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Through April 10
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2023-04-11T19:46:05+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/nascar-craftsman-truck-laps-in-top-15-17891219.php
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — Delays and changes in subway train services continue as investigation regarding the Brooklyn shootings that happened Tuesday morning is ongoing.
Check the following changes below. The list was last updated at 1:03 p.m.
- B and W trains are suspended
- D trains are running on the F line between Broadway-Lafayette St and Coney Island-Stillwell Av
- No D service between Broadway-Lafayette St and Bay 50 St in both directions
- Northbound C trains are delayed
- No R service between Whitehall St-South Ferry and Bay Ridge-95 St.
- E and J trains are running with delays in both directions
- Northbound Nos. 4 and 5 trains are running with delays
- No. 6 trains running with delays in both directions
- Northbound F/G trains are running express from Church Av to Smith-9 St.
This is a developing story; check back for updates.
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2022-04-12T17:50:41+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/news/local-news/subway-train-services-impacted-after-multiple-shot-in-brooklyn/
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico will attempt to send an aquatic drone into a collapsed coal mine where 10 miners have been trapped since last week.
Laura Velázquez, national Civil Defense coordinator, said Monday that images from the drone could help authorities decide whether to send in divers without putting them at risk.
She also said that 25 pumps were working to remove water from the flooded shafts. Water that was once 111 feet (34 meters) deep was now between 55 and 78 feet (17 and 26 meters) deep.
The mine in Sabinas, Coahuila about 70 miles southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, collapsed last Wednesday with 15 miners inside. Five managed to escape with injuries. Authorities say the miners breached a neighboring space filled with water. There has been no contact with the remaining 10.
The miners’ families are desperate and some complained Sunday that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gave them little information when he visited the site.
“I appreciate that he has come to take a photo with my pain, the pain of my family and the pain of everyone of us here,” said Lucía Rodríguez, mother of one of the miners, in a video circulated on social media. “I hope that his photographs serve his policy well.”
The president said that as a public servant you have to be willing “to always pay the tax of humiliation,” but that his conscience is clear because the rescue teams arrived to the site in two hours and have been working day and night to rescue the miners.
The state and federal prosecutor’s offices have opened investigations to determine those responsible for the accident. Such small mines are often the result of locals who get concessions and then contract teams of miners. Experts say they seldom have the safety plans and equipment necessary to reduce the risk of accidents.
In June and July of 2021, cave-ins at two Coahuila mines claimed the lives of nine miners.
Mexico’s worst mining accident also occurred in Coahuila on Feb. 19, 2006, when an explosion ripped through the Pasta de Conchos mine while 73 miners were inside. Eight were rescued with injuries including serious burns. The rest died and only two of their bodies were recovered.
López Obrador’s administration promised two years ago to recover the remaining 63 bodies, a highly technical endeavor that has still not begun.
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2022-08-09T13:11:55+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/mexico-to-send-aquatic-drone-into-shaft-with-trapped-miners/
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Vanessa Perry, nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute Housing Finance Policy Center, talks to NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about new "zero-down" mortgages for first-time Black and Hispanic homebuyers.
Copyright 2022 NPR
Vanessa Perry, nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute Housing Finance Policy Center, talks to NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about new "zero-down" mortgages for first-time Black and Hispanic homebuyers.
Copyright 2022 NPR
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2022-09-11T14:23:30+00:00
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klcc.org
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https://www.klcc.org/npr-business-money/npr-business-money/2022-09-11/zero-down-payment-loans-to-close-the-racial-homeownership-gap-what-you-need-to-know
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SINGAPORE, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific International Holdings (AG&P), a leading downstream LNG platform and industrial company, has been adjudged as the APAC Company of the Year for 2022 in the LNG category by Energy Council. The Energy Council's Annual Awards of Excellence represents a global benchmark of excellence for the oil & gas and natural gas / LNG sectors. AG&P was recognised and honoured 'for being at the forefront of value creation, innovation and exceptional performance' over the last 12 months.
Mr. Joseph Sigelman, Chairman & CEO, AG&P Group, said, "AG&P cherishes this distinguished award from the Energy Council. After years of anticipation, we find ourselves in a revolutionary transformation of energy. There is a great increase in LNG export coming in the next years and there is clear demand from industry, power and home and vehicle owners who want clean, competitive fuel. AG&P's mission is to bridge the coming surge in gas supply with the customers who need it, by providing fast, standardized infrastructure and logistics.
This award recognizes the hard work that our team has invested to develop the terminals and city gas networks that we have already rolled out and are forthcoming across South and Southeast Asia and beyond. We are proud of our strategy of ensuring that people and industry have the choice of a fuel that will help them prioritize the environment and reduce overall costs at the same time. We profoundly thank the Energy Council for focusing on this important area."
AG&P is leading the transition to clean energy through its advanced technological energy solutions. AG&P develops LNG ecosystems that unlocks underserved/ unserved markets by delivering customised design powered by innovative standardized plug-and-play products that are commercially compelling and allow for rapid adoption of natural gas.
In May 2022, AG&P's subsidiary GAS Entec completed the conversion of a 125,000m³ LNG carrier (LNGC) for KARMOL, a joint-venture between Turkey's Karpowership and Japan's Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), into the world's first Modular Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (M-FSRU). The M-FSRU was built with Gas Entec's standard, modular RegasTainer® technology to deliver gas to Karpowership's 236 MW Floating Power Barge in Senegal, the first country in West Africa to transition to clean gas energy.
This year, AG&P will also commission the first LNG import and regasification terminal in Batangas Bay, called the Philippines LNG (PHLNG) to supply gas to one of the largest power producers in the country. In addition, PHLNG will store LNG and dispatch natural gas to power industrial and commercial customers and other consumers, opening up for the country a new era of clean, efficient fuel. In India, AG&P is the largest foreign player with a CGD portfolio that includes 12 concessions, covering 28 districts across 8% of India and ~80 MM people.
About AG&P
Atlantic Gulf & Pacific (AG&P) is a global leader in developing and running LNG and gas logistics and distribution solutions. AG&P provides the infrastructure to access natural gas safely and easily in new and growing markets. We act as an owner and as a service provider covering the development, financing, engineering, procurement, project management and construction for onshore and offshore gas infrastructure, linking suppliers to downstream customers. www.agpglobal.com
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2022-06-09T04:49:45+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/06/09/agampp-wins-2022-lng-apac-company-year-award-energy-councils-annual-awards-excellence/
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FISHER, Ill. (WCIA) — The Fisher Community Fair announced its concert headliner for the 2023 fair on Tuesday.
The fair released a statement that classic country band Lonestar will headline this summer’s mainstage concert at the Fisher Fairgrounds. The fair said that the 1990s hitmaker group is composed of Dean Sams (keyboards, acoustic guitar, background vocals), Michael Britt (lead guitarist, background vocals ), Keech Rainwater (drums), and Drew Womack (lead vocals, guitar).
The band has had nine No. 1 hit songs throughout their career, these include “Unusually Unusual,” “Tequila Talkin’,” “Everything’s Changed,” “Say When” and “Heartbroke Every Day.” Fair officials said these songs have kept the band consistently on the country charts, making them one of the most well-known groups in the country music genre.
The band is re-recording many of their hits on their new record titled “TEN to 1,” including a cover of the popular song “Walking in Memphis.” Fair officials shared on their website that the band members are full of gratitude for what they’ve accomplished already and excited about what the future holds.
“It’s amazing that we’re still standing and putting on great shows after all these years,” Sams said. “The fans are still coming out to our shows night after night, to see us and hear our music. That’s almost 30 years of touring, and I can’t tell you how grateful I am—and I’ve never once taken it for granted.”
Up-and-coming country artist Chase Wright is scheduled to open for Lonestar. Officials said he is a 2022 Spotify “Hot Country Artist to Watch” and Class of 2022 SiriusXM “Highway Find.”
Gates to the concert open at 6:30 p.m. on July 14, and officials said the concert will begin on the mainstage at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale on Friday at 8 a.m. They can be purchased online.
The Fisher Community Fair runs from July 9 -15.
In addition to the concert, the fair will also feature other activities including tractor and truck pulls, horse shows, jackpot hog shows, a queen pageant, livestock shows, a car show, a demolition derby and a 5K race.
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2023-03-14T20:18:30+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/fisher-community-fair-announces-headline-band-for-2023/
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Which mesh baby gates are best?
Every parent wants to keep their child safe, and that means considering hazards both inside and outside of the home. Baby gates are an effective tool to keep children safely contained near you.
While there is no doubt that swinging baby gates work well, they can be problematic to install in small spaces. They can also get in the way at times. Retractable mesh gates don’t suffer from these issues. Some, such as the Smart Retract Store Retract-A-Gate, are even suitable for use at the top of stairs.
What to know before you buy a mesh baby gate
Like any product where there are multiple types, mesh baby gates offer some pros and cons versus other styles. It is important to have a good understanding of both their benefits and drawbacks before purchasing one to make sure it is the proper choice for your house and family.
Pros of mesh baby gates
Mesh baby gates have a retractable design that is ideal for small homes and passageways. Unlike traditional baby gates, mesh baby gates don’t require any additional space in front of or behind them to swing open. They also feature an internal spring that automatically retracts them when released from the clip, hook or latch on the opposite side. This can be very convenient. Once these gates are opened, you don’t have to worry about them unexpectedly closing and getting in the way, as can happen with swinging gates.
Unlike traditional solid baby gates, which may not be adjustable, mesh baby gates can be installed in any size opening as long as it is narrower than their maximum length. This makes them highly customizable. They can be installed at an angle, which many solid models can’t.
Many parents may appreciate the soft material of mesh baby gates too because it won’t present a hazard if a child falls against it or crawls into it and bumps their head.
Cons of mesh baby gates
Despite the many benefits of mesh baby gates, there are also some cons. For example, the internal spring that automatically rewinds them can potentially be a hazard if they have a lot of tension and an adult accidentally releases the gate when it is still far away from the winding mechanism.
Also, the mesh material can get stained from messy fingers and is more difficult to clean than the plastic or aluminum bars that solid, nonretractable models are made from. This is especially an issue if you also have pets in the house. There is also the potential for the mesh material to rip or tear — an issue that you won’t have with solid baby gates. That said, if you purchase a high-quality model, it is rare for this to happen.
What to look for in a quality mesh baby gate
Size
Pay attention to both the width and height of a mesh baby gate when choosing one. Most are between 28-33 inches tall. Either is generally fine for a baby, but if you plan on continuing to use the gate into your kid’s toddler years, it is best to choose a taller model as there is less chance of a determined child climbing over it.
The width determines in which openings and passageways a particular mesh baby gate can be installed. Standard interior doorways measure between 24-36 inches and hallways between 42-60 inches.
Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association certification
The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association, which is often referred to as the JPMA, is an organization that independently tests baby and child products for safety. You can rest assured that any JPMA-certified baby gate meets stringent requirements for durability and reliability to keep your child safe. Though it can be difficult to find JPMA-certified mesh baby gates, there are some available. Most experts recommend choosing one of these if it fits your needs.
Mounting
Mesh baby gates can be hardware mounted or pressure mounted. Because baby gates are designed to prevent a child from entering or exiting an area, you should choose a model that offers the most security and stability. This often means hardware-mounted models. Though installation is more complicated and time-consuming, the safety benefits outweigh any potential hassles.
One-handed operation
Ideally, any baby gate should be easy to operate with a single hand. This allows you to open and close the gate with your child, groceries or anything else in the other hand without a lot of frustration and fumbling around.
Color
Many mesh baby gates come in multiple colors so you can choose the option that blends in best with your home. This prevents them from being an eyesore while they keep your baby safe.
How much can you expect to spend on a mesh baby gate
Most mesh baby gates cost between $50-$200.
Mesh baby gate FAQ
Can I use a mesh baby gate at the top of the stairs?
A. This depends on the gate in question. Some models are certified or recommended for the top of stairs, while others are not. This information can usually be found in the product listing or the product manual. If it does not explicitly state that it is safe for use at the top of the stairs, you should assume that it is not.
Can I use a mesh baby gate as a pet gate?
A. Many mesh baby gates are perfectly suitable for use as pet gates, too. Like with those intended for babies, hardware-mounted models are going to be the most effective barriers. You should also consider your pet’s behavior. If they tend to scratch at things a lot, a mesh gate may not hold up as well as a wood, plastic or metal model.
What are the best mesh baby gates to buy?
Top mesh baby gate
Smart Retract Store Retract-A-Gate
What you need to know: The Retract-A-Gate is one of the few JPMA-certified mesh baby gates and is suitable for use at the top and bottom of stairs.
What you’ll love: It spools and unspools smoothly, and its large hooks make it easy to secure in place without fumbling around.
What you should consider: It is more expensive than most others and some find the aesthetics lacking.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top mesh baby gate for the money
Perma Child Safety Retractable Baby Gate
What you need to know: This retractable gate holds up well to a lot of use and abuse, and it is suitable for both indoor and outdoor applications.
What you’ll love: The frame is rustproof, and the mesh is UV resistant. Also, it looks more attractive than many other models and comes in two heights, one of which is 41 inches tall.
What you should consider: Some find the latching and unlatching process awkward. The installation can also be a bit tricky due to poor instructions.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Skip Hop Retractable Mesh Baby Gate
What you need to know: The Skip Hop Mesh Baby Gate is a standout for aesthetics but is nearly impossible to operate with a single hand.
What you’ll love: It comes in a neutral color that blends in well with most homes. Plus, it can be customized to work with and without baseboards.
What you should consider: The mesh material is a bit flimsy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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2022-07-09T23:19:38+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/reviews/br/baby-kids-br/health-safety-br/best-mesh-baby-gate/
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TO THE EDITOR:
Don’t let Midland County Sheriff Myron Greene’s letter about my friend who is running for county commissioner, Allison Wilcox, bamboozle you. Let me clarify.
Apparently Allison would ruin the current male-heavy commission, or as Greene calls it, the Magnificent Seven. Right there, you probably want to vote against Allison. After all, only 54.7% of Midland’s population is female and why ruin something that’s magnificent?
Greene accuses Allison of having made mean comments about Christian men. I’m just going to have to pray about that nefarious comment and try to digest it. The fact that Allison is married to a Christian man and active in a Christian church well, you just don’t know what to believe, do you?
What you can believe is that Allison will be a brilliant public servant, willing and able to represent her fellow citizens.
CAROLYN MAHAFFEY
Midland
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2022-10-31T22:27:16+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/letters/article/There-s-some-bamboozling-going-on-17547608.php
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Uber driver shot in head, still drives passengers to safety
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA/Gray News) - An Uber driver in Texas received praise for his “heroic efforts” to get himself and his riders to safety when someone started shooting a gun as he was dropping the passengers off.
Daniel Palacios picked up three women heading to a party June 9. He said in an interview Wednesday that as he reached the location, he knew something was off.
“‘Hey you guys can’t get out. I can’t let you out, it’s not safe,’” Palacios said he told them.
He says he went into “dad mode” and instantly told them to get down.
“Two bullets ricocheted off the ground, and I felt the third,” he said. “I said ‘I have been shot. Get down!’”
The one thing he knew he had to do was stay calm. He drove himself and his passengers to the hospital.
Palacios was released from the hospital, but he says he is having trouble sleeping.
“I keep thinking, ‘Was there something else I could have done? Is there something else I could have (done to) either help more people out or just not be in that situation all together?’” he said. “It’s just a bunch of ‘what ifs’ that pause me each night.”
A spokesperson for Uber released a statement crediting the driver.
“The details being reported by the driver are terrifying, and we praise his heroic efforts to protect the riders,” the company stated. “We have reached out to offer support.”
Amarillo police said there had not been any arrests related to the shooting by Wednesday evening. A spokesperson said there had been multiple parties involving young crowds that may be connected to other crimes, and the violent crimes unit along with the juvenile investigative squad were on this case.
“We are very concerned,” said Sgt. Carla Burr. “Two people were injured the other night.”
Despite his doubts, Palacios said he feels like he took the best course of action.
“I did the right thing, I know I did,” he said.
He and his fiancée started a GoFundMe to help raise money for medical bills and repairs to his vehicle.
Copyright 2022 KFDA via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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2022-06-16T16:43:56+00:00
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newschannel6now.com
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https://www.newschannel6now.com/2022/06/16/uber-driver-shot-head-still-drives-passengers-safety/
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Covert robbery detectives from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department have arrested two suspects following an investigation into a series of armed robberies on the northwest side of Indianapolis.
Alexander Soto, 20, and 18-year-old Alan Turcios were taken into custody near a Speedway apartment complex, IMPD said in a statement Monday.
Detectives on Friday responded to a robbery in the 2200 block of White Oaks Drive. That’s an address within the Legend at Speedway Apartments, near the intersection of Lynhurst Drive and Crawfordsville Road, roughly 1.5 miles west of Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
After detectives determined an armed robbery had occurred, a description of a suspect vehicle was given to members of the Indianapolis SWAT team.
Officers from the SWAT team found the alleged suspect vehicle in the 5600 block of Crawfordsville Road, less than a half-mile from the apartment complex. After officers determined the suspects were in the vehicle, Soto and Turcios were taken into custody.
Robbery detectives arrived and identified Soto and Turcios as the suspects in the alleged armed robbery. They were both arrested for numerous offenses, including felony armed robbery.
In addition to the armed robbery on Friday, Soto and Turcios are accused of being involved in three other robberies, all of them on Feb. 10 Those robberies occurred in the following locations:
- Apartment complex at 3500 N. Dukane Way
- Residential area at 3900 N. Lawndale Ave.
- Residential area at 3900 Kalmar Dr.
The investigation included personnel from the IMPD Robbery Division, IMPD SWAT, IMPD Aviation Unit, the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force, and IMPD Northwest District.
Anyone with any further information about these incidents should call the IMPD Homicide/Robbery Office at 317-32-3475 or Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477 or (TIPS).
Crime resources
- Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana: 317-262-8477
- P3tips app | Apple devices | Google Play
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2023-02-20T19:13:35+00:00
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wishtv.com
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https://www.wishtv.com/news/crime-watch-8/impd-swat-team-fbi-arrest-2-men-for-armed-robberies/
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MLB Games Tonight: How to Watch on TV, Streaming & Odds - Friday, May 26
The MLB schedule today, which includes the Los Angeles Dodgers versus the Tampa Bay Rays, should provide some fireworks.
How to watch all the games in the MLB today is included here.
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How to Watch Today's MLB Games
The Chicago Cubs (22-27) play the Cincinnati Reds (21-29)
The Reds hope to get a road victory at Wrigley Field against the Cubs on Friday at 2:20 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 2:20 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- CHC Key Player: Nico Hoerner (.295 AVG, 3 HR, 24 RBI)
- CIN Key Player: Jonathan India (.289 AVG, 3 HR, 18 RBI)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
The Detroit Tigers (23-25) face the Chicago White Sox (21-31)
The White Sox will take to the field at Comerica Park against the Tigers on Friday at 6:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- DET Key Player: Riley Greene (.297 AVG, 5 HR, 18 RBI)
- CHW Key Player: Luis Robert (.267 AVG, 13 HR, 29 RBI)
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The Tampa Bay Rays (37-15) play the Los Angeles Dodgers (31-20)
The Dodgers hope to get a road victory at Tropicana Field against the Rays on Friday at 6:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- TB Key Player: Wander Franco (.288 AVG, 7 HR, 26 RBI)
- LAD Key Player: Freddie Freeman (.330 AVG, 9 HR, 31 RBI)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
The New York Yankees (30-22) take on the San Diego Padres (23-27)
The Padres hope to get a road victory at Yankee Stadium versus the Yankees on Friday at 7:05 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- NYY Key Player: Gleyber Torres (.263 AVG, 9 HR, 25 RBI)
- SD Key Player: Juan Soto (.262 AVG, 9 HR, 22 RBI)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
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The Baltimore Orioles (33-17) play host to the Texas Rangers (31-18)
The Rangers will take to the field at Oriole Park at Camden Yards against the Orioles on Friday at 7:05 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 7:05 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- BAL Key Player: Cedric Mullins (.275 AVG, 8 HR, 39 RBI)
- TEX Key Player: Marcus Semien (.299 AVG, 8 HR, 40 RBI)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
The Cleveland Guardians (21-28) play host to the St. Louis Cardinals (23-29)
The Cardinals hope to get a road victory at Progressive Field versus the Guardians on Friday at 7:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- CLE Key Player: José Ramírez (.266 AVG, 6 HR, 25 RBI)
- STL Key Player: Paul Goldschmidt (.292 AVG, 9 HR, 25 RBI)
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The Atlanta Braves (31-19) host the Philadelphia Phillies (23-27)
The Phillies will take to the field at Truist Park versus the Braves on Friday at 7:20 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 7:20 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- ATL Key Player: Ronald Acuña Jr. (.332 AVG, 11 HR, 27 RBI)
- PHI Key Player: Alec Bohm (.269 AVG, 6 HR, 37 RBI)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
The Milwaukee Brewers (27-23) play the San Francisco Giants (25-25)
The Giants will hit the field at American Family Field against the Brewers on Friday at 8:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- MIL Key Player: Christian Yelich (.260 AVG, 7 HR, 24 RBI)
- SF Key Player: Thairo Estrada (.301 AVG, 6 HR, 17 RBI)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
The Minnesota Twins (26-24) play host to the Toronto Blue Jays (26-25)
The Blue Jays will take to the field at Target Field versus the Twins on Friday at 8:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- MIN Key Player: Byron Buxton (.238 AVG, 10 HR, 23 RBI)
- TOR Key Player: Bo Bichette (.326 AVG, 9 HR, 31 RBI)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
The Kansas City Royals (15-36) host the Washington Nationals (21-29)
The Nationals will take to the field at Kauffman Stadium versus the Royals on Friday at 8:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- KC Key Player: Vinnie Pasquantino (.262 AVG, 9 HR, 24 RBI)
- WSH Key Player: Lane Thomas (.293 AVG, 7 HR, 25 RBI)
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The Colorado Rockies (22-29) face the New York Mets (26-25)
The Mets will look to pick up a road win at Coors Field against the Rockies on Friday at 8:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: SportsNet RM
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 8:40 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- COL Key Player: Elias Díaz (.340 AVG, 6 HR, 26 RBI)
- NYM Key Player: Pete Alonso (.239 AVG, 19 HR, 45 RBI)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
The Los Angeles Angels (28-23) play the Miami Marlins (25-26)
The Marlins hope to get a road victory at Angel Stadium of Anaheim against the Angels on Friday at 9:38 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- LAA Key Player: Shohei Ohtani (.280 AVG, 12 HR, 33 RBI)
- MIA Key Player: Jorge Soler (.261 AVG, 15 HR, 32 RBI)
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The Oakland Athletics (10-42) play host to the Houston Astros (28-21)
The Astros hope to get a road victory at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum against the Athletics on Friday at 9:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- OAK Key Player: Esteury Ruiz (.276 AVG, 1 HR, 22 RBI)
- HOU Key Player: Yordan Alvarez (.297 AVG, 12 HR, 46 RBI)
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The Arizona Diamondbacks (29-21) face the Boston Red Sox (26-24)
The Red Sox will look to pick up a road win at Chase Field against the Diamondbacks on Friday at 9:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- ARI Key Player: Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (.317 AVG, 8 HR, 27 RBI)
- BOS Key Player: Masataka Yoshida (.299 AVG, 6 HR, 29 RBI)
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The Seattle Mariners (26-24) play host to the Pittsburgh Pirates (25-24)
The Pirates will hit the field at T-Mobile Park versus the Mariners on Friday at 10:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: ROOT Sports NW
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 10:10 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- SEA Key Player: Ty France (.266 AVG, 5 HR, 23 RBI)
- PIT Key Player: Bryan Reynolds (.282 AVG, 6 HR, 28 RBI)
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Informant’s Army past raised at trial tied to Whitmer plot
A defense lawyer lashed out Thursday at a star witness in a trial related to a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, accusing the Army veteran of “stolen valor” and questioning why he wasn’t given a Purple Heart if he was truly injured in Iraq.
The ruckus broke out in front of jurors and continued after they were excused. Defense attorneys and prosecutors raised their voices over each other. At one point, an FBI agent firmly told lawyer Leonard Ballard to “back up, please.”
“Judge, it’s literally hurting my ears. I just can’t listen to it anymore,” state Assistant Attorney General Sunita Doddamani pleaded.
The commotion occurred on the ninth day of trial in Jackson, Michigan, where three members of a paramilitary group, the Wolverine Watchmen, are charged with providing material support for a terrorist act.
Joe Morrison, Pete Musico and Paul Bellar are not accused of directly participating in the Whitmer kidnapping scheme. But state prosecutors said they provided training and support to key players who were subsequently convicted of conspiracy in federal court.
Just like in the federal case, a crucial witness against the three men is Dan Chappel. He agreed in 2020 to become an informant, embedding himself for months inside the Watchmen after reporting to the FBI that the group talked chillingly about attacking police.
In response to questions from prosecutors, Chappel, 36, explained that he was simply looking for a way to maintain his gun skills when he joined the group, years after serving with the Army in Iraq. He told jurors that he suffered back and head trauma overseas that sometimes affected his memory.
Ballard, who is Morrison’s lawyer, pounced during cross-examination, challenging Chappel over his lack of a Purple Heart, a medal typically given to people injured in combat.
“It’s relevant because they have put his combat, and his combat ability, and his combat wounds and everything into evidence,” Ballard said, referring to prosecutors. “They said this is who and what he is. It goes to his credibility.”
Ballard, a former Marine, said a Purple Heart for Chappel’s injuries should have been automatic under Army regulations. But Chappel said his injuries weren’t diagnosed by doctors until later.
“This witness can’t get away with misrepresenting his conduct, his service, his valor — which I would argue is stolen valor in this matter — to these 15 people,” Ballard said of the jury.
Assistant Attorney General Bill Rollstin fired back, accusing Ballard of “besmirching this man’s integrity.”
“What’s (Ballard’s) point: He does or doesn’t have a Purple Heart so now you shouldn’t believe his testimony?” Rollstin asked.
Judge Thomas Wilson said Chappel would get an opportunity Friday to more fully explain his injuries to the jury.
“Then I’ll allow you to ask him if he ever had the Purple Heart,” Wilson told Ballard.
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White reported from Detroit.
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States would once again be able to terminate residents' Medicaid coverage if the federal spending bill working its way through Congress becomes law.
The legislation would phase out the requirement that prevents states from disenrolling Medicaid recipients as long as the national public health emergency is in effect in exchange for an enhanced federal match.
This continuous coverage measure was enacted as part of a COVID-19 relief package passed in March 2020 and has led to a record 90 million enrollees in Medicaid, many of whom may no longer meet the income requirements to qualify.
Under the spending bill, states would be able to begin processing Medicaid redeterminations as of April 1. The legislation also calls for phasing down the enhanced federal match between April and the end of 2023, a longer time frame than the relief measure currently in effect would provide.
That would relieve states of some of the pressure to winnow their Medicaid rolls quickly.
Estimates vary on how many people would lose their Medicaid benefits, though they range as high as 19 million. Many folks, however, could qualify for other coverage.
Providing certainty for states
The spending bill provision would eliminate the uncertainty that state Medicaid agencies have had to contend with as they wait to hear every 90 days whether the Biden administration will continue renewing the public health emergency. It has been extended 11 times since it was declared in early 2020.
While states have been preparing for the unwinding of the continuous coverage requirement, the lack of a start date has made it difficult for them to fully plan, deploy the necessary staff and solidify clear messaging for enrollees, said Jack Rollins, director of federal policy at the National Association of Medicaid Directors, which advocated for the provision.
"States have been kind of crouched at the starting line for quite some time now," he said, noting that most have been checking enrollees' eligibility during the pandemic but not taking any action.
"If you don't have a date, it's hard to help [Medicaid recipients] understand and appreciate what is coming and what is required of them," he added.
State agencies, however, would face multiple hurdles in unwinding the continuous coverage provision, said Jennifer Tolbert, associate director of the Program on Medicaid & Uninsured at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Many are short staffed and have to work with antiquated technology. Plus, they would need accurate contact information for their enrollees, which has always been a challenge but could be even more so during the pandemic, when more people may have changed addresses.
Losing coverage
Starting in April, millions of Medicaid enrollees would lose their coverage because they no longer meet the requirements, particularly the income limits, if the spending bill becomes law.
But others who remain eligible could be disenrolled for procedural reasons, including failing to respond to requests and provide the necessary information to state agencies, which has long been a problem in the Medicaid program.
A total of roughly 15 million people could be dropped from Medicaid when the continuous enrollment requirement ends, according to an analysis the Department of Health and Human Services released in August.
About 8.2 million folks would no longer qualify, but 6.8 million people would be terminated even though they are still eligible, the department estimated.
Aware of this situation, lawmakers added various provisions in the spending bill aimed at minimizing the number of eligible enrollees who would be kicked out. States would have to attempt to update recipients' contact information and would have to make two efforts to reach them using different methods -- such as mail and email -- before disenrolling them.
States also would have to publicly report a variety of metrics, including how many eligibility renewals are processed each month, how many redeterminations result in terminations, how many people are referred to Affordable Care Act exchanges for potential coverage and how many actually enroll in plans.
Agencies could face penalties or have their disenrollments halted if they fall out of compliance.
It would take a long time for states to process the redeterminations of all their Medicaid enrollees. They would have 14 months to do so, according to guidance HHS issued relating to the eventual end of the public health emergency. Most states said prior to the spending bill that they plan to take between 9 and 12 months.
Just how many people dropped from Medicaid would wind up uninsured is not known. Some of those eligible would subsequently meet the requirements to rejoin the program. And others could transition to Affordable Care Act coverage, which has more generous subsidies for lower-income Americans through 2025, or to work-based policies.
Much of it would depend on how the states handle the redeterminations.
"The reality is there will be greater coverage losses in some states than others," Tolbert said.
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Amazon launched a low-cost health care service last year to provide virtual care for more than 20 common health conditions including allergies or acne. But as Geoffrey Fowler reported this week in The Washington Post, the service called Amazon Clinic comes with a hidden cost - your privacy. Geoffrey Fowler joins us now. Thanks so much for being with us.
GEOFFREY FOWLER: You bet.
SIMON: A reader asked. You signed up. What did you find out?
FOWLER: Before you're allowed to officially become a patient of Amazon Clinic, they make you click one of those little buttons that says continue or I agree. And there's a whole bunch of legalese that you're agreeing to there. At the top, it says, a HIPAA authorization. And I think a lot of listeners, anybody who's been to a doctor's office in the last couple of decades, might think, oh, yes, yes, HIPAA, that's normal. But this case turns out to be different. What Amazon is asking patients to do is to essentially give up some of their federally protected privacy rights. And that really should raise the eyebrows of anybody who wants to understand what big tech is doing getting into health care.
SIMON: I gather they said it indicated your information, quote, "may be re-disclosed." What does that mean?
FOWLER: It means that Amazon is essentially grabbing the right to take your data and give it to itself and then do we don't know exactly what with.
SIMON: Sell you something, I'm assuming.
FOWLER: Possibly, yeah. Part of the problem here is Amazon's language about what it is doing with this data and why it wants it is extremely vague. So, for example, Amazon has a giant retail business. It now has a pharmacy business. It has a really big advertising business that we don't talk a lot about. Amazon also has other kinds of health care businesses it wants to get into. It's increasingly getting into artificial intelligence. It could take our data and analyze it and try to predict risk scores about different kinds of people. So there's a lot of potential uses for our data, which are usually off limits to health care providers.
SIMON: We should, of course, note that Amazon is among NPR's underwriters. I believe they have a small relationship with The Washington Post, too.
FOWLER: The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, who is the founder of Amazon. But I am the tech columnist at the Post, and I review all tech with the same critical eye.
SIMON: Is this legal, what Amazon is doing?
FOWLER: When I talked to lawyers and privacy advocates, they said it's up for debate. There are two issues, really, that could come up. First of all, the law says you are not allowed to ask somebody to sign away their HIPAA rights as a requirement of getting service. In this case, Amazon says if you don't click that agree button, you can't really become their customer. Instead, they tell you, here's some contact information for clinics that are our partners, and they'll treat you if you arrange it directly. So I tried to do that, and getting the exact same treatment that normally would have cost me 30 bucks through Amazon Clinic was going to be over a hundred going directly. So that hardly seems like a comparable service offering.
The other question here is - and this is one that would be in front of an organization like the Federal Trade Commission - you know, are consumers really informed about what they're doing in this case? Is Amazon essentially misleading people and making them think that - you know, that they are covered by HIPAA? I mean, their website for Amazon Clinic makes lots of promises about HIPAA, but then asks you to sign a document that says you're no longer covered by HIPAA.
SIMON: When you contacted Amazon, what did they say about your reporting?
FOWLER: Amazon says that it only needs this authorization because of a peculiarity about its role in the health care process, that it is not the doctor itself. It is merely a marketplace for doctors, and it wants this data so that it can better serve its customers. That said, the language that they use and the authorization, it is worryingly vague and gives Amazon a lot of potential power to do stuff with our data in the future. So that's why I think it's worth raising the alarm.
SIMON: Geoffrey Fowler, technology columnist at The Washington Post, thanks so much.
FOWLER: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Conference call to discuss financial and operational results scheduled for Tuesday, November 15, at 8:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time
HENDERSON, Nev., Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VolitionRx Limited (NYSE AMERICAN: VNRX) ("Volition") today announced financial results and a business update for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022. Volition management will host a conference call tomorrow, November 15 at 8:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time to discuss these results. Conference call details can be found below.
"I am delighted with the progress we have made across many of our Nu.Q® pillars as we move forward from purely a research and development company to a commercial company with a wide range of innovative products. This quarter, and subsequent to quarter end, I am proud we have executed yet another global supply agreement with a market leader in pet healthcare," commented Cameron Reynolds, President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Volition.
"Our Nu.Q® Vet Cancer Test is now available in the U.S., and soon to be available in Europe, through Heska Corporation's veterinary diagnostic laboratories. This is a significant step forward in achieving our goal of making affordable canine cancer screening accessible worldwide, and we expect to see more companies launching our product soon. We also continued to make strong progress with Nu.Q® NETs in terms of data publication, commencement of clinical studies, extending our KOL network and commencing commercial discussions with potential licensing targets. We believe that there is enormous potential for Nu.Q® NETs to support clinical decision-making, enabling physicians to act quickly, and improve patient outcomes."
Company Highlights
Financial
- Cash and cash equivalents as of September 30, 2022, totaled approximately $16.4 million compared with $16.7 million at the quarter ended June 30, 2022.
- Received approximately $6.4 million net of underwriter's fees and expenses in cash through an underwritten public offering of its common stock.
- Secured a further $1.5 million in non-dilutive funding from Namur Invest Capital Risk in Belgium to fund an early access program for Volition's Nu.Q® product portfolio at key sites across the EU, UK, and U.S.
- Continued to manage expenditures carefully with net cash used in operating activities averaging approximately $2.3 million per month in the quarter.
Nu.Q® Vet
- Subsequent to quarter end, announced the signing of a global supply agreement with a market leader in pet healthcare. Through this supply agreement Volition will provide the Nu.Q® Vet Cancer Test through the counterparty's extensive global reference laboratory network for cancer indications in animal health.
- Subsequent to the quarter end, announced the launch of our Nu.Q® Vet Cancer Test across the U.S. and the forthcoming launch in Europe by Heska Corporation, also one of the leading global providers of advanced veterinary diagnostics, through Heska's veterinary diagnostic laboratories. Launching via Heska's reference laboratory network is an important achievement in the parties' transformative work together as Volition moves towards the launch of Heska's flagship point of care solution anticipated in early 2023.
- Subsequent to quarter end, announced a clinical research study with Oncovet, a renowned veterinary referral clinic, specializing in medical and radiation oncology led by Dr. Jérôme Benoit.
- Volition anticipates launching with at least one other company before the end of 2022, which would bring the total to five global and in-country company licensees running Volition's test.
Nu.Q® NETs
- Appointed DXOCRO to undertake development and clinical validation studies for Volition's Nu.Q® product portfolio in the United States.
- Announced a sponsored research agreement with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to evaluate the role of NETs in human cancer patients with sepsis.
- In collaboration with researchers at the University of Namur and QUALIblood in Belgium, published:
- Subsequent to the quarter end, presented data at the International Symposium on Infections in the Critically Ill Patient and International Sepsis Forum.
- Sponsored a GenomeWeb webinar titled 'The Promise of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) as Biomarkers in Inflammatory Disease'. To watch on demand, visit the GenomeWeb website.
- Commenced a Market Access Program with European Key Opinion Leaders and early adopters.
Nu.Q® Cancer
- Announced Volition's participation in a government-backed prospective study to evaluate the performance of blood biomarkers in the early detection of lung cancer with Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), France's second largest university hospital.
Upcoming Priorities
- Drive near term revenue in the following key areas:
- sales of key components of point of care test with Heska.
- sales of kits from non-exclusive agreements for the use of Nu.Q® Vet via central reference labs.
- Continue to progress the research program for the use of Nu.Q® NETs in monitoring disease progression of sepsis and potentially other diseases and as a possible companion diagnostic for the treatment of sepsis.
- Continue to advance Volition's previously announced large-scale blood, lung, and colorectal cancer trials in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.
- Publish several abstracts and peer-reviewed scientific papers with clinical results showing the robustness and utility of Volition's Nu.Q® platform.
- Advance the development of Nu.Q® Capture.
- Continue to file patents to expand and extend Volition's intellectual property portfolio.
Event: VolitionRx Limited Third Quarter 2022 Earnings and Business Update Conference Call
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Time: 08:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time
U.S. & Canada Dial-in:1-877-407-9716 (toll free)
U.K. Dial-in: 0 800 756 3429 (toll free)
Toll/International: 1-201-493-6779
Conference ID: 13734304
Cameron Reynolds, President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Volition, will host the call along with Terig Hughes, Group Chief Financial Officer, Dr. Tom Butera, Chief Executive Officer of Volition Veterinary Diagnostics Development LLC, and Scott Powell, Executive Vice President, Investor Relations. The call will provide an update on important events which have taken place in the third quarter of 2022 and upcoming milestones.
A live audio webcast of the conference call will also be available on the investor relations page of Volition's corporate website at http://ir.volition.com. In addition, a telephone replay of the call will be available until November 29, 2022. The replay dial-in numbers are 1-844-512-2921 (toll-free) in the U.S. and Canada and 1-412-317-6671 (toll) internationally. Please use replay pin number 13734304.
About Volition
Volition is a multi-national epigenetics company that applies its Nucleosomics™ platform through its subsidiaries to develop simple, easy to use, cost effective blood tests to help diagnose and monitor a range of life-altering diseases including some cancers and diseases associated with NETosis such as sepsis and COVID-19. Early diagnosis and monitoring have the potential not only to prolong the life of patients but also to improve their quality of life. The tests are based on the science of Nucleosomics™, which is the practice of identifying and measuring nucleosomes in the bloodstream or other bodily fluid - an indication that disease is present.
Volition's research and development activities are centered in Belgium, with an innovation laboratory and office in the U.S. and additional offices in London and Singapore.
For more information about Volition's Nu.Q® technology go to: www.volition.com.
The contents found at Volition's and GenomeWeb's website addresses are not incorporated by reference into this document and should not be considered part of this document. Such website addresses are included in this document as inactive textual references only.
Media Enquiries:
Louise Batchelor/Debra Daglish, Volition, mediarelations@volition.com +44 (0)7557 774620
Safe Harbor Statement
Statements in this press release may be "forward-looking statements" 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, that concern matters that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated or projected in the forward-looking statements. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "aims," "targets," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "optimizing," "potential," "goal," "suggests," "could," "would," "should," "may," "will" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements relate to, among other topics, Volition's expectations related to the launch of product sales with Heska and other counterparties to agreements, the success of negotiations and the timing, completion and execution of term sheets and/or agreements with third parties regarding the licensing and distribution of Volition's products, the timing, completion, success and delivery of data from clinical studies, the potential uses, benefits and effectiveness of its Nucleosomics™ technology platform, including the Nu.Q® NETs test and the Nu.Q® Vet Cancer Test, and the timing and execution of Volition's strategy with the FDA. Volition's actual results may differ materially from those indicated in these forward-looking statements due to numerous risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, results of studies testing the efficacy of its tests, a failure by the marketplace to accept Volition's Nu.Q® NETs test, Nu.Q® Vet Cancer Test or other products based on its Nucleosomics™ platform; Volition's failure to secure adequate intellectual property protection; Volition's failure to obtain necessary regulatory clearances or approvals to distribute and market future products; Volition will face fierce competition and its intended products may become obsolete due to the highly competitive nature of the diagnostics and disease monitoring markets and their rapid technological change; downturns in domestic and foreign economies; and other risks, including those identified in Volition's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as well as other documents that Volition files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For instance, if Volition fails to develop and commercialize diagnostic, prognostic or disease monitoring products, it may be unable to execute its plan of operations. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about Volition's business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this release, and, except as required by law, Volition does not undertake an obligation to update its forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
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By AMY FORLITI
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Chinese billionaire and JD.com founder Richard Liu agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a former University of Minnesota student who alleged he raped her in her Minneapolis apartment after a night of dinner and drinks with wealthy Chinese executives in 2018, attorneys for both sides announced Saturday.
Richard Liu, who stepped down as the CEO of Beijing-based e-commerce company JD.com this year amid increased government scrutiny of China’s technology industry, has denied raping the woman, Jingyao Liu.
In a joint statement released Saturday night, attorneys for both sides said: “The incident between Ms. Jingyao Liu and Mr. Richard Liu in Minnesota in 2018 resulted in a misunderstanding that has consumed substantial public attention and brought profound suffering to the parties and their families. Today, the parties agreed to set aside their differences, and settle their legal dispute in order to avoid further pain and suffering caused by the lawsuit.”
A settlement amount was not disclosed. The settlement was announced just two days before a trial was set to begin in a Minneapolis courtroom.
Richard Liu was arrested on suspicion of felony rape in August 2018, but prosecutors said the case had “profound evidentiary problems” and declined to file criminal charges.
Jingyao Liu sued Richard Liu in 2019, saying he and the other businessmen coerced her to drink alcohol at a group dinner, and that he forced himself on her in his vehicle and later raped her in her apartment.
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Longtime Texas jurist known for handling difficult, important legal matters
FORT WORTH, Texas, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A judge known for his ability to impartially handle difficult and important cases has been assigned to hear the next portion of the sexual assault case involving former American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL) flight attendant Kimberly Goesling.
Senior Judge David Peeples of the 224th District Court in Bexar County will hear the motion to remove Judge Kimberly Fitzpatrick of 342nd District Court in Tarrant County from the case.
Ms. Goesling's lawyers moved to recuse Judge Fitzpatrick last week after a new and unexplained jury verdict form appeared in the case file, one full week after the jury reached its verdict. The jury found a celebrity chef had in fact sexually assaulted Ms. Goesling but declined to hold American responsible.
The new verdict form contains a number of irregularities including juror signatures that do not appear to match those in the original.
Judge Peeples most recently ruled in a case involving Texas' new abortion statute known as S.B. 8, finding in December 2021 it was unconstitutional. A 2018 Texas Lawyer article described him this way:
Because of Peeples' reputation for handling delicate matters without a hint of politics in his decisions, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht once referred to him as the judicial "gold standard" for handling hot cases.
Judge Peeples will hear and rule on the motion to recuse Judge Fitzpatrick in advance of a motion for new trial filed by Ms. Goesling. Her lawyers filed that motion after a review of the original jury verdict form showed the jurors answered a question that was worded differently than the language Judge Fitzpatrick had approved and read into the record in open court.
The case is Kimberly Goesling v. American Airlines et al., Cause No. 342-314565-20 in the 342nd Judicial District Court in Tarrant County. Visit metooaa.com for more information.
Dallas-based Miller Bryant LLP is a national practice representing catastrophically injured people and those wronged through the negligent acts of others. More information at https://www.miller-bryant.com/.
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2022-05-26T20:43:54+00:00
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(The Car Connection) — Grand takes on new meaning with the 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee. With its first full redesign since 2011, the Grand Cherokee becomes more of everything: It’s larger, more capable, more technologically advanced, more efficient with the 4xe plug-in hybrid variant, and more than anything, it’s more luxurious.
And more expensive, of course. The base Laredo model starts at about $40,000, which is $6,000 more than last year’s starting point, but my range-topping Summit Reserve reached new peaks with a $73,000 price. Such a wide spread reflects how Jeep still caters to its base while striving for a slice of the luxury red velvet cake.
It’s one reason the redesigned 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee earned a high TCC Rating of 7.2 out of 10, and returned to its familiar spot as our Best SUV To Buy 2022.
Like life, however, it’s not perfect. In my week of testing, it hit several Grand notes, but it also overshot in a few places.
Hit: “Is that a Land Rover?”
No. But in trying to understand why my friend would say such a thing, it gave me insight into the new look of a vehicle that has long been the benchmark for SUV design despite its unibody construction. I pulled up to her at a stop, so maybe she didn’t see the classic Jeep seven-slot grille slimmed down on a more blunt, vertical face. Maybe it was the gloss black roof over the Silver Zynith body, or the clean body panels with the slimmest character line running through the door handles. Most likely, it was the quilted Palermo leather and wood grain dash popping from the luxury-leaning cabin. Whatever the case, she wasn’t the only one disbelieving it was a Jeep.
Miss: It’s bigger
The new Grand Cherokee is 3.4 inches longer, 1.6 inches taller, 1.0 inch wider, yet, at 4,784 lb, the Summit Reserve 4×4 lost more than 200 lb from its similarly equipped predecessor. Yet the new Grand Cherokee that seats five rides as soft as a typical three-row SUV, though the three-row Grand Cherokee L is tuned much softer. Jeep offsets the Grand Cherokee’s larger dimensions with MacPherson struts up front and a more robust five-link independent rear suspension, as well as air springs that can raise the ground clearance from 8.4 inches to 11.3 inches for off-roading. I didn’t go off-road (check out our partner’s take on that at Motor Authority), but on pavement the system automatically adjusts shock tuning for a smoother, calmer ride. The driver can override it with five different height settings, or use the five drive mode settings (Auto, Sport, Rock, Snow, Mud/Sand) easily accessible with center console toggles. In Auto mode, the big SUV leans into corners and buoys down the road, but it smothers road imperfections and isolates the cabin from road and wind noise. Sport mode lowers the air suspension, but it can’t overcome physics.
Hit: It’s bigger
The increased proportions make it much larger on the inside, affirming that especially in Summit Reserve grades, this off-road hero was built for comfort as much as capability. In that sense, it is like a Land Rover. The front has more shoulder and leg room, and the additional width gives rear riders a smidge more space, though I wouldn’t try to fit a third adult in the middle for anything more than a local trip. Still, passenger and cargo volume increases, with 37.7 cubic feet with the 60/40-split rear seats up; fold them down manually (power-fold is not an option, even on Summit Reserve) and it grows to 70.8 cubic feet, which is less than four feet shy of a Land Rover Discovery that seats seven.
Hit: Seat comfort
Of kings, Shakespeare said, “uneasy is the head that wears the crown”; of luxury cars Bill the Bard might’ve said, “easy are the backs that pay for luxury.” The front and back seats of the Summit Reserve come heated and cooled, and soft quilted leather up front complements massagers with a slew of coddling settings. The massager button on the door panel couldn’t be easier to reach, leading to frequent and welcome kneading.
Miss: Carryover powertrains, with an exception
The base 3.6-liter V-6 and available 5.7-liter V-8 carry over from the last generation, and they’re plenty powerful for anything from towing to off-roading to hustling. The prodigious 357 hp and 390 lb-ft of torque in the Summit Reserve’s V-8 helps it tow 7,200 lb and eclipse seven seconds in a 0-60 mph sprint, with all the American thunder you’d expect from a V-8.
But we live in fuel- and emission-conscious times and the V-8 with 4WD is rated at 17 mpg combined. Jeep knows the V-8’s time is nearly up, and since the 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe plug-in hybrid makes 375 hp and 470 lb-ft, while carrying EPA ratings of 23 mpg combined and 56 mpg combined with electric power, there’s no reason other than nostalgia for the V-8.
Hit: Cutting-edge cabin
Jeep’s all-in on all the screens. A 10.3-inch digital instrument cluster is the most helpful, projecting up to five easy-to-see tiles ranging from trip meters to off-road gauges to driver-assist features, of which there are many. A 10.1-inch touchscreen running the latest Uconnect infotainment system sits in the center and is still easy to use even as Jeep deepens its functionality. The front passenger gets their own 10.3-inch touchscreen for navigation and entertainment, or for messing with the driver, who is shielded from view. My tester had the $1,995 Rear Seat Video Group with twin seat back screens with Amazon Fire TV compatibility. That’s a lot of screens, but it doesn’t overwhelm like Mercedes’ or Cadillac’s massive wall-to-wall screens. Additionally, the cabin is a lovely place to be, but I’d skip the Tupelo upholstery color because it washes out the wood dash.
Miss: $1,795 destination fee
While most mandatory destination fees—those slippery add-ons automakers add for delivering cars to dealerships without having to include them in marketing—hover in the $995-$1,295 range, even for cars imported from Germany, Japan, or Korea. Jeep and Ford consistently flirt with $2,000. The 2022 Grand Cherokee comes all the way from Detroit via what? Plane, train, truck, dirigible, derring-do? I’d pick it up direct from the factory if I could.
The 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Reserve scales luxury levels but isn’t priced as high as full-boat luxury SUVs from Germany or Britain. It retains its rugged American individualism and a V-8, for now. Wherever Jeep is going with the Grand brand, the Grand Cherokee’s toughest, most direct competition comes from within.
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2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Reserve 4×4
Base price: $39,185, including $1,795 destination for the base Laredo
Price as tested: $73,085
Drivetrain: 357-hp 5.7-liter V-8 with an 8-speed manual and 4WD
EPA fuel economy: 14/22/17 mpg
The hits: Luxurious features, sumptuous finishes, off-road easy, bigger and bolder
The misses: Expensive, boatlike, outrageous destination fee
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2022-07-26T23:08:41+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/automotive/test-drive-2022-jeep-grand-cherokee-summit-reserve-climbs-to-luxurious-heights/
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday sharply rebuffed the notion of President Biden pardoning his son Hunter Biden, who is working out another plea deal with the Justice Department over an investigation of evading taxes.
When asked by a reporter if there is any possibility the president would end up pardoning his son, Jean-Pierre replied sharply: “No.”
When the reporter began asking a follow-up question, Jean-Pierre interrupted him and said, “I just said no,” and moved on to another reporter.
It was a rare moment in which the White House gave a definitive answer to any question involving Hunter Biden’s legal troubles. It came one day after the president’s son appeared at a federal court in Delaware, where an initial plea deal was scrambled by the end of a nearly three-hour court hearing.
The White House spent that day sidestepping questions over Hunter Biden’s legal dilemma.
“Hunter Biden is a private citizen, and this was a personal matter,” Jean-Pierre said Wednesday. “As we have said, the president, the first lady, they love their son, and they support him as he continues to rebuild his life.”
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The White House has stressed the Justice Department (DOJ) acts independently, referring questions to the agency, and stressing the case with Hunter Biden was overseen by a prosecutor appointed by former President Trump.
On Thursday, Jean-Pierre also firmly stated the DOJ was operating independently when asked if the president has ever pushed for preferential treatment for himself, his family, members of his administration or former President Trump.
Hunter Biden on Wednesday was expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay income taxes as part of a deal announced last month with the Justice Department.
Biden instead pleaded not guilty on Wednesday and the plea deal involving tax and gun charges was put on hold when the judge presiding over the case questioned the parameters of the agreement.
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2023-07-27T21:28:07+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/hill-politics/white-house-sharply-rebuffs-notion-of-president-pardoning-hunter-biden/
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Lauren Ahlgren, 34, is a full-time caregiver for her mom with Alzheimer's in Healdsburg, CA. She feels isolated, wants a family of her own, and is grieving her mom while she's still alive.
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Lauren Ahlgren, 34, is a full-time caregiver for her mom with Alzheimer's in Healdsburg, CA. She feels isolated, wants a family of her own, and is grieving her mom while she's still alive.
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2022-11-25T10:25:24+00:00
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wlrn.org
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https://www.wlrn.org/2022-11-25/a-full-time-caretaker-reflects-on-living-and-caring-for-her-ailing-mom
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HONG KONG (AP) — Two giant inflatable ducks made a splash in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor on Friday, marking the return of a pop-art project that sparked a frenzy in the city a decade ago.
The two 18-meter-tall yellow ducks by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman resemble the bath toys many played with in their childhood. Shortly after their launch, dozens of residents and tourists flocked to the promenade near the government headquarters in Admiralty to snap photos of the ducks.
Hofman said he hopes the art exhibition brings joy to the city and connects people as they make memories together.
“Double duck, double luck,” he said. “In a world where we suffered from a pandemic, wars and political situations, I think it is the right moment to bring back the double luck.”
The inflatable ducks will stay in Hong Kong for about two weeks.
Many Hong Kongers at the promenade recalled the happiness his work brought to the shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui in 2013. Some were excited to see a pair of ducks on Friday instead of just one duck like the earlier exhibition.
Among the visitors was artist Laurence Lai, who brought paint brushes to make watercolors of the ducks. Lai said the city was full of negative vibes in recent years during the COVID-19 pandemic and that it’s time for the city to move on.
“With life returning to normal, the ducks can bring back some positivity,” the 50-year-old said.
Shenzhen resident Eva Yang and her young daughters were also happy to see the ducks, saying they made their sightseeing in Hong Kong more memorable.
“They’re spectacular,” Yang said.
In 2013, residents and tourists packed streets near the Tsim Sha Tsui pier to catch a glimpse of Hofman’s duck.
That duck’s stint in Hong Kong unintentionally turned political on the social media platform Weibo around the anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen crackdown in 1989. Chinese censors blocked searches for the term “big yellow duck” after netizens shared an image in which the tanks in the iconic “ Tank man” image were replaced with a line of oversized giant rubber ducks.
Hofman’s rubber ducks have been on a world tour since 2007.
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2023-06-10T09:38:33+00:00
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qcnews.com
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https://www.qcnews.com/news/ap-top-headlines/giant-inflatable-ducks-make-a-splash-in-hong-kong-as-pop-art-project-returns-after-10-years/
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Aaron Estrada had 22 points to lead Hofstra to a 66-52 victory over Drexel on Monday night for its eighth straight win.
Estrada added five rebounds and five assists for the Pride (20-8, 13-2 Colonial Athletic Association). Darlinstone Dubar had 16 points, while shooting 7 of 7 from the floor. Tyler Thomas pitched in with 11 points and six rebounds.
The Dragons (15-12, 9-6) by Amari Williams with 13 points, two steals and two blocks. Lamar Oden Jr. added nine points and eight rebounds. Yame Butler scored eight points.
Hofstra led for all but the first six seconds of the game.
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Both teams next play Thursday. Hofstra hosts Hampton, while Drexel hosts UNC Wilmington.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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2023-02-14T03:52:13+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/estrada-scores-22-to-lead-hofstra-to-66-52-win-17782564.php
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The firm's pro bono team put thousands of hours into the case
LOS ANGELES , Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of Scali Rasmussen's yearslong voluntary service to a class of unlawfully displaced Santa Monica residents, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles recently honored the full service law firm with its Pro Bono Law Firm Award.
The case stemmed from an alleged scheme by a mother-and-sons real estate team to circumvent local rent control and tenant protection laws through negligent maintenance of properties, hoping the poor living conditions and safety hazards would effectively force their own tenants from their longtime homes.
The plot initially seemed to succeed at their Overlook Hotel property, after a fire (which was likely the result of their poor maintenance standards) provided a golden opportunity to terminate tenancies with more than a dozen residents.
Many of the wrongfully evicted tenants had families, and were elderly, disabled, and/or veterans. All were low-income. The defendants refused to assist the tenants with efforts to relocate, as is required by Santa Monica Housing regulations in tenant displacement cases.
The tenants wanted to fight the eviction but lacked the financial means to wage a protracted legal battle against a wealthy, well-established real estate company. So they sought advice from LAFLA's Director of Housing Justice Barbara Schultz, who in turn directed them to Scali Rasmussen. Shareholder John Swenson ultimately co-led the plaintiff's case alongside shareholder Jeffrey Erdman.
"Our clients' position was that the damage could be repaired and did not necessitate an eviction," said Swenson. "This wasn't just some place to store their possessions for these tenants - they had a life here, a community here. The named plaintiff in the case had been living there for 30 years."
On the eve of trial - after years of stop-and-start negotiations - the defendants agreed to a settlement that guaranteed $1 million for the displaced tenants. The efforts by Scali Rasmussen's pro bono team - which collectively dedicated thousands of hours to the effort - were recognized by LAFLA at its Access to Justice Gala in October.
Accepting the award on the team's behalf, Erdman called the case a "remarkable thing to work on" and "a labor of love for so many people in our firm." He highlighted in particular the hard work of Swenson, who personally put in well over a thousand pro bono hours into the case.
Christian J. Scali, the firm's managing partner, offered similar praise for Swenson, Erdman, and the rest of the firm's pro bono team.
"While providing top-tier service to our clients is our firm's reason for being, it's always been important for us that we seize any opportunity to make a positive impact on our community," said Scali, who also worked on the case. "We're thankful to LAFLA for recognizing that effort."
Named one of the "Most Admired Law Firms" in 2022 by the Los Angeles Business Journal, Scali Rasmussen, PC serves businesses across California as trusted legal advisors. Our standard-setting, legal solutions for the automotive industry and dealer franchise relationship prevent issues from becoming hurdles. With a niche practice advising Italian enterprises entering U.S. markets, the firm provides in-depth counsel on business litigation, cybersecurity, trade secret misappropriation, COVID-19 compliance, and corporate shareholder and partnership disputes.
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2022-12-12T19:06:48+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/12/12/nonprofit-lafla-honors-scali-rasmussens-pro-bono-victory-behalf-displaced-low-income-residents/
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AgroFresh celebrates two decades of its flagship solution.
PHILADELPHIA, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2003, AgroFresh first launched its flagship ripening management solution SmartFresh™, the premier ethylene post-harvest management tool for fruits, vegetables and florals. SmartFresh puts the ripening process "on hold" so that softening and over-ripening occur much more slowly, as part of its normal freshness cycle. Since then, AgroFresh has pioneered numerous scientific and commercial applications of SmartFresh to keep produce fresher, longer.
Over the last 20 years, growers and packers have come to rely on the game-changing technology of SmartFresh to deliver the freshest produce to consumers around the world by maintaining optimal quality and freshness and preventing the challenges that impact the shelf life of fruit. For operations of all sizes, from all fruit-growing regions of the world, SmartFresh optimizes grower resources while offering more resiliency and sustainability, resulting in better return on investment for growers, packers and retailers.
Today, thanks to numerous years of close cooperation with international researchers, universities and customers — as well as an investment in seven global innovation centers and strategic partnerships — AgroFresh has extensive knowledge of fresh produce quality management. Their innovative team continues to expand the possibilities by offering new product formats of the SmartFresh Quality System to fit multiple crops in the field, storage rooms and in transit.
Duncan Aust, Chief Technology Officer at AgroFresh, oversees research and development, regulatory and external innovation. He explains why SmartFresh, the original 1-MCP technology that revolutionized the apple industry, has made such a positive impact.
The 1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) growth regulator behind the SmartFresh solutions was discovered nearly 30 years ago, in 1994, at North Carolina State University by biochemist, Edward Sisler, and horticulturalist, Sylvia Blankenship ushering in new possibilities for the fresh produce and floral industries.
When asked about bringing the technology to market and the long-term vision of 1-MCP, Blankenship had several insights and stories to share from her perspective as a horticulturist who could only dream of the impact her discovery has made.
For both Aust and Blankenship, it's about sustaining an industry they share a passion for. And the benefits of the technology throughout the global supply chain have continued to scale from Sisler and Blankenship's lab bench to Aust's pipeline of innovative solutions that work to solve the global issue of food loss and waste. To hear more about what Aust and Blankenship had to say on the 20th anniversary of SmartFresh, watch their interviews here.
To learn more about AgroFresh and SmartFresh, visit: https://www.agrofresh.com/smartfresh.
About AgroFresh
AgroFresh is an AgTech innovator and global leader with a mission to prevent food loss/waste and conserve the planet's resources by providing a range of science-based solutions, data-driven digital technologies and high-touch customer services. AgroFresh supports growers, packers and retailers with solutions across the food supply chain to enhance the quality and extend the shelf life of fresh produce. The AgroFresh organization has 40 years of post-harvest experience across a broad range of crops, including revolutionizing the apple industry with the SmartFresh™ Quality System for more than 20 years. This is powered by a comprehensive portfolio that includes plant-based coatings, equipment and proprietary solutions that help improve the freshness supply chain from harvest to the home. To learn more about AgroFresh, visit www.agrofresh.com.
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2023-07-26T14:31:08+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2023/07/26/20-years-quality-freshness-with-smartfresh/
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COHASETTE, Mass. (WWLP) – The husband of missing 39-year-old mother Ana Walshe was arrested, authorities announced Sunday.
46-year-old Brian Walshe was arrested and charged with misleading a police investigation.
According to the Cohasset Police Department, 39 year-old Ana Walshe was last seen at her home shortly after midnight on Jan. 1. Cohasset lies roughly 20 miles southeast of Boston.
Friends say she’s a wife and a mother to three young boys.
Friends of Walshe said she was supposed to catch a flight Sunday from Boston Logan International Airport to Washington, D.C., where she works, according to WBTS. A LinkedIn profile that appears to belong to Walshe states that she works for Tishman Speyer.
Cohasset Police Chief William Quigley confirmed during a news conference Friday morning that she did not board a flight from Logan Airport.
Ana Walshe was reported missing Wednesday by her husband and her employer.
Police were back at the Walshe residence Sunday morning.
The Cohasset Police Department said Saturday, “The ground search will not resume unless police develop new information that so warrants it.”
Walshe is described as 5 feet 2 inches tall, 115 pounds, with brown hair, brown eyes, and an olive complexion. Police say it is believed that she speaks with an Eastern European accent.
Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to contact the Cohasset Police Department, Detective Harrison Schmidt, at (781) 383-1055 extension 6108 or email hschmidt@cohassetpolice.com.
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2023-01-09T00:59:56+00:00
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everythinglubbock.com
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https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/missing-massachusetts-womans-husband-arrested/
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Members of North Carolina's leading teacher advocacy group criticized on Tuesday a proposed overhaul of public school instructor pay and licensing, saying that implementing such changes would make existing classroom staffing challenges even worse.
The state Department of Public Instruction released to the State Board of Education in April a “sample” licensure model that stemmed from recommendations made by subcommittees of a state educator preparation and standards commission.
Any final proposal would need formal approval from the state board, and ultimately from the legislature to fund it. But switching from the current licensure and salary model, which largely rewards teachers financially based on years of classroom experience, to one based on performance has the support of Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt and board chairman Eric Davis. They said last week the current model is not attracting enough people to teaching and to stay in the field.
At a news conference, North Carolina Association of Educators members said one solution is to raise all teacher pay through the existing salary schedule framework that currently omits experience-based increases for some of the most veteran teachers for a decade. Existing programs to encourage young people to enter the field also should be expanded and new ones created, NCAE Vice President Bryan Proffitt said.
“Our state already has the policies and pathways that we need to support recruitment and retention, but they lack the execution with fidelity and the necessary funding commitment from the leadership of the General Assembly,” Proffitt said outside the state education building.
The DPI proposal would create several licensure levels, each with larger base salaries that ultimately would exceed the maximum salary on the current pay schedule, which is $54,000 for 25 years of experience. The sample model presented earlier this year envisioned advanced-level teachers, with leadership roles in their schools earning $73,000.
Moving to advanced licensing levels would depend in part on teachers showing instruction competence and improvement in student test scores. Supporters say the model would reward instructors who create better student outcomes. But Proffitt and others said such performance measures are subjective and flawed and will actually discourage people from making public education a lifetime profession.
“We deserve to be paid for our experience, without jumping through hoops or worrying if this year’s paycheck will be different than next year’s,' said Kiana Espinoza, a Wake County middle school teacher and news conference speaker.
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2022-08-09T19:12:36+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NC-teachers-group-critical-of-proposed-license-17361962.php
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If you’ve ever felt guilty for sitting on the couch while your friends on social media post photos from a Thanksgiving 5K they’ve run, we’ve found the perfect sweepstakes for you.
In an effort to stop these yearly runs from disrupting the all-important Thanksgiving morning cup of coffee, Coffee Mate is offering up some cash if you’re willing to skip your local turkey trot.
Simply pledge to choose a day of coffee and comfort at home instead of heading out to run on Turkey Day and you will have a chance at winning $5,000. For a chance to win, head to Coffee Mate’s website from Nov. 14 through Thanksgiving and make the commitment to stay home.
Then, of course, enjoy your morning coffee and Thanksgiving feast while you wait to hear if you’ve won!
You must be 18 years old or older to qualify, and there is a limit of one entry per person or email address. There will be a total of two winners, each of whom will get $5,000. The odds of winning will obviously depend on the total number of eligible entries received.
“Here at Coffee Mate, we know better than anyone that the morning coffee routine is not only personal, it’s sacred. Every Thanksgiving, the infamous 5K run poses a potential disruption to that ritual,” Leonardo Aizpuru, Nestlé senior director of brand marketing and leader of the creamer business unit, said in a statement. “As coffee’s perfect holiday mate, we’re encouraging people to slow down this year and savor Thanksgiving morning — a holiday where comfort is king.”
While you do not have to purchase any Coffee Mate creamers for a chance to win, the brand’s holiday creamers are in stores now, including Peppermint Mocha, Pumpkin Spice and new Toll House Brown Butter Chocolate Chip.
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2022-11-10T16:23:49+00:00
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krtv.com
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https://www.krtv.com/win-5000-for-not-running-turkey-trot-on-thanksgiving
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2023-07-06T19:27:09+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/flip-circus-contest/
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NEW YORK (AP) — During the height of the coronavirus pandemic in November 2020, when Vienna was shut down and people were allowed outside mainly to walk their dogs, Christian Thielemann was stopped by a police officer in the Heldenplatz.
”What are you doing?‘” he recalled the officer asking.
“I said that I have something to conduct,” recalled Thielemann, who was prepared to pull out a special permission slip.
No explanation was needed.
“`Are you Mr. Thielemann? We come to your concerts.’” the conductor remembered the officer telling him before adding; ”`Go!”
And so Thielemann proceeded to work on recording a cycle of 11 Bruckner symphonies being released through next year — the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Thielemann will conduct the Eighth Symphony at Carnegie Hall on Sunday and at Zellerbach Auditorium in Berkeley, California, on March 9 as part of the Vienna Philharmonic’s six-concert U.S. tour that opens Friday. The Ninth Symphony was released Friday by Sony Classical, joining Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8, with the others to follow.
Thielemann was home in Berlin, bored with nothing to do, when he received the invitation to record in Vienna. He arrived to desolation.
“I was sometimes the only guest in the Sacher. Can you imagine?” he said, referring to the famous 149-room hotel where the Sacher torte was invented in 1832.
Conditions for recording, however, were optimal. The Vienna Philharmonic supplies pit musicians to the Vienna State Opera, creating a hectic schedule, but the pandemic prompted the postponement of public performances.
‘We would have more rehearsals than ever. We could even go overtime,” Thielemann recalled Thursday during a lunch at Carnegie.
Now 63, Thielemann trained as an assistant to Herbert von Karajan and Daniel Barenboim, worked in smaller German houses and became music director of Nuremberg’s State Theater from 1988–1992.
Thielemann moved on to music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1997-2004 and of the Munich Philharmonic from 2004-11. He has been chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden since 2012-13, a role scheduled to end after the 2023-24 season.
Thielemann thought back to a review of his U.S. debut at the San Francisco Opera in 1991, leading Strauss’ “Elektra.”
“Somebody wrote, he’s only a kapellmeister,” Thielemann said, using a German word for a musical leader sometimes used in a derogatory manner, “which obviously meant boring, unsubtle conductor who has no inspiration.”
“We see that in a different way,” he said. “A kapellmeister is the same as a maestro, it’s only in German. It is somebody who has to be very aware of what happens in an orchestra.”
Thielemann was 28 when he made his Vienna State Opera debut in 1987. He led his first Vienna Philharmonic performance in 2000. He conducted 154 Vienna Philharmonic concerts heading into the tour and will be on the podium of the famous New Year’s Day concert at the Musikverein for the second time in 2024.
“He is a conductor who is really close to our orchestra because we are an opera orchestra,” said violinist Daniel Froschauer, chairman of the self-governing musicians.
Thielemann has led a record 185 performances at the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, joining Felix Mottl as the only ones to conduct all 10 of the composer’s mature operas in the auditorium Wagner designed in Germany.
“Usually in Bayreuth, tempi are swifter,” he said. “Don’t exaggerate in Bayreuth because people will yawn.”
Thielemann did not conduct in the U.S. from 2013 until last October, when he led Bruckner’s sprawling 80-minute Eighth with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The Vienna Philharmonic premiered the Eighth on Dec. 18, 1892, and will be playing it for the sixth time at Carnegie after performances with Karajan in 1959 and 1989, Karl Böhm in 1967, Georg Solti in 1993 and Bernard Haitink in 2002.
Theilemann realizes he will be measured against his heralded predecessors. He cautions score markings are a guide, not an absolute.
“Don’t forget that the orchestras were in Bruckner’s times weaker,” he said. “The violin players were not so good as they are now where everybody has also a very good instrument. And now we have different strengths we play with. The brass players are much more powerful because the instruments are better than in the time of Bruckner. So if Bruckner writes fortissimo, be very careful that you don’t do too much.”
Froschauer praises Thielemann for interacting with musicians, deferring in performance to the tempi of former concertmaster Rainer Küchl.
“This was to me was unbelievable,” Froschauer said. “This relationship: giving and taking.”
Thielemann insists dour-faced, shouters like Arturo Toscanini and Fritz Reiner are long gone from podiums, that the fictional conductor portrayed by Cate Blanchett in the Oscar-nominated “Tár” could not exist in the 21st century.
“One has to play the pingpong game,” he said.
Thielemann has not delved as heavily into Mahler, saying: “I’m still looking for a right way.”
“When (Leonard) Bernstein discovered, rediscovered with the Vienna Philharmonic these pieces, he would overdo certain things because he was such an exuberant character.” Thielemann said. “The worst we can do is follow this path and try to be more Bernstein than he was.”
His lesson when he teaches budding conductors is “you have to begin early.”
“I know Karajan said also: `The first 20 times Beethoven 9, you can forget,'” Thielemann proclaimed. “You have to make mistakes sometimes. If you’re always successful, it’s very dangerous. Everybody says you are great, great, and then you don’t have limits.”
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2023-03-04T17:54:04+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-christian-thielemann-leads-vienna-philharmonic-us-tour/
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Super flower blood moon appeared Sunday
Wichita Falls residents and other astronomy fans were treated to a rare spectacle Sunday night when a “super flower blood moon” made an appearance.
During the multi-hour event, the full moon was eclipsed by the Earth’s shadow, leaving only light bent through the Earth’s atmosphere, leaving a reddish hue.
A “super” moon is when the moon appears larger than usual because it is closer to the Earth. Super moons usually appear both larger and brighter than regular full moons.
The “flower” portion of the name is given to a full moon that occurs in May due to the usual proliferation of flowers this time of year.
The naming of various full moons come from numerous sources including Native American traditions, Colonial American and Europe. Other names for a full moon in May include the corn-planting moon and milk moon.
The eclipse began about 9:30 p.m. local time Sunday and ended about midnight.
The eclipse was visible across portions of the Americas, Africa, Antarctica, Europe and the east Pacific, according to Space.com.
This is the first of two lunar eclipses in 2022 with the next one on November 8.
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2022-05-16T19:48:57+00:00
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timesrecordnews.com
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https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/2022/05/16/super-flower-blood-moon-appeared-sunday/9795188002/
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Disparities in Health and Health Care: 5 Key Questions and Answers
Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide racial justice movement over the past several years have heightened the focus on health disparities and their underlying causes and contributed to the increased prioritization of health equity. These disparities are not new and reflect longstanding structural and systemic inequities rooted in racism and discrimination. Although growing efforts have focused recently on addressing disparities, the ending of some policies implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, including continuous enrollment for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), may reverse progress and widen disparities. Addressing health disparities is not only important from an equity standpoint, but also for improving the nation’s overall health and economic prosperity. This brief provides an introduction to what health and health care disparities are, why it is important to address disparities, what the status of disparities is today, recent federal actions to address disparities, and key issues related to addressing disparities looking ahead.
What are health and health care disparities?
Health and health care disparities refer to differences in health and health care between groups that stem from broader inequities. There are multiple definitions of health disparities. Healthy People 2030 defines a health disparity, as “a particular type of health difference that is linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage,” and that adversely affects groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines health disparities as, “preventable differences in the burden, disease, injury, violence, or in opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced by socially disadvantaged racial, ethnic, and other population groups and communities.” A health care disparity typically refers to differences between groups in health insurance coverage, affordability, access to and use of care, and quality of care. The terms “health inequality” and “inequity” are also sometimes used to describe unjust differences. Racism, which the CDC defines as the structures, policies, practices, and norms that assign value and determine opportunities based on the way people look or the color of their skin, results in conditions that unfairly advantage some and disadvantage others, placing people of color at greater risk for poor health outcomes.
Health equity generally refers to individuals achieving their highest level of health through the elimination of disparities in health and health care. Healthy People 2030 defines health equity as the attainment of the highest level of health for all people and notes that it requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and health and health care disparities. The CDC describes health equity as when everyone has the opportunity to be as healthy as possible.
A broad array of factors within and beyond the health care system drive disparities in health and health care (Figure 1). Though health care is essential to health, research shows that health outcomes are driven by multiple factors, including underlying genetics, health behaviors, social and environmental factors, and access to health care. While there is currently no consensus in the research on the magnitude of the relative contributions of each of these factors to health, studies suggest that health behaviors and social and economic factors, often referred to as social determinants of health, are the primary drivers of health outcomes and that social and economic factors shape individuals’ health behaviors. Moreover, racism negatively affects mental and physical health both directly and by creating inequities across the social determinants of health.
Health and health care disparities are often viewed through the lens of race and ethnicity, but they occur across a broad range of dimensions. For example, disparities occur across socioeconomic status, age, geography, language, gender, disability status, citizenship status, and sexual identity and orientation. Research also suggests that disparities occur across the life course, from birth, through mid-life, and among older adults. Federal efforts to reduce disparities focus on designated priority populations, including, “members of underserved communities: Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBT+) persons; persons with disabilities; persons who live in rural areas; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality.” These groups are not mutually exclusive and often intersect in meaningful ways. Disparities also occur within subgroups of populations. For example, there are differences among Hispanic people in health and health care based on length of time in the country, primary language, and immigration status. Data often also mask underlying disparities among subgroups within the Asian population.
Why is it important to address disparities?
Addressing disparities in health and health care is important not only from an equity standpoint but also for improving the nation’s overall health and economic prosperity. People of color and other underserved groups experience higher rates of illness and death across a wide range of health conditions, limiting the overall health of the nation. Research further finds that health disparities are costly, resulting in excess medical care costs and lost productivity as well as additional economic losses due to premature deaths each year.
It is increasingly important to address health disparities as the population becomes more diverse and income inequality continues to grow. It is projected that people of color will account for over half (52%) of the population in 2050, with the largest growth occurring among people who identify as Asian or Hispanic (Figure 2). Over time, the population has become increasingly racially diverse, reflecting shifting immigration patterns, a growing multiracial population, as well as adjustments to how the federal Census Bureau measures race and ethnicity. Over time, income inequality within the U.S. has also widened. As of 2021, the richest 20% of households accounted for over half of the aggregate household income and had an income of $149,132 or higher compared to the bottom 20% of households who accounted for less than 3% of the aggregate household income and had incomes of $28,007 or less. The top 5 percent of households in the income distribution had incomes of $286,305 or more. Research suggests that the disparate negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-paid occupations may have lingering effects that contribute to further widening income inequality over the long term.
What is the status of disparities today?
Disparities in health and health care are persistent and prevalent. Major recognition of health disparities began more than three decades ago with the Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Black and Minority Health (Heckler Report) in 1985, which documented persistent health disparities that accounted for 60,000 excess deaths each year and synthesized ways to advance health equity. The Heckler Report led to the creation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health and influenced federal recognition of and investment in many aspects of health equity. In 2003, the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care released the report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, which identified systemic racism as a major cause of health disparities in the United States. Despite the recognition and documentation of disparities for decades and overall improvements in population health over time, many disparities have persisted, and, in some cases, widened over time.
Despite large gains in coverage since implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014, people of color and other marginalized and underserved groups remain more likely to be uninsured. Racial disparities in coverage persisted as of 2021, with higher uninsured rates for nonelderly American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN), Hispanic, Black, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (NHOPI) people compared to their White counterparts (Figure 3). Other groups also remained at increased risk of being uninsured, including immigrants and people in lower-income families. Many people who are uninsured are eligible for coverage through Medicaid, CHIP, or the ACA Marketplaces but face barriers to enrollment including confusion about eligibility policies, difficulty navigating enrollment processes, and language and literacy problems. Some immigrant families also have immigration-related fears about enrolling themselves or their children in Medicaid or CHIP even if they are eligible. Others remain ineligible because their state did not expand Medicaid, due to their immigration status, or because they have access to an affordable Marketplace plan or offer of employer coverage.
Beyond coverage, people of color and other marginalized and underserved groups continue to experience many disparities in accessing and receiving care. For example, people in rural areas face barriers to accessing care due to low density of providers and longer travel times to care, as well as more limited access to health coverage. There also are inequities in experiences receiving health care across groups. For example, the KFF/The Undefeated 2020 Survey on Race and Health, found that one in five Black adults and one in five Hispanic adults report being treated unfairly treatment due to their race or ethnicity while getting health care for themselves or a family member in the past year. Nearly one-quarter (24%) of Hispanic adults and over one in three (34%) potentially undocumented Hispanic adults reported that it was very or somewhat difficult to find a doctor who explains this in a way that is easy to understand in a 2021 KFF survey. Other KFF survey data from 2022 found that nearly one in ten (9%) of nonelderly adult women who visited a health care provider in the past two years said they experienced discrimination because of their age, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, or some other personal characteristic during a health care visit. KFF data also showed that LGBT+ people were more likely than their non-LGBT+ counterparts to report certain negative experiences while getting health care, including a doctor not believing they were telling the truth, suggesting they are personally to blame for a health problem, assuming something about them without asking, and/or dismissing their concerns. The 2023 KFF/The Washington Post Trans Survey found that trans adults were more likely to report having difficulty finding affordable health care or a provider who treated them with dignity and respect compared to cisgender adults.
People of color and other underserved groups face ongoing disparities in health. For example, at birth, AIAN and Black people had shorter life expectancies compared to White people as of 2021, and AIAN, Hispanic, and Black people experienced larger declines in life expectancy than White people between 2019 and 2021, reflecting the impacts of COVID-19 (Figure 4). Black infants were more than two times as likely to die as White infants and AIAN infants were nearly twice as likely to die as White infants as of 2021. Black and AIAN women also had the highest rates of pregnancy-related mortality across groups. Rates of chronic disease and cancer also vary by race and ethnicity. Although Black people did not have higher cancer incidence rates than White people overall and across most types of cancer, they were more likely to die from cancer in 2019. There are also stark disparities in health by income. Research shows that people living in areas with high concentrations of poverty are at increased risk of poorer health outcomes over the course of their lives. KFF analysis also found that LGBT+ people were more likely to report being in fair or poor health and having an ongoing health condition that requires ongoing monitoring, medical care, or medication compared to non-LGBT+ people despite being a younger population.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a disproportionate toll on the health and well-being of people of color and other underserved groups. Cumulative age-adjusted data showed that AIAN and Hispanic people have had a higher risk for COVID-19 infection and AIAN, Hispanic, and Black people have had a higher risk for hospitalization and death due to COVID-19. Beyond these direct health impacts, the pandemic has negatively impacted the mental health, well-being, and social and economic factors that drive health for people of color and other underserved groups, including LGBT+ people. As such, the pandemic may contribute to worsening health disparities going forward.
Concerns about mental health and substance use have increased since the onset of the pandemic, particularly among some groups. According to a 2022 KFF/CNN survey, 90% of the public think there is a mental health crisis in the U.S. today. Over the course of the pandemic, many adults reported symptoms consistent with anxiety and depression. Additionally, drug overdose deaths have sharply increased – largely due to fentanyl – and after a brief period of decline, suicide deaths are once again on the rise. These negative mental health and substance use outcomes have disproportionately affected some populations, particularly communities of color and youth. Drug overdose death rates were highest among AIAN and Black people as of 2021. Alcohol-induced death rates increased substantially during the pandemic, with rates increasing the fastest among people of color and people living in rural areas. From 2019 to 2021, many people of color experienced a larger growth in suicide death rates compared to their White counterparts. Additionally, self-harm and suicidal ideation has increased faster among adolescent females compared to their male peers. Findings from a 2023 KFF/The Washington Post survey found that more trans adults reported struggling with serious mental health issues compared to cisgender adults and were six times as likely as cisgender adults to have engaged in self-harm in the previous year (17% vs. 3%). There are also substantial disparities in mental health, including suicidality, among LGBT+ youth compared to their non-LGBT+ peers.
What are recent federal actions to address disparities?
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a heightened awareness of and focus on addressing health disparities. The disparate impacts of COVID-19 and coinciding racial reckoning following the police killing of George Floyd contributed to a growing awareness of racial disparities in health and their underlying causes, including racism. Early in his presidency, President Biden issued a series of executive orders focused on advancing health equity, including orders that outlined equity as a priority for the federal government broadly and as part of the pandemic response and recovery efforts. Federal agencies were directed with developing Equity Action Plans that outlined concrete strategies and commitments to addressing systemic barriers across the federal government. In its Health Equity Plan, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) outlined a series of new strategies, including addressing increased pregnancy and postpartum morbidity and mortality among Black and AIAN women; addressing barriers that individuals with limited English proficiency face in obtaining information, services, and benefits from HHS programs; leveraging grants to incorporate equity consideration into funding opportunities, implementing equity assessments across its major policies and programs; investing in resources to advance civil rights; and expanding contracting opportunities for small, disadvantaged businesses. The plan builds on earlier efforts that included increasing stakeholder engagement, establishing the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, and establishing the National Institutes of Health UNITE Initiative to address structural racism and racial inequities in biomedical research. Since the release of its Equity Action Plan, HHS has taken actions to extend postpartum coverage through Medicaid and CHIP; issued rules to strengthen patient protections, including nondiscrimination protections; and issued nondiscrimination guidance to ensure that telehealth services are accessible to people with disabilities and those with limited English proficiency.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released an updated framework to advance health equity, expand health coverage, and improve health outcomes for people covered by Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and the Health Insurance Marketplaces. The framework outlined five priorities including expanding the collecting, reporting, and analysis of standardized data on demographics and social determinants of health; assessing the causes of disparities within CMS programs and addressing inequities in policies and operations; building capacity of health care organizations and the workforce to reduce disparities; advancing language access, health literacy, and the provision of culturally tailored services; and increasing all forms of accessibility to health services and coverage. The Administration has also identified advancing health equity and addressing social determinants of health as key priorities within Medicaid and has encouraged states to propose Section 1115 Medicaid waivers that expand coverage, reduce health disparities, and/or advance “whole-person care.” States have increasingly requested and/or received approval for waivers that aim to advance equity. Further, a growing number of states have approved or pending waivers with provisions related to addressing health-related social needs, such as food and housing, often focused on specific populations with high needs or risks.
The Administration and Congress have taken a range of actions to stabilize and increase access to health coverage amid the pandemic. Early in the pandemic, Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), which included a temporary requirement that Medicaid programs keep people continuously enrolled during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency in exchange for enhanced federal funds. Primarily due to the continuous enrollment provision, Medicaid enrollment has grown substantially compared to before the pandemic, and the uninsured rate has dropped with differences in uninsured rates between people of color and White people narrowing. Coverage gains also likely reflected enhanced ACA Marketplace subsidies made available by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021 and renewed for another three years in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, boosted outreach and enrollment efforts, a Special Enrollment Period for the Marketplaces provided in response to the pandemic, and low Marketplace attrition. Additionally, in 2019, the Biden Administration reversed changes the Trump Administration had previously made to public charge immigration policies that increased reluctance among some immigrant families to enroll in public programs, including health coverage. Most recently, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 included a requirement for all states to implement 12 months of continuous coverage for children, supporting their coverage stability. However, it also set the end of the broader Medicaid continuous enrollment provision for March 31, 2023, which could lead to coverage losses for millions of people, reversing recent coverage gains.
There have been growing federal efforts to address disparities in maternal health. Over the past few years, the Administration launched several initiatives focused on addressing inequities in maternal health. In April 2021, President Biden issued a proclamation to recognize the importance of addressing the high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity among Black people. At the end of 2021, the White House hosted its inaugural White House Maternal Health Day of Action during which areas of concern in maternal health outcomes were identified and the Administration announced actions aimed at solving the maternal health crisis. In June 2022, the Biden Administration released the Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis. The Blueprint outlines priorities and actions across federal agencies to improve access to coverage and care, expand and enhance data collection and research, grow and diversify the perinatal workforce, strengthen social and economic support, and increase trainings and incentives to support women being active participants in their care before, during and after pregnancy. In July 2022, CMS announced a Maternity Care Action Plan to support the implementation of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis. The action plan takes a holistic and coordinated approach across CMS to improve health outcomes and reduce inequities for people during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. ARPA included an option, made permanent in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, to allow states to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to 12 months. As of April 2023, the majority of states have taken steps to extend postpartum coverage. The Human Resources and Services Administration also announced $12 million in awards for the Rural Maternal and Obstetrics Management Strategies Program (RMOMS), which is designed to develop models and implement strategies to improve maternal health in rural communities.
The Administration has also taken steps to address health disparities and discrimination experienced among LGBT+ people. On his first day in office, President Biden signed an Executive Order on “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.” Since then, the Administration has taken multiple actions to address discrimination within health care specifically. In May 2021, the Biden Administration announced that the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) would include gender identity and sexual orientation as it interprets and enforces the ACA’s prohibition against sex discrimination (Section 1557), reversing the approach taken by the Trump Administration. Additionally, the Administration has spoken out against state actions aimed at curtailing access to gender affirming care for transgender and gender nonconforming people, particularly policies targeting youth. In January 2023, the Administration released its Federal Evidence Agenda on LGBTQI+ Equity, a “roadmap for federal agencies as they work to create their own data-driven and measurable SOGI Data,” which the Administration views as central to understanding disparities and discrimination facing this community.
What are key issues related to health disparities looking ahead?
The end of the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision may lead to coverage losses and widening disparities. Following the ending of the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision on March 31, 2023, states resumed Medicaid redeterminations. KFF estimates that between 5 and 14 million people could lose Medicaid coverage, including many who newly gained coverage during the pandemic. Other research shows that Hispanic and Black people are likely to be disproportionately impacted by the expiration of the continuous enrollment provision. Moreover, some groups, such as individuals with limited English proficiency and people with disabilities may face increased challenges in completing the Medicaid renewal process increasing their risk of coverage loss even if they remain eligible for coverage. OCR has reminded states of their obligations under federal civil rights laws to take reasonable steps to provide meaningful language access for individuals with limited English proficiency and ensure effective communication with individuals with disabilities to prevent lapses in coverage amid the unwinding of the continuous enrollment provision. CMS issued guidance that provides a roadmap for states to streamline processes and implement strategies to reduce the number of people who lose coverage even though they remain eligible. The extent to which states simplify processes to renew or transition to other coverage and provide outreach and assistance to individuals more likely to face challenges completing renewal processes will impact coverage losses and potential impacts on coverage disparities.
The end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) and the potential depletion of the federally purchased supply of COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and tests may curtail access to these supplies for some individuals, particularly those who are uninsured. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government spent billions of dollars in emergency funds to purchase COVID-19 vaccines, including boosters, treatments, and tests to provide free of charge to the public. In addition, Congress enacted legislation that included special requirements for their coverage by both public and private insurers, and the Administration issued guidance and regulations to protect patient access and promote equitable distribution. The upcoming end to the PHE on May 11, 2023, as well as the potential depletion of federally purchased supplies in the absence of any additional funding, could result in new or higher cost-sharing and/or reduced access to these products although these impacts may vary by product and the type of health coverage an individual has. People who are uninsured or underinsured face the greatest risk of access challenges, including limited access to free vaccines and no coverage for treatment or tests. Since people of color and people with lower incomes are more likely to be uninsured, they may be at a disproportionate risk of facing barriers to accessing COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and treatments once the PHE ends and the federal supply is depleted.
The overturning of Roe v. Wade may exacerbate the already large racial disparities in maternal and infant health. The decision to overturn the longstanding Constitutional right to abortion and elimination of federal standards on abortion access has resulted in growing variation across states in laws protecting or restricting abortion. These changes may disproportionately impact women of color, as they are more likely to obtain abortions, have more limited access to health care, and face underlying inequities that would make it more difficult to travel out of state for an abortion compared to their White counterparts. Restricted access to abortions may widen the already stark racial disparities in maternal and infant health, as some groups of color are at higher risk of dying from pregnancy-related reasons and during infancy and are more likely to experience birth risks and adverse birth outcomes compared to White people. It may also have negative economic consequences associated with the direct costs of raising children and impacts on educational and employment opportunities. Further, women from underserved communities may be at increased risk for criminalization in a post-Roe environment, as prior to the ruling, there were already cases of women being criminalized for their miscarriages, stillbirths, or infant death, many of whom were low-income or women of color.
Many states have implemented policies banning or limiting access to gender affirming care, especially for youth, as well as other legal actions that threaten access to care for LGBT+ people. Policies aimed at limiting access to gender affirming care may have significant negative implications for the health of trans and nonconforming people, particularly young people, including negative mental health impacts, and an increased risk of suicidality. Additionally, the recent Braidwood case on preventive care access directly affects LGBT+ people in its treatment of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). It relies, in part, on religious protections arguments to limit access to the drug based on the plaintiff’s claim that it “facilitate[s] and encourage[s] homosexual behavior, prostitution, sexual promiscuity, and intravenous drug use.” If PrEP use declines as a result of the Braidwood decision, HIV incidence could increase, likely disproportionally impacting people of color and LGBT+ people. Efforts to curtail access to gender affirming care and the Braidwood decision are at odds with the Administration’s stated approach to health equity for LGBT+ people. How such policies play out in the longer term will be determined largely by the courts.
Evolving immigration policies may impact the health and well-being of immigrant families. When the PHE ends on May 11, 2023, Title 42 restrictions that suspended the entry of individuals at the U.S. border to protect public health during the COVID-19 emergency are expected to terminate. It is anticipated that when the authority ends, there will be an increase in immigrant activity at the U.S. border. The Biden Administration has announced plans to increase security and enforcement at the border to reduce unlawful crossings, expand “legal pathways for orderly migration”, invest additional resources in the border region, and partner with Mexico to implement the aforementioned plans. However, it remains to be seen how shifting policies will impact trends at the border and health and health care in that region. The future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program remains uncertain, and its implementation is currently limited subject to court orders. If the DACA program is found to be unlawful in pending court rulings, individuals would lose their DACA status and subsequently their work authorizations. The loss of status and work authorization may result in loss of employer-based health coverage, leaving people uninsured and unable to qualify for Medicaid, CHIP, or to purchase coverage through the Marketplaces. Additionally, although the Biden Administration reversed public charge regulations implemented by the Trump Administration as part of an effort to address immigration-related fears that limited immigrant families’ participation in government assistance programs, including Medicaid and CHIP, many families continue to have fears and concerns about enrolling in these programs, contributing to ongoing gaps in coverage for immigrants and children of immigrants.
Growing mental health and substance use concerns and ongoing racism, discrimination, and violence may contribute to health disparities. As previously noted, mental health and substance use concerns have increased since the onset of the pandemic, with some groups particularly affected. These trends may lead to new and widening disparities. For example, people of color have experienced larger increases in drug overdose death rates than White people, resulting in the death rate for Black people newly surpassing that of White people by 2020. Further, Black and Asian people have reported negative mental health impacts due to heightened anti-Black and anti-Asian racism and violence in recent years. Research has documented the negative health impacts, including negative impacts on mental health and well-being, of exposure to violence, including police and violence. Research shows African American and AIAN men and women, and Latino men are at increased risk of being killed by police compared to their White peers. Black and Hispanic adults also are more likely than White adults to worry about gun violence according to 2023 KFF survey data. Other KFF analysis shows that firearm death rates increased sharply among Black and Hispanic youth during the pandemic driven primarily by gun assaults and suicide by firearm. Research further shows that repeated and chronic exposure to racism and discrimination is associated with negative physical and mental health outcomes, including premature aging and associated health risks, referred to as “weathering,” as well as higher mortality.
Despite growing mental health concerns, people of color continue to face disproportionate barriers to accessing mental health care. Research suggests that structural inequities may contribute to disparities in use of mental health care, including lack of health insurance coverage and financial and logistical barriers to accessing care, stemming from broader inequities in social and economic factors. Lack of a diverse mental health care workforce, the absence of culturally informed treatment options, and stereotypes and discrimination associated with poor mental health may also contribute to limited mental health treatment among people of color. Amid the pandemic, many states implemented telehealth behavioral health services to expand access to behavioral health care, and most states intend to keep these services. States are also adopting strategies to address workforce shortages in behavioral health. As states seek to expand access to behavioral health care, it will be important to ensure that services address the cultural and linguistic needs of diverse populations. Further, in 2022, the federal government mandated the suicide and crisis lifeline number that provides a single three-digit number (988) to access a network of over 200 local and state-funded crisis centers. The 988 number is expected to improve the delivery of mental health crisis care; however, it is unknown how well it will address the needs of people of color and other underserved populations.
Conclusion
In sum, disparities in health and health care for people of color and other underserved groups are longstanding challenges, many of which are driven by underlying structural and economic disparities rooted in racism. Addressing disparities is key not only from an equity standpoint but for improving the nation’s overall health and economic prosperity. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government identified health equity as a priority and has since launched initiatives to address disparities wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic and more broadly. Alongside the federal government, states, local communities, private organizations, and providers have engaged in efforts to reduce health disparities. Moving forward, a broad range of efforts both within and beyond the health care system will be instrumental in reducing disparities and advancing equity.
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This week's show was recorded at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, with host Peter Sagal, guest judge and scorekeeper Chioke I'Anson, Not My Job guest Sarah Polley and panelists Roxanne Roberts, Adam Burke and Shane O'Neill. Click the audio link above to hear the whole show.
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Panel Questions
Tough Times For The Giants of Gift-wrapping; Gladiator's Best Friend
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- Conference Call Scheduled for Monday, October 31, 2022 at 9:00am ET -
KFAR SAVA, Israel, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ: SILC), an industry-leading provider of high-performance server/appliances networking solutions, announced today that it will be releasing its third quarter 2022 results on Monday, October 31, 202The Company will be hosting a conference call that same day at 9:00am Eastern Time. On the call, management will review and discuss the results, and will also be available to answer investors' questions.
To participate, investors may either listen via a webcast link hosted on Silicom's website or via the dial-in. The link will be under the investor relations' webcast section of Silicom's website at https://www.silicom-usa.com/webcasts/
For those that wish to dial in via telephone, one of the following teleconferencing numbers may be used:
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For those unable to listen to the live call, a replay of the call will be available for three months from the day after the call under the above-mentioned webcast section of Silicom's website.
About Silicom
Silicom Ltd. is an industry-leading provider of high-performance networking and data infrastructure solutions. Designed primarily to improve performance and efficiency in Cloud and Data Center environments, Silicom's solutions increase throughput, decrease latency and boost the performance of servers and networking appliances, the infrastructure backbone that enables advanced Cloud architectures and leading technologies like NFV, SD-WAN and Cyber Security. Our innovative solutions for high-density networking, high-speed fabric switching, offloading and acceleration, which utilize a range of cutting-edge silicon technologies as well as FPGA-based solutions, are ideal for scaling-up and scaling-out cloud infrastructures.
Silicom products are used by major Cloud players, service providers, telcos and OEMs as components of their infrastructure offerings, including both add-on adapters in the Data Center and stand-alone virtualized/universal CPE devices at the edge.
Silicom's long-term, trusted relationships with more than 200 customers throughout the world, its more than 400 active Design Wins and more than 300 product SKUs have made Silicom a "go-to" connectivity/performance partner of choice for technology leaders around the globe.
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March is going out with a roar, with the last Month of Photography exhibits and Ruby Hill Rail Yard snow days, as well as parties and lectures that will have you anticipating the sunny spring days ahead.
Keep reading for ten of the best free events in Denver this week, and watch for updates:
CHOW Happy Hour Meet and Greet
Monday, March 27, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Stem Ciders, 2811 Walnut Street
One of the only good things to come out of the pandemic: CHOW (Culinary Hospitality Outreach Wellness), which offers help and support for those in the restaurant and hospitality business. At this happy hour, you can learn more about CHOW and tell the organization what you need. There will be drinks and snacks; find out more here.
Previews of Coming Attractions: Wildflowers at Dawson Butte
Monday, March 27, 7 p.m., online
Douglas Land Conservancy will host this program with Elizabeth Taylor, a certified Colorado Native Plant Master and NPM instructor who volunteers as a naturalist for the DLC and Douglas County Open Space. She'll preview the wildflowers that will soon pop up on Dawson Butte during this free virtual hike (a $10 donation is suggested to keep classes going); sign up here.
Night Lights Denver
Tuesday, March 28, through Friday, March 31, 6:15 to 11:55 p.m.
Clocktower, 1601 Arapahoe Street
The current illuminating program is dedicated to the Month of Photography. Colorado Photographic Arts Center's Samantha Johnston has curated this display of work by sixty photographers that shows after dark through the end of March. Find out more here.
The Great Spring Migration: Birds on the Move
Tuesday, March 28, 7 p.m., online
Join Douglas Land Conservancy and Denver Audubon for the Great Spring Migration: Birds on the Move. Curt Frankenfeld, president of the Denver Audubon board, will cover ways to appreciate and protect the birds moving to and through Colorado this season, with a Q&A following. The online class is free, but a $10 donation is suggested; sign up here.
Festo Festo With Gaitani
Thursday, March 30, 7 p.m.
Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street
This special edition of Festo Festo will present Gaitani, a Bulgarian folk-dance troupe based in Denver. In addition to dance performances to music by Gora Gora Orkestar and Ansambl Eitan Kantor, there will be dance instruction and community music-making. Admission is free, but donations are encouraged; find out more here.
Amy Reid's Long Haulers and Short Films
Friday, March 31, 7 p.m.
Counterpath, 7935 East 14th Avenue
Counterpath is hosting this screening of Amy Reid’s 2020 Long Haulers, as well as short films by Emma Piper-Burket ("Driving Dinosaurs"), Eileen Roscina, Ann Roy and Emilie Upczak. All of the works deal with representations of the road, gender, and networks of industry and nature. Admission is free, but donations are suggested, with all proceeds going to the artists. Find out more here.
N3ptune After Party
Friday, March 31, 11 p.m.
Lost Lake Lounge, 3602 East Colfax Avenue
After his show at the Bluebird, Lost Lake is hosting this free after-party for N3ptune, the multi-hyphenate Denver musician who's a proudly queer singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, model, actor and director. Read our profile of him here, and find out more about this event here.
TheBigWonderful
Saturday, April 1, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Winter Park Resort
TheBigWonderful returns to Winter Park for the fifth annual edition of Beer Fest, Bluegrass and Bazaar. The vendor village will open at 11 a.m., with wares ranging from jewelry to outdoor apparel from more than thirty Colorado makers. Live bluegrass starts at 11 a.m., too, with this lineup: The Fretliners on the Main Stage from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Martin Gilmore Band on the Village Stage from 1 to 3 p.m., and Head for the Hills on the Main Stage from 3 to 5 p.m. Admission is free unless you're also taking in the Beer Fest, with twenty-plus local breweries serving unlimited samples from 1 to 5 p.m. Tickets for that start at $35; get them and more information here.
Every Day Is Earth Day Spoken Word: Posole and Poetry
Saturday, April 1, 1 to 3 p.m.
CHAC Gallery, 1560 Teller Street
Chicano Humanities Arts Council and the Women for Environmental Justice will host this event honoring National Poetry Month, Earth Day and the end of Women’s History Month. Spoken-word artists and poets Elena Guerrero Townsend, Jo Elizabeth Pinto and Norma Johnson will join folk musician Elena Klaver for this poetry slam/open-mic party that includes homemade posole. Admission is free; register here.
Medea Benjamin: War in Ukraine
Saturday, April 1, 3 to 5 p.m.
Highlands United Methodist Church, 3131 Osceola Street
Sunday, April 2, 2 to 5 p.m.
Unity of Boulder Church, 2855 Folsom Street, Boulder
Medea Benjamin, peace and justice activist and co-founder of Code Pink, is the author of thirteen books, including the recent War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict (co-authored with Nicolas J.S. Davies), which offers historical context. She'll talk about the book and the current situation in Ukraine in a series of talks along the Front Range that continue through April 5; get more information here.
And a bonus that will end soon: Ruby Hill Rail Yard
Daily, 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. (lights on until 9 p.m.)
Ruby Hill Park, South Platte Drive at West Florida Avenue
Denver Parks & Recreation and Winter Park Resort have again teamed up to offer free skiing and snowboarding at the urban terrain park at Ruby Hill, complete with rails, snow features and boxes of varying configurations and skill levels. The season will end soon — but in the meantime, admission is free, and on Thursdays (4 to 9 p.m.) and Saturdays (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.), equipment is free, too. Find out more here.
Do you know of a great free event in Denver? We'll be updating this list throughout the week; send information to [email protected]
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2023-03-27T17:14:06+00:00
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westword.com
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https://www.westword.com/arts/denver-things-to-do-free-march-photography-ski-16476477
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...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 4 and
9 inches. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph. Areas of blowing snow
reducing visibility to less than one half mile at times.
* WHERE...Central Washington, Interior Hancock, and Southern
Penobscot Counties.
* WHEN...Until 8 AM EDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous conditions
will impact the Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning commutes.
Strong winds could cause damage to trees and power lines.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Winter Storm Warning for snow means severe winter weather
conditions will make travel extremely dangerous. If you must travel,
keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in your vehicle in case of
an emergency.
The latest road conditions for Maine can be obtained by going to
newengland511.org.
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2023-03-14T15:22:16+00:00
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foxbangor.com
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https://www.foxbangor.com/schools/bangor-schools--all-after-school-activities-canceled/article_68caafdc-c275-11ed-94d0-3749828711ba.html
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The Supreme Court is expected to rule on President Biden’s student debt relief plan as soon as Thursday, and one loan servicer has been thrown into the center of the debate.
The Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, more commonly known as MOHELA, is one of the largest federal student loan servicers in the country and a central player in Biden v. Nebraska.
Before deciding whether Biden’s plan is lawful, the court must first rule that at least one of the challengers — six Republican-led states and two individual borrowers — has legal standing to bring their lawsuit.
The states and individuals promote various standing arguments. But the justices in particular have focused on MOHELA, mentioning the servicer 142 times during February’s oral arguments.
Here’s what to know about MOHELA and its role in the Supreme Court fight over student debt relief:
What is MOHELA?
MOHELA has been in the student loan business for more than 40 years. Missouri state legislators created it in 1981 to provide low-cost loans for students and a source of revenue for the state.
The servicer works with private and federal student loans and assists borrowers in answering questions about billing and payment options. MOHELA is able to collect payments, inform borrowers about different payment options and help with requests for forbearance or deferment.
It has also become the sole student loan servicer for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH), two federal loan payment options for individuals with certain jobs.
MOHELA makes money from its contract with the federal government, which pays the servicer a monthly amount for each student loan borrower they are servicing. The amount it gets paid for servicing a loan can vary depending on the status of the loan, whether a student is still in school or a borrower is in delinquency.
MOHELA is supposed to transfer its proceeds to the state in two ways.
In 2007, state lawmakers passed a bill that provided for MOHELA to transfer $350 million to the Lewis and Clark Discovery Fund, which funds capital improvement projects at public colleges across the state. The servicer so far has given $245 million, according to court filings.
It has also contributed more than $100 million over the last 12 years to state scholarship and grant programs, court documents indicate.
Why does MOHELA matter in the student debt fight?
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical during oral arguments that the Biden administration had the authority to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in debt for more than 40 million borrowers.
But before the court can strike down the plan, the justices must first find that at least one of the eight plaintiffs has legal standing to bring their lawsuit.
Missouri’s standing theory — which involves MOHELA — has received the most attention.
Standing requires a plaintiff to show three components: they suffered an injury-in-fact, the defendant caused the injury and that the court can remedy it.
The Biden administration contends that none of the states or individual borrowers can meet all three prongs, so the Supreme Court should throw out their lawsuits and allow the debt relief to proceed.
But Missouri has put MOHELA in the center of the fight by indicating that the servicer will lose revenue if student debt forgiveness is given to borrowers, arguing the plan would eliminate many accounts MOHELA collects fees from.
“These financial losses establish Missouri’s standing for two reasons: (1) MOHELA is a Missouri-created and -controlled public instrumentality, so its harms are harms to the State; and (2) MOHELA’s losses jeopardize its financial contributions to Missouri,” the state wrote in its brief.
The administration has pushed back on both fronts, first contesting that MOHELA is an arm of the state.
It also rejects that any losses MOHELA faces would lead the state to miss out on financial contributions from the servicer. MOHELA hasn’t paid funds to the Lewis and Clark Discovery Fund in years and has previously said further payments were not probable, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices.
Although the Biden administration has not directly advanced the argument, some outside groups have further questioned whether MOHELA would actually suffer a net loss from the debt relief plan in the first place.
MOHELA did not respond to The Hill’s request for comment.
Why isn’t MOHELA a party in the case?
Proponents of Biden’s debt relief plan have pushed back on Missouri’s standing argument by noting that the loan servicer itself has not challenged the plan.
“MOHELA’s executives were not involved with the decision of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office to file for the preliminary injunction in federal court on September 29, 2022,” the servicer wrote in a letter to Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) last year.
MOHELA became the elephant not in the room at February’s Supreme Court oral argument: the word “MOHELA” appears 142 times in the transcript.
The administration indicated it wouldn’t contest standing if MOHELA had sued instead. That caught the attention of conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who along with the court’s liberals probed the attorney representing the states about it.
“Why didn’t the state just make MOHELA come then?” Barrett asked. “If MOHELA is really an arm of the state and all of this would be a lot easier — I mean, the solicitor general conceded that if MOHELA was here, MOHELA would have standing. If MOHELA is an arm of the state, why didn’t you just strong-arm MOHELA and say you’ve got to pursue this suit?”
Nebraska Solicitor General James Campbell responded, “That’s a question of state politics.”
“But we believe as a matter of law that the state has the authority to assert its interests,” he added.
MOHELA has not put out any public statements for or against the case Republicans are arguing on its behalf, but internal emails obtained by Student Borrower Protection Center showed some employees were completely taken aback finding out they become the main focal point of canceling student loan forgiveness.
“MOHELA isn’t technically a part of that lawsuit, the Missouri AG is suing on their behalf. However, it’s all about the FFEL stuff, and since they changed the rules, that lawsuit should be ruled as lacking standing,” read one email from an employee, whose name was partially redacted.
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2023-06-21T11:19:05+00:00
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wate.com
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https://www.wate.com/hill-politics/what-to-know-about-the-loan-servicer-at-the-center-of-the-supreme-court-student-debt-fight/
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Preliminary hearing set for Sylvania man charged with manslaughter in hit-and-run
GERALDINE, Ala. (WAFF) - At 10:20 p.m. Saturday night, a two-vehicle crash took the life of Harley Lasseter. The teen was fatally injured when the 2003 Honda CH-80 motorcycle they were operating was hit by an unknown vehicle that fled the scene.
According to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s Highway Patrol Division, the teen was pronounced deceased on the scene. State troopers arrested and charged Tyler Wilbanks, 22, of Sylvania, on Wednesday. Wilbanks has been charged with manslaughter and a felony for leaving the scene of a crash.
Court documents show that Wilbanks has a preliminary hearing set for Aug. 22.
“My precious baby boy. Who was so selfless, humble, very athletic and very competitive on the court or fields,” Cassey Lasseter the mother of Harley said, “He was a young man of God that is the only thing holding this family together right now is that I know he is walking the streets of gold our lord and savior and I will one day see my baby boy again. I pray Who did this to my baby comes forward.”
In an instant, Harley Lasseter was killed, just weeks before his fifteenth birthday.
His mother, Cassey tells WAFF he was wearing a helmet.
“This young man is just 14 years old. He’s just getting to enjoy life,” Nathan Gilbert said.
Nathan Gilbert, the youth director at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Crossville says Harley was devoted to his faith up until the end.
“Anyone you ask to talk about when you see him he’s smiling. So he was just a remarkable young man.”
Harley’s mother was too upset to go on camera but tells us her faith is the only thing holding her family together.
“Her biggest hope or her prayers was that her son’s death would bring glory. Maybe someone would get saved, maybe someone would rededicate their life, maybe someone would quit drugs.”
The Gilberts have set up a memorial fund at Liberty Bank. All the money that is being donated will go to funeral expenses. You can also send money electronically to the Gilberts on Facebook. Lasseter’s funeral will be held on Friday, April 8, 2022, at 4 p.m. in the Geraldine High School gym.
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2022-07-04T19:10:11+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/2022/04/03/preliminary-hearing-set-sylvania-man-charged-with-manslaughter-hit-and-run/
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say a major search and rescue operation has been launched east of the island of Karpathos after a boat reportedly carrying dozens of migrants sank during the night.
The coast guard said Wednesday that 29 people, all men, had been rescued from the sea 33 nautical miles (38 miles, 61 kilometers) east southeast of Karpathos, a southeastern island between Rhodes and Crete. Those rescued were from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran, and told authorities there had been roughly 60 to 80 people on board the vessel when it went down, the coast guard said.
Those rescued said the boat had set sail from the Antalya area on the southern Turkish coast and was aiming for Italy when it ran into trouble during the night.
Two coast guard patrol boats, a Greek navy vessel, an air force helicopter and at least three ships sailing nearby were participating in the search and rescue efforts, the coast guard said.
The most common sea route for asylum-seekers from the Middle East, Asia and Africa has been from Turkey to nearby Greek islands. But with Greek authorities increasing patrols in the Aegean, and facing repeated and persistent reports of summarily deporting new arrivals to Turkey without allowing them to apply for asylum, many are now skirting the Greek islands and attempting to take the much longer, and more dangerous, route directly to Italy. Greek authorities deny they carry out illegal summary deportations of asylum-seekers.
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2022-08-10T22:56:56+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/greece-dozens-missing-after-migrant-boat-sinks/
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RESTON, Va., Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leidos (NYSE:LDOS), a FORTUNE® 500 science and technology leader, today announced the company was selected by New-South Synergy to upgrade U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL). The upgrades are part of a larger initiative to expand and enhance the airport's security checkpoints by leveraging the latest technologies, while also improving the passenger experience.
"We are proud to work with New-South Synergy as a critical partner in its deployment of next generation security technologies," said Jonathan Stone, Director of Aviation and Division Manager at Leidos. "These upgrades represent the next step in the transformation of our nation's aviation checkpoints. Together we seek to improve operational efficiency for airports and make travel more seamless for passengers."
The upgrade will update security lanes at the Domestic Terminal Main Security Checkpoint with Leidos' Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT). These upgrades include replacing the existing Pro:Vision® 1 scanners with 10 new Pro:Vision® 2 systems. Some of the benefits include a compact design and footprint, and continued safe millimeter wave technology.
"We are proud to partner with Leidos to help secure Hartsfield-Jackson's position as the busiest and most efficient airport in the world," said Dan Wurzel, Senior Project Manager at New South Construction. "The introduction of these new security technologies will enhance airport security operations, while improving the overall experience for Atlanta travelers."
Leidos' AIT technology was selected under TSA's Capabilities Acceptance Process (CAP). This is designed to ensure that Transportation Security Equipment (TSE) and related services meet the highest standards for quality and effectiveness. The Pro:Vision® 2 scanners are now on the Acceptable Capabilities List (ACL) and available for use within TSA operations.
To learn more about Leidos security detection solutions, with more than 24,000 products deployed across 120 countries, please visit www.leidos.com/security-detection.
About Leidos
Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company's 44,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $13.7 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
Certain statements in this announcement constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These statements are based on management's current beliefs and expectations and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. These statements are not guarantees of future results or occurrences. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements, or industry results to be different from the results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the "Risk Factors" set forth in Leidos' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and other such filings that Leidos makes with the SEC from time to time. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Leidos does not undertake to update forward-looking statements to reflect the impact of circumstances or events that arise after the date the forward-looking statements were made.
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2022-12-13T14:15:26+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/12/13/leidos-selected-upgrade-hartsfield-jackson-atlanta-international-airports-security-checkpoints/
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Raw Chef Jane shares her recipe for this holiday favorite!
For the Crust:
1 C Pecans
1 C Macadamia Nuts or Cashews
2 TBS Coconut Palm Sugar
6 Large Dates (pitted!)
Pinch of Himalayan Salt
Process all ingredients in Food Processor just enough that ingredients stick together. Pat into pie plate or spring form pan.
For the Filling:
1 Carrot (Put Carrot into Blender with just enough water to about 8 oz. and blend well.)
Add:
2 C Cashews
2/3 C Raw Agave Nectar
3/4 C Coconut Oil
2 TBS Pumpkin Pie Spice
A couple of shakes of Allspice
½ tsp Vanilla Powder
Blend all ingredients well in blender. Add a little water – just a little at a time, if needed. Pour into crust, using either a pie pan or a spring form pan. Refrigerate overnight.
I like to put this into the freezer for a few hours to let it set nicely.
When I take it out of the freezer, I cut it into serving-sized pieces and put them all back into the freezer for whenever we want a snack. If you eat it frozen, it’s yummy too !!!
For more videos and information visit www.RawChefJane.com.
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2022-11-17T16:48:16+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/daytime-tri-cities/raw-chef-jane-un-pumpkin-pumpkin-pie/
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Election misinformation is thriving on Rumble, a video sharing platform popular with some conservatives and far-right groups, according to research published Thursday.
Nearly half of the videos suggested by the site in response to searches for common election-related terms contained misinformation, according to the analysis from NewsGuard, a firm that monitors online misinformation.
The percentage was far better at Rumble's much larger rival YouTube, where about 1 in 5 videos were found to contain misinformation after researchers ran the same searches. The search terms included the names of candidates as well as politically sensitive words and phrases such as gun rights, voter fraud and abortion.
The findings illustrate how alternative platforms like Rumble have become hot spots for election-related misinformation as they have increased in popularity. The site is popular with conservatives and some far-right groups critical of content moderation efforts by larger platforms such as YouTube.
Misleading or deceptive claims about voting and elections have proliferated in heading into next week's elections and have been blamed for increasing distrust and polarization.
Some of the videos reviewed by NewsGuard's researchers in October included online shows featuring allies of former President Donald Trump such as Steve Bannon and conspiracy theorists such as Alex Jones. Many videos contained debunked claims about the 2020 election, the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the QAnon conspiracy theory, as well as misinformation about voting and the elections.
“Rumble frequently pushes videos from untrustworthy sources that traffic in election misinformation,” NewsGuard's report found.
Messages left with Rumble were not immediately returned Wednesday and Thursday. According to a mission statement on the platform's website, Rumble aims “to restore the internet to its roots by making it free and open once again.”
Rumble said in September it now has 78 million active monthly users around the world, with 63 million in the United States and Canada. The site boasts a long list of podcasts helmed by prominent conservatives such as Don Bongino and Steve Bannon, whose videos have millions of subscribers on Rumble.
The Florida-based platform’s growth has come from users interested in news and politics, as well as younger users in the 18-24 age group, Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski said in September.
Bannon's show was among the top results when researchers ran a search on the term “voter fraud.” A longtime Trump ally, Bannon was kicked off YouTube last year for repeatedly violating its rules; he was banned from Twitter after calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease specialist, to be beheaded.
Together, the the misinformation-laden videos turned up by researchers at NewsGuard had been viewed nearly 9 million times so far.
YouTube has been criticized for not doing enough to tackle misinformation on its platform. But the NewsGuard report shows the platform's efforts are making a difference. Researchers said that in addition to suggesting fewer videos containing misinformation, YouTube did not recommend any videos supporting QAnon.
Nevertheless, a report released this fall by New York University faulted Meta, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube for amplifying Trump’s false statements about the 2020 election. The study cited inconsistent rules regarding misinformation as well as poor enforcement.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of misinformation at https://apnews.com/hub/misinformation.
Follow the AP for full coverage of the 2022 midterm elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ap_politics.
And check out https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections to learn more about the issues and factors at play in the midterms.
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2022-11-03T17:05:35+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Misinformation-thrives-on-video-site-popular-with-17555707.php
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Grading Bears' offense, defense in preseason win vs. Seahawks originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
SEATTLE – With just four days in between their preseason opener and Thursday's game in Seattle, the Bears gave most of their regulars limited work at Lumen Field against the Seahawks.
Outside of new right guard Teven Jenkins and right tackle Larry Borom, the first-team offense played just one series. Defensive veterans Eddie Jackson and Robert Quinn also spent most of their night on the sideline.
The Bears were mediocre on both sides of the ball in their preseason win over the Kansas City Chiefs last Saturday. Things got a little better in Seattle, but it's hard to tell how much of that is due to the Seahawks' overall ineptitude.
On the day, the Seahawks had 13 penalties accepted for 92 yards, went 4-for-19 on third down, and averaged just 4.3 yards per play. The Bears weren't much better, going 4-for-13 on third down while averaging 3.9 yards per play.
Overall, the football was not good in the Pacific Northwest. Passing marks were given, but there's a lot of room for improvement with just one preseason game remaining.
Local
Here are our grades for each unit in the Bears' 27-11 win over the Seahawks:
Passing offense
Cole Kmet's return was a boon to the Bears' passing offense Thursday night.
The third-year tight end caught two passes for 31 yards from quarterback Justin Fields in his lone series of work. The Bears opened the game by hitting Kmet on a tight end screen for 12 yards. Later in the drive, Fields bootlegged left, squared his hips, and ripped a laser to Kmet for 19.
Kmet's absence was noticeable during the Bears' starter's three drives against the Chiefs. The passing game had a little more teeth in one drive in Seattle. The starting offense's lone drive ended with a 35-yard Cairo Santos field goal.
"Cole's a great tight end," Fields said after the game. "He can pretty much do it all. He can block. He's a great route runner, he has great hands. He definitely brings another weapon to our offense, for sure, so I was just glad to see him out there today."
Fields went 5-for-7 for 39 yards and an 84.8 rating. He didn't make any big-time throws, but he operated the offense efficiently and showed poise under near-constant pressure.
The Bears' lone passing touchdown on the day came when Trevor Siemian hit Jake Tonges for a 2-yard score.
The screen game was effective Thursday in Seattle. Fields hit Kmet for 12 and 6 more on a screen to Mooney. However, on third-and-4 at the Seahawks' 15-yard line, Fields skipped a progression and dumped it off to Khalil Herbert in the flat for a loss of 2, ending the drive.
"I should have worked to the middle of the field," Fields said. "So that was my fault for sure."
The Bears moved the ball through the air, but the passing attack, especially the protection, needs to get much better.
Grade: C
Rushing offense
While you could argue the passing attack improved from Game 1 to Game 2, the same can't be said of the run game.
Against the Seahawks, the Bears rushed 33 times for 117 yards, good for 3.5 a clip.
The first-team offense ran the ball twice. Khalil Herbert picked up 7 on his lone carry, and Fields gained 1 yard on a scramble near midfield.
The longest run of the day was an 11-yard scamper by Darrynton Evans. Rookie Trestan Ebner, who was electric in his debut against the Chiefs, gained 29 yards on nine carries before leaving the game with an injury.
With David Montgomery and Khari Blasingame not suited up, it's hard to give a fair grade to the Bears' rushing attack. But a lack of explosive runs and less than 4 yards per carry doesn't lend itself to high marks.
Grade: C-minus
Passing defense
After getting shredded by Patrick Mahomes during the Chiefs star's lone series Saturday, the Bears' pass defense surely welcomed the sight of anyone else under center.
That someone else came in the form of Geno Smith and Jacob Eason on Thursday. Smith went 10-for-18 for 112 yards, while Eason completed 17 of 35 passes for 141 yards. Neither found the end zone through the air.
Bears top draft pick Kyler Gordon made his debut Thursday, playing exclusively in the nickel. The Washington product allowed one catch on two targets for 12 yards and received a 90.0 coverage grade from Pro Football Focus.
Gordon admitted to having some "happy feet" early in his debut, but it was a good day for the Bears rookie, who looks like he will be the starting nickel in Week 1.
Grade: B
Run defense
Now, the Bears' run defense had somewhat of a tough night.
The Seahawks ran the ball 19 times for 96 yards (5.1 yards per carry). Travis Homer ripped off a 33-yard run in which he made Gordon and several other Bears miss before being tracked down by Al-Quadin Muhammad.
During the third quarter, Seahawks running back Darwin Thompson recorded the highlight of the night when he hurdled cornerback A.J. Thomas in the red zone.
Starting three-technique Justin Jones didn't suit up Thursday, so the Bears' run defense was without a key cog in the middle and got pushed around a bit at the point of attack.
We're not going to hang this one on the fridge at Halas Hall.
Grade: C
Special teams
For three quarters, Richard Hightower's unit was special.
There was the 48-yard punt return by Velus Jones Jr., the 58-yard kickoff return by Nsimba Webster, and a muffed punt recovered for a touchdown by Hicks.
But the wheels came off a bit near the end of the game.
De'Montre Tuggle ran into Dazz Newsome on a punt return which caused the wide receiver to muff his second punt in as many weeks. That led to the Seahawks' only touchdown of the night.
Then, with two minutes remaining, Seattle executed a successful onside kick. Tball bounced right to Isaiah Coulter, but the ball short-hopped off the receiver's chest, and Seattle recovered.
We were headed toward an A-plus, but things got dicey late. More work to be done.
Grade: B
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2022-08-19T12:57:00+00:00
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nbcchicago.com
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https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/bears-report-card-grades-for-offense-defense-in-preseason-win-vs-seahawks/2918938/
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, September 28, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
235 PM PDT Wed Sep 28 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Southern San Bernardino County including Joshua Tree.
* WHEN...Until 545 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 234 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
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Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree and Joshua Tree Lake Campground.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood.
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2022-09-28T22:44:04+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-LAS-VEGAS-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17473774.php
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore conducted its first execution of a woman in 19 years on Friday and its second hanging this week for drug trafficking despite calls for the city-state to cease capital punishment for drug-related crimes.
Activists said another execution is planned next week.
Saridewi Djamani, 45, was sentenced to death in 2018 for trafficking about 31 grams (1 ounce) of diamorphine, or pure heroin, the Central Narcotics Bureau said. It said the amount was “sufficient to feed the addiction of about 370 abusers for a week.”
Singapore’s laws mandate the death penalty for anyone convicted of trafficking more than 500 grams (17.6 ounces) of cannabis and 15 grams (0.5 ounces) of heroin.
Djamani’s execution came two days after that of a Singaporean man, Mohammed Aziz Hussain, 56, for trafficking around 50 grams (1.7 ounces) of heroin.
The narcotics bureau said both prisoners were accorded due process, including appeals of their convictions and sentences and petitions for presidential clemency.
Human rights groups, international activists and the United Nations have urged Singapore to halt executions for drug offenses and say there is increasing evidence it is ineffective as a deterrent. Singapore authorities insist capital punishment is important to halting drug demand and supply.
Human rights groups say it has executed 15 people for drug offenses since it resumed hangings in March 2022, an average of one a month.
Anti-death penalty activists said the last woman known to have been hanged in Singapore was 36-year-old hairdresser Yen May Woen, also for drug trafficking, in 2004.
Transformative Justice Collective, a Singapore group which advocates for the abolishment of capital punishment, said a new execution notice has been issued to another prisoner for Aug, 3, the fifth this year alone.
It said the prisoner is an ethnic Malay citizen who worked as a delivery driver before his arrest in 2016. He was convicted in 2019 of trafficking around 50 grams (1.7 ounces) of heroin and his appeal was dismissed last year, it said.
The group said the man had maintained in his trial that he believed he was delivering contraband cigarettes for a friend to whom he owed money, and he didn’t verify the contents of the bag as he trusted his friend.
The High Court judge ruled that their ties weren’t close enough to warrant the kind of trust he claimed to have had for his friend. Although the court found he was merely a courier, the man still had to be given the mandatory death penalty because prosecutors didn’t issue him a certificate of having cooperated with them, it said.
“But how could he have cooperated if, as he told the police and the court, he had not even been aware that he was being used to deliver heroin?” the group said on Facebook.
The group said it “condemns, in the strongest terms, the state’s bloodthirsty streak” and reiterated calls for an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty.
Critics say Singapore’s harsh policy punishes low-level traffickers and couriers, who are typically recruited from marginalized groups with vulnerabilities. They say Singapore is also out of step with the trend of more countries moving away from capital punishment. Neighboring Thailand has legalized cannabis while Malaysia ended the mandatory death penalty for serious crimes this year.
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2023-07-28T15:55:09+00:00
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upmatters.com
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https://www.upmatters.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-singapore-hangs-first-woman-in-19-years-after-she-was-convicted-of-trafficking-31-grams-of-heroin/
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JACKSONVILLE — On Monday, Jacksonville State sophomore Berta Sanchez will become the second Gamecock to compete in an NCAA Women's Regional as an individual.
"I think it is an honor for sure," Sanchez said Thursday. "When you know that there is just you and another girl that made it to regionals it is super cool. But, finally, you have to go to regionals and play."
Sanchez received the at-large bid to the Tallahassee Regional on Wednesday after finishing the season with a scoring average of 73.54. That happens to be the second-lowest total in program history behind former Gamecock Valentina Giraldo, who finished averaging a 72.5 in 2018. Giraldo became the program's first woman to receive an at-large bid as an individual that year.
Sanchez, an international student from Barcelona, Spain, finished inside the top 10 in 10 of the team's 12 tournaments this season, but despite all that, the sophomore's chances of earning a bid seemed like a bit of a longshot. That's because she injured her back working out just days before the ASUN conference tournament April 17-19.
"Until two days before, I didn't know if I would play conference or not," Sanchez said. "But then I realized my team we are just five girls, and if I didn't go, they would only play four girls. So I didn't want that for my team. So I took some medicine, and that has a bad reaction on me the first day. Then I stopped all of my medicine for the last two days. I just play with what I had, not my normal game, but it is what it is."
Sanchez, who hadn't hit a ball at all in the days leading up to the tournament, struggled on the opening day, finishing with a 79. She rebounded in the second round, shooting a 73 before finishing up with a 76 to finish second on the team and tied for 20th overall with a season-worst total of 12-over par.
"Anytime you got a back situation, you're always afraid to really go after it," Jacksonville State coach James Hobbs said. "So I thought that affected how she played early on, but she really came on strong toward the end."
Hobbs said earning an at-large bid as a female golfer in the ASUN is significant. To qualify for regional play, men's teams must finish with a .500 record against Division I competition. The extra criteria, not present in women's golf, encourage the best teams to get more aggressive about scheduling schools like Jacksonville State.
"It is harder for a girl to climb that ladder ranking-wise when you don't get to see the lower-ranked players in the SEC, in the ACC and what not," Hobbs said. "For her, it is a huge thing to get her ranking to the point where she is low enough to get into the NCAA (regional) championship because she's had to do it against a (weaker) schedule."
Sanchez owns a national scoring rating of 150, the sixth-best mark in program history, after she shot par or better in 11 of her 35 rounds this season.
Her coach is especially glad to see Sanchez compete this season after NCAA officials canceled the Baton Rouge Regional last year. Rain prevented the course from being "playable at a championship level," causing the cancellation.
Instead, the top six teams present were simply advanced to the NCAA championship tournament, a move that left Jacksonville State and 11 other teams with frustration and questions over what could have been if the regional had proceeded like normal.
"We were robbed of an opportunity to really kind of see where we stack up with some of those teams we don't see very often," Hobbs said.
Sanchez still remembers what it felt like when the team found out they would not be allowed to play last season.
"It was terrible," she said. "We were all crying because when you have something that you want all year like a lot and then you are there, and you cannot have it not because you didn't do the things good — just for the weather that you cannot control. That is really hard to process."
But the sophomore said she didn't dwell on the situation.
"That is a thing that you cannot understand right," Sanchez said. "That is a thing that is not fair and there is no solution. … For me the things that you cannot do anything (about) you do not have to think a lot about that you know. I mean you don't have to worry about that because you cannot do anything. Yeah, it was terrible the first two days, then you realize it is what it is."
Sanchez believes things always happen for a reason. Last year that resulted in a Barstool-sponsored makeup tournament in Arizona with the other 11 schools from the Baton Rouge Regional.
"It was a different end to the semester, but it was a fun trip," Sanchez said. "A really fun trip."
Sanchez watched her long game suffer early on this season as she battled tendinitis in one of her wrists. She was often forced to make up ground on the greens, but the sophomore believes she became a much better golfer through those struggles.
"I just play shot by shot and that helps me a lot," Sanchez said.
Despite her business-like approach, Hobbs said he felt the sophomore might have felt burdened by her success at times this year.
"Being the top player all year long, that always puts a lot of pressure on you," Hobbs said. "And it is always self-inflicted, but at the same time, when you have risen to that point your teammates always expect a lot out of you. I think that is a difficult spot to be in for a lot of players."
Hobbs has seen a change in her since the conference tournament ended. There was nothing more she could do for herself or the team but relax and wait.
The top four teams and the top two individuals not included on those teams will advance to the NCAA tournament later this month. It's a hard road for an individual, but Hobbs believes Sanchez has the talent.
"Now, I am going to regionals, and I just have to enjoy the regionals because that is what I did," Sanchez said. "I practiced so hard this season for that. So I just have to have fun with this, my gift after all this season. So I am really happy."
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2022-05-09T18:06:31+00:00
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annistonstar.com
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https://www.annistonstar.com/sports/golf/jacksonville-state-sophomore-berta-sanchez-makes-historic-appearance-in-ncaa-regional/article_91a385c4-cfb3-11ec-bfd3-07f6156d0726.html
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Attorneys for an adjunct art professor said Tuesday she is suing the Minnesota university that dismissed her after a Muslim student objected to depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a global art course, while the university admitted to a “misstep” and plans to hold public conversations about academic freedom.
In her lawsuit, Erika López Prater alleges that Hamline University — a small, private school in St. Paul — subjected her to religious discrimination and defamation, and damaged her professional and personal reputation.
“Among other things, Hamline, through its administration, has referred to Dr. López Prater’s actions as ‘undeniably Islamophobic,’” her attorneys said in a statement. “Comments like these, which have now been published in news stories around the globe, will follow Dr. López Prater throughout her career, potentially resulting in her inability to obtain a tenure track position at any institution of higher education.”
In Minnesota, a lawsuit can be started by serving a summons and a complaint to the party being sued. Attorneys for López Prater said the lawsuit was served to Hamline University on Tuesday and will soon be filed in court.
Hamline University President Fayneese Miller and Ellen Watters, the Board of Trustees chair, released a joint statement Tuesday saying recent “communications, articles and opinion pieces” have led the school to “review and re-examine our actions.”
“Like all organizations, sometimes we misstep,” the statement said. “In the interest of hearing from and supporting our Muslim students, language was used that does not reflect our sentiments on academic freedom. Based on all that we have learned, we have determined that our usage of the term ‘Islamophobic’ was therefore flawed.”
The statement did not address the lawsuit, but said the university strongly supports academic freedom, which should co-exist with support for students. The university plans to hold two public conversations in coming months, one on academic freedom and student care and another on academic freedom and religion.
Last October López Prater showed the 14th-century painting depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a lesson on Islamic art. For many Muslims, visual depictions of the Prophet Muhammad violate their faith, which López Prater knew.
According to the lawsuit, López Prater’s course syllabus included a note that students would view images of religious figures, including the Prophet Muhammad. The syllabus also included an offer to work with students uncomfortable with viewing those images.
She also warned the class immediately before showing the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad. She said in media interviews last week that her goal was to teach students about the “rich diversity” of attitudes toward such imagery.
López Prater has said she and the department chair were discussing her teaching a new course, but after the student’s complaint she was told “her services were no longer needed.”
Hamline’s president previously said the professor’s contract was not renewed following the fall semester.
The lawsuit alleges that instead of Hamline recognizing López Prater showed the images with a proper academic purpose, the university chose to impose the student’s religious view that no one should ever view images of the prophet on all other students and employees.
On Friday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national civil rights organization for Muslims, disputed the belief that López Prater’s behavior was Islamophobic. The group said professors who analyze images of the Prophet Muhammad for academic purposes are not the same as “Islamophobes who show such images to cause offense.”
At a news conference last week organized by supporters of López Prater’s firing, the student who filed the complaint said she had never seen a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad until the October class.
“It just breaks my heart that I have to stand here to tell people that something is Islamophobic and something actually hurts all of us, not only me,” said Aram Wedatalla, president of Hamline’s Muslim Student Association.
The university said on Tuesday it has learned much about the complexity of displaying images of the Prophet Muhammad and understands differing opinions on the issue exist within the Muslim community.
“Higher education is about learning and growing. We have certainly learned and continue to grow as we generate new knowledge to share with all of our Hamline community,” the statement said.
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2023-01-18T15:13:03+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/ap-art-professor-sues-after-firing-over-prophet-muhammad-images/
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Brittney Griner working on memoir about Russian captivity
NEW YORK (AP) — Saying she is ready to share the “unfathomable” experience of being arrested and incarcerated in Russia, basketball star Brittney Griner is working on a memoir that is scheduled for spring 2024.
Griner was arrested last year at the airport in Moscow on drug-related charges and detained for nearly 10 months, much of that time in prison. Her plight unfolded at the same time Russia invaded Ukraine and further heightened tensions between Russia and the U.S., ending only after she was freed in exchange for the notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
A WNBA All-Star with the Phoenix Mercury, Griner had flown to Moscow in February 2022 to rejoin UMMC Ekaterinburg, a Russian women’s team she has played for in the off-season since 2014.
“That day (in February) was the beginning of an unfathomable period in my life which only now am I ready to share,” Griner said in a statement released Tuesday by Alfred A. Knopf.
“The primary reason I traveled back to Russia for work that day was because I wanted to make my wife, family, and teammates proud. After an incredibly challenging 10 months in detainment, I am grateful to have been rescued and to be home. Readers will hear my story and understand why I’m so thankful for the outpouring of support from people across the world.”
Griner added that she also hoped her book would raise awareness of other Americans detained overseas, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested in Russia last month and accused of espionage; businessman Kai Li, serving a 10-year sentence in China on charges of revealing state secrets to the FBI; and Paul Whelan, a corporate security executive imprisoned in Russia on spying charges. Around the time Griner was released, Whelan criticized the U.S. government for not doing enough to help him.
Russia has been a popular playing destination for top WNBA athletes in the offseason, with some earning salaries over $1 million — nearly quadruple what they can make as a base WNBA salary. Despite pleading guilty to possessing canisters with cannabis oil, a result of what she said was hasty packing, Griner still faced trial under Russian law.
Griner’s memoir is currently untitled and will eventually be published in a young adult edition. Financial terms were not disclosed.
In Tuesday’s press statement, Knopf said that the book would be “intimate and moving” and that Griner would disclose “in vivid detail her harrowing experience of her wrongful detainment (as classified by the State Department) and the difficulty of navigating the byzantine Russian legal system in a language she did not speak.”
“Griner also describes her stark and surreal time living in a foreign prison and the terrifying aspects of day-to-day life in a women’s penal colony,” the announcement reads. “At the heart of the book, Griner highlights the personal turmoil she experienced during the near ten-month ordeal and the resilience that carried her through to the day of her return to the United States last December.”
Griner, 32, is a 6-foot-9 two-time Olympic gold medalist, three-time All-American at Baylor University, a prominent advocate for pay equity for women athletes and the first openly gay athlete to reach an endorsement deal with Nike. She is the author of one previous book, “In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court,” published in 2014.
In February, she re-signed with the Mercury and will play in its upcoming season, which runs from May through September.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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2023-04-11T16:59:23+00:00
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kaaltv.com
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https://www.kaaltv.com/news/us-world-news/brittney-griner-working-on-memoir-about-russian-captivity/
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NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter’s board is recommending that shareholders approve the proposed $44 billion sale of the company to billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Musk reiterated his desire to move forward with the acquisition last week during a virtual meeting with Twitter employees, though shares of Twitter remain far below his offering price, signaling considerable doubt that it will happen.
Shares are up about 3% before the opening bell Tuesday, far short of the $54.20 per share that Musk has offered for each share.
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2022-06-21T14:28:33+00:00
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kron4.com
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https://www.kron4.com/top-stories/board-endorses-elon-musks-44-billion-twitter-deal/
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Supports E-Commerce Merchants' Expansion into International Market
SHANGHAI, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- J&T Express ("J&T"), an international express logistics company, announces today that its international logistics arm J&T International has recently launched "J&T One Packet" service. By leveraging its advantages of all-encompassing cross-border resources, J&T International aims to provide cross-border small parcel delivery service at favorable prices with reliability and efficiency to domestic customers who send parcels from Chinese Mainland to Europe and North America.
As the international logistics arm of J&T Express, J&T International relies on J&T Express' abundant global logistics resources and strong business network. Its business, covering about 100 countries and regions around the world, includes cross-border small parcels, international freight forwarding, international warehousing solutions, supporting multiple transportation methods including air, sea and ground shipping. J&T International also leverages the advantages of its self-clearance service, self-built warehousing and self-owned terminals to provide customized logistics solutions for all customers.
The launch of " J&T One Packet " provides an economical option for sending small parcels to Europe and North America, which helps to address sellers' concern over costs effectiveness and improves their overall margin. This service will provide merchants of 3C products, accessories and small commodities the most cost-effective solution. In terms of delivery speed, from pickup to receipt, J&T Tracking tracks the whole process, and it takes 7-15 working days to arrive by air.
Charles Hou, Group Vice President of J&T Express, said: "Since our establishment seven years ago, J&T Express has seen rapid development of its cross-border business from international warehousing to cross-border small parcels, apart from the local express networks in 13 countries across the world. Coupled with global trade, especially cross-border e-commerce development, we constantly upgrade products and businesses to maximize value for our customers, and I believe by doing so, it will lay a strong foundation for the company's sustainable and rapid growth."
According to Jason Yang, president of J&T International, as the scale of global cross-border e-commerce continues to expand, J&T International will leverage J&T Express' existing logistics resources to continue invest in global logistics infrastructure and build its underlying business strength. This will help provide cross-border sellers with customized, all-encompassing products and services and facilitate the rapid growth of cross-border business sectors.
In addition to the continuous upgrade of the cross-border small parcel business, in terms of freight forwarding, J&T International has established an air-sea network to accelerate global logistics interconnection thanks to its direct collaboration with airlines and shipping companies. Meanwhile, the powerful combination of self-clearance, self-built overseas warehousing and self-owned terminal delivery has provided J&T International necessary catalyst for the development of cross-border B2C and B2B businesses.
With the rapid development of cross-border business and steady expansion of international network, J&T Express has been actively consolidating its leadership in Southeast Asia market by constantly upgrading its express delivery network and services. The company invested RM 600 million ($136 million) to acquire a land in Malaysia in May this year and announced the expansion of two sorting centres in Indonesia last month to meet growing local business demand and improve working environment for employees. Looking ahead, J&T will remain committed to "Connect the World with Greater Efficiency and Bring Logistical Benefits to All", while promoting the healthy development of the logistics industry and contributing to the local communities we operate in.
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About J&T Express
J&T Express is a global logistics service provider with leading express delivery businesses in Southeast Asia and China, the largest and fastest-growing market in the world. Founded in 2015, J&T Express' network spans thirteen countries, including Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, China, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Mexico, Brazil and Egypt. Adhering to its "customer-oriented and efficiency-based" mission, J&T Express is committed to providing customers with integrated logistics solutions through intelligent infrastructure and digital logistics network, as part of its global strategy to connect the world with greater efficiency and bring logistical benefits to all.
About J&T International
J&T International is the international logistics arm of J&T Brand. With J&T Express' abundant global logistics resources and strong business network, J&T International's services cover about 100 countries and regions around the world, including cross-border small parcels, international line-haul transportation, international warehousing solutions. Supporting multiple transportation methods including air, sea and ground shipping, J&T International is committed to providing customized logistics solutions for all customers.
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2022-08-30T14:40:52+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/08/30/jampt-international-launches-jampt-one-packet-small-parcel-delivery-service-europe-north-america/
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HBO’s ‘Scooby Doo’ movie confirms Velma’s LGBTQ+ identity
Published: Oct. 5, 2022 at 5:46 PM CDT|Updated: 22 minutes ago
(CNN) – Many “Scooby-Doo” fans have often wondered if Velma was gay.
They no longer have to wonder.
Clips from the upcoming HBO Max Scooby-Doo Halloween movie have been making the rounds on social media. In one, Velma tells Daphne that she’s “crushing big time” over a female character named Coco Diablo.
Director James Gunn said he tried to make Velma “explicitly gay” in the live-action “Scooby-Doo” movie back in 2001.
However, the studio changed the script to make Velma’s orientation more ambiguous and gave her a boyfriend in the 2004 sequel.
The new “Trick or Treat, Scooby-Doo” can be watched later this month when it debuts on HBO Max on Oct. 16.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2022-10-05T23:08:58+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/2022/10/05/hbos-scooby-doo-movie-confirms-velmas-lgbtq-identity/
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According to the Bear River Health Department, Cache County is following a national trend towards higher infection rates of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus and a decrease in COVID-19.
Angie White, a disease investigator with the BRHD, said there were 718 total reported cases of influenza during last flu season, which ran from October 2021 to May of this year. This season, there have already been 425 cases.
White specified the numbers are not an indicator of the total amount of flu cases, just those reported.
Read the rest of the story on HJnews.com.
This story is made possible thanks to a community reporting partnership between The Herald Journal and Utah Public Radio.
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2022-12-23T14:15:30+00:00
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upr.org
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https://www.upr.org/utah-news/2022-12-23/respiratory-viruses-on-the-rise-in-cache-valley-during-holiday-season
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The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Baltimore Orioles in the 10th inning 4-3, with a walk off single. Host Greg Matzek talks about game changing moments with Jerry Augustine and looks forward to the rest of the series. All this and more on this episode of Brewers Extra Innings.
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2023-06-07T08:51:58+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/milwaukee-brewers/2023/06/07/brew-crew-walks-off-baltimore-in-series-opener/
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
1011 AM EDT Tue Sep 20 2022
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Strong currents and dangerous swimming conditions.
* WHERE...Beaches of Wayne, Northern Cayuga, and Oswego counties.
* WHEN...Until 2 PM EDT this afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Strong currents and dangerous swimming conditions.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Stay out of the water to avoid dangerous swimming conditions.
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2022-09-20T15:38:35+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/NY-WFO-BUFFALO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17454009.php
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(The Hill) – Former President Trump is calling for the jailing of the journalists who published a leaked draft opinion showing the Supreme Court was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Last spring, Politico reporters Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward published a blockbuster report on a draft opinion penned by Justice Samuel Alito that would overturn the landmark abortion ruling.
The court on Thursday made public a report detailing an investigation into the leak of the opinion, indicating it was unable to identify the source of the leak to Politico.
“They’ll never find out, & it’s important that they do,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social website. “So, go to the reporter & ask him/her who it was. If not given the answer, put whoever in jail until the answer is given. You might add the editor and publisher to the list.”
In the days that followed Politico’s report, congressional Republicans and conservative media figures expressed outrage that the opinion had been leaked before the court handed down its official decision on the matter and demanded the person responsible for the leak be found and punished.
Trump previously suggested the Supreme Court “go to the reporter” who published the draft memo to try to find the source of the leak.
The high court voted to overturn Roe last June with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
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2023-01-20T13:25:47+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/trump-calls-for-jailing-journalists-who-broke-supreme-courts-draft-abortion-decision/
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A periodic look at how the season is going for top NBA prospect Victor Wembanyama — the 7-foot-3, 18-year-old presumed No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft — and his French team Metropolitans 92:
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Team record: 7-1 in the French league, tied for first place with Cholet, winners of seven straight (not counting the 1-1 record in exhibitions against the G League Ignite).
Latest results: 92-85 win over Nanterre on Sunday, 78-69 win over Limoges on Nov. 4.
Upcoming schedule: vs. Nancy (4-5) on Saturday, vs. FOS on sea (2-6) on Dec. 2.
Wembanyama’s season averages: 22.4 points per game, 8.9 rebounds per game.
Wembanyama highlights: His season just keeps getting better. Wembanyama had 33 points in the win over Limoges and 30 in the victory over Nanterre, his first two 30-point games of the French league season. He also averaged 19.5 points in a pair of wins for the French national team over Lithuania and Bosnia and Herzegovina — victories that helped France clinch a spot in the 2023 Basketball World Cup.
News: The win over Lithuania was Wembanyama's first game with the senior national team, and he became the first player to score at least 20 points in a debut for France since 1979. “Victor handled the game very well. He didn’t try to show anything special. He was just himself and that’s enough to dominate the game," said France national coach Vincent Collet, who also coaches Wembanyama with Metropolitans 92.
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2022-11-21T17:59:35+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/wembanyama-tracker-2-more-wins-plus-a-world-cup-berth/DHQ4WUQZ6BC6VFVL5PGT3TOP4Y/
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, November 25, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in League City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Matagorda County in southeastern Texas...
* Until 500 PM CST.
* At 427 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located over South Texas
Nuclear Plant, moving northeast at 30 to 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Bay City, South Texas Nuclear Plant and Wadsworth.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will send your report to the National Weather Service
office in League City.
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2022-11-25T23:47:09+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-HOUSTON-GALVESTON-Warnings-Watches-and-17611176.php
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Here's a look ahead and a roundup of key developments from the past week.
What to watch
President Biden and NATO allies will gather for the alliance's summit in Lithuania starting Tuesday, and the war in Ukraine is due to dominate. Sweden's pending entry to NATO and a possible pathway for Ukrainian membership — or not — have also been big issues in the lead-up to the gathering.
A deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey to enable Ukrainian grain and other farm goods to ship safely from Black Sea ports is due to expire next week, July 17. Russia has again threatened to back out of the deal if its own trade terms aren't met.
What happened
Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Yevgeny Prigozhin and other leadership from the Wagner Group mercenary force, the Kremlin said. They spoke just five days after Wagner's rebellion against Russia's defense leadership. It remains unclear what role Wagner could play in the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the 500th day of the war with Russia over the weekend, issuing a video filmed on Snake Island, where he honored the troops defending his country. He also announced five commanders of a renowned unit that fought in the city of Mariupol who had been captured would be coming home.
U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich passed the 100-day mark in Russian detention. Emma Tucker, editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, his employer, told NPR he remains in good health and relatively good spirits.
The U.S. is giving Ukraine controversial cluster bombs to target dug-in Russian forces. Both Ukraine and Russia have been using cluster munitions, which are banned by over 120 countries because of their immediate and longer-term danger to civilians.
Wagner Group mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was allegedly back in Russia, according to the autocratic leader of Belarus, which is the country where the Kremlin had said Prigozhin would be headed after his mutiny attempt.
Ukraine said Russian forces placed devices resembling explosives on the roofs of nuclear reactors they control in Ukraine. Russia also accused Ukraine of planning attacks against the plant.
President Biden welcomed Sweden's prime minister to the White House in a show of support for the Nordic country's entry into NATO, ahead of the alliance's summit this week.
In-depth
The U.S. is sending cluster bombs to Ukraine despite humanitarian warnings
Opinion: Remembering Ukrainian poet Victoria Amelina
Biden meets King Charles before heading to a NATO leaders summit in Lithuania
Is a prisoner swap being discussed for a U.S. reporter detained in Russia?
An advocate for banning cluster munitions speaks about U.S. deliveries to Ukraine
Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is back in Russia, says Belarus' Lukashenko
To protect against Russian airstrikes, Ukraine's defenders "shoot and scoot"
Ukraine's Zelenskyy warns of possible Russian sabotage at nuclear plant
Special report
Russia's war in Ukraine is changing the world: See our report on its ripple effects in all corners of the globe.
Earlier developments
You can read past recaps here. For context and more in-depth stories, you can find more of NPR's coverage here. Also, listen and subscribe to NPR's State of Ukraine podcast for updates throughout the day.
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2023-07-10T18:09:29+00:00
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WASHINGTON, April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors will meet May 9, 2023, in open session at Postal Service headquarters, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW, Washington, DC. The public is welcome to observe the meeting beginning at 4:00 p.m. ET in the Benjamin Franklin Room on the 11th floor. The Board is expected to discuss the following items:
- Remarks of the Chairman of the Board of Governors
- Remarks of the Postmaster General and CEO
- Approval of the Minutes
- Committee Reports
- Quarterly Financial Report
- Quarterly Service Performance Report
- Approval of Tentative Agenda for August 8 Meeting
A public comment period will begin immediately following the adjournment of the open session on May 9. During the public comment period, which shall not exceed 45 minutes, members of the public may comment on any item or subject listed on the agenda for the open session above. Registration for participation in the public comment period is required. Additionally, the public will be given the option to join the public comment session and participate via teleconference. Should you wish to participate via teleconference, you will be required to give your first and last name, a valid email address to send an invite and a phone number to reach you should a technical issue arise. Speakers may register online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/bog-05-09-2023. No more than three minutes shall be allotted to each speaker. The time allotted to each speaker will be determined after registration closes. Registration for the public comment period, either in person or via teleconference, will end on May 7 at noon ET. Participation in the public comment period is governed by 39 C.F.R. 232.1(n).
Open session meetings of the Board of Governors are available on live audio webcasts at https://about.usps.com/who/leadership/board-governors/#sessions. Three hours after the conclusion of the open session meeting, a recorded audio file will be available for listening. In compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, the audio webcast will be open-captioned.
Please Note: The United States Postal Service is an independent federal establishment, mandated to be self-financing and to serve every American community through the affordable, reliable and secure delivery of mail and packages to nearly 165 million addresses six and often seven days a week. Overseen by a bipartisan Board of Governors, the Postal Service is implementing a 10-year transformation plan, Delivering for America, to modernize the postal network, restore long-term financial sustainability, dramatically improve service across all mail and shipping categories, and maintain the organization as one of America's most valued and trusted brands.
The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
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2023-04-22T03:24:13+00:00
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2023/04/21/us-postal-service-board-governors-meet-may-9/
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Atlantic hurricane season ends with 14 named storms
MIAMI (AP) - An Atlantic hurricane season that had 14 named storms officially ended on Wednesday, leaving residents in the Florida Keys to celebrate even as others around Florida and Puerto Rico continue to grapple with the damage caused by Hurricanes Ian, Nicole and Fiona.
The 2022 season had an unusually calm first half but made up for that with the three destructive hurricanes in the second half, ending with an average number of named storms. The season runs from June 1 until Nov. 30.
This year’s period saw eight hurricanes with winds of at least 74 mph (119 kmh), and two of them intensified to major hurricanes with winds reaching at least 111 mph (179 kmh), according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. An average hurricane season has 14 named storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes, forecasters said.
This season was notable for a record-tying inactive August. This year was the first time since 1941 that the Atlantic Ocean has gone from July 3 to the end of August with no named storm, Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach said. Since 1950, only 1997 and 1961 had no named storms in August.
Several hundred Florida Keys residents gathered Wednesday to mark the season’s close by burning hurricane warning flags. The event featured a blast blown on a conch shell, a symbol of the Keys, and speakers recalled those affected by the 2022 hurricanes and expressed gratitude that the Keys were spared major impacts. Members of Key West’s ceremonial Conch Republic administration then doused the hurricane flags with rum and set them ablaze. The event was staged beside the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ingham, a maritime museum docked at Key West’s Truman Waterfront.
In late September, Hurricane Ian made landfall as a Category 4 storm in southwest Florida before leaving nearly 150 deaths and a swath of destruction as it moved northeast across the state. After making its way back to the Atlantic, the storm headed north and struck South Carolina as a Category 1 storm. With 150-mph (241-kmh) maximum sustained winds, Hurricane Ian tied for the fifth-strongest hurricane ever to make landfall in the U.S., officials said.
Hurricane Nicole’s eye hit central Florida’s Treasure Coast area as a Category 1 storm in early November, but the greatest damage seemed to occur more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the north around Daytona Beach, where beach erosion started by Hurricane Ian worsened and led to homes collapsing into the ocean.
Hurricane Fiona was the season’s first major hurricane, eventually becoming a Category 4 storm with winds of 130 mph (215 kmh) as it rumbled toward Canada. The center of the storm missed the mainland U.S., but it hit Puerto Rico as a Category 1 in mid-September, leaving the entire island without power and at least 25 people dead.
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2022-12-01T12:37:32+00:00
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(NEXSTAR) – It’s hard not to imagine what you’d do if you won the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot, especially when either reaches record levels like they have recently.
But, if you’re lucky enough to win, you won’t exactly be lucky enough to take home the full jackpot.
There are a couple of reasons why, the first being the payout options.
In both Powerball and Mega Millions, you can opt for either an annuity option — where you receive an initial payment followed by 29 annual payments that grow by 5% each year — or a cash payment.
While the second option is the most common, it is also typically smaller than the annuity option in the end. For example, the record-setting Powerball jackpot won last year was advertised as $2.04 billion, but the winner received only $997.6 million.
Regardless of the payout you choose though, winners also see their prizes decrease thanks to taxes.
If you win over $5,000 from a Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot, or any lottery game, state lotteries are required to withhold 24% in federal taxes automatically, according to Intuit. You’ll also likely find yourself in the top federal tax bracket of 37% (remember, these rates are progressive, so you won’t actually lose 37% of the whole payout to federal taxes), and, depending on where you live, you’ll be paying state taxes on your winnings.
Local taxes vary from state to state. Some of the 45 states that sell Powerball and Mega Millions tickets don’t withhold their own taxes on your winnings while most others will.
If you’re hoping to dodge automatic tax withholdings on your lottery prize (with the exception of the federally required 24%), these are the best states to win in:
Where a state tax is withheld, the amount is taken automatically. Think of it like your paycheck — federal and state taxes are taken out before you receive the check, and depending on how much you paid, you might owe some or gain some back at the end of the year, the North Carolina Education Lottery explains.
New York has the highest lottery tax rate at 10.9%. If you live in New York City, you’ll face an additional 3.876% withholding, according to the state lottery.
These five states have the highest state tax withholdings on large lottery prizes (some have different tax rates for different-sized prizes, or the taxes aren’t withheld unless a prize is larger than a set value):
The District of Columbia also imposes an 8.5% tax on lottery prizes won in its jurisdiction.
Of the states that do withhold local taxes, four have rates below 4%: North Dakota (2.9%), Mississippi (3%), Pennsylvania (3.07%), and Indiana (3.15%).
Here’s a look at the tax withholding states will, generally, impose on large Powerball or Mega Million jackpots:
You’ll notice five states — Alaska, Alabama, Hawaii, Utah, and Nevada — are gray on the map. These states do not currently participate in Powerball or Mega Millions (here’s why).
Financial experts recommend that if you do win a large lottery prize, put together a team before you collect your prize. That should include an attorney, a tax advisor, and a financial advisor, Robert Pagliarini, author of “The Sudden Wealth Solution,” told Nexstar.
And when it is finally time to claim your money, make sure to evaluate the two options you have: the annuity payout or lump sum. The decision is ultimately a personal one, and what might be ideal for one could be disastrous for another.
While the lump sum is more popular and would grant immediate access to the cash, it also means more taxes.
“You’d be taxed up to 37% federally, and then even more so depending on your state tax,” Steven Evensen, CFP, a financial advisor with Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management told Nexstar. “So I would speak to an accountant about that to make sure you aren’t kind of overspending in your head before you actually receive the money and receive your tax bill at the end of the day.”
Jeremy Tanner contributed to this report.
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2023-07-18T15:25:54+00:00
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The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office says it has arrested a woman who they say stole medication from a Port Charlotte hospital.
Whitney Alley, 46, is accused of stealing 11, two milligram, doses of Hydromorphone and providing it to patients who were not prescribed that medication. Hydromorphone is an opioid used to relieve pain and is a schedule two controlled substance under Florida law.
Deputies began their investigation on June 6, after the pharmacy director at the hospital that Alley worked for reported her as possibly taking 11 doses of Hydromorphone that had gone missing. The sheriff’s office did not disclose which hospital Alley was working for.
The pharmacy director told deputies that an employee needed to enter their credentials and verify their identity with a fingerprint to access the drugs. They said Alley’s credentials and fingerprint were used to access the missing drugs.
According to deputies, the pharmacy director said Hydromorphone also required a work order before it was dispensed. The pharmacy director told the sheriff’s office that Alley did not have any patients with a work order for Hydromorphone and was not treating any patients who required the drug.
Charlotte County Sheriff’s deputies learned that Alley did not show up for a drug test on June 7 or June 8 but did show up for work on June 10. Alley was fired and reported to the Boards of Nursing.
Alley agreed to meet with deputies on June 14 and gave them a sworn statement.
Alley was arrested and charged with providing a controlled substance or combination of controlled substances that are not medically necessary to their patient.
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2022-06-16T01:39:42+00:00
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https://www.winknews.com/2022/06/15/woman-arrested-accused-of-stealing-medication-from-a-port-charlotte-hospital/
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FAFSA changes go into effect
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - In Alabama, almost 20,000 students did not fill out the FAFSA application last year, that’s almost 20,000 students who missed an opportunity for free money to help pay for post-secondary education.
Chandra Scott, Executive Director of Alabama Possible, said she challenges every graduating senior in the class of 2023 to get it done.
“Just know your options, don’t limit yourself, get your parents to understand this is a choice for you to better yourself and to be able to take advantage of every opportunity you deserve,” Scott said.
Although FAFSA is encouraged, it is not required.
However, it is required that a student opt-in or out - that started last year.
“This was really about changing the narrative at homes. We want parents to see if they complete this paperwork and receive the award documents,” Scott said. “Then they are going to see that there are dollars available for their child to take on a pathway that they thought was not foreseeable.”
FAFSA is the gateway to many financial aid resources, it’s important to not only rely on scholarships.
Kimberly Miller, Interim Director of Student Aid at the University of Montevallo, said the reason you have to get that FAFSA done is because it’s the first step.
“It could be the very difference between one school that you thought you may be required to go to, that’s local and down the road, or you may have a bigger goal with a different school on your list, and that FAFSA could make the very difference to make sure your dreams are a reality,” Scott said.
Other changes to the FAFSA application include the removal of questions revolving around Pell Grants.
Also there is a new demographic survey to see who is and is not completing the application to provide better support.
Those who are graduating in 2023 are encouraged to not wait until the spring to finish the application.
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2022-10-06T16:54:59+00:00
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For well over a year, Russia has carried out airstrikes across Ukraine. Now Russia finds itself on the receiving end, including drones that hit apartment buildings in Moscow.
Copyright 2023 NPR
For well over a year, Russia has carried out airstrikes across Ukraine. Now Russia finds itself on the receiving end, including drones that hit apartment buildings in Moscow.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-05-31T15:22:33+00:00
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https://www.kanw.com/2023-05-31/russia-is-hit-with-more-airstrikes-does-this-point-to-an-escalation-in-the-war
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Annual awards recognize companies that build outstanding work environments
BOSTON, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boston Business Journal has named Salary.com to its 2022 Best Places to Work — the BBJ's exclusive ranking of the Massachusetts companies that have built outstanding work environments for their people.
The 80 companies honored in 2022 range in size and industry, with winners from the technology sector, retail industry, health care space, commercial real estate and more.
"Achieving high employee engagement is what elevates companies from good to great. Making the Boston Business Journal's list of Best Places to Work shows we're doing right by our amazing employees," said Salary.com CEO and co-founder Kent Plunkett. "Our people are our greatest assets. They have accelerated Salary.com's product innovation and business growth to new heights during very challenging times. We're proud to be included on this list of companies who care enough to get it right."
"We are so glad to be able to celebrate this year's Best Places to Work in person. These companies signify teamwork, retention, engagement, trust with co-workers and senior leaders. Together they create a dynamic, innovative place where people want to work and grow," said Carolyn Jones, Market President and Publisher of the Boston Business Journal.
The 181 businesses that met criteria for office location and size participated in employee-engagement surveys distributed by Business Journal partner Quantum Workplace. Employees were asked to rate their work environment, work-life balance, job satisfaction, advancement opportunities, management, compensation, and benefits.
Based on the results of those surveys, businesses were assigned a score out of 100 percent and ranked by Quantum. The top-rated companies are listed in five size categories — extra small (20 to 49 employees), small (50 to 99 employees), medium (100 to 249 employees), large (250 to 499 employees) and extra-large (500 or more).
The Best Places to Work celebration will be held in-person on June 16th at the Boston Park Plaza from 5:30pm – 8:30pm. The special publication will appear in the June 17th weekly edition of the Boston Business Journal.
The Boston Business Journal is the region's premier business media organization, one of 45 markets owned by American City Business Journals. For marketing and sponsorship opportunities, contact the Business Journal today.
ABOUT SALARY.COM
Salary.com® is the leading provider of compensation market data, software, and analytics, bringing more of the trusted data and intuitive software organizations need to get pay right. The industry's fastest-growing compensation management company, Salary.com serves over 30,000 survey participant organizations, over 8,000 business-to-business software subscribers, and over 45 million employees globally. HR professionals rely on Salary.com's 360° view of their compensation practices so they can efficiently and accurately achieve internal pay equity and adapt to market changes. Salary.com's state-of-the-art CompAnalyst® accelerates compensation workflows, delivers real-time data, and powers accurate, equitable, and competitive compensation through one intuitive platform. For more information, please visit www.salary.com.
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2022-05-25T13:34:24+00:00
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(Green Car Reports) — Cadillac’s slow rollout of EVs seems to be a precursor to a flood that’s on the way.
On Wednesday during a media briefing, Cadillac Global Vice President Ron Harvey confirmed the luxury automaker will debut three new EVs in 2023.
Harvey said all three EVs will go into production in 2024, but it gets complicated from there.
Some of the undisclosed EVs will be global vehicles sold in multiple markets. This will lead to them being produced in multiple factories in different regions with staggered rollouts for various markets.
Harvey would not comment on what type of vehicles these new EVs will be in regards to body style or any other details.
General Motors has filed trademarks for future nameplates that fit Cadillac’s -iq naming strategy, including Ascendiq, Optiq, and Symboliq, along with Vistiq, Lumistiq, and Escalade IQL.
In 2020 GM laid out its EV plans. The roadmap for Cadillac included the Lyriq and Celestiq flagship, plus an attainable SUV akin to the XT4, a “globally sized” three-row SUV, and a full-size SUV inspired by the Escalade.
Lyriq production ramps up
Harvey wouldn’t comment on the Lyriq’s slow ramp, but said it was purposeful to catch issues early in production.
The executive confirmed a software issue arose with the Lyriq early in production and that slowed things.
Harvey said Cadillac by the end of this week will have shipped 1,000 Lyriqs in the last 30 days, and the run rate will continue to ramp.
Cadillac currently plans to have all Debut Edition Lyriqs delivered by the end of the first quarter. Harvey said some 2023 orders will be pushed to the 2024 model year.
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- Ford patents solid-axle hub-motor combo with EV off-roading in mind
Harvey also affirmed that production of the Celestiq will kick off in December.
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2023-02-18T16:58:56+00:00
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https://www.kxnet.com/automotive/trio-of-cadillac-evs-to-debut-in-2023-start-production-in-2024/
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Wealth manager Tom Hagerstrom leads Robertson Stephens 4th Northeast office in Madison, NJ
SAN FRANCISCO, July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Robertson Stephens Wealth Management, LLC ("Robertson Stephens") has further expanded its presence in the northeast by welcoming Haymarket Wealth Management ("Haymarket"), a Madison, NJ registered investment advisor managing approximately $285 million in advisory assets. Haymarket's Founder, Tom Hagerstrom, will join Robertson Stephens as Managing Director and Principal and will be opening the firm's 4th office in the region and its third in the New York tri-state area.
With this addition, Robertson Stephens' assets are now over $4.1 billion. The firm now has 79 employees across 17 locations in San Francisco, Marin County, Menlo Park, Santa Rosa, Pasadena, San Ramon and Burlingame (CA), New York (NY), Sun Valley & Boise (ID), Holmdel (NJ), Austin & Houston (TX), Seattle (WA), Denver (CO), Boston (MA) and now Madison (NJ).
For more information on Robertson Stephens, please visit www.rscapital.com
"We want to extend a warm welcome to Tom as he joins the Robertson Stephens family," said Raj Bhattacharyya, Chief Executive Officer, Robertson Stephens. "Tom's integrated, collaborative and comprehensive approach to wealth management is strongly aligned with Robertson Stephens' culture of delivering exceptional service as a trusted partner to our clients. I look forward to working with Tom and further growing the firm's presence in the region."
"Joining Robertson Stephens allows me to provide a broader set of services for my clients," says Tom Hagerstrom, Managing Director, Principal, Robertson Stephens. "The firm's integration between wealth planning and investment management is aligned with my philosophy of a personalized and integrated approach to wealth management. I look forward to growing together with the firm."
With over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, Tom founded Haymarket Wealth Management in 2012. Prior to that, he was in investment banking as a Managing Director at JP Morgan in a variety of senior capital markets positions. In addition to his time at JP Morgan, Tom served as a Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners and a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns. Tom graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in Economics and later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
About Robertson Stephens
Robertson Stephens Wealth Management, LLC is an independent SEC-registered investment advisor. Its mission is to transform the wealth management experience by delivering institutional-quality investment solutions, comprehensive wealth planning, and intelligent digital solutions all within a fiduciary relationship where the client is our highest priority. Haymarket Wealth Management AUM is as of March 2023. Robertson Stephens AUM is as of May 2023. For more information please visit: https://www.rscapital.com.
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2023-07-05T15:43:24+00:00
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2023/07/05/robertson-stephens-continues-its-northeastern-expansion/
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La Brea Bakery Café locations closed permanently on January 9th; the company is supporting employees through the transition process and turning business focus to grocery stores.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- La Brea Bakery Café locations in Los Angeles and Downtown Disney District in Anaheim closed permanently this morning. The company has made the strategic decision to exit the restaurant business and continue its focus on growing the La Brea Bakery business through retail grocery and foodservice locations. Employees at the Los Angeles and Downtown Disney Café locations were informed of the closures on January 9th, 2023, while the Aspire Bakeries Human Resources team began working directly with employees that are impacted by the closures to ease the transition.
"We are so thankful and hold a tremendous amount of appreciation for our employees, and for our customers who have frequented La Brea Bakery Café over the years. Our flagship Café location on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles is where the La Brea Bakery magic started 34 years ago. These humble beginnings are an integral part of the brand history, and we will forever be grateful to the local community for their support over the years," said Tyson Yu, CEO of Aspire Bakeries, which owns La Brea Bakery. "While we will no longer be operating the Cafés in Los Angeles or at Disneyland Resort, you can still find our delicious La Brea Bakery artisan breads in your local grocery in-store bakery and at other locations that serve artisan breads." The franchised La Brea Bakery kiosks in the Reno International Airport (Nevada) and JFK Airport (New York) will remain open.
A local favorite in the Los Angeles community since 1989, La Brea Bakery artisan breads are the cornerstone of Aspire Bakeries' thriving artisan bread business. La Brea Bakery has a long history that started at a restaurant on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, evolving into the #1 artisan bread brand nationally. Still crafted using our original custom sourdough starter, the La Brea Bakery recipe has not changed in 34 years. In fact, our bread makers have maintained the same artisan techniques since 1989, with no compromises. Our quality ingredients and processes give our breads the hallmark flavor, texture and crust expected from authentic artisan bread, continuing the brand legacy.
La Brea Bakery artisan practices are our commitment to our loyal customers and our community. With our headquarters in Los Angeles, we bake artisan bread every day at our bakeries in California and New Jersey to meet needs across the country, and we look forward to the continued growth of our thriving grocery and foodservice business.
Impacted Locations:
- La Brea Bakery Café (Flagship), 468 La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California
- La Brea Bakery Café at Downtown Disney District, 1556 Disneyland Drive, Anaheim, California
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La Brea Bakery is North America's No.1 artisan bread brand. Since 1989, La Brea Bakery has focused on crafting true artisan bread with its original recipe, high quality ingredients and dedication to the artisan process. Based in Los Angeles, the brand has revolutionized the modern artisan bread movement, enabling the culinary community and consumers to share the joy that hearth-baked, hand-crafted bread brings to their experiences. La Brea Bakery foods are sold at grocery stores, online retailers and restaurant channels across the country. Find La Brea Bakery breads near you: www.labreabakery.com/where-to-buy and follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
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2023-01-09T21:23:26+00:00
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Which vampire costume is best?
Vampire costumes are enduringly popular for Halloween. Whether your inspiration is more Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, there’s a rich tradition of vampire books, films, myths and legends to work from.
Classic vampire costumes are the most common, but you can opt for something more contemporary. If you’re looking for a standout costume and don’t mind buying accessories separately, the Colorful House Plus-Size Medieval Dress is ideal.
What to know before you buy a vampire costume
Kids vs. adults
You can find both Halloween costumes for kids and adult costumes. So it’s equally good news if you’re looking to dress as a vampire or you’re looking for a costume for your child.
- Kids costumes: Kids vampire costumes are usually spooky but not too scary. You can find them in a range of sizes to fit babies, toddlers, little kids and big kids.
- Adult costumes: Adults’ vampire costumes are usually moderately spooky, but they can be more scary, gory or revealing than kids versions.
Costume contents
Vampire costumes can consist of various types of clothing. There are no hard-and-fast rules about who can wear what, but make sure you know what you’re getting and that you’re happy with it. Also, be aware that some costumes may require you to supply some of your own clothes, such as your own pants or skirt.
- Dress: Some vampire outfits feature dresses. These are usually long and flowing with a gothic flair, but they can be short.
- Pants: Pants are usually black and simple, but they can be of poor quality in cheap costumes, so you may prefer an option where you supply your own pants.
- Top: Frilly white shirts and waistcoats are typical of vampire costumes. Sometimes these are combined into one garment.
- Cape: Although you don’t need a cape for a vampire costume, it can help complete the look.
Accessories
Some costumes come with all the accessories you need, but in some cases you must buy them separately.
- Fangs: Fangs transform a vampire costume, but cheap plastic ones can be uncomfortable to wear. If you’re serious about your costume, consider buying fangs that adhere to your canine teeth.
- Fake blood: Some carefully placed fake blood adds a more horrific effect to your vampire look.
- Makeup and effects: You might choose to use makeup to complete your outfit. You can also buy transfers and prosthetics to transform your brow if you want to dress as a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” vampire.
What to look for in a quality vampire costume
Flourishes
The little flourishes in a costume turn it from basic to breathtaking. Frilly shirt collars, stand-up cape collars, antique-style buttons, bell sleeves and lace detailing all add to the outfit’s appearance.
Colors
Most costumes are black, red and a touch of white feature widely in vampire outfits. If you want a classic costume, it’s best to stick to this color palette, but it’s also fine to break the rules.
How much you can expect to spend on a vampire costume
Basic kids’ costumes can cost less than $20, while the most elaborate options cost over $100.
Vampire costume FAQ
How do you make a simple vampire costume?
A. If you want to make a simple vampire costume or are on a strict budget, a cape and a pair of fangs go a long way. Wear them with a basic black outfit and you can easily transform yourself into a creature of the night.
How do you make your face pale like a vampire?
A. In most stories and legends, vampires can’t go out in daylight, so they’re often characterized as having pale skin. Of course, this isn’t necessarily accurate (hypothetically speaking), since vampires could have any natural skin tone and come from any ethnic background. However, if you want to make your complexion paler as part of your vampire costume, use a pale foundation or even white face paint.
What do vampires wear?
A. Most vampire costumes focus on traditional Victorian style, such as long, flowing dresses or dress pants, shirts and waistcoats. This helps make costumes instantly recognizable. That said, if vampires were real, they wouldn’t necessarily dress in fashions from centuries past. In modern vampire movies and TV shows, they often dress in contemporary clothes. So, with the right accessories, you could dress as a vampire in your street clothes.
What’s the best vampire costume to buy?
Top vampire costume
Colorful House Plus-Size Medieval Dress
What you need to know: Although it isn’t explicitly a vampire costume, its black and wine-red velvet and hooded design make it perfect with the right accessories.
What you’ll love: It has gorgeous detailing, such as bell sleeves and a laced bodice. It looks vampiric in black and deep red with a gold trim, but there’s also a dark green version. You can choose from sizes M-3XL.
What you should consider: The material is somewhat thin and slightly translucent, so you may want to wear a tank top and shorts underneath.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top vampire costume for the money
Lingway Toys Kids Vampire of Darkness Costume
What you need to know: With a shirt and waistcoat and cape, you just need to add black pants and fangs to complete the look.
What you’ll love: There’s nice attention to detail, such as the antique-style buttons and cape fastening. It comes in a range of sizes to fit kids roughly 3 to 14 years old.
What you should consider: Pants aren’t included, so you’ll need to find suitable ones.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
California Costumes Child Royal Vampire Costume
What you need to know: The dramatic sleeves and collar make this vampire costume stand out.
What you’ll love: The black-and-red dress is elegant and looks fit for a creature of darkness. It also comes with a cameo choker to nicely complete the look. Sizes range from kids S-XXL, to fit kids from around ages 6 to 8, through to teenagers.
What you should consider: It’s slightly long, so it may need to be taken up for younger and shorter kids.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Ozuna homers during 5-run 10th inning, Braves beat Phillies 5-1 for 8th straight win
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Marcell Ozuna hit a two-run homer to cap a five-run 10th inning, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-1 Thursday for their eighth straight win.
The Braves swept the rain-shortened two-game series in their first appearance in Philadelphia since falling to the Phillies in four games during last year’s NL Division Series.
“We come to the yard every day and work hard,” Atlanta’s Austin Riley said. “We never count ourselves out. This group is special because we play with the same mindset until the last out. We are going to dogfight until the end.”
Ozuna’s 14th homer of the season — a long shot to deep left-center off right-hander Yunior Marte — followed a two-run single by Riley where Philadelphia left fielder Kyle Schwarber misplayed a ball that would have been the third out of the inning.
“It’s a play I should make,” Schwarber said. “I don’t know how or why, but I have to catch it. It’s not on Marte — the game is on me. I have to catch that ball. If I catch that ball, we can extend that game in the 10th. I saw it fine — just have to catch it.”
Michael Harris II knocked in the other Atlanta run of the inning, scoring automatic runner Sam Hilliard on a single up the middle. Harris finished 2 for 4 on the day.
Four Braves pitchers — starter Bryce Elder, Hoby Minter, Raisel Iglesias and Nick Anderson — didn’t give up an earned run in 10 innings, allowing just four hits and two walks while striking out 10. Philadelphia’s only run came on Alec Bohm’s sacrifice fly, scoring automatic runner J.T. Realmuto in the 10th.
“I was able to get ahead and have my sinker command,” Elder said.
Elder and Philadelphia’s Aaron Nola both dominated. Nola pitched six innings, allowing two hits and two walks while striking out five. In his career, the right-hander has a 3.41 ERA in 32 career starts against the Braves.
Elder went seven innings, allowing three hits while walking two and striking out five on 99 pitches. Elder saw his ERA drop to 2.40.
“What he’s done as a body of work, he should definitely get an All-Star nod,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “I don’t think it’s a mistake what he’s doing well. His stuff is that good.”
Atlanta had its best scoring chance in regulation came in the eighth when Harris lead off with a double and advanced to third on Ronald Acuna Jr.’s fly out to right. However, shortstop Trea Turner made two stellar defensive plays — snagging Ozzie Albies’ grounder and holding Harris at third for the second out with the infield drawn in, then going deep in the hole to get Ozuna at first for the final out of the inning.
Brandon Marsh had two of Philadelphia’s four hits.
TRAINERS ROOM
Braves: C Sean Murphy pinch hit in the ninth inning on Thursday, striking out in his first appearance since tweaking his right hamstring in Saturday’s win over Colorado. Snitker said Murphy will not start on Friday in Cincinnati, but will not head to the injured list.
Phillies: RHP Seranthony Dominguez (left oblique strain) has “felt better” since being placed on the injured list on June 16, according to manager Rob Thomson. However, he had not begun to throw.
UP NEXT
Braves: Travel to Cincinnati to face the NL Central-leading Reds in a three-game set. RHP AJ Smith-Shawver (1-0, 2.03 ERA) will square off against RHP Luke Weaver (1-2, 6.47 ERA) in the Friday opener.
Phillies: Will host the New York Mets in a three-game set. RHP Taijuan Walker (7-3, 4.31 ERA) will start for the Phillies against RHP Kodia Segna (6-4, 3.53).
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(NEXSTAR) — They say all good things must come to an end, and that’s especially true for the Powerball jackpot, which surpassed $1 billion before being won last night. If your ticket didn’t win the jackpot, don’t throw it away just yet — it might still have won you some money.
While everyone plays for the top prize, there are eight other ways in which you can win while playing Powerball. In fact, your chances of winning any prize are 1 in 24.87.
The smallest prize available is $4. To win this, you need to match the red Powerball number, or match one white ball number and the Powerball number. If you opted into Power Play when buying your ticket, your prize could grow to as much as $40.
A Power Play, which costs an extra $1 per play, can increase your non-jackpot prize by 2, 3, 4, 5, or 10 times. The multiplier is randomly selected before each drawing, and the 10X multiplier is only available when the jackpot is advertised at $150 million or less.
Matching two of the main numbers and the Powerball, or three main numbers, will score you a $7 prize. If you match three main numbers and the Powerball, or four main numbers without the Powerball, you’ve won $100.
Should your ticket match four numbers and the Powerball, you’ll land a $50,000 prize. And if you match five main numbers without the Powerball, your ticket is worth $1 million.
If your ticket has matched any numbers, regardless of the possible prize size, be sure to hang onto it and sign it. Where you can claim your prize and how long you have to do so will vary based on where you live.
Powerball is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are held every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET.
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2023-07-20T13:18:31+00:00
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Amanda Marie Stewart, 35, of Twin Lakes, faces charges of possession of cocaine, possession with intent to deliver narcotics, possession with intent to deliver cocaine (over 40 grams), and possession of drug paraphernalia.
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The Mequon man convicted of killing a Kenosha man inside his north side apartment and then hiding the body has been sentenced to life in prison.
Four Kenosha Unified educators were recently appointed to new positions during a school board meeting.
A 38-year-old Pleasant Prairie man is facing criminal charges for his alleged sexual conduct with children.
Kenosha police arrested a woman following an alleged road rage incident that resulted in injuries to two people Wednesday night.
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BEIJING, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The awards ceremony of global poetry and prose competition was held on March 2 in Guoyang county of Bozhou city, east China's Anhui province, the birthplace of Chinese sage Laozi.
Laozi, who was born in 571 B.C., is one of the most prominent ancient Chinese philosophers, thinkers, writers and historians. He is the founder of Taoism and the author of Tao Te Ching.
As a part of a series of memorial events for Laozi, marking his 2594th birth anniversary, the event included sections such as the awards ceremony, art performance, a forum and a field trip.
Zheng Qin, an official of Guoyang county government, addressed at the awards ceremony that more poets, writers and friends are welcomed to come to Guoyang and display the beauty of Guoyang's nature, history, people through works.
"Laozi's words of wisdom are well-remembered, providing inspiration and guidance to modern-day Chinese. Today's journey to Guoyang, Laozi's hometown, has brought me new inspirations," said Ye Dan, first prize winner of the poetry competition.
A total of over 6,000 poems and more than 300 proses had been submitted to the competition. After rounds of evaluation by professional judges, 28 pieces of works in each category were awarded prizes.
This competition has set a good example of Guoyang's exploration of Laozi culture, as it has accelerated the development of Laozi culture, expanded the brand awareness of Laozi culture and enhanced Guoyang's cultural soft power, said Chen Xianfa, a famous Chinese poet.
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NCDOT to announce Alligator River Bridge replacement project
COLUMBIA, N.C. (WITN) - Distribution of the funds awarded as a result of an infrastructure law passed in 2021 is going to be discussed today.
Governor Roy Cooper, Federal Highways Administrator Shailen Bhatt, as well as state and local officials, will be coming to the Alligator River Bridge to talk about the bridge replacement project and the Mega Grant that is helping to fund it.
In January the NCDOT was notified about the $110 million grant, a direct result of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021.
The grant will significantly offset the costs to replace the bridge and get rid of the need for emergency maintenance and preservation costs for the existing bridge.
The current bridge, completed in 1962, is a two-lane, 2.8-mile swing-span bridge on U.S. 64 over the Alligator River between Tyrrell and Dare counties.
The bridge is on a Strategic Transportation Corridor and a designated hurricane evacuation route. It also crosses the Intracoastal Waterway.
It has been described as “structurally deficient’ and at the end of its useful design life, Recent mechanical issues have caused long backups and detours for vehicular and maritime traffic.
The NCDOT will be replacing the existing bridge with a two-lane, fixed-span bridge just to the north of the existing one, eliminating the need for vehicles to stop for passing boats.
The Alligator River Bridge is one of only nine projects nationwide to receive a Mega Grant, which is part of President Biden’s historic infrastructure law. These grants fund projects too large or complex for traditional funding programs.
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Neal Arthur Barton
Published 7:29 pm Thursday, September 15, 2022
Neal Arthur Barton, age 68, passed away suddenly at his Woodbury, MN home on September 12, 2022.
Neal was born on December 15, 1953 in Minneapolis, MN to Neal A. and Emma Theresa (Little Bear) Barton. He graduated from Albert Lea High School in 1972 and from Bethel University, with Honors, in 2011 with a B.A. in Christian Ministry. He felt privileged to later serve as the Prayer Pastor at Cedar Valley Church in Bloomington, MN. Neal was preceded in death by his parents and is survived by his loving wife, Lori, and sons Adam, Jacob, Caleb, and Noah Barton.
A memorial service will be held on Friday, September 23, 2022 at Cedar Valley Church, 8600 Bloomington Avenue South, Bloomington, MN. Visitation will be from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. followed by the service. Lunch will be served at the church following the service.
A more detailed obituary can be found at www.Washburn-McReavy.com. Dawn Valley Chapel (952) 941-7686.
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(WFLA) — An Alabama deputy faced an unusual obstacle last week when he found that his patrol car had been taken over by goats, and it was all caught on camera.
Deputy Casey Thrower in Madison County was serving civil papers Friday morning when some hungry goats decided to check to see if there was anything to eat in his vehicle.
“Get out of there!” Thrower said after finding the goats. “Are you kidding me?”
According to the sheriff’s office, Thrower sometimes leaves his patrol vehicle open in case he has to run from dogs.
This time instead of dogs, he found a couple of hungry goats munching on the paperwork in his vehicle.
“Quit eating that! Get out of here!” Thrower shouted as he tried to scare the goats. Video shows one goat inside the vehicle and a smaller one traipsing around on top of the car.
Eventually, he managed to get the goats off his vehicle. The sheriff’s office shared the video to make people laugh.
“Deputy Thrower has been serving the citizens of Madison County for about 40 years and is considered one of our G.O.A.T deputies,” the sheriff’s office said. “We got a huge kick out of this today and hope it brought a smile to your face as well.”
According to livescience.com, goats are herbivores, with grass being their favorite food. However, they typically feed on such things as shrubs, woody plants, weeds and briars as well.
“Many domestic goats will also eat trash, house plants or any other items they find lying around,” the publication stated.
Perhaps that’s how goats — with their four-compartment stomachs — got their reputation for eating any and everything.
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2022-08-31T17:04:42+00:00
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Conduent Incorporated (CNDT) on Tuesday reported a loss of $333 million in its fourth quarter.
The Florham Park, New Jersey-based company said it had a loss of $1.55 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 1 cent per share.
The company posted revenue of $986 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported that its loss widened to $182 million, or 89 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $3.86 billion.
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Ecuador’s president ends impeachment proceedings against him by dissolving National Assembly
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso on Wednesday put an end to impeachment proceedings against him by dissolving the opposition-led National Assembly, which had accused him of embezzlement.
The conservative president, who has denied wrongdoing, can govern for up to six months by decree under a constitutional provision that had not previously been used, and his move swiftly drew pushback from critics who said his removal from office had been imminent.
Soon after Lasso’s announcement, the South American country’s top military leader warned that the armed forces would act “firmly” if any violence erupts. A strong contingent of military and police officers blocked access around the National Assembly building in Ecuador’s capital, Quito.
In a televised message, Lasso accused the National Assembly of focusing “on destabilizing the government.” He called his move “democratic,” and a way to give “people the power to decide their future in the next elections.”
Lawmakers had accused Lasso of not having intervened to end a contract between the state-owned oil transport company and a private tanker company. They argued Lasso knew the contract was full of irregularities and would cost the state millions in losses, something that the president rejects as untrue.
The National Electoral Council now has seven days to call presidential and legislative elections, which must be held within 90 days. Those elected will finish the terms of Lasso and the lawmakers he ousted, which had been set to end in May 2025. Lasso can choose to run in the election.
Lasso, a former banker, was elected in 2021 and has clashed from the start with a strong opposition in the 137-member National Assembly. He defended himself before Congress on Tuesday, insisting there was no proof or testimony of wrongdoing.
After Lasso announced his decision Wednesday, the head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Gen. Nelson Proaño, called on Ecuadorians to maintain respect for the law and warned against rupturing the constitutional order through violence.
If violence erupts, the armed forces and police “will act firmly,” he said.
Lasso’s move quickly led to criticism from the powerful Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities, which in recent years has carried out protests that have virtually paralyzed the country. Its leader, Leonidas Iza Salazar, said Lasso “launched a cowardly self-coup with the help of the police and the armed forces, without citizen support” as he faced “imminent dismissal.”
Will Freeman, fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said Lasso’s decision signals that “he was aware the opposition had enough votes to impeach him, and maybe then some.” He said mass protests are likely in the coming days.
“It’s also hard to imagine Lasso is making this move without the tacit support of top brass in the military,” he said. “In the past, protests have tended to turn destructive quickly — and security forces have also cracked down.”
In dissolving the assembly, Lasso made first use of the Ecuador presidency’s nuclear option in conflicts with the legislative branch. Known colloquially as the “death cross,” the option to disband and temporarily rule by decree was established in the constitution in 2008.
The measure is aimed at avoiding protracted periods of political paralysis, Ecuadorian legal analyst Ramiro Aguilar said. “A conflict of this nature can last four years and it is a conflict that paralyzes the country.”
However, the country also loses democratic debate during the interim. “There will be a unilateral voice of the executive branch imposing a course without the counterweight of the assembly and the country loses credibility, because it is left with a weak institutional framework,” Aguilar said.
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Associated Press writer Regina Garcia Cano reported from Mexico City.
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WEST MONROE, La (KTVE/KARD)— Leave-and-take boxes are becoming popular, especially leave a book-take a book boxes. One West Monroe lady created a unique version of the swap box for the community to enjoy.
Audrina Trull created the leave-a-plant-take-a-plant box and tells us how she got the idea. “My daughter Reagan has nephrotic syndrome, which led us to Baton Rouge, and we spent a lot of time there trying to get her in remission. We had our church family and life group step up and take care of the kids, and I wanted to say thank you, but I didn’t feel like the words were enough. My friend Emily tagged me in a post about a plant swap, and I knew that I had to build it. So I grabbed some scrap wood and an old window and got to work, building it with the help of my kids, and that’s how we got started.”
Lillie Colson expressed how the box makes her feel. “My best friend Audrey made this plant box, and I think that it helps our community come together and gives us a purpose or a hobby that maybe you wouldn’t have had before because I know that I didn’t have any plants before I met her. I think it brings people together in our community so that it can help them too because you never know what’s going on in people’s lives and everybody has a story, and the coming together of our little plant brings happiness to people.”
Trull explained how the community can use the swap box. “We are off of Arkansas and Mizelle, and you can just walk up. If you have a plant and you want to leave it, you can just leave the plant, or you could swap plants. Also, if you don’t have a plant that you want to leave and you want to take a plant, take a plant. I want this to bring happiness to other people.”
This is a great spring activity to participate in with your family.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential claims against Bird Global, Inc. ("Bird" or the "Company") (NYSE: BRDS) and reminds investors of the January 17, 2023 deadline to seek the role of lead plaintiff in a federal securities class action that has been filed against the Company.
If you suffered losses exceeding $100,000 investing in Bird stock or options between May 14, 2021 and November 14, 2022 and would like to discuss your legal rights, call Faruqi & Faruqi partner Josh Wilson directly at 877-247-4292 or 212-983-9330 (Ext. 1310). You may also click here for additional information: www.faruqilaw.com/BRDS
There is no cost or obligation to you.
Faruqi & Faruqi is a leading minority and Woman-owned national securities law firm with offices in New York, Pennsylvania, California and Georgia.
As detailed below, the lawsuit focuses on whether the Company and its executives violated federal securities laws by making false and/or misleading statements and/or failing to disclose that: (1) Bird was improperly recording Sharing Revenue for certain trips by its customers where collection was not probable; (2) as such, Bird overstated its Sharing Revenue for the relevant quarters and fiscal year during the Class Period; (3) Bird failed to disclose that its internal controls were not effective as they relate to calculating Sharing Revenue recognition; (4) as a result, Bird would need to restate its previously disclosed Sharing Revenue; and (5) as a result, Defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
The court-appointed lead plaintiff is the investor with the largest financial interest in the relief sought by the class who is adequate and typical of class members who directs and oversees the litigation on behalf of the putative class. Any member of the putative class may move the Court to serve as lead plaintiff through counsel of their choice, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. Your ability to share in any recovery is not affected by the decision to serve as a lead plaintiff or not.
Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP also encourages anyone with information regarding Bird's conduct to contact the firm, including whistleblowers, former employees, shareholders and others.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Olaplex Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: OLPX), and certain officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and docketed under 22-cv-08395, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Olaplex common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's initial public offering conducted on or around September 30, 2021 (the "IPO" or "Offering"), seeking to recover compensable damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 11 and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") (the "Class").
If you are a shareholder who purchase or otherwise acquired Olaplex securities, you have until January 17, 2023 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Olaplex was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. Olaplex manufactures and sells hair care products. The Company offers hair care shampoos and conditioners for use in treatment, maintenance, and protection of hair. Olaplex purports to participate in the "prestige segment" of the haircare market, which the Company claims is "expected to be the fastest growing segment of the global haircare market from 2020 to 2025."
On August 27, 2021, Olaplex filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the SEC in connection with the IPO, which, after several amendments, was declared effective by the SEC on September 29, 2021 (the "Registration Statement").
On October 1, 2021, Olaplex filed a prospectus on Form 424B4 with the SEC in connection with the IPO, which incorporated and formed part of the Registration Statement (collectively, the "Offering Documents").
Pursuant to the IPO, Olaplex issued 73,700,000 shares of its common stock to the public at the Offering price of $21.00 per share for approximate proceeds of $1,466,445,750 to the Company, after applicable underwriting discounts and commissions.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, the Offering Documents were negligently prepared and, as a result, contained untrue statements of material fact or omitted to state other facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading and was not prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations governing its preparation. Specifically, the Offering Documents made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) macro-economic pressures and competition in the haircare market were more robust than the Company had represented to investors; (ii) accordingly, the Company was unlikely to maintain its sales and revenue momentum; and (iii) as a result, it was unlikely that the Company would be able to achieve the financial and operational growth projected in the Offering Documents; and (iv) as a result, the Offering Documents were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
On September 29, 2022, a Piper Sandler analyst downgraded Olaplex to Neutral from Overweight, stating that her work revealed that "competition and misinformation pose growing risks to the company." In addition, the analyst indicated that she anticipated investments in marketing and education were needed to offset the headwinds and that "little room for valuation upside given the risks at play."
On this news, Olaplex's stock price fell $1.33 per share, or 12.15%, to close at $9.62 per share on September 29, 2022.
Then, on October 18, 2022, Olaplex issued a press release in which "the Company revised its guidance for the 2022 fiscal year". Olaplex said it now expects fiscal year 2022 revenue between $704 million and $711 million, significantly down from its prior guidance range of $796 million to $826M. Olaplex stated that "[t]he Company's updated guidance primarily reflects a slowdown in sales momentum that it attributes to macro-economic pressures, increased competitive activity including discounting, and a moderation in new customer acquisition, as well as inventory rebalancing across certain customers which the Company believes are in response to these same macro-economic pressures."
On this news, Olaplex's stock price fell $5.55 per share, or 56.69%, to close at $4.24 per share on October 19, 2022.
As of the time this complaint was filed, the price of Olaplex common stock continues to trade below the Offering price of $21.00 per share, damaging investors.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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2022-12-05T11:12:09+00:00
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kswo.com
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TORONTO, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - SoftwareReviews, a leading source for insights on the software provider landscape, has published its 2022 Accounting Emotional Footprint. Seven accounting software providers in the enterprise and midmarket spaces have been identified by the company as Champions for the year based on ratings from end users.
Accounting software automates finance management processes, ensuring the accuracy of financial transactions and facilitating reconciliation. Successful accounting software deployments will enable better cash flow and cost management, streamline invoicing and compliance, and allow for easier audit reporting. Finance, accounting, and IT professionals should evaluate accounting solutions that ensure support for accounting practices, reporting regulations, and currencies within all required countries.
The best accounting software provides enhanced business capabilities to core financial operations. Examples include quote-to-cash process support that improves profitability, flexible pricing that increases sales win rates, and integrated analytics to increase company financial health.
The Net Emotional Footprint (NEF) of each software provider is the result of aggregated emotional response ratings from users across the areas of service, negotiation, product impact, conflict resolution, strategy, and innovation. The NEF is a powerful indicator of overall user sentiment toward the provider and its product from the software user's point of view. High NEF scores indicate the top providers for a specific software category, who are then recognized as Champions.
The 2022 Enterprise Accounting Software Champions are as follows:
- Odoo, +94 NEF, for including client-friendly policies.
- SAP Business One, +93 NEF, for being respectful.
- Sage Intacct, +91 NEF, for being efficient.
The 2022 Midmarket Accounting Software Champions are as follows:
- Wave, +97 NEF, for being trustworthy.
- FreshBooks, +95 NEF, for including security protection.
- Zoho Books, +93 NEF, for being reliable.
- TallyPrime, +94 NEF, for having integrity.
SoftwareReviews' comprehensive software reviews provide the most accurate and detailed view of a complicated and ever-changing market. The data comes from real end users who use the software day in and day out and IT professionals who have worked with it intimately through procurement, implementation, and maintenance.
To learn more about Accounting Emotional Footprint, visit the dedicated resource.
For more information about SoftwareReviews, the Data Quadrant, or Emotional Footprint, or to access resources to support the software selection process, visit www.softwarereviews.com and connect via LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
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2022-05-24T21:36:40+00:00
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/05/24/end-users-report-top-accounting-software-year-enterprise-mid-market/
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ATHENS, Ga. and LOS GATOS, Calif., Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Lake Biotechnology, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing intranasal vaccines using a proprietary parainfluenza virus 5 (PIV5)-based vector, announced preliminary interim data today from a phase 1 clinical trial of its BLB201 vaccine for prevention of severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-associated disease (NCT05281263). The preliminary data were included in an oral presentation by Dr. Hong Jin, Chief Scientific Officer of Blue Lake Biotechnology, at the 7th International Conference on Vaccines Research & Development (Vaccines R&D-2022) in Boston, MA.
The Phase 1 clinical trial is a multi-center, open-label trial designed to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of a single dose of BLB201 administered as a nasal spray to 30 healthy adults in two sequential age cohorts (age 18-59 years and age 60-75 years). Only preliminary data from the first study cohort were presented at the conference; additional data from this cohort as well as data from the second cohort are expected to be available later this year.
Dr. Jin shared data from the first study cohort showing that 64% of subjects had increased serum anti-RSV antibody responses above their baseline levels. All subjects were seropositive for RSV at baseline, as was expected because most adults have had one or more RSV infections, typically starting in childhood. If subjects with the highest baseline levels of anti-RSV antibodies are excluded from the analysis, the proportion of subjects that had increased anti-RSV antibody responses above baseline levels becomes 80%. Temporary shedding of vaccine following vaccination was detected in 21% of subjects, indicative of self-limited vaccine replication. Such self-limited replication is desired as this contributes to stimulation of immune responses and serves as an indicator of successful vaccine uptake.
The vaccine has been well-tolerated to date by recipients in both age cohorts, with limited or no reactogenicity and no significant adverse safety signals reported.
"These initial phase 1 results show that our PIV5 platform has an excellent safety profile so far and can stimulate pathogen-specific immune responses in humans," said Dr. Biao He, founder and CEO of Blue Lake Biotechnology. "Considering the past experience of other intranasal vaccine platforms, I believe it is remarkable that we detected such a high percentage of antibody responses. In particular, it is exciting that RSV-positive adults responded with just a single intranasal dose of our vaccine."
The Phase 1 clinical trial is being conducted in Cincinnati OH and Charleston SC, and is led by Dr. Paul Spearman, Director of Infectious Diseases at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. BLB201 is based on a PIV5 vector that expresses the F protein of RSV. In preclinical studies, BLB201, delivered intranasally as a single dose, induces serum antibody and mucosal antibody responses as well as cell-mediated immune responses, and is protective against RSV challenge infection in various animal models. Delivered by nasal spray without needles, Blue Lake's intranasal vaccines have the potential to facilitate delivery of vaccines to broad populations, including pediatric and needle-hesitant individuals.
Learn more about the trial at https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05281263.
BLB201 is an RSV vaccine candidate that has received Fast Track designation from the Food and Drug Administration for prevention of RSV-associated acute disease in adults (>60 years) and pediatric populations (< 2 years). BLB201 encodes the RSV F protein and uses a proprietary PIV5 vector which is not known to cause disease in humans. PIV5 has been commonly administered to dogs as part of combination distemper / kennel cough vaccines for decades. Blue Lake Biotechnology and CyanVac LLC are developing BLB201 as a single dose, intranasal vaccine to prevent acute and severe disease associated with RSV infection. Preclinical studies have demonstrated that BLB201 is immunogenic and prevents RSV infection in animal challenge studies.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a highly contagious and common respiratory virus which is one of the leading causes of acute respiratory disease, infecting more than 64 million people worldwide per year. For most people it causes symptoms similar to the common cold, but for infants, the immunocompromised, people with chronic heart or lung disease, and older adults, it can cause severe illness and even be life-threatening. Repeat infections with RSV are believed to be common, so even people who contracted RSV when they were younger adults and healthy can be at risk from RSV infection later in life. According to the Centers for Disease Control, up to 80,000 children under 5 years old and up to 120,000 adults 65 years and older are hospitalized per year because of RSV infection in the US, with up to 10,000 deaths each year.
While there are costly antibody drugs approved for use in infants that provide temporary passive immunity against RSV, there is no approved vaccine for generating active immunity against RSV. Such a vaccine is needed to protect populations at highest risk from severe RSV disease, including the elderly as well as infants, in order to reduce the substantial health and economic burdens of RSV infection in the US and worldwide.
CyanVac LLC and its subsidiary, Blue Lake Biotechnology, Inc., are technology-driven companies developing lifesaving intranasal vaccines based on a proprietary PIV5-based vaccine platform licensed from the University of Georgia. Our COVID-19 and RSV vaccine programs are in Phase 1 clinical trials. In addition, the companies have early-stage proof of concept vaccine programs targeting norovirus and Lyme disease. CyanVac and Blue Lake Biotechnology are headquartered in Athens, Georgia, with a second site in Los Gatos, California.
Learn more at https://www.bluelakebiotechnology.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including with respect to the clinical development BLB201, a prophylactic vaccine to prevent RSV-associated disease, which are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including, but not limited to the timing and success of clinical trials and potential complications thereof; the ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval; the labeling for any approved product; the scope, progress and expansion of developing and commercializing product candidates; the size and growth of the markets and the rate and degree of market acceptance thereof vis-à-vis alternative therapies; the establishment and maintenance of any applicable collaborations; and the ability to achieve business development transactions on favorable terms to the Company, if at all, in light of these risks and uncertainties, the events and circumstances discussed in such forward-looking statements or which are either made by or on behalf of CyanVac and/or Blue Lake Biotechnology may not occur, and CyanVac's and/or Blue Lake Biotechnology's actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied thereby. Factors which may affect CyanVac's and/or Blue Lake Biotechnology's results include, but are not limited to, uncertainties and/or unexpected results related to research and development and clinical testing, the timing, costs and uncertainty of obtaining any required regulatory approvals, changes in the regulatory landscape, uncertainties related to obtaining additional capital as needed to meet CyanVac's and/or Blue Lake Biotechnology's needs on acceptable terms, or at all, the absence of any guarantee of product demand, market acceptance or competitive advantage for any of CyanVac's and/or Blue Lake Biotechnology's product candidates, if approved, and certain trade, legal, social and economic risks. Any forward-looking statements in this release speak only as of the date of this press release and are based on information available to CyanVac as of the date of this release, and neither CyanVac nor Blue Lake Biotechnology has any obligation to update or revise any such forward-looking statement.
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Blue Lake Biotechnology, Inc. and CyanVac LLC
Samuel Wu
Chief Business Officer
swu@bluelakebiotechnology.com
(650) 427-0166
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2022-11-07T23:39:40+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/11/07/blue-lake-biotechnology-announces-positive-interim-phase-1-data-blb201-intranasal-rsv-vaccine/
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PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- G-Form®, the innovative sports protection brand, announces the launch of its all-new Heritage Pro Baseball Elbow Guard for the Spring 2023 season. Worn by G-Form athlete and Major League Baseball player, Bobby Witt Jr., the Heritage Pro brings a completely new look for the industry-leading sports protection brand.
G-Form's product and marketing teams engaged with Bobby Witt Jr., and various Perfect Game athletes, in the development of Heritage Pro guard. Witt began working with G-Form in his early years at Perfect Game before following in his father's footsteps, playing in his first major league season in 2022. "From the first time I put the Heritage guard on, it just felt right," shared Witt, "The looks and comfort are awesome and I'm excited to take my game to the next level this season in the Heritage Pro."
Players of all levels are seeking uniqueness in their style, leading G-Form's design team to bring a sleek new look to the market, featuring an all-new synthetic leather exterior with debossed. "One of the most iconic, personal items in a player's bag is their leather baseball glove, which inspired us." said Paul Fisher, G-Form's VP of Global Product, "Now, their elbow guard is another piece to show their individuality as a player."
G-Form's baseball elbow guards utilize its proprietary SmartFlex™ technology, which offers body-mapped, lightweight protection, without the need for pre-molding. The SmartFlex layer is backed with a pre-curved Polypro shell and an additional foam layer for increased comfort. Its ambidextrous, adjustable strap allows for a versatile fit and quick on/off, ideal for players ready to take second base.
The Heritage Pro Elbow Guard is available in three colors: White, Navy and Brown, for a classic glove-inspired finish. The suggested retail price for the Heritage Pro Elbow Guard is $69.99, now available on g-form.com and in select sporting goods stores nation-wide.
ABOUT G-FORM
G-Form is a technology-driven protective solutions provider. A pioneer in the advancement of impact protection for athletes, the company's cutting-edge products combine premium impact protection with comfort, style, and freedom of motion. G-Form has become a chosen protection brand for athletes looking to level up across various categories including baseball, bike, moto, soccer, lacrosse, and military. For more information about G-Form, visit www.g-form.com.
Leah Balzotti
lbalzotti@g-form.com
401-250-5555
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2023-02-06T14:23:54+00:00
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kwtx.com
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PLANT CITY, Fla. — Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies and fire rescue were investigating a partial collision between a train and truck in Plant City Wednesday night.
It happened at around 9 p.m. near N. Alexander Street and West Sam Allen Road. According to the sheriff's office, the pickup truck was clipped by the freight train.
The driver in the truck did not suffer any injuries as a result of the impact.
The train was able to get on its way about an hour later.
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2022-09-08T03:32:47+00:00
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wtsp.com
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https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/train-truck-collision-plant-city/67-e4275e0e-2078-4410-8611-2bcd1c1af8ae
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Police arrest woman accused of helping hide Cati Blauvelt’s murder
SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Simpsonville Police said a woman has been arrested and charged in connection to the 2016 murder of Catherine “Cati” Blauvelt.
Police said they arrested 23-year-old Hannah Elizabeth Thompson on Oct. 12 with help of the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office. Thompson has been booked into the Greenville County Detention Center but her mugshot is not yet available.
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Arrest warrants show Thompson knew of Cati’s murder and concealed the fact that she drove John Blauvelt, Cati’s husband and alleged killer, to Woodruff Road and dropped him off near Cati’s work on the day of the murder.
John Blauvelt spent years on the run after Cati Blauvelt was found stabbed to death in the cellar of an abandoned home in October 2016.
Thompson also concealed the fact that she followed John while he drove Cati’s car the day of the murder until he parked the car in a parking lot on White Horse Road, according to the arrest warrants.
When asked where John was, arrest warrants said Thompson concealed his location and told officials he “disappeared one morning.”
Thompson has been charged with two counts of misprision or concealment of a felony, two counts of obstruction of justice, and one count of accessory after the fact.
Thompson is expected to go through a bond hearing at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
John Blauvelt is charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. He is awaiting trial.
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2022-10-12T17:14:35+00:00
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foxcarolina.com
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https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/10/12/police-arrest-woman-accused-helping-hide-cati-blauvelts-murder/
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C., Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- South Atlantic Bancshares, Inc. (the "Company")(OTCQX: SABK), parent of South Atlantic Bank, is pleased to announce Travis A. Minter has been named chief operating officer for the Company.
Minter, an executive vice president, has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. That includes 10 years at South Atlantic Bank, where he most recently served as chief banking officer.
"Travis's operational experience and leadership skills will be a key driver in building our product and service offerings to better serve our customers. He has grown and managed our retail banking and mortgage divisions and will now focus on our operational performance to help us gain efficiencies and support our growth," said Scott Plyler, South Atlantic Bank president.
Minter earned a bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech. He previously served as chairman of the South Carolina Bankers Association's Mortgage Banking Committee and as president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of the Carolinas.
About South Atlantic Bancshares, Inc.
South Atlantic Bancshares, Inc. (OTCQX: SABK) is a registered bank holding company based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with over $1.4 billion in total assets. The Company's banking subsidiary, South Atlantic Bank, is a full-service financial institution spanning the entire coastal area of South Carolina, and is locally owned, controlled and operated. The Bank operates twelve offices in Myrtle Beach, Carolina Forest, North Myrtle Beach, Murrells Inlet, Pawleys Island, Georgetown, Mount Pleasant, Charleston, Beaufort, Bluffton and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The Bank specializes in providing personalized community banking services to individuals, small businesses and corporations. Services include a full range of consumer and commercial banking products, including mortgage, and treasury management, including South Atlantic Bank's goMobile banking app. The Bank also offers online banking, no-fee ATM access, checking, CD and money market accounts, merchant services, mortgage loans, remote deposit capture, and more. For more information, visit www.SouthAtlantic.bank.
Contacts: K. Wayne Wicker, Chairman & CEO, 843-839-4410
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2023-01-04T20:14:37+00:00
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Existing multi-unit partner, turned Area Developer to open 24 locations in Illinois
CHICAGO, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Little Kitchen Academy (LKA), the key ingredient for an independent child and the first-of-its-kind, Montessori-inspired cooking academy for kids ages three through teen, announced current multi-unit partner, Randall Barba, will share the gift of Little Kitchen Academy with even more families in Illinois as LKA's Area Developer for the Greater Chicago area. Already working to open LKA Lincoln Park, LKA Naperville, and LKA Plainfield, local entrepreneur Randall Barba, alongside partners Chris Cukrowski and Phable Meyerhoff, will make an even more significant impact on communities throughout Illinois, opening a total of 24 locations. Barba, the former CEO and President of Antique Reflections, a design, manufacturing, and import company, owns and operates six Goldfish Swim Schools in Illinois, New Jersey, and New York, employing more than 100 people. Barba's first location in Illinois, LKA Lincoln Park, will open in Chicago this Fall.
"I am so excited to take on this role and make a greater impact as we share the gift of Little Kitchen Academy with more communities in Illinois," said Randall Barba, multi-unit partner turned Area Developer. "We have been so impressed by the systems the LKA Team has developed to support their partners, so when the opportunity came to expand Little Kitchen Academy's presence further in Illinois, we knew we were the right people to open more locations in the Greater Chicago Area. Little Kitchen Academy's empowering environment will profoundly impact children in the area for many years to come, and it's an honor to be a part of that."
"We are delighted to welcome such a passionate and like-minded group of people to share Little Kitchen Academy with even more communities throughout the great state of Illinois," said Brian Curin, co-founder/co-CEO and president of Little Kitchen Academy. "Not only is Chicago an important place to me, having grown up in the area and lived in the city, but it is also an important market that continues our expansion throughout the Midwest. We can't wait to see students in the area experience our safe, inspiring environment, leaving one inch taller from the pride they feel at what they accomplished in class."
This announcement comes on the heels of the opening of Little Kitchen Academy's second location in the United States in Portland. This new deal for the rapidly growing concept, which opened its first location in Vancouver, Canada, just three years ago, brings the total number of LKA locations in development to 231 towards the company's target of 423 globally by the end of 2025. The company currently has nine locations open throughout North America, with more to come.
LKA is currently seeking like-minded multi-unit franchise and development partners based exclusively in Arizona, California, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin. In Canada, there are limited opportunities in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario. Globally, Australia, Brazil, China, Columbia, Ethiopia, France, Italy, Japan, MENA Region, Mexico, Nigeria, Singapore, Spain, and the U.K. are markets available for development.
Little Kitchen Academy is the key ingredient for an independent child. The first-of-its-kind, Montessori-inspired cooking academy for kids ages three through teen is focused on providing a safe, inspiring, and empowering space for children to identify, develop, and refine their senses. Based in Vancouver, Canada, the concept was co-founded by proven global brand and franchise expert and serial entrepreneur Brian Curin, his wife, Montessori-trained, culinary expert, and visionary Felicity Curin, and social impact investor and entrepreneur Praveen Varshney, on the belief that by empowering children with practical life skills and knowledge in a positive and joyful environment, they and their company will effect positive lifestyle changes that result in a healthier world. True to its mission, LKA lives to create a more educated, able, and healthy society through mindful, healthy eating choices, and is committed to changing lives, from scratch to consumption. Part of that mission includes empowering students to learn how they can make the world a better place through How Can I Help by Little Kitchen Academy, LKA's signature philanthropic program, supporting Crisis Text Line, The Global FoodBanking Network, Kids Help Phone, and One Tree Planted. In addition to charitable partnerships, LKA has forged strategic global brand partnerships with Iron Chef Cat Cora, AeroGarden, BIRKENSTOCK, ChefWorks, Emeco, ChopValue, Welcome Industries, and PRISE Inc. Little Kitchen Academy's flagship venues are located in Vancouver, B.C., and Los Angeles, Calif.
For a taste of Little Kitchen Academy, visit littlekitchenacademy.com or join its communities on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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2022-07-19T15:50:35+00:00
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Last-minute shoppers and members of the photos with Santa Claus fan club enjoyed chilly but clear weather Saturday for St. Nick on the Bricks on the Pearl Street Mall.
Above, Sisters Jocelyn Wiese, 5, left, and Hailey, 8, get a big hug from Santa.
Right, Teddy Thomas,10, left, photographs his sister, Rosie, 8, in the snowman cutouts on the Pearl Street Mall.
Photos by Cliff Grassmick — Staff Photographer
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2022-12-25T02:57:08+00:00
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dailycamera.com
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In Miami, it's not uncommon to see influencers in the wild — photos at pizzazz-filled dinners, bikini-clad photo sessions poolside, and the perfect snaps at art galleries.
However, beyond the snaps and reels being shot and ultimately posted by influencers, a lot of work goes into bringing many of these opportunities to life in the first place.
Enter Mavn, a platform created to streamline the administrative and communication gap between brands and influencers. Launched in December 2022, it's the brainchild of Olivia Ormos, founder of OO & CO, a digital boutique marketing agency, and Model Volleyball, among other endeavors.
"As an agency owner, we've been offering influencer marketing to clients, and there have been so many pain points, particularly related to keeping track of everything and staying organized," she tells New Times. "And we've realized that the entire industry has been suffering from this. There was no solid solution for businesses and creators, and we are not the first to do this. But we've taken key learnings, incorporated what we would want to see and experience, and we're doing it right."
So, how does Mavn work exactly? Brands can offer opportunities — meals, trips, event tickets, and more — on the platform to Mavn-approved influencers for a price or trade. Ormos notes that brands are in complete control and can ultimately decide who is a fit based on their vibe and key user data spanning engagement to followers.
Mavn's initial brand partners have included the Miami Heat, Barry's, and DJ-producer Blond:Ish. As of press time, the platform currently offers 70 brand opportunities.
Creators can apply to the platform by submitting a basic or premium application. The latter requires the creator to share social account insights for more upscale paid opportunities. Ormos says that nearly 1,500 people have applied to date, with more than 500 creators accepted to join the platform.
"We do not require a specific follower count to be a part of this, and the number one thing is creativity," she says. "You have to have a love for your craft, and it's not just about one criteria. In fact, the other day, I accepted someone with 2,500 followers because the content they are creating for brands is just incredible."
Among Mavn's users is one of Miami's most recognizable influencers, Sam Schnur (AKA @thenaughtyfork). On Instagram, she's amassed more than 1.5 million followers and has been named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list, thanks, in part, to her meticulously crafted foodie and recipe reels. She was also Mavn's first user and one of its first beta version testers.
"A lot of why I'm on Mavn has to do with the way [Ormos] has curated the brands on the app," she tells New Times. "Also, for me as an influencer, there can be so many emails back and forth, you don't know what the deliverables ask is, and it can just be all over the place. It's all in one app, and the way it has been done is just great. There are such wonderful opportunities, too, that I haven't had in the ten years I've been doing this. Like, I'll be going to Israel soon."
Schnur has some advice for the budding creators out there: "The biggest thing is finding what you want to do, staying authentic to yourself, and creating content constantly. You may need to shift what you're doing to stay interesting, but stay true to what you love."
According to Ormos, the total reach of Mavn's approved users on Instagram is more than 90 million. With a solid base of Miamians, Mavn isn't stopping there, with plans to focus on creators in New York and Los Angeles this fall. The platform will also expand its travel opportunities for content creators, with trips to Mykonos, Paris, London, and Ibiza, among several other destinations.
"We want to meet creators where they are. We really are putting creators in the driver's seat," Ormos says. "We want to not only create partnerships, but we want to feel like a family."
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2023-06-29T17:13:21+00:00
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miaminewtimes.com
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https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/mavn-app-connects-influencers-with-brands-17152387
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Exiled Nicaraguan economist Javier Álvarez received terrible news this week: his wife, daughter and son-in-law, jailed three weeks ago by the government of President Daniel Ortega, had been formally charged with serious crimes back in Nicaragua.
Jeannine Horvilleur, 63, Ana Carolina Álvarez Horvilleur, 43, both of Nicaraguan and French nationality, as well as Ana Carolina’s husband, Félix Roiz, were not only detained to apply pressure on Álvarez who had fled to Costa Rica, but they were now facing serious prison time.
Ortega’s government has stepped up its persecution of political opponents. Apparently no longer satisfied by driving them into exile, it is now pursuing their relatives criminally.
Human rights organizations have accused the government of making relatives “hostages.” Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled the country in the crackdown that followed massive street protests in April 2018. Dozens of others have been arrested and given lengthy prison sentences.
“When I found out Sunday that in the judicial system there was already a charge, I suffered one of the hardest blows,” said Álvarez, who opposes the government, but does not hold a leadership position in the opposition. “The world fell in on me.”
Last month, he had learned of their arrests shortly after he arrived in Costa Rica.
“That moment was extremely cruel, I in free country and free, and my family detained,” he said. He had hoped they would be interrogated and freed since none was involved in politics. His daughter and son-in-law manage a small business.
Two days after their arrest, the 67-year-old Álvarez received a message from the police, confirmed they were being held at the infamous El Chipote prison “and that they would not get out until I turned myself in.”
According to the nongovernmental Nicaragua Center for Human Rights, the case revealed “a new pattern of extortion kidnapping” by the government to leverage the capture or surrender of exiled opposition members. “They took them like hostages,” the organization said.
Similar to the case of Álvarez’s family, Freddy Martín Porras, brother of Dulce María Porras, a leader of UNAMOS, was arrested. Dulce María Porras, 71, has been living in exile in Costa Rica since authorities sought her in 2018.
“They are kidnapping our relatives because they can’t capture us,” Porras said. “This is a criminal act, typical of drug cartels.” She said her brother had participated in protests against the government, but for some time now had not been active politically and worked selling medicines.
Still, Freddy Martín Porras was also charged with spreading fake news and conspiring to damage national integrity.
Gabriel López Del Carmen was arrested Sept. 14 at his mother’s home. He and his mother were accused of conspiracy and an order was issued for her arrest.
“I had to protect myself outside the country because of the regime’s persecution, and when they didn’t find me in my house the police captured my son,” Andrea Margarita Del Carmen wrote on social media. “They know perfectly well that he has no tie to political activities.”
Lawyer Gonzalo Carrión with the human rights collective “Nicaragua Never Again,” based in Costa Rica, said the arrests of relatives are a “pattern of arbitrary and unconstitutional actions.”
On Tuesday, the government confirmed that the charges of spreading fake news and conspiring to damage the country’s integrity were also brought last month against four priests, two seminarians and a cameraman who had been staying with Rolando Álvarez, bishop of Matagalpa.
In Costa Rica, Javier Álvarez said he is living with “almost unmanageable anguish.”
“They are looking to increase the terror that they have imposed on citizens,” he said. “Now they transfer the supposed ‘blame’ or ‘crime’ to the intimate sphere, to the most precious which is the family … to cause the greatest pain possible” on the opposition, he said.
Álvarez admits that his first thought was to turn himself in, but that friends and lawyers told him there was no guarantee his relatives would be released. He has filed reports with the French government, humanitarian organizations, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Office.
“They have left me without family,” he said.
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2022-10-06T20:15:14+00:00
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Which incline treadmill is best?
Treadmills are among the most popular exercise machines for home or gym use. Using them with an incline lets you increase the intensity of the workout and target the lower-body muscle groups. For a high-end incline treadmill that is loaded with features and offers ultimate durability, the NordicTrack Commercial 2950 is a top choice.
What to know before you buy an incline treadmill
Levels of incline
Most treadmills designed for home use offer a maximum incline of 10%-15%, which should be enough for most people. If you want a higher incline, consider getting an incline trainer, which can go up to 40% incline.
Size
If you have limited space, choose a compact incline treadmill. Keep in mind that compact treadmills that offer features such as foldable design are great for space-saving but might not provide optimum sturdiness. Also, consider the size of the platform, as it should be large enough to comfortably accommodate your natural stride when walking or running. Ideally, the platform should have extra room on the side and back to provide safety and comfort.
Motor
A 2-horsepower motor should be enough for most users. The advantages of a more powerful motor are smoother operation and that the motor can support faster speed and heavier weight. The disadvantage is that it can increase the treadmill’s price and will consume more energy.
What to look for in a quality incline treadmill
Safety features
One of the most common treadmill safety features is a clip that attaches to your clothes. If you are thrown off balance and the clip is pulled, the treadmill is designed to stop moving the belt. Other safety features include an emergency stop button and handrails for balance.
Display console
Budget treadmills typically offer a display console showing distance, time, calories burned, and other basic workout data. More advanced models will have larger touch screen displays with media connectivity and built-in workout programs. The high-quality displays should be responsive and easy to read.
Cushioning system
The cushioning system’s impact protection is an important feature of a high-quality treadmill. Most types of treadmills are easier on the joints than running outdoors. Some high-end models offer advanced systems that include specialized rubber for the belt and shock absorber springs.
How much you can expect to spend on an incline treadmill
For a budget treadmill, expect to pay around $400. For a high-end treadmill with advanced features and extra durability, plan to spend more than $1,000.
Incline treadmill FAQ
How much energy do treadmills consume?
A. A treadmill generally consumes more energy than an exercise bike or elliptical machine. The exact consumption will depend on the size and type of treadmill. As you can expect, treadmills with larger motors will be less energy-efficient. For example, a 2.5-horsepower motor needs around 1,800 watts of power.
Is an incline treadmill good for burning calories?
A. Yes, if you use it at a speed that elevates the heart rate. The calories burned will depend on the workout’s intensity and the user’s weight. Increasing the angle by 5% can boost calories burned from 150 to 250 for a 30-minute workout at 4 miles per hour for a 160-pound user.
Can the treadmills be used in a declining position?
A. Several models offer a decline position, but the angle is not as steep as the incline. Using the treadmill on decline can target different muscles of the lower body, but a sharp decline angle can cause joint discomfort or injury.
What’s the best incline treadmill to buy?
Top incline treadmill
What you need to know: It might be expensive, but it’s loaded with all the features you will find on a high-quality incline treadmill.
What you’ll love: This treadmill can be tilted from -3% to 15%. The innovative EasyLift assist feature offers a space-saving design, while the large 4-horsepower motor provides quiet and smooth operation.
What you should consider: The higher price can be a sticking point with price-sensitive buyers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top incline treadmill for the money
TR150 Folding Treadmill by Xterra
What you need to know: With its unbeatable price, foldable design and extra-large platform, this incline treadmill from Xterra is a bargain.
What you’ll love: Offering three incline levels and a 2.25-horsepower motor, this treadmill is ideal for home use. The cushioned desk provides proper stability and comfort.
What you should consider: Because it’s designed for home use, you may run into durability issues if you plan on heavy-duty use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This midrange treadmill offers a multi-function display and heart rate sensor.
What you’ll love: The incline goes up to 10%, which should be enough for most users. The treadmill has a 3-horsepower motor, providing adequate power. The heavy-duty steel frame provides extra durability.
What you should consider: Some users reported a need to lubricate the belt periodically to get optimum performance.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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2023-01-14T04:43:04+00:00
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Over the holiday weekend, multiple reports indicated the Biden administration is considering a couple of options as a new stimulus plan to address rising gas prices.
According to The Washington Post, President Joe Biden said he would make a decision on a gas tax holiday “by the end of the week.” This would reportedly save Americans “18.4 cents per gallon at the pump.”
“Yes, I’m considering it,” he said over the holiday weekend, according to the news outlet, adding, “I hope to have a decision based on the data.”
The gas tax holiday would remove all taxes on the cost of gasoline. However, the president is also considering rebate cards, which is another option to provide millions of Americans relief at the pump.
“That’s part of what we’re considering,” Biden added about the cards. “That’s part of the whole operation.”
Rebate cards were considered months ago, and according to another report from The Washington Post, the cards are now being reconsidered as well. Though the gas tax holiday may be more likely, as the U.S. chip shortage will probably make it hard to produce enough cards for everyone.
Nevertheless, the gas tax holiday will need “congressional action” and the Senate is definitely divided on the matter among many others in providing Americans direct relief.
Read more via The Washington Post.
READ MORE:
- Stimulus checks update: Is more relief on the way to curb inflation?
- Stimulus checks helped decrease credit card debt; balances on the rise again
- Social Security bill will give recipients extra money annually: Here’s how much and what else you need to know
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2022-06-21T20:27:39+00:00
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Nate Diaz surrenders after brawl; lawyer says he acted in self-defense
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mixed martial arts fighter Nate Diaz turned himself in to police in New Orleans on Thursday to face a battery charge arising from a weekend street brawl.
Police said the fight happened early Saturday outside a pizza restaurant and left a man unconscious.
Diaz went to police with his attorney Thursday and turned himself in, a police news release said. His attorney has told New Orleans news outlets Diaz acted in self-defense.
Diaz posted bond and was cleared to return home to Stockton, California, Zach Rosenfield, Diaz’s public relations representative, said.
“We appreciate how we were treated by the New Orleans Police Department, the court and their staff,” Rosenfield said in an email.
Diaz, 38, has been one of the most popular fighters in MMA since 2016, when he split two entertaining bouts with Conor McGregor.
Diaz and his older brother, former Strikeforce champion Nick Diaz, are well-known for their brash fighting style, their strict training standards, their embrace of marijuana culture and an overall anti-authoritarian attitude that appeals greatly to MMA fans.
Nate Diaz has fought for the UFC since 2007, but he is a promotional free agent after completing his UFC contract last year with a submission of Tony Ferguson. Diaz has said he would be open to returning to the UFC in the future, but he also launched his own combat sports promotion, Real Fight Inc., last year.
Diaz is also following the path of many MMA stars by moving to the boxing ring, where paydays are often larger than in the UFC. He is scheduled to fight YouTube star Jake Paul in August in an eight-round boxing match in Dallas.
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2023-04-27T18:54:42+00:00
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https://www.kcrg.com/2023/04/27/nate-diaz-surrenders-after-brawl-lawyer-says-he-acted-self-defense/
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Tips for getting dogs used to new yards
Bringing a dog home can change your life, but your pet needs to adapt to new surroundings. You might be wondering how to get your new dog acquainted with your yard safely and responsibly.
Taking your time to get your dog comfortable in your yard is key. Some dogs are naturally confident, while others need more time. You can also make your yard a fun space to spend time in and offer plenty of encouragement and positive reinforcement.
In this article: PetSafe Automatic Tennis Ball Launcher, Seresto Large Dog Flea and Tick Collar and High-Tech Pet Power Pet Electronic Pet Door.
How to get a new dog used to your yard
Take it slowly
First, take your new dog out on a leash to explore the yard. Let your dog sniff around and become familiar with the new surroundings. As confidence builds, consider switching to a long dog training leash. This gives dogs more space to roam and explore without being loose and potentially able to get into trouble.
Provide supervision
Don’t just let your dog loose in the yard without any supervision. For the first week or two, whenever your dog’s in the yard, you should be there, too. Not only will this boost your dog’s confidence, but it also lets you spot any potential hazards. For instance, you might notice your dog picking up rocks from your flowerbeds and realize you’ll either need to move them or train your dog not to pick them up.
Make the yard fun
Spend time in the yard with your dog, playing games and giving treats. This will help your dog associate the yard with positive experiences. You can also provide interactive dog toys that your pup can play with solo.
Use positive reinforcement
If you notice any issues your dog has in the yard, use positive reinforcement training to tackle them. This involves giving dogs treats, praise or other rewards when they get something right rather than punishing them for getting it wrong. Positive reinforcement works well for many common issues dogs can face in the yard, such as digging and excessive barking.
Have physical boundaries
Ideally, your yard should have a secure physical boundary to keep your dog in, such as a fence or a hedge. However, when this isn’t possible, you can use an invisible fence as a last resort. This can be useful for renters or people who live somewhere fences are prohibited due to home owner’s association rules.
Provide for your dog’s needs
Make sure your dog has what it needs when outside, such as a dog bowl filled with water or a flea collar to protect against critters in the yard. If there isn’t natural shade in your yard, consider buying a dog house or shade sail to provide a sheltered spot.
Best products to settle your new dog into your yard
This versatile toy is a great choice for dogs who like to play with their humans, as well as dogs who happily play alone. You can throw it or fill it with treats for dogs to discover and dogs can also use it as a chew toy.
PetSafe Automatic Tennis Ball Launcher
Automatic ball launchers are great for dogs who like to play fetch. This one can keep going long after your arm starts feeling tired. It has nine distance settings to launch balls between 8 and 30 feet.
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Clickers help with positive reinforcement training. So, whether you’re trying to keep your dog from chasing neighborhood cats or barking at people who walk past your yard, a clicker is an excellent training aid.
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Merrick Power Bites Dog Treats
While getting your dog settled, it’s a good idea to have a healthy selection of treats. They’re perfect for positive reinforcement training. These ones are soft, chewy and tasty enough to motivate your canine companion.
If you want to let your dog safely explore your yard before you’re comfortable ditching the leash altogether, this training leash is ideal. It comes in lengths from 15 to 100 feet, so there’s something suitable for most yards.
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Seresto Large Dog Flea and Tick Collar
Fleas and ticks lurk in the grass, so your dog should have some kind of flea protection when out in the yard. This flea collar is an alternative to topical flea treatments and tablets.
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PetSafe Stay and Play Compact Wireless Pet Fence
While a physical fence is better, this wireless pet fence is an alternative when that’s not possible. With some training, this invisible fence keeps dogs safe and secure in the absence of a boundary fence.
High-Tech Pet Power Pet Electronic Pet Door
A dog door gives your furry friend free access between your yard and your house. This one has an electronic collar system so that it stays locked until your dog approaches, keeping your home secure.
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AmazonBasics Stainless Steel Dog Bowl
Thanks to its rust-resistant stainless steel design, this is a durable bowl for outdoor use. Keep it filled with water to make sure your dog stays hydrated.
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2023-04-04T00:05:46+00:00
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The Russian Interior Ministry has issued an arrest warrant for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham following comments on the Russia-Ukraine war.
On Monday, Russian state media reported the ministry put Graham on a wanted list, saying he’s "wanted under an article of the Russian Criminal Code," but there were no specifications of what article they were referring to.
The warrant comes just three days after the Republican senator from South Carolina met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
On Friday, Zelenskyy's office posted an edited video of the meeting on Facebook in which Graham says "the Russians are dying," immediately followed by him saying the U.S. assistance to the country as "the best money we’ve ever spent." However, the remarks appeared to have been made in different parts of the conversation but edited to sound like one sentence, causing an angry response by the Kremlin.
"It's hard to imagine a greater shame for the country than having such senators," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded, according to theAssociated Press.
SEE MORE: Will counter-offensive end Ukraine's stalemate with Russia?
The chief of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, has officially ordered criminal proceedings against Graham, Russia's state media also reported.
On Sunday morning, Graham responded to the warrant, saying he will wear the arrest warrant as a "Badge of Honor."
"To know that my commitment to Ukraine has drawn the ire of Putin’s regime brings me immense joy. I will continue to stand with and for Ukraine’s freedom until every Russian soldier is expelled from Ukrainian territory," said Graham.
Graham also stated that he would submit to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court if Russia were to arrest him.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com
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2023-05-29T16:56:33+00:00
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koaa.com
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https://www.koaa.com/russia-issues-arrest-warrant-for-sen-lindsey-graham
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Suvoda fills gaps in traditional eCOA solutions, streamlining and simplifying questionnaire licensing, localization, and design for faster deployment
PHILADELPHIA, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Suvoda LLC, a global clinical trial technology company that specializes in complex studies in therapeutic areas like oncology, central nervous system (CNS), and rare disease, announced the general availability of its electronic clinical outcome assessments (eCOA) product designed to address the difficulties and delays in deploying traditional eCOA products with a solution that delivers simplified questionnaire licensing and localizations, streamlined device logistics, and improved data integrity. Click to tweet.
Suvoda eCOA is delivered on a single platform with Suvoda IRT and eConsent, and is designed to work seamlessly with these products to help clinical trial sponsors and sites more efficiently manage complex clinical trials and focus more time on patient interactions.
"Collecting quality data on patient outcomes is often one of the most important parts of a clinical trial, but because of trial complexities and clunky eCOA solutions, it can be difficult," said Andrés Escallón, vice president, eCOA practice. "To tackle known eCOA inefficiencies head-on, Suvoda intentionally built its eCOA with the same philosophy as its IRT solution 10 years ago: design practical solutions that simplify complexity so sponsors can get lifesaving therapeutics to market faster."
Reimagined and streamlined eCOA
With the general availability of Suvoda's eCOA solution, Suvoda has reimagined eCOA to alleviate the pain points most expressed by customers during an extensive early adopter period. Four areas, in particular, were addressed that are deemed crucial to the success of eCOA deployments:
- Questionnaire licensing, localization, and design
Suvoda makes eCOA set-up less complicated and speeds up delivery. With Suvoda eCOA, in-house experts manage the end-to-end process of questionnaire licensing, translation, and localization, streamlining one of the most burdensome and unpredictable eCOA processes.
Suvoda eCOA goes even further to allow sponsors to seamlessly implement a single questionnaire across multiple studies —a true game-changer for clinical trial teams. Suvoda eCOA also features a proprietary questionnaire design and lifecycle management tool that streamlines collaboration with translation partners. Combined with Suvoda's dedicated project team, study changes and protocol amendments can be addressed with ease.
- Scientific expertise and support
Suvoda dedicates a single, cross-functional project team tasked with streamlining eCOA and IRT implementation and supporting mission-critical issues in real time. Suvoda also uniquely brings a science lens to eCOA, providing domain experts throughout the study to review clinical protocols, study design, and regulatory considerations with customers and provide experienced guidance to help sponsors advance their studies. - Global device logistics
Supported by more than a decade of experience managing critical moments in thousands of trials, Suvoda is poised to establish a new industry benchmark for eCOA device logistics management, working to ensure the right device is delivered to the right sites and study participants. - More accurate data with a unified platform
Suvoda's single platform approach—eConsent, IRT and eCOA—delivers a simplified and hassle-free approach to clinical trials. By minimizing the number of integrations needed, the Suvoda Platform enables patient data to be gathered and shared across the platform and reduces duplicate data entry and human error, while supporting clean data transfer to an electronic data capture (EDC) system.
"Suvoda eCOA removes the added work burden often associated with today's eCOA implementations, enabling clinicians to focus more time on patient interactions," said Zach Hales, director of product management. "Suvoda's easy-to-use technology fits within the clinical workflow instead of fighting against it, making jobs easier and allowing site teams to do more with less."
About Suvoda
Suvoda is a global clinical trial technology company specializing in complex, life-sustaining studies in therapeutic areas like oncology, central nervous system (CNS), and rare disease. Founded in 2013 by experts in eClinical technologies, Suvoda empowers clinical trial professionals to manage the most urgent moments in the most urgent trials through advanced software solutions delivered on a single platform. Headquartered outside Philadelphia, Suvoda also maintains offices in Portland, OR, Barcelona, Spain, Bucharest, Romania, and Tokyo, Japan. The company consistently boasts a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of close to 70, far exceeding the technology industry average of 50, and has been selected by trial sponsors and CROs to support more than 1,000 trials across 80 countries. To learn more, visit suvoda.com. Follow Suvoda on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Mara Conklin, (847) 340-6823
mconklin@teamclarus.com
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2023-05-23T13:21:50+00:00
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What’s in the House January 6 committee report summary
By Tierney Sneed, Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Marshall Cohen, CNN
The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has concluded that former President Donald Trump was ultimately responsible for the insurrection, laying out for the public and the Justice Department a trove of evidence for why he should be prosecuted for multiple crimes.
“That evidence has led to an overriding and straight-forward conclusion: the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed,” the committee writes in a summary of its final report released on Monday. “None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him.”
The summary describes in extensive detail how Trump tried to overpower, pressure and cajole anyone who wasn’t willing to help him overturn his election defeat — while knowing that many of his schemes were unlawful. His relentless arm-twisting included election administrators in key states, senior Justice Department leaders, state lawmakers, and others. The report even suggests possible witness tampering with the committee’s investigation.
The committee repeatedly uses forceful language to describe Trump’s intent: that he “purposely disseminated false allegations of fraud” in order to aid his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and to successfully solicit about $250 million in political contributions. “These false claims provoked his supporters to violence on January 6th.”
The full report, based on 1,000-plus interviews, documents collected including emails, texts, phone records and a year and a half of investigation by the nine-member bipartisan committee, will be released Wednesday, along with along with transcripts and other materials collected in the investigation.
Here’s what’s in the report summary:
The committee thinks Trump and others committed crimes, and is referring them to DOJ
The House committee lays out a number of criminal statutes it believes were violated in the plots to stave off Trump’s defeat and says there’s evidence for criminal referrals to the Justice Department for Trump, Trump attorney John Eastman and “others.”
The report summary says there’s evidence to pursue Trump on multiple crimes, including obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make false statements, assisting or aiding an insurrection, conspiring to injure or impede an officer and seditious conspiracy.
The committee says it also has the evidence to refer Eastman on the obstruction charge, and it names him as a co-conspirator in other alleged criminal activity lawmakers have gathered evidence on.
In addition, several others are named as being participants in the conspiracies the committee is linking to Trump, including then-DOJ attorney Jeffrey Clark and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, as well as Trump-tied lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Rudy Giuliani.
The committee alluded to evidence of criminal obstruction of the House investigation but the summary does not go into detail about that evidence.
Trump’s false victory declaration was ‘premeditated’
The committee outlines 17 findings from its investigation that underpin its reasoning for criminal referrals, including that Trump knew the fraud allegations he was pushing were false and continued to amplify them anyway.
“President Trump’s decision to declare victory falsely on election night and, unlawfully, to call for the vote counting to stop, was not a spontaneous decision. It was premeditated,” the summary states.
The committee revealed emails from Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, from before the 2020 presidential election that say Trump should declare victory regardless of the outcome.
It also notes that Trump’s top allies, including those who testified before the committee, acknowledged they found no proof to back up the former president’s claims.
“Ultimately, even Rudolph Giuliani and his legal team acknowledged that they had no definitive evidence of election fraud sufficient to change the election outcome,” the summary states, referring to Trump’s then-personal attorney.
“For example, although Giuliani repeatedly had claimed in public that Dominion voting machines stole the election, he admitted during his Select Committee deposition that ‘I do not think the machines stole the election,'” it states.
Trump’s belief that the election is stolen is no excuse, lawmakers say
Sources familiar with Trump’s legal strategy in the Justice Department probe have told CNN that his attorneys believe prosecutors face an uphill battle in proving he did not believe the election was stolen despite being told as much by senior members of his own administration.
In making its case for a Justice Department prosecution of Trump, the House committee took aim at that possible defense.
“Even if it were true that President Trump genuinely believed the election was stolen, this is no defense,” the summary says. “No President can ignore the courts and purposely violate the law no matter what supposed ‘justification’ he or she presents.”
In describing why the committee believes Trump’s conduct meet the prongs of each criminal statute, the summary stresses evidence that Trump had been warned that his schemes were unlawful.
Trump raised about $250 million by crying fraud
The committee says it gathered evidence indicating that Trump “raised roughly one quarter of a billion dollars in fundraising efforts between the election and January 6th. Those solicitations persistently claimed and referred to election fraud that did not exist.”
“For example, the Trump Campaign, along with the Republican National Committee, sent millions of emails to their supporters, with messaging claiming that the election was ‘rigged,’ that their donations could stop Democrats from ‘trying to steal the election,’ and that Vice President Biden would be an ‘illegitimate president’ if he took office,'” the summary states.
Several members of Congress are being referred to the House Ethics Committee
The select committee is referring several Republican lawmakers who refused to cooperate with the investigation to the House Ethics Committee.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, as well as Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Andy Biggs of Arizona, could all face possible sanctions for their refusal to comply with committee subpoenas.
“If left unpunished, such behavior undermines Congress’s longstanding power to investigate in support of its lawmaking authority and suggests that Members of Congress may disregard legal obligations that apply to ordinary citizens,” the summary says.
Concerns about witness credibility and Trump-allied attorneys
The committee raised concerns that attorneys paid by Trump’s political committee or allied groups were incentivized to protect the former president, saying, “lawyers who are receiving such payments have specific incentives to defend President Trump rather than zealously represent their own clients. The Department of Justice and the Fulton County District Attorney have been provided with certain information related to this topic.”
In one instance, a witness whose lawyer was being paid by a Trump-allied group was told she could “in certain circumstances, tell the Committee that she did not recall facts when she actually did recall them.” When the witness raised concerns with her lawyer about that approach, the lawyer said, “They don’t know what you know, [witness]. They don’t know that you can recall some of these things. So you saying ‘I don’t recall’ is an entirely acceptable response to this,” according to the report summary.
When it came to a specific issue that reflected negatively on Trump, the lawyer told his client, “No, no, no, no, no. We don’t want to go there. We don’t want to talk about that.”
The committee notes both Trump and his allies attempted to contact witnesses ahead of their committee testimony.
“The Select Committee is aware of multiple efforts by President Trump to contact Select Committee witnesses. The Department of Justice is aware of at least one of those circumstances,” according to the summary.
Ivanka Trump and Kayleigh McEnany
The committee also, in its final report, highlighted two high-profile witnesses — Ivanka Trump and then-White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany — as being less cooperative than others. They and others “displayed a lack of full recollection of certain issues, or were not otherwise as frank or direct as Cipollone.”
In another instance, Trump had an angry conversation with Pence in which he referred to the then-vice president as “The P word,” according to a committee interview with Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff, Julie Radford.
In Radford’s recollection, the name-calling was upsetting to Ivanka at the time, but when the committee asked Ivanka whether there were any “particular words” her father used in the conversation with Pence, “She answered simply: ‘No.'”
The summary states: “In several circumstances, the Committee has found that less senior White House aides had significantly better recollection of events than senior staff purported to have.”
As for McEnany, the committee called her testimony “evasive, as if she was testifying from pre-prepared talking points,” noting she was deposed early in the investigation and wasn’t as forthcoming as others from Trump’s press office.
Impropriety by Trump Justice Department officials
The report points the finger at two Trump appointees at the Justice Department who the committee believes abused their positions and acted unethically.
Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Division, is already well known for trying to weaponize the Justice Department to help Trump overturn the 2020 election. The committee raises the prospect that Clark broke the law. The Justice Department is already investigating Clark and federal agents have searched his home.
One of the most egregious things Clark did was draft a letter for the Justice Department to send to election officials in battleground states, urging them to essentially overturn their results. The letter, crafted with help from fellow Trump appointee Ken Klukowski, falsely asserted that the department believed there were problems with the results.
“This was an intentional choice by Jeff Clark to contradict specific Department findings on election fraud, and purposely insert the Department into the Presidential election on President Trump’s behalf and risk creating or exacerbating a constitutional crisis,” the summary states.
In a new development, the panel flagged its concerns about Klukowski’s conduct.
He worked for the Trump campaign before joining the Justice Department during the final weeks of the administration. And while at the department’s civil division, he spent some of his time helping Clark with his attempts to overturn the election, “despite the fact that election-related matters are not part of the Civil portfolio,” the summary says.
“The Select Committee has concerns about whether his actions at DOJ, and his continued contacts with those working for, or to benefit, the Trump Campaign, may have presented a conflict of interest to the detriment of DOJ’s mission,” the summary adds.
Trump and others may try this again, committee warns
The summary’s section outlining the referrals makes a case for why the Justice Department’s prosecutions should extend beyond the rioters who physically breached the Capitol.
The committee says that Trump “believed then, and continues to believe now, that he is above the law, not bound by our Constitution and its explicit checks on Presidential authority.”
“If President Trump and the associates who assisted him in an effort to overturn the lawful outcome of the 2020 election are not ultimately held accountable under the law, their behavior may become a precedent and invitation to danger for future elections,” the summary says. “A failure to hold them accountable now may ultimately lead to future unlawful efforts to overturn our elections, thereby threatening the security and viability of our Republic.”
The summary revisits Trump’s infamous phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, where he begged Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to nullify Biden’s victory in the state. The summary also highlights that Trump doxed the leader of the Michigan Senate by tweeting out his cell phone number after he publicly said he wouldn’t undermine the election results.
Lawmakers also highlighted the plight of former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, who previously testified about the abuse they suffered when Giuliani and others in pro-Trump circles falsely accused them of rigging the results in Atlanta.
“The treatment of Freeman and Moss was callous, inhumane, and inexcusable,” the summary report says. “Rudolph Giuliani and others with responsibility should be held accountable.”
Like Freeman and Moss, other officials who faced Trump’s ire received death and rape threats and an avalanche of phone calls and emails, and some of them feared for their safety.
Pardon requests show that Trump allies knew they were in possible legal jeopardy
The evidence that Trump allies sought pardons as the administration drew to a close shows that they knew their conduct was legally problematic, the committee argues.
The summary points to previously public accounts of pardon requests from members of Congress, while providing new details of Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz’s alleged attempt for a pardon, which had been discussed in the public committee testimony of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
“President Personnel Director Johnny McEntee confirmed that he was personally asked for a pardon by Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL),” the summary says. “[White House lawyer] Eric Herschmann recalled that Rep. Gaetz ‘… asked for a very, very broad pardon….And I said Nixon’s pardon was never nearly that broad.'”
CNN previously reported that the McEntee testimony linked Gaetz’s pardon request to a separate DOJ probe; Hutchinson, however, said Gaetz and others asked “blanket” pardons for participants at a meeting where election-related schemes were discussed.
Intelligence and law enforcement agencies knew of threats of violence on January 6, but information didn’t get through
The summary of the report lays out how the intelligence community and law enforcement agencies were receiving information that January 6 was likely to be violent and shared that information with the White House and US Secret Service.
For example, on January 3, 2021, Department of Justice officials received an intelligence summary of plans to “occupy the Capitol” and “invade” the Capitol on January 6. According to testimony from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, then-Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist predicted on a National Security Council call that the Capitol could be the target of violence.
“I’ll never forget it,” Milley said in testimony revealed by the committee.
The panel suggests former White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato failed to adequately serve as the intermediary between the intelligence community and the White House when it came to security updates ahead of January 6.
“Ornato had access to intelligence that suggested violence at the Capitol on January 6th, and it was his job to inform Meadows and Trump of that. Although Ornato told us that he did not recall doing so, the Select Committee found multiple parts of Ornato’s testimony questionable,” the panel wrote.
The head of Trump’s security detail, Bobby Engel, testified to the committee that he shared critical information with Ornato as a means to convey messages to the White House.
“So, when it came to passing information to Mr. Ornato, I — my assumption was that it would get to the chief [of staff, Mark Meadows], or that he was sharing the information with the chief. I don’t — and the filtering process, or if the chief thinks it needs to get to the President, then he would share it with the President,” Engel said, according to the summary. “So if I received a report on something that was happening in the DC area, I’d either forward that information to Mr. Ornato, or call him about that information or communicate in some way.”
Ornato confirmed Engel’s understanding of information sharing, but when pressed on whether he talked to Meadows about concerns of the threat landscape going into January 6 said, “I don’t recall; however, in my position I would’ve made sure he was tracking the demos, which he received a daily brief, Presidential briefing. So he most likely was getting all this in his daily brief as well.”
Aides urged Trump to call for peaceful protests
Staffers close to Trump told the committee they tried to get the then-president to act preemptively to quell concerns about January 6.
Hope Hicks, Trump’s former communications director, texted spokesman Hogan Gidley as the violence was unfolding on January 6 that she had “suggested…several times” on January 4 and 5 that Trump should publicly state that January 6 remain peaceful. Hicks also testified that Herschmann advised Trump to make a preemptive public statement ahead of January 6 calling for there to be no violence that day. No such statement was ever made.
By the time of Trump’s rally on January 6, the committee says testimony it received indicates that the former president had received a security briefing and that the Secret Service mentioned that there were prohibited items being confiscated from individuals trying to attend.
“Although President Trump and his advisors knew of the risk of violence, and knew specifically that elements of the crowd were angry and some were armed, from intelligence and law enforcement reports that morning, President Trump nevertheless went forward with the rally, and then specifically instructed the crowd to march to the Capitol,” the panel writes.
Motorcade incident proves Trump’s intent to participate in overturning the election
The committee highlights Trump’s frustration with not being taken to the Capitol on January 6 as evidence that he intended to participate in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
“The Committee’s principal concern was that the President actually intended to participate personally in the January 6th efforts at the Capitol, leading the attempt to overturn the election either from inside the House Chamber, from a stage outside the Capitol, or otherwise,” the summary of the report reads. “There is no question from all the evidence assembled that President Trump did have that intent.”
The report details that the panel was ultimately unable to get Ornato to corroborate a bombshell moment during the public hearings, in which Hutchinson recalled Ornato describing Trump’s altercation with the head of his security detail when he was told he would not be taken to the Capitol. The committee summary said both Hutchinson and a White House employee testified to the committee about the Ornato conversation. But “Ornato professed that he did not recall either communication, and that he had no knowledge at all about the President’s anger.”
Ultimately, the committee writes that it “has significant concerns about the credibility of this testimony” and vows to release his transcript publicly. Ornato did not recall conveying the information to Hutchinson or a White House employee with national security responsibilities, according to the report.
“The Committee is skeptical of Ornato’s account.”
The panel writes that it has obtained evidence from “several sources about a ‘furious interaction’ in the SUV.” The panel cites multiple members of the Secret Service, a member of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police and national security officials in the White House who described Trump’s behavior as “irate,” “furious,” “insistent,” “profane” and “heated.”
The driver of Trump’s motorcade on January 6 testified to the committee, “The thing that sticks out most was he kept asking why we couldn’t go, why we couldn’t go, and that he wasn’t concerned about the people that were there or referenced them being Trump people or Trump supporters.”
Trump’s former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Trump continued to push to travel to the Capitol even after he returned to the White House.
“So to the best of my recollection, I recall him being — wanting to saying that he wanted to physically walk and be a part of the march and then saying that he would ride the Beast if he needed to, ride in the Presidential limo,” McEnany said.
Another intent the committee’s report summary seeks to prove is that Trump’s call to his supporters to go the Capitol during his rally speech was pre-planned.
For example, the committee notes that January 6 rally organizer Kylie Kremer texted MyPIllow CEO Mike Lindell, “This stays only between us. … It can also not get out about the march because I will be in trouble with the national park service and all the agencies but POTUS is going to just call for it ‘unexpectedly.'”
Trump refused to act as riot unfolded
The committee lays out Trump’s failure to act as the riot unfolded, noting that as he watched the riot on television, he made no calls for security assistance and resisted efforts from staffers asking him to call off his supporters.
“President Trump did not contact a single top national security official during the day. Not at the Pentagon, nor at the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the F.B.I., the Capitol Police Department, or the D.C. Mayor’s office,” the committee writes. “As Vice President Pence has confirmed, President Trump didn’t even try to reach his own Vice President to make sure that Pence was safe.”
Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the committee he had this reaction to Trump, “You know, you’re the Commander in Chief. You’ve got an assault going on on the Capitol of the United States of America. And there’s nothing? No call? Nothing? Zero?”
Trump did, however, take the time to reach out to his attorney.
“In fact, from cellular telephone records, it appears that at 1:39 p.m. and 2:03 p.m., after being informed of the riot at the Capitol, President Trump called his lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani,” according to the summary. “These calls lasted approximately four minutes and eight minutes, respectively.”
White House staffers, meantime, described being appalled that as the Capitol was under attack, Trump fired off a tweet criticizing Pence.
Hicks texted a colleague that night to say, “Attacking the VP? Wtf is wrong with him,” according to the committee’s summary report.
“No photographs exist of the President for the remainder of the afternoon until after 4 p.m. President Trump appears to have instructed that the White House photographer was not to take any photographs,” the committee writes, citing testimony from former White House photographer Shealah Craighead.
In the aftermath, on the evening of January 6, Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale told Katrina Pierson, one of the rally organizers, that that he felt guilty helping Trump win, the report states..
The events of the day, Parscale said, resulted from “a sitting president asking for civil war.”
GOP lawmakers called for help
The committee also highlights real-time reactions from Republican members of Congress who have since downplayed the Capitol attack or defended Trump.
Trump’s son-in-law and former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner described House GOP leader McCarthy as “scared” as McCarthy reached out to members of Trump’s family for help during the riot.
In a text to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote, “Mark I was just told there is an active shooter on the first floor of the Capitol Please tell the President to calm people This isn’t the way to solve anything,” according to the summary.
Trump’s reaction upon finding out the Capitol had been attacked: ‘Oh really?’
The committee reveals a conversation Trump had with a White House employee upon returning to the White House after his speech on January 6. Trump’s actions and conversations from when he returned to the White House to when he called off the rioters, referred to famously as the 187 minutes, continues to have huge gaps of information.
He asked the White House employee — whose identity the panel kept anonymous “to guard against the risk of retaliation” — if they had watched his rally speech on television. The White House employee responded, “Sir, they cut it off because they’re rioting down at the Capitol.”
When Trump asked what they meant, the employee repeated, “[T]hey’re rioting down there at the Capitol,” to which Trump said, “Oh really?” before adding, “All right, let’s go see.”
The committee says DOJ has tools to get more information
The summary acknowledges the roadblocks the House committee ran into in its investigation and says the Justice Department has the tools — such as grand jury subpoena power — to knock down those obstacles.
The summary also notes the invocations of privilege made by former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone that prevented the committee from learning details about direct conversations with Trump. But the panels appears optimistic that a recent, under-seal court victory the DOJ secured will allow prosecutors to obtain that testimony from Cipollone.
“Based on the information it has obtained, the Committee believes that Cipollone and others can provide direct testimony establishing that President Trump refused repeatedly, for multiple hours, to make a public statement directing his violent and lawless supporters to leave the Capitol,” the summary says.
More than 30 witnesses before the select committee exercised their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and refused, on that basis, to provide testimony. They included individuals central to the investigation, such as Eastman, Clark, Chesebro, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn and others.
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Former Twitter executive Peiter Zatko — also known by his hacker handle “Mudge” — received a subpoena Saturday from Musk’s team, according to Zatko's lawyer and court records.
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