTOWN PROTEST AGAINST ATLANTA POLICE
FOX 5 Atlanta photojournalist Billy Heath captured two of these six individuals being arrested on video.
Nadja Geier, 24, from Nashville, Tennessee. Eight charges. (Credit: Atlanta Police Department)
Madeleine Feola, 22, from Spokane, Washington. Eight charges. (Credit: Atlanta Police Department)
Ivan Ferguson, 23, from Nevada. Eight charges. (Credit: Atlanta Police Department)
Graham Evatt, 20, from Decatur, Ga. Eight charges. (Credit: Atlanta Police)
Francis Carrol, 22, Kennebunkport, Maine. Eight charges. (Credit: Atlanta Police)
Emily Murphy, 37, from Grosse Isle, Michigan. Eight charges. (Credit: Atlanta Police)
In a press conference Saturday night, Mayor Andre Dickens and Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said city officials will continue to look for anyone who was involved in violence and destruction that night.
"My message to those who seek to continue this kind of criminal behavior: We will find you, we will arrest you, and you will be held accountable," Mayor Dickens said.
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HONG KONG, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bund Finance Center (BFC) in Shanghai officially resumed dine-in services at restaurants starting from 29 June. At present, Fosun's businesses and shopping centers in Shanghai, including the BFC, Yuyuan Tourist Mart, Forte Woli City, and Orstar City Zhenru, have fully resumed business operations. As major shopping centers shows signs of recovery, businesses that have been affected by the epidemic since March this year have quickly recovered, and the consumption vitality is ushering in a new climax.
In addition, thanks to the stabilization of the epidemic prevention and control situation and the arrival of the peak season in tourism industry, Fosun Tourism Group's domestic business saw a rapid recovery following a strong rebound in its overseas business.
After experiencing the "trough period" of the epidemic, Fosun's businesses in various segments have made steady progress, and is poised for a new round of growth.
As the Epidemic Situation Stabilizes, Businesses and Tourism Consumption have Rebounded Significantly
The resumption of dine-in services in major business districts in Shanghai is accelerating the economic recovery.
The robust momentum in business operations is also catalyzing business recovery. Positioned as a consumer group in the Happiness segment, Yuyuan Inc. takes "Oriental life aesthetics" as the top concept, and continues to refine the operation of the Happiness industry. In the first quarter of this year, Yuyuan Inc. continued to expand the business channels of its Jewelry & Fashion segment and continued to improve its product competitiveness. The sales volume of the Guyun Gold series products reached a new high, with a year-on-year increase of over 100%. In the first quarter, Yuyuan Jewelry & Fashion chain business opened 140 net stores, which brings the total number to 4,121 stores, consolidating its leading position in store expansion in the industry.
In terms of domestic tourism, Qian Jiannong, Chairman and CEO of Fosun Tourism, said, "Thanks to the stabilization of the epidemic prevention and control situation and the further relaxation of the epidemic prevention measures in Hainan, Fosun Tourism's tourism destination projects in Sanya have seen a significant rebound in visitor flow and occupancy rate." Entering the second half of June, the occupancy rate of Atlantis Sanya has exceeded 90%, and the hotel bookings at the end of the month are almost full. In order to welcome the return of tourists, Atlantis Sanya will launch the "2022 Atlantis Super Summer" event from 2 July to 31 August, including the marine fantasy acrobatics C Show, Shall We parent-child art festival and various children's summer camps to rekindle tourists' enthusiasm for tourism consumption. As residents in Beijing and Shanghai are resuming normal life, it is believed that Hainan will become the first stop for many consumers after a long absence of travel.
In addition, Club Med Joyview Qiandao Lake has served more than 3,000 customers since its trial operation on 16 June with an occupancy rate of more than 60% based on available rooms. The resort is located on the outskirts of the core city with high-quality ecological resources, making it an ideal travel destination for residents in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai after the epidemic.
Previously, Fosun Tourism's overseas business saw its first rebound. Since Fosun Tourism Group announced in April that it has turned profitable in the first quarter of 2022, international brands such as Club Med, Thomas Cook and Casa Cook under Fosun Tourism have actively seized the opportunity of the recovery of the global tourism industry, and have made remarkable progress. On 16 April, the bookings of Club Med in the second half of the year have surpassed that of the same period in 2019 before the epidemic. Among them, the bookings in two major regional markets of Europe and the Americas have increased significantly, outperforming the industry level. Thomas Cook's business in the UK saw an increase of more than 8-fold year-on-year in the first quarter of this year. Thomas Cook has also expanded into the Netherlands in March. On the basis of its original partners, it has adopted digital business models such as the use of websites and applications to expand its regional business in Europe. Casa Cook has also accelerated its expansion in Europe, with the new opening of Casa Cook Samos in Greece in May this year.
Innovation-driven: Pharmaceuticals and Hive Operations Performed Remarkably
Fosun continued its steady growth momentum in the Health segment with successive breakthroughs in regional cooperation, drug introduction, and research and development.
On 27 June, Fosun Pharma and Hainan Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone entered into an agreement. The two parties will translate scientific research achievements of innovative drugs and medical devices, diagnostic technologies and products into applications and conduct pilot trials based on Lecheng's real-world data, introduce overseas drugs and medical devices for urgent clinical use, establish regional cooperation with medical institutions, and strengthen the training of academic talents.
On the same day, Fosun Pharma and Amgen jointly announced a collaboration and license agreement for the commercialization of Amgen's two innovative drugs, Otezla® and Parsabiv®, in the Chinese Mainland (excluding Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, and Taiwan region).
Regarding research and development, Henlius has recently made a technological breakthrough in asymmetric multichain bispecific antibody cell line development (CLD), in which the stable monoclonal cell line increased the titer to 6g/L, and over 90% of clones expressed the desired products. Based on this achievement, the company was invited to the BioProcess International US West Conference.
Profound industry operations is an important driving force for Fosun's long-term development. Recently, Fosun Hive has renewed its efforts in industry operations, and Hefei Yungu Financial City has ushered in a new round of industrial development, further consolidating the benchmarking and intelligent manufacturing capabilities of hive city. On 27 June, the opening ceremony of enterprises and the signing ceremony of project settlement in Hefei Yungu Financial City Park were successfully held. Among them, the Securities Division of HuaAn Securities on Yungu Road, Binhu New District, Hefei and the Anhui Branch of the Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tsinghua University successfully opened. In addition, Alltrust Insurance has entered into an agreement to establish a presence in Hefei Yungu Financial City. With the continuous introduction of high-quality enterprises, the park has gathered more industries and headquarters bases.
About Fosun
Founded in 1992, Fosun is a global innovation-driven consumer group dedicated to providing high-quality products and services for families around the world in Health, Happiness, Wealth, and Intelligent Manufacturing segments. In 2007, Fosun International Limited was listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 00656.HK). In 2021, Fosun International's total revenue was RMB161.3 billion and total assets amounted to RMB806.4 billion. Fosun International ranks No.589 on the 2022 Forbes Global 2000 List, with a MSCI ESG rating of AA.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The International Seabed Authority — the United Nations body that regulates the world’s ocean floor — is preparing to resume negotiations that could open the international seabed for mining, including for materials critical for the green energy transition.
Years long negotiations are reaching a critical point where the authority will soon need to begin accepting mining permit applications, adding to worries over the potential impacts on sparsely researched marine ecosystems and habitats of the deep sea.
Here’s a look at what deep sea mining is, why some companies and countries are applying for permits to carry it out and why environmental activists are raising concerns.
WHAT IS DEEP SEA MINING?Deep sea mining involves removing mineral deposits and metals from the ocean’s seabed. There are three types of such mining: taking deposit-rich polymetallic nodules off the ocean floor, mining massive seafloor sulphide deposits and stripping cobalt crusts from rock.
These nodules, deposits and crusts contain materials, such as nickel, rare earths, cobalt and more, that are needed for batteries and other materials used in tapping renewable energy and also for everyday technology like cellphones and computers.
Engineering and technology used for deep sea mining are still evolving. Some companies are looking to vacuum materials from seafloor using massive pumps. Others are developing artificial intelligence-based technology that would teach deep sea robots how to pluck nodules from the floor. Some are looking to use advanced machines that could mine materials off side of huge underwater mountains and volcanoes.
Companies and governments view these as strategically important resources that will be needed as onshore reserves are depleted and demand continues to rise.
HOW IS DEEP SEA MINING REGULATED NOW?Countries manage their own maritime territory and exclusive economic zones, while the high seas and the international ocean floor are governed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas. It is considered to apply to states regardless of whether or not they have signed or ratified it. Under the treaty, the seabed and its mineral resources are considered the “common heritage of mankind” that must be managed in a way that protects the interests of humanity through the sharing of economic benefits, support for marine scientific research, and protecting marine environments.
Mining companies interested in deep sea exploitation are partnering with countries to help them get exploration licenses.
More than 30 exploration licenses have been issued so far, with activity mostly focused in an area called the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, which spans 1.7 million square miles (4.5 million square kilometers) between Hawaii and Mexico.
WHY IS THERE PRESSURE ON THE ISA TO ESTABLISH REGULATIONS NOW?A clause of the U.N. treaty requires the ISA to complete regulations governing deep sea exploitation by July 2023.
Countries and private companies can start applying for provisional licenses if the U.N. body fails to approve a set of rules and regulations by July 9. Experts say its unlike it will since the process will likely take several years.
WHAT ARE THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS?Only a small part of the deep seabed has been explored and conservationists worry that ecosystems will be damaged by mining, especially without any environmental protocols.
Damage from mining can include noise, vibration and light pollution, as well as possible leaks and spills of fuels and other chemicals used in the mining process.
Sediment plumes from the some mining processes are a major concern. Once valuable materials are taken extracted, slurry sediment plumes are sometimes pumped back into the sea. That can harm filter feeding species like corals and sponges, and could smother or otherwise interfere with some creatures.
The full extent of implications for deep sea ecosystems is unclear, but scientists have warned that biodiversity loss is inevitable and potentially irreversible.
“We’re constantly finding new stuff and it’s a little bit premature to start mining the deep sea when we don’t really understand the biology, the environments, the ecosystems or anything else,” said Christopher Kelley, a biologist with research expertise in deep sea ecology.
WHAT’S NEXT?The ISA’s Legal and Technical Commission, which oversees the development of deep sea mining regulations, will meet in early July to discuss the yet-to-be mining code draft.
The earliest that mining under ISA regulations could begin is in late 2024 or 2025. Applications for mining must be considered and environmental impact assessments need to be carried out.
In the meantime, some companies — such as Google, Samsung, BMW and others — have backed the World Wildlife Fund’s call to pledge to avoid using minerals that have been mined from the planet’s oceans. More than a dozen countries—including France, Germany and several Pacific Island nations— have officially called for a ban, pause or moratorium on deep sea mining at least until environmental safeguards are in place, although it’s unclear how many other countries support such mining. Other countries, such as Norway, are proposing opening their waters to mining. | https://www.postregister.com/features/smart_living/deep-sea-mining-permits-may-be-coming-soon-what-are-they-and-what-might-happen/article_2f601210-1c33-11ee-8f11-0fe1dd6845b3.html | 2023-07-08 12:29:38 | 0 | https://www.postregister.com/features/smart_living/deep-sea-mining-permits-may-be-coming-soon-what-are-they-and-what-might-happen/article_2f601210-1c33-11ee-8f11-0fe1dd6845b3.html |
(AP) – Ira “Bob” Born, a candy company executive known as the “Father of Peeps” for mechanizing the process to make marshmallow chicks, has died. He was 98.
Just Born Quality Confections, the 100-year-old family-owned company Born led for much of his life, said Monday that he had died peacefully on Sunday.
Born began his life in New York City on Sept. 29, 1924. His father, Sam Born, was a Russian immigrant who started Just Born shortly before his son’s birth. The family later moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where Just Born is still based.
Bob Born graduated from Lehigh University with a degree in engineering physics. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served as a radar specialist and a lieutenant on a destroyer in the Pacific. Later, the Navy sent him to the University of Arizona and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate work in math and physics.
Born applied to medical school and was accepted, but while he was waiting for his classes to begin, he went to work at Just Born. He fell in love with the candy business and decided to stay.
“The candy business was kind of catchy … it was interesting to him,” Ross Born, Bob Born’s son, told the Lehigh Valley News. “He enjoyed the science, the technology, the processing. He was very much into the equipment.”
In 1953, Just Born acquired Rodda Candy Co., a jelly bean maker that had a side business producing shaped marshmallow candies by hand. At the time, it took about 27 hours to make the marshmallows.
Bob Born saw the candies’ potential, so he and an engineer at the company designed and built a machine to make them in less than six minutes. The company’s current machines, which are still based on Bob Born’s design, now pump out 5.5 million Peeps per day.
Seventy years later, Peeps remain Just Born’s most recognizable candy brand, the company says. Just Born makes around 2 billion Peeps each year, or enough to circle the globe two-and-a-half times. It sells the most at Easter, but also has versions sold for Halloween, Valentine’s Day and other holidays.
Bob Born also came up with the recipe for another popular Just Born candy, Hot Tamales. Just Born also makes Mike and Ike fruit chews and Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews.
Bob Born became Just Born’s president in 1959 and held the role for more than 30 years. He last visited the Just Born factory on Feb. 15, 2019, when the city of Bethlehem proclaimed the first day of the Easter season as “Bob Born Day.”
He spent most of his retirement in Florida, where he led a literacy program and enjoyed hobbies including photography. He was active until a few months before he died, when he had a difficult recovery after a hard fall.
“Bob will be remembered as a tireless and passionate advocate for the candy industry and a wonderful supporter of our community,” said David Shaffer, co-CEO and chairman of Just Born, in a statement released by the company.
He is survived by his widow, Patricia; children Sara and Ross; five grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. His funeral will be private. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/father-of-peeps-marshmallow-candies-bob-born-dies-at-98/ | 2023-01-31 03:16:38 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/father-of-peeps-marshmallow-candies-bob-born-dies-at-98/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
03-04-07-15-17
(three, four, seven, fifteen, seventeen)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
03-04-07-15-17
(three, four, seven, fifteen, seventeen)
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BERLIN (AP) — A prominent figure in the far-right Alternative for Germany party has been charged over his alleged use in a 2021 speech of a slogan used by the Nazis’ SA stormtroopers, German prosecutors said Monday.
Prosecutors in the eastern city of Halle said that Björn Höcke was charged with public use of a symbol of an unconstitutional organization. Höcke, an influential figure on the hard right of Alternative for Germany, heads his party’s branch in the neighboring eastern state of Thuringia.
Höcke is accused of ending a speech to some 250 people in Merseburg in May 2021 with the words “Everything for Germany!”
Prosecutors charge that he was aware of the origin of the phrase as an SA slogan. In a statement, they said Höcke’s lawyers had denied that his words had any “criminal relevance.”
Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has come under increasing scrutiny from Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, which has placed its Thuringia branch under formal observation.
Höcke has in the past espoused revisionist views of Germany’s Nazi past. In 2018, he called the Holocaust memorial in Berlin a “monument of shame” and called for Germany to perform a “180-degree turn” when it comes to the way it remembers its past. A party tribunal at the time rejected a bid to have him expelled.
The charges against Höcke come as Germany’s mainstream parties are trading blame for polls showing support for AfD reaching a record high. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/prominent-figure-in-german-far-right-party-charged-over-alleged-nazi-slogan/ | 2023-06-05 19:30:03 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/prominent-figure-in-german-far-right-party-charged-over-alleged-nazi-slogan/ |
Charlotte County residents have just over one week left to bring storm-related debris to the county’s drop-off locations.
On February 11, at 5 p.m., the following locations will be permanently as for debris drop-off sites:
- Placida West Boat Ramp, 12560 Placida Road, Placida
- West Charlotte Mini-Transfer & Recycling Facility, 7070 Environmental Way, Englewood
- Mid-County Mini-Transfer & Recycling Facility, 19765 Kenilworth Blvd., Port Charlotte
Hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. All unloading must be completed by 4 p.m.
Both Mini-Transfer facilities will return to pre-storm business operations on Tuesday, Feb 14. Residents can make unlimited trips until then. Proof of county residency is required.
According to the website, restrictions and limitations are as follows:
- Construction and Demolition (C&D) Debris
- Cabinets must be broken down
- No items longer than 8’
- No more than 6 cubic yards per fiscal year*
- Tires with or without rims
- 22-inch maximum
- Furniture and Refuse
- Includes furniture, toys, swing sets, lawn furniture, etc.
- 12 times per fiscal year*
- No more than 18 cubic yards per fiscal year*
- Residential yard trimmings
- Between 10 and 20 inches in diameter
- Lengths between 6 and 8 feet
- Bundles that weigh more than 40 pounds
The following items will not be accepted:
- Business or commercial waste
- Perishable waste, such as household garbage
- Yard trimmings in plastic trash bags
- E-Waste | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/charlotte-county/2023/02/02/charlotte-county-debris-drop-off-locations-close-this-month/ | 2023-02-02 23:46:11 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/charlotte-county/2023/02/02/charlotte-county-debris-drop-off-locations-close-this-month/ |
The 2023 legislative session is in full-swing; with representatives and senators settling in and discussing bills. KUNM spoke with Gwyneth Doland, a political correspondent for New Mexico PBS, who was in Santa Fe this week talking to lawmakers about their priorities for this 60-day session and how it feels to be back in person.
GWYNETH DOLAND: I have to say it has been really hard to do reporting during the pandemic. And I think everyone in the Roundhouse is feeling that right now. I gave a lot of hugs yesterday, I saw a lot of other people giving hugs, people are glad to be back in person. And I think a lot more gets done. I will say that I was happy to see the legislature say they're going to keep allowing people to testify remotely. Because we have known for years that it is really hard in such a geographically large state, for regular people to make their voices heard to lawmakers.
KUNM: What are some of the strategies lawmakers have coming in when deciding on which bills to pass?
DOLAND: We talk about this all the time. I've been covering the legislature for more than a decade, and everyone talks about this cycle of boom and bust, we are in a boom, right now, oil and gas is booming. We've got a record-high surplus of money to spend in the budget. What we ended up seeing in years like this, and again, this is not too different, is that people come with really big ideas. And then there's a debate over ‘Well, can we afford to do this right now?’ Because yes, we have the money this year. But are we going to have it next year.
KUNM: As we know, we will have a 60-day session rather than a 30-day session this year. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages to this?
DOLAND: The advantage of a 60-day is that things get a good vetting. There's enough time for ideas to come and be heard by different committees, enough time often for the public to give their input. Now the 30-day session is supposed to mostly be about a budget, it is a sprint, and if anything else happens, it's pretty special. A lot of people watch the state of the state and they say, look at these people wasting our time, why aren't they doing anything. And you know, I worked in the State Senate as a clerk, so I saw exactly how long it takes just for the dang bills to get moved through the building, to being written, to being introduced, they have to build their committees, they've got to meet, and we have to give the public an opportunity to weigh in. So right now, it looks like there's nothing happening up there. But it's just because they're getting started.
KUNM: What are some of the main priorities for this legislative session?
DOLAND: Well in the interviews that we did yesterday, we talked to some folks who are really excited about getting some infrastructure projects done. Obviously, the governor's big priorities are education, she's got some really big proposals, I think there's going to be heavy debate on those. We've got some proposals she's putting forth on public safety and crime. Now, here's what we know is going to happen, the vast majority of these things are not going to pass. Right? You know, every year, there's, I don't know, something like 2000 bills are introduced, and they pass like 200. So in order for something to become law, it's a little bit hard. So I think the public needs to be engaged, and they need to let their lawmakers know what their priorities are and what they want to see happen. Because, frankly, with a lot of money, a lot is possible.
KUNM: Is there any early opposition to any certain topic so far?
DOLAND: Yes, of course, one of the governor's priorities is extended learning. So having students in school a little bit longer. Jeanette, you and I were together yesterday, when I did an informal poll about extended learning. And you know, a lot of people, a lot of students that are like, 'No I do not want to be in school any longer.' I know some young people very close to me who would oppose that idea. But, you know, there's this argument that we lost so much during the pandemic, and that we should make up for it by spending more time in school. There are a lot of strong arguments on both sides and I think we'll see a lot of that during this session.
KUNM: Gwyneth, thank you for coming on and spending your time with us.
DOLAND: Jeanette, thank you so much for working with us on this project this session and I hope that we will talk more about it. | https://www.kunm.org/local-news/2023-01-20/lawmakers-gather-in-person-for-2023-session-amid-record-revenues | 2023-01-21 01:43:49 | 1 | https://www.kunm.org/local-news/2023-01-20/lawmakers-gather-in-person-for-2023-session-amid-record-revenues |
Trying out fun, new restaurants is one of the best parts of having guests come to town. And we have a suggestion for the next time you play host!
Seabird just opened in the original Hitchcock Space on Bainbridge Island. The restaurant pays homage to the lesser-known seafood and products found in the PNW — like kelp and seaweed.
Chef and owner Brendan McGill joined the show to cook with seaweed!
Chilled Pea Soup and Smoked Black Cod, Snap Peas, and Kelp Oil
Serves 6 with extra
INGREDIENTS:
- 200 grams onion, thinly sliced
- 20 grams garlic, thinly sliced
- 30 grams extra virgin olive oil
- 750 grams dashi
- 750 grams ice
- 1125 grams frozen sweet green peas
- 150 grams spinach leaves
- 1 pound smoked black cod salad, recipe follows
DIRECTIONS:
- Sweat the garlic and onions with EVOO until completely tender and colorless.
- Add dashi and bring to a boil.
- Remove from the heat, pour over ice, and chill thoroughly.
- Blanch the spinach and then shock it in ice water to stop the cooking.
- Make sure all the excess water is removed from the spinach.
- Add all the chilled ingredients to a blender and puree.
- Season to taste with salt.
Smoked Black Cod Salad
INGREDIENTS:
- Smoked black cod or other fish (smoked salmon would be a good substitution)
- Lemon juice
- Parsley
- Chive
- Lemon zest
- Snap peas
- Kelp oil
DIRECTIONS:
- Pull apart the smoked fish and season with a squeeze of lemon juice.
- Cut your fresh herbs very fine and toss with the fish, then finish with a bit of lemon zest.
- Mix together with a spoon and adjust the seasoning (shouldn’t need salt on this smoked fish) with more lemon/herbs to your preference.
- Slice the snap peas on a bias and set aside for assembly.
To finish the dish:
Arrange a nice scoop of the smoked fish salad in each of the bowls, then garnish with the sliced snap peas and a drizzle of kelp oil. Pour over the soup at the table, blowing your guests’ minds with your table-side presentation.
Recipe courtesy of chef Brendan McGill of Seabird on Bainbridge Island.
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The Seasoned Ecommerce/Omnichannel Leader And Former Walmart Executive To Lead Thrasio's Strategy To Revolutionize Its Global Supply Chain Operations
WALPOLE, Mass., Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thrasio Holdings, Inc. ("Thrasio"), a market-leading next-generation global consumer goods company, today announced that Kunal Thakkar will join the company as Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO). Thakkar brings two decades of experience across global sourcing, procurement, production planning, customer experience, and end-to-end supply chain from a host of companies, most recently the personalized wine subscription service Firstleaf.
Prior to that, Thakkar was at Walmart leading a core strategy, implementation, data science and analytics team that handled supply chain logistics at scale for their international business segment. He previously served as the Head of Global Operations at international etailer Newegg managing end-to-end supply chain for the direct-to-consumer, business-to-business and marketplace business operations. He was instrumental in building the fulfillment service, cross border trade and same day delivery for the company. Starting his career at UPS, he spent five years providing supply chain and logistics solutions for its key customers.
"I am excited to welcome Kunal to Thrasio. His work experience makes him uniquely qualified for Thrasio, but it's his mindset that truly makes him a perfect fit," said CEO Greg Greeley. "Across all of the industries he was in, he has always put the customer first. That focus paired with his proven track record in omni-channel logistics makes him right for Thrasio's next business phase."
"Thrasio has established itself to be #1 in terms of the concept and aggregator model, but now it's time to think through a robust global foundation for supply chain and operations–and that's a challenge I couldn't pass up," said Thakkar. "Our focus will be in creating a superior post-purchase customer experience for our customers in partnership with our global suppliers, transportation partners and third party logistics providers–all while keeping cost optimization and profitability front of mind. I am eager to bring in innovation and digital transformation to help us optimize and develop the infrastructure that can truly support this company's growth.
"Creating strong partnerships with suppliers and vendors is my priority from day one," continues Thakkar. "I look forward to getting to know our business partners over the coming weeks and building long-term relationships."
Thrasio is the next-generation consumer goods company reimagining how the world's most-loved online marketplace products become accessible to everyone. We use a deep understanding of rankings, ratings, and reviews to identify and acquire quality brands selling beloved goods. Then we apply data science, logistical expertise, marketing smarts, and more to expand product lines and help them reach customers around the globe. With every brand we grow, item listing we improve, or product we develop, our goal is to help people everywhere make the most of every moment. We estimate that 1 in 6 US homes has purchased a Thrasio product. Our portfolio includes Angry Orange pet deodorizers and stain removers, Wise Owl Outfitters camping and outdoor gear, and more than 200 other Amazon and ecommerce brands. In an internet-sized sea of choices, we ensure what gets delivered to your door delivers. Thrasio was cofounded in 2018 by Joshua Silberstein. thrasio.com. How Goods Become Great™
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PLEASANT HILL, Mo. (WDAF) – A 78-year-old woman is accused of robbing a bank Wednesday in Missouri, and it’s not the first time.
Bonnie Gooch is accused in the robbery of Goppert Financial Bank in Pleasant Hill. Three years ago, at age 75, police arrested her in Lee’s Summit after a different bank was robbed.
In the 2020 robbery, Gooch was charged with stealing and convicted, but her sentence was suspended and she was ordered to have supervised probation, which expired in November 2021.
Incidentally, the latest accusation comes 46 years after another Gooch conviction. According to the 2020 criminal complaint, she was convicted of bank robbery in California in 1977.
Wednesday’s arrest happened only a few hundred yards from Goppert Bank, at Guido’s Pizza Place.
“And I saw two police cars pull up to the bank,” said Guido’s manager Justin Lewis. “I was driving into work and the girl was getting out. And I was like, ‘What the heck? An old lady?'”
Pleasant Hill Police Chief Thomas Wright said, “Obviously, it was a tense situation. But when the hands of an elderly woman come out of the car and that is who is driving the suspect vehicle, it’s a little shocking.”
Court documents show that when the 75-year-old Gooch robbed the Bank of the West in Lee’s Summit, her son called authorities and said “that his mother was ‘off her rocker’ and left the house angry, saying she was going to rob a bank.”
Police told Nexstar’s WDAF that in Wednesday’s bank robbery, employees were handed a note.
“Well, she’s very wily,” Wright said. “She did have an N95-type mask on. Sunglasses and plastic gloves.”
Maggie Kornis, 89, who was bringing her dog to a nearby animal clinic, stopped by the scene of the arrest. She said she can’t relate to a life of “senior crime.”
“I wouldn’t have the energy to do it myself,” she said. “You can’t run very fast at 78, I’ll tell you.”
“I mean, it doesn’t seem or sound believable,” Guido’s Lewis said. “My first reaction was like, ‘Of course in Pleasant Hill.'”
“Well, maybe she was desperate,” Kornis said. “You know sometimes we don’t save enough money.”
Wright said police are planning to look at Gooch’s overall health and financial situation as the case moves through the justice system. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/78-year-old-missouri-woman-accused-of-bank-robbery-for-a-third-time/ | 2023-04-07 17:06:46 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/78-year-old-missouri-woman-accused-of-bank-robbery-for-a-third-time/ |
WASHINGTON — As part of his concurring opinion to overturn the nation's constitutional protections for abortion, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called on the country's highest court to overturn other major rulings.
Thomas, the member of the court most open to jettisoning prior decisions, specifically called on his colleagues to review other precedents, including the court's 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, a 2003 decision striking down laws criminalizing gay sex and a 1965 decision declaring that married couples have a right to use contraception.
Justice Samuel Alito, in the final opinion issued Friday, wrote that Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to abortion, were wrong the days they were decided and must be overturned.
Joining Alito were Thomas and Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett. The latter three justices are Trump appointees.
Four justices would have left Roe and Casey in place.
Thomas, who first voted to overrule Roe 30 years ago, said in his concurring opinion, that the right to abortion is not a form of "liberty" protected by the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause, which prohibits the states from depriving "any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
He emphasized the Due Process Clause "does not secure any substantive rights" and "at most guarantees process". He then took a swing at other cases where due process is applied.
These cases include Griswold v. Connecticut, which secures the right of married people to obtain contraceptives; Lawrence v. Texas, which secures the right to engage in private, consensual sex; and Obergefell v. Hodges, the right to same-sex marriage.
While he wrote that the court "today declines to disturb" these cases, he suggested in future cases that it should reconsider these decisions based on due process precedent.
"Because any substantive due process decision is 'demonstrably erroneous,' we have a duty to 'correct the error' established in those precedents," his opinion said.
President Joe Biden, speaking about the court's decision allowing states to ban abortion immediately, called out Thomas' suggestion.
"He explicitly called to reconsider the right of marriage equality, the right of couples to make their choices on contraception. This is extreme and dangerous path the court is now taking us on,” Biden said.
Lucille Lannigan contributed to this report. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/nation-world/clarence-thomas-suggests-court-reconsider-same-sex-marriage-contraceptives/507-13b8de3d-e02d-473b-a7cc-8d2ef0d53e4d | 2022-06-24 19:07:14 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/nation-world/clarence-thomas-suggests-court-reconsider-same-sex-marriage-contraceptives/507-13b8de3d-e02d-473b-a7cc-8d2ef0d53e4d |
After a catastrophic 38-train car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, some officials are raising concerns about a type of toxic substance that tends to stay in the environment.
Last week, Sherrod Brown and J.D. Vance, the U.S. senators from Ohio, sent a letter to the state's environmental protection agency expressing concern that dioxins may have been released when some of the chemicals in the damaged railcars were deliberately burned for safety reasons. They joined residents of the small Midwestern town and environmentalists from around the U.S. calling for state and federal environmental agencies to test the soil around the site where the tanker cars tipped over.
A look at dioxins, their potential harms and whether they may have been created by burning the vinyl chloride that was on the Norfolk Southern train.
HIGHLY TOXIC, PERSISENT COMPOUNDS
Dioxins refer to a group of toxic chemical compounds that can persist in the environment for long periods of time, according to the World Health Organization.
They are created through combustion and attach to dust particles, which is how they begin to circulate through an ecosystem.
Residents near the burn could have been exposed to dioxins in the air that landed on their skin or were breathed into their lungs, said Frederick Guengerich, a toxicologist at Vanderbilt University.
Skin exposure to high concentrations can cause what's known as chloracne — an intense skin inflammation, Guengerich said.
But the main pathway that dioxin gets into human bodies is not directly through something burning like the contents of the East Palestine tanker cars. It's through consumption of meat, dairy, fish and shellfish that have become contaminated. That contamination takes time.
"That's why it's important for the authorities to investigate this site now," said Ted Schettler, a physician with a public health degree who directs the Science and Environmental Health Network, a coalition of environmental organizations. "Because it's important to determine the extent to which dioxins are present in the soil and the surrounding area."
DOES BURNING VINYL CHLORIDE CREATE DIOXINS?
Linda Birnbaum, a leading dioxins researcher, toxicologist and former director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, said that burning vinyl chloride does create dioxins. Other experts agreed the accident could have created them.
The "tremendous black plume" seen at East Palestine suggests the combustion process left lots of complex carbon compounds behind, said Murray McBride, a Cornell University soil and crop scientist.
McBride said it will be hard to say for sure whether these compounds were released until testing is done where the train cars derailed.
Which is likely why residents, politicians, environmentalists and public health professionals are all calling for state and federal environmental agencies to conduct testing at the derailment site.
ROUTES TO THE ENVIRONMENT
There is already some level of dioxins in the environment — they can be created by certain industrial processes, or even by people burning trash in their backyards, McBride said.
Once they are released, dioxins can stick around in soil for decades. They can contaminate plants including crops. They accumulate up the food chain in oils and other fats.
In East Palestine, it's possible that soot particles from the plume carried dioxins onto nearby farms, where they could stick to the soil, McBride said.
"If you have grazing animals out there in the field, they will pick up some of the dioxins from soil particles," he said. "And so some of that gets into their bodies, and then that accumulates in fat tissue."
Eventually, those dioxins could make their way up the food chain to human consumers. Bioaccumulation means that more dioxin can get into humans than what's found in the environment after the crash.
"(Animals) don't metabolize and get rid of dioxins like we do other chemicals," Schettler said, and it's stored in the fat of animals that humans eat, like fish, and builds up over time, making the health effects worse.
SHOULD RESIDENTS BE CONCERNED?
Birnbaum and Schettler agreed that residents have reason for concern about dioxins from this accident.
Even though they are present in small amounts from other sources, the large amount of vinyl chloride burned off from the train cars could create more than usual, McBride said.
"That's my concern, that there could be an unusual concentration," he said. "But again, I'm waiting to see if these soils are analyzed."
It takes between 7 and 11 years for the chemical to start to break down in the body of a person or animal. And dioxins have been linked with cancer, developmental problems in children and reproductive issues and infertility in adults, according to the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences.
Still, Guengerich thought that other potential health risks from the derailment — like the concern that exposure to the vinyl chloride itself could cause cancer — may be more pressing than the possible dioxins: "I wouldn't put it at the highest level on my list," he said.
Dr. Maureen Lichtveld, dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, agreed that vinyl chloride should be of more concern than dioxins for the public and said that even the mental health of a community rocked by the catastrophic derailment should be a higher public health priority than dioxin exposure.
As with many environmental exposures, it would be hard to prove any dioxin present came from the derailment. "I think that it would be virtually impossible .... to attribute any presence of dioxin to this particular burn," she said.
But most experts thought it was important to test the soils for dioxins — even though that process can be difficult and costly.
"The conditions are absolutely right for dioxins to have been formed," Schettler said. "It's going to be terribly important to determine that from a public health perspective, and to reassure the community."
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Texas woman sentenced for involvement in 2018 murder-for-hire plot to kill Austin jewelers
Travis County, Texas judge sentences woman to probation, requiring her to spend two days in jail on the anniversary of the murder, for the next 10 years
A Texas woman accused of being involved in a murder-for-hire plot of her husband’s parents, who owned an Austin jewelry store, was sentenced this week after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit murder.
A Travis County Judge sentenced Jaclyn Alexa Edison, who was 19 at the time of the crime, to 10 years of probation and 300 hours of community service, FOX 7 in Austin reported.
Along with probation and community service, Edison is required to surrender her passport and serve two days in jail on the anniversary of the murder for the next 10 years.
Edison and her husband, Nicolas Shaughnessy were accused of hiring a hitman to kill Shaughnessy’s parents, Ted and Corey, who were owners of Gallerie Jewelers in Austin.
TEXAS TEEN, GIRLFRIEND HIRED GUNMAN TO KILL MAN'S JEWELER FATHER, POLICE SAY
Nicolas Shaughnessy hired Arieon Smith and Johnny Leon to murder his parents, so he could cash in on their $2 million life insurance policy, as he and Edison were having financial struggles.
In 2021, Nicolas Shaughnessy pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 35 years in prison for his role in the murder-for-hire plot. Smith and Leon were also given 35-year prison sentences, the station reported.
TEXAS MAN PLEAD GUILTY IN MURDER-FOR-HIRE PLOT TO KILL HIS FATHER
Deputies discovered Ted Shaughnessy dead in his home with multiple gunshot wounds on March 2, 2018, after Corey Shaughnessy, the teen’s mother, called 911 to report an intruder at the home. Authorities said the murder-for-hire plot called for the mother to be killed as well, but she was unharmed. The family dog was killed in the break-in.
The elder Shaughnessy’s company posted on Facebook in April that Nicolas Shaughnessy was set to take over the jewelry shop, and an obituary published in the Austin American-Statesman said he was "a proud father to his son, Nicolas."
When questioned by detectives, Nicolas Shaughnessy said he owed his mother $30,000, which he allegedly borrowed to start a day-trading business. Earlier that week, FOX 7 said, the two got into an argument over the loan.
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Detectives also interviewed Edison and searched her phone, which contained a conversation between the couple and a neighbor over $2,600 that was loaned to Nicolas Shaughnessy in 2017.
The investigation led detectives to the discovery Nicolas Shaughnessy was the sole beneficiary of his parent’s life insurance policy, and the conclusion the couple was experiencing financial struggles. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-woman-sentenced-involvement-2018-murder-for-hire-plot-kill-austin-jewelers | 2023-06-22 21:36:31 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-woman-sentenced-involvement-2018-murder-for-hire-plot-kill-austin-jewelers |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The toll from the weekend blizzard that hit the Buffalo area was approaching 40 deaths Wednesday from the region’s deadliest storm in generations. Homes are only beginning to warm after days without heat. Drivers are still claiming cars they had abandoned.
In a region that prides itself on being able to handle frequent and heavy snowfall, the natural question is: Why was this storm so paralyzing?
Officials note that they declared emergencies, warned residents, and positioned crews and equipment well before the first storm winds blew in. But the ferocity of a blizzard packing near-hurricane-force winds and more than 4 feet (1.2 meters) of snow severely limited what crews could do, even in responding to 911 calls.
On Wednesday, tensions surfaced between the region’s two top elected officials, with Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz swiping at snow-removal efforts in the county seat of Buffalo, where a driving ban remained in place and National Guard troops helped to enforce it.
“The city, unfortunately, is always the last one to open,” Poloncarz said. “It’s embarrassing, to tell you the truth.”
In the aftermath of the storm, many of the dead were found outside, and others were in snow-covered vehicles and unheated homes. Some were stricken after clearing snow. Others died while awaiting help during a medical crisis.
A look at the response and aftermath:
THE FORECAST
Meteorologists saw it coming. Four days before the arrival of bad weather, the National Weather Service on Dec. 19 warned of a powerful storm and repeated the warning with increasing detail each day. An urgent advisory on Dec. 20 warned of blizzard conditions and heavy snow. By Dec. 21, forecasters termed it a “once-in-a-generation” storm. On Thursday, a blizzard warning was posted to take effect at 7 a.m. Friday, describing heavy snow, high winds, windchills of minus 10 to 25 degrees (minus 23 to 32 below Celsius) and “difficult to impossible travel” through Christmas weekend.
PREPARATIONS AND RESPONSE
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, saying “a potentially life-threatening storm” was coming, announced Thursday that the city would be under a state of emergency once the storm arrived the next morning. Closures of schools, churches and offices, including government offices in Erie and neighboring Niagara and Chautauqua counties, poured in.
Gov. Kathy Hochul expanded the state of emergency to the entire state Thursday and said state equipment and personnel were standing by, and the state Thruway Authority — which oversees the interstate highways linking Buffalo to other major cities statewide — announced commercial vehicles would be banned for a stretch in the area at 6 a.m. Friday.
“We highly recommend private businesses to close on Friday and Saturday,” Erie County Executive Poloncarz said at a public briefing, using a slideshow to illustrate the forecast, blizzard conditions, and dangers of frostbite and hypothermia.
By Friday, the county upgraded a travel advisory to a ban — too late, critics said, for employees who were instructed to go into work. Poloncarz said later the intent was to allow third-shift workers to get home, that conditions deteriorated more quickly than expected.
Some people ventured out anyway. Among them was Sean Reisch, a 41-year-old salesman from the suburb of Cheektowaga, who came to regret the decision to pick up milk and bread Friday afternoon.
“As I pulled on one of our main streets, it was like incredibly whiteout conditions to the point where you literally couldn’t see anything.,” he said.
The store was closing when he arrived, and when he got stuck in the parking lot someone lent him a shovel to dig out his Nissan Sentra, loaded with presents for his young children.
He barely made it home, sticking his head out the window in a cold wind that “took your breath away” to dodge drifts. At last he stumbled into his house, stunned.
“I kept saying to my wife all night long, ’I don’t think you understand how lucky I am to be here.’ How lucky? I can’t believe I made it home through all that.”
STORM VETERANS
It’s no surprise that getting people to heed warnings is a challenge. But with climate change intensifying all kinds of global weather events, according to experts, the stakes are higher.
“People tend to normalize … ‘Well, I’ve lived here all my life. I went through the worst blizzard. I know what I’m doing,'” said Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency during the Obama administration. “This is something I think we’re going to really wrestle with with extreme weather … We’re seeing events that are exceeding our past experiences, and they’re exceeding our understanding.”
Fugate pointed to Hurricane Ian’s death toll in Lee County, Florida, in the fall, and the criticism the county faced for issuing a mandatory evacuation order just one day before the storm hit, choosing to wait while surrounding counties posted theirs.
With the blizzard arriving on the last shopping day before Christmas Eve, many employees, some citing the lack of a driving ban, said they felt pressured to go to work.
“If there’s criticism that it wasn’t done right, I’ll take it,” Poloncarz responded Wednesday.
THE HOLIDAY
Erie County Emergency Services Commissioner Dan Neaverth Jr. said he had to put his foot down to keep his own family members from running last-minute holiday errands in the storm, something many of those stranded were likely doing.
“How this fell, exactly where it did, heading into a holiday weekend,” he said, “I think that that had a tremendous impact on people wanting and feeling that need. … but not everybody had the benefit of a father who said, ‘Absolutely not, under no circumstances should you go out.'”
THE CRITICISM
Some residents of Buffalo, about 27% of whom live in poverty, bristled at instructions to “stock up” on food and medicine before the storm, calling it unrealistic.
Others questioned whether the region has enough specialized equipment to handle increasingly common extreme weather after volunteer snowmobile operators and emergency responders from outside agencies sent people and equipment. Poloncarz suggested Wednesday that the county, with more money and other resources, should take over the city’s future storm operations.
As National Guard members knocked on doors Wednesday conducting wellness checks, guard spokesperson Eric Durr addressed complaints members did not respond to the sometimes desperate pleas filling social media from people trapped in cars, freezing in homes without power or suffering medical emergencies.
Hochul had said Friday that 54 members of the National Guard and five vehicles would be deployed in Erie County to help.
At one point Saturday, almost every fire truck in Buffalo was stranded, along with numerous police vehicles, and residents of Buffalo and several suburbs were told emergency services were unavailable. Even plows were pulled from roads.
“If the fire department isn’t there, chances are the National Guard can’t get there,” Durr said.
On Saturday, Hochul announced additional troops. By Tuesday, more than 500 National Guard members were in western New York, her office said.
POLITICAL FALLOUT
Responding to Poloncarz’s critique of the city’s response, Brown said that the city bore the brunt of the storm and that its narrow residential streets posed challenges. He suggested Poloncarz, a fellow Democrat, was “crumbling” under stress.
“Some keep working, some keep trying to helping the residents of our community,” Brown said, “and some break down and lash out.”
“I don’t have any feud,” he said.
THE FUTURE
Erie County Sheriff John Garcia was among those looking for ways to improve after first responders were prevented from answering calls, saying “better equipment, more equipment” would help.
“We never thought that it was going to be as bad as it was,” he said. “So do we have to get better? Absolutely.”
Fugate said FEMA has benefited from talking with survivors of hurricanes to ask why they made the decisions they did.
“We can’t ask that of those who lost their lives, but we can people who were stranded,” he said. “We can ask the questions: What more information did you need to make a better decision?”
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Associated Press reporter Heather Hollingsworth contributed from Mission, Kansas. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/ap-explainer-how-blizzard-stunned-even-winter-wise-buffalo/ | 2022-12-29 13:29:42 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/ap-explainer-how-blizzard-stunned-even-winter-wise-buffalo/ |
WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 11, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
547 PM CDT Thu Aug 11 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Victoria
County through 630 PM CDT...
At 547 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Telferner, or near Victoria, moving south at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Victoria, Guadalupe, Victoria Colony Creek Country Club, Dacosta,
Wood Hi, Victoria Detar Hospital North, Victoria Riverside Park,
Victoria College, Victoria Mall, Saxet Lakes, Brentwood Subdivision,
Inez, Salem, Victoria Regional Airport, Telferner, Ball Airport Area
and Downtown Victoria.
This includes the following highways...
US Highway 59 between mile markers 622 and 640.
US Highway 77 between mile markers 570 and 576.
US Highway 87 between mile markers 808 and 824.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2899 9681 2896 9681 2893 9679 2892 9679
2892 9678 2890 9676 2889 9674 2867 9675
2877 9709 2902 9694
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 016DEG 9KT 2886 9689
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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Biden to put issue of lowering drug costs at center of political agenda
LAS VEGAS - President Joe Biden will highlight the stark differences in how Democrats are tackling skyrocketing drug prices compared to their Republican counterparts as he gears up for an expected reelection announcement.
In a speech on Wednesday in Las Vegas that could serve as a preview of the campaign ahead, Biden planned to put the issue of lowering drug costs at the center of his policy and political agenda.
The White House thinks it has a winning message in showcasing legislation passed last year that is expected to save taxpayers billions of dollars and lower the cost of drugs for the roughly 84 million Americans who rely on Medicare.
FILE - President Joe Biden delivers remarks on reducing gun violence at the Boys and Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley on March 14, 2023, in Monterey Park, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
"These kind of savings will give people a little bit more breathing room, more comfort as they decide to go to the grocery store to buy their food, more ability to pay their rent, or maybe it’s just to do something decent for their families," Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told reporters on Tuesday as he previewed the Democratic president's remarks.
Biden plans to talk up how his administration is rolling out several parts of that law, passed in a Democratic-controlled Congress last year, that cap the price of insulin, make most vaccines free and allow the federal government to negotiate deals on a handful of pharmaceutical drugs for Medicare enrollees.
The federal government expects to see significant savings from those negotiations and to make money from a rule that requires drugmakers to send Medicare a check when they raise drug prices higher than inflation.
That'll help shore up the social safety net for older Americans, Biden told Democratic donors on Monday in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
"Not only is it the right thing to do for people, it cuts the deficit by $160 billion," he said.
Already, the legislation caps the price of insulin at $35 for disabled and older Americans who rely on Medicare.
Biden has proposed extending that cap to all Americans, but that plan faces an uphill battle. Efforts to pass laws capping the price of insulin for uninsured Americans or those with private insurance failed in the Democratic-controlled Congress last year.
Biden, however, has still championed last year's bill as a success for the millions of Americans who aren't on Medicare. Drug companies, facing public pressure after tripling their prices for the life-saving drug over the last two decades, have started to voluntarily lower the cost of insulin. Drugmaker Novo Nordisk announced Tuesday it was cutting the cost of insulin to about $72 a vial, on the heels of an announcement from rival Eli Lilly that it would start selling its generic for $25.
"This builds on the important progress we made last year when I signed a law to cap insulin at $35 for seniors," Biden said in a statement on Tuesday on Novo Nordisk's announcement. "I urge all other manufacturers to follow suit and Republicans in Congress to join us and cap insulin at $35 for all Americans."
Another part of the law that the administration hopes will have ripple effects for Americans: the requirement that pharmaceutical companies pay a rebate to Medicare when they raise the cost of drugs faster than inflation.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services won't send a bill to drug companies until 2025, but the federal agency has already started tracking drug prices. On Wednesday, CMS will identify 27 drugs whose prices were increased too fast, a move that will limit the price that Medicare enrollees have to pay for those drugs and that the administration hopes will motivate drugmakers to lower their cost.
Biden has sought in recent weeks to draw a stark contrast between how his party and Republicans handle health care affordability, repeatedly raising concerns that the GOP will seek to undo the Medicare cost-savings provisions or try to make cuts to the program.
Last week, Biden promised to fend off financial challenges facing Medicare by instead raising the Medicare tax rate from 3.8% to 5% on those with annual incomes of $400,000 or more.
Republicans leaders — who have publicly disavowed accusations that they'll the cut the program — have yet to coalesce around a plan to address Medicare's impending shortfalls. Last year, the House Republican Study Committee proposed raising the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters last week that Biden's plan to raise taxes for Medicare "will not see the light of day."
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Seitz reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Chris Megerian in Washington contributed to this report. | https://www.fox4news.com/news/biden-lowering-drug-costs-issue-policy-march-15-2023 | 2023-03-15 21:12:26 | 1 | https://www.fox4news.com/news/biden-lowering-drug-costs-issue-policy-march-15-2023 |
WASHINGTON — Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis, governors of states on opposite ends of both the country and the political spectrum, held up their governing styles this week as models for the nation ahead of the 2024 presidential election as they rushed to use their convincing midterm victories to stake a claim on the nation's most enduring political promise: Freedom.
“We affirmed clearly with conviction that we are a true freedom state,” Newsom, a Democrat in California, declared on Tuesday after handily winning a second term.
“We stood as a citadel of freedom for people across this country, and indeed across the world," DeSantis, a Republican in Florida, told a raucous crowd of supporters after cruising to his own second term.
But both men define “freedom” in vastly different ways. For Newsom, freedom means the right to say yes: To an abortion, to government-funded health care for immigrants, to gender-affirming care for children. For DeSantis, freedom means the right to say no: To COVID vaccines, to illegal immigration, to what he calls “indoctrination” on sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools.
Both messages have worked on smaller scales, solidifying each governor's hold on one of the nation's most populous states and propelling them as leaders of their political parties. Now, Newsom and DeSantis appear poised to take their messages nationally — a competition that could clash in a presidential campaign.
Newsom has sought out that conflict, running a TV ad in Florida over the summer to tell Floridians that “freedom is under attack in your state” and urging them to move to California. At every public appearance, Newsom doesn't miss an opportunity to criticize Florida or Texas, often mentioning DeSantis by name and referring to him as a bully.
“That zest for demonization coming from the other side, these red states where, you know, there’s a cruelty, talking down to people, bullying people, making them feel lesser,” Newsom said.
DeSantis often refers to Florida as “The free state of Florida” and attributes recent population growth in the state to people “voting with their feet” against coronavirus restrictions and liberal policies — a reference to California, which lost population for the first time in 2020 and lost a congressional seat.
“The woke agenda has caused millions of Americans to leave these jurisdictions for greener pastures,” DeSantis said. “Florida, for so many of them, has served as the promised land.”
Whether Newsom and DeSantis meet on the campaign trail in 2024 or later this decade is the big question, as both face obstacles from other prominent members of their party. For Newsom, it's President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, both of whom he has said he supports to be president. For DeSantis, it's former President Donald Trump, who is expected to announce a presidential campaign next week and is already taking shots at the Florida governor.
That uncertainty adds an interesting dynamic to the growing Newsom-DeSantis feud, said Jessica Levinson, a political commentator and election law professor at Loyola Marymount University.
“It’s like two boys fighting while their dads are still in the room,” she said. “They are both very much the substitute teachers waiting in the wings.”
Newsom has said he's not running for president and pledged to complete his full four-year term, though politicians have broken such promises before. DeSantis, notably, has made no such commitment. He smiled on Tuesday as his supporters loudly chanted “two more years,” a nod to his potential early exit as Florida's governor should he be elected president in 2024.
When not sparring directly, policies from Newsom and DeSantis clearly outline different futures for the country.
Newsom imposed some of the nation's most severe coronavirus restrictions, as well as vaccine mandates for government employees and health care workers. He signed laws to help women from other states travel to California to get an abortion and to protect children who come to California from other states for transgender surgeries and other gender-affirming care. And he used public money to give free health care to low-income immigrants living in the country without legal permission.
DeSantis, meanwhile, signed a law to let workers opt out of their employers’ COVID vaccine mandates. He banned abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. He enacted a measure that forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary schools up to third grade, a rule critics dubbed the “don’t say gay” law. And he poked his rivals by using public money to bus immigrants living in the country illegally from Florida to Democratic-led states.
“Freedom” has been a popular talking point for Republicans for years, often accompanied by words like “faith” and “family." Newsom is using it deliberately as an attempt to reclaim the word for Democrats, part of his strategy to overhaul the party's messaging. He has done the same thing with other Republican calling cards, including referring to California as a “pro-life” state because of its commitment to public health.
“We are the freedom party, and his view is we should say it,” Newsom campaign spokesman Nathan Click said.
Jamie Miller, a former executive director of the Florida Republican Party, said DeSantis has gained broad appeal through logical governance and a willingness to stand his ground on thorny issues.
“The message he put out is, ’I’m for the people, I’m for parents, I’m for logic,” Miller said, referencing the governor’s pandemic policies and a new law banning lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
“DeSantis has been certainly tough, certainly ready for the moment. He’s not afraid to fight for his convictions of what he thinks is best for Floridians and what’s best for the American people,” Miller said.
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Healthycell and Panaceutics partner to launch personalized and adaptive human nutritional supplements using patent-pending pill-free gel formulation technology to enable infinitely variable customization.
CHARLESTON, S.C., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthycell (www.healthycell.com) today announced that it has partnered with Research Triangle Park-based Panaceutics Nutrition (www.panaceutics.com) to enable on-demand creation of personalized nutrition gel formulas at scale. These formulas will be created in response to customers' individual biomarker readings and, eventually, predictive analytics.
With five products currently on-market, Healthycell is leading innovation in nutritional gels to replace pills in the $58 billion U.S. dietary supplement industry. Its ingestible gel dietary supplement products are taken straight from the gel pack, mixed into drinks, or blended into smoothies. Healthycell's new line of personalized gels creates the first outcome-based service where customers pay a monthly fee for testing and personalized gel formulations that are adapted over time to keep their nutrient levels optimized.
Historically, supplement personalization has been based on qualitative data from customer surveys, genomic analysis or static biomarker analysis, which fail to capture physiological outcomes, time variability and externalities such as diet. Healthycell's unique offering replaces the assortment of pills consumed by the typical supplement user, with a single, easy-to-use gel pack with nutrient contents that can be varied over time to achieve and maintain an optimal outcome.
"The future of human nutrition lies at the intersection of three core pillars: superior delivery, nutritional status monitoring and personalization," commented Healthycell CEO, Douglas Giampapa. "First, pill-free, ultra-absorption delivery systems. Second, validation via testing of biomarkers to determine actual rather than hypothetical levels of nutritional status. Third, personalization informed by real-time health data, which enable individualized formulations that match each customer's nutritional needs. We're delighted to collaborate with Panaceutics as a critical partner enabling us to offer this solution. We're enabling a mass market capability in response to the widespread demand for individually tailored consumer products and services, which have only been available as a niche offering."
Adam Monroe, CEO of Panaceutics, added: "We're very pleased to be working with Healthycell, the leading market player in gel-based dietary supplements, so this partnership is a natural fit. Our disruptive technology uses proprietary robotics, in combination with digital health platforms to rapidly manufacture personalized products at scale to serve individuals' needs and health conditions."
Panaceutic's robotic manufacturing technology makes use of 12 patents and is the only system currently capable of delivering customized, pill-free, all-in-one nutrition pouches to customers. A 30-day supply is built in a few minutes and delivered without refrigeration, directly to the consumer.
Healthycell is an advanced nutrition company helping people reach their potential through optimized health. It uses clinically proven, patent-pending ingestible gel technology called MICROGEL™ to deliver nutrients people can absorb and results they can measure in a pill-free experience they love. Their great-tasting dietary supplement gels are taken straight from the gel pack, mixed into drinks, or blended into smoothies. The company's products and services are built at the intersection of three core pillars driving the future of human nutrition: (1) pill-free, ultra-absorption delivery systems, (2) validation via testing of biomarkers, and (3) Personalization. To learn more, visit healthycell.com.
Founded in 2018, Panaceutics applies patented technology to produce customized nutritional products that can be personalized based on dietary assessments, genetic, microbiome and blood-based diagnostics, preferences, or beliefs, then delivered directly to end consumers. Panaceutics' automated robotic blending and manufacturing technology supports economical customization of nutrition products. To learn more, visit www.panaceutics.com.
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Winter has sent much of the country scrambling to find fashionable accessories to stay warm. However, some parts of the country don’t experience cold for long. In these cases, you may want to save money by buying something cheap. However, there’s nothing that says cheap winter accessories can’t look as good as expensive ones.
In this article: GoldWorld Bluetooth Beanie, Wander Agio Scarf and Vgogfly Winter Knit Gloves.
Common winter accessories
Four of the most common winter accessories are:
- Beanies: The head is one of the major locations where heat escapes the body (with the others being the feet and ankles). Beanies are a wise purchase, and they can cover the crown of your head and protect your ears. Some even have Bluetooth connectivity so you can listen to music comfortably, and many of these don’t cost much more than a standard beanie.
- Earmuffs: If you find beanies scratchy or otherwise uncomfortable, you can keep your ears warm by using earmuffs instead. Earmuffs come in three major types: Over-the-head and behind-the-head styles use bands to connect the ear cups that stretch across the locations in the name, while bandless earmuffs attach directly to your ears. Like beanies, some earmuffs are Bluetooth-capable for a small bump in cost.
- Scarves: Scarves have long been a popular accessory. They can elevate practically any outfit while keeping your neck warm. There are also “infinity scarves” that are just big loops you can easily put on and take off if you don’t want to have to wrap and unwrap throughout the day.
- Gloves: Gloves are a sometimes overlooked accessory. Often, they need to be taken off to interact with a touchscreen. However, many gloves today use special materials in one or two fingers that can interact with them. This feature is widespread enough that you don’t even need to pay extra for it.
Best beanies
Carhartt Adult Acrylic Watch Beanie
This beanie is made of stretchy rib-knit acrylic fabric and is made in the U.S., though it does use imported parts. It is one-size-fits-all, is unisex and comes in 24 colors.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
FullLight Tech Bluetooth Beanie
This Bluetooth beanie has a battery life of up to 23 hours and a 110-decibel speaker. The connection remains smooth and constant, and it comes in 11 colors.
Sold by Amazon
This Bluetooth beanie comes with an armband so you can keep your phone nearby while you work out. The battery can last for up to 25 hours, and it comes in five colors.
Sold by Amazon
This Bluetooth beanie has a battery life of up to 10 hours. It comes in 22 styles with some having either a small bill, a scrunched look or a pompom on the crown.
Sold by Amazon
This beanie is very stretchy, letting you fit it over your head to cover the ears with ease. Alternatively, you can let it scrunch loosely in the back. It comes in six colors.
Sold by Amazon
Best earmuffs
These earmuffs wrap around the back of your head instead of the top, leaving room for a beanie. They come in seven colors, and you can buy them individually or as a set of two.
Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
These classic earmuffs have extra-large cups to ensure that ears are fully and comfortably covered. However, the large cups make a big style impression. They come in five colors.
Sold by Amazon
Another pair of classic over-the-head earmuffs, these come in 20 styles and have cups that aren’t quite as big, making for a slightly more traditional impression.
Sold by Amazon
These bandless earmuffs cups attach directly to your ear, making them an alternative for people who find the bands of other earmuffs uncomfortable. There are two sets of four to choose between.
Sold by Amazon
These earmuffs have a behind-the-head band and Bluetooth support so you can listen to your tunes while keeping your ears warm and cozy. They come in four colors.
Sold by Amazon
Best scarves
This scarf has the feeling of cashmere with none of the cost, and it measures 11.8 by 70.8 inches. It comes in 26 styles, some of which arrive in a gift box.
Sold by Amazon
This infinity scarf is a good choice for people who don’t like having to frequently wrap and unwrap their scarf. Plus, this one can be pulled up to cover your nose for extra warmth.
Sold by Amazon
This scarf is extra long and wide at 78 by 28 inches, making it easier to fold as you like or to be used as something other than a scarf. It comes in 13 styles.
Sold by Amazon
This scarf measures 72 by 12 inches with an extra 3 inches worth of fringe. It comes in 41 styles with a mix of solid colors and checkered patterns.
Sold by Amazon
This extra-large scarf measures 83 by 23 inches and is made of wool to keep you as warm as possible. It comes with a storage bag, and there are 16 styles to choose from.
Sold by Amazon
Best gloves
These gloves have touch screen-sensitive tips on the thumb and index finger so you can use your phone without issue. Two pairs are included, and there are 18 bundles.
Sold by Amazon
Moreok Waterproof Thinsulate Gloves
These gloves are warm enough for those in extreme cold. They have a maximum cold resistance of minus 30 degrees. They come in six sizes and two colors.
Sold by Amazon
These gloves have touch screen-sensitive tips on the index finger and thumb and are water-resistant to fight off melting ice and snow. They come in five sizes.
Sold by Amazon
These gloves have a warm flannel lining and an elastic cuff to keep them in place. They also have touch screen-sensitive tips on the index finger and thumb. They come in five sizes and 13 styles.
Sold by Amazon
These gloves have anti-slip silicone nubs on the entire underside so you never drop your phone or keys again. They come in three sizes and four colors.
Sold by Amazon
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DETROIT (AP)The Detroit Lions may have earned more acclaim nationally in a loss than they did during their three-game winning streak this month.
They stood toe-to-toe with one of the NFL’s elite teams, the Buffalo Bills, during their annual Thanksgiving Day game before succumbing 28-25 on Tyler Bass’ 45-yard field goal with 2 seconds remaining.
Offensive tackle Taylor Decker said this isn’t the same old Lions, perennial laughingstocks that haven’t won a playoff game since 1991.
”We’re going to go out there and we’re going to get our respect, and we’re going to earn that respect,” Decker said.
The Lions (4-7) certainly didn’t look overmatched. They held a three-point lead for most of the fourth quarter, then drove for a tying field goal with 23 seconds remaining after Buffalo scored a go-ahead touchdown.
”We belong and they should know that and they do know that,” coach Dan Campbell said. ”They knew they had an opportunity, which they earned that opportunity, and we just didn’t close it out. And those guys made the plays and it’s a credit to them over there. But I do feel growth from our team and I feel us getting better.”
The Lions have a reputation of self-destructing with penalties, turnovers and mental mistakes. For the most part, they minimized those issues on Thursday.
They committed three penalties and have been whistled for just 10 infractions over the last three games. They had a pair of turnovers, but one came on the final desperation play. During the winning streak, they gave away the ball just once.
The Lions still need to run the table to have any realistic hope for a wild-card playoff berth, but no one’s laughing at them now.
”I think over the last four weeks, we just are such a different team, it’s such a different feel,” quarterback Jared Goff said. ”We know we can beat anybody. We know we can play with anybody. We know we can really dominate anybody, and that was a really good team out there, but we did a lot of good things.”
WHAT’S WORKING
The combination of Goff and second-year receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown has been clicking during the last three games. St. Brown has 26 receptions for 317 yards during that span, including a nine-catch, 122-yard outing against Buffalo. St. Brown also scored his first TD since the second week of the season.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
Campbell may be a fiery orator but the messages he’s giving to his team at halftime aren’t producing results. The Lions have been shut out in the third quarter in six of the last seven games. The only exception was a touchdown against the New York Giants last Sunday.
STOCK UP
The Lions have received major contributions from rookies this season and linebacker James Houston made his presence felt on Thursday. The sixth-round pick out of Jackson State came off the practice squad and became the first player in team history to record multiple sacks in his NFL debut. The last player with two sacks in his debut was Cleveland star Myles Garrett in 2017.
STOCK DOWN
Austin Bryant doesn’t have a sack this season after finishing with 4 1/2 last year. The fourth-year linebacker made a major impact in Thursday’s game in a negative way. He committed a roughing the passer penalty against Josh Allen in the fourth quarter. Buffalo scored a touchdown two plays later. ”They should know better,” Campbell said.
INJURIES
Cornerback Jerry Jacobs departed in the second half after feeling light-headed and could be placed in the concussion protocol. … LG Jonah Jackson (concussion), RG Evan Brown (ankle), DEs Josh Paschal (knee) and Charles Harris (groin) and CB Jeff Okudah (concussion) were inactive.
KEY NUMBER
13: Jamaal Williams scored his league-leading 13th touchdown during the first half. That ties him with Barry Sanders (1990) and Billy Sims (1980, 1981) for the third-most single-season TDs in franchise history. All of Williams’ TDs have come on the ground. The sixth-year player’s previous season high in rushing TDs was four.
NEXT STEPS
Receiver Jameson Williams could make his NFL debut against Jacksonville on Dec. 4. Williams, a first-round draft pick from Alabama, has been rehabbing a torn ACL suffered in the national championship game. He returned to practice this week and could quickly become a big-play source.
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