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Which ‘Bubble Guppies’ toys are best?
The “Bubble Guppies” first swam into our hearts in 2011, when they became a staple of the Nick Jr. lineup. Since then, these CGI cuties have helped teach kids about all sorts of topics and life lessons. You can invite these little merpeople into your home in the form of “Bubble Guppies” toys. From playsets to toy cars, plush dolls and bath toys, “Bubble Guppies” toys have many options. If you’re looking for a toy that is adorable and fun to play with, the Bubble Guppies Swim-sational School Bus is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a ‘Bubble Guppies’ toy
Characters
The “Bubble Guppies” feature a group of preschool-age mergirls and merboys and their teacher, Mr. Grouper. Molly and Gil co-host the show. Goby, Deema, Oona, Nonny and the newly introduced, Zooli, are imaginative children who have all sorts of adventures. Gil has a pet puppy named Bubble Puppy. A group of small goldfish called The Little Fish serves as guides for the viewers in each episode. The characters are diverse in their hair, skin and fin colors, representing many groups for an inclusive show. They each have a distinct personality. Molly is a musical guppy who is a born leader and a really good friend. Gil is energetic and ready to jump into any activity. Goby loves to use his imagination to create stories and new adventures. Deema loves to be the center of attention and enjoys speaking in a singsong voice and making others laugh. Oona is a polite and shy girl who is excited to learn new things. Nonny is a calm, intelligent, cautious guppy with an advanced vocabulary. Zooli is a spunky, smart animal expert introduced in Season 5. The characters balance each other well, and you can find toys that match the child’s personality for whom you are buying a “Bubble Guppies” toy.
Bath toys
Since the Bubble Guppies live in the water, there is an ocean full of bath toys from which you can choose. Look for dolls such as a Molly doll whose hair changes color in the bath depending on the water’s temperature. You can also find fun bath squirters. There are even finger puppet sets and plush toys for the bath.
Plush dolls
There are plush dolls of all the characters that come individually or in sets. Some are stuffed with beans that make them delightful to play with and hold.
Snap-on toys
You can find plastic toys of the characters with snap-on features like clothes and accessories. A fun hair salon playset with various snap-on hairdos and even bubbles for pretend hair washing. These sets are perfect for little hands.
Ramp toys
“Bubble Guppies” toys have a series of characters that roll down ramps. They are fun toys with movement.
Racer vehicles
You can find Fin-tastic Racer vehicles featuring Gil, Molly or Nonny in cars that really roll for fun races with friends.
Retired toys
“Bubble Guppies” has been around for over a decade, so there is a vast array of toys in their collection. Some of these playthings have been retired and are much harder to find than others. If you buy from a third-party seller, these toys can get very expensive, so do your research, so you don’t end up spending much more money than the toy is worth.
What to look for in a quality ‘Bubble Guppies’ toy
Playsets
“Bubble Guppies” playsets include a character and a scene they can play. The scenery relates to the character so that you will find Gil riding a surfboard and Molly on a rock star stage. There are sets in which the characters are dressed as doctors and nurses ready to help others with ambulance vehicles.
Multiple characters
Some sets come with multiple characters, including collections of figurines and plushies. Even a Swim-sational School Bus comes with figures of Gil and Mr. Grouper.
Character costumes
Some “Bubble Guppies” toys come dressed in costumes. Look for Cowgirl Molly and Pirate or Firefighter Gil characters. There is also a set with Deema and Bubbly Puppy dressed in rock star clothes and ready to perform a rock and roll concert.
How much you can expect to spend on a ‘Bubble Guppies’ toy
Most “Bubble Guppies” toys cost $6-$25, depending on the size. Retired toys from third-party sellers tend to be much more expensive.
‘Bubble Guppies’ toy FAQ
How do you prevent mold from growing in a ‘Bubble Guppies’ bath toy?
A. Be sure to squeeze out all of the water after each use and store them in a mesh bag to help them dry fully.
Are there ‘Bubble Guppies’ toys for older children?
A. Yes. Although the target audience is preschool, the “Bubble Guppies” hold a special place in the hearts of older children who grew up with them. You can find puzzles and board games that challenge older kids.
What are the best ‘Bubble Guppies’ toys to buy?
Top ‘Bubble Guppies’ toy
Bubble Guppies Swim-sational School Bus
What you need to know: This plastic school fish-shaped bus for ages 3 years old and up is the perfect “Bubble Guppies” toy for preschoolers.
What you’ll love: This four-piece set includes the fish-shaped bus with a tail that moves back and forth as it rolls, a Gil figure, a Mr. Grouper figure and a bus stop sign. The figures fit inside the bus, and it has a handle that makes it portable.
What you should consider: Although you can purchase them separately, many people wished that this set came with more characters.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top ‘Bubble Guppies’ toy for the money
Ginsey Nickelodeon Bubble Guppies 5-Piece Bath Finger Puppet Set
What you need to know: This 5-piece set of PVC bath finger puppets for ages 3 years old and up will take little ones into the ocean world of the “Bubble Guppies” without ever leaving the tub.
What you’ll love: The set includes brightly colored finger puppets of Molly, Gil, Deema, Nonny and Bubble Guppy.
What you should consider: Bath toys must be kept very clean to prevent mold growth.
Where to buy: Sold by Buy Buy Baby
Worth checking out
Bubble Guppies Splash and Surprise Molly Bath Doll
What you need to know: This color-changing Molly bath doll for ages 3 years old and up makes bath time tons of fun.
What you’ll love: Molly’s hair changes from purple to pink in warm water and from pink to purple in cold water. She comes with a flower hairbrush and a water scooper.
What you should consider: Some people feel that more hair should change color for a greater effect.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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2022-06-17T03:02:30+00:00
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everythinglubbock.com
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https://www.everythinglubbock.com/reviews/br/toys-games-br/theme-toys-br/best-bubble-guppies-toy/
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The New York Rangers and coach Gerard Gallant are parting ways after losing in the first round of the NHL playoffs.
The Rangers announced the change, which they called mutual, on Saturday — less than a week after a seven-game series loss to the rival New Jersey Devils.
“I have a ton of respect for Gerard as both a coach and person and truly appreciate everything he did for us on and off the ice these last two seasons,” general manager Chris Drury said in a statement. "After my evaluation of the season and discussions with Gerard, we mutually came to the conclusion that a change would be beneficial for both parties. I wish he and his family all the best in the future. Our search for a new head coach will begin right away.”
Gallant led New York to the Eastern Conference final in 2022 in his first season with the team and was a finalist for the Jack Adams Trophy as coach of the year. He has not lasted three full seasons in any of his five head jobs around the league.
In a statement sent through the team, Gallant thanked owner James Dolan and Drury for the opportunity.
“The experience of coaching an Original Six franchise with such rich history and an incredibly passionate fanbase is something I will never forget,” Gallant said. "After conversations with my family and Chris, it became clear that this was the right decision for both myself and the Rangers at this time.”
Gallant's departure was not particularly surprising, but it came after the 59-year-old defended his job status during exit interviews earlier in the week, calling the line of questioning “disappointing.”
“I can’t believe I have to answer some of these questions about me getting let go or getting fired, brought up by the media,” Gallant said Wednesday. “If I can’t stand by my record and what I’ve done, I think there’s something wrong.”
The Rangers now begin another coaching search in hopes of finding the person who will get them their first Stanley Cup title since 1994. Three-time championship-winning coach Joel Quenneville's name has already been connected to the franchise, though he would need to be reinstated by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman after his role in a sexual assault scandal with the Chicago Blackhawks from 2010 that caused him to resign from his job with the Florida Panthers in October 2021.
Two years ago, Drury thought Gallant was the right person to lead the Rangers. After assuming control when President of Hockey operations John Davidson and GM Jeff Gorton were fired by Dolan, Drury shifted into win-now mode, hiring Gallant a year and a half after the veteran coach was let go by Vegas.
Gallant and the Rangers finished second in the Metropolitan Division in his first year behind the bench and made an improbable run to the East final before losing to Tampa Bay.
With that playoff success raising expectations, the Rangers had an up-and-down regular season and scuffled in the days leading up to the trade deadline. They acquired previous Cup champions Vladimir Tarasenko and Patrick Kane in a pair of deals and finished third in the division to set up a showdown with the Devils.
The Rangers won the first two games of the series on the road before losing three in a row, a stretch that included a tirade from Gallant about his team being “not good enough — not even close to good.”
“We didn’t show up, we didn’t play hard enough, we didn’t compete hard enough,” Gallant said after Game 4. “A lot of bad things.”
New York staved off elimination at home to force a Game 7. Despite some lineup adjustments by Gallant, the Rangers lost 4-0 to get knocked out.
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AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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2023-05-06T22:57:16+00:00
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ksat.com
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https://www.ksat.com/sports/2023/05/06/rangers-coach-gerard-gallant-part-ways-after-1st-round-exit/
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News from NPR Megan Thee Stallion gets vulnerable on hot sophomore album 'Traumazine' By Ailsa Chang, Brianna Scott, Sarah Handel Published August 12, 2022 at 4:39 PM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 4:20 NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sidney Madden from NPR Music about Megan Thee Stallion's sophomore album Traumazine. Copyright 2022 NPR
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2022-08-12T22:36:45+00:00
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iowapublicradio.org
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https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/news-from-npr/2022-08-12/megan-thee-stallion-gets-vulnerable-on-hot-sophomore-album-traumazine
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Trey Murphy III Player Prop Bets: Pelicans vs. Clippers - April 1
Trey Murphy III and the rest of the New Orleans Pelicans will be facing the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday at 8:30 PM ET.
With prop bets available for Murphy, let's look at some stats and trends to help you find good wagers.
Trey Murphy III Prop Bets vs. the Clippers
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Trey Murphy III Insights vs. the Clippers
- Murphy has taken 9.9 shots per game this season and made 4.8 per game, which account for 10.8% and 10.9%, respectively, of his team's total.
- This season, he's accounted for 21.9% of his team's three-pointers made, averaging 2.5 per game.
- The Pelicans rank 16th in possessions per game with 102.3. His opponents, the Clippers, have a middling offensive tempo, ranking 18th with 100.9 possessions per contest.
- Defensively, the Clippers are ranked 12th in the league, allowing 112.7 points per contest.
- The Clippers allow 43.2 rebounds per game, ranking 15th in the league.
- The Clippers are the 11th-ranked squad in the league, conceding 24.9 assists per contest.
- The Clippers concede 12.2 made 3-pointers per game, 13th-ranked in the NBA.
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2023-04-01T20:46:27+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/sports/betting/2023/04/01/trey-murphy-nba-player-prop-bets-pelicans-vs-clippers/
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Kellogg to split into 3 companies, move corporate HQ from Battle Creek
Kellogg Co., the maker of Frosted Flakes, Rice Krispies and Eggo, will split into three companies focused on cereals, snacks and plant-based foods.
The company's corporate headquarters will move from Battle Creek, Michigan, to Chicago, but it will maintain dual headquarters in both cities for its snack company, which makes up about 80% of current sales. Kellogg's three international headquarters in Europe, Latin America and AMEA will remain in their current locations.
Kellogg's which also owns and MorningStar Farms, the plant-based food maker, said Tuesday that the spinoff of the yet to be named cereal and plant-based foods companies should be completed by the end of next year.
Kellogg’s had net sales of $14.2 billion in 2021, with $11.4 billion generated by its its snack division. Cereal accounted for another $2.4 billion in sales last year while plant-based sales totaled around $340 million.
“These businesses all have significant standalone potential, and an enhanced focus will enable them to better direct their resources toward their distinct strategic priorities,” said CEO Steve Cahillane.
Shareholders will receive shares in the two spin-offs on a pro-rata basis relative to their Kellogg holdings.
Companies have begun to split up at an accelerated pace, including General Electric, IBM and Johnson & Johnson, but such splits are more rare for food producers. The last major split in the sector was in in 2012, when Kraft split to create Mondelez.
Shares of Kellogg Co. jumped 8% to $73.29 before the opening bell Tuesday.
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2022-06-21T12:54:45+00:00
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detroitnews.com
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2022/06/21/kellogg-split-into-3-companies-move-corporate-hq-battle-creek/7685675001/
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80-year-old builds massive 400-piece nativity scene that’s 50 years in the making
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) – An 80-year-old man in Rhode Island has created an elaborate nativity scene nearly 50 years in the making.
Eugenio “Geno” Milano’s home features a larger-than-life handmade nativity scene that you have to see to believe.
“I’m happy making people happy because I got a lot of people coming around and they enjoyed it,” Milano said.
Being raised as a proud Italian Catholic, he started his prosperous project in 1975. It’s a tradition left behind by his father.
“Growing up, we never had a Christmas tree in our house. We always had this nativity scene,” Milano’s daughter Cinzia Pereira said.
Initially, the nativity scene was contained in a room on the third floor of his house.
Now, it has moved to the entire first floor and outside, where he used his hands to build a customized Christmas creation consisting of more than 400 figures.
“Every year it’s different – he changes it up,” Pereira explained.
Milano starts in October putting decorations in their place – no detail too small, right down to the green grass.
“It’s just something he is so proud of and proud to keep that tradition going,” Pereira said.
Milano said knowing his dad would be impressed with the display is the best gift he could receive this holiday season.
Copyright 2022 WJAR via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2022-12-22T19:58:36+00:00
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wagmtv.com
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https://www.wagmtv.com/2022/12/22/80-year-old-builds-massive-400-piece-nativity-scene-thats-50-years-making/
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NORFOLK, Neb. (KCAU) — The North Fork Area Transit announced on Monday the launch of an on-demand ride service for Norfolk residents.
According to a release from the North Fork Area Transit, a new service called ‘NiteLift’ will be offering on-demand rides with curb-to-curb pick-up and drop-off, similar to ride-sharing apps such as Uber.
NiteLift will operate in the evenings, 7 days a week. Sunday through Wednesday, rides will be available starting at 6:30 p.m. Sundays through Wednesday NiteLift will operate until 12:30 a.m. and Thursdays through Saturdays until 2 a.m.
“NiteLift is a great compliment to our other daytime services – the ForkLift bus and TeleLift schedule-ahead rids, which both end service at 6:30 p.m.,” said North Fork Area Transit Executive Director Jeffery Stewart, “NiteLift is a great option for shift workers and those who need a safe ride home after enjoying some nightlife.”
The release specified that services will be available to any address within Norfolk city limits and will travel to any destination that is located within a 30-mile radius.
Trips start at $5, and rides can be booked by calling 402-379-4595. Riders who see a parked NiteLift vehicle may walk up and ask for a ride which would be based on the availability of the driver. Wheelchair-accessible vehicles will be available upon request.
More information and a service map are available at the North Fork Area Transit website.
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2022-06-14T19:42:08+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/norfolk-transit-adds-on-demand-ride-service/
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DAVIE, Fla., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Scientific Labs Holdings Inc. ("Green Scientific Labs" or the "Company"), leading multi-state provider of innovative cannabis and hemp testing technologies and methods, announced today it has been awarded all three Emerald Test Badges that were pursued this round for its testing services in potency, terpenes, and pesticides at its Florida lab as part of the Emerald Scientific Spring 2022 Emerald Test, the industry's highly regarded interlaboratory comparison and proficiency testing (ILC/PT) program.
"The Emerald badges awarded to us enhance our positioning and demonstrate our labs' capabilities to meet regulatory requirements for proficiency testing," said Dr. Kristofer Marsh, Chief Scientific Officer of Green Scientific Labs. "Even the smallest number of pesticides in cannabis products can produce adverse health effects, and we are proud to be recognized for three of our strongest testing services."
Green Scientific Labs provides first-rate cannabis testing services including cannabinoid profiles, microbiological analysis, more than 100 different pesticide analyses, residual solvent analysis, mycotoxin analysis, moisture analysis, foreign materials, heavy metals, and terpenes. The Company's concentrated stability testing assesses how environmental factors such as temperature and humidity can impact a drug's quality in conjunction with its packaging.
"In a rapidly-emerging industry where consumers and regulators have a lack of nationally-recognized quality standards on which to rely, an Emerald badge is a difficult-to-obtain but easy-to-recognize symbol of quality," said Paul Crage, CEO of Green Scientific Labs. "The Emerald badges we have received not only validate Green Scientific Labs' commitment to quality but are a result of our dedication to accuracy and the company's mission to deliver superior testing services to our clients."
The ILC/PT helps establish an industry benchmark for cannabis testing through participation of labs around the world. An Emerald Badge is awarded to labs that perform within a specific tolerance in each proficiency test category. Criteria is established by the ISO-accredited PT manufacturer with input from the Emerald Test™ Advisory Panel.
About Green Scientific Labs
Green Scientific Labs (CSE: GSL) is a leading, multi-state provider of innovative cannabis and hemp testing technologies and methods. The company's labs perform product testing to help cultivators, manufacturers, and retailers stay compliant with state and federal regulations. Green Scientific Labs delivers superior marijuana, cannabis, hemp and CBD testing services, and provides unmatched customer service for its clients. For more information, please visit https://www.greenscientificlabs.com/.
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2022-06-22T13:25:20+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/06/22/green-scientific-labs-awarded-three-new-emerald-badges-excellence-cannabis-testing-by-emerald-scientific/
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Renovations at Champaign’s International Prep Academy are set to end soon.
Since the approval of the $183 million referendum, the campus has welcomed a new building and plaza that connects with the original school. The addition will will house grades K-5 and share the new common areas with the middle grades.
District officials are most excited about the new collaborative classroom set-up for the lower grade levels.
“I think IPA being the last of the projects, it’s certainly not the least. We were able to apply a lot of the lessons learned that we spent four years together learning along side the district,” said Capital Projects Manager Sandra Roesler. “We have far, far, far improved bus pick-up and drop-off. The bus pick-up and drop-off is separated from the students. It offers much safer access to the building. It’s got a longer queuing lane.”
Outdoor areas at the new school will be separated by grade. IPA will be back in session on August 18th.
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2022-07-29T00:08:42+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/construction-wrapping-up-at-international-prep-academy/
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WIMBLEDON, England — (AP) — On a day filled with far more rain drops than drop shots at Wimbledon — light, but persistent, showers prevented the completion, or even start, of dozens of matches — Roger Federer and Andy Murray provided the highlights.
The retired Federer, who won a men's-record eight of his 20 Grand Slam titles at the All England Club, was in the front row of the Royal Box, where he sat next to Kate, the Princess of Wales. Federer was saluted with a 1 1/2-minute standing ovation during a pre-match tribute to his career at Centre Court on Tuesday.
Hours later, Murray was down below, competing.
Murray won two of his three Grand Slam titles and one of his two Olympic gold medals on that rather famous patch of grass and — even if those triumphs were long ago; even if he is now 36 with an artificial hip — the locals fondly remember those good times, especially his 2013 championship that made him the first British man in 77 years to win the event. They hope for an attention-grabbing show this fortnight, so Murray got most of the full-throated support that reverberated under the closed roof of the main stadium during a 6-3, 6-0, 6-1 victory over wild-card entry Ryan Peniston in an all-Brit first-round match.
“It was amazing to have some royalty here, but also some tennis royalty, as well,” Murray said during his on-court interview, as Kate and Federer looked on.
“It’s amazing to have Roger here, supporting the event,” Murray said. “Last time I was on this court, and he was watching, was during the (2012) Olympics, and he sat in (Swiss countryman) Stan Wawrinka’s box and was supporting against me. So it was nice to see a couple of claps today after some good shots.”
When the interviewer looked toward the guest of honor to ask, “Roger, you approve of today’s performance?” Federer responded with a thumbs-up.
Peniston’s assessment of Murray: “He was just relentless on every point.”
Murray sounded pleased as well after claiming all 11 of his service games, breaking four times and going 17-for-17 at the net.
“I played some good stuff as the match went on. There were some good signs there,” he said. “It’s been a long time since I’ve felt sort of physically this good coming into Wimbledon. The last few years have been very challenging. I’m hoping I’m fit and ready for a good run.”
At his age and with his two hip operations plus other assorted setbacks, Murray is not considered among the leading favorites. That is a short list that leads with two names and does not include many more: Novak Djokovic, who has won seven of his 23 major titles at Wimbledon, and Carlos Alcaraz, who is ranked No. 1.
The 20-year-old Alcaraz put on his usual display of variety and athleticism — he hit one shot by wrapping his racket around his body and swinging from behind his back while on the run, making contact but sending the ball long — while beating the about-to-retire Jeremy Chardy 6-0, 6-2, 7-5.
Like Murray, Alcaraz was never truly troubled by his opponent.
Unlike Murray, Alcaraz played at No. 1 Court, so he did not get to perform for Federer.
And, boy, was Alcaraz bitter about that.
“After the match, I was (on) the phone checking everything ... all the stories, all the posts. I saw that Roger Federer was here. I was a little bit jealous,” he said with a smile, wearing a white hoodie and bucket hat at his news conference. “Honestly, I want Roger Federer to watch one of my matches, obviously. I (want) to talk a little bit with him. For me, (that) would be amazing.”
Because of the wet weather, the only courts where play was allowed after the rain began on Day 2 were the two with retractable roofs, Centre and No. 1. By the end of the day, only eight of 77 scheduled matches had been completed.
Three leading women — defending champion Elena Rybakina, 2022 runner-up Ons Jabeur and Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka, who is seeded No. 2 — all won, as did the highest-seeded male British player, No. 12 Cam Norrie. But another seeded man from the host country, No. 27 Dan Evans, lost to Quentin Halys of France 6-2, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-4. In the last of the matches that concluded — one that commenced at Court 11 on Monday and wrapped up shortly before 10 p.m. at No. 1 Court on Tuesday — No. 29 Tomás Martin Etcheverry finished off a comeback from a two-set deficit to get past Bernabé Zapata Miralles 6-7 (5), 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.
Rybakina dropped the opening set against American Shelby Rogers before coming back for a 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 win; Jabeur defeated Magdalena Frech 6-3, 6-3; and Sabalenka eliminated Panna Udvardy 6-3, 6-1 in her return after being banned from Wimbledon a year ago along with other players from her country, Belarus, and Russia over the war in Ukraine.
“I didn’t realize how much I missed this place,” Sabalenka said, “until this match.”
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2023-07-05T21:41:42+00:00
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whio.com
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https://www.whio.com/sports/andy-murray-gets-win/NVCATWEKCPTZOGXJYNUQX4MEWI/
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Ben Savage, who starred as a child in the ABC teen sitcom “Boy Meets World,” is running for a U.S. House seat in California, marking his latest attempt to make the jump from Hollywood to politics.
Savage, a Democrat, said in an Instagram post Monday that “it’s time to restore faith in government” and that voters want leaders “unhindered by political divisions and special interests.”
“I firmly believe in standing up for what is right, ensuring equality and expanding opportunities for all,” he wrote.
Savage joins a crowded field for the seat held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, who is running for U.S. Senate. Other candidates include former Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer and Democratic state Assemblywoman Laura Friedman.
The heavily Democratic 30th District includes a swath of Los Angeles, including Hollywood and the trendy neighborhoods of Silver Lake and Echo Park, and also cuts through neighboring cities including Pasadena, Glendale and West Hollywood.
Savage starred in “Boy Meets World” for seven seasons in the ’90s, in which viewers saw his character Cory Matthews go from awkward sixth grader to a college student married to his high-school sweetheart.
He ran for a seat on the West Hollywood City Council last year but only garnered about 6% of the vote.
He said on his website that his priorities include working for safer streets, and addressing homelessness and affordable housing.
“I support a robust public safety presence to keep the community safe and vibrant,” Savage wrote. “We need to support our law enforcement officers and provide them with the resources they need to keep businesses, residents and visitors safe.”
He added that he supports “checks and balances to root out corruption” in law enforcement, and working to improve relations between police and underserved communities.
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2023-03-08T21:08:07+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/entertainment-news/boy-meets-world-star-ben-savage-enters-us-house-race-in-la/
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(NEXSTAR) – In all likelihood, very few of us have pondered what “CVS” actually stands for. As long as we can buy laundry detergent, Twix, and a tube of topical rash cream in the same place, we’re fairly content.
But now that the question is out there, what exactly does CVS stand for?
CVS, the country’s largest pharmacy chain, was founded in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1963. But visitors to the Lowell shop may have noticed signage welcoming them to the “Consumer Value Store” — the first of more than a dozen to open in the following year.
Even the earliest locations, however, were embracing the CVS acronym. By 1964, the company developed a shield logo with the letters “CVS” in the center (and “Consumer Value Stores” spelled out above, alongside or underneath). In fact, much of the stores’ signage throughout the ‘60s featured the acronym, according to a representative for CVS.
The company was sold in 1969 to the Melville Corporation, a retail holding company which began as a chain of shoe stores before acquiring brands such as Marshalls, K.B. Toys and Linens n’ Things among dozens of others between the 1920s and the 1990s. But even by Melville’s 1969 acquisition of CVS, the chain was already primarily known as CVS rather than Consumer Value Stores, though the latter was still used for official purposes in Melville’s annual reports “at least through 1975,” a CVS spokesperson confirmed.
CVS shoppers likely haven’t seen “Consumer Value Stores” in any commercials or consumer-facing materials since. The shortened “CVS,” too, was pretty much cemented as the company’s official name in 1996, after the Melville Corporation sold off all its holdings — apart from CVS — and reorganized as the CVS Corporation (and later, the CVS Caremark Corporation).
“We very rarely spell out ‘Consumer Value Stores’ these days — really only in the historical context,” a spokesperson for CVS said.
Within the past decade, CVS has made only a few additional tweaks to its brand identity. In 2014, around the time that CVS outlets discontinued the sale of cigarettes, the company’s corporate name was changed to CVS Health Corporation, and CVS began using its current heart logo.
Most customers, of course, probably failed to notice these changes during our CVS trips for detergents, candy or rash ointment. After all, we’re fairly content if our clothes are clean, our Twix cravings are satiated, and the swelling keeps subsiding.
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2022-11-12T17:59:06+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/what-does-cvs-stand-for/
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BEIJING, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quanzhou city of east China's Fujian Province has attached much importance to science and technology innovation as the driving force of development to build itself into a leading manufacturing hub with stronger capacity.
Quanzhou is committed to the development of the real economy. It has formed nine industrial clusters worth 100 billion yuan respectively including textile and clothing, footwear, food, building materials, etc.
In 2021, the city's GDP reached 1.13 trillion yuan, with the total industrial output value jumping over 2 trillion yuan and the industrial added value ranking among the top ten in China. Quanzhou is also among the first batch to be listed as a national demonstration city of private economy and innovation.
Quanzhou municipal government has taken efforts in the past ten years to promote sci-tech innovation and formulated 19 policies for industrial transformation and upgrading as well as optimizing supply chains. In Jinjiang city of Quanzhou, enterprises are encouraged to step up sci-tech innovation and industrial transformation in the next two years with incentive support funds of 3 billion yuan.
In addition, Quanzhou has also built a batch of technology platforms with universities, enterprises and academic institutions to help nearly 2,000 enterprises solve technical problems. These platforms have covered sectors such as intelligent equipment, information, textile and building materials.
Under the support of multiple sci-tech innovation policies, the city's industrial output capacity has soared dramatically. In the past 10 years, Quanzhou's total industrial output rocketed up from 950 billion yuan in 2012 to 2.4 trillion yuan in 2021 while the number of industrial enterprises worth 100 million yuan increased from 1,704 in 2012 to 3,091 in 2021.
Currently, the high-tech industry is becoming a new engine for Quanzhou's high-quality development. By the end of 2021, a total of 1,630 high-tech enterprises have settled in the city. In the first half of this year, the added value of high-tech industry above the designated size grew by 13.5 percent year on year.
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2022-10-11T09:46:53+00:00
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/10/11/xinhua-silk-road-quanzhou-build-stronger-manufacturing-sector-with-sci-tech-innovation/
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NY Buffalo NY Zone Forecast for Monday, July 18, 2022
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Zone Forecasts for Western New York
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
NYZ001-192115-
Niagara-
Including the city of Niagara Falls
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny early this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A
chance of showers and thunderstorms late. Humid with highs in the
mid 80s. Light winds, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then partly cloudy overnight. Muggy with lows around
70. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Muggy with lows around 70. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
southwest. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly sunny with a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming west with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ010-192115-
Northern Erie-
Including the city of Buffalo
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny early, then becoming partly sunny. A chance of
showers and thunderstorms late. Humid with highs ranging from the
upper 70s along the Lake Erie shore to the lower 80s inland. Light
winds, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then partly cloudy overnight. Muggy with lows in the
upper 60s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Humid with highs ranging from the mid 80s
along the Lake Erie shore to the upper 80s inland. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Muggy with lows around 70. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
southwest. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly sunny with a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the upper 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 80.
$$
NYZ002-192115-
Orleans-
Including the city of Medina
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny early, then becoming partly sunny. A chance of
showers and thunderstorms late. Humid with highs in the upper 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then partly cloudy overnight. Muggy with lows in the
lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 90. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph. Heat index values in the upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Muggy with lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
southwest 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly sunny with a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ011-192115-
Genesee-
Including the city of Batavia
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny early this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A
chance of showers and thunderstorms late. Humid with highs in the
mid 80s. Light winds, becoming west 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then partly cloudy overnight. Muggy with lows around
70. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 90. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph. Heat index values in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Very warm and muggy with lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly to mostly sunny. Showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms. Breezy, cooler with highs around 80. Southwest winds
10 to 20 mph, becoming west with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 80.
$$
NYZ085-192115-
Southern Erie-
Including the cities of Orchard Park and Springville
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Humid with highs in the lower 80s. Light
winds, becoming west 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the evening. Muggy with lows ranging from the mid 60s inland to the
lower 70s along the Lake Erie shore. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming light. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny with highs in the upper 80s. Light winds,
becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Warm and muggy with lows ranging from the upper 60s inland to the
lower 70s along the Lake Erie shore. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southwest. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the
morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers in the
afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs ranging from the mid 70s on the
hilltops to the upper 70s across the lower elevations. Southwest
winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 70s.
$$
NYZ012-192115-
Wyoming-
Including the city of Warsaw
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance of
showers and thunderstorms late. Humid with highs ranging from around
80 on the hilltops to the mid 80s across the lower elevations. Light
winds, becoming west 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then partly cloudy overnight. Warm with lows in the
upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming light. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny with highs ranging from the mid 80s on the
hilltops to around 90 across the lower elevations. Southwest winds
10 mph or less, increasing to 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Warm and muggy with lows in the upper 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southwest. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Breezy,
cooler with highs ranging from the mid 70s on the hilltops to around
80 across the lower elevations. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph,
becoming west with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 70s.
$$
NYZ019-192115-
Chautauqua-
Including the city of Jamestown
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy fog early this morning. Highs ranging
from the lower 80s along the Lake Erie shore to the mid 80s inland.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Muggy with lows ranging from the mid 60s
in interior valleys to the lower 70s along the Lake Erie shore.
Southwest winds 10 mph or less.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Humid with highs in the upper 80s.
Southwest winds 10 mph or less, becoming south 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Breezy, muggy with lows ranging from the mid 60s in interior valleys
to the lower 70s along the Lake Erie shore. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southwest. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly sunny with a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Breezy with highs in the upper 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 70s.
$$
NYZ020-192115-
Cattaraugus-
Including the city of Olean
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy fog early this morning. Highs in the
lower 80s. Light west winds.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Light southwest
winds.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs ranging from the mid 80s on the hilltops
to the upper 80s across the lower elevations. Light winds, becoming
south 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Warm and muggy with lows in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southwest. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in
the upper 70s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 70s.
$$
NYZ021-192115-
Allegany-
Including the city of Wellsville
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy fog early this morning. Highs ranging
from the lower 80s on the hilltops to the mid 80s across the lower
elevations. Light west winds.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy and warm with lows in the mid 60s. Light
west winds.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs ranging from the mid 80s on the hilltops
to the upper 80s across the lower elevations. Light winds, becoming
south 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Warm with lows in the upper 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
southwest. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs
ranging from the upper 70s on the hilltops to the lower 80s across
the lower elevations. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming west
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 70s.
$$
NYZ013-192115-
Livingston-
Including the city of Geneseo
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance of
showers and thunderstorms late. Humid with highs ranging from the
mid 80s on the hilltops to the upper 80s across the lower
elevations. Light winds, becoming west 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then partly cloudy overnight. Warm and muggy with
lows in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming light.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs ranging from the upper 80s on the
hilltops to the lower 90s across the lower elevations. Light winds,
becoming south 10 to 15 mph. Heat index values in the upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Very warm and muggy with lows in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southwest. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Breezy,
cooler with highs ranging from the upper 70s on the hilltops to the
lower 80s across the lower elevations. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 80.
$$
NYZ014-192115-
Ontario-
Including the city of Canandaigua
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance of
showers and thunderstorms late. Humid with highs ranging from the
lower 80s on the hilltops to the upper 80s across the lower
elevations. Light winds, becoming west around 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Very warm and muggy with lows in the lower
70s. West winds around 10 mph, becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs ranging from the upper 80s
on the hilltops to the lower 90s across the lower elevations. Light
winds, becoming south 10 to 15 mph. Heat index values in the upper
90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
evening, then showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
overnight. Very warm and muggy with lows in the lower 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Breezy
with highs ranging from the upper 70s on the hilltops to the mid 80s
across the lower elevations. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming
west with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 80.
$$
NYZ003-192115-
Monroe-
Including the city of Rochester
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny early this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A
chance of showers and thunderstorms late. Humid with highs in the
upper 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then partly cloudy overnight. Very warm and muggy
with lows in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming light.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the lower 90s.
Southwest winds 10 mph or less, increasing to 10 to 15 mph. Heat
index values in the upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Very warm and muggy with lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid
with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph, becoming west. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 80s.
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Wayne-
Including the city of Newark
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny early this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A
chance of showers and thunderstorms late. Humid with highs ranging
from the mid 80s along the Lake Ontario shore to around 90 inland.
West winds 10 mph or less. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly to mostly cloudy. Muggy with lows around 70. West
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs ranging from the upper 80s
along the Lake Ontario shore to the lower 90s inland. Light winds,
becoming south 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values in the upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms.
Very warm and muggy with lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid
with highs ranging from the lower 80s along the Lake Ontario shore
to the mid 80s inland. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 80.
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Including the city of Fair Haven
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Humid with highs ranging from the mid 80s
along the Lake Ontario shore to the upper 80s inland. Light west
winds.
.TONIGHT...Partly to mostly cloudy. Muggy with lows around 70. West
winds around 10 mph, becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs ranging from the upper 80s
along the Lake Ontario shore to the lower 90s inland. South winds
10 mph or less. Heat index values in the upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms overnight. Very warm and muggy with lows in the lower
70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid
with highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
west. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 80.
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NYZ006-192115-
Oswego-
Including the city of Oswego
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog early this morning. A chance of
showers and thunderstorms late. Humid with highs ranging from the
upper 70s on the Tug Hill to the mid 80s across the lower
elevations. Light winds, becoming west around 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then mostly cloudy overnight. Muggy with lows
ranging from the mid 60s across the Tug Hill to around 70 along the
Lake Ontario shore. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming light. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Humid with highs ranging from the lower
80s on the Tug Hill to the upper 80s across the lower elevations.
Light winds. Heat index values in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms overnight. Very warm and muggy with lows ranging from
the mid 60s on the Tug Hill to the lower 70s across the lower
elevations. South winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid
with highs ranging from the mid 70s on the Tug Hill to the lower 80s
across the lower elevations. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
west 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 70s.
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NYZ007-192115-
Jefferson-
Including the city of Watertown
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog early this morning. Mostly sunny through early
afternoon, then partly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms late. Humid with highs ranging from the upper 70s on
the Tug Hill to the lower 80s across the lower elevations. Light
winds, becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the evening. Muggy with lows ranging from the lower 60s on the Tug
Hill to the upper 60s across the lower elevations. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming light. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Humid with highs in the mid 80s. Light
winds, becoming southwest around 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then showers with a chance of
thunderstorms overnight. Very warm and muggy with lows ranging from
the mid 60s on the Tug Hill to the lower 70s across the lower
elevations. South winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid with highs
ranging from the mid 70s on the Tug Hill to around 80 across the
lower elevations. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
NYZ008-192115-
Lewis-
Including the city of Lowville
418 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022
.TODAY...Some patchy fog early, otherwise partly sunny. A chance of
showers and thunderstorms late. Humid with highs ranging from the
upper 70s on the hilltops to the lower 80s across the lower
elevations. Light winds, becoming west around 10 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Muggy with lows ranging from the lower 60s on the
hilltops to the mid 60s across the lower elevations. West winds
10 mph or less.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Humid with highs ranging from the lower
80s on the hilltops to the mid 80s across the lower elevations.
Light winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms overnight. Warm and muggy with lows ranging from the
mid 60s on the hilltops to the upper 60s across the lower
elevations. South winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid
with highs ranging from the mid 70s on the hilltops to the upper 70s
across the lower elevations. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
west 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s.
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2022-07-19T09:24:34+00:00
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https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/NY-Buffalo-NY-Zone-Forecast-17313877.php
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Couple shares the secret to lasting marriage on their 80th wedding anniversary
BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (WBAL) - A couple in Baltimore County will celebrate their 80th anniversary on Saturday.
Willie and Geraldine Chambers got married 80 years ago in 1943. Willie is now 99 and Geraldine is 98.
However, it’s been nearly a century since they met.
“I’ve known her ever since she was around 4 years old,” Willie Chambers said of his wife.
“I just didn’t pay him any attention,” Geraldine Chambers giggled.
In the late 1930s, church and school were the only places the two could snag a glimpse of each other. Willie Chambers remembers when he finally mustered up the courage to share his feelings, saying he even remembers it was on a Sunday.
In his wife, Willie Chambers said he has found what God intended for him to have.
The last eight decades of marriage was a choice they made every day, and although Willie Chambers said marriage hasn’t always been “cream and honey,” they couldn’t be happier.
“One thing I love about her – she’s bossy,” he said.
“I’m glad you said that,” Geraldine Chambers responded.
The secret to a lasting marriage?
“I don’t know, she grows on you,” Willie Chambers said. “The world is hers as far as I’m concerned.”
The couple has two daughters, six grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.
Doing life only makes sense with each other.
“I guess I love her ‘cause she’s Geraldine,” Willie Chambers said.
Copyright 2023 WBAL via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2023-01-27T21:49:06+00:00
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atlantanewsfirst.com
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https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/01/27/couple-shares-secret-lasting-marriage-their-80th-wedding-anniversary/
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Celia Jiménez here, remembering the time I watched on television when Pope John Paul II came to Mexico in the ’90s. There was solemnity to the event, even with crowds waiting on both sides of the streets to wave at the Pope and his Popemobile—a modified car equipped with a glass box in which the Pope rode during his public appearances.
I’m not sure what the odds are of meeting the Pope in person and being with him in his living room, but it would be extraordinary, the equivalent of meeting a figure like the Dalai Lama or a head of state.
But that’s what Tim McManus, the lead organizer for the group Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action (COPA), did last October when he met Pope Francis. McManus was part of an Industrial Areas Foundation delegation that met with the Pope in the Vatican. The IAF is the largest network of faith- and community-based organizations in the country, and COPA is one of its members.
McManus sat next to Pope Francis in his living room, where the group talked about local issues and about COPA’s work, which includes training 500 faith leaders—including priests, deacons, nuns and lay leaders—to listen effectively to their communities and identify concerns.
To those who follow COPA’s important civic work in Monterey County—which includes advocating for measures like a health insurance program for undocumented immigrant residents (what became a county insurance plan called Esperanza Care)—it might be easy to forget that faith underlies the organization’s mission. While it’s engaged in secular matters, the roots are based in religious tradition, so the opportunity to meet the Pope was not accidental.
McManus says he was honored when he was invited to be part of the delegation. “You're here to talk about real people, real stories and real experiences,” he says. He says it was a special experience to speak with the Pope and feel his presence. “I knew I represented a whole lot more than just me in that meeting.” The delegation shared stories about the work they are doing in their communities. “I talked to him about the work [COPA members have] done here, in the Monterey Diocese, and in Salinas,” McManus says.
That work includes a lot to be proud of: Rental assistance during the pandemic; planting the seeds of what became a well organized, countywide community health worker program called VIDA (and then advocating, successfully, to extend it); and getting health insurance plans for people who otherwise would fall through insurance cracks, among COPA’s other local successes.
After sharing that past work with the Pope, McManus says they are working on what’s coming next. One objective is to deepen the training within the Diocese for immigrant leaders in how to organize.
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2023-02-04T03:28:32+00:00
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montereycountyweekly.com
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https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/opinion/mcnow_intro/for-a-local-organizer-meeting-the-pope-to-share-stories-from-the-field-is-an/article_5b4ffcae-a42a-11ed-804b-979b30a5baf9.html
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP)Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and two assists as the Minnesota Wild held on to beat the Ottawa Senators 4-2 on Sunday for their fifth straight win.
Mats Zuccarello had a goal and an assist and Jared Spurgeon and Frederick Gaudreau also scored for the Wild. Sam Steel had two assists and Filip Gustavsson stopped 25 shots against his former team.
Mark Kastelic and Claude Giroux scored for the Senators, who snapped a four-game winning streak. Anton Forsberg had 19 saves.
HURRICANES 3, PENGUINS 2
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Jordan Staal scored with 6:27 remaining as Carolina snapped Pittsburgh’s seven-game winning streak.
Derek Stepan and Brady Skjei both had a goal and an assist for the Hurricanes, who stretched their points streak to 11 games. Goalie Pyotr Kochetkov, a rookie appearing for the eighth time in nine games, stopped 24 shots.
Rickard Rakell and Brock McGinn scored for the Penguins. Casey DeSmith made 26 saves.
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2022-12-19T03:51:23+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/wild-beat-senators-4-2-for-fifth-straight-win/
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2022-12-17T12:04:43+00:00
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heraldcourier.com
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https://heraldcourier.com/tracker/article_17d1d5fb-7ef5-58e2-9eb6-224a225c8e4a.html
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They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the celebrities made that known for Halloween 2022. The day has just started and it is already one for the books. This past weekend, the stars hit the pavement in their spookiest, sexiest, most original costumes, and we are gagging! From the various Beyoncé looks to the serial killers who are too sexy to run away from, the celebrities upped their game in the creativity department.
Of all the looks that have caught our eyes, we’re most intrigued by the folks who are morphing into their peers for the Spookiest day of the year. In case you missed it, here are the celebrities who dressed as other celebrities for Halloween 2022
These Celebrities Dressed As Celebrities For Halloween 2022 was originally published on hellobeautiful.com
1. Kerry Washington as Lionel Richie
Kerry Washington knows a thing or two about committing to a look. She serves fashion daily, so we knew she’d deliver in the costume department. The actress paid homage to Pop Soul singer Lionel Richie by recreating his 1982 album cover.
2. Lori Harvey as Beyonce
Lori Harvey gave us 3 different versions of Beyoncé, and if we’re lucky, she’ll debut another look today!
3. Royalty Brown as Beyoncé
We saw Lori Harvey as Beyoncé, which was fly, but Royalty Brown as Queen Bey is next-level cuteness. Chris Brown’s mini showed off a few Beyoncé-inspired costumes that give Harvey a severe run for her money.
4. Skai Jackson as Janet Jackson
Simple, yet effective. Actress Skai Jackson flawlessly recreated a few of Janet Jackson’s timeless and iconic looks.
5. Ciara and Sienna as Serena and Venus Williams
How perfect is this costume?! Ciara and her mini-me paid homage to the GOATs Serena and Venus Williams by recreating their 1999 “Got Milk” ad campaign.
6. Candiace Dillard Bassett as Beyoncé
Just call this the year of Beyonce. Real Housewives of Potomac star Candiace Dillard Bassett, threw on some Ivy Park and gave her best Queen Bey pose. She nailed it!
7. Amber Rose as Eminem
Amber Rose has been operating under the radar lately, but she stepped out this Halloween to show us that she might be the real slim shady.
8. Karrueche Tran as Beyoncé’s Alien Superstar
This technically doesn’t count, but it deserves an honorable mention. Bryon Javar strikes again. The stylist extraordinaire dressed pint-sized cutie Karrueche Tran in a futuristic ensemble to represent Beyonce’s song, Alien Superstar.
9. Monica Denise as Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes
They don’t call Monica Goonica for nothing! The singer showed off her gangsta by recreating Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes’s 1994 mugshot photo. The late rapper was arrested for burning down the home of her former boyfriend.
10. Lizzo as Christean Rock
Lizzo showed some love to rocker/rapper Christean Rock by belting out on of her songs, neck tattoos and all.
11. Jordyn Woods as Diana Ross
Jordyn Woods channeled the timeless Diana Ross and she looked stunning!
12. Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts as Kelly Rowland and Nelly
Niecy Nash and her wife, Jessica Betts, take their couple costumes seriously. The two gave us Dilemma vibes while recreating Nelly and Kelly Rowland’s 2002 Hip-Hop banger.
13. Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts as Rihanna and ASAP Rocky
The couple also recreated Rihanna and ASAP Rocky’s 2021 MET Gala look.
14. Bryon Javar as Katt Williams
Stylist to the stars Bryon Javar committed to his Katt Williams costume by recreating the comedian’s many memorable and meme-able standup comedy routines.
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2022-11-02T04:29:53+00:00
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hot1009.com
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https://hot1009.com/playlist/these-celebrities-dressed-as-celebrities-for-halloween-2022/
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INDIANAPOLIS and NEW YORK, July 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Versanis Bio today announced a definitive agreement for Lilly to acquire Versanis, a private clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of new medicines for the treatment of cardiometabolic diseases.
Versanis' lead asset is bimagrumab, a monoclonal antibody that binds activin type II A and B receptors to block activin and myostatin signaling. Bimagrumab is currently being assessed in the BELIEVE Phase 2b study alone and in combination with semaglutide in adults who are overweight or obese. Combining incretins with bimagrumab has the potential to further reduce fat mass while preserving muscle mass and may lead to better outcomes for people living with obesity and obesity-related complications.
"Lilly is committed to investigating potential new medicines to fight cardiometabolic diseases, including obesity, a chronic disease that affects over 100 million Americans," said Ruth Gimeno, Ph.D., group vice president, diabetes, obesity and cardiometabolic research at Lilly. "By unifying the knowledge and expertise in incretin biology at Lilly with the deep understanding of activin biology at Versanis, we aim to harness the potential benefits of such combinations for patients."
Mark Pruzanski, M.D., Versanis chairman and CEO, added: "It has been a privilege for our team to advance bimagrumab to address one of the greatest health crises of our time. As a global leader developing life-changing medicines, Lilly is ideally positioned to realize the potential of bimagrumab in combination with its incretin therapies to benefit people living with cardiometabolic diseases."
Under the terms of the agreement, Versanis shareholders could receive up to $1.925 billion in cash, inclusive of an upfront payment and subsequent payments upon achievement of certain development and sales milestones. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. Lilly will determine the accounting treatment of this transaction as a business combination or an asset acquisition, including any related acquired in-process research and development charges, according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) upon closing. This transaction will thereafter be reflected in Lilly's financial results and financial guidance.
For Lilly, Kirkland & Ellis LLP is acting as legal counsel. For Versanis, Goodwin Procter LLP is acting as legal counsel, Cooley LLP is advising as to patent matters, and J.P. Morgan and Company is acting as financial advisor.
About Versanis
Versanis is a privately held, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company bringing transformational treatments to people living with cardiometabolic disease. The company's lead asset, bimagrumab, is being advanced in the BELIEVE Phase 2b study as a novel treatment to help adults achieve and maintain both fat loss and a healthy body composition, with additional indications to follow. Versanis was founded in 2021 by Aditum Bio. For more information, please visit www.versanisbio.com.
About Lilly
Lilly unites caring with discovery to create medicines that make life better for people around the world. We've been pioneering life-changing discoveries for nearly 150 years, and today our medicines help more than 51 million people across the globe. Harnessing the power of biotechnology, chemistry and genetic medicine, our scientists are urgently advancing new discoveries to solve some of the world's most significant health challenges, redefining diabetes care, treating obesity and curtailing its most devastating long-term effects, advancing the fight against Alzheimer's disease, providing solutions to some of the most debilitating immune system disorders, and transforming the most difficult-to-treat cancers into manageable diseases. With each step toward a healthier world, we're motivated by one thing: making life better for millions more people. That includes delivering innovative clinical trials that reflect the diversity of our world and working to ensure our medicines are accessible and affordable. To learn more, visit Lilly.com and Lilly.com/newsroom or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. C-LLY
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding Lilly's proposed acquisition of Versanis, regarding the anticipated occurrence, manner and timing of the proposed acquisition, regarding the companies' product candidates and ongoing clinical and preclinical development, and regarding the accounting treatment of the potential acquisition under GAAP and its potential impact on Lilly's financial results and financial guidance. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements reflect current beliefs and expectations; however, these statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties, including with respect to consummating the proposed acquisition, drug research, development and commercialization, Lilly's evaluation of the accounting treatment of the potential acquisition and its potential impact on its financial results and financial guidance, relationships with key third parties or governmental entities, transaction costs, risks that the proposed acquisition disrupts current plans and operations or adversely affects employee retention, potentially diverting management's attention from Versanis' ongoing business operations, changes in Versanis' business during the period between announcement and closing of the proposed acquisition, and any legal proceedings that may be instituted related to the proposed acquisition. Actual results could differ materially due to various factors, risks and uncertainties. Among other things, there can be no guarantee that the proposed acquisition will be completed in an anticipated timeframe or at all, that the conditions required to complete the proposed acquisition will be met, that any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the definitive agreement for the proposed acquisition will not occur, that Lilly will realize the expected benefits of the proposed acquisition, that product candidates will be approved on anticipated timelines or at all, that any products, if approved, will be commercially successful, that Lilly's financial results will be consistent with its expected 2023 guidance or that Lilly can reliably predict the impact of the proposed acquisition on its financial results or financial guidance. For further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, see Lilly's most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). Except as required by law, neither Lilly nor Versanis undertakes any duty to update forward-looking statements to reflect events after the date of this press release.
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2023-07-14T13:09:25+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2023/07/14/lilly-acquire-versanis-improve-patient-outcomes-cardiometabolic-diseases/
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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company®, today announced that it has closed on a $1.0 billion multicurrency unsecured term loan. The loan initially matures in January 2024 and includes two twelve-month extensions that can be exercised at the company's option.
Pursuant to the terms of the loan, the company's current A3/A- credit ratings provide for a borrowing rate of 80.0 basis points over the applicable benchmark rate, which includes adjusted SOFR for US Dollar-denominated loans, adjusted SONIA for Sterling-denominated loans, and EURIBOR for Euro-denominated loans. In conjunction with closing, we executed one-year variable-to-fixed interest rate swaps which fix our per annum interest rate at 5.0% over the initial term.
A total of nine lenders are participating in the loan. Toronto Dominion (Texas) LLC is acting as the Administrative Agent. TD Securities (USA) LLC, The Bank of Nova Scotia, BofA Securities, Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and Mizuho Bank, Ltd. are serving as Joint Bookrunners. TD Securities (USA), LLC, The Bank of Nova Scotia, BofA Securities, Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Regions Capital Markets, Truist Securities, Inc., and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. New York Branch are serving as Joint Lead Arrangers. Bank of America, N.A. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. are serving as Syndication Agents. The Bank of Nova Scotia, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Regions Bank, Truist Bank, and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. New York Branch are serving as Documentation Agents. Affiliates of the foregoing financial institutions and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association are serving as lenders.
"We value our longstanding partnership with our lenders, and we are appreciative of the continued support represented by this financing. This term loan bolsters our financial flexibility and liquidity profile, supporting our capacity to be disciplined capital allocators in the near term," said Christie Kelly, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Realty Income.
About Realty Income
Realty Income, The Monthly Dividend Company®, is an S&P 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats® index. We invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. The company is structured as a REIT, and its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow from over 11,700 real estate properties owned under long-term net lease agreements with commercial clients. To date, the company has declared 630 consecutive common stock monthly dividends throughout its 54-year operating history and increased the dividend 118 times since Realty Income's public listing in 1994 (NYSE: O). Additional information about the company can be obtained from the corporate website at www.realtyincome.com.
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PARIS, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PARIS AIR SHOW -- RTX (NYSE: RTX) has achieved a critical milestone in its hybrid-electric flight demonstrator program, successfully completing a rated power test of the demonstrator's 1 megawatt (MW) electric motor, developed by Collins Aerospace (Collins). The 1MW motor will be combined with a highly efficient thermal engine, developed by Pratt & Whitney, as part of a hybrid-electric propulsion system that aims to demonstrate a 30 percent improvement in fuel efficiency and CO2 emissions compared to today's most advanced regional turboprops. Collins and Pratt & Whitney are both business units of RTX.
"With its industry-leading power density and efficiency, our 1MW motor will help to significantly reduce aircraft carbon emissions by supporting hybrid-electric propulsion architectures on the next generation of commercial platforms," said Henry Brooks, president, Power & Controls for Collins Aerospace. "As the motor's development continues apace, each milestone brings us one step closer to hybrid-electric flight and our industry's shared commitment to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050."
Compared to Collins' most advanced electric motor generators flying today, the 1MW motor will deliver four times the power and twice the voltage, with half the heat loss and half the weight. The company is developing the motor at Collins' facility in Solihull, United Kingdom, and testing it at the University of Nottingham's Institute for Aerospace Technology.
Following on from the first low speed engine run at a Pratt & Whitney Canada facility in Longueuil, Quebec in December 2022, testing of the combined hybrid-electric propulsion system – including both thermal engine and 1MW motor – will continue through 2023. The propulsion system and batteries will be integrated on a Dash 8-100 experimental aircraft, with flight testing targeted to begin in 2024. The project is supported by the governments of Canada and Quebec.
"Hybrid-electric propulsion technology offers significant potential to optimize aircraft efficiency across a range of future aircraft applications and is a key part of our technology roadmap for supporting more sustainable aviation," said Jean Thomassin, executive director new products and services, Pratt & Whitney Canada. "Aside from leveraging the deep expertise of Pratt & Whitney and Collins engineers within RTX, our project draws from extensive collaborations across Canada's aerospace ecosystem and around the world."
In addition to the hybrid-electric flight demonstrator, the 1MW motor will also be part of the Pratt & Whitney GTF™ hybrid-electric powertrain planned for the SWITCH project under the European Union's Clean Aviation initiative. Future testing will be conducted at The Grid, the $50 million electric power systems lab at Collins' Rockford, Illinois, facility slated to open later this year.
About Collins Aerospace
Collins Aerospace is a business of RTX, the largest aerospace and defense company in the world. Our global team of 73,000 employees dreams, designs and delivers smarter, more connected solutions for passenger safety and comfort, mission success, space exploration, and operational efficiency and sustainability. We make the most powerful concepts in aerospace a reality.
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RTX is the world's largest aerospace and defense company. Our global team of 180,000 employees pushes the limits of known science and redefines how we connect and protect our world. We are advancing aviation, building smarter defense systems and creating innovations to take us deeper into space. Effective July 1, the company will complete its realignment into three customer-focused business units — Collins Aerospace, Raytheon and Pratt & Whitney. The company, with 2022 sales of $67 billion, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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2023-06-19T05:12:02+00:00
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Stamped Envelope Flies In Sunday
BIRD CITY, Kan., July 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sunday the Postal Service will issue the Northern Cardinal stamped envelope in Bird City, KS. This stamped envelope is designed for convenient, pre-paid correspondence by customers.
This highly realistic stamp art is based on photographs and features an illustration of a northern cardinal perching on an evergreen branch.
The northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) is one of the most popular songbirds native to North America. Seven states have chosen it as their state bird—more than any other species. Male cardinals are immediately recognizable by their crimson-colored feathers and black facial markings while the females are a plainer gray brown with a dusting of red.
Cardinals are favorite images celebrating Christmas and the New Year and are the mascots of numerous professional, high school, and college athletic teams.
Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamped envelope using an illustration created by Kandis Vermeer Phillips.
The Northern Cardinal stamped envelope is being issued as a Forever® stamped envelope. Its postage will always be equal to the value of the stamped envelope rate in effect at the time of use, even if the rate changes after purchase.
Postal Products
Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through the Postal Store at usps.com/shopstamps, by calling 844-737-7826, by mail through USA Philatelic or at Post Office locations nationwide. For officially licensed stamp products, shop the USPS Officially Licensed Collection on Amazon.
Please Note: The United States Postal Service is an independent federal establishment, mandated to be self-financing and to serve every American community through the affordable, reliable and secure delivery of mail and packages to nearly 165 million addresses six and often seven days a week. Overseen by a bipartisan Board of Governors, the Postal Service is implementing a 10-year transformation plan, Delivering for America, to modernize the postal network, restore long-term financial sustainability, dramatically improve service across all mail and shipping categories, and maintain the organization as one of America's most valued and trusted brands.
The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
For USPS media resources, including broadcast quality video and audio and photo stills, visit the USPS Newsroom. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the USPS YouTube Channel and like us on Facebook. For more information about the Postal Service, visit usps.com and facts.usps.com.
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The pandemic inflicted higher rates of excess deaths on both Republicans and Democrats. But after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, Republican voters in Florida and Ohio died at a higher rate than their counterparts, according to a new study.
Researchers from Yale University who studied the pandemic's effects on those two states say that from the pandemic's start in March 2020 through December 2021, "excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic voters after COVID-19 vaccines were available to all adults, but not before."
More specifically, the researchers say, their adjusted analysis found that "the excess death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters" after vaccine eligibility was opened.
The different rates "were concentrated in counties with lower vaccination rates, and primarily noted in voters residing in Ohio," according to the study that was published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday.
It's the latest research to suggest the perils of mixing partisan politics with medical advice and health policy.
How was the study performed?
Researchers analyzed data related to 538,159 people who died between Jan. 1, 2018, and Dec. 31, 2021, at ages 25 and over, compiling their political party affiliations based on records from 2017.
The study collected weekly death counts, breaking down the deceased's party ties along with their county and age cohort. It used May 1, 2021, as a key dividing line because the date marks a month after all U.S. adults became eligible to receive shots of the COVID-19 vaccines.
The researchers estimated excess mortality based on how the overall rate of deaths during the pandemic compared to what would have been expected from historical, pre-pandemic trends.
Researchers saw a divide suddenly emerge
As they calculated excess death rate data for Florida and Ohio, the researchers found only small differences between Republican and Democratic voters in the first year of the pandemic, with both groups suffering similarly sharp rises in excess deaths that winter.
Things changed as the summer of 2021 approached. When coronavirus vaccine access widened, so did the excess death gap. In the researchers' adjusted analysis of the period after April 1, 2021, they calculated Democratic voters' excess death rate at 18.1, and Republicans' at 25.8 — a 7.7 percentage-point difference equating to a 43% gap.
After the gap was established in the summer of 2021, it widened further in the fall, according to the study's authors.
The study doesn't provide all the answers
The researchers note that their study has several limitations, including the chance that political party affiliation "is a proxy for other risk factors," such as income, health insurance status and chronic medical conditions, along with race and ethnicity.
The study focused only on registered Republicans and Democrats; independents were excluded. And because the researchers drilled into data in Florida and Ohio, they warn that their findings might not translate to other states.
The researchers' data also did not specify a cause of death, and it accounts for some 83.5% of U.S. deaths, rather than the entire number. And because data about the vaccination status of each of the 538,159 people who died in the two states wasn't available, researchers could only go as granular as the county level in assessing excess deaths and vaccination rates.
The study was funded by the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University and the Yale School of Public Health COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Fund.
New findings join other reviews of politics and the pandemic
In late 2021, an NPR analysis found that after May of that year — a timeframe that overlaps the vaccine availability cited in the new study — people in counties that voted strongly for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election were "nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19" as people in pro-Biden counties.
"An unvaccinated person is three times as likely to lean Republican as they are to lean Democrat," as Liz Hamel, vice president of public opinion and survey research at the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, told NPR.
Even before vaccines were widely accessible, researchers were working to quantify the effects of vastly divergent COVID-19 policies across U.S. states.
A widely cited study from early 2021 found that in the early months of the pandemic's official start date in March 2020, states with Republican governors saw lower COVID-19 case numbers and death rates than Democratic-led states. But the trend reversed around the middle of 2020, as Republican governors were less likely to institute controls such as stay-at-home orders and face mask requirements.
"Future policy decisions should be guided by public health considerations rather than by political ideology," said the authors of that study, which was selected as the article of the year by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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2023-07-25T18:38:11+00:00
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HUDSON, N.H. — The death of a New Hampshire newborn is being investigated as suspicious, NBC 10 Boston reports.
Hudson police said they were contacted by the state Division for Children, Youth and Families on June 22 about an infant who had been admitted to a hospital in Massachusetts the night before.
The infant, who was just 15 days old, had been removed from his parents' home at an apartment on Burns Hill Road in Hudson and taken to a hospital in Massachusetts for treatment, where he died eight days later.
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2022-07-12T20:54:25+00:00
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newscentermaine.com
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BRISTOL, Tenn. (WJHL) — Barely a year removed from a small operation in Jonesborough, the Tennessee Hills brand announced a second multimillion-dollar project Monday that will include a major automated distillery and museum in Bristol.
Scott Andrew partners with Tennessee Hills founder Stephen Callahan in a larger parent brand called “Rugged American Spirits,” which includes a brewery opened last year on West Walnut Street in Johnson City.
The pair planned to build both a brewery and distillery on about five acres they own on Walnut but Andrew said after rapid growth in demand, they needed to look for additional space. Working with Tom Anderson, an economic developer with the City of Bristol, they found their way to a nine-acre hill that’s the first one drivers see as they enter the Volunteer State from Virginia.
“We saw this hill, it wasn’t even for sale,” Andrew told News Channel 11 while standing on the property Tennessee Hills bought a couple months ago. It includes a 19,000-square-foot building that American National University had left empty for two years due to COVID-19 — and by around next fall, a 34,000-square-foot distillery that will pump out up to 7,200 bottles of spirits in a span of hours. Callahan’s current operation in Jonesborough produces about 1,000 bottles a week.
“I just drove up here and knocked on the door,” Andrew said of the hilltop location, a stone’s throw from the Pinnacle shopping center and not far from the new Bristol, Va. casino. “I called them, they were up in Virginia, and they said ‘yeah, we’d be interested in selling it.’ We were fortunate to be able to craft a deal with them and buy the property, which is perfect for Tennessee Hills.”
Tennessee Hills is investing $21.3 million, including about $8 million for high-tech distilling equipment that will occupy the new $11 million building. They’ll retrofit the former college into a space that will include classrooms for distilling and business classes, a museum dedicated to Tennessee’s statewide history as a whiskey hotbed, and the rugged entrepreneurialism that has marked Northeast Tennessee for centuries.
The project fits well enough with Bristol’s focus on lifestyle tourism that the city is donating 45 acres of land across Highway 11-W, adjacent to The Pinnacle.
“It fits very well going back to the Birthplace of Country Music, just all the growth that we’re having,” Anderson said. “All the growth that we’re having, there’s a lot of outdoor enthusiasts, tourism, events that we have going on more and more, and they just mesh very well with that and they’re willing to put the resources behind it.”
The 45 acres will become what Anderson called an “adventure park.” Andrew referred to the wooded site, a mix of steep terrain, about five acres of flat land and a valley.
“We’re canvassing a bunch of ideas,” Andrew said. “We’ve got everything from an outdoor adventure park to a Smokestillery restaurant to cabins and somewhat of a resort complex on top of the ridgeline similar to what you might see in Gatlinburg, except a little more of an industrial Tennessee Hills look.
“If we can, we’re probably going to combine a lot of those things together, and we really just agreed to develop everything that was usable as we develop these ideas, based off of the $20 million we’re already investing in this site.”
Jobs in the mix
The overall concept is likely to create up to 80 jobs eventually. In fact, the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (ECD) sent out its own announcement about it Monday touting the creation of 45 jobs over five years. ECD is providing workforce training grants and other incentives in addition to the help coming from Bristol.
“Tennessee’s strong business climate and skilled workforce continue to ensure success among companies like Tennessee Hills Distillery,” Gov. Bill Lee said in a release. “I thank this Tennessee brand for its commitment to job creation and look forward to seeing many more years of success in Northeast Tennessee.”
Bristol mayor Mahlon Luttrell called Rugged American Spirits “synonymous with quality and innovation.
“This project consists of the perfect blend of investment and vision that will not only bring more than 80 new jobs to our community, but that also leans into our cultural heritage, further elevating Bristol as a destination of choice for unique experiences delivered by masters of their craft,” Luttrell said in a statement.
In addition to the provision of land by Bristol, the Tennessee Hills distillery project is in what’s called the “420 Zone” — meaning it qualifies for incentives that send some sales tax dollars generated from retail within the site back to the business for reinvestment. The Pinnacle benefits from the same program.
“With the retail element and that incentive coming from the state, and then we’ve got a pretty robust incentive policy already that the city has in place, and it being a manufacturer, they were able to check all the boxes,” Bristol’s Anderson said of his work with Tennessee Hills over the past several months.
“As time went on we just helped them make their business case and they chose this for their home.”
The new distillery — and a new, much larger brewery still planned for Johnson City — will be designed by Tennessee Hills new chief operating officer Vernon Spaulding. Spaulding is a key figure in the craft beer industry who has led the design and construction of more than a dozen craft and microbreweries nationwide over the past nine years, including Wiseacre Brewing in Memphis.
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2022-07-18T19:14:06+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/tennessee-hills-reaches-for-sky-with-20-million-bristol-distillery-museum-plans/
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A legislative committee has finally advanced a bill to comply with a voter ID requirement approved by Nebraska voters last November, but with infighting among Republicans, it’s unclear whether lawmakers have time to pass the bill before the session ends early next month.
The bill, introduced by Republican Sen. Julie Slama, was advanced from the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee on Wednesday after being amended to focus on photo IDs. Slama had sought more far-reaching requirements, including verification of voters' citizenship, notarization of mail-in ballots and audits of witness signatures for mail-in ballots.
The amended version would allow a wide array of photo identification voters could present at the polls, such as passports, driver's licenses, military and tribal IDs and Nebraska college IDs. Even expired IDs would be allowed as long as they have the voter's name and photo. Residents of hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living centers would be able to use patient documents that include a photo.
Those voting by mail would be allowed to include the number from their driver’s license or state ID card or a copy of an accepted document. Voters who show up without a photo ID could cast a provisional ballot but would have to present a valid ID to election officials within a week for the vote to be counted. Some rare photo ID exceptions would also be made, such as for those with religious objections to being photographed.
The amended version drew sharp criticism from Slama, who labeled it “fraud-friendly” with “no real ID requirements.” She blamed Republican Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen, saying his office tipped “the scales in favor of his unconstitutional amendment.”
“Evnen's office obstructed this process every step of the way,” Slama said. “I'm going to fight on behalf of the voters to stop this abomination.”
She has introduced an amendment to restore much of her original proposal.
Evnen has been a popular target among those who believe persistent conspiracy theories that elections in 2020 were rigged.
Evnen, who has advocated for a voter photo ID law, defended his office's work on the bill. Nebraska already verifies citizenship of voters when they register to vote, and Slama's bill requiring further citizenship checks would violate federal law, he said.
“Senator Slama’s bill appears to have the effect of suppressing the votes of rural voters,” Evnen said in a written statement. “I have repeatedly said that I would not support a bill that suppresses voting. Senator Slama's bill also appears to violate the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. Again, such provisions help no one."
The committee’s chair, Sen. Tom Brewer, of Gordon, said at the beginning of the legislative session that the committee would likely take parts from the various bills and craft its own bill to advance to the full Legislature. He said Wednesday that the committee moved ahead with a more moderate voter ID proposal with only 10 days left in this year's session and after weeks of being unable to reach a compromise with those who wanted to make more stringent requirements.
Voter ID measures have been approved in a number of Republican-controlled states nationwide. Nebraska Republicans’ previous efforts to do so in the officially nonpartisan Legislature were unable to overcome opponents who said such voter ID laws are meant to discourage voter turnout by minorities and others who are less likely to have appropriate identification and tend to vote for Democrats.
When efforts in the Legislature failed in 2021, a petition effort bankrolled by then-Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts’ mother was launched to get the measure on last November’s ballot.
Nebraska has no history of widespread voter fraud, but supporters of the voter ID requirement say it’s needed to prevent possible future problems.
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2023-05-18T22:46:31+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/voter-id-bill-facing-republican-infighting-18107502.php
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Prosecutors reveal planned Proud Boys witness was informant
Federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday that a witness expected to testify for the defense at the seditious conspiracy trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four associates was secretly acting as a government informant for nearly two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a defense lawyer said in a court filing.
Carmen Hernandez, a lawyer for former Proud Boys chapter leader Zachary Rehl, asked a judge to schedule an immediate emergency hearing and suspend the trial “until these issues have been considered and resolved.” Lawyers for the other four defendants joined in Hernandez’s request.
Hernandez said in court papers that the defense team was told by prosecutors on Wednesday afternoon that the witness they were planning to call to the stand on Thursday had been a government informant.
The judge ordered prosecutors to file a response to the defense filing by Thursday afternoon and scheduled a hearing for the same day, putting testimony in the case on hold until Friday. The U.S. attorney's office did not immediately comment on the filing.
In her court filing, Hernandez said the unnamed informant participated in “prayer meetings” with relatives of at least one of the Proud Boys on trial and had discussions with family members about replacing one of the defense lawyers on the case. The informant also has been in contact with at least one of the defense lawyers and at least one of the five defendants, Hernandez wrote.
It's the latest twist in a trial that has been bogged down by bickering between lawyers and the judge and already lasted much longer than expected. Defense lawyers have repeatedly asked the judge in vain to declare a mistrial over a variety of issues they say have been unfair to their clients.
The trial in Washington's federal court is one of the most serious cases to emerge from the Jan. 6 attack. Tarrio, Rehl and three other Proud Boys — Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean and Dominic Pezzola — are charged with conspiring to block the transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election.
Tarrio, a Miami resident, served as national chairman for the far-right extremist group, whose members describe it as a politically incorrect men’s club for “Western chauvinists.” He and the other Proud Boys could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Defense attorneys have argued there is no evidence the Proud Boys plotted to attack the Capitol and stop Congress from certifying Biden’s electoral victory.
Hernandez didn't name the informant in her court filing, but she said it is somebody who has serving as a “confidential human source” for the federal government since April 2021 through at least January 2023. Prosecutors knew in December that the person was a potential trial witness but didn't inform defense lawyers until Wednesday that the witness has been a federal informant, she said.
It's not the first time the government's use of informants has become an issue in the case. Defense attorneys have repeatedly pushed to get more information about informants in the far-right extremist group as they try to undermine the notion that the group had a plan to attack the Capital on Jan. 6.
FBI Agent Nicole Miller testified last week that she was aware of two informants in the Proud Boys, including one who marched on the Capital on Jan. 6.
Hernandez said there are “reasons to doubt the veracity of the government’s explanation and justification for withholding information about the (confidential human sources) who have been involved in the case.” She could not immediately be reached for additional comment.
Law enforcement routinely uses informants in criminal investigations, but their methods and identities can be closely guarded secrets. Federal authorities haven't publicly released much information about their use of informants in investigating the Proud Boys' role in a mob's attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Nordean, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter leader. Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida, was a self-described Proud Boys organizer. Rehl was president of the Proud Boys chapter in Philadelphia. Pezzola was a Proud Boys member from Rochester, New York.
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Associated Press writer Alanna Durkin Richer in Boston contributed to this report.
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2023-03-23T18:31:02+00:00
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4029tv.com
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https://www.4029tv.com/article/prosecutors-say-planned-proud-boys-witness-was-informant/43401073
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PEOTONE — When Mitch Neally sat down his team before Monday's fourth quarter while trailing by seven, Fieldcrest's head coach was ready with a history lesson.
"Coach Neally said last year going into the fourth quarter we were down seven points," said Fieldcrest junior Kaitlin White. "We were still in it last year and did it (win), and we can do it again."
And, for a while, history seemed ready to repeat itself in the Class 2A Peotone Super-Sectional rematch between the Knight and Chicago Noble/Butler.
White made two free throws with 50 seconds left to give Fieldcrest a 53-52 lead. Butler tied it up 15 seconds later as Lanyra McGill split a pair of free throws and the game went into overtime.
Fieldcrest took a quick lead on a basket by freshman Macy Gochanour. However, the Knights didn't score again as Butler pulled out a 59-55 victory to deny Fieldcrest a return trip to the State Tournament after finishing fourth a year ago.
"We knew they were going to be a battle," said Fieldcrest senior Ashlyn May, who finished her standout career with 21 points. "They have strength, height and talent. They have everything. We competed very well with them."
Walton leads Lynx
Xamiya Walton, one of the top juniors in the country, scored 26 points to lead the Lynx to Thursday's 2:30 p.m. semifinal game against Byron at Illinois State's CEFCU Arena.
Fieldcrest rallied last year to beat Butler, 43-40. The Lynx, who improved to 31-6, had a full year to think about getting even.
"The difference was the motivation we had from last season, ending the way it did to the same team," said Walton, who topped the 2,000-point mark in her career. "All we needed was that final push to get through it and punch our ticket downstate."
White added 19 points and senior Carolyn Megow had 12 for the Knights (32-4). Fieldcrest shot 54.5% from the field in the first half, but hit only 33% after that and committed 18 turnovers.
There were 14 lead changes and nine ties before the 6-foot-4 McGill, who towered over the Knights along with 6-3 Sereniti Adams, scored on a rebound basket with 50 seconds left in overtime to put Butler ahead, 57-55.
Mya Campbell made two of four free throw attempts in the final 14 seconds to clinch the victory.
"They just made a few more plays than we did in OT," said Neally. "I thought we got some good shots. They just didn't fall. Sometimes that's life and basketball."
Height disadvantage
Neally knew Fieldcrest would be at a severe disadvantage down low. May is the Knights' tallest player at 5-9, and she was giving away seven inches while guarding McGill.
"I was on her sometimes and I was thinking jump at the ball, but I'm going to be (jumping) at her eyes," said May, smiling. "We all did pretty well. Their role players started making more plays than we were expecting. We've been battling height in the post all season. We've really adjusted."
Butler, despite its size superiority, only grabbed a 34-30 rebounding advantage.
"These (Fieldcrest) girls are going to be great young people in this world and it's because of what they've done here. The way they don't quit and fight," said Neally, whose team was coming off a triple-overtime thriller in the sectional final against Peotone.
"We have one girl over 5-7 on our team, and we competed with a team that has 6-4, 6-3, 5-11. He (Butler coach Xaver Walton, Xamiya's father) does a great job of recruiting those girls. Props to him. We have the girls who are in our district and we'll make them the best that we can, and we've done that."
Walton, whose 5-11 freshman sister, Xyanna, scored 12 points before fouling out, showed her college ability by making step back 3-pointers at the end of the first and third quarters.
"She's a great player," said White, who was on Xamiya Walton much of the game. "She has great sportsmanship. She's just an all-around great player. She's going to go big some day."
Two-year run
The Knights concluded a two-year run in which they went 66-8. Fieldcrest had not won a sectional or McLean County Tournament title before last year.
"We grew as a family. We're all so very close and that's what gets our emotions going," said White. "Three of our main starters (May, Megow and Haley Carver) are leaving us. We're going to have to start new next year. It's going to be hard to gain back what we're losing."
May, who will play next season for Illinois Wesleyan, called her days in a Fieldcrest uniform "super special."
"I didn't think my high school career was going to go this well. We worked our tails off, summer, in-season, no matter what we're always working," she said. "It comes down to us loving basketball. Coach is really great and teaches us great things. The fact we didn't come out with the win, that's OK. Coach has taught us so many things, and I'm thankful for that and these girls."
While the scoreboard didn't read the way the Knights wanted, Neally knew his team would be all right.
"They put Fieldcrest girls basketball on the map, and I'll be forever grateful because of that. I'm just so darn proud of them," he said. "A loss hurts now, but in life you'll have the same thing. They're very well equipped to handle a loss in the game of basketball and life, and that's the most important thing."
Dee-Mack falls
Defending state champion Quincy Notre Dame used a big second quarter to take a 17-point halftime lead and beat Deer Creek-Mackinaw, 53-21, in the Class 2A Macomb Super-Sectional.
Dee-Mack (30-6), which trailed 13-9 after the first quarter, was led by senior Addi Swadinsky with 11 points while freshman Dalia De Jesus scored nine.
"Our girls battled, but couldn’t overcome a tough QND team," said Dee-Mack coach Joni Nightingale. "Our team was led by two of the very best in seniors Addi Swadinsky and McKenna Carithers. They made history with a young supporting cast, set the bar every day in practice, demonstrated unselfish competition and raised the bar for those that follow."
QND, which was led by Abby Schreacke's 20 points, faces Breese Mater Dei in a 4:15 p.m. semifinal game Thursday at CEFCU Arena.
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2023-02-28T06:46:18+00:00
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pantagraph.com
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https://pantagraph.com/sports/high-school/basketball/girls/fieldcrests-quest-for-second-straight-final-four-appearance-ends-with-overtime-loss/article_200e7a3a-b721-11ed-9fc0-fbc2f988640e.html
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NEW YORK, April 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Provident Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: PVBC) resulting from allegations that Provident may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Provident securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10252 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On November 15, 2022, Provident filed a Form NT 10-Q Notification of inability to timely file Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022. The Form NT 10-Q stated the delay was due to "estimates that [Provident] will report net loss of approximately $27.5 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2022, compared to net income of $5.1 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2021."
On this news, Provident's stock price fell $2.20, or 21%, to close at $7.90 on November 16, 2022, on unusually high trading volume.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
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2023-04-02T15:55:09+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2023/04/02/rosen-leading-ranked-firm-encourages-provident-bancorp-inc-investors-inquire-about-securities-class-action-investigation-pvbc/
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Combining a best-in-class Employee Incident and Policy Management solution with Star's robust offerings unites Conduct and Ethics into one comprehensive employee compliance platform.
ROCKVILLE, Md., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- StarCompliance ("Star"), a leading global software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of employee compliance technology solutions, announces its acquisition of ETHIX360, a US-based provider of next-generation integrated risk and compliance management solutions. ETHIX360's cloud-based, SaaS solutions provide case management, policy management, compliance training and whistleblower capabilities to over four million workers across 80 countries in numerous industries including manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, energy, retail and hospitality, the public sector, and education. This acquisition further expands StarCompliance's leading product suite to provide compliance solutions across both employee conflicts of interest and employee conduct.
"We have seen a greater blurring of the lines between Compliance and Human Resources departments around employee compliance," stated Jennifer Sun, CEO of StarCompliance. "By bringing together Star's employee conflict of interest solutions with ETHIX360's employee conduct products, we create a superior, comprehensive platform that gives companies a holistic view of employee compliance activity and offers workers a single portal to access their company's compliance program," said Sun.
Star's new Employee Incident & Policy Management solution extends the robust offerings of its future-ready employee compliance platform by adding enhanced capabilities, including:
- Case management platform with intake methods for reporting employee concerns, and collecting, managing, investigating, and resolving incidents.
- Policy management solution that simplifies creating, maintaining, and managing policies.
- Portfolio of proprietary and third-party ethics and compliance training content
- Fully compliant live and digital call centers enabling phone and web incident intake across multiple countries and languages.
"Combining our multi-vertical client base with Star's broad footprint in financial services creates a unique growth opportunity for both companies," said J Rollins, CEO at ETHIX360. "We are excited to be an important part of Star's journey to change the landscape of the compliance industry with a true end-to-end employee compliance platform."
Representing a significant product investment by Star, this transaction enhances Star's solution for new and existing clients, and will make each company's product available to the other's client base and prospects, with no service interruption to existing clients. The innovative acquisition brings Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics uniquely into one comprehensive platform providing a safe space for employees to raise concerns, a secure system to investigate and resolve those concerns, more resources, and advanced analytics and reporting capabilities to assess risk and monitor performance.
About ETHIX360
ETHIX360 provides an effective, and comprehensive answer to employee communication, policy management, corporate training, and case management on issues related to corporate ethics, code of conduct, fraud, bribery, and workplace violence. Their next-generation Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution is easily configurable and can be deployed to a global workforce in as little as 24 hours. ETHIX360 offers an intuitive user experience that supports early adoption, keeps employees safe, and helps companies build a culture of compliance. www.ethix360.com
About StarCompliance
StarCompliance is the world's leading provider of compliance technology solutions. Trusted globally by forward-thinking companies in 114 countries, Star's future-ready compliance platform delivers on-demand configurability, multi-jurisdictional integrity, and the actionable intelligence you need to monitor for conflicts, meet regulatory obligations, and reduce risk. Compliance no longer needs to be complex. Check out Star's intuitive, straightforward UX and give your employees the multi-layered protection they need to comply with confidence. www.starcompliance.com
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2023-06-06T16:45:39+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2023/06/06/starcompliance-expands-its-leading-employee-compliance-platform-with-acquisition-ethix360/
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ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Darden Restaurants, Inc., (NYSE:DRI) plans to release its fiscal 2023 first quarter financial results before the market opens on Thursday, September 22, 2022, with a conference call to follow at 8:30 am ET. Rick Cardenas, CEO, and other senior management will discuss first quarter results, and conduct a question and answer session. For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, a replay will be available shortly after the call.
About Darden
Darden is a restaurant company featuring a portfolio of differentiated brands that include Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Yard House, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Bahama Breeze and Eddie V's. For more information, please visit www.darden.com.
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2022-08-23T21:23:51+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/08/23/darden-restaurants-host-fiscal-2023-first-quarter-conference-call-september-22/
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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Chesterfield County Police Department has now identified the pedestrian who was killed while crossing Route 1 just before Christmas.
According to police, on Friday, Dec. 23 just before 10:30 p.m., 77-year-old Manuel A. Gonzalez-Hernandez of Chesterfield was running across the southbound lanes of the 6400 block of Route 1. As he was crossing, he was hit by a 2022 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter.
Gonzalez-Hernandez was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Mercedes-Benz remained on scene and is cooperating with police.
Anyone with information about this crash should contact the Chesterfield County Police Department at 804-748-1251.
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2023-01-05T19:24:15+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/chesterfield-county/chesterfield-police-identify-77-year-old-pedestrian-killed-in-crash/
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TOKYO (AP) — A suspicious object found Tuesday in a paper bag inside a commercial building connected to the Hiroshima train station temporarily suspended the high-speed train service and prompted an evacuation of customers and employees, as the Japanese city steps up security ahead of the Group of Seven summit next month.
Hiroshima police said its special unit removed the object from the restroom of the building about four hours after it was first spotted, and continued analyzing the content and investigate whether there was any criminal intent involved.
The police dispatched a team of explosives handlers and an anti-terrorism unit after temporarily evacuating all customers and employees and closing down the Ekie commercial building that was crowded with people having lunch and shopping. West Japan Railway Co. suspended the Shinkansen service for about two hours.
Police officials said there is a possibility of overreaction to something that may turn out to be harmless. Officials have stepped up security ahead of the G-7 summit in Hiroshima on May 19-21, and also after an incident 10 days ago when a man threw an explosive device at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in the western city of Wakayama. Kishida was unharmed and the suspect arrested.
The attack came less than a year after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination.
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2023-04-25T12:23:23+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/suspicious-object-halts-trains-in-japanese-city-17916811.php
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CT New York NY Zone Forecast for Thursday, September 8, 2022
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315 AM EDT Fri Sep 9 2022
CTZ005-092000-
Northern Fairfield-
315 AM EDT Fri Sep 9 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs around 80.
Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the
upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming west after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid
80s. Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest around
5 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs around 80. West winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
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CTZ009-092000-
Southern Fairfield-
315 AM EDT Fri Sep 9 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows around 60.
South winds around 5 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 80. West winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 80. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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CTZ006-092000-
Northern New Haven-
315 AM EDT Fri Sep 9 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper
50s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid
80s. Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest around
5 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80. West winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
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CTZ010-092000-
Southern New Haven-
315 AM EDT Fri Sep 9 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows around
60. South winds around 5 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid
80s. Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest around
5 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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CTZ007-092000-
Northern Middlesex-
315 AM EDT Fri Sep 9 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs around 80.
Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the
upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming west after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid
80s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
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CTZ011-092000-
Southern Middlesex-
315 AM EDT Fri Sep 9 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the lower
60s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid
80s. Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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CTZ008-092000-
Northern New London-
315 AM EDT Fri Sep 9 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper
50s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid
80s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
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Southern New London-
315 AM EDT Fri Sep 9 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows around 60.
South winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the lower
80s. Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
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2022-09-09T08:36:53+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/CT-New-York-NY-Zone-Forecast-17429482.php
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2022-10-27T14:10:58+00:00
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bizjournals.com
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https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2022/10/27/manulife-investment-management-alliance-gateway-11.html
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The Moonstone, Pearl and Peridot open this weekend at Seasons at Sierra Vista
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Richmond American Homes of California, Inc., a subsidiary of M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MDC), is excited to announce that three brand-new, fully furnished model homes will open for tours on Saturday, October 1, at Seasons at Sierra Vista (RichmondAmerican.com/SeasonsAtSierraVista). This exceptional gated community showcases six inspired ranch and two-story floor plans from the builder's sought-after Seasons™ Collection (RichmondAmerican.com/SeasonsSac), designed to put homeownership within reach for a variety of buyers.
Model home tours (RichmondAmerican.com/SeasonsatSierraVistaTours)
Prospective homebuyers and area agents are encouraged to schedule a tour of the new Moonstone, Pearl and Peridot model homes at Seasons at Sierra Vista for Saturday, October 1, or Sunday, October 2.
More about this gated community:
- New ranch and two-story homes from the mid $500s
- Six inspired floor plans boasting open layouts and designer details
- 2 to 6 bedrooms, approx. 1,590 to 2,630 sq. ft.
- Close proximity to shopping, dining, recreation and entertainment
- Convenient access to Sacramento via CA-65 and I-80
Those who choose to build a new home from the ground up at Seasons at Sierra Vista will have the opportunity to work with professional design consultants at the builder's Home Gallery™ to select colors, textures, finishes and fixtures for their new living spaces—a complimentary service!
Seasons at Sierra Vista is located at 2057 Quartz Cove Way in Roseville (off Baseline Road and Westbrook Boulevard). Call 916.472.7385 to schedule a tour or visit RichmondAmerican.com for more information about this must-see community.
About M.D.C. Holdings, Inc.
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2022-09-26T22:19:25+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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LONDON — Police worked Wednesday to piece together details of a knife and van attack that killed two 19-year-old students and another man in the English city of Nottingham, as friends and family remembered the two younger victims as talented athletes with a passion for life.
Police say a 31-year-old suspect also killed a man in his 50s more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) away, stole his van and ran down a group of pedestrians. Three people were hurt, one critically, in the hit-and-run.
Police subdued the suspect with a stun gun nearby and detained him on suspicion of murder. Police said they believe the attacker acted alone and were working with counterterrorism officers to try to establish a motive. The attack has not been labeled terrorism by the authorities, and police are investigating issues including the suspect’s mental health.
The BBC and other U.K. media reported that the suspect, whose name has not been released, is originally from West Africa and has lived legally in Britain for many years and did not have a criminal record.
The rampage unfolded over about 90 minutes across a large swath of Nottingham, a university city of about 350,000 some 110 miles (175 kilometers) north of London.
A Nottingham University graduation ball for scheduled for Tuesday evening was canceled, with many students gathering instead to light candles for the victims during a vigil at St. Peter’s Church.
Webber’s parents and brother said he was “a beautiful, brilliant, bright young man, with everything in life to look forward to.”
“A talented and passionate cricketer, who was over the moon to have made selection to his university cricket team,” the family, from Taunton in southwest England, said in a statement.
“Complete devastation is not enough to describe our pain and loss at the senseless murder of our son.”
Kumar also played cricket and had played field hockey for England youth teams. Woodford Wells Cricket Club near London said she was “a fiercely competitive, talented and dedicated cricketer and hockey player” who was “fun, friendly and brilliant.”
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2023-06-14T08:42:19+00:00
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/14/nottingham-uk-students-killed-attack/3d461330-0a8a-11ee-8132-a84600f3bb9b_story.html
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2022-12-22T15:30:11+00:00
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Do you ever hurt your own feelings?
For me, it's a common occurrence. A curt reply to that thoughtful work email, zero responses to that happy hour invitation – little slights like these get my inner critic going. What a dumb thing to say! Of course they don't like you. Who do you think you are?
This kind of negative self-talk can get in the way of creating strong relationships with ourselves and others. But there are ways to stop this spiral of thinking, says psychologist Ethan Kross. In moments of hurt or confusion, pause to consider other possibilities.
In our episode on how to take things less personally, Kross, author of Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters and How to Harness It, says assessing the situation from different angles can help you avoid the unproductive thought loop that can prevent our ability to move on.
Maybe that coworker gave a short response to your email because they were on deadline. Maybe your friend simply forgot to push "send" on her response.
Maybe, just maybe, it's not all about you – and that's a freeing and wonderful thing, says Kross. Zooming out and changing your viewpoint is a great way to change that destructive internal narrative, he says.
Here are five more tips on how to crush self-doubt and make nice with the voice in your head.
Talk to yourself the way you would talk to a friend
In our episode on how to curb negative self-talk, psychologist Joy Harden Bradford says to be aware of the harmful things we might say to ourselves.
So the next time you're tempted to disparage your looks or criticize your decision-making, ask yourself: would I talk this way to my best friend? If not, practice "using the same kind and gentle language that we use with the people we love" on yourself, says Bradford. "Because we're also people who we hopefully love, right?" Listen to the episode here.
'SIFT' through what people say about you
The acronym SIFT (source, impact, frequency and trends), developed by research scientist Mike Caulfield, can help you figure out whether you should listen to feedback from others or just ignore it.
Say someone calls you out for poor email communication. Did that criticism come from someone you trust and value? Is it demanding a big change or a minor tweak to your behavior? Is this something you've heard from other people? And have you heard this from different communities in your life, or just at work? Consider these points before deciding to act. Listen to the episode here.
Don't forget that our brains have a tendency to focus on the negative
The mind is a tricky thing. It can lead us to fixate, for example, on one bad aspect of a year-end review from a manager instead of their positive feedback. This is called "negativity bias," says Yale psychology professor Woo-kyoung Ahn, and it illustrates our propensity to weigh negative events a lot more heavily than an equal amount of positive events. This "thinking error," she says, is dangerous because it can lead us to make the wrong choices. Find out how to counteract this bias here.
Don't dwell on something that bothers you — talk about it
If someone you love is causing you distress, don't be afraid to communicate with them about it, says psychologist Adia Gooden. It may help clear up any assumptions you may have and offer new perspectives about the incident.
For example, instead of jumping to conclusions if your partner is always on their phone at dinnertime, you might say to them: "Because you're always on your phone, I feel like you don't think I'm worthy of your attention," says Gooden. "And they might say, 'Oh, shoot, I didn't mean to be on my phone. Or, you know, I've been kind of frustrated with you and I didn't know how to bring it up. So I've been looking at my phone instead of making eye contact. Let's talk." Listen to the episode here.
Adapt a 'growth mindset'
Instead of defining yourself by your failures or limitations, consider every loss as part of your learning process. This idea, developed by psychologist Carol Dweck, is called a "growth mindset," and it can help bolster that internal dialogue when you've taken an L and can't stop kicking yourself about it.
Let's say you lose a round of pool. Those with a fixed mindset, she says, think that talent and intelligence are static: I give up, I'll never get good at this! Growth-minded people believe that effort can lead to mastery: Hey! I'm getting a lot better at putting some power behind the ball! It's all about finding the right perspective. Listen to the episode here.
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2022-11-04T15:31:43+00:00
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delawarepublic.org
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WATERLOO, Ontario (StudyFinds.org) – If you’re currently taking a diuretic and a renin-angiotensin system (RSA) inhibitor for hypertension, researchers from the University of Waterloo warn that taking ibuprofen could be a very harmful combination. Scientists report combining the three drugs can result in acute kidney injury among certain medical profiles. In some cases, these kidney injuries can be permanent.
Available under a wide variety of pharmaceutical brand names, diuretics and RSA inhibitors are routinely prescribed together to help treat high blood pressure. Ibuprofen, on the other hand, is a widely available over-the-counter painkiller.
Researchers used a series of computer-simulated drug trials to reach these conclusions. This strategy allowed them to model the interactions between the three drugs, as well as any impact on the kidneys.
“It’s not that everyone who happens to take this combination of drugs is going to have problems,” says Anita Layton, professor of applied mathematics at Waterloo and Canada 150 Research Chair in mathematical biology and medicine, in a university release. “But the research shows it’s enough of a problem that you should exercise caution.”
Dehydration plays a major role in kidney damage
Human clinical trials can take months or longer to produce results. Computer-simulated drug trials, however, are much faster. So, Prof. Layton and her team use their expertise in math and computer science to create computer-simulated drug trials, affording medical practitioners a much earlier indication of any potential drug interaction problems.
This time around, their findings apply directly to many, many people currently taking drugs for their blood pressure. Such individuals may take an ibuprofen and have no idea they are putting their kidneys at risk.
“Diuretics are a family of drugs that make the body hold less water,” Prof. Layton concludes. “Being dehydrated is a major factor in acute kidney injury, and then the RAS inhibitor and ibuprofen hit the kidney with this triple whammy. If you happen to be on these hypertension drugs and need a painkiller, consider acetaminophen instead.”
The study is published in the journal Mathematical Biosciences.
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2022-05-09T20:53:30+00:00
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myfox8.com
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https://myfox8.com/news/mixing-ibuprofen-with-common-high-blood-pressure-drugs-may-cause-permanent-kidney-damage/
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MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Danielle formed Thursday in the Atlantic and is expected to become the first hurricane of an unusually quiet storm season.
But the storm is not currently a threat to any land.
The storm's maximum sustained winds were near 40 mph (65 kph). Additional strengthening is forecast and the storm is expected to become a hurricane in two days or so, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
The storm is centered about 960 miles (1,545 kilometers) west of the Azores and is moving east near 2 mph (4 kph). The hurricane center said the storm is expected to meander in the Atlantic over the next few days.
The tropical storm comes amid what had been a calm hurricane season. It is the first time since 1941 that the Atlantic has gone from July 3 to the end of August with no named storm, Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach had told The Associated Press earlier.
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2022-09-01T16:26:25+00:00
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wcfcourier.com
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https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/tropical-storm-danielle-forms-in-the-atlantic/article_67ebcb27-c9e1-55f5-815d-1bd1f475b58a.html
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The IHSAA Executive Committee voted to amend the original rule proposal from the Indiana Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (IIAAA) that would have changed how schools were classified in four-class sports by using fixed enrollment figures.
Starting in the 2024-25 season, Class 4A will include the largest 20% of schools. Class 3A will be the next 25%, Class 2A the next 25% and Class A the smallest 30% of schools.
The IHSAA says the next two-year reclassification cycle will begin with the 2024-25 school year based upon the certified enrollment figures reported to the the IHSAA from the Indiana Department of Education. Those will be released next winter.
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2023-06-23T00:45:52+00:00
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wthitv.com
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https://www.wthitv.com/sports/1a-4a-reclassification-coming-for-the-2024-25-season-for-indiana-high-school-sports/article_28bd2c02-1154-11ee-9144-53ff51b70420.html
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MILWAUKEE — Fresh off a career-high 55-point performance against the Washington Wizards, Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo opened up about his appreciation for the game and goal of having a career on-par with LeBron James and the greats of his time.
“Can I put myself in the position to be one of the best players?” Giannis questioned in a press conference. “One of the better players that brings it every night, like a guy named LeBron James, who was able to score 47 on his birthday and the next game, I think he scored 43 in year 20.
“38 years old — that he’s able to take care of his body every single night and put himself in a position to be successful and help his team [win] every single night. That’s the goal.”
EXTRA POINTS: Giannis’ 50-point outburst is a sign of changing times in the NBA
By this stage of his career, LeBron James is less than 500 points away from breaking Bucks legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s all-time scoring record of 38,387 career-points in the NBA. He’s a four-time champion, 18-time All-NBA selection and four-time NBA MVP — a far reach for anyone to achieve, yet Giannis is firmly within reach.
Ultimately, invoking LeBron’s legacy in the league was more about the standard that Giannis Antetokounmpo sets for himself. The 10-year NBA veteran is in the prime years of his career at 28 and won his first title a season earlier than LeBron did in his career.
Yet through the fame, glory and tireless work ethic, the common denominator that truly differentiates Giannis and LeBron from the rest of the sports world is their unwavering love for the game.
READ: 5 Milwaukee Bucks trade targets who would make a difference in a title run
“Guys like LeBron have been great since 2003. It’s 2023. I want to be one of those guys,” Giannis said. “For me, I want to have fun, I want to enjoy the game, I want to create art as much as I can, and I want to get in a position that my game… is boring.
“I want other people to feel like my game is boring, but I don’t get bored. The greats, the best players never get bored.”
Call it a hunch, but it doesn’t matter what Giannis does — Milwaukee Buck fans will never find his graceful, explosive play style boring and apparently neither will he.
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2023-01-04T18:31:42+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/milwaukee-bucks/2023/01/04/giannis-antetokounmpo-sets-sights-on-lebron-james-in-pursuit-of-being-an-all-time-great/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday to protect same-sex and interracial marriages amid concerns that the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade abortion access could jeopardize other rights criticized by many conservative Americans.
In a robust but lopsided debate, Democrats argued intensely in favor of enshrining marriage equality in federal law, while Republicans steered clear of openly rejecting gay marriage. Instead leading Republicans portrayed the bill as unnecessary amid other issues facing the nation.
Tuesday’s election-year roll call, 267-157, was partly political strategy, forcing all House members, Republicans and Democrats, to go on the record with their views. It also reflected the legislative branch pushing back against an aggressive court that has sparked fears it may revisit apparently settled U.S. laws.
“For me, this is personal,” said Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., who said he was among the openly gay members of the House.
“Imagine telling the next generation of Americans, my generation, we no longer have the right to marry,” he said. “Congress can’t allow that to happen.”
Wary of political fallout, GOP leaders did not direct their lawmakers to hold the party line against the bill, aides said. Dozens of Republicans joined Democrats in voting for passage.
While the Respect for Marriage Act is expected to pass the House, with a Democratic majority, it is almost certain to stall in the evenly split Senate, where most Republicans would likely join a filibuster to block it. It’s one of several bills, including those enshrining abortion access, that Democrats are proposing to confront the court’s conservative majority. Another bill, guaranteeing access to contraceptive services, is set for a vote later this week.
The Biden administration issued a statement of support for the marriage bill.
Polling shows a majority of Americans favor preserving rights to marry whom one wishes, regardless of the person’s sex, gender, race or ethnicity, a long-building shift in modern mores toward inclusion.
A Gallup poll in June showed broad and increasing support for same-sex marriage, with 70% of U.S. adults saying they think such unions should be recognized by law as valid. The poll showed majority support among both Democrats (83%) and Republicans (55%).
Approval of interracial marriage in the U.S. hit a six-decade high at 94% in September, according to Gallup.
“The extremist right-wing majority on the Supreme Court has put our country down a perilous path,” said Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., in a floor speech setting Tuesday’s process in motion.
“It’s time for our colleagues across the aisle to stand up and be counted. Will they vote to protect these fundamental freedoms? Or will they vote to let states take those freedoms away?”
But Republicans insisted Tuesday that the court was only focused on abortion access in June when it struck down the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling, and they argued that same-sex marriage and other rights were not threatened.
In fact, of all the Republicans who rose to speak during the morning debate, almost none directly broached the subject of same-sex or interracial marriage.
“We are here for a political charade, we are here for political messaging,” said Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee.
As several Democrats spoke of inequalities they said that they or their loved ones had faced in same-sex marriages, the Republicans talked about rising gas prices, inflation and crime, including recent threats to justices in connection with the abortion ruling.
Even as it passed the House with Republican votes, the outcome in the Senate is uncertain.
“I’m probably not inclined to support it,” said Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. “The predicate of this is just wrong. I don’t think the Supreme Court is going to overturn any of that stuff.”
For Republicans in Congress the Trump-era confirmation of conservative justices to the Supreme Court fulfilled a long-term GOP goal of revisiting many social, environmental and regulatory issues the party has been unable to tackle on its own by passing bills that could be signed into law.
But in a notable silence, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell declined to express his view on the bill, leaving an open question over how strongly his party would fight it, if it even comes up for a vote in the upper chamber.
“I don’t see anything behind this right now other than, you know, election year politics,” said the GOP whip, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota.
The Respect for Marriage Act would repeal a law from the Clinton era that defines marriage as a heterogeneous relationship between a man and a woman. It would also provide legal protections for interracial marriages by prohibiting any state from denying out-of-state marriage licenses and benefits on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity or national origin.
The 1996 law, the Defense of Marriage Act, had basically been sidelined by Obama-era court rulings, including Obergefell v. Hodges, which established the rights of same-sex couples to marry nationwide, a landmark case for gay rights.
But last month, writing for the majority in overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito argued for a more narrow interpretation of the rights guaranteed to Americans, noting that the right to an abortion was not spelled out in the Constitution.
In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas went further, saying other rulings similar to Roe, including those around same-sex marriage and the right for couples to use contraception, should be reconsidered.
While Alito insisted in the majority opinion that “this decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right,” others have taken notice.
“The MAGA radicals that are taking over the Republican Party have made it abundantly clear they are not satisfied with repealing Roe,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., referring to Trump’s backers.
He pointed to comments from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who said over the weekend that the Supreme Court’s decision protecting marriage equality was “clearly wrong” and state legislatures should visit the issue.
But Schumer did not commit to holding a vote on the bill.
Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in the landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage and now running as a Democrat for the Ohio House, said after the court’s ruling on abortion, “When we lose one right that we have relied on and enjoyed, other rights are at risk.”
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2022-07-19T22:59:41+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/news/politics/house-passes-bill-to-protect-same-sex-interracial-marriages/
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Stone Age child’s grave site in Finland reveals surprises
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
The burial site of a young child who lived 8,000 years ago has been discovered in Eastern Finland, providing a rare glimpse into how Stone Age humans treated their deceased.
The Majoonsuo grave first drew the attention of researchers in 1992 in the municipality of Outokumpu when bright red ocher, a clay rich in iron, was spotted on the surface of a new service trail in the forest. Red ocher has been associated with rock art as well as ornamentation and burials.
The Finnish Heritage Agency began excavating the spot in 2018 due to concerns over erosion and motor traffic.
Little was found in the grave, but the surrounding soil revealed its secrets in a recent microscopic analysis published in September in the journal PLOS One.
Finland’s Stone Age societies buried their dead in pits in the ground. The soil is so acidic in Finland that little remains preserved after thousands of years, which means traces of archaeological evidence are extremely rare.
The teeth of a child were found in the grave, as well as fragments of bird feathers, plant fibers and canine hair strands after an analysis using a painstaking protocol to uncover the microscopic evidence.
Together, these clues paint a portrait of the deceased.
Researchers determined that the teeth belonged to a child between 3 and 10 years old. Two quartz arrowheads and two other quartz objects, thought to be grave goods, were also recovered.
About 24 tiny feather fragments were found, and seven of them were associated with waterfowl. They represent the oldest feather fragments ever found in Finland. It’s possible that the child was laid to rest on a bed of down feathers, or the child was wrapped in clothing made from waterfowl, like an ancient parka or anorak.
A falcon’s feather was also found in the grave, thought to be part of an arrow likely once attached to an arrowhead, or used as decoration on the child’s clothing.
Fine hairs found at the child’s feet belonged to either a dog or a wolf. It’s possible that one was buried at the child’s feet, or the child was wearing shoes made from the fur of a dog or wolf.
“Dogs buried with the deceased have been found in, for example, Skateholm, a famous burial site in southern Sweden dating back some 7,000 years,” said study coauthor Kristiina Mannermaa, researcher and associate professor in the University of Helsinki’s department of cultures, in a statement.
“The discovery in Majoonsuo is sensational, even though there is nothing but hairs left of the animal or animals — not even teeth. We don’t even know whether it’s a dog or a wolf. The method used, demonstrates that traces of fur and feathers can be found even in graves several thousands of years old, including in Finland.”
Lead study author Tuija Kirkinen, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Helsinki’s department of cultures, carried out the analysis of the plant- and animal-based materials within the soil.
The team collected 60 bags of soil samples and carefully separated organic matter from the soil using water. Three laboratories were used to search the samples for microparticles, fatty acids and carry out an analysis of the soil. The soil, stained by the red ocher, had to be gently sieved and was closely studied using electron microscopes and high-resolution images.
She works on the Animals Make Identities project, led by Mannermaa. The research group studies “social links between humans and animals in hunter-gatherer burial sites” in Northeast Europe. These links can unlock more insights into the deceased, who lived between 7,500 and 9,000 years ago. Kirkinen’s work is focused on developing methods to search for the minute remnants that help share ancient stories.
Kirkinen also found plant fibers that likely came from willows or nettles, which may have been used to make fishing nets, cords used to attach clothing or string bundles. The protocol she developed to search for fibers and fragments in the soil takes time, but it produced results.
“The work is really slow and it really made my heart jump when I found minuscule fragments of past garments and grave furnishings, especially in Finland, where all unburnt bones tend to decompose,” she said.
“This all gives us a very valuable insight about burial habits in the Stone Age, indicating how people had prepared the child for the journey after death.”
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2022-11-02T22:05:18+00:00
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kyma.com
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Thousands of Israelis are taking to the streets in violent protests with police after parliament eliminated a key power of the Supreme Court to oversee senior governmental appointments and policy.
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Thousands of Israelis are taking to the streets in violent protests with police after parliament eliminated a key power of the Supreme Court to oversee senior governmental appointments and policy.
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2023-07-24T21:30:34+00:00
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kunm.org
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https://www.kunm.org/2023-07-24/what-protestors-are-saying-of-the-new-law-reducing-israeli-supreme-courts-oversight
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SEATTLE (AP) — A former employee of the cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase and two others were charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for alleged insider trading valued at more than $1.1 million, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
Prosecutors said this is the first insider-trading case involving cryptocurrency markets, the Seattle Times reported.
“Fraud is fraud is fraud, whether it occurs on the blockchain or on Wall Street,” U.S. attorney Damian Williams said in a news release.
Between June 2021 and April 2022, former product manager Ishan Wahi, his brother Nikhil Wahi and close friend Sameer Ramani traded crypto assets listed on Coinbase before at least 10 announcements and sold them for a profit, the lawsuit said. Ishan Wahi would tell the two men about the confidential announcements using a foreign phone, prosecutors said.
“The prices of crypto assets identified in these listing announcements, including crypto asset securities, typically appreciate quickly and significantly,” the lawsuit said. In some cases, a token’s value can increase 1,200% in a few months.
Coinbase CEO and co-founder Brian Armstrong said in a blog post the company investigated Ishan Wahi’s activities and reported them to the U.S. Department of Justice, which indicted the three men for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud Thursday. Ishan Wahi was fired, Armstrong said.
“We have zero tolerance for this and monitor for it, conducting investigations where appropriate with outside law firms,” Armstrong said.
The suspicious activity started when a crypto-focused Twitter account tweeted that an Ethereum blockchain wallet “bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of tokens exclusively featured in the Coinbase Asset Listing post about 24 hours before it was published,” which was trading caused by Ramani, the DOJ said.
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FILE - Hong Kong's skyline and harbor are seen from Victoria Peak, Sept. 1, 2019. Police in Hong Kong filed murder charges against the former in-laws of a model, days after her body parts were found in a refrigerator, police said in a statement Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023
In this image taken from video footage provided by TVB Hong Kong, police officers search a village home where they found body parts related to a missing model in a murder case, in Hong Kong on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Police in Hong Kong have filed murder charges against the former in-laws of a model, days after her body parts were found in a refrigerator. A police statement says Hong Kong model Abby Choi’s father-in-law and his eldest son are being charged with murder, while her mother-in-law faces one count of perverting the course of justice.
In this image taken from video footage provided by TVB Hong Kong, police officers prepare to conduct a search on a hillside following a murder case of a model, in Hong Kong on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Police in Hong Kong have filed murder charges against the former in-laws of a model, days after her body parts were found in a refrigerator. A police statement says Hong Kong model Abby Choi’s father-in-law and his eldest son are being charged with murder, while her mother-in-law faces one count of perverting the course of justice.
Hong Kong model’s in-laws charged after body parts found
Police in Hong Kong have filed murder charges against the former in-laws of a model whose body parts were found in a refrigerator and a skull believed to be hers in a pot
FILE - Hong Kong's skyline and harbor are seen from Victoria Peak, Sept. 1, 2019. Police in Hong Kong filed murder charges against the former in-laws of a model, days after her body parts were found in a refrigerator, police said in a statement Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023
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In this image taken from video footage provided by TVB Hong Kong, police officers search a village home where they found body parts related to a missing model in a murder case, in Hong Kong on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Police in Hong Kong have filed murder charges against the former in-laws of a model, days after her body parts were found in a refrigerator. A police statement says Hong Kong model Abby Choi’s father-in-law and his eldest son are being charged with murder, while her mother-in-law faces one count of perverting the course of justice.
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In this image taken from video footage provided by TVB Hong Kong, police officers prepare to conduct a search on a hillside following a murder case of a model, in Hong Kong on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Police in Hong Kong have filed murder charges against the former in-laws of a model, days after her body parts were found in a refrigerator. A police statement says Hong Kong model Abby Choi’s father-in-law and his eldest son are being charged with murder, while her mother-in-law faces one count of perverting the course of justice.
HONG KONG (AP) — Police in Hong Kong filed murder charges against the former in-laws of a model and influencer whose body parts were found in a refrigerator and a skull believed to be hers in a pot at a rural house.
Hong Kong model Abby Choi's former father-in-law and his eldest son were charged with murder, while her former mother-in-law faces one count of perverting the course of justice, police said in a statement Sunday.
Authorities also arrested the woman's ex-husband on Saturday and will charge him with murder on Sunday night, said Superintendent Alan Chung. The four will appear in court on Monday.
The grisly case came to light when police on Friday discovered Choi's body and documents after she had been missing for several days. The body was dissected and the remains stored in a refrigerator in the rural village home in Tai Po, a suburban part of Hong Kong closer to the border with mainland China.
At Sunday's news briefing, Chung said authorities found a young woman's skull believed to belong to Choi in one of the cooking pots they seized, alongside several ribs, hair, and human issues. In another pot, forensic pathologists also discovered a small number of human bones, he added.
“There's a hole on the right side rear on the skull, so the pathologist believes that that should be the fatal attack on the victim,” he said.
Chung said Choi was believed to have been attacked in a car and was unconscious when she arrived at the house. Police were still trying to find out the exact time of death and locate her hands and torso.
On Sunday, police also arrested another woman they believed to be the mistress of the ex-husband's father for allegedly assisting the other suspects. Chung said she had rented the house together with the father, as well as another place to hide the ex-husband.
Choi, 28, had financial disputes involving tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars with her ex-husband and his family, Chung said earlier, adding that “some people” were unhappy with how Choi handled her financial assets.
Choi was a model and influencer who shared her glamorous life of photo shoots and fashion shows with more than 100,000 followers. Dressed in a tulle floor-length gown, she had just attended a Dior show at Paris Fashion Week.
Her last post was a week ago, featuring a photoshoot she had done with L’Officiel Monaco, a fashion publication.
Wu reported from Taipei, Taiwan.
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Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter after a protracted legal battle and months of uncertainty. The question now is what the billionaire Tesla CEO will actually do with the social media platform.
The $44 billion takeover means Twitter is becoming a private company that everyday investors will no longer be able to buy shares in. The New York Stock Exchange suspended trading in the company’s stock today, and the shares will be delisted on Nov. 8, according to a filing with securities regulators.
Major personnel shakeups are widely expected — and Musk ousted three top Twitter executives on Thursday, according to two people familiar with the deal. But the tech guru and self-proclaimed “Chief Twit” has otherwise made contradictory statements about his vision for the company — and shared few concrete plans for how he will run it.
That has left Twitter’s users, advertisers and employees to parse his every move in an effort to guess where he might take the company. Many are looking to see if he will welcome back a number of influential conservative figures banned for violating Twitter’s rules — speculation that is only heightened by upcoming elections in Brazil, the U.S. and elsewhere.
“I will be digging in more today,” he tweeted early today, in response to a conservative political podcaster who has complained that the platform favors liberals and secretively downgrades conservative voices.
Former President Donald Trump, an avid tweeter before he was banned, said today he was “very happy that Twitter is now in sane hands” but promoted his own social media site, Truth Social, that he launched after being blocked from the more widely used platform.
Trump was banned two days after the Jan. 6 attacks for a pair of tweets that the company said continued to cast doubts on the legitimacy of the presidential election and raised risks for the presidential inauguration that Trump said he would not be attending.
Trump has repeatedly said that he will not return to Twitter even if his account is reinstated, though some allies wonder if he’ll be able to resist as he moves closer to announcing another expected presidential campaign. His Twitter account remained suspended today.
Meanwhile, conservative personalities on the site began recirculating long-debunked conspiracy theories, including about COVID-19 and the 2020 election, in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to “test” whether Twitter’s policies on misinformation were still being enforced.
The mercurial Musk has not made it easy to anticipate him.
He has criticized Twitter’s dependence on advertisers, but made a statement Thursday that seemed aimed at soothing their fears. He has complained about restrictions on speech on the platform — but then vowed he wouldn’t let it become a “hellscape.” And for months it wasn’t even clear if he wanted to control the company at all.
After Musk signed a deal to acquire Twitter in April, he tried to back out of it, leading the company to sue him to force him to go through with the acquisition. A Delaware judge had ordered that the deal be finalized by today.
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives estimated that Musk and his investors overpaid. Even Musk has said the $44 billion price tag for Twitter was too high but that the company had great potential.
The payment “will go down as one of the most overpaid tech acquisitions in the history of M&A deals on the Street, in our opinion,” Ives wrote in a note to investors. “With fair value that we would peg at roughly $25 billion, Musk buying Twitter remains a major head scratcher that ultimately he could not get out of once the Delaware Courts got involved.”
After months of uncertainty, a series of moves by Musk this week signaled that the deal would in fact go through.
On Wednesday, he strolled into the company’s San Francisco headquarters carrying a porcelain sink and tweeted “Entering Twitter HQ — let that sink in!” Then on Thursday, he tweeted, “the bird is freed,” a reference to Twitter’s logo.
That same day, the people familiar with the deal said Musk had fired CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde. Both people insisted on anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the deal. Segal confirmed his departure in a series of tweets today.
At the same time, Musk sought to assuage advertisers — Twitter’s chief source of revenue — that he didn’t want the platform to become a “free-for-all hellscape.” His letter was an attempt to address concerns that his plans to promote free speech by cutting back on moderating content will open the floodgates to more online toxicity and drive away users.
Musk has previously expressed distaste for advertising and Twitter’s dependence on it, suggesting more emphasis on other business models such as paid subscriptions that won’t allow big corporations to dictate policy on how social media operates. But on Thursday, he assured advertisers he wants Twitter to be “the most respected advertising platform in the world.”
As concerns rise about the direction of Twitter’s content moderation, European Union Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton tweeted to Musk today that “In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules.”
Breton and Musk met in May and appeared in a video together in which Musk said he agreed with the 27-nation bloc’s strict new online regulations. Its Digital Services Act threatens big tech companies with billions in fines if they don’t police their platforms more strictly for illegal or harmful content such as hate speech and disinformation.
Musk has also spent months deriding Twitter’s “spam bots” and making sometimes conflicting pronouncements about Twitter’s problems and how to fix them.
Thursday’s note to advertisers shows a newfound emphasis on advertising revenue, especially a need for Twitter to provide more “relevant ads” — which typically means targeted ads that rely on collecting and analyzing users’ personal information.
Musk is expected to speak to Twitter employees directly today, according to an internal memo cited in several media outlets, amid internal confusion and low morale tied to fears of layoffs or a dismantling of the company’s culture and operations.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two-time major champion and former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka was dropped Wednesday from a pre-U.S. Open exhibition event raising money for humanitarian assistance in Ukraine.
Azarenka is from Belarus, which helped Russia launch its invasion of Ukraine in February. At least one Ukrainian tennis player, Marta Kostyuk, questioned having a Belarusian player participate in the U.S. Tennis Association’s “Tennis Plays for Peace Exhibition,” scheduled for Wednesday night in Louis Armstrong Stadium at Flushing Meadows.
The USTA issued a statement Wednesday, saying: “In the last 24 hours, after careful consideration and dialogue with all parties involved, Victoria Azarenka will not be participating … this evening. Vika is a strong player leader and we appreciate her willingness to participate. Given the sensitivities to Ukrainian players, and the ongoing conflict, we believe this is the right course of action for us.”
Azarenka and all players representing Russia or Belarus were banned from entering Wimbledon — which was held in June and July — because of the invasion of Ukraine. The USTA announced in June that it would allow those athletes to compete in the U.S. Open.
Azarenka won the Australian Open in 2012 and 2013, and was the runner-up at the U.S. Open in 2012, 2013 and 2020.
Rafael Nadal, Coco Gauff, Carlos Alcarez, Iga Swiatek and Leylah Fernandez were among the other players set to participate in Wednesday’s event, with 100% of proceeds from sales of $25 and $50 tickets going to an international nonprofit organization.
It is part of the USTA’s effort to raise at least $2 million to benefit Ukraine by the end of the U.S. Open, which starts Monday.
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BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Chunks of thick, twisted metal and wood splinters lie among the swings and slides in the playground outside a bombed-out school. Some streets away, a yellow bathtub dangles over the void left when part of an apartment building collapsed in a bombing.
The eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut has been coming under increasing bombardment in Russia's war, particularly over the last week, local officials and residents say, as Russian forces try to press forward in an effort to encircle and capture the key city of Sieverodonetsk to the northeast.
Moscow-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian forces in the Donbas for eight years and hold large swaths of territory. Sieverodonetsk and neighboring cities are the only part of the Donbas’ Luhansk region still under Ukrainian government control.
Most of Bakhmut’s population has already fled, and more are leaving every day. Evacuation minibuses run mainly by volunteers shuttle back and forth, sometimes even during bombardments, to get people out.
“Now it’s a question of saving the children,” said Olga Hordiyenko, 51, as she stood in a playground on Tuesday near her apartment building. “The Russians are shelling us, so there’s this burning issue to get the children out of here.”
Ignoring the repeated background sounds of shelling, her three grandchildren, girls ages 7, 9 and 11, focused on learning dance moves from a video on their mother’s mobile phone.
Hordiyenko and her daughter Anna Dyachenko, 28, wanted to leave on Tuesday but there was no room on the bus for them, they said. Instead, they would be leaving on Wednesday, heading to western Ukraine initially and then abroad to relatives.
“People say it’s time to go, and we’re happy to leave,” Dyachenko said. But they still fear they will have nothing to come home to once the war is over.
“Here we have our apartment, our house,” she said. “Everything will be smashed and destroyed.”
With a pre-war population of around 85,000, there are now around 30,000 people left, Bakhmut City Council Secretary Ganna Petrieynko-Poluhina said. While authorities are encouraging more people to leave, some are hesitant, she said.
“Life is the most important thing for a person. But people are tied to their homes, to what they remember,” Petrieynko-Poluhina said. “Every day we see that shelling happens more often, and people leave. We would like that more people leave.”
The shelling has increased in recent days, and it’s becoming harder to get humanitarian aid into the town, she said. As if to prove her point, the thudding of artillery reverberated, and the city council staff headed toward the bomb shelter.
Strikes in Bakhmut have hit everything from apartment blocks to dormitories, houses and even schools.
“It was a usual school, children studied, then there was a bomb,” said local resident Olena Kryvobok as she walked around a playing field and children’s playground just outside what was left of the school. Students’ notebooks lie tattered in the grass, a child’s drawing still pinned to the wall of what used to be a classroom.
“I don’t even know what to say, because I have so much indignation, so many emotions,” Kryvobok said, adding that it was pure luck that there had been no children in the playing field when the bomb struck.
“In one moment, everything crashed,” she said. “I don’t know, it is horror.”
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Report: Braxton Moral, 20, becomes youngest lawyer in country
Published: Jun. 24, 2022 at 8:26 PM CDT|Updated: 11 minutes ago
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) - A 20-year-old man in Kansas continues to add to his impressive resume.
KWCH reports Braxton Moral passed the bar exam this year after graduating high school and Harvard University in 2019.
Moral shared those previous educational accomplishments with KWCH, and he went on to pursue a law degree from Washburn University.
Moral explained how he found out about passing the bar exam in an appearance on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” where Clarkson introduced him as “America’s youngest lawyer.”
The 20-year-old Braxton reportedly is the only student in Harvard’s history to graduate from the university and high school at the same time.
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Mental evaluation ordered for man allegedly tied to Lyft driver death
RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. (AP) — A judge has ordered a mental evaluation at the request of the attorney for a man who was arrested in North Carolina while driving the car of a dead Lyft driver from Florida and who is also charged with murder in a separate case.
The order came Wednesday as Florida officials worked to extradite Matthew Scott Flores, who is a person of interest in the death of Lyft driver Gary Levin, WLOS-TV reported.
Flores, 35, appeared in court for a probable cause hearing in Rutherford County, where he was arrested after a vehicle pursuit in multiple counties and charged with a parole violation, being a fugitive, felony speeding to elude arrest, and driving while impaired. His attorney requested the evaluation, and the judge granted it, the station reported.
Flores has also been charged in Hardee County, Florida, with first-degree murder, grand theft auto, possession of a firearm by a felon, and tampering with evidence in the fatal Jan. 24 shooting of Jose Carlos Martinez, 43, in Wauchula, according to court records.
Police were searching for Flores in that case by Jan. 30, when Levin, 74, disappeared after dropping off a customer in Okeechobee, a small city about 70 miles (110 kilometers) east of Wauchula.
Levin’s Kia Stinger was spotted in Miami, Okeechobee and Gainesville, in north Florida, after his disappearance. The vehicle was stopped Feb. 2 in North Carolina, where a U.S. Marshals Service regional task force asked authorities to be on the lookout.
A dead body found in Okeechobee was eventually identified as Levin.
In North Carolina, District Attorney Ted Bell, who represents McDowell and Rutherford counties, told WLOS he plans to settle Flores’ North Carolina charges before he is sent to Florida.
“We’re not a jurisdiction that dismisses charges,” Bell said after the hearing. “We have been in close communication with folks from the state attorney’s office in Florida. We’ll continue to keep close contact with them as things progress in this case, which way is the better way forward is for everybody. I’m not inclined to dismiss him, it just depends on what’s best overall.”
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DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines deja en tierra sus vuelos en todo EEUU debido a problemas técnicos.
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Steve Stricker leads by three at Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS
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Extended Highlights
Steve Stricker’s Round 2 highlights from FURYK & FRIENDS
Seeking his fourth win of the season, Steve Stricker played his final six holes in 5-under en route to a tournament-record 8-under 64 in the second round. He enters Sunday’s final round with a three-stroke lead over tournament host Jim Furyk and Canada’s Mike Weir.
Steve Stricker, 69-64 – 133 (-11)
- Matched his low 18-hole score of the season (37th round)
- Three previous instances: R2/The Ally Challenge, R2/Sanford International, R3/Sanford International
- This is his third time shooting 64 in his last four rounds on PGA TOUR Champions
- Marks the low 18-hole score in Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS history
- Three players had previously shot 65, including Thonghchai Jaidee during today’s round
- Three players had previously shot 65, including Thonghchai Jaidee during today’s round
- Three previous instances: R2/The Ally Challenge, R2/Sanford International, R3/Sanford International
- This is Stricker’s 12th time leading/co-leading entering the final round on PGA TOUR Champions
- Is 6-for-11 converting those into victories (2-for-5 in 54-hole events)
- Is 6-for-11 converting those into victories (2-for-5 in 54-hole events)
- Is playing in the last group of the final round for the seventh time this season
- Is 3-for-6 converting those into victories
- Is 3-for-6 converting those into victories
- Charles Schwab No. 3 looks to earn his fourth win of the season on PGA TOUR Champions (12th start)
- Currently tied with four other players for the most wins in 2022: Steven Alker/3, Padraig Harrington/3, Miguel Angel Jimenez/3, Jerry Kelly/3
- Would be Stricker’s third win in his last four starts
- Last three results: The Ally Challenge (Won), Ascension Charity Classic (3rd), Sanford International (Won)
- Last three results: The Ally Challenge (Won), Ascension Charity Classic (3rd), Sanford International (Won)
- Currently tied with four other players for the most wins in 2022: Steven Alker/3, Padraig Harrington/3, Miguel Angel Jimenez/3, Jerry Kelly/3
- With a win on Sunday, he would become the first player to win four times in a calendar year on PGA TOUR Champions since 2017 (Bernhard Langer/7; Scott McCarron/4)
- Stricker’s three wins in 2022: Regions Tradition, The Ally Challenge, Sanford International
- Stricker’s three wins in 2022: Regions Tradition, The Ally Challenge, Sanford International
- With a win on Sunday, he would become the first player to win back-to-back starts since Phil Mickelson (2020 Charles Schwab Cup Series at Ozarks National and 2020 Dominion Energy Charity Classic)
- Note: Stricker won his most recent start (Sanford International), but did not play in the most recent Champions Tour event (PURE Insurance Championship)
- Note: Stricker won his most recent start (Sanford International), but did not play in the most recent Champions Tour event (PURE Insurance Championship)
- 55-year-old seeks his 11th win on PGA TOUR Champions (47th start)
- In the inaugural Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS in 2021, he finished T7
Other Notes
- Tournament host and first-round co-leader Jim Furyk carded 3-under 69 and sits T2 at 8-under. He seeks his first win of the season and fourth win overall on PGA TOUR Champions (41st start).
- Mike Weir posted 4-under 68 for the second consecutive day and sits T2 at 8-under. He seeks his first win of the season and second win overall on PGA TOUR Champions (46th start).
- Thongchai Jaidee, who carded 7-under 65, and Lee Janzen are T4 at 7-under.
- Five players are T6 at 6-under, including 43-time Champions Tour winner Bernhard Langer, Charles Schwab No. 2 Padraig Harrington, first-round co-leaders Steve Flesch and Rob Labritz, as well as Ken Duke, who made a hole-in-one on the par-3 17th hole with a 9-iron from 139 yards.
- Making his PGA TOUR Champions debut, Notah Begay III sits T63 at 5-over.
- David Duval, who grew up in Jacksonville and whose father Bob was once the head club pro at Timuquana Country Club, sits 71st at 6-over.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An independent auditor will review the New York state government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including efforts by the administration of the previous governor to downplay the number of deaths of nursing home residents.
The state plans to select an independent auditor, who would have until late 2023 to deliver a final report, under a timeline released Tuesday by current Gov. Kathy Hochul's office. Initial findings are expected in May.
The report will include a planning guide for future emergencies and will explore issues from the transfer of nursing home patients to the reopening of schools and businesses to efforts to purchase needed medical supplies.
The governor, who is running for her first full term in November and won the recent June Democratic gubernatorial primary, promised in mid-March to eventually launch a review of the state’s COVID-19 response.
Critics, including Republicans and Democratic Assemblymember Ron Kim, have said the Hochul administration has waited far too long to launch an investigation.
Hochul's spokesperson, Hazel Crampton-Hays, said the timing of the investigation is not connected to New York's political calendar.
"New Yorkers who have lived through being at the epicenter of a global pandemic, lost loved ones, and experienced economic hardship deserve a thoughtful, meaningful, and independent after action review, and we won’t rush through this important work for the political calendar,” Crampton-Hays said in a statement.
Kim said the independent auditors must probe the handling of COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, including the impact of efforts by the administration of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, to obscure the COVID-19 death toll by excluding out-of-facility deaths.
That toll excluded the deaths of over 4,000 New Yorkers, according to numbers released by the state in January 2021 in the wake of a damning attorney general report. Attorney General Letitia James' report also found a lack of infection controls at nursing homes put residents at increased risk of harm.
What "was the intent behind hiding the accurate death toll numbers, which precluded the legislators from intervening sooner on behalf of their panicked constituents?” Kim, a Queens lawmaker who has said his uncle died of suspected COVID-19 in a New York nursing home, said in a statement.
Cuomo and his administration used that incomplete data to erroneously claim that New York's share of COVID-19 deaths of nursing home residents was among the nation's lowest. A March report by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli called that claim “misleading” and said Cuomo officials should have known its data wasn't comparable to other states that included out-of-facility deaths.
Kim also wants scrutiny of a March 2020 directive that barred nursing homes from rejecting recovering coronavirus patients being discharged from hospitals.
James' report found that directive “may have contributed to increased risk of nursing home resident infection and subsequent fatalities.”
But James said the state needs additional data and analysis to conclusively prove such a link.
DiNapoli also found “persistent underinvestment in public health” may have hampered New York's pandemic response, as local and state health agencies struggled with inadequate staffing.
The Cuomo administration also faced criticism over health care workers' lack of access to masks and other needed COVID-19 supplies in the pandemic's early days.
Zucker repeatedly assured the public that New York had enough stockpiles of medical supplies at multiple public appearances from mid-January through February 2020.
But an AP review of state expenditure reports found Zucker’s agency only began spending far above average on medical supplies by March 19, when spending jumped from $1.6 million to $9 million.
Hospitals fearing supply shortages in spring 2020 instituted policies in some cases requiring use of a single surgical mask for as long as a week.
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2022-07-21T19:23:19+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Independent-review-planned-for-New-York-s-17320094.php
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Family mourn father and 15-year-old son killed in crash near Massachusetts restaurant
A Providence man and his 15-year-old son were the victims of a fatal crash in Massachusetts that sent their car into a lake, according to a relative.
They were identified as Edwin A. Sosa, 34, and his son Cristian Sosa in a GoFundMe campaign organized by Jessica Aldana, a cousin. Edwin's survivors include a 10-month-old daughter.
The crash happened Friday night near the Alicante Restaurant & Lounge in Mendon, Massachusetts, where Edwin worked as a chef.
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Sosa was pulling out of the restaurant parking lot at 84 Uxbridge Rd. with his son in the passenger seat when their car collided with a Ford F-350, which had a three-car carrier trailer attached, according to a news release from Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early's office.
According to a preliminary investigation, the crash sent the car off the road and down a 20-foot embankment into Lake Nipmuc, the district attorney said.
Mendon police, fire and emergency medical services responded to the crash and took the father and son out of the car, according to Early. They were taken to Milford Hospital, where they were pronounced dead, Early said.
The restaurant closed for the day Saturday as the staff dealt with the loss, but it reopened Sunday, Mother's Day.
'Thank you for blessing our lives with nothing but happiness'
A post on the restaurant's Facebook page calls Edwin "one of the greatest" as a chef, co-worker, father and friend. "Thank you for blessing our lives with nothing but happiness. Through some difficult times, you always had a smile on your face," the post says. "You inspired us to appreciate everything in life, especially each other."
The district attorney said Edwin was from Attleboro, but Aldana, the GoFundMe organizer, said the father and son were residing in Providence.
"Edwin was the most loving and caring person who touched many lives. Cristian was a young man with so much left to live," Aldana says in the GoFundMe. "No one ever knows the words to say in a situation like this, just to feel the unbearable crushing pain that steals the very breath you need to keep pushing forward in these moments."
Edwin leaves his girlfriend, Sylvia Aldana, and 10-month-old daughter, Melody Rose Sosa, according to the GoFundMe account.
The account is raising money for burial costs.
"Edwin, Cristian, you were beautiful souls who were loved and loved so dearly," Aldana writes. "I pray that you knew that."
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2022-05-09T21:48:00+00:00
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Since former President Donald Trump’s narrow victory in 2016, the Republican Party has suffered at the ballot box every two years, from the loss of the House in 2018 to the loss of the White House and Senate in 2020 to this year’s history-defying midterm disappointments.
Many in the party have now found a scapegoat for the GOP’s struggles who is not named Trump: the chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel.
But as McDaniel struggles for a fourth term at the party’s helm, her reelection fight before the clubby 168 members of the Republican National Committee next month may be diverting GOP leaders from any serious consideration of the thornier problems facing the party heading into the 2024 presidential campaign.
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McDaniel, who was hand-picked by Trump in late 2016 to run the party and whom he enlisted in a scheme to draft fake electors to perpetuate his presidency, could be considered a Trump proxy by Republicans eager to begin to eradicate what many consider to be the party’s preeminent problem: the former president’s influence over the GOP.
Those Republicans, whose voices have grown louder in the wake of the party’s weak November showing, see any hopes of wooing swing voters and moderates back to the GOP as imperiled by Trump’s endless harping on his own grievances; the taint surrounding his efforts to remain in power after his 2020 defeat; and the continuing dramas around purloined classified documents, his company’s tax fraud conviction, and his insistence on trying to make a political comeback.
But McDaniels is not facing moderation-minded challengers. Her rivals are from the Trumpist right. They include pillow salesman Mike Lindell, who continues to spin out fanciful election conspiracies, and — more worrying for McDaniel — a Trump loyalist from California, Harmeet Dhillon, who is backed by some of Trump’s fiercest defenders, including Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, a youthful group of pro-Trump rightists.
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McDaniel has accused Dhillon, who was co-chair of the election-denying group Lawyers for Trump in 2020, of conducting “a scorched-earth campaign” against her by rallying outside activists “to put maximum pressure on the RNC members” who will choose the party leader for the next two years in late January in Dana Point, California.
“It’s been a very vitriolic campaign,” McDaniel said in an interview, adding: “I’m all for scorched earth against Democrats. I don’t think it’s the right thing to do against other Republicans.”
The candidacy of Lindell, the MyPillow CEO who exemplifies the conspiracy-driven fringe, has put still more right-wing pressure on McDaniel, who refuses to say Joe Biden was fairly elected in 2020. (Lindell’s latest conspiracy theory is that Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, Trump’s biggest rival so far for the 2024 presidential nomination, unfairly won reelection in November.)
The circus brewing ahead of the RNC’s Jan. 25 gathering does not bode well for members who believe the party’s troubles stem from Trump.
“The former president has done so much damage to this country and to this party,” said Bill Palatucci, a committee member from New Jersey, who described the RNC chair election as shaping up to be “a Hobson’s choice.”
“We have to acknowledge that 2022 was a disaster, and we need to do things differently,” he said, adding, “I would prefer and still hope there would be a different option.”
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In the interview, McDaniel boasted of investments the party has made — in community centers to engage voters of color, especially Latinos; in voter registration drives; and in get-out-the-vote efforts. She cited a New York Times analysis that showed that Republican voter turnout in November was robust.
The problem: Many of those Republicans appeared to vote for Democrats.
“We don’t pick the candidate,” she said. “We do not do the messaging for the candidates, right? They pick consultants, and their own pollsters. So what does the RNC do? We build the infrastructure. We do the voter registration.”
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2022-12-28T23:24:08+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/28/nation/race-gop-chair-obscures-partys-bigger-problems/
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ONTARIO, Ore. — When Steven Meland and his business partner opened up Hotbox Farms in the small eastern Oregon city of Ontario they knew there was a big opportunity lying just across the Snake River.
Ontario, population 11,600, is less than an hour's drive from Idaho's largest metro area, Boise, population 700,000 and growing, where marijuana of all kinds - including medical - is illegal.
"The politicians have been able to have this scenario where they say that they don't have legal cannabis," Meland says. "But in all actuality we all know there's legal cannabis in Boise."
Hotbox Farms is a big player in an economic boom that's happened since Ontario allowed recreational pot shops in 2018. There are now twelve dispensaries in this small farming town once mostly known for inventing the tater tot. Ontario now sells more pot per capita than anywhere else in Oregon. The industry employs about 600 people. Many get health insurance and most - like their customers - appear to be commuting over here from Idaho.
That's where Meland is from too.
"There is over a million people within a hundred mile radius of the store," Meland says. "Of course they are serving a broader market."
But this boom has quickly become the latest flashpoint in a larger political and cultural battle that's been heating up since 2020, when a group of Oregonians from the rural eastern side of the state first began circulating petitions about a proposal to secede from the largely blue state and join conservative Idaho.
How "Greater Idaho" took shape
Folks in rural America have long complained about having to live under laws made people by who live mostly in cities. For decades the most high profile example in the West has been the so-called State of Jefferson, referring to the largely natural resource dependent regions of northern California and southern Oregon where some people have long felt disconnected from powerful cities like San Francisco and Portland.
Today, Portland looms large in a more recent push to create "Greater Idaho."
Some in sparsely populated eastern Oregon say they feel so divorced from the politics of the liberal city and the West Coast that they're asking for an actual divorce.
This year in the Idaho Legislature - where Republicans hold a supermajority - the effort has gained some traction, lately over what's been happening in Ontario.
"We have a little bit of a drug problem right on the side of our border," said Rep. Barbara Ehardt, a Republican from Idaho, at a recent state legislative hearing over a bill that would authorize Idaho to begin talks with Oregon lawmakers about moving the border.
"A lot of Idahoans are going there [Ontario] and getting drugs, Ehart said, "and that will be pushed hundreds of miles away."
Her Greater Idaho measure recently passed the Idaho House.
The urban rural divide is at the heart of Greater Idaho
Pushing Idaho's border hundreds of miles West is just one of a litany of far right bills introduced in Idaho's Republican supermajority legislature. Others have included a proposal to make it a crime for doctors to administer Covid vaccines or if someone helps a girl under 18 get an abortion.
By contrast, Oregon voters recently decriminalized small amounts of hard drugs like cocaine and heroin and approved tighter gun laws. These hot button issues have long been unpopular in the sparsely populated lands east of the Cascade Mountains.
Many small farming and ranching communities have been hit hard by addiction and folks will also tell you it can take a sheriff's deputy an hour or more to respond to a call. Rural eastern Oregon is also predominately federal public land, long a source of tension and even violence in this corner of the West.
"The partisanship has grown and just the cultures have grown apart," says Matt McCaw, an Oregon resident and spokesperson for the group Citizens for Greater Idaho.
The group helped convince eleven eastern Oregon counties to pass resolutions in support of being annexed into Idaho.
One of them is Malheur County, where Ontario is, and where long time local Ron Jacobs sits on the county commission.
"We just feel like our conservative values are different than theirs," Jacobs says. "They pass so many laws over there that they don't even take us into consideration we're kind of a step child over here in eastern Oregon."
While Idaho entrepreneurs are keen on crossing the Snake River over into Oregon to start marijuana businesses, Jacobs sees a trend going in the other direction. Farmers and ranchers, he says, are increasingly looking to relocate some or all of their business in Idaho.
"We have farmers moving across the river to get their residency in Idaho to keep from having to pay [higher] inheritance taxes," he says, adding that it's helping some families to keep from selling their farms.
Jacobs says most of his constituents feel more politically aligned to Idaho. But the ask is also practical: parts of Malheur County are considered adjoined to the Boise metro area, home to the region's major shopping, entertainment and airport.
Is Greater Idaho really a possibility?
Jacobs knows Greater Idaho is a long shot. Even if both state legislatures were to approve it, it would still take an act of Congress to begin to move forward.
But he believes it's started an important conversation.
So too does Steven Meland, the owner of Hotbox in Ontario, albeit for a far different reason. He thinks the revived debate inside his home state's legislature may actually backfire and end up building more support for legalizing marijuana in Idaho.
The industry is betting on the cultural and political divide over legal pot evaporating in the face of another conservative value - the free market.
"Remember that Ontario was conservative right wing Ontario just a couple years ago as well, they always said they've never ever legalize," Meland says.
But today the town brings in well over two million dollars a year in taxes from dispensaries like this.
"People don't find cannabis to be this big scary thing that historically politicians have made it out to be," Meland says. "When given the opportunity to vote on legal cannabis the vast majority of times they choose to have it."
And in Ontario anyway, marijuana is starting to look pretty mainstream. Some of the dispensaries help with town clean up projects and partner with local charities for Covid relief and coat drives. There are also two more dispensaries set to open.
That will soon bring the total operating here to fourteen, at least for now.
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2023-04-01T17:55:33+00:00
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wyomingpublicmedia.org
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https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2023-04-01/state-line-pot-shops-latest-flashpoint-in-idaho-oregon-border-debate
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak and his Republican challenger, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, are meeting for their only scheduled debate of this election year on Sunday, where they'll face off after a botched inmate escape at the state Department of Corrections and air their long-simmering rivalry that has pitted the Las Vegas' top law enforcement officer against its incumbent.
Lombardo, who has spent his career in Las Vegas law enforcement and has served as sheriff since 2015, has often sparred with Sisolak, who began his political career with a 10-year stint on Nevada’s Board of Regents, which oversees higher education statewide, and later became chair of Clark County's board of commissioners.
Many of the subjects animating the race are also defining midterm races across the country, from abortion rights to inflation and education.
ECONOMY:
Sisolak has pointed to “two economies” — one with low unemployment and “full hotels" but with high gas and housing prices. While he has said he can’t control inflation, he is trying to ease the burden on families by investing in child care, affordable housing and tuition-free community college. He is endorsed by Nevada’s Chamber of Commerce.
Mirroring many Republican challengers this election cycle, Lombardo has tried to pin rising inflation and gas prices on Sisolak and Democratic policies. And he has frequently criticized Sisolak’s closure of non-essential businesses and mandates during the pandemic as detrimental to small businesses.
Lombardo has said he would seek to diversify Nevada's economy, which is highly reliant on tourism, particularly in southern Nevada, by partnering with private sector employers on training in welding, robotics and coding.
ABORTION
Even in Nevada, where the right to an abortion within 24 weeks has been codified in state law by voters since 1990, Sisolak has made the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade a central talking point, as have other Democratic candidates nationwide. Sisolak is a staunch supporter of abortion rights and has worked to make Nevada a safe haven for abortion patients as neighboring Utah, Arizona and Idaho have restricted access to abortions.
Sisolak has attempted to paint Lombardo as an anti-abortion extremist, who has waffled on his stance on other abortion measures throughout the campaign. Lombardo told KRNV-TV that he would overturn Sisolak’s June executive order that protects out-of-state abortion patients who receive abortion care in Nevada and the providers who offer them care. Days later, he told The Associated Press only that he would view it through a “pro-life lens” but did not cite specific action. In a letter posted on his website last week, he said that he would uphold the order.
Earlier this month, he said he would oppose a national abortion ban proposed by South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham.
At a GOP primary debate in May, Lombardo said he would “absolutely take it under consideration” when asked if he'd consider measures possibly including parental notification laws, abortion waiting periods or restricting contraceptives, along with “anything associated with the pro-life view” but declined to cite specific measures. More recently, he has emphasized on his website that he will “ensure that contraceptives stay accessible for Nevadans," part of a 106-word explanation for his abortion stance that during the primary race had three words: “Joe is pro-life.”
EDUCATION
Lombardo and Sisolak have both said they want to be known as the “education governor," though their vision for schools is radically different.
The sheriff has criticized Nevada’s low test scores and remote learning during the pandemic. He said he would restore parts of Nevada’s “Read by Grade 3” program, potentially including a provision that holds back third graders who don't read at grade level, and supports an expansion of charter schools, which teachers' unions oppose.
Sisolak has allocated $200 million to address learning loss caused by the pandemic, and while test scores have improved, they have not been restored to pre-pandemic levels. He has taken credit for signing the largest education budget in state history and providing teachers with their first raises in a decade.
CRIME
Crime is playing out as a top issue in Nevada as elsewhere in the country. For months, the two have pointed fingers at each other over crime rates in Clark County, home to Las Vegas, where Lombardo claims Sisolak’s policies have hindered his ability to fight crime and Sisolak saying Lombardo has neglected his job as he focuses on higher office.
Lombardo wants to toughen penalties for criminal offenses. He said he would repeal a law that raised the trigger for a felony theft charge from $650 to $1,200 and increased the amount of drugs a suspect needs to carry to be eligible for felony trafficking charges.
During his first term, Sisolak banned bump stocks that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire faster and advocated for “common-sense background checks.”
Both agree that the state should hire more police officers.
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Stern is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit program that places journalists in newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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2022-10-02T13:44:15+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Nevada-governor-Las-Vegas-sheriff-face-off-in-17481385.php
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Providing Transparency to Advertisers for their Audio Campaigns
NEW YORK, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Integral Ad Science (Nasdaq: IAS), a global leader in digital media quality, today introduced its third-party ad measurement technology to the digital audio streaming medium. Tested and certified for use on Pandora, a leading digital audio advertising platform in the U.S, brands are now able to contract directly with IAS to measure a variety of audibility metrics as well as detect invalid traffic (IVT) for the advertisers' mobile audio ads running on Pandora.
"As advertisers follow consumers from traditional radio to digital streaming, IAS is extending our verification and IVT measurement solutions to help brands validate their media spend," said Tom Sharma, Chief Product Officer, IAS. "Audio ad verification on Pandora provides critical information for advertisers looking to engage the millions of streamers who use the platform. Looking towards the future, IAS is continually innovating on further enhancements to offer our clients an advanced set of verification tools in the digital audio space."
With advertisers quickly expanding to ad-supported streaming services, third-party ad measurement for digital audio is essential to ensure the quality of audio streaming inventory.
IAS's 2022 Amplifying Media Quality in Digital Audio Report found that 87% of media experts are concerned about ad fraud in digital audio. While the desire to participate in digital audio engagement is high, media experts say they are willing to rely on third-party verification to preserve media quality before further investing in digital audio advertising. Such verification can help ad buyers harness audio ad metrics by providing insights into performance, industry education, and listening to client feedback for future innovations.
Pandora provides consumers a personalized music and podcast listening experience with its proprietary technology and is a leading digital audio advertising platform in the U.S. Pandora connects brands to the largest ad-supported streaming audio marketplace in the country as part of its robust ecosystem which also includes SiriusXM and Stitcher.
"At Pandora, a core goal is to support a robust set of third-party measurement and verification capabilities to build trust with our customers by providing transparency into the quality of the inventory purchased. We applaud IAS for investing in audio advertising and are excited to be able to certify the IAS Audio Ad Verification for use on the Pandora platform and to permit clients to contract directly with IAS to measure campaigns on Pandora with the new IAS technology," said Maria Breza, Vice President of Data Operations and Ad Quality Measurement, SXM Media.
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2022-07-11T13:36:45+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/07/11/ias-announces-audio-ad-verification-certified-use-pandoras-platform/
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NORTH PLAINS, Ore. (AP) — Four months after suggesting those who defected to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series were sellouts, Brooks Koepka explained Tuesday that he simply changed his mind.
Koepka signed with LIV Golf last week for its first event on American soil, which starts Thursday at Pumpkin Ridge west of Portland.
It was a stunning reversal for the four-time major champion, who was once an outspoken critic of the fledgling series that seeks to challenge the PGA Tour.
“Opinions change. I feel very comfortable with the decision I made. I’m happy, and did what’s best for me,” Koepka said.
In February, Koepka said of LIV Golf: “They’ll get their guys. Somebody will sell out and go to it.”
Former world No. 1 and fellow four-time major winner Rory McIlroy suggested last week that Koepka and others were duplicitous "to say one thing and then do another thing.”
“Look, he’s entitled to his opinion. He can think whatever he wants," Koepka responded. "He’s going to do what’s best for him and his family, I’m going to do what’s best for me and my family. Can’t hate on anybody for that, and like I said, opinions change, man.”
Koepka cited a knee injury that has taken a toll on his body and the desire to spend more time with his family as factors in his decision. He did not mention the multimillion-dollar signing bonuses LIV Golf — which is backed by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund — has handed to players. Koepka is one of the biggest names, along with Dustin Johnson and six-time major champion Phil Mickelson.
And there's more money to be made: The 48-man field will compete for a $20 million purse, with an additional $5 million prize fund for a team competition. Charl Schwartzel won the inaugural event outside London and took home $4.75 million. LIV tournaments are played over 54 holes with no cut, and even the last-place finisher gets paid.
Players who spoke to reporters on Tuesday skirted questions about Saudi Arabia's human rights record.
“I understand the topics you’re trying to bring up, and they’re horrible events, but I’m here to play golf. That’s my deal,” said Pat Perez, a three-time PGA Tour winner who also spoke against LIV Golf before changing his mind. “I’ve got an opportunity to play golf, and that’s it.”
Bryson DeChambeau, the 2020 U.S. Open champion, pointed to the good he plans to do in his community with the money he's making from LIV Golf.
“I think as time goes on, hopefully people will see the good that they are doing and what they are trying to accomplish rather than looking at the bad that’s happened before,” DeChambeau said. “I think moving on from that is important, and going and continuing to move forward in a positive light is something that could be a force for good for the future of the game.”
The mayor of North Plains, as well as 10 other local mayors, wrote a letter to the Texas-based owners of Pumpkin Ridge, saying the upstart league does not align with their values because of Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses, including the murder of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has said the tour is an example of sportswashing, in which countries use sporting events as a way to distract or minimize human rights abuses. He has pointed to the hit-and-run death of an Oregon teenager: The Saudi national accused in the case fled before trial.
The PGA Tour has sought fight off the threat posed by LIV Golf by disciplining players. The tour suspended every active member who competed in the first LIV event. Those who play in Oregon will also be suspended unless they resign their tour memberships.
Perez said the PGA Tour's tactics have backfired.
“You want to be able to play anywhere you want. And you should be able to play wherever you want. We should be able to do whatever we want. We are independent contractors,” Perez said. “The (PGA) Tour has tried to strong-arm us all year and come with bans and suspensions and all that, and how’d that work? Look how many guys are here. That didn’t work at all.”
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2022-06-29T00:12:58+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/koepka-cites-injuries-family-for-joining-saudi-backed-tour/3ITCI7KP6JBJJL65NPZIT2OE5Q/
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN)—The Farm Aid Festival is returning to North Carolina.
The festival is an “all-day celebration of music and family farmers,” officials shared.
It is scheduled for Sept. 24 at the Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek.
Along with the music, you can find some of the freshest eats at the HOMEGROWN Concessions, which have local and organic foods.
And this year’s lineup includes Willie Nelson & Family, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, Chris Stapleton, Sheryl Crow, and more. You can find the full lineup here.
The festival and Farm Aid organization focus on highlighting and helping local family farms and has “raised more than $64 million” since 1985, according to officials.
For information on how you can attend Farm Aid 2022, click here.
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2022-07-26T15:49:52+00:00
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myfox8.com
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https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/willie-nelson-sheryl-crow-john-mellencamp-headline-farm-aid-fests-return-to-north-carolina/
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Phone alerts responders after car hits tree, killing all 6
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A passenger’s cellphone automatically alerted responders after a car hit a tree early Sunday in a Nebraska crash that killed all six of its young occupants, authorities said.
Five men in the car died at the scene of the crash around 2:15 a.m. in Lincoln, about 3 miles east of the state Capitol, police said. A 24-year-old woman died later at a hospital where she was taken in critical condition.
The five men who died included the 22-year-old driver. The other victims were one 21-year-old, one 23-year-old and two 22-year-olds.
Police did not release any details on what caused the crash but said it was reported by an iPhone that detected the impact and called responders automatically when the phone’s owner didn’t respond.
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2022-10-02T19:00:35+00:00
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kob.com
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https://www.kob.com/news/us-and-world-news/phone-alerts-responders-after-car-hits-tree-killing-all-6/
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday said that President Biden is neglecting domestic problems by making an international trip this week that included a surprise trip to Kyiv to show support for Ukraine in its war with Russia.
“We have a lot of problems accumulating here in our own country that he is neglecting,” DeSantis said in an appearance on Fox News after news of Biden’s surprise trip to visit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Biden made the visit to the war-torn capital of Kyiv just days before the country’s war with Russia reaches its first anniversary.
The president said the trip was meant to showcase the strength of Ukraine and the solidarity of the U.S., while also announcing an additional $500 million in American support to Ukraine.
But Republicans back home quickly seized on the international trip to argue that Biden is ignoring domestic priorities, including immigration and national security.
“While he’s over there, I think I and many Americans are thinking to ourselves: OK, he’s very concerned about those borders halfway around the world. He’s not done anything to secure our own borders here at home,” DeSantis, who is thought to be getting closer to making a decision on if he will run for the White House in 2024, said. “We’ve had millions and millions of people pour in … and then of course we just suffered a national humiliation of having China fly a spy balloon clear across the continental United States.”
Other Republican lawmakers quickly pounced on Biden for the visit.
“When our border is in crisis, Joe Biden goes home to nap in Delaware,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said on Twitter. “So on Presidents’ Day, I’m not surprised that Biden is ditching America for Ukraine.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a frequent agitator of the White House, blasted Biden for not visiting Ohio, where a train derailment earlier this month has caused an environmental disaster.
“Biden didn’t go to East Palestine, Ohio on President’s Day,” Greene said on Twitter. “He went to Ukraine, a NON-NATO nation, whose leader is an actor and is apparently now commanding our United States military to world war. We must impeach this America Last fool before it’s too late.”
The criticism about the president’s trip to Ukraine comes as some in the GOP have soured on the amount of U.S. support that has been given to the warring country, with some calling on the White House to provide a clear path for the end of the conflict.
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2023-02-20T21:31:13+00:00
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myfox8.com
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https://myfox8.com/news/ukraine/desantis-says-biden-neglecting-domestic-problems-with-ukraine-trip/
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An Oklahoma judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre can proceed, bringing new hope for some measure of justice for three survivors of the deadly racist rampage who are now over 100 years old and were in the courtroom for the decision.
Tulsa County District Court Judge Caroline Wall ruled against a motion to dismiss the suit filed by civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons in 2020. The Tulsa-based attorney said after Wall announced her ruling that it is critical for living survivors Lessie Benningfield Randle, 107, Viola Fletcher, 107, and Hughes Van Ellis, 101.
“We want them to see justice in their lifetime,” he said, choking back tears. “I’ve seen so many survivors die in my 20-plus years working on this issue. I just don’t want to see the last three die without justice. That’s why the time is of the essence.”
The packed courtroom, which Wall noted may have been over capacity, erupted in cheers and tears after she handed down her ruling.
Solomon-Simmons sued under Oklahoma’s public nuisance law, saying the actions of the white mob that killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed what had been the nation’s most prosperous Black business district continue to affect the city today. The lawsuit also seeks reparations for descendants of victims of the massacre.
“In public nuisance cases, it is clear either criminal acts or destruction of personal property” constitute a nuisance, said Eric Miller, a Loyola Marymount University law professor working with the plaintiffs. Miller said that racial and economic disparities resulting from the massacre continue to this day.
Chamber of Commerce attorney John Tucker said the massacre was horrible, but the nuisance is not ongoing.
“What happened in 1921 was a really bad deal, and those people did not get a fair shake … but that was 100 years ago,” Tucker said.
Oklahoma sued consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson using the state public nuisance law for its role in the deadly opioid crisis. Initially, a judge ordered the drugmaker to pay the state $465 million in damages. But the Oklahoma Supreme Court overturned the Johnson & Johnson verdict, ruling that the public nuisance law did not apply because the company had no control of the drug after it was sold to pharmacies, hospitals, and physicians’ offices and then prescribed by doctors to patients.
Miller said the state court’s ruling in the Johnson & Johnson case does not affect the lawsuit.
The massacre happenedwhen an angry white mob descended on a 35-block area in Tulsa’s Greenwood District, killing people and looting and burning businesses and homes. Thousands of people were left homeless and living in a hastily constructed internment camp.
The city and insurance companies never compensated victims for their losses, and the massacre ultimately resulted in racial and economic disparities that still exist today, the lawsuit claims. In the years following the massacre, according to the lawsuit, city and county officials actively thwarted the community’s effort to rebuild and neglected the Greenwood and predominantly Black north Tulsa community in favor of overwhelmingly white parts of Tulsa.
Other defendants include the Tulsa County Board of County Commissioners, Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, Tulsa County Sheriff and the Oklahoma Military Department.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified punitive damages and calls for the creation of a hospital in north Tulsa, in addition to mental health and education programs and a Tulsa Massacre Victims Compensation Fund.
The massacre received renewed attention in recent years after then-President Donald Trump selected Tulsa as the location for a 2020 campaign rally amid the ongoing racial reckoning over police brutality and racial violence. Trump moved the date of his June rally to avoid coinciding with a Juneteenth celebration in the city’s Greenwood District commemorating the end of slavery.
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Associated Press writer Terry Wallace in Dallas contributed to this report.
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This version corrects the spelling of Van Ellis’ first name to Hughes instead of Hugh.
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Three years on, how COVID-19 has changed health care Published January 21, 2023 at 3:16 PM MST Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 7:46 Michel Martin talks with Advocate Health CEO Eugene A. Woods about how COVID-19 has changed health care in the U.S. since its arrival three years ago. Copyright 2023 NPR
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LOS ANGELES — The last few years haven't been easy for Rickie Fowler.
After being known as one of the world’s best young golfers in the mid-2010s, Fowler’s career started to skid. He missed the Masters in 2021, marking his first missed major since 2010. The former Oklahoma State star missed the Masters again in 2022 and 2023 and missed the cut at the PGA Championship in May. Fowler hasn’t played in the U.S. Open since 2020, when he tied for 49th.
But, he looked like his old self again on Thursday morning. He entered the U.S. Open as the World No. 45, steadily climbing in the world rankings after beginning 2023 as the World No. 111.
Fowler carded a 62 in the opening round of the U.S. Open, matching the lowest score in men’s majors history and the lowest score in U.S. Open history.
“It's definitely been long and tough. A lot longer being in that situation than you'd ever want to,” Fowler said about the past few years. “But it makes it so worth it having gone through that and being back where we are now.”
Fowler was consistently able to get himself out of trouble on the Los Angeles Country Club course, carding 10 birdies, including three in a row to start his back nine.
“It was a great day. Got off to a nice start making 3 on 10 and just never really thought about a score or necessarily what I was trying to do out there,” Fowler said.
Double digit birdies for @RickieFowler 😲
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 15, 2023
10 birdies on the day and 8-under for the solo leader @USOpenGolf.pic.twitter.com/eDHd9SDCsr
All eyes were on Fowler as he continued to lead the pack, with a sizable and growing crowd following behind. Fans cheered loudly for Fowler, with calls of “Let’s go, Ricky!” and similar sentiments ringing out as he moved from hole to hole.
It's one round, 18 holes. He knows he still has 54 to go.
“This week off to a good start, but there's still plenty of golf to be played. It's going to be tough tomorrow afternoon. But at least got out of the gate and we're off to, like I said, a good start,” he said.
But even in setting a U.S. Open record, Fowler has some company, with Xander Schauffele matching him with his own 62.
"It's not really what you expect playing a U.S. Open. But monkey see, monkey do,” Schauffele said. “[I] was just chasing Rickie up the leaderboard. Glad he was just in front of me."
Here’s Rickie Fowler watching Xander Schauffele’s birdie putt on his final hole to break his new U.S. Open scoring record. pic.twitter.com/T0n1K5cXsB
— Jason Sobel (@JasonSobelTAN) June 15, 2023
Schauffele clearly took a lighthearted attitude to his tie with Fowler, jokingly asking the fellow Californian on Twitter if he’d like to “do this again tomorrow.”
Do this again tomorrow @RickieFowler ? https://t.co/7eY2SFH91u
— Xander Schauffele (@XSchauffele) June 15, 2023
Other golfers also chimed in on Fowler and Schauffele's early success.
Anyone know what course Xander and Rickie played today? They certainly didn’t play the same course I did 😂
— Michael S. Kim (@Mike_kim714) June 15, 2023
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Biden tells Democratic donors “we need two more senators”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a pair of fundraisers on Friday, President Joe Biden urged Democratic donors to send him reinforcements on Capitol Hill to keep Republicans out of power and help dislodge his agenda from the current gridlock.
“We need two more senators,” Biden said at the second fundraiser, a reference to Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, two members of the Democratic caucus that he’s struggled to win over.
Without naming either of them, he said they’re “slowing up what we’re able to do.”
It will be difficult for Democrats to pick up any seats in this year’s midterm elections, and Republicans are poised to retake control of Congress.
But Biden described himself as an optimist as he urged donors to continue opening their wallets to support his party. Each fundraiser raised about $2.5 million, according to a Democratic National Committee official.
The first was intimate, with a couple dozen attendees. It was held on the back patio of the home of Andrew Hauptman, a private investor. Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Hollywood producer, was also there.
The second fundraiser was at the Muholland Drive estate of Haim Saban, an entertainment mogul. Scores of donors sat under a tent that was pitched on the property’s tennis court.
During the fundraiser there, Biden touted the economic progress under his watch but conceded that prices will likely continue to rise.
“We’re going to live with this inflation for a while,” he said. It’s going to come down gradually, but we’re going to live with it for a while.”
Biden also spoke emotionally about the toll of two recent gun massacres, in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York.
He mocked the idea that teachers should be armed, noting how long it takes to train a soldier to use a firearm.
Pantomiming a pistol with his fingers, he said, “It’s not easy to pick up a rifle or a gun and blow somebody’s brains out.”
At the first fundraiser, first lady Jill Biden spoke before the president.
“He is working as hard as he can,” she said. “We are moving in the right direction.”
Biden spoke about rallying allies to support Ukraine, recalling how some people doubted U.S. intelligence about Russia’s pending invasion.
“Zelenskyy didn’t want to hear it,” he said in a reference to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Biden also appeared raw over some of the media coverage of the Summit of the Americas, which was held this week in Los Angeles. Many stories focused on how some Latin American leaders, notably the Mexican president, boycotted the summit, and others who attended gave speeches criticizing how the U.S. handled the event.
Speaking of the press, Biden said, “I wish they would go back and interview all the heads of state,” insisting that “there was overwhelming, overwhelming support” for working together.
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AUBURN, Ala., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A few hours from the oak trees and picturesque brick buildings of the Plains lies the gemstone of the forestry and wildlife programs in Auburn University's College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment: The Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center.
The Dixon Center, located in Andalusia, Alabama, was created by a gift from Solon and Martha Dixon to Auburn University in 1978. The donation, which included 5,350 acres of land and a $500,000 monetary contribution for the purpose of building the educational facilities, was at that time the largest gift in Auburn University history.
As a graduate of Auburn's Class of 1926, Solon Dixon aspired to promote excellence in forestry education by providing students with a hands-on laboratory to develop and practice responsible forest management.
It is at the Dixon Center, with its state-of-the-art classrooms and diverse forest habitats, that Solon Dixon's vision to provide experiential learning is manifested as students travel to the center each year for the college's summer practicum experience.
First established in 1980, the summer practicum allows students the valuable opportunity to immediately practice in the field what is learned in the classroom. It is this unique combination of traditional and experiential learning that makes the practicum experience renowned for preparing students for the fields of forestry and wildlife sciences.
Before beginning courses in their major, forestry students attend the practicum for nine weeks between their sophomore and junior years to learn the foundational concepts and technical field skills that form the building blocks of their education.
Tom Gallagher, Auburn's Regions Bank Endowed Professor of Forest Operations, said one of the greatest takeaways for students is "an understanding of what it takes to work in the woods," as the summer can be "an eye-opening first experience."
Auburn's six-week wildlife summer practicum, launched in 2010 as a senior-year capstone to the wildlife curriculum, provides students with the necessary field skills for their careers.
In addition to the field immersion, students live among forestry and wildlife faculty and often work with various state, corporate and private entities. These connections provide students with invaluable networking opportunities and the ability to apply their classroom learning to real-world situations, often leading to internships and post-graduation job opportunities.
Brae Buckner, a graduate of the wildlife program who previously worked with the Southeastern Raptor Center, said that the summer yields "a lot of networking…you get to work with the best ornithologists, the best herpetologists and the top minds in today's wildlife research."
Students also participate in the Dixon Center's instruction and training exercises provided for government agencies, landowners and practitioners. In the past, students have trapped hogs with local property owners to remove sounders, or herds of wild pigs. They have also assisted Conecuh National Forest rangers with trapping and removing invasive or destructive animals.
According to Joel Martin, the center's director, students who experience a combination of classroom theory and hands-on learning are often those who are most competitive in the job market, and typically advance more quickly. Noted Martin, "It's impressive how many people working today in decision-making or policy-influencing positions within the state and region have 'cut their teeth' at the center."
For decades the summer practicum experience at the Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center has been a cornerstone of Auburn's forestry and wildlife programs. It is this unique educational asset that has made the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment a top institution in the Southeast for natural resources education.
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‘Queen of the House’ singer Jody Miller dies at age 80
BLANCHARD, Okla. (AP) — Jody Miller, whose “Queen of the House” won the 1966 Grammy Award for best country performance by a woman, died Thursday at age 80.
Miller died in her hometown of Blanchard, Oklahoma, of complications from Parkinson’s disease, according to Universal Music Group, owner of Capitol Records, which released most of her hits.
“Queen of the House” was released in 1965 as an answer to Roger Miller’s hit “King of the Road.” The hit opened up a crossover career for Jody Miller, who wasn’t related to the “King of the Road” composer and singer.
Her 1965 teen protest song “Home of the Brave” was her biggest-selling single, despite being banned from some radio stations’ playlists. Another hit was “Long Black Limousine,” a song about a man’s funeral procession.
In the 1970s, Miller moved to Epic Records, where she had hits with “Baby I’m Yours,” There’s a Party Goin’ On,” “Darling, You Can Always Come Back Home,” and the Grammy-nominated crossover hit cover of “He’s So Fine.”
She retired in the 1980s to spend more time with her husband and children. After her husband’s death, she recorded a 2018 single, “Where My Picture Hangs on the Wall,” with daughter Robin Brooks Sullivan and Miller’s two grandchildren.
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The man who was shot and killed near a convenience store in southwest Fresno has been identified.
On Monday, Fresno Police identified the victim as 40-year-old Adavier Thomas.
Police also announced the arrests of 39-year-old Faheem Muhammad and 33-year-old Malcolm McCoy in connection to the deadly shooting.
The shooting happened just after 5 pm on Sunday near Zack's Market located along Martin Luther King Blvd and California.
As officers headed to the scene, they heard multiple gunshots fired.
Once they arrived at the market, witnesses told officers the suspects drove away in a white car.
As some officers chased the car, other officers went to the market, where they found Thomas with a gunshot wound.
He was taken to Community Regional Medical Center, where he died.
Officers were able to stop Muhammad and McCoy in the area of Church and Walnut, where they were initially detained. They add that two guns were thrown out of the car during the chase.
Both men were booked into the Fresno County Jail.
Anyone with more information is urged to call the Fresno Police Department.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The video above is from a previous broadcast and will be updated.
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Massachusetts 8th grader written up for wearing hijab to school
MALDEN, Mass. (WCVB) – An eighth grader in Massachusetts was told she was violating uniform when she wore her hijab to school.
When the girl showed up for the first day of classes at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School last week, she was written up for violating the dress code.
A photo of the school uniform compliance form shows the teacher also misspelled hijab – the headscarf worn by Muslim women – as “jihab.”
The school admitted the “handling of the situation came across as insensitive” and explained that students can wear religious attire as long as they have a letter from a member of their clergy about it.
The school in Malden, Massachusetts is located about 10 miles north of Boston.
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Jan. 6 panel extends deadline for Trump to produce documents
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has extended the deadline for former President Donald Trump to turn over documents as part of a subpoena issued last month, while reiterating its request for a sit-down interview.
The panel — comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans — issued a statement late Friday saying it is in communication with Trump’s attorneys. Friday had been the committee’s deadline for Trump to produce an extensive number of documents and communications with lawmakers.
“We have informed the former President’s counsel that he must begin producing records no later than next week and he remains under subpoena for deposition testimony starting on November 14th,” Chairman Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney wrote in the statement.
With other subpoenas, the committee’s deadlines for document or depositions requests have generally been subject to negotiation, but only when there is a direct line of communication with the witness and their attorney.
The committee’s decision to subpoena Trump in late October was a major escalation in the investigation, a step lawmakers said was necessary because the former president was the “central player” in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The subpoena set the stage for a potential legal battle with Trump at a time when he is considering launching another run for the White House.
“I think that he has a legal obligation to testify but that doesn’t always carry weight with Donald Trump,” Rep. Cheney, R-Wyo., said during an event Tuesday.
In addition to demanding that Trump testify, either at the Capitol or by videoconference, by mid-November, the committee also made 19 requests for documents and communication — including for any messages Trump sent on the encrypted messaging app Signal “or any other means” to members of Congress and others about the stunning events of the Capitol attack.
The scope of the committee’s request is expansive — pursuing documents from Sept. 1, 2020, two months before the election, to the present on the president’s communications with the groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys — as the panel looks to compile a historical record of the run-up to the Capitol attack, the event itself and the aftermath.
It remains unclear what action, if any, the committee will take in response to Trump missing the document deadline. In previous situations, when met with defiance, lawmakers have voted to hold Trump’s allies in contempt of Congress, sending referrals to the Justice Department for potential prosecution.
In the Oct. 21 subpoena letter, the committee wrote about the “overwhelming evidence” it has assembled, showing Trump “personally orchestrated” an effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election, including by spreading false allegations of widespread voter fraud, “attempting to corrupt” the Justice Department and pressuring state officials, members of Congress and his own vice president to change the results.
Lawmakers have said Trump’s testimony about what he was doing and saying as the violence ensued on Jan. 6 is crucial to filling in the gaps of their investigation.
The subpoena had detailed a specific interest to hear from Trump about his dealings with several former aides and associates who have asserted their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination to the committee, including Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark and Kelli Ward.
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--Results from the PROGRESS Phase 3 trial on atogepant for the preventive treatment of chronic migraine will be showcased as an oral presentation
--Breadth of research underscores AbbVie's leadership and commitment to people living with migraine
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) today announced that new data from its migraine portfolio will be presented at the Migraine Trust International Symposium (MTIS) 2022, taking place in London from September 8-11. A total of 13 abstracts, including 4 oral presentations, will cover a wide range of studies across AbbVie's migraine portfolio, including data on onabotulinumtoxinA, atogepant, and ubrogepant.
"Migraine is a complex, chronic neurological disease with attacks that are often incapacitating for patients living with this debilitating disease. Our current migraine treatments demonstrate our dedication to addressing the unmet needs of migraine patients – and we continue to strive for science that makes a difference," said Mudra Kapoor, M.D., vice president, neuroscience, global medical affairs, AbbVie. "We look forward to presenting robust data spanning our growing migraine portfolio at MTIS 2022 and furthering our goal of making a remarkable impact on patients' lives."
At the meeting, researchers will present the Phase 3 PROGRESS study results on atogepant for the preventive treatment of chronic migraine, as well as data from a retrospective claims analysis study on real-world persistence and costs among patients with chronic migraine treated with onabotulinumtoxinA or a calcitonin gene–related peptide monoclonal antibody (CGRP mAbs).
AbbVie will also present global results from the chronic migraine epidemiology and outcomes - international (CaMEO-I) study, evaluating the use of preventive medications for migraine and potential treatment gaps among individuals who are candidates for preventive treatment.
In addition to the data presented, AbbVie will host a medical symposium on Friday, September 9 from 12:00-13:00 British Standard Time (BST) titled "Evolving Faces of Migraine" discussing the evolution of the migraine treatment landscape through evidence-based medicine, guidelines, consensus statements and the impact on patients.
AbbVie abstracts presented at the MTIS 2022 are outlined below.
The MTIS 2022 symposium will take place in-person and the full program can be found here.
About Atogepant
Atogepant is an orally administered, CGRP receptor antagonist (gepant) specifically developed for the preventive treatment of migraine. CGRP and its receptors are expressed in regions of the nervous system associated with migraine pathophysiology. Studies have shown that CGRP levels are elevated during migraine attacks and selective CGRP receptor antagonists confer clinical benefit in migraine. The use of atogepant in migraine is not approved in the United Kingdom or European Union and its safety and efficacy have not been evaluated.
U.S. Indications and Important Safety Information about QULIPTA™ (atogepant)
QULIPTA is a prescription medicine used for the preventive treatment of episodic migraine in adults.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Before taking QULIPTA™ (atogepant) tablets, tell your healthcare provider about all your medical conditions, including if you:
- Have kidney problems or are on dialysis
- Have liver problems
- Are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if QULIPTA will harm your unborn baby
- Are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known if QULIPTA passes into your breast milk. Talk to your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby while taking QULIPTA
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. QULIPTA may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how QULIPTA works. Your healthcare provider may need to change the dose of QULIPTA when taken with certain other medicines.
The most common side effects of QULIPTA are nausea, constipation, and tiredness. These are not all the possible side effects of QULIPTA.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
If you are having difficulty paying for your medicine, AbbVie may be able to help. Visit AbbVie.com/myAbbVieAssist to learn more.
Please see full Prescribing Information.
Globally, prescribing information varies; refer to the individual country product label for complete information.
About BOTOX® (onabotulinumtoxinA)
BOTOX® was first approved by the FDA in 1989 for two rare eye muscle disorders – blepharospasm and strabismus in adults. Today, BOTOX® is FDA-approved for 12 therapeutic indications, including chronic migraine, overactive bladder, leakage of urine (incontinence) due to overactive bladder caused by a neurologic condition in adults and in pediatric patients five years of age and older, cervical dystonia, adult and pediatric spasticity, and severe underarm sweating (axillary hyperhidrosis). Botulinum toxin units are not interchangeable from one product to another; doses recommended in Allergan Units are different from other botulinum toxin preparations.
U.S. Indications and Important Safety Information about BOTOX® (onabotulinumtoxinA)
INDICATIONS
BOTOX® (onabotulinumtoxinA) is a prescription medicine that is injected into muscles and used:
- To treat overactive bladder symptoms such as a strong need to urinate with leaking or wetting accidents (urge urinary incontinence), a strong need to urinate right away (urgency), and urinating often (frequency) in adults 18 years and older when another type of medicine (anticholinergic) does not work well enough or cannot be taken
- To treat leakage of urine (incontinence) in adults 18 years and older with overactive bladder due to a neurologic disease when another type of medicine (anticholinergic) does not work well enough or cannot be taken
- To treat overactive bladder due to a neurologic disease in children 5 years of age and older when another type of medicine (anticholinergic) does not work well enough or cannot be taken
- To prevent headaches in adults with chronic migraine who have 15 or more days each month with headache lasting 4 or more hours each day in people 18 years and older
- To treat increased muscle stiffness in people 2 years of age and older with spasticity
- To treat the abnormal head position and neck pain that happens with cervical dystonia (CD) in people 16 years and older
- To treat certain types of eye muscle problems (strabismus) or abnormal spasm of the eyelids (blepharospasm) in people 12 years of age and older
BOTOX is also injected into the skin to treat the symptoms of severe underarm sweating (severe primary axillary hyperhidrosis) when medicines used on the skin (topical) do not work well enough in people 18 years and older.
It is not known whether BOTOX is safe and effective to prevent headaches in patients with migraine who have 14 or fewer headache days each month (episodic migraine).
BOTOX has not been shown to help people perform task-specific functions with their upper limbs or increase movement in joints that are permanently fixed in position by stiff muscles.
It is not known whether BOTOX is safe and effective for severe sweating anywhere other than your armpits.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
BOTOX may cause serious side effects that can be life threatening. Get medical help right away if you have any of these problems any time (hours to weeks) after injection of BOTOX:
- Problems swallowing, speaking, or breathing, due to weakening of associated muscles, can be severe and result in loss of life. You are at the highest risk if these problems are preexisting before injection. Swallowing problems may last for several months.
- Spread of toxin effects. The effect of botulinum toxin may affect areas away from the injection site and cause serious symptoms, including loss of strength and all-over muscle weakness; double vision; blurred vision; drooping eyelids; hoarseness or change or loss of voice; trouble saying words clearly; loss of bladder control; trouble breathing; and trouble swallowing.
There has not been a confirmed serious case of spread of toxin effect away from the injection site when BOTOX has been used at the recommended dose to treat chronic migraine, severe underarm sweating, blepharospasm, or strabismus.
BOTOX may cause loss of strength or general muscle weakness, vision problems, or dizziness within hours to weeks of receiving BOTOX. If this happens, do not drive a car, operate machinery, or do other dangerous activities.
Do not receive BOTOX if you are allergic to any of the ingredients in BOTOX (see Medication Guide for ingredients); had an allergic reaction to any other botulinum toxin product such as Myobloc® (rimabotulinumtoxinB), Dysport® (abobotulinumtoxinA), or Xeomin® (incobotulinumtoxinA); have a skin infection at the planned injection site.
Do not receive BOTOX for the treatment of urinary incontinence if you have a urinary tract infection (UTI) or cannot empty your bladder on your own and are not routinely catheterizing. Due to the risk of urinary retention (difficulty fully emptying the bladder), only patients who are willing and able to initiate catheterization posttreatment, if required, should be considered for treatment.
Patients treated for overactive bladder: In clinical trials, 36 of the 552 patients had to self-catheterize for urinary retention following treatment with BOTOX compared to 2 of the 542 treated with placebo. The median duration of postinjection catheterization for these patients treated with BOTOX 100 Units (n = 36) was 63 days (minimum 1 day to maximum 214 days), as compared to a median duration of 11 days (minimum 3 days to maximum 18 days) for patients receiving placebo (n = 2). Patients with diabetes mellitus treated with BOTOX were more likely to develop urinary retention than nondiabetics.
Adult patients treated for overactive bladder due to a neurologic disease: In clinical trials, 30.6% of adult patients (33/108) who were not using clean intermittent catheterization (CIC) prior to injection required catheterization for urinary retention following treatment with BOTOX 200 Units, as compared to 6.7% of patients (7/104) treated with placebo. The median duration of postinjection catheterization for these patients treated with BOTOX 200 Units (n = 33) was 289 days (minimum 1 day to maximum 530 days), as compared to a median duration of 358 days (minimum 2 days to maximum 379 days) for patients receiving placebo (n = 7).
Among adult patients not using CIC at baseline, those with multiple sclerosis were more likely to require CIC postinjection than those with spinal cord injury.
The dose of BOTOX is not the same as, or comparable to, another botulinum toxin product.
Serious and/or immediate allergic reactions have been reported, including itching; rash; red, itchy welts; wheezing; asthma symptoms; dizziness; or feeling faint. Get medical help right away if you experience symptoms; further injection of BOTOX should be discontinued.
Tell your doctor about all your muscle or nerve conditions, such as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, myasthenia gravis, or Lambert-Eaton syndrome, as you may be at increased risk of serious side effects, including difficulty swallowing and difficulty breathing from typical doses of BOTOX.
Tell your doctor if you have any breathing-related problems. Your doctor may monitor you for breathing problems during treatment with BOTOX for spasticity or for detrusor overactivity associated with a neurologic condition. The risk of developing lung disease in patients with reduced lung function is increased in patients receiving BOTOX.
Cornea problems have been reported. Cornea (surface of the eye) problems have been reported in some people receiving BOTOX for their blepharospasm, especially in people with certain nerve disorders. BOTOX may cause the eyelids to blink less, which could lead to the surface of the eye being exposed to air more than is usual. Tell your doctor if you experience any problems with your eyes while receiving BOTOX. Your doctor may treat your eyes with drops, ointments, contact lenses, or with an eye patch.
Bleeding behind the eye has been reported. Bleeding behind the eyeball has been reported in some people receiving BOTOX for their strabismus. Tell your doctor if you notice any new visual problems while receiving BOTOX.
Bronchitis and upper respiratory tract infections (common colds) have been reported. Bronchitis was reported more frequently in adults receiving BOTOX for upper limb spasticity. Upper respiratory infections were also reported more frequently in adults with prior breathing-related problems with spasticity. In pediatric patients treated with BOTOX for upper limb spasticity, upper respiratory tract infections were reported more frequently. In pediatric patients treated with BOTOX for lower limb spasticity, upper respiratory tract infections were not reported more frequently than placebo.
Autonomic dysreflexia in patients treated for overactive bladder due to a neurologic disease. Autonomic dysreflexia associated with intradetrusor injections of BOTOX could occur in patients treated for detrusor overactivity associated with a neurologic condition and may require prompt medical therapy. In clinical trials, the incidence of autonomic dysreflexia was greater in adult patients treated with BOTOX 200 Units compared with placebo (1.5% versus 0.4%, respectively). Tell your doctor about all your medical conditions, including if you have or have had bleeding problems; have plans to have surgery; had surgery on your face; have weakness of forehead muscles, trouble raising your eyebrows, drooping eyelids, and any other abnormal facial change; have symptoms of a UTI and are being treated for urinary incontinence (symptoms of a UTI may include pain or burning with urination, frequent urination, or fever); have problems emptying your bladder on your own and are being treated for urinary incontinence; are pregnant or plan to become pregnant (it is not known if BOTOX can harm your unborn baby); are breastfeeding or plan to (it is not known if BOTOX passes into breast milk).
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Using BOTOX with certain other medicines may cause serious side effects. Do not start any new medicines until you have told your doctor that you have received BOTOX in the past.
Tell your doctor if you received any other botulinum toxin product in the last 4 months; have received injections of botulinum toxin such as Myobloc®, Dysport®, or Xeomin® in the past (tell your doctor exactly which product you received); have recently received an antibiotic by injection; take muscle relaxants; take an allergy or cold medicine; take a sleep medicine; take aspirin-like products or blood thinners.
Other side effects of BOTOX include dry mouth; discomfort or pain at the injection site; tiredness; headache; neck pain; eye problems such as double vision, blurred vision, decreased eyesight, drooping eyelids, swelling of your eyelids, and dry eyes; drooping eyebrows; and upper respiratory tract infection. In adults being treated for urinary incontinence, other side effects include UTI and painful urination. In children being treated for urinary incontinence, other side effects include UTI and bacteria in the urine. In patients being treated for urinary incontinence, another side effect includes the inability to empty your bladder on your own. If you have difficulty fully emptying your bladder on your own after receiving BOTOX, you may need to use disposable self-catheters to empty your bladder up to a few times each day until your bladder is able to start emptying again.
For more information, refer to the Medication Guide or talk with your doctor.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
If you are having difficulty paying for your medicine, AbbVie may be able to help. Visit AbbVie.com/myAbbVieAssist to learn more.
Please see BOTOX® full Product Information, including Boxed Warning and Medication Guide.
Globally, prescribing information varies; refer to the individual country product label for complete information.
About UBRELVY® (Ubrogepant)
UBRELVY® is an orally administered calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor antagonist (gepant) for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura in adults that is an option for a wide range of patients who experience migraine attacks. UBRELVY® directly block CGRP, a protein released during a migraine attack, from binding to its receptors. Ubrogepant is not approved in the UK or European Union.
U.S. Indications and Important Safety Information about UBRELVY™ (Ubrogepant)
What is UBRELVY™ (ubrogepant)?
UBRELVY is a prescription medicine used for the acute treatment of migraine attacks with or without aura in adults. UBRELVY is not used to prevent migraine headaches.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Who should not take UBRELVY (ubrogepant)?
Do not take UBRELVY if you are taking medicines known as strong CYP3A4 inhibitors, such as ketoconazole, clarithromycin, itraconazole.
What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking UBRELVY?
Tell your healthcare provider about all your medical conditions, including if you:
- Have liver problems
- Have kidney problems
- Are pregnant or plan to become pregnant
- Are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Your healthcare provider can tell you if it is safe to take UBRELVY with other medicines.
What are the most common side effects of UBRELVY?
The most common side effects are nausea (4%) and sleepiness (3%). These are not all of the possible side effects of UBRELVY.
Please see full Prescribing Information.
Globally, prescribing information varies; refer to the individual country product label for complete information.
About AbbVie in Neuroscience
At AbbVie, our commitment to preserve the personhood of those living with neurological and psychiatric disorders is unwavering. Every challenge in this uncharted territory makes us more determined and drives us harder to discover and deliver solutions for patients, care partners and clinicians. AbbVie's Neuroscience portfolio consists of approved therapies and a robust pipeline in neurological and psychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, bipolar I disorder, major depressive disorder, migraine, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injuries, post-stroke spasticity, schizophrenia, stroke and others.
We have a strong investment in neuroscience research, with our Foundational Neuroscience Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and our Neuroscience Discovery site in Ludwigshafen, Germany, where our research and resilience in these challenging therapeutic areas is yielding a deeper understanding of the pathophysiology of neurological and psychiatric disorders, and identifying targets for potential disease-modifying therapeutics aimed at making a difference in people's lives.
About AbbVie in Migraine
Impacting one billion people worldwide, migraine is a neurological disease with recurring attacks that causes pain and other disabling symptoms. However, migraine can be treatable. At AbbVie, we are committed to empowering people in their pursuit of migraine freedom. We advance science that enables healthcare providers to care for people impacted across the spectrum of migraine. Through education and partnerships with the migraine community, we strive to help those with migraine navigate barriers to care, access effective treatments and reclaim their lives.
About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @AbbVie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
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2022-09-08T09:12:33+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/09/08/abbvie-present-data-its-robust-migraine-portfolio-migraine-trust-international-symposium-2022/
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NFT Launch Continues Orange Comet's Expansion Into International Markets; First Drop Scheduled for October 2022
LOS ANGELES, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Orange Comet, Inc., a premium NFT (Non-Fungible Token) creative media and Web3 experience company today announced its continued global expansion with a worldwide, multi-year partnership with Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, a leading professional wrestling organization based in Mexico City, Mexico, with fans around the world. The initial drop will take place in October 2022.
The NFT partnership coincides with the 30th anniversary of Lucha Libre AAA in 2022, with special Triplemanía XXX pay-per-view events taking place throughout the year. The first NFT drop will coincide with the final Triplemanía XXX deathmatch event of 2022 on October 15 in Mexico City where a mask will fall.
"We're honored that Orange Comet's next advancement in the global NFT marketplace is with such a deep-rooted phenomenon as Lucha Libre AAA," said Dave Broome, CEO, Orange Comet. "Luchadores are important cultural symbols with diverse, rich histories, incredible stories, and most of all passion for their sport and their fans. Our NFT collection will hold this passion and dedication as the top priority."
"Orange Comet is one of the most trusted names in sports NFTs and we're thrilled to be partnering with them on creative, vibrant new ideas for Lucha Libre AAA and our incredible fanbase," said Dorian Roldan, General Manager of Lucha Libre AAA. "Bringing luchadores to the metaverse has never been done before and we're looking forward to seeing the reaction from our audiences around the globe."
Sign up to stay informed around upcoming Lucha Libre AAA drops at http://www.OrangeComet.com/collection/lucha-libre-aaa.
ABOUT ORANGE COMET
Orange Comet is a premium content creation company focused on producing high quality and disruptive NFT digital collectibles and Web3 experiences. The Company's team brings together some of the world's leading and award-winning media creators, producers, and artists to partner with the biggest brands, IP and talent across music, sports, arts and entertainment. By blending super-creative content and game-changing technology, our mission is to create groundbreaking NFT experiences for the passionate fan bases of our clients, simultaneously unlocking new levels of interest, engagement and revenue. Co-founded by Hollywood veteran producer, Dave Broome, NFL Hall of Famer Kurt Warner and Grammy award-winning music icons Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Orange Comet is powered by a passionate group of people that believe the future of all entertainment and media is on the verge of major disruptive change through a variety of blockchain experiences. Dedicated to blockchain sustainability, Orange Comet runs on green servers and builds a carbon-negative solution in the NFT space, including partnering with eco-conscious blockchains. Our collective diversity in background, expertise and industries, works to help our clients shape their businesses for the emerging Metaverse of opportunities that awaits. For more information, visit us at OrangeComet.com, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
ABOUT LUCHA LIBRE AAA WORLDWIDE
Considered as the top leading Mexican company in Lucha Libre production and promotion, with a presence of 30 years in the entertainment industry, AAA was founded in 1992 by Antonio Peña Herrada. AAA produce international events in several countries including México, United States, Canada, Colombia and Japan. Among the innovative milestones of the franchise are the animated movie "Sin Límite de Tiempo"; and the videogame known as "La Lucha Libre Héroes del Ring" or its most recent partnership with Garena´s Battle Royale game "Free Fire" and Amazon´s Alexa Division for a Lucha Libre AAA Skill. AAA as a Live Touring company has more than 450 events a year, generating more than 260 hours of content for a captive and recurrent audience, with more than 400M viewers and enthusiasts tuning AAA shows on FITE, Pro Wrestling TV, TBS´s SPACE Channel, TV Azteca, MultimediosTV, Facebook Watch, Meta Quest, Oculus TV, YouTube and PLUTO TV. Bardhal, USG, Charlie Group, are blue chip sponsor brands present in Lucha Libre AAA. For more info please visit www.luchalibreaaa.com.
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2022-06-22T17:11:44+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/06/22/orange-comet-signs-multi-year-nft-partnership-with-leading-professional-wrestling-league-lucha-libre-aaa-worldwide/
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Woman returns more than $500 found in KFC bag, saves manager’s job, police say
JACKSON, Ga. (Gray News) - Police in Georgia are thanking a woman for returning money mistakenly given to her when she recently visited a KFC restaurant.
The Jackson Police Department said Joann Oliver found $543.10 underneath her sandwich in her to-go bag after ordering lunch from the fast-food chain on Sept. 14.
According to police, Oliver called them regarding the money that came with her order and helped return it to the restaurant.
“Not only did Mrs. Oliver do the right thing, but she saved the manager’s job,” the police department shared on social media.
Authorities said the restaurant’s daily deposit was accidentally placed in her sandwich bag that day.
“Mrs. Oliver, thank you. It’s people like you that make us great,” the department shared.
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2022-09-24T00:11:07+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/2022/09/23/woman-returns-more-than-500-found-kfc-bag-saves-managers-job-police-say/
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SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — The former president of San Francisco Building Inspection Commission pleaded guilty Friday to multiple counts of bank fraud, honest services fraud and evading taxes on more than $1.6 million in unreported income.
The plea resolves charges made in multiple federal indictments pending against Rodrigo Santos, 64, according to U.S. Attorney Stephanie Hinds, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, who announced the plea.
Santos pleaded guilty to 10 counts of bank fraud relating to a scheme in which he advised clients to give him checks made out to city agencies and others supposedly to be used for fees or project costs but which were deposited in his personal bank account.
Between 2012 and 2019, he deposited 445 checks totaling more than $775,000. He also fraudulently deposited 378 checks to his personal account that were payable to his firm.
Santos also pleaded guilty to soliciting clients to make charitable donations to a non-profit athletic organization supported by Bernard Curran, a senior building inspector at the city’s Department of Building Inspection, in return for favorable treatment on their projects.
In addition to the fraud charges, Santos also pleaded guilty to falsifying records and to evading taxes on income of more than $1.6 million.
Santos has agreed to pay more than $1 million in restitution.
A sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 23 before U.S. District Judge Susan Illston. The counts to which Santos pleaded guilty carry different maximum sentences, some as long as 30 years.
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Santos was appointed to the city commission by Mayor Willie Brown in 2000 and was named president of the commission by Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2004.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the prosecution is part of a larger public corruption investigation that has focused on city public officials and contractors, including San Francisco public officials Harlan Kelly and Mohammed Nuru.
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2023-01-14T03:47:42+00:00
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kron4.com
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PALO ALTO, Calif., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: EIGR), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative therapies to treat and cure hepatitis delta virus (HDV) and other serious diseases, today announced data presented at the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) International Liver Congress™ 2022 that took place June 22-26 in London, United Kingdom.
"We are pleased that EASL recognized our HDV platform with multiple presentations this year highlighting both the lonafarnib and peginterferon lambda programs," said David Cory, President and CEO, Eiger. "Our Phase 3 D-LIVR study will produce the single largest cohort of patient data from a well-controlled global study of HDV. We look forward to continued collaboration with investigators and key opinion leaders to mine this deep data set, providing additional insights, with a goal of improving outcomes for the global HDV patient population. In parallel, we are preparing for topline results from the landmark D-LIVR study by end of year."
Abstract #3442: Clinical Features Predictive of Cirrhosis in a Large Cohort of Patients with Chronic Hepatitis Delta Infection - Insights from the D-LIVR Trial; Etzion, O., Asselah, T., Lampertico, P. et al.
Conclusions: In the on-going Phase 3 D-LIVR study, the largest cohort to date of patients with chronic HDV, alarmingly high rates of cirrhosis were seen among patients with compensated liver disease at a relatively young mean age. Over 40% of cirrhotic patients were ≤ 45 years old. A high index of suspicion for cirrhosis should be maintained in this population, especially in older patients and in those showing subtle changes in markers of synthetic liver function and portal hypertension.
Abstract #2072: Mathematical Modeling of HDV RNA Kinetics Suggests High Peginterferon Lambda Efficacies in Blocking Viral Production and Infection: Insights from the LIMT-1 Study; Cardozo-Ojeda, E.F., Etzion, O. et al.
Conclusions: Previously reported end of study data of Phase 2 LIMT-1 trial of peginterferon lambda (Lambda) monotherapy showed that Lambda therapy had better antiviral activity and tolerability compared to historical data for peginterferon alfa and identified four main HDV RNA kinetic patterns under Lambda therapy. This study provides, for the first time, a dynamic description of HDV response under Lambda monotherapy. Lambda blocks viral production with high efficacy. HDV kinetics depend on Lambda efficacy, the baseline fraction of noninfected hepatocytes and their proliferation rates.
Abstract #1904: Lonafarnib Combination with Peginterferon Lambda Diminished Triphasic HDV Kinetic Pattern Seen Under Lambda Monotherapy: the LIFT-1 HDV Study; Duehren, S., Dahari, H., Heller, T. et al.
Conclusions: End of study data of Phase 2 LIFT-1 study of peginterferon lambda combined with lonafarnib was previously reported (AASLD 2020). The goal of the current study was to characterize HDV RNA, HBV DNA, HBsAg and ALT kinetics during and after combination therapy. Combination therapy was associated with better treatment success (≥ 2 log decline HDV RNA) compared to Lambda monotherapy. No null responders with Lambda + Lonafarnib. Reduction of the triphasic kinetic pattern suggests that the addition of Lonafarnib may decrease production/release of HDV RNA. Kinetic patterns observed in Lambda + Lonafarnib and Lambda monotherapy are associated with treatment response.
Eiger is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative therapies to treat and cure hepatitis delta virus (HDV) and other serious diseases. The Eiger HDV platform includes two first-in-class therapies in Phase 3 that target critical host processes involved in viral replication. Eiger is also developing peginterferon lambda as a therapeutic for COVID-19 and reported positive results from TOGETHER, a Phase 3 investigator-initiated study.
All five Eiger rare disease programs have been granted FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation: lonafarnib and peginterferon lambda for HDV, Zokinvy for progeria, and avexitide for both congenital hyperinsulinism and post-bariatric hypoglycemia.
For additional information about Eiger and its clinical programs, please visit www.eigerbio.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical facts, including statements regarding our future financial condition, timing for and outcomes of clinical results, regulatory objectives, business strategy and plans and objectives for future operations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are our current statements regarding our intentions, beliefs, projections, outlook, analyses or current expectations concerning, among other things, our anticipated significant milestones in 2022; the timing of our ongoing and planned clinical development; the sufficiency of our cash, cash equivalents and investments to fund our operations; expectations regarding the timing and availability of topline data from our Phase 3 D-LIVR study in HDV; our ability to finance the continued advancement of our development pipeline products; and the potential for success of any of our product candidates. Various important factors could cause actual results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements that Eiger makes, including additional applicable risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" sections in the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 and Eiger's subsequent filings with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on information currently available to Eiger and speak only as of the date on which they are made. Eiger does not undertake and specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of any new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise.
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2022-06-27T21:39:34+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/06/27/eiger-biopharmaceuticals-announces-results-multiple-presentations-european-association-study-liver-easl-international-liver-congress-2022/
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Tax Day coming up on Tuesday, April 18. Taxpayers who end up requesting an automatic six-month extension will have until Oct. 16 to file. Tax Day was first introduced in 1913, when the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified. This Amendment gave the United States Congress the legal authority to tax all incomes.
The reason tax day isn’t April 15 this year is because that date falls on a Saturday. Typically, the next business day after April 15 is tax day, which would be Monday, April 17 this year. But that date is also the District of Columbia’s local holiday, Emancipation Day, which the IRS observes and closes.
73% of taxpayers think the government doesn’t use their taxes wisely. Tax Day can be a painful reminder of how much we have to invest in federal, state and local governments.
Federal income-tax rates are uniform across the nation, yet some states receive far more federal funding than others. This begs the question of whether people in high-tax states receive superior government services. Likewise, are low-tax states more efficient or do they receive low-quality services?
As Hoosiers, do we get a good return on our investment?
WalletHub aimed to answer that question by contrasting state and local tax collections with the quality of the services residents receive in each of the 50 states within five categories: Education, Health, Safety, Economy, and Infrastructure & Pollution.
Out of the 50 states, for ROI, Indiana scored at number 29. So, the answer could be, no, not really. For overall government assistance programs Indiana ranked at number 18. Indiana’s best category went to education (14) with health (31) being the worst. Safety and economy both scored in the middle with 20 and 18, respectively.
According to WalletHub, red states offer a better return on investment than blue states.
Other major findings from the study include:
- Tennessee has the lowest proportion of major roads in poor or mediocre condition, 14.00 percent, which is 5.4 times lower than in Rhode Island, the state with the highest at 75.00 percent.
- Maine has the fewest violent crimes per 1,000 residents, 1.09, which is 7.7 times lower than in Alaska, the state with the most at 8.38.
- North Dakota has the lowest infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births, 2.77, which is 3.4 times lower than in Mississippi, the state with the highest at 9.30.
You can find Indiana tax forms here.
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2023-03-21T17:24:33+00:00
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wibc.com
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https://wibc.com/147928/do-hoosiers-get-a-good-return-on-their-investment-from-taxes/
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2022-11-21T23:22:55+00:00
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Rain, snow still on track for Wednesday, Thursday
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The next system is still on track to arrive later Wednesday afternoon, mainly after 3 p.m. It’ll affect us through early Thursday morning.
It looks like a complicated system when it comes to mixed precipitation vs snow.
The general theme is, the heaviest snow will fall in the northwest portion of the TV9 viewing area, and less snow, more mixed precipitation falling to the southeast. The first draft of the snowfall forecast tries to capture this as much as possible.
Given recent mild temps and the track still waffling around, confidence is inherently lower on snowfall amounts at this distance.
With the trends favoring the northern half of our area for the heaviest snow, that’s where we’re seeing a Winter Storm Watch for this time period.
Despite the lower snowfall amounts expected further south, the mixed precipitation will still impact area roads.
The wind on this system doesn’t look overly bad, with gusts around 20-25 mph in many areas.
The temperature should generally remain in the upper 20s to lower 30s during times of snow, giving this snowfall event a wetter consistency overall.
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2023-01-17T13:49:27+00:00
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Gerrie Coetzee, former WBA heavyweight champ, dies at 67
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Gerrie Coetzee, a former South African boxer and WBA heavyweight champion who defied some of his country’s racist laws during the height of apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s and won popularity with Nelson Mandela and both Black and white fans, has died. He was 67.
Coetzee died on Thursday in Cape Town just over a week after being diagnosed with lung cancer, his former manager, Thinus Strydom, said Friday.
Coetzee, who was white, was the first African boxer to win a world heavyweight title. He knocked out American rival Michael Dokes in the 10th round in Richfield, Ohio, in 1983 to win the WBA belt, a big upset that was celebrated throughout South Africa despite it being fragmented at the time by the apartheid laws of racial segregation.
Coetzee’s victory also made him the first white boxer to win a world heavyweight title in more than 20 years but he made clear after the fight against Dokes how much he disliked being labeled “the great white hope.”
“I feel I am fighting for everybody, Black and white,” Coetzee said. “What makes me happy is for Black, brown and white people to accept me as their fighter.”
They did in South Africa and Coetzee was awarded the The Order of Ikhamanga in Bronze in 2003 by South Africa’s democratically-elected post-apartheid government for his boxing success and for his contribution to “nation-building through sport.”
The government said millions of Black South Africans rooted for Coetzee during his career, “thereby confounding the false logic of apartheid.”
Coetzee said one of his most treasured moments came when Mandela, a big boxing fan, asked to meet him in the early 1990s. Mandela, who would become South Africa’s first democratically-elected president in 1994, had just been released from prison after 27 years for fighting against apartheid.
“It was overwhelming because the country was preparing for democracy and Mr. Mandela was leading the way,” Coetzee said. “It was a surreal moment and he awarded me a medal. I was surprised to hear that he had listened to radio commentaries of a few of my fights while he was in prison.”
At a later meeting with Mandela, Coetzee wanted to give the Nobel Peace Prize winner a gift in return and chose a medal that he had previously been awarded by the apartheid government. Mandela didn’t even flinch when he learned where the medal came from, Coetzee said, and graciously accepted the gift.
“It didn’t seem to bother Mr. Mandela ... He saw it as a gift from me and I was grateful for that,” Coetzee said.
Coetzee finally won the heavyweight title on his third attempt after losing to John Tate in 1979 in a fight for the WBA belt made vacant by Muhammad Ali’s retirement. Coetzee also lost a second WBA title shot when he challenged Mike Weaver in 1980 and was stopped in the 13th round.
Coetzee had stopped former undisputed heavyweight champion Leon Spinks in the first round in Monaco in 1979 in his first fight outside South Africa, making the world aware of his ability. But it took him another four years to win a title.
Coetzee’s victory over Dokes for the WBA title came at a price. He broke his right hand earlier in the fight but still managed to knock out Dokes with a series of rights, his manager said. He needed surgery soon after.
Coetzee had persistent injury problems with that potent right hand and it was operated on numerous times throughout his career, leading South African heavyweight rival Kallie Knoetze to give Coetzee the nickname “Sore Little Hands.” Coetzee was also sometimes called “The Bionic Hand.”
His main nickname, though, was the “Boksburg Bomber” in reference to his working-class home town near Johannesburg. Coetzee’s first professional fight was in 1974, and he often fought against Black fighters in South Africa in front of racially-mixed crowds. He appointed a South African man of Indian heritage to be his media spokesman, which also angered the apartheid government.
In the 1980s, Coetzee agreed to train a young Black fighter and invited him to stay with him in his home in defiance of strict apartheid laws at the time that outlawed Blacks living in the same neighborhoods as whites. Police searched Coetzee’s home and issued him with a court summons because of it. Coetzee said he ignored the summons and legally adopted the boy, whose parents had died.
Coetzee fought 40 times, with 33 wins (21 by knockout), six losses and a draw.
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2023-01-13T12:04:31+00:00
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(WGN) – Every now and then, a person interrupts a basketball game by making their way onto the court during the action. But one such incident on Wednesday was especially unique.
The Loyola Chicago Ramblers were facing off against the Duquesne Dukes in Pittsburgh, with 16:10 to go in the second half, when someone who appeared to be delivering food wandered onto the court with a bag of McDonald’s and a soda.
The person, who was wearing a yellow jacket and brown pants, could be seen looking into the stands, presumably for the recipient of the order. While walking across the corner of the court, he was also only about a foot away from Loyola’s Philip Alston, who was looking for someone to pass the ball to.
ESPN tweeted out video of the incident shortly after it happened.
Referees briefly stopped the game before play resumed. Duquesne would go on to beat the Ramblers 72-58 as they fell to 1-7 in the Atlantic 10 and 7-13 overall.
Meanwhile, this person was escorted off the court by a referee, and reportedly continued to wander through the stands until handing off the food to someone else. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, this fan was then eating the food on the video board inside the arena.
It appears, however, that this whole thing may have been staged, as some sort of prank for social media.
Austin Hansen, an assistant athletics director for Loyola, shared a video of the incident from his point-of-view, which appeared to show the “delivery person” had a small microphone attached to his collar, USA Today first reported.
“This kid was clearly doing a prank for Youtube/TikTok,” Hansen wrote in a Twitter thread. “You can see that he is wearing a microphone, and tons of students were filming him with their phones.”
Meanwhile, ESPN reported that the game’s announcers claimed they learned of an Uber Eats logo on the McDonald’s takeout order, even though the alleged prankster could be heard asking if anyone ordered “DoorDash” in Hansen’s video.
That didn’t stop Uber Eats from having a little fun, though. The company tweeted about the incident on Wednesday night, calling it “the absolute most.”
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2023-01-26T17:46:39+00:00
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Last week’s suicide bombing at a Kabul education center killed as many as 52 people, more than twice the death toll acknowledged by Taliban officials, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press on Monday.
Dozens more were wounded in Friday’s blast, making it one of the bloodiest attacks since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan more than a year ago. There was no claim of responsibility, but Islamic State group extremists have carried out a series of attacks against Taliban targets and ethnic minorities.
The blast struck at a time when hundreds of teen-age students were taking practice exams at the Kaaj Higher Educational Center in the Afghan capital. The explosion blew the roof off the building.
Taliban security officials initially said 19 people had been killed, then revised the death toll to 25 over the weekend.
However, the AP spoke directly to relatives of 39 of those killed and obtained the names and other information about the remaining 13.
The overwhelming majority of victims were girls and women, including 31 students between the ages of 17 and 20. The youngest victim was a 14-year-old girl called Nasrin, who was visiting the center with her 19-year-old cousin Layeqa, who also died in the blast.
Khalid Zadran, the Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief, said Monday that the death toll was 25, based on information from the Interior Ministry.
Abdul Nafi Takor, a Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Interior Ministry, was not immediately available for comment.
Mohammed Amir buried his 21-year-old daughter Wahida at a Kabul cemetery on Friday. He spoke of the difficult time his family was enduring. “It looks like hell for us,” he said. “I can’t feel anything anymore. I can’t sleep. I feel like I’m being torn apart. I wish I could be somewhere I could shout, raise my voice. My heart is torn for Wahida.”
Wahida’s sister, Zahra, said that Hazaras and Shiites are always under attack. “It is the same this time,” she said. “There were no Sunnis at Kaaj (Educational Center). All of them were Shiites. A suicide bomber entered the girls’ section and detonated himself in front of my sister. All of them were Hazara girls.”
The reason for the lower death toll provided by the Taliban was not immediately clear. In the past, they have at times been slow to confirm casualty figures in the aftermath of attacks.
Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Islamic State group, a rival of the Taliban, has carried out a series of attacks, including suicide bombings in crowded mosques.
Afghanistan’s minority Hazaras have been a frequent target of the violence. Most Hazaras are Shiite Muslims, despised by Sunni Muslim radicals like the Islamic State group, and discriminated against by many in the Sunni majority country.
The education center targeted Friday is in the Kabul neighborhood of Dashti Barchi, where many of the residents are Hazaras.
In 2020, IS attacked a maternity hospital in Dashti Barchi that killed 24 people, including newborn babies and mothers. In 2021, before the Taliban takeover, the group attacked a school, killing more than 90, most of them schoolgirls.
The neighborhood has seen frequent bombings of minibuses and, earlier this year, a school and another education center were hit near simultaneously, killing six.
The United Nations mission in Afghanistan said 53 people were killed and 110 were wounded in Friday’s bombing. It said in a tweet Monday: “Our human rights team continues documenting the crime: verifying facts & establishing reliable data to counter denial & revisionism.”
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2022-10-03T20:05:59+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-death-toll-in-last-weeks-kabul-school-blast-climbs-to-52/
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PITTSBURGH (WXIN) — More than 2 million infant swings and rockers are being recalled due to the risk of entanglement and strangulation.
On Monday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Thorley Industries, known as 4moms, announced the recall, which involves about 2 million MamaRoo swings and 220,000 RockaRoo rockers. In addition, 60,000 MamaRoo and 10,000 RockaRoo were sold in Canada.
The MamaRoo is a baby swing that offers multiple motions and speeds. The recall only includes models that use a three-point harness. The MamaRoo model that uses a five-point harness is not included in this recall. The RockaRoo is a baby rocker with a front-to-back gliding motion.
The recall was initiated because when not in use, their restraint straps can hang below the seat and non-occupant crawling infants can get tangled in the straps, posing strangulation hazards.
The company said it has received two reports of entanglement incidents involving infants who got caught in the strap under the MamaRoo infant swing. This includes a report in which an infant died from asphyxiation and another infant had to be rescued by a caregiver.
On the Safer Products website, a consumer posted that their 10-month-old son crawled through the space between the base and the seat in 2018. Their son got caught in the strap, which got so tightly twisted around his neck that they had to cut the strap to loosen him.
The consumer reported that their son suffered marks and popped blood vessels all the way around his neck. He also had popped blood vessels around his eyes.
“Very scary and is dangerous if anyone has this product and doesn’t realize the straps underneath can do this,” the consumer wrote in their incident report.
Those straps are the target of the recall. Anyone with the recalled products should contact 4moms immediately to register for a free strap fastener, which will prevent the straps from extending under the swing when not in use.
Until they get the strap fastener, the company said anyone with infants who can crawl should immediately stop using the recalled swings and rockers and place them in an area where crawling infants cannot access.
The company issued the following statement:
“Families put their trust in our company when they choose to bring our products into their homes. That’s why we take every precaution and make the extra effort to ensure that our baby gear products not only meet but exceed all applicable safety standards.
We are deeply saddened by the two incidents that occurred when babies crawled under the seat of unoccupied MamaRoo swings. After investigating the circumstances behind these two reported incidents, 4moms decided to conduct a voluntary recall in partnership with the CPSC.
The free strap fastener kit we have designed is an easy-to-install solution that we believe will prevent any other incidents from happening when a MamaRoo or RockaRoo is not in use and an infant crawls under the seat. We strongly urge our consumers, retailers, and re-seller partners to implement the strap fastener solution to ensure the complete safety of our products.
We will continue to hold ourselves to the highest quality and safety standards so that parents feel safe, secure, and confident in their decision to have 4moms support their family.”
Gary Waters, 4moms CEO
People can contact 4moms toll-free at 877-870-7390 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or by email at safetyandrecall@4moms.com. They can also go to the recall website to order a strap fastener.
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2022-08-15T17:07:23+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/news/business/recalls/more-than-2-million-infant-swings-and-rockers-recalled-after-babys-death/
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Queen Elizabeth II made history on Tuesday, both accepting the resignation of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and appointing new Prime Minister Liz Truss at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Truss is England's third female prime minister and the 15th prime minister to serve during the queen's 70-year reign.
Breaking tradition, the 96-year-old reigning monarch chose to relocate the symbolic events due to her ongoing health and mobility issues. The queen has previously appointed all prime ministers during her reign at Buckingham Palace.
The queen spends her summer holidays at Balmoral Castle and chose not to make the lengthy return to London for the occasion.
She greeted both Johnson and Truss while wearing a plaid, tartan skirt and gray sweater. She was also using a walking stick.
Queen Elizabeth has been forced to miss several events in recent months due to her health issues. Just last week, she pulled out of the Braemar Gathering, though her son, Prince Charles, still attended. Back in July, ET confirmed that she entrusted more of her monarch duties to Charles.
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2022-09-06T21:14:58+00:00
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SILVER SPRING, Md. , June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 to include use in children down to 6 months of age.
- For the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, the FDA amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) to include use of the vaccine in individuals 6 months through 17 years of age. The vaccine had been authorized for use in adults 18 years of age and older.
- For the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, the FDA amended the EUA to include use of the vaccine in individuals 6 months through 4 years of age. The vaccine had been authorized for use in individuals 5 years of age and older.
Key points:
- The FDA's evaluation and analysis of the safety, effectiveness and manufacturing data of these vaccines was rigorous and comprehensive, supporting the EUAs.
- The agency determined that the known and potential benefits of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the known and potential risks in the pediatric populations authorized for use for each vaccine.
- Prior to making the decision to authorize these vaccines for the respective pediatric populations, the FDA's independent Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee was consulted and voted in support of the authorizations.
"Many parents, caregivers and clinicians have been waiting for a vaccine for younger children and this action will help protect those down to 6 months of age. As we have seen with older age groups, we expect that the vaccines for younger children will provide protection from the most severe outcomes of COVID-19, such as hospitalization and death," said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. "Those trusted with the care of children can have confidence in the safety and effectiveness of these COVID-19 vaccines and can be assured that the agency was thorough in its evaluation of the data."
The Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine is administered as a primary series of two doses, one month apart, to individuals 6 months through 17 years of age. The vaccine is also authorized to provide a third primary series dose at least one month following the second dose for individuals in this age group who have been determined to have certain kinds of immunocompromise.
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is administered as a primary series of three doses in which the initial two doses are administered three weeks apart followed by a third dose administered at least eight weeks after the second dose in individuals 6 months through 4 years of age.
Information about each vaccine is available in the fact sheets for healthcare providers administering vaccine and the fact sheets for recipients and caregivers.
"As with all vaccines for any population, when authorizing COVID-19 vaccines intended for pediatric age groups, the FDA ensures that our evaluation and analysis of the data is rigorous and thorough," said Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. "In addition to making certain the data for these vaccines met FDA's rigorous standards, the agency's convening of an advisory committee was part of a transparent process to help the public have a clear understanding of the safety and effectiveness data supporting the authorization of these two vaccines for pediatric populations."
Evaluation of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine for Individuals 6 Months through 17 Years of Age
Effectiveness
The effectiveness and safety data evaluated and analyzed by the FDA for the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine to support the EUA for these pediatric populations were generated in two ongoing, randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trials in the United States and Canada which enrolled infants, children and adolescents.
- Children 6 months through 5 years of age: Immune responses of a subset of 230 children 6 through 23 months and a subset of 260 children 2 through 5 years of age who received a two-dose primary series of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine at 25 micrograms (mcg) of messenger RNA (mRNA) per dose were compared to immune responses among 290 adults 18 through 25 years who received two higher doses of the vaccine in a previous study which determined the vaccine to be effective in preventing COVID-19. In these FDA analyses, the immune response to the vaccine, of both age groups of children, was comparable to the immune response of the adults.
An analysis of cases of COVID-19 occurring at least 14 days after the second dose among approximately 5,400 children in this age group without evidence of prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 was conducted during the time period in which the omicron variant was the predominant circulating strain. In this analysis, among participants 6 through 23 months of age, 64% of whom had blinded follow-up for more than two months after the second dose, the vaccine was 50.6% effective in preventing COVID-19. Among participants 2 through 5 years of age, 72% of whom had blinded follow-up for more than two months after the second dose, the vaccine was 36.8% effective in preventing COVID-19. - Children 6 years through 11 years of age: Immune responses of a subset of 320 children in this age group who received a two-dose primary series of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine at 50 mcg of mRNA per dose were compared to immune responses among 295 adults 18 through 25 years who received two higher doses of the vaccine in a previous study which determined the vaccine to be effective in preventing COVID-19. In the FDA analysis, the immune response of the children to the vaccine was comparable to the immune response of the adults. An additional analysis pertaining to the occurrence of COVID-19 cases was determined not to be reliable due to the low number of COVID-19 cases that occurred in study participants.
- Adolescents 12 through 17 years of age: Immune responses of a subset of 340 adolescents in this age group who received a two-dose primary series of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine at 100 mcg of mRNA per dose were compared to immune responses among 296 adults 18 through 25 years who received two equivalent doses of the vaccine in a previous study which determined the vaccine to be effective in preventing COVID-19. In this analysis, the immune response of adolescents was comparable to the immune response of the older participants.
An analysis was also conducted of cases of COVID-19 occurring at least 14 days after the second dose among approximately 3,000 adolescents in this age group without evidence of prior infection with SARS-CoV-2, in which approximately 42% of participants had two or more months of blinded follow-up after the second dose. In this analysis, among participants 12 through 17 years of age, the vaccine was 93.3% effective in preventing COVID-19. The data for this analysis were obtained before the omicron variant became the predominant circulating strain.
Safety
The safety data to support the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine EUA in individuals 6 months through 17 years of age are as follows:
- Children 6 months through 5 years of age: Safety was evaluated in approximately 1,700 children 6 through 23 months of age who received the vaccine and 600 who received the placebo. Of these, approximately 1,100 vaccine recipients were followed for safety for at least two months following the second dose. For participants 2 through 5 years of age, approximately 3,000 received the vaccine and approximately 1,000 received a placebo; approximately 2,200 vaccine recipients were followed for safety for at least two months following the second dose. In clinical trial participants 6 months through 5 years of age, the most commonly reported side effects across all age subgroups included pain, redness and swelling at the injection site, fever and underarm (or groin) swelling/tenderness of lymph nodes in the same arm (or thigh) as the injection. In clinical trial participants 6 through 36 months of age, the most commonly reported side effects also included irritability/crying, sleepiness, and loss of appetite. In clinical trial participants 37 months through 5 years of age, the most commonly reported side effects also included fatigue, headache, muscle ache, chills, nausea/vomiting and joint stiffness.
- Children 6 through 11 years of age: Safety was evaluated in approximately 3,000 children who received the vaccine and approximately 1,000 children who received placebo. The majority of vaccine recipients (98.7%) had at least two months of safety follow-up after their second dose.
- Adolescents 12 through 17 years of age: Safety was evaluated in approximately 2,500 participants who received the vaccine and 1,200 who received placebo. The majority of vaccine recipients (95.6%) had at least six months of follow-up after the second dose.
The most commonly reported side effects in the clinical trial participants for both the 6 through 11 age group and the 12 through 17 age group who received the vaccine include, pain, redness and swelling at the injection site, tiredness, headache, muscle pain, chills, joint pain, underarm swollen lymph nodes in the same arm as the injection, nausea and vomiting and fever.
Evaluation of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Children 6 Months through 4 Years of Age
The effectiveness and safety data evaluated and analyzed by the FDA for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine were generated in an ongoing, randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial in the United States and internationally, which enrolled infants and children.
Effectiveness
- The effectiveness data to support the EUA in children 6 months through 4 years of age is based on a comparison of immune responses following three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine in a subset of children in this age group to the immune responses among adults 16 through 25 years of age who received two higher doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine in a previous study which determined the vaccine to be effective in preventing COVID-19. The study was conducted in two age subgroups. The immune response to the vaccine of approximately 80 children, 6 through 23 months of age, and approximately 140 children, 2 through 4 years of age, were compared to the immune response of approximately 170 of the older participants. In these FDA analyses, the immune response to the vaccine for both age groups of children was comparable to the immune response of the older participants. An additional analysis pertaining to the occurrence of COVID-19 cases was determined not to be reliable due to the low number of COVID-19 cases that occurred in study participants.
Safety
- The available safety data to support the EUA in children 6 through 23 months of age include approximately 1,170 who received the vaccine and approximately 600 who received placebo; approximately 400 vaccine recipients were followed for safety for at least two months following the third dose. For the participants 2 through 4 years of age, approximately 1,800 received the vaccine and approximately 900 received placebo; approximately 600 vaccine recipients were followed for safety for at least two months following the third dose. The most commonly reported side effects in clinical trial participants 6 through 23 months of age who received the vaccine were irritability, decreased appetite, fever and pain, tenderness, redness and swelling at the injection site. These side effects were also reported for the vaccine recipients 2 through 4 years age, in addition to fever, headache, and chills.
Risks of Myocarditis and Pericarditis
The FDA and CDC safety surveillance systems have previously identified increased risks of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of tissue surrounding the heart) following vaccination with the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, particularly following the second dose. The observed risk is highest in males 18 through 24 years of age for the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine and in males 12 through 17 years of age for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.
The FDA and the CDC analyses of available safety surveillance data from the U.S. and other countries on myocarditis outcomes continue to strengthen the evidence that most cases of myocarditis associated with the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines are characterized by rapid resolution of symptoms following conservative management, with no impact on quality of life reported by most patients who were contacted for follow-up at 90 days or more after reporting myocarditis. The risks of myocarditis and pericarditis are described in the fact sheets for each of these vaccines.
Ongoing Safety Monitoring
As part of their original EUA requests, both ModernaTX Inc. and Pfizer Inc. submitted plans to continue to monitor the safety of the vaccines as they are used under EUA. These plans for monitoring the overall safety of the vaccines and ensuring that any safety concerns are identified and evaluated in a timely manner, and which include monitoring for myocarditis and pericarditis, have been updated to include the newly authorized populations. In addition, longer-term safety follow-up is ongoing for participants enrolled in the clinical trials for both vaccines. Furthermore, the FDA and the CDC have several systems in place to continually monitor COVID-19 vaccine safety and allow for the timely detection and investigation of potential safety concerns.
It is mandatory for both ModernaTX Inc. and Pfizer Inc., as well as vaccination providers, to report the following to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) for these two COVID-19 vaccines: serious adverse events, cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome and cases of COVID-19 that result in hospitalization or death. It is also mandatory for vaccination providers to report all vaccine administration errors to VAERS for which they become aware and for vaccine manufacturers to include a summary and analysis of all identified vaccine administration errors in monthly safety reports submitted to the FDA.
The EUA amendment for the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine was issued to ModernaTX Inc. and the EUA amendment for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine was issued to Pfizer Inc.
Additional Resources:
- Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
- Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine
- COVID-19 Vaccines
- Emergency Use Authorization for Vaccines Explained
- Emergency Use Authorization for Vaccines to Prevent COVID-19: Guidance for Industry
- Development and Licensure of Vaccines to Prevent COVID-19: Guidance for Industry
Media Contact: Abby Capobianco, 240-461-9059
Consumer Inquiries: Email or 888-INFO-FDA
The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.
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2022-06-17T14:23:31+00:00
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NEW YORK (AP) — By the Nielsen company’s count, 7.8 million people watched Amazon Prime’s coverage of last Thursday’s NFL game between New Orleans and Arizona. But Amazon says no, there were actually 8.9 million people watching.
So which is it?
You’ll have to judge for yourself. After each of its Thursday night games this season, Amazon has publicly contradicted Nielsen in this manner, one of the boldest challenges ever to a company that for generations has monopolized the count of people watching programs on television.
Neither company is saying the other is wrong, but neither is backing down, either. The result is confusion, most notably for advertisers.
Nielsen, as it has for years, follows the viewing habits in a panel of homes across the country and, from that limited sample, derives an estimate of how many people watch a particular program. That number is currency in the media industry, meaning it is used to determine advertising rates.
Amazon, in the first year of an 11-year contract to stream Thursday night games, says it has an actual count of every one of its subscribers who streams it — not an estimate. The games are also televised in the local markets of the participating teams, about 9% of its total viewership each week, and Amazon uses Nielsen’s estimate for that portion of the total.
“We wouldn’t put out our number if we weren’t comfortable that it was accurate,” said Jay Marine, vice president of Amazon Prime Video and head of its sports department.
Through six weeks, Nielsen says the Thursday night games have averaged 10.3 million viewers. Amazon says the average is 12.1 million. Amazon’s estimate has been bigger than Nielsen’s each week.
“I don’t at all believe that Amazon’s numbers are not right,” said Connie Kim, Nielsen spokeswoman. “And I don’t believe that our numbers are not right.”
Since different methodologies are being used, it’s no surprise that there are differences in the estimate, she said.
“It’s going to take a little time,” Kim said. “As it evolves it should be one number. But we’re not quite there yet.”
For now, ad prices for the Thursday games are set using Nielsen’s numbers. But Amazon clearly has an incentive to let clients know that it believes more people are actually watching.
“You have to remember that this is new — new for Nielsen and it’s the first time there’s been actual data for an event like this,” Marine said.
The dispute has clear implications for the future. Streamers haven’t had much incentive for measurements of daily viewing to be publicized, in part because people don’t watch their shows the same way as broadcast television, and they haven’t needed numbers verified from a third-party source for advertisers.
But with Netflix about to introduce advertising, that can all change very rapidly. And if other companies develop technology that can measure viewing more precisely, the precedent has now been set for publicly disputing Nielsen’s numbers.
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2022-10-25T18:22:53+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Many local government agencies have invested in technology and may not be taking full advantage of its power to serve as an economic engine. We can change that," says Dustin Haisler, GovTech's Chief Innovation Officer. Haisler will be presenting at Springbrook's annual Activate event, September 14-16, 2022, at the Virgin Resort in Las Vegas. Register here for the event's early bird special.
The pandemic completely shifted the economic development landscape for agencies across the country, challenging and disrupting traditional ways to unlock and accelerate local economies.
"These shifts created a competitive landscape, forcing agencies to leverage new approaches to attract prospective constituents, businesses, and employees. Technology has become an increasingly important tool in unlocking economic value, but it requires the right holistic approach, combining future-ready people, processes, and technology. But where do you start," observes Haisler.
What are the foundational elements that should be in place? And most importantly – what are the new 'tech' plays that can be used to accelerate economic development? Haisler frames how things have changed and shares the new 'tech' plays that can help local government agencies compete and unlock new economic value in a world of exponential change.
Springbrook's Activate event is September 14-16, 2022 at the Virgin Resort in Las Vegas. It is open to all representatives from local government agencies: register here. The event features advanced training, keynote presentations, workshops, and incredible networking opportunities. A complete agenda can be found here.
Springbrook Software is the country's leading cloud-based finance and administration software provider designing solutions specifically for small to medium sized local government agencies. Nearly 2000 cities, towns and districts from coast to coast use our suite of modern, high-performance solutions to manage their finances, payroll, utility billing and collect citizen payments. Springbrook is headquartered in Portland, Oregon with regional presence in over 40 states, and seven countries internationally. https://springbrooksoftware.com
MEDIA CONTACT: steve.lundin@sprbrk.com
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2022-08-03T15:41:11+00:00
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BEIJING and HANGZHOU, China, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Roan Holdings Group Co., Ltd. ("Roan" or the "Company") (OTC Pink Sheets: RAHGF and RONWF), a comprehensive solution provider for industrial operations and capital market services, announced today that the Company has entered into a cooperation framework agreement (the "Agreement") with Guodiantou (Beijing) Integrated Energy Co. ("Guodiantou"), a subsidiary of State Power Investment Corporation Limited, for their future strategic cooperation on investing, constructing and operating new energy storage power stations (such projects, the "Energy Storage Station Projects") initially in the Yangtze River Delta region. Through this cooperation, Roan expects the Energy Storage Station Projects to promote and improve the ecological layout of the energy storage industry, enhance the core competitiveness of industrial projects, and expand business performance and scale.
Pursuant to the Agreement, the parties are to form a project company or companies for the Energy Storage Station Projects, in which the Company is expected to hold a minority interest. Guodiantou will be primarily responsible for making the investment in these energy storage stations and owning the power station assets. Roan has entered into another cooperation framework agreement and a letter of intent with other third parties to facilitate the development of two industrial parks, one to be focused on new energy storage and battery manufacturing and the other on new energy storage production, system equipment manufacturing, and new materials and semiconductor, with the intent for the parks to house companies that would develop energy storage industrial projects which the Company would consult for. The Company plans to facilitate the use of these energy storage industrial projects to supply equipment and provide services in energy storage power station construction and operation as part of its cooperation under the Agreement. In addition, the Company will use its expertise in industrial operation and capital market services, including initial planning and financial consulting, to support the Energy Storage Station Projects. Details will be included in the future agreements to be entered into by the parties with respect to the Energy Storage Station Projects.
Mr. Junfeng Wang, Chairman of the Board commented "We are very excited to announce the cooperation with Guodiantou. Guodiantou, an integrated energy infrastructure investment, construction and operation enterprise, mainly focuses on the development directions of power generation, user-side energy storage infrastructure, energy storage, technological innovation, technical services and other businesses, and undertakes the important task of investing, constructing and developing new integrated energy infrastructure in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta region and the central region. Guodiantou is an important strategic partner of our industrial operation strategy of 'whole process and life cycle'. This cooperation is another breakthrough and important milestone in the development of our new energy industrial operation business following our new energy projects. These new energy projects are the new energy storage and battery manufacturing industrial park project and the industrial park project for companies engaging in new energy storage production, system equipment manufacturing, new materials and semiconductor (collectively, the "Projects"). The cooperation with Guodiantou plays an important role in connecting the downstream resources of the energy storage battery industry for our Projects, and improving the overall industrial ecological layout of the energy storage material base, energy storage battery base and energy storage equipment manufacturing base. Additionally, we could provide market operation service solutions through this cooperation to bring stable and sizeable downstream orders from this cooperation for our Projects, which would enable us to accomplish the closed loop of the whole process service, covering the whole industrial chain of the new energy industrial operation. We believe that our recent strategic partnerships are enhancing our influence and reputation in the new energy industrial operation market, and will transform into considerable financial returns in the future for our shareholders."
About Roan Holdings Group Co., Ltd.
Founded in 2009, Roan Holdings Group Co., Ltd. (OTC Pink: RAHGF and RONWF) is a comprehensive solution provider for industrial operation and capital market services. Adhering to the platform strategy of "cross collaboration, technology empowerment, sustainability and stability, and combination of operation and finance resources", the Company's services focus on the new energy, new materials, and semiconductor industries. At the same time, the Company prioritizes on the application of innovative technologies in the consumer industry with respect to financial consumption, cultural and tourism consumption, and wellness ecosystem. Roan aims to provide comprehensive solutions and supporting services for diversified institutional and local government clients across the entire industry chain. Roan has offices in Hangzhou and Beijing and subsidiaries in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing and Tianjin. For more information, please visit: www.roanholdingsgroup.com.
About State Power Investment Corporation Limited
Established in July 2015, the State Power Investment Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as "SPIC") is a large key state-owned enterprise directly under the central government of China. As one of the five major power generation groups in China and the largest solar power generation enterprise in the world, SPIC ranked 293rd among the Fortune Global 500 in 2021 with its businesses covering 46 countries and regions. SPIC has 130,000 employees and 62 subsidiary entities. More information, please visit: http://eng.spic.com.cn/
About Guodiantou (Beijing) Integrated Energy Co.
Guodiantou is an integrated energy infrastructure investment, construction and operation enterprise formed by China's State Power Investment Corporation Limited. Its main development objective focuses on power generation, user-side energy storage infrastructure, photovoltaic power generation, wind power generation, integrated smart energy, hydrogen energy, energy storage, charging piles, technological innovation, technical services and other businesses. Based in Beijing and developing nationwide, it undertakes the important task of investing, constructing and developing new integrated energy infrastructure in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta region and the central region.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements relate to, among others, the consummation of the proposed transaction, and can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "aim," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "potential," "continue," "is/are likely to" or other similar expressions. Examples of such statements include our plan to help develop two industrial parks with the intent they would house companies that would develop energy storage industrial projects which the Company would consult for; through cooperation with Guodiantou, the Energy Storage Station Projects will promote and improve the ecological layout of the energy storage industry, enhance the core competitiveness of industrial projects, and expand business performance and scale; the parties are to form a project company or companies for the Energy Storage Station Projects, in which the Company is expected to hold a minority interest; Guodiantou intends to purchase the equipment and products to be used in the Energy Storage Station Projects from the energy storage companies that are located in the industrial parks in which the Company operates; the cooperation with Guodiantou plays an important role in connecting and improving the downstream resources of the energy storage battery industry for our projects in Jiaxing and Shangyu, which will not only bring stable and sizeable orders for our projects in Jiaxing and Shangyu as our market operation service solution, but also enable us to accomplish the closed loop of the whole process service, covering the whole industrial chain of the new energy industrial operation; and our belief that our recent strategic partnerships are enhancing our influence and reputation in the new energy industrial operation market and will transform into considerable financial returns in the future for our shareholders. Such statements are based upon management's current expectations of the consummation of the proposed transaction, and relate to events that involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company's control. Examples of such risks include whether we and Guodiantou can successfully negotiate and enter into cooperation agreements to implement the framework provided by the Agreement, whether any project companies will be formed as part of such cooperation, whether the Station Projects will come to fruition, whether Guodiantou will fund the Station Projects, whether the Station Projects will have demand for substantial quantities of energy storage devices; whether our planned projects in Jiaxing and Shangyu result in industrial parks, and whether energy storage companies locate within such parks; whether we can connect such companies with the Station Projects and whether as a result such companies supply substantial amounts of energy storage products to the Station Projects; and whether any success in such projects would provide considerable financial returns in the future for our shareholders. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors are included in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under law.
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Email: xiaoqing.wu@roanholdingsgroup.com
Phone: +86-571-8662 1775
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2022-08-15T16:16:48+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/08/15/roan-holdings-group-co-guodiantou-beijing-integrated-energy-co-jointly-develop-energy-storage-power-stations-investment-operation-project/
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 31, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
749 PM CDT Sun Jul 31 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of the Panhandle of Texas, including the
following county, Hemphill.
* WHEN...Until 1145 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 749 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 1.5 inches of
rain have fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
mainly rural areas of Southeastern Hemphill County
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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2022-08-01T02:29:00+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-AMARILLO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17341943.php
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To celebrate the holiday season, the limited-edition gift set features an assortment of luxury confections from Lady M Bon Bons
NEW YORK, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Lady M Confections, creator of the world-famous Mille Crêpes, released its 2022 Winter Wishes Advent Calendar adorned with a removable keepsake snow globe.
Nestled beneath an iconic and starry New York City snow globe, twenty-four perforated boxes open to reveal an exclusive collection of Lady M Bon Bons — including Chocolate Marshmallows, Red Velvet Crunch Bites, Apple Cider Jellies, and a variety of new candy flavors. Finished with a matching gift bag and greeting card, there is no sweeter way to count down the days of the joyous holiday season than with Lady M's limited-edition offering. Lady M's Winter Wishes Advent Calendar ($80) is available for preorder online at LadyM.com and LadyM.ca starting today and will be in all US Lady M Boutiques and Goldbelly.com as of November 1.
For the ultimate holiday offering, Lady M is also launching an Advent Calendar and Cake Bundle, giving customers the option to purchase a Winter Wishes Advent Calendar and the new Butter Pecan Mille Crêpes together ($178). This holiday bundle is available exclusively online at LadyM.com and LadyM.ca while quantities last. To find more information on Lady M, please visit www.ladym.com.
About Lady M:
Lady M is a New York City luxury confections brand with over 50 boutiques worldwide. Created in 2001 and led by CEO Ken Romaniszyn, Lady M is the creator of the world famous Mille Crêpes. Lady M marries French pastry techniques with Japanese sensibilities, resulting in delicate cakes that are a touch sweet and perfect for every occasion. All cakes are handmade and prepared fresh without food additives or preservatives. Lady M's recipes have been refined over years to provide the finest quality in taste and appearance. Indulge in a world of cakes and confections at LadyM.com.
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2022-10-18T14:01:44+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/10/18/lady-m-confections-unveils-2022-winter-wishes-advent-calendar-filled-with-luxury-candies/
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SEATTLE (AP) — New York Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo was held out of the lineup due to a stiff neck for their series opener against the Seattle Mariners on Monday night.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Rizzo “should be fine,” but the team was being cautious. Rizzo left Sunday's win over San Diego after he collided with Fernando Tatis Jr. on a pickoff play that ended the sixth inning.
As the first baseman leaned back to apply the tag, Rizzo collided with Tatis. Rizzo stayed on the ground for a few minutes and headed back to the clubhouse as the Yankees batted.
Boone said Rizzo was undergoing treatment and did not need any additional testing.
Catcher Jose Trevino (hamstring) was set to undergo a full workout before Monday's game and there is a chance he could be activated during the series in Seattle, Boone said.
Third baseman Josh Donaldson (hamstring) is set to continue his rehab assignment on Tuesday with Double-A Somerset. Designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton (hamstring) could “possibly” join Donaldson, Boone said.
Carlos Rodón (forearm strain) also threw a bullpen session in Seattle on Monday. Boone said Rodón will probably throw a couple more on the trip with the hope of starting a rehab assignment after the team returns to New York for a homestand that starts June 6.
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2023-05-30T01:19:39+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/anthony-rizzo-out-of-yankees-lineup-with-stiff-18124843.php
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CHICAGO (AP) — A prominent Roman Catholic priest known for his activism has been reinstated as leader of his Chicago parish after being cleared by church officials of allegations that he sexually abused a minor decades ago.
The Chicago Archdiocese released a letter Saturday saying that a review board found “no reason to suspect” that the Rev. Michael Pfleger was guilty of the allegations. Pfleger had stepped away from his duties as pastor of St. Sabina Church in October during the review.
Cardinal Blase Cupich said in the letter that he recognizes the “great toll” Pfleger’s absence had on the parish and said “I am committed to do everything possible to see that his good name is restored.”
In October, a man in his late 40s said through an attorney that Pfleger abused him twice in the late 1980s during choir rehearsals in the St. Sabina rectory. That claim was similar to other allegations Pfleger faced last year involving two brothers than 40 years ago, of which he was also cleared by the archdiocese.
Pfleger, 73, denied the abuse allegations and spoke briefly before parishioners at a Saturday evening Mass about his reinstatement.
“This has been very painful,” Pfleger said. “Thank you for your love, for your support and your prayers.”
Pfleger, who is white, leads a Black church in Chicago’s largely Black and low-income Auburn Gresham neighborhood. His activism captured the attention of film director Spike Lee, who based a character played by actor John Cusack in the 2015 film “Chi-Raq” on Pfleger.
Pfleger has made national headlines for his activism on an array of issues — calling for gun control and better schools and jobs, opposing cigarette and alcohol advertising, taking on drug dealers and stores that sell drug paraphernalia, and leading countless protests. He has been sued for his activism and once said it “has resulted in jealousy, attacks and hate.”
Attorney Eugene Hollander, who filed the latest abuse allegation against Pfleger, said his client is “incredibly hurt” by the archdiocese’s decision.
Hollander also represented the two men who came forward in 2021 with sexual abuse allegations. He said they had voluntarily submitted polygraph tests supporting their claims before the archdiocese determined their allegations were unfounded.
“In combination with the brothers’ claims and their evidence, and my current client’s claim, we had a staggering amount of evidence,” Hollander said.
The decisions will send a “deep chilling effect and strongly discourage victims of sexual abuse to come forward,” Hollander said.
“Obviously the St. Sabina community really strongly rallied around Father Pfleger, and I think it’s very unfortunate that it’s kind of turned a blind eye to the sexual abuse allegations,” Hollander said.
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2022-12-11T19:38:22+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-church-officials-clear-chicago-priest-pfleger-of-abuse-claim/
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Sioux City Community School District addresses school bus safety
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - The Sioux City Community School District says it’s seen a drop in drivers illegally passing its buses. But some are worried about the conditions inside the bus, where district officials acknowledge not every bus has air conditioning.
Sioux City Police Sgt. Tom Gill says police issued 45 citations last school year. But District Transportation Supervisor Chris Wellenstein says he believes the number will be much lower this school year.
About 80 to 90 percent of Sioux City Community School buses are equipped with cameras that capture anyone who passes a school bus while its stop arm is out. Police say a citation for illegally passing a school bus is a mandatory court appearance, and the citation is issued against the vehicle’s owner regardless of who’s driving.
A first offense could result in a maximum fine of $675 and could carry a 30-day license suspension.
“I think, it seems to me that the word is getting out that you know if you do get a ticket for this, that there’s some serious ramifications as far as cost. And, you know, there’s a possibility if it happens more than once that you could end up getting your license suspended,” said Wellenstein.
But what about the inside of the bus? KTIV News 4 was contacted by a district employee last month about concerns that 1/3 of school buses had no air conditioning, causing at least one student to become ill.
A district official acknowledged that state law doesn’t require air conditioning and that some air conditioning units inside older buses have failed.
“As far as air conditioning goes. Yeah, I mean, they’re all equipped with air conditioning. We have breakdowns just like any other, you know, school district does When we have a fleet of over 60, buses, you know, it ends up being an issue of getting repairs done,” said Wellenstein.
The district says it hopes to have air conditioning on all of its buses up and running by the start of spring next year. Each of the district’s buses is heated.
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2022-10-19T23:33:36+00:00
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ktiv.com
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https://www.ktiv.com/2022/10/19/sioux-city-community-school-district-addresses-school-bus-safety/
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Gay bar shooting suspect facing murder, hate crime charges
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The man suspected of killing five people and injuring others at a gay bar in Colorado Springs is facing murder and hate crime charges, according to online court records obtained Monday.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, faces five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, the records show.
A law enforcement official said the suspect used an AR-15-style semiautomatic weapon in Saturday night’s attack, but a handgun and additional ammunition magazines also were recovered. The official could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Information on a lawyer who could speak on Aldrich’s behalf wasn’t immediately available Monday.
Club Q on its Facebook page thanked the “quick reactions of heroic customers that subdued the gunman and ended this hate attack.”
Already questions were being raised about why authorities didn’t seek to take Aldrich’s guns away from him in 2021 when he was arrested after his mother reported he threatened her with a homemade bomb and other weapons.
Though authorities at the time said no explosives were found, gun control advocates are asking why police didn’t try to trigger Colorado’s “red flag” law, which would have allowed authorities to seize the weapons his mother says he had. There’s also no public record that prosecutors ever moved forward with felony kidnapping and menacing charges against Aldrich.
Mayor John Suthers said on NBC’s “Today” that the district attorney would file motions in court Monday to allow law enforcement to talk more about any criminal history “that this individual might have had.”
Of the 25 injured at Club Q, at least seven were in critical condition, authorities said. Some were hurt trying to flee, and it was unclear if all of them were shot, a police spokesperson said. Suthers told The Associated Press there was “reason to hope” all of those hospitalized would recover.
The shooting rekindled memories of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. Colorado has experienced several mass killings, including at Columbine High School in 1999, a movie theater in suburban Denver in 2012, and at a Boulder supermarket last year.
It was the sixth mass killing this month and came in a year when the nation was shaken by the deaths of 21 in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Authorities were called to Club Q at 11:57 p.m. Saturday with a report of a shooting, and the first officer arrived at midnight.
Joshua Thurman said he was in the club with about two dozen other people and was dancing when the shots began. He initially thought it was part of the music until he heard another shot and said he saw the flash of a gun muzzle.
Thurman, 34, said he ran with another person to a dressing room where someone already was hiding. They locked the door, turned off the lights, and got on the floor but could hear the violence unfolding, including the gunman being subdued, he added.
“I could have lost my life — over what? What was the purpose?” he said as tears ran down his cheeks. “We were just enjoying ourselves. We weren’t out harming anyone. We were in our space, our community, our home, enjoying ourselves like everybody else does.”
Detectives were examining whether anyone had helped the suspect before the attack, Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said. He said patrons who intervened during the attack were “heroic” and prevented more deaths.
Club Q is a gay and lesbian nightclub that features a drag show on Saturdays, according to its website. Club Q’s Facebook page said planned entertainment included a “punk and alternative show” preceding a birthday dance party, with a Sunday all-ages drag brunch.
Drag events have become a focus of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and protests recently as opponents, including politicians, have proposed banning children from them, falsely claiming they’re used to “groom” children.
A hate-crime charge against Aldrich requires proving he was motivated by the victim’s actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.
President Joe Biden said that while the motive for the shootings was not yet clear, “we know that the LGBTQI+ community has been subjected to horrific hate violence in recent years.”
“Places that are supposed to be safe spaces of acceptance and celebration should never be turned into places of terror and violence,” he said. “We cannot and must not tolerate hate.”
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who became the first openly gay man to be elected a U.S. governor in 2018, called the shooting “sickening.”
“My heart breaks for the family and friends of those lost, injured, and traumatized,” Polis said.
A makeshift memorial sprang up Sunday near the club, with flowers, a stuffed animal, candles, and a sign saying “Love over hate” next to a rainbow-colored heart.
Seth Stang was buying flowers for the memorial when he was told that two of the dead were his friends. The 34-year-old transgender man said it was like having “a bucket of hot water getting dumped on you. … I’m just tired of running out of places where we can exist safely.”
Ryan Johnson, who lives near the club and was there last month, said it was one of only two nightspots for the LGBTQ community in Colorado Springs. “It’s kind of the go-to for Pride,” the 26-year-old said of the club.
Colorado Springs, a city of about 480,000 located 70 miles (110 kilometers) south of Denver, is home to the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Olympic Training Center, as well as Focus on the Family, a prominent evangelical Christian ministry that lobbies against LGBTQ rights. The group condemned the shooting and said it “exposes the evil and wickedness inside the human heart.”
In November 2015, three people were killed and eight wounded at a Planned Parenthood clinic in the city when authorities say a gunman targeted the clinic because it performed abortions.
The shooting came during Transgender Awareness Week and just at the start of Sunday’s Transgender Day of Remembrance when events around the world are held to mourn and remember transgender people lost to violence.
Since 2006, there have been 523 mass killings and 2,727 deaths as of Nov. 19, according to The Associated Press/USA Today database on mass killings in the U.S.
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Bedayn is a corps member 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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Associated Press reporters Colleen Slevin in Denver, Michael Balsamo in Washington, Jamie Stengle in Dallas, Jeff McMillan in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana, contributed.
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2022-11-21T22:37:21+00:00
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wcbi.com
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https://www.wcbi.com/gay-bar-shooting-suspect-facing-murder-hate-crime-charges/
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ALBANY – Albany State University will host potential students and their parents or guardians interested in attending the university at a 2023 Spring Open House on April 1 from 10 a.m.–1 p.m. at the Jones Brothers Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Complex on the East Campus.
The open house is for high school students and college students looking to transfer.
“The Albany State University Open House allows potential students and their families to connect with the dean and faculty in their intended major and become familiar with academic and campus life," Kenyatta Johnson, ASU's vice president of enrollment management and student success, said. "Our goal for this event is when our visitors leave, they feel part of the Ramily and are informed of why excellence is the standard at ASU."
The event will provide a first-hand look at the benefits of becoming a Golden Ram. Attendees will learn about the university’s academic programs, admissions requirements, financial aid and campus life.
The university also will offer on-site admissions acceptance. Prospective students should bring their official high school transcript, GED score report, or college transcripts and fill out the FAFSA with the school code 001544. Students can save time by completing the online admissions application.
“The university has seen great success with its on-site acceptance," Associate Director of Recruitment Shelbi’ Ham said. "It is awesome to see the excitement on the students' and their families' faces when they come for a visit and leave accepted and ready to transition to college life at ASU."
The Jones Brothers HPER Complex is located at 504 College Drive.
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2023-03-21T15:00:49+00:00
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albanyherald.com
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https://www.albanyherald.com/news/albany-state-university-hosts-spring-open-house/article_f8cf1416-c7f1-11ed-b7f4-2f2150d30661.html
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WASHINGTON, April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GetGenius has launched getgenius.ai, the world's first AI-driven social media marketing platform that takes content creation, scheduling, and monitoring to the next level. GetGenius empowers businesses and creators with a groundbreaking solution to optimize their digital marketing strategies and reach wider audiences by automating creating, scheduling, and publishing of highly targeted and personalized content across all major social media platforms. GetGenius will dramatically increase users' visibility and ranking, turning leads into tangible business.
The GetGenius tool opens the door to all user groups with limited time or Social Media Marketing experience, helping to automate the entire process. On average, a US-based business spends 24 hours and approximately US$ 6,000 monthly on Social Media Marketing activities. GetGenius will reduce costs by +80% and triple productivity, giving the business owner more time to focus on their business and increasing ROI.
"We are introducing a new era of digital marketing, where businesses and content creators can take advantage of the power of AI technology to streamline their content creation process and connect with their audience more meaningfully," says President & Founder Thomas Limberger. "Our AI-powered social media tool is designed to help businesses skyrocket their content creation skills and save time and money."
"The GetGenius algorithm is absolutely unique. We created an AI that is not only an intelligent automation tool - for companies and content creators GetGenius optimize digital marketing strategies and processes independently and create organic growth and additional reach," says Marco Rolof, CTO & Founder.
GetGenius is in the final stages of a closed pilot mode with more than 500 users and will be available beginning May 2023. Businesses and content creators can sign up for the waitlist at www.getgenius.ai.
About GetGenius:
GetGenius is a Washington, DC-based start-up that provides the world's first and ultimate AI solution for busy companies and content creators who want to supercharge their marketing efforts. The GetGenius AI engine saves time and money while maximizing social media and web presence. GetGenius will create, schedule, and automatically post digital content across all major platforms. With GetGenius, businesses can expand their audience, maximize lead generation, and have more time to focus on growing their business.
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2023-04-17T12:43:09+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2023/04/17/getgenius-introduces-worlds-first-generative-ai-tool-social-media-marketing/
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