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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Neeraj Agarwal will act as a scientific advisor for Vial's Oncology CRO alongside Dr. Guru Sonpavde, Dr. Arati Rao, and Dr. Antoni Ribas. Together, they will lend their expertise to the Vial team as Vial continues to expand their Oncology CRO.
Vial is a next-generation tech-enabled CRO reimagining the clinical trial industry. Vial offers best-in-class trial management through one seamless system and innovative CRO services across multiple therapeutic areas, including oncology. Vial's CRO distinguishes itself by leveraging technology to streamline processes that deliver efficient trials and a superior CRO experience. Vial is thrilled to work with brilliant minds like Dr. Agarwal, who welcome a new approach to clinical trials.
Dr. Neeraj Agarwal is an internationally recognized genitourinary cancer specialist. He has been the overall study chair of multiple Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III trials and serves as a steering committee member of numerous other studies.
Dr. Agarwal was recently named Senior Director of Clinical Research Innovation at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, where he holds multiple other leadership positions. In addition to Vial's Scientific Advisory Board, Dr. Agarwal is a consultant to the Oncology Drug Advisory Committee (ODAC) of the FDA. He also leads early therapeutics in the SWOG genitourinary cancers committee.
On serving as an Oncology CRO advisor, Dr. Agarwal stated, "Over the last two decades, the entire process of conducting clinical trials has exponentially grown cumbersome. It is critical for this process to become more efficient to improve administrative work for the investigating teams, make it easier for our patients to enroll, improve the accrual timeline, and expedite and decrease the cost of drug development."
Dr. Agarwal's expertise in oncology and years of experience within the clinical trial industry will be an excellent addition to Vial's Scientific Advisory Board.
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About Vial: Vial's mission is to empower scientists to cure all human diseases. Vial has executed that vision by launching a next-generation CRO (with slated launches in Ophthalmology CRO, Oncology CRO, Gastroenterology CRO, and a Neurology CRO), a site network (Dermatology Clinical Trials, Ophthalmology Clinical Trials, Gastroenterology Clinical Trials, Women's Health Clinical Trials, Neurology Clinical Trials), and technology platform (VialConnect CTMS) to accelerate research. Vial has over 125 employees and is based in San Francisco, California, and has contributed to over 750 trials from Phase I through Phase IV.
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(THE CONVERSATION) For many parents of kids under age 5, a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine could not come soon enough. A full year and a half after shots first became available for adults, their wait is nearly over.
On June 17, 2022, the Food and Drug Administration authorized both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 shots for the nearly 20 million U.S. children between the ages of 6 months and 4 years. The widely anticipated decision follows a unanimous recommendation in favor of the shots by the FDA’s independent advisory panel.
The remaining critical step is for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to sign off on the shots, which is expected to take place within days.
The following collection of articles from The Conversation’s archives traces the winding path of the development of COVID-19 vaccines for the youngest children, from the early days of clinical trials to the practical challenges of how to help kids overcome their fears and anxieties over getting a shot.
1. ‘Kids aren’t just littler adults’
As the delta variant raged across the country in the summer of 2021, parents of kids under age 12 were anxiously awaiting the availability of a safe and effective COVID-19 shot for that age group. The FDA’s authorization for ages 5 to 11 finally came in October 2021. But that still left the preschool and younger kids waiting for their own version of the vaccine.
In July 2021, Judy Martin, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences, helped pull back the curtain for our readers on the often mysterious and slow-going clinical research studies that must take place before vaccines are authorized for children. Martin explained how the developing brains, bodies and immune systems of infants and young children differ from those of older children, and how that is taken into account during vaccine development, clinical trials and safety assessment.
2. So you get a shot, then what?
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned a lot of once-obscure biology terms such as mRNA, spike proteins and “waning antibodies” into household words. Yet for all the talk of vaccines and immunology, few people have a deep understanding of just what exactly happens once a vaccine is injected into the body.
One curious 12-year-old posed that very question to The Conversation: “How does a COVID-19 vaccine work in the body?” So we asked Glenn J. Rapsinski, a pediatric infectious diseases expert at the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences, to tackle that question for our Curious Kids series – at a level that young kids and adults alike can appreciate.
When the body encounters the molecules in a COVID-19 vaccine – which mimics the SARS-CoV-2 virus – it activates an intricate and coordinated set of cells and processes. It’s a lot like an elaborate construction zone. Some of these cells alert the body to the invader and recruit helpers, flagging the invader with signals akin to “flashing neon yellow signs.”
“As all of these important processes are happening inside your body, you might see some physical signs that there’s a struggle going on underneath the skin,” Rapsinski explained. “If your arm gets sore after you get the shot, it’s because immune cells like the dendritic cells, T-cells and B-cells are racing to the arm to inspect the threat.”
3. Training the immune system
As clinical trials of COVID-19 shots for children under age 5 crawled along in early 2022, the omicron variant gained a firm foothold in the U.S. While serious cases of COVID-19 remain relatively rare in children, hospitalizations in kids under 5 increased dramatically due to the heightened transmissibility of omicron, highlighting the urgent need for a safe vaccine in that age group.
Debbie-Ann Shirley, a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases at the University of Virginia, wrote in March 2022 about the painstaking process of performing clinical trials sequentially for each descending age group.
“Several factors determine how our bodies respond to vaccines, and one of these variables is age,” Shirley explained. “Testing by age groups helps to account for these differences in how the maturing immune system responds to different types of vaccines. It is common for childhood vaccines to be given in series to help train the young immune response to make better and stronger antibody responses with each subsequent dose.”
4. The inevitable booster shot question
In the fall of 2021, a mounting body of data from adults and adolescents found that immunity from COVID-19 vaccines and infections was waning over time, suggesting that booster shots would be needed – especially in the face of omicron. The same trends proved true for the 5 to 11 age group, though vaccination continued to provide strong protection against severe COVID-19 that leads to hospitalization. So in May 2022, the CDC recommended a booster dose for 5- to 11-year-olds.
COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers are expected to follow a similar trajectory; Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots for kids under age 5 are intended to be a three-dose series. Moderna’s testing of the third dose is still underway. In May 2022, Shirley provided a snapshot of those studies and explained how researchers were determining that the third shots were safe and effective.
5. Helping kids overcome fear of shots
While the wait for COVID-19 vaccines for young children has undoubtedly been excruciating for some parents, so might be their conversations with children who have serious anxiety over getting a shot. Lynn Gardner, an associate professor of pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine and a primary care pediatrician, has helped thousands of parents and their children cope with the very real fears that can surface in the doctor’s office.
Gardner wrote about what she calls the “Three P’s” – preparation, proximity and praise – that parents and caregivers can use to lessen their children’s anxiety around shots and help them have a more positive experience.
“It is essential that you ask your child how they are feeling about receiving a shot,” she explained. “Giving them the opportunity to express their feelings can decrease the amount of stress and anxiety they feel about it. Validate their feelings by telling them you know needles can be a bit scary, but then reassure them that they can handle it. Explain why they’re receiving vaccines and emphasize it is for their overall good.”
Editor’s note: This story is a roundup of articles from The Conversation’s archives.
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U.S. to test vaccine against bird flu outbreak
Federal scientists are gearing up to test the first vaccines in poultry against bird flu in years, as Biden administration officials say they have now begun weighing an unprecedented shift in the U.S. strategy to counter the growing outbreak.
The move comes amid mounting concern over the threat posed by the ongoing spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza over the past few years, which has devastated flocks of wild and commercial birds around the continent.
A record 58 million birds — mostly commercially-raised poultry — have died in the outbreak so far, according to figures tallied by the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service — either killed by the virus itself or put down in efforts to quash its transmission. Every state has detected the virus spreading among wild birds and 47 have spotted them in poultry.
“The decision to proceed with vaccination is complex, and many factors must be considered before implementing a vaccination strategy,” USDA spokesperson Mike Stepien said in a statement, adding that the inspection service is discussing the options and “soliciting input from many different industry stakeholders that would be impacted.”
While the Biden administration has so far not greenlighted the use of vaccines for highly pathogenic avian influenza, several shots had been licensed for potential use in previous outbreaks. Poultry are already regularly vaccinated for other diseases, like infectious bronchitis.
While animal vaccines can take years to be licensed, Stepien said some parts of the process can be accelerated for emergencies.
It is not yet clear whether vaccines are available that will work against clade 2.3.4.4b, the strain behind the current outbreak in the U.S.
“There are a lot of moving parts to this kind of testing. And some of it is just pure logistics of getting everything in place to do the testing, getting the vaccines that are updated, getting things from parties that are involved, different manufacturers,” said Erin Spackman, a virologist who studies avian influenza vaccines at the USDA.
While it is not always a requirement for animal shots to be licensed by the department, the trials will offer an early independent evaluation of how well a vaccine works in this case. Antibody studies suggest earlier vaccines might not be as well-matched against the strain now driving the current outbreak, prompting the need for tests.
“On the test, it’s a twofold reduction, but that makes it sound a lot closer related than it is. In vaccine-speak, it means it’s starting to drift away,” said Spackman.
Spackman said evaluating the vaccines can take three months, from when birds get their shot — often in the back of the neck or thigh — to studying their response to the virus after immunity develops.
Vaccine makers say they are also closely tracking deliberations by the U.S. and other countries over the possibility of poultry vaccination, as well as assessing their own shots.
A spokesperson for Merck Animal Health said the company has an “extensive, ongoing research program” developing vaccines that can work with so-called Differentiating Infected from Vaccinated or DIVA strategies — an approach that involves systematically hunting for the virus among vaccinated flocks, in hopes of preventing undetected spread among immunized birds.
When to vaccinate poultry?
Officials have so far been wary of deploying vaccines against the outbreak, citing concerns that the use of the shots could make it harder to export American poultry products.
“What is the trigger point of when you might use vaccination? And that’s what they’re looking at. Is it so many birds in a poultry farms in an area getting infected? Or is it a certain amount of economic loss? Or is it because a neighboring state has the virus in poultry, and you’re concerned? So there’s those are really the tough, tough questions,” said poultry veterinarian David Swayne.
Before retiring to become a consultant, Swayne served for nearly three decades in the USDA’s infectious disease arm and was the director of the department’s top research facility for dangerous pathogens.
Swayne noted there are several high-income countries in Europe that are “further along” in exploring DIVA strategies that would work with poultry exports, after wrestling for years with their outbreak. Others, including Indonesia and China, have already rolled out poultry vaccinations for bird flu.
Under one approach, birds who die of any cause in a vaccinated flock could be aggressively tested for the virus, Swayne said, or live birds might be systematically sampled for antibodies in their blood through a more complex process. Surveillance may also be possible through swabbing the environment, like checking the containers birds drink water from.
“We want to make sure our partners understand that, if we use them, we’re going to use them in the right the right manner so that they can feel secure and safe that the products they buy are not products that might contain, say, a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus,” said Swayne.
Authorities would also need a way to coordinate tracking viruses for updates to the vaccines, potentially similar to how the World Health Organization issues recommendations for manufacturers of human flu shots to keep pace with the latest strains.
However, Swayne cautioned that poultry producers will still need to take steps to shield their flocks from contact with wild birds and other ways the virus could spread.
Like their counterparts abroad, American wildlife officials have spotted the virus decimating groups of birds across a range of species. Officials believe the virus is largely being transmitted to commercial poultry flocks by wild birds migrating across the Americas.
“Biosecurity really is the first line of defense, and any vaccination that might be done is only sort of another layer of protection, sort of an insurance policy,” he said.
Is it a threat to humans?
Authorities say the risk the virus poses to humans seems to be low for now, despite a 56% fatality rate among the handful of people who have tested positive after direct contact with infected birds.
Out of more than 6,000 poultry workers that American health authorities have tracked after exposure to infected birds, only one has tested positive for the virus.
Regardless, officials have urged Americans to avoid handling dead or sick birds to reduce their risk. The virus has spilled over from birds to other species, often from coming into contact with the carcasses of infected birds.
“Somewhat concerning is that there’s been transmission to mammals in a variety of terrestrial mammals, which are basically the most of them are predatory mammals,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Tim Uyeki told a webinar hosted by Emory University last month.
The federal Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response also already maintains a program with vaccinemakers to “make and test small quantities” of shots for humans that can be ramped up to large-scale production if needed.
“High on my radar. We’ve already been in touch with our teams as to where we are with both surveillance and detection, as well as our USDA colleagues on the detection in the avian population as well,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told a panel of the agency’s advisers this week. | https://www.wsgw.com/u-s-to-test-vaccine-against-bird-flu-outbreak/ | 2023-02-09 22:33:31 | 1 | https://www.wsgw.com/u-s-to-test-vaccine-against-bird-flu-outbreak/ |
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former government staffer testified Wednesday about being raped by a colleague in the Australian Parliament House and described her fears of not being believed because of the disparity in their workplace statuses.
Brittany Higgins became the first witness to testify against Bruce Lehrmann, 27, who has pleaded not guilty in the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court to a charge of sexual intercourse without consent in a minister’s office in March 2019. He faces a potential 12-year prison sentence if convicted.
The jury heard evidence from Higgins in person and watched video recordings of her two interviews with police in February and May last year.
Higgins said she was a 24-year-old staffer in an administrative role in then-Defense Industry Minister Linda Reynolds’ office while Lehrmann had a more senior role as a ministerial adviser.
The pair had gone back to Parliament House early one Saturday morning after a night of heavy drinking with colleagues. Higgins said she thought Lehrmann wanted to collect documents from Reynolds’ office, where she fell asleep on a couch and was awoken by Lehrmann raping her.
Higgins said she felt “trapped, not human” as Lehrmann hovered over her, grunting and making noise. She said she started crying and told him to stop but he continued.
She told police that when she returned to work Monday, two days after the alleged rape, she feared she would be fired because her and Lehrmann entering the minister’s office was flagged as a security breach.
“I knew what had happened to me was wrong, I knew I hadn’t consented,” she said.
She told police she didn’t think anyone would believe her story and figured Lehrmann’s words carried more weight than hers because of his more senior role.
“He was in the office on Monday. … He didn’t seem ashamed (or) upset,” Higgins said. “It just didn’t feel like something he wanted to address.”
On Tuesday after the alleged assault, Higgins said she was questioned by one of her superiors on why she had visited the office on the weekend. She told police when she identified the incident as a sexual assault to her former chief of staff, “the gears shifted.”
“It became less about me and more political, in a sense,” she said.
While her rape allegation was recorded, Higgins did not make a victim statement to police until 2021, after she quit her government job.
Defense lawyer Steven Whybrow told the jury Higgins’ allegations had not been tested or proven and Lehrmann denied having sex with her.
Higgins said Lehrmann had attempted to kiss her after a staff dinner weeks before the alleged rape. She said she “politely rebuffed” his advance and the pair never spoke about the moment again.
“I rebuffed the kiss mostly out of shock because I wasn’t anticipating it,” she told the court.
She said during her career in Parliament other men had made similar passes at her.
Higgins was allegedly raped only weeks before then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison set the date for the May 18 election that his conservative coalition won against expectations. Higgins said she was aware of the implications her allegations could have on the then-ruling Liberal Party “the whole way through.”
“I was so scared coming forward,” she said.
She conceded that her fear over damaging the party’s election chances if her allegation was leaked to the media made it more difficult to verify her account later.
Prosecutor Shane Drumgold flagged more than 50 witnesses who could be called to give evidence during the trial, which is expected to last between four and six weeks.
Among the witnesses are Reynolds as well as former government ministers Michaelia Cash and Steven Ciobo.
The Associated Press does not usually identify alleged victims of sexual assault, but Higgins has chosen to identify herself in the media.
Morrison’s coalition was voted out of office in May after nine years in power.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: November 22, 2021 to November 29, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: March 6, 2023
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Avaya Holdings Corp. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company's internal control over financial reporting was deficient in several areas; (ii) as a result of these deficiencies, the Company had failed to design and maintain effective controls over its whistleblower policies and its ethics and compliance program; (iii) the Company's deteriorating financial condition was likely to raise substantial doubt as to its ability to continue as a going concern; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Avaya you have until March 6, 2023 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Avaya securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the AVYA lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/avaya-holdings-lawsuit-submission-form?id=35845&from=4.
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Mariners vs. Rangers Probable Starting Pitchers Today - May 10
Published: May. 10, 2023 at 6:13 AM MDT|Updated: 45 minutes ago
The Seattle Mariners (18-18) and Texas Rangers (21-14) play a rubber match on Wednesday at 3:40 PM ET, with the series deadlocked at 1-1.
The Mariners will look to Luis Castillo (2-0) versus the Rangers and Dane Dunning (2-0).
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- Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
- Time: 3:40 PM ET
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- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Venue: T-Mobile Park
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- Probable Pitchers: Castillo - SEA (2-0, 2.38 ERA) vs Dunning - TEX (2-0, 1.42 ERA)
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Mariners Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Castillo
- The Mariners' Castillo (2-0) will make his eighth start of the season.
- The right-hander's last start was on Saturday, when he tossed seven innings while giving up four earned runs on five hits in a matchup with the Houston Astros.
- The 30-year-old has pitched to a 2.38 ERA this season with 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings compared to 1.9 walks per nine across seven games.
- In seven starts this season, he's earned three quality starts.
- Castillo has pitched five or more innings in seven straight games and will look to extend that streak.
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- Dunning (2-0) gets the starting nod for the Rangers, his second this season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Saturday against the Los Angeles Angels, when he threw five scoreless innings while giving up two hits.
- Opposing hitters have compiled a batting average of just .159 against him this season. He has a 1.42 ERA and 5 strikeouts per nine innings over his nine appearances.
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Aptitude Medical Systems announced today that it has received an award up to $53.7 million from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop and validate at-home COVID and COVID/Flu tests as well as options for additional multiplex tests for other infectious disease threats.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aptitude Medical Systems (Aptitude™) announced today that it has received an award up to $53.7 million from Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The funding supports the development of over-the-counter molecular diagnostics capable of delivering lab-quality results in 15-30 minutes while approaching the cost of antigen tests.
The funding will leverage advancements achieved by Aptitude's testing platform, Metrix™, through $19.6 million in funding to develop and validate at-home COVID and COVID/Flu tests and up to $34.1 million allocated for options to develop additional multiplex tests for other infectious disease threats. This BARDA award will support development of these products through FDA 510(k) clearance. The Metrix COVID-19 Test is the first product on the Metrix platform and received Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA [https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-roundup-october-18-2022]. It will be closely followed by the Metrix COVID/Flu Test and software to integrate patient, providers, payers, and public health.
Aptitude aims to make molecular tests as accessible as antigen tests according to JP Wang, PhD, Aptitude CSO and co-founder. "The value of that upgrade is clear – a PCR-quality molecular test means that you can detect an infection earlier to avoid spreading to your family, friends, and coworkers. Antiviral treatments are significantly more effective if given at the start of an infection – not mid-infection. So, detecting sooner means you can recover sooner because the treatments actually work better. Traditional healthcare is too slow to deliver this value to most people. Metrix fixes that." Dr. Wang continues, "Metrix disrupts point of care testing by eliminating reliance on a bulky, expensive instrument and delivers a low-cost consumable simultaneously. This unlocks molecular testing in more settings - pharmacies, physician offices, and homes. A patient can interreact with their health care provider either physically or virtually, get powerful tests results on the spot, and have their prescriptions waiting for them in a seamless experience."
Dr. Michael Mina, MD, PhD, CSO of eMed and previously professor at Harvard School of Public Health & Medical School added, "Accessible testing in the home is one of the most important advances in diagnostics for both public health, to reduce transmission, and to improve outcomes through earlier detection and initiation of treatment. Metrix is one example of this – bringing the power of an advanced laboratory into the home in the size of a cell phone, using either a swab or saliva, and with disposable test components that are minimalist, scalable, low cost and will push the home molecular diagnostic industry into a new era that competes with antigen tests on price and scale but keeps the quality we might expect from a laboratory."
Aptitude's platform extends well beyond respiratory. Metrix can detect diseases in multiple sample types (swabs, saliva, blood, and urine) and offers high multiplex capacity to support syndromic panels which existing point-of-care systems can't do.
"We are honored that BARDA has selected Aptitude as a partner. We expect to bring these best-in-class products to the market to address the ongoing need for diagnostics for COVID and other disease threats," remarked Scott Ferguson, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Aptitude. "More broadly, we are excited to work together to drive a new generation of healthcare where individuals, doctors, and pharmacies can leapfrog the lab to get timely diagnostic information to limit spread, prescribe treatments, and improve health outcomes. Aptitude is distinctly capable of doing so by getting both the performance and the economics right."
This work is funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services; Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response; Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, under contract number 75A50123C00013.
About Aptitude
Aptitude is an innovative deep-tech healthcare company changing how infectious diseases are being detected and treated. Founded by world-class pioneers in nucleic acid science and integrated molecular diagnostics engineering, Aptitude's mission is to democratize diagnostics. It does so by transforming historically complex laboratory systems into a palm-sized molecular diagnostic device. Aptitude is bringing the lab to the end-user via the easy-to-use Metrix platform, delivering actionable lab-quality results in 15 to 30 minutes. The Metrix tests can be run anywhere and anytime, including physician offices, pharmacies, and in home settings. Aptitude's lead product, the FDA-Emergency Use Authorized Metrix COVID-19 Test is the only OTC molecular test that uniquely utilizes saliva or nasal swabs and will be quickly followed by the Metrix COVID/Flu test as well as a robust pipeline for a wide range of health and wellness conditions.
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Poll: Biden 2024 splits Dems but most would back him in Nov.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Only about half of Democrats think President Joe Biden should run again in 2024, a new poll shows, but a large majority say they’d be likely to support him if he became the nominee.
The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 26% of Americans overall want to see Biden run again — a slight recovery from the 22% who said that in January. Forty-seven percent of Democrats say they want him to run, also up slightly from only 37% who said that in January.
The ambivalence among Democratic voters comes as Biden is preparing to formally announce his 2024 reelection campaign as soon as next week, according to people briefed on the discussions. The president has been eyeing Tuesday, April 25 — four years to the day since he entered the 2020 race — although no final decisions have been made.
Despite the reluctance of many Democrats to see Biden run for another term, 78% of them say they approve of the job he’s doing as president. And a total of 81% of Democrats say they would at least probably support Biden in a general election if he is the nominee — 41% say they definitely would and 40% say they probably would.
Interviews with poll respondents suggest that the gap reflects concerns about Biden’s age, as well as a clamoring from a younger generation of Democrats who say they want leadership that reflects their demographic and their values. Biden, now 80, would be 82 on Election Day 2024 and 86 years old at the end of a second presidential term. He is the oldest president in history.
Jenipher Lagana, 59, said she likes Biden, calling him an “interesting man” who has had an “incredible political career.” She praised Biden for providing a “breath of fresh air” and said she approves of how he’s been doing his job as president.
But “my problem with him running in 2024 is that he’s just so old,” said Lagana, who is retired and lives in California. “I would love to see somebody younger, like (Transportation Secretary Pete) Buttigieg or (California Gov. Gavin) Newsom be able to get in there and handle things maybe a little differently just because they’re a younger person.”
Donna Stewart, 48, a program director for a nonprofit in New York, also pointed to Biden’s age as a concern.
“I voted for him. I like him as a person. I like him as a leader for the country,” she said. “However, I just feel that he’s still lacking the up-to-date knowledge of what needs to be done.”
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden appeared to hint that he would limit himself to just one term in the White House, framing his candidacy as a bridge to a new generation of Democratic leaders. But while in office, Biden has made his intentions clearer that he would run again for a second term, saying as recently as last week in Ireland that he’s “already made that calculus” and that the announcement will happen “relatively soon.”
With only nominal primary challengers and a chaotic Republican field, the president and his senior aides have felt little pressure to formalize a reelection campaign. Instead, Biden has focused on governing, holding events at the White House and traveling across the country to sell his top legislative achievements such as a bipartisan infrastructure law and a sweeping climate, health care and tax package.
The president and his senior political advisers are meeting with Democratic donors in Washington next week in an event meant to energize the party’s top contributors ahead of Biden’s expected reelection campaign.
Biden has also batted away questions about his age, saying that voters simply need to “watch me” to determine whether he’s up to the job as president.
And while many Democrats remain tepid on Biden because of his age, others said it was actually an asset.
Stephen Foery, 47, said Biden’s decades in Washington — first in the Senate and then as vice president — proved to be valuable in the first two years of his presidency “because he’s done a lot to fix the country in a very short amount of time.”
“I think that one of the benefits of living a long life is that you have a lot of wisdom to impart,” said Foery, a creative services manager in Pennsylvania. “If you gain as much experience as Biden has throughout his life, it would be a shame to simply disregard him because of his age.”
Biden’s job approval rating stands at 42%, a slight improvement from 38% in March. The March poll came after a pair of bank failures rattled an already shaky confidence in the nation’s financial systems, and Biden’s approval rating then was near the lowest point of his presidency. Thirty percent of Americans call the national economy good, a slight improvement from 25% a month ago.
Younger Democrats remain a reluctant part of Biden’s coalition — just 25% of those under age 45 say they would definitely support Biden in a general election, compared with 56% of older Democrats. Still, an additional 51% of younger Democrats say they would probably vote for Biden in a 2024 general election.
“It’s really hard to support somebody who is such a career politician, who has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo when the status quo doesn’t work for me,” said Otis Phillips, 20, who lives in Washington state.
Phillips, a student, said he has been pleased with some of Biden’s initiatives, including his student loan forgiveness program and his focus on climate policy. But he emphasized: “I don’t like maintaining the status quo. And so I want things to change, and I don’t think Biden’s how we’re going to get that in the next four years.”
Both the current and former president could face resistance from the public as a whole in a general election. A total of 65% of U.S. adults say they would definitely or probably not support former President Donald Trump if he is nominated in a general election, including 53% who say they definitely would not. Biden’s obstacles are smaller by comparison but still substantial: 56% of Americans say they would be unlikely to support Biden in a general election, including 41% who say they would definitely not.
Biden has long bet that once voters are presented with a binary choice — either him or a Republican candidate, particularly if it is Trump — that a majority of the electorate will side with Democrats. He often quotes his father, Joseph R. Biden Sr., in his public remarks: “Joey, don’t compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative.”
“The only reason why I would not want him to run is because of his age. Like, that’s the only thing,” said Shakeen Magee, 45, a self-employed Georgia resident.
But she said that if Biden does officially become the Democratic nominee in 2024, she would definitely support him “because we can’t take another Trump.” Magee added that “if we were to get another Republican in that office, it would just undo the little progress that Biden has been able to make.”
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AP White House correspondent Zeke Miller and AP writer Hannah Fingerhut contributed to this report.
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The poll of 1,230 adults was conducted April 13-17 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
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Gov. Walz secures endorsement from former MN Gov. Jesse Ventura
Published: Oct. 27, 2022 at 9:26 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KTTC) – Governor Tim Walz shared a video Thursday morning on his Twitter page of Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura sharing his endorsement for Walz in the upcoming general election.
The post can be seen below:
Governor Ventura served as the 38th governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003.
Since leaving office, Governor Ventura has rarely endorsed political candidates but he believes this election is too important, according to the video.
This comes one day after Former President Donald Trump posted his endorsement of Dr. Scott Jensen for Minnesota Governor.
RELATED: Former President Donald Trump endorses Scott Jensen for MN Governor
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Sam Claflin is the first to admit that when he got the part of Billy Dunne, the co-lead singer of a world-famous 1970s rock band in ” Daisy Jones & the Six, ” he was no musician.
Claflin was the last person cast. His co-stars had already begun rehearsing at a band camp where the actors learned to play their designated instruments and perform original songs written for the show.
“They said, ‘OK, there’s about 15 songs you’re going to need to learn. Oh, and can you play guitar?’” Claflin recounted. “I didn’t play guitar and I barely had sung. I never recorded anything. It was quite an immediate shock of terror and fear and pressure.”
One might assume that, on the other hand, Riley Keough — inhabiting the titular role in the Amazon Prime limited series premiering Friday — had the music part in the bag. After all, as the granddaughter of Elvis Presley and the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley, Keough practically has music in her genes.
But Keough said singing did not come naturally, especially singing for an audience. She could carry a tune and submitted a “sort of soft” song for her audition but was told she needed to belt out the lyrics to play frontwoman Daisy Jones.
“I sounded awful the first few times I tried,” Keough admitted.
To play a band as beloved as Daisy Jones & The Six is in the universe created by author Taylor Jenkins Reid, lip-syncing to someone else’s vocals was never on the table, co-executive producer Lauren Neustadter said. Neustadter produced the adaptation alongside Reese Witherspoon, who had to sing her own vocals for her Oscar-winning performance as June Carter Cash in “Walk the Line.”
“Reese and I had so many conversations,” said Neustadter. “She knew what a challenge it would be, but she also knew exactly what was possible.”
“Daisy Jones & The Six” follows a band that skyrockets to fame, helmed by lead singers with amazing onstage chemistry and a tumultuous behind-the-scenes relationship. Decades after the band suddenly and inexplicably (to the public) breaks up, they speak for the first time about their rise and demise.
The writers wanted to create a realistic story that would feel accurate to musicians. Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth spoke to the writers room once a week as a consultant.
“She spoke to what it’s like to be onstage and to have this electricity happen around you,” co-showrunner Will Graham said.
And expectations were high for the transcendent songs Keough, Claflin and the ensemble would have to belt. Enter Blake Mills, a Grammy winner who has worked with Alabama Shakes, John Legend, Bob Dylan and Jay-Z and was tapped as the show’s executive music producer. Mills wrote or co-wrote 25 tracks created for the series, alongside the likes of Phoebe Bridgers, Jackson Browne and Marcus Mumford. (None of the lyrics included in the book were used.)
Atlantic Records will release an album featuring 11 original songs also on Friday. The first two singles “Look At Us Now (Honeycomb)” and ”Regret Me” are out now. Additional original music from the series will also be released digitally each week.
The unexpected year-and-a-half production delay — induced by the coronavirus pandemic, subsequent filming backlog and a long waiting list to use stages — helped Claflin get to where he needed to be musically.
“Any actor will say, I think, the more time you are gifted for preparation, the better … but I needed to climb a huge mountain,” he said of the delay giving him more time to rehearse, both in and outside of band camp.
Suki Waterhouse, who plays keyboardist Karen Sirko, said all the work that went into their music scenes helped make her a better performer.
“The two things that I’m most passionate about, I got to put together in this project. … I’ve been putting out music for many years, but playing Karen guided me to make the record that I really wanted to make,” Waterhouse said. “I’ve now done like 70 shows and two tours and have a label and all these things that I didn’t have before I played Karen, so I have a lot to be really grateful to the show for.”
While Waterhouse was already a recording artist, other actors relished in the opportunity to live out their rock star fantasies. Sebastian Chacon, who portrays Warren Rhodes, played drums in middle school and early high school but the kind of music he learned in band class was very different than the drumming he did on “Daisy Jones.”
“Everybody wants to be a rock star, but it takes a lot of work and hustle,” Chacon said. “To be able to just skip the line and pretend to be a big famous rock star, I was like, ‘Wow, amazing, fantastic.’”
Josh Whitehouse, who plays Eddie Roundtree, also had music experience. He began playing with bands at 16 years old and continued performing for 10 years “until acting took over.”
“It felt like a lot of my backstory was done for me and a lot of my prep because I could draw on my own experiences in a way.”
Once the band began to click as a whole, a natural fatigue from rehearsing kicked in as the cast itched to begin filming. Will Harrison, who plays guitarist Graham Dunne, says he would leave marathon rehearsal sessions after playing the same guitar part over and over and opt to blast hip-hop.
“The last couple of weeks of band camp, I was like, ‘Guys, we don’t need to do this anymore. Like, we sound great,'” Keough laughed at the memory.
“We did start getting frustrated, I think,” Claflin said.
“Because we were feeling ourselves,” Keough, in true Daisy Jones fashion, finished. | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/how-the-daisy-jones-cast-went-from-beginners-to-bandmates/ | 2023-03-02 20:25:16 | 1 | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/how-the-daisy-jones-cast-went-from-beginners-to-bandmates/ |
Superintendent: Student brought weapon to Carrolton Twp. school
Published: May. 17, 2022 at 3:48 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
CARROLTON TWP., Mich. (WNEM) - A student brought a weapon to a Carrolton Township school on Tuesday, according to Interim Superintendent Jill Wrzesinski.
The weapon was not a firearm, Wrzesinski said.
Staff was told about the situation and acted fast to secure the student, Wrzesinski said. The school will follow procedures in the student handbook as they deal with this situation.
There is no current threat to any students in the district, according to Wrzesinski.
The Carrolton Township Police Chief said two students notified officials they saw the weapon.
Police were called about the threat immediately. The school did not go into lockdown because the incident ended quickly, according to the chief.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece -- Family members lined up to give DNA samples in hopes of identifying victims of a train crash that killed nearly 60 people in Greece, as workers went on strike Thursday saying the rail system is outdated, underfunded and dangerous.
The government has blamed human error, and a railway official was charged with manslaughter.
Emergency crews, meanwhile, inched through the mangled remains of passenger carriages in their search for the dead from Tuesday night's head-on collision, which has left 57 confirmed dead - a number that rescuers fear will increase.
The collision of a passenger train and a freight train was the country's deadliest ever, and more than 48 people remained hospitalized - with six in intensive care - most in the central Greek city of Larissa.
Dozens of grieving relatives spent a second day at a Larissa hospital awaiting the results of DNA identification on the bodies, many of which were burned or mangled beyond recognition.
Among them was Dimitris Bournazis, who said the crash should lead to a full safety overhaul of the country's rail system.
"I've lost my brother, my father. That can't change, I know it," he said. "But the point is for us not to mourn victims like that again. They bought 50 tickets to death."
'CENTIMETER BY CENTIMETER'
Fire Service spokesman Yiannis Artopios said the grim recovery effort was proceeding "centimeter by centimeter."
"We can see that there are more (bodies) of people there. Unfortunately they are in a very bad condition because of the collision," Artopios told state television.
Rescuers were focusing on the restaurant car, which was crushed under the first carriage from the force of the collision, said fire official Vassilios Vathrakogiannis.
"This morning we removed seven burned bodies from that carriage," he said.
WORKERS SAY TRAIN SYSTEM IS UNSAFE
The Larissa station manager arrested after the collision was charged Thursday with multiple counts of manslaughter and causing serious physical harm through negligence, as a judicial inquiry tries to establish how the two trains could be traveling in opposite directions on the same track for more than 10 minutes without anyone raising the alarm.
Railway workers' associations called strikes, halting national rail services and the subway in Athens. They are protesting working conditions and what they described as a dangerous failure to modernize the rail system due to a lack of public investment during the deep financial crisis that spanned most of the previous decade and brought Greece to the brink of bankruptcy.
Despite years of modernization projects, much of the key rail control work is still manually operated.
The head of the engine drivers' union, Costas Genidounias, said an up-to-date traffic control system was supposed to have been ready three years ago.
"In 2020, we started our efforts with industrial action, warning that there were delays and sending legal notices" to the rail company, government officials and regulatory authorities, but to no avail, he said.
Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned following the crash, his replacement tasked with setting up an independent inquiry looking into the causes of the crash.
"Responsibility will be assigned," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a televised address late Wednesday after visiting the collision site.
"We will work so that the words 'never again' ... will not remain an empty pledge," he said. "That I promise you."
Supporters of the strike plan to protest in central Athens later Thursday.
CRASH SURVIVOR DESCRIBES FIERY ESCAPE
About 350 people were on the passenger train, many of them students returning from a holiday weekend and annual Carnival celebrations around Greece.
Andreas Alikaniotis, a 20-year-old survivor, described how he and fellow students escaped from a jackknifed train car as the fire approached, smashing windows and throwing luggage outside to use as a makeshift landing pad.
"It was a steep drop, into a ditch," Alikaniotis, who suffered a knee injury, told reporters from his hospital bed in Larissa.
"The lights went out. ... The smoke was suffocating inside the rail car but also outside," Alikaniotis said.
He said he was "one of the few around who had not been seriously injured."
"Me and my friends helped people get out."
A 'FOREST' OF RESPONSIBILITY
Relatives of the victims and still-missing passengers lashed out at government officials and Italian-owned private rail operator Hellenic Train.
Bournazis, whose father and 15-year-old brother remain unaccounted for, said phone calls to the rail company have been fruitless.
"I've been trying since yesterday afternoon to communicate with the company to find out what seat my father was in," he said. "Nobody has called me back."
Bournazis said responsibility for the crash should go far beyond the stationmaster.
"We can't dump all the blame on one person for making one mistake," he said.
The stationmaster's lawyer, Stefanos Pandzardzidis, said his client was "devastated" and accepted "his portion of the responsibility."
"But beyond that ... we must not focus on the tree while there's a whole forest beyond it," he said. "There's a forest of responsibility."
ZELENSKYY AND TURKEY SEND CONDOLENCES
Residents in Larissa lined up to give blood, many waiting in heavy rain for more than an hour, while the city's hotel association provided free accommodation to relatives of the crash victims and to those who traveled to the city to provide DNA samples. Nine bodies have been identified through genetic matches so far, authorities said.
Pope Francis and European leaders sent messages of sympathy in the wake of the crash. Among them were Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose country is recovering from devastating earthquakes last month. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent a message in Greek, writing, "The people of Ukraine share the pain of the families of the victims. We wish a speedy recovery to all the injured."
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Paphitis reported from Athens, Greece. Derek Gatopoulos in Athens contributed to this report. | https://abc7ny.com/train-crash-greece-athens-in-protest/12904559/ | 2023-03-02 19:22:25 | 1 | https://abc7ny.com/train-crash-greece-athens-in-protest/12904559/ |
It is happening…winds switching out of the south today. This means we start the climb back to hotter days more reminiscent of summer over the Plains.
The threat for wildfires increases in the northwest Wednesday afternoon through the early evening. Fire Weather Warnings are in effect. Please avoid any burning.
Temperatures out west lock back into the 90s with more 80s to the east by mid-week. We are under the influence of high pressure which is keeping us dry until week’s end.
A more pronounced frontal boundary starts to inch southward Wednesday into Thursday. We bake ahead of it in the 90s. That said, some spots west will hit the triple digits.
That boundary will also increase our chances for showers and storms by Thursday night and again Friday evening. Would not be shocked if a storm or two reaches severe thresholds for hail and high winds.
We stand a better chance for widespread rain and thunder Saturday. Sunday into Monday, while the boundary floats around to the north, thunderstorm chances will be few. Fireworks and picnics look good to go in the heat for Independence Day festivities.
KSN Storm Track 3 Forecast from Chief Meteorologist Lisa Teachman:
Wichita:
Tonight: Mostly clear. Lo: 64 Wind: S 5-15
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, breezy. Hi: 89 Wind: S 10-20
Tomorrow Night: Mostly clear. Lo: 66 Wind: S 8-18
Wichita Weekly
Thu: Hi: 93 Lo: 70 Partly cloudy, windy.
Fri: Hi: 94 Lo: 72 Partly cloudy, breezy. 20% chance of a shower or storm.
Sat: Hi: 88 Lo: 70 Partly cloudy, breezy. 30% chance of a shower or storm.
Sun: Hi: 90 Lo: 70 Partly cloudy, windy.
Mon: Hi: 92 Lo: 71 Partly cloudy, breezy.
Tue: Hi: 94 Lo: 71 Partly cloudy.
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Social media - yeah, we're looking at YOU, TikTok! - has accelerated trend cycles. Researcher Mandy Lee explains what that means for fashion consumption.
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Social media - yeah, we're looking at YOU, TikTok! - has accelerated trend cycles. Researcher Mandy Lee explains what that means for fashion consumption.
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By BARRY WILNER
AP Pro Football Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Very little is certain heading into an NFL draft. Not that the prospects on hand seem to care.
There’s a level of confidence that, for them, Thursday night’s first round is a sure thing.
“I know I am the best cornerback in this draft,” Cincinnati’s Ahmad Gardner said Wednesday, a massive necklace spelling out his nickname “Sauce” wrapped around his neck. “I feel like I can dominate whoever is in front of me.”
Not many players figure to be selected in front of him, though all of the 20 men on hand for a Play 60 event with local youths and Commissioner Roger Goodell believe they have shown the goods to be a high first-rounder. Even the very first pick, which for the second straight year Jacksonville owns.
“Oh yeah, in college I thought about being No. 1 for sure,” acknowledged Michigan edge rusher Aidan Hutchinson, considered along with Georgia defensive end Travon Walker as the probable top pick. “I’ve just been trying to put myself in that position.”
Hutchinson laughed when asked if going atop the draft would be even more satisfying than finally beating Ohio State, which the Wolverines did in November.
“Nothing compares to beating Ohio State,” he said, his eyes seemingly drifting back to the Big House in Michigan. “Being drafted is a big feat, being drafted first, but I don’t think anything can beat beating Ohio State.”
The self-faith that the very-soon-to-be pros exhibited matched their level of performance on the field in college. A vast majority of them went to big-time football programs in major conferences, and played for a variety of championships. Big games were common for, say, any of the multitude of Georgia Bulldogs and Alabama Crimson Tide and Ohio State Buckeyes players attending the draft in Las Vegas.
Linebacker Nakobe Dean, a key contributor to Georgia’s national title, noted that as many as 15 of his teammates might be drafted.
Asked how he will react if he hears his name called by Goodell on Thursday night — the second and third rounds are Friday night, the final four rounds Saturday — Dean didn’t see the need to replace the word “if” with “when.” But it was clear in his response.
“I’ll share the moment with all of my teammates,” he said. “We all talked about when we first got to college. Win a championship and then go the NFL and get drafted in the first (round). You’ve got to have that confidence about yourself, period. Even guys who are at a Division III school. If you don’t believe in yourself, no one will.”
There is no Division III player in Las Vegas — at least none who was invited by the league — but plenty of guys who are accustomed to the big stage and crucial games are present.
Notre Dame safety Kyle Hamilton, who easily could go in the top 10, believes such a background can only help in the adjustment to the professional ranks.
“Every week and wherever we would go, it was a big game,” he said, adding with a chuckle that “people either love us or hate us, mostly hate us. So we played with that chip on our shoulder. At Notre Dame, we’re used to the spotlight. And every game in the NFL is a big game.
“I’ve always watched the draft since I can remember. To be taken on the first day of the NFL draft will be very satisfying.”
It’s likely that not all 20 players attending will go in the opening round. Rarely does everyone invited by the NFL wind up a first-rounder.
Mississippi quarterback Matt Corral and fellow QB Malik Willis of Liberty, Purdue defensive end George Karlaftis and Boston College offensive lineman Zion Johnson could last into Friday. Or they could go in the top dozen.
That’s how speculative this grab bag is, especially this year when there is no slam dunk prospect, particularly a passer.
Naturally, that’s not how any of the players are thinking. They refer to their pedigree, to what they showed on the field in games, and their performances in draft-evaluation workouts.
“There’s no strain or stress at all,” said Jermaine Johnson, the dynamic edge rusher from Florida State who played the 2019 and ’20 seasons at Georgia before transferring. “Just enjoying it, living the dream.
“Teams see I am a complete player, can pass rush, but affect the game not just in the passing game but I will shut down one side of the field in the running game. You’ve got to take away another man’s will and show him that you won’t ever give up. That’s what I live for.”
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In 1930, a family in Michigan experienced the unimaginable: A mother conceived and gave birth to identical quadruplets, all girls. As the Morlok sisters grew up, the outside world avidly watched. The quads appeared often in newspapers and newsreels, represented as sources of sweetness and light at a time when Shirley Temple was at her most famous and little kids were working overtime in popular culture to distract Americans from the dire consequences of the Great Depression. Meanwhile, in real life, their domineering father, Carl, ashamed that people might think his wife gave birth to a “litter,” sexually abused them, their classmates bullied them, and their overprotective mother, Sadie, seemed too exhausted to shield the girls from their father’s advances.
Was it, in part, the conflict between the idealized way the outside world saw them and the awful way they were treated at home that led all four Morlok sisters — Edna, Wilma, Sarah and Helen — to develop schizophrenia as young women? That is one proposal Audrey Clare Farley makes in “Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America,” her new book about this family’s sad story. (“Genain,” which came from the Greek for “dire birth” or “dreadful gene,” was the pseudonym used for the sisters by the scientists at the National Institutes of Mental Health, who studied their case starting in their youth.) “Their great tragedy was having nowhere to rest,” Farley writes. The debate inside science over the etiology of schizophrenia has been largely about the relative contributions of nature and nurture, with “nurture” usually referring to the influence of home and family. Farley wants to propose a third culprit: culture, society, what she calls “milieu.” “The story of the Morlok sisters,” she writes, “is the story of a society professing great concern for its children, while actually exploiting them.”
Farley, a professor of American history and culture, tells the Morloks’ story largely chronologically, quickly establishing how Carl’s instability morphed into violence toward his family and how Sadie — in part because of a sexual repression so extreme that she could not even acknowledge her daughters’ puberty when it came upon them — enabled his abuse. Carl, who came from a German immigrant family with its own history of mental illness, was a Nazi sympathizer and had a fear of dirt and contamination (both real and metaphorical) that manifested itself in the exertion of extreme control over his four daughters. To illustrate what these girls endured, Farley recounts the parent-endorsed surgical circumcision of two of the quadruplets in their teen years, intended to eliminate what Carl and Sadie deemed to be an unhealthy obsession with masturbation; the sexual abuse of the girls by their father and other men; and the eventual onset of psychosis. Farley also offers intermittent details about the childhoods of Carl and Sadie, and takes detours to bring cultural and scientific context to the family’s story: the evolving perception of child sex abuse, the development of antipsychotic drugs, deinstitutionalization in the Reagan era and so on.
A family story like this is somewhat familiar territory for Farley, whose first book, about the sterilization of heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt, was also about young womanhood, mental illness and eugenics. In her acknowledgments, Farley writes that she got the idea for a book about the Morlok sisters from her mother, who’d just read Robert Kolker’s 2020 “Hidden Valley Road.” That award-winning and best-selling book of nonfiction, about the 12 children of Mimi and Don Galvin, another family with a very high incidence of schizophrenia that was also the subject of study at NIMH, albeit a bit later in the 20th century, contains a couple-pages-long mention of the earlier Morlok case.
Comparisons between the two books are inevitable, possibly unfair but also instructive. The Galvins came of age in the 1960s, and given the more recent timeline, Kolker had much more access to family members, many of whom were still alive while he was writing — a fact that gives that book a more humane and urgent feeling. The Morloks’ life stories come to us instead via diaries, letters, medical records and interviews with the last remaining quadruplet — now in her 90s and the recent author of a memoir that seems to have treated the topic of her childhood abuse with delicate distance — and with her remaining living son. Farley fills in the gaps with interesting-but-not-totally-relevant stories from the life of David Rosenthal, a scientist at NIMH who edited a 1963 book about the quadruplets, as well as with history of the science around schizophrenia and heaping helpings of cultural analysis. The historical sections are well done, but the book too often reads like an argument about the social origins of mental illness rather than a narrative about a family tragedy.
The result is not entirely satisfying, especially toward the end of the book, as our time with the Morloks winds down and Farley weaves their stories in with histories of purity culture, the satanic panic, and the ins and outs of the fields of epigenetics and trauma-informed therapy. One of the last chapters, about more recent changes in psychiatry, has very little about the Morloks, as people, in it. Just as we are about to leave them behind, we’re learning about present-day culture wars over whether Whiteness can be described as pathological, and it all feels a bit detached. There’s nothing obviously wrong with Farley’s argument that “madness might come to take root in a person via society,” and it’s interesting to read and think about. But people who pick up a book like this to spend time with a human story about a family that was severely tested may find themselves somewhat disappointed. In zooming out to history, over and over again, “Girls and Their Monsters” can never quite make that connection feel real.
Rebecca Onion is a senior editor at Slate.
Girls and Their Monsters
The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
By Audrey Clare Farley
Grand Central. 304 pp. $29
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US jobs report likely to show a solid gain, potentially complicating Fed’s drive to cool inflation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Another solid month of hiring in the United States is expected to be reported Friday, an outcome that would suggest no recession is near but could make it harder for the Federal Reserve to succeed in its drive to cool the economy and curb high inflation.
Employers are forecast to have added 205,000 jobs in June, according to economists surveyed by data provider FactSet. Though below recent monthly gains, that would amount to a healthy increase and reflect a historically high number of advertised job openings.
A continuation of robust hiring would underscore the economy’s surprising resilience at a time when the Fed has jacked up its key interest rate by a sizable 5 percentage points — the fastest pace of rate hikes in four decades. Those increases have made mortgages, auto loans and other forms of borrowing significantly more expensive. Yet consumers are still increasing their spending, if modestly, providing the incentive for some companies to keep hiring and expanding.
Economists have projected that the unemployment rate dipped last month from 3.7% to 3.6%, near the lowest level in five decades.
Even a modest job gain for June would virtually cement the likelihood that the Fed will resume its rate hikes when it next meets later this month. Before pausing last month, the central bank had boosted its benchmark rate 10 straight times. Chair Jerome Powell said then that the Fed had skipped a rate hike so policymakers could take stock of what impact sharply higher borrowing costs have had on the economy.
When they met in June, the Fed’s policymakers indicated that they envisioned as many as two additional quarter-point rate hikes before year’s end. Previously, Fed watchers had expected the officials to signal just one more rate increase this year. Their updated projections reflected the belief of many Fed officials that they need to do more to conquer inflation, which is down sharply from its peak, but at 4% is still well above the Fed’s 2% target.
On Thursday, Lorie Logan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, suggested that persistently high inflation and “a stronger-than expected labor market” mean that borrowing costs will need to go still higher.
“I remain very concerned about whether inflation will return to target in a sustainable and timely way,” Logan said in remarks at a central banking conference in New York. “And I think more-restrictive monetary policy will be needed.”
Other Fed officials are looking for signs of what they describe as better balance in the job market, by which they mean the supply and demand for workers would become more equal. After the economy emerged from the pandemic, the number of available jobs surged above 10 million — the highest level on record. That burgeoning demand for labor coincided with millions of Americans dropping out of the workforce to retire, avoid COVID, care for relatives or prepare for new careers.
With companies struggling to fill numerous openings, many offered sharply higher pay and better benefits to attract or keep employees. Fed officials still worry that rising pay levels will keep inflation chronically elevated once companies pass on their growing labor costs by raising prices.
There has been some progress toward a better alignment of supply and demand: About 2 million people have started looking for work in the past seven months, and most of them have found jobs. As the supply of workers has improved, businesses say they are seeing more people apply for open positions. And the number of job openings dropped in May, a sign that demand for workers is gradually cooling, though it remains higher than in pre-pandemic times.
In another sign of a potential slowdown in the job market, fewer Americans are quitting their jobs to search for new positions. Quits had soared after the pandemic. Millions of Americans had sought more meaningful or better-paying jobs, stoking the pressure on companies to raise pay to keep their employees. In May, about 4 million Americans left their jobs, up from April’s figure but below a peak of 4.5 million reached last year.
“As economic uncertainty has been growing, workers are a little less eager to switch jobs, which might indicate that the labor market will slow down,” said Luke Pardue, an economist at Gusto, which makes payroll software for small- and medium-sized businesses.
Still, other recent reports suggest that the economy has continued to expand and that demand for workers remains high. On Thursday, a survey of service providers — including banks, restaurants and shipping companies — found that the sector expanded at a healthy clip in June and that services companies accelerated their hiring compared with May.
Also on Thursday, the payroll provider ADP reported an explosive increase in hiring by private employers in June — 497,000 added jobs. ADP’s hiring figures, though, often diverge from the government’s official data.
“Time and time again, economists and analysts have expected a strong slowdown to appear in the jobs numbers, which just hasn’t materialized over the past six months,” Pardue said. “Despite a lot of calls for a recession in the near term, the job market remains surprisingly resilient.”
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Report reveals difference between restaurants' and employees' perceptions of DEI initiatives
New ELEVATE – A Menu for Change framework provides innovative tools for DEI success in restaurants of all sizes
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the National Restaurant Association released a landmark diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) report measuring the awareness and perceived effectiveness of DEI practices among employers and employees in the restaurant industry. The research, conducted in collaboration between the National Restaurant Association, the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF), the Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance (MFHA), and Cornell University Nolan School of Hotel Administration, found an association between the impact of DEI strategies and foodservice workers' job satisfaction. The study also highlighted differences between a company's perceptions about its DEI effectiveness and its employees' experiences. Ultimately, the report reinforces the critical importance of effective DEI policies in driving employee engagement and retention within the restaurant industry.
To support the development of effective DEI programs across the industry, MFHA created ELEVATE – A Menu for Change. The framework provides restaurant operators with proactive business strategies and plans for building a more diverse, inclusive, and engaged workforce.
"This research highlights the opportunity for companies to elevate their DEI game," said Gerry Fernandez, President and Founder of the Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance. "We have this incredible opportunity to listen, learn, and act to improve our DEI practices. Committing to and investing in these changes can increase retention of current restaurant industry employees and enhance the overall perception of working in the restaurant industry. Our mission is to open doors of opportunity for people from all backgrounds and we are eager to help do whatever it takes to ensure our industry is the gold standard for diversity, equity, and inclusion."
Key Findings of the Report
Employer reporting of employee demographics over-estimates the number of historically marginalized communities in the restaurant industry, especially at the mid- and upper levels of management, compared with how employees self-report.
When asked about the current profile of diversity in the foodservice industry, individuals typically reported differently than the enterprise. This suggests businesses may perceive an environment of diversity that is different than what is experienced by employees. If left unchecked, this has the potential to minimize the experience of historically marginalized communities; limit an organization's ability to recognize the need for a more diverse workforce and change recruiting policies accordingly; and create an environment for turnover. Key findings include:
- Enterprise-level reporting of gender demographics is different than individual employee reporting. Enterprises underreport the percentage of female employees and overreport the representation of non-binary/non-conforming employees compared with how employees self-report (55% of individuals identify as female, enterprises report 35%; 1% of individuals identify as non-binary/non-conforming, enterprises report 18%).
- A greater percentage of individual employees self-identify as Hispanic, Black/African American, and other races than enterprises report.
- Enterprises reported a higher representation of people with disabilities than individuals indicated; 16% of individual employees self-reported having a disability, while enterprises report 34%.
Employee and employer perceptions of current DEI initiatives differed on the effectiveness and awareness of the policies.
Enterprises generally believe they have created work environments that support DEI, yet awareness of those policies is often weak among current employees, and even more so among former employees. This can lead employees to believe that DEI is not a strategic priority, which can ultimately lead to a lack of job satisfaction and higher turnover. Key findings include:
- 92% of enterprises report having dedicated DEI initiatives, however there is limited awareness of those policies among employees. For example, 78% of enterprises reported having employee diversity training or awareness events, while only 48% of current employees and 34% former employees reported receiving this training.
- 73% of enterprises believe that a diverse workforce improves a company's innovation, yet 54% of enterprises believe that money spent on diversity programs is not having a noticeable impact.
- 58% of enterprises believe that they provide adequate DEI training.
- 30% of current employees and 14% of former employees believe the diversity programs in place at their restaurants have a positive impact on the workplace.
When restaurant employees leave the industry, many do not return. Respect and a culture of belonging are associated with job satisfaction and intent to stay in the industry.
In general, the research suggests that current employees are satisfied with their work and overall have positive views about working in the restaurant and foodservice industry. The report indicates a correlation between employee sentiment about working in the industry and supervisor support. Addressing work challenges, investing in training and team member development, and creating authentic and sustainable employment opportunities through a culture of belonging and inclusion can help to address these gaps. Key findings include:
- 72% of current employees expect to be employed by their current restaurant/organization in one year.
- 77% of former restaurant industry employees are not currently looking for employment in the industry.
- 16% of former restaurant employees expect to return to work in the industry.
ELEVATE – A Menu for Change Framework: A Proven Guide to Creating Successful DEI Programs
To drive positive change in DEI initiatives for enterprises and employees, the MFHA created ELEVATE – A Menu for Change – a step-by-step toolkit with proven best practices and proactive business strategies. Each step reflects actions to be taken by company management to create and foster effective DEI programs. The framework includes tools to help enterprises assess DEI throughout its organization, identify stakeholders, examine what it currently offers, and establish a strong foundation for meaningful change. It also covers topics such as fostering stakeholder communication, establishing goals and success metrics, conveying value to employees, and resources for building successful training and measurement practices.
MFHA plans to support industry execution of the ELEVATE framework by providing a range of supplemental resources, including expert-led DEI sessions among stakeholders, employers and employees, management coaching, and ongoing support for groups of similar organizations moving through the framework together.
"Our people are our greatest asset," said Rob Gifford, President of the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. "At the NRAEF, our daily work is to assist the industry in growing this workforce and supporting their career advancement. Both large and small operations face the same challenges: recruiting more diverse leaders and improving retention and development of the current workforce. MFHA's ELEVATE framework is essential to creating best practices — rooted in rigorous research and proven successes — that our community can quickly and easily put into practice, strengthening our workforce, and building greater job satisfaction and interest in industry careers."
"The restaurant workforce is the most diverse across the U.S. economy. The new insight provided by our research and the MFHA's ELEVATE framework creates an opportunity to develop a standard for meaningful DEI programs across the industry," said Michelle Korsmo, President & CEO of the National Restaurant Association and CEO of the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. "Our industry historically has welcomed all people looking to chase their American dream with a solid career and ownership potential. As our current and future workforces focus on new goals and change their expectations, we want the industry to continue to be a place that welcomes all and supports personal and professional growth."
The research survey was conducted in August and September 2021 in two tracks: An online survey of 200 enterprise representatives from a population representative of the U.S. restaurant and foodservice industry; and an online survey of current and former employees, and individuals who have never worked in the industry. The combined 5,180 individual respondents were representative of the U.S. restaurant and foodservice industry workforce.
Find more information about the DEI Report on the Restaurant Industry 2022 and ELEVATE – A Menu for Change framework here.
Founded in 1919, the National Restaurant Association is the leading business association for the restaurant industry, which comprises nearly 1 million restaurant and foodservice outlets and a workforce of 14.5 million employees. Together with 52 State Associations, we are a network of professional organizations dedicated to serving every restaurant through advocacy, education, and food safety. We sponsor the industry's largest trade show (National Restaurant Association Show); leading food safety training and certification program (ServSafe); unique career-building high school program (the NRAEF's ProStart). For more information, visit Restaurant.org and find @WeRRestaurants on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
As the philanthropic foundation of the National Restaurant Association, the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation's (NRAEF) mission of service to the public is dedicated to enhancing the industry's training and education, career development and community engagement efforts. The NRAEF and its programs work to Attract, Empower and Advance today's and tomorrow's restaurant and foodservice workforce. NRAEF programs include: ProStart® — a high-school career and technical education program; Restaurant Ready — partnering with community based organizations to provide "opportunity youth" with skills training and job opportunities; Military — helping military servicemen and women transition their skills to restaurant and foodservice careers; Scholarships — financial assistance for students pursuing restaurant, foodservice and hospitality degrees; and the Restaurant & Hospitality Leadership Center (RHLC) — accredited apprenticeship programs designed to build the careers of service professionals. For more information on the NRAEF, visit ChooseRestaurants.org. Click here for the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation's 2021 Annual Impact Report.
The Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance (MFHA) is dedicated to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across the $899 billion restaurant, foodservice, and hospitality industry. Founded by Gerry Fernandez in 1996, MFHA serves as a leading resource for companies large and small seeking to improve DEI across their organization and to become culturally competent. MFHA provides tailored solutions and guidance that draw from a broad range of best practices, research, DEI partnerships and expertise in current and emerging social issues. www.mfha.net
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IRVINE, Calif., May 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- InPlay Inc., a leading provider of advanced IoT solutions, is thrilled to announce the release of its award-winning NanoBeacon SoC IN100 in a groundbreaking Wafer Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP). The new package, measuring an ultra-small 1.1mm x 2.0mm x 0.35mm, sets the record as the world's smallest Bluetooth System on a Chip (SoC).
The NanoBeacon IN100 in its new WLCSP package pushes the boundaries of what is possible in the IoT industry, creating a new world of possibilities for applications where space is at a premium and the ability to transmit information is crucial.
"The release of the NanoBeacon IN100 in the WLCSP package is a testament to InPlay's dedication to innovation and to meeting the evolving needs of the IoT market," said Jason Wu, Cofounder and CEO of InPlay Inc. "We are excited to see how this new offering will inspire our customers to develop novel applications and solutions."
The NanoBeacon IN100's ultra-small size makes it a perfect choice for a wide range of applications:
- Printable Tags for Asset Tracking: The ultra-thin form factor of the NanoBeacon IN100 makes it an ideal choice for printable tags that broadcast location or sensor data, greatly enhancing the efficiency of asset tracking in various settings.
- Healthcare Data Broadcast: Wearable health monitoring devices, such as smart patches or wristbands, can leverage IN100's small size to broadcast vital health stats to caregivers or health monitoring systems.
- Smart Textiles: The integration of the NanoBeacon IN100 can allow sports gear or uniforms to transmit performance stats or environmental conditions to coaches or command centers, without the need for bulky hardware.
- Miniature Drones: The small footprint and light weight of the NanoBeacon IN100 make it a great fit for drones, where it can broadcast location, telemetry, or other mission-critical data.
- Smart Jewelry: The NanoBeacon IN100 can be seamlessly incorporated into jewelry or accessories, enabling them to broadcast user-defined data such as emergency contact info or health data, without compromising on style or comfort.
InPlay Inc. is excited to see the innovative solutions that will emerge from the release of the NanoBeacon SoC IN100 in its new WLCSP package. As the company continues to push the boundaries of IoT technology, it looks forward to continuing to offer its customers cutting-edge solutions that meet their unique needs.
For more information, please visit https://www.inplay-tech.com.
About InPlay
InPlay Inc is a fabless semiconductor company whose mission is to provide highly scalable, low-latency, low-power wireless communications technologies that unlock the vast potential of the VR/AR, healthcare and wireless industrial IoT markets. The company was founded by a group of wireless engineers experienced in wireless and mobile communication systems with unique technologies in RF, analog mixed-signal circuits and low-power circuit design. InPlay has a research and development team in Irvine, California, with operations and business development in both the United States and China.
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ROME (AP) — Novak Djokovic’s clay-court game is still a work in progress.
The 22-time Grand Slam champion had to overcome a mid-match lapse before beating Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 on Sunday to reach the fourth round of the Italian Open.
Struggling with his footwork, complaining about the conditions of the clay on Campo Centrale and protesting line calls, Djokovic lost four consecutive games to hand the second set to Dimitrov, who won 12 straight points at one point during that stretch.
But Djokovic raised his game when it counted most, broke Dimitrov in the opening game of the third, and improved to 11-1 in his career against the Bulgarian.
“The crowd got into it and kind of got behind him and of course with the energy of the place, the (entire) match changed,” Djokovic said. “I dropped my level a bit. But luckily I managed to find it right away in the first game, make that crucial break and kind of shape the momentum to my side. So I’m really pleased with the way I closed out the match.”
Returning from three weeks off because of a lingering issue with his surgically repaired right elbow, Djokovic is aiming for a seventh title in Rome. He’s also preparing for the French Open, which starts in two weeks.
In his previous two tournaments on red clay, Djokovic had consecutive early exits — results that mean he will lose the No. 1 ranking after this tournament to Carlos Alcaraz again. He was also tested by Tomas Martin Etcheverry in his opener in Rome.
Djokovic will next face 13th-seeded Cameron Norrie, who beat Marton Fucsovics 6-2, 7-6 (4).
Earlier, two-time defending champion Iga Swiatek swept aside Lesia Tsurenko 6-2, 6-0 to extend her winning streak at the Foro Italico to 13 matches.
Having routed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-0, 6-0 in her opening match after a bye in the first round, Swiatek has now dropped just two games over four sets.
Swiatek produced 22 winners to her Ukrainian opponent’s two.
“I’m just trying to be consistent and trying to play my game,” Swiatek said. “I treat every match as it is a final. I try to have the right mindset before every match and have the energy up.”
After it was over, Tsurenko had some kind words at the net for Swiatek, who has been wearing a ribbon in Ukraine’s colors pinned to her hat for more than a year.
“She thanked me for supporting Ukraine,” recounted Swiatek, who is Polish. “It’s really nice and I really appreciate that. (But) there’s nothing to kind of thank for, because for me it’s pretty obvious that we should support Ukraine. I will do that until the war is going to end.”
If she raises the trophy again, Swiatek will join Chris Evert and Conchita Martínez as the third woman to win three consecutive titles in Rome.
The top-ranked Swiatek will next meet 21st-seeded Donna Vekic, who rallied past 16th-seeded Liudmila Samsonova 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2.
Coco Gauff, a French Open finalist last year, was beaten by 27th-seeded Marie Bouzkova, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.
Also advancing on the red clay was 2019 Roland Garros finalist Marketa Vondrousova, who beat ninth-seeded Maria Sakkari 7-5, 6-3.
Madison Keys advanced to the last 16 when Victoria Azarenka withdrew before their match due to a right leg injury.
In other men’s matches, top local hope Jannik Sinner got by hard-hitting Russian qualifier Alexander Shevchenko 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-2 in a night match on Centrale.
Holger Rune kept his composure amid a partisan crowd and eliminated Fabio Fognini, the veteran Italian, 6-4, 6-2.
Fognini took issue with a call early in the first set and protested at length to the chair umpire when his shot was called out after the mark was checked.
“How you can call this ball out? How can you make this mistake? There is no space,” Fognini said. “It’s impossible. How you can be so bad?”
Daniil Medvedev posted his first career win in Rome by beating Emil Ruusuvuori 6-4, 6-2. The Russian had lost his opener in his previous three appearances at the Foro.
Also, Stefanos Tsitsipas needed just two games to finish off a second-round win over Nuno Borges, 6-3, 6-3, in a match that had been suspended due to rain on Saturday.
German qualifier Yannick Hanfmann beat ninth-seeded Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-1; and 2017 Rome champion Alexander Zverev rallied past David Goffin 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
The 16th-seeded Lorenzo Musetti beat fellow Italian Matteo Arnaldi 6-4, 6-4; and another Italian, Marco Cecchinato, eliminated 21st-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 6-2.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A security guard died after suffering a fall at a World Cup stadium in Qatar, tournament organizers said on Wednesday.
The Supreme Committee said that John Njau Kibue fell at Lusail Stadium on Saturday. He was taken to the hospital and put in intensive care but died on Tuesday, the organizers said in a statement. The security staff at stadiums is largely made up of migrant workers, particularly from Kenya and other African nations. The Supreme Committee did not specify Kibue's nationality.
His family was informed and the organizers “are investigating the circumstances leading to the fall as a matter of urgency,” the committee said.
There was no match at Lusail Stadium on Saturday. The venue will host the final on Sunday between Argentina and the winner of the France-Morocco semifinal.
Since being named as host of this year's World Cup, Qatar has come under intense scrutiny over conditions for over 2 million migrants who work in the country in everything from construction jobs to service industries. Rights groups say workers face unsafe conditions at work, including extreme heat that has caused deaths, as well as exploitation by employers, despite reforms instituted by Qatar.
Qatari officials say stronger regulations over work conditions have been imposed under the reforms. They say three workers died in workplace accidents connected to the construction of new stadiums for the World Cup over the past decade, along with 37 other stadium workers who died outside the workplace during that time. They argue that accident rates at the stadiums are comparable to others around the world. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Worker-dies-after-fall-at-World-Cup-stadium-in-17653276.php | 2022-12-14 15:16:25 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Worker-dies-after-fall-at-World-Cup-stadium-in-17653276.php |
MADRID (AP) — Francisco Seoane and his fellow passengers got a fright when their train stopped in the Spanish countryside and they looked out the window: Wildfires were encroaching on them from both sides of the track.
“It was really scary to see how quickly the fire spread. Just in the blink of an eye, a new bush began burning. It was a matter of seconds,” the Spaniard told The Associated Press on Monday.
“It suddenly become night,” he added. “And we could even smell the smoke” inside the railcar.
Video of the unscheduled — and unnerving — stop shows about a dozen passengers in Seoane’s railcar becoming alarmed as they look out of the windows.
Flames licked at the vegetation, and smoke darkened the blue skies as the train drew to a halt on Monday morning in the province of Zamora, where blazes have charred large areas of woodland in recent days. That province has recorded two deaths from wildfires in the past two days: a 69-year-old shepherd and a 62-year-old firefighter trapped in the flames.
With no passenger announcements coming over the train’s public address system, Seoane said passengers became agitated and began to stand up in the aisle.
An Adif spokeswoman told The AP that passengers were never in danger.
More than 30 forest fires around Spain have forced the evacuation of thousands of people and blackened some 22,000 hectares (54,300 acres) over the past week. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/passengers-spooked-when-train-stops-in-wildfire/ | 2022-07-19 11:22:19 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/passengers-spooked-when-train-stops-in-wildfire/ |
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- Chrysler calls out pet-friendly features of Chrysler Pacifica in advance of National Pet Day on April 11
- 2022 Chrysler Pacifica features standard rear-seat reminder to alert driver with a chime and cluster message after trip completion to check rear seats
- FamCAM interior camera, industry-exclusive Stow 'n Go seating, Stow 'n Vac system and more make Pacifica the "purr-fect" pet home away from home
- Mopar pet kennel helps safely transport furry family members
- Pacifica, the most awarded minivan over the last six years, has earned more than 165 honors and industry accolades
- 2022 Chrysler Pacifica offers the most standard safety features in the industry and earned a TOP SAFETY PICK+ rating
- Full information on 2022 Chrysler Pacifica available at Chrysler.com
Chrysler is "paws-ing" to profess its love for furry family members with National Pet Day just around the corner on April 11. The brand is highlighting pet-appropriate features and available Mopar accessories that make the Chrysler Pacifica the "purr-fect" home away from home for four-legged passengers.
Pet-friendly features of the 2022 Chrysler Pacifica, which earned a TOP SAFETY PICK+ rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and is the most awarded minivan over the last six years, include:
- Rear-seat reminder: New for 2022 and standard on Pacifica, the rear-seat reminder recognizes when rear doors are opened and closed prior to ignition start, then alerts the driver with a chime and cluster message after trip completion to check rear seats for passengers and pets
- FamCAM interior camera: Provides a view of occupants in the rear and even allows those up front to zoom in to keep a watchful eye on precocious pets
- Stow 'n Go seating: The only minivan with available all-wheel drive and Stow 'n Go seating, plus second- and third-row seats fold flat into the floor, providing ample space for pet kennels or for pets to roam when the vehicle is in park
- Stow 'n Go in-floor storage bins: Pet food or accessories can be stored under the floor and out of sight
- Stow 'n Vac: Pets can be messy — Pacifica's available Stow 'n Vac system offers easy interior clean ups
- Hands-free sliding doors/liftgate: Hands-free access to the Pacifica is as simple as a kick under the door or liftgate, making it easier to juggle pets and personal items when entering the vehicle
- Pet kennel: Lightweight Mopar pet kennel allows for safe transportation of pets and folds flat when not in use
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TALLAHASSEE — With elections just months away and after a shakeup caused by sexual-harassment allegations, House Democrats on Tuesday chose a new leader who said she hopes to bring stability to the caucus.
Rep. Fentrice Driskell, a Tampa Democrat who will become the first Black woman to lead House Democrats, told reporters she will aim to “build a sort of unity” when she officially takes over as leader following the November elections.
Driskell had previously been in line to become leader in November 2024. Now, she is expected to serve a rare four-year term in the role.
“What this means is that I have the opportunity to serve in this role for four years, as I was already elected to serve as leader-designate from 2024 through 2026. So it will be an unprecedented opportunity for our caucus to have some stability as we try to chart our pathway forward,” Driskell said.
The shakeup came after Rep. Ramon Alexander, D-Tallahassee, dropped his bid for re-election this year after he became embroiled in a controversy related to allegations of sexual harassment. Alexander had been slated to become Democratic leader in November.
“The general sentiment has been that our caucus, and myself included, wish my predecessor and his family the best,” Driskell said of Alexander. “It’s a very tough situation. But what I’ve also found is that members are excited and want to move forward.”
Before Alexander, Rep. Ben Diamond, D-St. Petersburg, had been expected to succeed outgoing Leader Evan Jenne, D-Dania Beach, in November. But Diamond announced he would not run for re-election to the House, instead announcing a run for a Tampa-area congressional seat. Diamond has since suspended his congressional campaign.
Driskell, an attorney first elected to the House in 2018, will take over as badly outnumbered Democrats try to retain seats in the November elections.
“2022 is going to be a tough year for us. It’s going to be a tough year for Democrats across the board. Just any time the party that has the president in office, it’s a tough year in the midterms. But our plan is to focus really hard and make sure that we bring back each and every (Democratic) member, so success to us would look like holding,” Driskell said.
Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book, D-Plantation, said Driskell “made history” Tuesday by getting chosen to become the first Black woman to lead the caucus.
“But Leader Driskell is remarkable far beyond simply being the ‘first’ — her exemplary legal career, service to others and tenacity to do what’s right will continue to bolster not only our Democratic colleagues in the House, but our collective, efforts to defend Floridians’ rights and freedoms across both chambers,” Book said in a statement. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-house-democratic-leader-20220524-ktqlvnkbavdhrhmyj2hi6z5q5m-story.html | 2022-05-24 18:51:45 | 0 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-house-democratic-leader-20220524-ktqlvnkbavdhrhmyj2hi6z5q5m-story.html |
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KTLA) – A recent graduate of a Los Angeles-area high school will have some additional funds for college after she was crowned the grand prize winner in a nationwide competition to find the best duct-tape prom dress.
After several days of voting and widespread acclaim, Karla Torres was named the big winner in Duck brand’s annual Stuck at Prom contest, which challenges high school students to transform the utility tape into impressive fashion pieces as either a prom dress or tuxedo. Color, craftsmanship, originality and accessories were all considered as part of the judging criteria.
Torres dedicated 120 hours of her life and used 14 rolls of duct tape to construct her one-of-a-kind prom dress for the annual competition.
Torres had already beat out hundreds of other entrants to when she was chosen as one of the 10 finalists earlier this month. Now, after being crowned the winner of the prom dress category, Torres earned a grand prize of $10,000 in scholarship money.
Her mind-blowing dress also went viral on social media, helping her earn the most online votes in the competition, Duck Brand said.
Her pink pastel gown, highlighted with pops of gold, was inspired by 18th-century French art. It also featured a custom duct-tape handheld fan and matching clutch.
A trip to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles inspired her design, said Torres, who added that she was particularly captivated by the “gold and extravagant paintings” the museum had on display.
“It was a time period of luxurious gowns full of lace, floral prints, ribbons, and ruffles. So I wanted to incorporate some of these elements into my dress,” Torres said.
Photos of her gown drew statewide attention, as she was the only California student to advance to the competition’s final stage. Her hometown and the entire state got behind her big time, playing a major role in her victory.
Torres is a recent graduate of Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School in Los Angeles. She plans to attend college and major in business marketing, with hopes of eventually pursuing a career in the fashion industry.
In the tuxedo category, the grand prize winner was Ian Hernandez Rojas of Taylorsville, Utah. He channeled his Salvadoran roots for a Mayan- and Aztec-inspired suit with a traditional headdress.
“With so many talented teens entering this year’s contest, the competition was high, but Karla and Ian really exemplified how an ordinary material, like Duck Tape, can be transformed into artful attire,” said Ashley Luke, senior product manager of Duck Brand’s parent company. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/los-angeles-teen-crowned-winner-of-duct-tape-prom-dress-competition/ | 2023-07-21 18:36:18 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/los-angeles-teen-crowned-winner-of-duct-tape-prom-dress-competition/ |
GREENSBORO, N.C. – At halftime of the ACC Tournament Championship, the Virginia Cavaliers trail the Duke Blue Devils 24-17.
The shooting woes that the Cavaliers experienced in the latter part of the regular season have appeared thus far tonight, with a dismal 1-of-7 stat line from beyond the arc and just 27 percent shooting for the game.
While Duke has also only made one three-pointer, it has forced 7 turnovers and turned them into 7 points. ACC Rookie of the Year Kyle Filipowski leads the scoring department with 11 points for the Blue Devils. Reece Beekman with 6 so far for Virginia.
Blue Devils are also finding success in the paint, outscoring the Cavaliers 14-6. | https://www.wsls.com/sports/2023/03/12/virginia-trails-duke-24-17-at-halftime-of-the-acc-championship/ | 2023-03-12 03:21:19 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/sports/2023/03/12/virginia-trails-duke-24-17-at-halftime-of-the-acc-championship/ |
(NewsNation) — A vape shop manager in downtown Moscow, Idaho, says that Kaylee Goncalves’ friends implied she had a stalker during a visit to the shop three weeks prior to her murder.
He said Goncalves and Maddie Mogen — two of the four University of Idaho students killed on Nov. 13 — always came into the store with a group.
“You could tell they were all obviously trying to keep Kaylee safe and be there for her as good friends,” the manager told News Nation.
Goncalves apparently told him the stalker was present at night when she was going to or from bars, “either by the campus or down on Main Street.”
Several rumors have swirled online about the Idaho murders, including a theory that Goncalves had a stalker.
At the beginning of December, while sitting down for an interview, the Goncalves family said they are not aware of any stalker.
However, the vape store manager said the alleged stalker was “apparently something that Kaylee had tons of issues with. Apparently, she always had somebody who was constantly walking behind her like that.”
Goncalves, 21, along with Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20 and Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death in a rental home near the University of Idaho Campus on Nov. 13. Police have yet to identify any suspects.
Investigators are still looking for context and clues surrounding the quadruple murder case. Information can be submitted to detectives via hotline, at 208-883-7180, or by emailing the city of Moscow’s tip line at tipline@ci.moscow.id.us. Tips can also be submitted digitally at the FBI’s tip portal. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/idaho-store-manager-says-murder-victim-complained-of-stalker/ | 2022-12-16 21:35:29 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/idaho-store-manager-says-murder-victim-complained-of-stalker/ |
The Prelude Network's "Prelude to a Life Exceptional" efforts highlight rewards, benefits of reproductive medicine while addressing the need for more REI's; recent industry audit shows factors that determine a physician's specialty career path.
HOUSTON, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Prelude Network ® (Prelude), the largest provider of comprehensive fertility services in North America and the clinical network of Inception Fertility™, has embarked on a national recruitment effort to inspire physicians to enter reproductive endocrinology. Through Prelude to a Life Exceptional, the national leader in reproductive healthcare highlights the professional and personal rewards of being a Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility (REI) specialist.
Included in the campaign are Dr. James Grifo, Chief Executive Physician of Inception Fertility and Program Director at NYU Langone Fertility Center, Dr. Jessica Rubin, REI at Reproductive Biology Associates in Atlanta and Dr. David Prokai, REI at Aspire Fertility Austin who each discuss through a series of short films the impact being an REI has had on their career and on them personally.
According to a recent American Medical Association report on fellowships, reproductive endocrinology is the fourth most popular specialty among residents1. However, the need for more professionals to enter this space continues to increase, as industry reports note that the fertility services market is projected to grow at a compounded annual rate of over five percent over the next five years2. This is due to a number of factors, including more women waiting later to have children3.
"Prelude has seen firsthand the increase in demand for comprehensive services led by exceptional specialists who exude both knowledge of reproductive medicine and practice with a heart of compassion," says TJ Farnsworth, Founder and CEO of Inception Fertility, the parent company to Prelude. "As a leader in the fertility services industry, Prelude recognizes that we have a great responsibility to ensure that current and future patients will be able to easily access highly trained and skilled doctors to help them build their families."
To understand the current reproductive endocrinology landscape, Prelude performed an extensive industry audit which included interviews with current Prelude physicians, academic institutions/associations and competing career options. This deep dive revealed those factors that influence a physician's decision to enter into a specific medical field, including work-life balance, geography, job security and stability.
"In speaking with professionals across the country, one message was very clear: REIs take great pride in being able to help patients do something special, unique and forever life-changing - and that's create life, offer hope and build families," says Nicole R. Braley, Chief Marketing Officer for Inception Fertility. "Through this physician-focused audit, we know which areas to place even greater emphasis on, which will help make this field more competitive and enticing to future REI's. These efforts will make a significant impact not just on Prelude, but the entire reproductive healthcare industry."
Other findings of Prelude's fertility market audit found that after decades of increasing percentages of women entering medicine, female physicians dominate gynecology, obstetrics and reproductive medicine and are predicted to continue to do so.
"Prelude has always recognized that female physicians are important to reproductive healthcare, and these findings confirm just how vital it is that we make recruitment of female physicians a priority for the fertility industry," continues Braley. "Many of our clinics are female-led, and we are proud of the contributions those doctors have made to Prelude and more importantly, the fertility field."
Dr. Grifo is considered in innovator in fertility care, having pioneered some of the most advanced technologies used in reproductive medicine. "What we do everyday as REIs is create legacies by giving people the chance to have children and build their families," notes Dr. Grifo. "The impact you have on a patient is profound, and this next generation of doctors pushes specialists like me to be better, work collaboratively and improve technologies and processes that help us continue building those families and those legacies."
"Being an REI is so much more than being a fertility expert; it's walking alongside your patients as they navigate the very personal journey of building a family," says Dr. Rubin. "This is more than a job. It's become a passion for me, and I am very excited to see this growth of female professionals entering the reproductive healthcare arena and look forward to welcoming more to the Prelude family."
Dr. Prokai shares, "I was honored to take part in Prelude's recruitment effort and share my own personal experience of being an REI, how rewarding this field of medicine has been to me, and how those rewards flow into other areas of my life. I can say with certainty that I have chosen the best career path for myself and my family, and every day I look forward to meeting with my patients and playing a role in their futures."
To watch each short film, please click on the following links:
- Dr. Jamie Grifo, Chief Executive Physician of Inception Fertility and Program Director at NYU Langone Fertility Center
- Dr. Jessica Rubin, REI at Reproductive Biology Associates
- Dr. David Prokai, REI at Aspire Fertility Austin
Prelude to a Life Exceptional was recently recognized for marketing excellence by being recognized by the Viddy Awards for outstanding achievement in video and production skills, as well as a Telly Award for excellence in video and television across all screens.
To learn more about Prelude to a Life Exceptional, please visit join.preludefertility.com.
1 Considering fellowship? Check in on the latest applicant trends | American Medical Association (ama-assn.org)
2 U.S. In-vitro Fertilization Market Size, Share | Industry Report, 2021-2026 (arizton.com)
3 U.S. Women More Likely to Have Children Than a Decade Ago | Pew Research Center
The Prelude Network ® (Prelude), the fastest-growing network of fertility clinics and largest provider of comprehensive fertility services in North America, is the clinic network of Inception Fertility – a family of fertility brands that touches every part of the fertility journey, including diagnostics and treatment to financial accessibility Each clinic, as part of the Prelude Network, is committed to delivering the highest level of personalized fertility care by the nation's leading reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists and practitioners by focusing on an excellence in science, medicine and the patient experience. The growing Prelude Network has over 75 total locations across North America, offering a wide range of fertility services including egg freezing, IVF, genetic testing and egg/embryo storage, among others.
Inception Fertility, LLC (Inception) is a family of fertility brands committed to helping patients build their own families. Built by patients for patients, Inception's purpose is to achieve the highest bar in experience, science and medicine in an effort to enhance each patient's experience and achieve better outcomes.
Inception's medical experts are leading pioneers in fertility care. Our doctors are some of the first to use breakthrough assisted reproductive technologies (ART) – including in vitro fertilization (IVF), pregenetic implantation testing (PGT) and fertility preservation services – and they continue to lead the industry by building on these technologies by through development, research and thought leadership.
Through its growing family of national organizations – which includes The Prelude Network, the fastest-growing network of fertility clinics and largest provider of comprehensive fertility services in North America; Pathways Fertility, clinics that provide affordable, individualized and high quality care; MyEggBank, one of the largest frozen donor egg banks in North America; Bundl Fertility, LLC (Bundl), a multi-cycle fertility service bundling program and HavenCryo™, a long-term reproductive preservation and storage solution provider, – Inception is working to deliver on its promise to push the envelope of what is possible for exceeding patient expectations.
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OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Lamar Jackson has a simple explanation for why he decided to participate in voluntary practices for the Baltimore Ravens this year.
“New offense,” he said. “Had to get that down pat before the season rolls in. Because the season’s getting nearer, even though we got a couple months left. But still, just wanted to learn the new offense and get with my guys.”
The Ravens are going through something of a honeymoon phase after reaching a $260 million, five-year deal with Jackson late last month. His presence on the practice field Wednesday was another positive sign. Jackson skipped this part of Baltimore’s offseason work last year, although he attended the mandatory camps.
His earlier arrival this year comes as the Ravens prepare for the season under new offensive coordinator Todd Monken. Jackson is hopeful Baltimore will be able to create big plays in the passing game and rely less on the run — including his own running.
“Just being able to throw the ball down the field,” he said. “Running can only take you so far, and I feel like with this new era of teams and offenses in the league, I feel like we need that. Coach Todd Monken, what I’m seeing in this offense so far is looking tremendous.”
Jackson said Monken’s offense seems more up-tempo. The Ravens put up impressive time of possession numbers in recent seasons, and that has its own benefits, but with a quarterback like Jackson, they could probably do more to put pressure on defenses.
“It’s a little college in it — a little college system a little bit. But definitely faster,” Jackson said. “It’s cool to me. It’s new.”
It’s hard to say how much difference Jackson’s attendance at practice in May will make in a season that starts in September. Coach John Harbaugh said he doesn’t have a problem with the absences of tight end Mark Andrews and newly acquired receiver Odell Beckham Jr. — but he obviously prefers to have as many players in Owings Mills as possible.
“I think it’s important. I’m a coach,” Harbaugh said. “I want every player here all the time doing everything they can. Now, is that necessarily the best thing? I don’t know. Everybody’s got their own circumstance, and that’s OK.”
Jackson said he may be a different kind of leader going forward, and perhaps his decision to report earlier will help with that.
“I’m going to try to be more of a vocal leader,” Jackson said. “Coach was like, ‘You need to start speaking more.’”
Rookie receiver Zay Flowers was at practice, along with wideout Rashad Bateman, back from a foot injury that limited him to six games last season.
For obvious reasons, however, Jackson’s presence is the big story. He’s the standout quarterback who now has a huge contract and made the effort to come to a voluntary practice. His arrival wasn’t necessarily a surprise, but it suggests the Ravens are very much on the same page as they look toward the 2023 season.
“I’m excited that he’s here. Of course,” Harbaugh said. “But I knew he was going to come in sometime right around now. For him to be here is great. He was into it, into the meetings. He was locked in, the last two days been completely locked in.”
NOTES: The Ravens signed DT Angelo Blackson. … Harbaugh said the Ravens voted against the recently approved rule on kickoffs that puts the ball at the receiving team’s 25 after a fair catch behind that yard line.
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ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) — Netflix could change how we watch TV with its new crime mystery show “Kaleidoscope” that landed on the streaming platform on Jan. 1.
The show seems like a standard crime drama/mystery at first, but the company says the user experience will be different.
Without any spoilers, the show is about a group of seven who look to pull off the biggest heist in history by breaking into the world’s most secure vault and walking out with $7 billion in bonds.
Netflix touts that there’s no real order to the episodes. You can start with any episode you want and continue watching in any order.
Each episode watched creates more questions, and when you think you know the answer, details revealed in another episode change everything.
Every episode is based on a color – episode names are Yellow, Pink, Violet, White, etc. – and they all take place at various times from 24 years before the heist to 6 months after the heist, as well as one episode that takes place during the heist itself. Every episode is a different piece to a puzzle that is hard to solve.
The show stars Giancarlo Esposito, who most fans know as Gus Fring from “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul.” Rufus Sewell from “A Knights Tale” and “Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter” co-stars as the antagonist.
Sewell’s character owns one of the world’s most advanced security companies with a vault secured by armed guards, motion sensors, heat sensors, facial recognition, and dual combinations that need to be entered simultaneously.
Meanwhile, Esposito wants the $7 billion in bonds that are in that vault. And don’t forget: The FBI is closing in on this whole thing.
The show is available to subscribers as of Sunday.
This isn’t the first time Netflix has experimented with its content. In 2018, it released an episode of “Black Mirror” that allowed viewers to choose their own adventure at multiple turning points. The platform has also released several interactive trivia shows. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/entertainment/new-netflix-show-kaleidoscope-can-be-watched-in-any-order/ | 2023-01-02 22:33:25 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/entertainment/new-netflix-show-kaleidoscope-can-be-watched-in-any-order/ |
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RADNOR, Pa., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP (www.ktmc.com) informs investors that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed against Oscar Health, Inc. (Oscar) (NYSE: OSCR). The action charges Oscar with violations of the federal securities laws, including omissions and fraudulent misrepresentations relating to the company's business, operations, and prospects. As a result of Oscar's materially misleading statements to the public, Oscar investors have suffered significant losses.
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In March, 2021, Oscar conducted its IPO, selling 36,391,946 shares of Class A common stock at a price of $39.00 per share. Oscar received net proceeds of approximately $1.3 billion from the IPO.
On August 12, 2021, Oscar disclosed that its Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) for the second quarter of 2021 was 82.4%, an increase of 2170 basis points year-over year, claiming that the increase was primarily driven by meaningfully lower utilization in 2Q20 as a result of COVID-19, as well as higher COVID-19 testing and treatment costs. Oscar also disclosed that its net loss for the quarter was $73.1 million, an increase of $32.1 million year-over-year.
Then, on November 10, 2021, Oscar disclosed that its third quarter 2021 MLR increased 920 basis points year-over-year, to 99.7%. Oscar claimed, again, that the MLR increase was primarily driven by higher net COVID costs, as well as several other purported reasons. Oscar also disclosed that its net loss for the quarter was $212.7 million, an increase of $133.6 million year-over-year.
Following this news, Oscar's share price fell $4.05 per share, or 24.5%, to close at $12.47 per share on November 11, 2021. At the time of the filing of the complaint, Oscar stock has traded as low as $5.76 per share, a more than 85% decline from the $39.00 per share IPO price.
Oscar investors may, no later than July 11, 2022 seek to be appointed as a lead plaintiff representative of the class through Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP or other counsel, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP encourages Oscar investors who have suffered significant losses to contact the firm directly to acquire more information.
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Expansion will empower users to collaborate and train alongside colleagues in the Metaverse
RENO, Nev., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynepic® announced today the purchase of SurrealVR, a pioneer in platform agnostic virtual reality (VR) that helped lay the groundwork for immersive collaboration in the Metaverse. Dynepic DX platform users will now be able to successfully teach, learn, and collaborate with colleagues in a 3D environment.
"I believe the ultimate success and adoption of the Metaverse will come from providing the right capabilities that enable people to level up their skills, learning, and knowledge," said Krissa Watry, Co-Founder, and CEO of Dynepic. "This acquisition represents a significant leap forward for corporate, team, and individual training across dimensions."
Dynepic plans to first release collaborative learning APIs for eXtended reality (XR) training creators activated on the DX platform, giving developers an easy way to build a Metaverse training product by leveraging its core feature set including avatars, identity management, real-time voice chat, physics, locomotion, and a common VR/AR menu system. The first DX users to benefit will be United States Air Force students and trainers, who currently use a white-label of the DX Platform called MOTAR® (Member, Operations, Training, Analytics, Reports).
"Creators on DX (and MOTAR) can now make their product social, multiplayer, and VR/AR ready, in a matter of days – saving time, money, and drastically reducing any friction - on an already proven and secure platform," SurrealVR Co-Founder, Orchun Koroglu, shared.
Arthur Goikhman, Co-Founder and CEO of SurrealVR, said the acquisition is a key step on Dynepic's roadmap as an influential force in modern learning and training.
"What VR did for social gaming years ago is now a reality for businesses of all sizes," Goikhman added. "This acquisition means any company using Dynepic's DX platform could leverage virtual reality, bringing together individuals, teams, instructors, and students from anywhere in the world and giving them the opportunity to deepen and enrich their learning and collaboration by working side-by-side."
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George R.R. Martin gives updates on projects amid strike he expects to be 'long and bitter'
"Game of Thrones" mastermind George R.R. Martin easily has his hands in all avenues of entertainment these days, from novels to television to Broadway.
And his projects are among the countless affected after Hollywood came to a screeching halt this summer, due to the dual strikes by actors and screenwriters.
Martin says he has been a part of several writer’s strikes in the last few decades but called this year’s strike "the most important of my lifetime." He predicted the strike will be "long and bitter."
He shared those thoughts in a blog post over the weekend, and also offered updates on where his projects stand:
HBO deal suspended
Martin had reportedly signed a deal with HBO (now Max) to develop new shows for the network and its streaming service over the next five years.
This deal was sure to include several "Game of Thrones" prequels, which Martin has created source material for with several books. (More on that below.)
However, Martin confirmed the deal was suspended on June 1.
"I still have plenty to do, of course. In that, I am one of the lucky ones," he wrote. "These strikes are not really about name writers or producers or showrunners, most of whom are fine; we’re striking for the entry level writers, the story editors, the students hoping to break in, the actor who has four lines, the guy working his first staff job who dreams of creating his own show one day, as I did back in the 80s."
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‘Game of Thrones’ projects
English actress Emily Carey (4th L) and English actor Matt Smith (R) join other cast members of the new HBO Max series House of the Dragon as they pose during its European premiere in Amsterdam on August 11, 2022. - Netherlands OUT (Photo by Wesley d
House of the Dragon: Still filming.
Martin previously confirmed filming began on April 11 for the second season’s eight episodes. Now he says he’s heard the season is half done. He confirms all the scripts were finalized before the writer’s strike began, and that filming is able to continue because it’s taking place mostly in London, so actors there are members of the British union, Equity, not SAG-AFTRA.
He didn’t say when we might see the show, but it’s been speculated to air sometime in 2024.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight: Writing stopped.
Martin confirmed this back in May, saying the writer’s room for the second "Game of Thrones" prequel to be in production is closed for the duration of the strike.
The show is based on "Tales of Dunk and Egg", which is a fantasy novella trilogy following the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall (Dunk) and a young Aegon V Targaryen (Egg) 90 years prior to the events of "A Song of Ice and Fire."
The Iron Throne: Not impacted by the strike.
"The Iron Throne" is the "Game of Thrones" stage play in production. Martin said SAG-AFTRA only covers film and television, but not the stage, so the strike has no impact there.
"The scripts for that one are coming along well, and it’s got me very excited," he wrote – almost giving away a release date, but stopping short as to not "jinx the project."
Winds of Winter: Still writing.
Speaking of jinxed projects…
Martin promises he’s still working on the sixth book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, which spawned "Game of Thrones."
"Almost every day. Writing, rewriting, editing, writing some more. Making steady progress. Not as fast as I would like… certainly not as fast as YOU would like," he jests, "but progress nonetheless."
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Other projects
Dark Winds: Releasing July 30
Martin is an executive producer on the AMC show "Dark Winds," a psychological thriller. Filming wrapped on the show’s second season before either strike began, so it will air as expected later this month. Union members won’t be participating in promoting the show, though, Martin said.
Wild Card books: Still editing.
Martin says he’s been editing a couple new books in the Wild Cards series, which is a science fiction and superhero anthology series set in a shared universe. Martin edits most of the books.
He shared earlier this year that he was helping to try and place the series on TV, sharing, though, that Peacock had passed.
"A pity. We will try to place it elsewhere, but not until the strike is over," he wrote.
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Shepherding Every Child's Science Dream
SHANGHAI, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 27, 2023, NEOBIO invited Nobel laureate Michael Levitt to participate in the special event NeoBio Talk, a stimulating scientific exchange seminar, held at the NEOBIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM in Shanghai. During the event, Levitt shared a personal anecdote on "Can Mischievous Children Win the Nobel Prize?" as a part of his keynote speech, and facilitated in-depth conversations in the form of listening and dialogue with attending guests, shepherding children into the field of scientific knowledge and knocking on the door of future science dreams.
NeoBio Talk is a sharing and communication platform provided by NEOBIO for children, teenagers and parents alike. It invites big names in the industry and Nobel laureates to share innovative and multi-dimensional topics, to explore the possibility of pursuing scientific dreams with parents and children, and to expand the boundaries of young minds. Michael Levitt was specially invited to share his scientific adventures exploring the undetermined, inspire curiosity and help empower children with science. This is also adhering to the guidelines set during the National People's Congress(NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC) this year to improve basic scientific literacy in China. Science plays a crucial role in education and the sustainable development of the world, and children and young people are an important source of scientific and technological talent pool. NEOBIO is dedicated to fostering growth and empowering every child's dream to become a scientist.
Nobel Laureate Michael Leavitt Makes Appearance to Ignite Scientific Dreams
Michael Levitt is an authoritative biophysicist, professor of structural biology at Stanford University, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Michael Leavitt was also one of the first scholars to direct DNA and protein molecular dynamics simulations.
Prior to the event, NEOBIO collected children's "spontaneous ideas" about science on social media platforms, and Michael Levitt responded to these questions and ideas during the NeoBio Talk with humor and wit, arousing heated discussion about science and received countless positive feedback from children. On a special note, Levitt combined his own experience to create a fascinating new perspective "Can Mischievous Children Win the Nobel Prize?" in his keynote speech, sharing that every child has the potential to become a scientists. While scientists appear to be different, they are ordinary people from diverse backgrounds. In addition to good fortune, scientists devote more enthusiasm and perseverance to their work, and hold the spirit of learning through practice and from trial and error, so as to encourage children to maintain love and confidence in science. At the same time, it also inspires parents to let children think independently, to always stay curious about science, unafraid of making mistakes, discover the fun of learning and enjoy learning, exercise, embrace a wider range of hobbies, improve hands-on ability, and understand the randomness of the world through real life practices.
Not long ago, NEOBIO also invited Professor Eugene Ch'ng, professor at the University of Nottingham, director of NVIDIA's Joint Mixed Reality Laboratory, and editor-in-chief of the MIT PRESENCE: VIRTUAL & AUGMENTED REALITY journal, to speak at NEOBIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM. The keynote speech thoroughly explored the topic "teaching our children to work with artificial intelligence and technology in a competitive future environment". As science and technology continues to develop, artificial intelligence will play an increasingly important role in the future, and how to effectively work with artificial intelligence will become a key issue of tomorrow. During NeoBio Talk, Professor Ch'ng conveyed through thought-provoking interactions, from exposure to coding, emphasizing problem-solving skills, encouraging curiosity, the importance of teamwork. The speech stimulated children's infinite imagination, while parents pondered future direction of education.
NEOBIO is excited to explore the beauty that is science with children, teenagers and parents alike, empowering the next generation with infinite possibilities of the future. Through NeoBio Talk, we will continue to invite big names from different scientific and industry backgrounds to share and interact with parents and children, and initiate curiosity about science and the pursuit of knowledge to better observe and explore the world.
Breeding the Future with Art and Science, Exploring Infinite Imagination Together
NEOBIO guides children to understand the boundless relationship between science, life and art through full sensory, interactive experiences, and uncover the infinite charm of science. At NEOBIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, children can explore diverse fields such as natural science, avant-garde technology and aerospace exploration. The museum has three floors, covering an area of 6000m², and is divided into five major exhibitions. In Power Hungary, the process of mankind understanding nature and transforming it into a source of energy is revealed; In Miracle Labs, audiences witness the birth, development and aging of life, and understand the delicate works of human organs and cells; In Secret Studios, explorers linger at the game of light and shadow and conduct a well-versed symphony using art and technology; In Maker's Hall, every visitor becomes a natural innovator, converses with the future, and experiences the joy of creation; And coming to Space Station, audiences travel in space to understand the mysteries left for future generations in the vast sea of stars. Themed science activities and parent-child sessions are held as a part of the museum's program around the year. The museum is equipped with NEOBIO's first-ever smart wristband location tracking system, so parents are free of any safety concerns while children explore the grounds. In terms of catering facilities, the museum offers a selection nutritious specialty menus, so that individuals and families who come to dine and visit can enjoy 360-degree, quality service.
As the co-founder and CEO of NEOBIO, Xu Jing, shared during NeoBio Talk, "a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." This scientific seminar not only adds new colors to children's scientific palette, but also points out the way of scientific parenting to parents. In the future, NeoBio Talk will continue to be staged in NEOBIO, scattering the seeds of knowledge for countless Chinese children, igniting their curiosity about science in school and in life. At the same time, NEOBIO will also help Chinese parents to better explore the potential of each child, expand educational horizons, and better help children grow into the talents of tomorrow.
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2023 MLB ALL-STAR GAME
Mariners Takeaways from All-Star Game at T-Mobile Park
Jul 11, 2023, 9:51 PM | Updated: 9:59 pm
The 2023 MLB All-Star Game is in the books from T-Mobile Park, with the National League taking down the American League and its three Seattle Mariners All-Stars 3-2 on Tuesday night.
Colorado Rockies catcher Elías Díaz wound up winning game MVP honors thanks to his go-ahead two-run blast off Baltimore Orioles star closer Felix Bautista in the eighth inning.
MLB All-Star Game: MVP Díaz leads NL to 3-2 win over AL
But how about players representing the hometown Mariners: outfielder Julio Rodríguez and pitchers George Kirby and Luis Castillo?
Here’s how they did and what they said (or was said about them).
Julio passes baton, talks Ohtani chants
In his first at-bat of the All-Star Game, second-time All-Star Rodríguez struck out swinging.
Big ovation for Julio who tips his cap in appreciation. Julio chants broke out soon after this video ends. pic.twitter.com/RPeaTeKTLl
— Brandon Gustafson (@TheBGustafson) July 12, 2023
He got a very interesting chance late in the game, though, coming to the plate with two outs and the tying run on first base in Houston’s Kyle Tucker.
Rodríguez faced veteran closer Craig Kimbrel of the Philadelphia Phillies and quickly fell behind 1-2. But rather than tying or even winning the game, Rodríguez showed patience and wound up working a seven-pitch walk.
Oh boy 👀 Julio coming up with a chance to win it! pic.twitter.com/EQWISYcTHR
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) July 12, 2023
“Oh my god, that was unbelievable,” Rodríguez said of his ninth-inning plate appearance. “That was an unbelievable feeling. I would say we’ve had the playoff games and all that, but there was just something different about having an event with this crowd … It was just unbelievable to have all the stars here. And the energy the fans brought, it was unbelievable what they did. Seattle definitely showed out.”
While Rodríguez moved the line, he did admit he wanted to play hero.
“I was definitely trying to win it, but I was given a situation where I needed to pass the baton,” he said. “Once I saw (Tucker) get on first, my thought was just get a good pitch to drive and let’s try and win this game. But I had to pass the baton.”
A side story to Tuesday’s game was Mariners fans in attendance chanting “Come to Seattle” at star Angels two-way player Shohei Ohtani, who is set to be a free agent after the season.
Ohtani to Seattle Mariners? ‘Come To Seattle’ chants catch his attention
Ohtani himself admitted the chants caught his attention, and Rodríguez said he and the Japanese phenom did chat a bit this week.
“I did talk to him a little bit, but nothing specific about him coming to Seattle. Just asked him a couple questions,” Rodríguez said. “But (the chanting) was cool. That was pretty interesting whenever the whole city can combine themselves, they can do something pretty amazing. I thought it was pretty cool what they did when they came together to do that.”
So … what questions did Julio ask Ohtani?
“Secrets. You can’t know everything in life,” Rodríguez said with a laugh.
George Kirby’s All-Star debut
The overall statline may not be one to write home about, but Kirby will remember his first All-Star Game very fondly.
The second-year right-hander threw one inning, allowing a leadoff double to Dodgers slugger J.D. Martinez to left field in the fourth.
“Yeah, I don’t know why I threw a curveball there,” Kirby told reporters with a laugh. “Shoulda thrown a heater.”
Kirby then got Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado to ground out to third base. But Marlins star infielder Luis Arraez – who leads baseball with a .383 ERA – ambushed the first pitch he saw from Kirby for a single to right field, which scored Martinez from second.
After that, Braves catcher Sean Murphy flew out deep to the right field wall – prompting Texas’ Adolis Garcia to make his second leaping catch of the game – and Arraez was caught stealing at second base after replay review, ruling out a showdown between Kirby and Seattle native Corbin Carroll of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The hyper-competitive Kirby didn’t seem fazed or upset at all after allowing one run and some hard contact in his lone inning of work.
“I had a lot of fun today,” Kirby said. “I met a lot of good dudes, I learned a lot of different things today, I picked people’s brains. Just being around all those guys that I grew up watching was pretty cool. I’m still taking it all in.”
Of course, Kirby’s first All-Star Game being in Seattle at his home field of T-Mobile Park didn’t hurt at all. In fact, it amplified the experience.
“I’m just glad I did it my first time in front of Seattle fans,” he said. ” … Couldn’t ask for a better situation. I have family and friends here. It was really cool. A really special moment.”
Kirby drew a big ovation running out to the mound, as well as when he, Rodríguez and Castillo were introduced before the game.
It is Kirby time pic.twitter.com/M4m5411AtQ
— Brandon Gustafson (@TheBGustafson) July 12, 2023
“Yeah, that was cool. Really good cheers,” Kirby said. “Just really awesome to see that kind of support. Yeah, it was just freaking cool.”
Kirby clearly felt good out on the mound from a stuff perspective as he averaged 98 mph with his fastball and topped out at 99.5.
“I kind of did like my starter routine (before entering the game) – I feel like I threw a little too much, actually. But nah, I felt really good,” Kirby said. “Super comfortable. And like I said, I was really excited and glad that it was here in Seattle.”
Kirby also said we can expect to see more of that high-end fastball velocity in his coming starts.
“I’ve been (touching 99 mph) recently, so I’m gonna keep it up,” he said.
No Luis Castillo?
While Rodríguez received two at-bats and Kirby pitched the fourth inning, Seattle’s other All-Star rode the bench. But Castillo not pitching in his third All-Star Game appeared to be by design.
“Well, I had his manager (Scott Servais) sitting right next to me,” American League manager Dusty Baker of the Houston Astros joked when asked why Castillo didn’t pitch. “He was kind of (available only in) an emergency situation.”
Baker pointed to Castillo’s last start of the first half – which was seven innings in Houston last Thursday – as part of why he didn’t pitch.
“He pitched not long ago against us in our ballpark. You gotta take care of other guys’ players,” Baker said. “I was kind of shocked but pleased the fact that (Yankees ace and AL starter) Gerrit Cole wanted to pitch one inning because he just pitched on (Saturday). It was about preservation of another team’s player.”
Neither Castillo nor Servais spoke to media members after Tuesday’s game.
Attendance
As you might imagine, T-Mobile Park has been packed the last two days.
Paid attendance for the All-Star Game was announced as 47,159, while it was 46,952 for Monday’s Home Run Derby. Both were announced as sellouts.
Next up for the Seattle Mariners
The M’s will have the next two days (Wednesday and Thursday) off to do as they please, then return from the All-Star break on Friday to kick off a three-game set against the Detroit Tigers.
That series is part of a 10-game homestand that includes four games against the Minnesota Twins and a three-game weekend series against the visiting Toronto Blue Jays.
More on Seattle Mariners’ MLB All-Star Game
• MLB All-Star Pregame Highlights: Intros, Astros booed, M’s legends
• ESPN’s Passan: ‘Showman’ Julio Rodríguez gave the show derby fans needed
• Seattle native Corbin Carroll soaks in hometown MLB All-Star debut
• Passan’s biggest All-Star surprise? Mariners fans’ hatred of Astros
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DOHA, Qatar — Kylian Mbappe and France made it back to the semifinals of the World Cup on Saturday by beating England 2-1.
Olivier Giroud scored in the 78th minute at Al Bayt Stadium to keep France on course to become the first team since Brazil in 1962 to win back-to-back World Cups.
England striker Harry Kane had a chance to even the score late in the match but he sent a penalty attempt over the bar.
It was his second spot kick of the match. He earlier scored to make it 1-1 after Aurelien Tchouameni had given France the lead.
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State-of-the-Art Intelligent Edge AI Computing Takes Center Stage for Next Generation Distributed Network Technology with up to a 30X Performance Improvement for Inferencing Applications
SAN JOSE, Calif. and BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for Cloud, AI/ML, Storage, and 5G/Edge, will be showcasing its latest generation of systems that accelerate workloads for the entire Telco industry, specifically at the edge of the network. These systems are part of the newly introduced Supermicro Intel-based product line; the better, faster, and greener systems based on the brand new 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (formerly codenamed Sapphire Rapids) that deliver up to 60% better workload-optimized performance. From a performance standpoint these new systems that demonstrate up to 30X faster AI inference speedups on large models for AI and edge workloads with the NVIDIA H100 GPUs. In addition, Supermicro systems support the new Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series (formerly codenamed Ponte Vecchio) across a wide range of servers. The Intel Data Center GPU Max Series contains up to 128 Xe-HPC cores and will accelerate a range of AI, HPC, and visualization workloads. Supermicro X13 AI systems will support next-generation built-in accelerators and GPUs up to 700W from Intel, NVIDIA, and others.
Supermicro's wide range of product families is deployed in a broad range of industries to speed up workloads and allow faster and more accurate decisions. With the addition of purpose-built servers tuned for networking workloads, such as Open RAN deployments and private 5G, the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor vRAN Boost technology reduces power consumption while improving performance. Supermicro continues to offer a wide range of environmentally friendly servers for workloads from the edge to the data center.
"Supermicro continues to innovate and design application-optimized solutions across the entire IT industry," said Charles Liang, president, and CEO of Supermicro. "At the network's edge, we are innovating quickly with the recent announcement of a complete family of servers optimized for deployments where significant computing power is required. The edge and Hyper-E servers are based on the latest Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs with up to 60 cores per CPU, addressing the network edge challenges in addition to our rack-scale solutions for back-end processing. The Building Block Solutions® architecture enables us to be first to market with the most advanced servers from the edge to the data center, addressing a wide range of customer needs."
Supermicro servers are used for demanding workloads across the entire IT industry, including 5G workloads in the core, to the network edge, and accelerating AI for network optimization and IOT and 5G applications.
The advanced thermal architecture and optimized airflow of Supermicro X13 systems enable them to run in high-ambient-temperature environments of up to 40°C (104°F) with free-air cooling, reducing cooling-related infrastructure costs and OPEX. Liquid cooling options are also available for many X13 systems and can reduce OPEX by up to 40% compared to standard air conditioning. In addition, Supermicro's resource-saving architecture for multi-node systems utilizes shared cooling and power to reduce power consumption and raw materials usage, lowering both TCO and TCE.
In addition, the in-house design of Titanium Level power supplies further ensures improved operational efficiency. As a result, the PUE of a data center can realistically be reduced from an industry average of 1.60 down to the 1.05 range.
The range of Supermicro X13 servers, together with the latest GPU technology, such as the NVIDIA H100, A30, and A10 GPUs, or the Intel® Data Center GPU Flex or Max Series, accelerates data processing at the edge where extremely low latency enabled by 5G is critical. The Supermicro Universal 4U/5U GPU server containing NVIDIA H100 GPUs is ideal in data center environments requiring massive AI performance.AI at the edge. It is becoming a crucial technology for many industries and smart solutions. By utilizing the latest AI technology, decisions can be made closer to where the data is constantly generated, reducing network traffic and improving the customer experience. In addition, the Supermicro edge server product line, including the SYS-211E and the Supermicro Hyper-E server SYS-221HE are ideal for edge deployments where environmental conditions require compact yet high-performance servers. When large amounts of data need to be collected and analyzed, the Supermicro Petabyte storage system containing up to 16 E3.S NVMe drives is also available.
Supermicro will demonstrate several solutions at MWC in Barcelona, Spain, from February 27 to March 2, 2023, in Hall 5, booth 5D66. Supermicro is collaborating closely with Intel and Capgemini to showcase the real world performance gains for Open RAN with the Intel vRAN Boost technology. In addition, Supermicro will be demonstrating a wide range of server and edge products at the Rakuten Symphony booth.
Supermicro will be demonstrating, in conjunction with leading-edge providers, the following solutions:
- UST – Application of Machine Vision technology to provide frictionless checkout
- Sodaclick – Voice-activated interaction in smart spaces
- VSBLTY – Machine Vision / Security and smart spaces analytics
To learn more about the Supermicro at MWC 2023, please visit the Supermicro Hall 5, Stand 5D66. Interested attendees can schedule meetings with Supermicro executives and view Supermicro's February 28th roundtable discussion on 5G/IoT market trends.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are transforming into a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, and switch systems, software, and services while delivering advanced high-volume motherboard, power, and chassis products. The products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
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DOJ search of Pence’s office turns up no new classified documents
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department searched the office of former Vice President Mike Pence‘s Washington advocacy group for several hours Friday as part of its investigation into the discovery of sensitive documents at the homes and offices of current and former top U.S. officials.
Pence adviser Devin O’Malley said no additional documents with classified markings were discovered during a “thorough and unrestricted search” of the office of Advancing American Freedom, the nonprofit group launched by Pence in 2021. One binder — believed to be part of Pence’s 2020 debate preparations — “with approximately three previously redacted documents” was taken by agents.
The search, described as consensual after negotiations between Pence’s representatives and the Justice Department, comes one week after the FBI searched Pence’s Indiana home and discovered one additional document with classified markings. That was after lawyers hired by Pence last month discovered what aides have described as a “small number” of potentially sensitive documents they say were inadvertently transported to Pence’s home in boxes at the end of the Trump administration.
Pence had asked his lawyers to conduct the search after an outcry over the discovery of classified documents at President Joe Biden’s Delaware home and office. He’s said repeatedly he was unaware they were there.
The willingness of Pence and Biden to permit the FBI to search their homes and offices stands in contrast to former President Donald Trump, who is under federal investigation for own handling of classified information and whose refusal to cooperate with officials last year resulted in the Justice Department having to get an unprecedented warrant to inspect his Florida property.
It also comes after Pence, who is widely expected launch a campaign for president in the coming months, announced that he will fight a subpoena to appear before a grand jury in a separate investigation into efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Pence has described the subpoena as “unprecedented” and “unconstitutional” and argues that he is protected from being called to appear because he was acting in his capacity as president of the Senate when he presided over the certification of the vote on Jan. 6, 2021 — the day that a Trump-supporting mob violently stormed the Capitol building.
A Justice Department spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment on Friday’s search.
“The vice president has consistently cooperated with appropriate authorities, has been fully transparent, and looks forward to the imminent conclusion of this matter,” O’Malley said.
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IRVING, Texas, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- US Endo Partners (US Endo) today announced its expansion into multi-specialty, integrated oral healthcare with the addition of a sister company, Specialized Dental Partners (SDP).
Doctor-led, doctor-driven US Endo has grown rapidly since its inception in 2018 by partnering with top-tier endodontists across the country to support those endodontists in their provision of outstanding patient care, while also supporting the next generation of endodontic leaders. SDP will complement the thriving company by offering a partner for endodontists who wish offer fully collaborative practices, under one roof and alongside periodontists and oral and maxillofacial surgeons, to streamline services for best-in-class patient experiences.
Cameo Dental Specialists (Cameo), a five-location multi-specialty practice in Chicago, was the first to join forces with US Endo to create SDP.
"Cameo is thrilled to be partnering with a group that is both well-established and forward-thinking," said Dr. Vladana Babcic, a Cameo endodontist-partner. "We are ecstatic to be joining forces to share our passion for patient-centered dentistry, and for the potential to introduce nation-wide what we've been doing successfully in Chicago for years."
Cameo pioneered the integrated oral healthcare model and has since witnessed remarkable patient outcomes. Babcic said the beauty of the integrated model of dentistry is that the patient's experience is streamlined – a treatment plan is carefully defined and, if more than one procedure is needed, no time is wasted with multiple appointments or traveling from office to office, and fees are simplified and presented in one bill. Everything happens under one roof and the patient's comfort is always top-of-mind.
Scotte Hudsmith, Chief Executive Officer for both US Endo and SDP, said he believes Cameo is the ideal partner to help lay a firm foundation for the groundbreaking new venture.
"We believe Cameo's model provides patients with exceptional experiences in a very convenient manner," Hudsmith said. "We are honored that the excellent clinicians at Cameo partnered with us to support expanding integrated care across the country."
Dr. Steve Frost, US Endo Chief Clinical Officer, said he and his partner endodontists are excited to help further the integrated care model across the country, and to welcome new specialists to the community.
"Specialized Dental Partners is redefining clinician support in an effort allow those providers to take the total patient experience to the next level," Frost said. "The future is ours and our partners' patients will be the recipients of our combined vision and passion for excellence."
US Endo Partners and Specialized Dental Partners are both subsidiaries of Specialized Dental, LLC.
US Endo is a doctor-led, doctor-driven specialty services partnership for endodontists – a group of endodontic specialists and business experts working together to pursue excellence in patient care and business services. US Endo provides comprehensive operational support services, facilitates peer-to peer leadership and mentoring, helps to apply best practices, fosters innovative new technologies, and reinvests resources to improve performance. US Endo doctors are able to do more of what they love and increase access to care, while securing their professional futures. The company currently boasts the provision of support to more than 250 endodontists in 33 states and has plans for continued growth. For more information, visit www.usendopartners.com.
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, May 30, 2022
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URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
304 AM PDT Mon May 30 2022
...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...
The winds have diminished.
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph
expected. Strongest winds near Gaviota and Refugio.
* WHERE...Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range and Santa Barbara
County Southwestern Coast.
* WHEN...Until 9 AM PDT this morning.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will make driving difficult and could blow
around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a
few power outages may result. Major roadways that will be
impacted by the strong winds include Highways 101 and 154
through Gaviota and San Marcos Passes.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
* WHAT...Northwest to north winds 20 to 35 mph with gusts to 55
mph. Strongest winds focused across the Interstate 5 corridor.
* WHERE...Ventura County Mountains and Los Angeles County
Mountains.
few power outages may result. Strong winds are expected to
impact Interstate 5 during this period.
* WHAT...North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph
expected.
* WHERE...Santa Clarita Valley.
few power outages may result.
* WHAT...North winds 20 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph
* WHERE...Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast and Santa Ynez
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ATLANTA (AP) — An effort to create a national testing program for technology central to U.S elections will be launched later this year, aiming to strengthen the security of equipment that has been targeted by foreign governments and provided fertile ground for conspiracy theories.
So far, states have been left on their own to evaluate the technology that provides the backbone of election operations: voter registration databases, websites used to report unofficial results on election night and electronic pollbooks, which are used instead of paper rolls to check in voters at polling places.
The nonprofit Center for Internet Security hopes to provide the nation’s first uniform testing program for the technology, similar to one for voting machines. Its goal is to start the voluntary service in September as a way to help boost the security and reliability of the technology before the 2024 presidential election.
In 2020, 15 states, including Arizona, Florida and Nevada, did not require any type of electronic pollbook testing or certification, according to federal data.
“This is a critical need being filled at a critical time,” said Chris Wlaschin, senior vice president for Election Systems & Software, a leading voting machine manufacturer that also produces electronic pollbooks. “I think as more election officials learn about it, the more they’re going to ask for it.”
The use of electronic pollbooks in particular has expanded rapidly in recent years. Nearly one-third of all voting jurisdictions in the U.S. used electronic pollbooks in 2020, compared with about 18% four years earlier, according to data collected by federal Election Assistance Commission.
The systems bring unique security challenges. In many cases, they have internet connections or interact with systems that do. In counties with a vote center model, where registered voters can cast a ballot at any polling place, electronic pollbooks often communicate with each other and with the central voter registration system. That’s one way to ensure people are not able to vote at multiple locations or vote in-person after returning a mail ballot.
How much of an effect the new testing program will have on the 2024 presidential election is yet be determined. Much depends on how many technology providers sign up and how many state election offices will use it, but there appears to be wide interest.
“One of the major benefits of this program is that it will provide a consistent process for certification for all of the different states that adopt it,” Jamie Remes with VR Systems, a provider of electronic pollbooks and election management systems, said during a recent event organized to discuss the testing program.
The South Carolina Election Commission, which has developed its own voter registration system, was among the offices participating in the center’s testing pilot. Commission member Brian Leach said during the recent panel discussion that he saw one benefit of the program as helping “increase voter confidence in what we are doing.”
Confidence in elections, particularly among Republicans, has decreased amid a sustained campaign by former President Donald Trump and his allies to discredit the results of the 2020 presidential election. There is no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting equipment in 2020, backed up by exhaustive reviews in states lost by Trump.
The center has not been immune to the assault on U.S. elections and has faced various claims related to its work. Online posts have sought to raise questions about its funding, purpose and the services it provides to state and local election offices.
The center receives a mix of federal and private money, and the pilot developed for its testing program got support from the Democracy Fund, which was started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, a donor to Democratic campaigns and liberal causes. The testing program itself is funded solely by the center and eventually is to be supported entirely with fees paid by technology providers, according to the center.
Meanwhile, the federal commission is pursuing its own testing program for electronic pollbooks. Earlier this year, agency officials said they are making progress with their pilot program but that it was unlikely standards could be in place before the 2024 election.
As the use of electronic systems has grown, they have proved an attractive target for those seeking to meddle in U.S. elections.
In 2016, Russian hackers scanned state voter registration systems looking for vulnerabilities and accessed the voter registration database in Illinois, although an investigation later determined no voter data was manipulated. In 2020, Iranian hackers obtained confidential voter data and used it to send misleading emails, seeking to spread misinformation and influence the election.
Experts say the systems could be prime targets again for those seeking to disrupt voting and sow doubts about the security of elections. Gaining access to a voter registration database, for example, could allow someone to delete voters from the rolls. When people show up to vote, they would be told they are not on the list and forced to cast a provisional ballot.
In Detroit last November, a few polling locations had brief delays checking in voters related to a data error that was quickly identified and resolved. Trump seized on the early reports, calling the situation in Detroit “REALLY BAD” in a social media post and urging people to “Protest, Protest, Protest!”
Those involved said the center’s testing program already has had an effect in boosting confidence in the systems.
“It’s not just about product testing,” said Jared Dearing, the center’s senior director of election security and the former director of the Kentucky Board of Elections. “It’s increasing the security posture of the companies that are creating these products.” | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/national-push-to-bolster-security-of-key-election-technology/ | 2023-04-24 08:15:56 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/national-push-to-bolster-security-of-key-election-technology/ |
Boeing officials vowed Wednesday to significantly increase airplane production and cash flow in the next few years as the company seeks to recover from two deadly crashes and years of mistakes in its airline and defense businesses.
Boeing said it expects to boost revenue to $100 billion and generate $10 billion in annual cash flow by 2025 or 2026. That upbeat forecast is based on raising production of its best-selling plane, the 737 Max, from 31 to 50 per month and moving beyond billions of losses in fixed-price contracts for the Pentagon.
Two Max crashes that killed 346 people, production flaws with a bigger plane, the 787, bad military contracts and other missteps have left Boeing chasing its European rival Airbus for supremacy in aircraft manufacturing.
“Do I think we’ve given up leadership in this industry? Not for one minute,” declared CEO David Calhoun at an investor day meeting with analysts in Seattle.
Shares of Arlington, Virginia-based Boeing Co. rose 5% in afternoon trading. They had fallen 29% this year through Tuesday, compared with a 19% decline in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index.
Boeing last recorded $100 billion in revenue in 2018. The first of the Max crashes occurred in October of that year, followed more than a year later by the pandemic, and accompanied by cost overruns to build training jets, refueling tankers, a space vehicle and new Air Force One presidential jets for the government.
Last week, Boeing reported a $3.3 billion third-quarter loss on disappointing revenue and huge charges for the government programs. Its debt stood at $57 billion, up from $19 billion in mid-2019.
Company officials said at the investor presentation that they can generate cash instead of burning more of it this year. Calhoun ruled out issuing new stock — which would dilute the value of current shares – to pay down debt.
To hit its goals – the first financial guidance Boeing has offered since 2019 – the company will have to dramatically boost production and delivery of the Max and the 787, both of which have been held up for extensive periods in recent years to fix design and manufacturing flaws.
Boeing is under pressure to come up with a successor to the 737, a workhorse of short, domestic routes that is more than 50 years old. Calhoun said it won’t build a new model until the middle of next decade because the technology for such a plane is still evolving. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-problem-plagued-boeing-sets-ambitious-turnaround-targets/ | 2022-11-03 16:15:46 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-problem-plagued-boeing-sets-ambitious-turnaround-targets/ |
BURLINGAME, Calif. and KALAMAZOO, Mich., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infinome™ Biosciences, a next generation biomanufacturing company, and Kalsec® Inc, a leading global producer of natural spice and herb extracts for the food and beverage industry, today announced a new partnership to develop and commercialize multiple precision fermentation products. The partnership will deliver naturally produced, highly innovative ingredients with superior quality and consistency, in the most sustainable way possible.
Infinome's GenoScaler™ is a proprietary, ultra-high-throughput, CRISPR-enabled strain engineering platform designed to rapidly optimize microbial strains with vastly improved traits and productivities. Infinome will employ GenoScaler™ to develop ingredient-producing strains and provide Kalsec with these ingredients to validate their performance in food applications.
Kalsec's long history and expertise in creating natural products and solutions for the food and beverage industry will enable it to maximize the benefits of Infinome's microbial strain engineering platform. By working closely with their customers, the development team at Kalsec has identified multiple large product opportunities. R&D teams at Infinome will work with Kalsec to develop sustainable biomanufacturing processes through accelerated strain engineering and process development.
"The lens used to select projects include sustainability, efficiency, and enabling the use of more natural products through new production practices. We have already embraced using Infinome's ground-breaking technology to develop more products in our pipeline to deliver sustainable improvements for our customers," says Dr. Scott Nykaza, Kalsec CEO.
"Infinome's GenoScaler™ is a complete, end-to-end microbial manufacturing platform based on several breakthrough technology developments," said Dr. Richard Fox, Infinome co-founder and CEO/CTO. "Our goal at Infinome is to enable more companies to access the bioeconomy by accelerating the development and reducing the risk and complexity of biomanufacturing. Through advanced technology, strategy, and processes, we are helping to create sustainable solutions with long-term partners like Kalsec."
Kalsec® Inc provides innovative taste and sensory, natural food protection, natural colors and advance hops solutions to the food and beverage industries. We capture the best nature has to offer and utilize the skills, experience and knowledge of our employees to make products look better, taste better and last longer. Kalsec has remained family owned and provides localized support to our global customers. Trusted since 1958, Kalsec is committed to providing value to the food and beverage industry for the next 100 years. Headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S., Kalsec has regional offices, laboratories and sales teams in North America, Europe, and Asia. As a certified B Corp, Kalsec makes ethical and sustainable decisions that serve our customers, employees, communities, and the environment. We are proud to be using our business as a force for good. For more information, visit www.kalsec.com.
Infinome™ Biosciences is developing cost-effective, sustainable solutions for a variety of biomanufacturing applications including food, feed, agriculture, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. Infinome uses a proprietary next-generation microbial strain engineering platform, GenoScaler™, that is based on ultra-high-throughput CRISPR+ technologies and the principles of directed evolution, to manufacture and supply ingredients at scale. GenoScaler™ allows unprecedented speed, efficiency, and low development costs to substantially de-risk the process of developing biobased solutions. Founded in 2020, Infinome is headquartered in Burlingame, CA and operates as a subsidiary of Inscripta, Inc. For more information, visit www.infinomebio.com.
Infinome™ Biosciences Contact
Dipnath Baidyaroy
Head of Business and Alliances
Dipnath.Baidyaroy@infinomebio.com
510.709.8242
Kalsec Media Contact
Mark Staples
Executive Director of Global Marketing
mstaples@kalsec.com
269.339.4208
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WA Portland OR Zone Forecast for Sunday, January 29, 2023
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Spot Temperatures are for Today, Tonight, and Tuesday.
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310 AM PST Mon Jan 30 2023
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.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 40s. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Light wind.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s. Light wind.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with patchy drizzle. Lows in the mid 30s.
Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with patchy drizzle. Highs in the upper 40s.
Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
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slight chance of rain. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain
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.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of
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.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Highs around 50. Chance of rain
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain
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.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s. Light wind.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. Light wind.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy drizzle after midnight.
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.WEDNESDAY...A slight chance of snow in the morning. Cloudy with
patchy drizzle. Snow level 1500 feet. Highs in the mid 40s. South
wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent.
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Pence says he didn’t leave office with classified material
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he didn’t take any classified information with him when he left office.
Pence made the comment during an interview with The Associated Press in Iowa a week and a half after the FBI seized classified and top secret information during a search at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Asked directly if he retained any classified information upon leaving office, Pence said, “No, not to my knowledge.”
The disclosure — which would typically be unremarkable for a former vice president — is notable given that FBI agents took 11 sets of classified records from his former boss’s estate on Aug. 8 while investigating potential violations of three different federal laws. Trump has claimed that the documents seized by agents were “all declassified” and argued that he would have turned them over if the Justice Department had asked.
But although Pence said he and his team complied with rules requiring the submission of classified material to the National Archives, the former vice president raised the possibility that the investigation was politically motivated and called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to disclose more details on what led authorities to conduct the search.
“The concern that millions of Americans felt is only going to be resolved with daylight,” he added. “I know that’s not customary in an investigation. But this is unprecedented action by the Justice Department, and I think it merits an unprecedented transparency.”
His comments come just days after he urged his fellow Republicans to stop lashing out at rank-and-file members of the FBI over the search of Mar-a-Lago. Speaking at a political breakfast in New Hampshire on Wednesday, he sought to tamp down on some of the increasing threats against the FBI by ardent Trump supporters who are angry that Trump’s home was searched.
“The Republican Party is the party of law and order,” Pence said Wednesday. “Our party stands with the men and women who stand on the thin blue line at the federal and state and local level, and these attacks on the FBI must stop.”
Pence was in Iowa on Friday as part of a two-day trip to the state, which is scheduled to host the 2024 leadoff Republican presidential caucuses. Pence said Friday that he would make a decision early next year about whether to run for the White House, a move that his aides have said will be independent of what Trump decides to do.
Having visited the Iowa State Fair on Friday afternoon, Pence also headlined a fundraiser earlier in the day for Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and was scheduled to speak to a Christian conservative group and a northern Iowa county Republican party fundraiser before leaving Saturday.
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BRONX, N.Y. (AP) _ Ponce Financial Group, Inc. (PDLB) on Friday reported a loss of $14.7 million in its third quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Bronx, New York-based company said it had a loss of 64 cents. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 3 cents per share.
The holding company of Ponce Bank posted revenue of $23.2 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $19.2 million.
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Man arrested for tackling, sexually assaulting woman on bike trail, sheriff’s office says
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV/Gray News) - Wisconsin authorities have arrested a man who is accused of sexually assaulting a woman on a bike trail last month.
The Dane County Sheriff’s Office said the victim was walking along the Oregon Rotary Bike Trail on March 23 when she was tackled and sexually assaulted by a man. The woman later told investigators she was able to fight the man off and escape to a nearby home. Deputies responded to the area later that day, and the woman was taken to a hospital.
The sheriff’s office said the suspect ran to a nearby parking lot and left the scene in a vehicle.
On Tuesday, the sheriff’s office said 42-year-old Richard V. Cunningham was taken into custody Monday night at his home. He faces charges of second-degree sexual assault, strangulation and felony bail jumping.
Deputies said they found evidence the day of the alleged attack that helped lead them to the suspect.
The sheriff’s office said DNA and GPS led to the man’s arrest. Officials said the suspect was out on bail for a prior sexual assault arrest.
Sheriff Kalvin Barret told WMTV he hopes the arrest is the starting point of healing for the community.
“I am hopeful the news of the arrest will help ease their concerns and further their confidence in the Dane County Sheriff’s Office commitment to public safety,” Barrett said. “I also pray that this arrest will help the brave survivor of this assault begin to heal.”
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Winning Powerball numbers drawn for $625M jackpot
Published: Oct. 24, 2022 at 11:14 PM EDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago
(Gray News) - The Powerball jackpot climbed to $625 million ahead of Monday night’s drawing.
The winning numbers are 18, 23, 35, 45, 54 and 16.
The jackpot is the 8th largest in Powerball history. Its cash value is nearly $300 million.
According to Powerball, the jackpot was last won Aug. 3. Since then, there have been 34 drawings in a row in which no one has matched all six numbers.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
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TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) — Roads on the south side of Joshua Tree National Park that were closed due to flash floods in southeastern California have reopened.
The park's south entrance as well as the Pinto and Cottonwood Canyon roads reopened Tuesday and the Cottonwood Visitor Center was expected to reopen Wednesday, the National Park Service said.
The southern portion of the vast desert park had to be evacuated on Monday when thunderstorms unleashed the floods.
South of Joshua Tree, operators of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway announced that the attraction that rises on the flanks of Mount San Jacinto will remain closed through Aug. 14 for cleanup of flood debris.
Earlier flooding extensively damaged roads in Death Valley National Park and the Mojave National Preserve. Highway 190, a major route into Death Valley, will reopen no earlier than Aug. 17, according to the park service.
Isolated thunderstorms were expected in the region Wednesday afternoon and evening. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Joshua-Tree-reopens-roads-that-were-hit-by-flash-17364193.php | 2022-08-10 15:25:50 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Joshua-Tree-reopens-roads-that-were-hit-by-flash-17364193.php |
ALL WEEKEND – “Fired Up: New Vistas in Ceramics” – Ends Jan. 22; features work of contemporary ceramic artists; also, “Breathing Life Into History: Contemporary Native American Art from the Collection,” ends Jan. 22, “Indiana Waterways: The Art of Conservation,” ends March 19; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 311 E. Main St.; www.fwmoa.org.
ALL WEEKEND – Midwest Regional Exhibition – Ends Feb. 5; features work of artists living and working in the Midwest; also, Postcard Exhibition and Sale, ends Feb. 5; Artlink Contemporary Gallery, 300 E. Main St.; hours, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
ALL WEEKEND – Watercolor Society of Indiana – Ends Feb. 24; Jeffrey Krull Gallery, Allen County Public Library, 900 Library Plaza.
ALL WEEKEND – Fall 2022 BFA Exhibition – Ends Jan. 22; features work of BFA candidates graduating from Purdue University Fort Wayne Department of Art and Design; Visual Arts Gallery, 2101 Coliseum Blvd. E.; hours, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends.
ALL WEEKEND – Ken Thompson – Ends Feb. 22; features work of the regional sculptor; also work of Fort Wayne Photography Club; Mimi and Ian Rolland Art and Visual Communication Center, Saint Francis, 2701 Spring St.; hours, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
ALL WEEKEND – “Vivian Maier: Street Photographer” – Ends March 26; features 50 black-and-white photographs; Garrett Museum of Art, 100 S. Randolph St., Garrett; hours, 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday; admission $5; www.garrettmuseumofart.org.
ALL WEEKEND – Art Farm Annual Holiday Pop-Up Gallery – Ends Sunday; 17612 E. North County Line Road, Spencerville; gallery hours, noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.
FRIDAY – “FREE!” – Ends Feb. 3; features work of Aaron Winey, assistant professor of visual communication design and program director of media art; Mount Memorial Art Gallery, Grace College, 1 Lancer Way, Winona Lake; hours, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Winey will give an artist talk during a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday.
FRIDAY – Natallia Yenza – Ends Feb. 24; Fort Wayne Artists Guild; Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 2417 Getz Road; 432-1524.
FRIDAY – Hilarie Couture – Ends Feb. 24; Fort Wayne Artists Guild; American Red Cross, 1212 E. California Road; 484-9336.
FRIDAY – Hilarie Couture – Ends Feb. 24; Fort Wayne Artists Guild; Citizens Square, second and third floors, 200 E. Berry St.; 427-2763.
FRIDAY – Linda Myers – Ends Feb. 24; Fort Wayne Artists Guild; Heritage Pointe of Fort Wayne, 8200 St. Joe Road; 209-6279.
FRIDAY – Barb Yoder – Ends Feb. 24; Fort Wayne Artists Guild; Towne House Retirement, 2209 St. Joe Center Road; 483-3116.
FRIDAY – “In the Garden” – Ends April 7; features work of Ejenobo Oke; Manchester University, Gallery G, second floor of Jo Young Switzer Center, North Manchester.
FRIDAY – “Segmented Wood Turning and Painting” – Ends Jan. 22; features art of K. Mark Waninger and Diana Fair; First Presbyterian Theater/Art Gallery, 300 W. Wayne St.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY – “New Year’s Visions” – Features work of national and local artists with interpretations of the winter season; Castle Gallery Fine Art, 1202 W. Wayne St.; hours, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Thursday and noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday; www.castlegallery.com.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY – Pottery and sculpture by John Dennison – Ends Jan. 31; Orchard Gallery of Fine Art, 6312-A Covington Road; hours, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday; also, fiber wall hangings by Kathy Arnold and Valentine hearts by various artists.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY – “A Journey Through Clay” – Ends March 11; features work of Holly Dowidat; The Arts Included Gallery, Huntington Arts & Entrepreneurial Center, 32 E. Franklin St., Huntington; hours, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
SATURDAY – Works of Penny French-Deal – Ends Jan. 21; gallery at Joseph Decuis, 171 N. Main St., Roanoke; hours are during restaurant hours, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and by appointment by calling 260-578-2181. | https://www.journalgazette.net/living/local-arts/calendar/art-exhibits-whats-on-display-in-the-area/article_51fc30c4-9100-11ed-a007-5759c6572e34.html | 2023-01-13 05:12:17 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/living/local-arts/calendar/art-exhibits-whats-on-display-in-the-area/article_51fc30c4-9100-11ed-a007-5759c6572e34.html |
(KTXL) — California could soon have an official state mushroom thanks to a bill introduced in the state legislature last month.
Assembly Bill 261, introduced by Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose), would make the Californian Golden Chanterelle the official state mushroom.
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“Fungi are in many ways an unsung California hero—they nourish our plants, capture carbon, play a role in many historical and cultural practices, and potentially offer a solution for pollution through mycoremediation,” said Assemblymember Kalra.
The mushroom was chosen in a poll by the California Institute for Biodiversity which pitted five other mushrooms against the winning chanterelle: the black trumpet, the candy cap, the king bolete, the lion’s mane, and the western jack-o-lantern.
The website for the poll said that the six mushrooms were nominated by “mycologists, mushroom societies, and other fungus lovers from around the state” and then were voted on by the public.
The California Golden Chantrelle won with around 39% of the vote.
According to the California Institute for Biodiversity, the Californian Golden Chanterelle, scientific name Cantharellus Californicus, is used by professional chefs and home cooks and is only found growing under oak trees in California.
“By naming the Californian Golden Chanterelle as the official state mushroom, AB 261 will give the public the opportunity to learn more about their state’s fungi and the great biodiversity, traditions, and innovation they support,” said Assemblymember Kalra.
California already has a number of official state symbols such as the state bird, the California valley quail; the state flower, the California Poppy; and two state fishes, the California golden trout for freshwater fish and the Garibaldi for saltwater fish. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/california-wire/cantharellus-californicus-the-fungus-that-could-become-californias-official-mushroom/ | 2023-02-18 17:44:08 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/california-wire/cantharellus-californicus-the-fungus-that-could-become-californias-official-mushroom/ |
KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kansas City Life Insurance Company recorded a net loss of $17.3 million or $1.79 per share in the fourth quarter of 2022 compared to net income of $13.1 million or $1.36 per share in the fourth quarter of 2021. Net loss totaled $16.2 million or $1.67 per share for the year ended December 31, 2022, compared to net income of $10.7 million or $1.11 per share for the year ended December 31, 2021.
The largest factors in the decrease in net income for both the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2022, compared to the same periods in the prior year, were an increase in operating expenses and a decrease in net investment gains. The increase in operating expenses was due to the accrual of a $28.4 million pretax legal reserve established in the fourth quarter of 2022 related to a class action lawsuit. In the fourth quarter of 2021, the Company completed the sale of Sunset Life for a $5.5 million pretax gain and the Company also completed the sale of a real estate property for a $16.6 million pretax gain. Partially offsetting these items, insurance revenues and net investment income increased, and policyholder benefits, namely death benefits, interest credited to policyholder account balances, and ongoing operating expenses decreased compared to one year earlier.
Kansas City Life Insurance Company (OTCQX: KCLI) was established in 1895 and is based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Company's primary business is providing financial protection through the sale of life insurance and annuities. The Company operates in 49 states and the District of Columbia.
Please refer to our 2022 Annual Report for additional information, which is available at www.kclife.com.
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BOSTON, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Burns & Levinson represented Boston-based Syrinx Consulting, a provider of high-end software development and technology staffing solutions, in its sale to DeWinter Group, a Silicon Valley-based provider of finance & accounting and technology staffing and recruitment and a portfolio company of New Heritage Capital. The acquisition closed on September 30, 2022.
As a leading provider of high-end software development and technology staffing solutions, Syrinx has built a strong reputation in the marketplace since its founding in 1998 through a relentless focus on sourcing high quality, hard-to-find candidates with specialized skillsets across programming languages, including .NET, Python, Java, and SQL. The company also produces a podcast called "Underserved," which hosts leaders and visionaries from across the technology industry.
The deal team was led by Burns & Levinson partners Josef Volman, who co-chairs the firm's Business Law Group, and Caitlin Barrett, with support from partners Evelyn Haralampu and Paul Mastrocola along with associates Lauren Barrett and Naveed Cheraghchi.
"It was an honor to work with Syrinx and the entire management team on this important deal for the company. It was particularly rewarding because I have worked with co-founder and CEO Andrew Gelina for over 20 years, from drafting his first shareholder agreement, to supporting the company's impressive growth over the years, to reaching this pivotal next stage of growth," said Volman. "DeWinter Group is an ideal partner for Syrinx and I am excited to see the success they are going to achieve together."
"Joe, Caitlin and the entire Burns & Levinson team helped us navigate through multiple complex issues to complete this transformative transaction for our company. Their knowledge of our business combined with their vast expertise in middle market M&A made them truly invaluable," said Andrew Gelina, CEO of Syrinx. "We appreciate their advice and guidance, and are thankful to have had them by our side for so long."
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Greater Boston, Syrinx is leading provider of software development talent. For 20+ years, Syrinx has sourced hard-to-find engineers and developers with extensive experience building software and working with the latest technologies. For more information visit: www.syrinx.com
At Burns & Levinson, we provide high-level, client-centric and results-oriented legal services to our regional, national and international clients. We are a full-service law firm with 125 lawyers in Boston, Providence and London. Our areas of expertise include: business/finance, business litigation, divorce/family law, venture capital/emerging companies, employment, estate planning, government investigations, intellectual property, M&A/private equity, probate/trust litigation, and real estate. We partner with our clients to solve their business and personal legal issues in a collaborative, creative and cost-effective way. For more information, visit Burns & Levinson at www.burnslev.com.
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ROBINSON HOW SHE CHANGED HER LIFE AND STAYS HEALTHY. >> WANT TO WRAP IT? LISA: MAINTAINING A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE WITH GOOD HABITS IS A BIG PART OF HILLARY PHELPS LIFE THESE DAYS. TO BE 44-YEAR-OLD SHARES THOSE HABITS WITH HER FIVE-YEAR-OLD SON, ALEXANDER. BUT PHELPS ADMITS SHE WAS NOT HEALTHY UNTIL 15 YEARS AGO. SHE SAT DOWN WITH US TO TALK ABOUT IT. >> I WANT PEOPLE TO FEEL LIKE THEY ARE NOT ALONE. LISA: SHE RECENTLY BEGAN SHARING HER JOURNEY WITH ALCOHOLISM. AFTER YEARS OF BLACKOUT DRINKING THAT BEGAN IN COLLEGE. >> THE WAY THAT I TRANQUIL AS YOU NEVER KNEW WHO YOU ARE GOING TO GET. AND SO WHO YOU SEE TODAY IS NOT WHO IT WAS THAN WHEN I START TO POUR ALCOHOL IN MY BODY. YOU COULD GET THE FUN HILLARY, THAT WAS GREAT TO BE AROUND AND THE LIFE OF THE PARTY. OR YOU COULD GET THE SAD SAPPY I’M SO GLAD YOU’RE MY FRIEND I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. OR YOU CAN GET THE ANGRY HILLARY THAT WANTS TO FIGHT GIRLS IN THE BATHROOM. LISA: SHE MADE THE DECISION TO GET HELP AND CHECK YOURSELF INTO REHAB AT AGE 29. >> IT IS ACTUALLY CHANGING YOUR LIFESTYLE, CHANGING THE PEOPLE YOU HANG OUT WITH, CHANGING THE THINGS YOU DO, IT IS CHANGING ALL OF THE THINGS BECAUSE ALL OF THOSE THINGS CAN TAKE YOU BACK TO DRINKING. LISA: SHE HAD TO START LIVING LIFE ON A LIFE’S TERMS. >> BEING SOBER AND IN RECOVERY MEANS I HANDLE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. BEFORE I WOULD DOWNED TWO BOTTLES OF WINE, NOW I GO FOR A WALK. LISA: RUNNING IS ANOTHER COPING MECHANISM. IN FACT, SHE IS TRAINING FOR A 50 MILE RACE. MEDITATION IS A DAILY RITUAL. LAST JUNE PHELPS CELEBRATED 15 YEARS OF SOBRIETY. THAT IS WHEN SHE MADE A DECISION TO SHARE HER STORY. >> I KIND OF HAD THAT MOMENT OF IF I CAN HELP ONE PERSON, THAN IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT 10 MORE PEOPLE THINK. I SHARED OPENLY AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA. LISA: THOSE POSTS WERE HORRIBLY NEEDED BY SO MANY. WHAT SHE HEARD IN RETURN. >> MESSAGES OF MY MOM IS STRUGGLING, I WAS A PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE AND STRUGGLING. AS A WOMAN I AM STRUGGLING. AS A SINGLE MOM I AM STRUGGLING. CAN YOU HELP ME? AND THAT IS WHAT I WANTED. LISA: A PERSON WHO GOT HER TO THE POINT OF OPENING UP WAS HER BROTHER MICHAEL. HOW DID HE HELP YOU? >> HIM BEING SO OPEN ABOUT HIS MENTAL HEALTH STRUGGLES WAS ONE OF THE REASONS I FELT COMFORTABLE. BECAUSE FOR SOMEBODY SO INCREDIBLE TO DO ALL THE THINGS THAT HE DID AND STILL SUFFER IN SILENCE AND SUFFER AND STRUGGLE, IT WAS REALLY EMPOWERING. AND IT GAVE ME THE STRENGTH. LISA: SHE IS SHARING HER STORY IN MANY SPACES LIKE HER ALMA MATER UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. SHE SAYS IF YOU ARE SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION, REACH OUT TO HER ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
Hilary Phelps changed her life, stays healthy in effort to help others (Part 2)
'I want people to feel like they're not alone'
Updated: 5:30 PM EST Nov 30, 2022
Hilary Phelps' struggle with alcohol and subsequent sobriety was something kept mostly to herself -- until now. She is sharing with 11 News how she changed her life and stays healthy in an effort to help others."I want people to feel like they're not alone," Phelps said.Phelps, the sister of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, recently began sharing her journey with alcoholism after years of blackout drinking that began in college."The way I drank, you never knew who you were going to get," Phelps said. "Who you see today isn't who it was then. When I start to pour alcohol in my body, you could get the fun Hilary that's great to be around and is the life of the party. Or, you could get the sad, sappy, 'Oh my God, I'm so happy you're my friend.' Or, the angry Hilary that wants to fight girls in the bathroom."She decided to get help and checked herself into rehab at age 29."It's actually changing your lifestyle. It's changing the people you hang out with, changing the things you do. It's changing all of those things because those things can take you back to drinking," Phelps said.Phelps said she had to start living life on life's terms."Being sober and being in recovery means that I handle things differently, where before, I would down two bottles of wine. Now, I go for a walk," Phelps said.Maintaining a healthy lifestyle with good habits is a big part of her life these days, and it's something the 44-year-old shares with her 5-year-old son, Alexander. Running is another coping mechanism. In fact, she's training for a 50-miler. Meditation is a daily ritual.Phelps decided to share her story after celebrating 15 years of sobriety in June."I kind of had that moment of, 'If I can help one person, then it doesn't matter what 10 more people think.' And, I shared openly and I shared on social media," Phelps said.| PART 1: Hilary Phelps shares how alcoholism impacted her life in effort to help othersThe social media posts were horribly needed by so many people. What she heard in return were "'messages of my mom is struggling. I, as a professional athlete, am struggling as a woman. I'm struggling as a single mom. I am struggling, can you help me?' And, that was what I wanted."Phelps said the person who got her to the point of opening up was her brother."Michael being so open about his mental health struggles was one of the reasons I felt comfortable, because, for somebody so incredible to do all the things that he did and still suffered in silence and struggle, it was really empowering and gave me the strength," she said.Phelps is sharing her story these days in many spaces, like her alma mater, the University of Richmond. She said anyone who is or who knows someone who is struggling with addiction can reach out to her on social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or her website.
ARLINGTON, Va. — Hilary Phelps' struggle with alcohol and subsequent sobriety was something kept mostly to herself -- until now. She is sharing with 11 News how she changed her life and stays healthy in an effort to help others.
"I want people to feel like they're not alone," Phelps said.
Phelps, the sister of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, recently began sharing her journey with alcoholism after years of blackout drinking that began in college.
"The way I drank, you never knew who you were going to get," Phelps said. "Who you see today isn't who it was then. When I start to pour alcohol in my body, you could get the fun Hilary that's great to be around and is the life of the party. Or, you could get the sad, sappy, 'Oh my God, I'm so happy you're my friend.' Or, the angry Hilary that wants to fight girls in the bathroom."
She decided to get help and checked herself into rehab at age 29.
"It's actually changing your lifestyle. It's changing the people you hang out with, changing the things you do. It's changing all of those things because those things can take you back to drinking," Phelps said.
Phelps said she had to start living life on life's terms.
"Being sober and being in recovery means that I handle things differently, where before, I would down two bottles of wine. Now, I go for a walk," Phelps said.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle with good habits is a big part of her life these days, and it's something the 44-year-old shares with her 5-year-old son, Alexander. Running is another coping mechanism. In fact, she's training for a 50-miler. Meditation is a daily ritual.
Phelps decided to share her story after celebrating 15 years of sobriety in June.
"I kind of had that moment of, 'If I can help one person, then it doesn't matter what 10 more people think.' And, I shared openly and I shared on social media," Phelps said.
| PART 1: Hilary Phelps shares how alcoholism impacted her life in effort to help others
The social media posts were horribly needed by so many people. What she heard in return were "'messages of my mom is struggling. I, as a professional athlete, am struggling as a woman. I'm struggling as a single mom. I am struggling, can you help me?' And, that was what I wanted."
Phelps said the person who got her to the point of opening up was her brother.
"Michael being so open about his mental health struggles was one of the reasons I felt comfortable, because, for somebody so incredible to do all the things that he did and still suffered in silence and struggle, it was really empowering and gave me the strength," she said.
Phelps is sharing her story these days in many spaces, like her alma mater, the University of Richmond. She said anyone who is or who knows someone who is struggling with addiction can reach out to her on social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or her website. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/hilary-phelps-alcoholism-part-2/42109740 | 2022-11-30 22:44:04 | 0 | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/hilary-phelps-alcoholism-part-2/42109740 |
HOUSTON — Calling all ladies to the dance floor!
Lizzo's "Watch Out For The Big Grrrls" got renewed for a second season and the Grammy winner said this go around she looking for "big grrrl" dancers and singers.
"We're looking for big girl singers who can also dance," Lizzo said in a video posted to her Twitter page.
"Watch Out For The Big Grrrls" is an Amazon Studios production that debuted in March 2022. The Emmy-winning reality series followed 13 women who wanted a shot to join Lizzo center stage a the Bonnaroo music festival.
Season one winners and finalists have joined Lizzo in music videos, festival performances, red carpets and even on Saturday Night Live, according to E! News.
There's no telling what Lizzo has in store for season two but after the success of the first season, we can only imagine that the "grrrls" are ready.
To audition, you must be 18 years or older. You'll need to record an up to four-minute video telling production about yourself and why you want to join Lizzo's "Big Grrrl" singing group. You'll also need to submit two photos of yourself -- one close up of your face and one full length
Applications are due Friday, March 24 ar 12 p.m. PST, which is 2 p.m. Houston time. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/entertainment-news/lizzo-looking-for-singers-dancers/285-8fc06a32-6d94-4d22-bea5-e15167c71f6f | 2023-03-18 02:05:19 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/entertainment-news/lizzo-looking-for-singers-dancers/285-8fc06a32-6d94-4d22-bea5-e15167c71f6f |
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Hillary Clinton was running for president, her campaign wanted a gentler way to talk about the criminal investigation into her private email server, so they called it a "security review."
Now President Joe Biden's team is using similar language when talking about the discovery of classified documents in his Delaware home and former office. Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, tends to describe the situation as a "review" or a "legal process," using the term "investigation" much less frequently.
Any White House or campaign tends to choose its words carefully, but never moreso than when under a prosecutor's scrutiny. It's a rhetorical dance where political figures weigh demands for full disclosure against the political imperative to cast investigations in the least ominous light — not to mention the desire to avoid potential criminal charges.
“Between the media and political concerns of protecting a president by being transparent, and the legal concerns of not speaking when you don’t know everything, there’s got to be a balance,” said Lanny Davis, who served as a legal adviser to then-President Bill Clinton as he faced investigations from independent counsel Ken Starr.
Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House counsel's office, acknowledged that tug of war when speaking off-camera to reporters this week — a conversation in which he didn't shy away from using the word “investigation” repeatedly.
“I understand that there’s a tension between protecting and safeguarding the integrity of an ongoing investigation with providing information publicly appropriate with that,” he said.
Biden's team has faced criticism for its fragmented disclosures about the discoveries of classified documents, occasionally leading to heated exchanges between reporters and Jean-Pierre in the White House briefing room.
She ran into trouble when she suggested last Friday that all documents had been recovered, only to have an additional discovery disclosed over the weekend.
“Are you upset that you came out to this podium on Friday with incomplete and inaccurate information?” one reporter asked Jean-Pierre on Tuesday. "And are you concerned that it affects your credibility up here?”
Jean-Pierre responded by saying that “what I’m concerned about is making sure that we do not politically interfere in the Department of Justice,” describing the situation as an “ongoing process.”
Earlier in the briefing, Jean-Pierre said she was trying to be “prudent” with what information she shares.
“I’m going to let this ongoing review that is happening, this legal process that is happening, and let that process continue under the special counsel,” she said.
There's a long history of administrations deflecting about ongoing probes. Scott McClellan, who represented President George W. Bush's White House, and Mike McCurry, who did the same for President Bill Clinton, frequently punted questions elsewhere rather than provide their own commentary.
Davis also said he doesn't blame the White House for favoring some words over others.
“You use the word ‘review’ instead of ‘investigation.’ I’ve done it hundreds of times on behalf of clients,” he said. “Why do I not use the word ‘investigate?’ Because it’s harsher. It’s an understandable choice to use a softer word.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland last week appointed a special counsel to lead the investigation, a decision that could leave a lingering cloud over the White House as Biden prepares a potential reelection campaign.
Richard Sauber, a lawyer for the president, has not used the word “investigation” in any of his written statements about the case, but he's stressed the White House's willingness to cooperate with the Justice Department. He said Thursday: “We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the president and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake.”
There's no single playbook for how to speak about a criminal investigation that reaches into the White House or touches one of its aspirants.
Former President Donald Trump, for instance, spewed vitriol at the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller during an investigation into whether his 2016 campaign coordinated with Russia, repeatedly deriding it as a "witch hunt" and claiming, falsely, that it was led by "angry Democrats." Bill Clinton's personal lawyer, David Kendall, blasted Starr for leaks and an "overkill" in his investigation during House impeachment proceedings in 1999.
In some instances, the White House has disclosed or confirmed information about an ongoing criminal probe that a defense lawyer in a lower-profile probe might be less inclined to do. That's what happened in 2004 when the White House acknowledged to the media that President Bush had been interviewed by investigators as part of a special counsel probe into the leak of the covert identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame one year earlier.
“The leaking of classified information is a very serious matter,” McClellan, then White House press secretary, said at the time. “No one wants to get to the bottom of this matter more than the president of the United States."
When it comes to handling legal matters involving the White House, it's "a little more intense — its concerns are a little bit broader than a corporation. It adds a different level of concern,” said Bill Jeffress, a veteran Washington attorney who represented former Bush administration official I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who was convicted of lying to investigators and obstruction of justice in the Plame leak probe.
Hillary Clinton came under an FBI investigation in 2015 for her use of a private email server as secretary of state. Dogged by questions on the campaign trail about the probe, she and campaign officials took to calling it a "security review" or "security inquiry." That branding, a seeming attempt to minimize a criminal investigation, drew a mild chiding in 2016 from then-FBI Director James Comey, who said he was unfamiliar with that terminology.
“I don’t know what that means,” Comey told reporters when asked about the “security inquiry” language. "We’re conducting an investigation. That’s the Bureau’s business, that’s what we do. That’s probably all I can say about it.”
In the Biden case, the White House has faced criticism for waiting two months to disclose that the president's lawyers had located some documents with classified markings in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center in Washington. Officials did not reveal until several days later that even more documents had also been located, this time in Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware.
Jean-Pierre rejected suggestions that the White House had not been transparent. Even though the public wasn't informed, she said, the Justice Department and National Archives had been notified.
“I want to say that we have been transparent here," she said last week. "That is why the minute that his lawyers found those documents, they reported it.”
Sams told reporters the White House was releasing information as it deemed it “appropriate” and was trying to balance transparency with respect for the Justice Department’s work. He said the White House was trying to be mindful of the “risk” in sharing information that was not complete.
It's unclear if anyone might face criminal charges or if prosecutors can establish that anyone willfully broke the law — a high legal standard. Biden has said he was surprised by the discovery of the documents. And in any event, the Justice Department has long held that a sitting president cannot be indicted.
Regardless, questions about the investigation — or the review or the legal process — will not be going away anytime soon.
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Two Concert Pianists Debuting Their Program "Hollywoodland"
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ProtoStar Group is introducing a unique collaboration of two renowned concert pianists to the San Diego audience at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, La Jolla, CA, on October 14, 2022, at 8 pm. The program is called "Hollywoodland."
Konstantin Soukhovetski and Jacopo Giacopuzzi, both accomplished soloists, recently formed Solo Due to collaborate on classical and contemporary piano works for four hands and two pianos. Performing in the Baker-Baum Concert Hall, the duo will play original music, award-winning film scores, and beloved melodies from Queen to Rachmaninoff. Their delivery will be modern and theatrical, combining the best of classical tradition with a touch of Hollywood.
The program will feature an eclectic mixture of styles—from Baroque, classical, and jazz to rock, Brazilian pop, and retro-futurism:
S. Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances for two pianos (first movement)
N. Kapustin: Concerto No.2
H. Villa-Lobos: Bachiana Brasileira #5 for two pianos (arr. Soukhovetski)
P. Nazaykinskaya: Nostalghia
H. Zimmer. Interstellar. Piano and Synthesizer (arr. Giacopuzzi)
K. Soukhovetski: The Queen Fantasy for two pianos
Before playing each piece, the two performers will talk briefly about the piece, making this concert a truly educational, interactive, and entertaining experience. The audience is encouraged to ask questions during the Q&A at the end of the program.
To purchase tickets, please visit La Jolla Music Society's website at: https://theconrad.org/events/hollywoodland/.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Jacopo has performed recitals at major festivals and venues throughout the U.S. and Europe. He is a winner of 14 international competitions, including the Int'l Piano Competition San Donà di Piave, Ibiza Int'l Piano Competition, and the Int'l Liszt Competition in L.A. He has performed under the direction of world-renowned conductors, such as Dian Tchobanov, Robert Wills, and others. He's served on competition juries and given presentations, masterclasses, and concerts worldwide.
Highlights of Mr. Soukhovetski's career include appearances with Johannesburg Philharmonic, Eastern Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, and Miami Symphony Orchestra. His solo performances have taken him to Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Phillips Collection, and Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland. He studied with Jerome Lowenthal at Juilliard. Born in Moscow to a family of artists, he also studied at the Moscow Central Special Music School, under the auspices of the Moscow State Conservatory with Anatoly Ryabov.
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There's a new kid on the block.
"Sesame Street" recently introduced TJ, its first Filipino muppet, on a segment with Kal Penn. TJ and his friend Ji-Young, a Korean American muppet who debuted in 2021, talk to the actor about the word of the day: confidence.
Confidence, Penn explained, is "when you believe in yourself and your abilities, or in the abilities of others." TJ marvels at Grover's confidence as he attempts to jump over the Sesame Street sign while riding a unicycle and balancing a tall stack of books. And when Penn shares with TJ and Ji-Young that he leans on others when he doesn't feel confident, TJ opens up about his own experiences.
"I'm learning Tagalog. It's a language my Filipino family speaks and I have confidence because I can always ask my lola for help when I don't know a word," TJ says.
TJ is 4 years old and a second generation Filipino American, a spokesperson for Sesame Workshop told CNN. He enjoys entertaining his little sister, gardening with his grandparents and spending time with his other family members when they visit from California.
"He loves it when they all get together so he can help his mom make lumpia with all the veggies he picked, and so he can play basketball and have a dance off with his cousins," Sesame Workshop said.
The character of TJ is voiced by puppeteer and performer Yinan Shentu and created in part by Bobby Pontillas, a Filipino American animator. Pontillas wrote on Instagram that he collaborated with Louis Mitchell, Sesame Workshop's creative director of character design, on the character. TJ's appearance, Pontillas said, was based on two of his friends' children.
Rosemary Espina Palacios, Sesame Workshop's director of talent outreach, inclusion and content development, also celebrated TJ's arrival on Sesame Street.
"I'm so proud to help bring some Filipino representation to the neighborhood, and just in time for API Heritage Month to show the range in our diaspora," she wrote on Instagram. "His first segment with @kalpenn and Ji-Young is all about confidence, something I personally feel can help unravel the model minority stereotype."
TJ is the latest addition to a diverse cast of new characters on "Sesame Street." In addition to Ji-Young, the program's first Asian American muppet, the show introduced two Black muppets in 2021: Wes and his father Elijah.
Last year, Ameera, a muppet character who uses a wheelchair, made her debut on "Ahlan Simsim," the version of "Sesame Street" that airs in the Middle East and North Africa.
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For more than two decades, CNET editors have poked, prodded, tested, retested, intentionally dropped and even stayed up all night to assess the new products and services that promise to change the way we live and work.
In 2022, our team of experts found 81 products and services in seven categories that we believe are worth celebrating and -- most important -- are worth honoring with a CNET Editors' Choice Award.
From the smartphones, laptops and tablets we use daily to stay in touch to the routers, monitors and other nuts-and-bolts gear that make our digital ecosystems work, we continue to rely on tech to make sure we're communicating and collaborating as easily and effectively as we can.
We also did deep dives to find the best TVs, Bluetooth speakers, kitchen appliances, robot vacuums, software and online services, including VPNs to keep your data private and language apps as many of you are traveling again.
The result of all that work has led to our picks for the CNET Editors' Choice Awards, which we're honoring this year with a new badge that we'll use to identify those standouts in our reviews, best lists, product comparisons and other stories across our site.
Our mission, as always, is to help you navigate our changing world, whether you're looking for top-of-the-line gear or more affordable options. And we back up these choices with extensive tips, explainers and how-to guides. Note that these products and services were evaluated in 2022 to help guide you as you decide which gear to add to your life in 2023.
One other note: In terms of innovation, 2022 was overall a modest year, with an emphasis on evolving products to make them better rather than blowing up new categories.
Even so, we were happy to find four products that we thought pushed the envelope and were worth another CNET honor: our Innovation Award, which recognizes tech that brings new and noteworthy ideas to the market. Check out our list below.
We're happy to continue CNET's tradition of rewarding products that offer the best combination of performance, design and value. We'd love to hear about your favorites, too. Find CNET on your favorite social media channel and tell us what you think.
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Lenovo Yoga 7i (Gen 7, 14-inch)
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D-Link EaglePro AI Range Extender
TP Link Deco W7200 Mesh Router
Wellness
Lululemon Align High-Rise 6-inch Shorts with pockets
Brooklyn Bedding Signature Hybrid
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Through Friday, Jan. 20, 2023
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Sharks like to summer in Cape Cod too: Nantucket feeding frenzy caught on video
There were a dozen shark sightings in Cape Cod over the weekend
Just like tourists who seek warm waters this time of year, sharks like to summer in Cape Cod.
Shark sightings along the New England coastline are a common summertime occurrence – Jaws, after all, is set in Martha’s Vineyard – but there has been a recent uptick.
In a video taken Tuesday and shared by Ashley Van Dixhoorn on Instagram, sharks can be seen in a feeding frenzy off the eastern shore of Nantucket Island.
"That’s terrifying – there’s so many," Van Dixhoorn can be heard in the video.
FIRST WHITE SHARK OF SEASON TAGGED IN CAPE COD WATERS
The onlookers gasped as a tornado of sharks feasted on seals just 100 yards from the Sconset Beach shore.
"That’s so much blood," one person said.
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Dedicated support for Sphere improves drone capture capabilities, further empowering builders to document job sites however they want to
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today OpenSpace®, the global leader in reality capture and AI-powered analytics, formally announced platform support for the Insta360 Sphere, an easy-to-install, dual 360° camera that can be attached to DJI Mavic Air 2 and Air 2S drones. Paired with OpenSpace's technology, drone capture with Sphere is easy and scalable—opening up 360° capture for a wider business audience. Sphere joins a growing list of capture technologies supported by OpenSpace's platform, including 360° cameras, drone cameras, mobile cameras, LiDAR scanners, and more, empowering users to capture however they choose.
"Ease of use is at the core of OpenSpace's platform," says Neel Sheth, VP of Product at OpenSpace. "Our customers have been attaching cameras to drones for years, and our dedicated support for Sphere will simplify and improve their experience. We want OpenSpace customers to be able to capture in a way that aligns with their workflows and goals, and extending our drone support through this partnership will further enable exterior captures to be seamlessly integrated into our platform."
With two cameras, one upward facing and one downward facing, the Insta360 Sphere integration achieves a 360° view where the camera is rendered invisible in the capture, enabling drone pilots of various levels of experience to capture all angles of a jobsite without any reflights needed. Sphere makes installation and flight simple with an easy locking mechanism and FlowState stabilization to ensure footage is smooth. OpenSpace is currently beta testing captures with the Insta360 Sphere to further improve capture processing, calibrations, battery life, image quality, ease of installation, elevated captures, and the multitude of angle selections. Support for Sphere will be generally available to customers later this quarter.
"With Sphere, builders are able to seamlessly capture high-resolution footage of the job site, without having to worry about factors like stabilization or editing out the drone body," says Max Richter, VP of Insta360. "We're excited to partner with OpenSpace to bring an affordable, easy-to-use drone camera to builders to capture the full job site."
With OpenSpace Capture, users attach cameras to their hard hat, drone, robot, or other apparatus, and walk the site as they normally would. Regardless of where the camera is mounted, once the video is uploaded to the cloud, OpenSpace's computer vision technology stitches images together and pins them to the floor plan, creating a trusted visual record of site status. Powered by the company's Vision Engine, the site image map is typically ready to view about 15 minutes after upload.
To learn more about OpenSpace and the variety of cameras and capture techniques the platform supports, visit https://www.openspace.ai/. For any inquiries or to see OpenSpace in action, request a demo.
About OpenSpace
Founded in 2017, OpenSpace is an AI technology company on a mission to bring new levels of transparency and efficiency to construction and real estate. With our platform, builders automatically capture a complete visual record of the construction site, providing a single source of truth that increases coordination, drives accountability, and simplifies dispute resolution. To date, our customers have used OpenSpace to capture more than eleven billion square feet of imagery from active construction projects across thousands of sites in over ninety-one countries. Follow us on LinkedIn.
Founded in 2015, Insta360 makes boldly innovative cameras that help people capture and share their lives. Insta360 is redefining what's possible with action cameras with the pocket 360 action cam Insta360 X3, the interchangeable lens action cam Insta360 RS and the tiny 27-gram action cam Insta360 GO 2. Powered by AI technology, the brand's mobile and desktop editing software makes creating content effortless. For professionals, Insta360 also makes a range of ultra-high-resolution VR cameras, including Insta360 Pro 2 and Titan, a premium 6K 360 camera, Insta360 RS 1-Inch 360, and an AI-powered 4K webcam, Insta360 Link. To bring bold video ideas to life, Insta360 sponsors creators around the world through the Think Bold Fund.
For more details visit: https://www.insta360.com/enterprise.
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Geographies that Favor Microwave Transmission Equipment to Drive Growth
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent forecast report by Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, mobile backhaul transport is forecast to grow for the next three years due to 5G network expansion in geographies that favor wireless backhaul, reaching $5.3 billion by 2025. As a result, demand for Microwave Transmission equipment is expected to continue rising.
"Demand for wireless backhaul is on the rise," said Jimmy Yu, Vice President of Dell'Oro Group. "Early in the 5G deployment cycle, the main backhaul technology used was fiber-based, resulting in five solid years of fiber backhaul revenue growth. Going forward, we expect more of the 5G deployments to take place in locations without accessibility to fiber as well as in countries that traditionally favor wireless backhaul systems, driving a lot more growth for Microwave Transmission equipment in the future," added Yu.
Additional highlights from the Microwave Transmission & Mobile Backhaul 5-Year Forecast January 2023 Report:
- The Microwave Transmission market ended a market contraction in 2020 that was caused by declining 4G deployments. The next growth cycle driven by 5G started in 2021 and is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 4 percent until 2025.
- Approximately 75 percent of the Microwave Transmission market will be driven by mobile backhaul. The remainder will be from sales into vertical markets such as enterprises, utilities, and government.
- Due to the higher backhaul capacity requirement for 5G, E/V Band systems are forecast to be in much higher demand, growing approximately 20 percent annually for the next five years.
The Dell'Oro Group Microwave Transmission & Mobile Backhaul 5-Year Forecast Report offers complete, in-depth coverage with tables covering manufacturers' revenue, radio transceivers, and average selling prices. The report tracks fronthaul, mobile backhaul by cell type (macro and small cell) and technology (wireless and fiber/copper). The microwave transmission tables forecast point-to-point TDM, Packet and Hybrid Microwave as well as full indoor and full outdoor unit configurations. To purchase the report, please contact us at dgsales@delloro.com.
Dell'Oro Group is a market research firm that specializes in strategic competitive analysis in the telecommunications, security, enterprise networks, data center infrastructure markets. Our firm provides in-depth quantitative data and qualitative analysis to facilitate critical, fact-based business decisions. For more information, contact Dell'Oro Group at +1.650.622.9400 or visit https://www.delloro.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial wellness company Credit Sesame, the first platform to provide consumers free and ongoing access to their full credit information and credit builder digital banking in one app, today announced its participation in the 25th Annual ICR Conference taking place January 9 - 11, 2023 in Orlando, Florida.
Adrian Nazari, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Credit Sesame, will share how Credit Sesame continues to deliver strong growth and is uniquely positioned to help consumers and its over 17 million members navigate their credit and finances during a time of rising interest rates and inflation. The presentation will be held on Wednesday, January 11 at 8:00-8:20 a.m. EST in Palazzo E and will also be available for meetings.
To access the most updated information on Credit Sesame, visit www.CreditSesame.com. For interested media and investors requesting meetings, please contact Isabel Padilla at isabel@creditsesame.com.
About Credit Sesame
Credit Sesame is a financial wellness platform leveraging the latest technology, AI and analytics to help consumers achieve better financial health and stability and create better opportunities for themselves and their families. Credit Sesame has helped millions of consumers improve their credit scores, increase their approval odds, lower their cost of credit, save money and get credit for their everyday debit purchases. Strong credit health leads to better financial health and stability, and Credit Sesame's all in one app helps accelerate consumers' credit and financial wellness in one place. Credit Sesame is funded by leading institutional and strategic investors. It currently operates in the U.S. and Canada. For more information on Credit Sesame, visit www.creditsesame.com and follow on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Training series highlights solutions for HIV and COVID-19 screenings in primary care
WASHINGTON, March 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is hosting a free webinar on April 12 on how medical professionals can restore patient trust using a health justice approach. The webinar is a part of a training series for the Two in One: HIV + COVID Screening and Testing Model, and will feature Philip M. Alberti, Ph.D., senior director of health equity research and policy at the Association of American Medical Colleges.
is hosting a webinar on how medical professionals can restore patient trust using a health.
"Our discussion with Philip will begin the important work of understanding how to restore trust in patient populations that have traditionally been marginalized," said Maranda Ward, EdD, MPH, principal investigator of the Two in One Model and assistant professor of clinical research and leadership at The George Washington University. "Health justice allows us to understand the underlying social and structural factors that determines health, such as community safety, education, housing, and access to healthy food. With that holistic approach in mind, attendees will learn how to translate principles of health justice into clinical interactions."
The Two in One Model uses a combined health and racial equity lens to give primary care practitioners the tools to better engage in culturally responsive communication on HIV and COVID vaccines with their racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender-minoritized patients.
The training series will offer nine live-streamed continuing medical education lectures as well as an asynchronous CME-bearing module-based training course and toolkit. This session, the fourth in the series, is entitled "Restoring Patient Trust through a Health Justice Approach," and is scheduled for Friday, April 12, from 12 – 1 p.m. ET. Anyone can register for the event here.
This program has been supported by an independent educational grant from Gilead Sciences, Inc. For more information on this research-informed model, visit the Two-in-One website at: twoinone.smhs.gwu.edu.
About the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Founded in 1824, the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) was the first medical school in the nation's capital and is the 11th oldest in the country. Working together in our nation's capital, with integrity and resolve, the GW SMHS is committed to improving the health and well-being of our local, national and global communities. smhs.gwu.edu.
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Partnership will integrate Ellipsis Health's clinical grade mental health assessment technology into Ceras Health's clinical monitoring platform to improve assessment and care
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ellipsis Health, the market leader in AI-generated voice biomarker technology, and Ceras Health, a leader in digital health solutions, today announced a partnership that will integrate Ellipsis Health's breakthrough technology that uses the human voice as a biomarker for mental health and wellbeing into Ceras' clinical monitoring platform. This integration will combine Ellipsis Health's AI and deep learning technology with Ceras Health's clinical monitoring and health data analytics platform, enabling real-time severity scores for anxiety and depression to improve care and triage patients in need.
Currently, mental health conditions are at epidemic proportions. In the US, 28 percent of people have depression, while 36 percent suffer from anxiety¹, and 41 percent reported mental health disorders within the last year, two times more than in 2019². The National Alliance on Mental Health estimates that 55 percent of people with mental illness are not receiving treatment, and there is a projected shortage of up to 30,000 psychiatrists in the US by 2024. This explosive growth, coupled with the difficulty in accessing the right treatment for many populations, is part of the impetus for the Ellipsis Health and Ceras Health partnership. Together, the companies plan to bring greater access to mental health treatment for the more than 18 million Medicare patients who have mental health conditions.
"This new partnership will advance the state of mental health care, enabling Ellipsis Health to put its cutting-edge voice technology to work - identifying people in need and then connecting them into integrated behavioral health services," said Mainul Mondal, founder and CEO, Ellipsis Health. "We are proud to partner with Ceras Health, an organization that shares our commitment to using innovative technology to ensure that those in need have access to the right care at the right time, with the potential to transform how mental healthcare is identified, monitored and delivered."
Bringing technology-powered innovation to mental health care, Ellipsis Health is giving voice to a new standard of care, pioneering the only clinically validated vital sign for mental health. By harnessing the unique power of the human voice as a biomarker for mental wellbeing, along with machine learning and AI, Ellipsis Health identifies, measures, and monitors the severity of stress, anxiety, and depression at scale. Its technology analyzes a short voice sample to create an objective and scalable clinical decision support tool.
"This unique partnership with Ellipsis Health aligns with Ceras Health's commitment to providing impactful care for our patients with chronic diseases and innovating how we deliver this care," said Udaya Devineni, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ceras. "The ability to access mental healthcare has never been more important given these unprecedented times, especially for those patients who are also managing chronic diseases, and we are excited about the potential of providing patients with easy and direct access to mental health support."
Ceras Health will be using Ellipsis Health's technology in its digital transitions of care solutions which are transforming how healthcare is delivered, especially for Medicare and other vulnerable populations. By using a combination of 24/7 clinical expertise, remote patient monitoring, artificial intelligence (AI), and advanced data analytics, Ceras Health's solutions blend clinical expertise and digital tools to help patients get the whole person personalized care they need to drive improvements in their health outcomes.
Ellipsis Health was founded with the belief that a person's mental health should have the same priority as one's physical health. The company saw an opportunity to connect the dots between the two - giving voice to a new standard of mental health care. By harnessing the unique power of the human voice as a biomarker for mental wellbeing, along with machine learning and AI, Ellipsis Health has established the only clinically validated vital sign for mental health. Its technology identifies, measures, and monitors the severity of stress, anxiety, and depression at scale by analyzing a short voice sample to create an objective and scalable clinical decision support tool. Through partnerships with providers, payers, employers and digital health companies, Ellipsis Health is working to positively impact the quality of care, shorten the time to diagnosis, drive workflow efficiencies, reduce costs and improve patient outcomes. To learn more about Ellipsis Health, visit https://www.ellipsishealth.com.
Ceras Health is a pioneering digital health solutions provider, utilizing 24/7 clinical expertise and remote monitoring, advanced AI and analytics, connected health devices, and a personalized behavioral change and gamification platform to help and empower patients through their transitions of care. Ceras partners with health systems, providers, and payers, to deliver solutions to vulnerable populations to improve their health outcomes and care experience through digital care with a human touch. To learn more about Ceras Health, visit www.cerashealth.com or email marketing@cerashealth.com.
¹ https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/mental-health.htm
² https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6932a1.htm?s_cid=mm6932a1_x
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Storm Prediction Ctr, Norman, OK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 460
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
552 PM EDT TUE JUL 12 2022
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 460 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
NY
. NEW YORK COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
COLUMBIA DELAWARE DUTCHESS
GREENE SULLIVAN ULSTER
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
South central Delaware County in central New York...
Northeastern Sullivan County in central New York...
* Until 645 PM EDT.
* At 552 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Livingston
Manor, or 8 miles northwest of Liberty, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Rockland, Liberty, Neversink, South Fallsburg, Jeffersonville,
Parksville, Loch Sheldrake, Hazel, Grahamsville and Willowemoc.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
BRONX KINGS NEW YORK
ORANGE PUTNAM QUEENS
RICHMOND ROCKLAND WESTCHESTER
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australian police are investigating the extremist views of three people who shot and killed two officers and a neighbor at a rural property before they were killed hours later by police in a gunfight.
Investigators will look at the possible extremist links of the killers after a series of posts under the name of Gareth Train, one of the killers identified in the wake of Monday’s deadly shootout, were found on conspiracy theory forums, Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said late Tuesday. The posts include references to anti-vaccine sentiments and claims that other high-profile shootings were hoaxes or false-flag operations.
“It’s very difficult at the moment for us to reason with what has happened, there are no obvious reasons,” Carroll told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. But she added she had no doubt that over the coming days and weeks, police would come back with some insight into the tragic events that unfolded.
Research and surveys show belief in conspiracy theories is common and widespread. Believers are more likely to to get their information from social media than professional news organizations. The rise and fall of particular conspiracy theories are often linked to real-world events and social, economic or technological change.
Carroll said every possible motive for the killings was being examined, including whether it was a premeditated attack on the officers.
“Some of the stuff that’s online from these people, we will investigate what they have been doing not only in recent weeks but in recent years, who they’ve been interacting with,” she said.
Four officers arrived at the property in the town of Wieambilla, in Queensland state, to investigate reports of a missing person. They walked into a hail of gunfire, Carroll said, and it was a miracle that two officers managed to escape and raise the alarm.
Those killed were Constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, along with 58-year-old neighbor Alan Dare.
One of the officers that escaped, Constable Randall Kirk, 28, was recovering at a hospital Wednesday from shrapnel wounds. He said he and his wife wanted to thank everybody “from the Prime Minister down” for their messages of support.
“I’m feeling fine, just a little sore. My main thoughts are with the other police families at this awful time,” Kirk said in a statement released by the police union. “It means a lot to know the community cares for us all.”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese earlier told reporters in Sydney that the country mourned with those affected.
“This is, indeed, a devastating day for everyone who loved these Australians, and our hearts go out to those in the grip of terrible grief,” he said. “We know that this news has fallen hard on a close-knit and caring Queensland community. As well as, of course, the community to which all police officers belong.”
He said officers across the nation know the risks they face, yet do their duty.
“And today and every day I pay tribute to each and every one of the police officers who serve their local communities and who serve their nation,” Albanese said. “This is not a price that anyone who puts on the uniform should ever pay.”
In all, six people died in the violence Monday in Queensland state. The killers have been identified as former school principal Nathaniel Train, 47, his brother Gareth, 46, and sister-in-law Stacey, 45. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-australian-police-investigate-extremist-views-of-cop-killers/ | 2022-12-14 22:22:26 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-australian-police-investigate-extremist-views-of-cop-killers/ |
Severe turbulence hurts 5 on United flight
Published: Dec. 19, 2022 at 12:10 PM EST|Updated: 59 minutes ago
HOUSTON (KTRK) - Severe turbulence injured two passengers and three crew members on a United Airlines flight on Monday.
Officials with the carrier said medical personnel were called to Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston to treat the patients.
No life-threatening injuries were reported.
United Airlines issued a statement saying they are grateful to their crew for keeping everyone on the flight as safe as possible considering the circumstances.
This comes one day after at least three-dozen people suffered turbulence-caused injuries on a Hawaiian Airlines flight on Sunday.
Eleven of those people were listed in serious condition, according to Honolulu emergency medical services.
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Aleksandar Vucic was sworn in for his second term as Serbia’s president Tuesday, pledging to keep the Balkan country on its European Union membership path and hinting that a new government might consider joining Western sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine.
Despite voting in favor of three U.N. resolutions condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Serbia remains the only European state that has not joined sanctions against its ally Moscow.
In his inaugural speech in parliament, Vucic said Serbia’s priority will be its EU membership path and that the new government — which should be formed in July — will have to work harder on gaining entry into the 27-member bloc and consider sanctions against Moscow, although he didn’t specifically refer to Russia.
“Forming a new government is of utmost importance because of the situation we are in, difficult situation,” he said. “We will have to deal with new sanctions and stuff, which could damage us so we will ask our European partners to help us,” he said.
Vucic, who convincingly won the presidential election mostly on his pro-Russian agenda, said that he wants to take Serbia into the EU during his new term. But he has spent recent years cementing ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a long-time ally.
Opposition groups and foreign observers said the April vote was far from being free and fair and that Vucic’s autocratic rule sidelines the government and parliament.
Vucic announced on Sunday that he has secured an “extremely favorable” three-year natural gas deal with Russia during a telephone conversation with Putin — something widely seen as his determination not to join EU sanctions despite pressure from the West.
But the Serb president on Tuesday appeared to soften his pro-Russia stance, saying “we must be firm on the European path.”
He said Serbia will not seek NATO membership and would maintain its military neutrality.
“We are not politically neutral because we want membership in the European Union,” said Vucic. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/serb-president-pledges-eu-course-hints-russia-sanctions/ | 2022-06-01 11:04:13 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/serb-president-pledges-eu-course-hints-russia-sanctions/ |
88% of enrollees are satisfied with their coverage
Affordability is key: most could pay no more than $50 per month for similar coverage
61% say Medicare Advantage is a good example of public/private cooperation
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) (eHealth.com), a leading online private health insurance marketplace, released results from a survey of more than 2,800 Medicare beneficiaries, exploring their satisfaction and experience with their Medicare Advantage plans.
While Medicare Advantage plans have come under scrutiny by some policy makers and the media, eHealth's survey found that a majority of enrollees are happy with their coverage. Nearly nine in ten (88%) say they are either "very satisfied" (63%) or "somewhat satisfied" (25%) with their plans. A similar number (86%) would recommend Medicare Advantage plans to friends or family.
Additional findings:
- Most of those previously enrolled in Medicare Supplement (Medigap) still prefer Medicare Advantage: 59% of beneficiaries previously enrolled in Medigap say they are "more satisfied" with their Medicare Advantage plan; an additionally 23% are "equally satisfied."
- Most Medicare Advantage enrollees can't afford the alternatives: Two thirds (67%) of those who chose Medicare Advantage over Medigap did so because Medigap was too expensive. If forced to find similar coverage elsewhere, 73% say they could afford monthly premiums of only $50 or less.
- Most see Medicare Advantage as a prime example of public/private cooperation: More than six in ten (61%) say Medicare Advantage is a good example of cooperation between government and private enterprise, while 5% disagree; only 13% feel regulation of Medicare Advantage plans should be increased.
Read the full report.
Medicare Advantage plans are offered by private insurance companies and cover Medicare Parts A and B benefits, typically filling many coverage gaps and offering additional benefits. Most Medicare Advantage plans also include Part D prescription drug coverage. Medicare Advantage plans are typically more affordable than Medicare Supplement and stand-alone Part D plans; many beneficiaries are able to enroll in $0-premium Medicare Advantage plans.
eHealth's report is based on a voluntary survey of Medicare beneficiaries who purchased Medicare Advantage plans through eHealth. The survey was conducted in late May of 2022 and a total of 2,848 responses were collected.
eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) operates a leading health insurance marketplace at eHealth.com and eHealthMedicare.com with technology that provides consumers with health insurance enrollment solutions. Since 1997, we have connected more than 8 million members with quality, affordable health insurance, Medicare options, and ancillary plans. Our proprietary marketplace offers Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, Medicare Part D prescription drug, individual, family, small business and other plans from approximately 200 health insurance carriers across fifty states and the District of Columbia.
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Another USMNT player looks to be headed to the English Premier League.
Tyler Adams reportedly is set to transfer to Leeds United from RB Leipzig, according to journalist Fabrizio Romano:
The 23-year-old, who can play as a central or holding midfielder along with lining up as a wingback, will cost Leeds around $24 million.
Adams came up through the New York Red Bulls youth academy in 2011 and steadily progressed through the ranks, eventually making his senior debut in 2015. He then signed with Bundesliga club RB Leipzig in January 2019 under American head coach Jesse Marsch, but the team allowed him to transfer elsewhere this summer after landing Xaver Schlager from VfL Wolfsburg.
He now reunites with Marsch at Leeds after the club hired him in late February to help the squad avoid relegation. Leeds also purchased USMNT midfielder Brenden Aaronson from RB Salzburg, the sister club to Leipzig, earlier in the window. Leeds had sold defensive-minded midfielder Kalvin Phillips to Manchester City, so Adams figured to be the direct replacement.
Along with Adams and Aaronson, USMNT goalkeeper Matt Turner also officially completed his move to Arsenal, following the trend of American players competing in England’s top flight.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A Colombian soccer fan who came to the U.S. as a political refugee is creating a training camp for young people in New Mexico with former players from Colombia as the instructors.
David Certain, who owns a coffee company, hopes one day to expand the program in the United States and also take it back to his home country.
Former Philadelphia Union player Carlos Valdés and ex-Colombia midfielder Víctor Pacheco are among those teaching the skills and disciplines of soccer to young people in Albuquerque this week, along with former midfielder Jorge Bolaño and ex-goalkeeper Julián Viafara.
Certain wants to create a physical but also emotional and mental training camp for young people who like to play soccer.
“You see a lot of talent that looks very robotic. We want to focus a lot on the emotional part, so that they can control their emotions a little more and know that, when there are emotions, it is normal”, the 42-year-old Colombian said. “It is totally normal to feel failure when the goal is not scored, but how do you manage the moment after that? After that, a lot of kids get stuck.”
The daily camp, which is the first project of the new Alianza Sports, ends Friday in Albuquerque. New Mexico United forward Devon Sandoval will also be involved.
Certain says he is working with companies to provide scholarships for the camp. Sessions are for 10-14-year-olds and the 15-20 age group.
Certain and his family fled Cali, Colombia, in 1999 after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) tried to kidnap him when he was 19.
Certain had an aunt in New Mexico and, after living in Miami for a while, the family moved to Albuquerque. Certain’s 11-year-old son, who plays soccer, inspired him to create the program.
During work trips to Colombia, Certain was able to contact the former players, some of whom already teach soccer and have helped create the program.
“We are very excited, really, we are very happy with everything that has been happening,” Valdés said from Colombia during a telephone interview. “It has not been an easy job, but I know that everyone who is part of it, and those who will go through this experience, will love it.”
Valdés hopes that young people learn not only soccer techniques but also values such as discipline, respect, tolerance and teamwork.
“Getting involved in something in which everyone must go in the same direction helps develop skills that make you a better person,” Valdés said.
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- Q3 Revenue up 42% YoY to $22.1 Million -
- Q3 Adjusted EBITDA up 15% QoQ and More Than 2x YoY to a Record $11.7 Million, with $5.4 Million of Cash from Operations -
MIAMI, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Cansortium Inc. (CSE: TIUM.U) (OTCQX: CNTMF) ("Cansortium" or the "Company"), a vertically-integrated cannabis company operating under the Fluent™ brand, today announced financial and operating results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022. Unless otherwise indicated, all results are presented in U.S. dollars.
"We continued to execute on our profitability objectives during the third quarter, leading to another period of gross margin expansion and a record bottom line with strong cash flow generation," said CEO Robert Beasley. "Had it not been for Hurricane Ian driving store closures in late September, we would have generated our 11th consecutive quarter of revenue growth, so I am very pleased with our team's consistent effort to deliver on our goals."
"As we exit the year and look to 2023, we expect to continue opening new stores in Florida while driving organic growth in our three Pennsylvania dispensaries. We also have plans to begin building out our footprint in Texas and look forward to growing our presence in the state in 2023."
Q3 2022 Financial Highlights (vs. Q3 2021)
- Revenue increased 42% to $22.1 million compared to $15.6 million.
- Florida revenue increased 39% to $18.2 million compared to $13.1 million.
- Adjusted gross profit[1] increased 71% to $16.7 million or 75.5% of revenue, compared to $9.8 million or 62.7% of revenue.
- Adjusted EBITDA increased 140% to a record $11.7 million or 53.1% of revenue, compared to $4.9 million or 31.3% of revenue.
- Cash from operations increased significantly to $5.4 million compared to cash used of $(4.2) million.
- At September 30, 2022, the Company had approximately $9.1 million of cash and cash equivalents and $69.4 million of total debt, with approximately 252.3 million fully diluted shares outstanding (based on treasury stock method and share price on September 30, 2022).
Operational Highlights
- In Florida, the Company anticipates opening one new store by the end of 2022 and an additional three stores in the first half of 2023. All of these locations are currently under contract and going through construction.
- During the third quarter, Cansortium temporarily closed twelve of its dispensaries in Florida during Hurricane Ian. All of the Company's stores reopened in October 2022.
- In Pennsylvania, the Company's newest dispensary in Annville is ramping and achieved a record month of sales in October 2022.
2022 Outlook
The Company has continued to make progress on its targeted initiatives focused on growth and long-term shareholder value creation and is revising its previously issued revenue projection for 2022. Cansortium now expects revenue for 2022 to range between $85-$90 million (previously expected $90-$95 million). The Company also expects to close the year with Adjusted EBITDA exceeding its previously issued guidance of $25-$28 million for 2022.
Conference Call
The Company will host a conference call and live audio webcast today at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time to discuss its financial and operational results, followed by a question-and-answer period.
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Time: 4:30 p.m. Eastern time
Toll-free dial-in number: (800) 319-4610
International dial-in number: (604) 638-5340
Conference ID: 10020760
Link: Cansortium Conference Call
Please call the conference telephone number 5-10 minutes prior to the start time. An operator will register your name and organization. If you have any difficulty connecting with the conference call, please contact Elevate IR at (720) 330-2829.
The conference call will also be available for replay via the News & Events section of the Company's investor relations website at https://investors.getfluent.com/.
About Cansortium Inc.
Cansortium is a vertically-integrated cannabis company with licenses and operations in Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas. The Company operates under the Fluent™ brand and is dedicated to being one of the highest quality cannabis companies for the communities it serves. This is driven by Cansortium's unrelenting commitment to operational excellence in cultivation, production, distribution and retail. The Company is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
Cansortium Inc.'s common shares trade on the CSE under the symbol "TIUM.U" and on the OTCQX Best Market under the symbol "CNTMF". For more information about the Company, please visit www.getfluent.com.
Forward-Looking Information
Certain information in this news release may constitute forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and may also contain statements that may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "targets", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "an opportunity exists", "is positioned", "estimates", "intends", "assumes", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate" or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might", "will" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections, or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent the Company's expectations, estimates, and projections regarding future events, plans or objectives, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of the Company's control.
Forward-looking information is necessarily based on many opinions, assumptions, and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this news release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in the public documents of the Company available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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SAINT HELENA, Calif., Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting now, wine enthusiasts around the world can contribute to environmental efforts to protect the future of Napa Valley. In the spirit of coming together to do good, members of the Napa Valley Vintners have put together a fund-a-need campaign alongside five exceptional fund-a-forest experiences that take place in Napa Valley in 2023.
"Anyone who has an interest in Napa Valley's natural environment and beauty has an opportunity to contribute. We recognize this is a crisis, but we are also comforted to know that we have ways to mitigate and minimize damage caused by wildfires for our entire community," said Bart Araujo, Co-Chair of the Collective Napa Valley Vintage Celebration and co-proprietor of Accendo Cellars and Wheeler Farms.
Guests will experience once-in-a-lifetime experiences featuring Michelin-starred chefs, extraordinary tastings and access to Napa Valley's legendary winemakers including:
- Prized Pairing: PROMONTORY and three-Stared Michelin Chef Kyle Connaughton
- A Perfect Evening on Pritchard Hill: Chef Elliot Bell, Chappellet Vineyard, Continuum Estate, David Arthur Vineyards, Gandona Estate and OVID. Napa Valley
- Innovation and Collaboration in Napa Valley: James Molesworth of Wine Spectator, Burgess Cellars, Chimney Rock Winery, Matthiasson, Trois Noix, Chef Gerald Sombright and Executive Chef Casey Thompson of Folktable
- Leading Ladies of Wine: Cathy Corison, Gina Gallo, Helen Keplinger, Françoise Peschon and Master Sommelier Andrea Robinson
- 6-Star Supernova Dining: Araujo family and Michelin three-Starred chefs Thomas Keller and Christopher Kostow
A limited number of seats are available for purchase in a buy-a-spot format. The chair's lot, the 6-Star Supernova Dining experience, will be sold the evening of November 5 during the live fundraising weekend.
Proceeds will help protect the Napa community by meaningfully addressing our most urgent wildfire and environmental stewardship efforts.
NVV will support Napa County Firewise Foundation and Napa County Resource Conversation District, and is making the commitment to:
- Establish and maintain protective firebreaks over 100 miles
- Restore our forest health and resiliency by planting trees through the Million Tree Napa program
"The climate and biodiversity crises are upon us, and Napa Valley has seen the impacts firsthand. Now is the time to improve forest health for our well-being and future," said Lucas Patzek, Executive Director of Napa County Resource Conservation District.
Those wishing to contribute can do so now at CollectiveNapaValley.org.
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First Alert Forecast:
Mostly Dry Weather Through Memorial Day
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A spot sprinkle in the afternoon and evening is not out of the question, but mostly dry conditions will prevail through tonight and Memorial Day, which should help out with your holiday plans. We actually stay pretty dry for several days, but the Gulf of Mexico will open back up, allowing for a southern breeze. That will be a warm, moist air mass, so expect the temperatures and humidity to be on the increase. Warm, moist air will lead to development of heating showers. Afternoon and early evening showers and thunderstorms will pop up by midweek.
Memorial Day weekend plans have been washed out for our friends in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. Nasty weather continues over there as a low pressure system spins in rain and wind, pushing up high water along the coastline and creating rip currents. Heavy rainfall is expected in portions of the Carolinas and Virginia during the next day or so. Hazardous marine conditions are also occurring over the coastal and offshore waters where gale warnings remain in effect. This is not a tropical low...in addition the National Hurricane Center isn’t expecting any tropical formation over the next seven days. As a reminder, hurricane season begins June 1st.
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Nineteen Students Nationwide Received Award From Operator of Manufactured Home Communities
CORALVILLE, Iowa, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A Coralville student was among the 19 recipients of academic scholarships from Havenpark Communities, an operator and developer of manufactured home communities in Iowa and around the country. The scholarship recipients are awarded up to $10,000 annually to cover expenses for colleges, universities, trade, and vocational schools.
The scholarship awards are part of Havenpark's expansion of its Education Success Program, which offers financial assistance, support, mentorship, and other education initiatives to increase educational opportunities for residents. Through the mentoring program, which provides students – many of whom are first-generation college students—with encouragement and support, students are set up to succeed in their journey to certificate or degree attainment.
Omar Rodriguez Jr., a first-generation college student, finished high school this spring at City High School in Iowa City. During his time there, Rodriguez was involved in Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) as well as several advanced-level courses. He says his mother and experience in AVID were great resources when seeking information about college. He plans to attend the University of Iowa in the fall and is leaning toward majoring in civil engineering, though he is not set on it.
"I'm interested in how civil engineering applies designing into the real world. I became interested in this in middle school. We had a fun class called Applied Technology, where we explored different types of engineering such as electrical, biomedical, and nuclear," said Rodriguez.
Rodriguez says that he's grateful to be a scholarship recipient of Havenpark's Education Success Program. "I'm hoping to get a good sense of what I want to do in my career when I get to college," Rodriguez says if his friends could describe him in one word, they would say that he's dedicated.
"Hearing about Omar's compelling interests such as art and engineering were amazing. Omar is eager to take this next step in his education journey, and I can't wait to see what he becomes after he finishes school," said Robbie Pratt, CEO of Havenpark Communities. "The Education Success Program and its impact on residents brings pure joy to the staff at Havenpark."
The 2022 competitive scholarship application period ran from December 15, 2021, to January 31, 2022, with about half of the applicants rewarded with scholarships. To be eligible for consideration, applicants needed to have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.5 or above, be either a current resident of a Havenpark community or have a parent/guardian who is a resident, and must plan to enroll or continue enrollment in full-time or part-time undergraduate study at an accredited two-year or four-year college, university, or vocational-technical school in the United States for the entire 2022-2023 academic year. Awards may transfer from a two-year institution to a four-year intuition and vice versa.
Havenpark Communities is an operator and developer of manufactured home communities and makes caring communities attainable for responsible residents across America. Since 2017, Havenpark has sourced and installed over 4,000 new factory-built homes, providing quality, affordable living to over 10,000 Americans across the country. Earlier this year, Havenpark Communities announced it has committed to adding an additional 1,000 new affordable homes across the country, including in Iowa in the coming year. Havenpark Communities believes in respectful and professional management, well-maintained communities, and attainable homeownership. Havenpark Communities makes long-term investments in its communities, providing enduring value for current and future residents.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Jenny Werwa
werwa@invariantgr.com
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Wide receiver DJ Moore officially became a member of the Chicago Bears on Wednesday afternoon.
The new league year got underway at 4 p.m. ET and the Bears and Panthers wasted little time officially announcing the trade they agreed to last week. The Bears are sending the first overall pick in this year’s draft to Carolina for Moore, the ninth overall pick, the 61st overall pick, a 2024 first-round pick, and a 2025 second-round pick.
We don’t know who will be selected with any of those draft picks, but Moore can start preparing for life with his new team now. Moore said that it “means a lot” that the Bears wanted him as part of the deal.
“It’s going to be real special ,” Moore said, via the team’s website. “I’m glad to be a part of the groundwork that’s being laid. And to just build that foundation of winning, it’s going to be something special.”
Quarterback Justin Fields also weighed in on a deal that should benefit him through Moore and other additions to come in the future.
“I’m excited to add a guy like DJ to our offense,” Fields said. “He’s proven he can be an explosive playmaker in this league, and I look forward to getting to work with him and the rest of our receivers so we can take the next step as an offense. I’ve gotten to know him a little bit and I know he’s ready to put the work in to help our team win. I can’t wait to get our whole group on the field together and see how we can put it all together.”
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Democrat Charlie Crist on Saturday tapped Miami-Dade County teachers union president Karla Hernandez-Mats as his running mate as he challenges Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida.
Crist, a congressman who served as the state’s Republican governor a decade ago, announced United Teachers of Dade President Hernandez-Mats as his lieutenant governor pick at a brief rally in South Florida, describing her as a compassionate former teacher of special needs children with the “heart” necessary to govern.
“Caring, loving, empathic, compassionate — that’s what we don’t have in the governor’s office right now and that’s what you deserve to have in the governor’s office,” Crist said before introducing Hernandez-Mats to the crowd.
The selection of Hernandez-Mats ensures a campaign focus on education, an arena where DeSantis has had success in animating his conservative base through his hands-off approach to the coronavirus pandemic and policies limiting classroom discussions of race and LGBTQ issues.
Crist secured the Democratic nomination this week after a campaign that focused heavily on criticizing DeSantis as a “bully” who gained political prominence through his willingness to exploit cultural divides on gender, sexuality and race.
On Saturday, Hernandez-Mats framed the Democratic ticket as a way to “bring decency and respect back to the state of Florida” and preserve abortion access and voting rights.
“It has been dark in here but we’re going to bring the sunshine back,” she said.
Hernandez-Mats advocated delaying students’ return to school in the fall of 2020 and continuing mask mandates in 2021, in defiance of DeSantis’ administration. She has also previously been critical of a new law critics have dubbed “ Don’t Say Gay, ” which bars classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade as well as material that is not deemed age-appropriate.
The daughter of two Honduran immigrants who came to the U.S. in the 1970s, Hernandez-Mats was the first Hispanic elected to lead the United Teachers of Dade in 2016. She was born in Miami and her father picked tomatoes in the Everglades before becoming a carpenter and labor leader, according to a statement from Crist’s campaign.
Crist defeated state agriculture commissioner Nikki Fried in the Democratic primary in a race that increasingly centered on abortion rights following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and a new Florida law that bans abortions after 15 weeks. Fried often questioned Crist’s Democratic bonafides, highlighting his appointment of conservative state Supreme Court justices while he was a GOP governor. The state’s high court is soon expected to decide the constitutionality of the GOP-backed 15-week ban.
Crist on Saturday reiterated a pledge to sign an executive order protecting a woman’s right to choose, upon the first day of his new administration.
DeSantis as governor has become one of the most popular Republicans in America, with his frequent and vocal opposition to Democratic President Joe Biden and liberal policies on abortion and gender issues winning him large sums from wealthy GOP donors and fueling speculation of a 2024 presidential bid.
In Florida, with the help of the GOP-controlled Legislature, DeSantis has carried out a brash approach to policymaking, exerting unusual control over the state’s congressional redistricting process, suspending an elected prosecutor who pledged not to enforce the 15-week abortion ban and punishing Disney for opposing the law that bars lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-3.
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Mini has rolled out a special version of its two-door John Cooper Works hatchback that celebrates the manual transmission.
It’s called the 2024 Mini John Cooper Works 1to6 Edition, and just 999 examples are planned for sale across Europe and North America. Sales start in September, and Mini hasn’t said how many are earmarked for the U.S.
The vehicle stands out with its black exterior accents replacing the standard chrome, and a unique central stripe made up of tiny H-pattern shift logos common to manual transmissions.
The pattern is also found on the side sills. A “1to6” script is also found throughout the cabin as a nod to the six forward gears of the manual transmission, and the designers have also fitted stainless steel pedals. The standard wheels are an 18-inch set in Mini’s Circuit Spoke design.
Power comes from the familiar 2.0-liter turbo-4 of the John Cooper Works hatch, which is rated at 228 hp and drives the front wheels only.
The John Cooper Works 1to6 Edition will be presented for the first time at this weekend’s 24 Hours of Nürburgring, where German racing team Bulldog Racing is competing with a specially prepared John Cooper Works race car.
Autocar reported on Thursday that the special edition will be the last new Mini with a manual transmission. Mini’s signature hatch is set to be replaced next year by a new generation that will feature distinct designs for the gas and electric models, and if the Autocar report is accurate the new hatch won’t offer a manual transmission.
When asked about the accuracy of the report, a Mini spokesman said the company had no comment at this time.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Legislation banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy will become law in North Carolina after the state’s Republican-controlled General Assembly successfully overrode the Democratic governor’s veto late Tuesday.
The House completed the second and final part of the override vote after a similar three-fifths majority — the fraction necessary — voted for the override earlier Tuesday in the Senate. The party-line outcomes represent a major victory for Republican legislative leaders who needed every GOP member on board to enact the law over Gov. Roy Cooper’s opposition.
Cooper vetoed the measure over the weekend after spending last week traveling around the state to persuade at least one Republican to side with him on the override, which would be enough to uphold his veto. But in the end, the four Republicans targeted by Cooper — including one who recently switched from the Democratic Party — voted to override.
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Republicans pitched the measure as a middle-ground change to state law, which currently bans nearly all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, without exceptions for rape or incest.
The votes came as abortion rights in the U.S. faced another tectonic shift with lawmakers in South Carolina and Nebraska also considering new abortion limits. North Carolina and South Carolina have been two of the few remaining Southern states with relatively easy access.
Such restrictions are possible because the U.S. Supreme Court last year struck down the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which established a nationwide right to abortion.
Under the bill that had been up for a vote Tuesday in the South Carolina House, abortion access would be almost entirely banned after about six weeks of pregnancy — before women often know they’re pregnant. The South Carolina state Senate previously rejected a proposal to nearly outlaw abortions.
However, a final vote would have to wait until later Wednesday after the South Carolina House moved to reconvene at 10 a.m. while the computer system rebooted.
Nationally, bans on abortion throughout pregnancy are in effect in 14 states.
Abortion is banned or severely restricted in much of the South, including bans throughout pregnancy in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. In Georgia, it’s allowed only in the first six weeks.
The Carolinas, Florida and Virginia are now the main destinations in the region for those seeking legal abortions. Florida has a ban that kicks in 15 weeks into pregnancy. Under a recent law, that would tighten to six weeks pending a court ruling. Further west, women often travel to Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico or Colorado.
If both the North and South Carolina bans become law, combined with Florida’s recent ban, “it would be just devastating for abortion access in the South,” Jamie Lockhart, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia, said earlier Tuesday.
After the final vote Tuesday in the North Carolina House, abortion-rights advocates and Democrats in the chamber gallery loudly booed the outcome and shouted “Shame!" Many observers in the gallery were escorted out by General Assembly police.
Similar displeasure poured out after the earlier North Carolina Senate debate, although many anti-abortion demonstrators also were in the audience, pleased with the outcome.
“Today marks the beginning of North Carolina’s first real step towards becoming a pro-life state,” Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of the socially conservative North Carolina Values Coalition, said after the House vote.
Senate Republicans said Cooper ignored $160 million within the measure that would boost funding to increase contraceptive services, reduce infant and maternal mortality and provide paid maternity leave for state employees and teachers.
“This bill provides resources for the pregnant woman. It provides broad resources and a significant knowledge base to enable her, to equip her in finding a path forward — a path forward for her, and a path forward for her unborn child," said Rep. Kristin Baker, a Cabarrus County Republican and psychiatrist.
The new abortion limits set to take effect July 1 also will include rape or incest exceptions through 20 weeks of pregnancy and exceptions for “life-limiting” fetal anomalies during the first 24 weeks. An existing exception for when the life of the pregnant woman is in danger will remain.
Democrats focused on details of the abortion rules, which they said would place barriers between women and their doctors, leaving those who are pregnant in danger, with less access to abortion services.
“Women did not ask for your oversight. We didn’t ask for your approval,” Rep. Julie von Haefen, a Wake County Democrat, told GOP colleagues. “It’s our fundamental right to make decisions about our own bodies and our own health care.”
Cooper said in a statement after the vote that he'll “continue doing everything I can to protect abortion access in North Carolina because women’s lives depend on it.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the law ”will make it even more difficult for women to get the reproductive health care they need."
North Carolina Republicans were able to complete the override due in large part to Mecklenburg County Rep. Tricia Cotham's party switch to the GOP last month. That gave Republicans veto-proof seat majorities in both chambers.
Cotham has supported abortion rights in the past. She said in a statement late Tuesday that the bill “strikes a reasonable balance” that anyone not holding “extremist positions” on abortion can support.
In South Carolina, the impasse dates back to a special session last fall when House lawmakers demanding a near-total ban did not meet to negotiate with their Senate counterparts pushing for a ban around six weeks.
The stalemate persisted even after the state Supreme Court in January struck down a previous law banning abortions once cardiac activity is detected.
That decision left abortion legal through 22 weeks of pregnancy. A sharp increase in abortions since then has rankled Republicans.
The House was weighing a Senate bill similar to the one they denied last year. The measure would ban abortion when an ultrasound detects cardiac activity, around six weeks.
A late night is expected even after Republicans invoked rules to limit debate. House Speaker Murrell Smith has said the chamber will not adjourn until the measure gets approval. Democrats slowed the process Tuesday by speaking for all three allotted minutes on each of their hundreds of amendments and forcing other procedural votes.
In Nebraska, conservatives in the Legislature got just enough votes Tuesday to fold a proposed 12-week abortion ban into a bill that would ban gender-affirming health for minors.
Throughout, hundreds of protesters filled the Capitol rotunda just outside the chamber doors, nearly drowning out debate at times with chants, shouts and foot stomping.
The plan won the 33 votes it needed in the state's one-chamber, officially nonpartisan legislature to end debate and set up other votes to advance it. It must now survive a final round, which could happen as soon as Thursday, to pass.
In Montana, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte’s office announced Tuesday that he had signed into law a bill that makes performing the abortion method most commonly used after 15 weeks of gestation a felony. Planned Parenthood of Montana asked a judge to temporarily block the ban on dilation and evacuation abortions.
A separate challenge to abortion access will be considered Wednesday, when a federal appeals court hears arguments on whether the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the widely used abortion drug mifepristone should be overturned. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will review a ruling last month by a federal judge in Texas who ordered a hold on approval of mifepristone, a decision that overruled two decades of scientific approval of the drug. That ruling was stayed while the appeal is pending.
The three judges who will hear the case each have a history of supporting restrictions on abortion. A ruling is not expected immediately.
Lavoie reported from Richmond, Virginia. Associated Press writers James Pollard and Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, Geoff Mulvihill in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Amy Beth Hanson in Helena, Montana and Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Virginia contributed to this report. Schoenbaum and Pollard are corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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(WXIN) — Taco Bell is helping customers celebrate National Taco Day by offering a month-long taco pass.
Only on Tuesday (National Taco Day), Taco Bell Rewards members can buy the Taco Lover’s Pass for $10 (plus tax).
The pass allows Rewards members to redeem one taco a day for 30 consecutive days. Any of the following seven tacos qualify for the promotion:
- Crunchy Taco
- Crunchy Taco Supreme
- Soft Taco
- Soft Taco Supreme
- Spicy Potato Soft Taco
- Doritos® Locos Tacos
- Doritos® Locos Tacos Supreme
Once the pass is purchased through the Taco Bell app, a “hidden category will unlock on the app menu,” according to a company release.
“We’re always looking at offers and innovations that are unique to our brand but most importantly, unrivaled value for our Taco Bell fandom,” said Sean Tresvant, Taco Bell’s global chief brand officer.
The limited Taco Lover’s Pass was first introduced in January 2022, according to the company’s official Twitter.
This is the first time it will be available since its January debut. Once the promotional 30 days are up, the hidden category will be removed from the app.
According to Taco Bell, Rewards members can only have one pass active at a time.
The origins of National Taco Day date as far back as 1968 and were originally part of a proposed National Taco Week. The original date was Oct. 3 based on the birthday of the head of the San Antonio (Texas) Social Civic Organization, according to L.A. Taco. But when the SASCO leader died in 1983, so did the promotion of National Taco Day.
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NC State vs. Princeton Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - NCAA Tournament First Round
Published: Mar. 16, 2023 at 3:41 AM EDT|Updated: 3 hours ago
Friday's game that pits the NC State Wolfpack (20-11) versus the Princeton Tigers (23-5) at Jon M. Huntsman Center has a good chance to be a tight matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 64-62 in favor of NC State. Tipoff is at 10:00 PM ET on March 17.
In their most recent outing on Friday, the Wolfpack suffered a 66-60 loss to Notre Dame.
NC State vs. Princeton Game Info
- When: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 10:00 PM ET
- Where: Jon M. Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, Utah
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN2
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NC State vs. Princeton Score Prediction
- Prediction: NC State 64, Princeton 62
NC State Schedule Analysis
- Against the No. 3 Iowa Hawkeyes on December 1, the Wolfpack captured their signature win of the season, a 94-81 road victory.
- Against Quadrant 1 teams, the Wolfpack are 6-8 (.429%) -- tied for the 22nd-most victories, but also tied for the 43rd-most losses.
- Against Quadrant 2 opponents, NC State is 6-2 (.750%) -- tied for the 21st-most wins.
NC State 2022-23 Best Wins
- 94-81 on the road over Iowa (No. 3/AP Poll) on December 1
- 69-65 at home over Notre Dame (No. 10/AP Poll) on January 29
- 63-51 on the road over Louisville (No. 19) on January 22
- 77-66 at home over North Carolina (No. 20/AP Poll) on February 16
- 65-57 at home over South Florida (No. 38) on December 11
Princeton Schedule Analysis
- The Tigers took down the Columbia Lions (No. 45 in our computer rankings) in a 74-56 win on February 4 -- their best win of the season.
- The Tigers have two wins versus Quadrant 1 opponents, tied for the 49th-most in Division 1.
- Princeton has tied for the 43rd-most Quadrant 2 victories in the country (four).
Princeton 2022-23 Best Wins
- 74-56 on the road over Columbia (No. 45) on February 4
- 54-48 at home over Harvard (No. 72) on March 11
- 51-47 at home over Harvard (No. 72) on February 24
- 62-58 on the road over Seton Hall (No. 73) on November 14
- 56-54 at home over Rhode Island (No. 75) on December 28
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NC State Performance Insights
- The Wolfpack outscore opponents by 8.6 points per game (scoring 71.1 points per game to rank 67th in college basketball while giving up 62.5 per contest to rank 127th in college basketball) and have a +265 scoring differential overall.
- NC State's offense has been less productive in ACC action this year, tallying 65.2 points per contest, compared to its season average of 71.1 PPG.
- Offensively, the Wolfpack have fared better at home this season, posting 75.9 points per game, compared to 63.5 per game in road games.
- Defensively, NC State has played better at home this season, ceding 59.3 points per game, compared to 67.6 in away games.
- The Wolfpack's offense has been less productive over their last 10 games, racking up 64.5 points a contest compared to the 71.1 they've averaged this season.
Princeton Performance Insights
- The Tigers put up 65.6 points per game (165th in college basketball) while giving up 52.5 per contest (fifth in college basketball). They have a +367 scoring differential and outscore opponents by 13.1 points per game.
- In Ivy League games, Princeton has averaged 1.2 more points (66.8) than overall (65.6) in 2022-23.
- The Tigers are putting up fewer points at home (63.5 per game) than on the road (67.9).
- At home Princeton is conceding 49.5 points per game, 6.4 fewer points than it is on the road (55.9).
- While the Tigers are putting up 65.6 points per game in 2022-23, they have improved that mark over their last 10 games, amassing 66.4 a contest.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Nobel Peace Prize auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold Monday night for $103.5 million, shattering the old record for a Nobel.
A spokesperson for Heritage Auctions, which handled the sale, could not confirm the identity of the buyer but said the winning bid was made by proxy. The $103.5 million sale translates to $100 million Swiss francs, hinting that the buyer is from overseas.
“I was hoping that there was going to be an enormous amount of solidarity, but I was not expecting this to be such a huge amount,” Muratov said in an interview after bidding in the nearly 3-week auction ended on World Refugee Day.
Previously, the most ever paid for a Nobel Prize medal was $4.76 million in 2014, when James Watson, whose co-discovery of the structure of DNA earned him a Nobel Prize in 1962, sold his. Three years later, the family of his co-recipient, Francis Crick, received $2.27 million in bidding also run by Heritage Auctions.
Muratov, who was awarded the gold medal in October 2021, helped found the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and was the publication’s editor-in-chief when it shut down in March amid the Kremlin’s clampdown on journalists and public dissent in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
It was Muratov’s idea to auction off his prize, having already announced he was donating the accompanying $500,000 cash award to charity.
Muratov has said the proceeds will go directly to UNICEF in its efforts to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine. Just minutes after bidding ended, UNICEF told the auction house it had already received the funds.
Online bids had begun June 1 to coincide with the International Children’s Day observance. Many bids came by telephone or online. The winning bid, tendered by telephone, catapulted the bidding from the low millions to astronomical levels.
Muratov had left Russia on Thursday to begin his trip to New York City, where live bidding began Monday evening.
Early Monday, the high bid was only $550,000. The purchase price had been expected to spiral upward — but not over $100 million.
“I can’t believe it. I’m awestruck. Personally, I’m flabbergasted. I’m stunned. I don’t really know what happened in there,” said Joshua Benesh, the chief strategy officer for Heritage Auctions.
“We knew that there was a tremendous groundswell of interest in the last couple of days by people who were moved by Dimitry’s story, by Dimitry’s act of generosity, that the global audience was listening tonight,” he said.
Muratov and Heritage officials said even those out of the bidding can still help by donating directly to UNICEF.
Muratov shared the Nobel Peace Prize last year with journalist Maria Ressa of the Philippines.
The two journalists, who each received their own medals, were honored for their battles to preserve free speech in their respective countries, despite coming under attack by harassment, their governments and even death threats.
Melted down, the 175 grams of 23-karat gold contained in Muratov’s medal would be worth about $10,000.
Muratov has been highly critical of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and the war launched in February that has caused nearly 5 million Ukrainians to flee to other countries for safety, creating the largest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II.
Independent journalists in Russia have come under scrutiny by the Kremlin, if not outright targets of the government. Since Putin came into power more than two decades ago, nearly two dozen journalists have been killed, including at least four who had worked for Muratov’s newspaper.
In April, Muratov said he was attacked with red paint while aboard a Russian train.
Since its inception in 1901, there have been nearly 1,000 recipients of the Nobel Prizes honoring achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and the advancement of peace.
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Are you ready to go back to Pandora, moviegoers?
Only 13 years after Avatar opened in theaters and sailed past Titanic to become the worldwide highest-grossing movie of all time, and eight years after its tentative first release date, Avatar: The Way of Water is no longer unobtanium. It has arrived at a big screen near you in all its visually superior glory—achieved, just like its predecessor, using technological marvels that had to be invented or fine-tuned expressly for this production.
Not that James Cameron wants you to focus on that part. (Or the three-hour, 12-minute run time.)
"I just wish everybody would realize the last thing in the world I want to talk about is the technology," the director, who penned the screenplay for the original and then turned over 800 pages of world-expanding notes to married writing partners Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver to work on the sequels, told the South China Morning Post. "I'm a writer, I want to talk about the characters, I want to talk about the actors, I want to talk about the cast and how they interpreted those characters, and the dramatic and emotional impact that that creates."
In fact, he added, "I'm bored with the technology! You can't imagine anybody sitting at home and saying, 'Honey, let's go to the movies, they got some new technology!'"
Well, Cameron and returning stars Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver can talk about characters and the emotional aspect and the timeless relevance (the plundering of natural resources, corporate greed, the military industrial complex) all they want. But we're guessing a portion of the $2.7 billion the first Avatar made came from people who wanted, more than anything, to see just how spectacular a 3-D viewing experience could really be.
Which, under Cameron's stewardship, was very.
As with the original, the performance capture sequences for Avatar: The Way of Water were shot primarily in Los Angeles, while the special effect work was done by Peter Jackson's Wellington, New Zealand-based Wētā FX (formerly Wētā Digital). Avatar had 2,500 visual effects shots, while the sequel has a reported 3,250, worked on by a team of 1,300 artists.
In 2012, Cameron spent a reported $16 million on 2,500 acres of farmland by Lake Pounui in New Zealand's Wairarapa Valley to serve as his home base for the making of his still-planned four Avatar sequels—though at the time he was still busy writing at his Malibu home.
The reigning King of the World told E! News that year while promoting the Blu-ray release of Titanic that he was "in the very early stages" of making the as-yet untitled Avatar 2 and 3.
"We've spent the last two years building tools and software to make it a very smooth pipeline for what will be a very big and difficult project," he explained.
And he wasn't exaggerating.
"Basically, whenever you add water to any problem, it just gets 10 times harder," Cameron told Collider in 2017. "So, we've thrown a lot of horsepower, innovation, imagination, and new technology at the problem, and it's taken us about a year and a half now to work out how we're going to do it."
After 18 months of performance-capture work in L.A., which they finished in November 2019, Cameron planned to get rolling on live action filming in New Zealand in early 2020. Production was shut down that March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but resumed in June and they wrapped in September 2020.
In July, the New Zealand Film Commission said the Avatar sequels had, all told, received more than $140 million from the government's Screen Production Grant. In response to critics outraged by the idea of taxpayers funding a series of mega-movies, Film Commission Acting Chief Executive Mladen Ivancic told NewstalkZB that the productions had provided jobs, promoted tourism and otherwise injected plenty of money and intangible benefits back into the local economy.
"Productions like Avatar also shine the spotlight on New Zealand," Ivancic said, "raising the capability and experience of the New Zealand crews working on them, exposing them to leading technology and innovation from around the world."
Besides, Cameron is practically a hometown son by now.
"Good things take time, I think, and Jim understands that," Worthington told E! News' Francesca Amiker recently, as he and Saldaña agreed, simply, that Cameron was the reason they had no qualms about committing to what's been a decade-plus-long saga. "This was his labor of love."
"But," added the Australian-raised actor, whose paraplegic ex-Marine Jake Sully decided at the end of Avatar that he'd rather fight for the Na'vi way of life alongside love Neytiri (Saldaña), "we didn't take the 10 years off, or the 13 years off. It was about 2013 when [Cameron] said to us, 'I know how to extend this story and extend this family, and tell a great saga."
At that time, Saldaña noted, "it had only been three years since we had released the movie."
Worthington added, "We were excited about the potential of what he was telling us."
"And here's the beautiful thing," Saldaña continued, "if there's anyone who has complete and utter respect for audiences and fans, it's James Cameron. Yes, he could've taken advantage of the momentum of Avatar 1 and whipped out a formulaic Avatar 2— and then it would have lost its purity, the essence of what made it so special. So, good things do take time. He did have to take a break and go live his life. He did more expeditions, he spent time with his family that are his ride-or-die—especially Suzy—that always have his back and are really holding down the fort."
That would be wife Suzy Cameron, née Amis, who played Rose's granddaughter in Titanic and fell for the director. Eventually.
"People always ask if it was love at first sight," she told Woman's Day in 2018. "It wasn't, but he was really cool. We're both thrill-seekers, and love scuba diving and flying planes."
And those expeditions would be Cameron's forays to the bottom of the ocean, the filmmaker a what-lies-beneath enthusiast in real life as well as in his cinematic endeavors. He and good friend Bill Paxton teamed up for an excursion to the real murky resting place of the Titanic that was chronicled in 2002's Ghosts of the Abyss, and Cameron later starred in the documentaries Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron in 2012 and Atlantis Rising in 2017.
The 68-year-old is also one of the few people alive who's been to the Challenger Deep, a portion of the Mariana Trench that contains the deepest water on earth.
And, as it was once rumored, so it came to pass that much of the action of Avatar: The Way of Water takes place beneath the surface of the Pandoran oceans.
Cameron called his Avatar stars in 2015, Saldaña recalled to E!, to invite them to come to the studio for an update on his vision. "And that's when we learned it's not just a sequel," said the MCU star, who since the original has become a mother of three. "It's four more chapters of this beautiful saga."
Cameron told GQ recently that in addition to Avatar: The Way of Water he had also shot the third movie and the first part of the fourth, and had a script for the fifth (now all respectively slated for 2024, 2026 and 2028).
"All of that time he took living and catching up with his life is what inspired him," Saldaña said, "and gave him the ability to be revisited by this story—when the story was ready to be told again." She was "sobbing" as Cameron explained Neytiri's emotional journey as a wife, mother and warrior, she recalled, "and I could not wait to get back to Pandora."
Jake, meanwhile, is now "fully Na'vi in a genetically engineered body," Cameron told SCMP, and the consciousness of Colonel Miles Quaritch, who was killed in the original, has been installed in a new avatar, hence the return of Stephen Lang.
Weaver, who first worked with Cameron on 1986's Aliens, is also back for the sequels, though now as Kiri, Jake and Neytiri's adopted daughter—so she, too, had to really trust the process.
"I still had no idea that it would work as well as it does," she told ScreenRant earlier this month. As opposed to Weaver's previous character, Dr. Grace Augustine, Kiri's "really different and very gentle. And so I thought the whole thing was such an amazing experience...immersive and just dazzling."
Speaking of actors who, when Cameron points to a tank of water and says "Get in," they ask How deep?": New franchise addition Kate Winslet—playing Na'vi free diver Ronal—broke the six-minute record previously set by Tom Cruise (while making 2015's Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation) by holding her breath under water for seven minutes and 14 seconds.
"There was just no way I was going to say no," Winslet said about signing on to work with Cameron again, 20 years after Titanic, telling ScreenRant, "When he first talked to me about playing this part, and he described Ronal, he said, 'Look, she's the matriarch, she's the female goddess warrior leader of her clan.' I mean, who writes roles like that for women? And it's not just that they're strong women, it's that these women that he conceives of in his mind are physically bionic."
And then they appear in the form of Winslet practically sprouting gills on set.
Performance-capture filming is usually all on dry land, the Oscar winner explained, calling it the "purest form of acting because you have cameras all over the studio." Shooting underwater, however, "is definitely a lot more challenging. Because of course you're holding your breath, you can't release your bubbles, otherwise it's just a bubbly old mess and the camera doesn't see anything. So it was, yeah, a lot to learn, but we were all doing it together. So yeah, it made everything feel very kind of collaborative and fun."
And no technology can replicate that.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Milton Powell, a Houston rapper who performed under the name Big Pokey and is credited with elevating the city’s hip-hop scene, died after collapsing during a show in Texas, a local official said Monday.
Tom Gillam III, a justice of the peace in Jefferson County, where Powell was performing when he collapsed Sunday, said an autopsy to determine the cause of death was pending. He said Powell was 48.
Powell was a member of Houston’s rap collective Screwed Up Click, which was formed by the late DJ Screw. Powell was performing at a bar in Beaumont called Pour09, whose owner, Min Dai, told the Houston Chronicle that police were onsite and able to provide medical help “instantly” before emergency responders rushed the rapper to a hospital.
A statement on Powell’s official Instagram page said he was “well loved by his family, friends, and his loyal fans.”
Tributes from other artists poured in across social media.
Rapper Bun B called Powell “one of the most naturally talented artists” in Houston.
“He’d pull up, do what he had to do and head home. One of the pillars of our city,” Bun B said on Instagram. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/rapper-big-pokey-dies-after-collapsing-at-texas-show/ | 2023-06-20 12:08:30 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/rapper-big-pokey-dies-after-collapsing-at-texas-show/ |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Another U.S. congressional delegation is visiting Taiwan as tensions with China remain high over its claims to the self-governed island.
A steady stream of U.S. visitors has come to meet with Taiwanese officials since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited in early August. China in response has stepped up its military harassment of Taiwan, sending warships, warplanes and drones toward the island daily.
Led by Florida Democrat Stephanie Murphy, the delegation met Thursday with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, whose administration China has relentlessly sought to deprive of diplomatic recognition and participation in international organizations.
Referring to China’s military threats, Tsai said the delegation’s visit “conveys rock solid support for Taiwan from the U.S. Congress.”
“Taiwan will not bow to pressure or coercion,” Tsai said. “We will defend our democratic institutions and way of life. Taiwan will not back down.”
Murphy replied that Congress “should advocate for greater Taiwanese participation in international organizations.”
“Taiwan has shown itself to be a responsible member of the international community, especially in public health issues, and it deserves to participate in international fora when appropriate,” she said.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Thursday said China “strongly rejects and deplores” the congressional visit, saying it violates the U.S. commitment to the “one-China policy” that forbids formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
“We will continue to take strong measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Mao said at a daily briefing.
Under the U.S. system of separation of powers, the executive branch of government has no legal right to prevent members of Congress from visiting Taiwan. China has repeatedly refused to recognize that principle.
Mao also cautioned Japan not to allow a Taiwanese government official to attend an official funeral for ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. China strongly protested after Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te paid his respects at Abe’s Tokyo residence following his assassination in July.
“Japan should … not provide the Taiwan independence force any platforms for political manipulation,” Mao said. Throughout his political career, Abe was a strong supporter of Taiwan, a Japanese colony for 50 years until the end of World War II which maintains close political, economic and social ties with Japan.
Murphy, who was born in Hanoi to Vietnamese parents, is among lawmakers who introduced a bill that would allow the U.S. to lend weapons to support Taiwan, similar to a bill that was passed to lend weapons to Ukraine. Last week, the Biden administration approved a $1 billion arms sale to Taiwan.
Murphy also said deepening economic relations with Taiwan was “one of the most important things Congress can do right now,” particularly by pushing for a “high-quality free trade agreement” between the sides. Negotiations are underway between the Biden and Tsai administrations on a trade pact.
The other American lawmakers visiting are Hawaii Democrat Kaiali’i Kahele and Republicans Scott Franklin of Florida, Joe Wilson of South Carolina, Andy Barr of Kentucky, Darrell Issa of California, Claudia Tenney of New York and Kat Cammack of Florida.
Pelosi was the highest-level member of the U.S. government to visit Taiwan in 25 years. China responded by holding extended military exercises that included firing missiles over the island and sending ships across the midline of the Taiwan Strait, which was long a buffer between the two sides. Some of the missiles landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
China sees high-level foreign visits to the island as interference in its affairs and de facto recognition of Taiwanese sovereignty. China’s recent military drills were seen by some as a rehearsal of future military action against the island, which U.S. military leaders say could come within the next few years.
In Beijing on Wednesday, Mao said China’s opposition to defense cooperation between Washington and Taipei is “consistent and clear.”
“We will resolutely respond to acts that undermine China’s sovereignty and security and interfere in our internal affairs,” Mao told reporters at a daily briefing, without giving details.
Following Pelosi’s trip, a U.S. senator and another congressional delegation visited Taiwan, as well as officials from Japan and Palau. Governors from Arizona and Indiana made visits with a focus on semiconductors, an industry which Taiwanese companies dominate. | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-another-us-congressional-delegation-in-taiwan-amid-tensions/ | 2022-09-08 18:07:59 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-another-us-congressional-delegation-in-taiwan-amid-tensions/ |
WIMBLEDON, England — Carlos Alcaraz said he wanted another shot at Novak Djokovic. Said it would make winning a Wimbledon championship more special. Well, Alcaraz got his chance to face Djokovic. And he beat him.
Alcaraz put aside a poor start and surged down the stretch to end Djokovic's 34-match winning streak at the All England Club by edging him 1-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 in an engaging, back-and-forth final on Sunday, claiming his first championship at Wimbledon and second Grand Slam trophy overall.
The No. 1-ranked Alcaraz prevented Djokovic from what would have been a record-tying eighth title, and fifth in a row, at the grass-court tournament. Djokovic also was kept from claiming his 24th career major.
Instead of Djokovic, a 36-year-old from Serbia, becoming the oldest male champion at Wimbledon in the Open era, Alcaraz, a 20-year-old from Spain, became the third-youngest. The age gap between the two was the widest in any men's Slam final since 1974.
So Alcaraz had youth on his side, which he also did, of course, when they met at the French Open last month. That one was extraordinary for two sets before Alcaraz cramped up and faded. This time, he had the stamina and the strokes to get past Djokovic.
Alcaraz is faster and capable of more power — serves topping 130 mph, forehands topping 100 mph — but Djokovic is equipped with an abundance of talents and so much muscle memory. He's been there, and done that, in ways Alcaraz, for now, can only dream of.
But if this victory on a windy and cloudy day at Centre Court, where Djokovic last lost in the 2013 final, was any indication, Alcaraz is on his way to achieving quite a bit himself.
Still, this is all relatively new to him: Djokovic's record 35th Grand Slam final was Alcaraz's second.
Yet it was Alcaraz who won a 32-point, 25-minute mini-masterpiece of a game on the way to taking the third set. And it was Alcaraz who moved out front for good by breaking to go up 2-1 in the fifth with a backhand passing winner. Djokovic, who fell during the point but quickly popped back up, reacted by slamming his racket into the net post, letting go on impact. He destroyed his equipment and earned a code violation from chair umpire Fergus Murphy.
They would play on for another 24 minutes, bringing the total to more than 4 1/2 hours, but Alcaraz never relented, never gave way. And it was Alcaraz, not Djokovic, receiving the trophy in the evening.
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VALLETTA, Malta, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kindred Group, via its wholly owned Maltese subsidiary Trannel International Ltd, has been informed that the Norwegian Gaming Authority has decided to reinstate the coercive fine against Trannel International despite the changes Kindred Group has undertaken. Kindred Group disagrees with the legal basis for the non-enforceable fine and will continue to challenge this in the courts.
Kindred Group plc (Kindred) has during the past month, via its wholly owned Maltese subsidiary Trannel International Ltd (Trannel), performed several changes in its offering to ensure compliance with the requirements set out by the Norwegian Gaming Authority (NGA) in the cease-and-desist order from 2019.
These changes have been undertaken to clarify that the company is not targeting Norwegian residents.
Kindred is implementing the following changes in line with requirements from the NGA:
- Changing the language on all sites from Norwegian to English
- Removing any Norwegian flags from websites and channels
- Changing name on Storspiller to non-Norwegian name
- Discontinuing all advertising and marketing activities in Norwegian
- Ceasing to offer Norwegian speaking customer service agents
Despite of these changes and Trannel's clear communication to the contrary, the NGA incorrectly claims that Trannel's offering still targets Norwegian residents and has therefore decided to reinstate the coercive fine.
Trannel firmly disagrees with the NGA's assessment as it is fully legal for Norwegian residents to access and use international gambling services, which are licensed in the EU/EEA area and offered within a safe and secure environment, Kindred will continue to passively accept customers residing in Norway. The NGA does not have jurisdiction over Trannel as the company is domiciled in Malta and duly licensed by the Maltese Gaming Authority. Therefore, Kindred is confident that the coercive fine cannot be enforced by the NGA outside of Norway.
Kindred has for an extended period applied for a gambling licence in Norway as the company wish to be an active part of Norwegian society and contribute through taxes, investments in sports, supporting NGOs and research institutes.
Kindred strongly believes that a locally licensed, transparent and non-discriminatory gambling market in Norway where responsible operators can operate under the supervision of competent authorities is the best solution for Norwegian society, players and operators.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Until June 15, drivers can expect east to westbound alternating lane restrictions between Kino Blvd. and Kolb Rd. The restrictions are to happen during 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
The Arizona Department of Transportation is continuing progress on the Ajo Way to milepost 272 pavement rehabilitation project.
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"Racial disparities" continue to be a focus for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, according to a recent appearance on MSNBC’s "PoliticsNation" on Saturday.
MSNBC host Al Sharpton sat down with Buttigieg and questioned him about his dedication to addressing inequality regarding road fatalities.
"A lot of people don’t understand, even down to road fatalities, it is not equal," Sharpton said.
"It’s something that deserves more attention, which is why I’m working to bring more attention to it. We have a crisis when it comes to roadway fatalities in America. We lose about 40,000 people every year. It’s a level that is comparable to gun violence. And we see a lot of racial disparities. Black and Brown Americans, tribal citizens and rural restaurants are much more likely to lose their lives whether it’s in a car or as a pedestrian being hit by a car," Buttigieg said.
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He continued, "There are a lot of reasons related to discrimination and related to even the ways that roads are designed and built, who has access to a safe street design that has crosswalks and good lighting, who doesn’t have that access that can drive disparities, and we have a responsibility to act on that."
Buttigieg has previously highlighted discrimination within America’s infrastructure.
"What we’re doing is we are reconnecting people who may have been disconnected or divided by discriminatory decisions in the past," Buttigieg said in November 2021.. "That helps everybody. I don’t know why anybody would be against reconnecting people who have been divided by discriminatory decisions in the past."
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Buttigieg’s appearance on MSNBC also followed more than two dozen Democrats signing a letter to call for reform to "racist traffic enforcement" in the nation’s roadways.
"On our nation’s roads and highways, Black motorists have experienced disproportionate scrutiny and excessive force under the guise of traffic enforcement," the letter read. "As Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), we urge you to condemn the status quo of traffic enforcement and develop reforms to reduce racial inequities in traffic stops."
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The letter was signed by notable progressives Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Mass., Cori Bush, Mo., Jamaal Bowman, N.Y., and Ilhan Omar, Minn.
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Cook County prosecutors have charged the former head of food services at a south suburban school district of engaging in a massive embezzlement scheme in which she allegedly stole more than 11,000 cases of chicken wings and $1.5 million in taxpayer funds over a 19-month period, court documents revealed.
Vera Liddell, who worked as the director of food services at Harvey School District 152, was charged with felony continuing financial crimes enterprise and theft exceeding $1,000,000, also a felony, according to a proffer filed in Cook County Circuit Court.
Prosecutors allege Liddell placed hundreds of unauthorized orders for food items, particularly chicken wings, with the district's main supplier, Gordon Food Services, from July 2020 to February 2022. While Liddell placed the orders separate from the district's legitimate orders, Gordon Food Services billed the school district for the items, believing Liddell was authorized to make the purchases on its behalf, court documents state.
In January 2022, the school district's business manager conducted an audit of departments and discovered the food service department had exceeded its annual budget by $300,000, and the school year was only half over at that point, according to the proffer. The business manager later found invoices signed by Liddell for "massive quantities" of chicken wings, an item that typically wouldn't be served to students because they contain bones, documents stated.
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As part of an investigation, interviews were conducted with Gordon Food Services employees who said they were familiar with Liddell because of the massive quantities of chicken wings she would purchase, according to prosecutors. Surveillance video showed Liddell would arrive at the Gordon Food Services facility to pick up the food, sign an electronic keypad acknowledging she received the chicken wings and then billed the school district for the items, according to the proffer.
She would then leave with the food in one of the district's cargo vans without ever bringing the items to school buildings, the documents stated. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/suburban-school-cafeteria-worker-stole-11k-cases-of-chicken-wings-in-1-5m-embezzlement-scheme-prosecutors/3181966/ | 2023-01-30 22:42:23 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/suburban-school-cafeteria-worker-stole-11k-cases-of-chicken-wings-in-1-5m-embezzlement-scheme-prosecutors/3181966/ |
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced the pricing of an offering of $150 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.00% convertible senior notes due 2027 (the "notes"). The notes are being offered and sold only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. In connection with the offering of the notes, Novavax has granted to the initial purchasers a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional $25.25 million aggregate principal amount of the notes. The offering of the notes is expected to close on December 20, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
The notes will represent senior unsecured obligations of Novavax and will accrue interest payable semi-annually in arrears and will mature on December 15, 2027, unless earlier converted, redeemed or repurchased. Novavax will settle conversions by paying or delivering, as applicable, cash, shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share ("common stock"), or a combination of cash and shares of its common stock, at Novavax' election. The notes will be redeemable, in whole or in part (subject to certain limitations), for cash at Novavax' option at any time, and from time to time, on or after December 22, 2025, if the last reported sale price of common stock has been at least 130% of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive), during any 30 consecutive trading day period (including the last trading day of such period) ending on and including the trading day immediately preceding the date on which Novavax provides notice of redemption at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed, plus any accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date.
The notes will be convertible at an initial conversion rate of 80.0000 shares of common stock per $1,000 principal amount of notes (equivalent to an initial conversion price of $12.50 per share, which represents a conversion premium of 25% of the public offering price in the concurrent common stock offering described below).
J.P. Morgan, Jefferies and Cowen are acting as joint book-running managers and representatives of the initial purchasers for the offering of the notes. J. Wood Capital Advisors served as financial advisor to the Company in relation to the offering of the notes.
Concurrently with the offering of the notes, Novavax also announced today the pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering to sell up to 6,500,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $10.00 per share, or $65 million worth of shares of its common stock. In connection with the common stock offering, Novavax granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 975,000 shares of its common stock at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The offering of the notes is not contingent upon the consummation of the concurrent common stock offering, and the concurrent common stock offering is not contingent upon the consummation of the offering of the notes. The concurrent common stock offering is expected to close on December 20, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
Novavax may use the net proceeds from the offering of the notes and, if consummated, the concurrent common stock offering, for general corporate purposes, including but not limited to the continued global commercial launch of Nuvaxovid, repayment or repurchase of a portion of the $325 million in outstanding principal amount of its 3.75% convertible senior unsecured notes due February 1, 2023, working capital, capital expenditures, research and development expenditures, clinical trial expenditures, repayments under its supply agreements, as well as acquisitions and other strategic purposes.
Novavax estimates that the net proceeds from the offering of the notes will be approximately $142.2 million (or approximately $166.3 million if the initial purchasers exercise in full their option to purchase additional notes), after deducting the initial purchasers' discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by Novavax.
The offer and sale of the notes are not being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or any state securities laws. The notes may not be offered or sold in the U.S. except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws.
The notes are being offered only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act. The offer and sale of the notes and any shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the notes have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act or any other securities laws, and the notes and any such shares cannot be offered or sold absent registration or except pursuant to an applicable exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any other applicable securities laws.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities being offered, nor shall there be any sale of the securities being offered in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) is a biotechnology company that promotes improved health globally through the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative vaccines to prevent serious infectious diseases. The company's proprietary recombinant technology platform harnesses the power and speed of genetic engineering to efficiently produce highly immunogenic nanoparticles designed to address urgent global health needs. The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine has received authorization from multiple regulatory authorities globally, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Commission, and the World Health Organization. The vaccine is currently under review by multiple regulatory agencies worldwide, including for additional indications and populations such as adolescents and as a booster. In addition to its COVID-19 vaccine, Novavax is also currently evaluating its COVID-19-Influenza Combination (CIC) vaccine candidate in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial, its quadrivalent influenza investigational vaccine candidate, and an Omicron strain-based vaccine (NVX-CoV2515) as well as a bivalent format Omicron-based / original strain-based vaccine. These vaccine candidates incorporate Novavax' proprietary saponin-based Matrix-M adjuvant to enhance the immune response and stimulate high levels of neutralizing antibodies.
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements regarding the ability of Novavax to successfully complete the offerings, the estimated net proceeds of the offerings and Novavax' anticipated use of proceeds. Novavax cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Applicable risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those related to whether or not Novavax will be able to consummate the potential offerings on the timelines or with the terms anticipated, if at all, and the possible adverse impact on the market price of the shares of its common stock. In addition, Novavax' management retains broad discretion with respect to the allocation of the net proceeds of the offerings. Applicable risks also include those that are listed under the heading "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in Novavax' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and Novavax' Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2022, in addition to the risk factors that are included from time to time in Novavax' subsequent SEC filings. The forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this document, and Novavax undertakes no obligation to update or revise any of the statements. Novavax' business is subject to substantial risks and uncertainties, including those referenced above. Investors, potential investors, and others should give careful consideration to these risks and uncertainties. All forward‐looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
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I don’t think I’m revealing any trade secrets when I say that the left in the United States is not ascendant in politics these days. When its most urgent task may be to stop an authoritarian party from taking control of the government — and it’s not clear it can do that — then it’s probably fair to say that when it comes to progressive change, the left is not in the driver’s seat.
This makes it all the more puzzling that large segments of the left have become both siloed and censorious. In general, one does not build a thriving opposition to those in power by adopting strategies that effectively drive people away. Basic group psychology, but there you have it. Both of these trends have been well documented, but there’s a related trend as well, one that is just as important as these although it is a lot less discussed. Much of the left has become humorless. We need a good laugh. Or two.
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Before going any further, let me acknowledge the obvious: The right is not averse to censoriousness and humorlessness. Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, for instance, seems to be fervently hoping to ride censoriousness all the way to the White House. As far as boring humorlessness goes, the last time I checked QAnon was not a laugh riot. Donald Trump may think he’s funny, but since viciousness, as it happens, is not the same thing as humor, he is probably getting some bad counsel from his comedy advisers.
However, if the goal is to go from not having power to having power, then you need to find ways to make what you’re doing something that other people also want to do. Humorlessness is not a good strategy for that. And it’s a particularly bad strategy in the current context of rampant authoritarianism, cascading inequality, climate crises, ongoing racism, increasing homophobia, and general planetary brouhaha. People are stressed enough. They don’t need others adding to it. Berating them for their impurity or cluelessness or inadvertent missteps is not likely to draw people’s interest. Giving them a reason to laugh might.
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But can the left really be fun? Can it enjoy itself? Of course!
During a 1967 protest against the war in Vietnam, when troops surrounded the Pentagon to “protect” it from the demonstrators, Abbie Hoffman led a group of people who vowed to levitate the Pentagon, make it turn orange and vibrate, and that would end the war. (It didn’t work.) That was a signature moment in using humor during the antiwar movement. In 2017, the residents of the German town of Wunsiedel responded to a fascist march through their town by turning it into a walkathon in which residents collected money for antiracist organizations for each meter the fascists walked. More recently, protests against the military junta in Myanmar used all kinds of humorous signs and memes to make their point. All of these tactics drew attention not only locally but internationally.
During the Donald Trump Muslim ban, when the administration of my previous university was having difficulty finding the words to oppose the ban, several of us professors organized a series of protests among which was a dance in front of the administration building where we played music from the banned countries, served popcorn, and taught the participants “administration calisthenics,” that is, how to jump around an issue without landing on it. In the interests of forthright honesty, I should add that we did not, alas, receive international attention for our protest, although in the end the administration did sign on to a critical statement.
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But, some will ask, how can you recommend humor at a time like this, with so many intersecting and urgent crises befalling us? It is precisely because there are so many crises befalling us that we need a laugh, although, given the difficulty of our situation, even a chuckle might do nicely. And if the left provides it, humor will draw people in. As the historian and philosopher Michel Foucault famously said, “Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.” More important, humorlessness stifles creativity. How many dour people do you know who are truly creative, especially when it comes to politics?
Finally, there is a relationship between humorlessness and both siloing and censoriousness. It’s that lack of ability to laugh that turns on the solemnity switch associated with an overweening desire to judge people, particularly to find them impure (censoriousness) or unworthy (siloing). To be sure, some people need to be censored. But a lot fewer of them than some people seem to think. At times, in fact, left judgmentalism seems an exercise of what the philosopher Paul Russell aptly called “cruel moralism.”
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Recently, I was driven to the Tampa airport by a self-identified lesbian who told me she had recently moved there from San Francisco because she tired of being hounded by people in the community every time she accidently misgendered someone. Perhaps some on the left might be taking the commitment to appropriate pronouns a wee bit too far, yes?
Unless the left figures out how to make its opposition less solemn and more fun — unless we learn to laugh at ourselves and the crises we face — then our politics will remain on the margins. As the former New York Times columnist Russell Baker once advised in an immortal column, we need to be serious, but not solemn. Let the left, then, follow the sage advice of our previous president (he did say this, didn’t he?), and “Make America Laugh Again.” (Or was it Left Again?)
Todd May teaches philosophy at Warren Wilson College. He is the author of 17 books of philosophy, including “Nonviolent Resistance: A Philosophical Introduction.” | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/01/opinion/left-needs-good-laugh/ | 2023-05-01 07:04:33 | 0 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/01/opinion/left-needs-good-laugh/ |
- AI-powered Optimization of Farming Methods and Projected Yields: Pioneering Innovation in Greenhouse Agriculture
- Strategic Investment Driven by Growth Potential in Smart Farm Market and Scalability of Technology
- SK networks' Commitment to Strengthen Sustainability, DT, and Web3 in Line with Investment Strategy
SEOUL, South Korea, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SK networks, a prominent player in expanding its global investment portfolio in the sustainability sector, has recognized the immense potential of 'Source.ag', a pioneering Dutch startup which empowers growers globally with AI. With a strategic vision in mind, SK networks has announced that it made the decision to invest $2 million in the Series A funding round of $27 million for Source.ag through its US investment corporation, Hico Capital.
Based in the Netherlands, Source.ag is accelerating access to fruit and vegetables by empowering the world's growers with AI, and it has already demonstrated remarkable excellence, enabling successful product commercialization. The company is at the forefront of agricultural innovation through strategic partnerships with industry leaders including Priva, Ridder, Agro Care, and Rainbow Growers Group in the indoor agricultural technology sector.
Source.ag has garnered significant acclaim for its achievement in developing the first-ever AI model that generates optimized farming methods and outcomes for agricultural operations. Their innovative solutions harnesses the power of AI technology to offer-valuable recommendations on ideal planting schedules, strategic pruning techniques, optimal growth environments, and even appropriate harvest timings. Building upon this foundation, the system delivers precise predictions regarding expected yields and profits. By capitalizing on the extensive capabilities offered by Source.ag, farmers can tap into the potential to increase their operating profits through cost reduction measures and the expansion of production capacity.
In the second half of 2023, Source.ag will launch its innovative 'Source Cultivate' module. By utilizing a digital twin of a greenhouse facility, Source Cultivate is able to simulate plant biology and predict expected resource usage and yield for all weeks. This innovative technology is also tailored to specific cultivars, allowing farmers and cultivators to make informed decisions and maximize their crop yields. Source.ag is also actively exploring the development of programs that will encompass manpower management and disease prevention functionalities. These efforts are part of its broader agricultural innovation agenda, aimed at improving labor efficiency, conserving water resources, and reducing chemical usage.
SK networks made the investment decision after carefully assessing the substantial growth prospects in the smart farm market and recognizing Source.ag's technology as a catalyst for enhancing the long-term sustainability of the agricultural sector. An official from SK networks stated, "Source.ag has solidified its position as a prominent player in the Netherlands, a pioneering country in smart farming. As a startup with a scalable SaaS model, it holds immense potential for successful expansion into the global market." The official further emphasized that this investment aligns with SK networks' mission to address global social and economic inequalities as a gatekeeper in the realm of global innovation, surpassing the sole objective of enhancing everyday comfort.
Rien Kamman, CEO and co-founder of Source.ag: ''We are very excited for SK networks' support in our mission to empower the world's growers. We are on a mission to feed our planet's growing population in a durable, resource efficient and healthy manner and will use these funds to accelerate our research and introduce new products that will empower growers worldwide to grow more healthy food, for more people, in a safe, reliable and climate-resilient way. ''
Following its investment in self-driving agricultural machinery company 'Sabanto' in the previous year, SK networks has extended its focus on agricultural technology to include smart farms with this latest investment. Aligning with the company's future strategic direction, it will prioritize sustainability, digital transformation (DT), and Web3, while further refining its investment portfolio through a robust network of high-quality investments and meticulous management processes.
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The project to eliminate 300,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions in Texas
FORT BEND, Texas, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bechtel announced the completion of the Cutlass Solar project in Fort Bend, Texas. The solar photovoltaic project added 140 MWDC to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas' Houston Zone, enough to power approximately 20,000 homes with zero-carbon electricity and eliminate 300,000 metrics tons of CO2 emissions.
"Bechtel is supporting America's energy transition by providing development capital for critical projects like Cutlass, and by building our own specialty solar construction equipment fleet and developing and deploying a digital execution platform for our renewable customers," said Kelley Brown, EPC Operations manager, North America Core Renewables, Bechtel Infrastructure. "We are committed to doing our part to help promote a decarbonized environment for future generations."
Bechtel partnered with Advanced Power in the development of Cutlass Solar through Bechtel Enterprises, the company's project development and financing arm. "This is an important milestone in the long-standing partnership between Advanced Power and Bechtel, "said Matt Strangfeld, managing director, Bechtel Enterprises. "Bechtel is committed to efficiently creating new, high-quality clean energy projects through our integrated project development and construction approach."
At the peak of construction, Bechtel parented with local contractors, and filled more than 300 jobs with workers from the area. Bechtel performed the engineering, procurement, and construction, and provided full turnkey services including the procurement and delivery of nearly 345,000 solar panels—successfully navigating shipping and logistics constraints and the US import requirements in record time. Together with Advanced Power, the owner of the project, Bechtel developed innovative contracting solutions to advance the project and minimize completion delays.
"We are proud to continue our role as global developer, manager, and owner of renewable and low-carbon energy infrastructure in partnership with Bechtel as our EPC," said John Coleman, Advanced Power's director of construction. "Cutlass is the fourth clean power project successfully delivered together that is displacing CO2 emissions around the globe."
Bechtel is currently working on over two gigawatts of solar and wind power projects in various stages of development and construction throughout the United States. Applying its project development capabilities and EPC experience and expertise, Bechtel has capacity to participate in innovative clean energy and renewables projects from the development stage through commissioning and handover to ensure schedule certainty, local content, systems integration, and sustainability.
Cutlass Solar is the fourth project Bechtel has delivered for Advanced Power.
Bechtel is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact. Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
Bechtel Enterprises is the project development and financing services arm of Bechtel, serving customers across all of Bechtel's markets. Bechtel Enterprises has partnered with businesses and governments to complete over 100 infrastructure projects around the globe representing more than $90 billion of capital investment.
Bechtel serves the Energy; Infrastructure; Manufacturing & Technology; Mining & Metals; and Nuclear, Security & Environmental markets. www.bechtel.com
Advanced Power is a privately-owned global developer, manager, and owner of modern power infrastructure. As an independent power producer, the company develops low-carbon and renewable electric generating projects in North America and Europe. Advanced Power presently has 8 gigawatts in development or operations in the United States and Europe.
Advanced Power is focused on advancing a sustainable energy future, bringing reliable energy to places that need it, providing economic benefits and jobs to communities while making massive contributions to reducing CO2 emissions.
Founded in 2000, the company has offices in Boston and Houston and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP)The Green Bay Packers have hired Greg Williams as defensive passing game coordinator, promoted Ryan Downard to defensive backs coach and added the assistant head coach title to special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia.
Packers coach Matt LaFleur announced the staff changes on Friday.
The Packers also have promoted outside linebackers coach Jason Rebrovich to pass rush specialist and hired Tim Lester as senior analyst, Rob Grosso as an offensive quality control coach and Kyle Wilber as special teams quality control coach.
Williams has spent the last four seasons as the Arizona Cardinals’ cornerbacks coach. Downard coached the Packers’ safeties last season after working as an assistant defensive backs coach from 2019-21.
Jerry Gray, who had been the Packers’ defensive backs/passing game coordinator, left to become the Atlanta Falcons’ assistant head coach/defense.
Bisaccia joined the Packers’ staff as special teams coordinator last season and helped Keisean Nixon develop into an All-Pro kick returner.
Lester went 37-32 as Western Michigan’s head coach from 2017-22. Grosso was a defensive quality control coach with the Cardinals from 2019-22. Wilber played in the NFL from 2012-21. —
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FIGGINS, Rosetta "Oma"
Age 81, of Riverside, passed away on Monday, September 5, 2022. Visitation Tuesday, September 13, 2022, at 5pm at the Newcomer North Dayton Chapel, Dayton, OH.
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Funeral Home Information
Newcomer Funeral Home - North Dayton Chapel
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