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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
President Biden stops in New Mexico today for a briefing on the state's unprecedented fire season, which includes its largest-ever fire. As Alice Fordham from member station KUNM reports, that fire raises hard policy questions about how forests should be managed.
ALICE FORDHAM, BYLINE: The largest fire ever recorded in New Mexico burned swaths of the mountains around the town of Mora. The blaze has moved west now, and life is coming back. But in this rural area, that life isn't the same.
JASON GRIEGO: It's pretty much destroyed the way of life for a lot of people, from the timber industry to the cattle industry to the small homestead.
FORDHAM: Jason Griego (ph) comes from a small ranching family.
GRIEGO: We have 40 head of cattle. My dad lost probably about 110 acres of high-elevation land.
FORDHAM: In summer, they run the cattle up to the high ground so they can grow alfalfa for hay at the lower elevation - not this year.
GRIEGO: There's no grass up in the highlands anymore 'cause they completely moonscaped it. They torched it.
FORDHAM: Burned patches cover the forested mountains for miles around. The fire destroyed homes, burned parts of the forest used for logging, and he's clear who he blames.
GRIEGO: The people in this area are disgusted with the U.S. Forest Service.
FORDHAM: The fire, still only two-thirds contained here, began as two planned burns by the Forest Service, which got out of control. Those are designed to burn parts of forests so there's less fuel and bigger fires don't break out. But residents and state politicians say during a windy, dry spring, a planned burn was a bad idea and that the federal government should pay for the considerable damage. Foremost among those voices is Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, whom I run into out and about in Mora.
MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM: I expect that the feds are going to cover this liability to the highest degree, but I know it won't be everything, and it won't be timely.
FORDHAM: For instance, although summer rains are forecast in a couple of weeks, the Forest Service hasn't put in place barriers against flooding, which can be catastrophic on burned land. Forest Service officials say there are layers of approval that need to happen first. Lujan Grisham says the state is going to step in now.
LUJAN GRISHAM: The state's going to frontload. I don't have time to wait for the feds.
FORDHAM: And when the president visits, she'll speak to him about eventually being reimbursed.
LUJAN GRISHAM: But he's going to get an in-person briefing about that's my expectation. And I have to say, they are not balking. I mean, they put in writing this is their liability. They're clear that a lot of other stuff's got to happen. But it is a giant government system with significant flaws.
FORDHAM: Last month, the Forest Service banned controlled burns nationwide for 90 days, citing extreme wildfire conditions in the field.
For NPR News, I'm Alice Fordham in Mora, N.M.
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2022-06-12T21:01:01+00:00
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wyomingpublicmedia.org
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https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-06-11/biden-to-be-briefed-on-wildfires-in-new-mexico
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ST. LOUIS – President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday finalized regulations that protect hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, repealing a Trump-era rule that federal courts had thrown out and that environmentalists said left waterways vulnerable to pollution.
The rule defines which “waters of the United States” are protected by the Clean Water Act. For decades, the term has been a flashpoint between environmental groups that want to broaden limits on pollution entering the nation's waters and farmers, builders and industry groups that say extending regulations too far is onerous for business.
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army said the reworked rule is based on definitions that were in place prior to 2015. Federal officials said they wrote a “durable definition” of waterways to reduce uncertainty.
In recent years, however, there has been a lot of uncertainty. After the Obama administration sought to expand federal protections, the Trump administration rolled them back as part of its unwinding of hundreds of environmental and public health regulations. A federal judge rejected that effort. And a separate case is currently being considered by the Supreme Court that could yet upend the finalized rule.
And a separate case is currently being considered by the Supreme Court that could upend the status quo.
"We have put forward a rule that’s clear, it’s durable, and it balances that protecting of our water resources with the needs of all water users, whether it’s farmers, ranchers, industry, watershed organizations,” EPA Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox told The Associated Press.
The new rule is built on a pre-2015 definition, but is more streamlined and includes updates to reflect court opinions, scientific understanding and decades of experience, Fox said. The final rule will modestly increase protections for some streams, wetlands, lakes and ponds, she said.
The Trump-era rule, finalized in 2020, was long sought by builders, oil and gas developers, farmers and others who complained about federal overreach that they said stretched into gullies, creeks and ravines on farmland and other private property.
Environmental groups and public health advocates countered that the Trump rule allowed businesses to dump pollutants into unprotected waterways and fill in some wetlands, threatening public water supplies downstream and harming wildlife and habitat.
A 2021 review by the Biden administration found that the Trump rule allowed more than 300 projects to proceed without the federal permits required under the Obama-era rule, and that the Trump rule significantly curtailed clean water protections in states such as New Mexico and Arizona.
In August 2021, a federal judge threw out the Trump-era rule and put back in place a 1986 standard that was broader in scope than the Trump rule but narrower than Obama’s. U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Marquez in Arizona, an Obama appointee, said the Trump-era EPA had ignored its own findings that small waterways can affect the well-being of the larger waterways they flow into.
The EPA has now formally rejected the narrow protections the Trump administration embraced and that were thrown out in court. That final rule is a “much needed course correction," according to Kelly Moser, an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center.
“Now we have the administration saying ‘we agree, this rule is inconsistent with the objective of the Clean Water Act’” to protect the nation's waterways, Moser said.
Meanwhile, Supreme Court justices are considering arguments from an Idaho couple in their business-backed push to curtail the Clean Water Act. Chantell and Michael Sackett wanted to build a home near a lake, but the EPA stopped their work in 2007, finding wetlands on their property were federally regulated. The agency said the Sacketts needed a permit.
The case was heard in October and tests part of the rule the Biden administration carried over into its finalized version. Now-retired Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in 2006 that if wetlands “significantly affect the chemical, physical, and biological integrity” of nearby navigable waters like rivers, the Clean Water Act's protections apply. The EPA's rule includes this test. Four conservative justices in the 2006 case, however, said that federal regulation only applied if there was a continuous surface connection between wetlands and an obviously regulated body of water like a river.
The Biden rule applies federal protections to wetlands, tributaries and other waters that have a significant connection to navigable waters or if wetlands are “relatively permanent.”
The agencies said input was received at 10 regional roundtables that sought information on what was working well, and what wasn’t.
Fox said the rule wasn't written to stop development or prevent farming.
“It is about making sure we have development happening, that we’re growing food and fuel for our country but doing it in a way that also protects our nation’s water," she said.
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2022-12-30T15:26:42+00:00
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clickorlando.com
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https://www.clickorlando.com/business/2022/12/30/epa-finalizes-water-rule-that-repeals-trump-era-changes/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who took more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Moscow in one of the most notorious spying cases in American history, died in prison Monday.
Hanssen, 79, was found unresponsive in his cell at a federal prison in Florence, Colorado, and later pronounced dead, prison officials said. He is believed to have died of natural causes, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The person was not authorized to publicly discuss details of Hanssen’s death and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
He had been serving a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole since 2002, after pleading guilty to 15 counts of espionage and other charges.
Hanssen had divulged a wealth of information about American intelligence-gathering, including extensive detail about how U.S. officials had tapped into Russian spy operations, since at least 1985.
He was believed to have been partly responsible for the deaths of at least three Soviet officers who were working for U.S. intelligence and executed after being exposed.
He got more than $1.4 million in cash, bank funds, diamonds and Rolex watches in exchange for providing highly classified national security information to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
He didn’t adopt an obviously lavish lifestyle, instead living in a modest suburban home in Virginia with his family of six children and driving a Taurus and minivan.
Hanssen would later say he was motivated by money rather than ideology, but a letter written to his Soviet handlers in 1985 explains a large payoff could have caused complications because he could not spend it without setting off warning bells.
Using the alias “Ramon Garcia,” he passed some 6,000 documents and 26 computer disks to his handlers, authorities said. They detailed eavesdropping techniques, helped to confirm the identity of Russian double agents, and spilled other secrets. Officials also believed he tipped off Moscow to a secret tunnel the Americans built under the Soviet Embassy in Washington for eavesdropping.
He went undetected for years, but later investigations found missed red flags. After he became the focus of a hunt for a Russian mole, Hanssen was caught taping a garbage bag full of secrets to the underside of a footbridge in a park in a “dead drop” for Russian handlers.
The story was made into a movie titled “Breach” in 2007, staring Chris Cooper as Hanssen and Ryan Phillippe as a young bureau operative who helps bring him down.
The FBI has been notified of Hanssen’s death, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
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Associated Press writer Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.
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2023-06-05T21:44:48+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/political-news/former-fbi-agent-robert-hanssen-who-was-convicted-of-spying-for-russia-dies-in-prison/
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an efficient tool for deep cleaning and grooming of pet fur," said an inventor, from Centerburg, Ohio, "so I invented the IMPROVED GROOMING TOOL. My design would provide improved water delivery and grooming capabilities for the owner and enhanced comfort for the pet."
The invention provides a multi-functioning pet spraying and grooming tool. In doing so, it enables the user to wash and brush a pet's fur. As a result, it enhances cleanliness, comfort and convenience and it saves time and effort. The invention features a practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for pet owners and groomers. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Cincinnati sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-CCT-4751, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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2022-12-27T18:33:22+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/12/27/inventhelp-inventor-develops-new-pet-spraying-amp-grooming-tool-cct-4751/
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The Obamas were back in the White House as President Joe Biden and the First Lady hosted them on Wednesday to unveil their official White House portraits.
“There few people I’ve ever known with more integrity, decency and moral courage than Barack Obama,” Biden said. “With Barack as our president, we got up every day and went to work full of hope.”
Former President Barack Obama praised the artist for capturing him as he is, saying “presidents so often get airbrushed, even take on a mythical status.”
Obama also said the head-on portrait will help viewers feel a connection.
“What I want people to remember about Michelle and me, is that presidents and first ladies are human beings like everyone else,” Obama explained.
The portraits will be displayed in the White House alongside portraits of all former presidents and first ladies, but the Obamas’ portraits will stand out.
Michelle Obama noted “a portrait of a bi-racial kid with an unusual name and the daughter of a water pump operator and a stay-at-home mom.”
The Obamas said they hope their portraits on the White House walls send a powerful message.
“It is so important to believe that every young kid who is doubting themselves to believe that they can too,” said Michelle Obama.
The unveiling comes after former President Trump broke with tradition during his term and declined to host the event for his immediate predecessor.
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2022-09-08T00:17:22+00:00
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kfor.com
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https://kfor.com/news/president-biden-hosts-obamas-for-official-white-house-portrait-unveiling/
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Brian Keith Lybrand
TYLER — Services for Brian Keith Lybrand, 62, of Tyler were held on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. at Central Baptist Church in Tyler. Burial was at New Harmony Cemetery in Tyler under the direction of Stewart Family Funeral Home. Brian was born June 1, 1960 in El Paso and passed away on November 4, 2022 in Tyler.
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2022-11-09T09:53:33+00:00
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tylerpaper.com
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https://tylerpaper.com/obituaries/death_notices/brian-keith-lybrand/article_53457538-7e23-531d-bbd0-ca0e17bf3a8f.html
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Be Strong's a mental health movement for youth.
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- To most, the statistics in the newly released 2021 CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey are staggering. Nearly 60 percent of teenage girls persistently feel sad and hopeless, while 35 percent made a suicide plan. Self-harm, dating violence, forced sex are now more common than not in our teenagers. The recent data is enough to spur a call to action. Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland said, "The news of lots of teenaged girls feeling depressed and considering suicide must be a call to action for the whole country. We need to address the youth mental health crisis and also the harsh and violent social conditions that are making life miserable for a lot of people." The Raskin family founded the Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund for People and Animals.
For me, a teacher of high school juniors and seniors, the data is not shocking. Many of my students talk candidly about their trauma, while others I am able to piece together. I have a student who asks to be supervised during lunch to control her disordered eating, another who has to go to the restroom with a friend so that she doesn't self-harm. I have had two girls who were trafficked as young children and many who were temporarily placed in mental health facilities. More than half of my students miss school every day and cite mental health as their primary reason.
Anyone who works with young people is certainly guilty of comparing these teenagers to those of other generations. Many blame the pandemic, socioeconomic situations, or social media for mental health issues in young people now. I certainly don't have a singular cause, but maybe a common one--a loss of connection. Teenagers are simply not as connected to adults, peers, or their communities as those in the past. Because students spend the majority of their days at school, it has become increasingly common to place social workers, mental health counselors, and behavior specialists in schools where there was once only a guidance counselor. While this is a step in the right direction, not every student feels comfortable utilizing these resources and with nationwide teacher shortages, oftentimes these support personnel are often used to fill in as substitutes.
Last Friday, three-quarters of the way through her senior year, I got a new student. I asked her to fill out a "get-to-know-you" form for me, where I ask students, "What outside of school impacts the inside of school?" She wrote that she was a foster kid, had been to several different high schools already including an in-patient mental health facility, and needed one final credit to graduate. I certainly worry about her sense of connection. Will she make friends in these last few months of her public-school career? Will she build trust with me in that short amount of time? Will she open up to a counselor?
I was fortunate to be able to give her a quick tool while we work through those connections. I asked her to download the Be Strong app, a one-stop-shop for at-risk youth. Here she can get immediately in touch with a crisis counselor, report dating abuse or sexual assault, get emergency help with suicide or drug overdose. Additionally, she can connect with peers locally and nationally and find community resources, such as access to food, healthcare, or social services. More than 100 youth download the app every day.
As powerful as the Be Strong app is, the full mission of the organization is for teenagers to build dependency on each other for good. Be Strong has 4,088 student representatives nationwide. One-half of the counties in the US has a student representative. Be Strong's mission is to have a representative and peer group in every middle and high school in the US.
Anne Petraro, a mother of a Be Strong student representative, sees the impact of the program on her son. She said, "Since Joe has become part of the Be Strong Community, his emotional health, confidence and well-being has all improved. While helping others talk openly about emotions and all the great things he learns in the Be Strong trainings, it also helps him. This peer-based method is something my husband and I have seen first-hand work within our communities."
Many of the adults in young lives are simply stretched too thin to give the kind of care they need. Students are seeing their parents balance multiple jobs and their teachers leave the profession. At one point this year, our guidance counselor had more than 70 students who had requested to see her on a single day. Building youth to become advocates for each other is a life-changing approach to this crisis, as more than 60 percent of youth are more willing to talk to a peer over an adult about challenges they face.
Dr. Pamela Morris-Perez, professor of applied psychology at NYU and Be Strong advisory board member, notes that "Be Strong's highly innovative peer-to-peer approach builds squarely on the science of adolescent development. By putting resources directly into the hands of youth, Be Strong is preventing problems from escalating, ensuring that young people are accessing the help they need to thrive."
I encourage all stakeholders--parents, teachers, school administrators, students--to download the Be Strong app and consider donating to the organization. Each donation will be matched up to $50,000 in the month of February.
Give with confidence: Donate Here
By Hillary Boles
National Board-Certified Teacher
About Be Strong
Be Strong's mission is to save and improve the lives of our youth using a peer-to-peer approach to strengthen mental, emotional, and relational health, build resilience, and prevent bullying.
Additional information on Be Strong events and initiatives is available at www.bestrong.org Be Strong is a 501(c)3 and all donations are 100% tax-deductible.
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2023-02-22T16:22:43+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2023/02/22/national-charity-be-strong-addresses-cdc-troubling-findings/
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You'd hardly know by looking at financial markets that the US debt limit was breached in January. But that's starting to change, in what is shaping up to be a nail-biting game of debt ceiling squabbling as the shot clock is winding down.
If lawmakers don't raise the nation's borrowing limit by June, the federal government runs the risk of defaulting on its debt obligations, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in January. That would be catastrophic for the economy and put millions of jobs in jeopardy, Moody's chief economist said.
Markets aren't shrugging that off.
Investors are demanding historically high yields for US Treasury notes that mature in July, which by some estimates is when the United States will default on its debt, absent any legislative action. That would mean bondholders aren't repaid the money they're owed on time.
Yields for three-month Treasury notes closed at 5.1% Thursday. That exceeded yields for longer-term Treasury notes.
Bonds with longer maturity dates tend to pay higher interest rates to compensate investors for locking down their money for a greater period of time. There's also more uncertainty around the path that interest rates will take during that time.
When yields on shorter-term bonds exceed those of longer-term bonds it's often a sign that bad economic times are ahead.
Investors' anxieties are also evident in spreads on US five-year credit default swaps, which have widened to 50 basis points, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence data. When the debt ceiling was breached in January, five-year CDS spreads hovered around 35 basis points.
When a bondholder purchases a credit default swap they are guaranteed to receive the money they're owed in the event that the bond issuer defaults. But when the chances of a default rise, it becomes more expensive to buy a credit default swap — leading their spreads to widen.
How does this compare to the 2011 debt ceiling debacle?
In 2011 a debt ceiling standoff led to credit-rating agency Standard and Poor's downgrade of US debt from the highest possible status, AAA, to AA+.
After that occurred, the cost of insuring against US debt for a year jumped to 63 basis points. That's well below the current cost ,which recently rose above 100 basis points, according to Refinitiv data.
Short-term bonds offered significantly lower yields in 2011. Yields on three-month Treasury notes peaked at around 1.1% right before lawmakers reached an agreement to raise the debt ceiling in August. Yields for longer-term bonds exceeded shorter-term bonds during the negotiations, unlike what is currently happening.
But US markets are weighing in on more than just the prospect of the United States defaulting on its debt. The banking sector, though stable, remains on edge after recent bank failures. Inflation has yet to come close to the Federal Reserve's 2% target, prompting the Fed to continue to hike interest rates — which economists fear will push the economy into a recession.
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2023-04-20T23:10:48+00:00
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albanyherald.com
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https://www.albanyherald.com/news/business/markets-are-starting-to-get-worried-about-the-debt-ceiling/article_90109dc1-d225-5b04-8e9b-8691e1ac582e.html
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BOSTON (WWLP) – A suspect has been identified for a 1993 murder in South Boston of a Housing Authority supervisor.
The Suffolk District Attorney said 62-year-old Michael Lewis will be charged with the murder of 46-year-old William Villani. On April 16, 1993, Villani went to his office at Two Sterling Square in South Boston and was found the next day dead. He had been beaten, stabbed and shot.
Lewis worked for Villani at the Boston Housing Authority Pest Control Unit. Lewis is currently being held without bail after he was arrested last May for the murder of 23-year-old Brian Watson in July 1984 over a South Boston drug-dealing dispute. Watson’s body was located off a highway in New Hampshire.
“Investigators never stopped digging into the terrible circumstances around William Villani’s death, but their efforts were stymied until more recent information came to light. This happens in cases sometimes, and there are two primary takeaways. First, the Villani family will finally have some answers about William’s murder. Second, other relatives and friends of unsolved murder victims should never give up hope, because, as this case proves, there’s always the chance that vital information will come forward,” Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said.
Lewis will be arraigned for murder charges on Wednesday. The Suffolk District Attorney will release more information during the arraignment.
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2023-03-29T15:24:51+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/suspect-arrested-for-1993-murder-in-massachusetts/
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — About 2,000 protesters upset with the government’s pandemic response converged Tuesday on New Zealand’s Parliament — but there was no repeat of the occupation six months ago in which protesters camped on Parliament grounds for more than three weeks.
Many of the protesters said they had no intention of trying to stay. And police ensured a repeat was unlikely by closing streets, erecting barricades and banning protesters from bringing structures onto Parliament’s grounds.
The previous protest created significant disruptions in the capital and ended in chaos as retreating protesters set fire to tents and hurled rocks at police.
This time there was also a counter-protest, with several hundred people gathering in front of Parliament as the main march entered the grounds. The two sides shouted insults but a line of police officers kept them physically separated.
The earlier protest had been more sharply focused on opposition to COVID-19 vaccination mandates.
New Zealand’s government initially required that health workers, teachers, police, firefighters and soldiers get vaccinated. But it has since removed most of those mandates, with the exception of health workers and some others. It has also removed requirements that people be vaccinated to visit stores and bars.
Tuesday’s protest was as much about lingering discontentment over the government’s handling of the crisis as it was about current rules, including a requirement that people wear masks in stores.
Protester Carmen Page said people who hadn’t been vaccinated face ongoing discrimination and people lost their jobs and homes as a result of the mandates, which she said amounted to government overreach.
“We’re not here to be controlled,” Page said. “We just want to live our lives freely. We want to work where we want to work, without discrimination.”
At the counter-protest, Lynne Maugham said she and her husband had extended a stay in the capital to attend.
“I’ve got nothing but respect for the mandates, for the vaccinations, for the way the health providers have handled the whole thing,” she said.
Maugham said the government hadn’t done everything perfectly but had done a good job overall. “There’s no blueprint for handling a pandemic,” she said.
Like many of the protesters opposing mandates and other government’s actions, Mania Hungahunga was part of a group called The Freedom & Rights Coalition and a member of the Christian fundamentalist Destiny Church.
Hungahunga said every New Zealander had been negatively impacted by the mandates. He said he’d traveled from Auckland to protest but wasn’t planning an occupation.
“We’re just here for the day, a peaceful day, just to get our message through to the public and the people of Wellington,” he said.
Many of the protesters said they were hoping that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern would get voted out in next year’s election. Protest leader Brian Tamaki told the crowd he was starting a new political party to contest the election.
Tamaki and his wife, Hannah Tamaki, founded the Destiny Church, which they say is the largest Māori and Pacific Island church movement in New Zealand.
Ardern was first elected prime minister in 2017 and her initial pandemic response proved enormously popular. Her liberal Labour Party won re-election in 2020 in a landslide of historic proportions.
But as the pandemic dragged on and the country faced new problems, including inflation, Ardern’s popularity has waned. Recent opinion polls have put the conservative opposition National Party ahead of Labour.
Authorities said there were no initial reports of violence or other problems at the protests.
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2022-08-23T22:25:07+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/anti-mandate-protesters-converge-on-new-zealand-parliament/
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Nearly 60 Birmingham United Soccer Association high school seniors sign to play at collegiate level
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Nearly 60 Birmingham United Soccer Association high school seniors have signed to play soccer with over 30 colleges across the nation.
Executive Director for BUSA, Andrew Brower, said many of these kids have been playing with the club since they were children. This class faced challenges with the recruiting process because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brower explained that because of the pandemic’s challenges, recruiting rules with the NCAA have changed, slowing down the process. The group of students graduating this spring did not have as many opportunities during their prime years.
“Which are their sophomore and junior years. That’s when they’re playing in front of college coaches and scouts. A lot of the events were canceled at that time. So a lot of the kids in this class missed the opportunity to be there,” said Brower.
The transfer portal also added another layer of difficulty for these students, but Brower said these players never let those challenges hinder them.
“So we are dealing with these kids who are going into college programs that have over-saturated roasters. Over-saturated rosters that the extra Covid years that the NCAA granted these kids have made the roster size bigger.”
More information on BUSA can be found here.
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2023-05-09T20:44:59+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/2023/05/09/nearly-60-birmingham-united-soccer-association-high-school-seniors-sign-play-collegiate-level/
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HAWN, Gordon Eddie
Age 77, of Moraine, passed away October 21, 2022. Visitation on November 5, 2022, from 2-3 pm. Newcomer Funeral Home, Kettering, OH.
HAWN, Gordon Eddie
Age 77, of Moraine, passed away October 21, 2022. Visitation on November 5, 2022, from 2-3 pm. Newcomer Funeral Home, Kettering, OH.
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2022-10-25T06:32:25+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/hawn-gordon/J7PRB7BDL5EEPPTE3FWIDHPHS4/
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A section of Route 30 in Manheim Township is open after being closed Thursday morning following a crash.
The crash happened in the westbound lanes between Exit: PA 23 East - New Holland Pike/Ave and Exit: US 222 North - Ephrata/Reading, according to 511PA.
Dispatch reports indicated one vehicle is overturned with two people trapped. It is not clear if there are any injuries.
The roadway has since reopened.
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2022-07-21T18:16:24+00:00
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lancasteronline.com
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https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/route-30-in-manheim-township-reopens-after-thursday-morning-crash-update/article_2b2ab38c-08fa-11ed-b7ba-4b2c8aeb96ec.html
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A white gunman who targeted a Buffalo supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood plans to plead guilty on Monday to killing 10 people and wounding three others, according to lawyers representing victims’ relatives.
Payton Gendron, 19, is scheduled to appear in Erie County Court for a hearing that was postponed for a week by a snowstorm.
Gendron’s lawyers disclosed in recent weeks that he planned to plead guilty to all of the counts in a state indictment and to waive his right to appeal, according to attorneys John Elmore and Terrence Connors, who represent families of those killed and injured.
Erie County District Attorney John Flynn declined to comment on the nature of Monday’s court appearance, citing a court-imposed gag order.
The 25-count grand jury indictment includes charges of murder, murder as a hate crime and domestic terrorism motivated by hate, which carries an automatic life sentence upon conviction.
Gendron also faces charges for separate federal hate crimes that could result in a death sentence if he is convicted. The U.S. Justice Department has not said whether it would seek capital punishment.
Investigators said Gendron drove about three hours to Buffalo from his home in Conklin, New York, intending to kill as many Black people as possible at a store that he chose because of its location in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
Shortly before opening fire with an AR-15-style rifle on May 14, he posted documents that outlined his white supremacist views and revealed that he had been planning the attack for months. Inside the store, he roamed the aisles and livestreamed the attack from a helmet-mounted camera as he shot store employees and shoppers.
Those killed ranged in age from 32 to 86.
He was arrested in the parking lot upon exiting through the store’s front entrance.
Relatives of the victims have since called on Congress to address issues of white supremacy and gun violence. A food summit organized by Buffalo-based attorney and activist Kevin Gaughan last month focused on closing the “grocery gap” laid bare by the attack on the neighborhood’s only supermarket.
The supermarket was closed for two months.
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2022-11-28T12:26:54+00:00
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wishtv.com
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https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/lawyers-buffalo-supermarket-gunman-plans-to-plead-guilty/
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DALLAS, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust (NYSE: NXDT) ("NXDT" or the "Company") today announced its regular monthly distribution on its common stock of $0.05 per share. The distribution will be payable on August 1, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business July 22, 2022.
NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust (NYSE: NXDT) is a publicly traded diversified real estate investment trust ("REIT") that trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NXDT. The Company previously operated as a registered closed-end investment company. On August 28, 2020, shareholders approved a proposal to transition the Company from an investment company to a diversified REIT. As part of this transition, the Company changed its name from NexPoint Strategic Opportunities Fund to NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust, effective November 8, 2021. The Company also changed its ticker symbol from "NHF" to "NXDT." On July 1, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") issued a deregistration order declaring that the Company has ceased to be an investment company and that the Company's registration as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 shall immediately cease to be in effect. The order, effective July 1, 2022, allowed the Company to finalize its transition to a diversified REIT and begin trading as a REIT. For more information visit nxdt.nexpoint.com.
NexPoint Advisors, L.P. is an SEC-registered adviser on the NexPoint alternative investment platform. With its affiliates, it serves as the adviser to a suite of funds and investment vehicles that primarily focus on real estate investments. For more information visit nexpoint.com.
Contacts
Jackie Graham
Director, Investor Relations
jgraham@nexpoint.com
Lucy Bannon
Chief Communications Officer
lbannon@nexpoint.com
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2022-07-07T00:25:01+00:00
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kcbd.com
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https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/07/06/nexpoint-diversified-real-estate-trust-declares-regular-monthly-distribution/
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1969 was a pivotal year for music: Aretha Franklin's Soul '69, both Led Zeppelin's self-titled debut and Led Zeppelin II, Janis Joplin's I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! and Miles Davis' In a Silent Way are just a few of the seismic albums released that year.
This week, we're going to take a closer look at another one of those influential albums. Released just a week after its Woodstock performance, Santana's self-titled debut had a profound impact both musically and socially. Santana's cultural mash-up made a statement about Latin music that still reverberates to this day.
Who better to tell the story of Santana than some original members of Santana itself? On this episode of Alt.Latino, hear an oral history from guitarist Carlos Santana, drummer Michael Shrieve, conguero Michael Carabello as well as keyboardist and vocalist Gregg Rolie. Their story is a lesson in ignoring boundaries and expectations and instead celebrating inspiration and friendship.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-07-06T03:40:33+00:00
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iowapublicradio.org
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https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2019-08-30/santanas-debut-album-turns-50-years-old
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Location opens on July 6; grand opening celebration scheduled for July 9
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) ("Trulieve" or "the Company"), a leading and top-performing cannabis company in the United States, today announced the opening of its Trulieve medical dispensary in Hurricane, West Virginia. Located at 2 Putnam Village Dr. Suite 2-3, the new dispensary will open its doors at 10am on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. This is the Company's sixth retail location in West Virginia and will be open seven days a week from 10am to 6pm.
Grand opening festivities will be held on Saturday, July 9 throughout the day to include partner giveaways, deals and specials, and all registered patients will receive a 25% discount. On-site medical care specialists will be available to assist with medical card registration and certification for West Virginia patients.
"We are excited to expand medical cannabis to Hurricane while creating jobs in the area," said Trulieve Chief Executive Officer Kim Rivers. "In less than a year, West Virginia's medical cannabis program has already added nearly 10,000 patients, and we look forward to supporting this thriving community. Trulieve is committed to providing the best quality services and products for the state's registered medical cannabis patients while strengthening community connections in this developing market."
Trulieve patients across West Virginia can choose from a large selection of THC and CBD products available in a variety of consumption methods, including flower, concentrates, tinctures, topicals, ingestibles, and more. Designed to meet every patient's needs, our portfolio of in-house brands includes Cultivar Collection, Momenta, Muse, TruFlower and more.
Last November, Trulieve opened West Virginia's first dispensary and has since expanded its store hours to welcome patients seven days a week. The Company has already opened four new dispensaries in the state this year, with plans to open three additional dispensary locations by the end of the year in Milton, Huntington and Belle.
For more information on store locations, please visit https://www.trulieve.com/dispensaries/west-virginia.
Trulieve is an industry leading, vertically integrated cannabis company and multi-state operator in the U.S. operating in 11 states, with leading market positions in Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Trulieve is poised for accelerated growth and expansion, building scale in retail and distribution in new and existing markets through its hub strategy. By providing innovative, high-quality products across its brand portfolio, Trulieve delivers optimal customer experiences and increases access to cannabis, helping patients and customers to live without limits. Trulieve is listed on the CSE under the symbol TRUL and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol TCNNF. For more information, please visit Trulieve.com.
Facebook: @Trulieve
Instagram: @Trulieve_
Twitter: @Trulieve
Investor Contact
Christine Hersey, Executive Director of Investor Relations
+1 (424) 202-0210
Christine.Hersey@Trulieve.com
Media Contact
Rob Kremer, Executive Director of Corporate Communications
+1 (404) 218-3077
Robert.Kremer@Trulieve.com
MATTIO Communications
Trulieve@Mattio.com
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2022-07-06T13:21:12+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/07/06/trulieve-announces-grand-opening-hurricane-wv-medical-dispensary/
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Signs Most New Leases in Company's History as Leased Rate Increases on a Sequential Basis
Leading Proxy Advisory Firm ISS Recognizes the Inherent Value in the Transaction with HR
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. (NYSE: HTA) ("HTA") reported that during the second quarter the Company signed its highest level of new leases, approximately 283,000 square feet, since going public in 2012. The Company also signed approximately 550,000 square feet of renewal leases. As a result of HTA's strong performance, total portfolio leased rate increased by 0.3% since Q1 2022, and the Company ended the period at 89.6%.
HTA's new leasing spans across the entire portfolio, with more than 90 leases signed at an average of approximately 3,000 square feet per lease. The Company achieved more than 10,000 square feet of leasing in 10 of its key markets, and more than 5,000 square feet in 17 of those markets. Preliminary re-leasing spreads for the quarter are expected to range from 3% to 4%, and leasing concessions are anticipated to be consistent with the Company's recent performance.
"Over the past year, the HTA team has worked to refine and implement our strategic growth plan, and these strong results are a testament to that and underscore the potential for further growth as we build on this momentum," stated Peter N. Foss, CEO. "I am proud of all that our team has accomplished and thank them for their hard work and commitment to unlocking the value of our portfolio. As we work to complete our pending merger with Healthcare Realty Trust, we will continue executing our strategy to drive future earnings growth and shareholder value creation."
All results are preliminary and subject to final quarter-end closing procedures. Additional details will be provided when HTA files its second quarter financial results. In light of its pending merger transaction with HR, HTA will not provide earnings guidance for 2022.
ISS Recognizes the Inherent Value in the Transaction with HR
The Company is pleased that leading independent proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services, ("ISS"), recommended that HTA stockholders vote "FOR" the proposed merger with Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated. As previously announced, HTA's special meeting of stockholders will be held on July 15, 2022. Subject to a favorable shareholder vote, the merger is expected to close on July 20, 2022.
About Healthcare Trust of America, Inc.
Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. (NYSE: HTA) is the largest dedicated owner and operator of medical office buildings in the United States, with assets comprising approximately 26.0 million square feet of gross leasable area, and with $7.8 billion invested primarily in medical office buildings, as of March 31, 2022. HTA provides real estate infrastructure for the integrated delivery of healthcare services in highly-desirable locations. Investments are targeted to build critical mass in 20 to 25 leading gateway markets that generally have leading university and medical institutions, which generally translates to superior demographics, highly-educated graduates, intellectual talent and job growth. The strategic markets HTA invests in support a strong, long-term demand for quality medical office space. HTA utilizes an integrated asset management platform consisting of on-site leasing, property management, engineering and building services, and development capabilities to create complete, state of the art facilities in each market. We believe this drives efficiencies, strong tenant and health system relationships, and strategic partnerships that result in high levels of tenant retention, rental growth and long-term value creation. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, HTA has developed a national brand with dedicated relationships at the local level.
Founded in 2006 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012, HTA has produced attractive returns for its stockholders that have outperformed the US REIT index, since inception. More information about HTA can be found on the Company's website (www.htareit.com), Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Forward-Looking Language
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements with respect to HTA. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not descriptions of historical facts and include statements regarding management's intentions, beliefs, expectations, plans or predictions of the future, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Because such statements include risks, uncertainties and contingencies, actual results may differ materially and in adverse ways from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and contingencies include, without limitation, the following: HTA's ability to consummate the merger (the "Merger") with Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated ("HR") on the proposed terms or on the anticipated timeline, or at all, including risks and uncertainties related to securing the necessary stockholder approvals and satisfaction of other closing conditions to consummate the Merger; the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the definitive merger agreement relating to the Merger; risks related to diverting the attention of HTA and HR management from ongoing business operations; failure to realize the expected benefits of the Merger; significant transaction costs and/or unknown or inestimable liabilities; risks associated with stockholder litigation in connection with the Merger, including resulting expense or delay; the risk that HTA's business will not be integrated successfully or that such integration may be more difficult, time-consuming or costly than expected; the ability to obtain the expected financing to consummate the Merger; risks related to future opportunities and plans for HTA, including the uncertainty of expected future financial performance and results of the combined company following completion of the Merger; effects relating to the announcement of the proposed transaction or any further announcements or the consummation of the Merger on the market price of HTA's or HR's common stock; the possibility that, if the combined company does not achieve the perceived benefits of the Merger as rapidly or to the extent anticipated by financial analysts or investors, the market price of HTA's common stock could decline; general adverse economic and local real estate conditions; changes in economic conditions generally and the real estate market specifically; legislative and regulatory changes, including changes to laws governing the taxation of REITs and changes to laws governing the healthcare industry; the availability of capital; changes in interest rates; competition in the real estate industry; the supply and demand for operating properties in HTA's proposed market areas; changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the US; policies and guidelines applicable to REITs; the availability of properties to acquire; the availability of financing; pandemics and other health concerns, and the measures intended to prevent their spread, including the currently ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; and the potential material adverse effect these matters may have on HTA's business, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition. Additional information concerning HTA and its business, including additional factors that could materially and adversely affect HTA's financial results, include, without limitation, the risks described under Part I, Item 1A – Risk Factors, in HTA's 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K and in HTA's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Contacts
Financial Contact:
Robert A. Milligan
Chief Financial Officer
P: 480.998.3478
Media Contact:
Andrew Siegel / Joseph Sala
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher
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2022-07-05T10:53:07+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/07/05/healthcare-trust-america-inc-reports-record-leasing-second-quarter/
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IUPUI Jaguars (3-19, 0-11 Horizon) at Cleveland State Vikings (13-9, 8-3 Horizon)
The Vikings are 7-3 on their home court. Cleveland State is second in the Horizon with 10.6 offensive rebounds per game led by Deante Johnson averaging 2.4.
The Jaguars are 0-11 in Horizon play. IUPUI is 3-14 in games decided by 10 points or more.
TOP PERFORMERS: Deshon Parker is averaging 10.5 points and 4.1 assists for the Vikings. Tristan Enaruna is averaging 13.8 points over the last 10 games for Cleveland State.
Counter is averaging 14.2 points and 3.3 assists for the Jaguars. Vincent Brady II is averaging 10.8 points over the last 10 games for IUPUI.
LAST 10 GAMES: Vikings: 7-3, averaging 73.9 points, 32.2 rebounds, 13.1 assists, 8.1 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.4 points per game.
Jaguars: 1-9, averaging 65.4 points, 29.0 rebounds, 11.8 assists, 5.2 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.3 points.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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2023-01-29T09:21:43+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/cleveland-state-hosts-iupui-following-counters-27-point-performance/2023/01/29/2e466dce-9fb1-11ed-93e0-38551e88239c_story.html
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Lacks was a Roanoke woman being treated for cervical cancer in 1951 when doctors took samples of her cancer cells without her consent. Her lines of cells helped with cancer research and vaccines.
Copyright 2022 NPR
Lacks was a Roanoke woman being treated for cervical cancer in 1951 when doctors took samples of her cancer cells without her consent. Her lines of cells helped with cancer research and vaccines.
Copyright 2022 NPR
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2022-12-26T11:45:42+00:00
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upr.org
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https://www.upr.org/2022-12-26/new-statue-in-virginia-replacing-one-of-robert-e-lee-will-honor-henrietta-lacks
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There’s an iconic scene in the original Star Wars movie where Luke Skywalker stands in the soft glow of a binary sunset, gazing to the distant horizon. He’s pining for excitement far from home, but in that moment, adventure feels so far away.
That was me before owning a canoe.
In those early years, my angling options were limited to water that was shallow enough to wade. I’d stand there, knee-deep in a local lake called Gilligan, hurling Hula Poppers toward the lily pads. Most of the bass within range were stunted, but the few “keeper-sized” fish had developed a critical eye for bright, balsa lures. The opposite side of the lake was where the lunkers lived, I was certain of it.
But confidence can only take you so far. Hundreds of yards of open water lay between me and quality fishing. Like young Skywalker, I was desperate to explore distant horizons where the bass were neither harassed nor educated, but adventure felt so far away.
Salvation arrived a decade later when I received my first canoe as a college graduation gift, a Mad River “Tahoe.” Suddenly, local lakes and far-flung rivers became accessible. That canoe symbolized independence, freedom, and a key to adventure. I started paddling in earnest that December and haven’t let off the gas since. Together we’ve explored secluded inland lakes, remote rivers, and more overnight camping trips than I can count.
I was hardly the first to recognize the fine qualities of canoes. Sigurd Olsen once said, “The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.” Canoes are the original jack-of-all-trades vessels, and they carry a rich legacy among hunters, anglers, and explorers. The earliest iterations date back to the Netherlands, some 10,000 years ago, and the term, “canoe” comes from the Spanish/Portuguese word, “canoa,” which was adapted from the Caribbean, “kanawa.”
For centuries, traditional dugouts, birchbark, and skin canoes have ruled the waters, but wood-and-canvas construction rose to popularity in the late 1800s. That was cutting edge technology at the time. They were sturdier than birchbark and far lighter than dugouts. That said, a classic wood-and-canvas Old Town, with its honey-hued ribs and decking, is still one of the most beautiful representations of canoe craftsmanship.
But aesthetics always carry a maintenance cost. Wood requires regular treatments and canvas needs replacing over time. In the mid-1900s, aluminum offered a stronger, lighter, less expensive alternative. A company called Grumman had built aluminum aircraft during World War II, but after the war, they began assembling durable, affordable metal canoes that remained popular for decades.
Any ‘80s kids who spent a week at summer camp knew them well, although comfortable, they were not. Early June mornings made the metal floors cold as ice, but the afternoon sunlight turned the mirrored gunwales into branding irons. To make matters worse, stability was a theory, not a reality. Anyone who pivoted too fast on a seat, leaned too far over the side, or even burped forcefully found themselves overturned and thrashing around in the water, trying to save gear before it sank to the bottom.
Aluminum canoes aren’t just conduits of extreme heat and cold; they’re loud and reflective, too. Stealth is a big reason for paddling a canoe in the first place. Inadvertently banging the metallic hull with a paddle sends every living creature within a square mile fleeing for cover.
Royalex to the rescue. The Mad River Canoe Company started in the early 1970s. Their first model sported a hull made of fiberglass and two years later they crafted a Kevlar version. Royalex, a lightweight composite of vinyl and foam, came along a few years later. Royalex was cheaper than fiberglass or Kevlar, and quieter and lighter than aluminum, offering an excellent mid-priced alternative.
My Royalex Tahoe suited my needs perfectly — and still does. Its wide, flat bottom offers stability and cargo capacity, and the olive drab hull is camouflaged, lightweight, and durable. For canoe camping, fly fishing, and waterfowl hunting, it’s just the ticket.
Stand-up paddleboards may seem sexier these days, but no one can deny the canoe’s versatility. With a proficient paddler in the stern, canoes can thread through logjams with the greatest of ease. Plus, they draft minimal water, allowing passage over the shallowest stretches of river. And if those aren’t reasons enough, canoes are relatively inexpensive, especially purchased on the second-hand market (see sidebar).
We live in an era of abundance, where there’s a specific style of watercraft for every sporting purpose — drift boats for casting flies on wide rivers and jon boats for shallow water waterfowling; inflatable rafts for navigating log-laden trout streams, and slender Au Sable riverboats for sneaking along on shallow brookie waters.
But sometimes in life, you get the itch to explore a secret inland lake and yearn to see what’s biting on the other side. In circumstances like these, only a canoe will do.
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2023-06-01T17:25:49+00:00
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record-eagle.com
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https://www.record-eagle.com/news/go/jon-osborn-the-case-for-a-canoe/article_26ced762-fe74-11ed-9783-f36b975ab220.html
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Ukraine winger Mykhailo Mudryk became the latest big-money signing for Chelsea under the club’s new American ownership, joining from Shakhtar Donetsk on Sunday in a deal worth 100 million euros ($108 million) and on a remarkable 8 1/2-year deal.
The 22-year-old Mudryk, who was heavily linked with a move to Arsenal, was pictured holding up a Ukraine flag inside Chelsea’s stadium before the Premier League game against Crystal Palace and posing for photos.
About 20 minutes into the match, Chelsea announced his signing and described him as “one of the most dangerous attacking players in Europe in one-vs-one situations.”
“This is a huge club, in a fantastic league and it is a very attractive project for me at this stage of my career,” Mudryk said. “I’m excited to meet my new teammates and I’m looking forward to working and learning under Graham Potter and his staff.”
Britain’s Press Association reported that while Chelsea and Arsenal were believed to have offered a similar amount, the Blues have structured a deal which would see Shakhtar receive more money up front and with more favorable add-ons than those being negotiated with Arsenal.
Chelsea didn’t disclose the fee, but Shakhtar said in a statement it will receive 70 million euros ($75 million) and another 30 million euros “as a bonus payment.”
“I am sure that Mykhailo will win respect, sympathy and love of all connoisseurs of world football with his speed, his technique, his impressive and beautiful play,” Shakhtar president Rinat Akhmetov said.
Mudryk, who has played just 65 club games across his career to date, had posted several Instagram messages seemingly suggesting he was keen on a move to Arsenal.
Chelsea moved quickly, though, to add him to the signings of Benoit Badiashile, David Fofana and Andrey Santos for a reported $70 million in the January window. Joao Felix has also joined on loan from Atletico Madrid.
Bringing in Mudryk is another bold move from the ownership, fronted by Todd Boehly, who oversaw the spending of around $300 million on new players — a record amount by an English team — in the summer transfer window.
“He’s a hugely exciting talent who we believe will be a terrific addition to our squad both now and in the years to come,” said Boehly and Behdad Eghbali, Chelsea’s co-controlling owner. “He will add further depth to our attack and we know he’ll get a very warm welcome to London.”
Mudryk plays predominantly as a left-sided attacker, where Chelsea already has strong depth in Raheem Sterling, Christian Pulisic and Felix, while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang can also play there.
Chelsea is 10th in the Premier League after winning just one of its previous nine league games before the visit of Palace.
The London club stands to lose tens of millions of euros (dollars) if it fails to qualify for the next Champions League. In the 2020-21 season, the most recent for which UEFA published prize money figures, Chelsea won the Champions League and got 120 million euros. Liverpool lost in the quarterfinals and got 88 million euros.
That same season in the second-tier Europa League, Arsenal reached the semifinals yet earned just 30 million euros from UEFA. Prize money has since risen from broadcast and sponsor deals for the 2021-24 seasons.
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AP Sports Writer Graham Dunbar in Geneva contributed to this report.
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2023-01-15T18:43:07+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/sports/ap-mykhailo-mudryk-becomes-latest-big-signing-by-chelsea/
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Man arrested on burglary, theft charges in Decatur
DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF) - A Decatur man is facing charges after he allegedly stole multiple firearms during a burglary in Decatur on Sunday.
According to the Decatur Police Department, officers responded to the burglary in the 300 block of Birdspring Road where multiple firearms were reported stolen from inside the home. Throughout the course of the investigation, Jordan Chadrick Godsey, 33, was identified as the suspect.
On Tuesday, May 3, the suspect was found to be in possession of nine stolen firearms; six of which had an altered/removed serial number. Godsey was arrested and charged with third-degree burglary, nine counts of second-degree theft and six counts of removing a serial number on a firearm.
He was booked into the Morgan County Jail on a $40,000 bond.
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2022-05-04T22:51:16+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/2022/05/04/man-arrested-burglary-charges-decatur/
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Agency Continues to Take Steps to Reduce New Cases of Opioid Use Disorder
SILVER SPRING, Md., April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is requiring manufacturers of opioid analgesics dispensed in outpatient settings to make prepaid mail-back envelopes available to outpatient pharmacies and other dispensers as an additional opioid analgesic disposal option for patients.
"Expanding impactful opioid disposal options, such as mail-back envelopes and in-home disposal, for patients to safely and securely dispose of their unused opioid medications is part of the agency's comprehensive approach to addressing the overdose crisis," said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. "We believe these efforts will not only increase convenient disposal options for many Americans, but also reduce unfortunate opportunities for nonmedical use, accidental exposure, overdose and potential new cases of opioid use disorder. We're pleased to take this first critical step to increase mail-back envelope options in partnership with the U.S. Postal Service."
The FDA issued notice today to all manufacturers of opioid analgesics used in outpatient settings that they are required to submit the proposed modification to the Opioid Analgesic Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (OA REMS) within 180 days of the date of the notification letter. The agency anticipates approval of the modified REMS in 2024. When implemented, outpatient pharmacies and other dispensers will have the option to order prepaid mail-back envelopes from opioid analgesic manufacturers, which they may then provide to patients prescribed opioid analgesics. The REMS modification also requires manufacturers to develop educational materials for patients on safe disposal of opioid analgesics, which outpatient pharmacies and other dispensers may also provide to patients.
This action follows a Federal Register notice issued in April 2022 that sought public comment on a potential modification of the OA REMS to require that mail-back envelopes be dispensed and education on safe disposal be provided with opioid analgesics dispensed in an outpatient setting.
Patients commonly report having unused opioid analgesics following surgical procedures and many Americans gain access to opioids through friends or relatives who have unused opioids. Data show educating patients about disposal options may increase the disposal rate of unused opioids and that providing a disposal option along with education could further increase that rate.
Currently, there are multiple mail-back envelope programs operating in the U.S. and mail-back envelopes are commercially available from multiple entities. There are long-standing regulations and policies, under the Drug Enforcement Administration and United States Postal Service, in place to ensure that mail-back envelopes are nondescript, fit for purpose, and can safely and securely transport unused medicines from the patient's home to the location where they will be destroyed.
"The U.S. Postal Service is proud to partner with the FDA to expand the use of mail-back envelopes as a safe and secure disposal option for prescription opioid analgesics," said Postal Service Chief Customer and Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President Steven Monteith. "Serving nearly 165 million addresses each day, with more than 31,000 retail locations across the country, the Postal Service makes it convenient for Americans to dispose of unused prescription drugs to help prevent accidental exposure and overdose."
The FDA continues to consider additional ways to increase safe disposal of unused opioid analgesics. Specifically, the agency is exploring whether manufacturers of opioid analgesic should also be required to make in-home disposal products available to patients who are prescribed opioid analgesics. In an effort to further evaluate this potential option, the agency will participate in the workshop, Defining and Evaluating In-Home Drug Disposal Systems for Opioid Analgesics, to examine current in-home disposal options hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's (NASEM's) Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation in June 2023. The FDA has also issued a Federal Register Notice to seek information and comments from the public to aid the agency's assessment of in-home disposal methods.
These collective efforts are part of the agency's implementation of the FDA Overdose Prevention Framework that aims to prevent drug overdoses and reduce deaths through impactful and creative actions. The FDA remains focused on responding to all facets of substance use, misuse, substance use disorders, overdose and death in the U.S. through the four priorities of the framework, including; supporting primary prevention by eliminating unnecessary initial prescription drug exposure and inappropriate prolonged prescribing; encouraging harm reduction through innovation and education; advancing development of evidence-based treatments for substance use disorders; and protecting the public from unapproved, diverted or counterfeit drugs presenting overdose risks.
Additional Resources:
- FDA Overdose Prevention Framework
- Information About Naloxone
- Timeline of Selected FDA Activities and Significant Events Addressing Opioid Misuse and Abuse
Media Contact: Lauren-Jei McCarthy, 240-702-3940
Consumer Inquiries: Email, 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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2023-04-03T19:27:05+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2023/04/03/fda-moves-forward-with-mail-back-envelopes-opioid-analgesics-dispensed-outpatient-settings/
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Bruce Boudreau has been fired as coach of the Vancouver Canucks, who are again on track to miss the playoffs with another underachieving season.
The team announced the change Sunday, less than a week since president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford said “major surgery” was needed to fix the Canucks, who have only made the playoffs once in the past eight years. Rick Tocchet was hired as Boudreau's replacement for a Vancouver team that has lost 28 of 46 games this season.
“This was not an easy decision to make but one that we felt was necessary for this franchise,” general manager Patrik Allvin said in a statement thanking Boudreau for his contributions.
Boudreau waved to the crowd after the Canucks' latest defeat Saturday night, their third in the past four games. Chants of "Bruce, there it is!” to the tune of Tag Team’s “Whoomp! (There It Is)” echoed around the arena as a tribute to the well-respected 68-year-old hockey lifer who ranks among the top regular-season coaches in NHL history.
He's the second coach Vancouver has fired in under 14 months. Boudreau took over in December 2021 when previous coach Travis Green and general manager Jim Benning were let go 25 games into last season.
Assistant Trent Cull was also relieved of his duties, the team said Sunday. Adam Foote was named as an assistant and Sergei Gonchar a defensive development coach on Tocchet's staff.
Tocchet previously coached the Tampa Bay Lightning for parts of two seasons from 2008-10 and the Arizona Coyotes for four years from 2017-21. He won the Stanley Cup as a player with the Pittsburgh Penguins and then twice as an assistant for them.
“Rick Tocchet brings a wealth of knowledge to this team from both a coach and player perspective,” Allvin said. “He has had more than two decades of coaching experience, guiding teams of various styles.”
The Canucks have missed the playoffs the past two seasons since reaching the second round in the COVID-19 bubble in 2020.
Boudreau was with his fourth NHL organization after stints with Washington, Anaheim and Minnesota. He won the Jack Adams Award as coach of the year in 2007-08 when he was elevated from the minors to coach the Capitals on Thanksgiving and got them to the playoffs.
Teams coached by Boudreau for a full season have made the playoffs nine out of 10 times. His .626 points percentage ranks fourth among coaches with at least 500 games behind the bench, and his 617 wins are tied for 20th in league history.
But a Canucks team in disarray did not give him much of a chance to keep that success going. Rutherford in a news conference Monday said big changes would be coming in the offseason, citing the need for the team to get younger.
They could happen before that, especially with captain Bo Horvat unsigned beyond this season and attracting attention ahead of the March 3 trade deadline.
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2023-01-22T18:27:07+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Canucks-fire-coach-Boudreau-hire-Tocchet-as-17734307.php
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WACO / CAMERON, Texas (FOX 44) – An annual event lets survivors of violent crime and victims’ families to honor the memories of their loved ones during the holidays.
The Milam County and District Attorney’s Office will sponsor the 24th annual “Tree of Angels” ceremony at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The event will take place at the Milam County Museum, located at 112 West First Street in downtown Cameron.
The program is celebrated each year across Texas, and was started in 1991 in hopes that the blessings of the holiday season would comfort the victims and their families during a difficult time. Members of the Armed Services will also be remembered and honored. All military families are invited to attend and place an angel on the tree in honor of or in remembrance of their loved one.
The public is invited to attend the ceremony to show their support for the victims and these families. Participants are asked to bring an angel ornament tagged with the first and last name of the person to be remembered or honored. If you are not able to attend and would like an angel placed on the Tree of Angels in honor or in memory of your loved one, you can contact Lorena Banda at (254) 697-7013, or send an email to lbanda@milamcounty.net for more information.
Refreshments will be served at the conclusion the program. Donations can be made to the Tree of Angels Account at the Buckholts State Bank in Cameron, Buckholts or Rogers to assist with program expenses.
In addition, there will be another Tree of Angels event taking place in Waco at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The McLennan County Crime Victims Coalition, with the help from the Waco Police Department’s Victim Services Unit, honors and remembers those who are victims of crime every year.
The community is invited to bring an angel ornament to place on the tree in recognition of a crime victim. It is also being requested for community members to identify the angel by writing their first and last name on the ornament.
This event will take place at the Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church, located at 919 Dutton Avenue.
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2022-12-05T15:21:33+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/tree-of-angels-ceremonies-to-be-held-in-central-texas/
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot hosted Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson at City Hall Thursday in a traditional meeting between the outgoing chief executive at City Hall and the new one.
“This moment is quite frankly a historical moment where the first Black woman, LGBTQ, transitioned her administration to another Black man,” Johnson told reporters after leaving Lightfoot’s office. “It’s a very great day for the city of Chicago. We are going to be not only united, we’re going to be a stronger city, one that the rest of the world can look at as a model.”
He praised Lightfoot for a gracious welcome and her commitment to make sure a Johnson administration starts off, as he put it, “literally on the right foot.”
Johnson didn’t offer much by way of specifics about their conversation. But he did say he felt a “flood of emotions” arriving at the fifth floor mayor’s office at City Hall.
“What this moment means for people around the city who want the city to be united, the real opportunity to bring people together and how the office of the mayor has a role and a responsibility to do that, I really began to feel that once I crossed that threshold,” Johnson said.
He later released a statement calling the meeting “a positive, productive discussion today about the future of our city.”
Lightfoot later tweeted that she assured her successor “that myself and the Mayor’s Office staff are ready to support him over the next several weeks.”
Lightfoot lost her reelection bid in the first round of voting on Feb. 28 when she came in third behind Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas and Johnson.
Johnson, a 47-year-old Chicago Teachers Union organizer and Cook County Board member, then topped Vallas in a close runoff Tuesday, gaining about 51% of the vote to become the city’s next mayor. He will be sworn in next month.
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2023-04-06T21:59:56+00:00
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chicagotribune.com
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/elections/ct-chicago-mayor-elect-brandon-johnson-lori-lightfoot-20230406-erqbnwysbbhvnm3ifipqdd3kwu-story.html
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The children of LaMar James and Alice Julene Winter Ashby are pleased to announce their parent’s 70th wedding anniversary. LaMar and Julene were married Nov. 26, 1952, in the Logan Temple. They have lived in Fielding, Georgia, Logan, Tremonton, Wellsville and Newton.
LaMar was born in Fielding, Utah, on Aug. 22, 1929. LaMar graduated from Bear River High School in 1948 and L.D.S. Seminary in 1947. He went to the New Zealand mission from Feb. 1950-March 1952. He was in the army when he married Julene on leave. LaMar has always been a farmer no matter what other jobs he has had. He started by working with his father on a dairy and has worked at Cache Valley Dairy as a mechanic, Auto Hospital as owner and mechanic, Ashco Vending with his brother and Bullens as a welder. He attended USU. LaMar has also spent a lot of time serving in the LDS church in many callings including Elders Quorum Pres., High Councilman, Financial clerk, Home Teacher, and Ward Missionary with Julene. His hobbies included working with draft horses on wagon trains and on the farm. He still loves to take care of and spoil his chickens and cat.
Julene was born on Nov. 13, 1934, in Los Angeles, California. After she moved to East Garland she graduated from Bear River High School where she was involved with art and drama. She won two art awards one being the ‘Top Senior Art Award.’ After her marriage she began her dream of having a dozen children. She had 13 children and has always called us her “Bakers Dozen.” Julene has served in many positions in the LDS church. Such as spiritual living teacher, Laurel teacher, cub scouts leader, visiting teacher, Relief Society Secretary, primary worker, and Ward Missionary with LaMar. Her hobbies include gardening and painting both with oils and pastels. She loves to take you around her home and show you all the flowers she has.
LaMar and Julene were blessed to be able to serve 4 missions. New Zealand, Bishop’s storehouse, Nauvoo and New Mexico. They gained many friends through these opportunities.
LaMar and Julene have 13 children, 57 grandchildren, 104 great-grandchildren, 9 great-great-grandchildren and 54 spouses.
LaMar and Julene have always been a great example to their family and others around them. They have always taught their children to work hard, be honest, and generous. They have strong testimonies of the Lord Jesus Christ and Eternal Marriage. They want their family to know that marriage can be eternal.
There will be an Open House Saturday, Nov. 26 at 6-8 p.m. at the Newton Church 12 S. 100 West, Newton. Family and friends are invited.
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2022-11-18T20:54:28+00:00
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hjnews.com
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https://www.hjnews.com/announcements/anniversaries/lamar-james-ashby-and-alice-julene-winter-ashbys-70th-anniversary/article_2bbb4ecc-677f-11ed-a733-7bff5c31aa69.html
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LINCOLN, Ill. (WAND) — The Illinois Department of Corrections announced the opening of five Freedom Libraries at Logan Correctional Center on Wednesday morning.
IDOC partnered with the national nonprofit Freedom Reads to open the libraries. Made with wood and curved to provide a contrast to the right angles found in prisons, the Freedom Libraries have been filled with a curated selection of books. The selections are intended to provide new avenues of thought to the individuals in custody.
“With the opening of these Freedom Libraries in Logan Correctional Center, we hope to remind of a key principle of this life: To read is to remember a little bit more of who we are,” said Reginald Dwayne Betts, Founder and Executive Director of Freedom Reads. “We are grateful that the Illinois Department of Corrections shares our goal of creating opportunities for daily engagement with literature inside their facilities and a space in prison for books, inquiry, imagination, and community.”
The opening of these libraries marks the first opening of a Freedom Library in a women’s correctional facility.
“IDOC is excited to welcome Reginald Dwayne Betts and Freedom Reads for a performance at Logan Correctional Facility as we announce the opening of its five Freedom Libraries,” said Director Rob Jeffreys, Illinois Department of Corrections. “Research is clear – expanding library and information opportunities for individuals in custody correlates to more successful community reentry. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Freedom Reads to provide even more literature access to individuals in our facilities across Illinois.”
Providing reading materials to prisoners is not a new concept in Illinois. UC Books to Prisoners has been operating in Urbana since 2004.
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2022-10-12T21:04:29+00:00
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wandtv.com
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https://www.wandtv.com/community/idoc-partners-with-freedom-reads-to-open-prison-libraries/article_14b5a7bc-4a6b-11ed-aaf3-fb7b11c93f94.html
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Enlightened Brewing Company
Back in 2013, Enlightened Brewery Company started in a small make shift brewery on the second floor of the Lincoln Warehouse building making just 25 barrels of beer in their first year. Today, they are still brewing great beer, but their space and reputation has grown quite a bit. Brian is getting a look at their operation which is housed in a historic building in Milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE - Back in 2013, Enlightened Brewery Company started in a small make-shift brewery on the second floor of the Lincoln Warehouse building making just 25 barrels of beer in their first year. Today, they are still brewing great beer, but their space and reputation has grown quite a bit. Brian is getting a look at their operation which is housed in a historic building in Milwaukee.
Enlightened Brewing Company
The definition of being enlightened is having or showing a rational, modern, and well-informed outlook. For Milwaukee Enlightened Brewing Company, they’re showing dedication to a craft with a modern twist and a well-rounded line of beer. Brian is learning what goes into their beer.
Enlightened Brewing Company
You can tell from beer named Cream City Brix and Imperative Pale to Sustained Thought and Sentient Twig that the team Enlightened Brewing Company care about their city and the rich history of beer making. Brian is checking out this local brewer that keeps growing year after year.
Enlightened Brewing Company
When it comes to enjoying a cold beer, some people prefer bottles and some go for cans, but at Enlightened Brewing Company it’s what’s inside that really counts. Brian is getting a behind-the-scenes look at their canning line and the importance of this essential part of their operation.
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2022-07-08T15:12:39+00:00
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fox6now.com
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https://www.fox6now.com/news/enlightened-brewing-company-bay-view
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MISSING DLC, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --"Nick Cave and Jack Cave: The Color Is Fashion Exhibition," created by Internationally acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist Nick Cave and his brother fashion designer Jack Cave, will bring a once-in-a -lifetime collection of avant-garde and haute couture inspired fashion to the Roundhouse of the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. The exhibition which opens to the public on August 27, 2022, will continue through November 27, 2022, and is in partnership with the MCA Chicago and the groundbreaking retrospective exhibition "NICK CAVE: FOROTHERMORE," which is currently on view at the MCA until October 2, 2022. This is the first time that these wearable works will be installed publicly and the DuSable is the first museum in the world to ever exhibit Nick Cave's or Jack Cave's fashion collections.
"I am thrilled to be sharing my career's work in my chosen hometown. I don't take the gravity of this moment for granted," said Nick Cave. "From the MCA to the DuSable Museum and beyond this community and city-wide project is the realization of a dream that could only happen in Chicago—this way, with this brilliant team and throughout this great city."
"The Color Is" will consist of 40-45 couture looks and fashion objects created by Nick Cave and Jack Cave and a number of specialty collaborators. All works including head-to-toe garments have been constructed from a wide variety of materials including beads, wire, sequins, recycled textiles and custom prints. The ensembles feature intricate layering that is emblematic of human universality, highlighting intricacy, complexity, color, and uniqueness. According to both Nick and Jack Cave the clothing is genderless, and the more than 400 individual items can be composed into limitless looks, all designed and crafted by the artists.
"The Color Is" also contains an education component which highlights the exhibition themes, references and history through digital animation, film montages, extensive explanatory text and high resolution still images. There will be some surprise audio visual elements featured in the exhibition as well as on the DuSable Museum website and the Bloomberg Connects app. All objects in the exhibition were created for both "The Color Is" live performance and "The Color Is" exhibition as a companion exhibition of NICK CAVE FOROTHERMORE and are Nick Cave's most recent body of created work, often referencing work of his retrospective contemporary art archive. The pieces have been created within the past 9 to 12 months.
"I am proud to be able to showcase so many facets of the Black experience through fashion, especially alongside my brother, Nick, "said Jack Cave. "The process of being able to combine both of our individual styles and work them into one fluid exhibit that educates and celebrates everything from sustainability, queer liberation, and Black presence in mainstream high fashion has been an honor."
"We are thrilled and honored to work with these brilliant artists to exhibit their amazing works of wearable art at the DuSable. This unique exhibit and accompanying educational activities are a prime example of our goals and inspiration for our recent rebranding as both a museum and education center. We recognize the importance of presenting Black artists personal creative journeys as well as the cultural influences that inform their art and sharing that vision with young people and communities from which they came. Nick and Jack Cave's imperative to bring their work into the heart of the Black community expresses not only their personal philosophy but also the mission of the DuSable. We are also excited to continue our partnership with the MCA in mounting this exhibition during the run of FOROTHERMORE, which allows visitors to experience Nick's work in both locations and from multiple perspectives –a groundbreaking approach that stems from our strong collaborative partnership," said Perri Irmer, President and CEO of The DuSable Museum.
"The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center celebrates the multilayered, elements of Black culture that Nick Cave and Jack Cave's brilliant work is steeped in," said Danny Dunson, Director of Curatorial Services and Community Partnerships. "Our presentation of The Color Is, positions Nick Cave's and Jack Cave's art practices within the heart of Chicago's African American community. The South Side community represents what continues to inspire both Cave brothers as artists and activists."
Fashion has been a natural part of the Cave brother's artistic practice. Growing up with five aunts who sewed, Nick and Jack Cave had an early interest in material culture and construction. The brothers are inspired by the homey-whimsical interiors of their grandparent's home that contained African American handicraft traditions, such as quilting and crochet. Both Nick and Jack Cave studied fiber arts as undergraduates at the Kansas City Art Institute where they first learned to sew. In the 1980's the brothers would create fashion spectaculars together.
"The Color Is "exhibition has been curated for the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center by Danny Dunson, Director of Curatorial Services and Community Partnerships; fabricated by Martin Giese, Vice President of Exhibitions and Collections and Brenda Liboy, Lead Exhibitions Designer. The exhibition has been in development since 2021 and initially was shown as a live performance at The Art Edge Gala produced and presented by the MCA and held at the historic Daniel Burnham designed Roundhouse of the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. "The Color Is" is a companion exhibition to "NICK CAVE: FOROTHERMORE," a city-wide celebration of the Chicago-based artist.
The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, a Smithsonian Affiliate, is the nation's first independent Museum dedicated to the collection, preservation and study of the history and culture of African Americans and people of African descent. For more information, please visit www.dusablemuseum.org and @dusablemuseum.
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2022-08-10T14:57:22+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/08/10/nick-cave-jack-cave-color-is-fashion-exhibition-open-dusable-black-history-museum-education-center-august-27-2022/
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials from the party of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan say he has been arrested as he appeared in a court in the capital, Islamabad, to face charges in multiple graft cases.
Fawad Chaudhry, a senior official with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said the 72-year-old Khan was arrested on Tuesday on the premises of the court by agents from the country's anti-corruption body, the National Accountability Bureau.
Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote in April last year. He has claimed his ouster was illegal and a Western conspiracy and has campaigned against the government of his successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, demanding early elections.
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2023-05-09T11:07:24+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/party-officials-imran-khan-arrested-in-court-in-islamabad/YFGPXFJKUNF27M2R4JBXAISAZQ/
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DALIAN, China, March 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CBAK Energy Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBAT) ("CBAK Energy", or the "Company"), a leading lithium-ion battery manufacturer and electric energy solution provider in China, today announced that it will report its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022 on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, before the U.S. market opens. The earnings results will be available on the Company's Investor Relations website, and also will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on a Form 8-K.
CBAK Energy's management will host an earnings conference call at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 (8:00 PM Beijing/Hong Kong Time on April 11, 2023).
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A replay of the conference call may be accessed within seven days after the conclusion of the live call at the following website:
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About CBAK Energy
CBAK Energy Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBAT) is a leading high-tech enterprise in China engaged in the development, manufacturing, and sales of new energy high power lithium batteries and raw materials for use in manufacturing high power lithium batteries. The applications of the Company's products and solutions include electric vehicles, light electric vehicles, electric tools, energy storage, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), and other high-power applications. In January 2006, CBAK Energy became the first lithium battery manufacturer in China listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market. CBAK Energy has multiple operating subsidiaries in Dalian, Nanjing and Shaoxing, as well as a large-scale R&D and production base in Dalian.
For more information, please visit www.cbak.com.cn.
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2023-03-31T18:00:31+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2023/03/31/cbak-energy-report-fourth-quarter-full-year-2022-unaudited-financial-results-tuesday-april-11-2023/
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Many employers who moved allowed remote work during the height of the pandemic are grappling with the decision to bring employers back to the office.
Many employers are concerned about the loss of productivity. However, new data suggests workers are more engaged than ever.
Meetings increased by nearly 60% between 2020 and 2022, when more people began working from home, according to the University of Texas at Austin.
For those who are told to return to the office, experts say those workers should use this time to their advantage.
"It gives you the opportunity to meet everyone in person and interact with them," said Vicki Salemi a career expert with Monster. "You get facetime with leadership, perhaps gain new skills, shadow people in other departments. It can be a great opportunity for you."
Even as work trends shift, some experts say employees still have the upper hand when it comes to the job market.
"Despite many layoffs we hear in the news, employers are still seeking top talent, so employees who are not happy or aren't paid fairly, they are most likely going to look for another job," Salemi said.
She adds that workers who are unhappy about returning should speak to their bosses about possible hybrid options.
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2023-01-05T21:31:25+00:00
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denver7.com
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https://www.denver7.com/news/national/how-engagement-in-work-improved-as-employees-participated-remotely
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NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LensCrafters, one of the largest optical retail brands in North America and the premier destination for luxury brand frames, announced today the company's new milestone, the brand's 40th Anniversary as the trusted optical retailer in the communities they serve since 1983. To commemorate this occasion, the company will launch a series of key marketing initiatives throughout the year, including a 40th Anniversary campaign featuring award winning actress and producer Sharon Stone.
As the first optical retailer in EssilorLuxottica group's portfolio, LensCrafters revolutionized the optical industry when it opened its doors 40 years ago as Precision LensCrafters, with the name representing "Lens Innovation and Craftsmanship with Precision. Since then, the vision to provide customers with quality prescription glasses was the first of many innovative concepts that led to LensCrafters' growth and success year over year.
The brand's history of industry firsts and unprecedented enthusiasm for helping others see and look their best, along with the passionate spirit of doctors, associates, and leaders, have shaped who the brand is today. In 1988, the Give the Gift of Sight program, founded by a LensCrafters employee and now formally part of the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation, was established as a call to action to provide eye care to millions of people who suffer from poor vision simply because they don't have access to care. In total, the Foundation has provided 562 million people with access to sustainable vision care through 22,200 primary vision care entrepreneurs and 221 vision centers. Together with the Foundation's philanthropic activities, these efforts have helped correct and/or protect the vision of 55.1 million people.
"This is a remarkable milestone for LensCrafters with 40 years of commitment ensuring our patients and customers have access to the best vision care and eyewear. It's also a testament to our amazing employees, doctors and team of store associates who we rely on daily to provide a premium experience that the brand is known for. Ultimately, we want to continue being the leading optical retailer in the communities we serve by offering the best vision care solutions that allow our customers to express themselves while seeing their best," said LensCrafters President and General Manager, Alfonso Cerullo.
A leader in the optical industry, LensCrafters has always represented high-quality eyecare and eyewear and today, the company is proud to be ranked #1 in optical retail in the country with over 1,000 convenient North American locations and a thriving ecommerce business. When it comes to customers' vision needs, the brand offers a holistic best in class experience online and in stores, where customers can find top doctors, superior quality lenses, with the latest innovations in clear and sun lens technology by Essilor, and the largest product assortment of designer eyewear brands in the US and Canada.
As LensCrafters continually strives to meet the expectations of today's customers, the brand sees their exemplary affiliated and independent doctors as the cornerstone of the business who patients come to for the best comprehensive vision care. The company uses technology as a key driver to keep eye care and eyewear a top priority. Patients can experience LensCrafters' eye exam technology, both in-store and remote via the company's tele-optometry solution. Clarifye and New Evolution Connect is a new suite that offers more access to optometrists at a time most convenient for the patient through a single platform that integrates multiple systems and equipment to improve patient engagement.
The company has invested in new technology such as the brand's Lens Configurator, Frame Customization, and Virtual Try-On, which gives customers an easier way to try on a selection of eyewear in order to find the perfect frame.. And as part of EssilorLuxottica's Corporate Social Responsibility program, 'Eyes on the Planet', LensCrafters will continue to step up its investments in sustainable material innovations for eyewear, reducing the impact on the planet.
With a rapidly expanding brick and mortar landscape, the brand's newest flagships in New York City, San Francisco, and Palo Alto, reflect the effortless integration of modern design and technology, giving customers a more individualized experience that allows them to easily browse an expanded selection of designer eyewear styles and brands that include Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana, Persol, Versace, and Prada. By leveraging their stores with the digital advantages of ecommerce, customers can buy online, with ease, as they would in store.
"As we continue to invest in our 1,000+ store fleet, and successfully merge our online business with the in-store digital experience, we look forward to advancing the LensCrafters brand this year and next with the rollout of new flagship stores which will give us a larger footprint in the eyewear market," said Cerullo.
About LensCrafters
LensCrafters, the leading optical retailer in North America, was founded in 1983 and currently operates over 1,000 stores in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. LensCrafters is owned by EssilorLuxottica Group, a leader in premium, luxury, designer, and sports eyewear. With a mission of helping people look and see their best, LensCrafters has a passion for vision care and offers the best selection of the latest trends in eyewear from leading designer brands as well as incomparable personalized service from Doctors of Optometry located at or next to its stores. LensCrafters opened its first Macy's location in April of 2016 and three flagship stores in New York City and San Francisco in 2021. The brand's trusted doctors and associates continue to make an impact by giving the gift of vision through the company's partner efforts with OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation, providing access to quality vision care and glasses in underserved communities worldwide. For more information, visit www.lenscrafters.com.
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2023-02-21T18:06:41+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2023/02/21/lenscrafters-celebrates-40-years-great-vision/
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Sunday, May 15
On this date in 1899, the Phoenix Daily Herald ran an ad placed by a local contractor asking residents why they continue to spend $5, $10 or $15 a month on rent when they could own a lot in the heart of Phoenix for $65 to $200.
On this date in 1899, the Phoenix Daily Herald reported the departure of John Gorman, who was the tollgate keeper on the Riverside-to-Globe road until it was abandoned. Gorman took tolls for 18 years, often with a pistol or shotgun in his hand.
On this date in 1922, outlaws attempted the holdup of the Southern Pacific Golden State at Jayne’s Station near Tucson. One was killed and the others fled as the express messenger used his shotgun.
Monday, May 16
On this date in 1898, Arizona barbers raised their prices to an unheard of high for a shave — 25 cents.
On this date in 1910, Edward Hughes, one of the original locators of the Helvetia mines, died.
On this date in 1916, the town of Pima was incorporated.
On this date in 1929, high winds toppled the new Somerton Junior High school under construction at Somerton, south of Yuma. One workman was killed and another seriously injured.
On this date in 1930, outlaws set fire to the railway trestle between Miami and Globe in an effort to wreck the Southern Pacific train but the engineer opened the throttle and raced through the flames.
Tuesday, May 17
On this date in 1910, the Douglas police chief arrested the mayor on a charge of failing to hitch his horse.
On this date in 1910, a carload of wild broncos was shipped from Phoenix to New York where they would be ridden, three each day, at the New York Hippodrome by rodeo rider Bert Bryan.
On this date in 1931, Nogales dedicated its new international airport.
On this date in 1940, the University of Arizona radio bureau director said women were too artificial on the air to be successful.
On this date in 1900, an Arizona and New Mexico Railroad freight train crashed through a bridge near Clifton. Three people were killed and nine injured.
On this date in 1910, the Hotel Adams in Phoenix was destroyed by fire, with the loss estimated at $275,000 and two people killed. Gov. and Mrs. Richard Sloan, who were living in the hotel made their escape without injury.
Wednesday, May 18
On this date in 1865, the Prescott Post Office was established.
On this date in 1929, Federal Engineer H.J. Gault arrived in Yuma to begin the final survey of the All-American Canal.
On this date in 1910, Mr. John Gardner, Pima County census enumerator, reported that as he entered a Yaquai village in northern Pima County all the Indians quickly vanished. His total count for the village was one female.
Thursday, May 19
On this date in 1890, The Arizona Republican published its first issue and would become the Arizona Republic 40 years later.
On this date on 1892, a stage coach line was established between Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon.
On this date in 1916, private citizens of Arizona let the contract for a solid silver service to be presented to the battleship Arizona. The price was approximately $8,000.
Friday, May 20
On this date in 1862, the advance guard of the California Column reached Tucson under the command of Lt. Col. Joseph West and established Camp Lowell.
On this date in 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act, giving free land to citizens who could qualify for ownership by living on the land.
On this date in 1910, The Arizona Daily Star announced that incorporation papers were to be filed by a company of local promoters who planned to build a resort in Madera Canyon in the Santa Rita Mountains.
Saturday, May 21
On this date in 1931, border patrolmen discovered the skeleton of a 25,000-year-old mammoth near Hereford.
On this date in 1954, Dean Byron Cummings, professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona and the first white man to see Rainbow Ridge, died.
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2022-05-11T18:41:02+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Arizona-history-May-15-21-17165498.php
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Pauline's new grocery store, Farmfare, is bringing the farm to the shopper
Pauline residents have a new option for groceries and a chance to meet the people who make them Friday, Nov. 18.
Farmfare, the much-anticipated locally-sourced grocery store, opened at 5089 Highway 215 in Pauline Nov. 2. A grand opening is planned for Friday.
The store is co-owned and operated by Paula Towe and Jubilee Farms founder Jacob Towe. While the word is still spreading about the grocery store's opening, its owners say customers are excited to have a nearby option.
"People are very grateful to have something close. They can just come in and get a tomato or an onion and be really happy that they don't have to go (out of town) because everything is 30 minutes from here," Paula Towe said.
Farmfare offers a variety of fresh produce, meat and dairy as well as dry goods like tea, snacks, sauces and seasonings from South Carolina and North Carolina farms that have partnered with them.
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"Our fruits and vegetables come from a variety of local farms as well as some from the lower part of the state," Jacob Towe said. "We've got locally made cheese, local meats and soon we'll be getting some trout from North Carolina."
Farmfare has partnered with 20 farms and producers including Viktar's Bee Farm of Boiling Springs, Spartanburg County School District Six's farm, Hampton Acres of Pelzer, Allen Bros. Milling Co. of Columbia, White House Farms of Georgetown, and Little River Roasting Co., whose coffee they sell by the bag and fresh ground in-store.
The week of Nov. 7, the store had sweet potatoes from the District Six farm, artisanal cheeses from Forx Farm of Anderson and Ashe County Cheese of West Jefferson, North Carolina, pomegranates, spaghetti squash, and Ludacrisp apples among other options. Towe said the fresh offerings will change weekly, depending on what is available.
Customers will be able to meet some of these producers during Farmfare's grand opening event and ask questions about their farms and products from 2-6 p.m. Towe said the grand opening will also have outdoor games and food and drink vendors.
"Our slogan is bringing growers and eaters together and we've already seen that in the couple of weeks we've been open," Jacob Towe said.
Farmfare is open from 2-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.
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2022-11-17T10:09:40+00:00
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goupstate.com
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https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/2022/11/17/pauline-farmfare-grocery-store-is-bringing-the-farm-to-the-customer-spartanburg-sc/69616001007/
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In addition to growing adoption of smart home technologies, home robot technology has experienced important advances
BOULDER, Colo., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights explores the market landscape and potential for home robots.
Despite optimistic product launches from prestigious high-tech companies and start-ups, the market for robots in the home has had limited success to date. However, there is reason for hope—according to a new report from Guidehouse Insights, with the success of at least one home robot application and the growth of others, confidence is high for more applications in the future. The in-home navigation technology developed for robotic vacuums—the primary success story for home robotics—has enabled other applications, including social robots and home healthcare robots, which serve certain niche markets with highly customized human-like interactions, and robots designed to enhance the smart home's capabilities.
"Home robots have the potential to make life more convenient and fulfilling in the early 21st century, removing drudgery and increasing free time, as household appliances did for families in the 20th century," says William Hughes, principal research analyst with Guidehouse Insights. "The transition to using more robots in the home will likely be slower than many might wish but it is unstoppable."
The technology embedded in robotic vacuums enables other home robot categories. In addition to home maintenance, some robots are useful for consumers who need help carrying items, for food preparation, and for home healthcare. A new and interesting category is robots designed to enhance smart home functionality by bringing a voice-activated speaker closer to the user, offering a moveable security camera, and providing social engagement options, according to the report.
The report, Expanding the Market for Home Robots Beyond Smart Vacuums, explores the status of the myriad applications for robots in the home, examines the implications for the adoption of home robot applications, and looks at factors that will likely affect smart home adoption. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Guidehouse Insights website.
About Guidehouse Insights
Guidehouse Insights, the dedicated market intelligence arm of Guidehouse, provides research, data, and benchmarking services for today's rapidly changing and highly regulated industries. Our insights are built on in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The team's research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research, and demand assessment, paired with a deep examination of technology trends, to provide a comprehensive view of emerging resilient infrastructure systems. Additional information about Guidehouse Insights can be found at www.guidehouseinsights.com.
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Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has more than 13,000 professionals in over 50 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies. For more information, please visit www.guidehouse.com.
* The information contained in this press release concerning the report, Expanding the Market for Home Robots Beyond Smart Vacuums, is a summary and reflects the current expectations of Guidehouse Insights based on market data and trend analysis. Market predictions and expectations are inherently uncertain and actual results may differ materially from those contained in this press release or the report. Please refer to the full report for a complete understanding of the assumptions underlying the report's conclusions and the methodologies used to create the report. Neither Guidehouse Insights nor Guidehouse undertakes any obligation to update any of the information contained in this press release or the report.
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2022-07-27T10:47:36+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/27/guidehouse-insights-explores-opportunities-home-robot-market/
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Despite a year of disruptions, students largely made academic gains this past year that paralleled their growth pre-pandemic and outpaced the previous school year, according to new research released Tuesday from NWEA, a nonprofit research group that administers standardized tests.
Gains across income levels partially closed the gap in learning that resulted from the pandemic, researchers found. But students in high-poverty schools had fallen further behind, making it likely they will need more time than their higher-income peers to make a full recovery.
The results are a measured sign of hope for academic recovery from COVID-19. But sustained effort and investment in education remain crucial.
“These signs of rebounding are especially heartening during another challenging school year of more variants, staff shortages, and a host of uncertainties. We think that speaks volumes to the tremendous effort put forth by our schools to support students,” Karyn Lewis, director of the Center for School and Student Progress at NWEA, and the study’s co-author, said in a statement.
The study used data from more than 8 million students who took the MAP Growth assessment in reading and math during the three school years impacted by COVID. Those numbers were then compared with data from three years before the pandemic.
The study found that if rebounding occurs at the same pace it did in the 2021-2022 school year, the timeline for a full recovery would likely reach beyond the 2024 deadline for schools to spend their federal funds.
For the average elementary school student, researchers projected it would take three years to reach where they would have been without the pandemic. For older students, recovery could take much longer. Across grade levels, subject and demographic groups, the exact timeline can vary widely and researchers found most students will need more than the two years where increased federal funding is available.
Some of the most successful interventions for students involved increasing instructional time, ranging from more class time, intensive tutoring, or high-quality summer programming, said Lindsay Dworkin, senior vice president for policy and communications at NWEA. But those initiatives can be costly and complex, and districts may hesitate to implement them when recovery funds have a fast-approaching deadline to be spent.
“The funding expires in such a short amount of time that districts are really struggling with, ‘What can I do that will be big and impactful and I only need to do for two years?’” Dworkin said in an interview. “I think if they knew that there would be more federal money coming and that it would be sustained, that would make all the difference both in the kind of creativity we would see from states and districts.”
Dworkin also said that while the study looked at national trends, understanding the unique and specific local context was essential to figuring out how to best support children in schools. In addition to variation across student groups, districts that share similar characteristics, such as demographics and poverty levels, still showed large variation in student outcomes.
“If you are a district leader, there’s just no national story that is going to tell you enough about your district context, without the hard work of digging into the data and understanding what it says and then tailoring the interventions to match,” Dworkin said.
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2022-07-19T21:58:21+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/news/national/study-student-gains-last-year-narrowed-covid-learning-gap/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving one step closer to developing a central bank digital currency, known as the digital dollar, saying it would help reinforce the U.S. role as a leader in the world financial system.
The White House said on Friday that after President Joe Biden issued an executive order in March calling on a variety of agencies to look at ways to regulate digital assets, the agencies came up with nine reports, covering cryptocurrency impacts on financial markets, the environment, innovation and other elements of the economic system.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said one Treasury recommendation is that the U.S. “advance policy and technical work on a potential central bank digital currency, or CBDC, so that the United States is prepared if CBDC is determined to be in the national interest.”
“Right now, some aspects of our current payment system are too slow or too expensive,” Yellen said on a Thursday call with reporters laying out some of the findings of the reports.
Central bank digital currencies differ from existing digital money available to the general public, such as the balance in a bank account, because they would be a direct liability of the Federal Reserve, not a commercial bank.
According to the Atlantic Council nonpartisan think tank, 105 countries representing more than 95% of global gross domestic product already are exploring or have created a central bank digital currency.
The council found that the U.S. and the U.K. are far behind in creating a digital dollar or its equivalent.
Treasury, the Justice Department, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other agencies were tasked with contributing to reports that would address various concerns about the risks, development and usage of digital assets. Several reports will come out in the next weeks and months.
Eswar Prasad, a trade professor at Cornell who studies the digitization of currencies, said Treasury’s report “takes a positive view about how a digital dollar might play a useful role in increasing payment options for individuals and businesses” while acknowledging the risks of its development.
He said the report sets the stage for the creation of agency regulations and legislation “that can improve the benefit-risk tradeoff associated with cryptocurrencies and related technologies.”
The Blockchain Association, which lobbies lawmakers on Capitol Hill, said in a statement that the White House reports are “a missed opportunity to cement U.S. crypto leadership.”
“These reports focus on risks — not opportunities,” the statement reads, “and omit substantive recommendations on how the United States can promote its burgeoning crypto industry, including job creation, improvements to the financial system, and expanded access for all Americans.”
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers have submitted various pieces of legislation to regulate cryptocurrency and other digital assets.
Sheila Warren, CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, said in an emailed statement that the report “seem to kick the can down the road” she said, “we don’t see clear recommendations.”
The director of the National Economic Council, Brian Deese, told reporters that “we’ve seen in recent months substantial turmoil in cryptocurrency markets and these events really highlight how, without proper oversight, cryptocurrencies risk harming everyday Americans’ financial stability and our national security.”
“It is why this administration believes that now more than ever,” he said, “prudent regulation of cryptocurrencies is needed.”
He said on Friday that the Administration plans to “execute a comprehensive action plan with priority steps to mitigate key risks of cryptocurrencies — among others, money laundering and financing for terrorism.”
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2022-09-17T09:43:31+00:00
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wdtn.com
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https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-treasury-recommends-exploring-creation-of-a-digital-dollar/
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When Vice President Harris has appeared before audiences around the country in recent days, she has posed a question asked by would-be voters: “Why should I vote?”
Harris has told the crowds publicly — and has reiterated to aides privately — that Democrats have to give them a good answer that will lure them to the polls.
During addresses in Texas and Massachusetts this week, she ticked off a string of reasons, from democracy being at stake to abortion rights. And in some speeches this summer, she has also directly taken on policies by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
“There are, as there have always been, forces that stand in our way. Forces that oppose … even the most commonsense gun safety proposals,” Harris said during a July speech at the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority convention in Orlando. “Forces that include extremist, so-called leaders, who instead of expanding rights work to restrict rights.”
President Biden and Harris have both struggled with low approval ratings, raising real questions about how much help they can provide to Democratic candidates in the House and Senate. So far, the two have not appeared alongside candidates in key races in Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona.
Republicans, for their part, have gone on the attack against the president and the vice president.
Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker this week used Harris to go after Democrats on the issue of race, saying in a new ad that she and others were seeking to use “race to divide us.” Harris and Biden were featured prominently in the ad.
But other Democrats say they believe Harris can be an effective voice in getting Democrats to the polls by touring the country and giving the grassroots a sense of the stakes at play.
One source who has advised Harris questioned her effectiveness in certain states.
“I doubt she’ll be the messenger deployed to win over swing states,” the source said.
But the source and others in her orbit said Harris can be very effective in broader get-out-the-vote events and in helping to keep abortion rights front and center — as well as in fundraising efforts.
Harris has been crisscrossing the country and appearing at events to appeal to various voting blocs.
She traveled to Houston on Thursday to deliver remarks at the National Baptist Convention. In August, she traveled to Boston for a conversation on reproductive rights with Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and to Las Vegas for remarks at a steelworkers union convention.
On Saturday, Harris will speak at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in Maryland, and on Sunday, she’ll appear on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview she recorded on Friday.
A source close to Harris said her appearances are about “rallying not just the base, but about bringing other people in.”
Her appearances, the source said, are “not just the big speeches” — like the one she delivered to steelworkers in Nevada last month — but the more personal “touches,” the source added, pointing to the vice president’s meetings with Hispanic lawmakers on the heels of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
Harris has consistently tied in meetings about reproductive rights in her political travels.
In Las Vegas, she tacked on a meeting with state legislators on abortion issues while visiting the city for the steelworkers union speech.
Harris has been a leading voice from the administration on reproductive rights following the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and she’s met with local leaders and advocates to discuss the issue in Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, Indiana and Massachusetts, among other states.
Democrats this cycle are hopeful that abortion is an issue that will bring voters out in November and maybe attract additional votes from independents or moderate Republicans, especially in states where leaders are passing restrictive abortion laws.
Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist, sees Harris as the right person to lean into that strategy on the trail.
“She is really giving a real voice to some of the issues that women are facing in this country, whether they supported the ticket or not,” he said. “I think her voice is so magnetic that it’s going to attract a wide range of followers, amplifiers and supporters.”
Since the start of her tenure as vice president, some Democrats said they had been underwhelmed by Harris’s lack of a policy portfolio and her presence on the national stage overall. Her approval ratings have hovered below 40 percent, and she has been plagued by a constant revolving door of staffers.
There continue to be questions about whether she could successfully run for president should Biden choose against a second term. Biden has insisted he intends to run for office again, and Harris has said she will work for his reelection.
An August poll from her home state of California found voters would prefer their governor, Gavin Newsom (D), in the 2024 Democratic presidential primary over Harris. In another poll last month, Harris trailed former President Trump by 7 percentage points in a hypothetical 2024 presidential match-up.
Still, Democratic strategists argue that she is an asset on the campaign trail for this midterm cycle, and she is focused on helping Democrats hold onto Congress and expand their majority.
Democratic strategist Eddie Vale said Harris can serve as a “closer” of sorts who will appeal to women.
“I think that there’s not an issue that she cannot take on or talk about. What she is doing now, I think, is very intentional. She is out updating and educating people on one, the things we have done and two, how high the stakes are,” Seawright said.
He added that she’s a team player and said she is doing what makes sense for Democrats this cycle, “and is not necessarily playing a selfish role in terms of what she can do to be helpful.”
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2022-09-12T23:46:14+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/desantis-democracy-abortion-how-kamala-harris-is-trying-to-convince-people-to-vote/
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The life sentences handed to Deandre Wilson on Thursday dealt with three murders, drug trafficking and burning dead bodies, amid other crimes.
But it was the cruelty witnessed by a toddler named Noelvin amid the carnage of a deadly cocaine robbery between drug dealers in 2019 in Buffalo that hovered over the federal case against Wilson from the first indictment to the judge's rebuke at sentencing.
Jurors convicted Deandre Wilson of killing three Florida residents as part of a drug robbery in 2019, a crime that turned more shocking when authorities said a 3-year-old boy was left alone in a minivan for eight hours with the bodies of his dead parents.
"I think Noelvin said it best: 'You are a 'bad guy,' " Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford said as she sentenced Wilson. "What you did, Mr. Wilson, is unforgiveable."
She sentenced him to three life sentences plus 30 years.
The judge, who has sentenced hundreds of people in her judicial career, said she tries to find some redeeming qualities in them.
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She saw none in Wilson, 51.
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"I have no hope for you, Mr. Wilson," Wolford said. "You are an evil person."
At 8 a.m. on a Monday morning in September 2019, a Potomac Avenue resident stepped outside to retrieve her newspaper, and that's when the then-3-year-old boy, clothed only in a diaper, crawled out of a cardboard box kept on the front porch for stray cats.
The resident did not know the little boy, but he hung onto her “for dear life” as she went to her neighbor’s to call police.
"The traumatic events that he had experienced before being discovered were like scenes from a horror movie," Wolford said earlier in the case.
On Tuesday, the trial began against a man charged in a triple homicide who prosecutors say set up a plot to rob the victims of cocaine and then shot and killed them before taking part in burning the bodies in an effort to conceal the crimes.
By that afternoon, less than eight hours after he was discovered, a senior case worker at the Child Advocacy Center interviewed the child for about 20 minutes. Upon walking into the interview room with the case worker, the child said that “my mom was in a fire” and “the bad guy caught my car on fire.” He also said his “papa was in the fire,” and that the car was covered in “oil.”
A jury convicted Wilson of murdering Noelvin's parents, Miguel Anthony Valentin-Colon and Nicole Marie Merced-Plaud, as well as Dhamyl Roman-Audiffred, all of whom traveled in a minivan to Buffalo from Orlando, Fla., to sell cocaine.
The evening before Noelvin was discovered, Jariel Cobb and his brother, James Reed, were with Wilson at 4 Roebling Ave. in the city's Schiller Park neighborhood, waiting for the Florida drug dealers, who were Cobb's source of cocaine.
When the Florida contingent arrived, Valentin-Colon waited in the minivan with his wife and their son Noelvin, as Roman-Audiffred entered the home.
Reed testified that he was taken by surprise when Wilson came out of a bathroom with a gun. Jurors convicted Wilson of fatally striking Roman-Audiffred with the gun in the kitchen, opening a head gash, and then stepping outside to shoot Valentin-Colon and Merced-Plaud as they sat in the minivan with Noelvin.
Greed and a desire to sit at the "executive table" of a drug conspiracy motivated Deandre Wilson to kill three adults, steal their cocaine and then leave a 3-year-old boy alone in a minivan with the bodies of his dead parents, a federal prosecutor said
"Only a cold-hearted murderer would do this in front of a child," said Zenaida Colon, the mother of Valentin-Colon who now raises Noelvin. "Noelvin was with them and made to witness this horrific scene," she said during her victim impact statement.
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Cobb, 49, and Reed, 40, who have pleaded guilty to narcotics distribution and setting a fire to destroy evidence, among other counts, testified against Wilson in the triple-murder trial and provided details of his actions.
Wilson then drove the minivan to an isolated location at near 338 Scajaquada St., where he left Noelvin in the minivan with his parents’ dead bodies. In the meantime, Cobb and Reed dismembered Dhamyl’s body and burned her remains in a firepit behind 225 Box Ave. Some eight hours later, at about 2:35 a.m. the next day, a Monday, Wilson returned with Cobb to retrieve the minivan, with Noelvin and the parents’ dead bodies still in the minivan.
Wilson drove the minivan to the rear of 111 Tonawanda St., with Cobb driving behind in his red Kia sedan. At 3 a.m., after removing Noelvin, Cobb and Wilson doused the minivan with gasoline and lit it on fire with the dead bodies inside.
Wilson and Cobb then abandoned Noelvin on the front porch of the Potomac Avenue home.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael J. Adler noted in his sentencing recommendation that Wilson had already been convicted of murdering someone in 1992 and had been out of prison for less than a year before murdering three more people.
"The defendant has proven that he is a danger to the public who must be incapacitated," Adler said. "The defendant cannot be deterred. A 25-year period of incarceration did not stop the defendant from murdering again."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph M. Tripi, who addressed the court Thursday, pressed the judge to sentence Wilson to life in prison, noting "a little boy whose life won't be the same."
During the trial that lasted six weeks, Wilson's defense lawyers contended Cobb and Reed – not Wilson – murdered the three.
Defense lawyer Daniel J. Henry Jr. said Wilson recognized that he would be sentenced to incarceration. All Henry asked for at the sentencing was that the judge recommend Wilson be imprisoned close to Buffalo, which Wolford agreed to do.
Wilson chose not to make a statement at his sentencing.
In his sentencing memorandum, Henry said Wilson had "a hearty appreciation for freedom” since his release from prison in October 2018 for his first murder conviction and that he worked long and hard hours.
After his release in 2018, Wilson faithfully attended Sunday services at his family’s church, Friendship Baptist Church, on Clinton Street, Henry said, and his fellow church members described him "as a respectful, attentive, well mannered, faith-filled man whose cheerful demeanor and careful attention to his mother and grandfather was much appreciated."
Wilson was baptized in the spring of 2019, just months before the drug dealers' murders.
After his conviction on Nov. 3, Wilson sought to have the verdict vacated, but the judge declined to do so.
Wolford ruled the evidence at trial was more than sufficient to support each count of conviction.
Wilson was sentenced for 14 counts involving narcotics conspiracy, robbery, murder, discharge of a firearm, obstruction of justice, use of fire to commit a felony, damage and destroying a vehicle by fire, and possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
Both Reed and Cobb entered guilty pleas and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and testified at the trial. Both face lengthy prison sentences.
"Although the government’s case relied in part on the testimony of the cooperating witnesses, the government presented voluminous proof at trial corroborating Reed and Cobb’s testimony regarding what occurred leading up to and during the events of Sept. 15 and 16, 2019, including testimony from over 50 witnesses, video evidence, Google and cellular location data, DNA evidence, ballistic evidence, and cellular communications, establishing defendant’s guilt," Wolford said.
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2023-03-23T21:47:06+00:00
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buffalonews.com
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https://buffalonews.com/news/local/evil-person-who-killed-three-and-burned-bodies-in-front-of-toddler-sentenced-to-life/article_4fec7e70-c97b-11ed-901d-a35f2727e3af.html
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Bobby Wagner spoke passionately Wednesday about the importance of mental health in the NFL, encouraging his fellow players to deal openly and honestly with their feelings following Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin's collapse on the field.
When Wagner eventually addressed the comparatively small importance of his return to Seattle on Sunday, the Los Angeles Rams' star linebacker vowed to handle that potentially fraught situation openly and maturely as well, even though the Seahawks are still “the organization that you feel gave up on you.”
“It’s a lot of emotions, man, to be honest," Wagner said. “But I’m a master of my emotions. It’s going into a stadium I’ve been in thousands of times, played in hundreds of times, and to be in a position to spoil their playoff hopes is always a good position, something worth playing for. It will be fun to go back there, be back in front of those fans.”
Wagner spent 10 years with the Seahawks, earning multiple first-team All-Pro selections and eight Pro Bowl selections in a splendid decade highlighted by a Super Bowl ring in his second season. Seattle cut ties with him last March in an abrupt, impersonal transaction that still rankles the Southern California native.
While the Seahawks have exceeded expectations without Wagner and remained in playoff contention until Week 18, the Rams (5-11) have been a massive disappointment despite an outstanding season from the 32-year-old Wagner, who has decisively proven his best football was not behind him.
Wagner seems almost certain to get cheers from Seattle's fans, who realize it wasn't Wagner's choice to leave.
“That really became my second home, and it’s a place where I grew up,” Wagner said. “I grew up in California, but really, (at the age of) 21, I was on my own, making my own decisions, doing my own thing. I didn’t have the parents controlling everything. That’s really where I grew up, and they accepted me. They showed a lot of love, and so I’m forever grateful.”
Wagner already faced the Seahawks for the first time last month, and he played an outstanding game in the Rams' 27-23 defeat with two sacks, an interception and seven tackles. Wagner also played with clearly visible emotion and fire, acknowledging just how much the matchup with his friends and former teammates meant to him.
“I’m pretty sure you've played your family before in basketball, golf or whatever," Wagner said. "When you play your friend, y’all might talk a little trash. It is what it is, but when you’re playing your family member that knows your deepest, darkest secrets and knows exactly what to say to you to make you feel a certain type of way, and also you’re playing the organization that you feel gave up on you, it was warranted, to be honest.
"And then again, I’m playing against people I know how to push their buttons too, so I know exactly what to say to them to make them mad, and I did that.”
The Seahawks definitely noticed Wagner's motivation at SoFi Stadium, and the Rams' lost season isn't likely to dampen that fire.
“Yeah, I seen him talking a lot of (smack) on the field," Seahawks receiver DK Metcalf said. "It meant a lot to him. ... We’re just trying to win. We’re not trying to ruin anybody’s homecoming, but I guess if we do win, it’s going to be ruined.”
Wagner's first season with Los Angeles has been a failure for his new team, but a solid success individually. He has been one of the NFL's top inside linebackers all season, and his presence has transformed a Rams defense that never emphasized the middle linebacker position financially or schematically until his arrival.
Wagner has a chance to underline his impressive year by becoming the top single-season tackler in Rams history. With 10 more tackles against the Seahawks, he would break the franchise's single-season tackles record of 142, set by James Laurinaitis in 2011 and again in 2012 during St. Louis' 16-game seasons.
“I expect him to play like he’s consistently played,” Rams coach Sean McVay said. “He’s a great competitor, he’s a great leader, he elevates people around him. Kind of like what I’ve said before, the thing that’s special about Bobby is how steady and how consistent he is. He played great against these guys the last time, but he’s played great in a lot of games this year, and I expect him to be able to do the same and bring people with him.”
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AP Sports Writer Tim Booth in Seattle contributed to this report.
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2023-01-05T04:02:49+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/A-lot-of-emotions-in-Bobby-Wagner-s-return-to-17695454.php
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CALGARY, Alberta — The first time Cheryl Romaire tried to end her life under Canada’s assisted suicide law, her application was rejected. But after a loosening of the law, she received approval to end her life — and she now intends to do just that.
“It felt like a weight had been lifted off my chest,” Romaire said recently, as one of her cats and a dog competed for her attention at her apartment in Calgary, Alberta.
Last year, Canada changed its assisted death law, permitting people with chronic, “grievous and irremediable” conditions and physical disabilities to kill themselves, even if they are not terminally ill. And so this allowed Romaire, 46 — who has undergone 41 medical procedures in 10 years for a painful and worsening spinal cord condition but had been told her death from the condition was not “reasonably foreseeable’’ — to qualify for a death on her own terms.
“You can have a good death; you can have your family there with you,” she said. “It’s traumatic still to them. But it’s not the same as the shock of suicide, which people will do when they’re at pain levels where there’s no hope.”
Canada is among 12 countries and several U.S. states where assisted death is permitted in certain circumstances. Since last year, it has been one of at least three — including Belgium and the Netherlands — that allow an assisted death if the person is suffering from a chronic painful condition, even if that condition is not terminal.
Although the Canadian law was hotly debated in 2016, when it was originally enacted, it has won broad public acceptance since then, with polls showing strong support. Through December of 2021, 31,664 Canadians have received assisted deaths. Of those, 224 who died last year were not terminally ill, taking advantage of last year’s amendment.
But the change in the law has reignited debate over the system. In March the law will expand again, to apply to people with some mental disorders. A parliamentary committee of lawmakers is studying what standards should govern those cases; its report is expected in the fall.
Already, though, critics are saying Canada is now going too far.
Among those critics are three United Nations disability and human rights experts, who said, in a letter to the Canadian government, that in legalizing assisted suicide for disabled people who are not terminally ill, the law, as written, has devalued their lives by suggesting “that significant disability can be worse than death.”
Some say that with the law’s expansions, Canada is turning assisted suicide into an almost routine medical option, instead of treating it as an extraordinary measure taken in limited situations.
“Canada has the least safeguards of all of countries that allow it,” said Trudo Lemmens, chair in health law and policy in the faculty of law at the University of Toronto, referring to the assisted suicide legislation generally, “and it has the most open-ended system.”
“It’s a state-funded, state-organized, medical system providing end of life,” he continued. “What I find particularly troublesome is that there is no other jurisdiction that treats the ending of life by a physician as a standard medical practice.”
Under the current law, people who are terminally ill when they apply for assisted death must be assessed by a physician or nurse practitioner. Applicants who have non-life-threatening illnesses and disabilities must undergo assessments by two separate clinicians. They must also undergo a 90-day waiting period.
While patients have the option of swallowing prescribed medication to end their lives, the overwhelming majority elect to have a physician or nurse practitioner make a lethal injection. The clinicians are the final arbiters of whether the person qualifies for assisted death. But all requests for assisted death and the deaths themselves must be reported to the federal health department, which monitors them as well.
Helen Long, CEO of Dying With Dignity Canada, a group that helps patients considering assisted deaths, said any doctors who don’t follow the rules would face severe consequences. “I think the system is working fairly well,” she said. “The reality is they risk losing their medical license, if not criminal charges, if they’re not following the rules.”
Jocelyn Downie, a professor in the law and medical faculties at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said, “There’s no good evidence that the Canadian system is not working well, and we do have systems in place to detect when it is not working well.”
She added, “Relative to the rest of the world, I actually think we have an excellent system.”
But a series of committee hearings, including the current parliamentary ones, have provided a public forum for the rekindled debate both about the expanded law and the country’s experience with assisted dying. The committees have heard from people frustrated by being shut out of the process that led to the deaths of family members; the decision to choose death is, under the law, one in which family members have no say. Many characterized the amended law as a dangerous assault on people with disabilities and have raised the possibility that people facing economic or housing challenges may now simply give up and opt to die.
Others worried that including mental disorders will undermine suicide prevention efforts or that death was being inappropriately raised as an alternative to treatment or more support.
Experts said there were often disagreements within families when someone chooses assisted suicide. But the government says there have not been documented abuses of the system.
In a statement, Health Canada said the new law introduced extra safeguards to protect people with disabilities and mental disorders as well as increased the government’s tracking of who is applying to die and of their motives. The government also said that the new law provided more oversight of doctors.
The committee that is studying how to apply the changes in the law heard hours of testimony and reviewed piles of written submissions.
Committee members wrestled with questions like whether minors should be allowed to choose assisted death and, if so, how, and whether healthy Canadians should be able to choose an assisted death before they develop dementia or any other condition that would prevent them from making a valid request.
One submission came from Christopher Lyon, whose father sought an assisted death under the amended law. The father, who lived in western Canada, had a long history of depression, suicidal thoughts and threats of suicide, Lyon said. When he fell and stopped eating, his doctors ruled him terminally ill and granted him an assisted death at age 77. The son, who has recently moved to Britain, said the process was rushed and opaque to his family.
“We still haven’t gotten the records, but what we do have raises more questions than answers about the circumstances of his death, and to me that’s quite alarming,” Lyon said. “The current law in Canada and the level of rigor that goes into an assessment does not seem to be strong.” Canada’s move toward assisted suicide was driven by the courts. The original 2016 law was a response to a 2015 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada that federal criminal law prohibiting assisted death violated the country’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The amended law was a response to a 2019 ruling by a Quebec court that parts of the system were unconstitutional by being too restrictive.
In Calgary, Romaire, who is a divorced mother of two adult children, said the debate over the new law has at times angered her but also made her anxious that the approval she’s received for an assisted death could be taken away.
Despite wearing a fentanyl patch, Romaire said she was in constant pain. Once an avid walker and yoga practitioner, she can no longer make it to the Co-Op supermarket a block from her home.
Romaire said that she has no immediate plans to go ahead with her death, partly because she first wants to sort out things with two family members who are struggling with her decision.
Romaire said she has a message for people who want to add additional safeguards or roll back the system’s scope by arguing that it is a threat to people with disabilities.
“I wish they wouldn’t speak for me,” she said. Assisted death “is not something that somebody can be pushed into,” she said. “It’s a very difficult process to go through; it’s not as easy as people think.”
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2022-09-19T02:37:50+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/is-choosing-death-too-easy-in-canada/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world
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Complete chaos is what some New Yorkers have called the process of getting monkeypox vaccines in the city.
Albert Lewitinn, a New York media executive, is one of a handful to get the first shot and, like others, is uncertain he will get the second one.
"When I went to get the shot, they said to me, well, we are not, we're not scheduling shots for the second dose because we don't know if we're going to get them."
"What?," Lewitinn said he responded.
"That doesn't mean we don't agree that a two-shot dose is ideal, but we are in an environment of extreme demand and strained supply. We believe one shot does confer significant protection, if not as much as two shots," said Ashwin Vasan, the NYC health commissioner.
New York's Health Commissioner is working quickly, contradicting advice from the FDA and CDC where the vaccine is meant to be given in two doses, with the second jab administered 28 days after the first to be fully effective.
"The process was a nightmare in a lot of ways," Lewitinn said.
All appointments were gone within seven minutes.
"There were constant glitches. And then when the vaccines became available, you had to go on as if you were looking for concert tickets," he continued.
Community-based organizations are extremely concerned, calling vaccine distribution inequitable.
Anthony Fortenberry is a registered nurse and the chief nursing officer at Callen-Lorde.
"It's a very small amount of vaccines, hardly enough to ensure immunity, even for the LGBTQ community alone," Fortenberry said.
The organization focuses on LGBTQ+ and health care. Fortenberry says health officials should immediately create a stronger plan.
The majority of cases were among men who identified as gay, bisexual or men who had sex with other men.
"Monkeypox, as we call MPV, does not discriminate against anyone," Fortenberry said.
NEWSY'S AXEL TURCIOS: What do you think will happen if public health officials do not target — do not contain, stop this outbreak quickly and effectively?
ANTHONY FORTENBERRY: We are seeing income and housing risk for people that are unable to work during these two to four weeks of isolation. We're seeing people in extreme pain and trauma.
Fortenberry says communities of color and minorities face the highest risk.
"I don't think that our public health infrastructure has prepared us for this next outbreak, despite having been aware of those disparities," he said.
Dashawn Usher, director of communities of color and media at GLAAD, the world's largest LGBQT+ media advocacy organization, agrees. He says education should be part of the national community outreach.
"The biggest thing that we're probably missing is in underreporting within other communities," Usher said. "It is also thinking about like we know that there are confirmed cases of people who have monkeypox that are not within like the LGBTQ+ community. And so I think it's important to just understand that like, yes, like the highest rates are happening over here in this particular community, but it also can happen in any community."
New York Governor Kathy Hochul says she expects the state will get a major increase in monkeypox vaccines later this week.
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2022-07-20T02:24:37+00:00
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kivitv.com
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https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/new-yorkers-scramble-to-get-monkeypox-vaccine
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(The Hill) — British rock legend Rod Stewart said he turned down a $1 million offer to perform at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar because of the country’s human rights record.
Stewart, 77, told British newspaper The Times that he was offered to play there 15 months ago but decided against the offer because “it’s not right to go.”
Qatar, a small nation in the Middle East on the Arabian Peninsula, has come under scrutiny for its treatment of migrant workers and its anti-LGBTQ stance.
English pop singer Dua Lipa also denied reports that she would perform at the 2022 World Cup, saying she would only do so if the country improves its record on human rights.
The Australian men’s soccer team released a video last month condemning Qatar for its treatment of migrant workers and LGBTQ people.
Jung Kook, a worldwide pop star in the South Korean group BTS, is slated to perform at the World Cup in Qatar.
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2022-11-15T17:38:27+00:00
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wdtn.com
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https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/rod-stewart-says-he-turned-down-1m-to-perform-at-world-cup-in-qatar/
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SEATTLE, June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Get ready for an unmissable cultural phenomenon as the first-ever Tasveer Film Summit takes center stage from October 11th to 12th, 2023, in Greater Seattle Area, Washington. This momentous gathering will build a focused environment for emerging filmmakers and film executives to forge unique networking opportunities and creative relationships. It will be a one-of-a-kind convergence of diasporic filmmakers, producers, industry executives, distributors, creatives, and film professionals from all over the world.
By creating avenues and opportunities for diasporic filmmakers to get their stories in the global limelight, Tasveer will challenge the glaring disparities in Asian representation, which according to the Hollywood Diversity Report of 2022, is under 4%. With numerous panels, industry-mixers, networking events, and multiple-pitch sessions this summit is set to bring forth reformation, knowledge and momentum in the film industry.
"We are thrilled to present the first-ever Tasveer South Asian Film Summit to shine a spotlight on the immense talent, creativity, and cultural diversity within the South Asian Diaspora film industry. We believe that through these cinematic journeys, we can bridge gaps, foster understanding, and empower voices that have long been underrepresented." says Rita Meher, Executive Director of Tasveer.
Apoorva Bakshi (Awedacious Originals) and Neeraj Churi (Lotus Visual) have joined the Advisory Board and are thrilled about the possibilities the market will open for South Asian filmmakers who are keen to tell diaspora stories. Netflix, Marginal Media, Cinetic Media are few confirmed attendees. This will be a major boost for the South Asian filmmaking community
Early Bird passes for the Tasveer Festival are now available, offering exclusive access to a captivating lineup of films, panel discussions, workshops, and networking opportunities. Secure your pass today at https://tasveerfestival.org/tasveer-film-summit/
About Tasveer: Tasveer is a 21-year-old nonprofit film organization dedicated to promoting South Asian films, arts, and culture in the United States. With a vision to foster dialogue and create platforms for South Asian voices, Tasveer has been instrumental in showcasing diverse stories that captivate audiences and promote cultural exchange.
For further information, please contact Olympia Bhatt at olympia@tasveer.org.
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2023-06-16T14:24:08+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2023/06/16/tasveer-unveils-first-ever-south-asian-film-summit-north-america/
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BAD HOMBURG, Germany — Spanish player Rebeka Masarova upset fifth-seeded Bianca Andreescu 6-3, 6-2 but Liudmila Samsonova survived a scare to reach the quarterfinals of the Bad Homburg Open on Tuesday.
American Emma Navarro beat Alizé Cornet of France 7-5, 7-6 (6) to reach the quarterfinals. The 22-year-old Navarro will next play Masarova, who converted five of her eight break point opportunities against Andreescu, without facing any from the Canadian player.
Eighth-seeded Varvara Gracheva of France beat Italy’s Sara Errani 6-2, 7-5 for a quarterfinal match against Mayar Sherif or Lucia Bronzetti.
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2023-06-27T20:24:04+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/tennis/2023/06/27/bad-homburg-samsonova-andreescu/1721687e-1522-11ee-9de3-ba1fa29e9bec_story.html
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TORONTO, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Manulife Financial Corporation (Manulife) announced today that the nominees listed in the management information circular dated March 15, 2023 were each elected as a director at the Annual Meeting held earlier today. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors are set out below.
Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual Meeting will be available shortly on our website and will be filed with Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.
About Manulife
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we provide financial advice and insurance, operating as Manulife across Canada, Asia, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. Through Manulife Investment Management, the global brand for our Global Wealth and Asset Management segment, we serve individuals, institutions, and retirement plan members worldwide. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. We trade as 'MFC' on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges and under '945' in Hong Kong.
Not all offerings are available in all jurisdictions. For additional information, please visit manulife.com.
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2023-05-11T20:39:20+00:00
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2023/05/11/manulife-announces-election-directors/
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fifty days into a strike with no end in sight, about 1,000 Hollywood writers and their supporters marched and rallied in Los Angeles for a new contract with studios that includes payment guarantees and job security.
Speakers at the Writers Guild of America’s WGA Strong March and Rally for a Fair Contract on Wednesday emphasized the broad support for their cause shown by other Hollywood unions — including actors in their own contract negotiations — and labor at large.
“We’re all in it together, we’re all fighting the same fight, for a sustainable job in the face of corporate greed,” Adam Conover, a writer and a member of the guild’s board and its negotiating committee, told a crowd at the end of the march at the La Brea Tar Pits. “We are going to win because they need us. Writers are the ones who stare at a blank page. We are the ones who invent the characters, tell the stories and write the jokes that their audiences love. They’d have nothing without us.”
Talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group representing studios in negotiations, have not resumed since breaking off hours before the writers’ contract expired on May 1. The strike began a day later, with more and more productions shutting down as it has gone on.
A similar deadline now looms for actors, whose union, SAG-AFTRA, is negotiating with the AMPTP on a contract that expires June 30. Members voted overwhelmingly to authorize guild leaders to call a strike if no deal is reached.
Streaming and its ripple effects are at the center of the dispute. The guild says that even as series budgets have increased, writers’ share of that money has consistently shrunk.
The AMPTP says writers’ demands would require they be kept on staff and paid when there is no work for them, and that its contract proposals have been generous.
“We are here for the sake of the profession we love,” writer Liz Alper said at Wednesday’s rally. “The industry we work in, our audiences, our fellow sister unions in Hollywood, and all the workers across America who have been hurt and disenfranchised by Wall Street and big tech.”
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2023-06-22T17:40:28+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/hollywood-writers-at-rally-say-theyll-win-as-strike-reaches-50-days/
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Anticipates Strong Recovery in Mobile Revenue Beginning in the Second Quarter
PORTLAND, Ore., May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pixelworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: PXLW), a leading provider of innovative video and display processing solutions, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023.
First Quarter and Recent Highlights
- HONOR Magic5 Pro and HONOR Magic5 Ultimate smartphones launched incorporating Pixelworks' advanced X5 Plus visual processor, with the HONOR Magic5 Pro scoring 151 in DXOMARK's display test and ranking #1 in global smartphone display performance
- OnePlus 11 and OnePlus Ace 2 flagship smartphones launched with Pixelworks' X7 visual processor, enabling both ultra-low latency 120fps and low power super-resolution mobile gaming on over 100 game titles
- OPPO affiliate incorporated Pixelworks' X5 Plus visual processor in newly launched realme GT Neo5, enabling powerful display performance that couples high frame rate together with high clarity and color accuracy
- ASUS launched ROG Phone 7 Series integrating Pixelworks visual processing enhancements, including immersive HDR picture quality, superior color calibration and reproduction as well as DC dimming
- Announced partnership with GALA Sports, the largest mobile sports simulation game developer in China, to integrate Pixelworks' Rendering Accelerator SDK in Total Football, a top-ranking football simulation game
- 20th Century Studios and Lightstorm Entertainment re-release Titanic '25th Anniversary' remastered in 4K 3D and cinematic high frame rate, becoming the third theatrical release to utilize the TrueCut Motion platform
- Closed previously announced strategic investment in the Company's Shanghai subsidiary, generating net proceeds of $14.6 million USD based on a pre-money valuation of $501.4 million, further strengthening Pixelworks Shanghai's capital position and contributing to the Company's consolidated cash balance of $62.8 million at quarter end
"First quarter results were consistent with our prior guidance, as we worked through the inventory correction in the broader smartphone industry as well as the anticipated seasonality in the projector market," stated Todd DeBonis, President and CEO of Pixelworks. "We are confident that the first quarter represented the bottom for Pixelworks in the cyclical downturn, as the previous inventory of our mobile ICs both within the channel and held at customers was below normal levels as of the end of March.
"Further reinforcing our optimism for renewed growth, we have received upside demand from leading customers on a combination of existing and soon to be launched mobile programs. We also recently secured the first design-in and initial production orders with our fourth tier-one mobile customer. Additionally, we continue to expand our initiatives with key partners aimed at establishing an advanced mobile gaming ecosystem, which has contributed to a robust pipeline of tier-one mobile engagements on next-gen programs for the second half of the year.
"Specific to the second quarter, our current bookings support strong sequential revenue growth in mobile as well as an uptick in sales into the projector market. We expect the renewed momentum in mobile to accelerate into the second half of the year, further highlighted by the planned application for our Pixelworks Shanghai subsidiary to publicly list on the STAR exchange."
First Quarter Fiscal 2023 Financial Results
Revenue in the first quarter of 2023 was $10.0 million, compared to $16.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2022 and $16.6 million in the first quarter of 2022. The sequential and year-over-year decline in revenue reflected a combination of seasonality in the projector market and an inventory correction in the mobile market, as well as the lower anticipated revenue contribution from video delivery following the end-of-life implemented for certain products at the end of 2022.
On a GAAP basis, gross profit margin in the first quarter of 2023 was 43.8%, compared to 53.1% in the fourth quarter of 2022 and 52.7% in the first quarter of 2022. First quarter 2023 GAAP operating expenses were $14.7 million, compared to $12.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2022 and $12.6 million in the year-ago quarter.
On a non-GAAP basis, first quarter 2023 gross profit margin was 44.1%, compared to 53.3% in the fourth quarter of 2022 and 53.2% in the year-ago quarter. First quarter 2023 non-GAAP operating expenses were $13.6 million, compared to $10.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2022 and $11.6 million in the year-ago quarter.
For the first quarter of 2023, the Company recorded a GAAP net loss of $9.4 million, or ($0.17) per share, compared to a GAAP net loss of $1.9 million, or ($0.04) per share, in the fourth quarter of 2022, and a GAAP net loss of $4.6 million, or ($0.09) per share, in the year-ago quarter. Note, the Company refers to "net loss attributable to Pixelworks Inc." as "net loss".
For the first quarter of 2023, the Company recorded a non-GAAP net loss of $8.2 million, or ($0.15) per share, compared to a non-GAAP net loss of $0.8 million, or ($0.01) per share, in the fourth quarter of 2022, and a non-GAAP net loss of $3.5 million, or ($0.06) per share, in the first quarter of 2022.
Adjusted EBITDA in the first quarter of 2023 was a negative $7.8 million, compared to a negative $1.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2022 and a negative $2.2 million in the year-ago quarter.
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the first quarter of 2023 were $62.8 million, compared to $56.8 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2022 and $55.2 million at the end of the first quarter of 2022.
Business Outlook
The Company's current business outlook, including guidance for the second quarter of 2023, will be provided as part of the scheduled conference call.
Conference Call Information
Pixelworks will host a conference call today, May 9, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time. To join the conference call via phone, participants are required to complete the following registration form to receive a dial-in number and dedicated PIN for accessing the conference call. Additionally, a live and archived audio webcast of the conference call will be accessible via the investors section of Pixelworks' website at www.pixelworks.com.
About Pixelworks, Inc.
Pixelworks provides industry-leading content creation, video delivery and display processing solutions and technology that enable highly authentic viewing experiences with superior visual quality, across all screens – from cinema to smartphone and beyond. The Company has a 20-year history of delivering image processing innovation to leading providers of consumer electronics, professional displays, and video streaming services. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.pixelworks.com.
Note: Pixelworks, the Pixelworks logo and TrueCut Motion are trademarks of Pixelworks, Inc.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This earnings release makes reference to non-GAAP gross profit margins, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP net loss and non-GAAP net loss per share, which exclude amortization of acquired intangible assets and stock-based compensation expense which are required under GAAP as well as the tax effect of the non-GAAP adjustments and the impact of non-GAAP adjustments to redeemable non-controlling interest. The press release also makes reference to and reconciles GAAP net loss and adjusted EBITDA, which Pixelworks defines as GAAP net loss attributable to Pixelworks Inc. before interest income and other, net, income tax provision (benefit), depreciation and amortization, as well as the specific items listed above.
Pixelworks management uses these non-GAAP financial measures internally to understand, manage and evaluate the business and establish its operational goals, review its operations on a period-to-period basis, for compensation evaluations, to measure performance, and for budgeting and resource allocation. Pixelworks management believes it is useful for the Company and investors to review, as applicable, both GAAP information and non-GAAP financial measures to help assess the performance of Pixelworks' continuing business and to evaluate Pixelworks' future prospects. These non-GAAP measures, when reviewed together with the GAAP financial information, provide additional transparency and information for comparison and analysis of operating performance and trends. These non-GAAP measures exclude certain items to facilitate management's review of the comparability of our core operating results on a period-to-period basis.
Because the Company's non-GAAP financial measures are not calculated in accordance with GAAP, they may not necessarily be comparable to similarly titled measures employed by other companies. These non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the comparable GAAP measures and should be read only in conjunction with the Company's consolidated financial results as presented in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures is included in this earnings release which is available in the investor relations section of the Pixelworks website.
Safe Harbor Statement
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2023-05-09T21:42:21+00:00
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Luis Severino had a good vantage point to watch Aaron Judge send a pitch 453 feet to straightaway center field in the first inning Sunday, and the Yankees starter marveled at the nearly 400-foot homer that the slugger added in the ninth.
It was the 30-foot oopsie RBI that Judge hit in between that helped get Severino off the hook for a loss.
Along with running his homer streak to three straight games, Judge drove in the tying run in the seventh on a checked swing that trundled slowly down the first-base line, helping New York rally for a 6-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals that pushed the club’s winning streak to nine games.
“What can I say?” Severino asked. “The guy’s a monster.”
Not on that groundout, though. It traveled all of 30 feet. But certainly on the two homers, which combined to travel nearly the length of three football fields. They gave Judge five in his last five games and eight on the season.
“I mean, the way he cleaned that first one out, man – it’s hard to hit one more pure,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
Josh Donaldson drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh on a fielder’s choice. Clarke Schmidt (2-2) pitched a scoreless inning in relief to earn the win, then was optioned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre afterward. Aroldis Chapman left the tying run on base in the ninth to earn his sixth save on the year and 20th in a row.
“Everyone came in and contributed,” Boone said. “We didn’t break it open but everyone had a hand in there.”
The Yankees, riding the longest winning streak in the majors, improved to 16-6. It’s only the fourth time since 1959 that the 27-time World Series champions have won at least 16 of their first 22 games.
Michael Taylor homered for Kansas City, which has lost eight of its last 10.
The Royals looked as if they might avoid the sweep when Nicky Lopez, Whit Merrifield and Andrew Benintendi loaded the bases in the third inning. Severino’s wild pitch allowed Lopez to score from third, and after Salvador Perez hit into a fielder’s choice, Carlos Santana snuck a two-out double down the right-field line to give Kansas City a 3-1 lead.
The Royals added another run in the fourth thanks in part to an error on third baseman DJ LeMahieu, the Yankees’ second in as many days. Prior to that, they had gone 13 straight games without committing one.
LeMahieu, atoning for his miscue, and Isiah Kiner-Falefa each drove in a run to get the Yankees within 4-3, and Judge and Donaldson completed the comeback in the seventh, before the tack-on homer in the ninth.
“The seventh has been the inning that has been biting us pretty hard,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said.
ROSTER MOVES
Schmidt was optioned along with LF Miguel Andujar, who went 2 for 4 and scored a run for New York. “It’s a real tough pill to swallow,” Schmidt said. “It’s a tough part of the game but it’s a business also.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: OF Joey Gallo was out of the lineup after leaving Saturday night’s game with tightness in his left groin, though the injury is not considered serious. “I wanted to keep playing,” Gallo said, “but I think it’s just the smart move.”
Royals: C Cam Gallagher left the game with a strained left hamstring. … 3B Bobby Witt Jr. was removed from the starting lineup an hour before first pitch. He was hit on the wrist by a pitch Saturday night. “Yeah, he’s sore,” Matheny said.
UP NEXT
The Yankees visit Toronto for a three-game set beginning Monday night with LHP Jordan Montgomery (0-1, 2.70) starting the opener.
The Royals play a makeup game Monday in St. Louis with RHP Zack Greinke (0-1, 2.86) on the mound, then the cross-state rivals return to Kansas City for two more games beginning Tuesday night.
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2022-05-02T03:38:07+00:00
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- World-class philanthropist and long-time Michael J. Fox Foundation Board member Lily Safra, chairwoman of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation, passed away on July 9, 2022, at age 87
- Mrs. Safra's transformative generosity and leadership supported a wide range of The Michael J. Fox Foundation's scientific programs and accomplishments
NEW YORK, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) mourns the loss of visionary philanthropist and Foundation Board member Lily Safra, who passed away on Saturday, July 9, 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland. As chairwoman of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation, Mrs. Safra provided transformative support to hundreds of organizations around the world in the name of her late husband, Edmond J. Safra. Her philanthropy extended to education, science and medicine, religion, culture and humanitarian relief.
Edmond J. Safra lived with Parkinson's disease (PD), and Mrs. Safra was deeply committed to finding a cure. Within months of MJFF's inception, she joined the Foundation's Board of Directors, setting in motion an outpouring of strategic grant-making over the next two decades that transformed the course of Parkinson's disease research and care.
"Lily's friendship was instrumental in establishing our path and expanding our work further than we could have dreamed," said Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan. "She sharpened our vision and lent us her strength so that we might make a greater difference in the lives of all people and families touched by Parkinson's disease. We will be grateful forever."
Mrs. Safra's personal generosity, paired with her leadership of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation, provided sustained support for MJFF's top scientific and care priorities, including:
- In 2003, Mrs. Safra's visionary support allowed MJFF to establish the Edmond J. Safra Global Genetics Consortia resulting in the first genome-wide association study of Parkinson's, a vital step in identifying genetic changes linked to the disease. Over subsequent years this program would come to revolutionize scientific understanding of the genetics of PD, opening avenues of research still avidly pursued to this day.
- In 2007, the Edmond J. Safra Foundation backed MJFF's LEAPS (Linked Efforts to Accelerate Parkinson's Solutions) program, an innovative funding model that provided multi-year, multi-million-dollar grants to "all-star" research teams to solve urgent questions in PD diagnosis or treatment. This support enabled research on alpha-synuclein — a protein that clumps in the brains of nearly all 6 million people worldwide who live with Parkinson's — marking the start of an ongoing partnership that would propel this then-emerging field of research on its path to becoming the most important therapeutic target in Parkinson's.
- In 2010, Mrs. Safra provided the first individual leadership gift to MJFF's landmark clinical study, the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI). Since then, PPMI has changed how research is done and what scientists know about the brain. It is a cornerstone of our understanding of disease and has heavily influenced clinical trial design and spurred a significant increase in industry investment in PD. The study's considerable growth is possible because of the uninterrupted flow of support from the Edmond J. Safra Foundation and Mrs. Safra.
- In 2012, Mrs. Safra facilitated Jewels For Hope, auctioning her personal collection of jewels for the benefit of 32 charitable organizations, including a $1-million donation to MJFF. That same year, MJFF dedicated its largest meeting space, the locus of countless scientific decisions and creative ingenuity, in memory of Edmond J. Safra. Mrs. Safra and Michael J. Fox dedicated the room in a memorable dedication ceremony attended by Board, leadership, staff and members of the Parkinson's community.
- In 2014, as part of an effort to address the worldwide shortage of movement disorder specialists — neurologists with additional training in Parkinson's and other movement disorders — the Edmond J. Safra Foundation partnered with MJFF to establish The Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders. The program provides funding for clinical centers to train more clinician-researcher neurologists worldwide, effectively growing the global base of movement disorder specialists treating people with Parkinson's and contributing to research toward new and improved treatments. The Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders is on track to graduate 72 new PD specialists by 2028.
To honor Mrs. Safra for her decades-long commitment to speeding a Parkinson's cure and bettering quality of life for the millions of people and families living with the disease, MJFF created the inaugural Edmond J. Safra Humanitarian Award in 2020.
"There are no words to adequately convey our grief at this loss. Mrs. Safra was a true giant of philanthropy and someone we have been privileged to know and work with from the beginning," said Deborah W. Brooks, MJFF Co-Founder and CEO. "Her trust in our shared vision gave us the confidence to pursue even the most far-reaching objectives, and her outspoken support opened the door to opportunities we never imagined. Her compassionate spirit will remain a constant source of inspiration for us all."
As the world's largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson's research, The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to accelerating a cure for Parkinson's disease and improved therapies for those living with the condition today. The Foundation pursues its goals through an aggressively funded, highly targeted research program coupled with active global engagement of scientists, Parkinson's patients, business leaders, clinical trial participants, donors and volunteers. In addition to funding $1.5 billion in research to date, the Foundation has fundamentally altered the trajectory of progress toward a cure. Operating at the hub of worldwide Parkinson's research, the Foundation forges groundbreaking collaborations with industry leaders, academic scientists and government research funders; creates a robust open- access data set and biosample library to speed scientific breakthroughs and treatment with its landmark clinical study, PPMI; increases the flow of participants into Parkinson's disease clinical trials with its online tool, Fox Trial Finder; promotes Parkinson's awareness through high-profile advocacy, events and outreach; and coordinates the grassroots involvement of thousands of Team Fox members around the world. For more information, visit us at michaeljfox.org, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn.
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2022-07-22T13:58:05+00:00
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LONDON (AP) — Microsoft said Wednesday that it struck a deal to make the hit video game Call of Duty available on Nintendo for 10 years when its $69 billion purchase of game maker Activision Blizzard goes through — an apparent attempt to fend off objections from rival Sony.
The blockbuster merger is facing close scrutiny from regulators in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. Microsoft, maker of the Xbox game console, faces resistance from Sony, which makes the competing PlayStation console and has raised concerns with antitrust watchdogs about losing access to what it calls a “must-have” game title.
Microsoft President Brad Smith tweeted his thanks to Nintendo, which makes the Switch game console, saying the same offer was available for Sony.
“Any day @Sony wants to sit down and talk, we’ll be happy to hammer out a 10-year deal for PlayStation as well,” he said.
Smith said the agreement will bring Call of Duty to more gamers and more platforms, and “that’s good for competition and good for consumers.”
Sony’s European press office didn’t respond immediately to a request for comment.
At the heart of the dispute is control over future releases of Activision Blizzard’s most popular games, especially Call of Duty, a first-person military shooter franchise. Activision reported last month that the latest installment, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, had earned more than $1 billion in sales since its Oct. 28 launch.
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2022-12-07T17:56:48+00:00
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HGTV's Home Town Takeover is back in action and in Colorado to give a full renovation to the small town of Fort Morgan.
This season is set to be bigger and better than before, and to accomplish their ambitious goals, Home Town stars Ben and Erin Napier are teaming up with Fixer to Fabulous stars Dave and Jenny Marrs to bring a new look to the tight-knit community.
ET's Lauren Zima was on site, and spoke with the show's hosts and dream makers about the enormous undertaking.
"Over the next four months, we are going to help renovate business and homes," Dave shared excitedly while talking about how they are going to be tackling a whopping 18 renovation projects -- up from the 12 they did last season when working on the town of Wetumpka, Alabama.
Ben said that their overhauling will bring new life to "community spaces all across this great town."
According to Dave, there will be "hundreds" of people, both hired contractors and townspeople, helping with the massive endeavor.
"The town is literally pitching in," Jenny added. "Everyone is involved, everyone's a part of this."
Fans will get to see the monumental project take place over six episodes, as the town comes together for a transformation of unprecedented proportions.
Nestled just over an hour outside of Denver, Fort Morgan struggles to compete with the larger city's entertainment and shopping availability. Right now, the town is mostly known for its plentiful agricultural and manufacturing jobs, without a draw for much else.
Tasked with reinvigorating Fort Morgan's main street experience, the renovation experts will seek to amplify the town's charm, building community pride and luring tourists off of the nearby Interstate 76.
The new season is slated to premiere in early 2023.
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2022-07-29T12:26:06+00:00
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At least some U.S. adults may get updated COVID-19 shots this fall, as government advisers voted Tuesday that it’s time to tweak booster doses to better match the most recent virus variants.
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration wrestled with how to modify doses now when there’s no way to know how the rapidly mutating virus will evolve by fall — especially since people who get today’s recommended boosters remain strongly protected against COVID-19’s worst outcomes.
Ultimately the FDA panel voted 19-2 that COVID-19 boosters should contain some version of the super-contagious omicron variant, to be ready for an anticipated fall booster campaign.
“We are going to be behind the eight-ball if we wait longer,” said one adviser, Dr. Mark Sawyer of the University of California, San Diego.
The FDA will have to decide the exact recipe, but expect a combination shot that adds protection against either omicron or some of its newer relatives to the original vaccine.
“None of us has a crystal ball” to know the next threatening variant, said FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks. But “we may at least bring the immune system closer to being able to respond to what’s circulating” now rather than far older virus strains.
It’s not clear who would be offered a tweaked booster — they might be urged only for older adults or those at high risk from the virus. But the FDA is expected to decide on the recipe change within days and then Pfizer and Moderna will have to seek authorization for the appropriately updated doses, time for health authorities to settle on a fall strategy.
Current COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives globally. With a booster dose, those used in the U.S. retain strong protection against hospitalization and death but their ability to block infection dropped markedly when omicron appeared. And the omicron mutant that caused the winter surge has been replaced by its genetically distinct relatives. The two newest omicron cousins, called BA.4 and BA.5, together now make up half of U.S. cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Pfizer and Moderna already were brewing boosters that add protection to the first omicron mutant. Their combination shots, what scientists call “bivalent” vaccines, substantially boosted levels of antibodies capable of fighting that variant, more than simply giving another dose of today’s vaccine.
Both companies found the tweaked shots also offered some cross-protection against those worrisome BA.4 and BA.5 mutants, too, but not nearly as much.
Many scientists favor the combination approach because it preserves the original vaccines’ proven benefits, which include some cross-protection against other mutants that have cropped up during the pandemic.
The question facing FDA is the correct recipe change. Both companies said they’d have plenty of omicron-targeted combo shots by October but Moderna said switching to target omicron’s newest relatives might delay its version another month.
Further complicating the decision is that only half of vaccinated Americans have received that all-important first booster. And while the CDC says protection against hospitalization has slipped some for older adults, a second booster that’s recommended for people 50 and older seems to restore it. But only a quarter of those eligible for the additional booster have gotten one.
Marks said that by tweaking the shots, “we’re hoping we can convince people to go get that booster to strengthen their immune response and help prevent another wave.”
The logistics will be challenging. Many Americans haven’t had their first vaccinations yet, including young children who just became eligible — and it’s not clear whether tweaked boosters eventually might lead to a change in the primary vaccine. But the FDA’s advisers said it’s important to go ahead and study updated vaccine recipes in children, too.
And one more complexity: A third company, Novavax, is awaiting FDA authorization of a more traditional kind of COVID-19 vaccine, protein-based shots. Novavax argued Tuesday that a booster of its regular vaccine promises a good immune response against the new omicron mutants without a recipe change.
Advisers to the World Health Organization recently said omicron-tweaked shots would be most beneficial as a booster only, because they should increase the breadth of people’s cross-protection against multiple variants.
“We don’t want the world to lose confidence in vaccines that are currently available,” said Dr. Kanta Subbarao, a virologist who chairs that WHO committee.
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2022-06-29T12:44:44+00:00
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Honda is recalling 330,318 newer Pilot and Passport SUVs, Odyssey minivans, and Ridgeline trucks for defective side mirrors that can loose its mirror glass, the NHTSA disclosed Monday.
Both side mirrors have heating pads located behind the glass that can lose adhesion and detach from the plate holding the glass in place. If the heating pad detaches, the mirror glass detaches with it. The absence of side mirrors poses a risk to drivers and other road users.
The tape used to bond the pad to the glass lacked sufficient adhesion, Honda said.
The recall encompasses the following vehicles:
2020-2021 Honda Pilot three-row crossover SUV
2020-2021 Honda Ridgeline truck
2020-2022 Honda Passport crossover
2020-2022 Honda Odyssey minivan
Operators may notice the mirror glass vibrating before it detaches. Honda acknowledged 71 warranty claims for the issue, but said it was aware of no related crashes or injuries.
Owners can expect notification by mail as soon as May 8, 2023. The notice will instruct owners to take the recalled vehicles into a Honda service center where dealers will replace both left and right side mirrors, free of charge. For more information, contact Honda customer service at 1-888-234-2138 or visit Honda’s recall website here.
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- IIHS: Most family SUVs fail to protect rear passengers in a crash
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2023-04-04T01:58:42+00:00
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https://www.wjhl.com/automotive/internet-brands/honda-recalls-330318-vehicles-for-shaky-side-mirror-glass/
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy announced today, International Overdose Awareness Day, the launch of a new effort to assist communities and states in investing opioid settlement funds to support local, sustainable community-based substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery infrastructure. Through a $365,000 grant from the Elevance Health Foundation, Duke researchers will work with their strategic partner, Third Horizon Strategies, to create a series of toolkits and playbooks for policymakers to maximize use of these funds in their communities.
"With billions of time-limited opioid settlement funds flowing over the next 18 years toward local decision-makers, this a unique opportunity for communities to design, scale, and support local infrastructure that is attuned to the chronic nature of addiction and can fill needed gaps," said Dr. Mark McClellan, Director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. "However, only limited guidance and resources are currently available to help local and county officials make informed decisions on the substance use treatment needs in their communities. This important support from the Elevance Health Foundation will further the Center's work on opioids and substance use disorder, including the workshops and publications geared toward providing policymakers practical steps toward ending the opioid addiction crisis. Through this grant, we will be able to provide policymakers the critical tools they need to create sustainable prevention and treatment options to tackle substance use disorder."
Today, 9.5 million adults in the U.S. report having both a SUD and a mental illness, and SUD alone affect over 40 million Americans aged 12 and over. "The startling reality that millions of Americans are struggling with substance use disorder drives home our commitment to partner with organizations to deliver solutions on local, state, and national levels," said Shantanu Agrawal, M.D., Chief Health Officer of Elevance Health. "By acknowledging the physical, behavioral, and social drivers of health as they relate to substance use disorders, this important work will provide meaningful solutions to achieve better health and advance health equity."
"In order to sustain the impact of settlement funds, policymakers need to be able to assess where specific gaps exist on the ground, in addition to the special needs of their population and local community," said Tym Rourke, Senior Director, Third Horizon Strategies and former Chair of New Hampshire Governor's Commission on Substance Use. "Our firm is thrilled to lend its consensus-building and market analytics skills to provide policymakers with actionable tools they need to make informed life-saving decisions."
To maximize the use of these settlement dollars, over the next two years the Duke-Margolis-led effort will inform best practices for community-level investments in sustainable, recovery-oriented infrastructure, including:
- Potential Need tool that will allow local officials to understand prospective demand for specific substance use and mental health prevention, treatment, and recovery support services in their community.
- Recovery Readiness measurement tool to signal the capacity for communities, counties and related regions to support individuals in recovery within the broad mental health/substance use disorder support system.
- Playbook for Local Officials for investing opioid settlement funding in sustainable SUD treatment and recovery infrastructure, highlighting best practices and potential areas of investment, along with case studies from around country.
- A measurement toolkit to allow local officials to measure progress in patient outcomes and community-level SUD infrastructure, providing decision-makers and healthcare stakeholders with specific metrics for evaluating the impact of opioid litigation settlement dollars have on their communities.
The mission of the Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Health Policy at Duke University is to improve health, health equity, and the value of health care through practical, innovative, and evidence-based policy solutions. For more information, visit healthpolicy.duke.edu and follow us on Twitter @DukeMargolis.
Third Horizon Strategies is a Chicago-based strategic, boutique advisory firm focused on shaping a future system that actualizes a sustainable culture of health nationwide. Staff located in Colorado, Illinois, Virginia, Connecticut, and New Hampshire support and lead client engagements spanning the country – from Washington state to Washington, D.C. The firm offers a 360º view of complex challenges across three horizons – past, present, and future – to help industry leaders and policymakers interpret signals and trends; design integrated systems; and enact changes so that all communities, families, and individuals can thrive. Learn more at www.thirdhorizonstrategies.com.
Elevance Health Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Elevance Health, Inc. The Foundation works to advance health equity by focusing on improving the health of the socially vulnerable through partnerships and programs in our communities with an emphasis on maternal child health; substance use disorder; and food as medicine. Through its key areas of focus, the Foundation also strategically aligns with Elevance Health's focus on community health and becoming a lifetime, trusted health partner that is fueled by its purpose to improve the health of humanity. To learn more about Elevance Health Foundation, please visit www.elevancehealth.foundation or follow us @ElevanceFND on Twitter and Elevance Health Foundation on Facebook.
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2022-08-31T07:16:20+00:00
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phoenix’ big three of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Chris Paul were all in go-mode.
As a result, the scrappy and shorthanded Los Angeles Clippers are on the verge of going home for the summer.
Durant scored 31 points, Booker added 30 and Paul bounced back big in the fourth quarter of a 112-100 victory over the Kawhi Leonard-less Clippers on Saturday to take a commanding 3-1 lead in the first-round playoff series.
“It’s definitely good when we all three are aggressive. We all did a solid job,” said Durant, acquired in February from the Brooklyn Nets. “We’re still growing and still trying to learn each other.”
The Clippers, who lost Game 3 by five points, again made a strong run with Leonard watching from the bench. He has missed two straight games with a sprained right knee. They’re also without Paul George, who hasn’t played since March 21 because of the same injury as Leonard.
“This team is going to stick around the whole game,” Durant said of the Clippers. “They’re never out of a game.”
Game 5 in the best-of-seven series is Tuesday in Phoenix.
“We make no excuses around here,” Clippers guard Russell Westbrook said. “We just got to make sure we rally around each other, keep competing and leave it on the floor.”
Westbrook, who joined the Clippers in February, carried them in the fourth. He had 14 points, including nine in a row when they twice pulled within two points.
Westbrook finished with a game-high 37 points. Norman Powell added 14 points and Terance Mann had 13 off the bench.
But as the fourth wound down, the Clippers ran out of gas.
Paul, who at 37 has had many late-game big moments, had 12 points in the fourth, hitting key jumpers from all over the court each time Los Angeles threatened.
“I was just happy a few of them fell,” said Paul, who shot 5 of 18 for 11 points in Game 3.
Paul finished with 19 points on 8-for-17 shooting, nine assists and no turnovers against his former team. Booker had nine rebounds and seven assists. Deandre Ayton had 15 points and 13 rebounds.
Looking ageless at 34 while playing a game-high 44 minutes, Durant scored 11 points in the third, capped by a 3-pointer as the Suns erased an early eight-point deficit. They led 83-78 going into the fourth.
“We did a solid job of staying poised,” Durant said. “We were just terrible to start the third.”
The Clippers scored the first nine points of the third and Suns coach Monty Williams called timeout.
“Typically you have to list three, four things you have to do,” he said. “I don’t have to do that with these guys. They understand before I get there.”
The Suns trailed by 11 points early in the second, when they outscored the Clippers 25-17 and led 48-47 at the break.
“It was a back and forth battle,” Durant said. “They threw punches, we threw punches. We threw the last one.”
TIP-INS
Suns: Cam Payne (low back soreness) has yet to play in the postseason.
Clippers: Westbrook became the sixth player in franchise history with consecutive postseason games of at least 30 points. He had 30 in Game 3. … Got outrebounded 49-33. … Bench outscored the Suns’ reserves, 26-9.
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2023-04-23T02:10:57+00:00
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krqe.com
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NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising -- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against International Game Technology PLC ("IGT" or "the Company") (NYSE: IGT) and certain of its officers, on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased, or otherwise acquired IGT securities between March 16, 2018 and August 29, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/igt.
This class action seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act").
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Facebook parent Meta slashes another 10,000 jobs
(AP) - Facebook parent Meta is slashing another 10,000 jobs and will not fill 5,000 open positions as the social media pioneer cuts costs.
The company announced 11,000 job cuts in November, about 13% of its workforce at the time.
Meta and other tech companies have been hiring aggressively for at least two years and in recent months have begun to let some of those workers go.
Early last month, Meta posted falling profits and its third consecutive quarter of declining revenue.
The company said Tuesday it will reduce the size of its recruiting team and make further cuts in its tech groups in late April, and then its business groups in late May.
“This will be tough and there’s no way around that,” said CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “It will mean saying goodbye to talented and passionate colleagues who have been part of our success.”
The Menlo Park, California, company has invested billions of dollars to realign its focus on the metaverse. In February it said a downturn in online advertising and competition from rivals such as TikTok weighed on results.
“As I’ve talked about efficiency this year, I’ve said that part of our work will involve removing jobs -- and that will be in service of both building a leaner, more technical company and improving our business performance to enable our long term vision,” said Zuckerberg.
The biggest tech companies in the U.S. are cutting costs elsewhere, too.
This month, Amazon paused construction on its second headquarters in Virginia following the biggest round of layoffs in the company’s history and its shifting plans around remote work.
In early trading, Meta shares rose 6%.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-03-14T14:30:50+00:00
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Simwaka is Team Malawi’s flag bearer. The country’s multi-talented athlete Asimenye Simwaka is set to lead Team Malawi during the opening ceremony …
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Experts say attacks on free speech are rising across the US
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — In Idaho, an art exhibit was censored and teens were told they couldn’t testify in some legislative hearings. In Washington state, a lawmaker proposed a hotline so the government could track offensively biased statements, as well as hate crimes. In Florida, bloggers are fighting a bill that would force them to register with the state if they write posts criticizing public officials.
Meanwhile, drag performances are growing increasingly common nationwide.
“We are seeing tremendous attacks on First Amendment freedoms across the country right now, at all levels of government. Censorship is proliferating, and it’s deeply troubling,” said Joe Cohn, legislative and policy director with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
“This year, we’re seeing a wave of bills targeting drag performances, where simply being gender nonconforming is enough to trigger the penalty. We’re also seeing a wave of bills regulating what can be in public or K-12 school libraries,” Cohn said. “On college campuses, we have been tracking data about attempts to get faculty members punished or even fired for speech or expression and the numbers are startling — it’s the highest rate that we’ve seen in our 20 years of existence.”
First Amendment rights had been stable in America for decades, said Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, but in recent years many states have reverted to the anti-speech tactics employed by people like Sen. Joe McCarthy during the “Red Scare” of the early 1950s.
McCarthy and others tried to silence political opponents by accusing them of being communists or socialists, using fear and public accusations to suppress basic free speech rights. The term “McCarthyism” became synonymous with baseless attacks on free expression, and the U.S. Supreme Court has referred to the phenomena in several First Amendment-related rulings.
“We are seeing a concerted wave that we have not seen in decades,” said Paulson, highlighting states like Florida where Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has block some history classes entirely.
“It’s pretty mind-boggling that so many politicians are waving the flag of freedom while doing anything they possibly can to infringe on the free speech rights of Americans,” Paulson said.
Still, no one political group has a monopoly on censorship — aggression is increasing across the spectrum, Cohn said.
Washington state’s bias hotline bill, which died in committee earlier this year, was sponsored by Democratic Sen. Javier Valdez and backed by several groups including the Anti-Defamation League, Urban League, Council on American-Islamic Relations and others. It aimed to help the state collect information about hate crimes and bias incidents and to provide support and compensation to victims at a time when hate crime reports are rising.
Opponents, including the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, said they feared it would chill protected speech because it encompasses both criminal behavior and offensively biased statements.
Hate speech can be damaging and repugnant, but is still generally protected by the First Amendment. The Department of Homeland Security and experts who study extremism call to action by extremists groups.
Oregon created a similar bias hotline in 2019. It received nearly 1,700 calls in 2021, with nearly 60% of the reported incidents falling short of criminal standards, according to an annual report from Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum’s office.
“People in power target their political adversaries, so who is being silenced really depends on where you are on the map and its individual context,” Cohn said.
Artist Katrina Majkut experienced that first-hand last week, when artworks she had shown in more than two dozen states over the past decade were unexpectedly censored at a small state school in Lewiston, Idaho.
Majkut uses embroidery to highlight and subvert historically narrow ideas of wifedom and motherhood. She was hired to curate an exhibit at Lewis-Clark State College focusing on health care issues like chronic illness, pregnancy and gun violence.
But March 2, a day before the show’s opening, Majkut and two other artists were told some of their work would be removed over administrator fears about running afoul of Idaho’s “No Public Funds for Abortion Act.”
The 2021 law bars state-funded entities from promoting abortion or taking other measures that could be seen as training or counseling someone in favor of abortion.
Majkut’s cross-stitch depicting misoprostol and mifepristone tablets — which can be used together to induce abortion early in pregnancy — was removed from the exhibit along with a wall plaque detailing Idaho’s abortion laws.
Four documentary video and audio works by artist Lydia Nobles that showed women talking about their own experiences with abortion were also removed. And part of artist Michelle Harney’s series of 1920s-era letters written to Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger were stricken from the show.
“To be censored like that is shocking and surreal,” said Majkut, who designs her art to be educational rather than confrontational. “If the most even-keeled, bipartisan artwork around this topic is censored, then everything is going to be censored.”
Logan Fowler, the spokesman for LCSC, said the school made the decision after consulting with attorneys about whether showing the art could violate the law. Republican Rep. Bruce Skaug, the author of the law, said Tuesday that it was not intended to “prevent open discussion” of abortion — only to prevent tax dollars from being used to promote it.
The art exhibit censorship comes just two months after another controversial decision by Skaug. As chairman of the Idaho House Judiciary and Rules Committee, Skaug announced in January that people under age 18 would not be allowed to testify in his committee. Another Republican committee chair soon followed suit.
Lawmakers have the ability to limit committee testimony, and often use those limits to keep the legislature’s work focused and timely. Still, the age-based speech restriction appeared to be a first for the state.
A group of teens took action, launching phone and email campaigns staging protests.
“There is a clear lack of foresight in politicians who seek to eliminate the voices of those who will one day elect and eventually supersede them,” a group of 32 high school student leaders wrote in a joint opinion piece sent to news outlets across the state. “We ask Idaho’s Republican leaders, what are you so afraid of?”
The lawmakers eventually modified their rules, allowing youth to testify as long as they have signed permission slips from a parent or guardian.
Skaug said the rule was necessary to ensure parents are aware if their kids are leaving school to testify at the Statehouse. He still intends to give priority to older residents when testimony time is limited, but said he’s not aware of any youth actually being denied the chance to testify so far this year.
For Cohn, the efforts in Idaho and elsewhere reflect the danger of trying to restrict the expression of people who hold opposing views.
“We have to be ever-vigilant if we want our culture of individual freedoms to prevail,” he said. “Bad ideas are better dealt with through debate and dialogue than government censorship.”
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2023-03-15T16:37:04+00:00
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mynorthwest.com
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https://mynorthwest.com/3858122/experts-say-attacks-on-free-speech-are-rising-across-the-us/
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Kevin Locke, an acclaimed Native American flute player, hoop dancer, cultural ambassador and educator, has died in South Dakota at age 68, according to his family.
A member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and from the ancestral line of Lakota and Anishinabe, Locke died Friday night after returning to his hotel room in Hill City, his son Ohiyesá Locke said Monday.
The younger Locke said his father, who had been performing at the Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills, suffered an asthma attack and died while he was being taken to the hospital.
Ohiyesá Locke said he had been video chatting with his father several hours before he died.
“He was walking through the Black Hills and telling me how beautiful they were, and he talked about some of the history of the Lakota people,” he said.
According to his website, Locke performed for nearly 40 years to hundreds of thousands of people in more than 90 countries at performing art centers, festivals, schools, universities, conferences, state and national parks, monuments and powwows.
As a folk artist, Locke used his talents to teach others about Native American history and especially enjoyed working with children on the reservations to ensure the survival and growth of indigenous culture, the website said.
“He had an amazing gift to touch people’s hearts and was very generous with his time,” said Ohiyesá Locke, who lives in Killeen, Texas.
“Through my music and dance, I want to create a positive awareness of the Oneness of humanity,” Kevin Locke once wrote on his website.
The Native American Music Awards issued a statement Saturday after learning of Locke’s death.
“Kevin Locke was undoubtedly one of the greatest flutists, hoop dancers and teachers the world had ever seen. He will be greatly missed. The Native American Music Awards would like to extend their deepest condolences and sorrow to his family,” the statement read.
Locke attended high school at the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico. He also earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Dakota and a master’s degree in educational administration from the University of North Dakota, his son said.
Locke was a fluent Lakota speaker and served as a board member for the Lakota Language Consortium, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the language.
Since 1982, Locke, who played the Northern Plains flute, has recorded twelve albums of music and stories, most recently “The First Flute,” “Open Circle,” “Keepers of the Dream,” and “Dream Catcher,” according to his website.
“I have always been in admiration of him, and he wanted me to follow in his footsteps. But his shoes were too big to fill,” his son said.
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Ehlke reported from suburban Milwaukee. AP researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed to this report.
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2022-10-03T23:49:39+00:00
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PENDLETON — The Pendleton Police Department is seeking camera footage in connection with a deadly shooting.
In the evening hours of May 5, the Pendleton Police Department responded to a report of a person shot at a home in the 5700 Block of South State Road 67 in Pendleton.
Upon arrival, the victim, later identified as 26-year-old Jared Wininger, was located and pronounced deceased.
The Pendleton Police Department is seeking assistance from anyone with camera footage along State Road 67 between I-69 and County Road 600 South between 6:30 and 7:45 p.m. on May 5.
Specifically, officers are seeking footage of individuals on foot or vehicles driving recklessly through the area.
Anyone was information or camera footage is requested to contact Captain Lucas Traylor at 765-778-3933 or by email at ltraylor@pendletonpd.org.
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2023-05-06T22:30:03+00:00
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WESTPORT, Conn., Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- True Green Capital Management LLC ("TGC"), a renewable energy infrastructure private equity firm, is pleased to announce that it entered into a binding agreement last week with Altus Power, Inc. ("Altus Power") to sell a portfolio of approximately 220 megawatts (MW) of distributed solar assets for approximately $293 million. TGC and Altus Power expect the transaction will close in early 2023, upon the satisfaction of certain closing conditions.
The portfolio comprises approximately 207 MW of commercial scale, operating solar assets that were developed and constructed by TGC, and approximately 13 MW that are nearing construction completion. Equity financing for these assets was provided by TGC's third fund, True Green Capital Fund III, LP ("Fund III"), and TGC's financing partners provided debt and tax equity. The majority of the portfolio is located in California, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, all markets in which TGC has deep relationships and a sustained track record of successful execution.
"Altus Power shares our fundamental belief that commercial scale, distributed solar generation is the most attractive segment of our industry," remarked Panos Ninios, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of TGC. "Our collaboration has facilitated TGC's successful exits of our first and second funds and now a partial exit of Fund III."
"We are excited to welcome this new set of customers to the Altus Power brand, deepening our reach particularly in New York and California," said Gregg Felton, Co-CEO of Altus Power. "TGC has a long history of successfully investing in commercial-scale solar, with underwriting standards consistent with our own."
Chris Kirkman, TGC's Chief Financial Officer, also commented. "TGC's partnership with Altus Power has been mutually beneficial. Our alliance again enabled the efficient execution of a transaction that advanced our firms' respective strategies."
With its recently closed $660 million fourth fund, TGC continues to target these core markets, as well as select new ones in North America, the UK, and the European Union, where the firm believes that the same capabilities that have enabled the successful realization of its strategy to date similarly provide it with a competitive advantage.
TGC is a specialized renewable energy infrastructure private equity firm based in Westport, Connecticut. Having developed the capabilities of a direct operating business, TGC has raised four private equity funds, managing over $1 billion of equity capital, including closing in May 2022 its fourth fund with over $600 million of capital to be invested over the next four years. To date, TGC has invested in distributed solar power generation portfolios across 14 U.S. states delivering clean, reliable renewable energy with an increasing focus in the UK and European Union. The firm was founded in July 2011 and is led by a team of investment professionals with a proven track record and the demonstrated capacity to originate, finance, construct, and operate distributed renewable power generation projects at institutional scale. To learn more, visit https://truegreencapital.com/.
Altus Power, based in Stamford, Connecticut, is the premier independent commercial-scale clean electrification company serving commercial, industrial, public sector, and community solar customers with end-to-end solutions. Altus Power originates, develops, owns, and operates locally sited solar generation, energy storage, and charging infrastructure across the nation. Visit www.altuspower.com to learn more.
True Green Contacts:
Christina Anzel
Director of Investor Relations & ESG
Mobile: + 1 917 608 3550
media@truegreencapital.com
Altus Power Contacts:
Chris Shelton, Head of IR
InvestorRelations@altuspower.com
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Dolphins place DE Emmanuel Ogbah on season-ending IR
By ALANIS THAMES
AP Sports Writer
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Dolphins placed defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah on injured reserve Monday after he suffered a season-ending triceps injury in Sunday’s 39-17 win against the Cleveland Browns. Ogbah left in the second quarter of the game with what the team originally announced as an elbow injury and did not return. Miami signed Ogbah to a four-year, $65 million contract this offseason after being a standout since joining the Dolphins as a free agent in 2020.
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2022-11-15T00:08:17+00:00
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omega Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMGA) ("Omega"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the first systematic approach to use mRNA therapeutics as a new class of programmable epigenetic medicines by leveraging its OMEGA Epigenomic Programming™ platform, today announced that members of management will participate in two upcoming investor conferences.
Fireside Chat
Date: September 30, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. ET
Gene Regulation Panel
Date: October 4, 2022
Time: 9:30 a.m. ET
Fireside Chat
Date: October 4, 2022
Time: 11:00 a.m. ET
Live webcasts of the fireside chats and panel discussion will be available on the Investors & Media section of the Company's website at www.omegatherapeutics.com. An archived replay of the fireside chats will be available on the same website for approximately 90 days.
Omega Therapeutics, founded by Flagship Pioneering, is a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the first systematic approach to use mRNA therapeutics as a new class of programmable epigenetic medicines. The company's OMEGA Epigenomic Programming™ platform harnesses the power of epigenetics, the mechanism that controls gene expression and every aspect of an organism's life from cell genesis, growth, and differentiation to cell death. Using a suite of technologies, paired with Omega's process of systematic, rational, and integrative drug design, the OMEGA platform enables control of fundamental epigenetic processes to correct the root cause of disease by returning aberrant gene expression to a normal range without altering native nucleic acid sequences. Omega's modular and programmable mRNA medicines, Omega Epigenomic Controllers™, are designed to target specific epigenomic loci within insulated genomic domains, EpiZips, from amongst thousands of unique, mapped, and validated genome-wide DNA-sequences, with high specificity to durably tune single or multiple genes to treat and cure diseases through Precision Genomic Control™. Omega is currently advancing a broad pipeline of development candidates spanning a range of disease areas, including oncology, regenerative medicine, multigenic diseases including immunology, and select monogenic diseases, including alopecia.
For more information, visit omegatherapeutics.com, or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Investor and Media Contact:
Eva Stroynowski
617-949-4370
estroynowski@omegatx.com
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2022-09-26T12:41:32+00:00
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy travel industry press releases from PR Newswire, including ChatGPT in the Expedia app and TikTok's influence on the travel industry.
NEW YORK, April 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the travel industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
- ChatGPT Wrote This Press Release -- No, it Didn't, but it Can Now Assist with Travel Planning in the Expedia App
Expedia members can now start an open-ended conversation in the Expedia app and get recommendations on places to go, where to stay, how to get around, and what to see and do based on the chat. But much more than that, the new trip planning experience brings in intelligent shopping by automatically saving hotels discussed in the conversation to a "trip" in the app. - National Survey Reveals 60% of U.S. TikTok Users Have Become Interested in Visiting a New Travel Destination After Seeing it on TikTok
The survey also shows that more than a third of U.S. TikTok users have traveled to a destination they saw on TikTok, demonstrating the platform's major impact on the travel and tourism industry. - The New York City Borough Pass Launches as the Sightseeing Pass for the Cultural Traveler
The New York City Borough Pass features an array of popular cultural attractions, museums, and performing arts venues across the five boroughs of The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. The Pass, powered by Bandwango, is available in 1,3, 7 or 90-day options allowing locals and travelers to choose the duration best for them. - JW Marriott Makes its Debut in the Luxury Safari Segment with the Opening of JW Marriott Masai Mara Lodge
Sitting within the Masai Mara National Reserve in Southwestern Kenya, one of Africa's most renowned wildlife and wilderness conservation regions, the lodge is a sophisticated sanctuary from which to discover animals and breathtaking vistas in harmony. - Travel + Leisure Announces the 2023 It List of Best New Hotels
The selected hotels span 37 countries across six continents and represent a variety of categories such as beach getaways, affordable luxury, wellness resorts, luxury city hotels, and more. - Princess Cruises Adds Coveted Opportunity for Guests to Experience 2024 Total Eclipse
On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse lasting as long as 4 minutes 28 seconds will be visible as the moon's shadow is cast across parts of the North America, and a view at sea may very well offer one of the best vantage points. - Virgin Atlantic Brings London to NYC with "Taxi For Takeoff"
The A330neo emphasizes the airline's commitment to an elevated customer experience with increased connectivity, an evolution of its award-winning social space in The Loft, and The Retreat Suite, the most spacious suite in Virgin Atlantic's history. - Cool Beans! Stay Overnight in a Giant "Canper" This Summer, Courtesy of Bush's Beans
The family-owned bean company is offering three fans and their favorite human bean (aka one guest) a once-in-a-lifetime stay in the Bush's Canper, a fully stocked giant bean can on wheels that you can camp in, near three national parks this summer. - United Will Fly Non-Stop to 100+ International Cities This Summer to Meet Soaring Overseas Travel Demand
The airline is already the largest carrier across both the Atlantic and Pacific and this summer's schedule includes nearly 25 new routes. According to United booking data, international bookings are already 15% higher than the same period in 2022. - Walt Disney World Gives Local Teachers and Community Early Preview of TRON Lightcycle / Run Before April 4 Opening
Disney is donating $100,000 to support STEM education in Orange County Public Schools in honor of the attraction's official opening. It caps the resort's 50th Anniversary celebration that included over $6.5 million in grants from Disney to Central Florida nonprofits. - JetBlue® and Pepsi® Zero Sugar Partner to Celebrate Zero-Cost Perks with Chance to Win a Trip to 0° Latitude
To celebrate JetBlue becoming the first airline to serve Pepsi Zero Sugar onboard, the pair is offering fans a chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime travel experience, featuring JetBlue's zero-fee perks, to the ultimate 0° latitude destination: Quito, Ecuador. - Evolve Unveils Latest Vacation Rental Industry Trends Report
Eric Schueller, Executive Vice President of Revenue at Evolve, said, "As we look forward towards spring and summer, which are peak travel seasons for many regions across the U.S., now is the time for owners to proactively adapt to industry trends and keep their home competitive to help earn as much revenue as possible." - Spirit Airlines Celebrates 30 Years of Service to the Sunshine State with 'Florida Flyaway' Giveaway
The Florida-based airline partnered with Visit Florida to give Guests in select U.S. cities a chance to join in on the 30th anniversary celebrations by entering to win a Florida getaway for two, including roundtrip flights, hotel, accommodations and more.
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2023-04-07T12:07:03+00:00
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Farmers dump thousands of gallons of milk due to oversupply issues
HASTINGS, Minn. (WCCO) - Videos have surfaced online of Minnesota farmers dumping thousands of gallons of milk, due to oversupply issues.
Now, a milk producer is looking into what can be done to find a solution.
“Ultimately, the nutrition in dairy is very much needed in this part of the country and other parts of the world too,” Justin Malone said.
Malone is a third-generation dairy farmer and one of the owners of Hastings Creamery. Forty-five dairy farms from Minnesota and Wisconsin are part of this operation.
However, lately, many farmers have struggled to find a home for their product.
“It’s the same situation for a lot of folks, is that, in the across the dairy industry, is we just don’t have enough processing to handle the amount of milk that the dairy industry is producing right now,” Malone said.
It’s led to milk-dumping situations like at Thompson Dairy near Lewiston, Minnesota.
Owners said that older processing plants haven’t been able to keep up with what farmers are producing.
The Hastings Creamery plant has been bottling milk for more than a century. Recently, the Metropolitan Council warned the creamery that it was out of compliance with its industrial wastewater permit as it worked to keep up with farmers.
Malone said he believes the issue has been resolved, at a crucial time.
“We are back to business as usual. We are working with the Met Council on short-term solutions. We are kind of sticking to the long-term solution, but it will probably take a year and a half to fully implement that,” he said.
That could potentially mean building a wastewater treatment plant on site. Malone said he’s confident there are better days ahead for farmers.
“We are updating equipment in there and doing different things to try and make it more efficient,” he said. “Help more dairy farmers in the end. That’s our goal.”
The Hastings Creamery processes 150,000 pounds of milk each day.
Some Minnesota dairy farmers said they downsized by selling cows to try and balance out the over-supply issues.
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2023-06-13T14:24:36+00:00
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s energy minister on Wednesday canceled a trip to the U.K. because of a protest against a wind farm that campaigners say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway.
The activists, mainly teenagers, have been blocking the entrance to several ministries in the Norwegian capital since Monday. They are protesting against a wind farm that’s still operating despite a ruling by Norway’s Supreme Court in October 2021 that the construction of the wind turbines violated the rights of the Sami, who have been using the land for reindeer for centuries.
Activist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that they were “escalating another couple of notches. We have said we will shut down the state of Norway, department by department.”
Using a bullhorn, Hætta Isaksen told cheering activists later Wednesday that “we continue the blockade.”
“We cannot solve the energy crisis by ignoring the rights of Indigenous people,” she said.
A dozen activists were forcibly removed from the Finance Ministry on Wednesday, including Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Some of them chanted “let the mountains live,” the Norwegian news agency NTB said.
Oil and Energy Minister Terje Aasland “has chosen to reprioritize his calendar and will therefore not travel to the U.K. as planned,” his office said.
He was due to take part in a two-day visit starting Wednesday with the Norwegian crown prince and his wife. The ministry said that Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt will replace him.
“Let me say that it is regrettable that we have come to the point where we have an Indigenous people who feel that their rights have been violated,” Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre told NTB.
On Tuesday, Aasland spoke with the activists, some of whom donned the Sami’s traditional bright-colored dress, saying the government will make a “new decision” on the wind farm, but he couldn’t give any specifics “until we have a sufficient knowledge basis for it.”
That infuriated the activists who said in a statement that “our will to fight is only growing after Terje Aasland’s visit with the same empty words as always.”
The activists have been protesting outside the Energy Ministry since Thursday. They began blocking the entrances to other ministries on Tuesday.
In a letter to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay, the Sami Parliament of Norway urged the U.N. body to “consider communicating with the Norwegian authorities.”
In the letter which was posted on the parliament site, its speaker Silje Karine Mutoka said “the windmills must be demolished, and the area restored to reindeer grazing land.”
She is due to meet with Aasland on Thursday to discuss the wind farm.
The 39-seat Sametinget is a representative body in Norway for people of the Sami who live in Lapland, which stretches from northern parts of Norway through Sweden and Finland to Russia.
They once faced oppression of their culture, including bans on the use of their native tongue. Today the nomadic people live mostly modern lifestyles but still tend reindeer.
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2023-03-01T16:02:38+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/news/world/ap-protests-force-norways-energy-minister-to-cancel-uk-trip/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama says it helps to focus on what you can control when you feel out of control.
Among the things she could control during the death and isolation of the pandemic, the racial unrest and threats to democracy were her spools of yarn and her knitting needles.
She labels such thinking the “power of small,” and she writes in her new book, “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times,” that by focusing on a small task like knitting she was able to get through the worry, anxiety and stress of the past few unsettling years.
“The interesting thing about knitting and using your hands and making something is that it is meditative,” the former first lady said Tuesday night at the Warner Theater in Washington, where she kicked off a monthlong, six-city publicity tour to promote the book.
“In so many ways, it is like a faith,” she said, seated on stage with a friend, former daytime talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, who engaged Mrs. Obama in nearly 90 minutes of often humorous conversation. “It’s a thing that shuts your worrying mind and lets your hands take over.”
And therein lies the power, she said.
“I think about the knit and the purl, and the knit and the purl, and a row and a row and a row,” the former first lady said, naming different stitches and techniques used in knitting. “And if you keep it up, and you’re focused, you have a sweater.”
In the book, published Tuesday, she shares the contents of her “personal toolbox” — the habits and practices, attitudes and beliefs, and even physical objects that she uses to overcome her feelings of fear, helplessness and self doubt.
“This book is meant to show you what I keep there and why, what I use professionally and personally to help me stay balanced and confident, what keeps me moving forward even during times of high anxiety and stress,” she wrote in the introduction.
The 58-year-old wife of former President Barack Obama and mother of adult daughters Malia and Sasha wrote that the book, her third, is not a how-to manual, but rather is a “series of honest reflections on what my life has taught me so far.”
“Keep in mind, too, that everything I know, all the various tools I lean on, have come to me only through trial and error, over years of constant practice and reevaluation,” she wrote. “I spent decades learning on my feet, making mistakes, adjustments, and course corrections as I went. I’ve progressed only slowly to where I am today.”
“The Light We Carry” is Mrs. Obama’s first new work since the 2018 release of her bestselling memoir, “Becoming,” which has sold more than 17 million copies worldwide, by far the most popular book by a previous first lady or modern president, including her husband.
As first lady, she wrote “American Grown,” a book about the produce garden she had planted at the White House in 2009.
Mrs. Obama opened the tour in Washington and has events planned at Philadelphia’s The Met, Atlanta’s Fox Theatre, the Chicago Theatre and San Francisco’s Masonic before the tour closes at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles.
Seated in a plush purple chair on stage at the nearly 100-year-old Washington theater, Mrs. Obama discussed her feelings after the 2016 election in which her husband was succeeded by Donald Trump. Coincidentally, Trump announced a third run for president during her appearance.
“If you guys recall, I said, ‘Don’t vote for this guy,'” she said, meaning Trump, who sought to undo much of Obama’s record as president. “It hurt because you wonder — was it a rebuke of the eight years, the sacrifice we made? Was it complacency? What was it?”
The former first lady also discussed overcoming her fear of change and coming to the realization that she could not stand in the way of her husband’s desire to run for president in 2008. He had given her veto power over his decision.
“Opportunity is on the other side of that,” she said, speaking of fear.
She also talked about the pandemic, saying her family handled it better than most because they were already used to isolation from the eight years they lived in the White House “bubble.”
She spoke about how hard it was as first lady — and still is — to make new friends she can trust, and how fun it is to watch her daughters “adult” as they share an apartment in California. The girls had returned to Washington to live with their parents during the pandemic.
Sasha had completed one semester at the University of Michigan before she came back home. Malia, who was enrolled at Harvard, spent her senior year at home and ended up missing out on a graduation ceremony because of COVID-19. So her parents staged a ceremony in their backyard, complete with commencement speakers.
“It was me, and Barack,” Mrs. Obama said, laughing. “We told her how lucky she was. She got us both.”
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2022-11-16T08:08:13+00:00
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Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose 47 cents to $89.01 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for October delivery rose 80 cents to $94.92 a barrel.
Gold for December delivery fell $15.70 to $1,791.20 an ounce. Silver for September delivery fell 28 cents to $19.84 an ounce and September copper rose 7 cents to $3.55 a pound.
The dollar rose to 135.11 Japanese yen from 132.91 yen. The euro fell to $1.0178 from $1.0249.
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2022-08-05T20:56:57+00:00
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/closing-prices-for-crude-oil-gold-and-other-commodities/2022/08/05/cc2415a8-14f3-11ed-8482-06c1c84ce8f2_story.html
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CUSCO, Peru (AP) — Marco Gonzales ventured to the Andean city of Cusco from his home in the Peruvian Amazon in 2007 with little more than $20, a smidgeon of English and a change of clothes poorly suited for the icy mountain air.
He started offering walking tours of the former Incan Empire capital in exchange for tips. Along the way he fell in love with a British backpacker, Nathalie Zulauf, and together the couple built a travel business and family.
But now it’s all at risk of collapsing along with so much of Peru’s once-enviable economic stability.
The couple’s company, Bloody Bueno Peru, which caters to mostly foreign tourists from Britain and elsewhere, hasn’t seen a customer since December, when protesters demanding the resignation of interim President Dina Boluarte all but cut off access to the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu. Groups have canceled reservations months in advance, forcing the couple to dip into savings already depleted by the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’re waiting until March to see if the situation improves,” said Gonzales, 38, staring at a calendar he no longer bothers to update. “If it doesn’t we’ll have to explore other options, like shutting down the business and emigrating. At least in England we have Nathalie’s family.”
Others in Cusco have far less to fall back on.
The city of 450,000, normally a polyglot mecca of foreign travelers, is a ghost town these days. The Plaza de Armas, where women dressed in colorful Andean textiles used to pose for snapshots, now attracts demonstrators playing cat-and-mouse with heavily armored riot police.
Political turmoil is nothing new in Peru, which has seen six presidents in the last five years. In 1969, with a military dictatorship in power, Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa posed this now iconic question to start his novel “Conversations in the Cathedral”: “At what precise moment did Peru screw itself?”
For a long time, the dysfunction was held in check and didn’t interfere with sacred cornerstones of the free-market economy like the key mining industry. Since 2000, Peru’s economy grew at an average annual rate of 4.4% — more than any country in South America —with low inflation and a stable currency. Until the pandemic hit, poverty had fallen by half.
But the scale of violence following President Pedro Castillo’s Dec. 7 impeachment and arrest for a clumsy effort to shutter Congress — unrest that has left 57 civilians dead and hundreds more injured — has revived class and racial divisions and has many Peruvians wondering whether the long period of uneasy stability has run its course.
“This dichotomy couldn’t last,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard University political scientist and co-author of the 2018 book, “ How Democracies Die.”
Signs of the economic fallout are everywhere.
In December — as the political crisis got underway — the number of foreigners arriving in Peru had already fallen to the lowest level since 2009, aside from the two years lost to COVID-19. Activity at three major copper and tin mines had been suspended because highways were blocked or their facilities attacked by protesters.
Peru is the world’s largest exporter of grapes and the protests hit during the height of harvest. Shipments in one major growing area are barely 4% of a year ago, according to Darío Núñez, whose company, Uvica, has been unable to fulfill orders by U.S. retailers such as Costco and Sam’s Club.
“The credibility of Peru as a brand is starting to suffer,” said Núñez. “I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel.”
Peru’s democratic dysfunction, years in the making, accelerated with Castillo’s surprise election in 2021. A rural schoolteacher, he rose from obscurity to fill a void left by a broken political system, widespread graft and deep-seated racism.
His journey from an adobe home in one of Peru’s poorest areas to the presidential palace was fueled by fury in the long-neglected Andean highlands. But once in office, he shuffled his Cabinet almost weekly and was beset by corruption allegations that underscored his inexperience.
Elites in Congress, although even more discredited than Castillo, went on the offensive, using an obscure constitutional power to seek his impeachment for “moral incapacity.” This triggered Castillo’s move to shut down Congress, which backfired with his arrest on charges of rebellion — and vice president Boluarte’s ascension to power.
The current revolt has coalesced around an urgent demand: Boluarte’s departure. Congress could act by ordering early elections but has so far refused as lawmakers are reluctant to, in effect, fire themselves.
Levitsky, the Harvard professor, said it’s too early to know how Peru’s crisis will unfold. One demand from protesters is that the constitution adopted during Alberto Fujimori’s 1990-2000 authoritarian rule and which strengthened free-market reforms be overhauled.
But whatever happens, Levitsky doesn’t see a return to the status quo.
“A state that doesn’t work is sooner or later going to fall into crisis,” he said. “They had 20 years to build a state and they failed miserably.”
Monuments to that failure are everywhere in Cusco: An unfinished highway that was supposed to bisect the city and the crumbling façade of the Hotel Cusco, a historic landmark owned by the city government.
But perhaps the biggest white elephant is the Hospital Antonio Lorena.
Rising above the city’s red tile roofs, the sleek glass-and-steel structure was supposed to be the most modern in southern Peru when construction began in 2012. But after three years, the Brazilian builder abandoned the project amid an investigation into cost overruns fueled by alleged bribes paid to Cusco’s governor and the wife of Peru’s then-president Ollanta Humala.
Today, the half-built skeleton is covered by graffiti amid peeling paint, exposed power cables and shattered glass. On Dec. 7 — the day Castillo was arrested — a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held to mark the start of a 730-day, $244 million rescue plan for the project by a new foreign consortium with technical assistance from France.
Jorge Zapata, the head of Peru’s construction lobby, blames greedy politicians for the standstill. Nationwide, over 2,500 state-funded infrastructure projects worth $7 billion are paralyzed due to mismanagement, he said.
Meanwhile, instead of guiding tourists, Gonzales now spends his days scouring Cusco for a propane gas cannister to cook and bathe the couple’s 5-month-old daughter, Willow.
At an industrial depot, dozens of desperate residents were lined up this week in hopes demonstrators blocking the highways would halt their pickets long enough to let the trucks delivering the propane reach the besieged city.
“This is really scary,” said Zulauf, as she bounced her baby on her knees staring at the long line from her car. “In Cusco, people live day-to-day. If they can’t work, I don’t know how they’re surviving.”
Among those in line was Fredy Deza, who spent the night in a sleeping bag on the sidewalk.
Deza, 40, said the all-night vigil recalled another dark period in Peru’s history, when he would wait with his mother in long lines for bread, sugar and other staples during the chaotic 1985-1990 presidency of Alan Garcia.
“It’s like we’re going back in time,” said Deza, who worked as a guide in Machu Picchu until he was let go in December.
Prices for propane and other scarce items in Cusco are soaring due to inflation that jumped to 8.7% in January, near the highest level in a quarter-century. A black market has emerged, with cannisters going for three times the listed price.
Adding to insult, the cooking gas many can no longer afford is pumped by a foreign-owned consortium from the resource-rich department of Cusco and transported by a pipeline to the capital, Lima, where the bulk is then exported. A projected second pipeline, which would deliver it to Cusco and other cities in the south, remains a pipe dream.
“It’s sad,” said Deza, as he prepared for another cold night, “that as owners of our gas we have to be enduring this.”
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AP writers Daniel Politi in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Franklin Briceno in Lima, Peru, and Frank Bajak in Boston contributed to this report.
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2023-02-06T16:04:17+00:00
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 12th time, New York corrections officials said Monday.
Mark David Chapman, 67, appeared before a parole board at the end of August, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
Chapman shot and killed Lennon on the night of Dec. 8, 1980, as Lennon and Yoko Ono were returning to their Upper West Side apartment. Lennon had signed an autograph for Chapman on a copy of his recently released album, “Double Fantasy,” earlier that day.
State officials have yet to make transcripts of Chapman’s latest board interview available, but he has repeatedly expressed remorse in previous parole hearings. Chapman called his actions “despicable” during his hearing in 2020, and said he would have “no complaint whatsoever” if they chose to leave him in prison for the rest of his life.
“I assassinated him … because he was very, very, very famous and that’s the only reason and I was very, very, very, very much seeking self-glory. Very selfish,” Chapman said then.
Chapman is serving a 20-years-to-life sentence at Green Haven Correctional Facility, north of New York City, according to online state corrections records.
He is next due to appear before the parole board in February 2024.
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2022-09-13T02:27:18+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-john-lennons-killed-denied-parole-again-for-12th-time/
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Congresswoman Liz Cheney raised almost $3 million in campaign contributions over the first three months of the midterm election year, continuing her record-breaking fundraising streak as she attempts to defend her seat against a Trump-backed challenger.
The third-term Wyoming Republican began April with $6.8 million cash on-hand, while her opponent Harriet Hageman began the final four-month stretch leading up to Wyoming's Aug. 16 Republican primary with more than $1 million in her campaign coffers.
Though deep-red Wyoming traditionally draws significantly less in campaign contributions than more populous battleground states, Cheney's unrelenting criticism of former President Donald Trump and statements blaming him for the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 have transformed the race for the state's lone U.S. House seat into one of the most closely watched contests of the 2022 midterms.
Cheney, who chaired the Republican House Conference before being ousted from her post last year, has broken her personal fundraising records in five consecutive quarters and has raised more than $10 million throughout the election cycle, her campaign said in a statement.
Cheney's criticisms of Trump have alienated her from many of her colleagues in the U.S. House and the Wyoming Republican Party and made her among the most endangered Republican incumbents facing reelection this year. But they've also expanded her profile and allowed her to build a nationwide fundraising network.
Given her vote to impeach him and her position on the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, Cheney’s seat is among Trump’s top 2022 targets. Hageman has received endorsements from Trump, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Elise Stefanik, Cheney’s replacement as House Republican Conference Chair.
Hageman, a Cheyenne attorney, raised $1.3 million over the first three months of 2022, her campaign said in a news release Monday. Though her haul pales in comparison to Cheney's, it is roughly triple what she raised in the final three months of 2021 and a comparatively large sum for a Wyoming candidate.
Political parties typically do not campaign against their incumbent members. But the Republican National Committee censured Cheney in February, effectively opening the door for them to throw their support behind Hageman's challenge.
The Federal Election Commission is scheduled to publish campaign finance reports for the first quarter of 2022 on Friday, which will detail campaign spending and the sources of each candidates' contributions.
Other Republicans running include state Sen. Anthony Bouchard and retired Army Col. Denton Knapp. No Democrat has announced plans to challenge Cheney, and her candidacy could benefit from Democratic crossover voters, who in Wyoming can change their party affiliation from now until the day of the August primary.
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2022-04-12T19:56:28+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Cheney-again-breaks-fundraising-record-in-Wyoming-17075961.php
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Red Sox vs. Phillies Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - May 7
Sunday's game between the Boston Red Sox (21-14) and the Philadelphia Phillies (15-19) at Citizens Bank Park has a good chance to be a close matchup, as our computer prediction projects a final score of 6-5, with the Red Sox securing the victory. Game time is at 1:35 PM ET on May 7.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Phillies will send Taijuan Walker (2-2) to the mound, while Tanner Houck (3-1) will get the nod for the Red Sox.
Red Sox vs. Phillies Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 1:35 PM ET
- Where: Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- How to Watch on TV: NBCS-PH
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Red Sox vs. Phillies Score Prediction
Our pick for this contest is Red Sox 6, Phillies 5.
Total Prediction for Red Sox vs. Phillies
- Total Prediction: Over 9 runs
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Red Sox Performance Insights
- In eight games as the underdog over the last 10 matchups, the Red Sox have posted a mark of 6-2.
- In its previous 10 matchups with a total posted by sportsbooks, Boston and its foes are 6-3-1 when it comes to hitting the over.
- The Red Sox's previous 10 matchups have not had a runline set by sportsbooks.
- The Red Sox have been chosen as underdogs in 20 games this year and have walked away with the win 11 times (55%) in those games.
- This year, Boston has won nine of 16 games when listed as at least +105 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Red Sox have an implied victory probability of 48.8% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
- Boston scores the second-most runs in baseball (207 total, 5.9 per game).
- Red Sox pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.79 ERA this year, which ranks 22nd in MLB.
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2023-05-07T13:30:08+00:00
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
856 PM CDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of south central
Harrison and northwestern Panola Counties through 930 PM CDT...
At 856 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles northeast of Tatum, or 10 miles southwest of Marshall, moving
south at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Carthage, Tatum, Beckville, Darco and Fairplay.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3226 9455 3228 9453 3236 9449 3239 9449
3240 9450 3239 9451 3240 9453 3240 9454
3244 9454 3248 9431 3218 9426 3213 9455
TIME...MOT...LOC 0156Z 353DEG 21KT 3239 9443
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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2022-07-14T02:45:09+00:00
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Lars Nootbaar provided St. Louis’ first run in four games with a solo homer, and then rookie Brendan Donovan gave the NL Central leaders an even bigger lift.
Donovan hit his first career grand slam slam in the seventh inning to lead Albert Pujols and the Cardinals to a 5-4 victory against the San Diego Padres on Thursday, snapping a three-game losing streak.
Pujols was among the first teammates to greet Donovan in the dugout.
“It was one of the bigger swings I’ve had this year so that was cool for me,” Donovan said.
Pujols remained at 698 career homers, although he did drive two balls to deep left field, one for a single and one for an out on the warning track. The next stop in his pursuit of the 700-homer club is Dodger Stadium, where the Cardinals open a three-game series on Friday.
Manny Machado hit his 30th homer for the Padres, who had won five in a row. They currently hold the NL’s No. 2 wild-card spot.
Donovan’s slam made a winner of Jack Flaherty (1-1), who struck out nine in six innings. He allowed three runs, two earned, on four hits and four walks.
Giovanny Gallegos pitched the ninth for his 14th save.
The Cardinals, who had been shut out in their previous three games, got on the board when Nootbaar led off the fifth with a drive to right against Joe Musgrove for his 13th homer. That ended a scoreless streak of 31 2/3 innings by Padres starters, five outs shy of the club record.
“We know we have a great team and a great offense that’s going to turn at any point,” Donovan said. “It was just a matter of who was going to do it. I’m pumped for Lars. That’s a big swing.”
Musgrove was gone after five innings and 72 pitches, and Adrian Morejon breezed through a perfect sixth to hold a 3-1 lead.
Alec Burleson singled leading off the seventh and Nootbaar drew a one-out walk, leading manager Bob Melvin to bring on Nick Martinez (4-4). Tommy Edman walked to load the bases before Donovan drove his first career grand slam deep to right-center.
Donovan said he was looking to drive a ball to the biggest part of the field and bring in a run when he connected on a 3-1 cutter. It was his fifth homer this season.
“It just kind of ran into my barrel a little more than I thought it would. I was still running hard. You never know,” he said.
Asked what going through his mind, he added: “Don’t miss the base. … I’m just running hard and make sure I hit all the bases on the way by.”
Pujols, who plans to retire after this season, one-hopped the wall in left for a single in the second. He popped up in the fourth and then hit a drive off Morejon that Jurickson Profar caught on the track for the final out of the sixth. He flied out to center in the eighth.
Profar drove Flaherty’s second pitch deep into the seats in right for his fourth career leadoff homer and third of the season. He has 15 overall. Profar also hit an RBI double in the fifth.
Musgrove allowed one run and five hits, struck out four and walked two.
A CLIPPERS THING
Norman Powell of the Los Angeles Clippers, who went to San Diego’s Lincoln High, threw out a ceremonial first pitch. Teammate Paul George attended a game last homestand and then visited the victorious Padres clubhouse. Kawhi Leonard, who played two seasons at San Diego State, attended a game with his family earlier in the season. The Clippers moved from San Diego to Los Angeles in 1984.
UP NEXT
Cardinals: LHP José Quintana (5-6, 3.16 ERA) starts Friday night in the opener of a three-game series at the Los Angeles Dodgers. Andrew Heaney (3-2, 2.66 ERA) pitches for the NL West leaders.
Padres: LHP Sean Manaea (7-9, 5.18 ERA) is scheduled to start Friday night in the opener of a three-game series at Colorado, their last trip of the regular season. The Rockies are scheduled to start RHP Ryan Feltner (3-8, 6.05 ERA).
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2022-09-23T19:16:02+00:00
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pahomepage.com
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https://www.pahomepage.com/sports/ap-donovans-grand-slam-carries-cardinals-over-padres-5-4/
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Presidential primaries have seen dramatic comebacks. Could DeSantis ’24 be next?
Ron DeSantis was involved in a traffic accident while in Chattanooga, Tenn., this week raising money for his presidential bid. The candidate was not injured, which may have been the single best piece of news the campaign has had in a while.
The other kind of news for the Florida Republican seemed to be everywhere and all at once. His campaign announced it was shedding a third of its staff and “retooling” its fundraising amid reports of donor desertion. The Associated Press referred to the campaign as “stalled,” Rich Lowry of National Review used the words “faltering” and “diminished” in a piece for Politico. The Wall Street Journal editorial page, often a cheerleader for the governor, noted “the headlines say [the campaign] is in an unrecoverable dive.”
The media critiques went beyond DeSantis’ problems with staffing and fundraising to question his performance on the stump. Stories told of DeSantis “scolding” students at one event for wearing masks and snapping at reporters at a news conference.
Most troubling of all may have been DeSantis’ problems with messaging. He has defended his administration’s new Florida history curriculum, which alludes to “benefits” that enslaved people may have derived from their life in bondage – such as blacksmithing skills. That drew a rebuke from rival candidate Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who’s Black, who said there had been no “silver lining in slavery.”
DeSantis may have been expected to stand by his state’s curriculum changes, but it was harder to understand why he reached for controversy by saying he might appoint Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as head of the FDA or the CDC. Kennedy, a Democrat, is also a candidate for president, and famous as a vaccine conspiracy theorist, harshly critical of the scientists who lead the federal health agencies.
Most candidates would not consider either slavery or RFK Jr. an issue to emphasize, much less the hill they would choose to die on.
Perceptions prompt comparison to former presidential hopeful Rick Perry
Perceptions of DeSantis have changed greatly since he won reelection in November 2022 by 20 points. In January he was seen as the foremost threat to Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination, trailing the former president by just two percentage points in the 538.com average of national polls. As of this week, that gap has widened to 37 percentage points. DeSantis poll numbers have fallen by more than half as other candidates have entered the fray and taken a share. And that trendline has prompted comparisons to the recent history of another Sun Belt governor who had his eyes on the White House, Rick Perry of Texas.
A dozen years ago, Perry entered the GOP lists for the 2012 nomination against incumbent President Barack Obama. Having been elected and reelected in the nation’s second most populous state, Perry had a gaudy list of endorsements and wealthy backers. His TV ads were impressive.
But Perry’s in-person campaigning did not match expectations. After the first candidate debates of 2007 the buzz was all about his lackluster performances. Vowing to fight on, Perry pointed to a November debate where he hoped to turn things around. That was when he pledged to eliminate three cabinet level departments of the federal government if elected – Education, Commerce … and he could not remember the third. After a fumbling pause he said: “Oops.”
Needless to say, things did not get better after that. Crushed in the 2012 Iowa caucuses, Perry all but ignored New Hampshire to concentrate on South Carolina. But when his poll numbers there also sagged, he dropped out. In 2016, having just retired as the longest-tenured governor in Texas history, he tried again. But in a field of more than 15 candidates dominated by Trump, Perry barely registered. He dropped out before the Iowa caucuses.
Needless to say, no candidate for president wants to be compared to Rick Perry. But on Fox News on June 28, DeSantis told a Fox News host he would eliminate the same three departments as Perry — Education, Commerce and, as Perry had eventually remembered, Energy (which wound up being the department where Perry served as secretary under Trump). DeSantis threw in the IRS, too, which gave him a longer list than Perry’s.
Throughout the agonizing train wreck that was the Perry campaign, the candidate seemed unable to understand that the persona and priorities that had lifted him to such success in Texas were not working the same on the national stage.
Can this campaign be saved?
DeSantis’ campaign has reached the point where some observers wonder if it’s too late to turn his fortunes around. They note that Trump’s growing advantage over DeSantis in polls has been driven less by improving numbers for Trump than by deteriorating support for the Floridian.
But there are positives in this picture for the Florida governor. First, it is early — or at least relatively early — in the campaign season. The first voting activity leading to actual delegates being chosen does not happen until January 15, when Iowa holds its caucuses. That gives DeSantis and other candidates still seeking traction more than five months to find it. If the right formula can be found, there is time to follow it.
Second, the field is in some senses still unsettled. While half the Republican electorate may be satisfied with Trump, there is still the other half. And if the ever-mounting legal woes of the former president finally begin to erode the bedrock of his support, it may be possible for a single strong challenger to consolidate the opposition.
Third, there are beacons of hope for troubled candidates in recent presidential campaign history. By choosing to call the latest phase of his effort an “insurgency,” DeSantis has acknowledged that he is battling the odds. Of course, when he adopted the campaign motto “The Great American Comeback,” he was not expecting it to apply to his campaign.
The term “comeback” has long been associated with the first presidential push of a young Arkansas governor named Bill Clinton. Then 45, Clinton was seeking the Democratic nomination against the sitting president George H.W. Bush in 1992. Bush had been so popular following the success of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 that many ambitious Democrats in Washington thought it better to wait for the 1996 cycle to run. Clinton looked strong in the preliminary phase of the campaign but was on the ropes as the primaries began, battered by two potentially fatal blows.
Newspaper stories had highlighted steps he took to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War, and in a woman he had known in Arkansas named Gennifer Flowers told a supermarket tabloid the two had had a years-long affair. She repeated her story in a televised news conference.
Clinton stumbled to a distant third-place showing in the Iowa caucuses (won by a favorite son candidate, Tom Harkin) and fell far behind in New Hampshire. But on that state’s primary night in February, Clinton in second place had closed the gap to single digits and won half the available delegates.
He went on TV to thank New Hampshire for making “Bill Clinton the comeback kid.” The national media coverage largely followed that line, much to the distress of the primary’s first-place winner, Sen. Paul Tsongas of neighboring Massachusetts. A few weeks later, on Super Tuesday, Clinton won most of the big state primaries, many of them in the South, and the lion’s share of the delegates. He was soon cruising to the nomination.
McCain turned his ship around
More directly comparable to DeSantis’ situation, and closer to his political home, was the turnaround achieved 16 years later by the campaign of Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain. A former POW in Vietnam who had made many friends in his time in the Senate, McCain was well known for his spirited “Straight Talk Express” campaign challenging George W. Bush for the GOP nomination in 2000. McCain came up short that time, but his profile was elevated in the Senate and he retained much of his appeal for independents.
But when it came to running another campaign, McCain quickly ran aground. The national agenda had changed over the two terms of the second President Bush, which included the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks and subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The man who had been New York City mayor during those attacks, Rudy Giuliani, was now running for president as “America’s Mayor” and leading in national polls for a time.
Other notables in the field in 2007 included Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (now a senator from Utah) and Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas. McCain’s standing in Iowa had suffered with his opposition to ethanol subsidies and he trailed Romney in polling in New Hampshire.
In the summer of 2007, with his early money drying up and fundraising slowed, McCain saw many news accounts of his flagging campaign. Some were ready to write him off. But that July he revamped his campaign from top to bottom and let go some longtime aides, including close friends, to begin anew. He seemed ready to do whatever it took, including altering his positions on key issues such as immigration.
By the time the campaign reached the voters in January 2008, the McCain operation had righted itself. After conceding Iowa to his rivals, McCain stormed back into contention with a smashing win in New Hampshire that netted him most of the delegates at stake.
As for one-time front-runner Giuliani, he had decided he did not need to go hard at Iowa and New Hampshire and concentrated instead on the late January primary in Florida. Giuliani finished third there, winning no delegates, and withdrew from the race the next day.
The following week brought Super Tuesday and a favorable mix of states for McCain, who won nine states to Romney’s seven and Huckabee’s five and pocketed most of the delegates. Romney then left the race and urged the other candidates and the party to unite behind McCain.
At such times in the past, struggling campaigns have rescued themselves with the right moves and a dose of luck. At other times, it has taken major missteps by front-running candidates to open the door. In DeSantis’ case, it might well require both.
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2023-07-29T21:54:23+00:00
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My friend Jacob reaches out to me in Albany, New York, 7,677 milesfrom his home in Mbale, Uganda. He is seeking matzofor Passover and prayers for his community, known as the Abayudaya. I will mail the matzo to him before the holiday.
Abayudaya means "People of Judah" in Luganda, a Bantu language spoken widely in Uganda. Their ancestors adopted the Jewish religion a little over a century ago. Their founder, the political leader Semei Kakungulu, renounced his political work for the British Empire and started studying Judaism, gradually developing a full commitment to the religion in the 1910s, bringing along with him other members of his family and extended community who had been studying and practicing with him.
The Abayudaya have faithfully practiced Judaism since then, at times suffering terrible persecution, most notably in the 1970s under the dictatorship of Idi Amin. Amin banned Jewish religious observances, forcibly closed down synagogues and forbade the ownership of Jewish books and Jewish burials — all in an effort to force Uganda's Jews to stop being Jewish.
Since then, the Abayudaya have painstakingly rebuilt their community through profound faith and determination as well as help from Jewish communities throughout the world. Today there are an estimated 2,500 Abayudaya Jews in Uganda — about 97 of them in Jacob's village.
I met Jacob in 2022 through an online class on the biblical Cain and Abel story and the Holocaust that I was teaching. He later emailed me to tell me how intrigued he was by the way in which the story of the world's first murder can shed light on the ugly phenomenon of genocide.
Our friendship has evolved, entangled in a mind-bending paradox: In a fraction of a second, we can write or speak to each other with the miraculous technology of WhatsApp. But members of Jacob's isolated Jewish communitycan't do what Jews in the Western world take for granted: stop by a corner store to buy a box of matzo, the chief symbol of freedom during the Passover holiday for the ritual Seder meal.
Before I met Jacob, my awareness of the Abayudaya Jews was proud but paternalistic and uninformed. I mainly focused on how my religious denomination, Conservative Judaism, was instrumental in connecting this community to the rest of the Jewish people. Since the late '90s, the Conservative movement, along with others, has worked with the Abayudaya, providing support for their ongoing training in religious skills: leading prayers, reading from the holy scroll of the Torah, reading and speaking Hebrew and learning more about world Jewish history and current affairs from which the Abayudaya have been isolated. The movement has also sought to assist the community with funding to spread the word about the presence of the Abayudaya community — for example, publishing a Passover Haggadah that incorporates the Abayudaya's story, music and liturgy.
What I failed to do was focus on getting to know the Abayudaya on their own terms and in their own right.
Jacob's questions to me about the Bible and Jewish theology, and his reports to me about the Jews of Uganda, remind me that the Jewish experience goes far beyond the millions of white, North American Jews of Eastern European descent that we in the United States are used to, and even well beyond the millions of Sephardic Jews and Jews of Middle Eastern ethnic descent known as mizrachi -- Eastern Jews.
Even though the lives of the Jews in Uganda and in other countries can be vastly different, we are all bound together through time and space by simple rituals like eating matzo. Unleavened, flat and crumbly, matzo is referred to in the Hebrew Bible as the "bread of affliction and poverty."
At the Seder's opening, we point to the matzo and declare that this is the bread our Israelite ancestors ate as slaves in Egypt. And after we speak about our links to our ancestors comes the physical act: We consume the matzo, assimilating into our bodies our empathy and solidarity with the poverty, hunger and oppression of our past. Yet we also look past this history of oppression to the hope we share with our fellow Jews also eating matzo throughout the world, in real time, on Seder night.
At the Seder we also declare: Let all who are hungry come and eat, let all who are needy celebrate freedom together. We make this declaration to our fellow Jews who need our help on the Seder night while also recognizing the universal hope that humanity will find the means to eradicate hunger everywhere.
As I stand in line at the post office with gift boxes of matzo, I reflect that the Abayudaya are giving me a Passover gift as well. Despite the pharaohs of their past and the challenges of their present, these Ugandan Jews — members of my worldwide Jewish community — evince a quiet yet fierce refusal to abandon Judaism. Their steadfastness grants hope to all who wish to live in freedom, free of persecution. For me, that gift of hope is more precious than gold.
Dan Ornstein is the rabbi of Congregation Ohav Shalom and a writer living in Albany, N.Y. He is the author of Cain v. Abel: A Jewish Courtroom Journey and can be reached at danornstein.com.
Note: This is a version of a story that originally ran on the website of public radio station WAMC.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-04-02T15:22:43+00:00
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Taiwan's president plans a U.S. visit with an eye on China tensions By Emily Feng Published March 10, 2023 at 2:58 PM MST Twitter LinkedIn Email Do high-profile visits from U.S. leaders to Taiwan hurt or help? Do they really matter? Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-03-10T22:35:36+00:00
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kanw.com
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https://www.kanw.com/2023-03-10/taiwans-president-plans-a-u-s-visit-with-an-eye-on-china-tensions
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Despite Denver's early-season struggles, other teams haven't stopped watching or coveting some of the Broncos' players.
Over the past week, the Broncos have received multiple trade inquiries about star defensive end Bradley Chubb and wide receivers Jerry Jeudy and KJ Hamler, league sources told ESPN.
Other teams also believe and have said that the Broncos will not sell low in a deal and will be value traders -- if they make any trades at all, according to sources.
Although the Broncos would like to retain all those players, they would have to ponder any serious trade offer for multiple reasons.
Chubb, 26, has 5.5 sacks in Denver's first six games, but he is in the final year of his contract and prices for defensive ends have and will continue to skyrocket. Jeudy, a first-round draft selection in 2020, hasn't clicked so far in Denver's new offense, and the same is true of Hamler, the Broncos' second-round pick in 2020.
The Broncos also are short of draft picks after trading two first-round picks and two second-round picks to the Seattle Seahawks earlier this year for Russell Wilson.
So even though the Broncos (2-4) are not viewed as a seller ahead of the NFL's Nov. 1 trade deadline, it has not stopped multiple teams from checking in with them this past week.
The Broncos also are thought to be open to trading tight end Albert Okwuegbunam, who is one of five tight ends on the their roster and has not gotten the opportunity to play.
Denver's direction also could be dictated by the results of its next two games. The Broncos host the New York Jets on Sunday before traveling to London to play the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 8. If the Broncos win both games and elevate themselves into playoff contention, they would be more apt to hold onto their players.
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2022-10-23T09:53:03+00:00
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espn.com
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https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34857494/sources-broncos-get-trade-calls-bradley-chubb-jerry-jeudy
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Thursday that state election officials will conduct an audit of his own race to satisfy an audit requirement in state law.
The audit stems from a law passed in 2019, not from of any concerns about any problems or the integrity of the state's election results. An audit is required for general elections in even-numbered years on a race selected by the secretary of state. It must be completed before the election results are certified.
“Today’s about ensuring confidence in the outcome of our elections in Georgia and really across our entire country,” Raffensperger said.
The counties must begin the audit on Nov. 17, and the secretary of state's office is asking them to complete it by the next day, Raffensperger said.
He said he chose the secretary of state race because it had the widest margin, which will make the audit easier for counties to carry out. Raffensperger, a Republican, beat state Democratic state House Rep. Bee Nguyen by 9.3% of the vote.
The law requires a risk-limiting audit, which checks the results recorded by vote-tallying scanners against a hand-count of a random sample of ballots. According to the statistical basis for such audits, the smaller the margin between candidates in a race, the larger the sample of ballots that must initially be audited. A risk-limiting audit does not generally require a full hand recount of all ballots cast.
Counties must post the date, time and location of the audit on the elections office website or, if that doesn't exist, in another prominent spot. While members of the public and the news media can attend the audit, no one but audit workers who have taken an oath may touch the ballots or ballot containers.
Raffensperger said he plans to work with state lawmakers and the State Election Board to raise the number of races audited in future elections “to increase the confidence in our elections,” he said.
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Associated Press writer Sudhin Thanawala contributed reporting.
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2022-11-10T17:43:24+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Georgia-secretary-of-state-s-race-chosen-for-17574481.php
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SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) — SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) — Civista Bancshares Inc. (CIVB) on Friday reported net income of $12.9 million in its first quarter.
The Sandusky, Ohio-based bank said it had earnings of 82 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $52.6 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $43.7 million, exceeding Street forecasts.
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2023-04-28T14:04:41+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/civista-bancshares-q1-earnings-snapshot-17924724.php
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(The Hill) – The likelihood of a “megastorm” occurring in California has doubled due to climate change, according to a new study published on Friday.
The study, published in the Science Advances journal, found an increased likelihood of runoff water occurring from harsher storms, creating the threat of debris flows and landslides later, according to a press release from the University of California, Los Angeles.
With every degree that the Earth gets warmer, the likelihood for a “megastorm” increases, too, the study found.
Researchers looked at two different scenarios using present climate models and high-resolution weather modeling. One scenario involved a long series of storms taking place during what scientists predicted climate conditions would be like between 2081 and 2100.
The other scenario predicted what it would be like if those storms took place in the current climate, according to the release.
In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, storms that took place toward the end of the century would see between 200 percent and 400 percent more runoff because of higher precipitation.
“There are localized spots that get over 100 liquid-equivalent inches of water in the month,” UCLA climate scientist and co-author of the research David Swain said in a statement regarding the end-of-the-century scenario.
“On 10,000-foot peaks, which are still somewhat below freezing even with warming, you get 20-foot-plus snow accumulations. But once you get down to South Lake Tahoe level and lower in elevation, it’s all rain. There would be much more runoff.”
The researchers also noted that the state risks a $1 trillion disaster. In addition, parts of major cities like Los Angeles and Sacramento would be underwater if the state endured the kind of flooding that took place during the Great Flood of 1862 in the current climate.
“Modeling extreme weather behavior is crucial to helping all communities understand flood risk even during periods of drought like the one we’re experiencing right now,” Karla Nemeth, director of the California Department of Water Resources, said in a statement.
“The department will use this report to identify the risks, seek resources, support the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan, and help educate all Californians so we can understand the risk of flooding in our communities and be prepared.”
The department contributed some funding toward the study.
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2022-08-13T18:13:47+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/news/climate-change-doubles-likelihood-of-megastorms-extreme-flooding-in-california-study/
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WASHINGTON – The Senate pushed a bipartisan gun violence bill to the brink of passage Thursday as it voted to halt a Republican filibuster against the measure, clearing the way for Congress' most far-reaching response in decades to the nation's run of brutal mass shootings.
After years of GOP procedural delays that derailed Democratic efforts to curb firearms, Democrats and some Republicans decided that congressional inaction was untenable following last month’s horrific rampages in New York and Texas. It took nearly a month of closed-door talks but a group of senators from both parties emerged with an 80-page compromise embodying incremental but impactful movement.
The measure would toughen background checks for the youngest gun buyers, keep firearms from more domestic violence offenders and help states implement “red flag” laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people adjudged dangerous. It would also fund local programs for school safety, mental health and violence prevention.
Thursday's roll call ending the blockade by conservative GOP senators was 65-34, five more than the 60-vote threshold needed. Final passage of the $13 billion measure was expected by week's end with a House vote to follow, though timing was uncertain.
Fifteen Republicans joined all 50 Democrats, including their two allied independents, in voting to move ahead on the bill.
But highlighting the risks Republicans face by defying the party's pro-gun voters and the National Rifle Association, Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Todd Young of Indiana were the only two standing for reelection this fall. Of the rest, four are retiring and eight don't face voters until 2026.
The election-year package fell far short of the more robust gun restrictions Democrats have sought for years, including bans on the assault-type weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines used in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. Yet the accord let leaders of both parties declare victory and demonstrate to voters that they know how to compromise and make government work, while also leaving room for each side to appeal to its core supporters.
“This is not a cure-all for the all the ways gun violence affects our nation,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., whose party has made gun restrictions a goal for years. “But it is a long overdue step in the right direction. It’s significant, it’s going to save lives.”
“The American people want their constitutional rights protected and their kids to be safe in school," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in a nod to the Second Amendment right to bear arms that drives many conservative voters. “They want both of those things at once, and that is just what the bill before the Senate will have accomplished.”
Yet while the Senate measure was a clear breakthrough, the outlook for continued congressional movement on gun curbs is dim. Only about one-third of the Senate's 50 GOP senators backed the measure and solid Republican opposition in the House is certain, and both chambers — now narrowly controlled by Democrats — could well be run by the GOP after November's midterm elections.
Underscoring the enduring potency of conservative cIout, Thursday's vote occurred minutes after the right-leaning Supreme Court issued a decision expanding the right of Americans to carry arms in public. Their ruling struck down a New York law that has required people to prove a need for carrying a weapon before they get a license to do so.
The White House voiced President Joe Biden’s support for the legislation, citing his visits to Buffalo and Uvalde after the shootings.
“The family members delivered a simple message, which the President then relayed to the American people: do something,” a statement said. It said that while Biden wants tougher restrictions, the bill “would make meaningful progress to combat gun violence.”
Senate action came one month after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde. Just 10 days before that, a white man accused of being motivated by racism killed 10 Black grocery store shoppers in Buffalo. Both shooters were 18 years old, a youthful profile shared by many mass shooters.
The talks were led by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C. Murphy represented Newtown, Connecticut, when an assailant killed 20 students and six staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, while Cornyn has been involved in past gun talks following mass shootings in his state and is close to McConnell.
The bill would make the local juvenile records of people 18 to 20 years old available during required federal background checks when they attempt to buy guns. Those examinations, currently limited to three days, would last up to a maximum of 10 days to give federal and local officials time to search records.
People convicted of domestic abuse who are current or former romantic partners of the victim would be prohibited from acquiring firearms, closing the so-called “boyfriend loophole."
That ban currently only applies to people married to, living with or who've had children with the victim. The compromise bill would extend that to those considered to have had “a continuing serious relationship."
There would be money to help states enforce “red flag" laws and for other states without them that for violence prevention programs. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have “red flag" laws and Cornyn — whose state does not — demanded the inclusion of all states during the negotiations.
The measure expands the use of background checks by rewriting the definition of the federally licensed gun dealers required to conduct them. Penalties for gun trafficking are strengthened, billions of dollars are provided for behavioral health clinics and school mental health programs and there's money for school safety initiatives, though not for personnel to use a “dangerous weapon."
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2022-06-23T20:04:28+00:00
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local10.com
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https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2022/06/23/gun-bill-on-road-to-passage-as-senate-overcomes-gop-delays/
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- The two organizations commit to establishing an Open and Neutral Framework for Open RAN to kickstart academic, government, and commercial R&D by lowering barriers to entry
- Linux Foundation to provide open & neutral governance support, while the NSC shares its working base of stakeholders across government, industry, and academia to further prototyping and R&D capabilities
WASHINGTON, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, and the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC) — which provides the United States government direct access to almost 400 members of U.S. industry and academia who work with systems, sub-systems, components and the enabling technologies related to the use of the electromagnetic spectrum or the information that rides on it— announced formal collaboration to create opportunities to develop Open RAN software prototypes and demonstrations. The two organizations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to solidify their working relationship and commitment to minimizing barriers to further R&D necessary for OpenRAN acceleration within the United States. More open and flexible wireless networks ultimately increase vendor diversity and competition, prevent vendor lock-in, increase innovation in wireless networking technology, lower deployment and operational costs, and even increase security and energy efficiency.
"We are eager to work with the NSC in creating a stable, open, secure reference stack for Open RAN," said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge & IoT, the Linux Foundation. "By combining resources, we'll accelerate access to Open RAN and wireless technology across the United States across verticals and into government, academia, and small business. Our robust open source development infrastructure across the networking stack and within the cybersecurity space is a natural partner for the NSC's spectrum development work already in play."
"We are likewise excited to formalize our relationship with the Linux Foundation," said Joe Kochan, executive director of the NSC. "When it comes to tackling tough wireless issues across industries, as our two organizations do, two heads are better than one. We look forward to our ongoing collaboration on Open RAN R&D and other wireless and networking innovation."
Top-line goals of the collaboration include:
- Establish an open source reference software architecture for Open RAN that will kickstart academic and commercial R&D by lowering the cost and complexity of entry
- Rally support from industry with guidance and funds to leap forward in a true open and secure RAN
- Maintain the commercial community-driven approach by the Linux Foundation to jumpstart the solutions
- Recommend prototype projects to Department of Defense (DoD) for funding and help develop project scopes of work that include milestones such as:
- Establish an Open Source Open RAN program that can assist DoD and other federal agencies with funding, tracking, coordinating, and publicizing the prototype projects funded under this effort
Specific Linux Foundation projects involved in the collaboration include LF Networking and OpenSSF.
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world's infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, OpenChain, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.
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About the National Spectrum Consortium
The National Spectrum Consortium (NSC) provides the Government direct access to almost 400 members of U.S. industry and academia who work with systems, sub-systems, components and the enabling technologies related to the use of the electromagnetic spectrum or the information that rides on it. The majority of Consortium members are small businesses, and over 75% are principally focused on commercial markets. Membership spans the continuum of basic research through large-scale production, enabling the formation of purpose-built teams tailored to the development phase(s) of most interest to the sponsor. www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org
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2023-06-08T13:35:24+00:00
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ksla.com
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2023-06-28T16:45:20+00:00
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hjnews.com
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https://www.hjnews.com/news/state/jonas-andrulis-earns-wtf-innovators-award/article_1a9997bf-8241-5e51-ac1c-5081bb266807.html
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Many people with ADHD can't get their medication amid Adderall shortage By Sydney Lupkin Published February 22, 2023 at 1:47 PM PST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email A shortage of both generic and brand-name Adderall began in October. That's left many ADHD patients without their needed medication. Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-02-22T22:40:45+00:00
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kcbx.org
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https://www.kcbx.org/2023-02-22/many-people-with-adhd-cant-get-their-medication-amid-adderall-shortage
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Driver in fiery crash that killed 5 charged with murder
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The driver suspected of causing a fiery crash that killed five people and an 8 1/2-month-old fetus near Los Angeles has been charged with murder.
Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, of Texas also was charged Monday with vehicular manslaughter and was ordered held without bail. She didn’t enter a plea Monday at her first court appearance.
Prosecutors say her Mercedes-Benz was doing 90 mph last Thursday when it ran a red light and plowed into cars in an intersection in Windsor Hills, setting several on fire.
“It was definitely one of the most horrific crashes that we’ve seen,” said California Highway Patrol Officer Franco Pepi on Friday.
Pregnant mother Asherey Ryan, her fetus, 11-month-old son, Alonzo Quintero and boyfriend, Reynold Lester, all died in one car, said Sha’seana Kerr in a GoFundMe posting.
Lester’s family told KABC-TV that the 24-year-old security guard was the father of Ryan’s unborn child.
Two other women were also killed in the crash, but their names weren’t made public as of Monday.
If convicted of all charges, Linton could face up to 90 years to life in prison.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-08-09T04:27:10+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/08/09/driver-fiery-crash-that-killed-5-charged-with-murder/
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Memory loss is something that comes with old age. At least, that's been the reality for generations of humans.
Researchers today are hoping to change that. Recent studies have focused on electric shocks, breakthrough drugs, and the benefits of diet and exercise.
There is also the "Mind Study:" A collaboration between several institutions which focuses on whether nicotine could help older patients fend off memory loss.
"We've known for some time that there are receptors in the brain for nicotine," said Dr. Paul Newhouse, one of the researchers involved in the study and the director of the Center for Cognitive Medicine and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
"It was only in recent decades that we understood that receptors were important for memory functioning, attention, and other aspects of cognitive functioning," said Dr. Newhouse. "We subsequently learned that the loss of these receptors was occurring in patients with Alzheimer's disease."
Dr. Newhouse said this connection between brain receptors and nicotine led them to their current work.
Volunteers for the Mind Study are given nicotine patches regularly.
The volunteers "are not suffering from severe symptoms that would diagnose them with dementia or Alzheimer's disease," said Dr. Newhouse. "These are folks with subtle memory loss that we believe are at high risk for developing Alzheimer's."
The Mind Study researchers monitor the volunteers' brains regularly to see how the nicotine is impacting their memory.
Previous research on nicotine for memory loss has shown "improvements in testing scores, improvements in attention, and improvements in generally how patients were rated by doctors and their loved ones," said Dr. Newhouse.
He noted that one of the major challenges of the research had been the stigma associated with nicotine.
It was long ago tagged as "the addictive chemical in cigarettes," leading to public skepticism when linked to academic research.
"It's the drug we love to hate," Dr. Newhouse said.
He stressed that the nicotine used in this study is not addictive or cancer-causing.
"Nicotine, when it's absorbed through the skin, does not seem to activate any of the centers in the brain that are associated with substance abuse," Dr. Newhouse said. "It only seems to work in a way that might be positive for cognitive performance."
Bernard Liebman, one of the volunteers in this study, said he hasn't missed a Wordle since he began treatment.
He is a daily player.
"I'm not into the science of it," Liebman said, "but what they have determined is that this minimal amount of nicotine does affect the brain in certain ways."
The Mind Study is still enrolling volunteers.
Dr. Newhouse said his goal is to enroll 400 patients by the end of 2023. They have over 75% of their enrollment efforts completed.
"We don't expect that nicotine is going to be the whole answer," said Dr. Newhouse. "But it might be part of the answer. And we should be open to exploring that."
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2022-08-23T20:19:24+00:00
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kgun9.com
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https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/nicotine-studied-as-possible-way-to-fight-memory-loss
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The German government has announced a $65 billion dollar relief package to help citizens facing soaring inflation and surging energy costs as Russia cuts off its gas supplies to Europe.
Copyright 2022 NPR
The German government has announced a $65 billion dollar relief package to help citizens facing soaring inflation and surging energy costs as Russia cuts off its gas supplies to Europe.
Copyright 2022 NPR
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2022-09-05T09:32:04+00:00
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delawarepublic.org
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https://www.delawarepublic.org/2022-09-05/germany-announces-a-multibillion-dollar-inflation-relief-package
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At 3978 Wilson Road
MEBANE, N.C., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Results Physiotherapy opened an outpatient clinic today at 3978 Wilson Road.
The clinic is open 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. To make an appointment, call 919-246-9033 or visit resultspt.com.
The clinic specializes in physical therapy, including manual therapy, hand therapy, injury prevention, return to performance, total joint replacement, dry needling, concussion management, headaches and vestibular rehabilitation.
Clinic director Dylan Higgins earned a doctor of physical therapy degree from Mercer University. Higgins is an orthopedic clinical specialist and is certified in orthopedic manual therapy.
He is a teaching assistant and instructor for High Point University's doctor of physical therapy program and the Institute of Advanced Musculoskeletal Treatments.
Results has more than 200 clinics in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
Results is part of the Upstream Rehabilitation family of clinical care, which offers access to care within 24 hours and works with all insurance types.
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2022-09-19T17:47:43+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/09/19/results-physiotherapy-opens-outpatient-clinic-mebane-nc/
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Professional magician and TV star inspires families to channel their inner magicians with the magic of new Cheez-It® Puff'd™
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cheez-It® is bringing families the newest take on its iconic snack cracker with Cheez-It® Puff'd™ – a crazy-craveable, puffy and airy snack baked with 100% real cheese inside and out. Every Cheez-It Puff'd starts with a crunch and transforms into a melt-in-your-mouth, indulgent taste that vanishes on your tongue — it must be some kind of magic.
Professional magician and TV star, Justin Willman, knows magic when he sees it — and this puffy, airy and cheesy Cheez-It Puff'd transformation is just that. So, ahead of National Cheese Day (June 4), Willman and Cheez-It Puff'd are teaming up to create two cheezdefying magic tricks — one is so stealthily simple it will inspire families to channel their inner magician.
- Cheez-It Puff'd Side Down – Willman is defying the laws of gravity, mystically making Cheez-It Puff'd float and then fly away. How does he do it? Watch and find out!
- Vanishing Cheez-It Puff'd – Willman will repeatedly make Cheez-It Puff'd vanish at his fingertips. A trick so simple, yet still astonishing, viewers can easily recreate it and trick their friends and family — tune in to Willman's TikTok on June 6 to watch and learn how!
"Every Cheez-It Puff'd delivers a poppable, airy bite that starts with a crunchy outside layer and transforms into a melt-in-your-mouth, indulgent taste – just like magic," said Erin Storm, senior marketing director of Cheez-It. "With at-home magic tricks resurging in popularity on social media channels, our partnership with Justin takes the absurdly uplifting snacking experience of Cheez-It Puff'd and provides families with a magical snacktime activity."
"Nothing beats blowing fans' minds with clever – yet shockingly simple – illusions, especially when it's a trick that anyone can perform, regardless of their magic experience," said Willman. "I've always been a Cheez-It fan, and now I'm a Cheez-It Puff'd fanatic. So, creating magic with one of my favorite snacks that encourages families to come together and recreate an illusion has been a magical experience."
Cheez-It Puff'd and magic-lovers alike can follow Willman on their favorite social platform to see the mind-bending illusions and learn how to perform the magical fun at home with Cheez-It Puff'd.
Justin Willman Social Channels:
- TikTok: @realjustinwillman
- Twitter: @Justin_Willman
- Instagram: @justinwillman
- Facebook: Justin Willman
To try the magic for themselves, fans can find Cheez-It Puff'd at retailers nationwide in three varieties – Cheez-It Puff'd Double Cheese, White Cheddar and Scorchin' Hot Cheddar. Fans can also share their magic trick performance attempts and tag @CheezIt and @realjustinwillman on TikTok for a chance to be featured on Willman's social media channels.
At Kellogg Company (NYSE: K), our vision is a good and just world where people are not just fed but fulfilled. We are creating better days and a place at the table for everyone through our trusted food brands. Our beloved brands include Pringles®, Cheez-It®, Special K®, Kellogg's Frosted Flakes®, Pop-Tarts®, Kellogg's Corn Flakes®, Rice Krispies®, Eggo®, Mini-Wheats®, Kashi®, RXBAR®, MorningStar Farms® and more. Net sales in 2021 were nearly $14.2 billion, comprised principally of snacks as well as convenience foods like cereal, frozen foods, and noodles. As part of our Kellogg's Better Days® ESG strategy, we're addressing the interconnected issues of wellbeing, climate and food security, creating Better Days for 3 billion people by the end of 2030. Visit www.KelloggCompany.com.
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2022-06-02T13:17:05+00:00
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kcbd.com
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https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/06/02/abracadabra-cheez-it-puffd-celebrity-magician-justin-willman-blow-fans-minds-tastebuds-with-two-cheezdefying-magic-tricks/
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Christmas trees to be made into fish habitats at Lake Martin
Alexander City, Ala. (WSFA) - Residents are encouraged to drop off their Christmas trees at one of three locations set up by Alabama Power, the Lake Martin Resource Association, and the Lake Martin Tourism Association.
The three organizations are teaming up to help create new fish habitats in Lake Martin. Undecorated Christmas trees (not artificial) can be dropped off at any of the three listed locations between Dec. 26th and Jan. 8th.
- Lake Martin Machine Gun in Eclectic, located at 2520 Red Hill Rd.
- Wind Creek State Park, located at 4325 AL-128 in Alexander City
- New Water Farms, located in Dadeville at 460 Civitan Rd.
“We have been recycling Christmas trees and building fish habitats since 1993 and have placed over 60,000 trees in Alabama Power reservoirs all over the state, including Lake Martin,” stated Michael Clelland of Alabama Power. “As reservoirs age, a lot of the natural brush and fish habitat deteriorates, and this is a way of creating new habitat and enhancing older habitat to benefit fish of all species. I look forward to working with LMRA and Lake Martin Tourism on this project in 2023 and hope we can make this Christmas tree recycling program an annual effort.”
This opportunity encourages the proper recycling of trees to keep them off the roadways and out of landfills. Alabama Power will be legally and properly placing the trees, making sure all safety measures are followed so that trees do not move and rise, which could damage boats and injure boaters. Alabama Power has strict processes in place that maintains the safety of boating on Lake Martin.
Creating these new fish habitats is a big help to the aquatic ecosystem. Also, for the anglers out there, this means new fishing hotspots on Lake Martin!
The specific coordinates to the new habitats will be released this spring.
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2022-12-24T22:28:05+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/2022/12/23/christmas-trees-be-made-into-fish-habitats-lake-martin/
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GRAHAM, N.C. (WGHP) — A Graham police officer responded to an unusual trespassing call on Saturday night, according to a Graham Police Department Facebook post.
Officers came to a home after getting a trespassing call.
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The caller was not sure how the trespasser got inside the home and was shocked to find the intruder in the bathroom.
The suspect was a snake that had slithered its way into the bathroom.
Officers cleared the home and after a brief standoff, the snake was apprehended without further incident.
There’s no word what kind of snake the officer found or its length.
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2023-07-17T12:06:50+00:00
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qcnews.com
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https://www.qcnews.com/news/graham-police-officer-removes-snake-from-home/
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Cristiano Ronaldo knows a thing or two about World Cups. He has played in four of them and is about to make it to a record-tying fifth this month in Qatar.
Ronaldo also knows when he sees something promising, and he believes this time there is reason to feel optimistic about the chances of a talented Portugal squad that mixes the right amount of experience and youth as it tries to win its first World Cup title.
“The squad for this World Cup is a great mix of experienced players and young rising stars, and I hope we can show the world what this Portugal team is capable of at the very highest level of the world game,” Ronaldo told The Associated Press ahead of the launch of his inaugural NFT collection with cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance.
The collection will be available Friday, just before the World Cup starts, and the bidding price for some of the collectibles related to the soccer star will begin at the equivalent of about $10,000. The NFTs will feature seven animated statues depicting Ronaldo from iconic moments in his life, ranging from bicycle-kick goals to his childhood in Portugal.
Ronaldo often attracted most of the attention any time Portugal played, but this time he will enter the World Cup sharing some of the spotlight with a talented group of players that includes Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes, João Félix and Rafael Leão.
“I’ve been thrilled to see this generation of players thrive,” the 37-year-old Ronaldo said in emailed comments to the AP. “It’s hard to compare one generation with another. Everyone who plays for Portugal, whether in the past or today, has overcome so much to compete at the top level.”
The only player older than Ronaldo in Portugal’s squad is veteran central defender Pepe, who will be playing in his fourth World Cup.
Ronaldo, the all-time leading scorer in men’s international soccer with 117 goals, helped Portugal win the European Championship in 2016 and the inaugural edition of the Nations League in 2019, but he is still missing soccer’s biggest prize.
Portugal’s best result in the tournament with Ronaldo playing came in 2006 in Germany, when the team reached the semifinals. Portugal didn’t make it past the round of 16 at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
“Of course we’re there to win and I believe we have the squad to do it,” Ronaldo said. “But then there are a number of top teams out there with world-class talent — so we have to stay focused, stay humble, and go out there and show what we can do. The rest will follow.”
Ronaldo endured a letdown at the club level for the first time in his career this season, not getting as many minutes as expected with Manchester United. He has dismissed the possibility that this will be his last tournament with Portugal, but said soccer will be just fine after he and 35-year-old Lionel Messi — who could also be making his last World Cup appearance with Argentina — retire from the international stage.
“There have always been and there always will be rising stars at the top level,” Ronaldo said. “I have no doubt that the World Cup will unveil the next generation of talent ready to change the game.”
Portugal will plays it's opening match at this year's World Cup against Ghana on Nov. 24. Uruguay and South Korea are also in Group H..
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2022-11-15T15:57:55+00:00
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local10.com
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https://www.local10.com/sports/2022/11/15/ronaldo-thrilled-with-portugals-new-generation-of-players/
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NORTH CAROLINA (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – “The reason I find them so interesting is because they’re that frontier of change, and so they’re so responsive to things that we humans do,” reflects Himmelstein.
These coastal wetlands are crucial to the food we eat, the homes we build, and the storms we survive, “whether it modifies the coastline or affects the way sea levels are rising, they’re some of the first environments to respond to that.”
But marshes are changing faster now than ever before, “it is all-natural, these things have happened in the past, but the rate at which we’re seeing them happen is what’s alarming a lot of us in the climate science field.”
Joshua Himmelstein is a Ph.D. student in coastal geology at UNC’s Institute of Marine Sciences. He’s tracking the movement of marshes, “while we have a new growth of salt marshes in the upland, we have erosion further out closer to the waterways.”
He explains that the movement triggered by sea-level rise, “we see about 4 mm a year in sea-level rise. Even though it sounds like a pretty small amount, that little incremental amount of water level rise is reaching higher and higher areas that were once used to being covered in fresh water, rain maybe, that are now seeing salt water, changing the ecosystem.”
These marshes often protect our homes and the homes of sea critters we depend on; he explains, “depending on how much is removed and how much is created, it might change things like the amount of carbon that’s drawn down or the amount of species that can depend on that landscape.”
So to find answers, we venture into these moving marshes that look beautiful but, “there are some bacteria, they use anaerobic respiration. These bacteria can only make energy when there’s no oxygen…and one of the byproducts is sulfur,” that’s science talk for smells like rotten eggs.
Saltwater marshes are the frontier of sea-level rise. As sea-levels rise and storms become more intense, salt water makes it farther inland. The extra salt leaves skeletons left behind; dead trees now called a ghost forest show where that salt water is killing the trees.
Any greenery left behind them is the next victim of the sea-level rise and salt water intrusion.
To figure out when and where this transition happened, they cut deep into the soil to pull out a core that reveals a slice of history.
It may not look like it, but this core is filled with information. It gives them a 3D look at our coast, “normally, we just have satellite imagery, or imagery from drones, or a map that somebody drew 200 years ago, but this allows us to integrate over time as well,” compares Himmelstein. Himmelstein explains, “When you look at it is kind of like mud, and it’s uninteresting, but here we see sea-level rise.”
Since marshes grow vertically by compressing on top of each other, the older sediment is compressed back towards the bottom, and the newer, fresher soil is on top. So, the soil tells its own story of its past, but as it migrates inland to follow the salt water, it also gives us a taste of the future.
Himmelstein predicts, “You’ll see them moving into areas that used to be our backyards, our football pitch, and our agricultural land. We just drove by a farm, and I’m sure in 50 years that’s going to be a salt marsh.”
While some marsh grows inland, coastal erosion, storm surge, and fast tidal rises erode marshes closer to the water. Himmelstein explains, “that’s why folks are interested in measuring how much new marsh is being created versus how much old marsh is being eroded at one edge.”
These cores also show us where carbon is stored; marshes can be more efficient at the job than rainforests; he explains, “you can see roots all the way down, even though these are many years old, they still haven’t broken totally down. They stay there, so that’s just carbon that’s being stored in the soil.”
But what seeps in doesn’t always stay there; Himmelstein points out, “now if that marsh is eroded, all that carbon is released back into the waterways and eventually the atmosphere.”
These cores tell us that marshes are good at keeping pace with sea-level rise, but only to an extent; too much water suffocates the marshy grass. Himmelstein predicts, “there’s a chance that when you look at the net change, there’s actually a loss in salt marsh area because the amount of erosion is greater than the amount of encroachment.”
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So back in the lab, Himmelstein takes his cores and cuts them into little slices that he freeze-dries and stores. He cuts them layer by layer, one centimeter at a time, 100 slices in total.
He suits up and puts chemistry to work. Each centimeter can then be tested to figure out its age. So far, the cores have told us that there was a transition in the marsh, just not when. Himmelstein asks if “the rate of this marsh growth, is it faster or slower than sea-level rise?”
And by using the past, we can forecast the future; he predicts, “if it’s slower, we’re going to lose that marsh it’s going to drown if it’s faster than marsh will stay as a marsh until it can no longer because sea-level rise is just too fast.”
“There are places where marshes and other habitats are being squeezed between all this structure we built and the water that’s rising,” Dr. Joel Fodrie is a marine ecologist at UNC. He predicts, “It’s going to change the dynamic in those places and probably cost us these coastal habitats.”
He and Himmelstein align conservation is vital, “we know a lot about the ecosystems, and now it’s about what can we do, where can we direct money, where can we as concerned citizens start to focus our efforts?” asks Himmelstein.
In order to conserve the benefits we need to reap from these marshes, like coastal protection, wildlife habitat, and carbon storage, we need to protect the land it lives on.
A study done by Climate Central ranks North Carolina as one of the most vulnerable, forecasting more than an 80% loss in marshes if we keep developing the land as we are now. But the study shows we can prevent many of those losses with some conservation.
This interactive map lets you get to those changes county by county. You can change the pollution pathway to best and worst-case scenarios to better understand the impact we could have, both good and bad, on our coast.
“The bumper sticker says ‘no wetlands, no seafood,’ and there’s a lot of truth in that,” Dr. Fodrie explains that our marshes act as nurseries for all the baby shrimp, crabs, and seafood we love. He adds, “So even if you want to catch a big fish that lives miles offshore when that fish was a baby fish, it might be in these marshes.”
As these critters chase salt, they’re also running into other obstacles like land development, poor water quality, and warming ocean temperatures. Dr. Fodrie explains, “It’s not just warmer, it’s sea-level rise, it’s ocean acidity, it’s storminess, it’s changes in the seasonal timing of things.”
Simply put, it’s not simple. These are complex changes happening in our ocean ecosystems, “all of those are syndromes of climate change, and so trying to unravel this mystery. It does take time,” he explains.
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We can’t fight off these changes, Dr. Fodrie acknowledges, “we’re going to keep adapting, that’s our best hope is to keep adapting and find new solutions, these new mouse traps.”
The marshes will move with or without us, Himmelstein predicts, “they might change in the area, there might be half as many marshes in 1,000 years as there are today, or there might be twice as many. The jury is still out; a lot of it depends on things we choose to do at the coast,” because in the end, it’s our home too.
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2022-10-06T05:00:34+00:00
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qcnews.com
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https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/carnivores-our-coast-sea-level-rise-is-moving-erasing-north-carolinas-coveted-coastal-marshes/
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The Reg Lenna Center for the Arts has received state funding to go toward replacing seats in its theatre.
Over $42 million has been awarded through the New York State Council on the Arts to 144 small and medium-sized capital projects. This record capital investment in arts and cultural organizations across the state supports crucial building renovations, accessibility improvements and new spaces for creative work.
The Reg will receive $230,000 from NYSCA for the $460,000 project to replace 1,200 seats.
Reg Executive Director Hillary Meyer said, “In our centennial year, we are thrilled to receive this funding from the New York State Council on the Arts to upgrade our seating for the next 100 years of visitors to our facility.”
The Reg Lenna Center for the Arts is the parents company of WRFA-LP.
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2023-04-26T19:33:21+00:00
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wrfalp.com
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https://www.wrfalp.com/reg-lenna-awarded-state-funding-to-replace-theatre-seats/
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