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2023-10-12 19:25:00

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Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Gabriel Moreno avoided a serious hand injury and should be ready for the National League Championship Series.

Manager Torey Lovullo said X-rays came back negative and Moreno is day-to-day.

Moreno was struck in the right hand when the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Chris Taylor fouled off a bunt attempt in the fifth inning of Arizona’s division series-clinching 4-2 win in Game 3 on Wednesday night.

Trainers attended to Moreno, who briefly stayed in the game before being removed for pinch-hitter Pavin Smith in the bottom of the frame and replaced by Jose Herrera behind the plate.

“I’ll be ready for the next series,” Moreno said following the game. “It feels amazing. It’s just a special moment to sweep L.A. — so happy.”

Moreno, 23, hit his third home run of the postseason in the third inning, a solo shot once morest Dodgers starter Lance Lynn. He is batting .250 with six RBIs through five playoff games.

Moreno batted .290 with seven homers and 50 RBIs in 111 games during the regular season.

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2023-10-12 19:36:00

In his column, Alain Kupchik returned to the horror which took place on October 7 in Israel. “I would have liked to talk to you regarding something else,” he began, “what we saw were nothing more, nothing less than crimes once morest humanity.”

In all this darkness, the artist, very touched, still sees a small glimmer of hope: “I still feel a touch of optimism when I hear the points of view and the positions of personalities labeled left-wing and even pro-Palestinian.”

He also returned to U2’s revisiting of the song “Pride” in Las Vegas. In the third paragraph of their song, the band changed the lyrics to pay tribute to the victims who were attending the Supernova festival. “He thus made it known that there was only dignity in the face of barbarism and blind hatred,” he explained while the extract was broadcast during the program.

Seeing this extract, Ludivine de Magnanville, president of the Brussels Horeca Federation, might not hold back her tears. “I found that Alain’s words were very true. I admire them because I don’t have the words. I feel very weak regarding this situation.”

Another debate: YouTube star Norman Thavaud was cleared. Maili Bernaerts, journalist from DH/Les Sports + believes that Justice does not help victims of sexual assault because it is very difficult to prove.

For his part, lawyer Steve Gries regrets that there are now two justice systems: the official Justice of the State and the Justice of private companies and social networks. “When it comes to violence once morest women, official justice is a big problem. Because the burden of proof rests on the person who complains. However, you cannot always, in the context of a sexual assault, whether physical or verbal, provide proof. In this case, doubt benefits the one being accused. To compensate for this, there is now the sounding board of social networks which allows us to come to the aid of Justice. From now on, victims can make it known that it is not because we have not convicted someone that we have not been the victim of sexual assault.”

“Social networks have completely changed the landscape,” continues Steve Gries, “there was real impunity for a certain number of men, which there is no longer with social networks. If at first, I might agree with this idea by closing the problem that women have in proving that they were victims. But there is a problem that has emerged: if we want to destroy someone’s reputation, if we want to accuse them when there is no evidence, if we want them to be condemned by the public opinion, with the sounding board of social networks, we can condemn someone without proof, simply because we have been more influential on social networks. So, as always, abuse can kill someone who has done nothing wrong.”

Last debate of the show, the deplorable hygiene in certain restaurants. 60% of them were called to order. To talk regarding it, Alein Van den Broek, spokesperson for the FASFC was invited on set. This specifies that these figures should not be read as six restaurants out of ten were not frequentable.

For restaurateur Toto Bongiorno, the controls are a good thing: “Perhaps we need to have more uniform rules and in a friendlier manner. These controls are perhaps sometimes too ‘Gestapist’. This is not the case for the AFSCA but for many other controls. Most of the time it goes very well.”

On the other hand, Toto regrets when the controls come from denunciation. A point of view which was not shared by Ludivine de Magnanville. According to her, a denunciation can sometimes “open your eyes” to a dramatic hygienic situation in certain restaurants.

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2023-10-12 19:01:01

October 12, 2023

PHILADELPHIA (Oct. 12, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced West Virginia University has been selected to receive a $800,000 pollution prevention grant through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, a key pillar of Bidenomics. The funding is made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and will go to develop and adopt practices that prevent pollution at the source in local communities.

West Virginia University’s proposed project will provide technical assistance to industrial facilities in disadvantaged communities in the state to encourage businesses to promote reducing and preventing pollution at the source.  Technical assistance will include onsite and remote assessments and assistance with pollution prevention (P2) recommendations, training, and development of P2 best practices, toolkits, training videos, self‐guided modules, and interactive media. The proposed project will improve human health and the environment in disadvantaged communities by improving energy efficiency, minimizing waste streams, and reducing air pollution and the facilities’ carbon footprint.

“Achieving lasting environmental justice requires community-driven solutions boosted by federal resources,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. “President Biden has secured historic levels of funding to address environmental harms in vulnerable communities under his Investing in America agenda. These dollars have supercharged our ability to empower a wide range of businesses from across the country to deploy solutions that prevent pollution while strengthening economic growth.”

“This funding to West Virginia University is yet another investment the Biden-Harris Administration is making to improve the health and future of communities across the Mountain State,” said EPA Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz. “Getting businesses committed to reducing pollution and shrinking their carbon footprint will help create healthier, stronger and more sustainable communities.”

“West Virginia University continues to make our state proud with innovative projects that strengthen environmental and public health,” said Senator Joe Manchin, Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “The funding announced today will assist West Virginia businesses in adopting cost-effective pollution reduction strategies, improving their energy efficiency and reducing waste. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law continues to deliver meaningful investments for the Mountain State, and I will continue advocating for resources that enhance the health and well-being of our communities.”

The Environmental Justice in Communities grant program will provide pollution prevention technical assistance to businesses to improve human health and the environment in disadvantaged communities.

EPA’s Pollution Prevention Grant Program advances President Biden’s Justice40 Initiativewhich aims to deliver 40 percent of the overall benefits of certain federal investments to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution.

EPA anticipates awarding the grants once all legal and administrative requirements are satisfied.

Read more regarding P2 and the P2 Grant Program.