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JHAKOT, Uttarakhand, India – Lakshmi Devi and her husband live in a small village in the hills.
Just a decade ago, the farming community was home to 38 people from seven families.
Two months ago, Devi says, one of the three remaining families packed up their belongings and moved to Delhi, where their children had jobs.
"Loneliness takes over," says Devi, reflecting on this latest departure from Jhakot in the country's middle Himalayan region. Family after family has left in the past 10 years, Devi says, pointing out the village's half-dozen locked and abandoned houses.
Jhakot is one of some 1,200 "ghost villages" in the area — that's the term many use when the number of residents is down to 10 or so. And at least a thousand of those villages have been completely abandoned based on the latest official figures, which are far from current, dating back to 2011.
"These are permanent migrations," says professor Rajendra Prasad Mamgain, an economist at Doon University in Uttarakhand state. It's not a new phenomenon in this region, but the reasons for the current exodus have changed. "Migration has always been a part of the hilly regions of the Himalayas, except these latest ones are drastic and distress-induced," he says.
He says people are migrating from the upper reaches of the Himalayas to the plains along the Ganges River in Uttarakhand because of lack of jobs and schools — and, in the last decade or so, climate change, which has made it more difficult to farm.
And some observers say the government shoulders some of the responsibility, as policies that devote resources to urban areas are contributing to the transformation of a once-thriving farming region into a network of abandoned communities and devastated natural beauty.
The lure of the cities
Patti Devi (no relation to Lakshmi), who estimates that she's about 80 years old, lives about 60 miles from Jhakot in a village called Sumari. People in her village farmed to live but wanted a different life for their children.
Her family grew enough millet, fruits and vegetables to sustain a large family. "After we filled our stomachs, we began to seek education for our children," she says.
In 2011, her village had 112 families. It also had a government school, where Devi sent her seven children, and a hospital that served most of the village's primary health care needs.
But over the years, she says, families began leaving the village. Devi contrasts her village to Srinagar, the nearest town some 12 miles away with a population of about 20,000.
She says that in her observation, roads first came to Srinagar, and once the town was better connected to other nearby towns and cities, better paying jobs followed, then a school and a hospital. She says — and economist Mamgain agrees — that the residents in her village grew dissatisfied with the quality of the local school and the hospital, where the equipment was out of date.
Devi estimates that Sumari has about 25 households; all of her children have moved to nearby towns or larger cities, some even to Delhi.
As more people have left, Mamgain says, the government further neglected public schools and hospitals.
The only hospital in Sumari is closed. A new one was under construction but hasn't been finished, and residents think it's unlikely to ever open. A few stray cattle graze on the grass outside the construction site.
A way of life in peril
It has become harder and harder to make a living as a small-scale farmer. Part of the problem is the migration. Most people who leave the villages are between 26 and 35 years old, according to a report on Uttarakhand by The Energy and Resources Institute, an Indian and German research organization.
"Our children do not want to do agriculture anymore," says Krishna Lal, who estimates her age to be around 65 and who lives in the village of Gwad. They're looking for office jobs and other kinds of employment in towns that may be 10 or 15 miles away.
"My son makes the arduous journey to the office every day," says Lal — there's no asphalt road connecting to the nearest town. And, Lal adds, he "will not till the land he owns."
With fewer farmers in the village, many of them older, they can't keep up with tasks like fertilizing and watering their fields. So land has became unusable for agriculture, explains environmental activist Rajendra Negi.
Right now, only Lal's family and her brother-in-law's family remain in the village. "We used to grow our own food," says Lal. But without enough family members to farm, food security has become a major problem. To make ends meet, the villagers rely on money from their children or money from the state.
Climate change is exacerbating farming difficulties. A 2014 Uttarakhand government report says the state is already facing water shortages as temperatures rise, glaciers recede and rainfall has become erratic. So plants that depend on consistent rainwater are no longer reliable crops.
The government says it is concerned about the emptying of the hills. As people move to cities in the plain regions, water, sanitation, hospitals, schools and other services will become overwhelmed, says Sharad Singh Negi, who works for the Rural Development and Migration Commission, established by the Uttarakhand government in 2017 to study migration in the state.
The commission "really wants to focus on rural rehabilitation so that the pressure on the urban areas in the plains is eased out," Negi says. That would mean improving schools and health care, among other projects.
But that's a daunting challenge in villages scattered in the mountains.
A group of villages constitutes a panchayat. Each panchayat gets funds to set up schools, hospitals and day care centers. In Uttarakhand, villages that sit on adjacent hills form a panchayat. "In many cases, the primary school is on one hill, the secondary school on another and the hospital on the third," says Negi. "People have to navigate through tough terrain to reach any one of those."
For Lakshmi Devi, whose family is one of the two left in the hilltop village of Jhakot, that means a 15-mile trek across hills and fields, as there are no roads to the nearest town of Chamba, where they head for medical emergencies and even to purchase household supplies.
The land left behind
Even as the villages falter in this beautiful Himalayan land of hills and forests, the government is taking a further toll, some say.
India's urban areas are projected to grow by 70% in the coming decade. About a third of Indians live in urban areas now; that proportion is projected to grow to about 40% in the next decade. To meet the needs for drinking water, sanitation and housing, the government is launching infrastructure projects, many of them in the Himalayan states.
For example, to supply cities with electricity in the next decade, India is planning hundreds of hydropower projects, with many of them in the Himalayan states, harnessing the flow of the Ganges down the mountains.
"India is taking care of its burgeoning urban population by razing forests, setting up massive hydroelectric power projects and mining sand on the banks of the rivers in places like Uttarakhand," says activist Negi, who also runs a community radio station in Chamba.
"Such a model is inequitable and [ecologically] unsustainable," says the economist Mamgain.
Nor does it help the residents in the region. "Building large dams has not given the local people much," says Nrip Singh Napalchyal, a former senior planner in Uttarakhand. In fact, they believe they will suffer from these projects. In his home district of Pithoragarh, hundreds of people took to the streets in February to oppose the Bokong Baling Hydroelectric Project in the wake of what's happened in another Himalayan town called Joshimath. There, some residents have been evacuated from their homes by the government, which found that their houses had become structurally unsound, and both experts and locals worry that a hydroelectric project is partly to blame.
The tourism tradeoff
The government is banking on tourism to help the economy of the region, but that also may take a toll on the land. Uttarakhand is commonly called the "Land of Gods" because of the many Hindu pilgrimage sites. "This means the government should focus on how to manage an influx of millions of tourists to certain religiously important parts of the state while other parts are virtually emptying out," says Negi.
In 2013, flash floods in a Hindu pilgrim site, Kedarnath, killed about 6,000 people and affected about 4,500 villages. One analysis by the Department of Tourism Studies at Christ University in Bangalore say one of the causes was building roads and buildings quickly to accommodate tourists while ignoring environmental regulations and paying scant attention to flood management.
A separate government report also cited "unwarranted changes of landscape under impact of various developmental and engineering projects," as well as "unscientific development and land-use practices" and "increasing tourism pressure."
In 2016, the Narendra Modi government began building a 550-mile-long highway in the state to connect four important Hindu pilgrim sites. Environmentalists opposed the project, asserting that it would cause landslides and deforestation and disasters like the one at Kedarnath. They petitioned the Supreme Court to stop the highway but the court ruled in favor of road construction in 2021, saying it's also of strategic importance for the military since some of the roadway is close to China.
Threats close to home
Back in the villages, those who remain say they face yet one more threat.
Kishan Kumar, 57, lives in Chaman Kot village in the Pauri Garhwal district. His family of five are the only inhabitants left in the village. "When we had a community, people would get together to fight the wild animals that came to destroy our crops," he says of the deer and the other animals.
The animals pose a danger to their lives as well. Kumar sees tigers roaming around in the village regularly. When the women of his house climb up a hill to fetch firewood, they encounter wild boar and tigers, he says.
But he's not about to abandon his home. He says he loves the natural surroundings and doesn't have to worry about the pollution of a city. Kumar works as a lab technician in a town about 85 miles away. He stays there during the week and rides his scooter back home every weekend.
When family after family left his village to settle in larger towns, Kumar was not tempted. He says a divine power had asked him never to abandon the village or else disaster would befall his family. "So, as long as I am alive, I will not relocate from the village," he says.
Raksha Kumar is a media fellow working on migration with the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development. This story was part of her fellowship.
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LAKE OSWEGO, Ore., Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (NYSE: GBX) invites shareholders and other interested parties to listen to its financial results conference call for the first quarter ended November 30, 2022, live, either over the Internet or via dial in.
What: The Greenbrier Companies Q1 2023 Financial Results Conference Call
When: Friday, January 6, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. PDT
Listeners can access the webcast at the Greenbrier website at www.gbrx.com. To register for or access the webcast, click on the announcement shown on the home page of the Greenbrier website. The webcast will be archived for 30 days.
Alternatively, dial-in numbers for the Conference Call are 1-888-317-6003 and 1-412-317-6061 for international callers; the entry number is "4920914" Please call in 10-15 minutes ahead of time to ensure proper connection.
Greenbrier, headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon, is a leading international supplier of equipment and services to global freight transportation markets. Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries and joint ventures, Greenbrier designs, builds and markets freight railcars and marine barges in North America, Europe and Brazil. We are a leading provider of freight railcar wheel services, parts, maintenance and retrofitting services in North America through our maintenance services business unit. Greenbrier manages 408,000 railcars and offers railcar management, regulatory compliance services and leasing services to railroads and other railcars owners in North America. GBX Leasing (GBXL) is a special purpose subsidiary that owns and manages a portfolio of leased railcars that originate primarily from Greenbrier's manufacturing operations. GBXL and Greenbrier own a lease fleet of approximately 12,200 railcars. Learn more about Greenbrier at www.gbrx.com.
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Retired Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) announced on Friday that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has closed a two-and-a-half year investigation of his stock trading activities without taking action against him.
“This week, the SEC informed me that they have concluded their investigation with no action. I am glad to have this matter in the rearview mirror as I begin my retirement from the Senate following nearly three decades of public service,” said Burr, who retired earlier this week after serving three terms in the Senate.
The SEC had been investigating Burr’s sale of $1.65 million worth of stock at the first outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in February of 2020. The sale included a large share of hospitality industry stocks, which took a hit when worldwide travel and tourism ground to a halt a few weeks later.
The agency had scrutinized communications between Burr and his sister and brother-in-law, Gerald Fauth, before they sold stocks before many retail investors fully realized the extent of the pandemic’s impact on the economy.
Burr’s trades were also reviewed by the Justice Department, which closed its investigation in early 2021.
“Sen. Burr is pleased that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as did the U.S. Department of Justice, conducted a thorough review and closed their investigation with no action,” said Burr’s lawyer, Alice Fisher of Latham & Watkins.
“We have believed all along that this is the right result. He is glad to put this matter behind him as he embarks on his retirement from his dedicated service in the Senate,” Fisher said.
Burr stepped down as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in May of 2020 because of the investigation, giving the gavel to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), with whom Burr is closely allied, praised the retiring North Carolina senator last month.
“For five years, Richard’s colleagues tasked him with helming the Intelligence Committee. Some of this institution’s most sensitive and critical responsibilities wound up in his lap. But Senators on both sides knew that Richard’s thoughtfulness, fairmindedness, and discretion tailor-made him for that role,” McConnell said.
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Eastern Kentucky Colonels (13-8, 6-2 ASUN) at Bellarmine Knights (9-12, 4-4 ASUN)
The Knights have gone 5-4 at home. Bellarmine ranks sixth in the ASUN with 14.6 assists per game led by Juston Betz averaging 3.3.
The Colonels have gone 6-2 against ASUN opponents. Eastern Kentucky has a 6-5 record in games decided by 10 points or more.
The matchup Thursday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams in conference play.
TOP PERFORMERS: Betz is averaging 8.3 points, 3.3 assists and 1.5 steals for the Knights. Garrett Tipton is averaging 11.7 points over the last 10 games for Bellarmine.
Blanton is scoring 15.6 points per game with 6.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists for the Colonels. Michael Moreno is averaging 12.1 points and 6.1 rebounds over the last 10 games for Eastern Kentucky.
LAST 10 GAMES: Knights: 4-6, averaging 61.6 points, 26.1 rebounds, 13.8 assists, 6.7 steals and 1.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.1 points per game.
Colonels: 8-2, averaging 75.5 points, 37.1 rebounds, 15.0 assists, 7.7 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 42.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.5 points.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Graceful, gutsy and seemingly unfazed by the bright lights, 15-year-old Isabeau Levito decided to go for it in her free skate while reminding herself once more to just stay calm.
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The teen star needed a near-flawless free skate to capture gold at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships after Bradie Tennell's beautiful performance minutes earlier.
Levito accomplished just that, delivering a dazzling 149.55 score for a 223.33 total to win her first women's national title Friday night.
“I was just very proud of myself for having collected myself and done the program that I needed to do,” Levito said. “Going into this event my entire goal truly for almost even both programs was to stay composed and really try to suppress my nerves as much as possible, to really not let little, minor, silly mistakes happen.”
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The New Jersey skater drew a rousing standing ovation from an audience wowed by her poise under pressure on the big nationals stage. Afterward, she clasped the medal in her gloved right hand and made the rounds of congratulatory hellos, hugs and photos.
“I actually can't even find the word to describe it right now,” Levito said.
Then, she smiled, scratched her chin and requested, “just give me a minute.”
Two-time U.S. champion Tennell scored a 139.36 in the free skate and finished second with a 213.12 total. She missed the entire 2021-22 season with foot and ankle injuries, so the comeback meant so much to her.
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“I didn't think I was going to be able to do this again,” Tennell said, calling this her most special nationals yet and noting she absolutely plans to go for it this next Olympic cycle.
“Skating at nationals again, I was giving myself a pep talk earlier in the mirror ‘cause that’s what I do," she said. "I said to myself, ‘You dreamed of this for an entire year and now you’re here' and I told myself I wanted to go out there and I wanted to soak up every moment and be present, and I did that."
Levito elegantly landed her triple lutz-half loop-triple salchow sequence and other most difficult jumps while captivating the crowd as the final skater of the evening. She came into the free skate leading Tennell by just two-hundredths of a point following Thursday's short program.
Amber Glenn finished third at 207.44. She delivered an impressive 138.48 free skate that moved her into the lead with the top three skaters from the short program remaining.
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Starr Andrews, a fan favorite after she made her nationals debut on this San Jose ice five years ago at age 16, finished fourth at 188.24. She missed on her planned triple flip early in her routine and was visibly disappointed after a free skate that scored 119.27.
Her jaw dropped when the final score was announced.
“I'm honestly so happy that I got a medal today. After I finished the program I thought I messed it up because I popped twice and I never pop,” Andrews said. “In practice I rotate and fall. At least you'll get the points. It's better to rotate and fall than to pop it. ... They said 188, I was like, ‘Uh, I'm second, there's only two people left so that means I'm going to be fourth.'”
There’s certainly some nostalgia here for Andrews, who dazzled with a free skate set to her cover of Whitney Houston’s “One Moment in Time” in her senior nationals debut in 2018 at SAP Center. She was in third place entering Friday — just a hundredth of a point ahead of Glenn.
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Glenn came into Friday fourth after her 68.96 in the short program. The 2021 U.S. silver medalist was forced to withdraw from last year’s event following a positive COVID-19 test.
Josephine Lee, making her senior nationals debut and sitting 11th after the short program, skated beautifully in the free skate event for a 132.08 and total score of 187.68. She beamed afterward when hearing her score on a night she delivered a triple flip-double axel-double toe loop sequence that certainly impressed the judges.
And reigning junior champion Clare Seo showed poise and promise at 16 as one of the young skaters to watch this quad.
Levito, the reigning junior world champion who took third place in her senior nationals debut last year, entered as the favorite to win her first U.S. title. She earned silver at both Grand Prix assignments and the Grand Prix Final last month.
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It was a disappointing night for two-time national champion Gracie Gold. She delivered one of her best short programs of late to come into Friday's free skate in fifth place only to miss out on attempting a couple of her planned triples. She won U.S. titles in 2014 and '16.
Earlier Friday, another rising star teen shined. It was 18-year-old Ilia Malinin scoring a personal-best 110.36 in the men’s short program as he chases his first national title, leading second-place veteran Jason Brown by more than 10 points heading into Sunday's free skate.
Malinin finished second to Olympic champion Nathan Chen — now a mentor offering support of the teen star — in his senior nationals debut last year but was passed over for the Olympic team in favor of the more experienced Brown.
This time, Brown appreciated skating after the youngster and feeling the crowd’s energy.
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“I’m very surprised how I was able to pull that off, especially with the whole beginning of the season with all the short programs didn’t go as well,” Malinin said. “I think we took the time and effort to see all the bad things that I’d done, just to take it all in to sort of see what works best. We did a little bit of changing a bit of the program and I think that also helped with getting the performance.”
U.S. Figure Skating announced Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, as the host for the 2024 nationals.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – On Capitol View this week, Issue 2 would change the threshold for passage of citizen-led acts as well as constitutional amendments from a simple majority to 60 percent.
Joining Roby Brock is Bill Kopsky from the Arkansas Public Policy Panel and State Representative David Ray of Maumelle to discuss this topic.
Brock was also joined by Arkansas Attorney General candidate Jesse Gibson to discuss the other side of the issue.
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NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The ExCo Group, a global executive coaching and mentoring firm, has announced that executive mentor Andrew House has joined the Board of Directors of Dentsu Group Inc.
Transformational CEO and director, Andrew House, has joined the Board of Directors of the metanational holding company, Dentsu Group Inc., which provides international advertising and public relations services through its subsidiaries.
"dentsu" (the whole Dentsu group companies including the Dentsu Group Inc.) consists approximately 130 companies in Japan and approximately 800 companies outside of Japan. Its principal services are communications strategy through digital creative execution, media planning and buying, sports marketing and content creation, brand tracking and marketing analytics. Dentsu Group Inc. supports both Japan and international businesses of "dentsu."
In addition to his work at The ExCo Group, House serves on the boards of Nissan Motor Co. and Swedish media and entertainment company, Nordic Entertainment Group.
Previously, House served as Chairman, President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) where he oversaw the union of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) and Sony Network Entertainment International (SNEI) into one global organization responsible for PlayStation and the PlayStation Network businesses. During his tenure, House oversaw the development and execution of the strategy and launch of the PlayStation 4, a global market leader in consoles and the fastest-growing platform in PlayStation history.
Earlier in his career House served as the Chief Marketing Officer of Sony Corporation, managing group-wide strategies and initiatives to develop and support the iconic brand. Managing multiple media agency pitches across various Sony businesses, he drove cost-savings and group efficiency, and developed an executive product placement strategy and cross-group programs including major film releases.
House holds a B.A. in. English Language and Literature from Oxford University and is fluent in written and spoken Japanese.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — A winter storm packing powerful winds, heavy rain and potentially several feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada shut down mountain highways, toppled trees and triggered flood watches and avalanche warnings on Saturday from the coast of Northern California to Lake Tahoe.
More than 250 miles (400 kilometers) of the Sierra remained under a winter storm warning at least until Sunday night or early Monday from north of Reno to south of Yosemite National Park.
As much as 4 feet (1.2 meters) of snow is expected to fall by the end of the weekend in the upper elevations around Lake Tahoe, and as much as 6 feet (1.8 meters) in more remote parts of the Sierra to the north and south.
A 70-mile (112-kilometer) stretch of eastbound U.S. Interstate 80 was closed “due to zero visibility” from Colfax, California to the Nevada state line, transportation officials said. Chains were required on much of the rest of I-80 in the mountains from Reno toward Sacramento.
A stretch of California Highway 89 also was closed due to heavy snow between Tahoe City and South Lake Tahoe, California, the highway patrol said.
The U.S. Forest Service issued an avalanche warning for the backcountry in the mountains west of Lake Tahoe where it said “several feet of new snow and strong winds will result in dangerous avalanche conditions.”
Gusts of wind up to 50 mph (80 kph) that sent trees into homes in Sonoma County on Saturday could reach 100 mph (160 kph) over Sierra ridgetops by early Sunday, the National Weather Service said.
Heavy rain was forecast through the weekend from San Francisco to the Sierra crest with up to 2 inches (5 centimeters) in the Bay Area and up to 5 inches (13 cm) at Grass Valley northeast of Sacramento.
The weather service issued a flash flood warning on Saturday when inches of rain fell on burn scars left by wildfires south of Monterey and farther south of Big Sur.
More than 30,000 customers were without power in the Sacramento area at one point Saturday morning, but it was restored to all but a few hundred late in the day. The drivers and passengers of five cars that had been trapped between downed power lines escaped unharmed, the Sacramento Bee reported.
San Francisco Bay Area officials reported power outages and fallen trees, some of which damaged cars and homes. In Monte Rio, a small town along the Russian River in Sonoma County, firefighters responded to several reports of downed trees crashing into homes in 50 mph wind gusts.
Monte Rio Fire Department Chief Steve Baxman told KRON-TV that four different down trees had damaged houses in the area and that no injuries were reported.
“This is our first big storm, we’ve had several years of drought and all these trees were dry. Now they’re filling up with water and starting to topple over,” Baxman told the television station.
In the Sierra, about 10 inches (25 centimeters) of snow already had fallen Saturday afternoon at Mammoth Mountain ski resort south of Yosemite where more than 10 feet (3 meters) of snow has been recorded since early November.
“It just seems like every week or so, another major storm rolls in,” resort spokeswoman Lauren Burke said.
As much as 18 to 28 inches (45 to 71 centimeters) of snow was forecast through the weekend at lake level, and up to 4 feet (1.2 meters) at elevations above 7,000 feet (2,133 meters) with 50 mph (80 kph) winds and gusts up to 100 mph (160 kph).
On the Sierra’s eastern slope, a winter weather advisory runs from 10 p.m. Saturday to 10 a.m. for Reno, Sparks and Carson City, with snow accumulations of 1 to 3 inches (2.5-7.5 cm) on valley floors and up to 8 inches (20 cm) above 5,000 feet (1,524 meters).
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TORONTO, ON — The PGA Tour got a dream result in their RBC Canadian Open championship on Sunday with world No. 3 and face of the Tour, Rory McIlroy picking up the win in the event.
It came on the same weekend that the Saudi-funded LIV Golf tour began in London with their own event.
McIlroy has been one of the strongest opponents of the LIV Golf series and spoke out against the money being paid to players like Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson. Greg Norman, who runs the LIV Golf, said in a story in the Washington Post that McIlroy had been “brainwashed” by the PGA Tour.
“I had extra motivation of what’s going on across the pond,” McIlroy said. “The guy that’s spearheading that tour has 20 wins on the PGA Tour and I was tied with him and I wanted to get one ahead of him. And I did. So, that was really cool for me, just a little sense of pride on that one.”
It was a dig at Norman, who had 20 career tour wins.
One day after LIV Golf finished its 54-hole event with Charl Schwartzel winning $4.75 million ($4 million for his score, $750,000 as part of the winning team), the Canadian Open had enormous crowds with thousands surrounding the 18th green.
The top of the leaderboard on the final day included big names like McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Tony Finau, Sam Burns and Justin Rose. A much-needed on-the-course response from the PGA Tour on the same weekend that LIV began.
On the Locked On Sports Today podcast, Josh Neighbors and Peter Bukowski discussed McIlroy's win, what it meant for the PGA Tour and what it meant for LIV Golf.
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Neighbors, like many others, was critical of PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and his lack of response during the first week of LIV Golf. Monahan did appear on CBS' Sunday broadcast to discuss the developments.
“The PGA Tour has some problems. Jay Monahan addressed none of them. Rory McIlroy, though, did make the point that everyone is making for the PGA Tour that the best players in the world reside on the PGA Tour," Neighbors said. "The guys who want to win, the guys who want to beat the best in the world, are on the PGA Tour. That’s the big story to me this weekend.”
The Saudi Public Fund has allocated tens of billions of dollars to this golf tour. We saw the guys over in London this past weekend for the first LIV tournament get asked the difficult questions about playing for a Saudi-government-backed league. And it doesn’t seem like they’re going away. How long can this go on?
“I think it's going to be going on," Neighbors said. "Dustin Johnson can ignore it forever. But if we’re talking about his golf legacy, he gets dinged for this. This is a guy who has all the talent in the world, former No. 1 player, multiple major champion and he should be accomplishing more. But he’s taking the bag of money. I’m not going to get mad at a guy like Kevin Na going to take the money. But guys like DJ, Patrick Reed, Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson…those are the guys that are the big stars getting the money. And keep asking the questions. Because those guys do not have solid defenses for why they’re playing, nor will they at any point in time.”
Now PGA Tour players and LIV Golf players come together in Boston this week for the U.S. Open at The Country Club, as Phil Mickelson is playing after skipping the Masters and PGA Championship amid backlash from his earlier comments about the Saudis and the PGA Tour. Other LIV players including Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, Sergio Garcia, Kevin Na, and others, are also in the field for the U.S. Open.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pat Sajak is taking one last spin on “Wheel of Fortune,” announcing Monday that its upcoming season will be his last as host.
Sajak announced his retirement from the venerable game show in a tweet.
“Well, the time has come. I’ve decided that our 41st season, which begins in September, will be my last. It’s been a wonderful ride, and I’ll have more to say in the coming months. Many thanks to you all,” the tweet said.
Sajak, 76, has presided over the game show, which features contestants guessing letters to try to fill out words and phrases to win money and prizes, since 1981. He took over duties from Chuck Woolery, who was the show’s first host when it debuted in 1975.
Along with Vanna White, who joined the show in 1982, Sajak has been a television mainstay. The show soon shifted to a syndication and aired in the evening in many markets, becoming one of the most successful game shows in history. Sajak will continue to serve as a consultant on the show for three years after his retirement as host.
“As the host of Wheel of Fortune, Pat has entertained millions of viewers across America for 40 amazing years. We are incredibly grateful and proud to have had Pat as our host for all these years and we look forward to celebrating his outstanding career throughout the upcoming season,” said Suzanne Prete, executive vice president of game shows for Sony Pictures Television.
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PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced a decision to requisition workers operating petrol depots of ExxonMobil’s French branch Esso and threatened to do the same for those of Total group, amid strikes that have led fuel pumps to run dry in the country.
The drastic measure came as drivers waiting in long lines to fill up their cars and gas stations closed while awaiting deliveries have become an increasingly familiar sight in France in recent days.
At a gas station in Vincennes, in the eastern suburbs of Paris, Alexandre Leonardi, 31, was not surprised to see the long lines of cars.
“I’ve been here for about an hour … I expected it to be like this. Most of the gas stations I went past were closed,” he told The Associated Press.
Requisitions allow authorities to order some of the workers of the petrol depots hit by strikes to return to work. It was not immediately clear how the order would be applied. A similar measure was imposed in 2010 during strikes in French refineries.
Speaking Tuesday at the National Assembly, Borne said about 30% of France’s petrol stations are experiencing temporary shortages with at least one or more type of fuel. She noted that strong differences between regions, Paris area and northern France being the most affected places — making life difficult for drivers.
She called for urgent dialogue between unions and management as strikers seek pay rises amid soaring inflation in the country.
“A salary disagreement do not justify blocking the country,” she said.
Borne’s announcement comes one day after a deal was reached between two unions and Esso’s leadership over a pay rise. Yet some other hard-left unions have rejected it and decided to continue the strike.
“I asked prefects to launch the procedure to requisition workers who are indispensable to the functioning” of the Esso petrol depots, Borne said.
She added that she is ready to make a similar decision regarding Total facilities if salary negotiations do not start quickly.
Panic buying by some people worried that stations might run out of fuel altogether is exacerbating problems facing motorists, though authorities are urging consumers not to worry. Government officials said they increased petrol imports and released some of the state’s strategic stocks to help ease the shortages — amid concern that they could prompt protests across the country.
“There is only one solution: to unlock (the situation) without delay through negotiation,” Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Tuesday on French news broadcaster Franceinfo.
At gas stations that remained open, people were getting increasingly nervous. Some were jumping the queue while others were trying to fill fuel containers, despite several cities across France prohibiting it.
“This is not acceptable in France, just because a few people (strikers) want to annoy the world. It’s their problem, not the problem of all French people,” said 81-year-old Odette Libert while queuing at the Vincennes gas station.
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Norwest and Medtech Convergence Fund co-lead investment in molecular diagnostic company working to improve diagnostic testing for women's health screening
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nanopath Inc., a molecular diagnostics company enabling high-quality molecular testing in minutes, announced today that it has closed $10 million in Series A funding, co-led by Norwest Venture Partners and the Medtech Convergence Fund, a SV Health Investors venture fund, with participation from Gingerbread Capital and Green D Ventures. The funding will support development and commercialization of Nanopath's biosensing platform that aims to transform how women's pelvic and gynecologic infections are diagnosed.
"Nanopath's mission is deeply rooted in improving women's health and even more broadly, health equity for all. We envision Nanopath's technology as the go-to platform for routine women's health screening, allowing for clinically actionable diagnosis within a single office visit," said Amogha Tadimety, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of Nanopath. "With this funding, we're looking to build our technical team and initiate commercial and clinical partnerships to bring our technology platform to market."
Nanopath's co-founders are working to close two major gaps in the industry: the limited number of disruptive life science companies focused on women's health and the limited number of women-led life science companies. Built on a core mission to address these critical disparities, Nanopath is developing technological breakthroughs designed to empower the patient and provider.
Nanopath seeks to address disparities in care for underserved populations, starting with women's health, by introducing a novel approach to molecular diagnostic testing that harnesses advances in bioengineering and nanotechnology to accurately identify and characterize a variety of pathogens within minutes, compared to existing gold-standard diagnostics that take days to return results. The technology can simultaneously characterize multiple pathogens with one test, leading to faster, more precise diagnosis and treatment.
Nanopath's proprietary biosensing technology utilizes ultrasensitive optical detection to identify DNAs and RNAs, without the need for nucleic acid amplification. This amplification-free approach minimizes reagents, lowers costs and reduces user steps that are ubiquitous across molecular diagnostics. Nanopath's platform will require minimal training to operate, making high-complexity molecular diagnostics testing accessible at the point-of-care.
Nanopath's technology has the potential to simultaneously test for multiple pathogens, based on presenting symptoms, and reduce delivery of test results from days to just 15 minutes. The company has generated strong pilot clinical data in its two lead indications through collaborations with leading hospital systems in New England.
"What we are building has the potential to holistically improve patient care by circumventing existing complex, expensive and time-consuming workflows, while simultaneously providing more granular health information," said Alison Burklund, Ph.D., co-founder and CTO of Nanopath. "We started in the women's health space because of the deep unmet need, and our desire as founders to bring a first-in-class diagnostic platform to a population that has been consistently overlooked. That said, our technology has the potential to be valuable in any situation where DNA or RNA detection is useful, including respiratory disease diagnosis, characterization of genetic risk factors, and even biosecurity surveillance and environmental monitoring."
"The women's health diagnostics market is ready for a solution that not only provides better and more actionable information, but also integrates with existing and emerging care delivery models," said Jeff Crowe, senior managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners. "The Nanopath platform can provide results with the same, if not better, accuracy than existing methods, within 15 minutes, and at lower cost. Nanopath is well positioned to improve diagnosis and care delivery across a range of healthcare settings."
"Nanopath has hit on a new approach that is poised to disrupt the existing molecular testing paradigm. We look forward to working with this team to advance their technology," said Aaron Sandoski, founding partner at SV Health Investors' Medtech Convergence Fund.
Both Crowe and Sandoski have joined Nanopath's board in tandem with this funding round. In late July, the company was named winner of the 2022 AACC Disruptive Technology Award, which recognizes innovative testing technology solutions that improve patient care through diagnostic performance or access to high-quality testing. Nanopath was also a winner of the inaugural 2021 Ignite Golden Ticket, which honors companies that advance life sciences innovation by making the biotechnology industry more inclusive and equitable by directly supporting promising entrepreneurs.
Nanopath is actively growing its purpose-driven team. To learn more about open positions, please visit www.nanopathdx.com/opportunities.
Nanopath is dedicated to improving health equity worldwide, starting with women's health. Nanopath's proprietary molecular diagnostic test takes a radically new approach to how clinicians measure and characterize human health. Through its novel biosensing technology, the company has the potential to enable fast, high-complexity tests to be performed in minutes and at the point-of-care, rather than in centralized laboratories. Nanopath's founders seek to improve the lives of women and other underserved populations, while simultaneously enhancing the lives of the Nanopath team members through purpose-driven work that helps to develop and deploy its products. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., at LabCentral, the premier launchpad for high-potential life sciences and biotech start-ups. Nanopath was spun out of Dartmouth College in 2019 in partnership with Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. For more information, visit www.nanopathdx.com.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden welcomed hundreds to the White House on Saturday for a delayed Pride Month celebration aimed at showing LGBTQ+ people that his administration has their back at a time when advocates are warning of a spike in discriminatory legislation, particularly aimed at the transgender community, sweeping through statehouses.
The event, which the administration described as the largest Pride event hosted at the White House, was initially scheduled for Thursday, but was postponed because of poor air quality from hazardous air flowing in from Canadian wildfires. But the haze that blanketed a huge swath of the East Coast this past week had lifted over the nation's capital, allowing the president and first lady Jill Biden to hold their South Lawn party.
“So today, I want to send a message to the entire community — especially to transgender children: You are loved. You are heard. You're understood. And you belong,” Biden said.
Pride Month is being celebrated this year as state lawmakers have introduced at least 525 bills and enacted 78 bills that whittle away at LGBTQ+ rights, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a group that advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer rights.
That tally includes a recent flurry of bills that affect transgender people, including legislation recently passed by Republican governors vying for the 2024 presidential nomination.
In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill into that bans gender-affirming medical care such as puberty blockers or hormone therapy for transgender youths. Earlier in the week, a federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a law that DeSantis signed shortly before announcing that he was running for president.
In North Dakota, Gov. Doug Burgum last month signed a bill that prohibits public schools and government entities from requiring teachers and employees to refer to transgender people by the pronouns they use. Burgum, who like DeSantis has made culture issues a central part of his tenure as governor, joined the White House primary field.
Josh Helfgott, an LGBTQ+ activist and social media influencer from New York City, said marking Pride Month at the White House felt like one of the most important moments of his life. But he said the tide of legislation added another layer to this year’s celebrations.
“Pride this year is so important because we cannot be silent when faced with hate and bigotry,” Helfgott said “The other side is so loud, incredibly loud. ”
Anjali Rimi of San Francisco attended the White House event with her mother, who recently immigrated from India.
Rimi came to the United States more than 20 years ago because, she said, she was shunned by family and society as a transgender person.
Times were tough in the United States, too, she said. She was pushed out of a job after she came out, was homeless for a time, and took asylum in Canada for about a decade before returning to the United States.
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After nearly a week of tumult, the specter of a billowing crisis over the banking industry appeared to ease, at least for the moment, as pressure began to lift on the mid-size and regional lenders most in peril.
Shares of First Republic, which over the weekend had to slap together a multibillion-dollar rescue package to shore up its finances, soared over 60% Tuesday before giving back some of those gains and closing up 27%. Shares are still down by roughly two-thirds over the past five trading days.
Western Alliance, previously a little-known Arizona bank, saw its stock shoot up 50% on Tuesday after Citadel, the investment giant run by billionaire Ken Griffin, disclosed that it had taken a stake in the hard-hit lender, though that gain was pared back to 14% by the end of the day.
Some of the worst-hit banks seemed to go to extreme lengths to put on a brave face, and they had some success doing so. Zions Bank of Salt Lake City convened an emergency forum featuring both senators from Utah. Its stock bounced back to a degree Tuesday, as did shares of PacWest Bancorp of Los Angeles and Charles Schwab, the Texas financial conglomerate.
Though the financial world was suddenly glued to news of banks that only the most obsessive observers would have earlier heard of, none of their CEOs would agree to be interviewed. Some sent out mass notes to customers that sidestepped the most pressing questions of the moment: How much money was being withdrawn this week, and what was the plan if the outflows pressed on?
One bank CEO, Brad Tidwell of VeraBank, shared his personal cellphone number to all 70,000 depositors at his institution, which has roughly $4 billion in deposits. His phone lit up Monday and Tuesday with more than 50 text messages and around two dozen phone calls from customers, asking him for personal assurances that everything would turn out OK.
Some callers told him that with so many institutions sending out emails crammed with legal jargon to explain their financial positions, they just wanted a straight answer from him: Was their money safe, or not?
“I’ve been telling everyone, ‘When banks fail it’s a big deal, but that doesn’t mean your bank has the same issues,’” Tidwell said.
While stock prices aren’t a clear proxy for whether a bank is healthy or not, falling shares or even simply volatility in prices can set off panic in borrowers and lead to a bank run. The recent downturn in the industry, in fact, was set off in part by just that, when shares in Silicon Valley Bank, a technology-focused lender, plummeted after it disclosed plans to raise money that it needed to pay out some depositors.
Less than two days later, Silicon Valley Bank, which had roughly $175 billion in deposits, was taken over by federal regulators, making it the biggest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis. Shares in other relatively small institutions have since fallen precipitously on fears that they, too, could be insolvent, though thus far only one other bank, Signature Bank, has been seized by regulators.
On Sunday, federal officials committed to paying out depositors at those fallen banks in full, even if the banks did not have sufficient money. Depositors reported Monday that they were able to take out funds, an enormous relief to employers and individuals who had been worried about when and if they would regain access to their money.
Officials stressed, however, that stockholders and bondholders in the banks themselves would still be in line to lose money on their investments.
Investors seem to be assuming that the federal backstop applied to Silicon Valley Bank and Signature would also apply to other institutions, said Greg Hertrich, a U.S. bank strategist at Nomura and a bank executive for more than three decades.
“Having been through a bunch of these, I can say: This one’s moving fast,” Hertrich said. “There are people who seem to believe that every deposit account is guaranteed without limit. I have not seen any indication that is what regulators have expressed.”
For the first day since Silicon Valley Bank’s unwinding, there were no widespread reports of customers being denied the chance to withdraw money from ATMs and bank branches. It appeared that the worst fears of widespread cash shortages were contained for now.
Yet much uncertainty remains. As bank shares were recovering and branches returned to normalcy Tuesday, only a few institutions had provided extensive updates about the degree to which skittish customers were pulling out their money.
On Monday, First Republic’s executive chair, Jim Herbert, told CNBC in an off-camera interview that the bank was not experiencing an unusual level of withdrawals, a pronouncement that the anchors on the set greeted with visible skepticism. The bank did not respond to inquiries from The New York Times about the statement.
Charles Schwab’s CEO, Walter Bettinger, boasted in a CNBC interview Tuesday that his firm had seen positive incoming deposits this month overall, but neither he nor a Schwab spokesperson would provide figures for this week, when Schwab’s stock has been under the most acute pressure.
Bettinger said he had bought roughly $3 million in new shares Tuesday to show his faith in the company.
Zions, whose ties to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stretch back to the bank’s first president, Brigham Young, has been similarly vague.
On Monday, the company held a forum with high-profile political guests, including not just both senators but the governor as well. Scott Anderson, the bank’s CEO, opened by reading a script that noted Zions had a more diversified business base than Silicon Valley Bank, but he did not take questions or provide new information about his organization’s financial base during the crisis.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, compared the situation to the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which won seven Academy Awards the night before. “This is a lot of stuff that happened at the same time,” Romney said.
Tidwell, the bank CEO who shared his cellphone number, said he was watching stock prices of his larger rivals get whiplash.
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Astros vs. Rangers: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
Hunter Brown and Jon Gray are the projected starters when the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers face off on Saturday at Minute Maid Park.
The favored Astros have -175 moneyline odds against the underdog Rangers, who are listed at +145. The over/under is 8 runs for this contest (with -110 odds on the over and -110 odds on the under).
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Astros vs. Rangers Odds & Info
- Date: Saturday, April 15, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: MLB Network
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue: Minute Maid Park
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Astros Recent Betting Performance
- In eight games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Astros have a record of 4-4.
- The Astros and their opponents have combined to hit the over six times in their last 10 games with a total.
- The Astros have not played a game with a spread over their last 10 outings.
Astros Betting Records & Stats
- The Astros have won six of the 12 games they were listed as the moneyline favorite this season (50%).
- When it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -175 or shorter, Houston has a 2-3 record (winning 40% of its games).
- Based on this matchup's moneyline, the Astros' implied win probability is 63.6%.
- Houston has played in 14 games with a set over/under, and have combined with its opponents to go over the total nine times (9-5-0).
- The Astros have not had a spread set for a matchup this season.
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Time is woven into our personal memories.
Recall a childhood fall from a bike and the brain replays the entire episode in excruciating detail: the glimpse of wet leaves on the road ahead, the moment of weightless dread, and then the painful impact.
This exact sequence has been embedded in the memory, thanks to some special neurons known as time cells.
When the brain detects a notable event, time cells begin a highly orchestrated performance, says Marc Howard, who directs the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition program at Boston University.
"What we find is that the cells fire in a sequence," he says. "So cell one might fire immediately, but cell two waits a little bit, followed by cell three, cell four, and so on."
As each cell fires, it places a sort of time stamp on an unfolding experience. And the same cells fire in the same order when we retrieve a memory of the experience, even something mundane.
"If I remember being in my kitchen and making a cup of coffee," Howard says, "the time cells that were active at that moment are re-activated." They recreate the grinder's growl, the scent of Arabica, the curl of steam rising from a fresh mug – and your neurons replay these moments in sequence every time you summon the memory.
This system appears to explain how we are able to virtually travel back in time, and play mental movies of our life experiences. There are also hints that time cells play a critical role in imagining future events.
Without time cells, our memories would lack order.
In an experiment at the University of California, San Diego, scientists gave several groups of people a tour of the campus. The tour included 11 planned events, including finding change in a vending machine and drinking from a water fountain.
Afterward, the participants were asked to recall their experiences. People with typical brains tended to remember the events in chronological order. But those with damage to the hippocampus – where many time cells are found – recalled events without regard to the order in which they occurred.
Cells with a rhythm of their own
Time cells were identified in the rat hippocampus in 2011. The cells' presence in human brains was confirmed in 2020.
But despite their name, time cells do not behave like a clock. Their ticks and tocks appear to follow rules that are independent of units like seconds and minutes.
At the beginning of any new event or experience, time cells fire like popcorn kernels hitting hot oil. That creates lots of time stamps in rapid succession. As seconds pass, Howard says, the firing becomes less and less frequent.
"The sequence doesn't unfold at the same rate," he says. Instead, the interval between each firing gets larger and larger, leaving fewer and fewer time stamps. "In effect, your ability to distinguish time decreases as things get further into the past," Howard says.
It's still not clear how the brain decides precisely how many time stamps to put down, or how far apart they should be. But Howard is among the scientists who believe it takes a mathematical approach.
Time cells appear to maintain a logarithmic timeline, Howard says, which allows them to represent time in a compressed form. He thinks the brain also uses a mathematical tool called a Laplace transform to navigate between the real-world firing of neurons and their representation in memory.
Howard and a team of scientists devised this explanation before the existence of time cells was established. Since then, studies have shown that time cells' actual behavior is consistent with the theory.
"It's worked out pretty well so far," Howard says.
But even a mathematical approach to time can be affected by biological changes.
There's evidence that the behavior of time cells, like other neurons, is influenced by factors including emotion. When we experience an intense or terrifying event, the brain appears to put down more time stamps than it does during a mundane experience. That may be why skydivers tend to overestimate the duration of a remembered freefall.
Networks of time cells can even stretch or compress time as needed, Howard says.
Howard thinks that's how we are able to recognize a word, even when it is spoken very slowly. For example, imagine hearing the word s...e...v...e...n stretched out over several seconds.
"You can recognize that as seven perfectly well because the relative shape of the syllables is the same," Howard says. What's different is the duration of the syllables, something a network of time cells can adjust.
To the brain, time and place are connected
Of course, time cells don't work alone.
They're just one part of the brain's system for organizing episodic memories, which are "our personal egocentric memories – what happened to me, where, and when," says Dr. György Buzsáki, Biggs professor of neuroscience at New York University.
Episodic memories are for events and experiences. They are distinct from semantic memories, which deal with ideas and facts, like the name of your friend's pet ferret.
Time cells keep track of the when in an episodic memory. Meanwhile, another group of cells called place cells keep track of where you were when the episode occurred.
Both types of cells were first discovered in the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in both memory and navigation. More recently, they've been found in other brain areas.
Neither place cells nor time cells are as straightforward as their labels imply, Buzsáki says. For example, if the brain is paying attention to where instead of when, a time cell may behave like a place cell.
"We had a paper in science where we showed that 100% of neurons can be place cells if you want and 100% can be time cells, depending on how you set up the experiment," Buzsáki says.
So it makes sense that people often use time and distance interchangeably in conversation, Buzsáki says. Ask someone how far to the next town and they may say ten miles or a ten-minute drive.
But there's a more cosmic problem with the very notion of time cells, Buszaki says.
"The brain doesn't generate time," he says. "Also, the brain cannot sense time because it's immaterial."
Time is an illusion, according to Albert Einstein. And, in any event, time doesn't really matter to the brain, Buzsáki says. What's important is detecting change and the sequence of events.
Put another way: You need to remember that you heard the snake's rattle before you felt its fangs. The exact amount of time that the whole experience took is ultimately much less important.
This story is part of our periodic science series "Finding Time — a journey through the fourth dimension to learn what makes us tick."
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OKLAHOMA CITY, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PHX Minerals Inc. (NYSE: PHX) ("PHX" or the "Company"), a natural gas focused mineral and royalty company, today announced that Chad Stephens, President and CEO, and Ralph D'Amico, Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Stifel 2022 Cross Sector Insight Conference at 3:35 p.m. EDT, on Thursday, June 9, 2022, at the InterContinental Hotel in Boston.
You may access the webcast on the Investor Relations section of www.phxmin.com under Events, or by clicking here: Webcast Link
PHX Minerals Inc. (NYSE: PHX) Oklahoma City-based, PHX Minerals Inc. is a natural gas and oil mineral company with a strategy to proactively grow its mineral position in its core areas of focus. PHX owns approximately 75,000 net leased mineral acres principally located in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas, North Dakota, and Arkansas. Additional information on the Company can be found at www.phxmin.com.
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Red Canary will be able to ingest raw telemetry data to help boost threat detection
DENVER, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Canary, the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) trailblazer, has expanded its collaboration with industry leader Palo Alto Networks to help deliver on a bold vision: unifying threat investigation across a wide range of Palo Alto Networks products. To help achieve this goal Red Canary is now a part of the Palo Alto Networks Cortex® MSSP partner program.
Today, Red Canary MDR supports Palo Alto Networks firewalls by integrating with PAN-OS version 9 and higher. This integration allows security alerts and event data generated by firewall appliances to feed into the Red Canary MDR platform for further investigation and remediation.
Red Canary is working with Palo Alto Networks as an MDR partner for the Cortex XDR product, which includes built-in endpoint protection. While many MDR offerings simply ingest alerts generated by endpoint security tools, Red Canary is working toward being able to ingest raw telemetry as well as alerts from the Cortex XDR endpoint agent. Red Canary anticipates this will allow it to reduce false positives by up to 99% and significantly increase the detection of confirmed threats compared to what endpoint security tools can identify on their own.
"The detailed endpoint telemetry generated by Cortex XDR enables leading scores in actual hands-on tests, such as MITRE's recent ATT&CK® evaluation," said Rick Caccia, SVP of Marketing for Palo Alto Networks. "Red Canary's ability to manage and analyze large volumes of endpoint, network, and other types of telemetry will make them an ideal partner for solving customers' most pressing security challenges. Together, we can help protect organizations from ransomware, phishing, and other modern threats."
To complete our vision of unifying threat investigation across the Palo Alto Networks product line, Red Canary is also developing integrations for Prisma® Cloud, Threat Prevention, and the WildFire Analysis Environment. Red Canary's MDR everywhere strategy allows events from Palo Alto Networks products to be combined with multi-vendor events in a unified timeline. To learn more, visit https://redcanary.com/cyber-threat-investigation/.
"Red Canary is meeting customer demand for security across the modern IT environment by integrating alert data from network, identity, and SaaS applications – all in a unified timeline. Our collaboration with Palo Alto Networks layers best-in-class managed detection and response across an industry-leading portfolio of cybersecurity solutions. The result is more choice and better security for our customers."
- Chris Rothe, CTO, Red Canary
Red Canary stops cyber threats no one else does so organizations can fearlessly pursue their missions. The company's managed detection and response (MDR) solution works across enterprise endpoints, cloud workloads, network, identities, and SaaS apps. Red Canary operates as a security ally for customers and partners by providing unlimited 24×7 support, deep threat expertise and hands-on remediation to prevent threats from turning into business-defining incidents.
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Membership includes free delivery and 2X fuel points
CINCINNATI, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), America's largest grocery retailer, today announced the national launch of Boost by Kroger, which represents the latest expansion of its industry-leading loyalty program. The annual membership provides customers unlimited free grocery delivery on orders of $35 or more, fuel discounts of up to $1 per gallon and additional savings on Our Brands products. Kroger estimates the membership can save customers more $1,000 per year on fuel and grocery delivery.
"As customers continue to evolve how they shop and eat, this expansion of our loyalty program offers more personalized value in groceries and fuel, alongside easier access to convenient shopping solutions, such as Delivery," said Yael Cosset, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Kroger. "We are committed to consistently delivering a best-in-class seamless experience with zero compromise – the fresh and quality products our customers want, how they want it and when they want it. We recognize this is especially important as our customers are facing an inflationary environment and rising fuel prices."
Boost expands on savings currently available to customers through Kroger's free loyalty program. Offering two annual membership levels at $59 or $99, the new service provides free next-day delivery or free delivery in as little as two hours on orders of $35 or more, respectively. Boost members also receive 2X fuel points for every dollar spent as well as exclusive savings on Our Brands, including Murray's Cheese, Vitacost, and Home Chef™, Simple Truth™ and Private Selection™.
"Boost contributes to our rapidly expanding seamless ecosystem, bringing value and convenience to many more families across America as we roll-out new Delivery fulfillment centers," said Bill Bennett, Kroger Vice President and Head of E-commerce. "Through Boost, Kroger is uniquely positioned to be Fresh for Everyone, making grocery delivery accessible to more customers through the industry's most affordable grocery delivery membership program. Combine this with our industry-leading fuel points program, we are confident we have built a differentiated membership program that our customers will love."
During the last several months, the grocer piloted Boost in four divisions, resulting in a growing number of new members and a significant increase in delivery sales compared to non-Boost divisions.
Boost is now available to customers across The Kroger Family of Companies. Eligible customers can enroll in the program at www.Kroger.com/boost.
To download Boost photography assets, visit here.
At The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), we are dedicated to our Purpose: to Feed the Human Spirit™. We are, across our family of companies, nearly half a million associates who serve over nine million customers daily through a seamless digital shopping experience and 2,800 retail food stores under a variety of banner names, serving America through food inspiration and uplift, and creating #ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities by 2025. To learn more about us, visit our newsroom and investor relations site.
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BISMARCK, N.D., May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MDU Resources Group, Inc. (NYSE: MDU) announced today that Rob L. Johnson has been named president of WBI Energy, Inc., the company's natural gas pipeline subsidiary, effective upon completion of the anticipated separation of MDU Resources' construction materials subsidiary, Knife River Corporation, at which time current WBI Energy President and CEO Trevor J. Hastings will become chief operating officer of Knife River.
Johnson currently is executive vice president-commercial for WBI Energy.
"Rob has led significant business development activity for WBI Energy over the past decade. WBI Energy's system capacity has more than doubled, with over 1.26 billion cubic feet of natural gas transportation capacity added, during that time," said David L. Goodin, president and CEO of MDU Resources. "Rob's long-tenured experience and vast expertise with our regulated natural gas pipeline business will continue to serve our stakeholders well."
Johnson joined WBI Energy in 1983 as a communication specialist, moving into management in 1994 and subsequently holding positions of increasing responsibility, becoming vice president-commercial in 2013 and executive vice president-commercial in 2020.
Johnson has an associate degree in electronics from North Dakota State College of Science and a bachelor's degree in business administration, with an emphasis in finance, from University of Mary in Bismarck. He has been active in a number of industry organizations, including as a current board member of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America and a past board member of the North Dakota Petroleum Council.
About MDU Resources
MDU Resources Group, Inc., a member of the S&P MidCap 400 and the S&P High-Yield Dividend Aristocrats indices, is Building a Strong America® by providing essential products and services through its regulated energy delivery and construction materials and services businesses. For more information about MDU Resources, visit www.mdu.com or contact the Investor Relations Department at investor@mduresources.com.
About WBI Energy
WBI Energy, Inc. provides natural gas transportation and underground storage services through regulated pipeline systems primarily in the Rocky Mountain and northern Great Plains regions of the United States. It also provides nonregulated cathodic protection and other energy-related services. WBI Energy is a subsidiary of MDU Resources Group, Inc. (NYSE: MDU). For more information about WBI Energy, visit www.WBIEnergy.com.
Media Contacts: Laura Lueder, MDU Resources manager of communications and public relations, 701-530-1095
Investor Contact: Brent Miller, director of financial projects and investor relations, 701-530-1730
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TORONTO — A cargo container with gold and other items worth over $20 million Canadian (US$14.8 million) was stolen from Toronto’s Pearson International airport, authorities said Thursday.
“As per normal procedure, the aircraft was unloaded and cargo was transported from the aircraft to a holding cargo facility,” he said. “The container contained a high value shipment. It did contain gold but it was not exclusive to gold. It contained other items of monetary value.
The missing goods were reported to police a short time after.
Police declined to provide more details.
“We’re three days in, so our investigators have their eyes open to all avenues,” Duivesteyn said.
No arrests have been made. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/20/airport-gold-theft-toronto/ef6443b4-dfd0-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html | 2023-04-21 00:14:19 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/20/airport-gold-theft-toronto/ef6443b4-dfd0-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html |
Two JSU baseball players earn All-SWAC honors
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Two Jackson State baseball players were named to a Southwestern Athletic Conference All-SWAC team after stellar individual seasons.
Initially named a preseason All-SWAC first-team member before the start of the season, Jackson State third baseman and Ferris Trophy nominee Ty Hill was named to the All-SWAC second team on Tuesday, along with relief pitcher Erick Gonzalez.
Hill earned all-conference honors for a third consecutive season. He led the Tigers in nearly all hitting categories in the regular season, leading the team with a batting average of .390 at the plate, hitting the most doubles and triples (16 doubles and four triples), and hitting the most home runs on the team with six.
The Saltillo, Mississippi native also secured the second-most hits during the regular season with 67 hits.
Gonzalez, the closer for Jackson State, posted a 2-1 record with a 4.24 ERA with a SWAC-high eight saves on the season. He struck out 60 hitters in only 46.2 innings pitched, with a more than 3-to-1 strikeouts-to-walk ratio.
Jackson State qualified for the SWAC Baseball Tournament and will play against Grambling State in the first round on Wednesday at 5 p.m.
JSU beat Grambling in a 12-inning thriller 12-11 in February after trailing 10-3 during the majority of the contest.
The game will be video streamed on YouTube via the SWAC Digital Network.
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(The Hill) – Popular puzzle game Wordle was the most searched term on Google in 2022, beating out other search topics such as election results and Ukraine.
In a news release on Wednesday, Google Trends shared that the world puzzle game came in first ahead of terms such as Election results, Ukraine, and late actress Betty White (the second, third, and sixth most popular terms searched) in total U.S. searches.
Wordle also leads the pack in total searches globally, leading other searched terms such as the late Queen Elizabeth II, the FIFA World Cup, and convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer (the fourth, sixth, and ninth most popular terms searched globally, respectively).
Google Trends Data editor Simon Rogers told The Washington Post that Wordle became an obsession with many people this year, being a daily “pick-me-up” for those who want to steer away from darker, more serious news trends this year.
“I would say what made Wordle trend higher was that it was something that consistently captivated people throughout the year,” Rogers told the Post. “There were moments within the year such as the invasion of Ukraine and the passing of Her Majesty the Queen where those terms spiked much higher. But people’s love for the game remained consistent, because for many people, the game has been a daily highlight or pick-me-up.”
“I think it’s a testament to just how much Wordle took the world by storm in 2022,” Rogers added. “You simply can’t overstate it!”
This comes as Wordle, first introduced in October 2021, became a global sensation with many crossword puzzle fans.
The New York Times Company, owner of The New York Times newspaper, announced it has acquired Wordle from its creator Josh Wardle for an undisclosed sum in the low seven figures earlier this year. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/wordle-beats-out-election-results-ukraine-as-most-searched-term-on-google-in-2022/ | 2022-12-08 15:55:24 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/wordle-beats-out-election-results-ukraine-as-most-searched-term-on-google-in-2022/ |
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a way to display GPS directions directly in front of the driver," said an inventor, from Chicago, Ill., "so I invented the SIDE SUN VISOR DISPLAY SYSTEM. My design eliminates the need to repeatedly look away to view directions while driving."
The invention provides a safer GPS display for use in a vehicle. In doing so, it eliminates the need to look down at a smartphone or a center dashboard screen. As a result, it enables the driver to maintain line-of-sight with the highway and traffic and it enhances safety and convenience. The invention features an effective and reliable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for vehicle owners. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Chicago sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-CLR-166, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Ready to celebrate the upcoming 75th anniversary of the Air Force?
The 75th Air Force Anniversary Gala and dinner will be at the Dayton Arcade in downtown Dayton on the evening of Sept. 9, and about 350 tickets have been set aside for the public, organizers say.
Interested? If so, you’ll have to act fast.
The venue holds 600 people. Organizers with the Air and Space Forces Association (AFA) Wright Memorial Chapter — a nonprofit that serves Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the Air Force community and the Dayton area — have about 250 tickets reserved for VIPs and sponsors, leaving 350 for sale.
Tickets will go on sale on Aug. 9 (first come, first served) via the AFA Wright Memorial Chapter website: https://wrightmemorial.afa.org/events
Attire will be formal, and it’s a red-carpet affair. Cocktails and reception are scheduled 6 to 7 p.m. Sept. 9, with dinner following. The after-party celebration is 8:30 to 10 p.m.
Ticket prices for non-active military members and employees are $125 per person.
Established in 1947, the Air Force marks its 75th anniversary on Sept. 18, 2022.
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FREDERICK COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — Sheriff’s deputies said a man who works as a high school teacher’s aide is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old boy.
The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that the alleged encounter between Matthew Geyer and the student was consensual. Investigators said Geyer, who works at Sherando High School, met the student through a social media app a few months ago. They added that the supposed encounter between Geyer and the 16-year-old did not take place on school property.
The sheriff’s office said the charge against Geyer was Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor. As of Thursday, Geyer was at the county’s adult detention center with no bond. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/high-school-aide-accused-of-having-sex-with-student-in-frederick-county-va/ | 2023-03-23 21:49:38 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/high-school-aide-accused-of-having-sex-with-student-in-frederick-county-va/ |
By CIARÁN GILES
Associated Press
MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday gave his full backing to Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s peace plan aimed at reaching a cease-fire with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla organization.
Speaking after talks with Petro, who is on a state visit to Spain, Sánchez said he had conveyed Spain’s commitment “to support his ambitious plan and courageous project for total peace” in Colombia.
Spain is a third party in Colombia’s ongoing talks with the ELN, a communist-inspired military force that remained active after the dissolution in 2017 of the FARC, a larger group that spent decades in conflict with the government.
Colombia and the ELN started talks in November, shortly after Petro, an ex-rebel, was elected as Colombia’s first leftist president.
Petro has called the talks a cornerstone of his effort to resolve a conflict that dates back to the 1960s.
Last week, ELN militants killed nine Colombian soldiers in an attack, complicating negotiations. Talks restarted in Havana on Tuesday.
Petro said that depending completely on how the talks go and what progress is made in establishing a lasting cease-fire, Spain might be able to help persuade the European Union to consider taking the ELN off the terrorist lists.
He said this could help the ELN to “acquire a genuinely political status, obviously maintaining more and more secure negotiations towards the definitive abandonment of violence.”
Sánchez, a Socialist, said the two also discussed the summit between the EU and Latin American countries in July in Brussels.
The summit will come in the early days of Spain taking charge of the EU’s rotating presidency, a six-month period in which Madrid aims to revitalize Europe’s relations with Latin America.
Petro said it was important that the summit “should not be just one more meeting, but rather a milestone, a change of phase in the economic and political relations between the two regions.”
Spain and Colombia also signed a series of accords in areas including rail infrastructure, aeronautics, digital connectivity, crime cooperation and education during the visit.
Sánchez said Spain would make 1 billon euros ($1.1 billion) available for financing projects involving Spanish companies in Colombia.
The two also discussed the need to step up the global fight against climate change. Sánchez said the battle was “a priority for both governments” and welcomed Colombia’s decision to join the International Drought Resilience Alliance.
The alliance, promoted by Spain and Senegal in the COP27 meeting last November in Egypt, now has more than 30 nation members and works toward shifting from crises management to drought preparedness.
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Transaction Fortifies High-Value Technical Capability and Speed to Market
ARLINGTON, Texas, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GracoRoberts has acquired Washington-based Pacific Coast Composites ("PCC") to significantly expand its composites materials offerings and underpin its standing as the largest, fastest, and most technical aerospace specialty chemicals distributor around the globe.
The addition of stocking distributor Pacific Coast Composites to the GracoRoberts family bolsters the organization's product depth and breadth and amplifies its reach to customers and suppliers in the $31 billion (7.5% CAGR) aerospace composites market. As a go-to distributor for leading brands 3M, Hexcel, Aerovac, and Isovolta, PCC stocks nearly 400 composites products from 20 suppliers and 15 product categories including adhesives, bagging materials, pre-pregs, resins, honeycomb core, and more. With spec-driven in-house converting, and offering customers custom kitting and slitting capabilities, it is PCC's rapid turn and same day shipping on made-to-order composites materials that truly sets the company apart. GracoRoberts will now offer immediate access to a historically long-lead time product offering – upwards of 30 days to one year – enabling next-level service and speed to market for its customer base.
In addition, PCC's customers will benefit from a larger portfolio of products and channel partners in the specialty chemicals space from GracoRoberts, including Resin Formulators, GracoRoberts' custom formulated line of epoxy resins. Through GracoRoberts' world-class ecommerce platforms (www.skygeek.com, www.silmid.com, and www.gracoroberts.com), Pacific Coast Composites' customers – and the global aerospace community at large – will benefit from easy access to composite materials in an unprecedented click-to-ship environment.
Jason Caldwell, President and CEO of GracoRoberts, commented on the transaction. "We are thrilled to welcome Pacific Coast Composites into the GracoRoberts family of brands. PCC has uniquely solved for long-lead times and excessive waste in the complex composites material space, and GracoRoberts has adopted an online first strategy to take those products to market. Together, we are significantly enhancing the overall customer experience by making it easier and faster to purchase the specific materials they need, with the quality they expect."
Kevin Fochtman, President of Pacific Coast Composites, added, "We've developed a business centered on providing our customers with smaller, customized composites material sizes in a near 24-hour turnaround time. Culturally, we believe in giving our customers what they want, in the quantity they want, and most importantly, when they want it. We pride ourselves in solving problems, offering exceptional service, and adding real value that the customer can measure. Our focus on the customer is in absolute alignment with GracoRoberts, which makes our partnership such a natural fit." Pacific Coast Composites will maintain its operations in Puyallup, Washington, and serve as a key distribution hub for GracoRoberts in the Northwestern United States.
The acquisition of Pacific Coast Composites is supported by CM Equity Partners, the private equity sponsor of GracoRoberts and partner to the GracoRoberts management team. CM Equity Partners has assisted GracoRoberts in its global and digital strategic growth initiatives through acquisitions of E.V. Roberts, Able Aerospace Adhesives, Sil-Mid Ltd., and most recently, SkyGeek.com. CM Equity Partners has over 30 years of experience providing growth capital to the aerospace, defense, and federal services industries.
About GracoRoberts
Headquartered in Arlington, TX, GracoRoberts (www.gracoroberts.com) is the single largest, fastest, and most technically focused specialty chemicals distributor to serve the global aerospace market. We are a full-service supplier of complex engineered materials for aerospace OEM and MRO segments, composites, electronics, and other advanced manufacturing industries. We are fully AS- and ISO-certified and authorized to distribute 3M, Airtech, Akzo Nobel, Castrol, Eastman, Henkel, Hexcel, Huntsman, ITW Polymers, Mask-Off, Momentive, Resin Formulators, Scott Bader, Sika, and Zip Chem, and can source other providers upon request. We differentiate by adding value: services include world-class ecommerce available through three websites (www.skygeek.com, www.silmid.com, and www.gracoroberts.com), core distribution, custom formulation, specialty packaging, vendor managed inventory, intermix and kitting services, turnkey classified program management, and an on-staff Chemist, lab, and testing facility. GracoRoberts prides itself in delivering superior engineered materials with impeccable support to thousands of customers from more than 65 countries and all seven continents around the globe.
About Pacific Coast Composites
Founded in 2001 by President Kevin Fochtman, Pacific Coast Composites (www.pccomposites.com) was born of a genuine need in the aerospace repair and maintenance industry for small quantities of composite materials with short lead times – two demands rarely met in the highly complex composites materials space. With a 16,000 square foot facility in Puyallup, Washington, Pacific Coast Composites serves thousands of customers with nearly 400 in-stock and made-to-order products from 20 different suppliers representing 15 product categories: adhesives, bagging materials, pre-pregs, resins, honeycomb core, and more. The company's mission is to provide an alternative to high-cost and long lead times commonly associated with the use of advanced composites, focusing on reducing the customers' cost of business through waste reduction while providing continuous availability of materials that support the manufacturing and repair of advanced composites.
About CM Equity Partners
CM Equity Partners (CMEP) (www.cmequity.com), based in New York, NY, provides capital to the Federal services and aerospace and defense industries. For over thirty years, CMEP has partnered with management teams to build value in its investment companies by leveraging its long-standing industry knowledge, relationships, operating experience, and its corporate finance, M&A, and private equity expertise. CMEP provides an active and collaborative management approach to its investments, developing long-term strategic plans and supporting re-investment of profits to grow and broaden a company's revenue base and capabilities. CMEP's investments are structured with flexibility across a broad spectrum of the capital structure, including equity, structured equity, and mezzanine debt.
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Natalia Sells has a list of qualities she wants to see in the next Navajo Nation president: Approachable. Adaptable. Inspiring. Someone who upholds traditional values but also is progressive.
She’ll join thousands of other tribal members on Tuesday in casting their vote for one of 15 presidential hopefuls in the nonpartisan race. The field includes incumbent Jonathan Nez, former Navajo Vice President Frank Dayish Jr., former tribal Attorney General Ethel Branch, attorney Justin Jones, and Buu Van Nygren, the vice presidential candidate from 2018.
“I’m trying to go into this with an open mind,” said Sells. “It’s a very hot topic in my family. Everyone is voting differently. I think it’s going to be an interesting election season.”
The Navajo Nation is largest Native American reservation in the U.S., spanning 27,000 square miles (69,930 square kilometers) of high desert, forests, wind-swept mesas and mountains bordering New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. Its population of 406,000 is second to only the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, which has 420,000 enrolled members.
The top two vote-getters in the Navajo primary will move on to the November general election. More than 122,000 Navajos are registered to vote, and the tribe generally sees around a 50% turnout for the primaries. Polls are open Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mountain time.
Nez’s term has been dominated by response to the coronavirus pandemic in which he enacted some of the strictest measures in the U.S. to help slow the virus. The tribe at one point had one of the highest infection rates in the country. A mask mandate on the reservation remains in place.
Nez recently approved legislation to spend more than $1 billion in federal pandemic relief funding to improve water, sanitation, housing and communications infrastructure where many residents live without basic necessities. It came after months of wrangling between the tribe’s executive and legislative branches about what should be prioritized.
“Continuity is very important, I’m sure to our Navajo people, because the learning curve is going to be high,” Nez told The Associated Press. “We offer in our administration, that continuity, no on-the-job training. We are just going to continue to move forward and implement these projects.”
Sells, a law student at Arizona State University, said she’s struggling with experience over change. Whoever wins, she wants to be assured they will find ways to bring the younger generation back to the reservation.
“They want people to come home, but the pay doesn’t always match the skillset,” said Sells, who votes in Teec Nos Pos. “And on top of that, there’s no housing, really.”
Branch is among six candidates hoping to become the first woman to become Navajo Nation president. Only one woman, Lynda Lovejoy, has made it past the tribe’s primary even as some Navajos warned that a woman as president portends an ominous future for the tribe. That notion isn’t as prevalent now, at least not publicly.
Branch has been critical of what she says was the Navajo Nation’s slow response to the pandemic under Nez’s administration. She co-founded a relief fund, raising millions of dollars to provide food, water and other supplies to Navajo and Hopi families.
“There’s a lot of resources that get to Window Rock, there’s a lot of money that gets to Window Rock and it doesn’t make it to the people,” she said at a recent rally in Kayenta.
The other women in the race are: educator Dolly Mason; scholar Leslie Tsosie; Chinle Chapter President Rosanna Jumbo-Fitch; Frankie Davis, who has advocated for extracting natural resources; former New Mexico state legislator Sandra Jeff, and Emily Ellison, who says she will push the federal government to give the Navajo Nation title to its land if elected.
All the candidates speak Navajo but to varying degrees.
Nygren sees himself as a young, energetic diplomat set on running the government more efficiently and partnering with tribal lawmakers on initiatives. He said the Navajo Nation’s internal regulations have stalled economic development, and the tribe hasn’t honed in on tourism as a major revenue source.
“If you come in very hard-headed and ‘my way or the highway,’ the Navajo Nation Council will put you in check just as quick as you can in,” said Nygren who has a background in construction management.
Jones said he already knows what the problems are with the tribal government as an attorney who has sued over elections, the Navajo preference in employment law and other things. He’s staking his platform on supporting small business like vendors at flea markets, janitorial services, waste management companies and contractors.
“Once the Navajo-owned businesses get on their feet, they’re going to start hiring Navajo people,” he said. “That means the Navajo dollar is going to stay around.”
Dayish is one of the only veteran politicians in the group and has work experience in the housing, mining, aeronautical, and health care industries. He ran for president in 2006 but came in third behind Lovejoy. He has set a goal to boost the number of homes with electricity and running water, high school and college graduates and the tribal budget by 5 percentage points.
“At least we have a target,” he said. “Obviously we want to go 100%, but based on all of the regulations, all the funding limitations, that’s what we would be confronted with.”
The other candidates are: Greg Bigman, chairman of the Diné College Board of Regents; Ts’ah Bii Kin Chapter manager Earl Sombrero; and Dineh Benally and Kevin Cody, both of whom sought the tribal presidency in 2018. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/navajos-narrow-list-of-15-presidential-hopefuls-in-primary/ | 2022-07-30 02:22:39 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/navajos-narrow-list-of-15-presidential-hopefuls-in-primary/ |
College football's bowl season began on Dec. 16, at 10:30 a.m. Central, with two .500 teams squaring off in a 15,000-seat stadium in the Bahamas.
UAB's 24-20 victory against Miami (Ohio) drew an average of 822,000 viewers to ESPN. It ended up being the least-watched of 39 bowl games on ESPN's networks and one of only two with fewer than 1 million viewers.
For perspective, heading into a Christmas Day, NBA games on ESPN, ABC and TNT drew an average of 1.5 million viewers, according to Sports MediaWatch.
There are a lot of bowl games. It is hard to argue there are too many.
"We talk to the commissioners, the athletic directors, head football coaches on a regular basis, and there is no indication whatsoever that they want to decrease the number of opportunities for teams to play in bowl games," said Nick Carparelli, the executive director of Bowl Season.
As college football heads toward the debut of an expanded, 12-team playoff in 2024, those involved with bowls anticipate changes from scheduling to qualification to maybe even some type of compensation to players for participating.
While the College Football Playoff has undoubtedly diminished the importance of bowl games, they are not going away. And a bigger playoff might be a chance for bowl season to reinvent itself.
"I actually think that the expanded playoff could create some needed, helpful separation," ESPN vice president of programming Nick Dawson said. "And I think you can draw a more clear line between, these 11 games are the playoffs and this other pool of games is bowl season."
Bowl season is no longer just a time period; it's an organization, rebranded from the old Football Bowl Association.
Carparelli, a former associate commissioner of the Big East and Under Armour executive, advocates for bowls and tries to organize them in ways they haven't been before.
"Every bowl game is different and what the definition of success for one bowl game might be very different from another," he said.
A bigger CFP that starts in mid-December will mean rearranging the bowl schedule around the playoff, which will likely require 11 TV windows with no competition from other college football games.
Everyone involved with the CFP has expressed a desire to bring the media rights to the expanded format to an open market after the current 12-year deal with ESPN expires in 2025. It would be surprising if a new CFP deal didn't involve multiple networks.
Conventional wisdom suggests if another network has rights to the CFP, it would be motivated to acquire the rights to other bowls to help promote the big event.
"I do expect competition," Dawson said.
All bowls outside the CFP have their own media rights deals, though ESPN owns and operates 17 postseason games. At the top of the bowl food chain are the so-called New Year's Six games, currently part of the College Football Playoff semifinal rotation.
What those games strive for is to remain part of the new playoff model, which will include first-round games played on campus. Carparelli has already reached out to conference commissioners who manage the CFP, urging them to consider even more bowl participation.
The reality, though, is the same level of bowl involvement could be difficult to maintain. There have already been calls for more on-campus games in the 12-team format and CFP officials have said they are open to that.
The second tier of bowl games is mostly those played between Christmas and New Year's Day. They produced some thrillers this season: Arkansas 55, Kansas 53 in the Liberty Bowl; Oregon 28, North Carolina 27 in the Holiday Bowl; Pittsburgh 37, UCLA 35 in the Sun Bowl.
Notre Dame's 45-38 victory against South Carolina in the Gator Bowl and Florida State's 35-32 win over Oklahoma in the Cheez-it Bowl each drew more than 5 million viewers for ESPN.
For the bowls in this tier and the non-playoff New Year's Six games, among the biggest problems is opt-outs by top players who are prioritizing being healthy for the NFL Draft.
Opt-outs are almost certainly here to stay, but maybe Alabama stars Bryce Young and Will Anderson Jr. playing in the Sugar Bowl will encourage more potential first-round draft picks to stick it out through the bowl season.
"The way you create value for yourself is to play football," Alabama Coach Nick Saban said.
The third tier of bowl games mostly includes the pre-Christmas games. The majority of those games match teams from outside the Power Five conferences and include many owned by ESPN.
Those games could be impacted most if the NCAA standard for bowl eligibility is raised from six to seven victories, which Carparelli said is a possibility. He expects each conference to re-assess how much bowl access it needs.
"As great as the playoff is, bowl season is more important to a greater number of institutions and a greater number of student-athletes on an annual basis," Carparelli said. "And anyone who questions the relevance of bowl games, I think just needs to take a deep breath and accept the fact that bowl games don't have to factor into the national championship equation for them to be meaningful to a lot of people." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/06/cfp-expansion-to-12-teams-likely-to-alter-bowl/ | 2023-01-06 10:07:48 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/06/cfp-expansion-to-12-teams-likely-to-alter-bowl/ |
McLaren Automotive on Friday named Tobias Sühlmann as its new chief design officer.
He replaces Rob Melville who left McLaren last year to join Ceer, the new electric vehicle brand of Saudi Arabia.
Sühlmann has more than two decades of experience in automotive design, most of it earned at the Volkswagen Group. He has previously served as head of exterior design at Bugatti and Aston Martin, and he did a previous stint at McLaren.
His last role prior to his return to lead design at McLaren was as director of design at Bentley.
During his previous stint at McLaren, Sühlmann was lead designer for special projects. One of the cars whose design he oversaw was the track-only Solus GT hypercar unveiled last year.
In his new chief design officer role, Sühlmann will lead a team responsible for future concepts, exterior and interior styling, plus color and materials. The team will also work with customers looking to personalize their vehicles.
Sühlmann will also be charged with developing a new design language for McLaren. McLaren’s current design language dates back to the P1 hypercar launched a decade ago.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and a drug manufacturer asked the Supreme Court on Friday to preserve access to an abortion drug free from restrictions imposed by lower court rulings, while a legal fight continues.
The Justice Department and Danco Laboratories both warned of “regulatory chaos” and harm to women if the high court doesn’t block an appeals court ruling in a case from Texas that had the effect of tightening Food and Drug Administration rules under which the drug, mifepristone, can be prescribed and dispensed.
The new limits would take effect Saturday unless the court acts before then.
“This application concerns unprecedented lower court orders countermanding FDA’s scientific judgment and unleashing regulatory chaos by suspending the existing FDA-approved conditions of use for mifepristone,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, wrote Friday, less than two days after the appellate ruling.
A lawyer for the anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations suing over mifepristone said the justices should reject the drugmaker’s and the administration’s pleas and allow the appeals court-ordered changes to take effect.
The fight over mifepristone lands at the Supreme Court less than a year after conservative justices reversed Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.
The justices are being asked for a temporary order to keep in place Food and Drug Administration regulations governing mifepristone. Such an order would give them time to more fully consider each side’s arguments without the pressure of a deadline.
The Biden administration and Danco, which is based in New York, also want a more lasting order that would keep the current rules in place as long as the legal fight over mifepristone continues. As a fallback, they asked the court to take up the issue, hear arguments and decide by early summer a legal challenge to mifepristone that anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations filed last year.
The court rarely acts so quickly to grant full review of cases before at least one appeals court has thoroughly examined the legal issues involved.
A ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Wednesday would prevent the pill, used in the most common abortion method, from being mailed or prescribed without an in-person visit to a doctor. It also would withdraw the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone for use beyond the seventh week of pregnancy. The FDA says it’s safe through 10 weeks.
Still, the appeals court did not entirely withdraw FDA approval of mifepristone while the fight over it continues. The 5th circuit narrowed an April 7 ruling by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, whose far-reaching and virtually unprecedented order would have blocked FDA approval of the pill. He gave the administration a week to appeal.
“To the government’s knowledge, this is the first time any court has abrogated FDA’s conditions on a drug’s approval based on a disagreement with the agency’s judgment about safety — much less done so after those conditions have been in effect for years,” Prelogar wrote.
Erin Hawley, a lawyer for the challengers, said in a statement that the FDA has put politics ahead of health concerns in its actions on medication abortion.
“The 5th Circuit rightly required the agency to prioritize women’s health by restoring critical safeguards, and we’ll urge the Supreme Court to keep that accountability in place,” said Hawley said, a senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group that also argued to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Mifepristone was approved by the FDA more than two decades ago and is used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol.
Adding to the uncertainty, a separate federal judge in Washington on Thursday clarified his own order from last week to make clear that the FDA is not to do anything that might block mifepristone’s availability in 17 Democrat-led states suing to keep it on the market.
It’s unclear how the FDA can comply with court orders in both cases, a situation that Prelogar described Friday as untenable.
The two judges who voted to tighten restrictions, Kurt Engelhardt and Andrew Oldham, are both appointees of former President Donald Trump. The third judge, Catharina Haynes, is an appointee of former President George W. Bush. She said she would have put the lower court ruling on hold entirely for now to allow oral arguments in the case..
The appeals court judges in the majority in Wednesday’s decision noted that the Biden administration and mifepristone’s manufacturer “warn us of significant public consequences” that would result if mifepristone were withdrawn entirely from the market under the lower court ruling.
But the judges suggested FDA changes making mifepristone easier to obtain since 2016 were less consequential than its initial approval of the drug in 2000. It would be “difficult” to argue the changes were “so critical to the public given that the nation operated — and mifepristone was administered to millions of women — without them for sixteen years” the judges wrote.
Use of medication abortion jumped significantly after the 2016 rule expansion, according to data gathered by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. In 2017, medication abortion accounted for 39% percent of abortions but by 2020 had increased to become the most common method, accounting for 53% of all abortions.
Experts have said the use of medication abortion has increased since the court overturned Roe.
When the drug was initially approved, the FDA limited its use to up to seven weeks of pregnancy. It also required three in-person office visits: the first to administer mifepristone, the next to administer the second drug, misoprostol, and the third to address any complications. It also required a doctor’s supervision and a reporting system for any serious consequences of the drug.
If the appeals court’s action stands, those would again be the terms under which mifepristone could be dispensed for now. At the core of the Texas lawsuit is the allegation that the FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone was flawed because the agency did not adequately review safety risks.
Mifepristone has been used by millions of women over the past 23 years. While less drastic than completely overturning the drug’s approval, the latest ruling still represents a stark challenge to the FDA’s authority overseeing how prescription drugs are used in the U.S. The panel overturned multiple decisions made by FDA regulators after years of scientific review.
Common side effects with mifepristone include cramping, bleeding, nausea, headache and diarrhea. In rare cases, women can experience excess bleeding that requires surgery to stop.
Still, in loosening restrictions on mifepristone, FDA regulators cited “exceedingly low rates of serious adverse events.” More than 5.6 million women in the U.S. had used the drug as of June 2022, according to the FDA. In that period, the agency received 4,200 reports of complications in women, or less than one tenth of 1% of women who took the drug.
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Associated Press writers Paul Weber in Austin, Texas, and Lindsay Whitehurst in Washington contributed to this report. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/supreme-court-asked-to-preserve-abortion-pill-access-rules/ | 2023-04-14 15:50:44 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/supreme-court-asked-to-preserve-abortion-pill-access-rules/ |
The innovative and affordable payments processing solution saves time in-clinic, increasing customer satisfaction and value for veterinary practices.
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vetsource®, a pet health company designed to provide innovative pharmacy, technology and business services to those who care for pets, has announced its new payment processing service, the latest addition to Vetsource's portfolio of solutions for the veterinary industry, which also includes prescription management, client engagement, and data services.
As the payment facilitator, Vetsource is able to offer competitive rates by eliminating hidden fees, often associated with processing payments, from unnecessary third parties. By gaining the appropriate accreditation to become a payment facilitator, Vetsource is able to deliver innovative payment solutions that remove transaction stress and bring value to veterinary practices.
The new payment processing platform, the first offering of its kind from Vetsource, which currently serves more than 10,000 veterinary practices, will enable veterinary practices to offer modern, convenient and flexible payment methods that have been absent from the veterinary industry until now. These capabilities allow clients to choose to pay in the way that best meets their specific needs.
In addition to the enhanced experience for pet owners, the solution streamlines the collection of payments and end-of-day reconciliation, resulting in fewer errors, and ultimately saving the practice hours of administrative time every week.
"Our goal was to take what we know from our 15 years in the veterinary industry and build a service that meets the unique needs of veterinarians and their clients," said Kurt Green, Vetsource CEO.
Vetsource's distinctive solution helps practices avoid unnecessary and crowded reception areas while simplifying payment collection for hospitalized patients through contactless payment options, like text-to-pay, allowing the practice to devote more time caring for patients. Practices can also pull client data in real-time and execute express checkouts, reducing the amount of time spent manually entering data. With a modern and intuitive interface supporting mobile and fixed payment terminals, the payment solution can easily meet the unique needs of individual practices and their preferred workflows.
"A pain point for many veterinary hospitals is that their current payment systems are clunky and awkward, proving difficult and time-consuming for staff and causing friction for the customer," said Green. "With the combination of our deep domain knowledge and our prior payments experience, we knew we could solve a unique problem and bring a valuable payments solution to the industry – one that would be affordable, offer better reporting and reconciliation, and have a more modern-usable interface."
Vetsource will introduce its payments processing service, which will be available this spring, at the 2023 Western Veterinary Conference (WVC) February 20 - 23 in Las Vegas. Attendees can visit Vetsource (booth #1051) to demo the platform, learn more about the service, and take home a complimentary customized pet collar tag.
About Vetsource
Vetsource provides innovative pharmacy, technology and business services to the pet health industry. At Vetsource, we strive to be the most trusted advocate in a rapidly evolving world and constantly seek new ways to help our customers chart a course for a better, brighter future for pets and those who care for them. Our data-powered platform eliminates complexities and simplifies workflows to help veterinarians, retailers and others in the pet health industry foster engagement, loyalty and positive experiences that ensure strong relationships. Vetsource's solutions include prescription management, client engagement, data services, and payments processing. Founded in 2008 to help veterinary practices compete in the online marketplace with a home delivery solution, Vetsource is now made up of more than 600 employees and is headquartered in Portland, Ore. Additional offices are located in Colorado, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Toronto, as well pharmacies in multiple locations.
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(WJHL) Amber Gourley, registered dietitian with Heal U Wellness shares some tips on setting and achieving new year’s goals and resolutions.
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CLEVELAND, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is pleased to announce the financial closing of the second phase at Residences at Valor Acres, a component of a larger mixed-use development at Valor Acres in Brecksville, Ohio. BGL's Real Estate Advisors team served as the exclusive financial advisor to the DiGeronimo Companies in the transaction.
The development financing consisted of: (i) an acquisition and development loan with Huntington Bank, (ii) a vertical construction loan with Huntington Bank, and (iii) sponsor equity. Huntington Bank will finance 25 for-sale townhomes and duplex homes, a memorial park, and clubhouse.
Valor Acres, located conveniently off I-77 in the heart of Northeast Ohio, provides new opportunities for the preeminent mixed-use development between Cleveland and Akron. In October of 2020, the Sherwin-Williams Company purchased a portion of the land at Valor Acres for development of their new research and development center, bringing hundreds of high-paying jobs and an immediate need for new housing in the area. The new R&D center will consist of multiple buildings, parking areas and green space and will initially employ approximately 800-900 workers. Additional employment opportunities are expected as Sherwin-Williams continues to grow. The R&D center is the catalyst to attract increased office, residential, hospitality, and retail investment.
Valor Acres sits in a prime location with a 30-minute drive time to the majority of Northeast Ohio and is located between two major airports, Akron-Canton Airport and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. In addition to the Residences of Valor Acres, the master plan for Valor Acres includes new offices, a luxury hotel, as well as retail and entertainment space.
BGL previously advised the DiGeronimo Companies on Phase I of the project, which closed in January of 2022.
The DiGeronimo Companies is a leading developer, capital provider, and construction management firm headquartered in Independence, Ohio. For over 60 years, DiGeronimo Companies has combined integrity with unparalleled company principles and a diverse portfolio of services to be the integrated partner for all project needs. DiGeronimo Companies are a full-scope developer with projects in retail, industrial, student housing, and mixed-use developments.
BGL's Real Estate Advisors Group offers comprehensive real estate investment banking services tailored to the middle market. We provide client-focused solutions with an emphasis on real estate advisory, debt, preferred and private equity placement, financial restructuring, recapitalizations, sale-leasebacks, structured finance, and asset acquisitions and dispositions across all asset classes. Our team assists real estate owners and developers looking to form alliances and joint ventures with single-source capital providers to gain local and institutional access for all capital needs.
About Brown Gibbons Lang & Company
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is a leading independent investment bank and financial advisory firm focused on the global middle market. The firm advises private and public corporations and private equity groups on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructurings, valuations and opinions, and other strategic matters. BGL has investment banking offices in Chicago, Cleveland, and Philadelphia, and real estate offices in Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, and San Antonio. The firm is also a founding member of Global M&A Partners, enabling BGL to service clients in more than 30 countries around the world. Securities transactions are conducted through Brown, Gibbons, Lang & Company Securities, LLC, an affiliate of Brown Gibbons Lang & Company LLC and a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. For more information, please visit bglco.com.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lewis Simons, who reported from Asia and the Middle East for decades, about the legacy of cluster bombs in Laos.
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New Master Agreement Protects 18,000 Costco Workers Coast-to-Coast
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Teamsters made history today, securing a new master agreement protecting more than 18,000 workers at Costco nationwide. Ballots were counted at 5 p.m. ET before an independent observer in Portland, Ore., and the agreement was overwhelmingly ratified by a vote of 72 percent with record-high voter turnout from the membership.
"Don't let anyone tell you the days of achieving national master agreements are over. Unions can protect American workers on a national scale – the Teamsters just proved it at Costco," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien. "The Teamsters Union pulled off something that anti-labor activists would have you believe is impossible. Our massive network of local unions and army of organizers makes us the most powerful union in the world and the most equipped to protect as many workers as possible.
"This is an earth-shaking win for Costco workers and the American labor movement. Corporations like Sysco, UPS, and Amazon remain on notice."
The national agreement provides members with significant wage improvements over the next three years and a substantial increase in pension contributions by the employer. The contract will also provide members with higher semi-annual bonuses and a more flexible attendance policy, among other workplace improvements.
In May, the Teamsters Costco National Negotiating Committee unanimously recommended a "no" vote against the company's initial contract offer. On June 21, Costco Teamsters rejected the offer by an overwhelming vote of 93 percent, paving the way for today's national contract victory.
"This deal wouldn't have been possible without the participation of members across the country. Workers were united from the start, letting the company know we deserved more and that we weren't afraid to fight to get it," said Henry Chavez, a shop steward at Local 986 in Los Angeles, who participated in negotiations. "This is truly a historic day for Costco Teamsters. We are now part of a national master agreement that will protect workers for years to come."
Throughout negotiations, rank-and-file members like Chavez played an instrumental role in the bargaining process, attending talks and providing feedback for the national negotiating committee.
"This national agreement wouldn't have been possible without the engagement and activism of our members. Their refusal to accept anything less than what they deserved was the key to our success," said Tom Erickson, Director of the Teamsters Warehouse Division. "When workers pushed back on Costco's first offer, it gave the bargaining committee the power and leverage necessary to make enormous gains at the table while simultaneously solidifying the national agreement."
"Our members at Costco stood up for their rights and won big," said Mike Bergen, Local 166 Secretary-Treasurer and Chair of the Teamsters Costco National Negotiating Committee. "They weren't afraid to strike if necessary, and the company knew they weren't bluffing. Today's victory was for the workers, by the workers."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at facebook.com/teamsters.
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NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Adam Svensson had two eagles in a 10-under 62 to take a two-stroke lead Thursday in the PGA Tour's Barbasol Championship.
Playing through temperatures in the 90s at Keene Trace, the Canadian eagled the par-5 15th and eighth holes. The first eagle came after his lone bogey on No. 14, and the second — on a 31-foot putt — gave him the lead.
“I had a couple of top 25s the last few events and I’ve always had, not issues, but just kind of struggled a little with the putter,” said Svennson, whose best finish this season was a tie for seventh at the Sony Open in Hawaii.
“I’ve been working more on putting than I have ball-striking, usually it’s the other way around for me. The extra work and extra time spending with putting has helped my game even more than just hitting balls.”
Ricardo Gouveia of Portugal and Robin Roussel of France each shot 64.
The Barbasol Championship is the European tour’s first co-sanctioned event in the U.S. and features 50 players from the European tour among 156 competitors. The winner will get the final spot next week in the British Open at St. Andrews.
Gouveia is making his second PGA Tour start.
“It was a great round, really solid off the tee, hit a lot of fairways, a lot of greens, holed some good putts," said Gouveia, who overcame a back issue that forced him to withdraw from the pro-am Wednesday. "Just a very solid round.
Roussel eagled the par-5 11th in a bogey-free round that included six birdies.
Trey Mullinax was at 65 with Matti Schmid, Camilo Villegas, Max McGreevy, Michael Kim, David Skinns, Mark Hubbard and Bo Van Pelt.
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Couple wins $2 million Powerball jackpot after losing home in tornado
CLIVE, Iowa (CNN) - A family who lost their home in a tornado is feeling grateful after winning a $2 million Powerball jackpot.
Tammy Gordy said she realized they’d won big when she used the Iowa Lottery mobile app over the weekend to check some lottery tickets she had in her purse.
She was in complete shock when the results of one of her tickets showed they were suddenly millionaires.
Iowa’s newest Powerball winner says she plans to use part of her winnings to finish the family’s home they are building.
According to the Iowa Lottery, Gordy lived in the Agency area back in April 2001 when the community was heavily damaged by a tornado and their home was destroyed in the storm.
Gordy said their new house project has been on a few holds over the years, but the money will help speed up construction.
The Gordy family said they will now also look for some upgrades for their new home such as a walk-in closet and a jacuzzi.
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The travel advisory is presumably meant as a mockery of earnest advisories recently issued by advocacy groups such as Equality Florida for LGBTQ+ people, and the NAACP for African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ people, in "direct response to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity and inclusion programs in Florida schools."
Scott, a Republican who formerly served as Florida Governor and who's associated with one of the largest cases of Medicare fraud in history, wrote that his travel advisory “comes in direct response to the Biden administration attempts to erase capitalism and the system that has brought prosperity to Florida and the United States.”
President Joe Biden has openly denounced socialism and embraced capitalism. That difference in ideology is part of what caused him to butt heads with actual self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, during the 2020 election for U.S. president (the two have since made up, and Sanders has endorsed Biden's reelection bid in 2024).
But Scott evidently isn't deterred. His notice, shared Tuesday, states that Florida “is openly hostile to Socialists, Communists, and those who enable them.”
And this didn’t go unnoticed by, well, self-described socialists on Twitter — including Florida’s first open socialist elected to office in over a century.
Richie Floyd, a city council member in St. Petersburg who openly and successfully campaigned as a Democratic Socialist in 2021, quote-tweeted Scott’s announcement, sharing simply, “Wrong,” with a map of chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America (a group Floyd’s affiliated with) across the state, followed by a tweet with a link to join the DSA organization.
Floyd, a former teacher and aerospace engineer who had developed relationships within the community as an activist, has pushed for local policies in office such as guaranteed right to legal counsel during eviction proceedings for tenants, caps on rent hikes, a resolution affirming city residents' reproductive healthcare rights.Wrong https://t.co/U86hf6Q6WQ pic.twitter.com/bX2VLOBj0m
— Richie Floyd (@richiejfloyd) May 23, 2023
He also advocated for, and has pushed to ensure proper funding for in office, a program within the St. Petersburg Police Department that deploys social service professionals (not cops) to respond to 911 calls involving nonviolent crises in the community, such as a mental health crises, truancy, neighborhood disputes, and homeless people.
The Orlando chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America "fixed" Scott's advisory, and added in a separate tweet, "It makes sense the man who wants to privatize public education, ban abortion, abolish our voting rights, and cut Social Security and Medicare would issue a statement condemning us. Because we’re going to ensure he does none of that."
Others pointed out that Scott’s red-baiting reflects similar messaging shared by conservatives in the 20th century, who also used the bogeyman terms of “socialism” and “communism” (oh my!) to sow racial and class divides in the United States.
“Today’s conservatives are trying to revive the paranoia that prevailed during the 1950s and early 1960s, when supporters of Jim Crow insisted that Black protesters were being manipulated by communists as part of an elaborate conspiracy to destroy America,” wrote Matt Nichter, a professor of Rollins College in Winter Park who studies social movements, in an article he quote-tweeted in response to Scott’s announcement.
“These accusations were absurd,” Nichter continued, “but in the repressive political climate of the Cold War, civil rights activists with ties to the socialist movement were often inclined to hide or downplay them. This culture of secrecy has obscured the Old Left’s contributions to the civil rights movement, distorting both popular and scholarly understanding.”
Jacobin, a leftist publication, quote-tweeted Scott with a link to a recent article about working-class solidarity within Ybor City cigar factories. The Tampa neighborhood was once visited by former socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs of the early 20th century, who made an appeal to socialists within the neighborhood, highly populated with immigrants, who were either sympathetic to or card-carrying members of the Socialist Party of America.
DeSantis, for the record, grew up not too far from Ybor City, which recently unveiled a new mural commemorating Tampa’s antifascist women’s march of 1937.
Verso Books, a publisher of leftists books on politics, labor and the like, also weighed in on Scott's advisory, offering to send a “package” of goods to Florida socialist organizations and unions.
Bullshit. Florida socialist orgs and unions get in touch, we'd love to send you a package - our dms are open https://t.co/iG3SrTmNT2
— Verso Books (@VersoBooks) May 23, 2023
Scott acknowledges in his "advisory" that authoritarian governments associated with socialism have stoked fear among many of socialist governments, and added that Florida "devalues" and "marginalizes" the contributions of socialists, and that they aren't welcome in the Sunshine State.
“Let me be clear — any attempts to spread the oppression and poverty that Socialism always brings will be rebuffed by the people of Florida,” Scott added in his travel advisory announcement. “Travelers should be aware that attempts to spread Socialism in north Florida will fail and be met with laughter and mockery.”
Yet, it seems like Scott’s not getting the last laugh. Or groan, for its performativity.
As Scott pulls this latest stunt, Florida ranks near dead last in average teacher pay, has booted over 250,000 Floridians off Medicaid in just the past month, and continues to grapple with an unaffordable housing crisis affecting not just socialists in Florida, but your everyday capitalists, too, with skyrocketing rent in recent years pricing Floridians (particularly those who are low-income, elderly or on a fixed income) out of their homes. | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida-socialists-blast-florida-sen-rick-scotts-anti-socialist-travel-advisory-34258856 | 2023-05-24 21:21:03 | 1 | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida-socialists-blast-florida-sen-rick-scotts-anti-socialist-travel-advisory-34258856 |
Uvalde school police chief a no-show at 1st city council meeting
UVALDE, Texas - The school district police chief criticized for waiting too long before ordering law enforcement to confront and kill the gunman during a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school did not appear at a City Council meeting in Uvalde on Tuesday, despite being newly elected to the panel.
Mayor Don McLaughlin said he was unable to explain why the district police Chief Pete Arredondo wasn't at the brief meeting. Two weeks ago, 19 students and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Law enforcement and state officials have struggled to present an accurate timeline and details, and have stopped releasing information about the police response.
McLaughlin told reporters at the meeting that he was frustrated with the lack of information.
"We want facts and answers, just like everybody else," the mayor said.
Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, has said Arredondo, who was in charge of the multi-agency response on May 24, made the "wrong decision" to not order officers to breach the classroom more quickly to confront the gunman.
As the mayor spoke in Uvalde on Tuesday, lawmakers in Washington heard testimony from the son of a woman who was killed in a recent mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, as lawmakers work toward a bipartisan agreement on gun safety measures. And at a White House press briefing, actor Matthew McConaughey, a Uvalde native, spoke with passion about his conversations with the families of the children who were killed and the need for more stringent gun control.
The gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, spent roughly 80 minutes inside Robb Elementary, and more than an hour passed from when the first officers followed him into the building and when he was killed, according to an official timeline. In the meantime, parents outside begged police to rush in and panicked children called 911 from inside.
Arredondo has not responded to repeated interview requests and questions from The Associated Press.
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After the City Council meeting, Alfred Garza III, whose 10-year-old daughter, Amerie Jo, was among the Uvalde students killed, told reporters that he attended the meeting to see what else he could learn about what happened that day.
"I have so many questions and not every one can be answered. They’re still collecting data, they’re still collecting information on what happened," Garza said.
He said he had been curious as to whether Arredondo would attend the meeting, and said he had "mixed feelings" about the district police chief's absence.
"He obviously didn’t show up for a reason," Garza said, adding that he assumed Arredondo thought if he did appear he would get a lot of questions.
Garza said he doesn’t have "a lot of ill will" toward Arredondo, nor does he blame just one person for what happened, but he does think more could have been done that day.
"They did take a long time to get in there," Garza said.
UVALDE, TEXAS - JUNE 03: Flowers, plush toys and wooden crosses are placed at a memorial dedicated to the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on June 3, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Since the shooting, there have been tensions between state and local authorities over how police handled the shooting and communicated what happened to the public.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has begun referring questions about the investigation to the Uvalde-area district attorney, Christina Mitchell Busbee. She hasn't responded to repeated interview requests and questions from AP.
McLaughlin said he has asked officials for a briefing but "we're not getting it."
He said the city's police chief was on vacation at the time of the shooting and that the acting city police commander was on the scene.
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. employers are increasingly posting salary ranges for job openings, even in states where it’s not required by law, according to analysts with several major job search websites.
Following new legislation in New York City, California, Washington, Colorado, and elsewhere, employers across the country are becoming more transparent about pay in order to stay competitive with companies in states that require employers to post salary ranges, experts say. A tight labor market and significant increase in remote work have also contributed to the rise.
The number of U.S. job postings that include salary information more than doubled between February 2020 and February 2023, from 18.4% to 43.7%, according to a new report from job search site Indeed.
Salary visibility is lowest in the southern U.S., which accounted for 18 of the 20 least transparent metro areas, and highest in the western part of the country, which tends to have more regulation.
Advocates say it’s a trend that benefits women and people of color, who statistically fare less well in hiring negotiations.
Rather than placing the responsibility on the job-seeker or employee to determine how their pay compares to coworkers, and what fair compensation might be, the laws shift that expectation to the employer.
Kate Bahn, chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, says that means employers have less of an upper hand in determining pay. Laws that forbid employers from asking potential hires about salary history in recent years do similar work.
In 2021, the median pay for full-time women workers was about 83% of men’s pay, according to federal data, and women make less than their male counterparts in nearly all fields. Black women make 64 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men, according to a report by the National Partnership for Women and Families. Latina women make 54 cents and Native American women 51 cents.
Keegan Vance Forte, 37, a freelancer based in Jersey City, New Jersey, is looking for a permanent position either in New York or New Jersey. She said she’s noticed more salary listings for open roles in both states during the past several months than she did when job hunting in the past. (New Jersey does not have a law requiring transparency. New York City’s law, which requires employers to post a good-faith salary range with every posting, took effect in November.)
“I’m still getting used to it,” she said. “When I see a salary posting with a job listing, my eyes widen.”
In the past decade, Forte has held roles in business development, marketing and company partnerships, and she says knowing the available range is helpful to avoid wasting both her time and the hiring manager's.
“Instead of dancing around the elephant-in-the-room question at the end, you at least know you're playing in the same ballpark,” she said.
Previously, Forte has spent weeks interviewing for a position only to discover the salary wasn't in an acceptable range for her.
“Over a career, that can be very time consuming,” she said.
Daniel Zhao, lead economist for job site GlassDoor, said that compliance with the new laws requiring disclosure is already strong in New York City, California, and Washington, and even stronger in Colorado, which has had a law mandating transparency in effect since 2019.
“The additional compliance in Colorado implies it will improve in the other states,” he said. “And what we're really noticing is that, since the laws have taken effect, more employers have decided to share salaries nationwide.”
Major companies including Microsoft, CitiGroup, and Google have publicly committed to posting salary ranges for all jobs across the country, rather than only in the states where it's legally required.
“Companies that are not necessarily in locations that now have laws — they're disclosing that information anyway," said Vicki Salemi, a career expert at job site Monster. “It's becoming more of the norm because job-seekers are expecting it.”
Salemi, who also previously worked as a recruiter, said employers tend to compete for job candidates across state lines, including neighboring states that have different laws.
“That means it's in their best interest to start sharing their own ranges, so the job seekers can compare apples to apples," she said. "It's a virtuous feedback loop.”
She called the new laws a “game-changer” in reducing the taboo around discussing pay.
In New York City, the NYC Commission on Human Rights is early in its enforcement efforts. But Jose Rios Lua, the commission's executive director of communications, said that the new law has been “life-changing for a lot of folks.”
“Before they’ve gone through what could turn out to be a long application process, they know the salary range, so they know if a position is worth pursuing,” he said. “For those in lower-earning jobs, it might mean the difference from living paycheck to paycheck."
A provision of New York City's law also gives companies 30 days to rectify any violation in a job posting — whether that's listing an overly broad salary range or not having a range at all. It's an unusual grace period.
In the first few months, the commission has seen that both employers and prospective employees have been “vigilant about job postings,” he said.
Any member of the public can come to the commission and file an inquiry. If a company repeatedly violates the law, they will be subject to penalties including fees. Anyone who encounters a business not complying with the new salary transparency law can file an inquiry at the commission website.
The law is also proving illuminating for some employees who weren’t necessarily looking for new jobs.
Kimberly Nguyen, 25, a UX copywriter in a contract role at CitiGroup, noticed a job posting for a comparable role, but as a full-time employee with a significantly higher salary range. She shared it with her fellow contracted copy-writers and tweeted about it. The group brought it to their managers to try to negotiate for higher pay. Nguyen said they're still waiting.
“They told us it's out of their hands, and there's nothing they can do,” she said. “The managers said they hadn't even realized the job had been posted.”
A spokesperson for CitiGroup said Citi pays the contracting company that employs Nguyen a market-competitive rate for their services, and that the contractor negotiates individual pay rates. The spokesperson said Citi is hiring for a full-time role for an employee with five to eight years of experience, more than Nguyen has, and the salary range reflects that.
Nguyen's experience shows the limits of pay transparency in a highly contracted workforce. For now, she says she's looking for full-time roles with higher pay at other companies, while still advocating for pay increases for contracted workers at Citi. She said she supports pay transparency and sees it as a tool for pay equity.
“It’s a hill I’m willing to die on, but I also have to pay rent,” she said.
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden joked that it's difficult acknowledging he's about to turn 80, but said he's physically and mentally capable of serving a potential second term in the White House.
Biden, who turns 80 on Nov. 20, said it’s “totally legitimate” for voters to question whether someone his age can manage the demanding stresses of the American presidency. Biden made the comment in response to a question about his age during an MSNBC interview that aired Sunday.
He said people should judge for themselves whether he is up to the task as polls show that voters would rather not see a rematch with Donald Trump, the Republican ousted by Biden in 2020.
Biden would be 82 on Inauguration Day in January 2025; Trump would be 78,.
A recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll shows only about 3 in 10 people questioned want either Biden or Trump to run for president in two years. Just 5 in 10 Democrats want Biden to seek a second term, while 6 out of 10 Republicans hope to see Trump seek the presidency again.
“I think the best way to make the judgement is to watch me. Am I slowing up? Am I going at the same pace?" Biden said in the interview that was taped Friday during a visit to the Delaware State University campus to promote his student loan debt forgiveness executive order.
Biden has yet to officially announce whether he will run for a second term, but has repeatedly said it is his intention to seek reelection.
During his 2020 campaign, Biden often presented himself as a “transition candidate” who would build a bridge to new Democratic talent.
The age and health of both Biden and Trump loomed throughout a race that was decided by a younger and more diverse electorate and at a moment when the nation is facing no shortage of issues of consequence.
In the MSNBC interview, Biden said voters should look at his “passion” for the work as they consider his age in factoring whether they should vote for him.
Biden joked that he's still coming to terms with becoming an octogenarian.
“I can’t even say the age I am going to be. I can’t even get it out of my mouth," Biden said.
Biden went through a battery of blood, physical, gastrointestinal, dental, vision and neurological examinations shortly before his birthday last year.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s primary care physician, wrote in a six-page memo released by the White House after that exam that Biden was “healthy, vigorous" and "fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.”
O’Connor said he investigated Biden for increased instances of “throat clearing” during public remarks and a stiffening of his gait.
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Best time to fertilize your lawn
Whether you’re creating a comfortable space for your family to spend their free time or increasing the curb appeal of your property, maintaining a green and healthy lawn can be difficult. One of the most effective steps you can take is applying fertilizer, but correctly applying it can be tricky. And an incorrect application can do more harm than good.
We at BestReviews want you to be knowledgeable when utilizing fertilizer and have created this guide to help you feel confident you’re adding the correct amount at the appropriate time.
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Fertilizer nutrients
Most fertilizers found in a store will have three numbers printed on the packaging, referring to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Though all these nutrients are necessary for a better lawn, each performs a specific role in facilitating healthy grass growth.
Nitrogen
Nitrogen is the most important nutrient required for a healthy lawn. All plants, including grass, need nitrogen to produce chlorophyll. Chlorophyll not only acts as food for the plant but also gives the plant its green color. Applying a nitrogen fertilizer helps your grass grow faster, recover from environmental stresses and deters disease and invasive weeds.
Although nitrogen needs to be applied in the correct amount, too much nitrogen can lead to rapid growth with an underdeveloped root system. Too little nitrogen and the yard may become nitrogen deficient, causing the grass to yellow.
Phosphorus
Phosphorus promotes vigorous root growth and helps the grass pull water from the soil. A robust root system encourages proper hydration, helps plants reach full maturity, aids in survival during dry weather and keeps soil and nutrients from blowing away during strong winds and storms.
Potassium
Potassium helps a plant’s cells maintain ‘turgor pressure,’ also known as hydrostatic pressure. Simply put, turgor pressure is what gives the plant’s cell its structural integrity. This allows the plant to survive harsh conditions, like cold weather or drought.
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Fast-release vs. slow-release
With nitrogen as the most critical component in facilitating plant growth, you should pay careful attention to how you introduce it into your yard’s ecosystem. Fast-release nitrogen fertilizers provide rapid growth and greening but increase the risk of nitrogen oversaturation.
Slow-release nitrogen fertilizers, also known as controlled-release fertilizers, allow for a more gradual introduction of nitrogen. Plant greening and maturation won’t be rapid, but you can expect even grass growth and lessen the chance of lawn damage.
Liquids vs. granules
Most home fertilizers come in either liquid or granule form. Though both contain the same nutrients needed to facilitate healthy lawn growth, they each have specific benefits and drawbacks.
Liquid fertilizers have a consistent distribution of nutrients and are easy to apply. Liquid fertilizers do not have a slow-release nitrogen option, and the initial cost of a distribution system can be steep.
Granular fertilizers are cheap to purchase, especially in bulk, are easy to store and provide slow-release nitrogen fertilizer options. Though granular fertilizers don’t spread as evenly as their liquid counterparts, the cost of granule distribution systems is far less.
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Scotts Turf Builder Classic Drop Spreader
With its straightforward operation and ease of use, the Turf Builder Classic Drop Spreader is an ideal fit for those who need to distribute fertilizer over a large area.
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Scotts Turf Builder EdgeGuard Mini Broadcast Spreader
For gardeners on a budget, Scotts Turf Builder EdgeGuard Mini Broadcast Spreader has plenty of capacity to cover most lawns and gardens.
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Scotts Wizz Hand-Held Spreader
Lightweight and handheld, the Scotts Wizz Hand-Held Spreader is an excellent fit for the gardener with a small or atypical-shaped yard in need of fertilizing.
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When is the best time to fertilize your lawn?
Depending on the needs of your soil and climate, your lawn may require multiple applications of fertilizer throughout the year. However, there are two critical times during the year when spreading fertilizer can most benefit your yard.
Spring
When fertilizer is applied to frozen soil, the plants cannot absorb nitrogen and other nutrients. Instead, the nitrogen rests on top of the soil and can be washed away, collecting in the low parts of a yard or into storm drains and ditches. These areas become damaged from an over-concentration of nitrogen and will need further attention and maintenance.
In spring, wait until the soil has sufficiently thawed and warmed before applying fertilizer. Creating a solid root system early will lead to a healthier and greener yard later, so be cautious not to apply too much nitrogen too fast.
Fall
Late fall is arguably the most critical time to apply fertilizer, as the winter months will be the hardest on your lawn. Research the expected climate in your area and spread fertilizer 2-3 weeks before the soil will freeze. The morning dews during those few weeks will bring the essential nutrients from the fertilizer into the soil. The result will be a lawn more prepared for the cold winter months and a healthier root system when the soil thaws again in the spring.
When to water the lawn after fertilizing
If you decide to apply granular fertilizer to your lawn, water the area immediately to ensure the nutrients are absorbed. Never apply granular fertilizer to wet grass, as wet grass can cause nitrogen to wash away before entering the soil, damaging your lawn.
Rugged enough to discourage kinks, yet flexible and easy to use, the Flexzilla garden hose is an ideal purchase for the gardener who prefers a hands-on approach to lawn maintenance.
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81-year-old overcomes life challenges to graduate with college degree
MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WBND) – For most people, college graduation is a time to celebrate success, reflect on years of hard work in school and to plan ahead for the future.
However, that formula is a little different for 81-year-old Janice Hall, who is a 2023 graduate of Bethel University.
“To receive the accolades and the love and the support that I’ve received throughout this day has been wonderful,” Hall said.
The achievement has been in her sights for over five decades but became more of a priority after she retired nine years ago.
“I was doing nothing, and gotten bored, so I thought this was a good opportunity to finish what I started,” Hall said.
At one point in her life, Hall said she had been working towards her degree, but a serious car accident prevented her from reaching her goal.
In the years since, Hall raised a family of three children, 14 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. She’s also had an extensive career in human resources.
Hall has also received impressive awards, including a key to the City of South Bend, Indiana.
But it was not always easy to achieve these successes for Hall as she’s faced many hardships on her journey.
Hall had suffered a stroke, two battles with breast cancer and the loss of her husband.
But Hall’s son, Michael Patton, said no battle was too big for her to get to this moment.
“My mother has been resilient, she’s persevered, and she has met the challenge, not only today but over her lifetime,” he said.
Hall said she never would have been able to graduate without the help of her roll-aider to help her get across the stage. She also said she could not have done it without her family supporting her every step of the way.
“I remember talking to her on the phone when she would be writing her papers, and she was so dedicated, she would say, ‘I have to get off the phone now. I have to go do my homework,’” Patton said.
Even with this achievement, Hall’s journey is not over. She will return to Bethel University to pursue a master’s degree in ministry.
“It will assist me with some of the practical things that I need to carry out that degree and to do what God has called me to do,” Hall said.
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The Collection Features Slimmer Profiles and Enhanced Readability for Improved User Experience
DOVER, N.J., July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Casio America, Inc. unveils the latest addition to its esteemed Master of G Series, the new MUDMAN designed to endure the most extreme conditions. From rescue missions to challenging wilderness survival, the GW9500 sets a new benchmark in durability and functionality. Featuring three colorways in a slimmer profile and improved readability, these timepieces offer enhanced comfort and utility for professionals in demanding environments.
Inspired by specialized gear built for the harshest conditions, the watches showcase a solid and rugged design that combines strength, slimness, and ease of use. By utilizing cutting-edge glass-cutting techniques and a new glass adhesion method, the bezel height has been reduced, while the Carbon Core Guard structure ensures exceptional rigidity, resulting in a more compact form.
Notably, the Duplex LCD which is a dual-layer LCD significantly reduces bulk while delivering improved functionality. The overall case thickness measures an impressive 14.8 mm, even with the inclusion of Triple Sensor technology and a dual-layer LCD – a first for G-SHOCK timepieces. With its multi-component protector and independent front button, the MUDMAN exudes a heightened sense of toughness.
The GW9500 collection also retains its mud-resistant construction, equipped with gasket fittings and cylindrical stainless-steel parts to protect the front and three direct sensor buttons. Engraved on the case back is the iconic MUDMAN mole character in its newly updated design to embody the spirit of the series and symbolize the watch's resilience and ruggedness. Its dynamic updated design represents the new evolution of the MUDMAN line, paying homage to its enduring legacy.
G-SHOCK's commitment to environmental sustainability is evident in the new case, bezel, and soft urethane band, crafted with bio-based resins sourced from renewable organic resources, such as castor oil plants and corn. By utilizing these materials, G-SHOCK aims to reduce its environmental impact and promote a more sustainable future.
Equipped with the renowned Triple Sensor technology, the MUDMAN offers a digital compass, barometer/altimeter, and thermometer to accurately sense and monitor natural changes. This comprehensive suite of features further enhances the watch's functionality, making it an indispensable tool in survival situations.
The new timepieces also come equipped with G-SHOCK technology including:
- Shock Resistance
- Dust and Mud-Resistant Structure
- 200M Water Resistance
- Tough Solar
- Multiband 6 Radio-controlled
- 1/100-sec Stopwatch (24 Hr)
- 1-sec Countdown Timer (24 Hr)
- 5 Daily Alarms
- Full-Auto LED Backlight (Super Illuminator)
- World Time 31TZ, 48Cities+UTC
The G-SHOCK MUDMAN collection is available for purchase now with the GW9500-3, GW9500-1, and GW9500-1A4 each retailing for $380. The collection will be available for purchase starting August 2nd at select retailers, gshock.com, and the G-SHOCK Soho store. For more information about the G-SHOCK brand, visit gshock.casio.com/us.
About G-SHOCK
CASIO's shock-resistant G-SHOCK watch is synonymous with toughness, born from the developer Mr. Ibe's dream of 'creating a watch that never breaks'. Over 200 handmade samples were created and tested to destruction until finally in 1983 the first, now iconic G-SHOCK hit the streets of Japan and began to establish itself as 'the toughest watch of all time'. Each watch encompasses the 7 elements; electric shock resistance, gravity resistance, low temperature resistance, vibration resistance, water resistance, shock resistance and toughness. The watch is packed with Casio innovations and technologies to prevent it from suffering direct shock; this includes internal components protected with urethane and suspended timekeeping modules inside the watch structure. Since its launch, G-SHOCK has continued to evolve, continuing to support on Mr. Ibe's mantra "never, never give up." www.gshock.casio.com/us/
About Casio America, Inc.
Casio America, Inc., Dover, N.J., is the U.S. subsidiary of Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics and business equipment solutions. Established in 1957, Casio America, Inc. markets calculators, keyboards, mobile presentation devices, disc title and label printers, watches, cash registers and other consumer electronic products. Casio has strived to realize its corporate creed of "creativity and contribution" through the introduction of innovative and imaginative products. For more information, visit www.casio.com/us/
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BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced a close colleague of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 21 years in prison on Friday after finding him guilty of corruption, a legal official said.
Zaw Myint Maung is a second vice president and spokesperson of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, which won a landslide victory in the 2020 general election but was prevented from returning to office for a second five-year term when the army seized power in February last year.
Widespread protests met the military’s takeover and Myanmar has been mired in violence and civil unrest since then.
The military sought to justify its takeover by saying there was massive voting fraud in the election, an allegation that independent poll watchers disputed. The ruling military council has said it may hold a new election by August 2023.
However, the Union Election Commission, with members appointed by the army after it seized power, could dissolve the National League for Democracy if it rules it committed election fraud.
Suu Kyi was arrested and is being tried on multiple charges, including corruption, that her supporters say are politically motivated to discredit her and legitimize the military’s seizure of power. She has already been convicted of several less important offenses.
The military government has also arrested many other leaders of her party, which could cripple its attempts to challenge the military in new polls. Charges against them include treason, corruption, incitement and flouting coronavirus regulations.
A statement from the National League for Democracy released last month said 917 party officials and members have been arrested and 701 are still being detained by the military.
Zaw Myint Maung has been a core member of the party since its inception and won a seat in a 1990 election that was voided by the army. He has been jailed at least twice before last year for his political activities
He won election to the lower house in 2012 and state parliament in 2015, after which he was appointed chief minister of Mandalay, a central region considered the country’s heartland.
Like many colleagues, he was arrested by the military on Feb. 1, 2021. He has been held at Mandalay’s Obo Prison, where his trial was held in closed chambers.
The court found him guilty on five corruption counts, said a legal official familiar with his cases who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to release information.
He said Zaw Myint Maung pleaded not guilty to three charges of accepting bribes that went for medical treatment -- he suffers from leukemia -- and two that he abused his position as chief minister in acquiring land for party offices. Each charge carries a maximum punishment of 15 years’ imprisonment.
The legal official said his lawyers are likely to appeal the court’s ruling.
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It looks like Prince George, Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte's school year is off to a royal start.
On Sept. 7, Prince William and Kate Middleton accompanied their children to "a settling in afternoon" for new pupils at Lambrook School in Berkshire, England, according to a press release from Kensington Palace shared to E! News.
"The settling in afternoon is an annual event held to welcome new starters and their families to Lambrook," the press release reads, "and takes place the day before the start of the new school term."
While George, 9, Louis, 4, and Charlotte, 7, will officially begin school on Sept. 8, their new institution has everything a child could want in one place.
According to Lambrook's website, the 52-acre estate has a nine-hole golf course, a performing arts center, a 25-meter swimming pool and an area for the students to learn more about nature.
Additionally, the school has its own orchard complete with several animals and insects, including pigs, rabbits, chickens, lambs and bees for beekeeping. The institution notes on its website that students' interaction with animals aims to "equip the children with practical skills, a greater understanding of animal welfare and the food industry."
By attending Lambrook, George, Charlotte and Louis will also have the opportunity to engage in activities such as in scuba diving, filmmaking, fencing and much more.
In August, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced that their three children would be attending Lambrook after the family relocated to Windsor from London.
"Their Royal Highnesses are hugely grateful to Thomas's Battersea where George and Charlotte have had a happy start to their education since 2017 and 2019, respectively," William and Kate said in a statement Aug. 22, "and are pleased to have found a school for all three of their children which shares a similar ethos and values."
At the time, Jonathan Perry, the Headmaster at Lambrook School, expressed his excitement about the royal children joining his institution.
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Sure, Da Vinci could've painted Mona Lisa's smile a bit brighter. But why tamper with near-perfection? The same could be said with Forest City's performance in a 60-25 destruction of Eagle Grove in Iowa girls basketball action on January 10.
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Policing is changing in some Philly neighborhoods. This community program is spreading the word
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Di Hargrove rolled up to the Cecil B. Moore Library in North Philadelphia on a recent weekday morning, parked, and popped her trunk. She was hauling a stash of resources: masks, hygiene products, voter guides, and job applications.
“Back in the day, you used to have rappers — they used to push CDs out of the trunk of the car and hustle,” she said. “So this is how I hustle, you know what I mean? I do it the same way.”
Hargrove is part of a team of community members hired by the ACLU of Pennsylvania to keep residents up-to-date on everything from their polling place to their rights if they’re stopped by police. It’s an attempt to address racial disparities in who officers detain, and reduce the likelihood of interactions between police and community members escalating to violence.
“The ACLU police diversion team is the accountability partner for the community,” Hargrove said.
She carries a pocket-sized pamphlet entitled “Know Your Rights,” which describes when Philadelphia police officers can or cannot stop someone on the street and ask for ID or search their body. It’s designed to address stop and frisk, a controversial policing practice that has been disproportionately applied to Black Philadelphians, according to police data.
Learn more about the history of the strategy by listening to “Stop and Frisk: Revisit or Resist.”
There has been a groundswell of community activism around policing in the last decade, spurred in part by police killings of Black men including George Floyd, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile. Police use of force is the sixth leading cause of death for young Black men in the U.S., according to a study from the University of Michigan, Rutgers University, and Washington University.
Social justice activists have pushed for increased monitoring of police interactions, particularly with people of color. It’s taken the form of programs like Hargrove’s, as well as oversight commissions, and apps that allow people to easily record and save their interactions with officers.
Criminal justice experts say this movement could usher in a new era of policing — one that improves relations between citizens and the people sworn to protect them.
John Monaghan, a law enforcement initiatives consultant for the nonprofit Center for Policing Equity, said stop and frisk can be part of public safety strategy, but only if departments keep better track of the impacts.
“Adjust our policies, our procedures and our training around that, then we can have better outcomes and do work that reduces harm,” Monaghan said.
A new way of policing
The ACLU of Pennsylvania created Hargrove’s role in response to a new pilot program that changes the way police handle minor offenses. A federal district court ordered the pilot in 2021 to remedy racial disparities in police stops, according to the ACLU of Pennsylvania. The change follows a 2010 class action lawsuit that determined that police were using stop and frisk, which allows officers to stop anyone they have reasonable suspicion to believe has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime, disproportionately to stop Black and Latino men without justification.
The new policing pilot began in Philadelphia’s 14th police district in 2021 and expanded to five additional districts this past spring. It instructs officers not to stop and frisk people for 11 minor offenses, including loitering, public urination, or smoking marijuana. Officers must instead make a verbal request for the person to cease what they’re doing. If the citizen complies, the officer must move on or the person can walk away. If the person continues with the offense, the officer can formally stop them or issue a citation for the conduct.
“Seeing as the pilot program is still in its infancy, the PPD does not have sufficient data that can speak to the effectiveness of the approach at this time,” a department spokesperson said in an email. “The purpose of the program is to address racial disparities during police/civilian encounters.”
Julie Zaebst, a senior policy advocate for ACLU of Pennsylvania, said the goal is to cut down on potentially harmful situations and reduce the number of Black men incarcerated for minor crimes.
“There is no reason why somebody smoking weed out on their stoop should result in a violent interaction with the police,” she said. “We know that’s a danger and we know that’s especially a danger for Black folks and other people of color.”
So Hargrove walks through neighborhoods hardest hit by gun violence and spreads the word about the rule change. She also teaches them how to slowly and carefully get the pamphlet out of their pocket if an officer confronts them.
”You have to have calm communication,” she said. “Patient, slow communication…Any conversation with a police officer nowadays is scary. So I would tell them your every move.”
During a recent outing, Hargrove walked into a gas station and struck up conversation with resident Timothy Mack, a towering Black man in an oversized blue sweatshirt and a backwards ball cap. He told her he’s been stopped by police multiple times and he knows how to talk to an officer.
“You’ve got to tell me what crime, the suspicion of what crime,” Mack said. “If you can’t tell me that, I’m free to go.”
He believes officers don’t get adequate training on how to de-escalate situations, so it’s up to citizens to do that work.
“Once you let them know that you know what they’re talking about, they leave you alone,” Mack said. “What we need to do is talk to them.”
The Philadelphia Police Department has a training course that focuses on “the core principles of de-escalation, crisis communication, and tactics” that is updated annually, according to a 2021 newsletter from the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw explained in the newsletter that the department has expanded its relationship with the city’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services to be able to make mental health referrals for people in need.
Outlaw did not make herself available for an interview request to discuss stop and frisk.
A catch-22
Monaghan, with the Center for Policing Equity, says it’s “unfortunate” that residents of color need “a specific set of instructions in order to stay safe with the police department.”
“It should be a call to action for police departments to realize that something’s very, very broken,” he said.
The number of stop-and-frisk encounters in Philadelphia has dropped steadily since 2019, according to police data.
But some law enforcement officers feel that’s hindering their ability to find people who might go on to commit violent crime.
Sgt. Michael Spicer, who was accused of beating and stealing money from drug dealers in 2012 and then acquitted in 2015, said officers aren’t targeting Black men only because of their skin color.
“The predominant persons that are doing shootings and violence are young Black males,” he said. “We don’t target 70-year-old Asian females for a reason. They are of no interest to us to curb violence.”
Four in five arrestees for shootings have been Black since 2015, and most are between the ages of 18 and 30, according to a report from the city’s 100 Shooting Review Committee.
“The card that gets played against us is that we’re targeting a certain race or color or age…In all actuality, we are because they’re the persons that are responsible for the violence,” Spicer said. “It’s a Catch-22 on our end. So, we’re damned if we do, we’re damned if we don’t. If the leash were a little better or a little more lax, we would be able to do more.”
Keeping watch
In response to concerns about use of force, the Philadelphia Police Department — like many law enforcement agencies across America — has instituted the use of body-worn cameras to hold officers accountable. Roughly half of Philadelphia’s uniformed officers wear cameras. However, critics have pointed out that officers sometimes misuse them, and Pennsylvania law makes the footage difficult to access.
“Any professional sports team would be crazy not to go back and look at camera footage of the games,” Monaghan said. “So, it’s not just the camera on the officer’s chest or in the car, it’s where does [the recorded footage] go? Who stores it? Who reviews it? How does it get used?”
Philadelphia also has a Citizens Police Oversight Commission, which publishes reports about police practices and their impacts, and helps residents file complaints against officers.
In addition to transparency efforts coming out of police departments, there are a slew of digital applications designed to help citizens understand their rights and track officers’ actions, in hopes of preventing situations from escalating.
Examples include:
- Mobile Justice: App created by the ACLU to let people record witness videos and then submit an incident report to the ACLU immediately. This app also includes detailed information about people’s legal rights if they’re stopped by police.
- Legal Equalizer: App captures police encounters after the user is pulled over. It also notifies loved ones and provides basic legal information.
- Cop Watch Video Recorder: App automatically begins filming and sending footage to the cloud. This is meant to be a safeguard in case the cop seizes or breaks the user’s phone.
There hasn’t been much research on whether these witness apps reduce instances of police brutality. Nationally, the number of fatal police shootings has risen steadily since 2015 and reached a record high in 2021, according to a Washington Post analysis.
Hargrove, with the ACLU’s community ambassador pilot, said it’s important for citizens to be “eyes and ears” on the police department.
The ACLU of Pennsylvania is currently tracking the pilot program, and reports that since it launched in the 14th police district in 2021 there have been no incidents there where the police escalated an encounter beyond the request to stop the illegal act.
Hargrove believes sharing information about the illegal use of stop and frisk has led to more informed, calmer communication across the board.
“We’re not against [the police],” she said. “We’re holding them accountable in knowing how to control themselves, how to control their behaviors, and how they communicate. Things can escalate on both sides because there are two humans involved. Everybody has to remember that.”
Hargrove has plans to create role play videos that model positive interactions between police and citizens, and make them accessible by QR code.
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The 2023 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Odds & Preview: Stephanie Meadow
Heading into the final round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Stephanie Meadow is in third place at -5.
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Stephanie Meadow Insights
- Meadow has finished under par six times and posted seven rounds with a better-than-average score over her last 14 rounds.
- She has recorded a top-five score in two of her last 14 rounds, while ranking among the top 10 scores of the day three times.
- Over her last 14 rounds, Meadow has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round three times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on six occasions.
- In her past five events, Meadow has one top-10 finish and two top-20 finishes.
- She has made the cut in three of her past five events.
- In her past five appearances, Meadow has finished within five shots of the leader one time and with a better-than-average score twice.
Over the last year
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KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Insights and Stats
- In Meadow's past two appearances at this tournament, she has finished among the top 10 every time, and her average finish has been ninth.
- Meadow made the cut in each of her two most recent entries to this event.
- Meadow finished eighth when she last played this event, which was in 2023.
- The par-71 course measures 6,621 yards this week, which is 403 yards shorter than the average Tour stop during the past 12 months.
- The courses that Meadow has played in the past year have had an average distance of 6,542 yards, while Baltusrol GC will be 6,621 yards this week.
Meadow's Last Time Out
- Meadow shot poorly on the 20 par-3 holes at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, with an average of 3.10 strokes to finish in the 22nd percentile of competitors.
- She averaged 3.88 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 32) at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, which was strong enough to place her in the 94th percentile of the field on par 4s (the tournament average was 4.09).
- On the 20 par-5 holes at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, Meadow shot better than 86% of the field (averaging 4.45 strokes).
- Meadow recorded a birdie or better on one of 20 par-3s at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, worse than the field average of 2.0.
- On the 20 par-3s at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, Meadow had three bogeys or worse (more than the tournament average of 2.1).
- Meadow's seven birdies or better on the 32 par-4s at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give were more than the field average (3.0).
- At that most recent outing, Meadow's par-4 performance (on 32 holes) included a bogey or worse three times (better than the field's average, 4.8).
- Meadow ended the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give bettering the tournament average of birdies or better on par-5s (6.4) with 11 on the 20 par-5 holes.
- The field at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give averaged 1.1 bogeys or worse on the 20 par-5s, but Meadow finished without one.
KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: June 22-25, 2023
- Course: Baltusrol GC
- Location: Springfield, New Jersey
- Par: 71 / 6,621 yards
- Meadow Odds to Win: +1100 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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LUSAIL, Qatar — Saudi Arabia scored one of the biggest World Cup upsets ever by beating Lionel Messi's Argentina 2-1 on Tuesday.
Messi's quest to win the one major title to elude him got off to a shocking start and brought back memories of Cameroon's 1-0 win over an Argentina team led by Diego Maradona in the opening game of the 1990 World Cup.
Goals by Saleh Alshehri and Salem Aldawsari in a five-minute span in the second half gave the Saudis the win. Argentina took an early lead with a 10th-minute penalty by Messi.
The Argentina loss rivals other World Cup upsets like Senegal's 1-0 win over titleholder France 1-0 in the 2002 tournament opener and the United States beating England by the same score in 1950.
Argentina's 36-match unbeaten run ended at the Lusail Stadium in Messi's fifth — and likely last — World Cup.
The Paris Saint-Germain star shook hands with a Saudi coaching staff member after the final whistle and stood with his hands on his hips near the center circle, an all-too familiar scene for one of the best players ever who is yet to win the biggest prize in soccer.
The unlikely victory was sealed by a somersault by Aldawsari, who brought down a high ball just inside the penalty area, turned one defender, jinked past another and drove a powerful shot past goalkeeper Emi Martinez, who got a hand on the ball but couldn't keep out of the net in the 53rd.
A stunned Messi watched as scores of green-clad fans from Saudi Arabia, Qatar's neighbor, celebrated in in disbelief in the stands. Saudi Arabia's substitutes stormed the field.
Messi put Argentina ahead from the penalty spot after the video assistant referee told the referee to take a look at a jersey grab by Saud Abdulhamid on Argentina midfielder Leandro Paredes.
With Saudi Arabia's first shot in goal, Saleh Alshehri found the bottom corner with an angled finish through the legs of defender Cristian Romero.
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One doctor, hailed as a mentor, reportedly stabbed to death as he took his father to dialysis. Another doctor, after days of coping with medical crisis in Khartoum, decides he must flee for his life to a safer city.
These are just some of the awful consequences of the now 11-day war in Sudan.
NPR spoke to Dr. Mohamed Eisa after his 11-hour journey. He shared his perspective of what life has been like — and of his friend, Dr. Bushra Sulieman, who like Eisa was a gastroenterologist.
"I told him people are dying on the streets here and we will serve this country better if we are alive," Eisa recalls. "But Bushra said, 'I don't want to leave, that's why I came back here from the U.S. in the first place.' "
Dr. Eisa's untimely return
On April 12, Dr. Mohamed Eisa, a gastroenterologist from Pittsburgh, flew to Sudan after his father passed away. Three days later, an explosion shook his family's house in the capital of Khartoum, signaling the beginning of turmoil between military forces that has claimed more than 500 lives and injured more than 4,000 people.
"We sheltered for ten days, barely getting any sleep, sheltering under the bed worrying that missiles might land in the house and listening to the continuous gunfire and airstrikes," says Eisa.
Eisa is also the secretary general of the Sudanese American Physicians Association (SAPA), a nonprofit association formed in 2019 to build links among Sudanese doctors in the United States and to support health-care facilities back in Sudan. It is now trying to support beleaguered hospitals during the current violence.
He describes the health situation in Khartoum as "disastrous" — with planned procedures canceled and doctors fearing for their lives. Several hospitals have been attacked in the capital, which has borne the brunt of the fighting, and are fast running out of supplies.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that only 16% of health facilities in Khartoum were operating normally, with 24,000 pregnant women unable to access maternal care.
Eisa says that his organization is updating a list of pharmacies across the city that are operating at sporadic hours of the day and secretly, to avoid looting.
"I personally know people who had medical emergencies like chest pains or hypoglycemic and diabetes comas because they couldn't find a hospital to take them," Eisa says.
"My colleague was forced to take a patient off a ventilator because the electricity was cut and there was no gasoline to power the generator," he recounts. "They continued manually using an Ambu bag [a device to manually pump air into someone's lungs], taking turns between himself and the nurses for 24 hours. They were hoping for a miracle. Then they just had to stop." The patient died, he says.
On Friday, the Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed to extend a ceasefire for another 72 hours. Despite the supposed pause, heavy fighting has been reported in Khartoum and the western region of Darfur. The true death toll is likely to be much higher as civilians struggle to find health facilities.
Fierce clashes have also been reported in the city Omdurman, adjacent to the capital, where Eisa says SAPA operates a hospital offering pediatric care.
"On one day we received five babies transferred from facilities that had been shut down. One set of parents had been looking for an incubator for their sick newborn for three days. By the time they made it to the hospital, it was too late."
The charity Médecins Sans Frontières said on Thursday that they had managed to deliver supplies to three health facilities in Khartoum despite coming under shelling.
A doctor killed, 'a nation died'
On April 25, tragedy struck Eisa personally as his close friend and colleague Dr. Bushra Sulieman was killed. Sulieman traveled regularly to the United States to see family and perform surgery but had moved back to Sudan years ago to help train doctors. He taught at the University of Khartoum's faculty of medicine and was a director at the Sudanese American Medical Association (SAMA).
"It was a sad day for Sudan given his impact on the medical profession. His death was a turning point. It's not Bushra that died, a nation died."
Eisa says that when war struck, Sulieman was moving his father from different hospitals to seek dialysis. Eisa told Sulieman that he was heading to Port Sudan, an eastern city on the Red Sea from where evacuation ships to Saudi Arabia depart, and that he should do likewise.
"Eventually I convinced him to leave Khartoum for a safe place. He was getting ready but then he was attacked," Eisa says.
Sulieman was killed outside his home while taking his father to an appointment. SAPA members say it's believed Sulieman was stabbed to death during a robbery attempt amid the turmoil. U.S. White House national security spokesman John Kirby on Wednesday confirmed that two Americans had died in the violence since April 15. Sulieman was likely one of the two deaths, even though he was not named.
Fleeing the violence
In the meantime, Eisa had to embark on a perilous journey to escape the city with dozens of his family members.
"The van driver wouldn't come to our street as we live in one of the hot zones near the airport road so the night before we had to sneak between small streets to a different neighborhood."
Though the distance to Port Sudan is nearly 600 miles, Eisa said that the hardest part was leaving Khartoum amid constant bombardment.
"The drive to the bus station was only 45 minutes, but it was the longest journey of my life. We crossed many checkpoints manned by RSF soldiers and were stopped and searched numerous times. We never knew what might happen – would they open fire? Would the army fire missiles at them? As we made it to the bus station, we saw dead bodies in the streets and in civilian cars surrounded by unexploded missiles."
After exiting Khartoum, Eisa says the journey was relatively straightforward.
A.K.M. Musha was also evacuating around the same time. He's the country director for the international nonprofit group Concern Worldwide, and his team reached Port Sudan on April 24 after joining a U.N. convoy out of Khartoum.
"We were 80 vehicles of eight or nine hundred people," he told NPR. "It took 34 hours over 900 kilometers [about 600 miles]. The convoy had to stop many times due to security checks, checkpoints, refueling, flat tires and other logistics. When one car stopped, everyone had to stop. It was painful and difficult, particularly for children."
Musha said that his organization's international staff were leaving the country but providing remote support, hoping to return when hostilities cease.
"Sixteen million people in Sudan were dependent on humanitarian support before the war," he says. "Now that need has increased. What about the people we are leaving behind?"
Meanwhile, Eisa is waiting for an evacuation ship to the Saudi port of Jeddah and plans to return to his family in Pittsburgh. He is relieved to be in the relative safety of Port Sudan but is wary about the deteriorating humanitarian situation as supplies dwindle while more internally displaced Sudanese arrive.
"The situation is a mess. Thousands and thousands of people lying on the streets, kids everywhere, it's a very sad picture. There are no commercial ships coming in and the people of Port Sudan are starting to worry about that. The prices are rising. Everybody is looking for food, water and shelter. Even if they are not seeing bullets, they are looking at an economic crisis."
Andrew Connelly is a British freelance journalist focusing on politics, migration and conflict.
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Thousands of demonstrators gathered Saturday at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and in downtown L.A., in a renewed push for gun control after recent mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y. ; Uvalde, Texas ; and elsewhere.
Washington, D.C.
People comfort each other after a man charged the main stage at the March for Our Lives rally on the National Mall, near the Washington Monument.
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Attendees embrace after the incident.
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A member of the United States Park Police argues with a counter-protester.
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Demonstrators urge Congress to act on gun violence.
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Los Angeles
Protesters listen to speakers in downtown L.A.
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Siena Villegas, 8, and mom Katie Villegas listen to speakers.
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Protesters march downtown.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – After numerous reports of issues buying tickets to Tyler Childers’s upcoming concert at Freedom Hall, a Johnson City spokesperson said measures are in place to alleviate woes.
Childers is set to take the stage in Freedom Hall on May 10 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets were initially set to go on sale online on the morning on April 22 through Freedom Hall’s website.
Multiple News Channel 11 viewers reported issues in obtaining pre-sale tickets, with many saying tickets were unavailable but were appearing on re-sale sites. In a response to a News Channel 11 inquiry, a Johnson City spokesperson said Freedom Hall was aware of the problem and was working with Live Nation and eTix.
Steps to help with mitigating ticket problems include the following:
- Tickets will not be released until 72 hours prior to the event
- Will-call tickets must be picked up by the purchaser with ID on the day of the show
- Artist presale, Live Nation presale, FHCC presale, and general public sale all have a limited number of tickets available
- All sales are limited to 2 or 4 tickets maximum
- eTix has bot catchers and radius limits in place
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- FAST-02 represents a key milestone in the development of Flash therapy
- Flash therapy delivers radiation at ultra-high dose rates in typically less than one second and is capable of being over 100 times faster compared to conventional radiation therapy
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) to advance Varian's Flash clinical research program with the FAST-02 (FeAsibility Study of Flash therapy for the Treatment of Symptomatic Bone Metastases) clinical trial. Data from FAST-01, the first-ever human clinical trial of Flash, was used to support the approval of the FAST-02 study and will be reported later this year.
The FAST-02 clinical trial builds on the clinical evidence from FAST-01 and will include bone metastases in the chest, providing critical insights into the clinical use of Flash treatment for cancer metastases.
FAST-02 is expected to enroll 10 patients with painful thoracic bone metastases and aims to evaluate treatment-related side effects and efficacy of treatment, which will be assessed using trial participants' reported pain relief.
Similar to FAST-01, FAST-02 was designed with input from leading scientific experts from the FlashForward™ Consortium and will be conducted at the Cincinnati Children's/UC Health Proton Therapy Center with John C. Breneman, M.D., FASTRO, as principal investigator.
"For the last decade, radiation oncologists have been exploring Flash therapy as an important opportunity to create a paradigm shift in the way we treat patients," said Breneman, Medical Director of the Cincinnati Children's/UC Health Proton Therapy Center, University of Cincinnati Cancer Center member. "The FAST-01 trial laid the groundwork for the approval of FAST-02, and we are excited to continue the clinical research and evaluate Flash therapy in a new patient cohort."
In connection with the FAST-02 clinical trial, the Varian ProBeam® system's proton particle accelerator has been modified to deliver Flash therapy, and Varian's Eclipse™ treatment planning system has also been modified to create plans for the Flash treatments. Varian is the only industry partner to advance the development of Flash therapy as an integrated, end-to-end solution that includes innovations in treatment planning, quality assurance, and therapy delivery technologies.
"Receiving IDE approval for FAST-02 reaffirms our confidence in the potential of Flash therapy and represents an important step toward delivering this groundbreaking therapy in a clinical setting," said Agam Sharda, Vice President of Flash Solutions at Varian. "Together with our FlashForward Consortium, we have expanded Flash therapy research using our systems as we work to improve the patient experience. We look forward to continuing to collaborate with experts around the world to push the boundaries of innovation in cancer care."
"Preclinical research of Flash therapy indicates using ultra-high dose rates may be less toxic to patients overall and enhances sparing of adjacent healthy tissue," said Deepak "Dee" Khuntia, M.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Varian. "The FAST-02 study will advance our work toward an important proof of concept, particularly in deep-seated tumors. We are eager to build on our clinical understanding of Flash therapy as we continue our work to transform cancer care."
About Flash therapy
Flash therapy, an experimental treatment modality delivering radiation therapy at ultra-high dose rates in typically less than one second, may be over 100 times faster compared to conventional radiation therapy. The concept of ultra-high dose rate radiation delivery has been studied for many years. Dedicated research and development by the team at Varian has led the advancement of clinical evidence for proton Flash therapy. Varian's efforts include investing in bench and preclinical research and supporting the FlashForward™ Consortium, a group of dozens of institutions from around the world, which includes experts in radiation oncology, translational sciences and medical physics.
About Varian
At Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, we envision a world without fear of cancer. For more than 70 years, we have developed, built and delivered innovative cancer care technologies and solutions for our clinical partners around the globe to help them treat millions of patients each year. With an Intelligent Cancer Care approach, we are harnessing advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics to enhance cancer treatment and expand access to care. Our 11,000 employees across 70 locations keep the patient and our clinical partners at the center of our thinking as we power new victories in cancer care. Because, for cancer patients everywhere, their fight is our fight. For more information, visit https://www.varian.com/ and follow @VarianMedSys on Twitter.
About the Cincinnati Children's/UC Health Proton Therapy Center
The Cincinnati Children's/UC Health Proton Therapy Center, which opened in 2016, is one of only 39 in the United States. Affiliated with the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center, the proton therapy center is a $24 million, one-of-a-kind research facility, which includes a fully operational proton treatment room dedicated for just research along with integrated laboratories. The unique capabilities of the research center were instrumental in Cincinnati developing the world's first clinical trial of Flash proton therapy. In addition, children and adults from around the world seek treatment for more than 30 types of cancer in two clinical therapy rooms at the center.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Tropical Storm Bret is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane as it gradually moves west toward the Lesser Antilles on Thursday into Friday, bringing heavy rain and a dangerous risk of storm surge.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Bret had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) at 11 p.m. Monday as it moved west across the Atlantic at 18 mph (30 kph). Forecasters expect it to strengthen over the next two days, reaching Category 1 hurricane strength of 74 mph (120 kph) by Wednesday night as it nears the Lesser Antilles. Because of wind shear, the storm is not expected to strengthen into a Category 2 storm.
Bret is forecast to move across the Lesser Antilles as a hurricane on Thursday and Friday and unleash flooding, heavy rainfall and dangerous storm surge and waves, the center said. It is then expected to weaken slowly while still in the eastern Caribbean region, although the center warned that its forecast “remains a low confidence prediction.”
“Everyone in the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands should closely monitor updates to the forecast for this system and have their hurricane plan in place,” the center said.
The National Hurricane Center said there’s a possibility Bret could turn north or continue west into the Caribbean and threaten the Dominican Republic, Haiti and other islands.
“There continues to be larger than usual uncertainty,” the center said of the storm’s forecasted path.
“June is a very rare month to see development in this region, but ironically enough, we’re tracking two possible storms,” WFLA Meteorologist Amanda Holly said.
The second system making its way across the Atlantic is Invest 93-L, which currently has a medium (60%) chance of formation over the next seven days. The NHC said environmental conditions appear favorable for the system to further develop.
Holly said Bret is feeding off the “extremely warm waters” in the Atlantic. “We’re talking record warm water temperatures for this time of year, and that’s why we’re seeing this type of development right now.”
Almost a century has gone by since a storm last strengthened into a hurricane in the tropical Atlantic in June, according to Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University. The last such storm recorded was Trinidad in 1933, he tweeted.
Tropical Storm Arlene, the first named storm of the 2023 season, formed earlier this month. It petered out after two days, never threatening landfall. Previously, a subtropical storm formed in the Atlantic Basin in January.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has forecast 12 to 17 named storms for this year’s hurricane season. It said between five and nine of those storms could become hurricanes, including up to four major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher.
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Wyoming High School Sports Pics of the Week: June 1-3
The spring season has concluded in Wyoming high school sports but the summer season is upon us. This means, there are plenty of all-star events, rodeo, and legion baseball. We want to pass along some pics from the Wyoming-Nebraska 6-Man Shoot-Out football game, some practice sessions from the Shrine Bowl football teams, plus baseball and rodeo.
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NEW YORK , June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Apyx Medical Corporation ("Apyx" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: APYX) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Apyx investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between May 12, 2021 and March 11, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
APYX investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) a significant number of Apyx's Advanced Energy products were used for off-label indications; (2) such off-label uses led to an increase in the number of medical device reports filed by Apyx reporting serious adverse events; (3) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to incur regulatory scrutiny; (4) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's financial results would be adversely impacted; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Apyx during the relevant time frame, you have until August 5, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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CHANGZHOU, China, Feb. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Trina Solar, a leading global PV and smart energy total solution provider, launched a new generation of rooftop modules at the Genera trade fair in Madrid, Spain, on February 21: the Vertex S+ n type dual-glass product line with output power reaching 445W, the highest in an area of less than 2 square meters. These modules, combining several cutting-edge technologies, featuring the power warranty up to 30 years, have already entered mass production.
When it comes to selecting solar modules for rooftops, installers and their customers are looking for three things: Maximum power output from limited space; trouble-free installation and operations over decades; and good looks on the roof. This is precisely where Trina Solar's new Vertex S+ series comes into play.
Meeting every taste: Optimal bifacial and monofacial options under 2 sqm
Rooftops and individual preferences may differ slightly between application scenarios. Therefore, Vertex S+ is available in two specifications. The monofacial NEG9R.28 comes with a white rear encapsulant for maximum output power boasting up to 445Wp and efficiency reaching 22.3%. In contrast, the transparent NEG9RC.27 is the preferred option for high-end aesthetic applications, for example on residential rooftops where the array would all but disappear optically. This bifacial module features a front side power of 435Wp, at 21.8% efficiency. Both types feature a surface area of just under 2 square meters (1'762*1'134*30mm) and a black aluminum frame.
A powerful heart: n type cells
As all Trina Solar modules, Vertex S+ is based on the 210mm Vertex technology platform. However, thanks to the shift to n type i-TOPCon cells, the module can generate approximately 10% extra energy over 30 years, compared to its p type peers. Moreover, n type cells have a 50% lower initial degradation and an 11% lower annual power attenuation. Both factors combined – higher power and lower degradation – result in a substantially boosted energy yield over the module's lifetime, and improved reliability.
Trina Solar has ramped up its brand new, vertically integrated n type factory securing supply of n-type i-TOPCon cells for modules of all sizes.
Reliable and sustainable: Dual-glass structure
Vertex S+ is the first rooftop module on the market to feature a robust dual-glass structure, replacing the plastic backsheet with a second layer of glass. As such, dual-glass designs are highly reliable and a perfect protection over decades, making this module structure extremely resistant to salt spray, acids, and alkalis. Glass is a perfect and symmetrical sealant, thus ensuring zero moisture penetration and minimizing stress on the cells. Also, Vertex dual-glass modules boast the highest possible fire safety. But not only that – omitting the backsheet also reduces the use of plastics, further improving the module's environmental footprint and recycling when it comes to the end of its lifetime.
Handling and compatibility: Designed with the installer in mind
Due to advances in glass processing, Trina Solar was able to use two layers of ultra-thin glass with just 1.6mm thickness, leading to a low weight of 21.1kg, which is comparable to backsheet modules. This means that installers can handle the new Vertex S+ on the roof just as they have always handled conventional PV modules.
When it comes to installation, Vertex S+ is highly compatible with other BOS components. It offers a variety of mounting methods including short side and long side clamping, crossed beam, shared rail and slide-in mounting. Thanks to its short circuit current of 10.7A, it is also compatible with more than 99% of mainstream inverters in the market, as verified by a comprehensive compatibility analysis.
Peace of mind for 30 years and beyond
PV systems built with Vertex S+ will still provide solar power to our children and grandchildren, given that the product comes with an ultra-long 30-year performance warranty. Mechanical integrity is guaranteed for a full 25 years, rather than the 15-year industry standard. These extended warranties are proof of Trina Solar's trust in its dual-glass technology and long-term performance of n-type cells.
Creating customer value and trust
Vertex S+ will greatly help installers with a solid value proposition, enabling them to offer customers the best investment in terms of guaranteed and increased solar power. Featuring an innovative lightweight dual-glass structure, it has superior performance and safety benefits. By introducing more glass, the use of plastic is reduced, and durability increased, extending the life and recyclability of the panel.
This product creates added value both for installers and end customers in dimensions of energy yield, durability, and sustainability – in short, future-proof solar power.
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I have a suggestion for those who believe our carefully audited 2020 election was stolen and the 2022 midterm election is rigged. If you can't trust the process, DON'T VOTE! Why be a party to a process that you know is rigged? Don't be duped! DON'T VOTE!
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Grant Hunter finished 2-for-4 with three RBI, a double and a home run as Lenape rallied to a 6-5 win over Moorestown in Medford.
Jonathan Adelmann had two RBI and a double while Matt Kahn had a double for Lenape (4-4), which won its second straight game to even its record.
Ryan Lynch had 10 strikeouts for Moorestown (5-3) through five innings before Lenape’s exploits.
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Dog gets behind wheel of car, causes crash
(CNN) – When it comes to driving a car, you can’t expect a dog to know the difference between “park” and “bark.”
Dogs tend to be protruding passengers in vehicles, but taking the wheel is something that happens mostly in books or movies.
But the uncommon culprit behind a crash in Wales was a border collie who jumped behind the wheel.
The dog’s owner tried in vain to stop their Jeep from crashing. The mishap was captured on a security camera that belonged to Shaun Waller, whose car was damaged.
“We’re not mad at all. Accidents happen,” he said.
When asked about insurance, Waller said he is in “doubt the dog is named on the policy.”
“Perhaps we’ll have to claim through pet insurance instead,” he said.
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Short staffing in Stutsman County leads to cases being dismissed
According to court records, a former correctional officer was charged in May for having sex with an inmate. Despite the woman admitting to the act, the case was dismissed.
STUTSMAN COUNTY, N.D. (Valley News Live) - After receiving a tip through the Whistleblower Hotline involving the Stutsman County Jail, Valley News Live began investigating.
According to court records, a former correctional officer was charged in May for having sex with an inmate. Despite the woman admitting to the act, according to court documents, the case was dismissed.
Valley News Live has chosen not to name the woman because of this. However, after digging into why the case was dismissed, Valley News Live discovered this isn’t uncommon right now.
There simply aren’t enough attorneys to go after this kind of crime. Stutsman County State’s Attorney Fritz Fregman says the shortage is so bad, he can’t go after the cases he normally would.
From 1998 to 2022, the Stutsman County State’s Attorney’s Office has had three full-time prosecutors. Two assistant state’s attorneys and one state’s attorney.
In January 2022, Stutsman County lost one assistant state’s attorney to Cass County. Fregman says it’s the sixth Stutsman has lost to Cass since he’s been in office and that vacancy hasn’t been filled.
In June 2023, Stutsman lost its last remaining assistant to the attorney general’s office. Fregman, now on his own, says he has to decide which cases to prioritize. There are several things he considers for charging, settling and dismissing cases, including:
-Whether there is a direct victim, e.g. violent crime, sex crime, or theft;
-Seriousness of the offense;
-Whether another entity has jurisdiction, e.g. the City of Jamestown or the U.S. DOJ;
-Whether jurisdictions have cases against same suspect and what the probable outcome is in the other jurisdiction;
-Human resources available e.g. numbers and experience;
-Whether we have a reluctant victim/witnesses (many DV victim’s don’t want any more government involvement than the arrest and removal from premises);
-Whether we can get the victim what they are looking for, e.g. I just want the addiction cured;
-Strength of the state’s case in legal and factual terms;
-Suspect’s criminal record, age, and other factors like chemical dependency;
-Bang for the buck e.g. how much are we going to put into this versus how much the state/victim going to get out of it, e.g. practicality of trial and appeal over a B misdemeanor;
-Enforceability of the judgment e.g. will the convict be paroled quickly or sit quite a while, will we collect any restitution for damages;
-Whether an appeal, post-conviction activity e.g. habeas corpus, Rule 35, appeal, and/or successive reviews e.g. annual review under 25-03.3 are likely;
-Suspect’s mental capacity to stand trial;
-Location of the perpetrator e.g. out of state needs to be extradited and transported back to ND at county’s cost;
-Location of witnesses, e.g. out of state;
-Availability of evidence, e.g. protected health information under HIPAA or 42 CFR Part 2;
-Other remedies for the victim e.g. do they have an open civil case or a divorce; and/or
-Whether the suspect already is incarcerated.
The shortage has gotten to be such a severe problem, folks are starting to take a look at what might be done about it. The North Dakota Legislature passed House Concurrent Resolution 3023 in April 2023, asking the judiciary to investigate what can be done.
Fregman says the Supreme Court is assembling a task force to look into it and UND School of Law has been working to attract law students and retain law grads in the state.
In the summer of 2022, Stutsman County’s Board of Commissioners made upward revisions to assistant state’s attorney salaries from about $68,000 to about $73,000. That did not produce applicants.
More recently, the Board went up to about $83,000 for a starting attorney. Salaries are slated for review again on 18 July 2023. Fregman says there’s been strong indication there will be another boost.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A woman who says she suffered serious injuries while trying to save her neighbors’ dog from a canal can’t sue the pooch’s owners, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
The court unanimously rejected Ann Samolyk’s claims that laws allowing legal action for injuries suffered while rescuing a person who put themselves in peril should allow her to sue for damages. But the justices acknowledged that the law could apply to property in some cases where protecting human life also is the ultimate aim.
In her lawsuit, Samolyk alleged she suffered neurological and cognitive damage after jumping into the canal in Lacey Township at the New Jersey shore in 2017 to save the dog after she heard someone call for help. The dog was unharmed.
The court wrote Monday that there could be circumstances in which trying to save property could qualify under the so-called rescue doctrine — for example, if a homeowner is injured trying to put out a fire in a nearby house on a reasonable belief that inhabitants might be in danger — but ruled those circumstances didn’t exist in Samolyk’s case.
“Notwithstanding the strong emotional attachment people may have to dogs, cats, and other domesticated animals, or the great significance some may attribute to family heirlooms, or works of art generally considered as irreplaceable parts of our cultural history, sound public policy cannot sanction expanding the rescue doctrine to imbue property with the same status and dignity uniquely conferred upon a human life,” Judge Jose Fuentes wrote.
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North Korea fires ballistic missile amid rising animosities
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to speed up the development of his nuclear weapons “at the fastest possible pace” and threatened to use them against rivals.
The launch, the North’s 14th round of weapons firing this year, also came six days before a new conservative South Korean president takes office for a single five-year term.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the missile was fired from the North’s capital region and flew to the waters off its eastern coast. It called North Korea’s repeated ballistic missile launches “a grave threat” that would undermine international peace and security and a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning any ballistic launch by the North.
The statement said that Won In-Choul, the South Korean JCS chief, held a video conference about the launch with Gen. Paul LaCamera, an American general who heads the South Korea-U.S. combined forces command in Seoul, and they agreed to maintain a solid joint defense posture.
Japan also detected the North Korean launch and quickly condemned it.
“North Korea’s series of actions that threatens the peace, safety and stability of the international community are impermissible,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters during his visit to Rome.
Kishida said he’ll discuss the launch when he meets Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi later Wednesday. “Naturally, we will exchange views on the regional situation in the Indo-Pacific and East Asia, and I will thoroughly explain the reality of the region including the North Korean missile launch today, to gain understanding about the pressing situation in the East Asia,” he said.
Japanese Vice Defense Minister Makoto Oniki said that the missile was believed to have landed in waters outside of the Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone. There has been no report of damage or injury reported from vessels and aircraft in the area.
It wasn’t immediately known what missile North Korea launched. South Korea’s military said the missile flew about 470 kilometers (290 miles) at the apogee of 780 kilometers (485 miles), while Oniki of Japan said it traveled about 500 kilometers (310 miles) at the maximum altitude of 800 kilometers (500 miles).
Observers say North Korea’s unusually fast pace in weapons testing this year underscores its dual goal of advancing its missile programs and applying pressure on Washington over a deepening freeze in nuclear negotiations. They say Kim eventually aims to use his expanded arsenal to win an international recognition of North Korea as a nuclear state that he believes would help force the United States to relax international economic sanctions on the North.
One of the North Korean missiles tested recently was an intercontinental ballistic missile potentially capable of reaching the entirety of the American homeland. That missile’s launch broke Kim’s self-imposed 2018 moratorium on big weapons tests.
There are signs that the North is also preparing for a nuclear test at its remote northeastern testing facility. If made, the nuclear bomb test explosion by North Korea would be the seventh of its kind and the first since 2017.
Last week, Kim Jong Un showcased his most powerful nuclear-capable missiles targeting both the United States and its allies during a massive military parade in capital, Pyongyang. During a speech at the parade, Kim said he would develop his arsenal at the “fastest possible pace” and warned that the North would preemptively use its nuclear weapons if its national interests are threatened.
North Korea has previously unleased harsh rhetoric threatening to attack its rivals with its nuclear weapons. But the fact that Kim made the threat himself and in a detailed manner have caused security jitters among some South Koreans. Taken together with North Korea’s recent tests of short-range nuclear-capable missiles, some experts speculate North Korea’s possibly escalatory nuclear doctrine would allow it to launch preemptive nuclear strikes on South Korea in some cases.
Wednesday’s launch came before the May 10 inauguration of South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol, who has vowed to boost Seoul’s missile capability and solidify its military alliance with Washington to better cope with increasing North Korean nuclear threats.
North Korea has a history of raising animosities with weapons tests when Seoul and Washington inaugurate new governments in an apparent bid to boost its leverage in future negotiations.
Yoon’s power transition office called the latest North Korean launch “a grave provocation” and urged Pyongyang to stop acts that raise tensions and threaten international peace. It said in a statement that the Yoon government will strongly respond to North Korean provocations in close cooperation with the international community.
Some experts say the Biden administration’s passive handling of North Korea as it focuses on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and an intensifying rivalry with China is allowing more room for the North to expand its military capabilities.
The Biden administration’s actions on North Korea have so far been limited to largely symbolic sanctions and offers of open-ended talks. North Korea has rejected the administration’s offer for talks, saying it must first abandon its “hostile policy,” in an apparent reference to U.S.-led international sanctions and U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises.
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Mari Yamaguchi reported from Tokyo.
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California may get slammed by brutal storm front sweeping US
By AMANCAI BIRABEN and JIM SALTER
Associated Press
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A brutal winter storm that trapped drivers on icy roads, blacked out hundreds of thousands of homes, grounded airplanes and closed schools across much of the country was poised to slam California Thursday.
“We are in for a VERY busy week!” the National Weather Service bureau in San Diego tweeted. “We have issued warnings for damaging winds, heavy mountain snow, highly hazardous boating conditions and the list goes on.”
For the first time since 1989, the weather service issued a blizzard warning for Southern California mountains that runs through Saturday. Some coastal areas could see 10-foot (3-meter) waves — and a few at up to 14 feet (4.3 meters) — through Thursday, forecasters said.
“Nearly the entire population of CA will be able to see snow from some vantage point later this week if they look in the right direction (i.e., toward the highest hills in vicinity),” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain tweeted Wednesday.
The storm, one in a series that was expected to pummel the country through the week, sowed chaos coast to coast. At one point Wednesday, more than 65 million people in more than two dozen states were under weather alerts.
The wintry mix hit hard in the northern U.S., closing schools, offices, even shutting down the Minnesota Legislature. About 90 churches in western Michigan canceled Ash Wednesday services, WZZM-TV reported.
In Wyoming, the state Transportation Department posted on social media that roads across much of the southern part of the state were impassable.
Rescuers tried to reach people stranded in vehicles but high winds and drifting snow created a “near-impossible situation” for them, said Sgt. Jeremy Beck of the Wyoming Highway Patrol.
“They know their locations, it’s just hard for them to get them,” he said.
In the Pacific Northwest, high winds and heavy snow in the Cascade Mountains prevented search teams from reaching the bodies of three climbers killed in an avalanche on Washington’s Colchuck Peak over the weekend.
Unexpectedly heavy snow during rush hour sent dozens of cars spinning out in Portland, Oregon, and caused hours-long traffic jams. The regional bus service offered free rides to warming shelters for homeless individuals.
In Arizona, about 180 miles (289 kilometers) of Interstate 40 were closed while state police in New Mexico shut down on-ramps in Gallup, just across the Arizona line.
The National Weather Service warned of the potential for blinding, wind-whipped snow, especially Thursday afternoon into the night when up to a half-inch (1.2 centimeters) per hour could fall.
In California, a blizzard warning was in effect through Saturday for higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada, where forecasters said conditions could include several feet of snow blown by 60-mph (96-kph) gusts and wind chill could drop the temperature to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 40 Celsius).
In Sacramento, the state capital, the weather service said it had received reports of something that might be either hail or graupel — soft, wet snowflakes encased in supercooled water droplets.
Electrical grids took a beating as ice encrusted utility lines in the North and gusty winds knocked down lines or fouled them with tree branches and other debris in California.
A half-inch of ice covering a wire “is the equivalent of having a baby grand piano on that single span of wire, so the weight is significant,” said Matt Paul, executive vice president of distribution operations for Detroit-based DTE Electric.
More than 579,000 customers were without power in Michigan, well over 117,000 in Illinois and some 45,000 in California Wednesday night, according to the website PowerOutage.us.
Weather also contributed to nearly 1,800 U.S. flight cancellations, according to the tracking service FlightAware. Another 6,000-plus flights were delayed across the country.
At Denver International Airport, Taylor Dotson, her husband, Reggie, and their 4-year-old daughter, Raegan, faced a two-hour flight delay to Nashville on their way home to Belvidere, Tennessee.
Reggie Dotson was in Denver to interview for a job as an airline pilot.
“I think that’s kind of funny that we’ve experienced these types of delays when that’s what he’s looking into getting into now as a career,” Taylor Dotson said.
Few places were untouched by the wild weather, including some at the opposite extreme: long-standing record highs were broken in cities in the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
Nashville topped out Wednesday at 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.67 degrees Celsius), breaking a 127-year-old record for the date, according to the weather service.
Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Lexington, Kentucky and Mobile, Alabama were among many other record-setters.
No warmup was forecast this week, though, in the northern U.S. More than 18 inches (46 centimeters) may pile up in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, the National Weather Service said Wednesday evening. According to the weather service, the biggest snow event on record in the Twin Cities was 28.4 inches (72 centimeters) from Oct. 31 through Nov. 3, 1991.
Temperatures could plunge as low as minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 29 degrees Celsius) Thursday and to minus 25 F (minus 32 C) Friday in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Wind chills may fall to minus 50 F (minus 46 C), said Nathan Rick, a meteorologist in Grand Forks.
The storm will make its way toward the East Coast later this week. Places that don’t get snow may get dangerous amounts of ice, forecasters warned.
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Salter reported from O’Fallon, Missouri. Sarah Brumfield in Wyoming, Eugene Johnson in Seattle, Corey Williams in Detroit, Thomas Peipert in Denver, Brady McCombs in Salt Lake City, Utah, David Koenig in Dallas, John Antczak and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles, Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Ore., Julie Walker in New York, Amy Forliti in Minneapolis, and Steve Karnowski in St. Paul, Minnesota, contributed to this report. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-california/2023/02/22/california-may-get-slammed-by-brutal-storm-front-sweeping-us/ | 2023-02-23 14:15:11 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-california/2023/02/22/california-may-get-slammed-by-brutal-storm-front-sweeping-us/ |
NEW YORK, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As previously announced on January 25, 2023, the Board of Directors of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) approved a quarterly dividend of $0.90 per share on the Company's common stock.
The prior release erroneously stated the dividend increased 6.4%. The dividend increased 5.9%
The quarterly dividend increase remains unchanged from $0.85 to $0.90 per share. The dividend of $0.90 is payable on March 10, 2023, to shareholders of record on February 24, 2023. The new annualized dividend rate remains unchanged at $3.60 per share.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were:
9-4-2
(nine, four, two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were:
9-4-2
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ATLANTA — Details for a public repose were announced on Twitter for one of Atlanta's most prominent pastors, who passed away Tuesday at 90 years old.
Dr. Charles Stanley “will lie in repose” Saturday, April 22 at First Baptist Church of Atlanta, according to a post from In Touch Ministries.
The ceremony will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the post said.
The late pastor headed the First Baptist Church of Atlanta for 51 years and founded his organization In Touch Ministries, which eventually became a global conglomerate.
Stanley was known by many through his show, "The Chapel Hour," which began airing on 11Alive in the '70s. It was later renamed, “In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley,” which aired nationally. The program still airs on 11Alive.
He is survived by his daughter Becky and his son Andy, along with his sister Susie, the church community said.
At this time, his family has requested that the memorial service honoring his life be private. If you cannot attend the public repose, a livestream of the ceremony will be available on the Charles Stanley website. To view the site, click the link here.
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Agreement with Neste for more than 50 million gallons of SAF to initially fuel United flights out of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport
Largest SAF agreement Neste has made with a passenger airline
CHICAGO, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United, which has invested in more sustainable fuel production than any other airline in the world, became the first US airline to sign an international purchase agreement for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The airline has signed a new purchase agreement with Neste that provides United the right to buy up to 52.5 million gallons over the next three years for United flights at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, and potentially other airports as well.
"Reducing carbon emissions from fuel is the fastest way United will reach our 100% green goal by 2050. As the airline that has invested more than any other airline in sustainable aviation fuel production, it makes sense to expand our network of partners internationally with a leading company like Neste," said Lauren Riley, United's Chief Sustainability Officer. "The demand from our customers to limit their emissions from flying is growing exponentially, and this agreement means that United customers flying from Amsterdam, and potentially more airports, will be partners in our sustainability efforts."
Neste will provide United with 2.5 million gallons of SAF in Amsterdam in the first year. United will also have the right to purchase up to 20 million gallons in the second year, and up to 30 million gallons in the third year, at Amsterdam or other locations that Neste can supply throughout the globe, as Neste increases its SAF production.
This supply agreement is enabled by Neste's ambitious growth strategy, which will see the company producing 515 million gallons of SAF (1.5 million metric tons) per year by the end of 2023. Neste has been producing and delivering SAF since 2011 and has a proven track record of supplying SAF to customers in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
"We're excited to be partnering with United in this milestone purchase agreement and make our SAF available to United, also an industry leader in SAF investments," said Thorsten Lange, Executive Vice President, Renewable Aviation at Neste. "Our global, fast-growing SAF production and supply chain supports airlines and their customers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Neste is committed to helping aviation transition to a more sustainable future, and we look forward to expanding our cooperation with United."
SAF delivers the performance of conventional jet fuel but with a significantly smaller carbon footprint on a lifecycle basis. Neste's SAF reduces lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions ("GHG") by up to 80% compared to conventional jet fuel and burns cleaner than conventional jet fuel reducing non-CO2 emissions, including particulate matter (PM). Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ is produced from 100% sustainably sourced renewable waste and residue raw materials, including used cooking oil and animal fat waste.
United has aggressively pursued strategic investments in SAF producers and revolutionary technologies including carbon capture, hydrogen-electric engines, electric regional aircraft, and urban air mobility. United has invested in more SAF production than any other airline globally.
United's 100% green commitment
Here are some of the ways United plans to make sustainability the new standard in flight:
- In March, United invested in synthetic biology company Cemvita Factory for them to begin R&D efforts to bioengineer microbes with the express purpose of creating SAF.
- In December 2021, United purchased an equity stake in hydrogen-electric engine developer ZeroAvia, becoming the largest airline to invest in zero-emission engines for regional aircraft.
- In December 2021, United became the first in aviation history to fly an aircraft with passengers using 100% SAF.
- In September 2021, United agreed to purchase 1.5 billion gallons of SAF paired with an investment in Alder Fuels - enough to fly more than 57 million passengers.
- United is also an investor in Fulcrum BioEnergy, where United has an option to purchase up to 900 million gallons of SAF.
- In July 2021, United announced that along with Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Mesa Airlines, it invested in electric aircraft startup Heart Aerospace. Heart Aerospace is developing the ES-19, a 19-seat electric aircraft that has the potential to fly customers with zero emissions when powered by renewable electricity.
- In July 2021, Air Transport World magazine named United its Eco-Airline of the Year for the third time.
- In February 2021, United announced an agreement to work with Archer Aviation to accelerate the development and production of their electric aircraft – an urban mobility solution that has the potential to serve as an 'air taxi,' giving United customers another opportunity to reduce their carbon footprint before they even board a United flight.
- In 2019, United operated the Flight for the Planet, which at the time represented the most-eco-friendly commercial flight of its kind in the history of commercial aviation.
- In 2018, United became the first U.S. airline to commit to reducing its GHG emissions, by 50% by 2050. This goal has since been superseded by the airline's 100% green net zero commitment.
- In 2016, United became the first airline globally to use SAF in regular operations on a continuous basis with SAF from World Energy.
About United
United's shared purpose is "Connecting People. Uniting the World." In 2019, United and United Express® carriers operated more than 1.7 million flights carrying more than 162 million customers. United has the most comprehensive route network among North American carriers, including U.S. mainland hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York/Newark, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. For more about how to join the United team, please visit www.united.com/careers and more information about the company is at www.united.com. United Airlines Holdings, Inc. is traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol "UAL".
About Neste
Neste (NESTE, Nasdaq Helsinki) creates solutions for combating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. We refine waste, residues and innovative raw materials into renewable fuels and sustainable feedstock for plastics and other materials. We are the world's leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge. We aim at helping customers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions with our renewable and circular solutions by at least 20 million tons annually by 2030. Our ambition is to make the Porvoo oil refinery in Finland the most sustainable refinery in Europe by 2030. We are introducing renewable and recycled raw materials such as liquefied waste plastic as refinery raw materials. We have committed to reaching carbon-neutral production by 2035, and we will reduce the carbon emission intensity of sold products by 50% by 2040. We also have set high standards for biodiversity, human rights and supply chain. We have consistently been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and the Global 100 list of the world's most sustainable companies. In 2021, Neste's revenue stood at EUR 15.1 billion. Read more: neste.com Follow Neste on twitter: @Neste_NA and on LinkedIn.
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Woman nearly hit by ceiling panel at subway station
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (WBZ) - A ceiling panel came crashing downs and almost hit a woman at a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority subway station in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“In the moment I was definitely very shaken up,” Cianna Navarro said.
The frightening close call was captured on MBTA video. In the video, a 25-pound ceiling panel came crashing down onto the platform at Harvard Square station, barely missing Navarro.
“I was obviously in a state of shock. I didn’t really know what was happening,” Navarro said. “Obviously I’m just walking off the T, trying to get home and the ceiling comes crashing down.”
The 21-year-old Suffolk University student had just been running errands.
“I hope change does happen because who knows what would have happened if I took one more step or if it was an elderly person or a child in that situation,” Navarro said.
A collective shock came from riders who were shown the video.
“I never like considered looking up when I was waiting at the T, so that was just shocking,” commuter Sarah Lao said.
MBTA officials say after an inspection, it looks like corrosion from water caused the panel to fall down.
“Anyone that rides our system and knows this system is very familiar with the condition of our system,” Jeffrey Gonneville, general manager of the MBTA, said.
That’s why officials are not taking any more chances.
Already 10 ceiling panels have been taken down at the Harvard Square station and panels at all T stations will be inspected
If they only have aesthetic use, they’ll also come down.
“Obviously aesthetics are important but the safety of these stations, the safety of our system is of greater importance,” Gonneville said.
With some of the ceiling panels more than 50 years old, Navarro and other commuters say the inspections are long overdue.
“Something shouldn’t have to happen for them to investigate. Something like that shouldn’t have to happen where my life was in danger,” Navarro said.
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NEWARK — The New Jersey Devils surprised a lot of hockey experts this past season in going from an NHL also-ran to one of the top teams in the league.
The Devils unleashed another stunner to open the playoffs against their river-rival New York Rangers — 22-year-old Swiss goaltender Akira Schmid.
Schmid rebounded from his only bad game and made 31 saves in Game 7 to lead the Devils to a 4-0 victory over the Rangers on Monday night in an wildly entertaining series.
“We believe in each other,” Devils captain Nico Hischier said. “We knew even last year didn’t go our way, lots of injuries, we have a good group here. We got a lot of good characters here. We’re a team that plays with a lot of speed and it’s hard to handle if you do that.”
Coming off a franchise best 52-win season, the Devils will open the Eastern Conference semifinals on Wednesday against the Metropolitan Division-winning Hurricanes in Raleigh, North Carolina. Game 2 in the best-of-seven series is on Friday night.
The major reason the Devils advanced was Schmid, who had had played in a total of 24 regular season games over the last two seasons.
After New York had a pair of 5-1 wins in the opening two games in New Jersey against starter Vitek Vanecek, Devils coach Lindy Ruff switched to Schmid and the youngster was unbelievable.
Over the next five games, Schmid went 4-1, allowing a total of two goals in his wins. He was driven from the net in Game 6 of a 5-2 loss in Madison Square Garden after giving up all five goals, but the Devils went with him in Game 7 and he delivered his second 4-0 shutout of the series.
“You’ve got to be ready if you get the chance, you know,” Schmid said. “And then you’ve got to take the opportunity and play well. Obviously the team helped me out a lot, making the transition a lot easier for me.”
Schmid admitted he surprised himself a little with how well he played.
Michael McLeod and Tomas Tatar scored second-period goals in the series decider and Erik Haula and Jesper Bratt added insurance goals in the third in the game between the long-time Hudson River rivals.
“Outstanding! Stone cold,” Tatar said of Schmid. “He just seems so patient in his crease, playing so well. He was a big part of this series. Coming in as a young goalie it’s not easy but he stood tall.”
Schmid stopped a pair of Mika Zibanejad power-play blasts in the first period and made a great glove save on Vincent Trocheck with the score still 2-0 in the third period.
Igor Shesterkin was outstanding in defeat, stopping 20 shots, including Jack Hughes’ breakaway late in a scoreless first period.
Rangers coach Gerard Gallant, who led New York to the Eastern Conference finals last year, said the team had a ton of talent and the goaltender played well. However, they generated two goals in the four losses.
“I love to have talent but I love to have a work ethic and more forecheck and stuff like that and we just didn’t get it done,” Gallant said.
New Jersey broke things open midway through the second period on plays set up by playoff veteran Ondrej Palat and defenseman John Marino.
With the Rangers about to go on a power play, Palat, who won two Stanley Cups with Tampa Bay, outworked a slipping Chris Kreider and star defenseman Adam Fox along the boards for a loose puck. He skated toward the net, slid a pass under a sliding Zibanejad and found McLeod, who patiently skated around Shesterkin and deposited a backhander into an empty net at 9:53 for a short-handed goal. It was his first goal since January.
Marino took a cross-ice pass from Hischier at the Rangers’ right point later in the period, swept in on Shesterkin and had the puck slide off his stick to the corner. He retrieved it, and threw a blind pass toward the crease that found Tatar for quick shot into the net at 15:39.
Haula scored his fourth goal of the series with 5:33 left in the third period to send the send the crowd into a frenzy. Bratt added an empty-net goal with 3:19 to go and the series was all but over.
RIVER RIVALRY
This was the seventh time the two rivals had met in the playoffs and the Devils cut the Rangers’ lead to 4-3. Two other series also went seven games with the Rangers taking both at Madison Square Garden. They posted a 2-1 win in the 1994 Eastern Conference final on Stephane Matteau’s wrap-around goal in double overtime and 8-4 in the 1992 conference semifinal.
NOTES: Hall of Fame goaltender Martin Brodeur waved a white towel just before the opening faceoff to rev up Devils fans. … For a home game, there were a lot of Blueshirts in the crowd. … Hughes took a major fall late in the first period when his feet went out from under him with no one near him. … Home teams are 112-81 in 193 Game 7s in the Stanley Cup playoff history, and 1-2 this year. Boston and Colorado lost at home on Sunday night. | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/05/02/devils-knock-out-river-rival-rangers-in-game-7/ | 2023-05-02 19:22:17 | 0 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/05/02/devils-knock-out-river-rival-rangers-in-game-7/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United Spinal Association announced today that the organization will participate in a virtual crew who will remotely test Callisto, a technology demonstration payload embedded on NASA's Orion spacecraft, during the upcoming Artemis I mission.
Artemis I is the first of several NASA missions intended to land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon. It will evaluate how Amazon's Alexa, and other innovative technologies integrated with Callisto, could be used to assist astronauts in future crewed missions to the Moon and beyond. Throughout the mission, the companies that developed Callisto—Amazon, Lockheed Martin, and Cisco—will invite special guests to come to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas to access Callisto in person and remotely send requests to Alexa on Orion.
During the virtual crew session Rhonel Cinous, a member of United Spinal Association from Miami, Florida will have a unique opportunity to simulate interactions between Alexa and future astronauts, getting a peek into what a "day in the life" of being onboard Orion could look like during a deep space mission. For instance, participants will be able to ask Alexa to turn cabin lights on and off, or ask how fast the spacecraft is traveling.
"I'm honored to represent United Spinal and participate in this historic initiative. We believe voice technology, including Alexa, presents many opportunities to make experiences of all kinds more accessible for people with mobility disabilities, while also helping lead to greater quality of life and independence in unprecedented ways," said Cinous.
Cinous, a power wheelchair user who was spinal cord injured in 2016, hosts his own podcast, The Ramp. It. Up! Podcast, chronicling his recovery journey and sharing stories of others impacted by mobility disabilities. He is also a member of United Spinal's Tech Access Initiative, which brings together the disability community and the organization's corporate partners to ensure accessible technology is inclusive to everyone, including wheelchair users. Tech Access Initiative is a model for how industry leaders can engage individuals with disabilities for inclusive design endeavors that elicit noteworthy and meaningful customer insights that drive innovation, access, and demand.
"For many members of the disability community, voice AI can make daily activities that were once challenging much easier, so we have more time pursue our goals and aim for the stars. I hope to use this opportunity to raise awareness of the power of our voices and the importance of developing innovative technology that is inclusive to all," Cinous added.
Alongside Alexa's journey to the Moon during Artemis I, Amazon will introduce new ways to make space exploration more accessible to Amazon customers. This will include new interactive experiences to Alexa-enabled devices like Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show, such as the ability for Alexa to provide customers with in-depth information on Artemis I.
"One of Amazon's primary goals for this project is to inspire those who want to be part of the next generation of scientists, engineers, and astronauts, no matter their background," said Kelly Wenzel, Director of B2B Marketing and Developer Engagement, Alexa at Amazon. "We couldn't be more thrilled that a United Spinal Association representative will be amongst the first to experience Alexa in space, and we believe their participation will help us achieve this vision."
To set up reminders on your Alexa-enabled device for upcoming Artemis I mission milestones, just say, "Alexa, take me to the Moon."
Formed in 1946 by paralyzed veterans, United Spinal is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization dedicated to empowering people with spinal cord injuries and disorders (SCI/D), including veterans, to live successful and fulfilling lives. Membership is free and open to all individuals with SCI/D, with over 60,000 members across 49 chapters, close to 200 support groups and more than 100 rehabilitation facilities and hospital partners nationwide. Known for its revolutionary advocacy efforts, United Spinal played a significant role in writing the Americans with Disabilities Act, provided important contributions to the Fair Housing Amendments Act and the Air Carrier Access Act, and was instrumental in attaining sidewalk curb ramps and accessible public transportation in New York City, which created the standard accessibility model used in many United States cities.
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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ review: A surprisingly bittersweet romp
CHICAGO - No superhero has had a more winding path through the Marvel Cinematic Universe than Thor. Chris Hemsworth’s godly hero was introduced as a fish-out-of-water buffoon in his first movie, reconfigured as a more conventional romantic figure in "Thor: The Dark World," rebooted into a full-on comedian in Taika Waititi’s "Thor: Ragnarok" and then put through the wringer (and a fat suit) across "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Endgame." Without even entering the multiverse, we’ve managed to meet half a dozen iterations of the God of Thunder. And that’s left the famed Asgardian feeling a little unmoored, like a piece of clay to be shaped at will in each new installment.
The best thing about Waititi’s messy but emotionally ambitious "Ragnarok" follow-up "Thor: Love and Thunder" is that instead of adding yet another characterization to the mix, it tries to synthesize everything that’s come before it.
Rather than run from Thor’s convoluted past, "Love and Thunder" embraces it — literally bringing the character’s onscreen history back into the fold via Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster, the love interest who all but disappeared since 2013. Though "Love and Thunder" has the same signature absurdist humor Waititi brought to "Ragnarok," it’s also a surprisingly bittersweet story about missed time and lost loves.
If "Ragnarok" was a no-holds-barred explosion of comedic energy, "Love and Thunder" is a veritable rollercoaster of tones and ideas — from the comedy of giant screaming goats to the righteousness of killing one’s god. And though it’s a tonal experiment that doesn’t entirely hang together, the unexpected dose of emotional maturity is a welcome way to bridge the gap between the old era of Thor and the new one.
About "Thor: Love and Thunder": A godly affair
Unfortunately, it takes a little while to get there. Though the first three phases of Marvel found great success in the "write yourself into a corner, then find a way out" mode of franchise storytelling, Phase Four is starting to show the limits of that approach. Much in the same way "Spider-Man: No Way Home" had to clumsily deal with Peter Parker’s identity reveal before getting into the multiverse-hopping story it actually wanted to tell, "Love and Thunder" opens with an awkward throat clear as it tries and fails to find something interesting to do with the fact that "Endgame" sent Thor off with the Guardians of the Galaxy (Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan, et al.).
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(L-R): Pom Klementieff as Mantis, Chris Pratt as Star-Lord/Peter Quill, and Chris Hemsworth as Thor in Marvel Studios' THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER. Photo by Jasin Boland. ©Marvel Studios 2022. All Rights Reserved.
"Love and Thunder" doesn’t really get cooking until it zeroes in on the key (living) players in Thor’s life: His rock alien best buddy Korg (Waititi), his fellow Asgardian and current King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) and, yes, his old flame Jane, who — for reasons that have been kept from the movie’s marketing — has inherited his old hammer Mjölnir and been transformed into her own version of "the Mighty Thor," cape, biceps and all. (Jaimie Alexander’s Lady Sif is also on hand for a brief cameo, but sadly, and rather inexplicably, doesn’t get to be part of the main crew.)
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The threat that brings them all together is Christian Bale’s Gorr the God Butcher, a sinister reptilian creature who’s easily the scariest villain the MCU has ever produced — and one whose origin story is key to the movie’s unexpectedly somber tone. After being forsaken by his own god, Gorr sets out on a general deity-killing mission. And when his vengeful reign of terror touches New Asgard, Thor and his friends must try to recruit some new allies and save the universe from Gorr’s godly assassinations.
Christian Bale as Gorr in Marvel Studios' THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. ©Marvel Studios 2022. All Rights Reserved.
"Thor: Love and Thunder": A roadtrip romance with some surprisingly weighty themes
So, yes, there are some massive stakes at play (not to mention some delightfully wackadoo ideas about how gods spend their free time). But the most surprising thing about "Love and Thunder" is how much it operates as a small scale, introspective story about mid-life ennui. Though the film takes some cues from 1980s romances, it’s less "Romancing the Stone" than "Moonstruck" — or maybe even "Terms of Endearment." (It turns out there’s a tragic undercurrent to Jane’s badass superheroics.) One of the most memorable sequences is a simple montage that fills us in on the details of what Thor and Jane’s offscreen relationship actually looked like, along with the everyday human concerns that caused them to drift apart between movies.
Of course, there’s still fun to be had too. Though the humor is less consistent than in "Ragnarok," there’s a great running gag about Thor’s complicated relationship with his jealous axe Stormbreaker. Elsewhere, Russell Crowe gives the best Marvel comedic supporting turn since Ben Kingsley in "Iron Man 3" as he steps into the gilded breastplate of Zeus himself. But there’s a decidedly bittersweet undercurrent to it all too, like Thor’s funny/sad "Infinity War" monologue stretched into a two-hour movie.
While "Ragnarok" had its own weighty ideas about imperialism buried amidst its colorful chaos, "Love and Thunder" is a heavier film because its stakes are more personal, its tone more sincere. In fact, at its best, "Love and Thunder" is one of the most quietly philosophical entries in the MCU, as its characters grapple with the disappointment of meeting their godly heroes or question how to claim autonomy within the limitations of a mortal life.
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(L-R): Natalie Portman as Mighty Thor and Chris Hemsworth as Thor in Marvel Studios' THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER. Photo by Jasin Boland. ©Marvel Studios 2022. All Rights Reserved.
If only the movie could keep up that balance consistently. For as much as the more intimate approach is clearly an intentional storytelling choice, there are equally moments where it feels like a limitation of filming a blockbuster during a pandemic. The screenplay by Waititi and Jennifer Kaytin Robinson doesn’t have the necessary nuance to support a fully character-centric story. (Even with a limited cast, Valkyrie winds up getting lost in the shuffle.) And the movie struggles to pick a lane when it comes to how it wants to portray Jane in her Thor persona. The joke is that the godly powers turn the astrophysicist into a bit of an aggro lunkhead, but Portman mostly just winds up seeming lost amidst the beefy muscles and glossy airbrushing. (She’s better as the normal Jane we glimpse between Mighty transformations.)
The largely episodic plot also struggles to generate the right sense of tension and pacing for a superhero adventure. And even with a great black-and-white, 1950s creature feature-inspired battle sequence, "Love and Thunders" lacks the coherent aesthetic of "Ragnarok." There’s a patchwork, piecemeal quality to nearly every aspect of the film, from its inconsistent humor to its underdeveloped quest narrative.
Still, by its surprisingly moving third act, those flaws somehow seem to matter less. There’s something admirable — and maybe even a little punk rock — about the way Waititi sneaks so many big, thorny, humanistic ideas into a superhero movie that mostly sells itself as a 1980s-inspired, Guns N' Roses-scored romp. "Love and Thunder" isn’t the same kind of comedic crowdpleaser as "Ragnarok." But for those who wanted just a touch more heft back in the "Thor" franchise, it’s a worthy installment.
Grade: B
"Thor Love and Thunder" is in theaters everywhere July 8. Rated PG-13. 119 minutes. Dir: Taika Waititi. Featuring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Christian Bale, Taika Waititi, Russell Crowe, Jaimie Alexander.
Make it a double feature with "Jupiter Ascending," streaming free on Tubi
Jupiter Ascending (2015): Like a lot of the Wachowskis’ post-"Matrix"output, "Jupiter Ascending" is the sort of gonzo swing that definitely isn’t for everyone. But once you embrace the unexpectedly earnest tone of this sci-fi fairy tale romance, it has plenty of rollicking action fun to offer. Rated PG-13. 127 minutes. Dir: The Wachowskis. Featuring: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne.
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How to watch "Thor Love and Thunder"
"Thor Love and Thunder" will beam into theaters nationwide on July 8. It is not currently available to stream, although it will eventually make its way to Disney+ after its theatrical run.
About the writer: Caroline Siede is a film and TV critic in Chicago, where the cold never bothers her anyway. A member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, she spent four years lovingly analyzing the romantic comedy genre one film at a time in her column When Romance Met Comedy for The A.V. Club. She also co-hosts the movie podcast, Role Calling, and shares her pop culture opinions on Twitter (@carolinesiede).
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Wednesday
Hammond Horror
Head to Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester for a screening of the 1925 silent horror adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera with live music from internationally-acclaimed silent film accompanist Peter Krasinski. Proceeds from the event, at the Great Hall, will go toward restoring the castle’s 13th-century French cloisters. 7 p.m. Reserve tickets, $20, at hammondcastle.org/event.
Thursday
Inside Stories
Hear storytellers share how they found the courage to start the next chapters in their lives at Stories from the Stage: Turn the Page. Produced by GBH WORLD, the event at GBH Studios in Brighton features everyday people sharing extraordinary experiences of adventure, love, loss, triumphs, and more. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. For tickets, $50, register at wgbh.org/events.
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Friday
Festive Farm
Gather the kids for a special trick-or-treat event at Powisset Farm in Dover. At Boo in the Barnyard, children can wear costumes and get photos taken with farm animals. There will also be Halloween-themed crafts, activities, food, and more. 3 p.m. Admission for member children is $15, non-member children $20, and free for accompanying adults. Registration is required at thetrustees.org/event/80558.
Friday-Saturday
Book Bonanza
Celebrate the power of words at the Boston Book Festival. The free event in Copley Square kicks off with a keynote on Friday and will host 200 authors for readings, presentations, book signings, kids activities, live music, and more. Headliners include former White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx and architect Moshe Safdie. Visit bostonbookfest.org for more.
Sunday
Spooky Streets
Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of SomerStreets: Monster Mash, a family-friendly Halloween-themed festival featuring craft vendors, kids activities, food, music, and more. The event, which takes place along Somerville Avenue, between Laurel and Hawkins streets, will include a parade led by the School of Honk. Costumes are welcome. 2 p.m. Free. somervilleartscouncil.org/somerstreets/monster
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Kennesaw State trips North Alabama 40-34 in 2OT
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Isaac Foster scored with 21 seconds left in regulation and ran 12 yards for a touchdown in the second overtime to rally Kennesaw State to a 40-34 win over North Alabama. After Foster’s burst around left end, the defense stood tall with Markeith Montgomery defending the fourth-and-7 pass from the 22. Shepherd finished 13-of-18 passing for 172 yards and kept the ball 34 times for 102 yards and two more scores for the Owls. Foster had six runs for 36 yards and five catches for 76. Noah Walters was 15 of 27 for 326 yards with Takairee Kenebrew catching four for three touchdowns and a career-best 162 yards in the first-ever A-Sun game for the Lions. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/10/08/kennesaw-state-trips-north-alabama-40-34-in-2ot/ | 2022-10-09 05:00:08 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/10/08/kennesaw-state-trips-north-alabama-40-34-in-2ot/ |
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Including the cities of Raymond, Long Beach, Ocean Park, Naselle,
Cathlamet, and Cape Disappointment
628 AM PST Sun Nov 13 2022
.TODAY...Areas of dense fog this morning. Mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain this morning, then partly cloudy this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Light wind. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Patchy frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s. Light wind.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. East wind
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 50.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. A
slight chance of freezing rain after midnight. Lows in the mid
30s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...A slight chance of freezing rain in the morning.
Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in the lower
50s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
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WAZ020-140015-
Willapa Hills-
Including the cities of Willapa, Frances, Elk Mountain,
and Ryderwood
628 AM PST Sun Nov 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Areas of dense fog this morning. Highs in the mid 40s. Light
wind.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost with patchy fog in the
evening. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s.
Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Patchy frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs around
50. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the lower 30s. East wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. East wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Patchy
frost in the morning. Highs in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of freezing rain
after midnight. Lows around 30. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.SATURDAY...A slight chance of snow in the morning. Partly sunny
with a slight chance of rain and freezing rain. Snow level
2500 feet. Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
$$
WAZ040-140015-
South Washington Cascade Foothills-
Including the cities of Toutle, Ariel, Lake Merwin, Yale Lake,
and Cougar
628 AM PST Sun Nov 13 2022
.TODAY...Areas of dense fog, dense freezing fog with patchy frost
this morning. Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. Light wind,
becoming light this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Patchy fog in the evening. Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 30s. East wind 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. East wind 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. East wind
10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. East wind 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of snow after
midnight. Lows around 30. Chance of snow 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain and snow.
Snow level 1000 feet. Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
$$
WAZ019-140015-
South Washington Cascades-
Including the cities of Coldwater Ridge Visitors Center,
Mount St. Helens, and Wind River Valley
628 AM PST Sun Nov 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Free air freezing level 3500 feet, rising
to 4500 feet this afternoon. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level 5500 feet. East
wind 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Free air freezing level 6000 feet, rising
to 7500 feet in the afternoon. East wind 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Free air freezing level 6500 feet,
lowering to 6000 feet after midnight. East wind 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 40 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Free air freezing level 6500 feet,
rising to 9000 feet in the afternoon. East wind 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Free air freezing level 7000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Free air freezing level 10000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
9000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Free air
freezing level 6000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level at the
surface.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Free air freezing level 4000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level 5000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of freezing rain and
snow in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
$$
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of Google employees are petitioning the company to extend its abortion healthcare benefits to contract workers and to strengthen privacy protections for Google users searching for abortion information online.
Google parent company Alphabet had pledged to pay travel and other health care costs for employees seeking an out-of-state abortion and to help some workers relocate after the U.S. Supreme Court repealed the constitutional right to an abortion. The June decision overturning 1973′s Roe v. Wade ruling has paved the way for severe abortion restrictions or bans in nearly half of the U.S. states.
The benefits for abortion services offered by Google and other tech companies don’t cover contract workforces, which are common in the tech industry and often get paid less and have fewer perks than full-time employees.
A letter signed by more than 650 employees and sent this week to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and other Alphabet executives calls for the inclusion of contractors in those benefits.
It also demands that the company cease any political donations or lobbying of politicians or organizations “responsible for appointing the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade and continue to infringe on other human rights issues related to voting access and gun control.”
The employees seek additional protection for Google users, such as by blocking advertisements that misleadingly direct users to anti-abortion “pregnancy crisis” centers.
The petition was organized by members of the Alphabet Workers Union, a labor union that’s been trying to gain traction inside the company.
Google declined to comment about the petition Thursday. The company said in July it would start automatically purging information about users who visit abortion clinics or other places that could trigger legal problems. Users have always had the option to edit their location histories on their own, but Google said it will proactively do it for them as an added level of protection.
The employees’ petition said the company should also institute immediate data privacy controls for all health-related activity, including abortion information, so that it “must never be saved, handed over to law enforcement, or treated as a crime.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/business/ap-business/google-workers-demand-abortion-protections-data-privacy/ | 2022-08-18 21:39:45 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/business/ap-business/google-workers-demand-abortion-protections-data-privacy/ |
Confidence in science fell in 2022 while political divides persisted, poll shows
NEW YORK (AP) — Confidence in the scientific community declined among U.S. adults in 2022, a major survey shows, driven by a a partisan divide in views of both science and medicine that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Overall, 39% of U.S. adults said they had “a great deal of confidence” in the scientific community, down from 48% in 2018 and 2021. That’s according to the General Social Survey, a long-running poll conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago that has monitored Americans’ opinions on key topics since 1972.
An additional 48% of adults in the latest survey reported “only some” confidence, while 13% reported “hardly any,” according to an analysis of the survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The survey showed low confidence levels among Republicans as partisan gaps that emerged during the pandemic era have stuck around, said Jennifer Benz, the center’s deputy director.
“It doesn’t look all that dramatic when you just look at the trends for the overall public,” Benz said. “But when you dig into that by people’s political affiliations, there’s a really stark downturn and polarization.”
Between surveys in 2018 and 2021, as the pandemic took hold, the major parties’ trust levels headed in opposite directions. Democrats reported a growing level of confidence in science in 2021 — perhaps as a “rallying effect” around things like COVID-19 vaccines and prevention measures, Benz said. At the same time, Republicans saw their confidence start to plummet.
In the 2022 survey, Democrats’ confidence fell back to around pre-pandemic levels, with 53% reporting a great deal of confidence compared with 55% in 2018. But Republicans’ confidence continued its downward trend, dropping to 22% from 45% in 2018. Confidence in medicine has also grown more polarized since 2018. That year, Democrats and Republicans were about equally likely to say they had high confidence. By 2022, though, Republicans’ confidence had fallen to 26%, while Democrats’ has remained about the same as it was before the pandemic, at 42%.
Overall, 34% of Americans reported a great deal of confidence in medicine in 2022, compared with 39% before the pandemic.
Generally, scientists have had a high level of trust compared to other groups in the U.S., said John Besley, who studies public opinion about science at Michigan State University. And even with the latest declines, confidence in science is still higher than many other institutions, he pointed out.
But the split between political parties is a cause for concern, experts said.
“You can definitely see the impact here of people taking cues from their political leaders,” Benz said.
For Sudip Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the drops were “disappointing but not surprising.” He sees them as part of an “overall pulling apart of our communities” and a loss of trust in many institutions.
The latest survey found that distrust has grown for some other groups, too. According to the 2022 survey, confidence in the Supreme Court has plunged to its lowest level in at least 50 years. Americans also reported lower levels of trust in education, the press, major companies and organized religion.
Besley said that scientists should communicate about their motives to help show that they are trustworthy: “Not only do we have some expertise, but that also we’re using that expertise to try to make the world better,” he said.
Parikh thought the stakes are high for rebuilding trust in science — and doing so across political lines.
“Science must be bipartisan,” he said. “The causes of Alzheimer’s are the same whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat. The fusion that goes on in the sun is the same whether you live in Topeka or you live in San Francisco.”
The General Social Survey has been conducted since 1972 by NORC at the University of Chicago. Sample sizes for each year’s survey vary from about 1,500 to about 4,000 adults, with margins of error falling between plus or minus 2 percentage points and plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. The most recent survey was conducted May 5, 2022, through Dec. 20, 2022, and includes interviews with 3,544 American adults. Results for the full sample have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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PHILADELPHIA, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vincera Institute, a leading healthcare facility in Philadelphia, PA, is issuing a notice regarding a recent ransomware attack that occurred on April 29, 2023. This attack has the potential to compromise patient data, including personal and medical information.
Upon discovering the incident, Vincera Institute promptly engaged specialized cybersecurity professionals to assist in containing and mitigating the attack. The primary focus has been on securing our systems and safeguarding patient data. While the investigation is still ongoing, we are providing this notice to ensure transparency and offer resources to affected individuals to protect their information.
We would like to emphasize that there is currently no evidence indicating unauthorized access or misuse of patient data. However, it is our responsibility to inform and assist our patients in protecting their personal information. The potentially compromised data may include the following types of information:
The potentially compromised data may include the following types of information: Full name, Contact details (address, phone number, email address), Social Security number, Date of Birth, medical history and treatment records, Insurance information, or any other information you may have provided to the Vincera Institute.
Vincera Institute takes this incident seriously and is taking comprehensive measures to address the breach, protect patient data, and prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. Actions we have taken in response to the attack include:
- Enhanced Security Measures: We have strengthened our cybersecurity protocols, including implementing additional safeguards and monitoring systems to prevent future incidents.
- Investigation and Remediation: We are working diligently to investigate the breach thoroughly, identify any vulnerabilities, and take necessary steps to remediate them.
- Notifying Authorities: We have reported the incident to the appropriate authorities and are cooperating fully with their investigations.
Patients who may have been affected by this incident are advised to take the following steps:
- Review Your Accounts: We recommend that you carefully review your financial accounts, credit reports, and insurance statements for any suspicious activity or unauthorized transactions. If you notice anything unusual, promptly report it to the respective institution or organization.
- Be Vigilant: Remain vigilant against potential phishing attempts, fraudulent emails, or phone calls that may attempt to deceive you into disclosing personal or financial information. Always verify the legitimacy of any requests before providing sensitive information.
- Contact Us: If you have any questions, concerns, or require further assistance related to this incident, please do not hesitate to contact our dedicated support team at 267-592-3200 or info@vincerainstitute.com.
Vincera Institute deeply values the trust patients have placed in our care, and we are committed to maintaining transparency throughout this process.
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Dusty demise for NASA Mars lander in July; power dwindling
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise.
The Insight lander is losing power because of all the dust on its solar panels. NASA said Tuesday it will keep using the spacecraft’s seismometer to register marsquakes until the power peters out, likely in July. Then flight controllers will monitor InSight until the end of this year, before calling everything off.
“There really hasn’t been too much doom and gloom on the team. We’re really still focused on operating the spacecraft,” said Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Bruce Banerdt, the principal scientist.
Since landing on Mars in 2018, InSight has detected more than 1,300 marsquakes; the biggest one, a magnitude 5, occurred two weeks ago.
It will be NASA’s second Mars lander lost to dust: A global dust storm took out Opportunity in 2018. In InSight’s case, it’s been a gradual gathering of dust, especially over the past year.
NASA’s two other functioning spacecraft on the Martian surface — rovers Curiosity and Perseverance — are still going strong thanks to nuclear power. The space agency may rethink solar power in the future for Mars, said planetary science director Lori Glaze, or at least experiment with new panel-clearing tech or aim for the less-stormy seasons.
InSight currently is generating one-tenth of the power from the sun that it did upon arrival. Deputy project manager Kathya Zamora Garcia said the lander initially had enough power to run an electric oven for one hour and 40 minutes; now it’s down to 10 minutes max.
The InSight team anticipated this much dust buildup, but hoped a gust wind of wind or dust devil might clean off the solar panels. That has yet to happen, despite several thousand whirlwinds coming close.
“None of them have quite hit us dead-on yet enough to blow the dust off the panels,” Banerdt told reporters.
Another science instrument, dubbed the mole, was supposed to burrow 16 feet (5 meters) underground to measure the internal temperature of Mars. But the German digger never got deeper than a couple feet (a half-meter) because of the unexpected composition of the red dirt, and it finally was declared dead at the beginning of last year.
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(WJHL) Kelli Hauldren from Boone High School and Michelle Turner, Hannah Harrison’s mother tell us about a new program to honor the life of Michelle’s daughter, Hannah. It is called Hannah’s Grace. It is a partnership with Holston Medical Group, Hannah’s family and the Daniel Boone High School Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) Club. The program is dedicated to supporting those interested in becoming a nurse.
To donate to the Hannah’s Grace project, checks can made out to “Daniel Boone High School” and sent to Daniel Boone High School, 1440 Suncrest Dr., Gray, TN 37615, with “Hannah’s Grace donation” in the memo line.
All donations will go toward uniforms and clinical supplies for students participating in clinical internships and HOSA competitions. For more on this partnership, please click here. | https://www.wjhl.com/daytime-tri-cities/hannahs-grace-to-help-future-nursing-students/ | 2023-05-17 17:08:40 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/daytime-tri-cities/hannahs-grace-to-help-future-nursing-students/ |
VALCOURT, QC, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - BRP Inc. (TSX: DOO) (NASDAQ: DOOO) is pleased to announce the acquisition of an 80% stake in Pinion GmbH, a pioneer in gearbox technology based in Denkendorf, Germany. Driven by a passion to shape sustainable mobility, Pinion's team of over 60 full-time employees designs, develops, assembles, and sells mechanical gearboxes for traditional and electric bicycles. The company's leading gearboxes are modeled after automobile transmission technology and offer unique cycling dynamics and unparalleled shifting performance.
"Beyond our existing powersports and marine products, we are expanding our addressable market and entering untapped categories such as urban mobility and services," said José Boisjoli, President and CEO of BRP. "This acquisition is strategic for us as it enables BRP to leverage Pinon's unique, state-of-the-art technology in order to spur the development of new electric human assisted products. We are pleased to welcome the Pinion team."
Pinion was founded in 2008 by Christoph Lermen and Michael Schmitz, two automotive engineers. Both Co-Founders and Managing Directors will remain shareholders of Pinion, as will Managing Director and shareholder Thomas Raith. All three leaders will continue to shape the company's path to success and play a key role in its strategic direction alongside Pinion's highly skilled employees. Offices will be maintained in Germany.
Christoph Lermen, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Pinion GmbH, added: "BRP's culture of relentless innovation and focus on R&D mirrors our own. We are proud to join such a respected company and look forward to breaking new ground with them. Together, we will continue providing class-leading Pinion gearbox technology to our 100+ valued bicycle manufacturers while at the same time expanding our offering and developing next-generation drive solutions."
This announcement follows BRP's acquisition of Great Wall Motor Austria GmbH, a leading EV R&D centre based in Kottingbrunn, Austria, specializing in e-drive systems and transmissions, solidifying BRP's expertise in electric powertrain technology for existing product lines and upcoming product introductions.
Certain information included in this release, including, but not limited to, the anticipated benefits associated with this acquisition, statements relating to the integration of Pinion GmbH in the Company's business, and the Company's plans for existing product lines and upcoming product introductions, the Company's business and strategic plans, and other statements that are not historical facts, are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian and United States securities laws. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by the use of terminology such as "may", "will", "would", "should", "could", "expects", "forecasts", "plans", "intends", "trends", "indications", "anticipates", "believes", "estimates", "outlook", "predicts", "projects", "likely" or "potential" or the negative or other variations of these words or other comparable words or phrases. Forward looking statements, by their very nature, involve inherent risks and uncertainties and are based on several assumptions, both general and specific. BRP cautions that its assumptions may not materialize and that current economic conditions render such assumptions, although reasonable at the time they were made, subject to greater uncertainty. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results or performance of BRP to be materially different from the outlook or any future results or performance implied by such statements. Further details and descriptions of these and other factors are disclosed in BRP's annual information form dated March 24, 2022.
We are a global leader in the world of powersports products, propulsion systems and boats built on 80 years of ingenuity and intensive consumer focus. Our portfolio of industry-leading and distinctive products includes Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles, Sea-Doo watercraft and pontoons, Can-Am on and off-road vehicles, Alumacraft and Quintrex boats, Manitou pontoons and Rotax marine propulsion systems as well as Rotax engines for karts and recreational aircraft. We complete our lines of products with a dedicated parts, accessories and apparel portfolio to fully enhance the riding experience. With annual sales of CA$7.6 billion from over 120 countries, our global workforce includes close to 20,000 driven, resourceful people.
Ski-Doo, Lynx, Sea-Doo, Can-Am, Rotax, Alumacraft, Manitou, Quintrex, and the BRP logo are trademarks of Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. or its affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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JACKSON, Mich., Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of CMS Energy has declared a quarterly dividend on the company's common stock.
The dividend for the common stock (CUSIP: 125896100) is 46 cents per share. It is payable Nov. 30, 2022, to shareholders of record on Nov. 4, 2022.
CMS Energy (NYSE: CMS) is a Michigan-based energy company featuring Consumers Energy as its primary business. It also owns and operates independent power generation businesses.
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FREMONT, Calif., May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lam Research Corp. (Nasdaq: LRCX) today announced that Doug Bettinger, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will participate in the following upcoming investor event:
Bank of America Global Technology Conference, June 6, 2023 at 2:40 p.m. Pacific Time (5:40 p.m. Eastern Time)
A live audio webcast of this presentation will be available to the public and can be accessed from the Investors' section of Lam's website at www.lamresearch.com. A replay of the audio webcast will be available for two weeks after the presentation date.
About Lam Research
Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ: LRCX) is a global supplier of innovative wafer fabrication equipment and services to the semiconductor industry. Lam's equipment and services allow customers to build smaller and better performing devices. In fact, today, nearly every advanced chip is built with Lam technology. We combine superior systems engineering, technology leadership, and a strong values-based culture, with an unwavering commitment to our customers. Lam Research is a FORTUNE 500® company headquartered in Fremont, California, with operations around the globe. Learn more at www.lamresearch.com (LRCX-F).
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Investor Relations
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This April 29, 2019, photo shows a grizzly bear and a cub along the Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park. Wildlife officials have taken the first step to lift federal protections for grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, which would open the door to hunting.
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration took a first step Friday toward ending federal protections for grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, which would open the door to future hunting in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said state officials provided “substantial” information that grizzlies have recovered from the threat of extinction in the regions surrounding Yellowstone and Glacier national parks.
But federal officials rejected claims by Idaho that protections should be lifted beyond those areas, and they raised concerns about new laws from the Republican-led states that could potentially harm grizzly populations.
“We will fully evaluate these and other potential threats,” said Martha Williams, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Friday’s move kicks off at least a year of further study before final decisions about the Yellowstone and Glacier regions.
State officials have insisted any future hunts would be limited and not endanger the overall population. However, Republican lawmakers in the region in recent years also adopted more aggressive policies against gray wolves, including loosened trapping rules that could lead to grizzlies being inadvertently killed.
As many as 50,000 grizzlies once roamed the western half of the U.S. They were exterminated in most of the country early last century by overhunting and trapping, and the last hunts in the northern Rockies occurred decades ago. There are now more than 2,000 bears in the Lower 48 states and much larger populations in Alaska, where hunting is allowed.
The species’ expansion in the Glacier and Yellowstone areas has led to conflicts between humans and bears, including periodic attacks on livestock and sometimes fatal maulings of humans.
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte welcomed the administration’s announcement and said it could lead to the state reclaiming management of a species that’s been under federal protections since 1975. He said the grizzly’s recovery “represents a conservation success.”
The federal government removed protections for the Yellowstone ecosystem’s grizzlies in 2017. Wyoming and Idaho were set to allow grizzlies to be hunted when a judge restored those protections in 2018, siding with environmental groups that said delisting wasn’t based on sound science. Those groups want protections kept in place so bears can continue moving into new areas.
“We should not be ready to trust those states,” said attorney Andrea Zaccardi, of the Center for Biological Diversity.
U.S. government scientists have said the region’s grizzlies are biologically recovered but in 2021 decided that protections were still needed because of human-caused bear deaths and other pressures. Bears considered problematic are regularly killed by wildlife officials.
A decision on the states’ petitions was long overdue. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Thursday had filed notice he intended to sue over the delay. Idaho’s petition was broader than the ones filed by Montana and sought to lift protections nationwide.
That would have included small populations of bears in portions of Idaho, Montana and Washington state, where biologists say the animals have not yet recovered to sustainable levels. It also could have prevented the return of bears to other areas such as the North Cascades region.
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health is making a bold move for women's health, by lowering prices on their brand of feminine hygiene products and promising to pay the sales tax for those products.
The announcement is in response to the so-called "period tax", that is placed on sanitary products such as tampons, sanitary napkins and other hygiene products in some states.
The "period tax" is the unofficial term that many use to describe the sales tax on feminine hygiene products. Some essential items, such as groceries, prescriptions, and other necessities can be granted tax-exemption status is some states, but sanitary products like period products are typically considered non-essential by tax law.
The tax has garnered controversy, with some calling it discriminatory towards women. CVS has spoken out against the tax, and has announced their efforts to provide women easier access to physical and mental health services and products.
In order to do this, CVS has announced that they will pay the "period tax" on hygiene products, and will lower the prices of CVS Health brand period products by 25% in some pharmacy locations.
CVS has also said that they are working to eliminate the tax nationwide.
In addition to these price drops, CVS has also stated that they have reviewed thousands of products to make sure that women's and men's products are priced equally.
CVS reminds customers that their in-house health clinic, MinuteClinic, offers numerous health services to women such as menstrual care, heart-health screenings, mental health services and more. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/health/cvs-promises-pay-period-tax-womens-products-several-states/500-00205b38-6fdb-46ab-8a95-cd5dca15f6c5 | 2022-10-12 03:18:09 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/health/cvs-promises-pay-period-tax-womens-products-several-states/500-00205b38-6fdb-46ab-8a95-cd5dca15f6c5 |
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did you know Rihanna underwent military training in Barbados because we sure didn't for the stars, full history and what to expect from her Super Bowl halftime show. Stick around. Rihanna was born on february 20th of 1988 as Robyn, Rihanna Fenty, yep, that's right. Rihanna is actually her middle name, Fenty grew up in the Barbados as the oldest of three and was interested in music from *** very young age. Her favorite john was to listen to growing up were reggae, caribbean music, R and B and american hip hop. Rihanna had *** bit of *** rough childhood as her father struggled with addiction and her parents divorced when she was 14 years old along with this Rihanna dealt with crippling migraines for years while growing up, apparently she even attempted to hide this from friends and classmates so she would seem normal. And it was when Rihanna was 11, she went through training with the Barbados cadets corps, *** program that would set up teens for military success. All this to say that she's always been tough at just 15, Rihanna and two of her friends ended up getting an audition in front of Evan Rogers who saw her talent immediately *** little less than *** year later, Rihanna left Barbados and moved to Connecticut with her producer to start recording her demo album. Eventually Rogers ended up landing Rihanna an audition in front of jay Z and def Jam Records and here's how she felt going into it. Actually, really scary. I'll never forget that day. Um I met with jay Z and before I met him, I was really nervous like I was shaking but he's such *** cool guy. The atmosphere was really comfortable and Rihanna blue jays away. So much so in fact that he signed her on the spot just *** few months later, re re released her first single in 2005 pon de replay, *** reggae club remix that hit number two on the top billboard 100. Pretty good for your first single. This established Rihanna as the next up and coming pop artists as the singer went on to pump out three more albums, Music of the Sun, *** girl like me and Good Girl Gone Bad And with Good Girl Gone Bad came *** shift in return image and music as the title suggests, Rihanna shed her teenage style and transformed into the bad risque artists. She's known as Today. Now since her original rise to fame, Rihanna has been up to quite *** lot. The artist has acted in multiple films including Battleships and Oceans Aid. And she went through *** very rough breakup with chris Brown, who as we all know now abused her and was exposed to be the dirt bag of human. He is after this Rihanna went on to become *** spokesperson for domestic abuse, inspiring survivors all over the world to speak up and out. She also launched her own lingerie line under the name Savage X Fenty which has gained *** ton of acclaim for being incredibly inclusive in their sizing options, not to mention welcoming her first kid *** son in May of 2022 with father and fellow rapper ASAP Rocky. Now let's get into the Super Bowl, Rihanna took *** break from music after releasing her last album Anti in 2016 to focus on her entrepreneurial efforts. While this was disappointing to fans around the world, it looks like we're about to get *** glimpse of Rihanna in all her musical glow One more time, Rihanna has signed on to perform at the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show. This show could be interesting for *** couple reasons. It's the first half time show in *** decade to not be sponsored by Pepsi as apple music will instead take the reins and knowing Rana's close ties to jay Z Kanye West and Eminem, there's *** chance you might see some of these names and more Pop up on stage. Are you excited for the halftime show of 2023? Did we miss anything in Rihanna's rise to stardom? Let us know what you think and what you want to hear about next
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The NFL playoffs are here.The postseason begins Saturday, promising high drama for 14 teams and eventual immortality for one!Above video: Rihanna's rise to stardom and what's planned for this year's Super Bowl performanceThe Wild Card rounds start this weekend. So be sure to stock up on team swag now and show your support. Below are some of the hottest sellers of the year for each playoff team. Can't see the below products? Click here.IN THE AFCIn the AFC, the Kansas City Chiefs (14-3) have a first-round bye as the No. 1 seed. They will host the lowest-seeded Wild Card round winner in the Divisional round.Shop all Kansas City Chiefs team essentialsShop men's gearShop women's gear No. 7 Dolphins at No. 2 Bills (Sunday at 1 p.m. ET)Click here to shop Miami Dolphins team essentialsClick here to shop Buffalo Bills team essentials No. 6 Ravens at No. 3 Bengals (Sunday at 8:15 p.m. ET)Click here to shop Cincinnati Bengals team essentialsClick here to shop Baltimore Ravens team essentialsNo. 5 Chargers at No. 4 Jaguars (Saturday at 8:15 p.m. ET)Click here to shop Los Angeles Chargers team essentialsClick here to shop Jacksonville Jaguars team essentials IN THE NFCIn the NFC, the Philadelphia Eagles (14-3) have a first-round bye as the No. 1 seed. They will host the lowest-seeded Wild Card round winner in the Divisional round.Shop all Philadelphia Eagles team essentialsShop men's gearShop women's gearNo. 7 Seahawks at No. 2 49ers (Saturday at 4:30 p.m. ET)Click here to shop Seattle Seahawks team essentialsClick here to shop San Francisco 49ers team essentialsNo. 6 Giants at No. 3 Vikings (Sunday at 4:30 p.m. ET)Click here to shop all Minnesota Vikings team essentialsClick here to shop all New York Giants team essentialsNo. 5 Cowboys at No. 4 Buccaneers (Monday at 8:15 p.m. ET)Click here to shop all Dallas Cowboys team essentialsClick here to shop all Tampa Bay Buccaneers team essentialsBeyond the Wild Card rounds are the Divisional Playoff and the Conference Championship. Then comes the Conference Championship games for the NFC and AFC, with the winners going to the Super Bowl.The Super Bowl will be held on Feb. 12 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.And although the teams are undecided, tickets are already selling for thousands of dollars.
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In the AFC, the Kansas City Chiefs (14-3) have a first-round bye as the No. 1 seed. They will host the lowest-seeded Wild Card round winner in the Divisional round.
In the NFC, the Philadelphia Eagles (14-3) have a first-round bye as the No. 1 seed. They will host the lowest-seeded Wild Card round winner in the Divisional round.
Beyond the Wild Card rounds are the Divisional Playoff and the Conference Championship. Then comes the Conference Championship games for the NFC and AFC, with the winners going to the Super Bowl.
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One man is dead and another is in custody after a shooting at a Northeast Side gas station.
Edzon Rodriguez Luna, 20, was taken into custody at the scene of the shooting, which was reported about 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the 1200 block of Northeast Loop 410, east of San Antonio International Airport, according to police.
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Officers arrived to find a 25-year-old man dead with a gunshot wound.
Luna was charged with murder and booked into the Bexar County Jail with bail set at $150,000.
It was not immediately known what prompted the shooting, police said.
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Shooting in Manistee hospitalizes 2 - No current threat to public, police say
MANISTEE, Mich. (WILX) - Residents of Manistee are being asked to stay inside after a shooting took place Friday afternoon.
According to authorities, the Manistee City Police, Manistee County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement agencies are investigating multiple crime scenes. The sheriff’s office said the shooting happened near the intersection of 5th and Hancock streets and the two people involved were apprehended at different locations.
Police had initially received reports of multiple shootings, but they believe only the shooting on 5th Street took place.
Authorities believe the two men involved - a 36-year-old and a 19-year-old - knew each other and that there is no threat to the public.
The two people involved have been hospitalized for gunshot wounds and will be taken into custody once discharged.
The 36-year-old was airlifted to a hospital in Traverse City and is in critical condition. The 19-year-old is expected to be OK.
The investigation is ongoing.
Police believe there are no current threats to the public.
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